[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-path-of-immortality":3,"chapter-the-path-of-immortality-the-path-of-immortality-chapter-518":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Path of Immortality",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2271668,4436,"Chapter 518: The Green Snake of Cut Jade Comes Alive at His Waist","the-path-of-immortality-chapter-518",518,"\u003Cp>Suddenly, the entire arena became as silent as if a pin could be heard dropping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each face bore varying degrees of surprise, eyes flickering faintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The duel had barely begun, yet one of the six had already been expelled—despite everyone’s combined efforts, no one could stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the situation in the arena suddenly fractured, even while under siege, Chen Hang appeared to be gaining the upper hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu and Xie Tan exchanged a distant glance; though no words were spoken, both understood each other’s intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Chen Hang’s defeat of Pei Hanzhang had been fleeting, as if he hadn’t expended any strength at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the sword techniques Chen Hang revealed were far fiercer than those he used against Shen Xingcui—his murderous intent laid bare!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Hanzhang had simply been careless, caught off-guard by Chen Hang’s superior sword art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Hanzhang likely assumed that under the pressure of six top-tier Jin Dan cultivators, Chen Hang, even if confident enough to hold his ground, had lost the initiative and would resort to agile sword-fighting tactics to seek an opening—so he never bothered to deploy his full arsenal or set up his formation early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But neither he nor the other Dan Yuan True Persons in the arena had anticipated this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under such circumstances, Chen Hang did not retreat from his sharp edge—he struck first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not move until he did—and when he moved, it was like thunder striking with ten thousand tons of force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before all eyes, he forced Pei Hanzhang out of the arena!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Pei Hanzhang set up his formation beforehand, he might not have been so humiliated; the others could have used his formation’s subtleties to stall Chen Hang for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was merely a single misjudgment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No wonder he won the duel against Yuchen—such clever adaptability, in this realm, few can match him. But today—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu’s eyes flashed with sharpness as he silently calculated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that the situation seemed to have stalled, no one stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hang merely swept his sleeve and broke the silence with a shout:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Next—who will face me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cry echoed across the heavens, brimming with boldness and defiance, towering over all rivals!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Fang frowned, about to step forward, but Wang Xiu gave him a warning glance to hold back; afar, Xie Tan’s gaze was thoughtful, and he too did not rush to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Wang Xiu and Xie Tan hold back, Yuan Fayan and Zhang Ping also fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two raised their vigilance to the utmost, secretly activating their divine arts, prepared for Chen Hang’s sudden strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Chen Hang shook his head, then urged his spiritual intent—out from his third eye flew the A Ni Hei Jian, hanging high above the heavens, illuminating the entire sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since no one will answer, I shall not refuse.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost as his voice sounded, the A Ni Hei Jian shot forward like a meteor or lightning, straight toward Yuan Fayan’s body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Targeting me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Fayan was slightly startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had prepared—he summoned countless drops of Yi Yuan Chong Shui, one after another, forming a barrier before the flying sword, then unleashed a deafening roar as they surged forward together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the Seven Divine Waters of this world, Yi Yuan Chong Shui was the hardest in texture, even surpassing refined gold and divine iron, and unimaginably heavy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the hands of a powerful cultivator, even a single drop could easily pierce through towering mountains or shatter lakes and seas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The famed Ruoshui of Dazaitian, it was said, evolved from Yi Yuan Chong Shui as one of its foundations into another kind of heavenly anomaly water—though possessing its own unique marvels, Ruoshui was said to be “a goose feather cannot float, reed flowers sink to the bottom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this regard, it bore some resemblance to Yi Yuan Chong Shui…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the Yi Yuan Chong Shui blocking his path was shattered drop by drop—those drops as heavy as small mountains failed to hold the flying sword for long, instead being shattered and scattered by its blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seizing that fleeting delay, Yuan Fayan transformed into a streak of extreme light, barely avoiding the strike—and even as the sword hovered nearby, he hastily glanced upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Chen Hang struck, the other Dan Yuan True Persons did not stand idle—they attacked in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A barrage of killing techniques surged toward Chen Hang, as if yin and yang had flipped, stirring celestial anomalies, aiming to crush him outright!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hang hastily summoned the Five-Colored Great Hand to block Tian Fang and Zhang Ping’s divine arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the instant the Great Hand was stalled, Wang Xiu’s dazzling yellow light slipped nimbly around it, exploding soundlessly near Chen Hang’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A skull carved from refined jade let out a piercing shriek, leaping from the void to bite fiercely at Chen Hang’s neck!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the “Steal the Embryo, Rob the Primordial” technique of Xuan Feng Cave—once the skull bit home, all one’s magic power and primordial essence would gush out like water leaking from a punctured skin bag.