Chapter 139: Slaying Immortal, The Fool

After three rounds of wine, Fairy Caiyun supported Jiang Taixu as they left; only the Jiang Family Divine Body Jiang Yifei remained guarding the gate in the distance, glancing toward the few people inside from time to time, always feeling a bit of an itch in his teeth!

Because Jiang Taixu's seniority was too high, he had no qualification to sit at the same table and eat; his dignified Divine Body had actually fallen to the point of watching the gate!

If only Jiang Xuan were sitting inside it would be one thing — after all he had received the news that Jiang Xuan tore apart a Ji Family Great Power in the Hualong Pool with his bare hands, someone absolutely not to be provoked!

But even Ye Fan and the other two got to sit at the table and eat, making him feel extremely unbalanced! They're all at the Four Extremes realm, so why!

Jiang Xuan's internal Source Power circulated once, and the alcohol qi dissipated instantly; he looked at Ye Fan and said: "The Four Extremes Secret Realm focuses on cultivating the four limbs, and the resources needed are also vast — what are your plans next?"

Ye Fan said in a deep voice: "I need to re-refine the Dao Rule magic weapons inside my body; additionally I heard the Taichu Ancient Mine is about to open, when the time comes all heroes will gather, and we also plan to go take a look!"

Jiang Xuan gave a slight nod; under his influence, Jiang Taixu no longer needed to wash away karma with divine blood, emerged ahead of time, and broke through to Saint.

Ye Fan also temporarily no longer needs to run around for resources; right now he has even caught up to the strength of those Heaven's Prides, and among the Four Extremes realm only the Yaoguang Shengzi can contend with him a bit — going to the Taichu Ancient Mine to seize Phoenix Blood Red Gold won't be difficult.

Seeing Jiang Xuan turn his head to look at himself, Pang Bo scratched the back of his head, revealing a simple, honest, and ignorant smile.

His cultivation speed wasn't slow, but he had no plan — he always just went wherever Ye Fan went.

Jiang Xuan took the Demon Emperor Ancient Scripture he had obtained from devouring soul thoughts earlier, transcribed a copy, and tossed it to Pang Tong: "I said before you have demon race bloodline; this demon race technique is just right for you to cultivate!"

Pang Bo hurriedly reached out and grabbed the technique; after two glances he couldn't put it down.

"Jiang Xuan! What level has your strength reached now?" Ye Fan asked curiously.

Although he had broken through to the Four Extremes realm and caught up to those Heaven's Prides, he felt the distance between him and Jiang Xuan growing farther and farther!

"Defense should be comparable to a Saint! Rule Power cannot affect the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Pagoda inside my body — the pagoda is me, I am the pagoda! As for offense, barely reaching the mid-stage of Great Power; next there should also be a chance to reach the Saint realm!"

Even Ye Fan, who was already accustomed to Jiang Xuan's extraordinariness, was shocked speechless at this moment.

He had merely broken through one realm of Four Extremes, while Jiang Xuan went from Dragon Transformation, past Immortal First, to the Great Power realm — and his defense was even comparable to a Saint!

Although Ye Fan could also hide inside his Mother Qi Cauldron of All Things and withstand a Great Power's attack, he would still suffer backlash damage; attacked too many times and he would die all the same.

Jiang Xuan was different — his Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda had already fused with his body into one inseparable whole; even the Xuanhuang Mother Qi had become part of his body — where would any backlash come from?

While everyone celebrated, outside rumors were in complete chaos.

The Ancient Desolate Holy Body broke through Four Extremes! The Demonic Dao Jiang Xuan withstood the Innate Dao Diagram — not only did he not die, his strength greatly increased; after breaking through he even slaughtered a Ji Family Great Power and withstood a Saint's attack!

Every piece of news left people staring with dropped jaws — how come they recognize every single character, but put together they just can't understand it!

The next day at dawn, Jiang Xuan sensed a faint light flashing inside the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror — the absorption function had finished cooling down.

Amidst the flowing Void, a dim light flashed past; a piece of dark green stone lay quietly in Jiang Xuan's palm.

"Green Origin Steel! It has no special characteristics of its own; its greatest characteristic is that its material is hard enough!"

"Legend says the Yanhuang received the Nine Rites Heavenly Venerate Sword bestowed by the gods; this sword's edge was sharp beyond compare, nothing could block it — yet it stabbed a stone three times in a row without shattering it; that stone was a piece of Green Origin Steel!"

Jiang Xuan's face lit with joy; earlier in the Zifu Saint Son's gourd he had discovered a strand of white hair-thin light, suppressed by Heaven Yin Absolute Water so it didn't reveal its might — he planned to refine it into an Immortal Sword, but had never found a suitable material to fuse with the white hair.

Black Gold was refined into the Vajra Bracelet; Green Origin Steel is just right!

