Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 360 Killing the Empress
As the purple mist surged, the spine sword, as if alive, bypassed the dragon scale armor and pierced Xu Yunfan's flesh. At that moment, a blinding golden light suddenly burst forth from the tip of his right finger.

The first move of the Pure Yang Three Styles Sword Technique, "Burning the Sea," exploded from within her flesh and blood. The blazing sword energy transformed into nine fire dragons, flowing upstream along her spine and burning the Empress's right arm, which held the sword, into charcoal.

The Empress let out a shriek, and the Purple Gold Pill trembled wildly in her chest cavity. The gushing true blood, along with the decaying flesh, multiplied, and three tentacles covered with scales sprouted from the severed arm, lashing towards Xu Yunfan's face.

"You monster."

Xu Yunfan sneered.

On his left arm, the eerie purple markings had clung to his collarbone like a spider web, yet they were unable to move an inch under the suppression of his Ten Extreme True Qi.

Within his flesh and blood, true energy surged like a raging torrent, forcefully repelling the purple mist that was corroding his bone marrow, and finally condensing in his palm into a highly poisonous purple bead with a faint glow.

The purple mist churned, its poisonous aura pressing down, attempting to break through, but it was firmly imprisoned by him, unable to escape!
The Empress's pupils contracted sharply, and a storm raged in her heart.

She never imagined that anyone in this world could use such domineering methods to force the purple poison out of her body!

The immense power of the Ten Extremes True Qi caused her breath to catch in her throat slightly.

"How can this be?!"

Her fingertips trembled slightly, causing the purple light on the spine sword to dim for a moment.

Seeing this, Xu Yunfan suddenly crushed the purple bead, and the poisonous mist rolled back towards the Empress's face. Taking advantage of the moment when her vision was obscured, he unleashed the second move of the Pure Yang Sword Technique, "Sky Rift".

It was as if a golden rift had been torn open between heaven and earth.

Xu Yunfan pointed his fingers together to form a sword, compressing the Ten Extremes True Qi to its limit at his fingertips, transforming it into a three-foot-long Pure Yang Sword Qi, which slashed down with the force of splitting a mountain.

The empress hastily used her tentacles to block, but they were swiftly severed by the sword's energy, the remaining force striking her chest and abdomen.

The Purple Gold Pill reacted with a burst of light, and the true blood within its body surged forth like a spring, actually condensing into half a fleshy shield around the Empress's waist and abdomen.

"True blood?"

Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow: "I almost forgot, your royal family contains true blood, which can regenerate flesh and blood."

True Blood Power was originally a cultivation path of the Northern Great Qian Dynasty, using the essence and blood of demons as a guide to temper the physical body, nurture ferocity, and become a bloodline noble.

However, the true blood within the Great Zhou territory is completely different from that of the Great Qian.

It originates from the extraordinary essence that our ancestors gathered when they ascended to the realm of immortals on land, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, inherited through blood.

However, after the passage of time, the true blood is now extremely thin, with less than one-tenth of its power remaining. In some aristocratic families, the true bloodline has almost been severed, with only a faint trace of spirituality remaining.

The sword energy was blocked after penetrating three inches into her body. The Empress grinned maliciously: "My true blood is inexhaustible, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Yunfan had already lunged at him.

The purple markings on his left arm suddenly shattered, and the Ten Extremes True Qi, with its "Absorb True Qi" effect, completely devoured the corrosive power and nourished itself.

With a swift grab of his right palm, the scattered Pure Yang Sword Qi condensed once more, covering the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace and transforming it into a massive, tangible crimson-gold sword.

It was the third move, "Demon Suppression".

Ancient proverbs inscribed by the Taoist patriarch Chunyang appeared on the sword's blade, and every stroke flowed with the majestic power to suppress evil spirits.

"True blood? It's nothing but nourishment!"

Xu Yunfan roared, and his giant sword pierced through the Empress's chest. The Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace burst forth, pinning her to the dragon-patterned stone pillar in the center of the martial arts arena.

The moment the sword energy touched the Purple Gold Pill, the Empress's body swelled violently, her true blood multiplied out of control, and she transformed into a monster three zhang tall.

Its head remained human-shaped, but its body extended segment by segment like a centipede, each segment producing a mouthpiece that spewed out corrosive purple mist.

