Chapter 239: Try a Little Harder, and I'll Collapse

After giving Tianhuangzi a beating, Zhang Xuan's mood became extremely pleasant.

But soon his mood became less beautiful; among the Ancient Race, powerful creatures had investigated the identity and background of the Old Madman and found the original site of the former Heavenly Pivot Holy Land.

More than ten Ancestor Kings headed toward that area, threatening to slaughter every living thing in that region and carry away all the mountains, rivers, and spiritual veins.

Top-tier powerhouses had already gone to that area, including two of the Four Great Heavenly Kings who were renowned during the Taigu era; each one was a supreme figure in the world, at the very peak of the Saint King realm.

They even thoughtfully provided a deadline and announced it to the world.

"If no one comes within two months, then everything will turn to ash, and the Human Race will only be acting like turtles hiding their heads. I will smash everything in this mountain range into dust and scatter it across the world, using it to sacrifice to that vanished, overreaching Heavenly Pivot Holy Land."

This was the public statement made by one of the Heavenly Kings to the world, passed on by the Ancient Race and some humans close to the ancient creatures, spreading across the entire Eastern Wasteland in a very short time.

Zhang Xuan was furious at that moment.

"Damn, these bird-men are truly disgusting. Can't win head-on, so you come at us from the side, huh?"

"Do you really think I did this without a follow-up plan?"

Zhang Xuan prepared to let the old man Dongfang Taiyi out for a stroll; after all, having been sealed from the Taigu era to the present Post-Desolate Ancient Era, he had been hungry for a full million years. He had missed so many meals, he had to make up for it one way or another.

No matter what kind of messy characters they were, in front of this person, they were all nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs.

While rushing toward Shencheng in anger, he was also preparing to handle more subsequent issues, but before he even reached Shencheng, he saw the Old Madman hurriedly departing from Shencheng and tearing through space.

Beside the Old Madman, Wei Yi waved at him without leaving immediately, and upon seeing Zhang Xuan, he even took the initiative to greet him.

"We're waiting for you now; your face carries more weight. I want you to help borrow an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon. These Ancient Race members are truly too excessive; I must go and teach them a lesson."

Zhang Xuan's heart stirred as he felt the pressure on Wei Yi, which was far more formidable than before, along with that faint, lingering aura.

"You broke through?"

"What is there to be surprised about? I should have broken through long ago. I was already on the verge of a breakthrough, and with the Eight-Turn Strongest Bloodline Evolution Liquid you prepared for me, if I didn't break through, I might as well have been buried in the ground."

Zhang Xuan's heart skipped a beat, but Wei Yi had no intention of chatting with him.

"Hurry up, hurry up. My junior brother has already gone over, and I need to pick up the pace. He is quite reckless, and since the Ancient Race is so arrogant, they likely have an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon in ambush nearby. I need to carry an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon over to help."

The figure of Gai Jiuyou flickered, and at this moment, he suddenly drifted out, holding a brightly colored furnace in his hand.

"Take the Hengyu Furnace over first. The other side likely has multiple preparations, so we must also make more preparations ourselves. Remember not to be too impulsive; suppress your cultivation realm first, and don't let them fall into despair immediately."

Wei Yi nodded, not having time to say much more, took the furnace, and charged into the void.

Zhang Xuan watched, speechless.

He had no choice but to talk to Gai Jiuyou about the situation with Wei Yi and the Old Madman.

"They just broke through to the Great Saint realm; will they be unable to suppress their own state and aura, letting the other side see through the clues?"

"Running over so impulsively, will it affect our overall plan? I feel that these two have quite a heavy murderous intent. If they end up killing their way to the heavens, will the trouble be a bit too big?"

Zhang Xuan asked several questions in a row, but Gai Jiuyou's expression remained unchanged.

"Why does it feel like after you went out for a trip, you aren't as stable as before, and seem a bit flighty?"

Zhang Xuan was stunned, knowing he had been a bit anxious during this period.

It was mainly because many people around him were breaking through rapidly, while he had previously been confident of victory and had everything under control. After reaching the Saint realm, looking at all the Saint Kings and Great Saints around him, it was hard not to feel a sense of pressure.

It wasn't obvious while walking between heaven and earth before, but now that he had met Gai Jiuyou again, it was starting to show.

"I am indeed a bit anxious. There have been too many things lately, which has affected my state."

Zhang Xuan nodded, carefully introspecting to suppress this feeling of anxiety, while Gai Jiuyou smiled slightly.