Ye Fan and the other two temporarily stayed at the Jiang Family to cultivate; with Jiang Taixu sitting guard at the Jiang Family, no petty villains dared openly act against the two; Jiang Xuan then took his leave and returned to the Fire Domain.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace flew out from the top of his head; the Green Origin Steel was thrown in first — the seven-colored flames of the entire space flew into the Eight Trigrams Furnace like a whale swallowing, being refined; but the Green Origin Steel's melting progress was like a turtle crawling.

Jiang Xuan pressed both hands on the cauldron's two ears; Bagua Dao Patterns manifested inside the cauldron; Emperor Patterns emerged from the cauldron bottom. The surging flames gained a golden border on the red exterior; the temperature inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace far exceeded the seven-colored firelight in the Fire Domain — a single thread could incinerate all things without perishing.

Even so, the Green Origin Steel's melting speed remained heartbreakingly slow.

In the blink of an eye two months passed; Jiang Xuan, who had sat dryly for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes — amidst flashing brilliant light, countless fire tongues trembled in the furnace; a pool of dark green liquid floated in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

He took out the black gourd from the Treasure Mirror; the Heaven Yin Absolute Water had no great use for him, so he directly threw the black gourd into the Eight Trigrams Furnace to digest. Although the black gourd's origin was extraordinary, it had long since been ruined beyond repair — it simply couldn't withstand the red-gold flames inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and gradually turned into nutrients fusing into the furnace cauldron.

As the forbidden restrictions inside the gourd disappeared, a white hair-thin light appeared in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

In just an instant, a sharp intent rushed straight at the blazing sun; merely standing to the side one felt their body had already drifted far away from themselves.

Before the flames in the Eight Trigrams Furnace could touch it, the white hair unhesitatingly wrapped a thread of white light and crashed into the furnace body, trying to break free from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, rush out, and slash Jiang Xuan.

"Good courage!" Jiang Xuan shouted in a shaking voice; Xuanhuang Qi from both hands fused into the furnace body, giving the Eight Trigrams Furnace a momentum that suppressed the Star River; the furnace flames enveloped the white hair!

The white hair still resisted with all its strength; dull thudding collision sounds rang out in the Fire Domain, shaking countless flames into violent riot and scattering.

A large batch of cultivators were driven out of the Fire Domain; some hurriedly left the Fire Domain, while others wore angry faces, insisting on waiting until the other party finished forging to demand an explanation.

Unexpectedly this wait lasted half a year; fortunately the trembling sounds grew smaller and smaller, and only when they no longer affected their own artifact refining did they gradually disperse.

The white hair in the Eight Trigrams Furnace finally completely quieted down; the Green Origin Steel liquid slowly permeated the white hair and fused with it; the Dao Patterns belonging to the Immortal Slaying Sword were engraved by him onto the slowly forming sword body — the sharp intent made one's heart involuntarily turn cold.

The white hair itself was an attack method condensed by an ancient person from a piece of starry sky; the Immortal Slaying Sword's Dao Patterns specifically counter all things in the starry sky, destroy all matter, ignore any material attributes — and they harmonized with the white hair's sharpness.

"Li!"

Accompanied by a light chant of sword radiance, the Immortal Slaying Sword soared skyward; its dark green light covered the sky-full flames in the Fire Domain, reflecting those seven-colored flames into green.

Jiang Xuan raised his hand and grasped the completed Immortal Slaying Sword; the sword body emitted dark green throughout; the sword tip revealed white light; its style was almost identical to the Immortal Trapping Sword.

Just grasping the Immortal Slaying Sword, a heroic sentiment of disdaining all things arose spontaneously — in heaven and earth there is no object I cannot slay!

A thought moved, and the Immortal Slaying Sword slowly fused into his body, becoming a part of his body.

Jiang Xuan's fingers trembled slightly; a streak of white sword light flashed past — the stone forest ahead showed not the slightest change.

It wasn't that the white light had no effect; rather, because it was too sharp, the cut was smooth as a mirror — so from the outside no change could be seen for the moment! Jiang Xuan dared not linger and quickly rushed out of the Fire Domain.

The moment he rushed out of the Fire Domain, the Fire Domain gave a shake — as if something had collapsed.

Before long, figures soared skyward one after another; a hot-tempered man cursed loudly: "Before it was just shaking; now the Fire Domain has been directly shaken down! Just who is forging artifacts in the depths! If I could get in, I'd definitely scold them good!"

"Give it a rest! You think you can afford to provoke someone who can enter the Fire Domain depths?" someone nearby retorted.

"There's so many of us — still afraid of one person? Besides, he might only be able to go deeper by relying on some treasure; if we got the treasure, we could also enter the Fire Domain depths to cultivate!"

Hearing that burly man's loud incitement, the surrounding people's thoughts churned — clearly they too were moved by the nonexistent treasure, and one after another stayed in place to monitor the coming and going crowds.

Last time the shaking, they only waited a few months before they couldn't hold their temper; this time even if they have to wait a year they won't give up again!

Cultivating there isn't cultivating; sitting cross-legged here waiting for changes might not be impossible as cultivation either.

