In the world of martial arts, there is a vast fantasy world.

Chapter 235 The Day the Xuanlong Palace Was Reborn

How do I gain the highest level of privileges?

Shen Xing's eyes brightened slightly.

This was an unexpected delight.

Just as the other party said, even though the resources have been exhausted and there are not many left, this secret realm itself is the greatest treasure.

Such as the methods used to quickly improve one's realm, or the methods used to temper one's soul.

Its effects are even much stronger than those of fourth-grade pills.

What's even more remarkable is that it's applicable to his current level of understanding.

You should know that even if he had a fifth-grade pill right in front of him now, he would have a hard time refining it.

If we could really gain control of this secret realm, it would be a huge win no matter what.

"Is it enough to just inject the elemental energy containing the fire seed?" He reached out and pressed his hand on the Xuanlong Stele in front of him, and sure enough, a certain spiritual connection was established in that instant.

Everything in the entire Xuanlong Secret Realm unfolded before him.

Including every trial ground.

It even includes the resource situation in various places.

There are also various places that are not open to trial participants, such as the medicine field, the scripture pavilion, and the forging pavilion.

Even the location of Huang Xingjie and others' consciousnesses was clearly known.

There are a total of 172 people.

They are all the last generation of true inheritors.

Although the number is not large, the Xuanlong Palace has strict requirements, and all of these true disciples are peerless geniuses. Huang Xingjie is no exception. He was only five hundred years old when he died, but he already had the strength of the Sun and Moon Realm. With such talent, if he had not died, he would have had the possibility of stepping into the Sun and Moon Realm.

Shen Xing quickly realized that controlling the Xuanlong Stele meant controlling these "ghosts".

"Is there any chance for you to be resurrected?" he asked.

"Reporting to the Holy Son," Huang Xingjie replied as always, "We have already been destroyed in spirit and soul. Although we have now been reborn with our own selves and regained our memories, we are no longer ourselves in essence. Compared to our spirit and soul, we are missing something. However, we can be considered as artifact spirits."

"The spirit of the artifact." Shen Xing nodded slightly.

Understood.

These are indeed dead people, but they can become the spirits of divine weapons. In fact, they exist in the form of weapon spirits.

The spirit of the Xuanlong Stele.

However, they did not have full control over the Xuanlong Stele, but only a portion of it, which was scattered throughout the secret realm.

However, if that's the case, then all he needs to do is forge some divine weapons and let them parasitize, and perhaps they can temporarily escape the secret realm. This group of people might become his trustworthy subordinates.

Regardless of whether the respect he receives for his "Holy Son" status is genuine or not, his ability to control the Xuanlong Stele is tantamount to controlling all of them.

This is a huge gain.

However, Shen Xing did not say anything for the time being, but continued to carefully observe everything in the secret realm.

Although the secret realm was not destroyed, it was not completely spared either. It was clear that many things in the secret realm had been brutally swept away.

The medicinal field was largely empty, with only a few medicinal herbs growing there.

After all, the dragon energy was insufficient, and the only thing these people could use were two broken puppet bodies.

The forging workshop was spotless, and there weren't many materials to be found.

Needless to say, inside the Sutra Repository, all the places where jade slips were placed were completely emptied, and many of the restrictions were even extensively destroyed.

However, it's not that nothing is left.

The martial arts concepts above the Earth grade in the Scripture Pavilion are all stored in the Xuanlong Stele. Shen Xing can now read them at will. There are more than 700 of them, of which 72 are of the Dragon type!

Some of these are found within the Tianyuan Sect, clearly obtained by the Tianyuan Sect through trials within this secret realm.

But they are a minority.

The Tianyuan Sect has existed for eight thousand years, yet they haven't been able to completely empty the martial arts essence of this place. This shows that the disciples they cultivate are indeed inadequate.

These seventy-two Earth-grade Dragon-type Martial Arts Intents alone are an immense gain for Shen Xing!

This amount of Earth-grade martial arts intent is enough to completely solidify his Ten Thousand Dragons Technique, which is currently only at the Heaven-grade level, at the Heaven-grade level.

Moreover, Shen Xing only needed a cursory glance to find several movement techniques that surpassed the Nine Transformations of the Soaring Dragon and were more suitable for space. The same was true for weapons, including a high-grade earth-level fast sword technique called "Surprising Dragon Sword Technique".

"Looks like I'll have to use the knife again." Shen Xing was increasingly delighted as he looked at it.

Besides the martial arts realm, the alchemy room and the weapon-forging room each contain a precious treasure that was integrated with the secret realm and was not looted. These treasures are an alchemy furnace and a weapon-forging furnace. Although they have some signs of damage, they are still intact overall.

In addition to the grand array structures of other trial grounds, it can be said that most of the truly valuable parts of the entire Xuanlong Secret Realm still exist.

What was taken away were just some fragmented accumulations.

