Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 272 Great Jin
It sounded nice, but Nie Zhaonan knew clearly that Master Xu just wanted to test his own strength.

However, Nie Zhaonan did not care about Master Xu's purpose, so he agreed:
"Just follow what fellow Taoist said."

"Be careful, fellow Taoist!" Immortal Master Xu reminded.

Before he finished speaking, a hand emitting five-colored light pushed out.

"The Great Five Elements Immortal Capture Hand!" said the white-haired old man in surprise.

He didn't expect that Master Xu would use his most powerful magical power right away, and he valued the person in front of him to such an extent.

Master Xu naturally did not dare to neglect this person whose cultivation level he had no idea of, and launched his strongest attack.

As Master Xu slowly pushed out his palm, a huge five-colored palm print suddenly appeared in the air and slammed down heavily.

A shocking sword light rose up and disappeared in a flash.

Under the shocked gaze of the crowd, the palm print was cut apart and then dissipated.

Everyone who knew the power of the Great Five Elements Immortal Capture Hand, upon seeing this scene, cast their fearful glances at Nie Zhaonan.

Nie Zhaonan put away the Gengjin Divine Thunder Sword in his hand, not caring about other people's eyes at all. He just looked calmly at Master Xu who had one hand behind his back. The meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

"This is a secret method of cultivation." Immortal Master Xu took out a jade slip, quickly copied the contents on it, and then threw it to Nie Zhaonan. The whole process was done in one go without any pause.

Nie Zhaonan stretched out his hand to catch the flying jade slip, and after scanning it with his spiritual sense, he put it away.

With a wave of his hand, he released the Qingfeng Ox, which fell heavily on the top of the mountain.

Without hesitation, Nie Zhaonan suddenly paused and warned, "I don't want others to know what happened today, including your Tianlan Holy Beast. Otherwise, I don't mind returning here and killing all your great immortal masters. I believe the Mulan people would like to see such an ending."

His voice was not loud, but it contained a hint of murderous intent. Although it was not much, it was pure and unusual, and it chilled the ears of the four people present.

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Nie Zhaonan's body was surrounded by spiritual light and he turned into a meteor that streaked towards the sky. After flashing a few times, it disappeared.

In just one or two breaths, only a few figures including Tu Ruo were left on the top of the mountain, gathered together.

The woman in silver robe looked at the disappeared Nie Zhaonan with a flicker in her eyes, and then she took away the unconscious Qingfeng Niu.

"Who is this person?" The enchanting beauty murmured in shock after her spiritual sense could no longer sense Nie Zhaonan's breath.

"Wait a moment." Immortal Master Xu pinched a magic formula with one hand, and suddenly a curtain of light appeared on his body, covering the three people beside him.

After finishing this, Master Xu said, "With this soundproof cover, we don't have to worry about our conversation being known by him."

"Master Xu, is this person really so scary that we need to be so careful?" The white-haired old man said in surprise when he saw that Master Xu not only released a soundproof light curtain, but also used a secret technique to generate it.

This Great Immortal Master Xu advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage with a lifespan of more than 400 years. Needless to say, he was very proud.

"Do you really think that man is just slightly stronger than me?" Master Xu said with a gloomy look on his face.

As he spoke, he took his hands out from behind his back and spread them out again.

There was a straight bright red blood line in the white jade-like palm, and the white bones inside were clearly visible.

"This..." The three were so surprised that they were speechless.

"Humph!" Immortal Master Xu snorted in dissatisfaction, and said: "If I'm not mistaken, this person should be a Divine Transformation cultivator!"

"No way, how could a Divine Transformation cultivator bully the weak and commit acts of robbery? How shameless!" the silver-robed woman hesitated.

"Then how else can we explain that this person's magical powers are far beyond those of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and that we can't detect his cultivation level at all? He also deliberately concealed his true appearance, probably because he is afraid that we would know his true identity. After all, there are only a few God Transformation cultivators." Immortal Master Xu affirmed with sufficient reasons.

Hearing this, several people looked at each other, unable to utter any rebuttal.

"This person seems to be afraid of our sacred beast? Should we?" the enchanting beauty suggested. She didn't finish her words, but one could tell what she wanted to say.

