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

Chapter 194 A Whale Fall
Chen Xuan hovered above the pure white fragments of divine soul scattered on the ground, his expression serene, like an immortal descended to the mortal world, constantly sensing the location of his physical body.

But the distance was too great, and only a faint sense of sensation was generated.

"How far has Wu Taotie fled in just over two hours?" Chen Xuan asked in astonishment. Given Wu Taotie's extreme speed, it must have covered at least eight thousand miles, if not ten thousand.

Although Wu Taotie didn't continuously use the energy-consuming Xingtian Secret Technique to escape, even at normal cauldron speed, this distance was terrifying enough.

Chen Xuan was helpless because there were too many treasures in the Martial Gluttony Destiny Space. Just by simply exploring along the way, he comprehended the [Three Thousand Heavenly Demon Body - Xing Tian Secret], an ancient secret technique called "Great Stele-Smashing Hand Seal", and the complete "Martial Arts True Scripture".

The time spent was absolutely worth it.

"Wow!"

With a flick of his sleeve, Chen Xuan gathered all the pure soul fragments radiating holy power from the ground, then cautiously wandered towards the area where Wu Taotie's corpse had fallen.

"When the Martial Gluttonous Whale falls, all things in Little Azure Heaven come to life." In a secluded valley a dozen or twenty miles away, the Qi practitioners of Little Azure Heaven sat or lay down, their postures languid and relaxed, chatting with each other in a cheerful atmosphere.

"Wu Taotie has a good plan. He wants to ascend to godhood on land in Guyao Mountain... After several years, once he safely becomes a god, he will have survived death." Someone sneered.

"He is a fighter who believes in the power of destiny. He firmly believes that one force can overcome ten techniques and that human will can conquer nature. As long as his combat strength is strong enough, he can crush all the monsters and demons that stand in his way."

“In terms of fighting power alone, few can compare to him.”

"But Wu Taotie doesn't know that we are waiting for him to become a god in Guyao Mountain!" A tall, thin Taoist priest let out a strange laugh.

"The cauldron is too low; at the very least, you need the Divine Travel Elixir!" another mad Taoist priest said in a chilling voice.

"..."

Chen Xuan stopped in his tracks, his heart trembling. What? Little Qingtian, the Heavenly Fate Immortal Pill he's going to refine this time isn't for the Two Realms Lord, but for the Martial Glutton!
No wonder these young cultivators were able to catch up with Wu Taotie so accurately and quickly!

In the Guyao Mountains, the virtue of earth is forbidden.

It is the forbidden land of Hua Liuli, the master of both realms.

Wu Taotie Qin Yu had previously speculated that Xiao Qingtian's target was Hua Liuli, and his statement was so convincing and well-reasoned that not only Hua Liuli, who was at the center of the storm, but even Chen Xuan almost believed it!
But at this moment, judging from the words of these mad Taoist priests, their target is clearly Wu Taotie!

Chen Xuan focused intently, using his divine soul light to observe the group of Little Azure Heaven cultivators from afar, only to hear them continuing their endless chatter.

“The Martial Glutton, the Lord of Two Realms… these chosen ones in the mortal world have no idea about the great secrets of heaven.” A mad Taoist priest shook his head and said.

"A thousand years ago, the Mountain Spirit Goddess was forced to leave the decaying Guyao Mountain. Then, she secretly cultivated the Earth Virtue True Lord Path, which has all five elements!" Another mad Taoist priest laughed excitedly.

"In Guyao Mountain, there is no one who possesses the scriptures of Tai Xuan Zhenjun. There is none. He has been gone for a long time."

"She was a thousand years too late to beg the two realm lords; she couldn't get them, and she had nowhere else to turn."

"..."

Chen Xuan was startled upon hearing this. The Mountain Demon Goddess had secretly completed the Earth Virtue lineage of the Five Elements, but apart from him, only those True Lords and great figures in Shangyang Cave Heaven knew about this!
A thousand years ago, the Mountain Spirit Goddess took away the One Man Scripture of the True Lord Tai Xuan from the Gu Yao Mountain!

"Hua Liuli, from the very beginning, was destined to seek nothing but emptiness!" Chen Xuan murmured to himself.

Is there anything more despairing than this?
Hua Liuli painstakingly planned for several years, giving her all, and almost completely bound herself to the Qingnang Dojo. However, when she finally reached the end, she would discover the cruel and bloody truth: from beginning to end, no one in Guyao Mountain had ever experienced this!

"Xiao Qingtian's powerful figures in the mortal world, the Chilong God... and possibly other powerful figures from other forces, will completely block the exit of Guyao Mountain."

Chen Xuan thought to himself, "Hua Liuli won't be able to leave Guyao Mountain this time."

"She can only follow the example of Wu Taotie, go and read the second half of the true scripture of destiny, become the true destiny, and then become a god in Guyao Mountain... Ultimately, she will become the elixir of Xiao Qingtian."

When Hua Liuli rejected the olive branches offered by the Five Elements Sect and other ancient forces in Yunmeng Zezhou, and left Yunmeng Zezhou to enter Guyao Mountain.

