Chapter 201 - 116: The Youth in Fine Clothes on a Spirited Horse Has Ascended the County’s Highest Tower! The County Magistrate Bows, the Instructor Submits

Chapter 201: Chapter 116: The Youth in Fine Clothes on a Spirited Horse Has Ascended the County’s Highest Tower! The County Magistrate Bows, the Instructor Submits

First, he would make Ji Xiu the earthly vessel for the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General. Then, he would have the General, wearing his disciple’s body, commit the ultimate betrayal against his own master and lineage...

Combined with the fact that his own Qi Sea had already solidified, bringing him close to the level of a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster, it was truly a triple blessing!

This trip to Anning... was about to completely uproot Wang Xuanyang’s entire lineage!

They were both at the Three Limits, both Grandmasters. Even if Duan Chenzhou was a cut above, the idea that he could kill him with a single slash was pure fantasy.

That’s why tanking that one slash had resulted in nothing more than minor injuries.

But the thought of what would follow... just imagining it sent a shiver of pure ecstasy through Wei Changjiao.

However, before he could finish his thought, he glanced back. The Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General, wielding the brilliant divine might of Incense and Candlelight, was crashing into the youth’s Mud Ball Palace to extinguish his Divine Soul and perform the Possession... but it all came to an abrupt halt.

Ji Xiu’s eyes opened. He parted his lips.

Instantly!

His Spinal Dragon straightened, as if bearing and manifesting a "Dragon Whale" that suddenly erupted with a boundless, inexhaustible suction!

’It’s nothing but a futile last stand. You will ultimately become my Dharma Body, a mere vessel for my descent into this Celestial Universe. Why struggle so... Huh!?’

The Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General opened his divine eyes, fixing his gaze on Ji Xiu’s forehead. He was unleashing his ultimate attack at point-blank range, his eyes filled with contempt. But just as he invaded Ji Xiu’s Divine Soul...

...he realized something was terribly wrong.

After having just observed the Magical Combat between that Xuanyi Human Immortal and the thousand-zhang-tall Holy entity, Ji Xiu opened his eyes again. He looked at the so-called "Dharma Guardian General" before him—a being once so brilliant he couldn’t even gaze upon it directly.

After two breaths of contemplation,

he came to a single conclusion.

This Dharma Guardian General... was just too weak. He wasn’t even one-thousandth—no, one-ten-thousandth—as powerful as the Divine Being he had just glimpsed, the one he couldn’t even look at directly.

However...

’For me, he’s just right. Perfect for supplementing my Daoist Merit!’

Ji Xiu licked his lips. Feeling the invasion within the sea of his Divine Soul, he couldn’t help but break into a grin.

"My body, my god. My temple, my priest."

"Since you’re here..."

"You can stay forever!"

WHOOSH!

The Dragon Whale on his spine seemed to open its invisible, cavernous maw. As his words rang out, Ji Xiu’s Divine Soul shot forth and seized the Divine General’s spiritual form, which was dozens of feet tall!

Then, with a single gulp, it devoured the General whole—wind, snow, and all—imprisoning him within his own Divine Soul’s Mud Ball Palace!

"Yoink!"

VMMMMM!

At that moment,

The Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General... no, his entire divine being was utterly dumbfounded.

’Who am I? Where am I? What was I supposed to be doing?’

He felt his Incense Body, which he had condensed within this Human Immortal Celestial Universe, sinking as if trapped in a swamp.

Once dragged inside the boy’s Mud Ball Palace, it was as if all connection to the outside was severed. Despite his immense Divine Power, he couldn’t budge an inch. Finally, shock and fury erupted within him.

"What kind of Skill is this...?!"

"Wait!"

He suddenly remembered something.

He remembered the first time the boy had mocked him, dismissed him. He had been about to inflict some punishment, to teach him a lesson...

...and how, within the Divine Field he had manifested, a pair of phoenix eyes had opened and saved the boy on the spot!

That was a power belonging only to the Profound Blood Royal Descendants, the descendants of the Lord of Humanity rooted in this Celestial Universe Land: the ability to channel heavenly law with their very voice and expel the Outer Dao.

And as for a Secret Skill or Divine Technique within the Great Xuan that could devour an Incense Body, seizing it by force to use as a resource for one’s own Cultivation...

...there seemed to be only one!

"The Six Chapters of the Profound Monarch’s Secret Record... The Divine Refining Scroll, known as the ’Outer Dao Melting Furnace,’ used to counterbalance the Six Heavens... You...!!"

As he was "invited" into Ji Xiu’s Mud Ball Palace, turned into a true prisoner, constantly being devoured and gnawed away by a strange power, the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General finally put the pieces together. The realization struck him with absolute horror.

"This is a Secret Inheritance that not even all Profound Blood Royal Descendants are guaranteed to receive! Even the tiniest fragment of it would have an unbelievably terrifying origin!"

"And legend says that after hundreds of years of turmoil, the Six Chapters of the Profound Monarch’s Secret Record was shattered long ago, with the Xuan Descendants, the Celestial Pillars, and the Giant Houses each controlling a portion of its core secrets."

"So how could someone from a remote, insignificant county possibly find it?!"

Devoured by Ji Xiu and trapped in the Mud Ball Palace, the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General was like a shackled prisoner. Stripped of his Divine Power, he no longer possessed the ability of Summoning Spirits and Manifesting Saints.

He slammed against his prison again and again, trying to break free, but it was all in vain.

[Tutor is refining ’Grand General Level Divine Thought’. Advance progress has greatly increased. +1+1+1...]

BANG!

[Tutor is refining ’Grand General Level Divine Thought’. Advance progress has greatly increased. +1+1+1...]

BANG!

[By borrowing ’Divine Incense Qi,’ the Tutor has achieved Qi Nourishing and Grain Avoidance, Nurtured their Divine Soul, and broken through the first gate of Dao Skill, ’Script Recognition and Locket Granting,’ to ascend to ’Qi Absorption and Grain Avoidance’!]

[From this day forward, you can live by eating Qi, are cleansed of all stubborn ailments, and are free from impurity and defilement. You are now a Qi Cultivator! You can now wield ’Talismans’!]

[Divine Refining Scroll*Fragment: (133/1000)!]

Every resentful impact from the Spirit Summoning and Saint Manifesting General, every collision,

increased Ji Xiu’s advance progress and strengthened his Divine Soul!

The feeling was simply incredible!

Through Introspection, Ji Xiu used his Divine Soul to watch the Dharma Guardian General trapped within. His mood instantly brightened as if the clouds had parted, and he felt absolutely fantastic.

’What’s the matter? Weren’t you the one who wanted in?’

’See? Now that I’ve let you in, you’re not happy about it.’

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

He could feel himself continuously absorbing the Incense Fire Divine Thought, his Divine Soul growing stronger and stronger. Just as Fan Nansong had described, he was now a true Qi Cultivator.

From now on, he could cast spells with Talismans and breathe the Qi of Heaven and Earth to sustain his physical body. He would no longer be bound by the need for mortal food—he was now transcendent, set apart from the mundane world.