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

Chapter 161 Xiao Huo’s Crisis

Taoist Zizhu carried more than forty bottles of elixirs with him.

In addition to the largest number of Fire Spirit Pills, there are also twelve bottles of Wood Spirit Pills. As for the rest of the pills, Chen Xuan took a look and found that he could identify the efficacy of most of them, but not a few.

"They are all Daozang-level elixirs. The Wood Spirit Pill can be used immediately."

This batch of pills is extremely valuable and is very suitable for Chen Xuan's current situation.

Then he put the pills aside and looked at the second item.

A green three-legged alchemy furnace, about ten feet high.

"A top-grade treasure."

The furnace body is perfectly round, with smooth and natural lines. On either side of the furnace body, there is a lifelike blue Qilin relief, with round convex eyes and sparkling flames like tears.

On the furnace body, there are mysterious green lines engraved, like a winding snake or an ancient rune, flashing with a faint light, as if telling the legend of countless roars of the furnace and the birth of elixirs in the past.

"The thing Taoist Zizhu is eating with is just a top-grade treasure. Humph, Old Bamboo is putting the cart before the horse."

Chen Xuan murmured to himself with regret that Taoist Zizhu, the newly promoted Dinglu, had probably spent all his life's fortune on the peerless treasure, the Jingzhe Sword.

It is a unified understanding in the Qi training world that among the Five Elements cultivators, the Wood Virtue cultivators of the Danding Dao are the least adept at fighting, while the Fire Virtue and Gold Virtue cultivators are the best at fighting… When Taoist Zizhu attacks the State of Chu, he will inevitably spend his fortune on the Jingzhe Sword to enhance his combat power and life-saving elixirs.

"Wow!"

Chen Xuan climbed up to the top of the alchemy furnace. There were nine tiny air holes evenly distributed on the lid, arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper. He looked through the holes on the lid and looked into the bluish-red furnace. There was only a handful of grayish-white ash inside.

"Nothing is hidden." Immediately, he withdrew his gaze, sat cross-legged on top of the alchemy furnace, and turned over the last item.

"The Zhiguo Danding Dao Alchemy Directory."

Chen Xuan silently recited the words on the booklet and quickly flipped through it. Within a cup of tea, he easily memorized the hundreds of pill recipes recorded in it.

"A page of recipes for the Heavenly Destiny Elixir!"

Chen Xuan turned to the last page and was shocked. This alchemy directory of Zhiguo actually recorded an ancient recipe for refining the Destiny Pill.

"[Mirror Immortal] is the main ingredient of the elixir... Consume it and you will be able to emulate the lives of mortal beings and imitate the destinies of millions!"

"When ascending to the immortal world, use thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, nine-leaf ginseng, and fallen Tai Sui as supplementary materials..."

"During the Daozang period, the Emperor's Rest Fruit, the Yunmeng Lake Water, and the Yao Grass..."

"Dingluo time..."

This page of recipes contains the recipes for refining pills made by the Chosen One [Mirror Immortal] in three different periods.

"Did the Zhi Kingdom ever refine the Heavenly Destiny Elixir in ancient times?"

Chen Xuan frowned. The existence of Zhi State was much longer than that of Chu State, probably tens of thousands of years.

"I haven't heard of such a rumor. Perhaps the recipe for the Heavenly Destiny Pill came from another realm and was obtained by Zhiguo, so they collected it."

"[Mirror Fairy], an ancient destiny being? It sounds like a remarkable destiny ability."

Chen Xuan did not pay much attention to this discovery, treating it as a piece of strange news and letting it go.

Things in ancient times have nothing to do with people today.

Afterwards, Chen Xuan found the corresponding recipes for each of the elixirs refined by Taoist Zizhu, figuring out their exact effects. Finally, he even found the record of the life-saving elixir that Taoist Zizhu swallowed before his final escape.

"I have the alchemy furnace and the alchemy formula. I have everything I need. In the future, I might become a famous alchemy master."

Chen Xuan smiled in his heart, and then he put all the pills, alchemy furnace, and alchemy list into the Mountain and River Scroll treasure.

"Xiao Hou, a foreign cultivator under Jiang Qinghuang, is a master of alchemy."

Chen Xuan recalled some of the things he had heard and witnessed about Xiao Huo, and his brows gradually furrowed.

Surname Xiao.

A talented young man who travels around.

Master the secret art of special divine fire.

The superb talent of merging strange fire.

Proficient in alchemy.

A black ring of unknown level houses the residual soul of an extremely powerful old man.

"There's something nine out of ten wrong with Xiao Hu."

"He really looks like a familiar protagonist from a strange story."

Chen Xuan muttered to himself that when he first met Xiao Huo in Nanhuang, he felt something was wrong.