A predetermined fate loomed over them.

Xiao Qingtian never intervened; they simply waited coldly from behind, observing from a superior position. Thus, Hua Liuli and the others, under this invisible, oppressive waiting, made their own choices and ultimately walked down a dead end.

"We must tell Hua Liuli this news as soon as possible."

As Chen Xuan thought to himself, he quickly approached the corpse of Wu Taotie. There was a large pit on the ground, and a lifeless figure lay in the pit. His body was surrounded by circles of golden seal script, like chains or dragons, crisscrossing and radiating divine light, exuding a captivating power.

Ancient celestial music echoed in the sky, grand and majestic, like a prelude to the arrival of something great.

"The fourth chapter of the Divine Journey Scripture is still operating." Chen Xuan was surprised: "The Martial Glutton's divine soul is destroyed, but its physical body is still alive? It still wants to continue its ascension to godhood on land?"

Chen Xuan was surprised. Once the ascension ceremony began, even if only a corpse remained, the entire process had to be completed and could not be stopped.

"Buzz!"

The golden seal script expanded and grew in concentric circles, reaching a diameter of hundreds of feet, like golden star rings, circling the corpse of the Martial Taotie in the center, intertwining and rotating in an orderly manner, flowing with strange energy fluctuations.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the corpse of Wu Taotie opened its empty, lifeless eyes, its gaze icy and as still as stagnant water.

"boom!"

Wu Taotie sat up from the ground, his movements stiff as a puppet. Then, he transformed into a black arc of light and instantly rose into the sky and disappeared into the distance.

"This..." Chen Xuan's gaze sharpened, something he couldn't understand was happening right before his eyes.

"Wu Taotie, go find a nearby auspicious place and ascend to godhood on land!" Xiao Qingtian cultivator whispered from afar.

“Something’s not right. Why do I feel like he’s surrounded by an aura of death, as if he’s trying to live a second life through his corpse?” a mad Taoist priest said with a puzzled expression.

"An illusion! The gods are hidden in the Guyao Mountains, and no one can kill Wu Taotie."

"That Chen Xuan should have cultivated a divine soul body beforehand, but he's not here, and he doesn't have the strength to approach the Martial Glutton, which is the fastest in the world!"

"Let's go, follow Wu Taotie!"

The group of mad Taoist priests screamed and transformed into more than a dozen bright suns, secretly pursuing Wu Taotie.

Their bodies were covered with special talismans that shimmered and concealed their aura. If Chen Xuan had not been illuminated by his all-seeing divine light, it would have been difficult to detect their presence.

Chen Xuan was a little stunned: "He still can't die? His soul is destroyed, his consciousness is dissipated... Wu Taotie is only a corpse left, yet he is still relying on his physical instincts to continue ascending to godhood?"

Even if the corpse successfully ascends to godhood, so what?
It's just an inanimate object! Could it possibly become a weapon at the level of the Mortal Realm?
Or will it be that death leads to rebirth, giving birth to a brand new divine soul?

"Follow me!"

Although Chen Xuan was puzzled, he immediately set off. His divine soul body was no longer the weak existence that he was when he left his physical body, like a drunkard. Now, he moved forward at an extremely fast speed, no less than an ordinary cauldron powerhouse.

Although the Martial Taotie was extremely fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye, the intense energy fluctuations it emitted lingered in the sky it passed through.

Furthermore, even from tens or hundreds of miles away, Chen Xuan could clearly sense the undisguised, immense aura emanating from the Martial Gluttonous Corpse.

"boom!"

The corpse of Wu Taotie eventually arrived above a volcano more than 300 miles away. It hovered for a moment, and then, like a black eagle, plunged into the volcano.

Not long after.

Chen Xuan arrived at this place like a gentle breeze. He climbed onto the crater and looked down into the volcano. He saw black and red magma bubbling and a strong smell of sulfur hit him.

The corpse of the Martial Taotie, like a golden sun, floated in the magma, with a black and white yin-yang diagram rotating and countless divine patterns radiating light, reflecting the magma as if it were a clear golden lake.

Moreover, the bright sunlight grew even brighter, gradually penetrating the volcano and weaving countless rune patterns on the ground, creating a dazzling spectacle.

The mad Taoist priests of Xiao Qingtian circled the crater, cautiously peering down.

“There should be a solar vein beneath this volcano, but it’s almost dried up… Tai Xuan Zhenjun really committed a sin, destroying the entire Guyao Mountain a thousand years ago,” a mad Taoist priest speculated.

"The ascension of the Martial Taotie to godhood has begun. It may take several months or even a year. Let us stay here."

"Initially, it's just this volcano, but next, hundreds of miles, thousands of miles, and finally tens of thousands of miles will all be swallowed by the sun's light, becoming the place where the sun rises and people become gods," a mad Taoist priest said with fanatical eyes.

"The day I successfully ascend to godhood will be the day I begin alchemy!"

"..."

Chen Xuan used his divine soul light to carefully observe the extraordinary state of Wu Taotie's physical body at this moment.

