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

Chapter 177 Tiger's Funeral

In the market.

The white mist rolled up the bright light, and a crowd of people surged on the bluestone road.

Jiang Qinghuang stopped in front of a traveling merchant's stall, carefully looking at the layout of the two-world market, as well as the traveling merchants and cultivators coming and going.

"Only in areas of chaos and disorder can the markets of the two worlds and traveling merchants take root."

Jiang Qinghuang was thinking about the legendary rise of the two world masters, and then he heard familiar footsteps coming from a teahouse not far away.

Step~
Jiang Qinghuang's face seemed to brighten a bit, her phoenix hairpin swayed slightly, and she immediately turned around to look, only to see Chen Xuan in a dark black robe, walking towards her with the gait of a dragon and a tiger.

Chen Xuan...

He...he is finally back safely!
Jiang Qinghuang's eyes flickered, and she breathed a sigh of relief. She wanted to go and greet him, but after all, she was of noble status, and she was also guarded by the annoying Demon-Suppressing General Pei, the Patriarch. So she could only slightly puff out her bulging chest and wait for Chen Xuan...

"Princess." Chen Xuan walked closer and his clear voice sounded.

"General." Jiang Qinghuang nodded reservedly, then smiled softly:

"You haven't returned for half a day. I thought the general was spotted by the legendary [Lord of the Two Realms] and taken away to mine."

Hua Liuli, the master of the two worlds, is not well-known in Yaoguangzhou.

Jiang Qinghuang hadn't known much about the Two Realm Lords before, but when Chen Xuan mentioned the Two Realm Market, she'd searched through the files of the Demon Suppression Division and learned a great deal about Hua Liuli. She unraveled the mystery, ultimately concluding that she was a righteous Destined One.

Otherwise, she would definitely stop Chen Xuan and go to Yunmeng Province alone... More likely, she would arrange for a god and demon general in the Dinglu realm to accompany him.

"It's going well."

Chen Xuan smiled and replied, glancing at the stall in front of Jiang Qinghuang and asked, "Princess, do you want to buy anything?"

"This is my first time in the Two Worlds Market. I find many things new and surprising, and I haven't seen them all yet."

Jiang Qinghuang answered the question irrelevantly, then smiled and said, "General, do you have something you need to exchange? I'll go with you."

She is the person with the deepest background in the entire Chu State, and has never lacked resources for cultivation. Why would she need to buy things in this kind of traveling market for "poor" cultivators?

Chen Xuan nodded slightly and agreed:

"That's exactly what I was thinking, Princess. Let's go shopping together."

He fought several battles in Luoyue City and even killed two powerful Dinglu masters from Zhiguo. He gained a lot and obtained many treasures.

The amount of accumulated spiritual energy alone has reached a terrifying number.

"Liu Qi, Taoist Zizhu's biological son, two sixth-level spiritual essences, and the spiritual essences of ordinary Taoist monks from the Liu and Bamboo tribes, a total of seven... Taoist Liu's treasure also includes four fire virtue spiritual essences."

Although spiritual essence can be directly swallowed and practiced.

However, if one could exchange some Wood Spirit Pills, Fire Spirit Pills and other elixirs from traveling merchants in Zhi Country, it would be more helpful for cultivation.

"Unfortunately, the small merchants in Luoyue City are all at the Daozang and Yuhua levels. Their levels are too low... The spiritual essence of the sixth level of Daozang is unable to make a move."

Chen Xuan had no choice but to exchange these scattered spiritual essences for Liangjie Tongbao Glazed Coins in the Liangjie Teahouse.

A teahouse is a pawn shop that buys back almost all kinds of treasures.

Hua Liuli used these means, as well as a rare teleportation array in the world, to spread her exclusive Liuli coins, which gradually became the common currency among traveling merchants from all over the country.

"Sir, we are buying it back at the highest price." The maid wearing a bronze mask weighed the spiritual essence, then respectfully handed a bag of glass coins to Chen Xuan with both hands.

Because of his special relationship with Hua Liuli, Chen Xuan made a business deal that was fair and without disadvantage.

