If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1348 The Xi Juan Incident
"Judging from your tone, you sound like a naive young man." The old Taoist with a gap in his teeth to the left of the Stone Taoist stared at Xi Juan's middle-aged face for a moment, then asked, "Did you perhaps use a transformation technique? A young man transformed into a middle-aged Taoist?"

This method of transformation is truly ingenious; I haven't seen any flaws even now.

Xi Juan sneered, "You think I'm arrogant? Wait until my sword cuts open your heart, then you'll know why I'm as cocky as a young lad."

"Qinghua, don't be impulsive!" Di Hua was young but not hot-tempered. He quickly shouted, "Fellow immortal masters, what my brother said is the truth. The two of us combined only have half of the Earthly Fiend Divine Power."

It's really not worth risking your life against us for half of the Earthly Fiend Divine Power!

Xi Juan had intended to draw her sword and charge, but upon hearing Di Hua's shout, the determination on her face and the murderous intent in her eyes dissipated considerably.

He himself was certainly not afraid, but he was afraid that the other side had a large number of people and that he wouldn't be able to protect his cousin if a fight broke out.

“You may only have half of the Earthly Fiend Divine Power, but your ‘Brother Ji’ has at least comprehended more than a dozen Heavenly Gang Divine Techniques and exchanged for more than a dozen Heavenly Gang Divine Techniques.”

It is said that he is almost able to collect all thirty-six extraordinary arts of the Heavenly Gang.

The key point is that he was also very generous, passing on the Heavenly Gang Arts to his brothers.

"You two left Mangdang Mountain satisfied, so you must have already obtained the complete set of Tiangang Mystic Arts, right?" the gap-toothed old Taoist said greedily.

Di Hua was stunned for a moment, then a look of annoyance appeared on his face, and his voice became even more aggrieved, "Brother Ji is indeed very loyal."

Before we left, they offered me the Earthly Fiend Techniques and the Heavenly Dipper Mystic Arts, letting me choose whichever I wanted, but knowing my own lack of fortune, I didn't take any of them.

My brother didn't even go inside Baiyun Cave.

The divine arts and techniques within the stone wall were far more complete, yet he didn't want them. Why would he want a fragmented Heavenly Divine Technique that someone else had comprehended?

"You say you didn't, then surrender. We'll release you immediately once we use our secret technique to confirm you're not lying." Five more people appeared one after another behind them.

They came from the north.

The eight people had originally set up a "Bagua White Bone Formation" that covered an area of ​​several hundred feet in radius, but Xi Juan, with her keen senses, discovered it in advance and turned to run away.

Those people had no choice but to abandon their original positions and gather around again.

Di Hua's expression changed several times, and he said in a low voice, "Don't let them surround us. You take action immediately. Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself."

After saying that, he drew his sword first, shouted, and slashed a sword aura at the stone Taoist in the Yin spirit form in front of him.

Xi Juan, who had initially shown signs of struggle, now saw that his cousin had already drawn his sword and the battle had begun. He completely abandoned all other thoughts, focusing only on his cousin, and roared, "Shi~dao~ren~~ die!"

Shi Daoren's physical body was killed by Han Xin, and his spirit was also severely injured.

The reason I came here with the others was simply to make up the numbers and cooperate with the other seven heroes to perform the "Eight Trigrams White Bone Formation".

At this moment, he was roared at, and his expression froze, his eyes became unfocused, and his Yin spirit almost split open.

This is the "Instruction Against Sins and Fall from Grace" technique, which is believed to be a supernatural power.

"Pfft!"

The next instant, a golden sword aura traversed several dozen feet, directly shattering his Yin spirit into a pulp.

There wasn't even a scream; one of the Eight Heroes of the Western Sea was permanently lost.

"You're courting death!" The other seven heroes were not to be trifled with. At the same time, they unleashed their strongest supernatural techniques on Xi Juan and Di Hua from different directions.

"Whoosh, whoosh~~" Two bone spears took the lead and shot towards Di Hua and Xi Juan like lightning.

Di Hua wasn't entirely useless; he still had time to swing his sword and slash.

"Pfft—Crack~~"

The bone spear only slowed down for a moment, but the tip of his sword broke off, and the bone spear was about to hit his chest.

Xi Juan reached out with her free left hand to grab her cousin, and from a few steps away, pulled her cousin into the air, dodging the bone spear and the remaining spells. Unable to completely dodge, she swung her sword, using sword energy to slash at the incoming spells.

In an instant, sword energy stretched for dozens of feet, and various colors of Taoist magic and supernatural powers covered the sky.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth in this desolate wilderness seemed to boil, undergoing violent fluctuations.

Two fists may not necessarily be no match for four hands, but carrying a burden with your fists makes it too strenuous.

After only three rounds, Xi Juan was injured.

Two cultivators on the opposite side were also scratched by the sword energy.

Xi Juan persisted for five more rounds, but finally could no longer protect her cousin. A skeleton monster emerged from the ground and bit Di Hua's left leg.

"Ah~~~" Di Hua screamed in pain, thinking he was going to lose a leg and have his life essence drained by the skeleton demon. But the next moment, a yellow light shone in his palm and he disappeared.

