Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Guan Zhaofan, who was rushing forward, immediately stopped when he saw four Foundation Establishment Completion cultivators and two blood corpses coming at him. He summoned a silver round mirror and a fist-sized white pearl to protect himself, waiting for his fellow disciples to come forward.

The two teams of fourteen cultivators dispatched by the Star Moon Sect had a specific purpose: to form two Seven Star Divine Light Formations. They combined the starlight and moonlight of seven people to forge a powerful divine light, aiming to kill the King Weed. Of course, it would be even more effective against cultivators of the same rank.

Seeing the opposing side form two sword formations, Zhong Bixing, who knew them well, immediately shouted, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, you and Fellow Daoist Yao deal with Guan Zhaofan's team, while my brothers and I will block Qi Shubiao's team."

Zhong Bixing, who resembled an iron tower, and Chen Bijian, who was slightly shorter but even sturdier, each wielding an identical giant sword, rushed towards Qi Shubiao and his team who were coming from the left.

At this time, Guan Zhaofan had joined up with the other six members of his team. The seven of them formed a long spoon shape, using a dignified formation to fight against Zhang Yuanjing, Yao Yinglin, and the two blood corpses.

Before engaging in battle, Guan Zhaofan manipulated the magic seals in his hand, and the white pearl behind him directly crashed into the two blood corpses.

Yao Yinglin was a Foundation Establishment Completion cultivator with sixty or seventy years of experience and extensive knowledge. He naturally recognized this object and immediately summoned his junior brother Qu Yingxian's circular, toothed magical artifact, which stirred up a river of blood to envelop the white pearl.

This magical artifact was called the 'Blood River Chariot'. The released river of blood could disturb, bind, and confuse enemies, while the sharp teeth, called rotating blades, could kill powerful enemies when spinning.

Guan Zhaofan then pointed his magic seals at the silver round mirror, which hovered above Zhang Yuanjing and Yao Yinglin's heads, shining a beam of light to cover them. The two of them felt a chill, and their bodies stiffened slightly.

At the same time, the Seven Star Divine Light Formation was activated. Seven silver swords flew out, sometimes attacking together and sometimes combining into a giant sword to strike.

The two of them dodged, using magical artifacts and blood corpses to defend or counterattack, but because of a lack of coordination, they quickly fell into a disadvantage.

On the other side, Zhong Bixing and Chen Bijian coordinated closely, their two giant swords barely matching the seven silver flying swords.

The leader of this formation, Qi Shubiao, like Zhong Bixing, was a Foundation Establishment Completion cultivator who had been famous for a hundred years. Both were once praised as talented individuals in the sect and were considered the most likely to break through to the Core Formation stage. Over the past century, the two had fought many times, with victories and defeats evenly split, remaining only slightly apart.

However, a hundred years passed in a flash, and neither of them could break through to the Pseudo-Core stage, gradually fading into obscurity.

Unexpectedly, fate played tricks on them, and the two old rivals met again in this treacherous Profound Yin Cave before their lifespans ran out. The situation divided them into enemies, and a battle would determine life and death.

Qi Shubiao, taking advantage of the formation, also released a white pearl, circling around Chen Bijian, never leaving his ten-zhang radius.

This object was called the Yin Fire Pearl, made from the Yin poison collected in the Profound Yin Cave. It contained a huge amount of poison. Once it exploded, the area within several zhang would be filled with dense poisonous gas, causing severe damage to the soul upon contact.

Chen Bijian dared not let this object get close. He took small steps, moving sideways rapidly to distance himself from the white pearl, while the light of his blade flashed, occasionally sending out several short knives to slash at the white pearl, forcing it away.

Standing in the rear, the Cold Yin Valley brothers Zhen Fengxi and Shan Fenghao discussed briefly and gave up the opportunity to seize the Yang Essence Stone, rushing to support Zhang Yuanjing and Yao Yinglin. After these two joined the battle, the situation immediately stabilized.

Shan Fenghao, dressed in a white robe and appearing suave, also shouted to Qi Mingxuan, who was still standing by with his arms folded, "Fellow Daoist Qi, come and support us quickly!"