Today, this feeling is even stronger.

However, the residual soul of an old man at the level of [Tao Hongchen] in the other party's ring prevented him from acting rashly.

Moreover, those who are destined by destiny all have some degree of madness in them.

Chen Xuan and Xiao Huo had never met before and had no connection with each other. If he rashly used Xinzhai to test him, it would be a mess if he was not careful.

"Logically speaking, in today's battle, I acted openly and honestly, proactively revealing the Human Emperor's Dao Treasure to Xiao Hou... If he truly is the Chosen One, he should be alert, right?"

Chen Xuan felt puzzled. Xiao Hou had chased after the Human Emperor Banner Heng Gu and knew the form of the Human Emperor Daozang. He would surely realize that Chen Xuan had learned the Human Emperor Sutra from Heng Gu.

Moreover, Xiao Huo holds an important position in a well-informed place like the Demon Suppression Bureau, so he must know that Chen Xuan has practiced more than one kind of Heavenly Destiny Sutra.

But Xiao Huo did not have any abnormal reaction today.

"He should make some moves."

Chen Xuan thought that proactively exposing the Human Emperor's Daoist Canon wasn't a rash act. He hadn't intended to hide these things from the beginning. Cultivating multiple Heavenly Fate Sutras left many traces, making it impossible to conceal them.

Many people judged that Chen Xuan was a chosen one based on these clues and deduced some of his abilities.

But the height of Xinzhai is unpredictable.

Even the Mountain Ghost Lady, who was at the level of a True Lord, could not see through the real details.

Even if they had personally witnessed Chen Xuan enter the Six Desire Heavens of Destiny - Yan Yushu, Tianyan Dao - Brahma Immortal. They were only able to glimpse the leopard through the tube, knowing that Xinzhai was destined to be exposed, and some of the abilities that Chen Xuan had not concealed.

They had no way of knowing Xinzhai's further abilities.

For example, as long as Chen Xuan enters the Destiny once, he can immediately lock onto the true body of the Destiny Person and know where he is hiding.

At any time, Chen Xuan can see the locations of [Six Desire Heavens], [Eternal Life Seed]... and [Tianyan Dao].

"I may not be able to meet the two world masters in the market, so I will first test my hand on Xiao Hou, who is suspected to be the one with destiny."

Chen Xuan decided in his heart: "If he doesn't come to see me these few days, I will take the initiative to go to him! Give him time to prepare mentally!"

This was the reason why Jiang Qinghuang deliberately tried to win him over today, and it was part of the reason why he did not reject him on the spot after he found out that Xiao Huo was eavesdropping.

If Xiao Huo doesn't come, he will take the initiative to find him through Jiang Qinghuang's Demon Suppression Bureau.

"I hope my guess is wrong!" Chen Xuan thought to himself.

Xinzhai is sometimes too "harsh" on those who are destined to be successful.

If it is not necessary, Chen Xuan does not want to easily make enemies with some unfortunate people with destiny... For those who are as inhuman as the Human Emperor Banner Heng Gu, he can just take them by force, but for people like Xiao Hou and the two world masters, he needs to plan for the long term, and it would be best if there is an ending that both parties are satisfied with.

"Continue to practice in seclusion."

Afterwards, Chen Xuan opened a ceramic bottle and poured out a wooden spirit pill surrounded by the shadow of a ginseng doll. He checked it and put it into his mouth.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the phantom of the ginseng doll held the Wood Spirit Pill in both hands and went down Chen Xuan's throat and into his internal organs. With every step, rich life energy was sprinkled out, moistening him silently.

His physical body was extremely fast, refining the medicinal power of the Wood Spirit Pill.

"The Wood Spirit Pill is very effective." Chen Xuan's body, now refining the Wood Spirit Pill, was experiencing a cultivation speed comparable to those legendary "Nine Five Supreme" geniuses. Furthermore, the emergence of his spirit body, reciting the second chapter of the Yellow Millet Sutra and driving his body forward, further increased this cultivation speed to a terrifying and astonishing degree.

The spiritual essence of the Plague Department has been used up, and the Daoist Canon of the Human Emperor of the Fifth Heaven has temporarily come to an end.

"Next, let's look at the Wood Virtue Yellow Millet Sutra."

If there is no accident.

Chen Xuanhui will be the first to complete the Yellow Millet Sutra, refining it to the third chapter, the Dinglu. ...

……

After nine days of seclusion and cultivation.

"call!"

Chen Xuan opened his eyes, and the cyan-gold light in his eyes faded away. After refining two Wood Spirit Pills, he successfully broke through.

The Huangliang Daozang farmer broke through the third level.

"Master, I have grown up and can do more things!"

