Chapter 145: Re-encountering an Old Enemy

  In the grand gathering, many true martial realm disciples were showcasing their strength and that powerful divine martial arts, making many ordinary martial realm disciples envy them. This was also a kind of motivation for them. Some disciples who had been traveling around all year took out some strange and unusual things to broaden the horizons of the sect's disciples. There were even people standing on a table, blowing cowhide, talking about their own glorious experiences from back in the day.

  During this time, there will also be some small activities, allowing many disciples to win some dan medicine and crystal stones through their own wisdom or strength in these small activities, such as answering questions, guessing riddles, etc.

  Shen Xiang had been staying in the Tai Dan Wang courtyard, using Long Yan to accelerate the growth of that Qing Xuan fruit tree. This sped up the process, and even Dan Lao felt it was very suspicious, but as someone who had seen much and knew a lot, she couldn't figure out why it was growing so fast!

  Five days have passed, and the flowers of the Qingxuan fruit tree have already wrapped up. You are condensing the results, and Shen Xiang is also secretly feeling emotional. He thinks that this Qingxuan fruit tree seems to grow very quickly without needing dragon's saliva to ripen it.

  "The Qingxuan fruit tree is the essence of the condensed wood, and this tree stays in this spiritual realm, absorbing the spiritual energy at an extremely fast speed, and can quickly transform the spiritual energy into fruit." Su Meiyao said, but this was just her guess.

  The preliminary round has already started, and it's through multiple rounds of competition to decide the final eight people who will take the stage. There are many participants in the martial arts competition, both from the inner and outer courts, and they have all been assigned to various martial arts schools for the preliminary round. Every day, a large number of people are eliminated.

  In this preliminary round, everyone was afraid of meeting Shen Xiang, because Shen Xiang was the number one in the inner courtyard, and under the True Martial Realm, he was invincible. However, there were also many newly promoted young strongmen who were eager to challenge Shen Xiang.

  During the budget competition, Shen Xiang was still relatively gentle and used a very mild approach to defeat his opponents. If he found someone's shortcomings, he would also point them out, because the gathering was meant for disciples to exchange ideas, which earned him many people's respect.

  Shen Xiang had just finished watering the Pearl Azure Mysterious Fruit Tree, and then returned to the secret room, where he swallowed five True Origin Pills. A large surge of true energy suddenly burst out from within his body. He circulated the Taiji Dragon Subduing Technique, refining it into his own true energy, and finally transformed this true energy into spiritual awareness, pouring it into his Sea of Consciousness to nourish the divine fetus within.

  Only by making this divine path embryo stronger can he start cultivating the divine path, as said by Long Xueyi.

  Unconsciously, Shen Xiang was deeply immersed in the process of cultivating his divine soul embryo, wholeheartedly condensing many divine senses to nourish it. Later on, although he didn't eat the True Yuan Dan, he could still absorb a large amount of spiritual energy through his yin-yang divine meridians to cultivate.

  Elder Dan stood on the rooftop not far away, looking at the sky above the secret room where Shen Xiang was in, and muttered: "Indeed it is the Yin Yang Pulse, only the Yin Yang Pulse can have this crazy ability to absorb spiritual energy. It seems that he is indeed like Master and Ancestor."

  Shen Xiang was being closely watched by Dan Changlao in the Taichu Hall, but Shen Xiang was cautious and didn't notice when using the dragon salivation. Although he didn't see Dan Changlao secretly staring at him, he could guess it.

  For three consecutive days, Shen Xiang was cultivating and absorbing spiritual energy, the amount of which did not decrease at all, but instead increased more and more, which shocked many people in the Council of Elders. However, because the incident occurred in the Dan Wang Institute, no one dared to enter and investigate, so they could only watch from a distance.

  "Is this kid going to enter the True Martial Realm? He hasn't participated in the preliminary selection for three days and has already lost his qualification, but this doesn't seem like his style. According to his personality, he should have taken first place before making a breakthrough!"

  Shen Xiang was in a state of complete absorption at this time, just like a newborn baby sleeping soundly, knowing nothing but constantly absorbing large amounts of nutrients.

  Shen Xiang's consciousness was all in that divine soul embryo, he just wanted to quickly absorb a large amount of divine awareness to make himself grow up, as for anything outside, any disturbance, he didn't know!

  "Mei Yao sister, I've tried my best, but I still can't wake him up. I think it's better to let him do it himself, forcing him awake would be too troublesome." Long Xueyi's soft voice was filled with helplessness, as she knew Shen Xiang couldn't win the hundred True Yuan Dan, which secretly pained her.

  The martial arts competition has begun, and everyone in the Taiwu Gate is extremely surprised because Shen Xiang did not enter those eight positions. This was something that many people had not expected before. From Shen Xiang's strength, it would be very easy to take first place.

  It wasn't until later that everyone found out Shen Xiang was eliminated because he didn't show up on time for the preliminary round, and it had already been five days since he last appeared.

  Shen Xiang, who was still in the midst of his cultivation, couldn't help but feel secretly delighted. He saw that the Divine Path Soul Embryo had grown significantly larger, from its initial newborn-like appearance to now being around half a year old.

  Shen Xiang learned from Long Xueyi that the growth rate of the divine soul is very slow, just like Long Xueyi, who was nurtured in the dragon egg for a long time before she was eight years old. To grow into a big girl, she still needs more time. Once she becomes an adult, she will have the power to look down on all things.

  Shen Xiang finally woke up, and just as he had woken up, he heard Long Xueyi's sweet but angry voice: "Shen Xiang, you slept for five days. The 100 True Yuan Dan and the 100,000 crystal stones are all gone."

  "Why didn't you wake me up?" Shen Xiang immediately left the secret room and walked towards Taiwu Square, feeling very annoyed.

  "Someone called you, who knew you were so serious about your cultivation. Next time don't put all your divine consciousness into the soul embryo, otherwise sleeping for ten or eight years won't be a problem." Long Xueyi seriously warned him with a very stern tone, because after Shen Xiang fell asleep, she had nothing to eat.

  Shen Xiang was so angry that he wanted to slap himself twice, because of his negligence, which made him unable to participate in the martial arts competition, causing him to lose 100 True Yuan Dan and 1 million crystal stones!

  This made his heart feel as if it had been cut with a knife.

  In the middle of the square, surrounded by many people, but the faces of these Taiwu Men disciples were all filled with anger, and Shen Xiang also saw that not far away, several people were lying on the martial arts platform.

  "What's going on?" Shen Xiang asked a middle-aged man beside him.

  This middle-aged man was shocked when he saw Shen Xiang, and the people around him were also like this, one by one telling Shen Xiang what had happened.

  Soon, Shen Xiang learned about the situation and looked towards the high platform where Dan Changlao and Wu Kaoming were standing. His pupils suddenly contracted as he saw a very familiar face - a handsome face with a hint of arrogance between his eyebrows, but not so much that it was detestable.

  Seeing this person, Shen Xiang clenched his fists, with his fingertips deeply pinching into the flesh. This person was Liao Shaoyun!

  Shen Xiang returned from Piaoxiang City and learned about some things about Liao Shaoyun, which surprised him greatly. He did not expect that Liao Shaoyun was actually an elder of the Zhenwu Sect and a young man who was about to enter the state of Nirvana, with extremely surprising talent, and was a very important figure in the Zhenwu Sect.

  Now the elders of Zhen Wu Men and Shou Wu Men have brought their disciples to participate in Tai Wu Men's grand gathering, and they also proposed to let their own disciples compete with Tai Wu Men's disciples, and then all the disciples of Tai Wu Men were defeated.