Chapter 83: Chen Xuanwu

A boom like thunder, a force like the surging sea!

Not far away, the blood Qi within that Daoist's body was as vigorous as a rolling rainbow; this abundant essence condensed into a pillar of heaven, towering and majestic, rising from his fontanelle to a height of over a zhang!

He swept his gaze over, and the sharp glint in his eyes was like two keen heavenly swords, nearly tearing through his physical shell, bursting from his pupils to slaughter, filling the void.

Such terrifying, strong, and overbearing blood Qi—let alone ordinary orthodox immortal cultivators, even he, a Gang-Sha martial cultivator who specialized in polishing his physique and form, was a cut below, not even fit to be mentioned in the same breath.

Yuan Yangsheng retreated a few more steps, a faint sensation of numbness creeping across his scalp.

In his perception, opened by the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, Chen Hang was like a roaring divine furnace of fire. Just standing there without moving, his exuberant vitality scorched the surrounding air, making it hot, distorted, and chaotic, causing one to dare not look up, only to retreat.

Compared to Chen Hang's inhuman physical shell and flesh,

he himself didn't seem like a martial cultivator at all, yet he was the one who better fit the title...

"Too insidious. This Daoist is truly full of schemes and calculations. If not for my luck in having opened the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, I would have truly and properly fallen this time..."

Yuan Yangsheng muttered to himself, his teeth aching.

Originally, he had planned to use the Great Martial Art of 'Shrinking Ground to an Inch' to rapidly break through the void, approach Chen Hang's side, and rely on his own physical cultivation to forcefully crush and defeat him, then capture him.

After all, in battles between low-realm cultivators, the only thing a martial cultivator can use to surpass an orthodox immortal cultivator is this physique, tempered and beaten a thousand times over.

But Chen Hang's blood Qi was even stronger and more overbearing than his own!

If this were a close-quarters brawl, the outcome would surely be miserable, no different from a sheep entering a tiger's den.

And while Yuan Yangsheng was filled with shock and hesitation, his face showing signs of indecision,

Chen Hang was also somewhat taken aback.

"Martial Dao Heavenly Eye... What kind of great divine ability is this in Gang-Sha martial arts? It can actually see through the disguise of the 'Scattered Scene Concealment Art' and directly perceive my physical blood Qi?"

Ever since he obtained the *Supreme Jade Body* from Tong Gaolu, he had reached the fifth layer of the Mystic Realm. His blood Qi was as vast and deep as the sea; even ordinary mid-grade talisman artifacts could hardly harm him.

They couldn't even break his skin, let alone injure his meridians or bones.

And this kind of physical vitality was like that of a young innate giant beast; even without the slightest killing intent or malice, it would still make those around him feel restless, confused, and uneasy.

In fact, this method of 'achieving sainthood through the flesh' that strongly mimics the changes of the heavens and earth—

was meant to use a lowly human body to rival and fight those innate giant beasts born with the mandate of the Profound Tribulation!

He usually used the Scattered Scene Concealment Art to cover his blood Qi. This supreme profound art, created by the ancestor of the Tribulation Immortals, was difficult for even Cave-Mystic Refiners to easily see through.

Yet today, after just a few glances from Yuan Yangsheng, the truth was laid bare...

The scene fell into silence.

After shouting that, Yuan Yangsheng harbored misgivings and did not strike first, instead retreating further away.

And because Chen Hang could not fathom the depths of those Martial Dao Heavenly Eyes, seeing this situation, he simply remained still, secretly drawing out essence Qi to recover his lost Embryonic Breathing.

The Green Law Sword was, after all, the pinnacle of mid-grade talisman artifacts; having driven it for so long, even with his Embryonic Breathing, he was feeling somewhat strained...

With both men no longer attacking,

on the other side, the battle between the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator and the middle-aged man also involuntarily slowed down.

The Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator, originally sweating profusely and retreating steadily—with death being only a matter of time—suddenly found a moment to breathe, a look of wild joy appearing on his face.

He quietly observed his surroundings, and the black-cloud blood-patterned robe on his body flashed once.

A wisp of black Qi silently escaped. Once it was not far from his body, it hid among the bushes and weeds, transforming into a small, eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin, which burrowed into the ground and vanished in an instant.

This art was performed very covertly; even the middle-aged man nearby did not notice it. In a flash, the Eyeless Hu Qin had tunneled dozens of zhang underground.

Just as the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator was about to curl his lips into a smile,

Yuan Yangsheng suddenly sneered, his body hunched, and he pressed a palm heavily onto the ground!

