Chapter 144: High Song Fierce Advance

  2nd update! Still 320 collections short of breaking 2000, I sincerely ask everyone to collect a little, lend me a helping hand.

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  "Who are those three guys! Such brutal means!"

  "Could it be that you are not a young master from one of the major powers in Longyuan City, but rather an outsider cultivator?"

  "So venomous and lethal, every move is fatal. These three people's cultivation is so high, how come I've never heard of their names before?"

  "Yes, the pagoda trial tower is indeed used for trials, but it's not a killing game! These three people are too ruthless!"

  Outside the trial tower, it was a commotion, almost everyone was shocked by the bloody scenes in the picture, had such a thing ever happened in the past Dragon Ranking competition?

  It's just a trial, but the skills are not as good as others. Just crush the transmission jade symbol and it will be fine. However, these three people are despicable and ruthless, launching sneak attacks and killing moves that leave no survivors!

  The battle between Feilong and Qiu inside the pagoda had attracted nearly five hundred cultivators to watch, but at this moment, under the sneak attack of those three people, more than sixty people had already died in just a short time, and this number was still rising. If it continued like this, wouldn't those watching cultivators be caught off guard?

  Faced with this sudden change, even the heads of various families on the Jade Platform couldn't sit still.

  "Fellow Taoist friends, can you recognize the origin of these three people?" asked Ling Kongzi, the leader of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect, with a serious expression.

  "It doesn't look like it."

  "I don't know."

  "This is bizarre! The movements of these three people are unprecedented and I don't know which school or sect they come from."

  The various family heads all had gloomy and solemn expressions, shaking their heads repeatedly.

  Most of the monks who were ambushed and killed came from their own sects, and could enter the second layer of the Treasure Pagoda, the Four Elephant Realm. Their qualifications and talents were already quite extraordinary. Such disciples, every time one died, it was a heavy loss for them.

  "These three people are not the sons of the various major forces in Longyuan City, they must be foreign cultivators from other places. Foreign cultivators who want to participate in the Qianlong List competition must register with the Chushenwei and receive a token."

  Ling Kongzi turned his head to a middle-aged man with a swallow's chin behind him and said, "Qingchuan, go to the Chu Soul Guard to investigate, you must find out the origin of these three people, and then report back to me."

  "Yes sir." The middle-aged man named Qingchuan knew it was an emergency and immediately took orders and left.

  "Ling Dao, this trial tower can only be exited, not entered. If we let these three continue like this, won't the disciples of our respective sects be slaughtered?" said Xuanhua Sect's leader, Xing Yun, her face as cold as frost.

  "Alas, for now, we can only hope that the child inside the treasure tower will wake up and discover these three people, saving their own lives." Ling Kongzi sighed.

  The pagoda trial tower is a legendary fairy instrument, although it has been damaged, but with their ability, they can only open its door once every ten years, allowing the disciples under the door to enter and undergo trials. At this moment, wanting to reopen the treasure tower gate is simply impossible.

  "Look! There are three more over there, stabbing at other monks! Ah, and there are some on that side too!" Just then a cry of surprise rose from the crowd.

  Then everyone saw that within the entire Treasure Tower's Four Symbol Realm, there were two more groups of people silently slaughtering the young masters of various major powers. These two groups were also composed of three people each, and their identities were identical to those of the previous three people seen earlier. It was clear that these nine unfamiliar cultivators were all in cahoots with one another!

  At this moment, many of the young masters who were undergoing trials in the treasure tower had sensed that something was amiss and stopped fighting. They joined forces to fight against those mysterious cultivators who appeared out of nowhere like ghosts.

  However, what shocked everyone was that these nine monks with strange movements were extremely powerful, each one almost as strong as Feilongcui, at least with a cultivation base of around the eighth level of the Purple Mansion, and the weapons in their hands were all top-grade yellow-rank artifacts. Although they were divided into groups of three, their combat strength was still so strong that they killed other disciples until they were defeated, finally escaping from the treasure tower by crushing the transmission jade symbol.