Xu Yunfan was deeply shaken and couldn't help but take several steps back before stopping. The Empress's rapid change reminded him of the old monk in the Thousand Buddha Temple in Beiye City who worshipped the Three-Headed Powerful Bodhisattva for the sake of divine weapons.

Xu Yunfan clasped his hands together, and ten vortexes of true energy appeared around his body, devouring and refining the purple mist completely.

He stepped into the void, each step shattering the bricks within a radius of ten feet.

The monster swung its hundred legs at him, but he neither dodged nor evaded, combining the three forms of the Pure Yang Sword Technique into one.

The fiery dragon of "Burning the Sea" coils around the sword's body, the sharpness of "Splitting the Sky" breaks through its armor, and the maxim of "Suppressing Demons" locks the Purple Gold Pill.

The giant sword suddenly split into countless pieces, pouring down like a torrential rain, turning the monster into a sieve.

The empress's head emitted an inhuman howl, and the Purple Gold Pill cracked open with a "crack," the leaking demonic energy being burned into green smoke by the Pure Yang Sword Qi.

The monster struggled in its death throes, its tail sweeping across the battlefield and blowing half of the training platform away.

Xu Yunfan snorted coldly, channeling his Ten Extremes True Qi into his right leg, and using his leg as a hammer, unleashed a "Mountain Collapse" strike from the "Eight Desolate Dragon Fall Hammer Technique."

The shockwave erupting from beneath his feet was like a meteorite falling to earth, crushing the monster's lower body into a bloody pulp.

The Empress's true blood was still trying to be reconstituted, but Xu Yunfan had already raised his twin hammers, his Ten Extremes True Qi like a whale swallowing the four directions, drawing upon the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

True blood surged within the empress's mangled body, and flesh twisted and writh like a living thing, attempting to reform itself once more.

However, Xu Yunfan would not give her a chance to catch her breath.

He raised his hammers high, and his Ten Extremes True Qi swept across the four directions like a raging sea. The primordial energy of heaven and earth trembled, forming a visible vortex of primordial energy above the martial arts stage.

"Lock!"

With a roar, nine dazzling golden chains suddenly appeared from the void, piercing through the monstrous remains of the Empress like spears of divine punishment.

Ancient Daoist patterns are engraved on the chains, each line flowing with the majestic power of pure Yang True Qi. This was created by Xu Yunfan using the wonderful method of Qi Refining and Transforming into Form, and merging the power of the altar of the Luotian Grand Ceremony on the summit of Qingwei Mountain thousands of miles away.

The golden flames surged instantly, transforming the empress's remains into a human-shaped torch.

A mournful roar came from the raging flames. The cracked purple-gold pill cracked under the scorching heat of the pure yang true energy, and wisps of heavenly demon purple energy were released, but were burned into green smoke by the golden flames.

The empress's head twisted in the fire: "I am the true chosen one..."

"Noisy."

Xu Yunfan pointed his fingers and unleashed a final burst of pure Yang sword energy that pierced through his brow.

The Purple Gold Pill shattered completely, its demonic energy was incinerated, and its remains turned into charcoal.

The empress's charred remains crashed to the ground, and the spine sword pierced the cracked dragon-patterned stone pillar with a clang.

Amidst the embers, only half of the spine sword remained, humming incessantly.

"That old hag..."

Looking at the pile of charred flesh and blood on the ground, Xu Yunfan slowly straightened up and let out a long breath. His eyes flashed. He had just used ten levels of true energy, but he hadn't even used more than eighty percent of it. He was still a little short of going all out.

Now that the Empress is dead, and I have already reached the pinnacle of the Ninth Realm, I wonder if receiving the baptism of Xuanhuang Qi again will allow me to break through the shackles and achieve the realm of a terrestrial immortal?
Upon considering this, the entire Jade Capital City trembled instantly, as if a giant dragon were rising from the ground.

The sky suddenly darkened, and six pillars of black and yellow energy, as thick as mountains, burst forth from the core state capital of the six major directions of the Great Zhou Dynasty, tearing through the clouds like raging dragons and surging towards the Xuanwu Martial Arts Arena.

He raised his head slightly, his gaze sharp as he stared directly at the nine towering, earth-shattering pillars of black and yellow energy.

(End of this chapter)