Chapter 316: Mist Opens

The first jade step after stepping into the Mystic Gate is "Black Clothes." It is the formal dress for ministers to enter the court in ancient times, and the Daoist sect also likes to call it "Feather Clothes" or "Rosy Clothes," but the meaning is the same. It is to shed the dust clothes and blockages, and from then on, the eyes and ears are refreshed, immersed in the spiritual mystery of heaven and earth, no longer needing to rely on vague inspiration, and waving hands to control it like true Qi. This range is about twenty or thirty zhang.

The second jade step is called "Tuan Body." The dust clothes have been changed, and the mortal body should be shed. Spiritual mystery is not only controlled by the cultivator outside the body, but begins to flow into the body, soaking and refining every thread of blood and bone. The so-called "mortal body" begins to shed from this point on. A mortal holding a sword to the throat is no longer a threat. And the range of controlling mysterious Qi also grows to about fifty or sixty zhang.

The third jade step is called "Visiting the Que." With black clothes on the body and a spiritual body formed, the cultivator can move the mysterious Qi within a hundred zhang around the body without hindrance. As spiritual mystery flows through, every thread of blood and every tendon and bone is completely blended with the spiritual mystery of heaven and earth. This is called completing the "Mystic Gate Ascension," and in front, is the building to ascend to heaven.

To deal with a person of such a realm, first, one needs to curb their control of mysterious Qi, and second, one needs to have enough killing power. 【Cloud Locks Vermilion Building】 is a mysterious formation specifically prepared by the Immortal Platform for killing Third Rank Masters. Few can use it, but after a 【Visiting the Que】 cultivator enters the game, it can only support another quarter of an hour.

And the time Wudong prepared was less than half a quarter of an hour.

Therefore, he would never give any chance to catch a breath. Wudong sought to have all the strongest offensives smash down like a rainstorm in the first time. This was also the greatest sincerity they could bring out.

So, borrowing the abruptness of the first ambush to build momentum, the offensive set by the Immortal Platform arrived like a rainstorm, seeking to make the enemy fall upon their body before they had time to deal with the first wave.

This effect was indeed achieved. The man did not take any advantage in 【Pulling Silk Jade Tiger】 and 【Cloud Locks Vermilion Building】, and when the Tianshan Wind Inspector entered the formation, the truly biting killing intent was fully revealed.

Not transferring an idle Master from the mountain gate, but specifically waiting for An Cang to come after handing over his affairs to be in charge of this matter, besides his clear mind, was also because An Sifeng had not been able to count out his fifth finger in Tianshan 【Visiting the Que】. And earlier this year, he had received the *West Sea Xihai Xihai Qun Yu Lu*, and was half a foot into the Group Jade Pavilion.

Now, this highest classic of Tianshan mysterious arts revealed its true body here. After 【Victory Mist Riding Clouds】, with the cooperation of "Cloud Locks Vermilion Building," the mysterious mist around the sword twisted like a whirlpool in the sea. An Cang did not give it a chance to disperse or be snatched. The art style had already been established on this thick mysterious Qi that was rarely seen.

In the invisible outline, the hazy and ownerless clouds and mist suddenly had a shape, and everything stopped in an instant. Every mist droplet stopped in place.

On the mist side, the man who had just been knocked down had just stood firm, reaching out to press on a tall phoenix tree with sparse yellow leaves beside him.

Sword horizontal in front of the body.

The next moment, everything stopped, and then heaven moved and clouds flew.

No power flowed out, and there was no sound at all. Only in this visual spectacle, the invisible waves tilted and fell.

*West Sea Xihai Xihai Qun Yu Lu* · 【Heavenly Lan】

The man under the phoenix tree faced this strike completely.

The momentum of the third jade step had just gathered, but the next moment it was smashed and scattered.

The several-zhang Qi wall condensed by the horizontal sword collapsed like rain. The man was like a bird under the Heavenly Lan, wings broken and feathers scattered, with nowhere to hide.

This was not a collision from external force. The man's body had not even moved half a step. This was the wave of the entire area's mysterious Qi harmonizing into one. A person of Visiting the Que, body blended with spiritual mystery, was precisely in this wave.

Blood mist exploded from the man's body in an instant.

After this art was released, An Cang's body fell into a moment of stiffness. His face was pale, and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. Heavenly Lan was originally the use of one's own mysterious Qi to drive the spiritual mystery within the controllable range. This exhaustive strike was truly quite difficult for him to bear.

And the next moment, under the mist, the man had forcibly twisted this piece of mysterious mist.

The spiritual body of blended mysterious Qi was still being injured by Heavenly Lan, but as long as this piece of mysterious Qi was handed over, even if it carried a poisonous blade, for a Third Rank, it could be firmly grasped while dripping with blood.

The cold killing intent surrounded An Cang in an instant. With just this moment of breathing, the man's counterattack would pour down.

But An Cang turned a blind eye to this. He stood quietly in the air, his long sword horizontal, and instead accumulated the third attack.

Because at the same time, the mist behind him had suddenly broken open, and an owl shadow swept past. Wudong's 【Jade Tiger】 sword light was bright, without the high-level mysterious classics passed down by Tianshan. The old man was just a straight sword full of killing intent, and the entire mist cooled down by a cut.