The farmer entered his youth, his face became more calm, his eyes were simple and honest, he wore a linen short shirt, carried a hoe on his shoulder, and made an enthusiastic call to the sky.

"Can……"

Chen Xuan nodded slightly, then withdrew his gaze and said to himself with emotion: "With the help of elixirs, my cultivation really improves by leaps and bounds."

The last time the Human Emperor Daozang was promoted to the third heaven, it took nearly a month, but this time the Huangliang Daozang only took nine days, saving more than twenty days.

You have to know that the top young geniuses in Chu, such as Cui Che, achieved enlightenment at the age of three and Daozang at the age of eight, but until his twenties, he was only at the fourth level of Daozang. The breakthroughs after these people's Daozang breakthroughs were all measured in years. If they knew that Chen Xuan had broken through a realm in just nine days, they would be so ashamed that they would find a piece of tofu and kill themselves.

"Although the difficulty of cultivation will increase several times with each subsequent realm."

"But as long as I have enough spiritual essence pills, I will definitely break through the sixth level within a few months. Then, I will reach the third chapter of the Yellow Millet Sutra... within a year, I may even achieve the Dinglu!"

Chen Xuan thought to himself, then sighed helplessly:
"Unfortunately, I have five Heavenly Fate Scriptures. To learn them all will take at least five times as long. By then, I will be middle-aged and old."

If anyone heard his sentiment, they would probably burst into angry curses. Someone like Chen Xuan, who could become a Dinglu in his twenties, and even achieve it five times in a row, and still be in his twenties, was considered old? Everyone knew that in these lands, a century-old Dinglu like Taoist Zizhu was considered exceptionally gifted, and there were only a few middle-aged Daozangs under the age of sixty in a given era. They were in the prime of their youth!
Simultaneously.

Chen Xuan felt a little worried and thought to himself, "These Heavenly Fate Scriptures are gradually becoming strange. The resources that I have worked so hard to obtain, although every time I break through a realm, the amount of my physical body and immortal energy increases significantly. However, many of them also fall on the Heavenly Fate Daozang, which has its own consciousness."

In the future, when the third chapter of Dinglu Sutra is practiced and Tianming Daozang is sublimated to the extreme, who will own the divine body that is born?
Although the Daozangs obeyed orders, the power was concentrated in the Daozangs who had independent consciousness, rather than the main body, which ultimately made people feel empty and hollow.

"We need to work on both fronts. When we run out of resources, we will immediately cultivate the Secrets of the Five Treasures Military Immortal Body, and then consult other ancient scriptures of the mountains and seas."

The Daozang cultivated from the Shanhai Sutra, although with low intelligence, is integrated with the physical body.

Chen Xuan thought so and continued to practice the Huangliang Sutra.

Day 12.

A cold voice called out from the advanced communication talisman given by Jiang Qinghuang:
"General!"

Chen Xuan got goosebumps and replied:

"your Highness!"

Jiang Qinghuang said softly, "General, come quickly. The Morning Dew Armor has been transported to Yanxia City."

Yanxia City is a large city bordering Luoyue City. The headquarters of several city defense lines led by Jiang Qinghuang is set up in Yanxia City.

Chen Xuan replied, "Peerless treasures are precious and hot to the touch... Is there anything I can do to help with the battle in Falling Moon City?"

Of course, if he really had the identity of a temporary cultivator in the Demon Suppression Division, and had the merit of killing several top Taoist cultivators and killing Taoist Zizhu, Jiang Qinghuang would reward him with the Morning Dew artifact. Although the value was still a little higher, it was barely acceptable.

The Mountain Ghost Queen did not forbid Chen Xuan from joining other forces.

Strictly speaking, Chen Xuan does not even belong to the Southern Wilderness forces. He is the private property of the Mountain Ghost Goddess, a true lord.

Moreover, in the world of Qi training, it is normal for a cultivator to have various temporary identities.

The Demon Suppression Division recruited temporary monks for the war effort, each with their own needs, free to come and go. Many monks joined for a month or two, fighting a few battles when missions arose, and then remaining there to cultivate until they had accumulated enough resources for a period of cultivation before leaving the Division, completely severing all ties.

Shen Lingfeng from Qinglu Mountain and Xiao Huo from the outside world both have this temporary identity.

For Chen Xuan, whether to temporarily join the Demon Suppression Bureau is not a big deal... He has a yardstick in his heart and will not accept unreasonable gifts and requests.

Jiang Qinghuang was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then replied in a serious tone:
"General, the Jiang family has done the same thing to other cultivators who are fighting against the Zhi Nation. Moreover, the Demon Suppression Division will not restrict the freedom of temporary cultivators and will never force them to perform missions."

She emphasized that this was equal treatment within the rules and told Chen Xuan not to think too much about it, as the Jiang family treated other cultivators in the same way.

