Chapter 383: Martial Dao Profound Crystal, a Foundation Establishment Item
Xu Yunfan weighed the Token in his hand, a slight smile playing on his lips. He casually tucked it into the Sumeru Bag he wore close to his person.
He considered putting the Profound Steel Mechanism Box from his back inside as well. It housed the Ginseng Child—the manifestation of the Ten Thousand Year Ginseng King—which he used as a supplement for his daily cultivation.
But then he had a second thought. If the Sumeru Bag and the Mechanical Box were incompatible and the Ginseng Child took the opportunity to escape, it would be a complete disaster.
"Forget it."
He murmured, deciding not to take the risk.
Half a day later, having clarified all the necessary details, Xu Yunfan returned to Qingwei Mountain with Chen Jiuchuan.
The gates of the Taoist Sect were wreathed in mist, and the Spiritual Qi surged like a tide, making the mountain appear even more magnificent than usual.
Bi Yuan was already waiting at the summit. When he saw Xu Yunfan return, a look of gratification flashed in his eyes.
"Master."
Xu Yunfan cupped his fist in greeting.
Bi Yuan nodded slightly. His gaze swept over Chen Jiuchuan as he asked, "So this is the disciple of the Primordial Sect, one of the Outer Heaven Demons?"
"Yes. He’s still of some use."
Xu Yunfan gave a brief explanation.
When Bi Yuan heard that this world was merely a World Heaven where disciples of the Primordial Sect could freely harvest the inhabitants as Blood Food, he stood stunned for a long time before finally sighing.
"I see. It is the nature of the times... It is fate."
Xu Yunfan didn’t dwell on the subject. The news was simply too devastating; if he said much more, Bi Yuan might lose his will to live.
"Master, do not dwell on it. There may yet be a way out of this."
He quickly changed the subject. "I need to borrow the Tier Eight Divine Weapon, the Profound Celestial Mirror. I wish to enter the shattered Little Heaven and Earth Secret Realm."
Hearing this, Bi Yuan pushed his troubled thoughts aside and didn’t try to stop him.
An hour earlier, he had received news that of the six great sects under heaven, only the Taoist Sect survived.
Xu Yunfan had single-handedly swept through all the other sects, and even a disciple of the Primordial Sect was now a toy in his palm. ’What is a mere Secret Realm to someone like that?’
"The world inside the Secret Realm is shattered, and its Laws are in chaos. Even though you have already entered the Land Immortal Realm, you must be cautious."
Bi Yuan reminded him in a solemn voice. With a flip of his hand, he produced an Ancient Copper Mirror. Its surface was like still water, faintly reflecting distorted spatial ripples.
"I understand."
Xu Yunfan accepted the Profound Celestial Mirror and swiped a finger across its surface, immediately stirring ripples in space.
Bi Yuan said no more, only giving him a long, deep look. "Come back alive."
Xu Yunfan smiled. ’Don’t worry, Master. There’s no one here who can match me.’
With his Half-Step Foundation Establishment strength, all he lacked was a single Meridian Opening Pill to reconstruct his meridians. After that, he just needed to acquire a Foundation Establishment Dao Object, and he would have an extremely high chance of successfully advancing into the Foundation Establishment Realm.
The Profound Celestial Mirror flared with brilliant light. Holding the mirror in one hand and hauling Chen Jiuchuan in the other, Xu Yunfan’s form dissolved into a streak of light and vanished into the world within the mirror.
The scene before them changed in a flash.
Previously impacted by the Profound Celestial Mirror, the Little Heaven and Earth Secret Realm was a wreck. Its sky was shattered, the ground was breaking apart, and innumerable spatial rifts spread like a spider’s web.
According to Chen Jiuchuan, this place had been the Little Heaven and Earth Secret Realm created by the Divine Martial Daoist Master. It was a hidden location for refining the Martial Dao Profound Crystal, but now it was nothing more than ruins.
A fierce wind carrying a coppery stench blasted them. In the distance, a low, thunderous dragon’s cry echoed, laced with pain and fury.
"S-Senior... The Flood Dragon is at the center of the Secret Realm!"
There was a hint of fanaticism in Chen Jiuchuan’s voice. A path to a realm no one had yet reached was naturally an object of everyone’s desire. He pointed into the distance.
Xu Yunfan narrowed his eyes. With a flicker of his body and a surge of Ten Extremes True Qi, he crossed a thousand zhang in an instant.
A hundred-zhang-long Flood Dragon lay coiled among the shattered mountains. Patches of its scales were stripped away, revealing stark white bone beneath. Dragon blood gushed like a waterfall, staining the land for miles around a dark crimson.
