Celestial Refining Divine Scripture-Chapter 100 - 98: First Battle in the Yang Realm
Wild laughter shook the heavens, stirring up all directions!
The stagnant blood sand also began to tremble violently.
Four people in total!
Among them, two were Helan Huaning and Helan Xing!
As the saying goes: enemies are bound to cross paths!
What a damn coincidence!
"Run!"
Xu Yang didn’t hesitate at all; he turned and bolted.
He was already cursing in his heart.
Could it get any unluckier?
Why not run into someone else?
Of all people, it had to be Helan Xing!
Even though he had mastered blade intent, facing a bona fide Yang Realm cultivator, he still had little confidence in holding his own!
Besides, Helan Xing was far from your average Martial Artist.
A top genius!
Strength and means, beyond all question!
"Want to run?"
How could Helan Xing possibly let such a god-given opportunity slip by?
He took one step, his body like an arrow loosed from its string, stirring up waves of rage that smashed and shredded the vast expanse of blood sand, surging fiercely in all directions.
The terrifying aura was like mountains collapsing and seas roaring.
Xu Yang felt the overwhelming pressure directly descend upon him.
The dog wailed sharply, its claws dug deathly tight into Xu Yang’s shoulder.
"Absolutely not a match!"
Xu Yang gritted his teeth and dashed with all his might.
"You filthy mutt, I’ve been after you for a long time!"
"Get down here!"
BOOM!
A thunderous roar exploded in the vault of the sky.
The rumbling had barely faded when a giant palm crashed down from above, its terrifying might blasting the blood sand within a hundred-zhang radius.
"Xu Yang, you’re dead meat!"
Helan Huaning howled with crazed excitement.
"Motherf—!"
Xu Yang’s eyes turned bloodshot, his expression twisted; he snatched up the Demon Dragon Saber and slashed skyward with all his might.
"World-Ending Saber!"
BOOM!
Blade intent erupted—a single slash to destroy the heavens and the earth!
BOOM!
At the instance the terrifying saber struck the giant palm, it was as if thunder struck—a metallic trembling, then the blade energy shattered.
PUH! 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Xu Yang let out a muffled grunt, smashed viciously into the blood desert.
One move—that was all it took. The difference in power was as clear as daylight!
The fury and killing intent Helan Xing had bottled up for so long erupted without any reservation.
But his faintly trembling right hand proved that blocking this slash had not been easy!
"Today will be your death."
Helan Xing threw everything aside and lunged after him!
Xu Yang gripped the Demon Dragon Saber tightly, madness blazing in his eyes—do you really think I’m scared of you?
WAH! WAH!!
The anxious wail came from beneath him. Xu Yang froze, then instinctively glanced aside.
The dog was frantically digging downward, a trace of unexplainable urgency in its voice.
Xu Yang’s pupils shrank. In a split second, he made his decision—abandon the fight, sweep his sleeve up, and summoned a swirl of wind and sand to shroud them from above.
His body swayed and he followed the dog, digging down deep.
The wind and sand hadn’t slowed Helan Xing for a moment; they were shredded apart, pursuit coming on fast.
At that exact instant—
Xu Yang’s heart skipped—within his Sea of Consciousness, the Blessing Elixir that had not yet faded, pulsed with a sense of mortal danger!
At the same time, Helan Xing’s brow twitched.
"Not good."
"Could it be..."
In the depths of the torn blood sand, a more dazzling, demonic red light surged out.
"Blood corpse!"
A cry of alarm rang out.
Helan Xing’s expression turned ferocious; he clawed down desperately anyway.
Even if there were blood corpses, he would not let Xu Yang go!
In a flash, Xu Yang raised the Demon Dragon Saber in front of him.
BANG!
A tidal wave of brute force crashed in, making Xu Yang cry out in pain; his wrist twisted, his arm exploded, his body hurtled downward in pathetic defeat.
"You can’t run!" Helan Xing roared as he descended.
Xu Yang looked up, eyes full of mocking irony.
"Dog bastard, enjoy the show!"
WHOOSH!
A severed arm shot into the air.
It was, of course, Helan Ying’s severed arm!
Just as Helan Xing dropped down, Xu Yang ignited it with a thought.
BOOOOOOM!!
A flood of energy spread out, sweeping the vastness; everywhere it passed, the blood sand was obliterated!
The blood desert for several hundred zhang collapsed in one go, breaking apart, twisting into a raging tornado that howled and rampaged out of control.
"What the hell is this?!"
Caught off guard, Helan Xing let out a screech of agony from the onslaught!
But no matter how fast he was, he couldn’t escape the storm’s reach in time.
