Chapter 1: Death and Rebirth

  Duan Cang mountain range.

  In the south of Yizhou, the main vein winds for over a million miles, with its back against the sky and its feet on the ground. Over 100 mountain peaks rise straight up to the clouds, with countless branches that cannot be traversed. Flying waterfalls and rapid streams, steep cliffs and deep gorges, and thousands of precipitous walls are more numerous than the lofty mountains and steep ridges between them.

  Lingyuan blessed land, mostly for fairy wonderful place, Wing State Orthodox first Xianmen Yu Hua Zong is located here.

  Feilong Peak is one of the nine main peaks of Yu Hua Sect, with a surprising structure at the top. The peak is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, shining brightly in the distance like a blue dragon lying on it, as if flying to the ninth heaven and wandering around.

  On the south side of the cliff, there are two small earth mounds where the previous master of Feilong Peak, Chu Changtian and his wife were buried in this inconspicuous place.

  Chu Yan knelt in front of the grave, his face though slightly childish, but those eyes gave people a sense of vicissitudes. Two roughly made wooden tombstones were inserted into the grave, standing upright in front of him.

  "My late father's tomb is at Chu Changtian. My late mother's tomb is at Wang Qingrou."

  The words were deeply engraved on the wooden board, with faint dry bloodstains still visible. These two tombs were erected by Chu Yan for his parents three years ago. The bitterness of being forgotten after one's death was something Chu Yan deeply understood.

  "Feilong Peak's number one cultivation genius? Yuexia Sect's top ten innate talent disciples? Hehe..."

  Chu Yan's smile was icy to the extreme, and he who had once been surrounded by countless halos had now become a useless waste, having to rely on pretending to be crazy and stupid in order to barely survive.

  "Father, mother, unfilial child..."

  A resolute face full of guilt, three years have passed, and for the past three years, Chu Yan has been enduring humiliation and hardship to avenge his parents. Every day, he has been exhausting himself in bitter training, but unfortunately, his spiritual root was crippled and can no longer regain its former glory.

  Three months, and in three more months it will be June 15th, the time of the once-every-five-years Peak Inner Disciple Assessment. Any disciples who have not reached the third layer of Qi Cultivation will be expelled from the sect and cannot claim to be a Feathered Snow Sect disciple traveling the world.

  The Qi Refining stage is the first realm that cultivators who have just entered the ranks of immortals face. It has a total of thirteen layers, with every four layers forming a stage, divided into early, middle and late stages. The thirteenth layer is the Great Perfection. As for Chu Yan, he can't even reach the third layer now. Since that incident three years ago, Chu Yan lost all his cultivation and couldn't find his qi sensation again. After three years of bitter practice, he still found it difficult to enter the first layer of the Qi Refining stage.

  The former cultivation genius, Fei Long Peak's master Chu Changtian's most proud son, is now being expelled from the peak. What an irony!

  "I will never give up until the last moment..."

  That resolute face was a testament to his determination, and in his heart, he had already made up his mind. The three-year slump had allowed Chu Yan to mature completely, and at just sixteen years old, his mental faculties were no less than those of an adult.

  "This is..."

  The two tombstones on the grave began to tremble, and Chu Yan felt the ground shaking slightly...

  Rumble...

  Suddenly, dark clouds filled the sky, lightning flashed and thunder boomed, the earth began to shake violently, sand and rocks flew everywhere, and cracks spread out like spider webs on the ground. The tomb of Chu Chang Tian was located on the south side of Fei Long Peak's cliff, and the ground under Chu Yan's feet suddenly cracked open. He didn't have time to react, and together with his parents' tomb and the earth beneath him, he fell into a deep abyss.

  "Father and mother, is this your will? If there's a next life, I'll definitely take revenge for you!"

  Chu Yan was in a state of rapid free fall, his eyes filled with deep regret, and at this moment:

  Suddenly in the sky, the void suddenly cracked, and a dark void crack opened with a fierce gale...

  "Hmm..."

  Rumble...

  A black light column suddenly shot out from the middle, vertically slashing down, and heavily struck Chu Yan's body. Chu Yan widened his eyes, instantly losing consciousness. The black light column did not reduce its momentum, carrying Chu Yan's body directly smashing onto the ground, instantly causing rocks and soil to fly everywhere, sand and dust filling the air, a semi-circular deep pit with a diameter of about ten meters appeared on the ground.

  Three days later...

  A waste died, or was struck to death by lightning, and the news has spread throughout Feilong Peak. Originally, the life and death of such an unimportant person would not have attracted so much attention from everyone, but this person was Chu Yan, a former cultivation genius and the son of the previous peak master, and it is inevitable that people will sigh in regret.

  Feilong Peak, Luanyuangang...

