Chapter 1 Rebirth

  Chen Xuan sat on the ground, panting heavily, staring at the flying saber hovering in mid-air, its blade emitting an eerie red glow.

  Illuminating the entire cave mansion.

  After a cup of tea, the knife returned to its original color. Chen Xuan took out some medicinal pills and swallowed them, then sat on the ground to meditate and recover. The wounds on his body were also recovering quickly. When he looked inward at his dantian, he saw that the crystal wall was mixed with a thread of lightning, making it smooth as jade. His five organs and six viscera had become much more resilient than before. Even the patterns on the tripod furnace in his dantian seemed to be becoming clearer.

  But to see the true face of the entire tripod, my current strength is still far from enough. Even my physical body has been upgraded a level, and the movement of muscles has become faster, which means that my knife speed will be even faster in the future. A person's speed depends on their muscle sensitivity, and the higher the frequency of muscle vibration, the faster the attack speed will be.

  His body had just been washed by the lightning, and even the impurities left in his body were cleared away at once. Now that he was fully recovered, his skin became crystal clear, and it felt like every pore was breathing. Even if he didn't breathe through his nose, Chen Xuan wouldn't feel suffocated.

  He fully recovered his physical strength, Chen Xuan stood up from the ground, took out the inner door disciple's uniform he had just received and changed into it, walked to the flying knife in mid-air, stretched out his hand and took down the knife. Chen Xuan surprisingly felt no weight on the blade, feeling as if the knife was one of his arms.

  With a swing, a stream of air was brought out. Now, wielding this sword again to unleash the Seven Killings Sword's power, it must be at least ten times greater than before. This was Chen Xuan's first thought.

  The blade is three centimeters shorter than before, but it has become sharper. The blade edge still contains a faint electric arc, and the width of the blade has also narrowed slightly. Now the sword has both the style of a sword and the majesty of a knife, and Chen Xuan always feels that the entire knife emits a strange and mysterious aura.

  This sword has been with me since I bought it from Chen Xuan, and I still haven't given it a name. Today, I'll give you one. From now on, you'll be the one to accompany me in battle, Chen Xuan said, addressing the sword.

  The blade suddenly emitted a low hum, as if responding to Chen Xuan.

  Since you have an aura of evil charm on your body, from now on you will be called "Evil Charm", Chen Xuan said.

  Chen Xuan could feel the joy brought by the sword, the evil spirit of the instrument was a split from Chen Xuan's soul, but now the instrument spirit is a blank slate, just a white paper, without any thoughts. Later, with each upgrade to a higher rank, the instrument spirit will also be upgraded, and even when it reaches the level of a Taoist instrument, the instrument spirit will not be much different from a real person, and will also independently think for itself.

  If there is no master of the Taoist instrument, it cannot be obtained unless your strength can forcibly suppress it and make it surrender. The lowest-level Taoist instrument is also a heavenly spirit, which is the pinnacle of existence on the entire continent. In this month, Chen Xuan has learned a lot of knowledge.

  "Lai Lao, tell me, why would this evil sword I've refined encounter a thunder tribulation?" Chen Xuan asked.

  "When humans cultivate to the realm of unity with heaven, they will also encounter tribulations of lightning. The same is true for the demon tribe. When refining a magic tool, one will also experience tribulations of lightning. This includes when the demon tribe advances to become a divine demon, and heavenly tribulations will appear. Heavenly tribulations are just another name for lightning tribulations. At that level, one has already touched upon the rules of heaven and earth, and will be rejected by heaven and earth. The heavenly mountains will descend with lightning tribulations to destroy it. Only if you can pass through the heavenly tribulation baptism will you gain recognition from the heavenly realm, and only then will you have the opportunity to attain immortality. Each time one passes through the lightning tribulation, their strength will also increase. However, many people are also reduced to nothing but ashes under the lightning tribulations. As for this sword of yours, I'm not very clear about it either. Having lived for several thousand years, this is also my first time seeing it. Spirit artifacts can have heavenly tribulations too. When you refine it into a primordial artifact, you may encounter even stronger lightning tribulations."

  The current Chen Xuan has completely deviated from Lao Li's understanding, whether it is Tianxiao Decree or Qisha Knife. The Qisha Knife used by Chen Xuan now is even more sharp than when he was in his prime, and the changes are also more numerous. Perhaps when he first created it, it wasn't perfect, but through Chen Xuan, the knife technique of Qisha Knife has become even more perfect.

  Sheathed the sword, Chen Xuan walked out of the cave, this time refining the spiritual instrument took himself four days to complete, it's time to go, he promised to meet with Da Ge in five days, today he went to find him, and the two went to the Xuanyuan Tower together to cultivate.

  He stepped out of the cave and headed towards the outer sect disciples' residence, exerting his full strength to display the Phantom Nine Changes. Suddenly, a thin line flashed by, and no human figure was visible. Now Chen Xuan could project three split images, each with an attack power equivalent to 30% of the Spiritual Martial Realm.

