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

Chapter 279 A Feast for Demons and Evil, A Celestial Fishing

Amidst the mist, flying insects, and damp swamp, a colossal figure sat like a pale mountain, its heart pounding like a drum, creating a powerful sense of oppression.

"Young friend, it's been many years. Is the Emperor's Banner working well? We've missed you dearly." The figure in the mist spoke calmly, as if reminiscing about the past.

The earth was shrouded in his shadow; he was like a boundless swamp, ready to devour everything nearby. Countless scorpions, toads, locusts, and other evil creatures writhed silently.

"Lu Tongyou!" Chen Xuan called out this name. More than three years ago, he had fought with this old man in the Southern Wilderness, using the Human Emperor Banner and the old tortoise's severed hand to receive this man's cross-domain attack.

He witnessed the immense power of the cauldron for the first time in this elder of the Lesser Plague Village; a single thought caused the Daoist scriptures to crumble, hence the memory was incredibly clear.

After that, none of the cauldrons he encountered, even the powerful Heavenly Fate Cauldron, gave him the same feeling.

"Long time no see. Thanks to my young friend, after the Human Emperor's Banner incident, I was granted the True Lord's favor and fortunately became Tao Hongchen." On the ground, the towering figure slowly rose, its sharp bull horns drawing arcs of dark light.

Chen Xuan felt a surge of anger. Back then, the Little Plague Palace had condoned the Human Emperor Fan Heng Gu's rampage of slaughter in the Chu Kingdom, committing heinous crimes.

But after he ruined the matter, Lü Tongyou not only escaped punishment from the Little Plague Prefecture, but also received a huge reward. In just a few years, he became a Divine Traveler? No, perhaps at that time Lü Tongyou was already in a state of seclusion, detached from worldly affairs.

"You guys are really persistent!" Chen Xuan had investigated a lot of information about the Little Plague Prefecture through Hua Liuli.

The Little Plague Palace was the only ancient Daoist temple in the Plague Department's Immortal Qi realm where the human race had achieved great success. However, due to too many enemies, its lineage faced the risk of extinction several times, and later it joined the Immortal Pill Refining faction halfway through its journey.

According to legend, the current Dao Lord of the Little Plague Prefecture was forced to swallow a Divine Travel-level Immortal Pill because the twenty-four positions of the Plague Department were full, thus achieving the status of a Plague Department True Lord in an unconventional way.

However, since about half of the Twenty-Four True Lords are living in seclusion and their fates are unknown, it is impossible to know whether this news is true or false.

"Ha! Is it the Little Plague Mansion that's blinded by a leaf and haunted by its ghost? Xinzhai, hand over the invitation and I'll let you leave." Lü Tongyou said coldly, the mist around his body surging, twisting and rising, like a million hands crowding around.

"Get out of my way, I don't have time to argue with you!" Although Chen Xuan was angry, he did not want to fight Shenyou at the moment, because it was difficult to defeat Shenyou. If the battle dragged on, the others in the Mountain and Sea Banquet would quickly surround him. He decided to leave this score for now.

Time is of the essence; rescuing the two realm lords is more important.

Moreover, there will inevitably be great battles ahead, but the energy and immortal energy within a Qi practitioner's body are finite.

His body radiated an even brighter eight-colored divine light as he continued his journey, streaking across the sky like a shooting star.

"You don't know what's good for you! I've cultivated for sixty years longer than you, Xinzhai is truly arrogant to the extreme!" Lu Tongyou's horn glowed, and a dazzling black beam of light flew out from the tip, as if splitting the sky, intercepting Chen Xuan once again.

He had already reached a state of divine travel, possessing profound Taoist cultivation. Moreover, the divine realm had been moved here for the Mountain and Sea Banquet, and he intended to suppress Chen Xuan with absolute power.

At the same time, Lü Tongyou opened his mouth wide and inhaled sharply. The swampy land stretching for thousands of miles beneath him seemed to transform into a gaping maw, its immense power attempting to suck Chen Xuan down from the sky.

"You've got some nerve, haven't you?!" Chen Xuan's forward speed was hindered, so he turned around instantly and used the power of the Five Hidden Martial Immortal Body to shatter the dark beam of light with a punch. However, his body was shaken violently, and his fist was in excruciating pain, as if he had just smashed an iron mountain with a punch.