“Although there is a great chance to keep the holy beast’s clone in this world this time, the holy beast has just arrived after all, and the sacrifice is only a peak-level seventh-level demon beast. The holy beast’s cultivation level will not be very high when it arrives. The holy beast’s magical powers are naturally far beyond our reach, but after all, there is a huge gap in the realm of cultivation between it and the Divine Transformation cultivators, so I’m afraid it can’t do anything to the Divine Transformation cultivators.” The silver-robed woman knew a lot about the holy beast and explained slowly.

"Well, the Saint Lady's analysis makes sense." Master Xu nodded, retracted his hand and said, "Don't tell the Saint Beast for now. When the Saint Beast is strong enough, it won't be too late to tell it then."

In his opinion, the speed at which the holy beast would be able to re-cultivate its realm and advance must be quite fast. It wouldn't be long before it would seek revenge on this hateful 'God-transforming cultivator'.

Little did people know that the purpose of the sacred beast Tianlan sending down an avatar in this world was only to avoid the natural calamity of the spiritual world, and it did not focus on improving its own cultivation realm at all.

Master Xu’s idea was naturally doomed to fail.

"But I still have a question. Why did this person leave in such a hurry just now? As if he had something urgent to do?" The enchanting beauty said with a puzzled look on her face.

She clearly did not see any sound transmission talisman just now, nor did she see Nie Zhaonan take out anything like the Wanli Talisman.

"This person's behavior is so strange, and nothing he does is weird. Maybe he got confused during his practice." The silver-robed woman had no good words to say about her secret skills being taken away for no reason, and she spoke with a curse.

"Okay, let's leave it at that." Master Xu said calmly.

"Brother Xu, how are you injured?" The silver-robed woman recalled the wound that was so deep that the bone could be seen, and asked with some concern.

"It's okay. He seems to have held back. The sword energy left in the wound is not strong. Just recuperate for a while. It won't delay the arrival of the Holy Beast."

Nie Zhaonan, who had already flown thousands of miles away at this time, naturally had no idea about the conversation between the few people. At the bank of a river, he faded away and landed.

He waved his hand in front of him, and no magical power fluctuations were heard, but a figure appeared there.

This man was dressed in a snow-white robe, like a man, with bright eyes and white teeth, and was incredibly handsome. Judging from his appearance, he was more popular with women than Nie Zhaonan.

"Why did you take so long to let me out? Could it be that my husband is doing something bad and is afraid that I will find out?" Ling Yuling said as she looked around as she appeared.

"It's just that we just conducted a transaction, and it's inconvenient to have outsiders present. So, I'll let you out once we're alone." Nie Zhaonan didn't show any strange expression on his face, and explained the truth without mentioning anything that would damage his image. "I just asked casually, why are you explaining so much? Are you guilty?" Ling Yuling glanced at his face and asked suspiciously.

"Look, this is what I just traded for." Nie Zhaonan took out the evidence and explained.

While speaking, he took out two jade slips and handed them to Ling Yuling.

Ling Yuling didn't hesitate to snatch the jade slip and immersed her spiritual consciousness in it, examining it with a little curiosity.

After a while, after browsing the contents, Ling Yuling was surprised and said: "The method of cultivating mature gold-eating insects can shorten the cultivation time by one third. If some rare materials are used for cultivation, the time can be further shortened!"

Although she knew that the thing that could make her husband "trade" would not be ordinary, she never thought it would be this.

As half of the gold-eating bugs, Ling Yuling naturally knew how powerful they were, and the gold-eating bugs in her hands were not yet mature.

She was well aware that a mature gold-eating bug could devour anything and that a single one was as good as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Even she didn't know how many gold-eating bugs Nie Zhaonan had in his hands, but judging from the fact that she had tens of thousands of gold-eating bugs in her hands, Nie Zhaonan must have a considerable number.

If all the gold-eating bugs were to advance to mature forms, Ling Yuling could hardly imagine the scene.
"What are you thinking about?" Nie Zhaonan saw that her eyes were gradually wandering, and waved his hand in front of her.

"Nothing, nothing." Ling Yulin came back to her senses and returned the jade slip to Nie Zhaonan.

She was indeed a bit fanciful just now, and her imagination was too far-fetched.

At the same time when Nie Zhaonan collected the jade slip, the sound from the snoring earth-armored dragon in the Zixiao Cave suddenly stopped.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw two snow-white jade slips floating in front of him.

After hearing the instructions, there was no sleepiness in the earth armor dragon's eyes anymore. He stood up without hesitation, holding the jade slip, and walked towards the spirit beast pen where the gold-eating worm was.