Meanwhile, Xu Yang had already vanished beneath the raging windstorm.
The first blood corpse was torn apart by the explosive winds.
But within a few heartbeats, corpse after corpse burst out of the depths, roaring and charging upward.
The Blessing Seeds on Helan Xing and the others now blazed like beacons, drawing the corpses straight to them!
By comparison, the dog and Xu Yang were mere shadows.
Especially Xu Yang—at the moment of the eruption, he had ruthlessly suppressed the Blessing Elixir, refining most of it, so its lure for the blood corpses instantly plummeted.
The dog twisted and bit Xu Yang’s robe, dragging him through layers of blood sand toward a certain place.
While the battle raged above, the man-and-dog pair were already nearly a hundred li away.
BANG!
The sand suddenly collapsed—the man and dog plunged down in utter disarray.
A mass of crimson brilliance radiated, burning like fire, lighting up a cave barely a few meters across.
A scarlet fire lotus, as big as a washbasin, sat atop the flat blood sand, flames billowing, weaving together streams of illusory firelight that supported the flowing, wriggling sand all around.
At first sight of the fire lotus, the dog forgot all about Xu Yang, staring wide-eyed, gulping drool, pure greed and heat in its eyes.
"Red Bright Fire Lotus!"
The shock hit Xu Yang like a douse of cold water, sobering him instantly.
All his pain was forgotten; his eyes blazed, stunned to disbelief!
To stumble upon such a treasure while fleeing for his life?
Red Bright Fire Lotus—five red marks on its petals, a fifth-grade Spirit Elixir!
It boosts spiritual power.
Put this out there, and a mob of Yang Realm cultivators would go mad for it.
And here it lay, right before his eyes.
The intense, blazing power snapped Xu Yang out of his daze; he gulped hard, then turned and grabbed the dog in a fierce hug.
"Good boy! Amazing!"
Recalling how the dog first acted, Xu Yang understood—the Red Bright Fire Lotus had been found by his Treasure Hunting Beast.
No wonder it’s a treasure hunter!
Against the heavens, truly.
The dog wriggled free, shook out its pelt with a huff, and raised its head high in pride.
Xu Yang grinned, looked at the Red Bright Fire Lotus, and finally calmed down.
"Dog, try to absorb some first."
There are two ways to refine the Red Bright Fire Lotus.
First is to concoct it into Red Bright Seven Lotus Elixir; second is to meditate atop it, letting the red fire’s shadows illuminate the Sea of Consciousness and absorb it gradually.
The perfect method is obviously the first.
Depending on alchemy level and the lotus’s age, you could have one to seven lotus petals, with greater power each time.
This Red Bright Fire Lotus already had five petals—classed as a fifth-grade elixir.
But with his ability now, he still couldn’t refine it by alchemy.
So, the second method was all they had.
Even so, you would need to be at your peak to barely endure it.
The dog, even if it could absorb, wouldn’t get much out of it.
So, in the end, it’d be split between the man and the dog.
He had to recover first.
The dog didn’t hesitate—crept cautiously beneath a wisp of floating firelight, lay down, closed its eyes, and its fur quivered as suction arose, drawing fire energy in visible threads into its body!
Xu Yang sat cross-legged, feeling his wounds, sighing inwardly.
Helan Xing’s injuries weren’t light—a few bones broken, internal organs rocked to hell and back.
Fighting against the Yang Realm was just not feasible for now.
Still, if he could absorb the Red Bright Fire Lotus and strengthen his spiritual power further, relying on the Demon Dragon Saber’s savagery, the Lock God Seal, and the Demon Dragon Seal, he just might make things difficult for an Early Stage Yang Realm Martial Artist.
The thought flashed by and Xu Yang’s spirits lifted—he quickly swallowed a healing elixir and entered a recovery trance.
Elsewhere—
Helan Xing and his group of four managed, battered and desperate, to break free from the blood corpses.
Aside from Helan Huaning, the other two were Yang Realm cultivators too, his personal guards.
"Damn it all."
Helan Xing was both treating his wounds and grinding his teeth in anger.
A heaven-sent opportunity, ruined by blood corpses!
It was like a treasure at your lips, snatched away just as you’re about to bite!
Yet nothing could be done. They could only accept reality.
Helan Huaning was completely dejected—so many times already, yet again she had failed to do anything to Xu Yang, enough to break her spirit.
Even though Helan Ying had warned her not to mess with Xu Yang, she just couldn’t stomach it.
For a long while—
Someone in the party called out, "Miss Huaning, Mr. Xing, there’s a broken saber in this Sand Ruins—come have a look!"