His immortal energy surged, his true scriptures circulated wildly, and his surging blood and qi soared into the sky, reaching hundreds of feet high. The radiant flames of his blood and qi distorted and burned the space itself.

Chen Xuan immediately counterattacked, charging straight down towards Lü Tongyou, leaving a dazzling trail of light. At the same time, a surge of True Martial Sword Qi, like a black tide, rushed down even faster, blotting out the sky and the sun.

This is the sect's supreme immortal technique of the Sword Inquiry Dojo—the True Martial Seven-Section Sword, which Chen Xuan is currently activating with his abundant immortal energy.

The sword energy soared into the sky, clearing a path with a clanging sound, like a dark curtain of night descending, covering an area of ​​nearly 30,000 zhang, and flying towards Lü Tongyou.

Lu Tongyou raised his hand, and countless strands of divine light rose from the earth, converging at his withered white fingertips, transforming into a three-legged flying ox divine furnace. It absorbed and refined the True Martial Sword Qi that filled the sky, calming all the killing sword qi.

Chen Xuan felt troubled. Lü Tongyou's strength was unfathomable. His cultivation level might not be higher than that of the Southern Wilderness Golden Crow God, but the power he displayed was much stronger.

The ghosts' lineage is based on bloodline, which is too "ancient". Nowadays, they are basically no match for humans or demons who cultivate Qi at the same level. For example, the Mountain Lord and the Old Turtle, who have been enlightened by the Mountain Goddess, are far stronger than other ghosts.

With one hand holding up the divine furnace, Lü Tongyou used the other to freely draw upon the power of heaven and earth, causing the light and mist to boil. His movements were simple yet domineering, and he slapped it towards Chen Xuan.

A gigantic hand swept across the sky, its shadows obscuring the sun and the hissing sound like thunder. In an instant, the plague boiled the heavens and earth, and the terrifying energy ripples even resonated tens of thousands of miles away, causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

Eight divine beings, each with their own destiny, swirled around Chen Xuan's fist imprint. They were dazzlingly bright, yet exuded a strong demonic power. The Qi of the Eight Immortals shone forth, illuminating the heavens!

Every move he makes is an explosion of the power of the Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body; every casual strike is a supremely powerful Immortal Technique.

However, after Lü Tongyou's palm shattered and cracked, it healed in an instant, temporarily resisting Chen Xuan's attack.

"Huh?" Lü Tongyou exclaimed in surprise, then pressed down with another palm of divine furnace, for he discovered that Chen Xuan had actually cultivated the "Human Emperor's True Scripture" to the cauldron level? How strange! If it weren't for the power of ascending to the divine realm, his palm might have been completely shattered in a few blows.

On the contrary, he did not leave any damage on Chen Xuan. This was the Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body, an ancient and unparalleled martial art, which the opponent had already cultivated to the highest level.

At the same time, behind the celestial body that resembled a blazing sun, ten snow-white, ethereal celestial fox tails appeared, like slender waterfalls cascading down.

This is the Qingqiu's ultimate technique, the "Divine Seed Technique," specifically designed to attack and kill the soul!

Blurred light and shadow flitted by, wind and clouds surged, and endless killing intent surged. Between the flickering light and darkness, the Heavenly Fox Tail sliced ​​through everything invisible.

With a thunderous roar, the palm, the divine furnace, the fox tail, and other artifacts shattered. The immortal energy in the center of the battlefield evaporated completely, and the mountains and rivers were flattened, creating a void-like vacuum.

Chen Xuan's expression was solemn. He had used several of his most powerful techniques, and although he had the upper hand, he had not been able to inflict any real damage on his opponent.

“Xin Zhai, you’re being a bit absurd… I was actually defeated by someone at the fifth level of the Cauldron Realm? This doesn’t make sense.” Lu Tongyou was somewhat stunned.

Because when he was young, he was also a genius who could overcome several minor realms to defeat a "good-for-nothing" peak-level cultivator in the mid-stage of the Cauldron Realm, and when he was at the peak of the Cauldron Realm, he could also exchange a few blows with a Divine Traveler.

It should be noted that very few people in the entire Southern Region could successfully ascend to godhood during his "young" period.

