Cultivation: I Can Reincarnate Into Various Worlds-Chapter 578 - 296, Golden Crow Immortal Body displays power, Nascent Soul early stage peak_2
"Junior sister, run quickly! What this kid said is true..."
Seeing this scene, White Old Ghost's heart suddenly turned cold. He hadn't expected that after transforming into a ghostly form and surviving Ze Sheng Ancestor's self-detonation, he would fail to escape the killing strike of Xu Xing, this newly ascended Dao Lord, thus becoming a stepping stone on his path to fame. He realized that he had fallen into Xu Xing's hands this time and hurriedly transmitted a message via divine sense to Daoist Jiang Yue, urging her to escape first.
"White Old Ghost, take care of yourself first..." Xu Xing sneered.
He continued to form hand seals. Within the Red Flame Spirit Array that ensnared White Old Ghost, a Golden Crow about ten feet tall materialized and began to grapple with White Old Ghost's spectral face.
「As time passed—」
Just half a moment later, more than half of White Old Ghost's spectral face had melted away, and the remainder, caught in the flames, was constantly wailing and struggling miserably.
On the other side, Daoist Jiang Yue, having received White Old Ghost's divine sense transmission, no longer wished to continue the fight. She transformed into a streak of escaping light and sped towards the Silver Ring Zhai Mountain Gate, trying to avoid this tribulation that could mean her demise.
"Stab!"
Yan Luanqing, who had been prepared, waved her sleeve and commanded her Golden Rainbow Thorn to launch a sneak attack on the escaping Daoist Jiang Yue.
The escaping speed of artifacts is much faster than that of cultivators.
With this strike—
One of Daoist Jiang Yue's arms was instantly severed by the Golden Rainbow Thorn, and she plummeted from the sky.
However, Yan Luanqing had been battling for so long that her Magic Power was mostly depleted. After achieving this, she had no strength left to pursue Daoist Jiang Yue.
Moreover, just as the three from Silver Ring Zhai had initially said: when the snipe and the clam grapple, the fisherman benefits. After achieving this victory, the Immeasurable Sect also needed to preserve its strength to guard against sneak attacks from other sects in the North Yue Country.
"Junior Brother Chang, are you okay?" Yan Luanqing returned to the battlefield. Upon seeing Xu Xing's pale face and weakened aura, a trace of concern appeared in her eyes as she asked.
"I'm fine. I'll probably recover after about ten years of reclusive cultivation," Xu Xing coughed lightly. He circulated his Magic Power, and his complexion became rosy again, as if he had returned to normal.
With the Bronze Ancient Mirror, all he needed to do was re-solidify his Immortal Fate, and he could recover completely. However, in front of Yan Luanqing, he had to pretend to be seriously injured. After all, he had resorted to special means to kill both Lady Zi and White Old Ghost. If he weren't seriously injured, it wouldn't be plausible.
"When you killed Lady Zi, you consumed your essence blood, and when you killed White Old Ghost, you... consumed your essence blood again..." Yan Luanqing's jade-like fingers gently touched Xu Xing's back, transferring Magic Power to him.
"Naturally, one cannot be indecisive during a battle, but it's not advisable for you to consume your own essence blood like this..." she advised.
She believed that since Xu Xing had only recently become a Nascent Soul cultivator, his conventional methods were limited. That's why he had no choice but to consume his essence blood and use forbidden techniques. This time, if Xu Xing hadn't suddenly used that black flame to burn Lady Zi to death, the outcome of the battle would still be uncertain. This also meant Xu Xing had indirectly saved her life.
"It's just a pity that Senior Brother Ze Sheng died after self-detonating his Nascent Soul..." Xu Xing changed the subject, not wanting Yan Luanqing to dwell too much on the "forbidden techniques."
"Senior Brother Ze Sheng was already approaching the day of his passing... his death this time was something he was prepared for..." Yan Luanqing's eyelids drooped slightly, her words indifferent, showing no concern for Ze Sheng Ancestor's life or death.
"Junior Brother... do you think I'm too unfeeling?" she looked at Xu Xing and smiled.
"Unfeeling?"
Xu Xing didn't know why Yan Luanqing had brought this up, but he went along with her topic.
"Senior Sister Yan and Senior Brother Ze Sheng have an age difference of more than three thousand years and shared no deep bond as fellow disciples... I am not surprised..." he thought for a moment and replied.
"More than forty years ago, I told you about Venerable Wanxia, but I never told you about what happened to me..." Yan Luanqing sighed softly. "The side-by-side existence of Golden Rainbow Valley and Ze Sheng Forest wasn't a recent development. It began more than two thousand years ago."
"Venerable Wanxia also had the surname Yan!"
Hearing this, Xu Xing roughly understood why the Yan family had placed such great expectations on Yan Luanqing, urging her to break through to the Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible. It turned out that Venerable Wanxia's rebellion and departure from the sect had greatly affected the Yan family's survival within the Immeasurable Sect.
