From a martial arts disciple to a god through countless trials and tribulations

Chapter 115 The Second Daozang
Chen Xuan was not in a hurry to practice quietly. He knew that if he took the Human Emperor Banner by force, he would cause a terrible disaster.

The Xiaowenfu Taoist temple is so ancient and powerful, with similar names to Xiaoyinjian and Xiaoqingming. It has a profound foundation and is full of powerful people who will never let him go easily.

Today, he killed all the monks of Xiaowen Mansion and even forcibly interrupted the arrival of Lu Tongyou, the great cultivator of Dinglu. However, this did not solve the fundamental problem. On the contrary, the reaction of Xiaowen Mansion would be more intense.

"The powerful beings from the Xiaowenfu Dojo will probably enter Yaoguang Province or even rush to the Southern Wilderness in ten days or half a month."

Chen Xuan was very clear-headed. If Xiaowen Mansion still had a teleportation tool like the ancient bronze mirror that could communicate with the void, or if the powerful figure [Tao Hongchen] from its power took action, this time would be even shorter.

Of course, this is the worst plan. The Southern Wilderness is so vast that he has plenty of time to prepare. He can hide in an uninhabited corner of the mountains, where it will be difficult to be discovered.

"I wonder when the Immortal War will end, and whether Lady Mountain Ghost and Senior Turtle will be able to fulfill their wishes."

Chen Xuan looked up at the distant sky. The battle at the entrance of Shangyang Cave Heaven was in full swing, but it was much calmer than when it first started. Those high-level cultivators went to explore deeper into Shangyang Cave Heaven.

修！
Now there is only this one word, there is no other way.

"At this stage, I can't resist Dinglu's might. I can only temporarily avoid the attack and quietly accumulate strength... Today, Dinglu's mighty one is looking down from the sky. I have to use all my means to temporarily fight a way out. But I can't always look up to them. Sooner or later, I will defeat them!"

Chen Xuan had a cold expression on his face, because the last collision of the old turtle's broken hand with Lu Tongyou's finger today triggered thousands of air waves and pressure that came down from the sky and continued to wash over him for a very long time. The power of the Jinyu Paste kept pulling him back from the brink of death, at least eight times, if not ten times.

"I really don't know how the Little Plague Mansion could be so well prepared. How did the Human Emperor Banner fall to the Southern Wilderness in the previous life? Is there still someone with strength comparable to that of a Cauldron Realm powerhouse lurking in this land?"

The reason why Chen Xuan was able to come from behind and win in his previous life was that he must have possessed, or had briefly possessed, the Human Emperor Banner for a period of time.

But as far as anyone could see, no one was capable of interrupting Lu Tongyou's arrival... Jiang Qinghuang was formidable, and the Demon Suppression Division had many top-tier Daozang Realm cultivators under their command, but they were still somewhat lacking in ability to deal with Lu Tongyou... The foreign cultivator Xiao Hou seemed confident, and had a trump card he hadn't yet deployed...

What a mess.

Chen Xuan left the battlefield and ran for dozens of miles, hiding his tracks in the wilderness. Before he could meditate and practice, he had to wait for the Black Cat to summon the Little Underworld to come and reap the last wave of harvest.

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"Meow!"

The fog surged, and a petite and nimble black figure jumped out. A dark crescent moon hung behind its head, and a jade pendant tied with a red rope around its neck swayed, emitting a white glow.

"Everyone changes, and Chen Xuan changes especially quickly!"

The black cat squatted in front of the charred pit where Heng Gu fell, grinding its fangs vigorously, its face full of anger:
"Chen Xuan reduced the body of the Chosen One to ash, and even swept away the remaining soul with the Human Emperor Banner... That's too much. Not cute at all. I don't like you!"

She was muttering to herself and complaining. She watched Chen Xuan grow from a weak warrior in Liuzhen to a powerful man who dominated the Taoist masters in Chu.

In the initial period, cultivators were rare in this frontier area. Chen Xuan fought his way forward and killed several Qi practitioners every once in a while, which brought great waves to her monotonous and boring life. Xiao Yintian had something to eat, and for a time he became the person she most wanted to meet.

Now, Chen Xuan has killed more Qi practitioners. Today alone, more than ten or twenty Taoist monks died in his hands.

But Xuanmao felt dissatisfied and very depressed.

"You ate up all the Human Emperor Banner, what does Little Yintian eat? Kitty works for nothing every day!"

Black Cat stood under the scattered white paper money, puffed up his cheeks, got angry for a moment, then buried his head in his work.

Chen Xuan was in a calm mood, unmoved by praise or criticism, and waited patiently for the black cat to clean up the battlefield.

"Wow!"

A small jade book flew high into the sky from the black cat's neck, stirring up the faint remaining traces of Heng Gu in the air. This jade book, titled "List of Heavenly Destiny Immortal Species", slowly unfolded, revealing lines of ancient seal characters.

The destined one dies.

The little netherworld is touched.

