Ancestor Xue Guang was enraged. The sword-shaped phantoms that had been knocked away by him disappeared without a trace. He raised his hand and waved it at Gu Zheng.
A red inner strength swept towards Gu Zheng like rolling smoke. It was so vigorous that it could not be compared to the inner strength of a cultivator!
"Bang!"
A loud sound rang out in the air. Ancestor Xue Guang's internal energy did not hit Gu Zheng.
"You really surprise me time and time again. Where did you get so many celestial items?"
Ancestor Xue Guang narrowed his eyes and stared at the nine-storied blood pagoda in Gu Zheng's hand.
The nine-storied blood pagoda was originally a part of Gu Zheng's Chaos Pagoda. However, due to special reasons, it was very difficult for Gu Zheng to use it. Strictly speaking, the nine-storied blood pagoda was not Gu Zheng's celestial item yet.
The defensive power of the nine-storied blood pagoda shocked Ancestor Xue Guang! However, what Ancestor Xue Guang did not know was that due to the complicated relationship between Gu Zheng and the nine-storied blood pagoda, he could only use it once. If Ancestor Xue Guang attacked him now, he would definitely die!
"Where did I get so many celestial items? Don't you know?"
Gu Zheng smiled playfully, but inside, he was sweating profusely! After all, he was an immortal cultivator. The damage caused by the first level of the Thunder Tooth Sword was so pitiful that it could be ignored!
The first level of the Thunder Tooth Sword was a middle-grade celestial item and one of the three best flying swords in the Hidden Sword Peak. It was not to be underestimated. Moreover, Gu Zheng's current state was very special. The celestial energy in his body was surging abnormally. Because of this, the power of the first level of the Thunder Tooth Sword was much stronger than usual! However, even so, the first level of the Thunder Tooth Sword had only caused slight damage to Ancestor Xue Guang. How could Gu Zheng not be shocked? From this, he could tell that Ancestor Xue Guang was definitely a difficult opponent among experts of the same level as him!
At this moment, Gu Zheng was very glad that the Artifact Spirit had warned him in time. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
There was still one more chance. Gu Zheng could not be impatient. Even if his life was in danger, he could not lose his composure! The only thing he could do was to buy time for himself and wait for the arrival of the last chance!
Patriarch Xue Guang didn't know what Gu Zheng was thinking, but the playful look on Gu Zheng's face made him even more confused.
"Did your mother give it to you? Patriarch Xue Guang said with a frown. "I don't think that's possible. Your flying sword and the crimson pagoda in your hand shouldn't be immortal artifacts!"
Gu Zheng smiled and declined to comment. "You didn't make a move against me in the beginning. Could it be that you were afraid of Lei Feng?"
Since Ancestor Xue Guang wasn't in a hurry, Gu Zheng wasn't in a hurry either.
If Patriarch Xue Guang could see the situation within Gu Zheng's body, he would definitely be shocked to discover that there was a mysterious energy within Gu Zheng's body that was constantly surging into the ball of immortal power within his dantian! The ball of immortal power was constantly expanding and compressing as the mysterious energy surged into his dantian.
"No, I didn't kill you in the beginning because I felt like you were a 'good seedling' that could be used to refine very good items. Hence, I wanted to keep you alive." Patriarch Xue Guang shook his head, and his serious voice was tinged with a hint of professionalism.
However, Patriarch Xue Guang's eyes abruptly widened as he let loose a cry of incredulity. "What did you call Lei Feng? Did you just call him Lei Feng? "
Patriarch Xue Guang had always thought that Lei Feng was Gu Zheng's master, but now that Gu Zheng was referring to Lei Feng by his name, he was completely flabbergasted! Lei Feng was a Return to Void Stage mighty figure and the grand elder of the Emei Sect, yet he was referring to Lei Feng as such!
"I don't think there's anything wrong with calling him Lei Feng, right?" Gu Zheng chuckled coldly. "Xue Guang, you didn't tell Daoist Priest Xian Yun that you were afraid of letting him off too easily, right? You weren't afraid of injuring yourself by using your demon spirit to search through his memories. You just didn't want to waste time and alert someone who shouldn't be alerted, right? After all, this place isn't too far away from Emei and Shu Mountain. "
Gu Zheng wasn't lying. Cultivators were different from cultivators in that they were more sensitive to changes in the energy of heaven and earth. If Patriarch Xue Guang stayed here for too long, the fluctuations generated by his use of the energy of heaven and earth could alert other cultivators! After all, this was the mainland of the continent, and there were very few situations that required cultivators to use the energy of heaven and earth.
