Chapter 80: Gods Worship Me, Throat God Great Success!

Chapter 80: Chapter 80: Gods Worship Me, Throat God Great Success!

In the rainy night, the fortune-telling old man hurried through the small woods. His legs had turned to jelly, terrified by Chen Sha, who had suddenly appeared in the ruined temple and thrown that single punch. That scene had evoked the most terrifying image in his heart.

Suddenly, Qin Half-Immortal seemed to remember something and slapped his forehead hard. "Not good, Weii Wuji has a chess piece on him. Now..."

He thought about mustering the courage to go back, hoping those people might not search the corpse. He thought, "This miscalculation is too huge. If the Chess Master finds out..." But recalling the scene where Chen Sha’s punch killed Weii Wuji shattered most of his bravery. Trembling inwardly, he consoled himself, "When I report back, I’ll just say Weii Wuji courted death himself and it had nothing to do with me. The blame shouldn’t fall on my head..."

With this thought, he instantly felt a sense of relief, as if all his unease and insecurity had dissipated.

Inside the ruined temple.

Song Yu, Lin Qingqing, and the others quietly sized up the tall back of the man who had just killed Weii Wuji with a single punch.

"Junior Brother?" Song Yu called out probing.

Unexpectedly, upon this call, Chen Sha, who had been standing there with his back to them, simply dissipated into thin air.

"Master!"

"Teacher!"

Lin Qingqing and Qii Zhengyi paled in shock and hurriedly lunged forward. However, they only caught the rainwater in the air; their hands grasped nothing. They turned around and looked at Song Yu in horror. "Elder Song, this..."

Song Yu was also quite frightened by Chen Sha’s vanishing act, just as he had been by his mysterious appearance earlier. "Junior Brother!"

But in the rainy night, only the patter of the rain remained. The air carried nothing but the metallic scent of blood from Weii Wuji’s death; no other traces were left behind. It was as if Chen Sha had never appeared in the first place.

"Elder Song, what exactly is going on? I clearly saw Teacher standing right there, but how did he..." Qii Zhengyi asked in horror.

Unable to find anyone around, a thoughtful expression arose on Song Yu’s face. He looked at the Cosmic Light Stone in his hand. "Could it be..." He thought of something and muttered in disbelief, "How can such supernatural things exist in this world? Could my junior brother know the Cloning Skill? Is this truly something human power can achieve?"

Song Yu had lived for over forty years. Having followed his master Chen Canxuan for the first half of his life, he considered himself to have seen all sorts of unbelievable things in the world, but those were still within the realm of human imagination. Now, Chen Sha’s actions...

Intense excitement gleamed in Lin Qingqing’s eyes. "Could Master already be a legendary Land Immortal? Capable of traveling thousands of miles in an instant?"

Song Yu remained silent.

Since ancient times, the Divine Land Continent indeed had legends of distant Immortal Gods. But even his master Chen Canxuan, whose Mastery of Creation had made him invincible in the world, had never displayed such miraculous feats as his Sect Leader junior brother just did.

"Perhaps I can only ask Junior Brother in detail once we return to the mountain," Song Yu said. He had somewhat guessed that the person who appeared just now might not have been Chen Sha himself. If this matter were to spread, few in the Jianghu would probably believe it.

He silently looked at Weii Wuji’s corpse. "What exactly is this person’s background?"

Since the man was dead, the seasoned Song Yu stepped forward to investigate, hoping to find something on the body to prove his identity. As a result, besides that sharp Treasure Saber, he only found a white chess piece tied with a red string around the neck of the middle-aged headless corpse.

"This chess piece is..." Song Yu muttered as he looked at the object in his hand. It felt warm and smooth like jade, even as delicate as a woman’s skin, making it impossible to immediately tell what material it was crafted from. Unable to discern its origin, he tucked it into his robes for now.

Then, Song Yu turned to glance at Lin Qingqing, who was still excitedly fantasizing about Chen Sha’s immortal-like tales, and decided to move past the topic of Chen Sha’s mysterious manifestation. "You both know that I’ve been silently following you these past few months."

Lin Qingqing and Qii Zhengyi nodded obediently and bowed. "Thank you for protecting us along the way, Elder Song."

"Since you know, I will accompany you for the rest of the journey," Song Yu said.

The two obeyed. Fearing that more pursuers might catch up, Song Yu had no intention of letting them spend the night there. The group immediately boarded their carriage and traveled through the night.

A few days later, they arrived at an Escort Agency owned by the Lin family.

Meanwhile, on Dao Yi Mountain.

Noticing that the trace of True Qi he had left in the Cosmic Light Stone had been depleted, Chen Sha muttered to himself, "Only about half of the True Qi was consumed. This proves that the person who threatened Song Yu has been killed by my Incarnation."

If they had encountered a Great Innate Level expert, even exhausting all of his Incarnation’s True Qi might not have been enough to protect Song Yu. The fact that True Qi remained meant the threat was eliminated using only half of it.

"It seems I will only know what exactly happened when he returns to the mountain," Chen Sha said to himself. Guessing that Song Yu was most likely unharmed, he turned around and continued his cultivation behind the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Stepping through the Southern Heavenly Gate, he arrived before Dugu Qiubai’s temple.

"Enter."

"Sect Leader has entered the first section of the Dugu Qiubai Chapter, ’Cyan Nether Sword’.