Chen Xuan then asked, "When did the Demon Suppression Division enter the territory of Luoyue City?"

Jiang Qinghuang replied: "In two or three days. We are mobilizing troops now."

Chen Xuan nodded and said, "I'm grateful for the princess's help. I'm not going to ask for your peerless armor for nothing. I'll help you this time!"

With his current ability, not counting his soul and body, he is enough to be comparable to half a cauldron. In the local battlefield, he has the qualifications to say such things.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of the Chu-Zhi battle to make a lot of cultivation resources, and it would be easy for him to cooperate with the Chu Jiang family in the battle.

Moreover, in the fleeting glimpse of Wang Chan at the celebration banquet in the royal city decades after the Yellow Millet Dream, Jiang Qinghuang should be the same as Pei Yuanyong, one of the few people in Chu State who had some friendship with Chen Xuan, rather than hatred.

After a while.

Chen Xuan asked about the various tasks Jiang Qinghuang had given him. Some were easy and safe, while others were somewhat dangerous. Finally, he chose a task that surprised Jiang Qinghuang:

"Oh, this mission is the most difficult. Xiao Qiong is here too. That foreign cultivator who plays with fire? Let's just do this mission!"

……

……

In the City Lord's Mansion of Yanxia City.

Jiang Qinghuang ended the conversation, and then, with a pair of noble phoenix eyes, she looked at the curling green smoke from the auspicious beast incense burner in the room, lost in thought.

"Things that are unattainable are always treated specially."

Jiang Qinghuang sighed inwardly. She had originally wanted to recruit Chen Xuan. Last year in the Southern Wilderness, Chen Xuan had rescued her, and because of this, he had forged a mortal feud with the dragons of the Rain Nation. Now that he had come to the territory of the Chu State, shouldn't she take care of him? Even if she couldn't recruit him, a fellow Daoist could always help! After all, she showed him a tolerance and preference that was different from that shown to others.

"Let it be."

"He has taken the initiative to choose the most dangerous mission. What else can I be dissatisfied with?"

"In his heart, he ultimately sided with the Chu people, but the one from the Southern Wilderness got to him first...that's all!"

Immediately.

Jiang Qinghuang arranged for Xiao Huo to change his task through the ordinary communication talisman specially made by the Demon Suppression Bureau.

……

……

In the distance, in a courtyard of the huge city lord's mansion.

After Xiao Huo received Jiang Qinghuang's order changes and asked about the people who joined halfway, his expression changed slightly.

"Chen Xuan..."

He silently recited the name, feeling vaguely uneasy... Why did Chen Xuan join his mission!
The old man heard the sound from the mysterious ring on his finger and said in a serious tone:
"This person might be the reincarnation of some old monster called [Spiritual Wandering]. When he killed Taoist Zizhu, he used his spirit body. He must have seen me taking over your body."

When Xiao Qi heard these words, his scalp tingled and he couldn't help asking:
"Master, could it be that he discovered my identity as the Chosen One and has some plans for me?"

He paused, a chill in his heart, and continued, "He practiced Heng Gu's Human Emperor Scripture. There's no reason why he could have learned the Human Emperor Scripture... Moreover, he doesn't only have the Human Emperor Scripture. He has demonstrated several different Heavenly Fate Daozang."

Behind every scripture of destiny, there is a person of destiny.

Chen Xuan learned their destiny scriptures. This matter was too terrifying. Xiao Hu didn't dare to think about it too deeply. Every time he thought about it, he felt an inexplicable sense of oppression, crushing him like a tsunami.

——Chen Xuan can enter the destiny space of other people with destiny and see the true scriptures... and perhaps he can do more things.

Xiao Hu thought that this was Chen Xuan's divine ability.

The old man pondered for a moment, then said solemnly, "Although my soul and body are broken, I was once stronger than him, and I am not afraid of him. It's just that the Human Emperor Banner is difficult to handle..."

When he was in the Southern Wilderness, he had seen Chen Xuan use his spirit to forcibly seize the Human Emperor Banner, the divine weapon. However, the Human Emperor Banner, which was designed to restrain the spirit, did not put up much resistance and was even more obedient to Chen Xuan than to Heng Gu. The old man still finds it incredible when he thinks about it now.

"Master, it's time for me to leave Chu, right?"

Xiao Huo asked this while standing under the locust tree in the courtyard, gazing at the rolling hills in the distance and the sunset glow filling the sky.

He had been working hard in Chu for more than half a year and had gathered the necessary resources to break through to the Dinglu realm. Now, he could choose to leave Chu and find an uninhabited place to retreat and seek a breakthrough.

The old man was silent for a while, and gave a thoughtful answer:
"Run away, run away tonight."

(End of this chapter)