Chapter 190: Myriad Worlds: Person in Zhetian, Refining Treasures to Become Emperor 190

190. Chapter 190: The Sickly Old Man

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Jiang Xuan had long anticipated that the aura of the Eight Trigrams Furnace's advancement would be immense, so he had isolated this space early on and covered it with hidden rules, but he still underestimated the power of the Dao patterns on the Eight Trigrams Furnace; a few Dao patterns directly penetrated the hidden space and spread throughout the surroundings.

He no longer had time to gather these subtle auras; the Eight Trigrams Furnace's advancement had reached its most critical moment!

The last wisp of power from the Nine Li Map merged into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and the Dao patterns on the Eight Trigrams Furnace finally condensed completely; an aura of perfection surged forth, accompanied by a momentum that suppressed heaven and earth and refined all things.

Jiang Xuan opened his eyes, looking at the eight radiant directions on the body of the Eight Trigrams Furnace; the Dao patterns were condensed completely and purely, each character revealing immense pressure, possessing power that even a Quasi-Emperor would fear.

If the Eight Trigrams were activated simultaneously, their power would be comparable to that of a Great Emperor!

"Take it in!"

Accompanied by a light shout, the huge furnace cauldron phantom standing between heaven and earth turned into a wisp of majestic aura, rushing into Jiang Xuan's body; around the mountain peak, the sea of clouds surged, and all beasts and immortal mountains trembled with fear!

The Eight Trigrams Furnace merged into his body, and Jiang Xuan's incomplete "Self-Cessation" Dao track expanded wildly, increasing its progress by about forty or fifty percent!

"Melt!"

The Eight Trigrams Furnace merged into his body, and its Dao patterns faintly appeared deep within Jiang Xuan's skin; endless pressure emanated from within him, as rules, Dao and principle, and Dao patterns intertwined deep within his skin, bestowing upon him supreme power belonging to a Great Emperor!

Jiang Xuan couldn't help but let out a comfortable moan; just a single breath of exhalation and inhalation caused the spiritual qi in the sky to surge incessantly! The pale white aura caused fine cracks to appear in the surrounding space.

"Is this the power of an Emperor Weapon?" Jiang Xuan lightly clenched his fist, and spiritual qi turned into a sonic boom that exploded in his hand.

Jiang Xuan casually waved his hand at the mountain peak beneath his feet; the clouds and mist around the peak were condensed in an instant and disappeared at a flying speed, followed by the entire mountain top; an invisible force was slowly corroding the entire mountain top, leveling it to the ground!

He still felt it was too slow; with a wave of his hand, gray flames covered the entire mountain top, and the peak vanished instantly as if erased, leaving not a trace, as if the peak had originally been flat and bald!

Jiang Xuan hovered in the air, gradually adapting to the power and ability brought by the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

After fusing with the Nine Li Map, the Eight Trigrams Furnace successfully advanced to an Emperor Weapon; it was not far from becoming an Extreme Dao Emperor Soldier, and it brought new abilities to the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

The current Eight Trigrams Furnace contains eight hundred and eighty-eight worlds; called worlds, they are actually individual small Eight Trigrams Furnace spaces, each possessing the ability to suppress, refine, and forge!

Each space has the individual ability to suppress and refine a Great Sage; at the same time, these eight hundred and eighty-eight worlds can merge into an Eight Trigrams Middle World of eight positions, each world possessing the strength to suppress a Quasi-Emperor!

Moreover, the Eight Trigrams Middle World can merge into one Great World, and the Great World possesses the power to suppress a Great Emperor!

You must know this is not about being able to confront a Great Emperor, but truly suppressing a Great Emperor! As long as Jiang Xuan's energy is sufficient, he can suppress a Great Emperor without injury and without effort!

I'm afraid even Wu Shi didn't have this ability at the beginning, right?

And after the Eight Trigrams Furnace fused with his body, Jiang Xuan could freely control the power of attacks and the size of space, making it much more convenient than using the Eight Trigrams Furnace alone!

So Jiang Xuan decided immediately that the Eight Trigrams Furnace, like the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Pagoda, would no longer reside in his dantian, but would continue to merge into his body; he only needed to split off a small space at his dantian to temporarily carry the Chaos Sea.

When all weapons merge into the body, the power is sometimes too much and too chaotic to be perfectly integrated to exert a power greater than the sum of its parts, and sometimes it might even become less than the sum of its parts; so the only thing that had always resided and merged in the body was the body's basic Xuanhuang Mother Qi Pagoda, and now there was one more!

However, this situation is expected to change when he truly breaks through to Great Emperor; the Dao track in his body, gradually condensed from "Self-Cessation," has the ability to integrate the power of all weapons together!

The one seated cross-legged in the River of Time made his ten thousand weapons into one, exerting power surpassing ten thousand weapons, while Jiang Xuan could use it to integrate the power of all weapons in his body, exerting the power completely fused into his body!