Almost every Crane Inspector active on the front line of the Immortal Platform had come up from the most bottom-level Jianghu experiences. Even after reaching the high realm of the Mystic Gate, they were the batch most skilled in fighting.

The second "Mist Sparrow" entered the game, and half of the mysterious mist immediately went toward him, breaking the stalemate between An Cang and the man falling into the disadvantage. The man's killing intent suddenly dimmed, and Wudong's long sword had reached his throat.

Just when the man was pressing the snatched mysterious Qi toward An Cang's weakness!

The sword sound was hidden like thunder.

Pei Ye had fought a bloody battle with the 【Edict-Listening Divine Child】 in the Purple Bamboo Secret Realm, but such a battle was just a thin piece of paper in front of this sword.

The 【Severing Phoenix Thunder】 from the hands of the true master no longer needed the pulling silk of the decoy sword. The true tiger roar was now in front of him. The man's heart and lungs shrank, his eyes were fast, and he immediately returned his sword horizontally, but the mysterious Qi that was not under control was truly too late to return. Wudong's thunderbolt accumulated for four miles pierced through him entirely, and a bloody hole exploded on the man's back.

Wudong's sword only paused, and behind him, An Cang had already swept up again.

*Zhou Zhou Muwang Sword* · 【I Go to Yellow Bamboo】

One of the highest achievements of Tianshan swords, a treasure of the world's sword path. Even the most excellent sword students in the Dao-Opening Society needed to visit the Jade Peak of the Snow Country to learn this unique skill. But in this link, it was just a transitional sword.

Intent sword.

"Great cold at noon, north wind rain and snow, there are frozen people, the Son of Heaven wrote three chapters to mourn the people." In the realm of autumn rain and cold, this sword of cold mourning suddenly spanned the mist.

The man trembled suddenly, his body as if stiff.

The Huan Si Lou has always been treacherous, ruthless, and cruel, leaving many people devastated; this intent is perfectly suited to this enemy. But Wu Dong did not harbor the extravagant hope of resolving the enemy with a single intent. As long as this intent-sword was not shattered in an instant and could provide a slight hindrance, Wu Dong's second sword would be sufficient to strike.

Jade Tiger Pulling Silk.

The swords in the hands of the two had already had one collision.

It was not a sword technique from any book. This sword was almost the instinct that the old man had refined from his half-life of fighting. As soon as the Jade Tiger moved, there was a tilt in the opponent's hand.

Even if there was only one gap, this one gap was enough.

Wudong's fierce and fast sword light broke into his empty gate, and the cloak was torn by the sword wind first.

But it was at this time that An Cang's urgent shout behind him reached his ears: "Wrong!!"

Wudong's heart suddenly tightened, and his sharp eyes looked at the front—this person had already escaped the intent sword a step earlier.

Or rather, there was no so-called "step earlier," because Wudong had already unsheathed his sword almost at the same time as 【I Go to Yellow Bamboo】. This situation could only mean that the enemy had not been affected by the *Zhou Zhou Muwang Sword* in the slightest.

It was indeed "wrong" with the *Zhou Zhou Muwang Sword*.

An Cang's sword of cold mourning arrived, and the seriously injured enemy did not receive the slightest obstruction, but instead, as if thirsty for sweet spring, An Cang clearly felt that in the pressure of suffocation, he suddenly breathed a mouthful of fresh air!

So in an instant, the entire courtyard was cold and desolate.

The man blocked Wudong's killing sword with one sword, but a pair of silent eyes had already looked toward An Cang.

This sword intent immediately broke away from An Cang's control.

It really only took one breath.

All the efforts the man had made since being ambushed unexpectedly responded to him at this time. In the repeated control of the mysterious mist, the tall phoenix tree in the courtyard had already poked its top out of the mist, and the yellow leaves were swaying in the autumn wind.

The magnificent autumn Qi flowed down in an instant. Between thunder, rain, and autumn wind, the man's voice was hoarse with blood.

"The thunderous roar of the Lei Master, the swift and mighty rush of the Fei Lian."

The magnificent and desolate autumn wind pierced through the mist cage in an instant, broke the cloud lock, and connected a wide path toward the clear sky of night rain.

It was also in this magnificent autumn wind that the mist finally dispersed, the tattered cloak fell, and the man's cold and shabby attire looked like it had walked out of the previous dynasty six hundred years ago.

Now he was seriously injured, but the powerful aura still forced the two Masters of the Tuan Body realm.

Wudong and An Cang were as stiff as ice at the same time.

Even if they hadn't seen him, at this moment they already knew who they had encountered.

Swallow Sun Society · 【Cold Scholar】 Xiang Minggao.

Being able to almost force such a Master on the Crane List to a dead end was a game that was worthy of being called amazing for two senior Mystic Gates!

But there was no mood to cheer for this record. Under the gaze of these wounded and tired eyes, An Cang made the most correct decision in an instant. He decisively moved away from the path this person used to leave the formation, and behind him, Wudong's hoarse roar had already sounded.

—"Fuck your mother!! How is this possible!!!"

Xiang Minggao swept out with his sword, and "Cloud Locks Vermilion Building" was already at the end of its strength.

And in the night sky, two light and cold low laughs sounded.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 317 =====