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

Chapter 239 Divine Stone Embryo
Xinzhaitian is said to be the place where an immortal named Xinzhai once lived. Many people suspect that the immortal died violently here in his later years, unable to even hide himself, and was directly reduced to ashes by calamity.

Time is like a knife, gradually eroding the traces of immortals. The empty Xinzhai Heaven floats in the sky above the mortal world, sometimes appearing and sometimes disappearing, but never revealing any trace of immortality.

But now Xinzhaitian is experiencing strange activity, like an old man who has been lying in bed for many years and suddenly has a sudden burst of energy before death.

Chen Xuan carried the human-shaped stone sculpture on his shoulder, his scalp tingling, and he became increasingly convinced that there was something very wrong with Lu Zhuan's nine-part seal script.

His intuition told him that this was not Lu Zhuan, but a ghost trying to "play" Lu Zhuan.

But ironically, every irrationality it exhibits can be rationally explained... This Lu seal script is gradually becoming "rationalized," as if it is about to become the true Lu seal script.

But how could Lu Zhuan, the reincarnated True Lord, be replaced so quietly? What an astonishing method!

They either possess special techniques similar to destiny, or they are unfathomable high-level cultivators of the Red Dust Realm!

Chen Xuan thought to himself, could it be that Lu Zhuan mentioned the lingering remnant of destiny [Immortal in the Mirror]?
A wisp of lingering karma revived a few days ago, wandering in the Heart-Cleansing Heaven and biting off half of the body of True Lord White Grass.

Legend has it that this destiny is like a "painted skin," capable of impersonating anyone and replacing the real with the fake.

"This is troublesome." Chen Xuan thought to himself that things were not good. Even the True Lord of Xinzhai Heaven had died. No one here would hesitate or be afraid of the Mountain Ghost Goddess... The Master of Xinzhai Heaven killed Mountain Ghosts, who were born gods!
"Hurry, hurry, let's keep going!" Lu Zhuan urged Chen Xuan to speed up their journey. His eyes were fixed on Chen Xuan's back, as if trying to see right through him.

"What road? The road to the underworld?" Chen Xuan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Previously, he clearly said that he had a special way of communicating with True Lord Xiao Hei, but he changed his mind halfway and kept running forward with his head down. However, he has traveled nearly two thousand miles and has not yet reached the destination... Is there really a destination?
It's making me uneasy!

Chen Xuan wanted to use his deep-seated mental fasting to see what lay at the end of the road ahead, but he restrained himself, worried that it would provoke conflict and bring trouble upon himself.

at the same time.

The precious stone sculpture on Chen Xuan's shoulder had a slow, beating heart, gradually pumping the divine liquid within its veins to its limbs and bones, making its "human energy" increasingly intense.

This change also sent a chill down his spine; everything seemed strange.

"Hold your baby tight and run forward quickly, don't let anything go wrong," Lu Zhuan warned in a deep voice.

“Alright! Senior Lu, I’ll go ahead and wait for you!” Chen Xuan suddenly said in a deep voice.

In an instant, three magnificent and enormous fiery wings unfurled, shimmering with light and flames. Then, fine, black, metallic snake scales pierced the skin, releasing a terrifying and ferocious aura.

In that instant, Chen Xuan unleashed his full power without reservation, from the Phoenix True Scripture to the Roc True Scripture, and then to the Bifang True Scripture, and so on.

The immortal scripture, forged from the Five Gates Mountain and Sea True Scriptures, was fully activated, and the immortal energy flowed violently like a flood.

rumble!

Chen Xuan turned to Lu Zhuan and laughed, his face, which resembled a bronze mask, cracking open to reveal sharp fangs.

Lu Zhuan was taken aback.

Chen Xuan's fiery feather trembled, as if shaking the heavens. Like a dazzling fire meteor, it sped into the distance, accompanied by sonic booms like thunder, and the air waves tore through the clouds.

"You...you're too fast!" Lu Zhuan's expression changed drastically. Chen Xuan suddenly burst into extreme speed. Was he trying to shake him off?
At this moment, Chen Xuan traveled in a fighting stance, his speed exceeding imagination. A crimson-gold afterimage trailed in the sky, the wind howled, and flames flowed, transforming into phantom images of phoenixes, roc birds, and other mysterious birds, creating a wondrous scene.

The Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body traversed the sky, shattering the thick fog. The Heavenly Mandate and the Mountain and Sea combined their attacks, and the immortal body, strengthened by eleven kinds of true scriptures, was activated at full power. Its speed was comparable to, or even surpassed, that of the Martial Gluttonous Beast using the Xing Tian Secret Technique!

Lu Zhuan's face was gloomy as he stared at Chen Xuan's fleeting figure. Then, a bronze mirror emerged from under his sleeve. He looked at the mirror and quickly pinched his face with his five fingers.

"laugh……"

Lu Zhuan's face twitched, his bones grew, deformed, and shifted, and his appearance gradually became similar to Chen Xuan's. Moreover, his thin, childlike body grew taller and taller until he was the same height as Chen Xuan.

At the same time, the ball of divine soul light within his body grew rapidly, like a spring breeze, and in an instant, it transformed into the divine soul body of Chen Xuan.

But the moment he completely "played" Chen Xuan, he suddenly looked terrified.

"Crack!"

A bloody gash suddenly appeared between his brows, as if a god had opened his third eye, with blood flowing like a torrent. At the same time, a pair of dark, golden eyes exploded with a bang.

The upper half of the head exploded like a watermelon, spraying red and white matter everywhere.

Is fasting of the mind irreplaceable?
Immediately afterward, Lu Zhuan's heart swelled violently, several bronze pillars burning with flames bursting open his heart and piercing his throat; his liver burst forth with green, a golden-blue ancient tree growing wildly, its sword-like branches piercing through his abdomen, tearing out his scorpion-like intestines along with it; his lungs emitted a celestial chant that was both demonic and Buddhist, revealing faces of fierce Vajra eyes and gentle Bodhisattva brows; his kidneys rotted, large amounts of black blood gushing out like a waterfall, flowing onto the ground; his spleen transformed into pebbles and jade stones, falling and rolling into the black blood pool, their light eerily bright…

All five internal organs are destroyed!

At the same time, a blazing sun rose behind Lu Zhuan's head, with layers of divine halos around it. At the center sat a phantom of a martial god. As the light shone on it, the newly formed divine soul body shattered into pieces like glass with a bang.

"cough!"

Lu Zhuan's face was completely disfigured, his body was broken, and he shrunk back to the size of a child.

He knelt on the ground, limbs sprawled on the floor, foul-smelling blood dripping from his mangled mouth, from which faint, childlike voices could be heard, uttered intermittently.

"One fasting of the heart, eight kinds of destiny... The True Lord can be substituted... but he cannot be substituted..."

In the thick fog in the distance.

Chen Xuan flew through the air, and at the same time, he grabbed the stone figure on his shoulder and pulled it in front of him to examine it carefully.

"The monster Lu Zhuan kept making me carry him. He seems to be unable to touch the stone carving treasure. What is he worried about?" Chen Xuan muttered to himself.

At this moment, the stone sculpture changed its appearance dramatically. The stone clothes it had carved out became hemp clothes, flowing with a crystalline divine light amidst the raging wind and flames.

This is a young stone figure, not very tall, with a face carved from stone, the lines and contours are rough, and the features are indistinct.

The stone figure had its eyelids closed, and there was a warm, gentle breathing sound coming from its nose, as if it were asleep but could wake up at any moment.

"A hot potato," Chen Xuan thought to himself.

This is a "treasure" that even True Monarch Xiao Heizi has been guarding for months, and it seems that other True Monarchs are also scrambling for it. This thing is something that even the cauldron cannot guard!
Of course, Chen Xuan could throw it into the Guyao Mountains and hide it.

But this is a living treasure that needs to be treated with care, and Chen Xuan is not about to take such a huge unknown risk lightly.

"rumble……"

A moment later, Chen Xuan's pupils burned. Behind him, on the road, a huge and majestic figure rose up like a mountain rising from the ground, its aura rising steadily!
Has the True Lord caught up?

Chen Xuan was shocked. No! The monster who was impersonating Senior Lu had revealed its true form!
Although the crimson fog could block the True Lord's perception, Chen Xuan had been using Taiyin Qi to conceal his tracks all the way.

But geese leave their calls as they fly by, and people leave their traces as they pass through life.

