Chapter 170

Jiang Xuan looked blankly at the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror in his Sea of Consciousness; at this moment, the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror actually began to play the role of "Dao Self," absorbing the Dao tracks transmitted from the "Former Self," but it did not nourish Jiang Xuan, instead absorbing a large amount of those scattered Dao tracks, then transmitting a thread of Dao Pattern into his body.

This thread of Dao Pattern was not the Dao Pattern of any weapon, but more like the Dao of a whetstone, able to fuse and temper the Great Dao of any weapon.

He could feel that this subtle Dao Pattern's tempering of his body was positive; he was like condensing the Dao and principle of his entire body on the foundation of all King Artifacts and Holy Soldiers within him, possessing the power to oversee everything!

Feeling the operation of the Western Emperor Sutra gradually getting back on track, Jiang Xuan slowly opened his eyes.

Although this time his comprehension of the Western Emperor Sutra completely deviated from his original idea, overall the progress was acceptable; the Former Self and Dao Self were both found, jointly tempering the body of the True Self, with a promising future.

When Jiang Xuan opened his eyes, Yao Xi and the other had already changed into a set of clothes, looking at him with burning gazes.

Yao Xi wore a pale green gold-embroidered rosy cloud robe, much more conservative than her previous attire, but because it was a form-fitting garment, one could faintly see her alluring figure, with a faint charming smile on her face.

Zixia wore the purple flowing cherry moon robe she often wore outside, further highlighting that feeling of being like a celestial fairy from the heavens, noble and transcendent, to be admired from afar but not profaned, making people unable to help but sink into it.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Xuan looked at the two waiting nearby with doubt.

"Yaochi Holy Mother has already agreed to let us enter the mortal world for training; next, we two will follow you." Yao Xi waved her pale green long sleeve, her face full of expectation.

Jiang Xuan instinctively frowned slightly, thinking about where he should take them; after learning from Ye Fan about the current time period, he had already planned what to do next.

Ye Fan had already boarded the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and set off again; by the time he returns, it will be the time for Ancient Creatures to enter the mortal world; with his current strength, even if he cannot suppress these Ancient Creatures single-handedly, he can at least make them more stable.

Moreover, he still has a period of time to develop; the Ten Thousand Worlds captures accumulated before and the Source Castles and Chaos Sea obtained from the Mysterious World have not yet been completely melted into himself; after digesting these things, perhaps he cannot suppress the Ancient Creatures alone like Qing Di!

Seeing Jiang Xuan frown, Yao Xi thought Jiang Xuan did not want to take the two of them away; the smile on her face was still charming, but it truly lacked a bit of joy, and she changed the subject: "Of course, if you are busy, we won't follow you!"

Feeling that Yao Xi's tone was not quite right, Jiang Xuan looked up in doubt and casually activated the Eavesdropping Rule.

"He doesn't want to take me away; he said before, I am his Dao Companion! Is it just so that Yaochi Holy Mother can take me away too! He just doesn't want to listen to my idle chatter by his ear! Could it be that he never liked me at all!"

Feeling the strong disappointment and a trace of panic in her heart, Jiang Xuan looked at her and unconsciously blinked.

Feeling Yao Xi's thoughts in her heart, Jiang Xuan felt somewhat amused and exasperated, but what he felt most was moved.

Holding her jade hand like green onions, Jiang Xuan looked straight into her eyes and said in a firm tone:

"Although when we first met, it was not love at first sight, but that title of Dao Companion was spoken from my heart, absolutely not to fool you! As long as you do not change your heart, in the future I will definitely treat you sincerely! Here with me, you can completely release your nature! Everything is with me!"

Yao Xi stared blankly at Jiang Xuan; no one knew how much killing power that sentence "Everything is with me" had for her; she felt her heart had never landed so steadily before, but the subconscious vigilance of the past made her somewhat worried, worried that this was just a lie to comfort people, and also worried that if she truly believed it and fell deeper, one day she would fall even harder.

"You can try to believe me!" Jiang Xuan said softly.

Before boarding the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin to come to Beidou, he felt that in the future he would only pursue the Dao, but whether it was previous promises or the experience in the Heavenly Tribulation, it made him understand that being ruthless may be for the Dao, but having emotions is also the Great Dao!

He would not deliberately restrain his emotions; everything would be casual and spontaneous.

Yao Xi felt that every word the other person said hit her heart, making her mood instantly turn from cloudy to sunny, with red eyes and a smile.

"Then you frowned, isn't it because you don't want to take me and Zixia away?" Yao Xi said half coquettishly.

Zixia looked envious, listening to Jiang Xuan's answer with her ear tilted.