If Chen Xuan is at the peak of his cultivation, it wouldn't be too surprising to be able to exchange blows with him, since that is, after all, the legendary Xin Zhai (Heart Fasting)...

But at this moment, the difference in their levels is too great, with the gap between them being as vast as the chasm between spiritual realms!
"You're courting death!" Chen Xuan continued his charge, rushing towards Lü Tongyou's head. His blazing blood and qi flames seemed to set the entire sky ablaze.

Lu Tongyou opened his mouth, and a roaring ancient beast, the Flying Ox, charged out. Its moss-covered horns seemed to pierce the sky, carrying the Plague God's power that could devour heaven and earth, and rushed towards Chen Xuan.

However, Chen Xuan's strength was irresistible. His Five Hidden Soldiers and Martial Immortal Body had become a formidable force, seemingly fearless of any direct attack. He first broke off the horn of the Fei Niu, and then smashed its head.

Suddenly, blood rained down on this land like a volcanic eruption, covering everything with fragments splattered by the flying bull.

“Incredible! It might have been a mistake for you to obtain the Emperor’s Banner… I can no longer hold back.” Lu Tongyou became serious. The layers of mist around him dissipated, revealing the true form of a divine kingdom.

Beneath his feet, an endless swamp emerged, with vegetation growing wildly and lightning flashing across the sky, as if a god had stepped into the mortal world.

Outside Lü Tongyou's body, there were countless dazzling divine halos, and numerous dark golden chains connected his body to the earth. The power of heaven and earth from tens of thousands of miles away gathered on him alone.

Most terrifyingly, a sinister-looking temple rose from the swamp and was lifted up by him.

Chen Xuan felt a chill run down his spine, as if he were being crushed by the combined forces of heaven and earth within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, and his immortal body cracked.

He offered up a page from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Guyao," and amidst the swirling mist, it outlined the silhouette of a verdant fairy mountain, radiating the ancient power of mountains and seas.

A vast expanse of cyan-gold light fell softly like tassels.

The power of Gu Yao was applied to Chen Xuan, weaving together a pair of cyan-gold immortal armor, which was incomparably noble, impervious to all laws, and repelled the oppressive power of heaven and earth.

"Gu Yao can't suppress me!" Lu Tongyou was fearless and attacked Chen Xuan directly.

Because the "Guyao" section of the Classic of Mountains and Seas can only govern the deities of the Guyao lineage, and it is decaying and dilapidated, although it has an impact on it, it is not serious.

He held up the temple, as if a god were lifting up heaven and earth. At that moment, all the energies of the world dispersed, leaving only the plague raging and engulfing the world.

If other furnaces were to set foot in this area now, what would be the point of resistance?
He couldn't even draw upon a trace of immortal energy!

The superior divine traveler's suppressive power over the inferior cauldron is fully revealed.

"Buzz!"

Chen Xuan continued his attack, using his invulnerable immortal body to unleash various killing techniques, his fists radiating light without stopping for a moment.

At the same time, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Plague outside his body transformed into a Tai Chi fish diagram, which kept rotating. Then, when the fist light was thrown out, the white tiger carried out its weapon, the phoenix dropped divine fire, and ancient beast phantoms appeared one after another. The Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body was pushed to its limit.

Finally, a golden radiance the size of a grain of rice, resembling a golden elixir, shimmered and shone from Chen Xuan's body.

Instantly, this area seemed to enter a state of chaos, as if divine waves were crashing against the sky, and that extremely brilliant and heroic figure swept across.

"boom!"

A loud crash resounded through the heavens and earth, like the trembling of a celestial bell. The temple that Lü Tongyou was holding was sent flying by Chen Xuan, covered in cracks, with one corner shattered.

The temple splintered and tumbled across the sky, its countless fragments falling into the swamp like a dazzling rain of light.

Chen Xuan spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling dizzy and lightheaded. Tiny cracks appeared on his body, but they quickly disappeared. He said, "The temple is really too hard."

"What kind of magic is this... You are a Celestial Seed Heart Fasting?" Lu Tongyou was stunned, and hundreds of the tough magic chains on his body also broke during the battle.

About a month ago, Xiaowenfu had actually paid attention to the matter of Qingnang Mountain. At that time, Chen Xuan was far weaker than he is now.

