Chapter 8: The Birth of Quasi-Divine Soldiers

  In the forbidden area of Hou Shan, Tian Quan elder sat on a bamboo stool, seemingly waiting for someone. Before long, four young people appeared one after another in front of Tian Quan elder, who were Yang Guo Bei, the eldest disciple of Shu Shan's third generation, Nan Gong Ao Yun, the second disciple, and Li Lian and Jiang You.

  The Heavenly Sovereign elder looked at the four of them and slowly said:

  "This time, I've called the four of you here to tell you that in half a year's time, at the Zhongyuan Xiu Repair界 Silver List Grand Competition, our Shu Mountain will be sending the four of you to participate. The four of you are all outstanding disciples among the three generations of Shu Mountain."

  At this point, Tianquan Elder glanced at the four of them and suddenly changed his tone, saying in a slightly solemn tone:

  However, the disciples of other sects are not weak either. It is said that this year's Silver List competition, each sect attaches great importance to it.

  "So you should go into seclusion to cultivate, there are four bottles of elixir here, each of you take one bottle, follow the small path to the three forks, turn right and walk, and you will arrive in front of a stone wall. Inside the stone wall there are four stone caves, the higher the spiritual energy is thicker, you choose one to enter and cultivate, half a year later come out again. Don't worry about food and water, every day I will send someone to deliver them. Alright, go."

  The Heavenly Sovereign finished speaking and swept his gaze over the four of them. The four saw this, each took a bottle of elixir from the table, stood up and walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest.

  Looking at their distant backs, Tianquan Elder murmured:

  "When you are young, focus on cultivating yourself, and the future of Shu Mountain will be in your hands."

  Before long, the four of them arrived in front of the stone wall. Li Lian and Jiang You both looked at Nan Gong Ao Yun and Yang Guo, waiting for the two to choose a cave first. Whether it was their seniority or cultivation level, they were both below Nan Gong Ao Yun and Yang Guo, so they didn't dare to choose a cave first.

  Nan Gong Ao Yun glanced at Yang Guo Bei, then jumped up and leaped into the highest stone cave. Although Yang Guo Bei was the eldest senior brother among the three generations of Shu Mountain disciples, Nan Gong Ao Yun never treated him as a junior brother, but instead always wanted to surpass him. This time, he didn't think twice and directly chose the highest stone cave with the thickest spiritual energy.

  Yang, however, looked at Nangong Ao and leaped into the highest cave. He smiled lightly and also jumped lightly, entering the second layer of stone caves. The remaining Li Lian and Jiang You saw that both had chosen a stone cave, so they respectively entered two stone caves on the first floor.

  In the stone cave, Yang Guo began his own secluded cultivation. Half a month passed, on this day, Yang Guo felt that his meridians had a feeling of being full to bursting, the true energy in his meridians seemed to be about to overflow from his body. Each acupoint also had a slight pain. He knew, the time for breaking through the barrier had arrived.

  Yang didn't take long to run the true energy inside his body after taking the Chong Mai Dan, and he started to break through the pass. After taking the Chong Mai Dan, Yang found that the true energy in his Dantian was extremely full, so he compressed the Dantian, turning the gaseous spiritual energy into a liquid state. After a long time of compression, Yang finally managed to compress the true energy in his Dantian into a liquid state.

  Then, he guided the liquid spiritual energy to impact the acupoints. There are 720 acupoints in the human body, and he had to guide the spiritual energy to break through each one of them before returning to the dantian, only then could he break through to the fifth layer of spiritual energy.

  Yang struggled to guide his spiritual energy through the meridians, and after three days and nights of surging, he finally arrived at the last acupoint. As long as he broke through this acupoint and guided his spiritual energy back into the dantian, he would succeed.

  Yang struggled on, his body exhausted, gritting his teeth and forcing himself forward. For a full hour, Yang continued to bitterly assault the last acupoint, his liquidized spiritual energy constantly pounding against it, accumulating enough power before launching one final all-out attack.

  "Boom!!"

  The acupoint was broken through, and all the spiritual energy in the body was connected into one piece. Yang ran the 36 weeks immediately, consolidating the results of Chong Mai.

  Ten years of accumulation, several hours of hard work, and this finally came to fruition. Yang had reached a new realm at the age of twenty.

  Soul Power Five Layers, Mid-level Cultivator!

  Xuanxiu practitioners are divided into three levels based on the depth of their spiritual power: primary, intermediate and advanced. Those with spiritual power from one to four layers are considered low-level practitioners, those with spiritual power from five to seven layers are considered mid-level practitioners, and those with spiritual power above eight layers are considered high-level practitioners.

  Primary cultivators make up the largest number in the entire cultivation world, mostly young disciples of various sects. The number of primary cultivators over 35 years old is extremely small. Because as long as the qualifications are not too bad, ordinary cultivators can generally advance smoothly to the realm of intermediate cultivators.

