Chapter 696

Shen Chenxi followed Green Wolf into Penglai's mountain gate. He looked at the beautiful seven peaks and twenty-eight mountains, the Penglai disciples who were either happy or worried, and the leisurely spiritual birds and celestial beasts. The atmosphere was harmonious and serene. It was a stark contrast to the darkness and desolation at the periphery of Xi Huang. He could not help but feel a little touched. He was a lone cultivator and could not be restrained. Although he had many good friends, even when he achieved the Primordial Spirit and became a Celestial Being, he had only taught a few juniors. He had never taken in any disciples, let alone established a sect.

"Perhaps after settling this grudge, it's time to pass down the orthodoxy. This way, I can go to that place to search for the later parts of the Scripture without any worries." Shen Chenxi's thoughts fluctuated as he walked forward leisurely with his hands behind his back.

When he arrived at Tianji Peak, under Green Wolf's guidance, Shen Chenxi saw a simple and quiet cave residence that was not extravagant. He smiled and said, "Your master's cave residence does not match his identity."

"Master once said, 'It's not about the height of a mountain, but about the celestial being'." Because of his master's profound cultivation, even when facing Shen Chenxi, a Second Tribulation Mighty One, Green Wolf did not tremble and shrink like it did when it first met a Celestial Being.

As Shen Chenxi walked into the cave residence, he nodded and said, "Not bad. Even if I build a straw hut, it can become a celestial realm that a world will worship."

"I have been waiting for you for a long time, Fellow Daoist Shen," Shi Xuan cupped his hands and said with a smile.

Shen Chenxi saw that other than Shi Xuan, there was also a beautiful woman in a white Daoist robe in the main hall of the cave residence. Her breath was unpredictable. He thought of something and bowed. "Greetings, Fellow Daoist Shi and Fellow Daoist Han Jing."

Since Shen Chenxi wanted to come to Yu Yu Heaven to practice his immortal arts, how could he not do his homework? Divine Firmament Palace left more than 4,000 years ago, and there was no news from them. This Yuangui Dark Ice Mirror became the highest cultivation level in Yu Yu Heaven, a Three Tribulation Mighty Cultivator.

Ao Gu served tea and left the main hall with Green Wolf. Shi Xuan chatted with Shen Chenxi for a while and went straight to the topic. "Fellow Daoist Shen, has your Blight attack improved to level seven?"

Shen Chenxi nodded. "Fellow Daoist Shi, do you really want to go through the tribulation in advance?" Ever since he came out from the deepest part of the periphery of the West Wilderness, he had heard about the Massacre Path attacking the Penglai Sect. Thus, he had some understanding of Shi Xuan's intentions.

"Of course." Shi Shuan smiled and nodded.

There was no way to rely on the backlash of a karmic oath to advance the Blight. This was because the result of a karmic oath had to be bad. Otherwise, those cultivators who had no way to break through would casually find something to make an oath, "If I violate it, then I will break through to the Celestial Being Realm." It was difficult to determine the result of the Blight. For some people, it was a good thing, but for others, it was a bad thing. With this as the result of the oath, the karmic oath could not be established, unless it became "If I violate it, then the Blight will come early and I will die."

Shen Chenxi sighed softly. "We are all Daoist Primordial Spirits. Among the Five Blights, the Primordial Spirit's Blight is the easiest. If Fellow Daoist Shi goes out to train until the Blight descends naturally, with your cultivation, you have an 80 to 90 percent chance of passing it. It's much better than taking the risk now."

As for Shi Xuan going through the Third Blight in 1,100 years, Shen Chenxi did not find it strange. After all, he had passed the Second Blight in 89 years! He must have had a fortuitous encounter in the Chaos Untainted Land, such as the Dream of a Thousand Years and the Instant of a Thousand Years. Perhaps Shi Xuan had been wandering in the Second Blight for two to three thousand years. It was just that he had not trained enough.

