Chapter 257 - 134: Limit of the Flesh, Purest Gang! An Advance on a Top-Tier Outer Gang Scroll, Master Duan... Has Fallen?

Chapter 257: Chapter 134: Limit of the Flesh, Purest Gang! An Advance on a Top-Tier Outer Gang Scroll, Master Duan... Has Fallen?

At the same time, the Primordial Daoist Talisman was also constantly providing him with feedback:

[The Tutor uses Gang as a saber. His body burns with Tribulation Fire, incinerating his internal organs. The Study Level of the Great Five Decline Celestial Saber’s First Decline is increasing. Pre-spent progress: +1...+1...]

[The Tutor is using the momentum from the Visualization of ’Tribulation Fire Burning Robe’ to develop the Cloud Luo Scroll, tempering his Outer Gang and weaving the Cloud Luo. Pre-spent progress for the Feathered Immortal Robe’s Outer Gang Chapter, the ’Cloud Luo Scroll,’ is increasing: +1...+1...]

A True Sect Level Celestial Saber, and the Skin Refining Scroll of a Giant House!

The two complemented each other, and following a sudden flash of inspiration from Ji Xiu...

...they actually formed a symbiotic cycle. As their pre-spending conditions didn’t clash, they advanced side by side!

"I’m a genius!"

[Great Five Decline Celestial Saber’s First Decline—Tribulation Fire Burning Robe: (207/1000)!]

[Feathered Immortal Robe’s ’Cloud Luo Scroll’: (23/1000)!]

Sensing his Outer Gang grow from a feeble stream into a massive current, absorbing the ’Five Declines Tribulation Fire’ visualized by his Divine Soul for its Quenching...

Ji Xiu estimated.

At this rate.

Even without the aid of an Earth Treasure, his progress would far surpass his progress in cultivating ’Jade Skin’!

’By this logic, if I can continue to evolve the Primordial Daoist Talisman in the future, allowing it to pre-spend on even more and more difficult Dharma Gates...’

’If I could combine those Martial Arts and Skill Dao techniques, wouldn’t I get twice the results with half the effort?’

Ji Xiu pondered this, marveling as if he had discovered a new continent.

Compared to that, the price of his entire body being ravaged from the inside out after the baptism of ’Tribulation Fire Burning Robe’, and needing two or three days to recover...

...was not worth mentioning.

Cultivation always required a price.

On this point, Ji Xiu felt he had a profound understanding.

He clenched his fists.

Sensing the scorching, fire-like Outer Gang flowing through his pores, major acupoints, and across the surface of his body... his strength was now worlds apart from before!

’As I am now, I can kill an Immortal Robe!’

He was filled with intense confidence.

Then he looked in the direction of Jiangyin Prefecture, a place he had been to before...

’I hear there’s a Prefecture Examination this year, a chance to earn Prefecture Official Merit. All the participants are supposed to be young geniuses under thirty, from all the great Grand Lineages and Schools.’

’According to my Master, only those at the Peak of Immortal Robe have a chance to compete. And even then... every time, a few Qi Cultivation Grandmasters emerge out of nowhere to throw their hats in the ring!’

’I wonder if I...’

’...with just my fists and feet, my Gang Saber, and the greatbow on my back...’

’...could pass through the prefectures and crush them all, one by one, under my feet!?’

A heroic ambition burned in Ji Xiu’s heart. He also remembered that over a month had passed, and the recruitment of Prefecture Students was imminent.

The thought of leaving Anning County, riding a flood dragon into the sea, and entering Jiangyin Prefecture had already taken root in his mind!

The time...

...had come!

Just as he finished his thoughts, bathed, changed his clothes, and packed lightly, preparing to step through the prefecture gates the very next day to see for himself...

...his Senior Brother from the Celestial Blade Style, Qin Zhuo, whom he had met before, arrived at the Ji Residence from across the sea, his face grim and a white cloth tied around his head.

The moment Ji Xiu saw his Senior Brother, especially his attire, his heart skipped a beat. He thought of the Sword Plaque and asked in a heavy voice:

"Senior Brother, what... what happened?"

’Could something have happened to Senior Master? The one who passed down the True Skill and gave me the Sword Plaque?’

’If that were the case, then by all reason and sentiment, I should be wearing mourning clothes and waiting for the coffin.’

Just as Ji Xiu was pondering this, Qin Zhuo saw him, his eyes slightly red.

After a long moment, his Adam’s apple bobbed several times before he finally forced the words out, his voice incredibly hoarse:

"Junior... Junior Martial Uncle Duan..."

"...has fallen!"

The moment those words were spoken, the youth’s face, which had been lost in thought, froze in an instant.

And then,

BANG!

A thick Outer Gang shot out from every pore and major acupoint, piercing the Qi Wave!

Immediately, the temperature in the vast Ji Residence skyrocketed, as if... one had been plunged into a Fire Prison!