The surrounding mud surged like a tidal wave, as if a subterranean dragon were turning over. In an instant, the entire world trembled, and earth and stone flew!

And amidst the earth and stone rising to the sky, an eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin was seen clumsily shaking its wings.

Yuan Yangsheng raised his eyebrows, his five fingers forming a fist, and with a whistling force, he smashed down toward the Eyeless Hu Qin like a mountain collapsing and a sea overturning!

Boom!!!

This punch carried a weight of ten thousand jun, like a magnificent giant swinging a great hammer, the fierce wind biting and oppressive!

Let alone a mortal body of flesh and blood, even a high wall cast from refined gold and profound steel would have cracked and exploded!

However, contrary to his expectations, this fierce and peerless punch of his did not beat the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin into a mist of blood.

Instead, it merely...

shattered a few of the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin's wings.

It made its body shake, and it flew off sideways, crashing toward Chen Hang's direction.

"What kind of trick is this? Have I seen a ghost today?"

Yuan Yangsheng was puzzled.

When he threw that punch, an inexplicable force had suddenly erupted from the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin, blocking his fist.

The original ten-tenths of his strength had been blocked by that inexplicable force by more than nine-tenths, leaving only a negligible one-tenth, which barely landed on the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin, knocking it away.

"The methods of orthodox immortal cultivation are truly messy, with all sorts of gods and ghosts! It's just a pity that Big Brother left in such a hurry; he only taught me for a few days before being called back by the family. Even though my martial talent is rare in history, having only a few remnant arts to rely on, it's hard to make a name for myself..."

Just as Yuan Yangsheng's thoughts raced,

the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin flew back toward Chen Hang, who caught it in mid-air.

He simply extended two slender, fair fingers and pinched the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin between them.

In the stunned gaze of everyone,

he slowly applied force, inch by inch...

The Eyeless Hu Qin struggled frantically in his fingertips, and a force as fierce as a waterfall erupted from its body, swirling and washing, trying to push Chen Hang's two fingers apart and escape.

This true Qi glowed with a brilliant, radiant light, like clouds steaming and mist gathering, a gorgeous and magnificent color. At a glance, one knew its rank was not low; it was definitely not common, and it caused the air to explode with sound, shaking incessantly!

But after only two breaths, that brilliant true Qi, along with the eyeless Eyeless Hu Qin, were all crushed to pieces by Chen Hang!

Leaving behind only a short, sharp scream.

And then, nothing remained...

"Damn it! Something's gone wrong!"

Seeing Chen Hang calmly raise his eyes, the hair on Yuan Yangsheng's back stood up, as if he were being stared at by a fierce beast, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink.

"This Daoist's physical body is even more terrifying than I thought! I'm afraid I've kicked an iron plate in this fight!"

Yuan Yangsheng's face fell, his eyebrows drooping, and he sighed in his heart:

"Big Brother said that if one wants to temper the martial intent of 'having me, there is no enemy,' one must punch across the eight directions and four seas, testing the world.

But I've only just left home and already encountered such a great enemy. What kind of luck is this... Could it be that Heaven itself wants me to fail?"

And it wasn't just Yuan Yangsheng who was shocked; even more terrified was the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator.

Seeing Chen Hang easily dissipate the true Qi with just two fingers, in his panic, he even slowed down his use of the talisman artifact, allowing the middle-aged man he was fighting to spot the gap. A banana-leaf fan covered him, hitting the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator so hard his spine hunched like a shrimp, and he spat out several mouthfuls of blood.

"Fifth-rank mid-grade Red Ghoul True Qi, and this secret technique of using a Eyeless Hu Qin to transmit messages. It seems you have Foundation Establishment sect-mates here. Is the Blood Lotus Sect planning to do something big in the Huaiwu Cave?"

Chen Hang looked at the male cultivator and spoke.

The Blood Lotus Sect—

This sect is said to have been founded thousands of years ago by a True Person of the Blood River Sect, one of the Eight Sects and Six Schools, who traveled across the ocean and established the lineage in the southern region of the Dongmi Continent before dying.

This demonic sect was once glorious for a time, its prestige shaking the heavens. Although the True Person who founded the sect died early, the later disciples were capable, producing more than one Jin Dan True Person, who forcefully propped up the declining trend.

Moreover, after the Blood Lotus Sect slaughtered all the living beings in an entire boundary and luckily refined a Blood God Child, its demonic flames became even more towering, causing even the Flower God Mansion and the Naked Body Sect, also demonic sects, to bow their heads.