"How can you only do things when you are extremely confident? Otherwise, if you die in the hands of the Slaughter Dao when you have an 80 to 90 percent chance of success, that would be a waste." Shi Xuan said this with emotion, but he thought of Perfected Lord Lang Xia. "Also, the last two Blight are getting more and more difficult, especially the Fifth Blight, which is illusory. If your cultivation of the Dao Heart is not strong enough, you won't be able to realize it. Even if you have secret treasures and secret techniques, you won't have a 10 percent chance of success. The closer you are to the Great Dao, the harder it is."

Of course, Shi Xuan felt that he had a 70 percent chance of passing the Primordial Spirit's Blight because he had the Clear Qi Divine Gourd, a secret treasure to pass the Tribulation. However, Shen Chenxi did not know this. It was difficult for the outside world to predict what happened in the Chaos Untainted Land. It was normal for the Lord Of Heaven, such as Shi Jingren and Peng Ziqian, to die in the mouths of the Chaos Untainted Land's mutants, or to be silenced by the Lord Of Heaven.

Shen Chenxi saw that Shi Xuan was determined and admired his courage to pass the Tribulation in advance. He nodded and said, "Fellow Shi, are you ready?"

Seeing that Shi Xuan had signaled that he could take action, Shen Chenxi's eyes emitted a bright light that was a foot long, forming a starry chessboard in front of him. The black and white chess pieces on it kept evolving, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a tribulation. It suddenly expanded and shrouded Shi Xuan.

Shi Xuan's state of mind was calm. When the Ten Thousand Tribulation Chessboard landed on his Primordial Spirit, he immediately felt that his Primordial Spirit, which he had entrusted to the Great Path, was suddenly pulled down by a strange and inexplicable force. The force of the Great Path's countercharge descended suddenly, hitting directly on his Primordial Spirit and beginning to corrode it.

In an instant, a small half of Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit was corroded. There was only one eye and half a mouth left on his face, and the rest was rotten and hideous. However, because it was a Primordial Spirit, no flesh, blood, or bones appeared. There was only some dim light flickering.

When he felt that the force of the Great Path's countercharge had descended smoothly, the Lord Of Heaven raised his hand and moved himself and Shen Chenxi to another hall. He also activated the prohibition of the hall where Shi Xuan was, isolating himself from the outside world. After all, when fighting against the initial violent countercharge of the Blight of Primordial Spirit, the foundation of each Lord's Primordial Spirit would be revealed, and the sect's cultivation method would be exposed. Outsiders were not allowed to see it. This was one of the reasons why Shi Xuan had asked the Lord Of Heaven to protect him.

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In the face of the surging power of the Great Path that instantly corroded a small half of his Primordial Spirit, Shi Xuan was not in a hurry. Relying on his superb control over his Primordial Spirit, he slowly turned a part of his Primordial Spirit near the corrosive power into a dark hole, using the other side of the Yin Yang Chaotic Divine Light, which could turn everything into chaos!

When the Blight of Primordial Spirit occurred, because the countercharge directly attacked the Primordial Spirit, one could use one's own celestial technique to resist it. However, in reality, the first wave of violent countercharge had corroded the celestial technique inscriptions on the Primordial Spirit, making it impossible to use it. What one could use was only one's own fundamental cultivation method, which was the supernatural power and divine light that formed the Primordial Spirit. For the "Shenxiao True Skill", it was the Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder Divine Light. For the "Collection Record", it was naturally the Yin Yang Chaotic Divine Light.

Countless small and deep Chaotic Holes tightly wrapped around the parts of Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit that were still intact. When the countercharge touched them, it turned into Chaotic Qi and dissipated.

However, this wave of Great Dao countercharge was extremely powerful. In just an instant, these small Chaotic Holes only managed to convert a part of the Chaotic Qi before they shattered one by one.

Shi Xuan seized this opportunity to visualize his intact Primordial Spirit as a Yin-Yang fish. It spun rapidly and evolved into a dark Chaotic Hole that was almost real. The Yin Yang Chaotic Divine Light was fully unleashed!

Under the pressure of the countercharge, the Chaotic Hole rapidly shrank, and the Chaotic Qi that it emitted gradually filled the hall, turning it dark.

