Chapter 203: Demon Clan Kill Order

【Murong Wan opened the Mountain-Breaking Aperture, you gain fifty times Murong Wan's harvest.】

Not long after binding with Ran Bing, Murong Wan successfully opened the first secret aperture of the Hand Aperture.

Mountain-Breaking Aperture.

After binding with Ran Bing, the returned multiplier became fifty times.

It's even more powerful than before.

"Wow, that's amazing!"

The result is that the effect of opening the Mountain-Breaking Aperture is extraordinarily terrifying.

After opening the Mountain-Breaking Aperture, all palm and fist techniques can gain over 30% strength increase.

Ordinary cultivators usually only get 30%.

The better the aperture opening effect, the higher this increase.

Some top talents can achieve over 50% increase.

But Lu Xun's increase reached an astonishing five times.

Even more exaggerated than secret arts like burning essence blood.

Besides the strength increase, when the Mountain-Breaking Aperture opens, Lu Xun's palm strength also greatly increases.

The strength is too terrifying; if the body's toughness can't keep up, a single palm strike will first break one's own bone.

【Murong Wan opened the Dragon-Capturing Aperture, you gain fifty times Murong Wan's harvest.】

Once she opened an aperture, Murong Wan couldn't stop.

Over the next two days, she opened all twelve Hand Apertures.

In terms of divine abilities, she successfully awakened the Six-Armed Divine Ability, the Thousand-Hand Divine Ability, and several obscure divine abilities.

After the return, they all became even more terrifying.

For example, the Three-Head Six-Armed Divine Ability became the Myriad Calamity War Body (unfinished version).

Since the Ancestral Aperture is not opened, the divine ability is incomplete, hence the unfinished version.

After reaching the Seventh Realm, the Three-Head Six-Armed Divine Ability can transform into a heaven-earth dharma appearance with three heads and six arms.

The heaven-earth dharma appearance of the Myriad Calamity War Body is even more terrifying, capable of reaching eight paths and twenty-four arms.

In quantity there hasn't been much increase, but the power is unknown how much greater.

Speaking of numbers, the Thousand-Hand Divine Ability is just a little over one; after being returned to Lu Xun, they all became Ten-Thousand-Hand Divine Abilities.

This divine ability's combat power is far inferior to the Three-Head Six-Armed.

"Waner, congratulations."

After Murong Wan's breakthrough, Lu Xun came to the Spirit Concealment Formation, feeling happy for her.

As for Ran Bing, she didn't leave; these two days she has been pondering the true explanation of formations.

Murong Wan looked delighted.

Once the Hand Aperture is opened, for her the subsequent apertures are not difficult.

The Five Viscera and Six Bowels, Skin-Membrane-Marrow Aperture — these four apertures are all located inside the body.

Actually, opening these four apertures is not difficult; it's simpler than the Hand, Foot, and Eye Apertures.

The divine abilities of these four apertures are not many.

A notable one is Bronze Skin Iron Bones, which can only be obtained after simultaneously clearing the Skin-Membrane-Marrow Aperture.

Although the divine abilities are few, other capabilities are not small.

For example, after opening these four apertures, a martial cultivator can survive an extremely long time even in an environment devoid of air.

The skin becomes immune to all poisons, the Five Viscera and Six Bowels become exceptionally strong, and resistance to toxins is greatly enhanced.

Although opening these four apertures is easy in difficulty, their reliance on resources is enormous.

Especially the Five Viscera and Six Bowels, they are too fragile; they cannot be forcibly opened during aperture opening.

One needs to nourish each organ daily with spiritual materials or pills to achieve a better aperture opening effect.

Lu Xun naturally had already prepared these for Murong Wan.

In fact,

A few months ago, Murong Wan started taking pills that nourish the Five Viscera and Six Bowels.

Therefore, the secret apertures of the Five Viscera and Six Bowels are actually not difficult for her.

Murong Wan didn't rush to open them.

She wanted to consolidate first.

"Waner, there are still four days; we can just consolidate."

"Mm."

Four days until the passage appears.

These four days, Lu Xun plans to take Murong Wan to search for more heaven-earth spiritual materials, and meanwhile continue teaching her swordsmanship to seek a breakthrough in true intent.

As for Ran Bing.

She is still pondering the true explanation of formations.