The earth dragon looked more and more ugly as it browsed the jade slip in its hand. It had to infuse spiritual energy into each of them and feed them some specific spiritual medicines. How long would it take to finish this work?

However, he suddenly remembered that the gold-eating insects are now quite intelligent, and they can ripen the elixir on their own with just a command.

He also had a few helpers in infusing spiritual energy, so although he wasn't much faster, it was still better than doing it alone. Thinking of this, his mood improved and his pace gradually quickened.

By the river, the two walked side by side along the road, without using any magic to fly away.

"Why did you come out of retreat and stop practicing right after you broke through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul?" Nie Zhaonan asked with concern, feeling the aura emanating from her body.

"After being in seclusion for so long, of course I miss my husband, and the fact that he is going to Dajin." Ling Yuling said with a smile, but she sounded a little worried at the end.

"Don't worry, the Twin Saints of Tianxing have reached the late Nascent Soul stage, and this is not their first time going to Dajin. Nothing will go wrong." Seeing what she was thinking, Nie Zhaonan comforted her.

"I know, it's just that I haven't seen them for a long time, and I miss them a little." Ling Yuling quickly wiped away the gloom on her face and said easily.

Taking out a pure white jade talisman, she looked at Nie Zhaonan and said, "This is what my parents gave me before they left. As long as I'm within a certain range, I can sense their location. If anything unexpected happens, they will send a message to me through this jade talisman. So far, I don't know what their situation is."

No news came, which meant that no accident had happened yet. Nie Zhaonan understood.

"This will save us a lot of trouble. With this jade talisman in hand, it should not be difficult to find them." After thinking about it, Nie Zhaonan said lightly.

"Dajin is so big, my husband doesn't have to go out of his way to look for it." Since nothing happened to her parents, Ling Yuling didn't want Nie Zhaonan to spend too much time on this.

"I got the news that a large auction will be held in Jinjing a few years later. I believe I will be able to meet my two fellow Taoists there." Nie Zhaonan revealed the information.

"Yeah." Ling Yuling felt relieved and nodded happily without asking him where he knew that.

Nie Zhaonan took out a jade bottle, poured out a snow-white pill, and swallowed it.

This pill is none other than the ancient elixir Xuepo Pill. After obtaining the elixir in Lingmiao Garden, Nie Zhaonan naturally took the time to refine some.

He has already taken more than a dozen pills of this kind of pill that can enhance the power of ice. Of course, this is also the result of him relying on the special Dragon Yin Body and the strength of his own skills, so he does not need to be distracted to refine it. Otherwise, it would take three or four months to refine one Xuepo Pill, and he does not have the extra time to waste on refining this pill.

The effect of this pill is quite obvious. Nie Zhaonan discovered that the dry ice blue flame, which had been enhanced by the cold air of the six-winged frost centipede, became more pure, which greatly increased its power.

After taking the Xuepo Pill as usual, Nie Zhaonan was surrounded by a glow of light. He rolled up Ling Yuling beside him and flew away in the direction of Dajin.

Nanyang County is a county located at the junction of the southern and central parts of the Great Jin Dynasty. In terms of area, this county ranks last among the thirty-six counties of the Great Jin Dynasty, but in terms of wealth, it is among the top five.

The areas under the jurisdiction of this county are mostly plains and water towns with rich resources, as well as many sacred mountains and rivers.

Because Buddhism and Taoism are prevalent here, mortals often see immortals dressed as Taoists or monks flying in the sky in these sacred mountains.

In a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, two men, one black and one white, were walking slowly on the official road.

The two chatted and laughed, enjoying the scenery.

Just when Nie Zhaonan was feeling in a good mood, he suddenly frowned, and then a burst of horse hoof sounds like a violent storm suddenly rang out in the driveway behind him.

Ling Yuling looked in the direction of the voice, but the smile on her beautiful face disappeared, and her good mood also faded a lot.

I saw a yellow dragon rolling on the official road behind me, and all it caused was a horse-drawn carriage.

The carriage was square in shape, and was driven not by an ordinary horse, but by a horse-like monster covered with scales all over its body, and its body was several times larger than a horse.

He ran as fast as the wind and approached Nie Zhaonan and the other man in the blink of an eye.

The forbidden light on the carriage flashed, the curtain opened, and the head of a girl of about sixteen or seventeen poked out.

Her eyes swept over the two of them, and stopped at Ling Yuling, who was dressed as a man. Her eyes flashed with joy:

"What a handsome boy!"

(End of this chapter)