  When he arrived at the residence of the outer sect disciples, many disciples saw Chen Xuan wearing a blue long shirt and came forward to pay their respects.

  Arriving at the small cottage where Yīyún Shēng lived, Chén Xuān knocked on the door. The door opened with a creak, but there was no one inside. I had already made arrangements with Yī Dàgē to come find him five days later, and today just so happened to be the fifth day - where could he have gone? Chén Xuān wondered.

  "Big brother, are you looking for Yun Sheng?"

  At this time, a head poked out from a house next door and said:

  "Do you know where Xun Shang went?" Chen Xuan asked.

  The boy poked his head out and looked around. "Brother Chen, come inside to talk." The boy beckoned Chen Xuan with a wave of his hand.

  Chen Xuan stepped into the young man's hut, "Now there is no one around for a mile, tell me, what happened."

  "Yesterday, four or five inner sect members came and took Shuangyun away. When they left, one of them said that when Chen Xuan arrives, he should bring out 100,000 Spirit Dan to Doulingshan to redeem the person." The young man spoke up.

  "How could this be!" Chen Xuan exclaimed in great anger.

  "This Ling Feng actually uses Da Ge's kidnapping to threaten me, and wants my 100,000 yuan worth of Ling Dan as ransom. I'll make him pay today, thanks for telling me the news, here are 1,000 Yuan Ling Dan as a gift to you."

  Chen Xuan took out a thousand elixirs and handed them over to the young man who was speaking.

  "Thank you, senior brother."

  The young man thanked him.

  "Senior brother, you must be careful if you want to go up Douling Peak. That is Lingfeng's territory. Among the thousands of inner door disciples in Douling's spiritual martial realm, most of them follow Lingfeng as their leader. It will be very dangerous for you to go alone. Do you want to call some of our Lian Shan Peak's inner door disciples to go together?"

  "No need, I'll go myself."

  Having finished speaking, Chen Xuan rushed towards the direction of Douling Peak and arrived at the foot of the mountain in half a stick of incense time. He suddenly stopped.

  "You're Chen Xuan."

  The two men standing in front of Chen Xuan said.

  "What do you mean by blocking me? It was you who brought Zhai Yunsheng away." Chen Xuan said coldly.

  "Not bad, that waste is the one I'm taking away, just an ant after all, as long as you're willing to hand over 100,000 Spirit Dan we'll let him go immediately. I heard this time in your Lian Shan Peak's Transmission Hall, you exchanged twenty million yuan for Spirit Dan, we don't want it all, half of it will do." A man blocking Chen Xuan's path said.

  If you want my Yuán Líng Dān, then let's see if you have the skills. If you don't get out of my way, I won't be polite to you, Chen Xuan said angrily.

  "Kid, you're too arrogant. Just because you defeated those three useless 'Ling Sheng' doesn't mean you can come to our Dou Ling Peak and show off your might. Those few are trash in our Dou Ling Peak. Today, I'll let you know what true spiritual martial arts power is." the man said.

  "It seems that there is no choice but to take action. Are you going up together or separately? I advise you to go up together, otherwise I will waste my time."

  "To deal with you, a newly promoted Lingwu realm junior, I, Yu Cang, am enough by myself; Brother Yan, you just stay on the side and watch." Yu Cang said to Yan Shixiong beside him.

  "Everyone says so, but all of you have been crippled by me, today I will let you crawl back to the mountain."

  "Let me show you my Earth-level martial skill, Pursuing Wind Thirteen Guns."

  Yu Cang took out a low-grade spiritual artifact, the Pursuing Wind Gun, and attacked Chen Xuan with it.

  "The wind turns round and round."

  It's all over as soon as it starts.

  Chen Xuan didn't use his own evil charm, the Yu Cang in front of him was much stronger than the three who had intercepted him earlier, at least these two were at the late stage of Ling Wu Realm.

  Whoosh, Chen Xuan dodged sideways,

  Yu Cang drew back his spear, turned his horse around and thrust the spear forward. The spear tip stirred up a chaotic whirlwind in the air, causing the surrounding atmosphere to produce an eddy current. The power of this move even surpassed Chen Xuan's Seven Kills Blade's first slash, "Wind Slasher".

  "Bang bang bang."

  Chen Xuanzhao punched the gun head three times and used the third move of Chi Yan Fist to deflect it.

  "Come on, kid, draw your sword." Yu Cang said.

  "With your skills, I can defeat you with just my bare fists."

  Chen Xuan took the initiative to attack this time, and the Phantom Nine Changes were displayed. The entire field was filled with illusions, making it difficult for the man to find Chen Xuan's true body.

  "What's the big deal about hiding and escaping? All phenomena return to reality."

  Yu Cang's gunfire also turned into a sky full of gun shadows, enveloping Chen Xuan entirely, "Kid, I see where you're going to hide."