Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 552 Destroying People and Dispelling Luck
This person is indeed very lucky; given time, he may well have a chance to rise to prominence.

Moreover, this kind of thing happened.

How could Xu Yunfan allow it to grow up?

At this moment, the thick, bluish-gray aura above Qi Hanfeng's head swirled and collapsed like a vortex.

That destiny, which originally contained infinite possibilities and vigorous vitality, was brutally disrupted, extracted, and plundered.

Although he had only gone through the Cave of Darkness Erosion Record roughly once, he had previously practiced two techniques for avoiding calamities and concealing one's own karma: the Azure Dragon Thunder Pearl Locking Calamity and Suppressing Fortune Technique and the Turtle Breath Concealing Divine Technique from the True Martial Subduing Demon True Scripture. Therefore, he was quite adept at practicing this secret technique.

Even with basic, introductory applications, Xu Yunfan can still demonstrate his skills.

The vitality and fortune stripped away by Xu Yunfan did not dissipate into the world, but were instantly catalyzed, refined, and condensed under the Cave of Darkness and Heavenly Erosion Talisman.

It then condensed into a "seed of calamity" that exuded an ominous and deathly aura.

This "seed of calamity" fell silently, precisely imprinting itself on Qi Hanfeng's already thin and dim soul.

The bluish-gray aura of fortune vanished completely, replaced by a thick cloud of deathly energy.

Fortune vanished like smoke, and calamity struck in an instant.

The fingers that had been moving had returned to their natural, hanging-down position, as if nothing had happened.

Xu Yunfan didn't even bother to turn his head, his steps remained steady, and he headed straight towards his Shenxiao Peak.

This operation was quite a burden for him, who had only just scratched the surface of the "Dongming Shitianlu" technique, and it took a toll on his mental energy, but its effects were immediate.

At the same time, Qi Hanfeng, who was lying limp on the ground, had not yet extinguished the flames of revenge in his heart, but his body felt a sudden and bone-chilling cold. An indescribable, suffocating feeling with the smell of rust suddenly seized him.

He shook his head, trying to shake off the strange thoughts in his mind, and propped himself up on his arms, wanting to at least leave this place that had humiliated him alive.

As long as you're alive...

Qi Hanfeng subconsciously touched the ring on his finger.

"Roar!!"

A sudden, violent, and hungry roar, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, resounded across the square.

Everyone was startled, including those whose divine senses were secretly observing, their emotions fluctuated violently.

At the edge of the plaza, a small, shady area, usually used by disciples for meditation and protected by a weak magical array, seemed to have been torn apart by invisible claws.

A strange beast covered in dark blue scales, resembling a hyena but as large as a calf, with blood-red eyes, suddenly broke through the fragile barrier and charged out.

"Huh, how come there's a Shadow-Eating Hyena here in the sect?"

A disciple skilled in beast taming looked astonished.

This demonic beast, "Shadow-Eating Hyena," is not a spirit beast tamed by the sect, but a variant of some low-level ferocious beast. It is bloodthirsty and extremely fast, and no one but a disciple at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining can defeat it.

It should have appeared at the edge of the desolate area where outer disciples were undergoing trials, but for some reason, it instantly bypassed the complex sect restrictions and appeared in the core area of ​​the Scripture Pavilion Square.

Even more bizarrely, the spatial trajectory of its breakthrough point and its fall point forms the shortest and straightest straight line, and at the end of the straight line is Qi Hanfeng, who has just struggled to get up.

The whole process was so fast it made one's mind freeze.

Qi Hanfeng felt a stench rush towards him. Before he could even see what was rushing towards him, his vision was filled by a huge mouth full of fangs and dripping with foul-smelling saliva.

"Pfft!"

A sickeningly painful sound of flesh and bone tearing rang out.

Blood exploded instantly. The head, along with half of the shoulder, was bitten and torn off like a fragile fruit by the terrifying bite force of the Shadow Hyena.

The headless mutilated body was even spun halfway around by the enormous impact before crashing heavily to the ground, the scalding blood spurting from the severed neck splashing a large patch of glaring crimson on the black stone slab.

With Qi Hanfeng's head in its mouth, the Shadow Hyena warily scanned the entire area with its crimson eyes. Without hesitation, it turned around and leaped into the shadows of the forest at the edge of the square, disappearing without a trace.

All that remained was the pungent smell of blood in the square, the headless corpse still convulsing, and a deathly silence.

Several outer disciples who reacted quickly cried out in surprise and instinctively stepped back.

The inner disciples who were maintaining order in the distance rushed over, but they only managed to see the fleeing monster and the tragic scene on the ground. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

The divine senses that had been secretly observing paused for a moment, then quietly retreated, each carrying their own thoughts.

Some were indifferent, some were slightly surprised, and some gave disdainful sneers.

In the Yuanshi Sect, the death of a Qi Refining disciple is quite common, but such a sudden coincidence, especially since it happened to a disciple who had just offended a Foundation Establishment True Person...

The causal thread that was being manipulated, though formless and intangible, already revealed its chilling aura.

This foolish "talent" who claims to be chosen by Heaven actually wants to play the trick of changing fortunes for thirty years under Emperor Yuanshizong.

They were truly born into the wrong family and ended up in the wrong place.

From the moment he yelled those words at Xu Yunfan, his fate was prematurely sealed.

If it were any other Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Primordial Sect, their methods would have been far more ruthless than Xu Yunfan's.

……

Xu Yunfan returned to his cave dwelling on Shenxiao Peak. He went straight into the quiet room, sat down cross-legged, and his mind was as calm as an ancient well.

What just happened was nothing more than a minor incident for him.

The boy must have had some extraordinary encounter; Xu Yunfan was most likely someone's test subject in secret. Now that he had killed him, someone would naturally come knocking on his door.

Xu Yunfan was not afraid of this.

Without the intervention of the True Lord, the strength of the victors can only be determined through combat.

As the divine sense sank into the dantian, the first thing that appeared before the eyes was a large, ever-flowing, floating purple elixir.

This is the core of his Daoist foundation, which he cultivated through the interplay of life and death, and also the prototype of the grotto-heaven forged by the "Divine Firmament Nine Heavens Mysterious Vault Undying True Scripture".

Beside the core of this Great Pill, nine fine yet condensed purple lightning chains intertwined, forming a mysterious and complex array that firmly locked within a turquoise lightning pearl containing the image of a dragon swimming within.

Azure Dragon Thunder Pearl Locking Calamity and Suppressing Fortune Method.

This method is neither offensive nor defensive; it is a technique for avoiding calamity bestowed by True Lord Qingyuan. When Patriarch Chunyang revealed this to him, he did not allow him to practice it, so its origin is naturally clean.

Its core is the "Mysterious Thunder Pearl," which is nurtured and condensed from one's own natal thunder.

Its "Azure Dragon" imagery is derived from the dragon's ever-changing movements and unpredictable rises and falls, symbolizing the method's keen awareness and ability to avoid calamities and karmic changes.

The two characters “locking the calamity” directly point to the core function of this method.

Lock in your own destiny and fortune to avoid being struck by misfortune.

"Suppressing fortune" means stabilizing one's destiny and suppressing any unexpected setbacks, making oneself like a pillar of stability.

The seemingly easy manipulation of Qi Hanfeng's insignificant causal thread was actually a subtle application of this technique. Combined with the Cave-Dark Erosion Talisman, the plundered fortune and calamity were effortlessly integrated into his own Thunder River of Fate without causing the slightest ripple.

(End of this chapter)