However, times have changed, and the current Blood Lotus Sect is no longer the glorious sect of thousands of years ago.

The Blood God Child refined in the past has long been destroyed, and there is no Jin Dan True Person in the sect to guard it. Now, even their mountain gate has been forcefully occupied by the Flower God Mansion, and they can only swallow their anger and move to the depths of the southern region, becoming neighbors with Cave-Mystic sects like the Xuanzhen Sect and the Bai He Cave.

Even thirty years ago, when Hearing Ai Jian wanted to open a sect at Little Gan Mountain and all the sects came to obstruct him,

after several disputes, the leading Blood Lotus Sect was directly slashed by Hearing Ai Jian alone with his sword, breaking their mountain gate and killing several elders before he walked away, greatly losing the little face they had left.

Because of this,

although the Xuanzhen Sect has always been at odds with the surrounding sects, their relationship with the Blood Lotus Sect is even more like that of enemies, with a hatred as deep as the sea...

"You are also a cultivator of the southern region; you must have heard of the reputation of my Blood Lotus Sect. Retreat quickly, don't throw away your own life!"

Seeing Chen Hang looking over, the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator's heart trembled, and he braced himself to speak:

"I have countless sect-mates here, don't act recklessly! Otherwise—"

"The Huaiwu Cave is a place to screen out talents, specifically for the Huaiwu Cave Master to bestow fate. Even people from sects who enter have a tacit understanding not to form excessive groups, so as not to disturb this tacit agreement."

Before he could finish, Chen Hang calmly interrupted him:

"Listening to your words, it seems the Blood Lotus Sect has sent many disciples this time, and they are gathered in one place to compete for the top three? You are truly bold.

The Huaiwu Cave Master is a great Cave-Mystic Refiner, and he has wide connections and a friendship with the Five Lights Sect. Aren't you afraid of displeasing him with such acts of forming cliques for profit?"

"Ridiculous, he is merely a Cave-Mystic Refiner, what can he do to my Blood Lotus Sect?! I'm not afraid to tell you, this time we are led by Senior Brother Qin. If you don't want to die, then—"

The Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator still wanted to be stubborn, but Chen Hang had no intention of listening further. He just pointed with two fingers, and the Green Law Sword slashed down toward his head!

"..."

This sword strike came with extreme intensity, like green thunder suddenly exploding from flat ground!

The Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator couldn't even muster the thought of resisting.

A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and the blood-colored python coiled around his waist suddenly opened its mouth, biting off the Blood Lotus Sect male cultivator's head whole before the flying sword could strike.

Immediately, a mist of foul-smelling blood exploded on the spot, blowing both the snake body and the human body to pieces!

"Escape technique?"

Hundreds of small snakes flew out from the foul blood mist, some tunneling into the ground, some flying into the sky, some swimming in the water, dense and numerous, almost filling everything in sight.

The Green Law Sword only killed a dozen or so, while the rest of the small snakes were still fleeing for their lives. Just as Chen Hang was about to form a seal again,

not far away, Yuan Yangsheng's voice suddenly came.

"The true body is in the northwest corner, brownish-yellow, the one climbing the clouds."

The Green Law Sword moved accordingly.

Only after a resentful, miserable scream, following the decapitation of the brownish-yellow small snake in the northwest corner,

all the fleeing small snakes stiffened and collapsed into a pool of pus and blood, never to make a sound again.

"Martial Dao Heavenly Eye... This Yuan fellow's talent is truly rare in the world!"

Inside the Qiankun Bag, Ancestor Fu Can sighed to Chen Hang via sound transmission:

"It's a pity he was born in the Xudu Heaven, a great world where immortal cultivation is manifest. If he were a person of the Gujie Heaven, I truly don't know what boundless future he would have! But now your situation is stronger than his. Kid, how do you plan to deal with him?"

Chen Hang turned his eyes to look at Yuan Yangsheng on the side.

This heroic and transcendent youth was startled, shrank his neck, and after hesitating for a few breaths, he obediently raised both hands, signaling that he had no malice.

And his round and fat companion had no intention of saving him either; he raised the large banana leaf and wanted to sneak away.

But he was startled by a cry from the Bai He under Zhou Tong, and in an instant, he froze on the spot, unable to move, and unable to stay.

"Daoist... no, Brother, Big Brother! I was wrong, terribly wrong!"

Yuan Yangsheng felt his scalp tingle from being stared at, managed to squeeze out a smile, and said ingratiatingly: "As the saying goes, we don't get to know each other without a fight! Big Brother has fought to his heart's content this time, can you allow this little brother to leave for a while, and I will come to visit again later?"

