The Soul Cleansing Art was a mysterious and powerful secret art that could convert a disloyal person into a devout protector of the sect. How heaven-defying was this?
One had to understand that this wasn't controlling one's divine sense, but rather starting from the source of one's heart. Everything was going with the flow, a normal illumination. It definitely wasn't seizing one's will.
Although the Qin Sect was small, with only a hundred or so members, their strength was unfathomable. This caused Ye Fan to feel a sense of reverence. Even the Jade Luo Monarch had been cleansed. This was truly a major event.
According to the sickly old man, the Jade Luo Monarch was not the only one who had been cleansed. There were others who had been outstanding figures in the past thirty years.
In truth, those who could find this place for the nine secrets were all extraordinary. The most outstanding among them were naturally dragons and phoenixes among men, far surpassing their peers.
Ye Fan parted with the sickly old man. Many thoughts ran through his mind. The Qin Sect was extremely strange and could not be underestimated. If he, with his holy physique, was also cleansed, then things would be even more interesting.
At the same time, he felt a trace of unease in his heart. The Soul Cleansing Art was created by the Southern Mountains Celestial Emperor and was suspected to be the other life of a ruthless person. This was not good news.
Hua Yunfei should be a member of the Qin Sect. This secret art was definitely extremely tempting to him. If he obtained it, it would be like adding wings to a tiger.
"I still have to enter the inner sect, or else I won't be able to obtain the nine secrets. However, I have to be on guard against being cleansed." Ye Fan pondered. He already had a plan in mind.
"Now, I should think of a way to increase my strength. Entering the inner sect is not easy, so I should take advantage of this time to search for the dragon marrow." He made up his mind.
The night breeze blew by, causing the small mountains to become hazy under the starry sky. The trees swayed and the roars of wild beasts could be heard from the depths of the mountain range.
The crescent moon had a limited amount of moonlight, and the forest was very dark. Ye Fan walked alone, observing the terrain of the mountain range in search of the dragon marrow.
In the distance, there was a quiet pine forest. A clear spring flowed out, and birds were chirping as the fragrance of the plants permeated the air.
Suddenly, his expression changed as he stopped in his tracks. He saw a beauty sitting cross-legged on a bluestone with her palms facing the sky. She was surrounded by a pure white radiance.
The stars and moon were dim, but there was a lot of starlight and moonlight flowing down from the depths of the pine forest, condensing towards her body, making that place pure white and hazy.
"Li Xiaoman …" Ye Fan was surprised.
The technique she cultivated was definitely a type of wondrous art. Three hundred and sixty-five golden whirlpools appeared around her body. They were extremely dazzling as they gathered spiritual essence from all directions and swallowed the essence of the sun and moon.
"All the stars in the sky … Using one's body to correspond to three hundred and sixty-five main stars?" Ye Fan was astonished. He had never seen or heard of such a mysterious technique.
He activated his Divine Eye of Origin and carefully observed it, wanting to see what was going on.
Suddenly, his heart trembled. In each of the 365 golden vortexes, there was a golden figure sitting cross-legged like a god.
Wood power, dragon qi, starlight, and moon essence all converged like water and flowed into the 365 golden vortexes, where the golden figures were being forged.
Ye Fan wanted to take a closer look, but the figures in the golden vortexes were too hazy. He couldn't see their faces at all, but he could feel a kind of majesty and loftiness, as well as the aura of a god.
"What a powerful wondrous art. The human body corresponds to the main stars in the sky, and a god is formed in each golden vortex. What kind of heaven-defying divine ability will there be when one cultivates it to the end?"
Ye Fan pondered and was rather shocked. In the end, he discovered that the 365 golden figures were actually a god that resided in different parts of the human body.
"To be able to create … an unparalleled God. How miraculous."
Suddenly, his body trembled as he saw an even more bizarre scene. An ancient diagram appeared behind Li Xiaoman, and a golden god stood on the primordial battlefield, looking disdainfully at the gods.
On the ancient battlefield, a sea of gold flowed, and there were many corpses lying on the ground. The blood of the corpses was multicolored, and it was obvious that they were not mortals. They were incomparably mysterious.
