[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st":3,"chapter-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st-starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-334":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Becoming a Saint in the Flesh, Starting with the Vajra Art",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2127543,3478,"Chapter 334","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-334",334,"\u003Cp>\"I was wrong, I was wrong. Everyone underestimated this person. The talent he intentionally revealed is not his true talent at all; his true talent is the greatest in the entire Profound Sun Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Wenshan roared inwardly, a wave of terror washing over him. With so many peak masters and elders in the Profound Sun Sect, how could they not even know the true talent of their own disciple?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had they known he was such a genius, Song Wenxuan’s death would have been just that—a death. The Song family might even have had to offer an apology. Now that they had provoked such a genius, if a Heaven Origin powerhouse didn't nip him in the bud early, they would offend the behemoth that was the Profound Sun Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they didn't kill him, the Song family would face the disaster of total annihilation in the future. Unknowingly, the Song family had fallen into a crisis of extinction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stay behind!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang raised his hand, and a golden blade Qi struck directly at Song Wenshan’s back, like a golden ribbon of light slicing through the night sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the sharp blade Qi, Song Wenshan felt his scalp tingle. Too late to flee, he turned in mid-air and unleashed a blast of sword Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His sword Qi was easily shattered by Xu Yang’s blade Qi; it couldn't stop it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reaching Great Perfection of Marrow Cleansing, the quality of Xu Yang’s true qi had improved further, becoming terrifyingly condensed and sharp. Even without imbuing it with blade intent, the blade Qi he unleashed carried a sense of being able to cut through anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the golden blade Qi struck the sword Song Wenshan held horizontally across his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another muffled thud rang out. Song Wenshan’s sword was sent flying, and the blade Qi shattered his protective true qi before dissipating. The scattered blade Qi fell upon him like thousands of tiny knives, spraying a great burst of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A miserable scream echoed out; Song Wenshan was covered in blood as he was sent flying horizontally through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ah...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Wenshan let out a heart-wrenching scream, flying backward with a look of despair. He knew he couldn't escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he couldn't bring the news of Xu Yang back to his family and have a Heaven Origin powerhouse kill him, then in a year or two at most, even the Heaven Origin ancestor wouldn't be able to do anything to Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soil beneath Xu Yang’s feet cracked as he streaked across the night sky like a golden thunderbolt, Red Blood tearing through the air as he slashed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Wenshan tried his best to bolster his protective true qi and shift his body rapidly, but it was useless. Red Blood was fast to the extreme; before his body could dodge, Red Blood had already slashed across him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Puchi!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sharp semi-spirit weapon Red Blood easily sliced through Song Wenshan’s flesh and severed his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood sprayed out. Song Wenshan’s eyes widened, and he was cleaved in two while still in mid-air. After hitting the ground, there was little vitality left on his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Song family shouldn't have provoked you...\" Song Wenshan said with his final strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already foresaw the fate of the Song family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang’s most terrifying trait was not his talent that surpassed the Profound Sun Sect, but his forbearance and low profile. Even though his talent was peerless, he hid it, not letting outsiders know, showing none of the arrogance or hot-bloodedness of a young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you provoke such a person and cannot kill him immediately, then once he grows stronger, you are the one who will die. He is like a hidden viper; you never know when he will bite you and inject his lethal venom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, I didn't want to provoke the Song family either!\" Xu Yang said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Liu Xunjiang brought Song Wenxuan into the mine, he had actually hesitated about whether to help. After all, if he didn't save someone from a great clan like the Song family, he would be held in hatred by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the Song family happened to be on intimate terms with Liu Qingyuan. He knew that even if he saved Song Wenxuan, it would only be the story of the farmer and the snake, so he ultimately borrowed the hands of the Four Evils of Fog Mountain to kill Song Wenxuan and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Wenshan could no longer speak, his eyes gradually losing focus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that what Xu Yang said was likely the truth. Such forbearing and low-profile people feared trouble the most, so Xu Yang truly did not want to provoke the Song family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, as a great family in Qingyang City with a Heaven Origin powerhouse, the Song family was accustomed to being high and mighty. If others didn't save their people, they would kill to vent their hatred. They never considered the rights or wrongs of the matter; they only knew that because Xu Yang didn't save them, their people died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden hue on Xu Yang’s body faded, returning to normal, and he began to loot the bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The silver on the four of them wasn't much, totaling only a little over two thousand taels. After all, in a place like the Yunling Mountains, there was nowhere to spend money, so they carried little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What they carried more of were elixirs; Xu Yang actually found ten Profound Origin Qi-Transforming Pills on the four of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As expected of one of the ten great families!\" Xu Yang sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest harvest was the semi-spirit weapons. All four Song family martial artists at Great Perfection of Marrow Cleansing had semi-spirit weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first two unlucky fellows hadn't even had time to draw their semi-spirit weapons before they were killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They're becoming a bit common!