"The people in the teahouse of the two world masters respect Chen Xuan very much..." Jiang Qinghuang watched this scene unfold with a calm look.

She knew in her heart that Chen Xuan, following Emperor Yan Ming Xiao Hou, had successfully established contact with Hua Liuli, the master of the two realms in Yunmeng Province, and perhaps he had already obtained what he wanted.

"Every person with destiny belongs to a higher, farther, and larger vast world, rather than being confined to a place or a region... Chu is too small for him." Jiang Qinghuang thought with a little sadness in his heart.

soon.

Chen Xuan brought with him a huge sum of money, which was considered extremely generous even for the powerful Dinglu, and swept the entire market of the two worlds.

"The price of spiritual essence of the first level fluctuates around ten glass coins, but the price of elixirs of the same level is doubled." A Zhiguo itinerant merchant who specializes in alchemy explained.

There will be losses when refining pills, and the success rate is not high, so it is normal for the price to double.

"Take out all the pills and buy them!"

Chen Xuan laughed loudly, waved his sleeves, bought all the pills from the Zhiguo merchant, and then went to the next stall to make a purchase.

Hua Liuli was right when she said that those who are destined to succeed should try every possible means to increase their power as much as possible in the shortest possible time...

Soon after.

Chen Xuan bought almost all the wood and fire elixirs in this newly opened market which had not yet entered its most prosperous period.

"Twelve Fire Spirit Pills, nineteen Wood Spirit Pills..."

Chen Xuan calculated his wealth, and after adding the remaining pills left by Taoist Zizhu and consuming some of them, he now had:
Fire Spirit Pills: thirty-six pieces.

Wood Spirit Pills: twenty-eight pieces.

When these pills are used up, they will be enough for him to cultivate the Taoist scriptures of "Huangliang Sutra" and "Yandi Sutra" to the perfect sixth level. Moreover, there must be some left, which can be used in other ancient scriptures of mountains and seas in the future.

"I really want to practice in seclusion right away..." Chen Xuan was satisfied and put the bottles of pills into the Mountain and River Scroll treasure.

After buying the pills, he had a few Liuli coins left. Adding the inheritance from Taoist Liu and the transfer fee that Hua Liuli generously returned, he now had nearly a thousand Liangjie Tongbao coins in his hand.

finally.

Chen Xuan looked happy as he walked to the end of the market and left the Two Worlds Market with Jiang Qinghuang, who had been traveling with him for a while.

"General, we are leaving, right?" Jiang Qinghuang stood under the Fire Scale Beast carriage, with a glowing light on her beautiful face, and asked softly.

The battle in Luoyue City ended more than half a month ago, and she should have left a few days ago.

And obviously, Chen Xuan would not choose to go with her.

"Ah."

Chen Xuan nodded, looked at the wilderness in the twilight, was silent for a moment, and then said lightly:
"Princess, I'm going back to the Southern Wilderness."

Jiang Qinghuang sighed deeply upon hearing this. She was also looking at the distant sky, where the twilight glowed like blood. She pursed her bright red lips, smiled softly, and asked:

"General, when we meet again, will we be enemies?"

Although it was unclear what those unruly and bloodthirsty monsters in the Southern Wilderness were doing in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, they were ultimately planning to march into Chu and wreak havoc everywhere...

This is something that everyone knows.

Chen Xuan thought for a moment, turned to look at the beautiful Jiang Qinghuang beside him, and replied:

"Princess, I'm afraid we won't be able to meet again in the near future. After I return to the Southern Wilds, I may need to practice in seclusion."

Jiang Qinghuang was stunned for a moment after hearing Chen Xuan's answer. Then, a faint feeling of joy spread in her heart like a tide...

She turned her eyes to look at Chen Xuan and said softly:

"General, if you can't stay in the Southern Wasteland, come to me. I will take you to the Jiang Dynasty in the Central Plains to read the second half of the Phoenix Sutra."

The Jiang clan of Fire Emperor Zhuzhao Zhenjun migrated from the Central Plains more than 3,000 years ago.

