Chapter 182: Chapter One Hundred Eighty-Two: Zhu Xian Sword

Demons' cultivation path differs significantly from humans'; logically, placing a human soul into a demon body is very difficult to succeed, but the Micro World lacks such fundamental rules, so naturally there is no question of compatibility.

The storm settled; sensing the gradually awakening will within the Medicine King, Jiang Xuan knew this had succeeded — afterward he only needed to wait for Zhang Lin's consciousness to fully resurrect and reshape a human form, and a demon-cultivator Source Heaven Master would appear before everyone.

Moreover, because he had already accepted the punishment of Karma's power, his future path would also be entirely bright.

Glancing at the Micro World's boundary still slowly expanding, the World Consciousness busy perfecting rules and condensing life force, everything developing in a good direction, Jiang Xuan withdrew his consciousness from the Micro World.

Cultivation is like watching a rotting axe handle — the higher one's cultivation, the longer one's seclusion; this day Jiang Xuan finally completely refined the Heavenly Emperor Sword!

Simultaneously, the Silent Extinction Universe's Space Residual Sword was also completely refined, fusing together with the Star Key — three Space-rule items — condensing the form of the Zhu Xian Sword.

This is only the Zhu Xian Sword's embryo; next Jiang Xuan will inscribe the Dao Patterns of the Zhu Xian Sword from within the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror onto its sword body; as his strength increases, his fidelity in copying Dao Patterns also becomes higher!

Dao Patterns condense upon it; the Zhu Xian Sword begins to sharpen itself — faint threads of incomparably keen power seep out, even Space is casually torn open!

Even without Jiang Xuan's control, relying on its keenness alone it can easily pierce through space barriers like penetrating a sheet of paper.

As the flames gradually grow calm, the Zhu Xian Sword's overall form also gradually stabilizes.

At Jiang Xuan's dantian the Immortal Trapping Sword and Immortal Slaying Sword emerge, as if responding to the Zhu Xian Sword's birth they emit a soft cry; a mysterious, same-origin Great Dao tremor spreads outward from Jiang Xuan's body.

The voice of the Great Dao — yet it is the sound of a sword cry!

As this resonance's tremor silently spreads outward, within Yaochi Holy Land and the regions beyond Yaochi, all long swords involuntarily tremble slightly — as if in fear, yet also as if in worship!

Some people notice this situation, sparking heated discussion; others simply treat long swords as ordinary weapons, so they neither perceive the sword's intent nor notice its slight vibration.

Inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, endless spiritual power fuses into it; the source melts and absorbs as if it costs nothing — the Zhu Xian Sword has entered the final stage!

At the same time, the Eight Trigrams Furnace also slowly absorbs the Dao and spiritual power emitted during forging; the Eight Trigrams condensed on the furnace cauldron radiate brilliant light, Dao Patterns emerging within and slowly growing.

This is the Eight Trigrams Furnace's way of Dao Pattern growth — absorbing the myriad Daos of forging all things to supplement its own Dao!

As the two Immortal Swords' resonance grows ever stronger, the Zhu Xian Sword finally completes entirely, floating above the Chaos Sea within the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

The Zhu Xian Sword's body differs from the Immortal Trapping Sword's crimson, and also from the Immortal Slaying Sword's azure — it is a bright silver like an ordinary long sword, except the silver light on the blue edge is even more intense; otherwise it looks like a common, somewhat slender regulation long sword!

Although the Zhu Xian Sword fuses too much spatial power and characteristics, and bears the Zhu Xian Sword Dao Patterns famed for keenness, the patterns on it are currently still mere decoration; its rank has not yet reached the level of using even weak Dao Patterns — purely speaking of the Zhu Xian Sword's quality, it still cannot compare to the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Xuanhuang Mother Qi Pagoda, and Sea of Consciousness Secret Realm Seed; these three have all reached the Great Saint Weapon pinnacle, even touching the Quasi-Emperor threshold.

But feeling the resonance from the Immortal Trapping Sword and Immortal Slaying Sword, Jiang Xuan's eyes grow even more solemn!

Each of the Zhu Xian Four Swords taken alone currently cannot condense or control Dao Patterns — not because they lack the potential of Emperor Weapons, but because they are incomplete!

The Zhu Xian Four Swords were forged simultaneously during the God-Conferring forging; the Zhu Xian Four Swords as the complete Zhu Xian Sword Array! Can reverse-slay immortals and gods, battle through the azure heavens!

Previously with only two swords, the bond between them was not obvious; now the Zhu Xian Sword emerges, they have already achieved resonance — same-origin Dao Rhyme lets them briefly form a sword array, but its power is weak compared to the complete Zhu Xian Sword Array, and it cannot constitute a whole, so it cannot break through the Dao Pattern limit.

