Heaven rewards diligence, but there are always fairies plotting against me.

Faced with Xiao Wanshan's desperate attempt, Chu Chang snorted and took a step forward.

His figure transformed into a dark golden streak of light, moving at a speed too fast for the naked eye to perceive.

The white bone spear grazed past his afterimage and pierced the stone wall behind him, blasting a huge hole in the wall.

Chu Chang's true form had already instantly approached Xiao Wanshan.

"So fast!!!"

Xiao Wanshan's pupils shrank sharply. His fighting instincts left him no time to think. He struck out with both palms in quick succession, and dozens of green, sinister palm prints transformed into a wall of energy to protect him.

"Great Sun Blazing Palm!"

Chu Chang shouted, and golden light shone brightly from his palm, as if a miniature sun had been grasped in his hand, which he forcefully imprinted onto the green wall of energy.

boom!

The pure yang fire instantly ignited the green, yin-poisonous true essence.

To Xiao Wanshan's horrified gaze, his defenses were torn apart as if made of paper. The golden palm passed through the residual energy without any resistance and landed heavily on his chest.

Click!

There was a heartbreaking sound of bone cracking.

A clear handprint instantly appeared on Xiao Wanshan's chest as the violent pure Yang true energy surged into his meridians, burning them inch by inch.

"puff!!!"

Xiao Wanshan coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and his whole body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing hard against the stone wall at the edge of the blood pool, and then sliding down like mud.

With just one move, Xiao Wanshan, who was at the peak of the Foundation Condensation Realm, was severely injured and on the verge of death by Chu Chang!

"Master!"

"Young Master!"

At the back mountain passage, several loyal guards of the Xiao family had just arrived when they witnessed this extremely shocking scene. They were so frightened that their faces turned ashen and their legs went weak.

"Father!"

Seeing this scene in the pool of blood, Xiao He let out a mournful howl.

His eyes were completely filled with blackness, and his demonic energy began to spiral out of control. Blood vessels under his skin burst one by one, oozing blackish-red blood.

"Chu Chang! I want you dead! I want all of you to be buried with you!"

Xiao He completely lost his mind.

Ignoring the limits of his own physical endurance, he frantically activated the Blood Fiend Sect's "Nine Revolutions Blood Fusion Secret Technique".

Rumble!

The entire blood pool began to shake violently, and even the entire back mountain began to tremble.

The blood in the pool transformed into a massive vortex, and endless crimson energy and resentful spirits coalesced into an incredibly thick crimson pillar of light that shot into the sky, enveloping Xiao He entirely.

Xiao He's influence began to surge at an alarming rate!

Peak Foundation Condensation Realm... Half-step Purple Mansion Realm...

The terrifying sense of oppression even penetrated the back mountain, causing the countless cultivators fighting on the front mountain to tremble and subconsciously look towards the back mountain.

"That's... demonic energy? Such terrifying demonic energy!"

"As expected, a demonic cultivator in the Xiao family is breaking through!"

Wu Zhan and the others on the front mountain paled. If the Xiao family really managed to produce a demonic cultivator at the Purple Mansion Realm, all their efforts today would be in vain, and they might even be wiped out here!

Inside the cave, a crimson beam of light pierced the sky and reached the earth.

Xiao He's body swelled and transformed into a demon amidst the blood-red light. The voice he emitted was no longer human, but rather like the roar of a demon from the abyss.

"Almost there...just a little bit more! I'll be advancing to the Purple Mansion realm soon! Hahahaha!"

Lying in a pool of blood, Xiao Wanshan watched this scene, a sickly and ferocious smile spreading across his aged face: "Good...good! My son...quickly drain it dry...kill them all..."

However, Chu Chang, standing outside the blood-red light, looked at the gathering of demonic energy that was almost capable of destroying the world. Instead of panic, his eyes flashed with an unusual glint.

"Such a vast and pure amount of energy..."

Chu Chang could sense that this blood pool contained not only vengeful spirits and demonic energy, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the medicinal power of the spiritual herbs the Xiao family had collected over hundreds of years, as well as the pure life essence of countless cultivators. The Xiao family had poured almost their entire family's resources into this blood pool to pave the way for Xiao He.