After saying this, Jiang Qinghuang turned around, boarded the carriage, and turned around again. The sunset glowed in the sky above her head, brilliant as a continuous brocade. She looked down, raised her hands, bowed slightly, and said goodbye to Chen with her sleeves fluttering:
"I wish the general a smooth retreat, all your wishes come true, and that you can achieve the cauldron soon!"

Chen Xuan smiled upon hearing this, waved his hand, and responded:

"Princess, you should devote more time and energy to cultivation and achieve the cauldron. Only then can you play a greater role in these major military and national wars."

"That makes sense, General. See you later..."

Jiang Qinghuang smiled slightly, like a noble and wealthy peony blooming in the world. She turned and entered the carriage, and the curtain slowly fell, blocking her view.

"Rumble..." The scarlet, flame-like convoy of demon-suppressing vehicles slowly left.

"The people of the Jiang family are all pretty good..." Chen Xuan looked at the convoy going away, stopped for a few breaths, then turned around and left in another direction.

I still remember the scene I saw in my dream.

Decades later, Wang Chan's senior brother Chen Xuan returned to Chu and celebrated the recapture of an old city...

The war in Chu State was still going on, and Jiang Qinghuang had become the empress in the heart of Chu State. Therefore, her father who was in the Dinglu realm, as well as a few outstanding brothers and relatives, must have died... It was not a good fate.

So we parted ways.

Jiang Qinghuang has her family, country and the world.

And Chen Xuan also has his own path.

……

……

A magnificent city at twilight.

Xiao Huo looked focused, wearing the armor of the Demon Suppression Division, and was carefully patrolling the progress of the repair of the city-protecting magic arrays on the black city wall.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess is back..."

He raised his head and looked at the convoy approaching under the distant sky, thinking: "Chen Xuan, he has probably left the Luoyue City area."

Xiao Huo originally thought that during the period when the two-world market was open, Chen Xuan would come to him again.

Ask him to make an elixir, he's an expert at it, or ask him to do something else useful...

but.

Chen Xuan, didn't look for him.

It seems that since Chen Xuan obtained the True Scripture of Destiny, he has completely forgotten about him, the Destiny Person who can be regarded as half a "subordinate".

"Chen Xuan is a hero who practices what he preaches. I believe in him..."

Xiao Hu sighed in his heart. Since that was the case, he would have to say goodbye to Princess Jiang and continue his new journey of experience.

The world is vast, and he, a man destined to be displaced throughout his life, may never see Chen Xuan again after leaving Chu.

"Master, how about walking all the way to Yunmeng Province?"

In Yunmeng Prefecture, there is the [Taiyi Forbidden Land] that practices orthodox ancient methods, and the [Wenjian Dojo] for sword cultivators who hate alchemy... This is one of the few prefectures in the three thousand prefectures of the Southern Region where those with destiny can act openly.

"When we reach Yunmeng Province, you should become a new Dinglu." Yao Chenzi's old voice sounded from the mysterious ring.

"Chen Xuan, you actually dare to go alone to meet a figure of the level of the Lord of the Two Realms. Master, didn't you say that she had killed the same kind of Destined Ones before?" Xiao Huo sighed.

"The rumor in the Central Plains of China is like this. There are also rumors that she once practiced the Destiny Pill with a group of accomplished Destiny Masters such as Wanshizun. I don't know whether it's true or not." Yao Chenzi replied.

"Wanshizun, are you very powerful?" Xiao Huo asked.

"A supreme being, he led the two world masters and other beings, successfully fighting his way out of a group of crazy alchemists and escaping their control..."

Yao Chenzi sighed and said that he was a natural supreme being. No one and no force could suppress his rise. He was destined to be invincible in the world and become an immortal.

"..."

Xiao Hu listened, frowned, and thought to himself, could this Wan Shi Zun be the savior of some destiny?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart:

"Chen Xuan is also very similar to this kind of person. Not only can he solve the problem of the Heavenly Fate Sutra, but he can also eliminate the hidden dangers brought about by using the power of Heavenly Fate."