  However, after the intermediate master, the difficulty of advancing will become greater and greater. Many people are stuck between the fifth and sixth layers of spiritual power, and masters who can break through to the seventh layer of spiritual power in Zhongyuan can be called top-notch.

  And as for the high-level cultivators, their numbers are even more scarce. Currently, there are only about ten high-level cultivators in the entire Central Plains who can be named, of course, excluding some reclusive and mysterious masters from the previous generation who have never made a name for themselves in the Jianghu.

  Currently, there are three people in the Central Plains who are recognized as having the highest and most profound cultivation. One is Lingyinzi, the master of the Lingxue Temple on Mount Tai, one is Zhang Sanfeng of the Taichi Palace on Wudang Mountain, and the other is Xiangyake, a wandering cultivator whose whereabouts are unknown. The cultivation of these three people is all above the ninth layer of spiritual power, which is even higher than that of other top masters.

  Yang had already reached the realm of a middle-level cultivator at the age of twenty, and in the entire Central Plains, there wouldn't be more than ten people like him.

  In the Heavenly Authority Cave of Mount Shu's Forbidden Land, Pang Zhongtian had spent two months absorbing spiritual energy. Today, he began to expel the demonic energy within his dantian. He gathered the spiritual energy inside his meridians and formed an array outside his dantian, slowly pushing it into his dantian.

  Pang Zhongtian relied on his strong spiritual power and rich spiritual energy reserves, slowly infiltrating the dantian from within, forming a pincer movement against the demonic energy inside. Without taking too long, he could expel the demonic energy out of his body and regain control over it.

  Pang Zhongtian and the invading demon energy went through a difficult tug-of-war for several hours, but in the end, Pang Zhongtian relied on his ability to absorb spiritual energy to recover his strength, using this advantageous condition to gain a slight upper hand over the demon energy.

  "What kind of monster are you and why have you invaded my body?" Pang Zhongtian asked.

  "Hmph! I am one of the four great spiritual beasts of the Demon King's Palace in the Demon Realm. If you know what's good for you, let me go and spare your lives. When our Demon God Altar marches into the Central Plains in the future, I might still be able to spare the lives of those at Mount Shu!"

  "Hmph! You evil creature, you've been harming humans, how can I let you go? Tell me, how did you invade Shu Mountain? Why did you invade my body? I'll give you a swift death." Pang Zhongtian currently had only 20% of his spiritual energy left, but it was more than enough to eliminate this evil aura.

  "This deity has cultivated for nearly a thousand years, if not for the sake of completing the task, why would I let my disciple destroy this deity's physical body? Don't be afraid to tell you, this deity was brought in by your own disciple." The purple demonic energy, although unyielding, had no qualms when death loomed over its head.

  "Are you a unicorn beast?" Pang Zhongtian asked out of his own mind.

  "You have a good eye for talent. If it weren't for the fact that your disciple's cultivation is too low, I would have taken over his primordial spirit long ago." The single-horned demon beast said disdainfully.

  "Such a monster, I won't let you get away." Pang Zhongtian said as he surrounded the single-horned demon beast, ready to refine its primordial spirit.

  The Qilin let out a series of mournful cries under Pong Zhongtian's spiritual energy refinement, and was about to be destroyed when a loud thunderclap came from the sky, interrupting Pong Zhongtian's refinement.

  "Hahaha, heaven is helping me too." In an instant, the lonely horned beast that was wailing in agony just a moment ago let out a maniacal and sinister laugh.

  "You demon, don't spout such arrogant words!" Pang Zhongtian was enraged, just as he was about to continue refining the single-horned demonic beast.

  "Didn't anyone tell you that after our Unicorn Beast cultivates for a thousand years, its horn will turn purple and possess the attribute of lightning?" The Unicorn Demon Beast was not afraid of Pang Zhongtian's alchemy at all. As soon as the words fell, the Unicorn Demon Rhinoceros suddenly enlarged dozens of times, its color changed from light to dark, and its strength surpassed Pang Zhongtian in one go.

  Looking at the still growing purple demon energy, Pang Zhongtian sighed:

  "Heaven is destroying me!"

  "Haha! Success! Ice and fire blend together, two extremes giving birth to each other." Ghost Axe exclaimed with joy, holding a white long sword in the Sword Casting Arena.

  As soon as the words fell, a light flashed in mid-air, and all the lights were absorbed into the Ice Fire Twin Extremes Sword. The Ice Fire Twin Extremes Sword suddenly shone brightly, automatically flying up and heading towards Yang You. Yang You stretched out his hand to grasp the Xuanbing sword that flew to his side, and the four small words "Ice Fire Twin Extremes" on the sword's body lit up. The Ice Fire Twin Extremes Sword was officially born!