The True Lords and great beings are, after all, of such high realms that they are not to be trifled with. With a little effort, they might discover clues and track us down.

Chen Xuan did not use his meditation to look behind him, because such a glance might be noticed by the True Lord and thus captured.

"Enter Taixu, leave Xinzaitian!"

Chen Xuan gritted his teeth, and his fingertips instantly trailed a white arc of light, cutting into the layers of space, like a butcher carving up an ox, his fingertips slicing through the boundary between Xinzhaitian and Taixu.

"Click..."

The next instant, Chen Xuan withdrew his blood-stained finger, his fingertip feeling as if it had pierced an incredibly tough piece of mortal weapon, his finger bone almost shattering.

"Useless Heavenly Evolution Dao!" Chen Xuan snorted, shaking off the blood from his fingertips. His Heavenly Cultivation rank was too high, and the method of escaping into the Great Void derived by the Heavenly Evolution Dao had failed!
The method of escaping into the Great Ruins.

Chen Xuan had always regarded it as one of his trump cards for survival, but this time, its first use had not yielded any results.

Clearly, when Tianyandao deduced this technique, it did not take into account the special case of Xinzhaitian.

"You big shots are impressive, but I'm not playing along!"

Chen Xuan snorted coldly in his heart, and then, without any hesitation, threw the stone figure treasure down from the sky.

"This junior has done his best, Little Blackie True Lord, now it's up to you!" Chen Xuan marked the spot on the boat, memorized the location, and left without looking back.

He couldn't possibly compete with the True Lord; he should give up when necessary, without any hesitation.

The True Lords had no regrets; only another True Lord could stop them from getting what they wanted and accomplishing what they wanted to accomplish.

True Lords are great beings; there are no mediocre ones among them. In the entire world of immortals and ghosts, only one or two True Lords can emerge in a generation.

Every True Lord ascends to the top by stepping on the destiny of the immortals of their time.

Chen Xuan was able to challenge the peak cauldrons when he first entered the cauldron, and Wan Shi Zun was able to fight against a group of forbidden gods in the Tai Xu... But for most True Monarchs and great beings, these things are just basic operations.

A dozen or so breaths later.

Chen Xuan's shoulders sank as a pair of stone arms draped over him, and at the same time, warm breaths gently blew in his ears.

"You're obsessed with me!"

The stone baby appeared out of thin air and climbed onto Chen Xuan!
"Boom!" Chen Xuan's hair stood on end. He threw a punch behind him, the fist imprint surrounded by phoenix immortal fire. The phoenix's cry resounded. In an instant, the stone man treasure flew backward like a cannonball, smashing a mountain peak on the ground and causing it to collapse, sending dust billowing into the sky.

Chen Xuan didn't even glance at it and continued on his way.

But soon.

The stone sculpture reappeared and landed on his shoulder.

"Did Xinzhai attract the stone statue?" Chen Xuan could only accept reality. In fact, Chen Xuan had put in a lot of effort to successfully revive the stone statue.

"Tao, mystery... purity, tranquility, life..." The stone baby's body resonated with immortal energy, chanting indistinct scriptures.

"Is this... a true scripture? Or a secret technique...?"

Chen Xuan was astonished. The short and weak voice fell into his ears, sometimes eerie, sometimes demonic, and sometimes like the echo of the Great Dao, profound and clear, as if it could purify one's soul.

Chen Xuan was greatly surprised and listened carefully, but the sound quickly disappeared, as if he had just hallucinated.

"An incomplete Daoist scripture?" Chen Xuan frowned, forced to memorize a strange passage. The stone figure fell silent, no longer emitting any sound.

at the same time.

Chen Xuan spotted the True Lord's figure in the far distance behind him and began to move, heading in his direction.

"The Taiyin and Tianyan Qi are unresponsive. Is the remnant of the Heavenly Mandate using the method to track down the stone man?" Chen Xuan's heart sank as he faced the most dangerous situation he had ever encountered since he began cultivating.

It is necessary to cut the stone figure and prevent it from getting entangled again!

Chen Xuan immediately turned around and headed in one direction.

The thick fog rose and rippled, like a churning sea of ​​clouds, creating a vast and desolate scene.

"Your Highness, a madman has impersonated the Heaven-Mending Master and offended the innate deities!" An elder from the Heaven-Mending Master's Dojo shouted angrily, "Please perform the divination immediately, we will go to take revenge!"

