Chapter 264

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

Boy not only completed the Xi Sui, but also comprehended a furnace rune.

"As expected of the Heavenly Emperor..." Jiang Xuan praised in his heart.

This gift, he felt inferior to himself.

When he first comprehended the Refining System, he certainly had his own comprehension, but more was the support of the Hongmeng Treasure Mirror.

"A Xi Sui ends, other children's Xi Sui begins." Jiang Xuan looked at the children in the distance.

He took out a jade-green leaf from his sleeve; this leaf was not an ordinary plant leaf, but also came from the World Tree.

"These World Tree Leaves are all rare treasures of the world." Jiang Xuan said softly, "For the children of Shi Cun, it is a great fortune."

He put the World Tree Leaf into the Eight Trigrams Furnace; the furnace fire surged instantly, emitting a deafening roar.

The flames spouting from the furnace mouth rose several zhang high, forming a brilliant curtain of light in the night sky.

"Go." Jiang Xuan gave the order, and several children were brought into the Eight Trigrams Furnace.

As the furnace door slowly closed, the children's figures disappeared in the blazing flames.

At the same time, under the Willow God Tree, Jiang Xuan was seriously explaining the cultivation essentials of the Blood Moving Realm to Boy. Boy sat cross-legged on the ground, afraid to miss any detail.

"After you officially enter the Blood Moving Realm, I will give you a Treasure Technique." Jiang Xuan said with a smile.

"What Treasure Technique is it, Master?" Boy asked excitedly.

"Eight Trigrams Furnace Treasure Art." Jiang Xuan's answer made Boy's eyes light up.

"What is the Eight Trigrams Furnace? What is it used for?"

Jiang Xuan smiled slightly: "The Eight Trigrams Furnace is not an ordinary Treasure Technique. It is my initial reliance in cultivation, refining all things."

Boy listened with fascination, asking repeatedly: "Then is it powerful?"

"Powerful!" Jiang Xuan emphasized his tone, "If you cultivate the complete Eight Trigrams Furnace Treasure Art to Minor Achievement, it is enough to sweep across the Eight Domains, with no one able to match."

Boy danced with excitement: "I want to learn!"

"Cultivate first." Jiang Xuan patted his shoulder with a smile, "After you reach the Blood Moving Realm, I will give it to you."

Boy nodded obediently.

He knew Master was right; only by laying a good foundation could he go further.

Just then, a cool breeze brushed past the willow branches, and the Willow God's voice suddenly rang out: "You seem to know many Treasure Techniques."

Jiang Xuan smiled slightly: "Yes, I have collected quite a few over these years. But compared to true divine abilities, such as the Ten Fierce Treasure Techniques, these Treasure Techniques are merely superficial."

Willow God nodded thoughtfully. She knew Jiang Xuan was right; the true Ten Fierce Treasure Techniques were far more complex than these.

At this moment, in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the children were undergoing a difficult trial.

The temperature inside the furnace reached several thousand degrees, but they had to grit their teeth and persist. Only those who had undergone this tempering could truly transform into a stronger Existence.

And all of this was only the first step of Shi Cun's rise.

"I don't know much, just a little bit." Jiang Xuan answered casually.

"..." Willow God was speechless; do you think I can't count, not knowing what that 'yi' in 'a little bit' represents?

Jiang Xuan taking the Eight Trigrams Furnace Divine Ability as Boy's enlightenment supreme art was indeed after deep consideration.

This profound method of taking Tian Di as a furnace had a natural affinity with Boy's Gift.

When the furnace runes he spat out, nine-aperture spiritual light surged like flames, condensing into a shadow of three legs and two ears, clearly an uncarved furnace prototype.

Such extraordinary talent made Jiang Xuan secretly amazed.

Divine abilities that ordinary cultivators could only touch upon after countless temperings and comprehensions, in this child's body, naturally sprouted like a seed.