Qi Mingxuan ignored him, and together with the two rogue cultivators Qiu Yunlong and Pu Sanyang, slowly approached the cave behind the Yang Manifestation Beast.

At this time, Lin Dushan stared at the violently twitching Yang Manifestation Beast, a grim smile on his face, but he did not continue to attack.

The Yang Manifestation Beast was doing its best to resist the turbid energy in its body and had no time to care about other things, but this did not mean that it could be harmed from the outside.

Moreover, the violently struggling Yang Manifestation Beast was inconvenient to approach. The high-grade Gold Crystal in his hand could not be stuffed into the beast's abdomen.

He did not stop Qi Mingxuan, Qiu Yunlong, and Pu Sanyang from approaching. Their position did not prevent them from sneaking into the cave behind the Yang Manifestation Beast.

On the contrary, Lin Dushan wanted to see how the unbearably painful Yang Manifestation Beast would react to the intrusion of the three.

Qi, Qiu, and Pu were wary of each other, none willing to be the first to act. When they reached ten zhang from the cave entrance, they stopped at the same time.

Lin Dushan sneered when he saw this and said, "Now you don't go to get the Yang Essence Stone and Yang Essence Crystal? Are you waiting for the Yang Manifestation Beast to recover!"

Qi Mingxuan gave him a suspicious look and asked cautiously, "Who are you? Why do you want to help us get the stone?"

Lin Dushan chuckled and said, "I'm just here to disrupt the Star Moon Sect's grand plan. I have no interest in helping you at all. If you have no guts, then wait here!"

As he spoke, he sensed something and turned his head to look in the direction of the valley entrance. In the darkness where the yellow light could not reach, a figure as fast as a hurricane rushed out, moving quickly on the narrow path between the mountain walls.

He pointed and said coldly, "Look, the Star Moon Sect's body-tempering Core Formation cultivator is here. The choice is yours!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two figures shot out at the same time, vying to enter the cave. The two attacked each other, and it was none other than the rogue cultivators Qiu Yunlong and Pu Sanyang.

However, before the two could fight, the Yang Manifestation Beast, which had been rolling on the ground, stood up in pain and retreated backward, blocking the cave.

The cave was narrow, and the Yang Manifestation Beast stood head to tail. Anyone entering the cave would either have to kill it or be buried in its big mouth, or be burned by the purple flames it could spew out at any time.

Qiu Yunlong and Pu Sanyang saw this and retreated a few steps, both looking at Lin Dushan with their eyes.

Lin Dushan ignored the two, pacing quickly towards the cave entrance.

The Yang Manifestation Beast in the cave was sometimes lying down and sometimes standing up, wailing constantly, and occasionally hitting its head against the wall, causing the mud to fly and the cave walls to shake.

A light flashed in Qi Mingxuan's eyes, and he immediately summoned his flying sword and flew towards the battle group thirty or forty zhang away. Seeing that things could not be done, he quickly made a decision to join the other five sects' cultivators in order to advance and retreat together.

"Ah—"

Shang Ming, who was flying rapidly, let out a long howl into the sky as he entered the valley, both to report the news, to demonstrate his strength, and to intimidate.

The direction he was running was where Lin Dushan was.

Lin Dushan looked at Shang Ming, who was rushing over quickly, and felt his vigorous blood energy and abundant magic power. He knew that even with the Holy Demon Pill, he was not his opponent.

He immediately looked up and laughed wildly, like a madman. The blood energy in his whole body rushed to the top of his head, and his rough face turned as red as burnt charcoal. His eyes were full of determination.

"You're too late! Hahaha!"

He stared directly into the painful and angry eyes of the Yang Manifestation Beast in the cave, completely ignoring its soaring murderous aura. He walked forward step by step, his steps firm and powerful, a hint of arrogant smile on his lips.

The Yang Manifestation Beast was intimidated by his aura and couldn't help but take three steps back. Then, it reacted and roared in anger and shame, and a mouthful of purple flames reached its throat, ready to spew out at any time.