"Junior fellow student, don't worry about me; she won't come out for now; in four days I'll wait for you at the passage."

Ran Bing did not choose to go with Lu Xun.

She perhaps sensed something.

But given her personality, even if she truly sensed something, she wouldn't show it.

Thus.

Lu Xun and Murong Wan continued their two-person world.

He brought Murong Wan, searching for spiritual objects on one hand and using the Star Void Aberrations to temper his sword technique on the other.

From time to time, Lu Xun would still engage in intimate acts with Murong Wan.

Whenever night fell, Lu Xun would stop and spend a romantic evening with Murong Wan.

"What a good companion, no wonder no one has found this place."

Three days later.

At the edge of a lake covered in lotus blossoms, Lu Xun almost fell into a trap.

Through the Heavenly Dao Eye, he saw that there were a large number of multicolored lotus flowers here.

This is a very rare heaven-and-earth spiritual object.

As a result, before Lu Xun could get close, he was ambushed by a Six Realms Star Void Aberration.

Fortunately, his seven-grade treasure robe was exceptionally strong, blocking the Six Realms Aberration's strike.

Otherwise, Lu Xun would have been in danger.

Of course, his daring actions were also due to possessing the seven-grade treasure robe.

Without the seven-grade treasure robe, Lu Xun would naturally be more cautious.

"There should only be one; we can take it down by force using the Golden Toad."

There is still one day until the passage appears.

He and Murong Wan have already stayed in this Spirit Realm for over ten days; Lu Xun does not intend to stay longer.

The gains are already considerable; for Lu Xun, the best option is to first digest the gains.

He himself does not need to digest.

Let Murong Wan digest, increase her strength, then return it to him.

Lu Xun will continue to seek opportunities.

This is indeed the best approach.

"Little Gold, go!"

Lu Xun took out the golden toad and threw it out.

"Ribbit~"

The Golden Toad suddenly grew large, flicked its tongue, and slew a swath of Star Void Aberrations.

"Ribbit~"

Now the Golden Toad has pierced the aberrations' nest.

From the lake, a large number of frog-like aberrations leapt out.

Their sizes surged forward, and they stuck out their tongues at the Golden Toad.

Thus the battle between the Golden Toad and the aberrations turned into a tongue‑lashing showdown, looking unique and especially amusing.

Among them, some aberrations also employ other means of attack.

For example, some aberrations spit out huge air blasts.

Some aberrations can fire water arrows capable of piercing metal and splitting stone.

Some aberrations use toxin attacks.

Some aberrations can even release storms and thunder.

To deal with these aberrations, the Golden Toad has only one move.

That is to stick out its tongue.

It completely ignores all the aberrations' attacks, its tongue constantly lashing out, each strike capable of killing several aberrations.

These Star Void Aberrations are naturally not as clever as Gu Yao.

They do not know which damaged part of the Golden Toad to attack.

Apart from its damaged parts, the Golden Toad is as hard as iron elsewhere.

Despite so many aberrations' attacks, not a single trace has been left.

Conversely, the Golden Toad's attacks keep reducing the aberrations' numbers.

"Ribbit~"

Seeing that these aberrations could do nothing to the Golden Toad, a speckled‑pattern aberration frog leapt onto the shore.

As soon as it landed, its size suddenly swelled to larger than a small hill.

"Boom!"

It opened its mouth and spat out a bolt of black‑tinged purple lightning.

The moment the lightning appeared, the surrounding heaven and earth dimmed, as if the lightning were sucking away the light.

This aberration frog is precisely that Six Realms aberration.

Faced with this Six Realms aberration, the Golden Toad didn't even blink, ignored its lightning entirely, and simply kept lashing out its tongue.

The lightning struck the Golden Toad, bursting into a blinding flash of thunder‑light, yet it didn't even break the Toad's skin.

On the contrary, the Golden Toad's tongue forced the Six Realms aberration to block with its own tongue.

The Six Realms aberration could not budge the Golden Toad, yet it could not completely ignore the Toad's attacks.

One toad, one frog, they thus kept lashing out their tongues at each other.

From time to time, the Golden Toad would even endure the Six Realms aberration's attacks to harvest other aberrations.

The Six Realms aberration, enraged, leapt forward and lunged at the Golden Toad with its big mouth full of sharp teeth.