  The chaotic graves are located on the west side of Feilong Peak, in a desolate and barren land. Some insignificant disciples who die will be buried here, and the small mounds of earth on the Chaotic Graves are all that remain of those poor disciples' tombs.

  Two young men wearing gray hemp clothes carried a corpse covered in scars into the chaotic burial ground.

  One of the disciples looked gloomy and said, "Big brother, why do we always have to do this job? Thinking about stepping on some brother's arm or leg under our feet makes my heart feel hairy..."

  The young man named Big Bull's face turned somewhat unsightly, "Be content, at least we two are still breathing, I don't know how many unlucky guys were tortured to death by Elder Zhao. Dog Leftovers, remember that we're just Elder Zhao's dogs, never think of yourself as a human being, otherwise we won't be far from death."

  Li Doguang's face changed slightly at this point, and he said: "Big brother, a few days ago that Chu Yan still had breath, I..."

  "Bang..."

  Chen Daniu slapped Li Dogshit's face and said viciously: "You stupid fool, remember this for me. Zhao Changlao said that was a dead man, we buried him as a dead man. How can a dead man have breath? You know Zhao Changlao's methods, if you want to die, don't drag me down with you."

  "I..."

  Li Dogshit covered his swollen face with his hand and nodded. The two of them casually threw the corpse into a pit.

  "Humming"

  In the distance, a small mound was shaking inexplicably, and countless pale blue light spots in the sky were converging towards it.

  "Big... big brother, this mound has stirred up a strange movement of the heavenly and earthly spirits. There must be treasure inside!"

  Li Dog's face suddenly showed a look of extreme joy at this sight.

  "This seems like the place where we buried Chu Yan yesterday? We searched all over him at that time and didn't find anything good on him!"

  Chen Daniu's face showed a look of puzzlement.

  "It's possible we've missed something, don't think too much about it, big brother, let's hurry up and dig, or else others will come and there won't be any share left for us brothers."

  "Good..."

  Wealth and honor are hard to come by, let alone that useless Chu Yan is already a dead man. Under Li Dog's persuasion, Chen Da Niu nodded his head.

  The two men each pulled out a dark iron shovel from their savings bags, which was the tool they used to dig holes and bury corpses.

  Two men were afraid of damaging the treasure and dug very carefully.

  In a moment, the grave was dug open and a corpse that looked like a young boy was unearthed.

  In the sky, there are still faint blue light spots gathering and coming, all of which are piercing into the top of that 'corpse'.

  "Did this guy die with the treasure in his mouth?"

  "The old man pried open his mouth to see what treasure was inside!"

  Chen Daniu threw the iron shovel aside, pulled out a dagger from his waist and stabbed it at the "corpse"'s face, but in the next moment he felt a chill spread throughout his body.

  Suddenly, the corpse's eyes snapped open, and its left hand grasped Chen Daniu's wrist, which was holding the dagger.

  "This..."

  Feeling an overwhelming force that he couldn't shake off at his wrist, Chen Daniu's heart was filled with extreme fear. Chu Yan had only one breath left and had been buried in this place with dense yin energy for three days, how could he still be alive? And the power of this waste... He had just thought of this when a cold voice sounded in his ear:

  "Death..."

  Chu Yan's left hand was instantly enveloped in a pale blue spiritual energy, and the next moment it directly pierced into Chen Daniu's heart, with blood splashing everywhere. The speed was so fast that Chen Daniu didn't even have time to react.

  "Soul... soul power, how could..."

  Chen Daniu's body was thrown aside as Chu Yan walked towards Li Doguang who had been scared stiff and sat on the ground.

  "Ah...... don't come over here, it was Elder Zhao who made us bury you, not me, not me..."

  ……

  A fist wrapped in a pale blue glow crushed his larynx.

  ……

  Feeling the floating pale blue gas-like spiritual power in his dantian, Chu Yan's face, which had been as cold as frost for three years, showed a hint of a smile for the first time.

  For three days, Chu Yan's consciousness was blurry, but he clearly felt his body recovering at an incredible speed, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth constantly gathered towards him. With a surge of excitement, Chu Yan activated the "Xuanzhong Water Technique", and today, at the last moment, he finally broke through to the first layer of the Qi Refining stage.

  The conversation between the two was naturally heard by Chu Yan, who were only at the first layer of Qi Refining stage. However, although Chu Yan also had a cultivation level of only the first layer of Qi Refining stage, his physical strength was comparable to that of a third-layer Qi Refining stage cultivator, and he easily killed the two with a single slash.

  Finally able to cultivate, Qi Refining stage first layer, I've actually re-entered the Qi Refining stage first layer again!

  What shocked Chu Yan even more was that in his dantian, there was actually a somewhat damaged small blue tripod floating around.

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