When the Chaotic Hole formed by Shi Xuan's intact Primordial Spirit was corroded to the size of a head by the countercharge, the shrinking speed gradually slowed down.

"Phew, I almost used the Clear Qi Divine Gourd. Sure enough, I didn't hone it enough. My control is a little lacking." Shi Xuan's palm-sized Chaotic Hole Primordial Spirit saw that the countercharge and the Chaotic Qi had finally balanced out. He finally let out a sigh of relief. He had finally survived the first wave of fierce attacks.

The Treasure Record only had the refinement methods of a few secret treasures for the third Celestial's Blight. It did not provide any secret techniques. It seemed that if one cultivated according to the strict requirements of the Treasure Record, the third Celestial's Blight would not need secret techniques or secret treasures at all.

The orthodox Daoist cultivation methods all paid attention to the control of one's body, but there were very few that were as strict and abnormal as the Treasure Record. They all had their own strengths. At the same realm, there were very few cultivators that could compete with Shi Xuan in terms of control of the Primordial Spirit unless they had other fortuitous encounters.

Seeing that the third Celestial's Blight had stabilized, Shi Xuan eliminated the countercharge bit by bit and recovered his Primordial Spirit.

After a long time, Shi Xuan returned to his human form. His appearance was rotting, and under the concealment of the Great Dao's countercharge, it was a dark and deep Chaotic Hole. The two were in a stalemate, and the Chaotic Qi in the hall had basically dissipated.

Qing Suo and Zi Ying jumped out of Shi Xuan's Primordial Spirit and giggled. "Congratulations, master, for taking a solid step forward."

In the past sixty years, Zi Ying, who had accumulated for a long time, had passed through the second Celestial's Blight and returned to his previous realm. However, if he wanted to improve further, it would take tens of thousands of years, or even millions of years. In the future, he and Qing Suo would take turns guarding the sect.

"Alright, go and open the seal. I have to go and thank him." Shi Xuan smiled and waved his hand. After withstanding the initial violent countercharge, he was not afraid of others discovering the foundation of his Primordial Spirit with the concealment of the Great Dao.

When they arrived at another hall, Shen Chenxi saw Shi Xuan's appearance and was quite shocked. He then shook his head and smiled. "Fellow Shi, if you go out like this, you'll give people nightmares." His face was rotten, and his facial features were incomplete.

"I just hope that the Golden Core disciples that come for me to guide won't be scared." Shi Xuan did not mind at all. He joked and thanked Shen Chenxi.

Shen Chenxi waved his hand. "We're even, there's no need to thank me. Sigh, the Taixu Dharma Assembly is still fresh in my mind. Fellow Shi, you've already surpassed the other Tribulation of the Lord Of Heaven. Heh, I wonder what the title of the grotto-heaven that Penglai opens in the future will be. "

Seeing that Shi Xuan could still come out to thank him, Shen Chenxi felt that he had at least a fifty percent chance of successfully passing the tribulation.

Then, he joked, "I really have no face to stand here. I'll take my leave now." It was hard to tell that the ruthless Shen Chenxi had such a side to him.

Shi Xuan was in the midst of his Blight Tribulation, so it was not convenient for him to stay.

Before Shen Chenxi left, he wanted to say something, but he did not in the end. He seemed to feel that his relationship with Shi Xuan was still too shallow.

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Hua Qianluo followed the sect leader's instructions and came to the Phecda Peak of Phecda Peak. She was a little worried. Because she had been traveling outside, she missed the sermon of Ancestor Shi 61 years ago, so she had not seen the Second Tribulation of the Lord Of Heaven. Now that she had returned with a Superior Golden Core, according to the rules of the sect, she had to pay her respects to Ancestor Shi.

"He shouldn't be able to discover the secret treasure on me, right? This illusionary magic treasure that I obtained from the Gate of Time and Space of a Small Chiliocosm is rumored to be extremely precious among magic treasures, even rarer than ordinary Divine Spiritual Treasures. "