"You old bastard, you've really angered me!" Chen Xuan was furious. At the edge of his vision, he saw the aura of another being in a divine realm trembling and rapidly approaching, but he was a little too engrossed in the fight.

"...Do you have someone you need to rescue? Go ahead and rescue them, I won't stop you." Lü Tongyou spoke decisively, then turned and disappeared into the swamp.

He made his stance clear: Chen Xuan was ridiculously powerful, so there was no need to try and steal Chen Xuan's invitation.

Because there are far too many weaker prodigies here than Chen Xuan.

"Let Hua Hua live or die as she pleases!" Chen Xuan launched a fierce attack like a streak of light, relentlessly channeling his immortal energy as he pursued Lü Tongyou.

At the same time, the power of the Heart Cleansing and the radiance of the divine soul were activated simultaneously, firmly locking onto Lü Tongyou's figure as he tried to leave... He took the initiative and wanted to end it simply with a throw-and-go; there's no such thing as a free lunch!

"Are you crazy?!" Lu Tongyou shouted, attempting to escape using his divine travel ability. His figure vanished, about to disappear into the swamp.

However, Chen Xuan followed him in, and with a loud bang, precisely locked onto Lü Tongyou's back. His fox tail whipped around the Emperor's Banner, the bronze mirror, the dragon halberd, and other treasures, continuously striking Lü Tongyou.

With a loud "boom," the Divine Travel Chains on Lü Tongyou's body were completely shattered, his body was utterly destroyed, and his blood and bones stained the swamp red.

"I can't afford to mess with him, I'll avoid him." Thousands of miles away in the swamp, a wisp of Lü Tongyou's divine soul consciousness revived, transforming into a palm-sized Flying Bull Beast, and burrowed into the depths of the swamp.

In all his years of Qi cultivation, he had never encountered a powerful furnace like Chen Xuan.

Because, going back one or two eras in the Southern Region, there was no human immortal-level genius who dominated an entire generation; all human immortals of the same era appeared in the outer regions.

The one or two Heavenly Fate Cauldrons are stirring up the world in the Southern Region... while top figures like Lü Tongyou can compete with the newly risen Heavenly Fate Cauldrons.

"!! Xinzhai must exterminate them all!" Lu Tongyou's expression suddenly changed drastically.

The swamp, which stretched for thousands of miles, was trembling violently. Lines of earth veins, resembling black dragons, emerged and intertwined like meridians. These were the essence of the Divine Land that had evolved from it.

"If you want to end it, then end it. Is the Mountain and Sea Banquet yours to host?" Chen Xuan unleashed countless rays of mysterious yellow light from his fingertips, each strand activating the Qingnang [Mysterious Wind Spirit Water Hidden True Chapter] immortal technique, connecting with the black swamp beneath his feet.

He followed the emerging veins of the earth, tracing their source upwards, heading towards the most quintessential area of ​​this region.

"He...he's going to destroy my Ascension Ground [Plague Master's Mysterious Swamp]!" Lu Tongyou completely lost his composure. The Qingnang Dojo's ultimate technique is legendary; it can survey the heavens and earth and is extremely effective against Ascension Grounds.

The vast swampy area was pitch black, but at this moment, the earth veins, like dragons and pythons, intertwined, forming a dense golden river network. Chen Xuan, like a bolt of lightning, smashed the earth veins along the way while riding the waves, and quickly headed towards the central area where the earth veins converged.

"Ah!" Lu Tongyou roared, his body covered in dense cracks, an irreparable wound.

At that moment, his entire body ignited with divine fire, and he began to burn the power of his divine travel origin. Immediately afterwards, the earth within a radius of tens of thousands of miles trembled, and the swamp detached from the earth and floated into the air.

Dragon veins rose from the land, millions of them intertwining in the air, as if weaving together a giant furnace that could contain heaven and earth, covering thousands of miles, constantly shrinking, and enveloping Chen Xuan within it.

"boom!"

Lu Tongyou's figure reappeared, this time towering over a thousand miles. His golden eyes looked down at the earth, his face contorted in a ferocious expression. Clouds and mist drifted past his knees as he raised his hands and slowly brought them together, as if he were about to refine the entire world.

"Xin Zhai, I never intended to take your life, but you are utterly clueless..." A voice like muffled thunder poured down from the sky.

