Starting as the young master of a medicine shop, he practiced swordsmanship for twenty years.

Chapter 321 Extraterrestrial Demons!

Lu Xuan walked through the air, his robes fluttering as he sensed the subtle changes in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Then, Lu Xuan's brows gradually furrowed.

Wherever his divine sense swept, the distribution of spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand miles was fully revealed.

The concentration of spiritual energy near Tiandu is dozens of times higher than that in the Southern Region!
Lu Xuan discovered that the closer he got to the Central Continent's Heavenly Capital, the more viscous the spiritual energy in the air became, until it eventually flowed around him like a tangible substance.

"It seems that I will have to leave the Great Xia Dynasty again and head to a new world."

Lu Xuan muttered to himself, his eyes flashing with black and gold light.

Such a terrifying tide of spiritual energy could not have formed naturally in just over a hundred years.

As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Central Plains of the Great Xia Dynasty surged, what Lu Xuan saw along the way surprised him even more.

Once a rare sight, external martial arts masters are now commonplace in this Central Plains.

Even the aura of a Divine Palace True Person would occasionally surge into the sky from various cities.

In a small border town in the Central Plains, he even sensed three powerful experts from the Divine Palace fighting.

The surging power of heaven and earth fluctuated, causing the wind and clouds to change over dozens of miles.

"In just over a hundred years, the martial arts of the Great Xia Dynasty have flourished to this extent..."

Lu Xuan lightly flicked his fingertips, and a wisp of spiritual energy transformed into a dazzling black-gold light between his fingers. "It seems that quite a few martial artists from the outside world have come to this land of the Great Xia Dynasty!"

Immediately, Lu Xuan suddenly remembered that Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing had both gone mad while attempting to break through to the Great Perfection of the Divine Palace Realm.

The strange changes in spiritual energy near Tiandu seem to have only occurred in recent decades.

Between these two, could it be...?

Thinking of this, Lu Xuan's eyes flashed with a cold light, and the spiritual energy within a hundred feet around him suddenly solidified and then exploded!

Using the force of the recoil, his figure instantly transformed into a streak of light, speeding towards the direction of Tiandu.

Wherever it passed, the clouds dispersed, leaving a long-lasting black-gold trail on the sky.

Tiandu!

Deep within the Imperial Palace of Tiandu, the main hall of government was filled with a faint scent of ambergris.

Six ancient figures sat cross-legged in mid-air, their bodies radiating various profound Daoist auras, making the entire hall exceptionally dazzling.

"The Heavenly Stone Mansion, located west of Tiandu..."

At this moment, the old man at the head of the table suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse like the rustling of withered leaves, "Let's give it to those people from the Mingxian Sect."

Upon hearing this, the other five elders were all taken aback, seemingly not expecting him to answer so decisively.

The old man, dressed in a black divine bird robe, had snow-white hair, and beneath his wrinkled skin, one could vaguely see dark Dao patterns flowing.

The old man who spoke was the most senior living ancestor of the Great Xia royal family.

Xia Wushi, the younger brother of the founding patriarch of the Great Xia Dynasty!

A grotto-heaven master who has reached the Great Perfection of the Void Realm!
Xia Wushi ignored the astonishment of the crowd, and slowly closed his eyes that had witnessed thousands of years of vicissitudes: "Let these outsiders run rampant for a while longer."

His withered fingers lightly tapped the void, creating subtle ripples in space.

“These outsiders will know once Mingyue emerges from the pass.”

"This continent belongs to our Great Xia royal family. Anyone who touches it will die!"

Having said this, the other two royal ancestors already understood Xia Wushi's intentions.

One of the elderly men, dressed in a purple-gold and black robe, stroked his beard and said, "Ancestor Wushi is absolutely right!"

"Once Mingyue breaks through to the Earthly Venerable Realm Lord level, our clan will make these petty villains pay back their debts with interest!"

Another royal ancestor in black and red robes couldn't help but sigh: "What a pity, Ritian left the Great Xia Dynasty with those old monsters from the Immortal Sacred Domain."

His fist clenched slightly inside his sleeve. "Otherwise, how could our clan have been forced into such a predicament..."

At the other end of the main hall, the three surviving ancestors of the eight great families had different expressions.

The Li family patriarch's lips twitched almost imperceptibly, the Mo family patriarch kept his eyes downcast, and the Shangguan family patriarch stared blankly at the cloud pattern on his cuff.

Once upon a time, the destruction of the eight great families led these three families to believe that they could seize more of the martial arts resources of the Great Xia Dynasty.

In this way, the power of those three families can reach a new level.

The result is obvious: these people were overthinking things.

