Chapter 172: Refining the Source Castle

Jiang Xuan no longer looked at those Wang Family disciples who had committed suicide after falling from the Heavenly Horses, turning to look at Yao Xi and Zixia beside him, the golden light in his eyes gradually fading.

"Why can't I sense divine sense fluctuations, yet you can control them into suicide?" Yao Xi looked at Jiang Xuan in surprise.

Death meant little to cultivators; Zixia and Yao Xi had long grown accustomed to battle and casualties, they were merely surprised by Jiang Xuan's methods.

"Just a small application of rules!" Jiang Xuan laughed, not explaining deeply what rule it was, after all such things couldn't be explained clearly.

Yao Xi thought that since the other walked a self-created path, using attack methods she had never seen was also normal.

Love is like that, always rationalizing unreasonable things.

Jiang Xuan looked at the carriage already split in half; only those horses stood quietly in place chewing grass on the ground, not panicking and fleeing just because they sensed the auras of several great powers.

Jiang Xuan stepped forward and gently patted those few ordinary horses, and the few horses scattered and ran wildly away from this place.

Those Heavenly Horses came over to take their place, and behind them the carriage shattered in half was lifted and merged by a mysterious power, as if it had never been cut in half.

Looking at the mountain, running the horse to death—although they had long seen that city, an ordinary carriage traveling for so long only looked like it was one-third closer.

Although the mounts had been upgraded, Jiang Xuan still had the Heavenly Horses run at the speed of ordinary horses, accompanying the two women to feel the natural aura contained in the mountains and rivers.

"Jiang Xuan, these Heavenly Horses generally leave sect or family marks; if we let these horses pull the carriage, the Wang Family will probably come knocking soon."

"I'm precisely afraid they won't find me, that's why I used these Heavenly Horses!" Jiang Xuan embraced Yao Xi, stroking up and down over her clothes, making her complexion even more alluring, not resisting this intimacy at all.

Zixia beside him feigned calmness, occasionally sneaking a glance over here, then immediately withdrawing her gaze with a guilty conscience.

The carriage returned to the right track; the Heavenly Horses indeed pulled the carriage more steadily than ordinary horses, like a sedan equipped with high-end shock absorption driving on a smooth road.

After joking with the two women for a while, Jiang Xuan began digesting the first item he had absorbed, the Void Worm Soul.

The Void Worm Soul was currently the material most suitable for Jiang Xuan to forge a Soul Saint Weapon!

The characteristics of the Void Worm Soul made it highly compatible with the Source Castle's characteristics; secrecy and error could both be made more powerful with the help of the Void Worm Soul's characteristics.

Now Jiang Xuan no longer needed to go to the Fire Domain to forge Holy Weapons; the Eight Trigrams Furnace's furnace fire, after absorbing a large amount of energy, was already comparable to deeper Fire Domains, and was in tune with Jiang Xuan's mind, able to be stored in the Micro World and controlled by consciousness for forging.

Actually forging could also be done in the Dantian, but forging weapons carried the risk of furnace explosion; Jiang Xuan decided to be more cautious, and the Micro World could perfectly isolate the emergence of Holy Weapons, so as not to let the world know.

Leaving a thread of mind to accompany the two women in their play, Jiang Xuan's main consciousness began forging on a patch of grassland in the Micro World.

The shrunken Source Castle appeared in the Eight Trigrams Furnace carrying gray mist; next, a pair of gold frame glasses was also enveloped by the flames in the Eight Trigrams Furnace; finally, the Void Worm Soul!

The three slowly merged under the black flames' enveloping; this time Jiang Xuan hadn't had time to choose, the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror actively emitted a Dao Soldier's Dao Pattern that fused into that mass of black flame; even Jiang Xuan could not sense within the black flames what Holy Weapon was forming inside.

"Not good! North Emperor! Your father, Wang Chengkun, the clan chief, has passed away!"

In a certain clan ground of the family, Wang Chengkun's Kylin Son, Wang Teng, who wore a proud and disdainful look, suddenly stood up; the surrounding air condensed in an instant, endless pressure made the messenger who brought the news suddenly fall to the ground, his eyeballs instantly squeezed bloodshot, unable to help spitting out a mouthful of blood, his bones crackling.

Wang Teng walked out a few steps in disgust, as if disgusted that this lowly servant had dirtied his body.

"Say that again! My father has already reached the realm of peak great power!" Wang Teng's cold voice scraped across the entire cultivation ground.

"Clan chief, dead!" the servant prostrate on the ground swallowed, trembling all over but not daring to lie.

Wang Teng snorted coldly; that Hualong Realm servant completely became a corpse, dragged away by a black shadow.

In this vast Northern Domain, there was actually someone who dared provoke the Wang Family, provoke him, the Future North Emperor!

"Mobilize all forces to investigate for me; I want them to have a life worse than death!!"

