Chapter 22: Swallowed Whole

Like a comet striking Earth, the Fire Qilin charged with incomparably scorching flames, its abyss-like maw biting toward Jiang Xuan's head.

Boom!

This impact was truly too terrifying.

The entire Lingyun Grotto shook mountains and moved earth—not a figure of speech, but a real, objective great collision.

Scorching flames ignited the air, and the entire space within the grotto became a sea of fire.

Duan Lang and the other two, just reaching the mouth of Lingyun Grotto, were knocked to the ground dozens of zhang away by this momentum, their minds and souls shaken.

In an instant, the three men's minds went blank.

The shock this earth-shaking collision brought the three was truly too great.

More than ten years ago, Duan Lang and Nie Feng had almost been devoured by the Fire Qilin, finally surviving when Nie Renwang struck them away with one palm; though they escaped the tiger's mouth, the direct spiritual oppression this monster brought them was simply their lifelong nightmare.

Countless nights, the two dreamed countless times of being devoured by the Fire Qilin; though they cultivated in the Tianxia Alliance, far from Lingyun Grotto, this Fire Qilin had become their heart devil they could not shake off.

Now seeing someone use flesh and blood to hard-clash with the Fire Qilin, this thunderous great collision was like an earth dragon turning over, more terrifying than an earth dragon turning over, and the two were shocked into a daze.

Bu Jingyun's eyes were filled with fervor.

This power exceeded Xiong Ba tenfold; if he had such power, killing Xiong Ba would be as easy as turning over one's hand.

At this moment, the soil and stones beneath the feet of man and beast were crushed into powder by the powerful aftermath, and the entire Lingyun Grotto shook wildly in this terrifying duel.

The immense force made the stone walls crack, dense cracks crisscrossing like spider webs.

"Fire Qilin, not bad."

Jiang Xuan spoke lightly, then his slender figure stepped out again, changing fist to palm, leaping into the air, both palms pressing horizontally.

Boundless offensive pressure pressed toward the Fire Qilin again, sealing its surrounding mysterious qi.

Terrifying palm force pressed down, and the surrounding dozens of zhang even became a vacuum zone.

"Roar!"

The Fire Qilin finally could not bear it, limbs bent and knelt on the ground, letting out a mournful angry roar.

This vajra iron-bone-like qilin head was struck by Jiang Xuan with absolute force into two deep palm prints; at the palm print sites, skull bones shattered, and qilin blood flowed, dyeing the ground red.

Scorching hot qilin blood mixed with soil, as if forming magma.

The air was filled with a scorching, burnt-hot aura.

Jiang Xuan's skin and body had not a bit of damage; the Fire Qilin was fatal to any martial arts expert in the Tianxia, and its blood even contained madness-like killing intent, but whether fire poison or killing intent, they were merely Jiang Xuan's nourishment.

This is the marvel of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, especially after combining with Zhoulu Liu Xu Gong, Jiang Xuan's methods increased further.

Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Li, Kan, Dui, Xun contain all things under heaven; unless one can achieve the legendary transcendence beyond the Three Realms, not within the Five Elements, otherwise as long as it does not exceed the Eight Trigrams Furnace's refining limit, theoretically all things can be refined by Jiang Xuan, as nourishment for his growth.

Shocking Cold Glance!

Jiang Xuan flew through the air, bringing palm with blade; instantly wind rose, thunder roared, a hundred-meter electric light blade qi of unparalleled domineering force came down from above straight toward the Fire Qilin with the might of Mount Tai pressing the top.

Within flames that could melt gold and iron, Jiang Xuan struck palm-blade after palm-blade; with the marvel of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, combining Zhouliu Wind Strength and Thunder Strength to operate Ao Han Six Decisions attacking the Fire Qilin, electric glints scattered within Lingyun Grotto, countless large stones turned into charcoal powder.

Cold Blade Ice Heart!

The Fire Qilin was directly slashed open at the mid-abdomen by this final blade, its internal organs even faintly visible.

"Roar!"

Jiang Xuan advanced, in an instant crossing a hundred meters, changing palm-blade to elbow strike.

Between Heaven and Earth, Kyushu and Eight Extremes, Baji Top Heart Elbow!

Since obtaining Baji Fist, Jiang Xuan used this move for the first time.

Dense attacks like a violent storm, every strike hit the Fire Qilin's weak defenses, flesh and blood flew, bones shattered.

Jiang Xuan once again used the move Double Elbow Top Heart.

Swaying arms strike heaven and fall, stomping feet shake Kyushu!

The Fire Qilin weighing dozens of tons was instantly blasted dozens of zhang away, heavily smashing into the charred stone wall.

Every inch of flesh and blood on his whole body dripped blood; hundreds of strikes were like lingchi, every part of his body's bones on the verge of collapse.