Thus a strange sight appeared outside the Fire Domain — dozens of figures sitting cross-legged cultivating; all comers and goers had to accept their interrogation and questioning, attracting many curious people to come inquire.

Causing the number of people sitting cross-legged outside the Fire Domain to grow more and more; rumors also grew more and more bizarre.

"Fire Domain shaking! Suspected someone obtained the Immortal Fire in the depths!"

"Fire Domain immortal treasure about to emerge, dozens of cultivators sense it simultaneously!"

The instigator of all this, Jiang Xuan, had long since left the Fire Domain and arrived at a stretch of silent land.

When he was refining the white hair in the Fire Domain, the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror's grasping ability refreshed once again; this time it actually grasped the coordinates of another world, strangely these coordinates were not marked as to what world, as if shrouded in gray mist.

Recently there have been no events in Shrouding the Heavens worth his attention; the Taichu Ancient Mine having Ye Fan is already enough, and he does not lack Divine Sources now either, so he prepared to go take a look at the newly grasped world!

As the guiding time ended, his figure vanished outside the Fire Domain.

……

Jiang Xuan slowly opened his eyes, a steam whistle's booming roar sounding by his ear, making him feel inexplicably familiar.

Opening his eyes, below was a bustling small town; the booming roar just now was an old-fashioned steam train running on tracks; the crowd's attire varied, yet had a Western style.

"Ordinary world?" Jiang Xuan's brows furrowed slightly; the clothes on his body gradually changed into fitting ordinary styles, instantly appearing at the corner of the widest street.

Divine sense circulating in the air above, he very easily learned the language spoken by the people here.

"Sir buying bread? Others need nine pence, while you only need six pence!" A plump woman poked her head out from a nearby window and laughed.

"No need, madam!" Jiang Xuan shook his head and walked into the street; the surrounding crowd streamed past incessantly, yet he sensed no fluctuations of cultivation whatsoever, nor did he sense familiar Source Power, or Spiritual Qi, in this world.

Jiang Xuan explored while walking aimlessly on the street, but suddenly heard a hoarse female voice beside him: "Want a divination?"

Turning his head back, a woman draped in a black robe stood in place; although the wide thick cloak blocked the other's face, Jiang Xuan's divine sense still discerned the other was not old, the face paint on the face excessively thick.

Seeing Jiang Xuan did not agree, the woman continued: "My divination is very accurate!"

"But I didn't bring any pence!" Jiang Xuan shook his head.

"You are the first divination customer today, free!" The woman's voice had no fluctuation, as if completing some task.

But words having been spoken to this extent, Jiang Xuan could no longer say a reason to refuse, so he could only nod and follow the other into that conical tent behind.

Only to see the woman skillfully sit at the only table opposite, take out a neat deck of square tiles from behind the table, push them before Jiang Xuan: "You come shuffle."

Jiang Xuan picked up that deck; the topmost card depicted an emperor wearing a royal crown; he casually cut once, a Hanged Man revealed on the card face.

Tarot cards? Casually cutting a few times, Jiang Xuan placed the cards on the table.

"Please repeat your question, and select one card from within." The woman said solemnly.

Jiang Xuan casually took out a face-down card and asked: "Then let's see where my target can be realized!"

The woman's fingertip lightly tapped that selected tarot card, face solemn: "This is the answer to your question!"

Jiang Xuan's originally relaxed mood suddenly tensed; a hidden energy gradually clung onto his body — this was a power capable of influencing rules, even Fate!

Had he not perceived this power would not harm him, he would likely have long since flipped the stall.

The woman grasped a corner of the tarot card and flipped it open; it was a young man dressed magnificently, holding a notebook; the card face largely wrote the character "0".

"Your target lies on the Fool!"

As the words fell, the energy around Jiang Xuan's body slowly dissipated, as if it had never appeared at all — imperceptible, unfathomable.

Jiang Xuan stood up, expression solemn, and walked out of the tent; he thought he already knew which world this was!

No wonder he sensed no Spiritual Power aura in this world; it was because this world's system was not cultivation, but rather more like an inheritance — inheritance and use of various strange materials!

People's abilities are the use and manifestation of rules; although they do not cultivate, their use of rules is even deeper, even more bizarre!

A woman dressed comically hurried over, looking at Jiang Xuan standing at the doorway and asked: "Sir! Do you need a divination?"

Jiang Xuan shook his head, performed a gentleman's bow and said: "No need, madam; I think I already obtained the answer just now!"

The woman's face stiffened, as if realizing something, and she angrily walked into the tent.

Before long a roar came from inside: "You're impersonating me again! This is my job! And you didn't even collect money!"

Only to see that heavily made-up woman scramble out of the tent like a monkey, glanced at Jiang Xuan who was watching her, face showing an embarrassed smile, then strode scrambling into the distant circus big top.

Walking out of the street, Jiang Xuan's divine sense had already enveloped the entire small town; between steps his figure appeared in a dilapidated small two-story building; the interior structure was crude, the only place to sit a still-intact dining table and chairs; in the distance were utensils not yet cleared away.

(Chapter End)