  This sword is three feet two inches long, one inch two points wide, and the hilt is four inches eight points long, in a slightly octagonal shape. The hilt has clear texture, with a faint image of a unicorn rhinoceros, and at the end there is a raised part that protects the wrist. After the raised part is a two-inch sharp angle, which can be used to gain an unexpected advantage in close combat.

  The sword guard is about two inches wide and only two tenths of an inch thick at the bottom. The pale red nine tails are spread out like flower petals, with a pattern of veins on each tail that shine in rhythm with the pulse of the willow tree's vitality.

  After the sword hilt is the sword body, which is two feet four inches long and one inch two points wide. Within the two-inch distance after the sword hilt, there are no serrations on both sides of the sword body. In this two-inch distance, the center of the sword body is engraved with four small seals: Ice Fire Two Extremes.

  Four small seals later, it is the sword body. A bright red color one inch wide from six inches of the sword body extends all the way to the tip of the sword, forming a sharp contrast with the silver white on both sides of the sword body.

  "From the half of the falling thunder that was triggered by Xuanbing's birth, as long as we can find that one purple streak later and bring out the remaining half of the falling thunder, this Ice Fire Twin Extreme Sword will be able to return to the ranks of the Divine Soldiers from the Extreme Xuanbing!" Gui Fu admired the Ice Fire Twin Extreme Sword with a look of admiration on his face, muttering to himself.

  Half a year later, Tianquan Elder looked at the four people who had been closed for eight months and smiled with satisfaction on his face: "Not bad, you four have made relatively great progress in this half year, and did not disappoint my expectations."

  The Heavenly Authority elder paused for a moment, seeing that the four of them did not reveal an expression of complacency, and he felt even more gratified. He continued to say:

  "Five days later, the Silver List competition will be held on Mount Tai. This year's Silver List competition is the same as in previous years, with each of the twelve major sects having four places, for a total of forty-eight people, and sixteen people from smaller sects and individual cultivators, making a total of sixty-four participants. It is said that this year's competition will have many young masters from various sects, such as Ling Chuo from the Ling Absolute Hall, whose cultivation had already reached the middle stage of the fifth layer of spiritual power a year ago, and has been in closed-door training for the past year, so his current cultivation must be even more profound."

  Upon hearing this, all four of them were shocked in their hearts, but none of them showed it. Tian Quan continued:

  "Also, Yun Song from Taiji Palace, Song Wan from Wuling Pavilion and Qing Ying from Yaochi Holy Land are said to have cultivation levels above the fifth layer of spiritual power. So our situation is not optimistic this time. I hope that among you four, someone can enter the top four in this Silver List competition."

  As he said this, the Tianquan elder cast his gaze towards Yang Guo and Nangong Ao Yun. The two knew that these words were actually directed at them, and as the Tianquan elder's gaze fell upon them, they met it with firm eyes. Sensing their confidence, the Tianquan elder stroked his long beard, smiled slightly, and retrieved a package from behind him.

  The Heavenly Lord Elder opened the bundle, and inside the bundle were four things: a palm-sized brocade pouch, and three brocade boxes. The three brocade boxes had two that were the same size, square-shaped brocade boxes, half a foot wide. There was also one long, narrow brocade box, three inches wide and one foot long.

  Tianquan Elder handed the brocade pouch to Yang, but the long brocade box was given to Nangong Ao Yun. The two square brocade boxes were given separately to Li Lian and Jiang You. Only after they received their items did Tianquan Elder slowly say:

  "Don't look at this thing for now, open it when you think you need it."

  The four of them heard this and put away their things, without showing any signs of wanting to open it. Tianquan saw this and nodded slightly, continuing to say:

  "Wait a minute and go back to pack your things before leaving. This time, the four of you will leave first. From now on, as the eldest senior brother, you are in charge of everything that happens on the road."

  "Yes, young one obeys." Yang replied along the gaze of Tian Quan elder.

  "This time you are representing the honor of Shu Mountain, you three must follow the arrangement of Master Brother, and do not act rashly." As he said this, Tianquan Elder looked at Nangong Yao with a profound meaning in his eyes, then continued: "Three days later, Zhuge Mo will rush to Mount Tai to take care of you, after he arrives at Mount Tai, everything must follow his arrangement. Alright, you can go now."

  "Yes, disciples take their leave." The four of them bid farewell to Tian Quan Elder and left the restricted area.

  An hour later, the four of them gathered at the foot of Mount Shu and headed towards Mount Tai together.

  It's time to participate in the Silver List competition, but can Yang win the championship? The setup for the previous chapters has ended, and now we're about to enter an exciting and suspenseful plot, with a sudden increase in pace. Also, I'd like to remind everyone that the female lead is about to appear, what kind of female lead do you think she should be? If readers find it interesting, please give some flowers and votes, and don't forget to collect them. Fish Tail will work hard to continue writing.

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