Whenever he cultivated, sounds of wind and thunder surged between his viscera; when inhaling and exhaling Spiritual Qi, the essence of Tian Di was all drawn into this initially formed furnace for tempering and purification. This instinctive refining, so natural and perfect, was the best foundation for comprehending the Eight Trigrams Furnace Divine Ability.

Even more wonderful was that Boy's obsession with "eating" was a perfect match for the characteristics of this divine ability.

Jiang Xuan sometimes watched him hugging a golden, oily beast leg and devouring it heartily, even sucking the Bone Marrow clean; this gluttonous appearance coincidentally matched the aura of the Eight Trigrams Furnace refining all things.

When he personally saw Boy throwing Tian Di Spirit Qi into the qi vortex and refining it into crystal-clear pills in the blink of an eye, he finally clapped his hands and smiled—one who could combine the instinct of eating with the path of cultivation so wonderfully was the only choice for cultivating the Eight Trigrams Furnace Divine Ability.

This treasure furnace containing the mysteries of creation could not only melt mountains, rivers, and territories into spiritual essence, but also turn Tian Di spirit things into delicacies nourishing the Dao Body. For the gluttonous Boy, it was no different from carrying a top-notch kitchen around; with a raise of his hand, he could refine ferocious beasts into delicacies and spirit medicines into nectar.

Jiang Xuan seemed to have foreseen that furnace shadow walking with him across the Great Wilderness; wherever he went, ferocious beasts would flee—after all, in the eyes of a food lover, even the most ferocious Ancient Times remnant species was nothing but walking ingredients.

"Master, I have comprehended a bone text!" Boy greeted Jiang Xuan.

"I know, I know!"

Jiang Xuan's fingertip lightly touched Boy's brow; vast Dao Patterns circulated like a Star River.

Eight trigrams condensed into shadows in the Void; the Li and Kan runes inscribed on the furnace body erupted with red and blue dual-colored divine flames, illuminating the entire Shi Cun as if it were daytime.

Boy's Spiritual Platform roared; the Innate Bagua Array Diagram emerged in his Sea of Consciousness.

At the Qian position, purple qi steamed; at the Kun position, dark yellow descended; in the swallowing and exhaling of the tripod furnace, Yin-Yang Two Qi actually evolved the birth and death of all things.

A child who had lived in seclusion in Shi Cun since childhood, at this moment, through the tripod furnace shadow, glimpsed the chaotic scene of the initial opening of Tian Di.

This Eight Trigrams Furnace Divine Ability most valued the path of refining; the true fire in the furnace could burn all Tian Di Laws to ashes, and could also nurture the vitality of creation.

A lifetime's Moral Heavenly Venerable refined the Great Sage Fire Eye, having melted the five-colored stones for mending the sky; it could be said he seized the mysteries of Qian Kun.

With a light sweep of the willow branch, golden sparks were brought up; the Eight Trigrams Furnace shadow suddenly solidified by three parts. Boy's whole body surged with chaotic qi; his hair moved without wind, actually showing a few traces of transcendental Dao rhythm.

Willow God looked at the Innate Bagua floating and sinking in the tripod furnace; between the branches and leaves came a sigh of sudden realization: "Unfathomable, the Dao of an Emperor..."

Even though it was not the first time seeing this divine ability, Willow God was still amazed.

In the World, there are Emperors.

Suddenly!

The willow branch rippled with starlight in the Void, and the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit's Gaze pierced through the mist of Years.

When Jiang Xuan's words dissipated within the Dao Rhyme, the Immortal King Origin deep within her Sea of Consciousness suddenly trembled, actually glimpsing fragments of the future within the River of Karma—.

That was the Time ripple belonging to an Immortal Emperor-level Existence.

"Using the body as a furnace, refining the Heavens..."

Willow God gazed at the chaotic Qi circulating around Jiang Xuan, and the originally silent Immortal King Origin suddenly produced Resonance. She finally understood why the person before her could easily pierce through the Darkness mist, and why she knew everything under Heaven as if counting her own treasures.