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had too many semi-spirit weapons now: Cold Abyss, Red Blood, one from Song Wenxuan and his group, one from the Four Evils of Fog Mountain, one obtained in the Earth Vein Fire Valley, one from Guan Du, plus the current four. He had ten semi-spirit weapons all to himself; he couldn't even use them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were hard to sell, as they were all illicit goods. However, he still collected all four semi-spirit weapons, planning to inquire after returning to see if anyone dared to accept such items of questionable origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dug a pit and buried the four of them, then took his spoils and slipped back to the mine like a ghost. No one knew that the four experts at Great Perfection of Marrow Cleansing sent by the Song family to hunt down the Four Evils of Fog Mountain had been wiped out by him in one fell swoop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could actually have avoided solving the problem of Song Wenshan and the others so quietly; he could have waited for them to attack the mine before killing them. That way, while gaining merit, he could also use the Song family’s attack on the mine as an excuse to have the Profound Sun Sect take action against them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this had its downsides: his true talent would be exposed, and he wasn't sure of the outcome. Would the Profound Sun Sect really destroy the Song family? After all, the Song family’s ancestors were peak masters of a certain peak in the Profound Sun Sect, and many of their descendants were still in the sect. Perhaps the current peak master of some peak was a descendant of the Song family’s ancestors, so he speculated that the Profound Sun Sect was unlikely to directly destroy the Song family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the Profound Sun Sect didn't destroy the Song family, exposing his talent would only put himself in danger. So, he ultimately decided to kill Song Wenshan and the others silently outside the mine, wanting no credit at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hid the four semi-spirit weapons with his previous stash, went to bed, and woke up the next day as if nothing had happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing his morning exercises, he pushed the door open to wash up, only to find that the breakfast that should have been delivered by this time had not yet arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's going on?\" Xu Yang frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Zhao Qing arrived, he had managed the mine in an orderly fashion; logically, he wouldn't forget something like his meals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, he walked out of the courtyard and saw that many workers hadn't gone to the mine shafts but were instead repairing various parts of the mine. Zhao Qing was also busy with a few outer sect disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, Junior Brother Xu, I forgot to arrange for someone to bring you your meal.\" Seeing Xu Yang, Zhao Qing finally realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang asked curiously, \"What are you all busy with?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhao Qing said speechlessly, \"You really have been cultivating too much. The New Year is only a few days away, and since everyone can't go home, the mine naturally needs to be decorated. Plus, an elder is coming to inspect, and if they see problems with the mine, we will be held accountable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang then realized he had been at the mine for over three months, and the New Year was only a few days away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the mine was far from Qingyang City, even during the New Year, these miners couldn't return and would spend the holiday here. Naturally, the mine had to be decorated to let the miners feel the festive atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the main reason was the elder’s inspection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three days later, several fine horses pulled a carriage to the mine entrance, followed by a convoy coming to transport the crude black iron ore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged man with a dignified and handsome face stepped out of the carriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was extremely burly, and under his wide robes, the contours of bulging muscles were vaguely visible. His majestic aura was like a great mountain descending from the carriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was Elder Gongshu, one of the four great elders of the Li Huo Peak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huo Peak had a tradition of weapon forging, but within that tradition, there were differences. For example, Elder Huoyun and Elder Tie Fu were skilled in forging weapons like blades and swords.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this Elder Gongshu was skilled in forging things like armor and bows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang restrained his aura to the extreme and led Zhou Jiang, Zhao Qing, and the others in bowing: \"Disciple greets Elder Gongshu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need for formalities!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Gongshu stepped down from the carriage and walked straight into the mine. Xu Yang and the others didn't dare to be negligent and hurriedly followed. The convoy carrying supplies also drove into the mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go do your own things; there's no need to follow me,\" Elder Gongshu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there was nothing to hide, Xu Yang and the others stopped following Elder Gongshu and turned to find Zhu Yuan and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior Brother Zhu, please help me tell Master after you return that I wish to return to the sect to go into seclusion for a period, and ask him to send someone to replace me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been guarding Moon Lake for three months and could return to the Profound Sun Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, the Dragon-Tiger Great Golden Pills he brought were only enough for one month; he needed to go back and refine another batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, I will find Master and pass on your message after I return,\" Zhu Yuan nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moon Lake was basically guarded in turns by Elder Huoyun’s lineage, and originally there was sufficient manpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in the battle at the Earth Vein Fire Valley, Elder Huoyun’s third and fourth disciples had died, and over a month ago, the fifth disciple, Guan Du, had been killed by Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding someone to replace Xu Yang was truly not easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The supplies were quickly moved into the warehouse, and Xu Yang checked the accounts with Zhao Qing to load the black iron. After finishing, Elder Gongshu, who had been looking around somewhere, returned, and the so-called inspection ended directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are Xu Yang?\" Elder Gongshu looked at Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang cupped his hands: \"This disciple is indeed Xu Yang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Gongshu looked at the Red Blood at Xu Yang’s waist: \"Huoyun actually gave you Red Blood; he really values you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is all Master’s favor!\" Xu Yang said modestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Gongshu shook his head; this wasn't just favor. If Xu Yang were his disciple, he would likely value him just as much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elder Huoyun being able to take in a genius like Xu Yang was something they, the ordinary elders, couldn't help but envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard you killed that alligator dragon in Moon Lake. That fellow’s skin is a good thing. Do you have any plans to sell it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone looked at Xu Yang with envy; anything Elder Gongshu took a fancy to was likely of immense value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Replying to the Elder, the battle was too intense, and the alligator dragon’s skin was almost completely destroyed,\" Xu Yang said helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the great battle, it wasn't that he hadn't thought about keeping the alligator dragon’s skin intact, but that fellow was too hard to kill, and he had no mind to consider keeping the skin intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Elder Gongshu showed a look of disappointment and didn't stay long at the mine, leaving quickly with Zhu Yuan and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>",2246,"2026-06-16T12:17:43.130Z","2026-06-16T12:23:15.380Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","5839bb756351c1285152b1173d58b0fa4a760e6e7f13c3ebe6ec6ca017f29d9c","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-335","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-333",410,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-cover.jpg"]