"Characters appearing in this scene: Dugu Qiubai.

"Sect Leader must defeat the key character in this scene to clear the level and unlock the second section, ’Ziwei Soft Sword’."

When Chen Sha’s vision recovered, he had already appeared on the banks of a Great River. In the distance stood a young man, looking no more than twenty years old, holding a Cyan Light Longsword in his hand, with corpses littering the ground at his feet.

"Are you also here to seek revenge against me?"

The young man holding the Cyan Nether Longsword had an unparalleled arrogance between his brows.

"I do not recall having an enemy like you..."

Chen Sha stood not far away, observing the young man. He was already certain that this youth was most likely the young Dugu Qiubai. Looking to be around twenty years of age, his Sword Qi surged unstoppably toward the sky, unable to be concealed.

This was what it meant to be destined for greatness.

Indeed, some people were destined to be extraordinary figures from the moment they were born. Someone like Dugu Qiubai probably knew the first time he grasped a sword in his youth that he would one day be invincible in the world.

It was just a pity...

Chen Sha sighed and said, "If the first level is only like this, it feels a bit like bullying."

Standing in the distance, he simply waved his hand.

BANG!

The surrounding space and everything in the world suddenly disintegrated, turning into an endless expanse of white. It looked as if Chen Sha’s casual wave had shattered an entire world.

"Sect Leader has successfully cleared the first section, ’Cyan Nether Sword’. Unlocking the second section, ’Ziwei Soft Sword’...

"Sect Leader has successfully cleared the first section, ’Cyan Nether Sword’. Items dropped in this scene: Cyan Nether Sword, Cosmic Light Fragment..."

Chen Sha looked at the Cyan Light Longsword before him. It was the exact Treasure Sword that the young Dugu Qiubai had just held.

HUMM!

He held the sword in his hand and gently flicked it. A crisp, dragon-like sword resonance rang through the air. "Fierce and formidable, capable of destroying anything. Used it to clash with the heroes of Heshuo before the age of twenty... This must be the sword," he muttered.

Twenty years old was the age of adulthood. Dugu Qiubai had Grandmaster Level Cultivation at twenty, but it was unknown whether he had already created the miraculous Dugu Nine Swords at this time.

That would have to wait until the next section to be seen.

However, Chen Sha had already vaguely sensed it: the first few levels of Dugu Qiubai would be exceptionally easy to pass.

Relying on certain information from his memories, the legendary Sword Demon Dugu Qiubai had experienced five realms of swordplay throughout his life: Sharp Sword, Soft Sword, Heavy Sword, Wooden Sword, and Swordless.

The first section was the Cyan Nether Sword, and the second was the Ziwei Soft Sword. Looking at it this way, the third Chapter would probably be the Profound Iron Heavy Sword. With Chen Sha’s current Half-Step Great Innate Cultivation, getting through these first three levels would require almost no effort at all.

Facts proved his speculation right.

Dugu Qiubai, who used the Ziwei Soft Sword before the age of thirty, was also cleared with a single palm strike.

"Sect Leader has successfully cleared the second section...

"Items dropped in this scene: Dugu Nine Swords Sword Technique, Cosmic Light Fragment."

Even for the third level, ’Profound Iron Heavy Sword,’ Chen Sha didn’t expend much effort. This was despite the fact that Dugu Qiubai in this level was already in his forties and possessed the Grandmaster Level Power that made him invincible in the Jianghu. Relying on the Profound Iron Heavy Sword, he roamed the world unopposed.

"Sect Leader has successfully cleared the third section...

"Items dropped in this scene: Dugu Qiubai’s forty years of Grandmaster Power, Cosmic Light Fragment."

Chen Sha’s eyes lit up; a reward that satisfied him had finally dropped. He had come to Dugu Qiubai’s trial scene specifically to see if he could obtain a portion of True Qi from this relatively "low martial" level Cosmic Light Fragment to cultivate the Jade Emperor Tower.

"Will you enter the fourth level, ’Wooden Sword’?"

Chen Sha directly left the Southern Heavenly Gate. He estimated that the Wooden Sword realm was approximately the final level before Dugu Qiubai stepped into the Innate realm. It was probably at this stage that he would finally encounter a Dugu Qiubai who was not inferior to himself.

But for now, it was better to wait until he fully digested this Grandmaster Power and elevated the Realm of his Jade Emperor Tower.

Returning to his room, Chen Sha swallowed the forty years of Power in one gulp, elevating the Realm of his Jade Emperor Tower step by step.

This closed-door cultivation lasted for three days.

During this time, under Chen Sha’s internal vision, his throat joints became clearly visible, turning to jade starting from the second joint...

In three days’ time, forty years of Power directly pushed the Jade Emperor Tower to the Realm of the eleventh layer.

BOOM!

Instantly, Chen Sha felt that after the Jade Emperor Tower reached the eleventh layer, the form of the Throat God Hundred Exiles residing within the Life and Death Profound Gate became clearer than ever before. It was a beam of light measuring exactly eight point eight inches in length, draped in nine colors as if wearing a multicolored robe.

"Throat God Hundred Exiles!" Chen Sha silently chanted the name of this Divine Spirit in his heart.

In a flash, the nine-colored light actually bowed in the direction of Chen Sha’s Sea of Consciousness.

Chen Sha was deeply moved. "A god is worshipping me!"

This meant he had brought a Divine Spirit within his body to Great Success!