Chapter 175: Unexpected Harvest, the Overbearing Desolate Ancient Family

Zhang Xuan was also very satisfied with the current situation.

With the advantage of foresight and the relationships he had cultivated quite well with the Desolate Ancient Families.

Especially with the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family, things were as smooth as they could possibly be.

The cards in his hand were getting better and better, and the situation was becoming increasingly comfortable; that was, of course, an excellent thing.

The words exchanged between Zhang Xuan and Jiang Taixu involved quite a few secrets, not only the awakening of the Ancient Myriad Tribes but also the most terrifying Dark Turmoil, which was not too far off in time from the present.

This was what moved Jiang Taixu the most.

"The Immortal Path is opening?"

"This point is no longer a secret, is it?"

"Then... what can we do?"

For the Desolate Ancient Families, the Dark Turmoil and the opening of the Immortal Path were indeed not secrets; after all, any Ancient Emperor or Great Emperor who lived during their peak could roughly calculate when and where the Immortal Path would open.

But a true Great Emperor would not let themselves live for millions of years just to wait for the opening of the Immortal Path.

A true Great Emperor would only attempt it at their absolute peak, using the most absolute force to break into the Immortal Path, or relying on supreme strength to try and become an Immortal in this Human World.

If the world had no path, they would carve out a path themselves.

And when mentioning the Dark Turmoil, even with God King Jiang Taixu's current strength, there was a moment of bewilderment.

For the vast majority of cultivators in the world, they had no idea what the Dark Turmoil was; only the Desolate Ancient Families, which had existed since time immemorial with their long heritage, could know the earth-shattering secrets within.

When the terrifying monsters from the Forbidden Zones walked out alive, it was an earth-shattering catastrophe.

"Just like before, they come out, and then we beat them to death."

Zhang Xuan responded calmly, a peculiar smile still on his face. At this moment, even God King Jiang Taixu felt that the young man before him was glowing, possessing an indescribable charm and spirit.

If an ignorant youth had said such things, Jiang Taixu would only have laughed, or even ignored it, because an ignorant youth would have no idea how terrifying and dreadful the Dark Turmoil was.

But the Dark Turmoil was brought up by Zhang Xuan himself, and Zhang Xuan clearly had a very deep understanding of it; yet he could say such words so calmly, which shocked even Jiang Taixu with his strength.

Even when the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family was at its peak, when the Hengyu Great Emperor was alive, he would not have dared to say he could easily suppress the Dark Turmoil; the Hengyu Great Emperor sometimes had to risk his life to fight against the terrifying existences in the Forbidden Zones.

And what left a deeper impression on many figures was the Desolate Ancient Ji Family; that person had endured the most terrifying and difficult hardships.

Multiple Forbidden Zones were active and awakening during that period, yet that person had to fight alone, dealing with multiple awakening Forbidden Zones by himself.

He once risked his life to enter the Undying Mountain; heaven knows what kind of terrifying battles he experienced.

It was only known that the Void Mirror was stained with the blood of more than one Supreme; because it was stained with too much blood, it was nearly on the verge of gaining sentience and becoming an Immortal Artifact.

And how cruel the injuries the Void Great Emperor suffered were, later generations could hardly discern from the records; after all, no matter how complex the words, it was difficult to express the hardships the Void Great Emperor experienced.

What everyone knew was that even with the Undying Divine Medicine, the Void Great Emperor only lived for one lifetime.

"Relying on us, I'm afraid our strength is not enough."

Jiang Taixu felt his blood boil for a moment, then remained silent for a long time before slowly shaking his head.

He had tempered himself in Purple Mountain for over four thousand years, so his temperament was very calm, allowing him to quickly discern the current situation: time was too short.

Given enough time, he had the confidence to grow into a powerful figure not inferior to his ancestors.

But now, for him, time was too pressing and completely insufficient.

"Two hundred-plus years is not enough, not enough for me to grow to my true peak; it's too short. Give me enough time and I have confidence, but right now, time is too short."

Jiang Taixu shook his head with difficulty.

"That is why we must strive for time as much as possible; ten thousand years is too long, we must seize the day!"

Zhang Xuan's eyes remained bright. If it were before, even with his ability of foresight, he would not have had much confidence in dealing with that terrifying Dark Turmoil.

But now, there was a Nine-Orifice Stone Man in the Plantation that was about to mature; it only needed twenty years to truly reach completion.

When the time came, Zhang Xuan would directly enlighten that Nine-Orifice Stone Man to become his own body; not only would he gain the Nine-Orifice Stone Man's peculiar talent for comprehension, but he would also perfectly integrate that powerful strength.

Twenty years later, he would have the level of Alternative Enlightenment, and Zhang Xuan was not afraid at all.

