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

Chapter 230 The Day Gu Yao Fell
The True Martial Sword Qi surged forth like a line of snow-white waves, swallowing the sky and engulfing the entire valley.

Among the twelve Qi of the mountains and seas, the White Qi Sword Official has the greatest killing power. Usually, in a battle, a few sword strikes can determine the outcome, life or death. Chen Xuan unleashed the True Martial Sword Qi, which rolled over for two or three thousand feet, flattening mountains and shattering the earth.

"Sword Master, it's the Sword Master's Secret Technique!"

"No, it's a secret manual, the True Martial Secret Manual that appeared when the Martial Glutton fell. It's the Southern Wilderness Holy Son Chen Xuan who has arrived!"

"This is terrifying! It's like the Sword Fairy from the Yunmeng Sword-Questioning Dojo is on a tour, slaying demons and monsters, her sword sweeping across the universe!"

Screams erupted from the shattered valley, and cries of agony filled the air. Some low-level cultivation furnaces were completely annihilated, their bodies and souls vanished without a trace, their blood and essence evaporated.

Only two or three top-tier cultivators reacted quickly and escaped instantly, but they were still grazed by the extremely fast True Martial Sword Intent. Half of their bodies were gone on the spot, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, resulting in severe injuries!

The swordsman's destructive power is unparalleled; his entire life's cultivation is contained within a single sword strike.

At this moment, the True Martial Sword Qi that Chen Xuan unleashed covered a wide area; otherwise, if it were a sword strike that locked onto a target, even if the opponent was a top-tier cauldron cultivator, they would not be able to escape.

"boom!"

Just then, a white comet rose into the sky from the valley and fled into the distance.

"Wan Jiansheng escaped?"

"He was once a guest elder of the Sword Inquiry Dojo, a legitimate sword official, yet he dares not challenge the Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness to a sword duel!"

"Sword duel? The Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness is not a sword official at all. He has mastered the Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body and the Divine Soul Body. Don't you know that!"

The remnants of this group of Martial Gluttons were all powerful figures in the demonic path. They had been wandering in the Guyao Mountains for almost a year and still had seven or eight members left, but half of them died on the spot with a single sword strike from Chen Xuan.

The Jade Boat of Two Realms traversed the sky, moving forward like a floating celestial palace, shrouded in clouds and mist, exuding immense pressure.

Chen Xuan stood atop the nine-story teahouse, holding the Awakening of Insects in his hand, gazing out over the railing with a deep, penetrating look as he surveyed the vast land.

"Some people can become top-notch furnaces because they are only capable of becoming top-notch furnaces."

Hua Liuli gazed at the valley that Chen Xuan had swept away with a single sword strike and continued, "But there are still some people who are top-tier cauldrons, because the highest cauldron level is only the ninth heaven."

For example, Nan Mian, Wu Taotie, and even Zhao Shenhu, who is slightly inferior... these figures all hold a dominant position in the Cauldron Realm.

If they were to attack a vessel of the same realm, they could fight against ten, or even dozens, of them.

Many mountain spirits and monsters peered out from the jade boat, staring at the devastated land, and clicked their tongues in amazement.

"Your Highness, the Holy Son, has become quite formidable. Even Elder Brother Mountain Lord might not be able to defeat him." The six-tusked white elephant sat on the ground and nodded in evaluation.

"I crafted the Holy Son's storage treasure, and I even gave him some Immortal Pear Wine." The three-tailed fox, Bai Gangan, who had no tail, said with satisfaction, "When the Holy Son was still a nobody, he came to Fox Mountain. I could tell he had a great future back then."

"You all have good taste." The other mountain lords and great demons looked on with envy upon hearing this. The descendants of the two great demons, the Six-Tusked White Elephant and the Three-Tailed Fox, had a close relationship with the Holy Son of Man.

"That move by the Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness is probably a true martial secret of the Sword Inquiry Dojo." Hua Liuli's subordinates gathered on the other side, discussing among themselves.

"It's quite reasonable that Immortal Shangyang once collected all the scriptures in the world, and he was also a renowned ancient sword immortal of the Sun lineage. He visited the Sword Inquiry Dojo in Yunmeng Prefecture to request the secret manuals." Some people speculated about the origin of Chen Xuan's True Martial Secret Manuals.

"The Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness is very vengeful... Fortunately, Lady Liuli has the discerning eye to recognize a hero and is on his side." Someone said, looking at Wan Jiansheng fleeing into the distance, still feeling lingering fear.

Chen Xuan, the Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness, had just finished fighting the Qingqiu Fox, and immediately came to cause trouble for the remnants of the Wu Taotie tribe. This behavior of settling old scores as soon as he gained power was chilling.

"Buzz!"