Although this energy was violent and sinister, for Chu Chang, who possessed the "Taiyin-Taiyang Chaos Body," there was no energy in the world that he could not transform.

Chaos devours all things, pure yang refines heaven and earth!

"Xiao He, you intend to use this to break through?" Chu Chang's lips curled into a cold smile. "Unfortunately, you are merely a vessel. I, Chu, will accept this opportunity."

Swish!

Chu Chang moved, not only without retreating, but also actively withdrew the protective golden light from his entire body, and like a roc, he charged into the violent blood-red pillar of light!

"What?! Has he gone mad?!"

Xiao Wanshan, lying on the ground waiting to die, stared wide-eyed, his face filled with disbelief.

To deliberately rush into the pillar of blood essence gathered by demonic power—is that any different from suicide?

That violent demonic energy would tear Chu Chang's body to shreds in an instant and assimilate his soul into a vengeful ghost!

However, what happened next completely overturned Xiao Wanshan's understanding.

As soon as Chu Chang entered the blood-red light, countless blood-red vengeful spirits and violent demonic energy surged into his body like sharks seeing flesh and blood.

"Chaos created the heavens and earth, Yin and Yang, transformation!"

Chu Chang let out a low shout in his heart.

In that instant, the blood in his body seemed to transform into a golden and black yin-yang symbol.

At this moment, he pushed the Taiyin-Taiyang Chaos Body to its limit.

His body seemed to have become a bottomless black hole. The violent demonic energy and blood essence that surged into his body had no chance to damage his meridians before they were instantly enveloped by a supreme chaotic energy.

*Sizzle sizzle sizzle!*

The demonic energy was purified, and the resentment was exorcised, leaving only the most primal and purest life energy and spiritual power of heaven and earth.

Under the intertwining and rotation of the true meaning of Taiyin and Taiyang, these energies were frantically transformed into the purest pure Yang essence, which flowed into Chu Chang's dantian.

"No! What are you doing?! This is my power! Mine!"

Enveloped in the blood-red light, Xiao He let out a terrified scream.

He was horrified to discover that the massive blood essence that was supposed to flow into his body and help him break through the bottleneck of the Purple Mansion had gone out of control after Chu Changjin entered!

The vast majority of the energy, as if finding its true sovereign, surged wildly past him towards Chu Chang's body. He, however, received less than ten percent of it!

Chu Chang was like a robber, cutting off the fortune that should have belonged to Xiao He!

"No!!!!"

Xiao He roared madly, trying to use magic to attack Chu Chang and regain control of the energy.

However, he was at a critical moment of breakthrough, and his body was so stretched by the blood essence that he could not move at all.

He could only watch helplessly as Chu Chang's aura began to surge at a speed that filled him with despair.

Late stage of Foundation Condensation Realm...

Peak of Foundation Condensation Realm...

boom!

In just a few breaths, Chu Chang completely crossed the limit of the Foundation Condensation Realm and reached the half-step Purple Mansion Realm.

The blood in the blood pool was drying up at a visible speed. The blood pool, which was originally a hundred feet wide, was now reduced to a thin layer of blood mud.

"Not enough...almost there!"

Chu Chang's eyes were tightly closed, and a roaring sound like ocean waves crashing against the shore emanated from within his body. Under the impact of the immense energy, his meridians became even more resilient and expansive.

Within his divine soul and sea of ​​consciousness, the phantom of a great sun and the phantom of a bright moon were slowly merging. It was the fusion of the yin and the yang, the first appearance of chaos.

"Xiao Wanshan, since you're so eager for your son to break through, then let's add fuel to the fire."

Chu Chang closed his eyes and grabbed at the air with his right hand.

A terrifying suction force erupted, and Xiao Wanshan, who was lying on the ground on the verge of death, let out a scream as he was sucked into the air.

His cultivation and vital energy were transformed into a pure green river in the face of Chu Chang's domineering transformation technique, and were instantly drawn out and merged into Chu Chang's body.

"No... He'er... save me..."

Xiao Wanshan's voice grew weaker and weaker until he finally turned into a withered skeleton in mid-air, which turned to dust with a gust of wind.