In the far distance, a man who had traveled a long way in his spiritual journey stopped, looking utterly bewildered. He muttered to himself, "It's just about snatching an invitation, why burn my spiritual power and risk my life? Cultivation is no easy feat..."

In the sky, the dark golden dragon veins of the Divine Land intertwined, completely obscuring the sky. On the dragon veins crawled countless evil creatures such as toads and scorpions, spewing out endless black divine fire and densely covered with runes.

Chen Xuan rushed into the very center of the Ascending God Land, facing the heavenly fire, and swung his divine fist, smashing a vein of earth as thick as a mountain to pieces with a loud thud.

"You old bastard, you should speak to me with caution!" He laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

"..." Lu Tongyou remained silent and used his peerless divine technique, the Heavenly Fate Immortal Pill Refining Technique inherited from the Little Plague Palace. He had refined countless immortal pills before, and now he was using it to refine Xinzhai.

However, Chen Xuan's Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body shone even brighter in the furnace fire intertwined with divine chains, as if impurities had been refined away and impurities washed away, making it even more perfect.

At the same time, the golden light within his body was growing brighter and brighter, and even... it was beginning to materialize. A true nascent immortal golden core was about to be born.
"This..." Lu Tongyou didn't understand the situation that was happening before him. Chen Xuan's body was completely immobile.

Then, with a bang, cracks appeared on his body, and then his palm split open.

"Your skills aren't up to par!" Chen Xuan swung the Imperial Banner, smashing it repeatedly against the burning earth veins gathering beneath him, ultimately leaving this auspicious land utterly devastated and severing Lü Tongyou's source of power. "You..." Lü Tongyou's body completely shattered, turning into countless fragments scattered across the sky.

In the end, Chen Xuan completely destroyed the Divine Land, turning a once auspicious place into mortal land, thus crushing Lü Tongyou's dying struggle.

"You old bastard, I killed a Divine Traveler a few months ago, and you're just pretending to be a True Lord today!" Chen Xuan landed and slowly exhaled, his immortal energy almost completely depleted.

However, with the fall of Lü Tongyou, other immortal energy on this land began to evolve, and Chen Xuan was able to absorb even the unclaimed Plague Department immortal energy.

Chen Xuan emerged from the broken and decaying swamp, then found the shattered temple, cleansed it twice with his immortal energy, and immersed himself in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Guyao".

Immediately afterwards, he found a dark gold invitation that had fallen to the ground, which read: "Plague Palace, Flying Ox, Alchemy Path..."

In addition, there were three more invitations, indicating that Lü Tongyou had already "extorted" three geniuses from the furnace.

Finally, Chen Xuan found the head of Lü Tongyou. His face was ferocious and old, with a hint of regret, and he looked very ugly.

"Wow!"

At this moment, the divine traveler from the distant heavens, who had come upon hearing the news, approached. He was a water-element divine traveler from the human race, standing on a massive, broken palace. This was not a feng shui treasure land in the mortal world, but rather the ruins of an ancient Taoist temple scattered in the Great Ruins.

"Fellow Daoist, why must you be so ruthless? We are all human, and your methods are too cruel..." He paused for a moment before slowly speaking.

He couldn't discern Chen Xuan's identity; he must be a wandering spirit from outside the Southern Region.

Chen Xuan took out the Chilong Halberd and tied Lü Tongyou's gray head to the tip of the halberd, which emanated the remaining divine aura. Then, he raised his head and narrowed his eyes.

"Good old man, do you want me to smash you to pieces too?" he asked, tilting his head back and narrowing his eyes.

"You..." Taixu Shenyou's expression changed slightly. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to reprimand someone, but in the end, he chose to leave with a flick of his sleeve, muttering to himself, "Such a temper! So what if he has a divine seed!"

He watched the battle from afar for a moment, mistakenly thinking that Chen Xuan was some kind of immortal prodigy, and continued to mutter to himself, "No wonder there's a Mountain and Sea Banquet; this generation has seen many demonic figures..."

In previous eras, there were only one or two figures who could defy the gods and travel the world, but in this generation, he casually encountered one, who was also very fierce and not a kind person.

Chen Xuan continued his journey, this time carrying Lü Tongyou's head as a guide. A faint aura of spiritual travel permeated the air, and no one dared to obstruct him along the way.