This Hongmeng was not a person of the Present World.

But!

From the future!

Jiang Xuan looked at the Boy, who was completely immersed in the Eight Trigrams Furnace Divine Ability.

"The Boy has officially embarked on the path of cultivation; those matters long plotted are now due."

"Let us begin the plan from the Eight Domains of the Lower Realm. Hundreds of thousands of years of time, as long as the Strategy is proper, cultivating several Immortal Kings who never appeared in the original Time should not be a problem."

Jiang Xuan spoke softly, determined to succeed.

There was still a long stretch of Time before the end of the Primordial Era, providing him ample Space to operate.

Jiang Xuan slowly lifted his arm; in the originally Calm Void, without any warning, a rift of light split open.

Within the rift of light, mist layered upon layer, five-colored radiance interwove and circulated endlessly, thick chaotic Qi spread wildly, profound and distant.

Jiang Xuan's Divine Sense power slowly detached from his fleshly body and Integrated into the rift of light.

The surrounding Time twisted wildly and changed rapidly; the scene before his eyes shifted swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, he had stepped into a strange Tian Di completely different from the outside world.

Everything here seemed to still be in the hazy state of the Hongmeng Era's initial opening; all things had no clear contours, only milk-white Mist.

Jiang Xuan scrutinized his Divine Sense body; it was no different from his Main Body, every detail perfectly replicated, solid as substance, exuding the same powerful aura as his Main Body.

This was naturally due to Jiang Xuan's own strength, and on the other hand, also because of the unique Attribute of this Region.

"Xu Shen Jie."

Feeling the Daojie fluctuations in the air, his Hongmeng Realm, which he had built with countless efforts, was partly formed by the system, and partly its profundity was drawn from Xu Shen Jie.

As Time passed, his Hongmeng Realm now far surpassed the Xu Shen Jie before his eyes, whether in level or in power.

The two were long incomparable.

Jiang Xuan's Target was clear: precisely the Core Disciple region of Xu Shen Jie.

Along the way, he first traversed that chaotic and disorderly Region, where everything had no fixed form and was full of uncertainty. Then he came to a place covered in scars; what met his eyes were broken walls and ruins, the former glory long gone, leaving only endless desolation and decay.

Xu Shen Jie had once suffered a great calamity, almost destroying everything here; most Regions became wastelands in that catastrophe, leaving only these ruins.

Although Xu Shen Jie was now a scene of decay, the value it contained was still inestimable.

Because this was a special mental world; once living beings stepped into this place, they could temper their spiritual power in this unique Environment.

When they completed their training and returned to the real world, the spiritual insights gained in Xu Shen Jie would feed back onto their fleshly bodies, prompting body and mind to undergo a synchronous transformation.

Just like a true cultivation of Shed Mortal Body Exchange Bones, the improvement brought by this cultivation was difficult to obtain easily in the outside world.

Regarding the origin of Xu Shen Jie, an ancient legend circulated in the World,

said to be a world constructed by Ancient Era gods with powerful spiritual thought.

Jiang Xuan agreed with this; the true strength of that "Ancient Era god" who created Xu Shen Jie far exceeded people's imagination.

Even in this Era, few could rival him.

Jiang Xuan did not linger too long in these ruins; he continued walking outward.

These places now had little value, dead silent, without a trace of life.

Not long after, the scene before his eyes suddenly brightened.

He stepped into a brilliant world of light.

The stars shifted and turned, Space changed.

Jiang Xuan arrived at the "Chu Shi Di" of Xu Shen Jie.

This was a special place for tempering and exchange created specifically for cultivators of the Blood Moving Realm; its rules were very unique. Even cultivators of extraordinary high Realms, once they stepped into Chu Shi Di, their own strength would be suppressed by the special rules here to the level of the Blood Moving Realm.

Here, everything had to start over.

