Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 254 The Last Chance to Immortality
Xu Yunfan saw this and naturally understood what the other party was thinking.

A slight smile appeared on his face, as if he hadn't noticed anything amiss, and he said, "I never expected to meet Brother Su here. It's truly a case of unexpected encounters in life."

Su Zhenhe was slightly taken aback, the complex expression on his face completely disappeared, and he began to carefully ponder the words.

After a short while, he looked up and exclaimed, "Brother Xu is indeed a man of great talent. This line of poetry is excellent, it is truly a wake-up call, and it is really exquisite."

He brushed the dry grass off his clothes, walked up to Xu Yunfan, and cupped his hands in greeting.

"Brother Xu, what brings you here?"

Xu Yunfan was speechless, never expecting that his casual remark would dispel Su Zhenhe's murderous intent.

"I accidentally fell in from another entrance to a secret realm."

He casually remarked, and before Su Zhenhe could ask further, Xu Yunfan inquired first, "Brother Su, do you know about the palace below?"

Su Zhenhe remained silent for a moment, then shifted his gaze from Xu Yunfan to the white jade palace that radiated a clear light.

His fingers unconsciously rubbed the Xuanzhen Sect token hanging at his waist, as if weighing whether he should reveal this information.

At this moment, Su Zhenhe suddenly recalled Xu Yunfan's silent, ghostly figure. His pupils couldn't help but shrink abruptly. When Xu Yunfan approached him, he was as silent as a ghost, and even he, a true disciple of the Xuanzhen Sect, couldn't detect him at all.

His throat bobbed slightly as he suppressed his shock and asked in a hoarse voice, "Brother Xu, what realm are you at in martial arts now?"

"The seventh realm of martial arts: marrow cleansing."

Xu Yunfan spoke casually, but those six words were like a thunderclap, making Su Zhenhe's mind buzz.

His expression changed drastically, and he instinctively took a half-step back, pressing his back against the wall. His voice trembled as he exclaimed, "How is this possible?!"

The person in front of me is only in his early twenties. Even if he started cultivating from the womb, it would be impossible for him to reach the Marrow Cleansing Realm at such a young age. Even the elders of the Xuanzhen Sect would have to endure decades of hardship to reach such a level!

One wrong step, and you'll waste your whole life and never be able to make any further progress.

Upon hearing Su Zhenhe lose his voice, Xu Yunfan chuckled softly and remained silent. In the instant his fingertips slightly bent, a wisp of condensed energy suddenly burst forth, tearing through the air like a sharp arrow and shattering the hard stone wall three inches from Su Zhenhe's ear.

Amidst the flying debris, the lingering force of the energy left a three-inch-deep hole in the rock wall behind them, its edges as smooth as if cut by a sword.

Su Zhenhe stood frozen in place, cold sweat beading on his forehead. If that finger had been slightly higher...

"Marrow strength connects with the divine, lightness is as heavy as weight, and power is transformed into a fierce aura..."

Su Zhenhe's expression was shocked. This was unprecedented in history. No one had ever been able to reach the Marrow Cleansing Realm at such a young age. Even the Li family, who founded the Great Zhou Empire eight hundred years ago, only reached the Marrow Cleansing Realm at the age of thirty.

"Since Brother Xu has asked..."

Su Zhenhe finally spoke, his voice low and deep, “I did see a related record in the Xuanzhen Sect’s ‘Qingyue Strange Tales’. It is said that this white jade palace is not from this world, but rather fell from the sky two thousand years ago when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was about to dissipate. It crashed down two layers in succession, tearing open the secret realm passage and falling into it.”

At this point, Su Zhenhe turned his head to look at the white jade palace below, which was constantly radiating a clear light, his expression filled with an unimaginable sense of fervor.

"Your Tiangong Cave has a very short history. Too many things happened two thousand years ago, which completely caused the primordial spirit of heaven and earth to dissipate. This white jade palace appeared after a great battle back then."

A major battle?

Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow, his muscles beneath the dragon scale armor tensing involuntarily. He could feel the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace trembling slightly behind him, as if it were sensing the palace.

There must be a great secret hidden in that battle two thousand years ago.

Seeing Xu Yunfan's probing gaze, Su Zhenhe did not hesitate and said directly: "The path to immortality was a battle fought by those who had cultivated to the extreme in the world, also known as the terrestrial immortals in the martial arts world, in order to seek the last chance to achieve immortality when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dissipated."

Even if one cultivates martial arts to the very end and possesses the power to shake mountains and sever rivers, one's lifespan cannot be increased much. Even a Grandmaster of the Ninth Realm of Qi Refining, through various secret methods to prolong life and nourished by elixirs and precious medicines, will never live more than three hundred years.

It is a universally acknowledged fact that of the three hundred who survived this perilous passage, none have survived to this day.

Thinking about this, Xu Yunfan's heart stirred slightly. He suddenly remembered that the mysterious woman in white had said in the Extreme Dao Remnant that she had only encountered two or three such people in two thousand years.

The other party is most likely an extreme practitioner from that era, but how could they have survived for more than two thousand years?
Relying on the slumber of the ancient jade disc?
"interesting."

Xu Yunfan grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth. "Go on."

Su Zhenhe glanced at the dragon scale armor on Xu Yunfan's body, which faintly shimmered with a dark golden luster. He unconsciously clenched his fingers. The oppressive feeling he felt from the other party was too intense, like a troll lurking around, making it difficult to breathe.

No matter how talented Su Zhenhe is, with a Marrow Cleansing Master in front of him, no matter how much he tries to act, even if he possesses a divine weapon, the opponent's weapon is not inferior, especially that visually striking dragon scale armor, which opens and closes with Xu Yunfan's breathing, as if it were a living thing.

"...According to historical records, seven major sects dispatched elite forces to investigate at that time, including three Supreme Elders of my Xuanzhen Sect, Pei Wujiu, the Heavenly Sword Master of the Sword Pavilion, and the Vajra Master of the Amitabha Temple..."

"Get to the point, what happened to the people who went in?"

"No one has come out."

Su Zhenhe's voice lowered even further, "Everyone who entered the palace vanished as if they had disappeared into thin air. Later, various factions joined forces to block the news, and the White Jade Palace spontaneously sank into the mountainside, disappearing without a trace. This part of history gradually became blurred... I never expected it to reappear today..."

He glanced at Xu Yunfan in front of him, and had a vague guess in his mind.

According to the sect's records, the energy of various parties in the small world secret realm is interconnected and intertwined, and most of them are so interconnected that a change in one part affects the whole.

This small world secret realm originally only allowed martial artists at the Outer Three Harmony Realm to enter, but suddenly a Grandmaster-level expert at the Marrow Cleansing Realm appeared.

Heaven knows just how much good fortune the other party received.

Su Zhenhe finally couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xu, did you break through the marrow cleansing stage in the secret realm?"

"Naturally, the spiritual energy here is abundant, making it a much better environment for breakthroughs than the outside world. If it weren't for the abundance of demons, I would want to stay here permanently."

Although I have been fully immersed in cultivation these days, demons still come to attack me. Moreover, it seems that after a month, in the same place, the intensity of the demons I encounter will increase several levels.

You still want to stay long-term.

Su Zhenhe chuckled twice but didn't respond. If they could really stay there permanently, this small secret realm would probably be filled with buildings from the six major sects.

Suddenly, Xu Yunfan turned his head and walked a few steps to the edge of the cliff.

He squinted at the east side of the white jade palace, where seven figures were rushing up the broken stone steps. The force unleashed by the leader's feet even scorched the moss.

(End of this chapter)