Xi Juan was holding her cousin's hand when she suddenly grabbed at empty air, which startled him for a moment.

Then he quickly realized that it was the "earth" character that the teacher had left on his cousin's palm that had worked so well.

—My teacher actually foresaw this calamity I would face!
Freed from his burdens, Xi Juan was finally able to unleash his full power. He moved swiftly and freely, unleashing sword energy of various sword intents.

Use the "Qi-Breaking Technique" taught by the teacher to break the opponent's spell, and use the "Taibai Sword Qi" that best suits his own immortal bones to cut off the evil cultivator's weapon and protective magic treasure, and kill him by force.

He fought with increasing ferocity, while the seven opponents grew more and more terrified.

"This Taoist priest is not right, he's a sword immortal. Damn it, why is his sword energy so troublesome, as if it completely counters our Taoist techniques?"

Seeing two more brothers being killed, their physical bodies and spirits shattered together, the gap-toothed old Taoist was terrified.

He cried out in alarm and anger, and then quickly fled.

Well, he first used his escape technique to flee the battlefield before shouting, "The wind's getting strong, let's get out of here!"

The escape technique he used was the Wood Escape Technique of the Five Elements Escape Method. He was like a shadow, unable to see his specific moving figure, yet constantly flickering among the trees.

But he had only escaped for less than five hundred feet when he felt the wood elemental energy around his body become chaotic, even turning into earth elemental energy. His escape technique immediately failed, and half of his body was stuck in a large tree that was as thick as a person's embrace, his flesh beginning to turn into wood.

"Ahhh, something's not right!" He struggled fiercely, "Boom!"

The tree trunk shattered into dozens of pieces, flying wildly outwards, and he was finally free.

"Hiss~~~" In the next instant, a short dagger traversed hundreds of feet and pierced through the back of the head.

Then, as if a missile had been detonated, the violent sword energy shredded his physical body into a bloody mist, and his Yin spirit was also pulverized into nothingness.

"puff!"

A thin crack was left in the ground in front of him, and the short dagger, still carrying its momentum, shot into the ground twenty feet deep.

The gap-toothed old Taoist is the leader of the Eight Heroes of the West Sea. If he "fled in the face of danger," would the others stay behind to cover the retreat?

Apart from the two who were entangled by Xi Juan and had no way to escape, the other two used earth escape and wind escape respectively.

The person using Earth Release shrank their body downwards.

"Bang~~"

It was like sprinting 100 meters and ramming your head into a steel plate; the sound was both dull and loud.

"Awoo~~~" The cultivator indeed clutched his deflated head and howled miserably, "Turning the earth into steel, this is turning the earth into steel!"

When did you use your supernatural power? I was clearly staring at it the whole time—*pfft*

Another dagger was thrown from Xi Juan's hand, hitting the bullseye.

Just like the old man with the gap-toothed tooth before, the Taibai Gengjin sword energy erupted, annihilating the evil cultivator who used earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a technique for escaping evil cultivation) both in body and soul.
The cultivator who escaped using wind escape techniques didn't fare any better.

As soon as it merged into the wind, the surrounding wind and the elemental energy of heaven and earth lost control and turned into a violent hurricane.

He was covered in cuts and wounds, and fell into the wind. Xi Juan seemed to have been waiting for him to "fail his spell" and suffer the backlash of the magic.

He had just fallen bloodied from the sky, still screaming in bewilderment, his body not yet touching the ground, when "whoosh~~~"

A dagger struck him precisely between the eyebrows, piercing through the mud ball. The sword energy erupted, shattering his consciousness, first cutting through his Yin spirit before exploding his head.

Previously, when she had cut the old Taoist priest's entire body into a bloody mist, it was the first time she had encountered such an "unexpected event." The old Taoist priest was caught off guard, and Xi Juan herself was also somewhat surprised.

He subconsciously took advantage of his illness to kill him, unleashing the power of his primordial core, with his sword energy at its strongest.

At this point, he was in complete control, and his strength was just right.

"Master Daoist, spare my life!"

With only one person remaining, already injured, and witnessing his companions die one by one, he was terrified and lost all will to fight. He threw away the water-splitting dagger in his hand, knelt on the ground, and cried and begged for mercy with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Pfft!" Without even a moment's hesitation, Xi Juan swung her sword and cleaved him into four pieces, also killing the Yin Spirit directly.

"You killed someone, so why did you also destroy their soul?"

The sigh of the old Taoist Wuyazi came from behind him.

"Teacher!" Xi Juan's blood-stained face showed excitement and pleasure, but not much surprise.

If there's anything to be surprised about, it was already when the gap-toothed old Taoist failed with his Wood Release technique and got stuck in the tree trunk.

“That Taoist Shi from before was a hidden danger left behind because evil was not completely eradicated. I would rather bear more karmic burdens myself than give them another chance to do evil.”

Xi Juan's face was fierce, her eyes sharp and resolute.

Wu Yazi said, "When a ghost dies, it becomes a demon, and a demon can also die. Pay attention to technique, control your power, and you'll be able to turn the Yin spirit into a demon."