"Roar!"

Struggling to climb up, the Fire Qilin let out an angry roar!

Head raised high, flames danced wildly all over its body.

How many years!

How many years had it not suffered such heavy injuries!

Yet now it was beaten by this seemingly insignificant two-legged sheep until flesh flew and internal organs ruptured.

That small palm seemed to have a thousand jun of force, striking it with no power to fight back.

From the Fire Qilin's appearance until now, only a few breaths had passed.

"The Fire Qilin was blasted away."

This scene was seen by the three Fengyun Duan Lang at the cave mouth; the three were extremely shocked.

They saw this incredibly terrifying monster, after difficulty standing up again, its steel-like limbs actually trembling, as if the next second it could not support its body weight and would lie down again.

"The abdomen seems to have been slashed open by a blade."

In the flash of electric light and stone fire, this was the result of Jiang Xuan and the Fire Qilin's battle; the Fire Qilin was completely defeated.

The Fire Qilin, which made martial artists tremble with fear, could not even last one round in the hands of that god-like and demon-like youth.

The Fengyun World's Four Great Auspicious Beasts were actually Four Great Fierce Beasts; having only the name of auspicious beasts but not the wisdom of auspicious beasts, whenever they appeared, they often brought suffering to the people, evil everywhere, and who knew how many people were harmed by them.

For hundreds of years, many martial artists who cared for the world wanted to remove this evil beast Fire Qilin; Duan family's Duan Zhengxian and Nie family's ancestor Nie Ying were both harmed by it while trying to remove the Fire Qilin.

The two men's peak achievements were merely knocking off a piece of the Fire Qilin's scales and striking it with one blade; that piece of scale created the top-tier sword Huanghuo Sword, renowned even in the entire martial world, and that one blade strike created the Nie family's generations of mad blood.

More than ten years ago, Duan Shuai and Nie Renwang were both top experts in the martial world; apart from the reclusive martial arts myth, their martial arts were almost among the highest tier, yet facing the Fire Qilin, they almost had no power to fight back.

Now, they saw that a scale enough to create a top-tier treasure sword numbered in the hundreds on the ground, and the Fire Qilin's spilled blood gathered together into a magma pool.

It was actually struck out by this youth, whose divine might was like a prison, with a flip of his hand.

Simply inconceivable.

Jiang Xuan's incomparably vast momentum earlier had nearly suffocated them; they knew of Jiang Xuan's strength, but they had not expected this kind of "strength" to be not merely strong.

Rather, like a god, resembling a demon.

Dong! Dong!

Jiang Xuan walked over step by step, his pace slow, yet his pressure grew stronger and stronger.

Gradually approaching the Fire Qilin.

The Fire Qilin stared dead at this two-legged sheep walking slowly toward it; Jiang Xuan's tiny silhouette in the Fire Qilin's eyes at this moment was tall as a mountain, its lantern-like pupils flashing with ferocity, anger, fear, and a trace of pleading.

Complex emotions ultimately transformed into an unwilling roar.

"Roar!"

Flames surged all over the Fire Qilin's body, as if its flesh, blood, and bones were all burning.

This ferocious beast, already listless, actually had an aura even more violent than before, filled with unwillingness and anger, pouncing at Jiang Xuan once more.

The roar resounded through heaven and earth, like spring thunder on flat ground; the stone chamber at this time also became a world of flames, the Fire Qilin like a flame divine dragon roaring as it charged at Jiang Xuan.

After this strike, the Fire Qilin, whether victorious or defeated, would ultimately perish.

"Still quite fierce."

"Not bad, this is the appearance a ferocious beast ought to have."

However, facing the Fire Qilin's dying blow, Jiang Xuan's expression did not change; he slightly opened his mouth, the Eight Trigrams Furnace within his body blossoming with boundless light, his spirit will divine power suddenly transforming into a single thread of incomparably terrifying suction force, gathering in his mouth.

Hu!

The incomparably tyrannical suction force even devoured the surrounding flames clean, converging into Jiang Xuan's mouth and belly; the stone chamber's temperature instantly dropped.

The Fire Qilin was like a single thread of golden flowing light, rushing straight for Jiang Xuan, vowing to perish together with this terrifying, hateful two-legged sheep.

Outside Lingyun Grotto, Duan Lang and the other two felt the Fire Qilin's sky-collapsing momentum, their hearts nearly stopping.

Jiang Xuan's expression was indifferent, standing with hands behind back, making a swallowing posture.

The golden flowing light grew even more swift and fierce like lightning, carrying dense flames and mountain-like power as it rushed forth.

Straight into Jiang Xuan's mouth.

Jiang Xuan actually directly swallowed this ferocious beast alive!

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(Chapter End)