The moment the Great Xia Dynasty's seal on heaven and earth shattered, the Great Xia Dynasty's world was completely exposed to the outside world.

This is undoubtedly a huge piece of meat, attracting the attention of countless people.

Those notorious martial arts practitioners in the Boundless Seas were worried about having nowhere to go.

Furthermore, some powerful forces with deep roots in the Immortal Continent have also forcefully entered the region with their vast armies.

Wave after wave of powerful individuals flocked to the land of the Great Xia Dynasty.
They seized the mountains and ruled over the land, fragmenting the territory of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Initially, the Great Xia royal family certainly wished nothing more than to eliminate these impolite outsiders.

Because these outsiders are just so rude!

Therefore, the Great Xia royal family, in alliance with the three major clans, laid a tight net and launched a thunderous siege against outsiders to demonstrate their status as the masters of this land.

However, as time went on, these damned foreign forces gathered in greater numbers, including some top experts at the Void Realm.

Facing a constant stream of formidable opponents.

Even with the profound resources of the Great Xia royal family, and despite the best efforts of the three major families, it was merely a drop in the ocean and they were simply too busy to handle the situation.

Ultimately, as time went on, the Great Xia royal family had no choice but to compromise and turn a blind eye.

Let these outsiders fight amongst themselves and carve out their own territories; we will no longer forcibly interfere with them.

These arrogant outsiders were, in the eyes of the three patriarchs of the Great Xia royal family, nothing more than temporary successes.

Just as Xia Wushi said, once Empress Xia Mingyue emerges from seclusion, the Great Xia Dynasty will surely regroup and rise again.

By then, these clowns will pay a heavy price for their arrogance.

Everything that the Great Xia royal family has lost, they will reclaim with interest.

Rumbling...
Inside the tranquil palace, a sudden roar shattered the deathly silence.

A tremendous tremor, as if the earth were shaking, came from the direction of the eastern part of Tiandu.

The power was so strong that even the dragon saliva incense burner, which stood quietly inside the hall, trembled slightly.

Xia Wushi's eyes, which had just been slowly closing, suddenly snapped open.

A fleeting, barely concealed displeasure crossed his already weathered, aged face.

The reaction of the old ancestor Shangguan was even more intense, and his eyes suddenly narrowed.

In an instant, his aura seemed to be frozen by an invisible force, and the atmosphere of the entire space became oppressive.

"Excuse me, everyone."

The voice still echoed in the hall when the figure of the Old Ancestor Shangguan vanished like a wisp of smoke, turning into several streaks of light that disappeared into the empty hall in the blink of an eye.

The other five seemed unfazed by the scene, their expressions calm, as if everything was expected—after all, the clearly perceptible tremor clearly came from the eastern part of Tiandu.

That place is where the Shangguan family has been rooted for generations.

"Ah……"

The patriarch of the Li family slowly reached out and gently stroked his long beard.

After a while, he slowly spoke, "It seems there's another arrogant young upstart here."
While he was breaking through to a higher realm, the extraterrestrial demon lurking in the shadows seized the opportunity and attacked.

Upon hearing this, the Mo family patriarch shook his head slightly and sighed softly, "Since the seal on this world was lifted..."
The incursions of these demonic forces are becoming increasingly frequent, which is truly worrying.

At this moment, Xia Wushi suddenly spoke.

"Now that the matter of the Mingxian Sect has been settled, please make yourselves at home."

The Li family patriarch and the Mo family patriarch exchanged a glance, understanding each other perfectly. They stood up simultaneously, cupped their hands in a salute to the three royal patriarchs, and said, "Farewell."

As their figures gradually disappeared from the hall, only the three royal ancestors remained in the once bustling hall.

The black-robed patriarch suddenly lowered his voice, his tone like muffled thunder from the earth: "It's another extraterrestrial demon..."

His withered fingers unconsciously stroked the dragon pattern on the armrest, a trace of reminiscence flashing in his eyes: "Now that I think about it, the Holy Ancestor really had good intentions when he set up the seal on heaven and earth."

After the Great Xia Dynasty lifted the seal on heaven and earth, whenever a martial artist breaks through to the Divine Palace Realm, or breaks through the realms above the Divine Palace Realm and the Void Realm, it is considered auspicious.

Those extraterrestrial demons wandering in the Heavenly Martial Realm will swarm in and use every means to bewitch the martial artists.

Another royal ancestor sighed softly and continued, "Although the sealing of heaven and earth will reduce the spiritual energy of the Great Xia to only a fraction of that of the outside world..."

"But at least it protected the souls of us cultivators, preventing us from being deceived by those so-called extraterrestrial demons."

The old ancestor in black and red robes suddenly remembered what those powerful outsiders had told him.