The geniuses who were on the earth were all terrified upon seeing this.

The other spirits he encountered observed Chen Xuan for a moment before turning away and choosing other targets.

"Using only the Five Treasures Martial Immortal Body, I was able to defeat the Divine Wanderer head-on. The battle was effortless and not difficult at all... I still have quite a few tricks up my sleeve." Chen Xuan recalled the battle and learned from the experience along the way, occasionally making a lifting motion with his hands as if he were holding a furnace.

"But the Mountain and Sea Banquet contains past Immortal-level Divine Travelers... The number may not be large, but there will definitely be some."

He muttered to himself as he sped forward. As he passed a crimson battlefield ruin, a figure suddenly rose into the air and blocked his path.

A human youth in his twenties or thirties, dressed in an incongruous black dragon robe with gold trim, his hair disheveled, and his face delicate, shouted, "Fellow Daoist, stop! Your great fortune has arrived!"

"Hmm?" Chen Xuan stopped and stared at him with a cold expression. This was just a peak-level cauldron.

The handsome, slender young man in the dragon robe earnestly invited, "There's a treasure hidden in this ancient battlefield. Help me find it! I'll reward you!"

Chen Xuan stared at the man. Judging from his attire, he should be a prince of some ancient dynasty in the Central Plains... But seeing him using the head of a divine being to clear the way, he still dared to block him. Did this man think the world was wonderful? Or was he just overconfident in his strength?

Chen Xuan spread his divine soul light, covering an area of ​​a hundred miles, but found nothing extraordinary. So he left directly, saying, "I can't help you. You can keep the good fortune for yourself!"

There might be an opportunity here, but it will definitely be troublesome. After saving Hua Liuli, it's not too late to go back and search later.

"You country bumpkin, you wouldn't even accept a blessing from heaven? You've already lost your destiny today!" The young man in the dragon robe chased after him relentlessly, chattering on and on, managing to keep up with Chen Xuan's incredible speed.

"Whoosh!" Chen Xuan turned around instantly, his eyes filled with a strong warning, and asked, "Do you want me to steal your invitation?!"

"Uh..." The young man in the dragon robe's expression changed instantly. He quickly stopped chasing and muttered, "You impolite country bumpkin, the fortune you're referring to is the ancient artifact buried underground, not the fortune I possess..."

The young man in the dragon robe landed helplessly on the ground, tugged at his ill-fitting, imposing robe a few times, then rolled up his sleeves and began digging through the battlefield ruins.
"This is the spot! Dig and dig... May my extraordinary good fortune erupt soon, and may the treasure be born soon!" he muttered to himself, sticking out his buttocks and burying himself in hard work.

In a few swift movements, the young man in the dragon robe unearthed a dried-up ancient male corpse. But with a sudden hum, the corpse opened its murky eyes and stared at him with a deep, unsettling gaze.

"Ugh... What bad luck!" The young man in the dragon robe turned and ran, but when he looked back, he saw the ancient male corpse lying on his back, giving him a bright and terrifying smile, which was sinister and terrifying.

The ancient male corpse bared its black teeth and began kissing the back of his neck, as if devouring his life force.

"Damn it! I have three thousand beauties in my harem, what are you, an old male corpse, doing trying to curry favor with me!" The young man in the dragon robe turned pale with fright and quickly raised his fist, desperately striking the terrifying face of the male corpse that was approaching.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a faded and decaying invitation fall from the arms of the beaten male corpse.

The invitations that were lost at the last Mountain and Sea Banquet?

Chen Xuan sensed a fluctuation of divine power behind him, turned around and saw this scene from afar, slightly taken aback: "What kind of quirk is this? They even invited someone like Shan Haiyan?"

On the subsequent journey, they encountered many strange cultivators, both human and demon. Their intuition told them that there were probably some destined immortals among them.

Some peak-level cultivation processes are even more terrifying than divine travel!
A great battle between spirits is erupting in the distance!

"Haha, little novice Ksitigarbha, the number one on the list of immortals from the Western Lands, is this all the strength you have?!" A powerful divine avatar of a demon race rose in the distant sky, attacking a cauldron of immortal seeds.

"Amitabha, fellow Daoist, why force this humble monk to commit so many sins?" A white-robed monk with red lips and white teeth, holding a purple-gold alms bowl, sighed softly. Behind him, the hazy sacred mountain appeared, and the Buddhist kingdom on the ground stretched endlessly.

