Chapter 1 Rebirth

  Gently stroking the blade, Chen Xuan felt as if he was caressing his beloved. The Evil Sword had now become inseparable from him. Putting the sword back in its scabbard, he cleaned up a bit and was left with over 10 million Ruo Dan and more than 30 million Ling Dan.

  It's best to get some rewards in this big competition, now the evil charm is also a top-grade spiritual instrument, so I have an extra chance in this big competition. My goal is to create the Canghua Dan, but I don't know if the champion of this competition will give out the Canghua Dan as a reward.

  The five disciples of the Tianmo battlefield should be the eldest disciples of several other peaks of Danxuan Gate, each with strength that cannot be underestimated, all above Luoyunfei, and it is still really difficult for me to defeat them now. In the later stage of Lingwu Realm, even the peak may have a chance to defeat me, but it's different when it comes to Half-Step True Martial Arts.

  Although Lu Yunfei is also a Half-Step True Martial, Half-Step True Martial is also divided into three, six and nine grades. It depends on who has more yuan force converted from spiritual power. Among the several people in the Tianmo battlefield, there are nine-grade Half-Step True Martial, while Lu Yunfei belongs to the sixth-grade Half-Step True Martial, and Ji Wushang belongs to the third-grade Half-Step True Martial. Although it's only a slight difference, the gap in strength is indeed overwhelming. Lu Yunfei's Tongtian Peak ranks 13th, while Qian Kun's Douling Peak ranks first, with an insurmountable gap in between.

  There are still eight days until the day of the big comparison. Recently, I won't be going out either, and I'll consolidate my own strength. I don't know if this Shura Dan can be absorbed. Once the Shura Dan is absorbed, my physical body will also undergo another transformation. If my physical body becomes stronger again, my dantian can also hold more spiritual energy.

  He took out a Shura Dan and swallowed it, instantly transporting himself to an ancient battlefield where people were fighting everywhere, with someone dying every moment. The ground was filled with rivers of blood, corpses littered the ground, and countless Shuras saw someone entering, picking up their weapons and charging towards him from all directions.

  Watching these scenes, a strong desire to kill emerged in his heart. He also wanted to go in and slaughter freely, his spirit completely out of control, as if he had become a killing machine that only knew how to kill, without any other thoughts. Chen Xuan controlled his own mind to prevent himself from being assimilated. Once assimilated, he would become a thoughtless killing machine. He reined in his spirit and retreated from the illusion.

  "So it was like that."

  Chen Xuan retreated from his own illusion and said, "Those who are timid will be scared to death by entering such an illusion. Moreover, they will be frightened into madness. No wonder the Shura Dan can't be absorbed by humans. Let's try again with the Ding furnace to see if it can absorb it. After being converted by the Ding furnace, I should be able to absorb it myself. The Tian Xuan Decree is capable of swallowing even the sky, so why can't this small amount of Shura power be swallowed?"

  He took out dozens of Shura Dan and let the cauldron absorb them, a violent force was decomposed, no more illusory realm appeared at the beginning, it became pure Shura's power, without any killing intent, all Shura's power was absorbed by Chen Xuan's dantian.

  The crystal wall of the dantian underwent rapid changes, from its initial crystal clarity to a gradual transformation towards red. The intensity of the crystal wall also increased again, and even Chen Xuan's physical body was absorbing this Asura power. With each absorption, his muscles became stronger, and his movements faster. Even his internal organs were absorbing this Asura power, which was unusual because the five viscera and six bowels were the weakest parts of a human being. Normally, it was difficult to cultivate them unless one had reached the Earth Spirit Realm and understood the existence of the Tao, allowing them to plant various arrays within their body to protect their internal organs.

  Generally, once you reach the Tianling realm, you won't die or be destroyed. Even if your physical body is damaged, you can still regenerate yourself. These are things that Chen Xuan doesn't fully understand yet, but he has some knowledge of them. He doesn't know when he'll truly comprehend them. Moreover, the cultivation world is extremely cruel - it's survival of the fittest, and one can lose their life at any moment. For now, he should focus on increasing his current strength. If his physical body becomes stronger again, his spiritual power will also increase significantly. By then, when facing a Half-Step True Martial artist, he'll have more opportunities.

