Chapter 159: Jiang Xuan: You Mistook My Basic Attack for an All-Out Effort?

Chapter 159 -83: Jiang Xuan: You Mistook My Basic Attack for an All-Out Effort?

While the viewing platform was a storm of undercurrents and ceaseless, clamorous debate, within the Road of Purgatory, people slowly began to notice something strange around Jiang Xuan.

The first to spot the situation was someone who had been paying close attention to Jiang Xuan and Su Linyin… Lin Yiyi!

But unlike her mother, she had once stared directly into Jiang Xuan’s eyes, which were like Heaven itself looking down upon the mortal world. She had also truly endured the immense pressure of his Gravity, a force that could suppress the soul and shackle the body.

Thus, she had never once doubted Jiang Xuan’s true strength. Deep in her Heart, there was only profound awe.

Therefore, while everyone else suffered from the calamities and Demon Beast attacks across the scorched earth of Purgatory, the area around Jiang Xuan remained calm and undisturbed. Lin Yiyi understood at once. ‘This is no coincidence. Jiang Xuan has secretly acted, using some profound method to ward off all danger.’

This also made her marvel inwardly. ‘His strength is truly unfathomable.’

However, having personally experienced that terrifying power, she could make a rational judgment. The others, however, had not had that experience.

When they discovered the pocket of Purity around Jiang Xuan, their first reaction was utter shock, their Heart Spirits trembling.

‘How is it so peaceful over there?!’

After the shock, suspicion and greed followed close behind.

Some looked at Jiang Xuan with alarm and uncertainty. Others grew suspicious, believing he was cheating or had found a shortcut.

And then there were those whose eyes glinted as they stealthily approached Jiang Xuan’s group.

“Brother, be a sport and let us use your path!”

“Dong Hao, that’s not very cool of you. You found a shortcut and kept it to yourself instead of sharing it with your fellow disciples!”

The group of Cultivators who had gathered around them were mostly students from the Chen Daoist School. This caused both Dong Hao and Su Linyin’s brows to furrow tightly, their expressions turning cold and grim.

But neither of them made a decision on their own. They exchanged a glance and simultaneously turned their gazes to Jiang Xuan, who was walking silently beside them, waiting for him to decide.

Jiang Xuan remained completely indifferent to all of this.

Not only did Jiang Xuan not mind having people follow them, he actually welcomed it.

As they ventured deeper into the scorched volcanic landscape and entered the core region, the number of students from the three schools had sharply decreased due to the various calamities. In contrast, the Demon Beasts and Demons along the path were appearing endlessly, their numbers growing larger and larger.

By now, the number of Demon Beasts and Demons was several times greater than the number of Cultivators.

With the situation reversed, each Cultivator had to face the frantic pursuit of several Demon Fiends alone.

Without any useful pawns, Jiang Xuan had to increase the Gravity he wielded just to shake off the pursuing Demon Beasts. The Dharma Eye between his brows was even about to open slightly.

And now, just as he was preparing to reveal more of his strength, this group of people had willingly approached him. They were offering themselves up as free pawns to block disasters and ward off danger, to share the burden of the Demon Fiends’ attacks and solve his problems. Naturally, Jiang Xuan had no reason to refuse.

“Haha, Dong Hao, you’re not so bad. You know what’s good for you. We’re from the same Daoist School, so you should be thinking about the bigger picture.”

“Exactly. You should have told us as soon as you found this shortcut.”

Jiang Xuan’s silence did not make the crowd feel grateful. Instead, they truly believed the three of them were weak and easy to bully, and they wanted to learn more about the secrets of this ‘shortcut’ from them.

“Speaking of which, Dong Hao, how exactly did you guys find this perfectly safe path…”

BOOM!

Before the man could even finish his question, disaster struck them.

This wasn’t Jiang Xuan deliberately targeting them. Rather, it was due to a rule intentionally set by the Sect for the Path of Trial: the more people gathered in one place, the more frenzied and dense the surrounding Demon Beasts and Demons would become.

The Sect’s original intention in setting up the Path of Trial was to temper the disciples’ Heart Nature and Cultivation. It never intended for anyone to pass through with ease.

With a large group of students clustered around Jiang Xuan, they instantly drew the bloodthirsty killing intent of all the surrounding Demon Beasts.

And Jiang Xuan, as always, would only protect Dong Hao and Su Linyin. He couldn’t care less about whether the others lived or died.

Besides, not only had these people not paid him, but they had also been disrespectful. Jiang Xuan felt not a single ripple of guilt or burden in his Heart for pushing them out to be targets for the Demon Beasts.

HUMMM!

As his Magical Power trembled slightly and surged into his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, a subtle and invisible ripple of power suddenly emanated from Jiang Xuan’s body, enveloping the entire area.

Because Gravity is both formless and intangible, no one noticed this field of power.

Only Jiang Xuan, with his crystal-clear Heart Spirit, knew that every movement and the direction of every Demon Beast in the vicinity were now under the control of his single thought.

VMMMM—!

As the fingers hidden within his sleeve twitched slightly, bursts of force, some light and some heavy, were suddenly applied to the surrounding Demon Beasts.

This force silently deflected the attack trajectories of the Demon Beasts, redirecting the searing Fireballs and swift-flying flaming feathers aimed at Jiang Xuan’s group toward the students who had gathered around them.

RUMBLE…

The flaming explosions created a continuous series of deafening sounds. The roar of the blaze was so intense it felt as if it could shake Heaven and Earth.

The sudden Demon Beast attack threw the area around Jiang Xuan into chaos, leaving the people who had gathered there utterly confused and bewildered.

“What’s going on? Isn’t this a safe zone? A place of Purity where we won’t be attacked?!”

“Dammit, it wasn’t like this before…”

While wretchedly fending off the Demon Beasts’ fierce assault and fighting a bloody battle, the crowd looked around in a panic, their minds in disarray.

And soon, someone noticed that amidst all the surrounding chaos, the area around Jiang Xuan’s group of three remained in its usual state of Purity.