"..."

Chen Xuan left the edge of the battlefield and glanced back.

The white-robed monk, whose Dharma name was "Ksitigarbha," was chanting compassionate sutras for salvation while simultaneously displaying his Buddhist martial arts skills, slamming the golden alms bowl onto the head of the demon Shenyou—a brutal act of cruelty…

This made Chen Xuan even more vigilant. There were far too many demons and monsters at the Mountain and Sea Banquet, and anyone could easily be caught off guard.

However, with Lü Tongyou's head paving the way, he avoided a lot of trouble along the way.

"Brother Chen, save me!"

Suddenly, a cry for help, like the piercing sound of swords, rang out from afar.

Wang Chengjian of Yunmeng Prefecture was covered in wounds. Behind him, a demon with leopard-striped skin was chasing him. The claw light, carrying a strong wind, was thousands of feet long and sent Wang Chengjian flying in an instant.

"Crack!" Wang Chengjian tried to block with his sword, but the sword was shattered by the powerful claw light. He was sent flying backwards as he fled, blood raining down.

Chen Xuan flicked his fingertips and unleashed a dazzling True Martial Sword Qi. A line of white rainbow-like sword Qi fell down, which was the second True Martial Sword move that he was most comfortable with.

"Roar!" The leopard-skinned demon was so frightened that it turned and fled, but was beheaded in an instant, its head flying off.

A leopard-shaped beam of divine soul light flew out from the mangled body, activating an escape technique.

However, in an instant, a streak of snow-white light swept down from the sky, and the Heavenly Fox Tail directly shattered the leopard-shaped soul, turning it into ashes.

Chen Xuan landed, picked up an invitation and the treasures carried by the leopard-shaped demon, and used the Human Emperor Banner to roll up the scattered fragments of divine souls.

"Brother Chen, wait a moment, here's your invitation!" Wang Chengjian shouted immediately, throwing his own invitation at Chen Xuan: "I can't handle this!"

"Go find Senior Wang quickly!" Chen Xuan reminded him, casting a healing aura of wood-elemental energy towards Wang Chengjian.

“The gap is too big…” Wang Chengjian stared at Chen Xuan’s departing figure, then gently stroked the gruesome wounds on his body that were beginning to heal, his eyes filled with desolation.

At that moment, he felt a profound sense of powerlessness.

He studied diligently for over twenty years and was a rare genius in Yunmeng Prefecture, whose name was recorded in the annals of immortals.

But once you enter this Mountain and Sea Banquet, are you destined to be crushed and defeated by any random passerby or demon you encounter?

The demon heroes who could easily crush him were casually slain by a sword strike from someone like Chen Xuan, their souls scattered and killed like roadside insects.

"No wonder some True Lords disregard their status and position to interfere with the growth of certain figures..." Wang Chengjian picked up the broken sword, sighed deeply, and thought, "What's the point of fighting for anything? Let's save our lives first!"
In the vast land covered by the Mountain and Sea Banquet, there is no rotation of the sun and moon.

Each person attending the banquet is like a glittering constellation of stars, a sun and moon shining in the sky, outlining a magnificent picture that is rarely seen even once in ten thousand years. This is the place where an unprecedented and unparalleled era begins.

"Huh! Someone ascended to godhood during the Mountain and Sea Banquet, undergoing the tribulations of the mortal world?!"

As Chen Xuan passed by a dilapidated feng shui treasure land, he saw a figure activate a secret technique to repair the ruined land, and then sit down inside. Immediately afterwards, rings of golden scripture halos spread out, covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles in radius.

"Is he confident he can successfully transcend his tribulation before the banquet begins? Does he think he's Zhang Dongxuan? Or has he decided to stay in this region forever?"

Chen Xuan was greatly impressed and couldn't help but take a few more glances before quickly leaving.

"Damn you, Hua Hua, you're such a damned ghost!" Chen Xuan kept his head down and hurried on his way. Time passed quickly, and he had probably traveled no less than a million miles, but Hua Liuli was still too far away.

