Chapter 200 - 116: The Gallant Youth on a Spirited Steed Ascends the County’s Highest Tower! The County Magistrate Bows, the Instructor Submits

Chapter 200: Chapter 116: The Gallant Youth on a Spirited Steed Ascends the County’s Highest Tower! The County Magistrate Bows, the Instructor Submits

WHOOSH!

The Sun and Moon Jade Token erupted in a brilliant radiance!

A Dharma Gate of unknown grade and origin, the Six Chapters of the Profound Monarch’s Secret Record, appeared in his mind. In that moment, all the profound mysteries from a fragment of its Divine Scroll surged into Ji Xiu’s consciousness.

Left by the Profound Monarch!

He stared at the final five words.

Ji Xiu was inwardly shaken.

’Throughout history, who else could be called the Profound Monarch besides the Great Xuan Human Lord?’

’When Jiang Li was alive, she must have been a titan in her own right, someone with an extraordinary background. Furthermore, her relationship with the Great Xuan Human Lord who founded the Sun and Moon Hall must have been profound.’

’Otherwise, she couldn’t have been so casually bestowed with such a Secret Skill...’

’To think I just happened to pick up someone on the side of the road, and she turned out to be a ’big shot’ resurrecting in another’s body!’

He watched as the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General, formed from the Incense Qi above him, transformed into a radiant golden sun and hurtled toward him. It intended to seize his body—a classic cuckoo-in-the-nest ploy.

It was about to erase his Divine Soul and forcibly seize the body of Golden Flesh and Jade Bones that he had worked so painstakingly to cultivate!

Ji Xiu held his breath, focused his Qi, and activated the Primordial Daoist Talisman, immediately initiating a pre-payment!

Ever since reaching Perfection in Script Recognition and Locket Granting and forming his Divine Soul, Ji Xiu had been able to look within himself. His senses had become incredibly sharp.

He knew that his Divine Soul was located at his Celestial Spirit, residing within his Sea of Consciousness.

That was his very soul!

And the Primordial Daoist Talisman, which Ji Xiu had always considered his greatest reliance... was right there!

The moment he looked within, he could see the Daoist Talisman entwined around his Divine Soul, symbiotic and inextricably linked!

[Pre-paying: Six Chapters of the Profound Monarch’s Secret Record—Refining Spirit Scroll Fragment!]

[Effect: Devour the Incense Qi of Grand General Level Outer Dao Divinities to supplement your Daoist Merit!]

In that instant!

The world spun in Ji Xiu’s mind.

After using the pre-payment to enter the enlightened state of being Formless and Selfless...

He felt as if he were traveling along the river of time, crossing one temporal node after another until he arrived in an era from hundreds of years ago.

He instantly found himself on an ancient battlefield. The setting sun was the color of blood, the very ground was fractured, and broken walls and shattered weapons were scattered among countless corpses.

On this shattered battlefield, some of the corpses still pulsed with a lingering power that hadn’t dispersed even in death...

Their broken forms, still containing a residual Qi Mechanism, floated high in the sky!

If their weapons were not yet destroyed, humanoid ’spirits’ still clung to them, locked in combat with the Holy beings high above and the Divine Soldiers and Commanders on the ground.

’Martial Artists, capable of ascending to the heavens... And not just one!’

’What kind of realm must they have reached? What does that even mean?’

’In my past life, that would be like creating missiles with your bare hands!’

As Ji Xiu used the transformed Primordial Daoist Talisman’s pre-payment feature to glimpse this corner of a chaotic age, he was utterly stunned.

He then saw a ’Holy’ being, thousands of feet tall, standing resplendent in the heavens, so brilliant it was impossible to look at directly...

...It was being seized by a figure who had leaped up from the ground. Clad in Xuanyi with his back to the world, this person opened his mouth wide, unleashing an aura capable of swallowing heaven and earth, and began to devour the Holy being, bite by bite!

"GRRRAAAAGH...!"

The majestic, thousand-zhang-tall Holy being was being savagely devoured by the blood-soaked Martial Artist, whose frame was minuscule in comparison. It let out a roar of pure agony!

However, even when the being manifested a Divine Dao Killing Fist to strike him down, smashing his flesh to a pulp and splattering his blood across the heavens...

...as long as a single drop of his blood remained, the Martial Artist would reform his physical body within moments and continue... until he had swallowed the divine being whole, bite by bite!

Thousands of feet, then hundreds, then dozens...

The being watched helplessly as its cultivation dissipated like a fleeting dream.

Finally, it could only manage to force out one last sentence:

"Immortal as a speck of dust, reborn from a single drop of blood... a Human Immortal..."

"A Human Immortal..."

"Profound Monarch, you’ve become a Human Immortal!"

BANG!

[Pre-payment for Profound Monarch’s Six Chapters Secret Record of Divine Refining: Success!]

[Witnessed ’Profound Monarch Devouring the Holy Being’, drafted the framework of the Divine Scroll Chapter. Pre-payment Progress: +27!]

[The Tutor is now initiated and can devour the Divine Thought of a Grand General Level Holy being!]

[Initiate: Can refine Divine Thought. Great Success: Can devour a Grand General Level Divine Thought in a single gulp, using it as fuel to increase the Divine Soul’s Daoist Merit!]

[Current progress for Divine Refining Scroll (Fragment): 27/1000!]

When Ji Xiu opened his eyes again,

The wind-whipped snow swirled around the Golden Mace Divine General—a magnificent, Manifested Saint dozens of feet tall—as it arrived right before his face. Its vast, divine might was so oppressive that those nearby could barely breathe.

Even Duan Chenzhou was forced back for a moment. He frowned, a flicker of impatience on his face, and was about to surge forward to cleave the Divine Being away from his disciple.

But Wei Changjiao suddenly erupted, intercepting him. He paid the price of being sent flying backward by a slash that nearly shattered his Purple Ribbon Immortal Robe, but he had finally managed to block Duan Chenzhou:

"Duan the Brute..."

"So your Master’s Sect finally has a day like this?"

"Back then, when Wang Xuanyang mastered the Dragon and Tiger, wielding the Great Five Decline Celestial Saber and his other True Sect’s Ultimate Skills to scatter my Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army..."

"...did you ever imagine that the prized disciple you personally trained would one day fall into my hands? That you’d be forced to watch helplessly as he becomes fuel for another!?"

"You think you can control the situation, but the descent of a Divine Being happens in an instant. I doubt even your Master understands the secrets involved..."

"...much less you!"

"Today, I’m going to give you a real taste of it..."

Blood spurted from the gash on Wei Changjiao’s chest. His eyes were savage, and the scar on his head was starkly visible. Yet, his face was a mask of pure ecstasy as he stared at Duan Chenzhou’s grim expression. He was beyond satisfied.

Originally, he had allied himself with a Dharma Guardian General from the Central Yellow Sect solely for the chance to break through to the Upper Three Grades of the Qi Sea. He never imagined he would get such a delightful, unexpected bonus.