Chapter 54

Jiang Xuan stepped through the air and soon arrived at his residence; Ye Fan and Pang Bo were not there, and Jiang Xuan guessed the two had gone out for training.

As he pondered, a sudden muffled sound rang out, as if something had seized the heart; many ordinary disciples instantly felt a wrenching pain, clutching their chests and rolling on the ground.

Almost all disciples wore faces of terror, pale as paper; the intervals between the muffled sounds grew shorter and shorter, as if a peerless demon was about to awaken.

Jiang Xuan sensed this power; with his current strength his heart was still tugged by it, let alone this group of ordinary disciples.

The Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart?

His expression shifted, and Jiang Xuan turned into a streak of crimson sword light that tore through the sky, rushing toward the depths of Lingxu.

"Jiang Xuan, you're back, wonderful — come explore Lingxu with us!"

Before Jiang Xuan could fly to the depths, Elder Wu Qingfeng and the others had already spotted his silhouette and immediately called out joyfully, waving; the Lingxu Dongtian Exploration Team would gain a mainstay, and this trip would surely return fully laden.

Jiang Xuan's sword light touched down, and he joined up with the Lingxu Dongtian elders; the Sect Master had also come, and seeing Jiang Xuan he was quite surprised, then asked:

"Jiang Xuan, you're back; did your training go smoothly?"

"I have not failed my mission; everything went smoothly!"

Jiang Xuan smiled and spoke; the trip to the Fengyun World had indeed brought him great harvests, and now his cultivation could directly crush everyone in Lingxu Dongtian!

"Good; your temperament is steady, you think thrice before acting, and we all feel at ease!"

Elder Wu Qingfeng stroked his beard, nodding in praise.

"By the way, Jiang Xuan, what is your cultivation now?"

Sect Master Li suddenly asked curiously; for this disciple he was extremely satisfied — top-tier talent, steady in action — and now that he had returned from training, his cultivation must have advanced further; he should have reached the peak of the Divine Bridge realm.

"Reporting to the Sect Master, this disciple stepped into the Other Shore two months ago!"

Jiang Xuan spoke lightly, but in the ears of Sect Master Li and the many elders it was like a thunderclap from clear sky.

Inconceivable!

Unheard of!

Elder Wu Qingfeng's expression changed drastically in disbelief; he suspected he had misheard and asked again to confirm:

"Jiang Xuan, what did you say? Are you certain you have already entered the Other Shore realm, and not the peak of Divine Bridge?"

"This disciple indeed entered the Other Shore realm two months ago."

Jiang Xuan revealed a portion of his aura; in an instant, the aura surged, and a vast, towering momentum containing boundless depth slowly rose from behind him.

Everyone felt that at this moment they were like a lone leaf boat on the great sea, constantly facing the risk of being capsized by surging waves.

Jiang Xuan's words were not wrong; in the Fengyun Realm he had indeed crossed into the Other Shore realm, but during the journey through the Nine Empty Boundless he had rebuilt his foundation, his Life Wheel Sea vanished, and all of it transformed into the mana of the Refining System.

He had embarked on a path completely different from the Zhetian Method.

Shock and admiration — whether it was Lingxu Dongtian's Sect Master Li or the many elders, all were dumbfounded; Jiang Xuan's cultivation forced them to be astonished.

From the time Jiang Xuan contacted cultivation until now, how long has it been? Three or four months — only three or four months — from opening the Bitter Sea, gushing the Spring of Life, erecting the Divine Bridge, to reaching the Other Shore; he completed the entire Life Wheel Sea Mi Jing cultivation in three or four months.

You must know most of the elders cultivated for most of their lives and only reached the Divine Bridge realm; the Other Shore was like a heavenly moat that firmly blocked them outside, yet Jiang Xuan, in less than half a year, had already surpassed most of their lifetimes of cultivation results.

This is truly too inconceivable.

Even the most outstanding Holy Sons of those Sacred Land Families on the Eastern Wasteland Land are merely like this; if they learned that the current Jiang Xuan surpasses the Other Shore by who knows how much, one wonders what they would think.