"As for the family side..." a shadow appeared beside him, asking.

"That's none of your concern; I will go convince them, to get the Supremes to agree to mobilize power! We haven't bared our fangs for a long time; let these lowly bloodlines of the Northern Domain forget who is the king of Beiyuan!"

The black shadow opened its mouth but did not speak the words in its heart.

How vast the Northern Domain was; although the Wang Family was considered passable among human race powers, compared to barbarian tribes and the like, they were far behind.

Only Wang Teng, this future ironclad Great Emperor, could be put on the table, but after all he was not a Great Emperor, merely a Great Sage Family with inexplicable confidence.

Wang Teng was obviously a bit too arrogant, but the black shadow had no qualification to educate the other party, or rather there were not many in the entire Wang Family qualified to do so, because the other party was already a peak great power at a young age, the path to Great Emperor was unstoppable, so he decided to pledge loyalty.

With the order issued, the powers under the Wang Family began to busy themselves; all information networks and connections were mobilized.

But soon they discovered there was no need to make such a big fuss to investigate; following Wang Chengkun's itinerary route all the way, they saw on the road the Wang Family's corpses being gnawed by wild wolves in the mountains.

Soon after, someone brought news that they saw Heavenly Horses being controlled to run on the ground like ordinary horses.

The other party had no intention of concealing their killing at all; not even destroying the corpse to cover traces, killing people and even using his Wang Family's horses—simply killing to strike at the heart!

Wang Teng's gaze penetrated space from the clan ground and fell on that ordinary carriage; wrapped on the outside by Rule Power, it was impossible to see through, indicating the other party was also a Saint.

But daring to kill his father; even if this Saint had a great background, he must die here!

Previously Ye Fan had used that Little Black Coffin to defeat him in public; although relying on that mysterious black coffin, it had already slowed his invincible momentum.

He could see that black coffin was not completely controlled by Ye Fan; next time in battle, as long as the black coffin was made to leave, Ye Fan was nothing to fear.

Originally Wang Teng planned to wait until he found Ye Fan, defeat him again, break his heart devil and condense invincible momentum; his cultivation might even break through after destruction, rising to a higher level.

But unexpectedly, before he found Ye Fan, a mere Saint had openly killed his father and his men.

This time, he must take back everything he had lost!

Thinking of this, Wang Teng's figure followed the Wang Family people and disappeared in the clan ground, heading straight for where the Heavenly Horses were.

The culprit Jiang Xuan was at this moment at the critical moment of refining the Source Castle.

The Eight Trigrams Furnace transformed into a great mountain standing between Heaven and Earth; endless black flames surged within the furnace, emitting even a trace of aura that made people tremble with fear.

Fortunately there was no one else in the Micro World, and that consciousness did not find these auras frightening; it only occasionally curiously sized up Jiang Xuan's furnace.

"When the life force condenses enough, I also want to condense a few items like you!" That consciousness seemed to be swearing an oath, and also seemed to be an instinct belonging to the Heavenly Dao.

At this time, the black flame's spirit in the Eight Trigrams Furnace gradually dissipated, but no aura was emitted from within the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The weapons previously refined all had soaring momentum, but now they seemed unspeakable and invisible.

As the black flames completely dissipated, Jiang Xuan's consciousness probed into it, finally seeing what was at the very center of the Eight Trigrams Furnace: a strange seed faintly flowing with Dao Patterns.

Secret Path Seed: an ominous collection that defies the Great Dao, yet due to opportunity gives birth to Dao Patterns, independent of the Great Dao and forming a path of its own; when its ability reaches perfection, it can change heaven and earth, not bound by the Great Dao.

Just as his consciousness probed into the Secret Path Seed, the seed was like a wisp of smoke following his consciousness into Jiang Xuan's Sea of Consciousness, and madly gathered Jiang Xuan's divine sense will.

At the same time, information about the Secret Path Seed was transmitted into Jiang Xuan's consciousness.

The Secret Path Seed originally could not form Dao Patterns; whether it was the Source Castle or the Void Worm Soul, they were merely standing at the peak of Rules; although only one step away from the Great Dao, this step was as far as the ends of the earth.

The faint Dao patterns that ultimately formed were only able to set half a foot into the half-step Emperor weapon realm of condensed Dao patterns after refining because the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror imprinted the sole rebellious Dao pattern from its records onto them.

According to the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror's information, this sole rebellious Dao pattern seems to have been condensed by a ruthless figure from another plane who defied heaven all his life and ultimately slew the Heavenly Dao — a unique existence even across the Myriad Realms.

After gathering the Source Castle, the "Error" glasses, and the Void Worm Core, the Secret Path Seed condensed a total of four abilities.

First, it replaces Jiang Xuan's Sea of Consciousness, becoming the residence of his divine sense; the divine sense can nurture the growth of the Anti-Dao Seed, while the divine sense itself becomes even more powerful.