The former ability can slightly restrain the Chosen One.

The latter ability is actually more advanced and more useful.

The destiny of [Yandi Ming], [Human Emperor Banner], [Immortal Seed], which are permanent and have certain talent effects, is not yet obvious.

But for those who have a destiny and must actively activate the [Six Desire Heavens] and [Heavenly Dao] to produce huge effects, it is the long-awaited miracle drug for curing diseases.

As long as they are not foolish, this kind of people with destiny will firmly bind their fate to Chen Xuan. "Chen Xuan is the savior of these people with destiny."

Xiao Huo felt that Chen Xuan had very bad luck.

"But he missed the nearby Chu land [Six Desire Heavens] and later developed a feud with [Tian Yan Dao]. Otherwise, he would have had two loyal and true subordinates who would follow him till death!"

Although Chen Xuan practiced the five kinds of destiny scriptures, it seemed that he was still fighting alone.

Xiao Qi was thinking about Chen Xuan. The safer Chen Xuan was, the safer his future path of cultivation would be. He secretly decided in his heart:
"In the future, if we meet someone who is trustworthy and suitable for Chen Xuan's control, we will try to get them to come to the Southern Wilderness to find Chen Xuan. There is a way out for them here..."

"rumble……"

At the foot of the city, Princess Jiang's carriage slowly drove into the city gate.

……

……

"The Lord of the Two Realms is a generous and wealthy woman."

This thought came to Chen Xuan's mind again.

"rumble!"

In the wilderness, the Human Emperor Daozang, more than 300 meters high, is like a dark black and golden giant supporting the sky, moving towards the Southern Wilderness, shaking the earth and mountains. Every step it takes is hundreds of meters away.

"Hua Liuli threw a peerless treasure directly to me."

Chen Xuan sat cross-legged on the shoulders of the Human Emperor Giant, fiddling with a walnut-sized jade boat in his hand. The boat was decorated with pavilions and was exquisitely crafted. The jade body emitted a faint fluctuation of spatial aura.

Two small golden characters are engraved on the side of the jade boat.

Two worlds!

This is a peerless treasure. Once activated, it can directly evolve into a two-world market that travels between heaven and earth.

"The quality of this space market artifact is far superior to the two world markets of the Southern Wilderness Ghost Market and the Luoyue City Market... I'm afraid it was made by Hua Liuli herself." Chen Xuan recalled the scene when he got this two-world boat.

then.

In the teahouse of Luoyue City Market, Chen Xuan asked Hua Liuli how to get to the Southern Wilderness.

"The Southern Wilderness is remote, and there is no space teleportation array of my master, and the three-tailed fox's treasure has also lost contact." Hua Liuli, wearing a plain white dress, said in an embarrassed tone.

"What should I do? Walk? Senior, can you think of a way to carry me?"

Chen Xuan asked in a negotiating manner, and then saw Hua Liuli glare at him angrily, then turned around with her back to him, and a rustling sound was heard.

From the sound, it was Hua Liuli reaching into her white bra embroidered with white peacocks, feeling for something in the deep groove...

?

Chen Xuan blinked and waited for a few moments. Hua Liuli turned around and threw a snow-white, warm jade boat into his hand.

"for you."

"This is?"

"When you reach the Southern Wasteland, find the Mountain King and unfold this Space Market Noble Phantasm. I will teleport there immediately."

"A peerless treasure..."

"Yes, I'll put it in your hands first so that I can contact you at any time."

"..."

Chen Xuan felt that the peerless treasure with a milky aroma was hot, but he had no better way, so he had to accept it temporarily.

Thus, he temporarily gained the right to use a peerless treasure.

"He refused to carry me, and then casually threw out a peerless treasure. How could there be someone as wealthy as Hua Liuli in the world?"

Chen Xuan sighed, thinking that Hua Liuli, this wealthy woman, must have made a lot of dirty money by violating her conscience!
He put the jade boat into his sleeve and immediately began to practice. Every minute was precious and could not be wasted.

"rumble!"