"Good, good, good — truly a heaven-sent talent; Jiang Xuan, you are truly too surprising; although I knew you possessed heavenly pride, every time I see you, you always cause a great shock."

Sect Master Li was very happy; Jiang Xuan's arrival added a mainstay to their exploration of the depths of Lingxu; Jiang Xuan looked very much like a person of great fortune, and exploring Lingxu would surely return fully laden.

More importantly, Jiang Xuan, having already entered the Other Shore, was fully qualified to enter Yaoguang Holy Land; he planned to recommend Jiang Xuan to join Yaoguang Holy Land after this exploration ended — a heaven-sent opportunity for Jiang Xuan; once he passed the assessment, their Lingxu Dongtian would also receive many rewards.

As they spoke, four more streaks of divine light flew from the direction of Lingxu Dongtian — they were the Supreme Elders of Lingxu Dongtian, all at the Dao Palace realm, on the same level as Sect Master Li.

Just then, the muffled sound rang out again. Everyone mounted the divine light and flew toward the depths of Lingxu; before their eyes ancient building clusters stood dense and numerous — although half the buildings had already collapsed into ruins, one could still faintly see the past grandeur and magnificence of this building cluster.

And the countless ancient building clusters actually surrounded a volcano, very strange; there fire light soared to the heavens, and even far away across the building clusters everyone could still feel the rhythm emanating from the volcano crater — the rolling flow of boiling magma.

This is a miraculous scene: as the magma churned, a majestic ancient palace, crystalline throughout, gradually emerged.

"Dong!"

The intermittent muffled sounds actually came from this volcano crater — more accurately, from the majestic ancient palace within the volcano; this is a very strange sight — could the Immortal Treasure be inside this ancient palace?

Jiang Xuan's gaze was calm, his expression without excitement — not because he lacked interest in the Immortal Treasure, but because this trip held little significance for him.

The Dao Scripture, the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart, the Eastern Wasteland's Supreme Treasure — these are the three most valuable treasures in the Qing Emperor Tomb.

As the first classic of the Life Wheel Sea Mi Jing, the Dao Scripture is naturally precious to the extreme, but for Jiang Xuan who cultivates the Refining System, it can be referenced but is by no means essential.

The Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart is also a heavy treasure; if it could be devoured and refined, it would probably equal countless Divine Sources — but in the original trajectory Ye Fan used the Immortal Cauldron Fragment to press the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart and squeeze out Essence Blood, yet the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart actually escaped; Jiang Xuan has no way to suppress the Demon Emperor's Sacred Heart.

As for the Eastern Wasteland's Supreme Treasure, the Huang Tower, that is even less something the current him can covet.

Therefore this trip holds no great significance for him; not only for him, but for Lingxu Dongtian it also holds little significance.

However, since the Sect Master asked him to participate in the exploration of Lingxu, he could not well refuse.

The only things that could help him were the many spiritual magic treasures in the Qing Emperor Tomb — perhaps he could seize some for cultivation.

A group of Newbie Village people attempting to attack the Extreme Path Supreme's tomb — this is akin to the Four Extremes Seizing Emperor Soldiers, the Immortal Second Great Power contending for a Lifetime Immortal — purely wasted effort.

As he pondered, several strange demonic beasts appeared among the ancient building clusters around the volcano; a Lightning Bird five meters long soared across the sky, its whole body flashing with golden light, electric arcs coiling and flickering around it, displaying its extraordinary bloodline.

A Silver Wing Centipede two meters long, thick as an arm, lay quietly among the ruins; its whole body seemed cast from white silver, flashing with metallic luster, making one dare not cross the Thunder Pool half a step.

Lightning Bird, Silver Wing Centipede, Flood Dragon, Giant Snake… among the palace clusters surrounding the volcano crater, over twenty demonic beasts actually crouched, tensely watching the ancient palace continuously emerging.

(Chapter End)