A white comet formed from sword energy streaked across the sky, frantically fleeing towards the distant heavens.

Wan Jiansheng, dressed in white, looked terrified. He couldn't help but glance back and saw that on the Jade Boat of Two Realms behind him, ghosts and human figures were falling like dumplings, clearing the battlefield.

What are Wu Taotie's backup plans? Why isn't that mysterious organization connected to destiny coming after Chen Xuan?

escape!
Wan Jiansheng was utterly despondent, with only this one thought remaining in his mind.

"boom!"

A five-colored celestial light rose into the sky, hovered for a moment, and then, like a rainbow piercing the sun, it roared across the sky, causing the air along its path to explode like thunderclaps in spring.

"Die!" Wan Jiansheng gritted his teeth and turned around abruptly, unleashing the secret sword technique he had been holding in his hand.

This was a desperate strike, a sword strike to kill the pursuer. He knew that Chen Xuan had mastered the secrets of the Immortal Realm in terms of physical strength, was too fast, and had a special method to search for him.

Therefore, the only way to escape is to fight one's way out with a sword.

"Zheng!"

At this moment, the world was filled with a chilling atmosphere, snow fell heavily, the earth was frozen for dozens of miles, and strange phenomena appeared one after another. A chilling sword light that could freeze one's soul cleaved through the sky and slashed out.

When Wan Jiansheng unleashed his full power with a single sword strike, even a Celestial Immortal would have to avoid its edge... This was a deadly move that even the Martial Glutton would not choose to withstand with its bare body.

"boom!"

Chen Xuan did not dodge or evade, his speed did not decrease in the slightest, only a dazzling and world-shaking fist light shattered the icy sword energy in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, the Five Treasures Warrior Immortal Body broke through the heavy snow and continued the pursuit.

"This!" Wan Jiansheng acted first, but then he felt a pang of fear and regretted it. When he was truly facing Chen Xuan, he realized that the Five Hidden Martial Immortal Body could not be directly confronted.

This is a perfect immortal body that can even suppress the physical body of the Martial Taotie head-on, the result of an ancient immortal's life's work!

How could a top-tier sword official at the cauldron level possibly cut through him with the sword energy of an ordinary secret technique?

"Mysterious Winter Sword Technique!" Wan Jiansheng's eyes were bloodshot as he immediately swung his peerless sword, unleashing bursts of sword energy.

He unleashed his full power, his figure blurring as he disappeared. Then, hundreds and thousands of figures appeared, their sword lights as cold as ice, one after another, like groups of swordsmen drawing their swords simultaneously.

Chen Xuan surged forward like a five-colored sun, his fists shattering streaks of icy sword light, displaying the power to sweep away an army.

In an instant, the sky was filled with the sounds of swords breaking, fist light fused with five-colored divine light, and thousands of cold, piercing sword lights crumbled upon contact.

Wan Jiansheng had disheveled hair and bloodstains on his square face, so deep that the bone was visible.

"The power of the five elements, haha, the white qi of the sword path has been melted away!" He laughed loudly, feeling powerless. The sword light that could cut through anything approached Chen Xuan, but its power was directly reduced by more than half by the five elements.

Wan Jiansheng was in despair. With the completion of the Shangyang Secret Manual of the Five Elements Unity, cultivators of the five meridians of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth would naturally have to bow down to the Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness. How could he possibly defeat him?

No wonder everyone says this secret technique is impossible to master!
Wan Jiansheng could only continue to draw his sword, but that dazzling figure traversed the sky, approaching like lightning. With a whoosh, a palm slapped away the peerless sword in his hand, and the next instant, his face was grabbed by a large hand.

"You..." Wan Jiansheng's head was almost split open, and he cried out in pain.

"Old man, we met outside the Yunmeng Market. Tell me, what do you want?" Chen Xuan asked coldly, his clothes billowing in the air, raising his fist.

"I..." Wan Jiansheng opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

At this moment, memories from about a year ago at the Yunmeng Market surged into his mind like a tidal wave.

……

"Young friend, you know when to advance and retreat, and you understand reason. Sell the peaches to me..."

"Old man, did you say you were going to buy it?"
"Boy, don't let me run into you outside the Yunmeng Market!"

……

Wan Jiansheng thought to himself, he said those things, did those things, and had those "normal" thoughts.

Back then, an insignificant Daoist cultivator from another region was fortunate enough to obtain a rare and precious spiritual treasure from the mountains and seas, the Azure Peaches, which were of the highest level in the mortal realm. Eating one of these treasures allowed him to break through to the next realm.

Who can suppress evil thoughts? No one can...

At this moment, Wan Jiansheng faced death. Countless words of pleading flashed through his mind. His throat twitched, but the words that came out were a hoarse roar: "Die!"