This creature actually tried to swallow the Golden Toad whole.

But it did not know who its opponent was.

The Golden Toad instantly grew larger than it and likewise gulped it down in one bite.

These two guys turned into two bean-eaters.

High-end battles are often like this—simple and unadorned.

"Now."

Lu Xun found the moment to strike; he moved and appeared in the middle of the lake.

"Lotus, come!"

He formed a hand seal, gestured, and a large number of lotus seeds were drawn to him, flying toward Lu Xun.

"Ribbit!"

Lu Xun's actions stimulated the alien species.

Numerous star void alien species turned and lunged at Lu Xun.

"Boom—boom—boom~"

Lu Xun raised his hand, and a large sheet of fireballs fell, blasting a swath of those star void alien species.

"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh~"

Several dozen flying swords formed a sword rain, further cutting down many alien species.

The distorted space blocked some Five Realm alien species for a while.

In this process, Lu Xun kept moving, gathering more lotus seeds into his space ring.

"Meow~"

Xiao Bai poked its head out, moved its paw, grabbed several lotus seeds, and stuffed them into its mouth.

It's quite a little glutton.

"Ribbit!"

The Six Realm alien species grew angry, wanting to turn around and deal with Lu Xun.

The Golden Toad, however, clung to it tightly, not letting it escape.

"Almost enough!"

After a few minutes, Lu Xun had gathered nearly enough lotus seeds.

"Go!"

He shifted his form, a few space-teleports took him away from the lakeside, fleeing with Murong Wan.

"Ribbit~"

The Golden Toad meanwhile blocked the Six Realm alien species behind them; only after Lu Xun fled far away did it leap up and depart.

"Not a bad harvest."

After reaching a safe place, Lu Xun took stock and found this harvest enormous.

The lotus seeds filled a large basket.

Among these lotus seeds, most were of a single color, a few had two or more colors, and those with three or four colors were rare.

"Five-colored?"

Unexpectedly, Lu Xun discovered several five-colored lotus seeds.

That is, lotus seeds with five colors.

"We've hit the jackpot!"

Lu Xun's eyes lit up.

These lotus seeds will be the biggest gain of this trip.

Now we can return with peace of mind.

The airship changed course, heading toward the passage.

As they were about to head back, Murong Wan suddenly felt a twinge of reluctance.

Over the past ten-odd days, she and Lu Xun had been together every day; it could be said these were the happiest days of her life.

In getting along with Lu Xun, Murong Wan even found the feeling of love.

But once they return, they will have to face reality.

Even if she inwardly accepted Lu Xun,

Chu Youqing is there, so she could never make this relationship public.

Seeming to sense Murong Wan's thoughts, Lu Xun gently embraced her from behind.

"Junior."

A few hours later, at the passage, Ran Bing appeared.

Besides her, there were some other human cultivators.

Lu Xun basically didn't know any of them.

Although the High Martial Era has descended for many years, Lan Xing still has many cultivators at the Four-Five Realms.

Many Five Realm cultivators keep a low profile, not choosing to form families or clans, so the outside world knows little about them.

Not everyone is a genius.

Many cultivators devote themselves wholeheartedly to the Dao, training for decades, yet still fall short of the top geniuses from Clear North who train only a few years.

Nevertheless, they continue to train assiduously, seeking a breakthrough.

Geniuses, after all, are only a minority.

The East still has hundreds of millions of people, yet the total number of graduates each year from Clear North does not even exceed ten thousand.

And among those students, those who truly deserve the title of peak genius are only an extreme minority.

From Lu Xun's perspective, it seems geniuses are everywhere.

This is because his circle is here.

It's just like on the train, where everyone is someone who bought a ticket.

Actually, in this world, mediocrity is the norm.

Half an hour later.

Lu Xun and his two companions returned to Lan Xing once more.

"Lu Xun."

Just after returning to Lan Xing, a figure descended from the sky and appeared before Lu Xun.

Lu Xun looked over and realized it was the steward Zhu who had given him the Sword Heart Stone last time.

"Lu Xun, I've been waiting here for you for several days, I came specially to warn you that the demon clan has issued a kill order on you, with an extraordinarily generous bounty, so be careful."

Steward Zhu didn't wait for Lu Xun to speak, but explained his purpose.

The demon clan... has issued a kill order against Lu Xun!