"He's definitely dead, but his body is still undergoing strange changes, and the ascension ritual cannot be interrupted..."

The corpse of Wu Taotie, like a furnace of the sun god, was surrounded by black and white divine light, illuminating the inside of the volcano in a dazzling white light. Moreover, its heart was beating powerfully, like a sleeping giant beast.

This is the world's most supreme divine body, impervious to even the slightest damage from peerless treasures. It can even withstand the divine might of the Five Sacred Mountains Pearl at the Mortal Realm level. Now, it is undergoing an even higher level of sublimation and transformation, becoming even more indestructible.

While Chen Xuan was comprehending the grand phenomena of the Martial Glutton's corpse ascending to godhood, he was also eavesdropping on the idle chatter of the Taoist priests in Xiao Qingtian. Soon, some important information reached his ears:
"Do you think Chen Xuan will go into seclusion in Guyao Mountain this time to complete his cultivation process?" a mad Taoist priest asked curiously.

“Chen Xuan has nothing to do with us. Xiao Qingtian is the most honest and upright person. He would never do anything as bad as stealing elixirs from other forces.” A tall, thin Taoist priest shook his head and said.

Xiao Qingtian is one of the most professional alchemy forces, with excellent professional ethics.

"The ones who should be worried are the mountain gods of the Southern Wilderness and the Little Plague Palace..." someone mocked.

"As long as Chen Xuan doesn't interfere with the important matter of refining the gluttonous beast and the two realm lords' elixir, even if he breaks through the encirclement and becomes a True Lord in the future, it will have nothing to do with Xiao Qingtian," a mad Taoist said coldly.

"..."

“I’ve already intervened…” Chen Xuan thought to himself. Fortunately, these cultivators from Xiaoqingtian were unaware that Wu Taotie’s destiny had been shattered by him.

This Guyao Mountain, which even outsiders cannot enter, is indeed a blessed land!

Back then, in the Taixu, when he shattered the Heavenly Mandate of the Heavenly Evolution Dao, those forbidden gods who were refining pills immediately noticed it. But now, these Lesser Azure Heaven cultivators in the Cauldron Realm are completely unaware and kept in the dark.

This Martial Gluttony technique can't be mastered!

Chen Xuan continued eavesdropping and subsequently learned a great deal of information about what was happening in Guyao Mountain at that moment, and became aware of Hua Liuli's current situation.

Soon after, the Xiaoqingtian cultivators left the crater and lay in wait in the far distance, as silent as wooden sculptures, no longer speaking, seemingly waiting for the day when Wu Taotie would become a god, or perhaps waiting for the arrival of the legendary immortal seed, Nanmian.

Chen Xuan continued to observe the changes in Wu Taotie's corpse, but unfortunately, it was a powerful divine body in the mortal world, and there was no good way to take it away or completely destroy it for the time being, so he had to give up for the time being.

However, the ascension ceremony is not something that can be accomplished in a day; it will take a long time.

Not long after, Chen Xuan left the place quietly.

Xiao Qingtian's attention was currently mostly focused on the martial arts monsters in the area, which was excellent news for him.

"First find the physical body and the flower glaze, then find out where Lord Shanjun is."

Chen Xuan strode forward across the dark earth. The sky was like a heavy lead plate, pressing down on his head lifelessly. Thick dark clouds and thunderbolts piled up in layers, and not a single ray of sunlight could penetrate.

"The secret realm of Guyao Mountain was completely destroyed by True Monarch Taixuan. It's such a pity."

In Chen Xuan's vision, there was not a trace of life on the earth. The mountains had collapsed, the rivers had dried up, and the parched land was crisscrossed with cracks, each crack like a hideous wound, stretching to the end of his sight, like a lifeless skeleton, with only endless blackness and death.

"Woo!"

He traversed the desolate mountains and land, occasionally a cold wind would blow by, like the howl of a vengeful ghost, echoing across the empty land, adding to the atmosphere of decay and gloom.

This is the place where the once powerful and domineering Tai Xuan Zhenjun of the three thousand states of the Southern Region was buried, and an ancient mountain and sea also decayed because of it!
Most of the day later.

Chen Xuan traveled eight thousand miles, established contact with the hidden physical body, and after they reunited, he immediately used the Human Emperor Banner to refine the fragments of Wu Taotie's soul. A spiritual crystal the size of a walnut fell to the ground.

Not long after, he used a communication talisman to meet with Hua Liuli, who was nearby searching for the whereabouts of Chen Xuan's physical body.

Chen Xuan carefully surveyed the surroundings, confirming that no Xiao Qingtian cultivators were spying on him nearby.

"As expected, Xiao Qingtian's attention is not on the two realm lords now."

Then, Chen Xuan briefly told Hua Liuli the news he had overheard.

"Senior, there's something I need to ask..."

"What? The Mountain Demon Goddess took away one of the Tai Xuan True Scriptures ahead of time!" Hua Liuli's face turned deathly pale upon hearing the devastating news.

(End of this chapter)