Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 260 Ancient Cultivator? !
Since meeting him, Su Zhenhe has spent most of his time with his right hand on the hilt of his sword beneath his robes, concealing the malice hidden deep within him.

This sword...

hum!
A clear, crisp sound, like jade beads falling, suddenly appeared.

The moment the sword was drawn, a cold glint flashed like lightning, and the clear, sharp sword light illuminated the surrounding area.

The moment Xu Yunfan's knuckles touched the hilt of the sword, he felt a sharp pain in his palm. This three-foot-long sword had not yet drawn blood, but the sharpness emanating from its blade was already enough to cut through his skin.

As the sword spine completely detached from the python-skin scabbard, a dragon-like tremor erupted from the bronze hilt, causing the rock sword to resonate incessantly.

"What a sword!"

Even with Xu Yunfan's current skill in forging weapons, he was still amazed.

The blade of this sword appears to be formed from solidified ice, with dark silver cloud patterns visible on its translucent surface. As the sword glides along, the exquisitely crafted design makes the cloud patterns on the blade appear to flow like water.

Three inches from the sword's edge, the floating dust silently split in two, as if an invisible blade were suspended before the object.

Treasure!

If weapons weren't devoid of their own sentience, they would certainly be considered divine weapons.

"Pity……"

Xu Yunfan glanced at the drop of blood seeping from his fingertip. This sword was unorthodox, pursuing pure, extreme sharpness, which even his physically trained body could not withstand.

This also resulted in the sword being too weak; a mere flick of the spine would cause it to shatter completely, like glass.

This sword was forged specifically for a single, fatal strike.

Xu Yunfan examined the sword for a long time, then took the scabbard from Su Zhenhe's body, tied it to his waist, and sheathed the sword.

This sword might play an unexpected role; if Su Zhenhe had acted earlier...

Xu Yunfan looked down at the dragon scale armor on his body. If it weren't for this armor, Su Zhenhe would probably have already swung his sword at him.

Suppressing his thoughts, Xu Yunfan turned to look at the man on the Blood Sacrifice Jade Platform.

He has already seen the strength of the Blood Sacrifice Jade's ability to absorb blood energy through the test.

At most, they can only reach the Body Refining Realm; it's difficult to continue beyond that. This realm only allows martial artists at the Outer Three Harmonies level to enter, which is definitely related to this.

He pressed his knuckles against the raised kui patterns on the dragon scale armor, the chilling touch suppressing all his surging thoughts.

As he turned around, the crimson mist rising from the Blood Sacrifice Jade Platform just happened to overflow the third coiled dragon pillar. The green robe was now suspended in the center of the mist, and the clear light flowing between the hem of the robe merged with the blood light to form an eerie crimson-purple color.

Below the nine jade steps, Zhou Tianyan's wide-open throat had shrunk into a hole like a dry well.

His prized Xuan Turtle Shell, which he was so proud of in his lifetime, now writhed as if alive, its golden silk scales deeply embedded in his bluish-gray flesh, and the blood-red light flowing through its meridians was converging into the high platform along the steps.

The seven disciples of the Nine Luminaries Sect remained in a struggling posture, their skin clinging to their bones, with blood-red sand like ice crystals condensed in the folds. Their sunken eye sockets flickered with eerie blue phosphorescent flames, as if their souls had been forcibly ripped away by some ancient curse.

After a long silence, Xu Yunfan pulled out the ginseng child and took a deep breath of ginseng energy. The ginseng energy, which was originally quite hot, began to flow through his limbs and bones like a warm current under his current marrow cleansing state.

He raised his hand, his fingertips lightly touching the surface. A sudden suction force rose from the Blood Sacrifice Jade, causing his body to tense slightly. After a while, his gaze relaxed slightly.

Fortunately, it was pretty much as I had imagined. At this moment, my strength had been transformed into blood and marrow, and my blood energy was as solid as a rock. The Blood Sacrifice Jade had no ability to absorb it.

He looked up at the young man sitting on the high platform. As he hesitated for a moment, the Extreme Dao Remnant suddenly twitched. He could sense that the Extreme Dao Remnant was conveying an urging consciousness.

This is……

After a long silence, Xu Yunfan lowered his eyes and stared at the spot where his fingertips met the Blood Sacrifice Jade, where dark red lines snaked along his nails like living snakes.