Jiang Xuan shook his head and laughed: "Something big will happen soon; during this period I need to cultivate in seclusion to improve my strength to cope with the upcoming great trend!"

"Closed-door cultivation?" Yao Xi widened her eyes: "Didn't you just finish closed-door cultivation? Closed-door cultivation for such a long time, and just after coming out you want to cultivate in seclusion again?"

Over these years, there hasn't even been any news of Jiang Xuan in the martial world; from everyone discussing him to gradually forgetting, the martial world is always like this with new people replacing old ones; most people can only remember those current wind and cloud figures, after all, they have little to do with most cultivators.

Just like when Jiang Xuan was famous back then, although it wasn't a good reputation, the cultivators who could recognize him at a glance were limited to those from major sects.

The martial world only vaguely spread the news that Jiang Xuan was in closed-door cultivation or had already died; now that Jiang Xuan has come out, Yao Xi naturally thought he came out after being in closed-door cultivation for so long.

And seeing how polite Yaochi Holy Mother was, they just confirmed their judgment, that because of closed-door cultivation his cultivation level increased so fast.

But now he wants to cultivate in seclusion again? And continue to improve? Is he even letting people live!

Jiang Xuan grinned; when had he been in closed-door cultivation? In the Mysterious World he never rested, either collecting Rule Authority or on the road to collect Rule Authority; the remaining time was spent understanding Mysterious Rules.

"Actually, closed-door cultivation isn't necessarily needed; we can go out for a walk!" Seeing Yao Xi's pitiful eyes, Jiang Xuan's heart softened for no reason; after all, Yao Xi had never had such an expression before; she was really trying to believe him!

Yao Xi hehe laughed, turned her head to look at Zixia: "See! Sister I acted, and directly caught him!"

Zixia turned her face to the side, as if she hadn't seen Yao Xi's pitiful and pleading expression just now.

Although she also had the thought of going out for a walk with Jiang Xuan, she couldn't do it like Yao Xi, so she could only silently watch Yao Xi.

"Where is our next stop?"

"We're going to Beiyuan!"

"Beiyuan?" Yao Xi was stunned for a moment; as for what Beiyuan is most famous for, it might be the Yao Huang Dian in Nanling and the barbarian tribes; she didn't know what Jiang Xuan was going to do in Beiyuan.

But Yao Xi didn't ask, just nodded and said: "Beiyuan is also good!"

As long as they are together, anywhere is fine!

Seeing that the two were already prepared, Jiang Xuan looked toward the direction of Beiyuan; his right hand slightly grabbed in the Void, like grabbing a door handle and pushing outward, a door appeared out of thin air before the three of them; opposite the door was a Tao Yuan, and in the distance a majestic great city loomed faintly.

"Let's go!" Jiang Xuan gestured for the two to follow and stepped into the Hu Men.

After waiting for the two to come out, Jiang Xuan waved his hand and closed this Hu Men; relying on Space Authority, without the aid of the Da Yi Nuoyi talisman he could already achieve cross-domain teleportation, just with greater consumption; just teleporting three people consumed nearly half of his mental power to control the Rules.

Arriving in this Tao Lin, the three did not hurry to enter the distant city, but slowed their pace, sightseeing like ordinary people.

Jiang Xuan even personally made a carriage for Yao Xi and Zixia, a carriage that could let three people lie flat at the same time!

During this period, the smile on Zixia's face became more and more casual; she vaguely felt that she was having a tryst with Jiang Xuan, but beside her was Yao Xi who was also having a tryst.

She originally didn't want it to be like this, but the increasingly strong emotions made her reluctant to give up this opportunity for a tryst, so she continued to silently do what she should do.

Yao Xi wiped away nonexistent sweat and looked at Jiang Xuan with doubt: "We made the carriage but there are no horses; are you going to pull us to depart?"

Looking at the luxurious three-person flat-lying carriage personally forged by Great Sage Jiang, Jiang Xuan nodded satisfied and said nonchalantly: "Maybe someone will soon bring us horses!"

"This isn't an official road here; those who can come here don't need horses; those who ride horses couldn't possibly come here..."

Before Yao Xi could finish, they heard several horse neighs from the Tao Lin not far away; a brown-clad horse wrangler was being strongly pulled by four or five fine horses to the front of everyone.

Seeing people, the horse wrangler hurriedly said toward them: "Be careful, these horses that were fine originally suddenly got frightened for some reason!"

Strangely, the horses suddenly stopped quietly at this time and began to focus on lowering their heads to chew grass, as if eating some peerless treasure, completely unwilling to raise their heads again.

The man finally stopped, cautiously tied the horse rope to a tree beside them, then walked over with large strides.