"That's right," Shen Xing said finally. "This place will belong to me from now on."

"That's only right." Huang Xingjie and the other 172 people were all overjoyed.

Although Shen Xing did not say he wanted to rebuild the Xuanlong Palace, taking over this secret realm was equivalent to accepting his identity as the Holy Son of the Xuanlong Palace and accepting the karma.

For these departed souls, this was nothing short of a rebirth!

It's not just their rebirth, but the rebirth of the entire Xuanlong Palace!

"The operation of the secret realm requires dragon energy, right?" Shen Xing smiled slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a dragon crystal appeared in his palm.

"Dragon Crystal!" Huang Xingjie was overjoyed.

"I found this by chance among the ruins of the Xuanlong Palace, so use it sparingly." Shen Xing directly brought the dragon crystal close to the Xuanlong Stele.

In an instant, the entire secret realm seemed to be activated, and many places that had stopped functioning began to operate again.

After all, for thousands of years, the secret realm could only draw energy from the underground spiritual veins and the outside world little by little, but due to the lack of dragon energy, it could only barely operate.

But now that we have Dragon Crystal, things are different.

Almost all the structures that were still intact were able to function again.

This design concept, which uses a single energy core to support the operation of the entire secret realm, is actually quite similar to the medium and large spaceship technology of the Human Federation.

Of course, Shen Xing didn't have many dragon crystals, but he quickly used his authority to take control.

"Most places can be closed. For now, we only need to open the Beast Arena and the Herb Field," Shen Xing said quickly. "The purpose of the Herb Field is to transform some spiritual herbs into dragon-type spiritual herbs. We can transplant more spiritual herbs here in the future, but the Beast Arena is the main focus."

The purpose of the Beast Arena is to help trainees rapidly refine dragon energy during battles.

Compared to directly refining dragon crystals by hand, the efficiency is many times higher.

Add to that the elixirs and the demonic beasts that serve as sparring partners, and a day of training and fighting in the beast arena is equivalent to a week of arduous training outside.

Since such a convenience is available, Shen Xing naturally wouldn't waste it.

He has now decided to train hard in the arena.

To rapidly improve one's skill level.

As for the others, they can be put aside for now.

Anyway, we've already got the secret realm and even left a spatial anchor point, so there's nothing to worry about.

"List out what you need to restore the secret realm to normal operation, or each of you make me a blueprint for a puppet body. I'll see if I can get it after we leave," Shen Xing instructed Huang Xingjie and the others before returning to the beast fighting arena.

There was no other way; the resources required for the other trials were insufficient, and with his strength at the third realm, even if he went, he would hardly gain much.

The only place that suits him best now is the arena.

Thus, with the appearance of eight fourth-realm demonic beasts, Shen Xing quickly immersed himself in cultivation.

If he gets hungry, he can take out the delicacies in the flying shuttle space, or even roast a monster on the spot. If he gets tired, he can take out the sleep and recuperation equipment to rest. Occasionally, he will also return to the academy's home planet to show up and learn about the martial arts conception of the Earth Rank. There is even a hot spring in the secret realm to temper his body. Although the medicinal properties are not much left, it is enough to relieve his physical fatigue. Even if he gets bored, there are those true disciples to chat with. Although these people have no body, their knowledge is really extensive, especially their understanding of martial arts.

Under their guidance, he learned a new, top-grade earth-level dragon-type movement technique called "Instantaneous Movement," as well as the "Dragon-Shocking Blade" sword technique, and mastered them all in a short period of time, progressing from beginner to intermediate level.

The speed of his improvement was astonishing, even to himself.

All I can say is that this kind of life made him incredibly content.

If possible, I would even like to stay here forever, cultivate until I reach the Spirit Realm, or even the Mountains and Seas, before venturing out.

Unfortunately, that's impossible.

While most of the treasures in the secret realm are still there, many resources are already scarce.

Just a month and a half later, Shen Xing wiped out all the fourth-grade demonic beasts.

As an important component of the Beast Arena, the Beast Arena cannot be used without demonic beasts. After all, some of the special spiritual energy that Shen Xing absorbed also came from the bodies of demonic beasts.

After another seven or eight days, the medicinal properties of the hot spring were completely depleted.

Ten days later, Shen Xing had consumed the last bit of spiritual herbs in the herb field.

In just two short months, the entire secret realm has become poorer than ever before. According to Huang Xingjie, it was not as clean as it is now, not even when it was destroyed by the Xuanlong Palace and looted by enemies.

"I've used up three dragon crystals, leaving only four." Shen Xing swallowed a pill, stood up, and stretched. "Late stage of the third realm! Time to head out."

That's right, these two months of arduous training actually raised his strength to the late stage of the third realm!

It should be noted that he originally expected it would take at least a year and a half to reach that level.

But now, including the time since breaking through to the third realm, it has only taken four months.

(End of this chapter)