Even so Jiang Xuan is already very satisfied, and his anticipation for the Zhu Xian Four Swords that specialize in killing has grown.

When the Immortal Severing Sword finally appears, Jiang Xuan will also stand above the peak in terms of offense!

The black flames in the Eight Trigrams Furnace gradually calm down, as if from enormous consumption they curl together; even the polluted aura within the flames becomes listless.

Whether refining the Heavenly Emperor Sword and Space Residual Sword, or forging the Zhu Xian Sword, both caused enormous furnace fire consumption!

But inside the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the furnace fire can slowly recuperate on its own, no need for Jiang Xuan to worry.

Jiang Xuan slowly opens his eyes; the strange resonance on his body has dissipated; the long swords' tremor across ten thousand li around him finally vanishes!

The Zhu Xian Sword condenses in his hand; around its blade, fine cracks emerge along the edge spreading outward — as if the blade has grown hair — but this is actually the Zhu Xian Sword's own might; even just placed there, space is severed by that keen intent.

"Good sword!" Jiang Xuan waves it lightly; a neat pattern appears in space; the Void beyond space slowly heals.

The Immortal Trapping Sword masters all energy; the Immortal Slaying Sword ignores all matter; the Zhu Xian Sword ignores the power of space — even a Great Emperor's space blockade, the current Zhu Xian Sword alone can break open.

Sensing the Zhu Xian Sword's power ceiling, Jiang Xuan waves his hand, storing the Zhu Xian Sword into his dantian to fuse within his body.

The Secret Realm Seed already holds Space Authority; but with the Zhu Xian Sword's fusion, Jiang Xuan's understanding and perception of space grow even closer — the most intuitive manifestation: before, Jiang Xuan could sense Ye Fan and Pang Bo's position at Purple Micro, but could only briefly project his consciousness to that location; if he wanted to traverse space to reach them, he would likely need to consume who knows how much World Life Force as supplement.

Now with deepened mastery of space, he can traverse space more effortlessly — only needing to break through the Void Starry Sky with full force a few times to arrive beside the two.

Checking the Myriad Worlds Fame System's info again: loyal fan count has reached over twenty-four thousand; fan points have grown to 740,000 during this seclusion — enough to redeem quite a few Silent Extinction Universe items, though still far from the good stuff.

Still because the Zhetian World's loyal fan conversion rate isn't high — this is why after obtaining this system, Jiang Xuan didn't first consider growing fans in the Fengyun World, but went to the Mysterious World to grow fans.

Admittedly his control in the Fengyun World is higher, and unlike the Mysterious World there aren't many True Gods needing faith.

But precisely because there is no faith system, the popularity-to-loyal-fan conversion ratio is even smaller.

The Mysterious World itself is a complete faith world; after Jiang Xuan resolved the Fallen Mother Nest Outer Gods, internal threats like Amon and Adam, and took away the Source Castle and Chaos Sea, the entire Mysterious World suddenly became quiet and peaceful.

Constrained by Jiang Xuan's strength, even if Jiang Xuan left, the Seven Great Gods dare not war against each other to swallow believers — they can only vent on a few threats like the Red Sacrifice.

Plus the divine consciousness cultivation method Jiang Xuan shared lets those True Gods more easily stabilize their divinity.

As long as Jiang Xuan speaks, these True Gods will definitely allocate a large batch of believers to convert to him.

And in the Mysterious World, a loyal believer's birth is simply too easy!

Just one example: the Seven Great True Gods' Divine Kingdoms — only fanatic believers even more loyal than loyal believers can enter; yet those Seven Great True Gods' vast Divine Kingdoms don't lack fanatics!

This is the essential difference between a faith world and a faithless world!

But the Fengyun World he won't ignore completely — just issue orders and let fate decide the conversion rate; the main focus is still developing the Mysterious World in the future.

Of course the Zhetian World's huge population base can't be abandoned either — the Ancient Times Ten Thousand Clans emerge, the Dark Turmoil is not far off!

Now he can suppress the Ancient Times Ten Thousand Clans because among them, even the Royal Clans currently lack Emperor-level foundation — a pile of Great Sages against a Quasi-Emperor is practically nothing.

But behind the Ancient Times Ten Thousand Clans and deep in those Forbidden Zones are intricate connections; once this Dark Turmoil opens, the Ancient Times Ten Thousand Clans will also straighten their backs and step forward.

The vast majority of the Ancient Times Ten Thousand Clans never thought they could coexist peacefully with the Human Race forever.

His current strength is still insufficient to suppress those old monsters slumbering deep in the Forbidden Zones.

Moreover this Dark Turmoil is extremely vast — merely breaking through to the Emperor Realm might not be enough; he needs to accumulate more strength during this time!