"Allow you to escape, so you can come back for revenge later?"

Chen Hang smiled.

Yuan Yangsheng's face changed greatly, he waved his hands repeatedly to deny it, and all sorts of sweet words were spoken as if they cost nothing.

Seeing that Chen Hang remained unmoved from beginning to end, he helplessly steeled his heart, carefully operated a martial art, and a phantom of a massive giant snake faintly appeared behind him.

"Be careful, any Martial Dao Heavenly Eye usually harbors a heaven-bestowed divine ability, and the power is terrifying! Don't you capsize the boat, kid."

Just as Chen Hang was about to strike, Ancestor Fu Can transmitted again:

"And this Yuan Yangsheng also has the aura of a talisman on him, it seems to be the scent of an Escape Talisman? If you want to kill him, you must do it in one blow, otherwise, if you don't kill the snake, it will become a disaster."

"Kill in one blow?"

Chen Hang frowned and shook his head slightly.

"However... that broken snake behind him looks a bit familiar, quite asking for a beating."

At this time, Ancestor Fu Can said again: "Ask this Yuan Yangsheng about his master; maybe it's someone I know."

"The Ancestor knows him?"

"If I'm not mistaken, I roughly know him. These Ba snakes all look the same, who has the patience to count how the scales on their bodies differ!"

"Ba snake?"

"Don't be long-winded, kid, ask quickly! If it really is, that would be another great joy!"

Ancestor Fu Can was anxious.

Chen Hang pondered slightly and asked. Seeing that he had no intention of killing him for now, Yuan Yangsheng felt relieved and quietly stopped the activation of an ancient talisman.

"That... little brother Yuan Yangsheng, I was originally a beggar in the Haoyang Kingdom of the Nanchan Continent. Later, I met Big Brother by chance. He said I was a divine talent in martial arts, so he taught me Gang-Sha martial arts for a few days..."

Yuan Yangsheng scratched his head and said honestly:

"Later, Big Brother said he had a great enemy in the Nanchan Continent, and it would inevitably implicate me, so he used some talisman to transmit me to the Dongmi Continent... I was unfamiliar with the Dongmi Continent, and after learning for several months, I finally understood your language here. Later, I heard that this Huaiwu Cave was a place of good fortune, so I came to play."

"What divine ability is this giant snake phantom behind you?"

"This is a martial art, a martial art created by Big Brother himself, called *Eight Strikes of the Snake Dragon*."

He carefully observed Chen Hang's expression and said:

"Big Brother once said that the Great Dao is difficult to cultivate simultaneously, this Brother... even if I teach you the *Eight Strikes of the Snake Dragon*, you won't be able to use the methods in this Gang-Sha martial art..."

"Ask him! Ask him who this Snake Dragon is modeled after? What is its name!"

Ancestor Fu Can was becoming more and more impatient, as if he couldn't wait to watch the show.

"This snake is a Ba snake, a snake that swallows elephants. Big Brother said this Ba snake is called Yue You, an innate giant beast, and also one of his lifelong great enemies..."

Yuan Yangsheng spoke.

"Has that Big Brother of yours left behind a name?"

Chen Hang faintly felt something was amiss, but couldn't say exactly what was wrong.

"Big Brother... is called Chen Xuanwu."

Yuan Yangsheng said.

Ancestor Fu Can suddenly flipped up, his eyes bursting with brilliant light.

"Why did he teach you martial arts? Could it be because you are truly some martial genius, and there is no price?"

Chen Hang said.

"This... this is not without one."

Seeing that Chen Hang was not attacking, but instead asking him questions, Yuan Yangsheng, although he didn't understand his meaning, was happy to do so and took the opportunity to start adjusting his breath.

"Big Brother said that if I can luckily achieve the Dao in the future, I must help him deal with someone."

"Who?"

"Big Brother's family."

After hesitating for a few breaths, Yuan Yangsheng still spoke:

"His father..."

Inside the Qiankun Bag.

Ancestor Fu Can was already laughing so hard he was leaning back and forth, laughing until tears came out.

"Actually like this! Actually like this!"

He held his belly and laughed wildly, his face flushed with excitement:

"The number of days is truly unfathomable, it is actually so miraculous! Hahahaha! A good show! A good show! Truly a good show!"

At this time.

On the other side of the Huaiwu Cave.

On the high platform, a cold snort suddenly came out, and then a person stood up indifferently, looking displeased.

Two-in-one ===== CHAPTER 84 =====