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless one immediately used an Immortal Medicine to temporarily seal the breach and then secluded oneself in meditation to slowly restore one’s primordial energy, one would inevitably die from this technique, becoming a dried corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the midst of a duel, where life and death hung by a thread and circumstances shifted in an instant, the caster would never grant the opponent time to swallow any great medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could say that if struck by the “Steal the Embryo, Rob the Primordial,” the outcome of the duel was already sealed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, the skull was upon Chen Hang’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as its fangs were about to close, Chen Hang’s Xuan Yu Wan Shu Robe instantly expanded a layer of dark water-light, repelling the skull, which tumbled several times in midair before finally halting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the skull did not relent—driven by Wang Xiu’s full power, its eyes glowed with demonic aura, wrapped in demonic flames, and clashed seven times against the robe’s water-light before letting out one final shriek and dissolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seizing the moment when the robe’s old power had faded and new power had not yet arisen, Xie Tan in the Cloud Chariot and Feather Canopy decisively flipped his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mirror-light instantly shattered the clouds, striking Chen Hang’s body directly and immobilizing him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perfect! I’ve been waiting for this chance!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu rejoiced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since Zhang Ping of the Primordial Demon Sect eliminated the spirit beast Ran Jiao, he had prepared for the worst and subtly reached a tacit understanding with Xie Tan to set a trap for Chen Hang afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though events did not unfold as planned—Chen Hang dared to strike first, and despite the six of them uniting, Pei Hanzhang was still expelled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chen Hang had directed his sword at Yuan Fayan—and after removing that greatest threat, Wang Xiu and Xie Tan had coordinated perfectly, finally forcing Chen Hang into this predicament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That seemingly unexpected, seemingly decisive “Steal the Embryo, Rob the Primordial” was merely a decoy—the true surprise lay in Xie Tan’s Ding Yang Bao Jing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ding Yang Bao Jing… Xie Tan brought this artifact out too?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ping could not help but be startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing Chen Hang finally immobilized, he would not let this opportunity slip—he summoned a gleaming short knife that hummed loudly, hurtling toward Chen Hang’s head with the speed of lightning and thunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Fang let out a low roar and re-summoned the silver ring he had used to lock the black serpent beneath the Long Fa Su Xiao Spirit General—splitting it into two, then four, then eight…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually dividing into hundreds, encircling Chen Hang’s body entirely—distant observers saw him as if clad in a suit of gleaming silver armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Fayan unleashed all his Yi Yuan Chong Shui, transforming it into a hundred-zhang-long river of water, crashing down upon Chen Hang’s shoulders like a mountain collapsing, with overwhelming force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu flicked his sleeve and hurled a cluster of dark thunder and demonic lightning—this was the “Hollowing Void Ganglei ” of Xuan Feng Cave, its power and mystery no less formidable than the famed “Yuchen Four Thunders.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it touched one’s body, it took root like a persistent tumor, nearly impossible to remove.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, all divine arts and magic treasures blazed across the sky, striking with ferocious speed and force, like a furnace’s flames engulfing a tuft of hair!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, it seemed as if a volcano had erupted, spewing smoke and dust that obscured half the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up, all directions were filled with flickering, dancing lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Sands of Flowing Mountain, affected by this force, collapsed at one corner—massive boulders tumbled down, stirring up clouds of sand for a long while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could this be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Xie Tan, who had been fully controlling the Ding Yang Bao Jing, turned pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped back as if the mirror in his hand had burned him—he could no longer hold it, and it flew off at an angle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, the dark smoke and dust were split open by a brilliant beam—a luminous jade light stretched across the heavens, pure and radiant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could this be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Fang’s pupils shrank—he cried out involuntarily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the jade light stepped a hundred-zhang-tall divine figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His neck glowed with a circular halo, his feet exuded clouds of qi, his long black hair cascaded like a waterfall, swaying gently in the wind. Though he made no grand gestures, his aura was beyond description.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Chen Hang’s shoulders were crushed by Yi Yuan Chong Shui, his limbs bound by silver rings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body bore deep and shallow wounds—he had clearly suffered damage from their combined assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as streams of jade light flowed over him, merging above and below, those wounds healed visibly before their eyes—within a few breaths, his spiritual energy surged back to strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As all cultivators felt an invisible hand clutch their chests, making breathing difficult, Chen Hang suddenly smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Xie!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu’s mouth opened wide in alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before Xie Tan could refocus and summon the Ding Yang Bao Jing again, Chen Hang moved like lightning—snatching and shattering the Yi Yuan Chong Shui crushing his shoulders in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, his body trembled, and his major meridians blazed with intense light, like a sun splitting open the sea to illuminate the earth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“….”