Moreover, no one but Jiang Xuan can probe the Secret Path Seed; his subconscious is likewise gathered within it, and his divine sense probing cannot be sensed by anyone — now even a Great Emperor would find it hard to detect fluctuations in Jiang Xuan's divine sense.

Second, ignore rules, weaken the Great Dao: while retaining the abilities of "Error" and Concealment Authority, all attacks launched by divine sense ignore any rule constraints and weaken the Great Dao's constraining power.

That is to say, when Jiang Xuan now activates "Error" or Concealment, he can even make changes without any logic, ignore any rule protection to substitute control, and weaken Great Dao protection.

This ability directly lets Jiang Xuan absolutely crush everything below the Great Sage — rules will have zero effect on him!

The third ability is Devour; the divine sense possesses a certain devouring capability, able to devour and steal minute Great Dao power during every collision with other Dao patterns or Great Dao power, using it to increase the refining of his own Dao patterns and enhance their completeness.

The fourth ability is derived from the Source Castle's Space Authority, able to open up a Hidden Space within spatial interlayers, and also stabilize and fix space to become a Cave Heaven.

Adding the Great Shift Talisman's space rules, Jiang Xuan's mastery of space power lacks only the aspect of using space for offense.

And this aspect can be filled precisely in the weapon to be forged next.

The Sword Dao Fragment contains Spatial Sword Intent; the sword body possesses a certain spatial attribute, plus the Uniqueness of the "Gate" left behind — he prepares to forge a Spatial Sword!

At this moment, in the real world, immense pressure descended from the sky; a golden Ancient War Chariot crossed the Void and appeared above the traveling carriage, and Wang Teng's gaze fell upon the Heavenly Horse below that ignored his pressure and continued walking forward.

Sensing the pressure from the sky, the Anti-Dao Seed had just finished absorbing completely, becoming his Sea of Consciousness, housing his soul and divine sense; Jiang Xuan's main consciousness withdrew from the Micro World.

"Jiang Xuan! They've come looking — are you confident?" Zixia looked at the man before her with worry.

A gloomy light flashed in Jiang Xuan's eyes; his entire aura converged into his body in the blink of an eye, the originally sharp-edged momentum turning deep like the sea, unfathomable, like an ordinary person who had never set foot on the cultivation path.

Hearing Zixia's slightly worried question, Jiang Xuan laughed: "Rest assured! If they didn't come looking for me, I'd have to go looking for them!"

Simultaneously, two figures appeared beside the golden Ancient War Chariot in the sky, followed by six elders who looked as if they had one foot in the grave.

"Two Uncles!" Wang Teng stepped out of the Ancient War Chariot onto the Void, nodding to the two leaders.

These two are precisely Wang Chengkun's brothers: Wang Chengyun and Wang Chengfeng!

The six behind are all the Wang Family's foundation — six Great Powers!

"Who is below, to kill my Wang Family members and still be so arrogant!" Wang Chengyun shouted furiously at the carriage below!

To capture and kill the murderer of their brothers, they brought out six Supreme Great Powers, plus Wang Teng the Peak Great Power famed as a future Great Emperor, even capable of contending with a Saint — one could say they could walk sideways across the entire Northern Domain!

Even the Wang Family has begun loudly proclaiming, threatening and intimidating Northern Domain forces not to cross their bottom line again! Vowing to make the culprit's life worse than death.

Though the Wang Family is an Ancient Family, its conduct is comparable to a Great Emperor Family — arrogant and domineering, having offended who knows how many forces.

The reason they can still continue existing, besides the support of future Great Emperor Wang Teng, is that the Wang Family has accurately gauged that Great Emperor Families and other forces dare not bring out their foundations to deal with the Wang Family; in basic combat power the Wang Family is already enough to compare with a Great Emperor Family.

As a Great Sage Family yet walking a Great Emperor Family's path, even if Jiang Xuan doesn't act and future Ye Fan doesn't act, the Wang Family can hardly escape the fate of annihilation.

Though Wang Teng inherited the Chaos Ancient Emperor's legacy, he does not walk the Chaos Ancient Emperor's path; even without anyone targeting him, with his disposition he would find it hard to sustain the Wang Family's survival.

Jiang Xuan waved his hand, eliminating the pressure bearing down on Yao Xi and the other, rose, and walked out of the carriage.

Seeing this, Yao Xi and Zixia both followed behind Jiang Xuan with serious faces, standing firmly at his side.

Seeing this, how could Jiang Xuan not know their thoughts; he laughed and shook his head: "Dealing with these goods, one hand is enough — no need for you to accompany me!"

"Audacious! To actually speak such wild words!" Wang Chengfeng shouted furiously.

Wang Teng could not help it either; the Heavenly Emperor Sword emerged in his hand, carrying endless pressure as he rushed straight down!

(Chapter End)