"Father!" Xiao He's eyes were bloodshot, but what greeted him was Chu Chang's slowly opening eyes.

What kind of eyes were those?

His left eye shone brightly and intensely like the sun, while his right eye was as deep and cold as the moon. Two completely opposite but equally terrifying forces intertwined in his eyes, eventually turning into a chaotic gray.

Boom!

Above the cave, a muffled rumble of thunder suddenly echoed faintly in the void.

This is a sign of the Heavenly Tribulation in the Purple Mansion!

When a cultivator breaks through to the Purple Mansion Realm, their divine soul condenses into divine consciousness, and their magical power transforms into true essence, allowing them to communicate with heaven and earth, which will attract the trials of heaven and earth.

Chu Chang's physique was so extraordinary that his breakthrough even caused a subtle rejection from the rules of heaven and earth.

"Break it!"

Chu's long hair flew wildly, and his clothes fluttered in the wind. He guided the enormous energy within his body, transformed from the accumulated wealth of the entire Xiao family over hundreds of years, and slammed it fiercely into the bottleneck of the Purple Mansion that had been blocking him for so long.

Click!

It felt as if something inside my body had shattered.

In an instant, Chu Chang felt the world clear up, and his divine sense swept out like a storm, instantly covering the entire Qing Shi Mountain, and even clearly sensing the breathing and heartbeat of every cultivator at the foot of the mountain.

Within his dantian, the original liquid true essence completely transformed into a sea of ​​interwoven gold and black, and a phantom purple mansion Dao embryo slowly condensed in the center of the sea.

Purple Mansion Realm, complete!

The bloodstains dissipated.

The once enormous pool of blood has now completely dried up, leaving only a patch of cracked black mud.

Chu Chang slowly descended from mid-air, his toes lightly touching the ground without making a sound.

His aura was so restrained that he looked like an ordinary mortal, but any cultivator who dared to look him in the eye would feel a chill run down their spine.

Opposite him, Xiao He lay sprawled at the bottom of the dried-up pond like a dead dog.

Because his breakthrough was forcibly interrupted by Chu Chang, and 90% of his energy was drained, Xiao He suffered an unimaginable and severe backlash.

His meridians were completely severed, his dantian was ruptured, and he looked more than a hundred years older, with sparse white hair, loose skin, and a deathly ashen face.

"Why...why did this happen..."

Xiao He murmured hoarsely, black blood clots continuously gushing from his mouth.

He looked at Chu Chang approaching, his eyes filled with nothing but endless despair and numbness.

He meticulously planned all of this, even dragging the entire Xiao family into the abyss, all to achieve his own Purple Mansion Dao Foundation. But in the end, he was nothing more than a servant who undressed and served Chu Chang.

Chu Chang looked down at him calmly: "Xiao He, when you deceived those female cultivators and used them as tools for cultivation, did you ever think that you would end up like this?"

"The victor is king, the loser is villain... Kill me if you want..." Xiao He closed his eyes, and two lines of turbid tears of blood slid down from the corners of his eyes.

"As you wish."

Chu Chang raised his hand, and a wisp of golden pure yang fire danced at his fingertips.

With a flick of a finger.

boom!

The pure Yang fire instantly enveloped Xiao He's body. Under the hottest and purest flame in the world, Xiao He didn't even have time to scream before he was instantly purified into nothingness, leaving not even a trace of ash.

The once unparalleled genius of the Divine Sword Sect has completely vanished from this world.

Chu Chang turned around and looked outside the cave.

At this moment, the sounds of fighting could still be faintly heard from the foot of the mountain, and several powerful auras were even rushing towards the back of the mountain, clearly indicating that Wu Zhan and the others had noticed the commotion.

Chu Chang smiled slightly and put his bamboo hat back on.

With the Xiao family destroyed, his great revenge was fulfilled. Moreover, by chance, he broke through to the Purple Mansion Realm during this battle, and from then on, he was free to leap like a fish in the sea and fly like a bird in the sky.

The Divine Sword Sect and Qingzhou were ultimately just a starting point on his path to immortality.

Swish!

Chu Chang's figure flickered and disappeared completely into the dark cave, leaving behind only a mess for the greedy rogue cultivators and angry aristocratic families to clean up.