The extraterrestrial demons of the Heavenly Martial Realm are formless, shapeless, and intangible, existing only in indescribable void crevices.

Once corrupted by extraterrestrial demons, a martial artist's divine will is completely destroyed, turning them into a monster that only knows how to kill.

In this situation, there is no cure; one can only wait for the person to die from exhaustion, their spirit and soul extinguished, their body and soul vanished!

When the topic of extraterrestrial demons was brought up, the three royal ancestors fell silent in unison.

They knew that only a peerless expert who had reached the Earthly Venerable realm could unleash their inner world to pull those extraterrestrial demons out of the void.

Within the scope of the small world, the Earthly Venerable Realm Lord is the supreme ruler of the world, and no being can escape his perception.

But that’s it!
Even in the entire Tianwu Realm, the existence of a Land Venerable Realm Lord, who is like a True Immortal on Earth, is an extremely rare and peerless powerhouse.

As true immortals on land, powerful beings of the Earthly Realm generally live in seclusion, pursuing that boundless realm.

Heavenly Origin Immortal!

Therefore, most martial artists are corrupted by the extraterrestrial demons and can only break through their bottlenecks by relying on their own will to maintain their original intentions and not be seduced by them.

"what--"

Suddenly, a frenzied roar echoed from the depths of the palace, as if seeping from the deepest hell, causing the three royal ancestors to change color simultaneously.

The three royal ancestors trembled simultaneously, immediately sensing the source of the sound.

This is the forbidden area of ​​the imperial palace!

Two of the elders turned their gazes toward Xia Wushi almost simultaneously, their eyes filled with astonishment and doubt.

They were all too familiar with those two voices.

Aren't they just those two brats from the Lu family who have been corrupted by extraterrestrial demons?

The two newly appointed deputy commanders of the Black Bird Guard are Liang Cheng and Lu Yunqing.

Back then, when those two brats from the Lu family caused havoc in Tiandu, it was Old Ancestor Wushi who personally captured them.

"Ancestor Wushi, weren't those two boys from the Lu family suppressed by the Xuan Niao Tian Xi?"

“This voice…” An old ancestor said solemnly.

"What the hell!" another black-robed elder couldn't help but exclaim.

Upon hearing this, a rare look of confusion appeared on Xia Wushi's aged face, and his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Because he didn't know how to answer that question.

Logically speaking, with Lu Yunqing and Liang Cheng's mere minor Divine Palace cultivation, there was absolutely no way they could shake the seal he had personally set up.

Since those two brats from the Lu family couldn't break free of the restraints they had set up, it must mean they had external help.

"go!"

Thinking of this, Xia Wushi uttered only one word before his figure disappeared into the void.

The other two elders exchanged a glance, both seeing the same shock in each other's eyes—

They guessed the answer too.

The fact that the seal on the Xuan Niao Tian Xi could loosen must mean that an external force intervened!

Moreover, this power is probably... above the strength of the Timeless Ancestor!
The figures of the three patriarchs disappeared one after another in the hall, leaving only a few ripples in the space that had not yet calmed down.

Deep within the forbidden grounds of the imperial palace, ten thousand meters underground, a dark palace stands silently.

This building, which is only one percent the size of the palace, is made entirely of black iron and its surface is covered with ancient patterns of heaven and earth.

It is the most secret treasure trove and sacred cultivation ground of the Great Xia royal family.

Inside the side hall, thirty-six luminous pearls were inlaid on the black iron wall, illuminating the entire space as if it were daytime.

In mid-air, two figures were tightly bound by several black chains, emitting inhuman roars.

They were surrounded by thick, viscous black mist, their eyes completely black with no white showing, like demons crawling out of the deepest hell.

In the void in front of the two of them was a tall, slender figure.

It was Lu Xuan!

Lu Xuan was dressed in a dark black brocade robe, the hem of which fluttered even without wind.

His mere presence caused ripples to spread throughout the entire side hall.

It was Lu Xuan's arrival that caused the black seal suspended in mid-air to tremble violently, and the black bird totem carved on the seal to flicker on and off.

With each tremor, the chains binding the two madmen became less tangible, causing their demonized bodies to struggle even more violently.

"Roar--"

The two madmen who had fallen into a state of calm suddenly gained power and roared to the sky.

Visible black energy surged from his body like a tidal wave, attempting to break free from the chains binding him.

Lu Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping over the Xuan Bird Heavenly Seal trembling in mid-air.

He gently raised his right hand, and his slender index finger pointed in the air!
"Crack!"

A crisp cracking sound echoed throughout the underground palace.

The black chains that were powerful enough to suppress even a Void Realm expert were shattered by a single finger!
(End of this chapter)