In Chu Shi Di, people came and went, bustling and lively.

The moment Jiang Xuan Revealed Self, his Extraordinary aura instantly attracted the gazes of some people.

However, crowds surged here every day, and all sorts of cultivators came and went; one more stranger was truly nothing unusual.

So most people just glanced over hastily, then shifted their attention elsewhere, continuing their own cultivation and exchange.

Two old men, however, were quite different; they locked onto Jiang Xuan at a glance among the Crowd, then walked straight toward him, their gazes locked on Jiang Xuan, full of Curiosity and inquiry, beginning to scrutinize Jiang Xuan carefully.

Of these two old men, one had a gaunt face, his eyes revealing a shrewd Force, every movement showing shrewdness.

The other had white hair and beard, like the white snow of winter; a small exquisite bird stood on his shoulder, the bird's feathers were gorgeous, its lively eyes rolling around, especially eye-catching.

This strange combination stood out conspicuously among the Crowd.

They said nothing, their eyes revealing an unfathomable light, staring at Jiang Xuan.

"So, what do you two want by blocking me here?" Jiang Xuan spread his hands.

"Strange, you always feel something is Not Right all over."

"Suspicious, really very suspicious."

The two old men stroked their beards, looking at each other and muttering.

Jiang Xuan flicked the Dust that did not exist on his collar: "Perhaps I am a person of extraordinary talent; even if I restrain my sharpness, I cannot hide my entire bearing. Habit is fine."

The two old men rolled their eyes and left with hands behind their backs, but the withered fingers in their sleeves were calculating the Heavenly Secret.

Looking at the two hunched backs, Jiang Xuan's gaze was Calm.

Even in such ruin, it still retains spiritual artifact perception?

They naturally could not tell Jiang Xuan had crossed worlds, but they could perceive the abnormality of the Great Dao surging within him.

Between his sleeve and fingertips, he caressed half a piece of Jiang Xuan lightly sighed.

The one with a small bird perched on his shoulder was Second Under Heaven, who once contended with the True Dragon for the name of True Dragon.

The other was originally formed from a piece of Spiritual Gold, Golden Daoist.

Both were once supreme existences that shook all heavens.

……

"It's time to bring Boy to Xu Shen Jie!"

Jiang Xuan reached out into the Void.

Shi Cun.

Boy discovered he was Chuan Shuo, the Beast Milk Jar suddenly vanished, and in an instant another place densely covered with runes appeared.

A Green Stone, about a zhang in every direction, with several treasure bones embedded in it, circulating mysterious rune power.

Willow God had already given him a rundown on Xu Shen Jie.

Boy's gaze was firmly attracted by a giant Green Stone with flashing runes, and he immediately lifted his foot and stepped onto it.

On a Green Stone surface were embedded several lustrous white beast bones, each emitting an ancient aura.

"Could this be the legendary Primordial Treasure Bone?"

Boy could hardly contain his Inner Heart's excitement, extending his fingers with a measure of awe and curiosity to lightly touch one of the beast bones, and an indescribable force came from his fingertips.

Just as Boy made a move, with a "shua" sound, a dazzling Golden Channel appeared without warning.

Before Boy could react, he was swept up by this mysterious force and instantly left Yuan Di.

After a spell of dizziness, Boy discovered he was in another space densely covered with runes.

Before him was still a huge Green Stone, over a zhang in length and width, with several treasure bones emitting mysterious rune power embedded on its surface.

Boy took a deep breath, squatted down again, extended his hand to lightly caress one of the treasure bones, feeling the strange fluctuations from his fingertips.

After a moment, he gritted his teeth, suddenly exerted force, trying to crack the stone surface and take out this Rune Bone.

Yet this Green Stone was far harder than he imagined; not only that, at the moment Boy exerted force, the several Rune Bones on the Green Stone simultaneously burst forth with light, runes interweaving to form an impenetrable net, firmly blocking Boy's attack from outside.

(Chapter End)