By then, Jiang Xuan would not need to fear chaotic energy in his body; he could keep some weapons in his dantian and take out one or two weapons for battle when attacking!

By then, everything would be fused into his body; his body would be the best weapon!

Although the Eight Trigrams Furnace successfully broke through to an Emperor Weapon, in reality, Jiang Xuan's strength had not stepped into the Great Emperor Realm this time, but had only become a peak Quasi-Emperor; he still could not fully exert the power of the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

His path is different from other cultivation paths; now he needs to advance all weapons refined in his body to the realm of Emperor Soldiers before he can be considered to have successfully stepped onto the Great Emperor Realm, which can also be considered a kind of unorthodox path to becoming an emperor!

For him, who possesses the Myriad Worlds Fame System, this is not difficult; as long as he maintains the base of faithful believers, and the Fan Value rises every day, other weapons will soon be able to merge with other Dao artifacts and be nurtured into Emperor Weapons!

Even if he is not in the Great Emperor Realm now, he is not afraid at all when facing a Great Emperor!

It is well known that he has World Life Force and does not lack energy to maintain the consumption of the Eight Trigrams Furnace! It is also well known that he can mobilize a great deal of life force, and the World Consciousness has been painstakingly condensing; even if he overdrafts, it's just being nagged a few times by the World Will, which is better than dying!

For now, Jiang Xuan is quite satisfied with the strength improvement brought by the Eight Trigrams Furnace; now he no longer needs to pretend to be a Quasi-Emperor to put pressure on the Ancient Times Clan, for he himself is already comparable to a Great Emperor!

"Little brother, with such momentum, you must have already stepped into the Great Emperor Realm!" Outside the isolated space, an old man with a deathly pale face, as if he could die at any moment, looked with burning eyes into this hidden space.

Jiang Xuan raised an eyebrow; when the aura of the Eight Trigrams Furnace Emperor Weapon leaked, he had guessed someone would sense this faint aura and come, but he didn't know who exactly was coming.

He waved his hand to remove the isolated hidden space, and at the first sight of this old man, he opened his Omniscience ability.

"I, Ji Xuan, have wandered the Northern Dipper Great Land for thousands of years like a ghost, yet I didn't know there was a peerless genius almost ready to step onto the Emperor Road! That..." The sickly old man seemed to discover Jiang Xuan's probing; although he couldn't stop Jiang Xuan's investigation, he could control himself to give up thinking immediately, just looking at Jiang Xuan aimlessly.

Jiang Xuan lightly sighed and withdrew his Omniscience ability; anyway, he had already received important news, and the visitor surprised him greatly.

Ji Xuan, a peerless genius of the Central State during the Qing Di era nine thousand years ago; at that time, besides Qing Di, the strongest in the world, he was the one closest to achieving the Dao!

If he had been born a bit earlier, the only quota to become an emperor in the world might have belonged to Ji Xuan!

But in Jiang Xuan's view, it was still because Xia Jiuyou's talent was insufficient to support his unorthodox path to enlightenment, so he was bound at the final step.

But even so, Xia Jiuyou's strength comparable to a Great Emperor at his peak is beyond doubt, and his spirit of shedding the last drop of blood for the Human Race is equally admirable!

This is truly shedding the last drop of blood in a realistic sense; after fighting to the death against the God Ruins Master in the Dark Turmoil, his disciple Xia Jiuyou searched the starry sky for five thousand years before finding a drop of residual blood, and not even complete blood! He wanted to establish a temple to condense wish power to resurrect the other's consciousness, but it didn't work for thousands of years!

"I didn't expect Senior Xia Jiuyou to sense the aura and come here!" Jiang Xuan bowed slightly; since the other party sensed the power of probing the soul, Jiang Xuan didn't prepare to hide anything and directly reported the old man's name.

"I dare not accept such praise! I didn't expect that on my Northern Dipper Great Land, there would be a peerless genius of such a young age who has already half-stepped into the Great Emperor Realm!" Ji Xuan's eyes were full of shock.

The rings of time do not lie; he could tell Jiang Xuan was not even over forty years old now, which on the cultivation path is the age of a newborn, yet he had already walked the road that Ji Xuan had walked for thousands of years!

"If I'm not mistaken! Little friend, the path you walk is not the cultivation path, but a path completely different from the current system! And it is a weapon path!" Ji Xuan put aside his pride and status, as if asking and as if finding a feasible path!

Jiang Xuan did not hide anything; he directly explained the Ten Thousand Domains Furnace Sutra and the melting weapon system combined with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, also borrowing many techniques such as the Good Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art, walking out a completely different path!

Ji Xuan sat cross-legged beside Jiang Xuan at some point, listening seriously like a diligent child.

In just a few minutes, Jiang Xuan revealed all his thoughts; besides the modified Ten Thousand Domains Furnace Sutra, he even took out the Eight Trigrams Furnace for Ji Xuan to see!