  He took out 10,000 Shura Dan and the cauldron was emptied in one hand. The surging power of Shura filled Chen Xuan's entire body. His body was frantically absorbing these powers, and with each absorption, his muscles twitched faster. The power of Shura was too vast, and his muscles couldn't absorb it quickly enough. Even the bones in Chen Xuan's body were now absorbing this power of Shura, and a faint yellow glow began to emanate from all his bones.

  Chen Xuan's body was originally the Wanlong True Body, but unfortunately, Chen Xuan's constitution was too poor to fully utilize the advantages of the Wanlong True Body. From the moment Chen Xuan obtained the Wanlong True Body, a golden yellow color would cover his blood and bones, whether it was his blood or his muscles.

  Now the muscles and bones are starting to absorb the power of Shura, and the golden color is becoming more and more yellow. This is the second evolution of the Wanlong True Body. When can it truly be cultivated into the Wanlong True Body? That would be an existence where the flesh body can transform into a true dragon.

  Chen Xuan's accumulation up to now has been too rich, and every subsequent upgrade will become extremely difficult. The 10,000 Shura Dan scattered Shura power was all absorbed by the body, and he felt that his current physical body could rival a mid-grade spiritual artifact. Even his bones and internal organs had improved significantly.

  At this time, if I were to meet Lu Yunfei again, I should be able to defeat him relying on my physical body alone. His Hunyuan Qigong is mainly defensive, and this time I will rely on my physical body to break through his Hunyuan Qigong, making him lose with a convincing heart and mouth.

  The space of the dantian has been greatly expanded, and the body's endurance has also increased by several levels. The amount of spiritual energy it can hold is also correspondingly greater. To put it in a way that's easy to understand, if the physical body isn't strong enough, all the spiritual energy has to be channeled through the physical body before being released. When the spiritual energy exceeds what the physical body can handle, the physical body will suffer backlash, and even before the spiritual energy is released, one will have already suffered heavy damage.

  These are the most basic common sense of cultivation, and the power exerted by the strong physical body will also be greater. Taking out 100,000 yuan ling dan, one suck is empty, the tripod furnace releases a large amount of spiritual energy, and the quality of the spiritual energy converted by the tripod furnace is much better than what Chen Xuan himself absorbs. The spiritual power in the dantian increases, and the power also rises. Every time after the conversion of the tripod furnace, the spiritual energy does not need to be refined by Chen Xuan, it directly transforms into spiritual power and merges into Chen Xuan's dantian.

  These days, Chen Xuan has been staying in his own cave and hasn't gone out. The third move of the Seven Kills Sword, Spiral Slash, still had many places that he didn't fully understand, so over these few days, he went to ask Old Lai for guidance one by one. Even Old Lai couldn't help but admire Chen Xuan's understanding of martial skills. After all, the ultimate use of martial skills is to knock down the opponent.

  Chen Xuan's idol in his previous life was Bruce Lee, who had a theory that martial arts is about knocking down the opponent with the simplest method. Chen Xuan also adopted this theory of Bruce Lee's, and the great Bruce Lee created Jeet Kune Do, Chen Xuan removed all the unnecessary moves, so when he uses them, they become much shorter.

  These past few days of seclusion have yielded a great harvest for me. The demonic aura has reached the level of a top-grade spiritual artifact, and my physical body has become much stronger, reaching a state of saturation. The True Body of Ten Thousand Dragons has also evolved another step further, and I have gained an even deeper understanding of the Seven Kills Blade. My spiritual energy has increased by two times, and my overall strength has improved more than double compared to before seclusion.

  After absorbing all the things into his own, Chen Xuan planned to leave the closed door. The long-term closure had no benefit to himself, and his cultivation needed a long battle to be promoted faster. Moreover, after this closure, the things on his body were almost consumed, and the Shura Dan was left with only a few tens of thousands, and the Yuan Ling Dan was left with only one hundred thousand, which was not enough for his cauldron to absorb once.

  "I'm poor."

  His cultivation resources were also terrifying, almost dozens of times that of the same level, but his strength was also dozens of times that of the same level. This was Chen Xuan's theory, the principle that effort always pays off. After putting in several times more effort than others, he would get even more in return.

  There are still some task points on my body, this time I will go and exchange them all for Yuanling Dan. The Yuanling Dan on my body is not enough to meet my own promotion requirements. Once a breakthrough occurs in future battles, if there is no sufficient Yuanling Dan on my body, it is easy to cause walking fire into magic.

  "Go, ascend to Gongdian." Chen Xuan stepped out of his own cave mansion.