"Little brat, just who are you?"
Patriarch Xue Guang stared at Gu Zheng with an extremely grave expression. Gu Zheng's unusual behavior made him speculate that there was an even more terrifying power behind Gu Zheng!
"If I tell you who I am, will you let this matter rest?"
Regardless of what Patriarch Xue Guang was thinking, Gu Zheng had an unfathomable expression on his face.
Patriarch Xue Guang thought for a moment before replying, "I can let this matter rest as long as you hand over that jade ball."
"What jade ball are you all looking for? I've never even seen that jade ball before, so how am I supposed to hand it over to you?"
"You might not have noticed the jade ball, but it was in one of the boxes that you took from the resource chamber."
The demon spirit was still in Daoist Priest Xian Yun's body, and during the time that Patriarch Xue Guang was conversing with Gu Zheng, he had searched through many of Daoist Priest Xian Yun's memories. It was exactly because of this that Patriarch Xue Guang knew that the boxes in the resource chamber were no longer there, and that Gu Zheng was most likely to have taken them.
Gu Zheng didn't immediately reply to Patriarch Xue Guang's question. He was extremely excited! The ball of immortal energy in his dantian had finally been compressed to the limit at this moment. A surge of energy was contained within, and it urgently needed to be released. Right now, all he needed to do was to distract Xue Guang, even if it was just for a split second!
"I did take the box, but I don't know if the jade ball you wanted was inside it. Why don't I take it out so that you can look for it yourself?" Gu Zheng asked with raised brows.
"Take it out?" Patriarch Xue Guang's brows furrowed slightly.
"That's right, take it out!"
Gu Zheng waved his hand, and a one-meter-long box appeared on the ground out of thin air.
"High-grade spatial immortal tool!"
Patriarch Xue Guang exclaimed. He couldn't think of any other way to take out something other than a high-grade spatial immortal tool.
At this moment, Patriarch Xue Guang was extremely shocked, and his emotions were extremely complicated. Greed and speculation intertwined. The opportunity that Gu Zheng had been waiting for had finally arrived!
Whoosh!
A sharp whistling sound rang out from the Lightning Tooth Sword, and twenty-four sword-shaped projections descended from the sky, forming a cage that trapped Patriarch Xue Guang in the air.
Patriarch Xue Guang's eyes abruptly widened. He knew that there were two types of divine abilities in mid-grade immortal weapons, but he didn't expect that the second divine ability of the Lightning Tooth Sword would be so different from the first divine ability!
The first ability of the Lightning Tooth Sword was to attack, while the second ability was to trap. However, the trapping ability possessed the power to manipulate the energy of heaven and earth! Patriarch Xue Guang had been careless, and he had been trapped within the sword formation.
"You're courting death!"
Patriarch Xue Guang roared as countless strands of blood shot out from his body, twisting and twisting in an attempt to break through the sword formation.
Crackle crackle crackle …
Before the strands of blood could even get close, the lightning that enveloped the sword-shaped projections immediately caused the strands of blood to crackle.
The strands of blood that had been struck by lightning quickly retreated back into Patriarch Xue Guang's body. Thus, Patriarch Xue Guang's hopes of breaking free were dashed.
Not being able to break free wasn't the worst thing for Patriarch Xue Guang. The worst thing was that the energy of heaven and earth suddenly began to fluctuate before converging toward Gu Zheng in a frenzy. This was clearly the prelude to some kind of powerful technique!
"Damn it!"
Sweat began to drip down Patriarch Xue Guang's forehead. The energy of heaven and earth was converging around Gu Zheng at an extremely fast rate, and he could smell the scent of death emanating from it.
After giving up on refining Gu Zheng and worrying about the power behind him, Ancestor Xue Guang opened his mouth and spat out an inch-long black banner. Right now, he only wanted to kill Gu Zheng as soon as possible. He couldn't allow Gu Zheng to continue brewing.
"B * stard!"
Patriarch Xue Guang was truly scared now. Only now did he discover that the second ability of the Lightning Tooth Sword not only possessed the ability to manipulate the energy of heaven and earth, but it also contained a wisp of the power of laws! This wisp of the power of laws restricted his ability to use the black flag!
"No!"