It was not that Jiang Xuan was unwilling to take out the Ten Thousand Domains Furnace Sutra to teach Ji Xuan, but this Ten Thousand Domains Furnace Sutra had long been modified by Jiang Xuan beyond recognition, only suitable for Jiang Xuan to cultivate, and the system also had to match the countless weapon Dao patterns on the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror, so it was fundamentally not suitable to be taken out and explained.

Even just hearing the concept, without hearing the core techniques and other news, Ji Xuan was already very satisfied with this sermon!

Yes, Ji Xuan thought Jiang Xuan was giving him a selfless sermon!

The two had only met for the first time; Ji Xuan was certain the other had never seen him before, knew nothing of his character, yet could so sincerely lay out the complete path he had opened for another to hear — such trust and selfless spirit, even Ji Xuan in his thousands of years of wandering had never witnessed.

"Thank you, young friend, for so selflessly expounding the Dao; I have benefited immensely! This old man has nothing to repay you with — if you don't mind, I am willing to pass on the Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody to you!" Ji Xuan's eyes were full of sincerity.

Although with his current aged and ruined body he could no longer re-cultivate the Great Dao, witnessing this kind of Emperor Road before death had broadened his horizons, and counted as resolving a lifelong knot — the inability to find a path to becoming Emperor!

Jiang Xuan did not speak, seriously examining the other's body; the Great Dao within was in chaotic collision, causing his body to endure the Dao's erosion at every moment — this Dao injury could not be repaired, could not be expelled!

It was precisely because of his failed Dao-proving eight thousand years ago that Ji Xuan had remained in this sickly state, as if he might die at any moment.

What Jiang Xuan was thinking now was: could the life force of the Micro World heal this kind of Dao injury originating from this world?

If he could heal the other's injuries, Ji Xuan would also become a major aide in facing the future Dark Turmoil.

Previously Jiang Xuan had always felt he didn't need to establish a power in the Zhetian World — first, Ye Fan would inevitably become the Ye Tian Emperor in the future, and the Heavenly Court he founded would gather a vast number of geniuses and experts; Jiang Xuan establishing another power would not only be trouble, but might also overlap with Ye Fan's forces.

Once Ye Fan grew up and founded the Heavenly Court, with their relationship he could also freely mobilize Heavenly Court members.

But after hearing the news brought by "Eye," regardless of whether it was true, he felt a sense of urgency!

Waiting for Ye Fan to found the Heavenly Court and develop it was too slow! Even though Jiang Xuan had already given Ye Fan a push to speed up, the other still hadn't kept pace with Jiang Xuan's development speed.

So when refining the Nine Li Map, he was already considering whether to develop a force of his own!

He wasn't planning to recruit those future experts — the current Heaven's Prides, those people would likely also find it hard to keep up with Jiang Xuan's pace; he planned to go straight to the goal in one step, directly recruiting those already famous, or those who might die in the future.

Like Zhang Lin still cultivating a human form in the Micro World, the Ruthless Emperor waiting for her lord's return, or the sick old man Ji Xuan before his eyes!

These were all excellent choices, able to rapidly form peak combat power — even ascending to the Heavenly Court they would have the strength to fight!

Regaining his senses, Jiang Xuan decided to try! At worst it would just cost a thread of World Life Force — for a peerless Heaven's Pride it was worth it!

"The Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody is unnecessary..."

"True! With young friend's talent, I'm afraid you also look down on my Tribulation Crossing Immortal Melody!" Ji Xuan sighed, as if mocking himself, yet also as if lamenting.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Xuan's next words made his pale face flush red, and he stared wide-eyed at the handsome youth before him.

"I have a method that can attempt to repair the Dao injury in your body from your failed Dao-proving; even if it cannot be fully repaired, it can temporarily suppress the Dao injury from continuing to spread, and afterward there will still be a way to repair it!"

"Is what young friend says truly true?"

If these words came from anyone else's mouth, Ji Xuan would most likely have kicked them out of Beidou with one foot — but the one before him was a youth under forty about to achieve the Dao through an unorthodox path!

He had been called a peerless genius by the world for over a thousand years, traveled all these years, and never seen such an outrageous person! Even Wu Shi would probably have to step aside, willingly conceding inferiority!

Involuntarily, he believed the words Jiang Xuan spoke.

A thread of life force emerged in Jiang Xuan's hand, isolated by a small space's imprisonment, yet a vast life qi still spread out from within the small space.

Extending the small space in his hand, Jiang Xuan said seriously: "Senior, you try it first!"

Ji Xuan involuntarily accepted it, his eyes carrying gravity and excitement.

From the qi alone he could sense a life force even more concentrated than undying divine medicine — such an invaluable healing divine medicine, yet the youth before him handed it over without the slightest hesitation; what breadth of mind and magnanimity!

In his thousands of years of wandering, he had never seen a person with such breadth of mind! (Chapter End)