The Human Emperor Daozang Giant moved swiftly across the land like a mountain, crossing the blood-stained wasteland of Falling Moon City, then the tense and war-prepared territory of Smoke City, and finally the prosperous and stable territory of Fire Dog City...

Nine days later.

Daozang, the Human Emperor of the fifth level of Daozang, ran along the old road for more than 10,000 miles, crossed the territories of seven huge cities, and entered the familiar area of ​​Red Crow City.

"Master, we're here." Human Emperor Daozang stopped and said while panting.

"Hard."

Chen Xuan nodded, stood up from the shoulders of the Human Emperor Daozang, and looked at the endless Ten Thousand Mountains in the Southern Wilderness in the distance. After waiting for a moment, he frowned slightly.

"Sir Mountain King, what are you doing? This is outrageous! Why don't you come out to greet their Southern Wilderness Saint?"

He wondered, standing in plain sight at the gate of the Southern Wilderness, how could none of the Southern Wilderness ghosts notice his arrival?

"Something's really wrong."

Chen Xuan spoke to himself with a solemn expression, then he took back the Human Emperor's Daoist Canon, cautiously stepped into the Southern Wilderness, and headed towards Tiger Mountain like a breeze.

"Wow!"

A pitch-black arc-shaped moon emerged from behind his head, floating up and down, scattering bits of frosty lunar light.

Chen Xuan summoned the Taiyin Qi, which could "protect against all evil and exclude all evil", to conceal his own aura and isolate himself from any possible prying eyes.

Simultaneously.

Tian Yan Qi also flows slowly in the body, emitting waves of star-like power.

With Chen Xuan's current level of cultivation, if there are any malicious Qi practitioners nearby who plot, spy on, or have malice towards him... any actions directed towards him, they will be immediately sensed by Tian Yan Qi and may even be locked onto in reverse.

At that time, Shen Lingfeng of Qinglu Mountain was immediately noticed just because he thought about him a few more times.

Whenever he encounters any unfavorable situation, he can react in the shortest possible time.

This was the reason Chen Xuan, upon meeting the Flame Emperor Ming Xiaohu and the Two Realms Lord Hua Liuli, was certain they had no ulterior motives and were confident they were on the right path...

"What happened in the Southern Wilds? There's not a single Daozang-level ghost on the road..."

The further Chen Xuan walked into the mountains, the more he felt something was wrong. The air was heavy and he seemed to hear faintly the wailing of the mountains.

……

……

"Meow~"

On a rock on a high mountain cliff, a dark round ball squirmed, a pair of bright eyes slowly opened, and its wet little nose sniffed the air.

Huh?
The black cat raised its round head, and the jade token tied with a red rope around its neck shook. It looked towards the distant sky with a puzzled look, and its sight seemed to span hundreds or thousands of miles.

"Is it Chen Xuan's smell?!"

The black cat's eyes lit up, and it immediately perked up. It took four short steps and ran down the mountain like a small black whirlwind, muttering to itself as it ran:

"Did he come back specifically to attend the tiger's funeral?"

……

……

at dusk.

Chen Xuan rushed to the Tiger Mountain area and could faintly hear the cries of tiger cubs on the Tiger Mountain from a long distance away.

Countless white paper money was scattered along the mountain path, clinging to each other. Strings of paper streamers hung from the trees on either side. Smoke curled up from the top of the mountain, creating a solemn atmosphere.

"Who died, Tiger Master? Tiger Brother? Tiger Sister... Could it be Lord Shanjun?"

Seeing this, Chen Xuan's heart tightened. He immediately activated the power of his soul to check the situation, and quickened his pace. Like a gust of wind, he ran towards the mountain, and the sound of crying and shouting gradually became clearer.

"Wow! Father, you died so tragically! Hu is so sad!"

Hu Dashan was in jail with a white cloth wrapped around his head. He was kneeling on the ground, crying heartbreakingly and slapping the ground with his tiger paws.