A summons from the All-Knowing Authority interrupts Jiang Xuan's contemplation; the caller's location is the Wang Family — by now the Wang Family has been utterly destroyed; these people know that once they act they must be thorough — when Jiang Xuan's consciousness descends there, even ants in the Wang Family have probably been caught and burned in a single fire.

Reading the other's inner heart reveals only fear, no guilt; the subconscious holds no hidden consciousness; Jiang Xuan satisfactorily accepts a large pile of Source, Immortal Source, and treasures.

They converted the Wang Family's vast majority of industries and fixed assets into compensation — all energy-type items given to Jiang Xuan.

The forces that destroyed the Wang Family effectively spent a small sum to buy some Wang Family assets; the remaining ninety percent they didn't dare hide at all — all given to Jiang Xuan; several families not only took nothing, but eagerly added even more of their own assets.

First, the Wang Family truly made most people in the Northern Domain hate them; second, news of Jiang Xuan destroying Shenling Valley spread to these families during this time, causing some who planned to hide assets to lose sleep for nights — after coughing up their hidden stash they voluntarily added more.

Although Jiang Xuan investigated these matters, he didn't intend to punish them — after all their attitude of admitting fault is decent; the energy given is ample, enough for the Micro World to condense over a dozen more strands of life force.

Putting away these resources, Jiang Xuan's consciousness vanished above the Wang Family ruins.

Those powerful forces trembling with fear finally relaxed, recovering their senses only to feel like crying without tears.

They had ransacked the Wang Family front and back, yet gained nothing themselves, even losing quite a bit! They regretted it again; if they had known Jiang Xuan wouldn't carefully check, they could have earned something according to their share, at least gaining some benefits.

It can only be said that greed knows no bounds; they did not know it was precisely because of the extra things they had sent out that Jiang Xuan was unwilling to waste more time causing them trouble.

Consciousness returned, and Jiang Xuan prepared to draw a lottery in the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror; while he was forging the Zhu Xian Sword, the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror had charged up another lottery chance.

But the Micro World Consciousness called out, summoning Jiang Xuan to the Micro World.

Consciousness entered the Micro World; besides the Micro World, there was also a Can Wang sitting cross-legged nearby.

Sensing Jiang Xuan's appearance, Can Wang's agile thoughts instantly linked with Jiang Xuan:

"Young master, you've finally come!"

Jiang Xuan curiously looked at Can Wang, or rather Zhang Lin who had already transformed into a Yao Cultivator: "When did your consciousness awaken? Why didn't you notify me?"

"I wanted to notify you! That strand of consciousness managing affairs in your little world completely ignores me, and the life force surrounding me constantly tempts my true body to absorb it, but I just can't touch it; this torment makes it impossible for me to calm down and cultivate!" Zhang Lin poured out his grievances.

Life force has considerable attraction even for animals, let alone plant Yao Cultivators; this attraction was something even Zhang Lin's consciousness could not prohibit.

But how could the stingy world consciousness allow Zhang Lin to touch his old capital?

It was precisely because of Zhang Lin's desire for life force that the world consciousness completely ignored this life brought in by the other half, let alone notifying Jiang Xuan.

Learning of the situation, Jiang Xuan felt both amused and exasperated; back then he had only considered that Zhang Lin could awaken his consciousness more steadily in this world, so he had not moved the Medicine King out, never expecting such a thing to happen.

"Young master, why is your little world like this? Not a bit of vitality; these grass are all products of ability! That consciousness managing the little world doesn't look smart either, yet there is so much life force comparable to the Undying Divine Medicine!" Having already decided to entrust his life to Jiang Xuan, Zhang Lin faced Jiang Xuan more relaxed and close than before, without the previous feeling of mutual respect and distance.

"This is not a little world!" Jiang Xuan did not hide the existence of the Micro World; Zhang Lin was now strictly speaking just a secret puppet of Jiang Xuan, it was just that Jiang Xuan would not control this secret puppet, but precisely because of this he was not afraid of Zhang Lin knowing the vast majority of his secrets.

The Micro World is very different from a little world; a little world is merely a space split off by a powerful expert, essentially still the bottom-level rules of the Zhetian World, and even if shattered it would reintegrate into the Zhetian World.

But Jiang Xuan's Micro World is a completely independent world, with unique bottom-level rules; most importantly, it can autonomously grow into a complete world, a complete universe!

The reason there is no vitality is entirely because this world is still in the derivation stage; life force is also the power the world uses to derive and expand!

After hearing Jiang Xuan's explanation, every whisker on Can Wang trembled; this was Zhang Lin's excitement!

Now in his mind was only the image of Jiang Xuan controlling a universe!

(Chapter End)