Ye Fan was greatly shocked. Among the corpses, there were golden arhats, and after careful observation, there were also seven-colored bodhisattvas. All of them were lying on the ground.
"What a powerful god, walking on the multicolored blood of the bodhisattvas and arhats …"
The mountains trembled slightly, and the endless essence energy contained in the earth veins all gushed out, gathering toward Li Xiaoman's body and entering the 365 golden vortexes, casting the golden god.
During this process, Li Xiaoman's body constantly flickered with divine splendor. Her sparkling jade-like body was repeatedly refined, becoming one with the 365 gods.
When her eyes opened and closed, there were actually specks of golden light that were indescribably demonic. She was like an ancient demon god, beautiful and wild.
The essence of the sun and moon in the sky and the spiritual qi of the ancestral roots on the ground turned into rivers and entered her body. The speed at which she breathed in and out essence energy was astonishing.
This place was thousands of miles away from the Qin Sect, so she was not worried about being discovered. She sat there motionlessly, cultivating this heavenly art that had never been recorded in the ancient texts.
"Where did she learn this?"
Suddenly, Li Xiaoman's body trembled, and her beautiful hair fluttered. A black vase appeared above her head. At first, it was not very clear, but it gradually solidified.
"This is …" Ye Fan's eyes immediately sharpened.
Strands of black light seeped out from the top of Li Xiaoman's head and formed a vase above her head. The black light flickered, and the rhythm of the dao flowed. It looked simple and natural.
The vase's style was very simple. It was like the carrier of the great dao, and it seemed to be able to suppress the myriad worlds.
It was too familiar. This great dao vase was almost the same as the Heaven Devouring Demonic Jar. Li Xiaoman used her own essence energy to form the body of the vase and cultivated to this level.
The Black Emperor once said that when one comprehended the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art to a certain level, they could choose to form the great dao vase. This was the carrier of the "dao", and in the future, they could use it to gather endless magical power.
Black light flowed, and the vase was formed. It floated above her head, and the 365 golden vortexes all trembled and disappeared. Only the vase was in harmony with her.
"She also cultivates the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art …" Ye Fan's eyes were sharp, but he did not make any moves.
Without a doubt, Li Xiaoman cultivated two heavenly arts. The first one was hard to guess, but the second one was easy to recognize. The great dao vase floated up and down, and it had the power to suppress the heavens.
"Boom!"
The mountains and forests shook, and the sky hummed. The method created by the ancient Celestial Emperor contained endless profundities. The great dao descended, and the laws appeared, intertwining with the vase.
Moreover, all living beings in the world were affected. Strands of divine power gathered from all directions, and it was even greater than the three hundred and sixty-five golden vortexes.
"Swoosh!"
Suddenly, Li Xiaoman's eyes opened. They were pale gold, and she looked at Ye Fan like two bolts of lightning.
Her skin was like jade, and her beauty was out of this world. She was mysterious and strange, like a beautiful demon god that had come back to life. She seemed to have sensed something.
Ye Fan used the Original Technique to become one with the mountains and rivers, and there was not a trace of human presence. He then used the Travel Formula and disappeared into thin air.
"She looks like she is just in the Dao Palace Secret Realm, but how can she have such a sharp spiritual sense!?"
Ye Fan was shocked. Li Xiaoman was strange. Not only did she cultivate two heavenly arts, but she could also sense that someone was spying on her.
"Yiyi once said that Li Xiaoman had entered the Celestial Palace outside the Forbidden Ancient Barren Land. Could it be that she had obtained a great opportunity there?"
But he still felt that something was wrong. The first type of Mysterious Technique was too strange. It created a god in the golden vortex, and it walked on the bodies of Golden Arhats and Bodhisattvas. It was very strange and wild.
"What kind of opportunity did she have? Her actual combat ability is definitely far higher than the Dao Palace. What happened to her?"
Ye Fan did not do anything. He did not want to alert the enemy. He wanted to lure Hua Yunfei out. This person had hidden too deeply, and there was not a single clue until now.