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, a platinum light flashed in Wan Jiansheng's eyes as he unleashed a small, crimson sword, as crystalline as the crimson moon—his secret technique for survival.

The swordsman was powerful, but his body was relatively fragile. He had specially cultivated a defensive technique to deal with being approached at close range. At this moment, he slashed out with his crimson sword in a desperate last stand.

Immortal Qi can gradually change the personality of a Qi practitioner. The White Qi Sword Official's integrity and pride are world-renowned.

Even though Wan Jiansheng was utterly wicked, his knees would not buckle, and he would never utter a humble plea for mercy until his death; he would only fight to the death.

"boom!"

Chen Xuan had already noticed the flow of white qi within Wan Jiansheng's body. The moment the crimson sword appeared, he withdrew his hand and instead unleashed a powerful punch.

The crimson sword struck the fist imprint, producing a clear clanging sound. The sword trembled violently, emitting sword light, and pierced a tiny red dot on the fist surface. But in the next instant, the crimson sword broke off, flew backward, and disappeared.

The fist's light surged forward relentlessly, seemingly capable of piercing through anything in its path. With a deafening roar, Wan Jiansheng was sent flying, his head exploding into a cloud of blood mist, his body falling to the ground like a kite with a broken string, scattering blood rain.

A top-tier swordsman, whose sword strikes were powerful enough to threaten even the most powerful immortal beings, perished.

In the far distance, on a mountain peak, two spying bird heads looked at each other, then trembled and shrank back.

“Peng bird, the Holy Son of Man has gone on a killing spree…” a blue-feathered phoenix whispered, its shoulders trembling.

"In less than a year, he has truly risen to prominence." The Golden-Winged Roc's expression was cold. He also cultivated the Golden Virtue White Qi. Although he was not a sword official, he knew how strong Wan Jiansheng was. Compared to him, their combat strength was evenly matched.

But now, Chen Xuan has killed Wan Jiansheng, who is of similar strength to the Golden-Winged Roc, in a short period of time, and in a crushing manner, which has shaken the Golden-Winged Roc.

"Everyone says he's the chosen one, destined to become a furnace in one day, and killing across borders is as easy as eating for him, isn't it? Besides, he has so many tricks up his sleeve," the Golden-Winged Roc said in a deep voice.

Back then, Chen Xuan, a mere Daoist, was able to overcome the Great Realm of the Cauldron Realm and four or five Lesser Realms to directly kill the Cauldron Realm expert.

Now, it will only get stronger, and killing a top-tier furnace is incredibly easy.

“People like him are inherently different from us.” The Azure Feather Luan Bird nodded in agreement, then asked in a low voice, “Judging from this situation, the Human Saint is confident that he can leave Guyao Mountain. We two have offended him!”

The phoenix is ​​in a dilemma, caught between the remnant of the previous dynasty, the holy son, and the mountain god, the Golden Crow. No matter what the ghosts do, they are wrong and they can't please either side.

"Offended? I didn't offend anyone." The Golden-Winged Roc said, flapping its wings and soaring high, leading a flock of little Rocs, towards the Jade Ship of the Two Realms in the distance.

"Benpeng is in the Crow Camp, but his heart is with the Holy Son of Man. He has never said a word against Chen Xuan and has secretly revealed intelligence to him on several occasions. His loyalty is as clear as the sun and moon."

With a resolute expression, the Golden-Winged Roc proclaimed loudly, "The Southern Wilderness is in dire need of reconstruction. Today is the time for me to abandon darkness and embrace the light!"

The mountain lords and great demons in the Southern Wilderness each have their own thoughts.

But the Golden-Winged Roc didn't care about any of that. From beginning to end, he only believed in one thing... that the Mountain Spirit Goddess behind the Holy Son was the True Lord.

“You…” The Azure Feathered Phoenix was stunned, standing frozen in the valley, its whole body shivering.

“You have never offended the Holy Son, but I…” The Azure Feathered Phoenix felt a chill run through its body and whispered, “I really have.”

Although he immediately deserted when the time came to actually carry out the operation,

However, the phoenix had uttered a few harsh sarcastic remarks.

"I thought the Holy Son might forge his own path and rise to power, but I never imagined he would rise so quickly." The Azure Feather Luan sighed, its heart filled with unspeakable bitterness.

……

The sweeping campaign in Guyao Mountain did not last long.

Chen Xuan had a connection to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Guyao", and the speed of the Two Realms Jade Boat was no less than that of a cauldron traveling. In just one day, it swept away all the outsiders in the entire Guyao Mountain.

"Unfortunately, the Lesser Underworld disappeared from Mount Guyao after the fall of True Lord Zhuzhao."

Chen Xuan thought to himself as he stroked the peerless sword he had seized from Wan Jiansheng.