Xi Juan shook her head repeatedly, "In May of this year, I encountered a drowned water ghost in the water."

She was then entangled by a demon, suffering terribly. This shows that even a ghost that dies and becomes a demon can still cause evil.

Since we must eradicate evil completely, let's see it through to the end.

Wu Yazi was speechless. "Didn't I teach you the 'Art of Communication with the Underworld'? You can summon ghosts and gods to escort the souls of the dead to the underworld."

"I remember, if I had more time to slowly subdue the other party, I certainly wouldn't have used such brutal methods as I did today."

As Xi Juan spoke, she quickly found the short daggers she had thrown out earlier, circulated her internal energy, and drew them out from the ground.

It was a tiny flying sword, about the length of a palm, without a hilt.

He circulated the Taibai Gengjin sword energy within his body, and the flying sword immediately transformed into a stream of Gengjin energy, which he directly absorbed with his palm.

The metal energy was absorbed into the body, nurtured within the meridians for a moment, and then returned to the waist, becoming a silver thread in the belt.

"Teacher, when you looked at my face before, did you already foresee that I would face this calamity?"

"Are you facing a calamity? It's your cousin's calamity!"

Wu Yazi stared at his face again, carefully observing his demeanor.

Xi Juan felt something but didn't resist, openly letting the teacher see.

He wasn't unscathed from the fierce battle just now. His hair was soaked with sweat, and there was blood and small cuts on his face and forehead.

His Taoist robe was tattered, revealing the precious armor underneath, but the armor itself was also damaged in several places and would need to be repaired properly when he got back.

Without the armor, even if he were still alive, he would surely be weak and coughing up blood.

"Huh!" Wu Yazi looked puzzled. "Stop practicing and stop circulating your internal energy. Calm down your Yuan Dan, be without thoughts or intentions, and don't have any thoughts of circulating your internal energy."

Xi Juan didn't understand why, but she still obediently did as she was told.

"Strange." Wu Yazi stared at him for a long time, the doubt in his eyes never dissipating.

"Am I seeing things? That shouldn't be the case. I just looked at your aura carefully earlier and I remember it very clearly."

If I'm not seeing things, how could your 'source energy' have changed in just over an hour?

Xi Juan asked curiously, "What kind of source energy is it? The source energy of the Yuan Dan? It's possible that the burst of Yuan Dan energy just now caused the weather fluctuations."

Wu Yazi said, "Come here, let me touch your immortal bones."

Xi Juan walked up to her, raised her right hand, and offered her wrist.

Touching the immortal bone doesn't necessarily mean touching it directly with your hands; that method is rather crude.

Following his internal energy, Wu Yazi directly sent his own consciousness and immortal energy into his immortal bones for the most direct and precise examination.

"It's not my imagination, your immortal bones are more spiritual than before, and your origin is more solid," Wu Yazi said in surprise.

Xi Juan said, "It has been almost two years since the last time the teacher touched my immortal bones."

During this period, I have been diligently practicing, especially focusing on developing and utilizing my immortal bones.

"Isn't it normal for the immortal bones to mature and the source of energy to become more abundant?"

Wu Yazi said, "Immortal bones are essentially a kind of innate supernatural power."

In the process of the soul going from death to life, it combines with the 'spiritual energy' that is not directly manifested in the three realms, and thus gains innate supernatural powers.

Therefore, the origin of immortal bones is also a kind of 'spiritual mechanism of heaven and earth'.

It is very difficult to increase the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Since you haven't practiced any special techniques, theoretically your spiritual energy will only dissipate.

Even if you try your best to develop and utilize it, it will only keep your innate talent unchanged; it won't add to the extraordinary encounters you haven't had in the last two years, right?

Xi Juan's immortal bones are composed of four kinds of golden-natured primordial immortal energy.

Venus sought out “Kang Jinlong”, “Gui Jinyang”, “Lou Jingou”, and “Niu Jinniu”, each borrowing a portion of the “gold” spirit to form the Four Symbols of Gold Spirit.

The four elements of metal spirit merged into the Jade Emperor's soul, and after reincarnation, became the immortal bones of Xi Juan in this life.

What Wu Yazi is examining now is the "Four Symbols Golden Spirit" within Xi Juan's body.

"The dragonfish I found in Zhaoyang Lake was the greatest adventure I could have ever had," Xi Juan said.

Wu Yazi shook his head and said, "Even if you eat a few true dragons, it won't help you increase your immortal bones and spiritual energy."

Xi Juan asked in confusion, "Then where does the spiritual energy within me come from?"

“I didn’t know, that’s why I’m surprised,” Wu Yazi said.

Xi Juan frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "When the teacher said goodbye to me before, he carefully looked at my breath."

Because of my special relationship with my teacher, the aura he saw already included the bones of an immortal.

Now the teacher is observing my aura again, predicting my fortune and misfortune, and it turns out the aura brought by my "immortal bones" has become stronger?

Wu Yazi said, "Although not exactly accurate, that's roughly the idea. Now, as I examine your immortal bones, your spiritual energy has indeed increased."

This proves that what I observed earlier was not wrong.

The enhancement of his immortal bones was so great that it even caused changes in the weather.

(End of this chapter)