There were many ancient tombs under the Qinling Mountains. Every time there was a flash flood, there might be one or two ancient coffins rushing out from the mountains. It was not a rare sight in the area.
Ye Fan cultivated along the way, and he appeared and disappeared in the Qinling Mountains. He was observing the mountains and rivers, looking for rare materials that he could use when comprehending the great path.
In the past half a month, he had walked hundreds of thousands of miles. He had already found eight ancient coffins in the veins, and all of them were the corpses of Holy Lords. They had rotted for who knew how many years, and even their weapons had rotted away.
The oldest person was actually 180,000 years old. There were some clear engravings in the jade coffin, and it was an Imperial Lord from back then.
However, he did not find a single drop of strange marrow. He had gone deep into the belly of who knew how many mountains, and he had seen dragon qi, but he could not find marrow.
"There is a shocking dragon crawling in this million mile Qinling Mountains, and there must be a peerless divine marrow. It is just that this area is too big …"
Ye Fan frowned. He stood in the sky and looked down at the vast Qinling Mountains. It was so vast that it was impossible to see the end, but he could see the shocking dragon qi condensing.
This qi was very special. Only those who had received the inheritance of the Yuan Taoist Master could see it. It was actually a dragon that was hundreds of thousands of miles long, and it was too majestic.
"No wonder there are so many ancient mausoleums in the Qinling Mountains. This dragon is just too big, and it contains endless life force. There must have been people from the ancient times who came here to die after seeing this secret."
The dragon vein was too big, and it was difficult to determine where the precious marrow was. Moreover, there were many fake dragons entangled here, and it was difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
"There must be a fantasy level divine marrow that is comparable to an undying medicine. It has most likely transformed into a living creature a long time ago." Ye Fan deduced.
It was another quiet night. The full moon hung in the sky, and the great earth was silvery white. It was as if there was a thin layer of smoke curling about.
Ye Fan had searched for more than half a month, but he still hadn't found anything. Unknowingly, he had arrived at the depths of the Qinling Mountains, and he was already hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Qin Sect.
"Ao …"
Suddenly, a sound that was like the cry of a bird and the howl of a wolf could be heard. The mountains all shook.
"Boom, boom …"
In the distance, more than ten great mountains were all smashed to pieces. Smoke and dust filled the air, covering the divine moon in the sky.
"How powerful are these creatures?!" Ye Fan's expression changed.
A strange bird flickered with green light all over its body. Its body was like an Azure Peng, but it had a wolf's head. It was over a hundred zhang long, and the sound was precisely made by it.
"Ancient mutant — Night Heavenly Wolf."
"Roar …"
Another loud roar sounded, and a rumbling sound came from another mountain range. A giant silver ape that was over a hundred zhang tall walked over, trampling a few short mountain ridges.
As soon as the two creatures saw each other, it was as if they had great enmity. They threw themselves at each other, and green light and silver light surged. The sound of the collision shook violently, and more than ten nearby mountain peaks were all flattened.
Ye Fan was astonished. These were two strange beast kings, and even a divine lord would find it difficult to subdue them. Their strength was extremely tyrannical.
"What are they fighting over?"
Peng!
In the distance, half of a majestic mountain collapsed, and a tattered bronze carriage sped out. It was pulled by several ceramic horses, and it looked rather strange.
Behind it, an old man wearing an ancient dragon robe and a rusty dragon crown drove the carriage. His face was deathly gray, and there was no sign of life.
"An ancient emperor turned into a corpse king, and it's driving a carriage for someone …" Ye Fan was quite astonished.
Inside the tattered bronze carriage, there was a little person that was about a foot tall. Its entire body was purple, and it was flowing with light. It was very strange.
He was helping someone make an advertisement for the 《Heaven and Earth Splitting Finger》. The ancient city was filled with boundless cypress trees, and the endless clouds were connected to Chu Tian. At the end of the alleyway was a vast mansion, and the ancient halberd was desolate. The grave at the corner of the wild river was actually the burial place of Xiang Scar Chisu …
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