"In the ruins of the ancient Peach Blossom Spring, the emissary of Hou Tu's underworld discovered the list of immortal species destined for heaven—the Thirteen Demonic Cats of the Taiyin Dao."

Chen Xuan seized the opportunity and continued to read the words below the jade book.

"In the 3601st year of the Ancient Chu Bird Calendar, on the 22nd day of the Jia month, the Heavenly Mandate [Human Emperor Banner] Heng Gu perished in the Southern Wasteland..."

Following this column of golden characters, there is another column of seal characters:
"Heng Gu's body has turned to ashes, its soul annihilated, and there is no chance of resurrection."

"The [Human Emperor Scripture] disappears into the mortal world, and the path to becoming the Human Emperor is cut off once again..."

Chen Xuan's heart trembled. "Break again?" Could it be that the Human Emperor Banner, this elixir of destiny, had appeared before? No wonder countless legends about the Human Emperor Banner circulated in the Qi training world!

Just as he was wondering, he suddenly saw a gray-gold starlight flying out of the void and falling into the small white jade book.

"Swipe!"

It was as if someone was holding a pen in the void, quickly writing more words on the small jade book. Chen Xuan only saw some information emerging.

"All grand plans and ambitions are in vain, the Emperor's Banner - a mid-grade elixir!"

"From ancient times to the present, the worst in history!"

The Black Cat Lady's gorgeous purple-black eyes narrowed, and she immediately raised her plum blossom-like cat paws and snapped the jade book shut, covering up the comment. A furtive look appeared on her face, and she murmured in her heart:

"The Human Emperor Banner is broken once again. Is this path to immortality truly the wrong one? This time in this world, I haven't even reached the level of [Tao Hongchen], let alone the higher realms after becoming an immortal..."

She sighed with emotion, the image of Chen Xuan emerging in her mind: "What's going on? When the Destiny One encounters Chen Xuan, all the great principles become empty. Is he born to oppose the Destiny One?"

Xuan Mao's thoughts were in turmoil, and she felt more and more that something was wrong with Chen Xuan. Huang Liang Meng and Ren Huang Fan were both killed by him alone. In her long life, she had never encountered such a strange thing.

"Yan Yushu of the Six Desires Heaven, it's a good thing she never met Chen Xuan, otherwise, that beautiful and charming vixen would have been brutally destroyed and ruthlessly beaten to death by him!"

Xuanmao felt that he had discovered Chen Xuan’s incredible secret and was extremely happy.

"Vixie has managed to turn danger into safety several times, and I don't know why. It's truly bizarre. Lu Zhuan should have only received a rotten elixir... but now she's alive and kicking, and even managed to escape early. She's lucky. Otherwise, if Chen Xuan had met her, he'd have seduced her and made her suffer the consequences!"

Chen Xuan listened to the black cat's inner thoughts and was speechless. It was really hilarious that this little cat was actually talking bad about Fellow Daoist Yan behind his back.

But Yan Yushu's reputation is indeed not good. Although most people have a good impression of her, everyone knows clearly in their hearts that she is an unparalleled witch who eats people without leaving any bones.

Black Cat suddenly sneered, "Fox Meizi's destiny is not easy. Even if she finds a suitable tool to use as a furnace and resists the backlash of the Six Desires, she will still experience a super disaster with no chance of survival when she [Tao Hongchen] in the future..."

"There's an ancient Taoist temple left behind by an ancient sage from the mountains and seas, sworn to slay all worldly desires... Yan Yushu stood in their way, refusing to resign herself to her fate and escape into the heartless and empty Buddhist sect. She was doomed, without exception..."

Chen Xuan was shocked when he heard this. Will Fellow Daoist Yan face such a disaster in the future?

He quickly pricked up his ears and listened carefully, but Xuanmao stopped talking to herself in her heart and quickly carried out other cleaning work. There were many dead monks nearby and she had a heavy task.

Not long after, Chen Xuan obtained half of the Plague Sutra [Fei Niu Zhenjing] inherited from the Small Plague House, as well as the Fire Virtue [Bi Fang Zhenjing] practiced by the old man from the Cui family who sacrificed his life to cover the retreat.

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After half an hour, Chen Xuan withdrew his heart power, and then immediately told Yan Yushu, who was far away, what he had heard, asking him to be careful.

"Thank you for your concern, fellow Taoist."

Yan Yushu thanked him and kept this in mind. She had also joined an ancient Taoist temple and was not afraid of danger. Then, she felt deeply worried about Chen Xuan's situation and whispered:
"Chen Xuan, please take good care of yourself and don't take any more risks."

Chen Xuan obtained the Human Emperor Banner and no longer needed Yan Yushu.

But Yan Yushu needs Chen Xuan and cannot do without him.

Although the malice of the Six Desire Heavens was temporarily eradicated and the four images of the Six Desire Heavens Kings were shattered into pieces, as long as she continued to use the Six Desire Heavens, they would come back sooner or later.

"I can endure it for a year or two, but I can't endure it forever. I still need to practice with you. You must not have any accidents!"

