Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 357 You Want to Learn?
Xu Yunfan gazed at the iron-clad camp of the Xuanjia Army in the distance, his eyes calm and unfathomable.

He withdrew his finger, turned to look at Li Haomiao, his eyes deep: "Haomiao, have you ever seen a field during spring plowing? When weeds grow rampant, farmers wield hoes to cut the roots, and it looks like a mess, but once the new seedlings break through the soil, it becomes a vast expanse of green."

Li Haomiao frowned; he naturally knew what Xu Yunfan meant.

In the current chaotic situation, to regain control of the nation's power, one must first shatter the old order.

But behind this word 'broken'..." He gazed at the smoke rising from chimneys under the setting sun in the distance, his voice hoarse, "how many lives have to be sacrificed to make it enough?"

When did you become so indecisive?

Xu Yunfan chuckled and shook his head slightly. If it were during the dynasty's heyday, Li Haomiao would certainly have been a benevolent ruler, given his temperament. But now, with heroes rising up all over the world, only ruthless and bloodthirsty methods could allow him to ascend to the throne again.

Li Haomiao looked at the pool of blood on the ground not far away, slowly seeping into the cracks of the blue bricks, and suddenly remembered that a few days ago when he passed by the slums, a child was digging half a moldy steamed bun from a pile of rubble.

At the foot of Yujing, there were also refugees and beggars...

He closed his eyes, his voice slightly low: "I understand the principles. But knowing to wield a knife and actually severing countless lifelines with one's own hands... are two different things."

Li Haomiao sighed: "It's not that I'm indecisive. Sometimes, understanding is one thing, but doing it is another. This time, the whole world will be affected."

Xu Yunfan slowly walked to the edge of a ruined wall and looked at a Ministry of Works official of the Great Zhou Dynasty buried underground. The afterglow of the setting sun gilded him.

“It’s hard for the people to prosper, and it’s hard for the people to die.”

He pointed to the Xuanjia military camp in the northwest, "Which of those soldiers' families hasn't been exploited by the sects? The two Taoist sects in the south have just calmed down, and now there's a drought. Do you really think it's a natural disaster?"
This world has been killing people for a long time, but I'll just let them die a quick death through my hands!

These words left Li Haomiao speechless; he couldn't find a reason to refute this absurd logic.

The rise and fall of dynasties has always brought suffering to the people.

He had naturally traveled the world, and some things were presented to him.

"These sects have been robbing the people of their wealth for years; today they are simply reaping what they sowed. Just you wait and see..."

Xu Yunfan suddenly clenched his fist, and the clear true energy beneath his skin surged like a river, refining the last trace of impurities from the Buddhist Pure Fire. "Once I pull that witch off her horse, I will gather the Xuanhuang Qi of the Great Zhou Dragon Vein into my body and break through the shackles of the Nine Realms."

At that time, the people will naturally have a chance to recuperate and rebuild their lives, without having to sell their land to buy 'karma-eliminating talismans' for the Amitabha Temple, and without having to pay all sorts of absurd miscellaneous taxes to Jiange.

Li Haomiao remained silent. Xu Yunfan's words naturally reflected his own aspirations. Gazing at the cracked fragments of the Dragon-Suppressing Seal on the martial arts stage, he suddenly said, "If 300,000 Xuanjia soldiers were to launch a strong attack on the Great Zhou Imperial Court..."

“They cannot move. At the ninth level of Qi Refining, they can no longer win by sheer numbers. Brother Haomiao, these are the foundation for your future ascension to the throne. If most of them perish here, then it will truly be a chaotic world.”

Xu Yunfan turned to Li Haomiao and said, "The Empress's tiger tally cannot win hearts and minds. These border troops have long been fed up with the collusion between the royal family and the sects to embezzle military pay. After tomorrow, I will kill the Empress myself. You should use the Daoist sect's 'Qing Nang Shu' to treat the wounded soldiers. These 300,000 men will be the foundation of the new dynasty."