Lin Dushan remained unmoved, fearless, and still stepped forward, each step the same distance, two chi and two cun, as if it had been measured.

The Yang Manifestation Beast couldn't hold back and spewed out the purple flames from a distance of two zhang. A long band of flames immediately ignited in the cave, and the air was boiling like boiling water.

Lin Dushan glanced at the Yang Manifestation Beast with disdain, stepped into the fire, and the blood energy in his whole body surged out, burning with the purple fire. A large amount of blood energy was burned to ashes, and his body shrank rapidly.

His eyes were firm, fearless, and he moved forward step by step. Two hundred and twenty years of life flashed through his mind: being a slave in his youth, being miserable and alone, studying hard in his youth, full of hope, being framed in his middle age, his wife and children separated, worshiping famous mountains and seeking immortality, experiencing hardships, being rejected, wandering around, approaching old age, begging on the roadside, suffering all kinds of humiliation, meeting a divine envoy, joining the sect and learning the truth, thirty years of suffering, building the foundation in one day, slaughtering enemies, his obsession fulfilled, preaching in all directions, overcoming strong enemies repeatedly, a hundred years of perfection, ambitious, three breakthroughs, all a line away, a heroic old age, a death-defying expedition...

His blood energy was quickly exhausted, and his soul was about to be annihilated in the fire. So he sang in his mouth: "All kinds of evil forces suppress the vulgar body, wanting to seek immortality and lacking spiritual roots. To escape from all the sufferings of the world, only enter the divine sect to become a true demon!"

In the raging fire, Lin Dushan's stout body burned to ashes. Only a group of extremely pure turbid energy wrapped a shining dark yellow inch-sized square stone, broke through the raging flames, went straight into the Yang Beast's mouth, and then rushed into its abdomen.

In the Yang Manifestation Beast's body, the turbid energy, which was originally dim and about to be extinguished by the Yang Essence Power, was like a stove fire with added firewood, burning vigorously with the help of this group of lively pure turbid energy and a high-grade Gold Crystal, pushing back the Yang Essence Power layer by layer, protecting the Yang Manifestation Beast's internal organs.

The Yang Manifestation Beast's resistance was like a mountain collapsing and the earth cracking, disintegrating layer by layer. The heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all revealed their original forms, turning into a pile of spiritless, gray, soft gravel.

This beast could no longer support itself and collapsed with a bang, leaving only a trace of spirituality, deeply hidden in its head.

Its whole body was burning with raging purple flames, filling a section of the two-zhang-long cave passage, forming an obstacle to prevent enemies from entering the cave, both to protect its remaining life and to represent its obsession with guarding its territory.

Qiu Yunlong and Pu Sanyang had already stood at the entrance of the cave, staring blankly at the scene in the cave until the Yang Manifestation Beast crashed to the ground.

The two quickly exchanged glances, and then acted separately. Pu Sanyang immediately summoned a black banner, while Qiu Yunlong stepped back and turned to fly towards the rear of the cave.

Pu Sanyang was stunned, not understanding why he was hiding in a corner of the cave. Without thinking too much, he quickly took out two spirit talismans and slapped them on his body, and then protected himself with the black banner, broke into the cave, gritted his teeth, and rushed into the purple flames.

However, this flame was far more powerful than he had imagined, more intense than the purple flames that the Yang Manifestation Beast had just used to burn Lin Dushan. Before he could cross the flames, his whole person, along with the black banner, was burned to ashes, leaving not even a trace.

Shang Ming rushed to the entrance of the cave and looked inside. The Yang Manifestation Beast was lying on the ground, lifeless, and its whole body was full of crackling and burning purple flames. The temperature in the cave had already far exceeded the boiling point, and even with the body of a Core Formation cultivator, he could not resist it.

Looking at the sizzling flames, not knowing how long it would last, he immediately retreated with a livid face, his eyes almost bursting with anger.

He turned around, looked at the seven cultivators who were fighting fiercely with the two teams of Star Moon Sect cultivators, roared sharply, and flew away.