The sword is inscribed with the words "Heavy Snow," indicating its extremely high quality.

Even for powerful alchemists, peerless treasures are rare items. Many alchemists and weapon crafters who are not skilled in alchemy or weapon crafting usually only use high-grade treasures.

"The Awakening of Insects and the Great Snow... two peerless swords."

Chen Xuan thought to himself that this sweep had yielded many results. Although most of the remnants of the Martial Gluttony were killed on the spot, two of them immediately knelt down and surrendered when they saw that things were not going well. They were then taken to Hua Liuli's blessed land to mine.

Although these rogue cultivators and demonic practitioners had stayed at Guyao Mountain for nearly a year, they had long since exhausted their spiritual items and elixirs and had not managed to plunder much.

However, the spiritual essence contained within their bodies was the most valuable thing, which Chen Xuan traded entirely to Hua Liuli in exchange for a large quantity of Five Elements Pills.

Hua Liuli will arrange for alchemists from Qingding Dao to extract and refine the Daoist spiritual essence contained in the remains of this Qi cultivator into easily absorbed pills.

This is not a form of "cannibalistic" cultivation... at least, their remains, after turning into mortal beings, will remain.

When the twelve immortal energies enter the bodies of ghosts, humans, and demons, they become walking medicines of flesh and blood; when they enter the bodies of plants, they become precious medicines of the land; and when they enter the bodies of minerals, they form spiritual stones and precious jade.

Those who practice Qi are, in fact, a different kind of spiritual entity from heaven and earth.

Legend has it that refining the Heavenly Mandate Elixir was a "heretical path" that the ancients discovered through these experiences.

"My blessed land has been very lively these past two days. Several alchemy furnaces have been set up, and a new large mine has been opened up." Hua Liuli said excitedly to Chen Xuan with a beaming smile and bright eyes.

Qingqiu Fox, a human cultivator... In the past, it would take her several years to "buy" such a large number of Qi cultivators.

"Hmm." Chen Xuan nodded. He was not a bloodthirsty person. Some of these enemies had not committed capital crimes, but they could not be easily spared. Mining for Hua Liuli was the most appropriate course of action at present.

"I'll give you a share," Hua Liuli said.

"What stock?" Chen Xuan asked doubtfully.

"What else could it be but business at the Two Realms Market?" Hua Liuli rolled her eyes at Chen Xuan. She had a clear understanding of the world, would not take advantage of others, and was very fair in her dealings.

Although Hua Liuli contributed to capturing these prisoners, Chen Xuan did most of the work, so she naturally had to give him some reward.

"No need." Chen Xuan shook his head in refusal. He had received a lot of help from Hua Liuli, including the Qingnang Secret Manual and soul-refining pills at the Tao Hongchen level...

Moreover, these prisoners weren't given to Hua Liuli; they were simply temporarily detained because there was nowhere else for them to go. Mining was just a side benefit.

"You can use the teleportation array in the Two Realms Market for free," Hua Liuli said after thinking for a moment. Most of the earth element minerals she mined in her blessed land were used for the teleportation array.

In the Southern Region, teleportation arrays are rare, and only major powers possess some. In the mortal world, only Hua Liuli's family has the capability to conduct teleportation business.

"By the way, what should we do with the Golden-Winged Roc and that Azure-Feathered Luan that kneels and cries every time we meet them?" Hua Liuli asked.

"Remaining neutral under the pressure of the Golden Crow God is, in effect, a tacit acceptance of taking sides."

Chen Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "Let's see what they do next."

I didn't really have much of a thought about eliminating them completely... The Mountain Ghost and the Golden Crow God of the Southern Wilderness are both powerful and influential, so it's rare that these two great monsters from the south can still outwardly defy me.

After all, in the southern and northern wildernesses beyond the influence of the Golden Crow God, a large number of mountain lords and monsters harbored considerable malice towards Chen Xuan, and the mountain lords even had to kill a large number of them.

"rumble……"

The Jade Boat of Two Realms moved forward at top speed.

Chen Xuan stood at the bow of the boat, looking towards the approaching entrance to Guyao Mountain. The outside world was pitch black, like a giant beast opening its bloody maw.

In Xinzhai's field of vision, the enormous divine soul and dragon body of the Chilong God were nowhere to be seen.

"Buzz!"

Chen Xuan took out a page from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Guyao" and held it in his hand. A brilliant golden light, just like the Jinyu Ointment, emanated from it, soft and pure.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Guyao Mountain Secret Realm, stretching for countless miles, responded and trembled violently.

"hold head high."

Meanwhile, in the central part of the southern wilderness.

In a corner of the Black Abyss, black scales slid to both sides, and a pair of pale golden vertical pupils of a true dragon slowly lit up.

“It’s out…” the Chilong God said.

(End of this chapter)