The Flood Dragon had been lying in a pool of its own blood, its Dragon Breath as faint as a guttering candle. But the instant Xu Yunfan stepped within a hundred zhang, it sensed a living presence. It snapped its head up, a purple light flickering in its golden pupils. Its aura was not weak in the slightest; if one could not see its mangled body, they would never have guessed it was grievously wounded and on the verge of death!
ROAR!
An earth-shattering roar tore through the void. The Flood Dragon threw its head back, the purple light in its golden pupils erupting, blazing like two eerie blood moons.
Its immense draconic might exploded outward, sweeping across the land like a tidal wave and causing the surrounding mountains to crack and splinter.
Though its scales were in tatters, its ferocious aura had not diminished in the slightest. It was even more violent than it had been at its peak, as if the proximity of death had awakened the deepest savagery in its bloodline!
Had they not seen its battered, wounded body with their own eyes, anyone would have mistaken it for an Ancient Fierce Beast at the height of its power, rather than a creature on the brink of death.
ROAR!
The Flood Dragon’s furious roar sent its draconic might surging like a tide, causing the space around it to fracture once more.
Xu Yunfan scoffed and raised his hand to strike.
Chen Jiuchuan hastily cried out, "My lord, don’t kill it! If this Evil Flood Dragon dies, the Martial Dao Profound Crystal can never be brought into the world!"
At these words, Xu Yunfan changed his attack, lifting his hand instead.
"Suppress."
His Ten Extremes True Qi erupted, using True Qi Transformation to form chains of crimson-gold. Vast and boundless as a misty sea, the True Qi wove itself into a veritable Heaven and Earth Net that snaked upward to bind the beast!
Chen Jiuchuan’s mouth hung open as he watched the chains fill the sky.
’Even though Xu Yunfan’s True Qi hasn’t yet refined into True Essence,’ Chen Jiuchuan thought, ’with such an unbelievably vast and potent reserve of True Qi, he’s undoubtedly the strongest person beneath the Foundation Establishment realm.’
’He’s an absolute monster!’
The Flood Dragon struggled madly, its tail smashing mountains to rubble, but it could not break free from the chains.
Xu Yunfan clenched his fist. The chains instantly tightened. With a wretched howl, the Flood Dragon’s massive body was brutally slammed into the earth!
"My lord, be careful!" Chen Jiuchuan suddenly exclaimed. "There’s Demon Qi flowing out of its body!"
Sure enough, a purple-black mist began to seep from the Flood Dragon’s wounds, corroding even the Ten Extremes True Qi. The chains began to emit an ear-piercing snapping sound.
Xu Yunfan’s expression remained unchanged. With a flip of his hand, he summoned the Shaking Mountain Sea-Suppressing Hammer and brought it crashing down from above.
"Eight Desolates Dragon Fall: Celestial Fall!"
The hammer fell like the heavens collapsing. The Ten Extremes True Qi manifested through Pure Yang Power, forming nine roaring phantoms of crimson-gold dragons that viciously slammed into the Flood Dragon’s real body!
Amidst a spray of flesh and blood, the purple-black Demon Qi was completely incinerated by the Pure Yang True Qi.
The Flood Dragon was finally spent. It collapsed to the ground, barely breathing. The violence in its golden pupils gradually faded, replaced by a glimmer of clarity. A trace of despair and sorrow surfaced in its eyes.
Xu Yunfan strode through the air and landed atop the Flood Dragon’s head. He looked down at it, his expression cold. "How do I refine this into a Profound Crystal?"
Chen Jiuchuan quickly replied, "According to the Divine Martial Daoist Master’s Handwritten Letter, one must use a True Flame to smelt its flesh and Divine Soul together. They will ultimately condense into a single Profound Bead..."
"True Flame?"
Xu Yunfan raised an eyebrow, inwardly relieved.
The Ten Extremes Martial Arts he cultivated allowed him to use True Qi Transformation to condense Nine Luminaries Swallowing Qi and Dragon and Tiger Pill Qi. When activated with Pure Yang Power, this was enough to produce the Red Flame True Flame.
Although it couldn’t compare to an Innate True Flame condensed from True Essence, it was more than enough to deal with this grievously wounded Evil Flood Dragon.
Without further hesitation, he opened his palm. A crimson-gold flame erupted from it, within which one could faintly see the image of a dragon and tiger intertwined. The scorching temperature made the air around it shimmer and distort.
As if sensing its fate, the Flood Dragon’s golden pupils constricted. It struggled to escape, but was held fast by the crimson-gold chains forged from Xu Yunfan’s Ten Extremes True Qi!
With a sharp cry, Xu Yunfan sent the Red Flame True Flame cascading down like a waterfall, instantly engulfing the Flood Dragon!