Yan Yushu understood her own situation. Unless she was cruel enough to find a tool stove as her long-term Taoist partner, she had no such plan, because she and Chen Xuan were cooperating, each doing their own thing and not disturbing each other. This was a good way of getting along, and it was the limit that she could accept psychologically.

"If you need anything, just come to me directly. I'm happy to help you practice."

Chen Xuan was generous and magnanimous. He also said that helping Yan Yushu was just a matter of convenience and no reward was needed.

Yan Yushu: "...Thank you."

"You're welcome."

As Chen Xuan moved forward into the deep mountains of the Southern Wilderness, he exchanged information with Yan Yushu. Soon, the brief conversation ended... The world was vast, and the signal of the high-level communication talisman that Yan Yushu gave him gradually became worse.

At dusk, Chen Xuan ran for hundreds of miles before he stopped. He didn't know where he was. He entered a deep mountain where ancient trees blocked the sun. He decided to practice in silence here and wait for the storm to completely calm down.

The outside world is too chaotic, and no one knows when the powerful person from the Small Plague Mansion will pass through and come to the Southern Wilderness in his true form, so he can only hide temporarily.

Chen Xuan began to practice meditation, seizing every opportunity to improve his combat power. A white human-shaped shadow emerged from his body, like a pure god sitting on a high seat, with fairy mist surging and hanging above his head.

The soul manifests in the mortal world, which is one of the necessary conditions to become a great figure in [Tao Hongchen], but at this moment, Chen Xuan has already reached this step in advance.

"I have mastered several sutras, which are complex and confusing. It is time to sort them out systematically."

Chen Xuan began to comprehend the various true scriptures and methods he had mastered.

The complete and intact "Huangliang Sutra" is his foundation, and it is almost the source of his fearlessness in interfering with other senior cultivators and his confidence in striding forward on the path of cultivation.

This true scripture does not have strong killing power, and emphasizes meaning rather than form. The chapter on transformation cultivates [Huangliang Qi], the chapter on Taoist canon produces [Huangliang Wood] of the liver Taoist canon, and the chapter on tripod and furnace cultivates a perfect body, which is [Huangliang Dao Body].

"I've already learned the first two, but the third, the Dinglu Method, requires time to practice. It also requires swallowing various wood-virtue spiritual objects, of which Daozang Lingyun is only one. I can't continue practicing for the time being."

Chen Xuan's storage artifact contained various Daoist spiritual essences, with Fire virtue being the most abundant. This was followed by Plague, Thunder, and Water virtues, with Wood virtue being the only missing spiritual essence.

"Unless you find some powerful forces with deep roots to exchange your spiritual essence, you can only cultivate other scriptures first."

Jin De: The True Sutra of the Six Desires.

Wood Virtue: The Yellow Millet Scripture.

Water Virtue: The Scripture of Longevity…The Scripture of the Noising Snake.

Fire Virtue: ...the True Scripture of the Phoenix Bird and the True Scripture of Bifang.

Thunder attribute: ...Yinglong Sutra.

Department of Plague: The True Scripture of the Human Emperor…The True Scripture of the Feiniu.

"Two complete Heavenly Fate Scriptures, and seven half-scriptures."

Chen Xuan followed the procedure and decided to practice the second chapter of "The Book of Immortality" first.

He cultivated the Five Elements Qi and practiced the Five Elements Sutra, which was the easiest and fastest. In the current chaotic and tense situation, quickly improving combat power was the best choice.

"The Immortality Sutra cultivates the water virtue and kidney acupoints, which are hidden in it, called the [Immortal River]..."

The soul body was surrounded by white mist, suspended in the air, its lips and teeth moved slightly, as if its tongue was eloquent, and golden seal characters were spit out. A wisp of black and gold longevity energy, as if guided by a god, began to circulate rapidly in the body.

A bright light gradually appeared in the area where the kidney point was located in the body, and something magical began to take shape.

A thousand miles a day.

The next day, early in the morning.

"sound of rain……"

A fine, cold drizzle was falling from the sky, and wisps of mist were rising from the ground. The rain came suddenly and was getting heavier and heavier.

"Whoosh!"

By noon, the drizzle turned into a downpour. The raindrops were like curtains, drowning all the scenery in sight. The rain water gathered on the earth and formed streams in the mountains.

What is strange is that this heavy rain only covers an area of a few hundred meters in radius.

The sky outside was clear, but the place where Chen Xuan was had turned into a swamp.

"call!"

Chen Xuan opened his eyes in the rain and called back his soul. The next moment, tremendous power poured into his physical body. The ball of light in the kidney point broke open instantly, and a bright black and gold beam of light, like the first light after the dark night, illuminated the rainy sky with brilliant light.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Faintly, a deep black river emerged, and a small black boat came from afar. The childish fisherman's song on the boat sounded like a song and a cry.

In the world, the power of water in all directions was boiling, and they all voiced their submission to Chen Xuan.

"It's done!"

One day.

Complete the second Daozang!

(End of this chapter)