The suction force was clearly gnawing at his bones, but it was shattered by the roaring marrow tide within his body. The unique golden marrow energy of the Marrow Cleansing Realm flowed throughout his body, and every drop of essence blood was like lava wrapped with stars. The greedy sucking sound of the Blood Sacrifice Jade eventually turned into an unwilling sob.

Nine steps snaked beneath his feet like dragon bones, each step forged from blood-sacrificial jade. As he gripped the Thunderfire Qilin Hammer, intending to hurl it with the force of thunder and fire crashing to the ground, the clear voice of the white-clad woman suddenly appeared in his mind.

“If you go up there and are awakened, once you pass through this place, you will be trapped in this world. If you do not take this opportunity to escape, the path to immortality will be cut off, and there will be no possibility of longevity. I can protect you. I swear on my soul.”

When Xu Yunfan heard a woman's voice appear in the real world for the first time, he was slightly stunned.

After pausing to ponder for a long time, Xu Yunfan made up his mind. When he stepped onto the first step, the soles of his boots collided with the jade, producing a metallic sound. The Blood Sacrifice Jade, which had been relatively calm, suddenly emitted a bright blood-red light, and its suction force doubled.

His expression remained unchanged, and crimson light burst forth from the raised areas of the dragon scale armor's kui patterns, forcefully cutting off the suction force.

Xu Yunfan took each step steadily and surely.

The last step gleamed with a glassy luster, and the moment Xu Yunfan lifted his foot, the entire floor tiles of the White Jade Palace simultaneously lit up with star patterns.

The dragon scales on the back of his neck suddenly stood up, and the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace leaped into his palm on its own. The mace trembled spontaneously and roared.

When the sole of the boot finally touched the edge of the platform, a crisp sound like porcelain shattering came from deep within the Blood Sacrifice Jade, as if a restriction that had been dormant for thousands of years had been forcibly broken.

The young man's face, now seated upright, was finally clearly visible.

Xu Yunfan's pupils dilated slightly; this person's appearance was so perfect that he seemed otherworldly.

When he looked closer, he found that the other person's face had no pores at all, and the texture of the skin was like that of top-grade mutton fat jade that had been repeatedly rubbed by skilled craftsmen for thousands of years, with not even the finest hairs remaining.

The young man's fingers, which were resting on his knees, suddenly trembled, and liquid starlight flowed beneath his fingernails.

Just as he was investigating, Xu Yunfan suddenly heard a nonchalant voice.

"You've noticed something?"

The sharp, metallic sound of metal clashing against stone suddenly rang out, startling Xu Yunfan so much that the dragon scales on the back of his neck stood on end.

He suddenly looked up and bumped into two pools of deep blue water. The young man sitting on the blood sacrifice jade platform had opened his eyes at some point. The clear light in his eyes was like moonlight falling into the cold pool, and every ripple was wrapped with strange light.

hum!
The Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace erupted with an unprecedentedly sharp whistle. The divine weapon possessed a spirit, and Xu Yunfan could clearly feel the spiritual energy emanating from the mace's hilt...

Fear, trembling!
Xu Yunfan retreated seven steps, his Xuan Steel Body rubbing against the ground and sparking golden fire, demonstrating the terrifying pressure contained in that gaze just now.

The youth's radiant aura seemed to transform into liquid mist, winding down along the infant's palm print that had been moving across the surface of the Blood Sacrifice Jade. Three hundred and sixty illusory stars then emerged from the void.

"Crack!"

The young man's jade-like fingertips trembled slightly, and Xu Yunfan was surprised to find that his body's strength was uncontrollably surging towards the "Primordial" token at his waist, which he had obtained from the withered bones of the Xuanzhen Sect.

"This is my token, which happened to be delivered."

Looking at Xu Yunfan's armor, a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

"I never imagined this place would have changed so much. Two thousand years of blood offerings have finally taught us some tricks of the trade. If you had been given more time, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be qualified to come here."

A smile, like cracks in ice, appeared on the young man's lips, but his voice sounded like the mournful wails of countless wronged souls inside a bronze cauldron.

"Young friend, your Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivation is more to my liking than the innate primordial energy of those nine fools."

As he spoke, the young man lightly made a hand seal with his fingers.

The moment the young man made the hand seal, all 360 strange patterns on the surface of the blood sacrifice jade platform simultaneously burst forth with blue light.

Xu Yunfan felt a crisp sound, like metal clashing against metal, erupt from his entire body.

The powerful physique brought about by the Marrow Cleansing Realm was actually frozen by the young man's hand seal.

(End of this chapter)