  These nine guys, what kind of people are they?

  Everyone present felt an overwhelming sense of heaviness, and the originally grand and unprecedented Dragon Ranking Competition also seemed to be shrouded in a layer of gloom.

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  Chen Xuan was completely unaware that a strange and bizarre change was taking place within the Four Symbols realm. At this moment, he was standing on top of a golden mountain that pierced the sky, his eyes fixed intently on the piece of metal in front of him that shone with an intense golden light.

  After he arrived in this land of the white tiger, he sensed a thread of golden energy. Following the breath, he rushed over and saw a huge boulder that was round like a ball.

  This rock was like the bare, hundred-meter-tall tree he had seen before - impervious to water and fire, resistant to flying swords, and incredibly hard. However, Chen Xi already had a method in mind, and with a call, Bai Kui appeared, chomping down on the massive rock with a series of loud crunching sounds, revealing a metallic core within.

  This piece of metal emitted a rich golden aura, its entire body was gold in color, with clear edges and corners, just like a palm-sized jade. The golden light it emitted was as sharp as a knife or sword, cutting Chen Su's skin so that he felt a dull ache. To know that his current body had long been tempered to be extremely hard, comparable to a magic treasure, yet still felt a stinging sensation all over his body, showing just how sharp this golden light was.

  "What a rich and intense aura of golden energy! Just as I expected, this metal is just like that small tree sapling with the overflowing aura of green wood energy - both are incredibly rare and precious treasures!"

  Chen Xuan couldn't help but praise continuously, and he also noticed that under this metal, there was a layer of Chaos Soil, as if this metal was also a treasure born from the Chaos Soil.

  "The land of the Azure Dragon and the White Tiger have proven to have such treasures, so the land of the Vermilion Bird and the Black Tortoise must also have treasures of the same level..."

  As he thought, Chen Yu stretched out his hand towards the chaotic breath mass, and a familiar scene reappeared. The chaotic breath mass, along with this piece of metal, was once again absorbed into his body by the witch's power, surging within the witch's markings on his back.

  The original Geotu witchcraft pattern had a piece of Hunyuan soil, which merged with the two and instantly expanded to more than double its volume. In the Gengjin witchcraft pattern, a block of dazzling golden metal floated uncertainly, and there was also a connection between the Gengjin witchcraft pattern and the Geotu witchcraft pattern.

  At this moment, three tattoos appeared in a row on Chen Xiao's back.

  In the middle is a terracotta pattern, inside which floats a piece of obscure black and gray primordial soil.

  On the left is a yin wood grain pattern, inside which is a lush and vibrant young sapling.

  On the right is a golden hexagram, inside which is a piece of glittering metal.

  Among the three totems, with Hundun Xiǎng as the axis, a thread of connection runs through, like a five-element rainbow bridge. The ancient and vast aura emanating from Hundun Xiǎng flows into the lush green saplings and the glittering metal, transforming into pure乙 wood energy and庚 gold energy, which then surge into Chen Tai's flesh and blood, turning into a mighty torrent of witch power.

  Boom!

  The thick Gangjin aura had just transformed into a witch's power, like a sharp small knife, brushing between Chen Tai's blood and flesh, skin membrane, tendons and bones, repeatedly removing the deeply hidden impurities and dirt. In just a few breaths, Chen Tai felt that his whole body was several taels lighter, his blood and organs were clean and transparent, his tendons and bones were snowy white like crystal, as if still emitting a faint golden light, as if coated with a layer of extremely tough golden membrane, looking incredibly sacred.

  After a few more breaths, Chen Yao's body shook violently, and a loud rumbling sound burst out from his entire body. On his back, below the original tattoo, another tattoo appeared, its lines fierce and wild, just like the Lihuo Witch Mark.