At this point, he suddenly laughed and said, "'In times of chaos, harsh measures are necessary.' Now I'm cutting off the rotten branches, and you're cleaning up the mess and planting new trees. We're just each doing our part."

Li Haomiao remained silent for a long time, finally shaking his head and smiling bitterly: "You madman... if we fail..."

"There is no failure."

Xu Yunfan interrupted him, his gaze sharp, "The Luo Tian Grand Ceremony is complete, and the old hag is at her wit's end, just struggling in her death throes. No, I will not fail, nor can I fail. The thousand-year fortune of the Dao Sect has been placed on my shoulders. If I succeed, I will ascend to heaven. When one person attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."

He patted Li Haomiao on the shoulder, "At this time tomorrow, I will let you witness with your own eyes what true universal harmony is." The night was as dark as ink. On the top of the Wentian Pavilion, the highest pavilion in the imperial city, Xu Yunfan stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering in the biting night wind.

The glazed tiles beneath my feet gleamed coldly, while the lights of the Ziji Palace in the distance flickered uncertainly in the churning night, like a lurking ferocious beast.

"I'm quite surprised that you've turned the Ten Extremes Martial Arts into the Taotie Absorbing True Essence Path."

An aged voice suddenly rang out, and the void three zhang behind Xu Yunfan suddenly turned black as Dugu Jiu, with her white hair like frost, stepped out into the air.

A three-foot-long, unsheathed sword hung at his waist, its blade mottled like a withered branch, yet it seemed to freeze the surrounding moonlight.

Xu Yunfan did not turn around, but instead lowered his hands, which were crossed over his chest, and pressed them against the handle of the hammer, lightly tapping the handle of the Hammer of Shaking the Mountain and Sea with his fingertips: "What does Senior Dugu think?"

Dugu Jiu sneered: "I thought you would follow my sword path, but I didn't expect that you could actually forge a demonic path for the Ten Extremes Martial Arts."

"When I created the Ten Extremes Martial Arts, I used sword intent as the bone and all techniques as the edge."

Dugu Jiu's withered fingers stroked the longsword, then flicked it lightly. As the sword's spine resonated with a soft sound, nine flickering sword intents instantly shone forth, encompassing all forms, ever-changing and unpredictable.

Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow, secretly surprised that the old man could combine the essence of multiple martial arts into a single sword intent.

"I never imagined that the Ten Extremes Martial Arts could take such a path."

At this point, Dugu Jiu's eyes flashed with a sharp light, shining brightly with a sense of inquiry and a hint of excitement.

"I have created the Ten Extremes Martial Arts for three hundred years, and all I know is the path of the sword opening the gates of heaven..."

A hoarse laugh suddenly escaped his throat, causing the remaining sword energy in his sleeve to rustle. "I never thought you would stray onto the demonic path that allows you to absorb the life force of others!"

What demonic path? This is just a special effect that absorbs true essence, derived from the concept of "all laws returning to the flow" in the Ten Extreme Martial Arts attribute panel.

Xu Yunfan secretly curled his lip. Dugu Jiu claimed to be practicing the demonic path, but he seemed even more excited than Xu Yunfan.

He didn't turn around, but just turned his face slightly to the side, with a strange smile on his face.

"Would you like to learn, senior? I can teach you,"

A sudden gust of night wind blew, and the old man's white hair danced wildly like mad snakes.

He suddenly took a step forward, and seven points of starlight burst forth from the sword's edge, which appeared eerie purple under the illumination of Xu Yunfan's spontaneously surging Ten Extreme True Qi.

Seeing this, Dugu Jiu was overjoyed.

"Excellent! What a brilliant 'all laws converge into one'! If all the Grandmasters of the nine realms under heaven were refined into firewood..."

He quickly suppressed his sword intent, rubbing his hands together with great excitement.

"In this depleted spiritual energy of the Dharma-ending Age, who knows, a path to immortality might actually be carved out!"

Moreover, during the day he was naturally watching from the shadows. What Xu Yunfan absorbed was not only the opponent's true energy, but also the vitality of the opponent's body and blood.

(End of this chapter)