Patriarch Xue Guang let loose a cry of alarm as the wisps of blood that had burrowed into his body suddenly erupted, forming a snake-shaped barrier around his body. Immediately afterward, his brows furrowed as the demon spirit that had been in Daoist Xian Yun's head suddenly flew toward Gu Zheng.
"Gu Zheng, that's some good stuff!"
The artifact spirit's voice suddenly sounded.
Gu Zheng raised an eyebrow. "I know!"
Tang Mo, who had been placed in the void, suddenly appeared in Gu Zheng's hand before transforming into a streak of black light that slashed toward the demon spirit's body.
Whoosh!
The demon spirit let loose a sharp cry as its body convulsed after being wounded by Tang Mo.
The demon spirit was an evil being that had been refined by Patriarch Xue Guang. As a body of energy, it shouldn't be afraid of physical attacks! However, the weapon that had attacked it was Tang Mo, and it was a body of pure evil energy that could be directly devoured by Tang Mo. As such, the demon spirit was in so much pain that it felt as if it had been drained of blood!
Whoosh!
The demon spirit, which didn't dare to approach Gu Zheng, let out a sharp cry once more. As a spiritual being, it completely transformed into a cloud of smoke and flew toward Gu Zheng once more.
Tang Mo had been turned into a screen of light by Gu Zheng. Most of the smoke that was flying toward him was absorbed by the screen, but some still managed to enter Gu Zheng's body.
The demon spirit couldn't launch any physical attacks. The only thing it could do was drill into a person's brain and control them in all sorts of ways. If it were an ordinary person facing such a situation, they wouldn't be able to escape. However, Gu Zheng wasn't an ordinary person. He had an extremely powerful Mind Calming Technique!
As such, the demon spirit that had just entered Gu Zheng's body was immediately repelled by the Mind Calming Technique.
"Die!"
Gu Zheng yelled as he stabbed the demon spirit with Tang Mo. With a quick flick of his wrist, Tang Mo sealed all of the demon spirit's escape routes before finally absorbing it completely.
Pfff!
The demon spirit that Patriarch Xue Guang had painstakingly refined was devoured, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.
Bam!
Patriarch Xue Guang didn't even bother to wipe the blood off his mouth. Instead, he sent another surge of internal energy towards the sword formation. While Gu Zheng was entangled with the demon spirit, he didn't give up on attacking the sword formation. At this point, the sword formation was already shaking violently.
The demon spirit's momentary delay didn't cause Gu Zheng to stop gathering the energy of heaven and earth. It was only a temporary pause.
Now that the demon spirit was dead and the sword formation was shaking, Patriarch Xue Guang was still attacking with all his might! Gu Zheng hurriedly mobilized the immortal energy in his dantian to continue gathering the energy of heaven and earth.
"Damn you, Gu Zheng! How can you control the energy of heaven and earth? Why? Why?! "
Patriarch Xue Guang roared. The terrifying degree of gathering the energy of heaven and earth around Gu Zheng caused a deep sense of despair to spread throughout his heart! Patriarch Xue Guang felt as if he had fallen into a nightmare that he couldn't wake up from. A person with a low cultivation level had trapped him and even wanted to kill him, an immortal cultivator! However, there was nothing he could do. All he could do was struggle in vain.
"Why? When you die, I'll tell you why! "
Gu Zheng said hatefully as he raised his palm to his chest. Immediately, the sand and stones around him flew as he mobilized the energy of heaven and earth.
"Immortal Slaughtering Palm!"
Gu Zheng roared as he pushed his palm forward. The energy of heaven and earth instantly became visible to the naked eye, forming a huge flaming palm!
At this moment, the color of heaven and earth changed. The surrounding light dimmed, and some plants were uprooted by the wind. Even the buildings in the Mysterious Temple started to shake.
Internal energy belonged to internal energy, while the energy of heaven and earth belonged to external energy! The Immortal Slaughtering Palm was an immortal technique that could be used with internal energy. At the same time, it could also be used with the energy of heaven and earth.
Just a pure Heaven and Earth energy attack was already very powerful. Coupled with the Immortal Slaughtering Palm, which had the power to slaughter immortals, the result was something that even Gu Zheng was afraid of!
"No!"
Patriarch Xue Guang screamed in the air. In his eyes, the flaming palm grew bigger and bigger.
Bang! Bang!