They had barely entered Xinzhaitian when they were brutally beaten, a truly horrific sight.

Fortunately, the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Evolution Path acted decisively, using destiny to deduce a way out, leading a group of people to escape into the thick fog, thus narrowly escaping disaster.

"That innate deity must have been venting his anger on behalf of his pet, hence his perfunctory attitude. Otherwise, we would have had no way to survive."

Fan Xianzhi, dressed in a white feathered robe, had a cold expression on her face, filled with helplessness. She sighed softly.

The innate deity who made the move seemed to be a powerful True Lord, treating them like a flock of chickens, casually chasing them into the thick fog, frolicking around—it was far too arrogant…just like Chen Xuan, who was determined to kill them all, it was utterly despicable.

Feeling ashamed and indignant, Fan Xian continued to deduce the cause of the unexpected disaster, once again arriving at the same "reasonable" conclusion.
"The true disciple secretly cultivated by the Heaven-Mending Dojo stole the opportunity from the giant salamander, thus creating enmity?"

"Master, the True Lord of Mending Heaven, has such an outstanding disciple? Ha, how come I didn't know?"

Fan Xian sneered. She had been cultivating in seclusion in the mountains for more than two years and had now reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. However, if she were to face the half-step into the Mortal Realm of the Whale Fish head-on, her chances of winning would not be very high.

Of course, if she made insidious preparations beforehand, she was confident she could find a thousand ways to kill the salamander.

"Someone's coming! Huh? What an ugly monster!" Just then, a cultivator from the Heaven-Mending Dojo exclaimed in surprise. His eyes glowed as he saw the thick fog churning on his left, and a crimson flame with enormous wings rapidly approaching.

"What he's holding... a stone figure radiating divine light?" Someone vaguely saw the outline of the fiery red figure's hand and was immediately shocked.

"The treasure is born!"

"A cauldron? You stole it?"

Everyone's faces lit up with joy. Although they had an important mission in Xinzhaitian, they figured they might as well take the treasures that had come their way.

Treasures emerging from secret realms are all unclaimed; it would be a mistake not to fight over them. Let alone strangers, even allies might temporarily turn on each other and engage in a fierce battle… This is a tacit rule among all Qi cultivators.

Of course, in most cases, people from powerful backgrounds stop when the fight is over, focusing only on victory or defeat, not on life or death.

"Your Highness, please perform a divination!" an Elder of the Heaven-Mending Sect said anxiously... worried that the treasure might have been "reserved" in advance by some True Monarchs or powerful forces.

The immortal immediately used the mandate of heaven to deduce good fortune, misfortune, and calamity.

With a whoosh, golden lines outlined a chessboard in her pale, snow-capped eyes, followed by lines of text that leaped out.

"Huh? Great fortune?" Fan Xianzhi instantly produced the result; the matter was settled!

Some people from the Heaven-Mending Dojo had long been eyeing the opportunity, and seeing that the Heavenly Evolution Saintess did not speak out to stop them, they knew that this was an opportunity for them to seize without any consequences.

"To have a shrewd and infallible strategist like the Holy Maiden who mends the heavens is truly a blessing of a thousand years!" The cultivators who mended the heavens were filled with high morale.

Fan Xian stood still, while the disciples of the Heaven-Mending Daoist Temple flew out from both sides like waves, surrounding the unfortunate fellow with his strange divine body and hideous, scaly face.

"Huh? Is it a two-way journey?" As Chen Xuan approached the black light spot of the Heavenly Evolution Path, he saw a group of imposing Taoist priests in feathered robes, who warmly greeted him.

"Here you go!" Chen Xuan couldn't wait any longer. He suddenly exerted his strength and threw the hot stone carving in his hand toward the central area of ​​the Heaven-Mending Force.

The precious stone figure, radiating auspicious light and exuding celestial radiance, fell to the ground with a thud at his feet. Fan Xian's pupils contracted; it was indeed an auspicious sign!
Seeing that the other party had overwhelming power, they were so frightened that they immediately handed the treasure to her!
An opportunity came without any effort!
"Whoosh!" Chen Xuan didn't stop for a moment. After delivering the treasure, he turned around and left... The powerful True Lord behind him was very close!
The people from the Heaven-Mending Dojo were stunned upon seeing this: "What's going on? Are they so cowardly and afraid of death?"