"Sorry! Scared you!" The man scratched his head and looked at everyone: "Yesterday they were fine, but today these horses suddenly got frightened and pulled me running for nearly two hours!"

Jiang Xuan smiled and pointed to the carriage behind him: "Big Brother, coincidentally the horses that originally pulled our carriage all ran away; how about selling these few horses to me!"

The man stared blankly at the carriage behind Jiang Xuan, not quite understanding why the horse had run off, and even the wooden frame for tying the horse and the whip for driving it were gone.

But seeing Jiang Xuan's sincere gaze, especially the glittering gold piece in his hand, the man decisively agreed to this transaction, keeping only one horse to ride home and selling the rest to Jiang Xuan.

Before the burly man could ride his horse out of the peach grove, he suddenly turned back: "Uh, holding so much money makes me really uneasy, how about I kowtow to you a few times?"

Jiang Xuan, his face dark with exasperation, sent this simple-minded burly man off, hitched several horses to the front of the carriage, and soon a luxuriously decorated carriage was complete!

"I said someone would bring horses soon!" Jiang Xuan turned to look at the speechless Yao Xi.

Yao Xi regained her senses, looking at Jiang Xuan in utter shock: "How did you do that!"

Normally, just as she said, ordinary people simply couldn't get through this place, but Jiang Xuan only needed one sentence to have a professional horse breeder bring horses charging into this peach grove.

And it had only been a few seconds since Jiang Xuan said those words, while the man's horses had gone out of control two hours ago, finally arriving at this place!

What is this? Changing the past? Or perhaps it involves the karmic power of Ximo? She couldn't figure it out, and looked toward Zixia.

Zixia also shook her head; although her Innate Dao Body sensed that when Jiang Xuan's voice fell, some subtle changes appeared between Heaven and Earth, she couldn't grasp the source of these changes.

Jiang Xuan smiled without speaking; actually it was very simple, she had merely used the Dreamer Authority to influence reality.

Even without Jiang Xuan's influence, the horse breeder's horses would still have gone out of control, they just might not have charged into the peach grove.

And the Dreamer Authority merely realized Jiang Xuan's words within a reasonable range.

What if it wasn't reasonable? No problem either; the "Error" Authority in Jiang Xuan's hand could make the unreasonable become reasonable.

Seeing the two women looking bewildered, Jiang Xuan shook his head with a smile: "Alright, it's just a little trick, don't overthink it! Get on the carriage!"

The three of them all climbed into the carriage, and the several fine horses outside seemed to have received a message, moving smoothly through the peach grove, needing no one outside to direct and control them.

Inside the carriage, Jiang Xuan sat cross-legged beside... uh... the three-person bed, while Yao Xi and the other sat with flushed faces on a narrow wooden stool opposite; when they sat down they hadn't felt anything, but now the three of them were together in this carriage, looking at that three-person bed that took up nearly eighty percent of the carriage's space, and the matter of the carriage driver was known to all!

Based on the principle of making the best of things since they had come, the two... still did not choose to go to Jiang Xuan's side, but instead commented on the scenery outside as if sightseeing.

Jiang Xuan saw there was no opportunity, and was unwilling to rush things; while keeping the two women company with conversation, he sank his mind into the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, preparing to use all six extraction chances at once.

First extraction!

"A pile of Demon Blood Stones!"

Jiang Xuan watched as blood-colored stones appeared out of thin air in the space, estimating there were thirty or forty, exuding a rich demonic race bloody aura.

This was the first time he had extracted something in the quantity of a pile, and also the first time he had extracted materials native to the Covering the Sky continent.

Demon Blood Stones were formed from the essence blood of Great Demons who died in the Ancient Era; although the blood essence had been completely lost and turned to stone, they could still help the demon race return to their roots and advance further, refining essence blood and tempering demon bones, holding powerful attraction for demon cultivators and some techniques related to demons.

Jiang Xuan casually took out two and tossed them to Yao Xi: "I think this thing might be useful to you!"

"Demon Blood Stones? This thing is too precious! I..."

"I still have a pile!" Jiang Xuan waved his hand, and another dozen or so appeared on the wooden tabletop; a gathered primordial blood aura rushed toward the face, proving to Yao Xi that they really were all Demon Blood Stones.

Yao Xi's eyes widened, nearly popping out.

Whose Demon Blood Stones are counted by the pile? Having just one is already like burning high incense; this... could it be that he traveled to the Ancient Era and robbed Great Demons!

"Use them first; if not enough, come find me!"

Finding the smell of the demon race blood aura too heavy, Jiang Xuan waved his hand to withdraw them, leaving some for Pang Bo to use as well.

His consciousness sank into the Treasure Mirror, and he extracted again.

(Chapter End)