  At this moment, Chen Xiao actually advanced again, reaching the fourth level of Lian Ti Zi Fu, Bing Huo's realm!

  "One day, two advancements, and yet I haven't even practiced properly... This is just too unbelievable!" Chen Xiao felt like he had been hit by a pie falling from the sky, dazed, and his heart was worried that all of this was just an illusion, feeling unreal...

  Wow!

  Chen Yu took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and felt an unprecedented surge of powerful energy coursing through his entire body, as if he could shatter a great mountain with just one punch.

  Of course, this is an illusion. Chen Xiao's current strength has increased by several times compared to the day before yesterday. If he were to fight against the more than 100 descendants of the Su family now, he would have complete confidence in annihilating all of them!

  Dazed and confused, Chen Tai didn't stay any longer, galloping towards Zhuque Land without stopping. As usual, he obtained another fist-sized fire crystal that emitted the aura of Li Huo, shaped like a diamond, as well as a piece of Hun Dun Xi Ran.

  His strength soared again, reaching the fifth level of Lian Ti Zong Shi - Ren Shui's boundary!

  And after experiencing the refinement and torture of Binghuo Wuli, Chen Tang's body became even stronger, just like a sword that had been tempered in a furnace, perfect and flawless.

  Then it's Xuanwu's territory.

  When he finally obtained the last water droplet that scattered out the Qi of Ren Water and the chaotic soil, Chen Xiao unexpectedly didn't feel shocked, or had already become numb.

  At this moment, on his back, in the middle is the earth tomb pattern, left and right are the wood tomb pattern, gold tomb pattern, up and down are water tomb pattern and fire tomb pattern. Inside each of the five tomb patterns, there is an extremely rare treasure, with chaos as the core, connected together, echoing each other.

  Moreover, Chen Xiao noticed that the five talismans of戍土、乙木、庚金、壬水 and丙火 formed a cyclical connection with each other, just like the Five Elements generating and overcoming each other, complementing and promoting each other, circulating endlessly, and naturally forming a profound and mysterious connection, as if it were an eternal and supreme law between heaven and earth, exuding an aura of awe-inspiring mystery.

  And the Wu force in his body, with Xingxie's power as its origin, has also merged with the five attributes of Jitou, Yimutu, Gengjin, Renshui and Binghuo, becoming increasingly desolate, vast, mysterious and ancient, like the innate divine magic power of the ancient times, with boundless might.

  The Demon Cultivation Stream originated from the powerful innate demons of the ancient era, those strong demons were born with extremely terrifying witch powers, burning rivers and boiling seas, commanding the universe, looking down on the world.

  Nowadays, Chen Xiao undoubtedly has the same potential as the ancient gods and demons. As long as he works hard on his physical training without stopping, one day he will grow into a terrifying existence like the ancient gods and demons.

  "This time, being able to break through three boundaries in one day, this little guy Bai Jue's contribution is undeniable. No wonder Senior Ji Yu said that the Qilin is the best auspicious beast under heaven, capable of accumulating aura and fortune. In that case, everything I've experienced today is also inseparable from Bai Jue."

  It wasn't until now that Chen Xiao deeply felt the value of Bai Kui's existence. Before, he had only regarded this little guy as a foodie who consumed his own spiritual energy, but now he didn't dare to think like that anymore.

  And if it weren't for Bai Kui eating away those tree roots and rocks that were impervious to water and fire, and difficult to damage with flying swords... he would have only entered the treasure mountain empty-handed and returned, and it would have been impossible for him to have so many opportunities.

  "I don't know how the battle in the Four Symbols Realm is going now, and whether my brother and Du Qingxi can hold on until they enter the third floor of the treasure tower"

  Chen Xiao thought for a moment and couldn't help but feel uneasy, so he immediately stood up and flew towards the Azure Dragon's territory, the lush green forest.

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  PS: The cultivator named Cangmu in the previous chapter has been revised to "Zhongmu" due to narrative needs.