"Huh? Why does it feel strangely familiar?" Fan Xianzhi stared at Chen Xuan's fleeting back, her heartstrings trembling inexplicably. However, the hideous immortal body was completely unrecognizable as human. In that fleeting glimpse, she couldn't discern much of the scene.

However, she was cautious and sensed something was wrong, so she immediately used her destiny to deduce the future.

Good luck!

"A pitiful cultivator who mistakenly entered the Heart-Cleansing Heaven obtained a stone carving treasure by chance, but on his way out, he encountered the powerful Heaven-Mending Dojo, and was thus forced to give up his opportunity?"

Having obtained a "reasonable" deduction result, the slight unease in Fan Xian's heart finally subsided.

The Heavenly Evolution Path is using a small cauldron as a deduction, which is a waste of its potential, and it is unlikely to make a mistake... After all, the Heavenly Evolution Path can even deduce True Monarchs! Of course, this will be sensed by True Monarchs with high strength.

The only exception is Chen Xuan, but there is only one Chen Xuan in the world, and it is impossible for a second one to appear!

Moreover, Chen Xuan was too busy killing her to kindly give her a treasure.

Moreover, she had been living in seclusion in Taixu for over two years, studying Chen Xuan every day. After guessing that he was Xinzhai, she tried every means to study the previous generations of Xinzhai, and now she had made considerable progress!

"If I were to encounter Chen Xuan, I would no longer be afraid of him! Given enough time, the Heavenly Evolution Path can accomplish anything!"

Fan Xian murmured to herself, then looked at the stone sculpture treasure radiating a vibrant, life-giving glow. Her brows furrowed slightly, as if recalling a deeply hidden ancient legend, and she murmured:

"This stone figure is..."

In the distant fog, Chen Xuan retreated while activating the first level of his meditation, his gaze piercing through the continuous fog to observe how Tianyandao dealt with the malevolent stone sculpture.

"Tianyan Dao is offering you an immense opportunity for immortality; you must seize it!" Chen Xuan's gaze fell upon the powerful True Monarch, which might be noticed, but spying on Tianyan Dao would not cause any harm.

Fan Xian stood there lost in thought, reminiscing for a long time.

I couldn't figure it out.

Therefore, Fan Xian used the Heavenly Evolution Dao to perform a "small deduction" on the stone man treasure, and in an instant, some useful information appeared.

"Once the mind is extinguished, all causes and effects vanish... No life can remain, not even lingering thoughts."

As Fan Xianzhi gazed at the vibrant words, he murmured to himself.

Chen Xuan resonated with her destiny through his Xinzhai (a Buddhist practice), and heard her thoughts from afar. He frowned... Yes, all the Xinzhai of the immortals had dissipated, so why did the lingering resentment of destiny, which had been cut down by Xinzhai, remain?
No matter how terrifying the so-called karmic lingering resentment may be, it cannot possibly outlive the immortals!
When Fan Xianzhi saw the results of the deduction, his expression suddenly changed.

"But an accident happened at Xinzhai Tianzhong six months ago!"

"The stone sculpture is a naturally born deity that is dying and coming back to life, in a state of gestation!"

Fan Xian's heart was in turmoil, and he began to suffer. A naturally born deity who died at the hands of the Master of Xinzhai Heaven had inexplicably revived? It must be Chen Xuan's doing!

This is a "divine stone embryo"!
Is this a very auspicious sign?

Or is it a very bad omen?

The divine stone embryo is within reach, almost within arm's reach.

The immortal dared not reach out.

Because at this very moment, in the Heaven of Heart Fasting, there is a naturally born deity who is searching for treasures and exploring hidden places, and is suspected to be a True Lord!
"Good treasure, Holy Maiden, quickly put it away! Take it back to the mountain gate to strengthen the Heaven-Mending Sect!" The elders of the Heaven-Mending Sect, unaware of Fan Xianzhi's predictions, urged her with great joy to prevent any unforeseen changes.

"It's here." Chen Xuan's pupils burned, and a thick fog churned in his vision. The remnant of destiny had come knocking.

"..." Fan Xianzhi felt very bad, as if he was about to die.

(End of this chapter)