Two loud sounds rang out. The sword formation that trapped Patriarch Xue Guang exploded as soon as it came into contact with the Immortal Slaughtering Palm. Then, Patriarch Xue Guang's body exploded in the air, leaving nothing behind.
The surroundings became quiet, and the surging energy of heaven and earth disappeared.
The battle was over. Gu Zheng had used all his trump cards and finally killed a cultivator that was difficult to deal with!
"Are you alright?"
Gu Zheng looked at Elder Wu You, who had forgotten to close his mouth.
"I, I'm fine!"
Elder Wu You shook his head forcefully and stuttered a little. The battle between Gu Zheng and Elder Xue Guang didn't last long. He still hadn't recovered from the shock.
"It's good that you're fine. Hurry up and protect me. Don't let anyone disturb me!"
Gu Zheng's eyes were solemn. A feeling similar to drowsiness was so strong that he couldn't help but close his eyes.
"Don't worry, Sect Leader!"
Elder Wu You didn't ask any questions and immediately responded.
Gu Zheng had already sat down with his eyes closed. Daoist Xian Yun immediately scanned the surroundings.
Patriarch Xue Guang was dead. In the ruins of the Mystic Arts Temple, apart from Elder Wu You and Gu Zheng, there was only Daoist Xian Yun lying unconscious on the ground. As for Daoist Xian Yun's disciples, they had been buried under the rubble when Patriarch Xue Guang arrived.
"You'd better wait for the Sect Leader to wake up and deal with you!"
Elder Wu You pressed his hand on Daoist Xian Yun's abdomen and used his inner strength to shatter his dantian.
Gu Zheng had sealed Daoist Xian Yun's inner strength before, but Daoist Xian Yun had unsealed it. Elder Wu You had to be careful.
After crippling Daoist Xian Yun, Elder Wu You immediately stood beside Gu Zheng with a wary gaze.
Gu Zheng's strange behavior today was due to the elixir he had swallowed when he saw Patriarch Xue Guang.
Previously, when Gu Zheng had completed the hidden mission in the Shu Ruins, the weapon spirit had rewarded him with an elixir that could be used as a trump card. This elixir was called the Origin Elixir.
The Origin Elixir had two main effects. First, it allowed the cultivator to control the energy of heaven and earth. Second, it allowed the cultivator to have an opportunity to 'comprehend' after the energy of heaven and earth dissipated.
The Origin Elixir required a process to condense the energy of heaven and earth. During this process, the more time passed, the more concentrated the energy of heaven and earth would be. Naturally, the more powerful the elixir would be. However, once the energy of heaven and earth began to condense, Gu Zheng wouldn't be able to move around a large area. This could be considered a major drawback! That was why Gu Zheng hadn't used it to deal with Xue Guang back in the Shu Ruins.
Now that the first effect of the Origin Elixir had been displayed, the second effect was also in the process of being displayed.
Comprehension was a very mysterious thing. For cultivators at the late stage of the fifth level who had already purified their inner strength, it was a very important thing.
When one's cultivation reached the late stage of the fifth level, their inner strength would also have been purified. In terms of cultivation realm, it could be considered to be complete! At this stage, as long as a cultivator received a successful comprehension, they would be able to advance to become an immortal cultivator. And this kind of comprehension was called advanced comprehension by the weapon spirit.
Gu Zheng was originally an immortal cultivator. Therefore, in terms of cultivation realm, he was different from other cultivators. If he wanted to reach the level of transforming energy into qi, he needed to enter the fourth level of the Gokusen Technique. Similarly, if he wanted to enter the fourth level of the Gokusen Technique, he also needed a successful comprehension.
Currently, Gu Zheng's cultivation level was only at the Glutton God Art's third level, seventy percent completion. There was still a long way to go before a higher level of enlightenment would appear. But now, because of the Origin Elixir, Gu Zheng had entered the state of comprehension in advance. This was a very big opportunity!
To put it simply, entering the state of comprehension was like entering a treasure trove! However, whether or not one could bring out treasures, and what kind of treasures one could bring out, all depended on one's luck. And the treasures in the treasure trove ranged from the understanding of Dao, to the control of Heaven and Earth's energy, to the small things that gave people special inspirations. It was simply all-encompassing!
According to the weapon spirit, the Origin Elixir's comprehension was inferior because it was a man-made comprehension! And the only difference between inferior and advanced comprehension was the probability. Advanced comprehension was easier to bring out better treasures from the treasure trove. Inferior comprehension had a lower probability of bringing out good treasures.