"If it's not enough, do we just not do it? The Void Great Emperor was likely in despair back then, yet he still tried his best."

Jiang Taixu remained silent and lowered his head, looking at the Strongest Bloodline Optimization Fluid in front of him, his fists clenched tight.

He did not know where Zhang Xuan's powerful confidence came from, but for him, it was indeed very difficult.

"How many people have you invited to suppress the Dark Turmoil so far? How can you be so confident?"

Jiang Taixu was even made to feel unconfident by Zhang Xuan's words, and he couldn't help but ask back.

"About three, I suppose!"

Hearing Zhang Xuan's answer, Jiang Taixu pointed at Zhang Xuan, then pointed at himself and said: "You, me, and who else?"

Speaking of this, Jiang Taixu had the urge to roll his eyes.

One person who hadn't even completed the Dao Severing, and one person who had just achieved the Saint realm, were here discussing suppressing the Dark Turmoil.

"A sickly old man."

"Who?"

"His more widely known name is probably Gai Jiuyou."

"What? He is still alive?"

Jiang Taixu was shaken, his eyes suddenly lighting up, extremely brilliant, before dimming a little a moment later.

"If he is still alive now, he must be over nine thousand years old and about to die; his life force has long since decayed..."

Speaking to this point, Jiang Taixu's expression was very dim, and he even felt uncontrollable regret.

"Why didn't you say so earlier? Why didn't you give that remnant of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill to Gai Jiuyou? Giving it to me was a complete waste."

"But you didn't eat it, did you!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand indifferently, while Jiang Taixu said in great pain: "I already gave it to someone else to eat."

Seeing that Jiang Taixu had already put on a mask of pain and was clearly full of regret, likely wishing he could slap himself twice, Zhang Xuan finally stopped teasing Jiang Taixu and shrugged indifferently: "And who told you that I only had one remnant of the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill?"

"What?"

Jiang Taixu was stunned once again; the ups and downs of his mood today, within this short span of time, were more frequent and intense than those he had experienced during his four thousand years inside Purple Mountain.

He looked at the calm and breezy smile on Zhang Xuan's face, and the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch; even the God King's composure was starting to slip.

"It is exactly as I said literally. Didn't I say so when I took the Dragon Transformation Pool? That Nine-Turn Immortal Pill of yours was a remnant pill I refined in my early years. How could one possibly refine only one furnace when practicing alchemy?"

Well, it was indeed refined a few minutes in advance, back when he was about to go see him in his early years.

Zhang Xuan did not say this out loud, but upon hearing Zhang Xuan's detailed explanation, Jiang Taixu's expression could not help but be moved.

"You have refined the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill?"

"You have already eaten it, why are you still asking me?"

"Then your cultivation?"

"Just as you see it, the seventh small step of the Immortal Second Realm, not yet having severed the Dao."

Jiang Taixu cast a sidelong glance.

Then he heard Zhang Xuan say, seemingly nonchalantly: "However, I also chatted with Qingdi back in the day, and I still have quite a few scriptures and cultivation insights that he personally dictated to me."

Well, he had chatted a couple of times with Qingdi in the Chat Group not long ago; that could also count as having chatted with Qingdi back in the day.

As for the scriptures recorded from Qingdi's dictation, there were quite a lot of them; not only those of his own cultivation, but also the very capable Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art and Indestructible Heavenly Art.

Zhang Xuan spoke the words he had used to fool the Demon Race not long ago.

When he had fooled the Demon Race before, Zhang Xuan's delivery was not yet very fluent and he had been questioned.

Now, speaking in front of God King Jiang Taixu, he was already quite calm and composed; at the very least, the expression of God King Jiang Taixu before him was constantly changing, without any questioning at all.

It could only be said that times were different; when he fooled the Demon Race, Zhang Xuan's strength was still at the Four Extremes realm, his strength and realm were not very strong, and he lacked the confidence in his speech.

But now, standing before God King Jiang Taixu, Zhang Xuan already possessed top-tier cultivation in the entire world.

Moreover, not long ago he had produced the essence of the Undying Divine Medicine, as well as a remnant of a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill; these two feats alone were enough to be convincing.

Therefore, after the God King's expression shifted for a long time, he did not ask further, but instead nodded and whispered: "So that is how it is."

Zhang Xuan did not know what God King Jiang Taixu had imagined, but as long as Jiang Taixu believed it, that was enough.

Next, he could proceed directly to the next step.

"The other raw materials for the Strongest Bloodline Optimization Fluid are easy to find; if the Desolate Ancient Family and the Demon Race take action, they can collect a large batch immediately. But the truly core and important materials are hard to obtain—Divine Substance is difficult to acquire in any era."