"Both of them are in good condition. They are themselves the top geniuses in the world, with incredibly deep foundations. This breakthrough was a natural result, and they are already extremely strong figures within the Great Saint realm."

"Rest assured, people who have lived for thousands of years may seem simple and rough in their style of conduct, but they are meticulous, and many things will be handled very well."

Gai Jiuyou's voice was not loud, but it often gave people an inexplicable sense of trust.

Zhang Xuan only listened to a few sentences before feeling his slightly anxious mood begin to calm down.

As Gai Jiuyou spoke, he took a stone slab from his bosom and handed it to Zhang Xuan with a smile: "The Central Plains indeed has the techniques left behind by that Feathered Great Emperor. It is truly very mysterious, turning oneself into a Saint Spirit, returning after millions of years, and still being able to maintain memories and state. It is a very peculiar technique."

Gai Jiuyou had clearly already read it, and as he handed it to Zhang Xuan, he explained while walking: "This technique can be considered a kind of alternative method for Chang Sheng, but it is still not perfect. Although one does not need to slash one's own blade like the Supremes in the Forbidden Zone and then seal oneself."

"But this state is not much different from sealing oneself. In the state of turning into a Saint Spirit, one's life is also ignorant, and the body sinks into it. Only when the true Saint Spirit is fully gestated and breaks the seal will one truly awaken."

"Moreover, in the process of gestating this Saint Spirit, the body truly becomes like a Saint Spirit. Once the state is broken by someone prematurely, one will be born early, and all efforts will turn to nothing, becoming an imperfect, acquired Saint Spirit."

When Gai Jiuyou said this, he couldn't help but shake his head, feeling some regret.

"This counts as a method for Chang Sheng, and judging from the implementation of this technique, that person can be considered to have truly walked the path. I did not find the body he was truly gestating in; that area was sealed by a powerful Imperial-level array, leaving me unable to find the true path."

"I found the technique, but it doesn't have much reference value. This can only be counted as a path for Chang Sheng, and cannot be counted as a true Immortal Path..."

Gai Jiuyou's greatest wish and obsession before was to fight a true Ancient Emperor or Great Emperor.

Now, after being guided by Zhang Xuan, he had truly recognized the path after the Great Emperor.

Although he didn't obtain a true Immortal technique this time, he wasn't depressed upon returning. His eyes were still very bright and sparkling, clearly having found a new life goal.

"What a brilliant and marvelous figure. A Great Emperor from hundreds of thousands of years ago is actually still alive, and has walked a very long path at such a stage. I saw many remaining ruins; many people of the Feathered Dynasty are still worshipping this existence. I think if we wait another few hundred thousand years, perhaps this one will truly emerge."

"What a clever idea, ingenious and masterful. No Ancient Great Emperor should be underestimated..."

Gai Jiuyou was filled with emotion.

He explained the mysteries of it in detail to Zhang Xuan, but Zhang Xuan sighed leisurely after hearing it.

This method of artificially creating a Saint Spirit required too many prerequisites. One had to have earth-shattering strength and the attainments of a Source Heaven Master to possibly create such an acquired Dongtian Fudi.

Furthermore, there were quite a few problems during the growth process. It could be said that it didn't align with Zhang Xuan's goals at all, and he sighed after reading it.

To achieve such an accomplishment, one must have the strength of a perfected Saint Spirit, then turn into an embryo and hide in some blessed land between heaven and earth to gestate for hundreds of thousands of years. This is a technique that is more like some kind of decoration.

"It can be used for reference. If I'm interested later, I can learn to seal myself in some Dongtian Fudi, like Sun Wukong, to undergo Nirvana and rush out between heaven and earth again."

"For now, it just serves as a technique to broaden my knowledge; it's not really of much use."

Zhang Xuan sighed leisurely.

Meanwhile, Gai Jiuyou did not let Zhang Xuan continue to borrow the most top-tier Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon.

Instead, he reached out and touched the void in front of him. Immediately, the void before them rippled like a mirror, as if it had turned into a water surface, and then the scene of the original site of the former Heavenly Pivot Holy Land emerged.

Three Saint Kings, famous since the Taigu period, stood at the very front, followed by scattered top-tier figures; altogether, more than twenty Ancestor Kings stood there.

Then, Old Madman tore through the void with a boom, revealing his youthful state, and stood opposite them, his heroic bearing bursting forth.

At the same time, another powerful existence among the Taigu race was hiding in the void, holding an Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon, confronting each other.