Besides the inferior and advanced comprehension, there was also a special kind of comprehension! And this special kind of comprehension, Gu Zheng had already experienced it. That was the Yin Yang Elixir's comprehension of the Dao of Yin and Yang.
Consuming the Yin Yang Elixir and comprehending the Dao of Yin and Yang was also a man-made opportunity. Moreover, it was a kind of opportunity that pointed the way!
However, everything had its advantages and disadvantages. The Dao of Yin and Yang was the Dao of Nature, and there was a lot of room for future development. It was also very powerful. But because this kind of opportunity was man-made, it was very difficult to break through the bottleneck that came with it!
It was also because of this reason that although Gu Zheng had already comprehended the Dao of Yin and Yang, his current understanding of the Dao of Yin and Yang could only be used in cooking. Moreover, it could not be used in cooking any kind of food.
To Gu Zheng, the Dao of Yin and Yang was obscure and difficult to understand. If he wanted to have a deeper understanding of it, he did not know how long it would take.
According to the weapon spirit, Gu Zheng's situation was very normal. The Yin Yang Elixir was very precious in the Age of Chaos, but in the Age of Chaos, it was not particularly precious. Who knew how many immortal cultivators had consumed it!
However, almost all the people who had taken the Yin Yang Elixir had stopped comprehending the Dao of Yin and Yang. They were in the same state as Gu Zheng, and they would remain in the same state for the rest of their lives.
Therefore, whether it was Gokusen, who had given the Yin Yang Elixir to Gu Zheng as a reward, or those who had prepared the Yin Yang Elixir for the younger generation in the Age of Chaos, their mentality was like buying a lottery ticket for the person who had taken the Yin Yang Elixir. As for whether the person would win the lottery or not, they actually did not have much hope.
However, Gu Zheng really won the lottery!
The enlightenment brought by the extremely precious origin spiritual pills would cause one to fall into a mysterious state. As for what kind of state this was, no one could say for sure. However, the state that Gu Zheng was in was exactly the same as the state that he had been in when he had taken the Yin Yang Elixir!
Gu Zheng was confused. In the sticky darkness, he did not panic like he had for the first time. He tried his best to move forward in the darkness.
Finally, the viscous darkness dispersed with Gu Zheng's movement, and the view in front of him suddenly became clear.
Gu Zheng was standing on a line. One side of the line was black, and the other side was white. His body was also divided into two parts. One half was black, and the other half was white.
"At the beginning of the chaos, Yin and Yang were divided!"
It was still that simple and honest voice. Gu Zheng's mood also became exceptionally excited.
One gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things. Gu Zheng was that one. His body magically separated. One was black, and the other was white. They walked in different directions. However, as all of this happened, Gu Zheng was like a bystander. He calmly looked at the two different colored versions of himself walking in two different directions.
In Gu Zheng's eyes, Tai Chi gave birth to Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang gave birth to the Four Symbols. All things were constantly reviving and coming into being. He seemed to have seen the process of the creation of the world. At this moment, Gu Zheng was extremely excited. This was because when the Mysterious State had evolved to this point last time, he had begun to understand! But this time, chaotic thoughts appeared in his heart. The clear scene in front of him began to crack.
Gu Zheng was anxious. The black Gu Zheng, who was originally standing still, immediately frowned. He used all his strength to focus his vision on the cracks that Gu Zheng saw.
The black Gu Zheng's vision interfered, causing the cracks to slowly merge. This process was like a broken mirror being reunited! However, the broken mirror ultimately failed to reunite. It silently exploded into a large amount of powder. It was so shattered that it was impossible to piece it back together!
"No!"
Gu Zheng roared unwillingly. The white Gu Zheng, who was originally standing with his head lowered, also looked angrily at the shattered powder!
"Rumble!"
In the originally silent scene, there was suddenly a thunderous sound, and the powder that was flying in the air began to condense again. However, the powder failed to form the original scene. As it rotated, it turned into the shape of a Tai Chi diagram. As it rotated, it turned into chaos, making it impossible to distinguish between black and white!
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Two whistling sounds were heard. The black and white Gu Zheng were sucked into the swirling chaos!
"No!"
Gu Zheng roared again. His head hurt as if it had been hit by a hammer. All the strange scenes in front of him disappeared. He was forced to retreat from the Mysterious State.
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