He activated the secrets of the Azure Bag, traversing tens of thousands of miles in a single trip. However, lacking any anchor, his landing was somewhat off-target, so he relied on his immortal body to rapidly adjust his orientation. After recovering the energy depleted from activating the Immortal Technique, he used the secrets of the Azure Bag again…

In my field of vision, the black speck of light from Hua Liuli had already shifted to the horizon.

"He's quite quick-witted and knows the danger, so he hides in the Blessed Land of Two Realms..." Chen Xuan thought to himself. When he was fighting with Lü Tongyou, he discovered this situation, so he went all out and fought him to the death.

However, Hua Liuli's light spot is currently motionless, which means it must be lying in wait for a powerful enemy.

About an hour later, Chen Xuan finally approached the place where Hua Liuli had last disappeared.

"The battle is over, and the enemy who was lying in wait has fallen?" He looked down at the land, a desolate battlefield, scarred and ravaged.

The earth has disintegrated, the ground is like metal that has been heated red-hot, and glaring liquid flows in the cracks in the earth. The remaining traces of the battle are still causing the earth to be destroyed further.

Chen Xuan cautiously observed his surroundings, his divine sense sweeping across the area. Then, he activated the power of his Mind Cleansing, his crimson-gold eyes scanning the area to ensure there was no danger within his sight.

But soon, he discovered a serious problem.

There was no way to notify Hua Liuli, who was hiding in the Blessed Land of Two Realms...

"Uh... Open the door!" Chen Xuan shouted twice, but received no response. He then tried to use his inner meditation to draw the black light of the two realm masters, which had somehow drifted away, but it still didn't work.

He was dumbfounded. He couldn't just wait here and wait for the two realm lords, could he? He was still planning to explore the mysterious regions within the Mountain and Sea Banquet!
“I have no choice but to respect her fate… I am not the savior of you chosen ones.” Chen Xuan thought for a moment, then used his immortal energy to leave some hidden marks on the spot, and also left a brand new high-level communication talisman.

He planned to use this place as a base and then expand outwards to explore all the secrets in the vicinity.

"Buzz!"

Chen Xuan activated the Qingnang Secret Manual, carefully sensing the area nearby where there were unusual fluctuations. After a moment, he left in one direction.

"Huh? Is the sky dripping blood?" Soon, he arrived at a special place, and when he looked up, he found tiny droplets of blood falling from the sky.

The drops of blood drifted down, transforming into enormous white fist-shaped imprints that crushed the mountains below.

The unusual fluctuations of divine power did not originate from underground, but from the heavens.

Chen Xuan immediately focused his gaze and vaguely saw a human-shaped kite fluttering in the depths of the clouds, carrying an unfathomable shadow.

"That's quite a commotion." He then cautiously activated his solar energy, his eyes radiating an all-seeing solar brilliance, allowing him to see the scene in that area more clearly.

Chen Xuan felt a chill run down his spine. It was a slender figure hanging upside down by thin threads, blurry and covered in blood, with black hair flying wildly, which was extremely creepy.

Moreover, the silver thread that held the slender figure seemed to come from the sky, with no end in sight!

Are there celestial beings fishing for the banquet guests on earth?
Chen Xuan could vaguely sense that the figure bound by the silk threads was definitely an extremely powerful demon god!

"Whoosh!" The figure suddenly turned her head, following Chen Xuan's gaze downwards. Across millions of miles of space, blood streamed from her empty, bloodstained eyes, and her red lips parted slightly: "Help...help me..."

"...What the hell? A demoness from the Dou tribe?" Chen Xuan blinked.

……

Meanwhile, outside the Mountain and Sea Banquet.

A celestial palace has emerged, wandering through the endless, vast darkness, as if searching for something.

And the edge of the Dark Region.

Two terrifyingly powerful True Lords appeared simultaneously.

"Dragon Lord, shall we go in?" A Daoist figure, as radiant as the blazing sun, pushed up his azure crown with his hand, his expression a mixture of crying and laughing, carrying an air of wickedness, and asked gently.

"It's time to weigh the so-called Immortal Palace Golden Core Immortals, and see what they really are," said the Little Dragon Palace Dao Master, gently wiping his greedy mouth. He had been bloated from sacrificing his own kind lately.

The Daoist Master of the Southern Region and the Dragon Lord of the East Sea, knowing that there were still Golden Core Immortals in the Immortal Palace, joined forces to make their move.

(End of this chapter)