"The person involved with my junior relative Yan Xiling... Kang Yu, was Senior Brother Ze Sheng's grandson..."
"Ze Sheng Ancestor was fond of women. More than seven hundred years ago, when I was still at the Dao Pill stage, Senior Brother Ze Sheng took an interest in me, desiring to take me as his concubine..." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
"If I hadn't been fortunate enough to advance to the Nascent Soul stage a step ahead, I might have been plundered by Senior Brother Ze Sheng by now." Yan Luanqing sighed deeply.
"I never thought that Senior Brother Ze Sheng, despite his ways, would willingly sacrifice himself for the Sect in his twilight years..." Hearing this, Xu Xing also sighed with emotion.
He didn't doubt Yan Luanqing's words. He had once been a guest in Ze Sheng Forest and knew how many descendants of the Kang family were there, and how many of them were Ze Sheng Ancestor's sons and grandsons. Apart from having numerous offspring, the Immeasurable Sect's support for the Kang family was also considerable. Kang Hong possessed only mediocre aptitude, yet he was designated by the Immeasurable Sect as a Nascent Soul seed. If it wasn't for Ze Sheng Ancestor's favoritism, who would believe it?
"More than half of the Immeasurable Sect belongs to his Kang family. Of course, he was willing to risk his life for it..." Yan Luanqing sneered.
"Forget it. There's no point in dwelling on these past events. Senior Brother Ze Sheng is dead, and I will not seek to settle accounts with the Kang family." She shook her head, ending the topic.
"However... just now you revealed the Sun True Fire, and Daoist Jiang Yue is still alive..." Yan Luanqing frowned slightly, her willow-leaf eyebrows drawing together.
Just now, she had tried her best to prevent Daoist Jiang Yue from returning to the Silver Ring Zhai mountain gate, but her cultivation was far from enough to stop a Dao Lord of the same realm.
"Having Sun True Fire doesn't necessarily mean one possesses the Golden Crow Immortal Body," Xu Xing shook his head, unconcerned. "Besides, I am now at the Nascent Soul stage... There are few cultivators under the heavens who would dare covet my physique."
An Immortal Body at the Dao Pill Realm could still potentially be seized through possession by high-level cultivators. Now that he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, no one could seize his physique unless Immortals descended from the heavens. Besides, although Immortal Bodies were rare, a careful search across a great continent would still reveal quite a few... Even if he exposed his Golden Crow Immortal Body, there wouldn't be significant repercussions in the Nanyan Continent. Of course, he had deliberately dangled this bait in the Nanyan Continent by revealing his Sun True Fire. To lure the Emperor's Son Pavilion to find him. The Emperor's Son Pavilion considers aptitude a significant factor when recruiting cultivators. During his second simulation at the Dao Pill Realm, he was captured by Princess Chang Le of the Chiming Imperial Dynasty due to his Golden Crow Immortal Body. She took him as a male concubine and subjected him to various abuses. However, this wasn't actually the fault of his Golden Crow Immortal Body. It was rather a matter of circumstance; because Immortal Bodies are rare, he caught Princess Chang Le's attention. Had it been a Taibai Immortal Body or a Sky-Communicating Spiritual Body, she would have targeted them just the same. Moreover, his Golden Crow Immortal Body had already been exposed in the East Huangzhou. Therefore, he didn't mind it being known in the Nanyan Continent as well.
"Indeed..." Yan Luanqing listened, then nodded her head gently in agreement. "Under the heavens, there aren't many people who would dare to covet Junior Brother's physique."
「...」
After a brief period of recuperation, Xu Xing and Yan Luanqing returned to the Sect together and began to heal in seclusion. As for the matter of attacking Silver Ring Zhai, the two delegated full authority to Sect Leader Gu Chengbin, letting him take charge.
Nascent Soul Ancestors were not mere combatants. This time, if not for the special circumstance where Ze Sheng Ancestor wished to take a Dao Lord from Silver Ring Zhai with him before his death, the Dao Lords of the two sects would not have readily engaged in battle. According to normal procedure, Nascent Soul Ancestors would remain inactive, first letting the True Monarchs and True Men under them engage in battle. Only then would the Ancestors make their move to decide the outcome.
In the Immeasurable Sect's blessed land, Xu Xing, meditating in his Cave Mansion, opened his eyes. He glanced at the Mother-Child Twinning within his Dantian, a smile touching his lips as he mused, It's faster than I imagined. I reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage in just four years. I'm only one step away from entering the Mid-stage Nascent Soul...
Dai Ji should also be nearly complete with her cultivation of the "Yin and Yang Harmony Pact"...
At this thought, Xu Xing's heart stirred. He waved his sleeve robe, opened the door of his Cave Mansion, and transformed into a streak of escaping light, leaving the blessed land and heading towards his old residence in Golden Rainbow Valley.