Jiang Taixu nodded in agreement; refining the Strongest Bloodline Optimization Fluid was very simple, yet also extremely difficult.

It was simple in that one type of Divine Substance could refine a first-turn Strongest Bloodline Optimization Fluid.

Two types of Divine Substance could refine a second-turn bloodline optimization fluid.

If one could collect nine types, theoretically, one could directly refine the strongest Nine-Turn Bloodline Optimization Fluid, which would have a certain effect even on figures at the level of Quasi-Great Emperor.

And theoretically speaking, Beidou had sufficient raw materials for refining the Strongest Bloodline Evolution Fluid.

Taichu Life Stone and Heavenly Mandate Stone were both abundant in Beidou; of course, one was in the Undying Mountain, and the other was in the Taichu Ancient Mine.

As for other top-tier Shen Zang, in the long passage of time, the Desolate Ancient Holy Land and the families should also possess them.

"The Jiang Family might have Taichu Life Stone, and as for Heavenly Mandate Stone, perhaps the Ji Family has it."

The information spoken by God King Jiang Taixu took Zhang Xuan by surprise.

He had originally planned to unite the Desolate Ancient Jiang Family and the Ji Family to borrow two Extreme Dao Imperial Weapons, plus the one Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon from the Demon Race, to let Gai Jiuyou take a trip to the Undying Mountain and the Taichu Ancient Mine to get some of these divine materials.

Of course, the risks involved were great; if it were only going to one Forbidden Zone, it might still be negotiable.

After all, with Gai Jiuyou's strength of Alternative Enlightenment, he was almost comparable to a Great Emperor in this era, even against the Ancient Emperors in the Forbidden Zones.

In this era, the Supreme beings and Ancient Emperors in the Forbidden Zones were unwilling to easily clash with a figure like Gai Jiuyou.

But unwilling to clash was one thing; if such things were done too often, it would eventually lead Gai Jiuyou to meet with misfortune.

The sudden awakening of ancient existences in multiple Forbidden Zones was a terrifying situation.

The reason why the Void Great Emperor only lived for one lifetime, it was rumored, was that during the period of the Void Great Emperor, all seven Forbidden Zones were in turmoil.

If Gai Jiuyou offended a whole bunch of Forbidden Zones now, he would truly be in big trouble.

One had to clash with the Forbidden Zones, but not right now.

Zhang Xuan had been slightly troubled by this aspect before, and he had not expected the God King to give such a response.

"My ancestor once fought a peerless existence in the Taichu Ancient Mine in his early years..."

Jiang Taixu slowly recounted a past event, and upon hearing this, Zhang Xuan immediately understood.

After the Hengyu Great Emperor attained the Dao, he once fought a peerless figure in the Taichu Ancient Mine; his refining of weapons on the outskirts of the Taichu Ancient Mine had completely ruined a peerless, lethal region of the Taichu Ancient Mine.

Later, Ye Fan had also coincidentally walked out from there and even taken away a small piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold left over from Hengyu Great Emperor's weapon refining.

Zhang Xuan had lacked weapon-refining materials before and had eyed that piece of material; of course, now Ye Fan had not yet taken a trip to the Taichu Ancient Mine, so he could not eye that material even if he wanted to.

And since Hengyu Great Emperor had once fought the ancient Supreme beings within the Taichu Ancient Mine and brought out some materials, it was only natural.

As for the Heavenly Mandate Rock possessed by the Ji Family, needless to say, it must have been obtained from the Undying Mountain; the Void Great Emperor had faced the Seven Forbidden Zones, but the one that fought the Void Great Emperor to the bitter end, and had the most records, was undoubtedly the Undying Mountain.

"If it truly has such peculiar effects, I can go and communicate with the Ji Family about this."

Jiang Taixu's expression was not relaxed; he carefully looked at the top-tier divine materials required for the Strongest Bloodline Evolution Fluid and nodded to take on the task.

This time it was Zhang Xuan's turn to feel surprised, and at the same time, he felt an inexplicable joy; he had not expected such an unexpected gain.

Collecting the Strongest Bloodline Evolution Fluid had always been a problem that troubled Zhang Xuan; if his strength and realm were not currently insufficient, he would have thought about running to the Eternal Star Domain to trade for it.

After all, the Strongest Bloodline Evolution Fluid of the Eternal Star Domain was plundered from the Universe and the starry rivers, from countless star systems.

They had been collecting it for generations, spending countless time and energy; it was very difficult to compare an individual against an entire civilization.

At the very least, Zhang Xuan was very troubled when considering the Strongest Bloodline Optimization Fluid.

He had not expected to solve a major hurdle right here.

"However, one can probably only find two or three types of Divine Substance; I fear the early-stage bloodline evolution fluid will not have much effect on you."

(End of chapter)