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tian Fang grunted in pain—the silver rings shattered under this terrifying force, and as their master, he suffered backlash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he hastily summoned a divine compass to shield himself, several breaths passed—and no attack came as he expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned his gaze—Xie Tan’s Ding Yang Bao Jing had struck empty air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away, a sword-light as tall as heaven blazed into existence, slashing down toward Yuan Fayan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword-light cleaved through Yuan Fayan’s two magic treasures, then continued with residual force, severing his left arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Yuan Fayan had cultivated the “Substitute Body Method of the Northern Pole Garden”—the part cut was merely a bronze flower engraved with star patterns; his true body escaped the battlefield, avoiding injury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet relying on the Five Qi Qian Kun Ring to withstand external attacks and his own hardened body, Chen Hang did not relent after his failed strike—he pressed forward with his sword again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After three such strikes, Yuan Fayan had exhausted all his bronze flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Chen Hang would not relent, after a few more exchanges, Yuan Fayan had no choice but to activate his small jade tablet and was summoned out of the painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, only four remained…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Chen Hang clapped his palm, dispersing the demonic cloud Tian Fang had summoned, then recalled his flying sword to block Xie Tan’s pair of Long Que Jin Fang Ji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two magic treasures clashed—the trembling beneath the clouds sounded like a drumbeat, echoing endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rise!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hang paid no further attention to the pair of Dragon Phoenix Golden Spears; instead, he drew a surge of essence from his Golden Core dantian and activated a spell incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the sky above turned a deep crimson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rolling torrents of blood surged from heaven to earth, like a celestial river bursting its banks, crashing down with unstoppable force upon Zhang Ping’a, who had been poised to strike!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ping’a’s face darkened; at this critical moment, summoning the true light that had slain Ran Jiao was useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After enduring for a moment, he was forced to activate his divine art, transforming his body into a swirling mist of emerald smoke to evade the onslaught.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this blood-red corruption proved strangely anomalous—unlike ordinary substances—it curled at both ends and effortlessly swallowed Zhang Ping’a whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the astonished gazes of all, where the blood had flowed, only empty space remained—Zhang Ping’a was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Next, it’s your turn.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hang raised his palm and unleashed a violent surge of qi, forcing the Dragon Phoenix Golden Spears away from A Bi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he seized the sword in hand, flicked its blade, and spoke softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turbid miasma raged; wind and thunder erupted in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time passed, Wang Xiu and the others had clashed hundreds of strikes with Chen Hang; the longer the battle dragged, the more suffocated, alarmed, and grim Wang Xiu became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the successive losses of Pei Hanzhang, Yuan Fayan, and Zhang Ping’a, the encirclement had been shattered by half—its momentum now utterly broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using the “Phase Shift and Swap” technique to exchange positions with Tian Fang, whose lips dripped blood, and taking the “Purple Pure Divine Thunder” in his stead,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xiu suppressed the stabbing pain, hastily swallowed a spiritual pill, and adjusted his breath for a cycle—his mind now resolved to burn the bridges behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this continued, he would be relentlessly crushed by Chen Hang, with no chance to counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To break the deadlock and gain even a sliver of breathing room, he had no choice but to unleash that supreme divine art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Wang Xiu conceived this thought, Chen Hang’s assault suddenly slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Xie Tan noticed the sword light aimed at him suddenly looped back to defend Chen Hang’s surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This concealment technique cannot fool my senses, Sima Xiu—I thought you’d have learned better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had Chen Hang spoken than a sharp “shriek” erupted before him—an silver dart was precisely deflected by his sword light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind the dart stood Sima Xiu, standing atop a hundred-zhang-long dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Sima Xiu could cry out, three magical artifacts—a mirror, a ring, and a shuttle—erupted from Chen Hang’s back and slammed toward her, while his fist unleashed a torrent of qi like a river reversing its course, surging upward in rolling waves that swept across all directions!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sima Xiu possessed an advanced evasion technique and barely managed to dodge in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though her protective golden ring was dented and groaned in agony, her bones and sinews remained unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the dragon beneath her feet had no such fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Merely brushed by the fist’s qi, the dragon’s body froze instantly, then exploded violently in midair, raining blood down in a torrential downpour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had barely appeared—only to be obliterated outright, its corpse reduced to nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>",2556,"2026-06-19T22:30:06.574Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","91caee6733f75c35371aaecd238ec51a9b52aeb92df54049102b27eb0afa6862","the-path-of-immortality-chapter-519","the-path-of-immortality-chapter-517",545,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-path-of-immortality-cover.jpg"]