"Father, you have made a name for yourself in your life, and shed blood and sweat for the Southern Wilderness, but you died just like that..." Five or six cubs of the Tiger family knelt around a big pit, crying bitterly in front of a platinum-colored coffin in the pit, looking extremely miserable.

The coffin was very large, about five or six meters long. A faint platinum-colored glow poured out from the gaps in the coffin, carrying a faint scent of a cauldron.

This coffin was originally made of just ordinary wooden boards.

But inside was a cauldron corpse, which transformed into a noble platinum-colored metal coffin. Even the surrounding soil gradually transformed into countless granules of various precious metals...

"It's a tiger..." Chen Xuan felt heavy in his heart, his steps gradually slowed down, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, but it disappeared in a flash.

On Tiger Mountain, in addition to the wailing and crying tiger cubs, there were also many ghosts from the Southern Wilderness who came to pay their respects, there were more than a hundred of them.

Chen Xuan knew some of them: the little fox Baizi from the Three-Tailed Fox family, Aunt Fox, the little elephant Dishan from the Four-Tusk White Elephant family, the Queyu family...

Chen Xuan was not familiar with most of the ghosts. Some looked sad, some looked angry, but most of them had a strange sneer on their faces...

"Uncle Tiger, they all blame you. Now that you're dead, they have nothing to say!"

The little fox Bai Zi was crying shrilly, with a long mourning scarf on his head. The slender fox face had a sad expression, tears were falling from his eyes, and his two little hands were wiping his face randomly.

"Wow!" Bai Zi Xiaohu followed a group of Tiger family members and sprinkled a handful of soil into the big pit, gradually covering the coffin.

"Hmph! Who are you holding a funeral for?" In the distance, many ghosts watched this scene with a sneer.

"It's so funny, it's so funny, it's so funny..." Some people were too much, even pointing and laughing out loud on the spot, as if they had seen something very funny.

"..."

Chen Xuan's expression was slightly gloomy. From afar, his cold eyes swept across the ghosts with smiles on their faces, and he memorized their appearance.

Immediately, he walked into the tiger's funeral.

"Are there humans going up the mountain?" An alert ghost noticed Chen Xuan.

They were horrified that this human had actually walked up the mountain and entered their field of vision before being seen and discovered!
"How audacious! A Taoist monk dares to enter the depths of the Southern Wilderness. Is he going to become our food?" The faces of some ghosts who were laughing and talking suddenly became serious. They all cast sinister glances on Chen Xuan, as if they were looking at which part was more delicious.

"This person... Chen Xuan!" Some ghosts active near Hushan and Guishan recognized Chen Xuan's identity and their faces suddenly changed in shock.

"The monks from the three families are here! The Lord of Turtle Mountain has gone into seclusion, Lord Mountain King has disappeared, and there are no big ghosts in the Southern Wilderness to protect him." A three-tailed red leopard whispered. This was the Taoist ghost that was beaten by Chen Xuan during the incident of the Dragon Girl shooting Princess Jiang.

"..."

Chen Xuan had an expressionless face and walked steadily as he passed by countless ghosts and monsters. When he reached the big pit, he looked up at the coffin in the mud... The breath of the mountain lion was barely detectable, and there was deathly silence.

In the coffin was buried the broken body of the tiger tiger.

"Chen Xuan..." The tiger cubs who were kneeling together turned their heads and looked at Chen Xuan who suddenly appeared.

Tears flashed in Hu Da's eyes, and he uttered hoarse words from his throat:

"Ha, Chen Lao Er, you've escaped back... Ha, Hu's father was murdered. Hu has no father anymore..."

After more than half a year, Hu Dashan Prison, who was once at the top level of feathered enlightenment, has now become a new Taoist ghost who can support his family.

"My benefactor, the little fox is so sad..."

The little fox Bai Zi looked up at Chen Xuan, wiping his tears, his eyes red and pitiful, as if he had been wronged for a long time.

Chen Xuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out. After a moment, he slowly asked:
"You...what happened in the mountains?"

At this moment, this scene.

This was indeed a situation that Chen Xuan had never anticipated before entering the Southern Wilderness...

(End of this chapter)