The strength and level of the figure hiding in the void should be quite outstanding, but all of this was laid bare before Gai Jiuyou, completely unable to be hidden.

Gai Jiuyou even thoughtfully annotated the cultivation and strength of each figure for the sake of Zhang Xuan, who was an audience member.

The one wielding the Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon on the side of the Taigu race was a Saint King with extremely strong cultivation; it was not one of the renowned Four Great Heavenly Kings of the Taigu period, but an old man.

But his strength was even more formidable and terrifying than the Four Great Heavenly Kings; half a step had already crossed into the Great Saint Realm, and he should be a terrifying figure who had cultivated for many years.

It could be said that such preparations by the Taigu race were already quite grand.

Under normal circumstances, dealing with an "Old Madman" who had the combat power of a Saint King while at the Saint Realm would naturally be invincible, and one could already directly collect the corpse for Old Madman.

But the key is that the current Old Madman is the real Old Madman, not the one Zhang Xuan impersonated.

Then the situation is already very different.

Zhang Xuan could already predict the tragic scene and situation of the opponent.

Gai Jiuyou said calmly: "I have already communicated with them; they will take the initiative to suppress their strength to the early stage of the Saint King Realm, but they will possess the strength of the Eight Prohibitions. Sweeping across these figures on the opposite side should be difficult, but not by much."

"I believe they can handle it well; problems in this regard will not be very difficult."

Using the Saint King realm to disguise the Great Saint realm is of course very difficult, but the other way around is relatively easier.

Hearing this, Zhang Xuan just sighed leisurely, feeling a little regretful: "It's a pity that more than twenty figures who have stepped into the Saint Realm, as well as Saint Kings—such a precious Origin is being wasted like this. It is too much of a pity..."

Just as Zhang Xuan was speaking, Old Madman had already swung his Six Paths of Reincarnation, his fists hammering three Ancestor Kings to death; his blood and Qi pierced through the long sky, and the pressure was incomparable.

That manic combat power made the opponent feel shocked, and the Saint King-level powerhouse among the three Taigu Ancestor Kings roared repeatedly.

Zhang Xuan could not bear to watch anymore; such precious Origin of the Taigu race was being beaten into fragments by Old Madman punch after punch, with blood raining all over the sky. He was fighting even more crazily than the Old Madman Zhang Xuan had disguised.

During this period, Old Madman's acting was also obvious to all; clearly a Great Saint, he was bleeding continuously while facing the joint efforts of several Saint Kings, seemingly under heavy pressure.

But afterwards, he would turn the tide, recover with full health, and strike with continuous critical hits.

His acting was exquisite and peerless; even the Saint King hiding in the dark holding the Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon did not strike several times, always hesitating and thinking they could win.

Under normal circumstances, they would have directly used the Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon to suppress and then have a great battle, but the previous public live broadcast was too embarrassing, and the Taigu race still wanted to regain some face.

This time they also chose to broadcast live, and it was a live broadcast in front of major sacred grounds and sects, so they wanted to make this Human Race Saint bow to the King, and also wanted to destroy the confidence of all Human Race powerhouses, so they never directly used the strongest weapon to suppress, and Old Madman's state always looked precarious.

Previously, Old Madman was peerlessly formidable, but his precarious state always made the Taigu race feel that if they used a little more force, just a little more force, Old Madman would fall.

In that case, there would be no need to use the Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon to make the Human Race despair.

Look, your Human Race does have top-tier geniuses, but one or two are useless. My Taigu race has many strong people; even if you are not an opponent in a one-on-one fight, how can you deal with a pack of wolves alone?

In such hesitation and wandering, in just a short time, eighteen of the Ancient Creatures had already died, leaving only the two most powerful Saint Kings.

And Old Madman was already covered in blood at this time, precarious and seemingly likely to die at any moment, but the two surviving Ancient Kings felt their bodies go cold and did not dare to make a move.

Zhang Xuan could not bear to look at such a scene, only feeling it was too wasteful, with flesh, blood, and bones all over the sky.

So much powerful Origin was wasted like this; it truly made one feel it was a waste.

Gai Jiuyou looked at this scene indifferently, while also taking action to change the heavenly secrets.

"There are still Great Saints silently paying attention here. It seems that the Taigu Myriad Tribes indeed do not want peace and want the Human Race to die prematurely. I have interfered with part of the heavenly secrets, so they cannot calculate this part of the situation for the time being..."

(End of this chapter)