Cube-like Supernatural Powers: Longevity Begins with Qi Refining

Chapter 34: A True Disciple's Senior Brother Achieved Sudden Enlightenment

On a small airship that is sailing.

Xiong Zhou took out a can of pre-mixed, still-cooled orange juice from his storage bag, opened the can, and took a big, satisfying gulp.

The sweet and sour taste made him squint slightly, and the terrible mood he had been in due to being constantly chased improved considerably.

"There are only a few cases left. We don't know how long this grand competition will last, so we need to drink it sparingly."

"Gurgle..."

"ha......"

After casually fiddling with the jar in his hand and putting it away, Xiong Zhou turned his gaze to the back of the small flying boat.

A semi-transparent, blood-red light was relentlessly chasing the tail of the small airship, carrying a fierce and unyielding momentum.

Xiong Zhou grumbled sullenly, "They've been chasing me for days and nights, and they still won't give up. Isn't that a bit too much?"

Having determined the course, he walked to the stern of the ship, sat on a wooden chair, and stared at the relentlessly pursuing, translucent, blood-red phantom.

With a hint of resentment, Xiong Zhou said, "It was wrong of you to possess my body in the first place."

"You insisted on trying to take the path of the saints, not only trying to devour my authority but also trying to covet Senior Sister Baiyu's power projection. You deserved to be struck by lightning."

"He started with the path of Qi cultivation, but my father hung him up and crushed him with a single slap, also trying to devour my bloodline."

Xiong Zhou sighed and continued, "Can't you be reasonable for once?"

"I'm not the only one who's come to the Azure Sky Realm, so why do they insist on possessing my body?"

Xiong Zhou's expression was so sincere and genuine, as if he were truly concerned for this ancient, remnant soul.

It would have been better if Xiong Zhou hadn't spoken, because the translucent blood-red phantom's face became even more ferocious upon hearing Xiong Zhou's words.

"I command you!"

"Stop right now and give me everything you have!"

The translucent, blood-red phantom roared, offering no response to Xiong Zhou, only venting its rage and twisted emotions.

The roar grew louder and louder, and the speed of the chase increased rapidly. Suddenly, it surged forward a great distance, startling Xiong Zhou so much that he jumped back half a step and quickly increased the speed of the small flying boat.

In an instant, ripples spread across the void for hundreds of miles around. The clouds that were drifting leisurely beneath the flying boat were shattered and turned into nothingness. The shield that the flying boat had raised also began to shake violently.

Why are you yelling so loudly?

"Impotent rage?"

Xiong Zhou pursed his lips and muttered something under his breath.

The next instant, the translucent blood-red phantom twisted and contorted, like a raging lion roaring again and again.

At this moment, not only the clouds in the sky were affected, but even some objects on the ground felt the obvious impact. Some fragile and low-hardness objects cracked and disintegrated into fragments out of thin air.

In an instant, all the disciples of Tai Li Zhen Chuan within a radius of a hundred miles turned their gaze to the sky and locked onto the direction of the small flying boat's advance.

At the same time, the identity of the ancient remnant soul, along with corresponding clues, was reflected in the eyes of these Tai Li disciples who were gazing at the sky through characters formed from various objects.

An island in the middle of a small lake.

The young man, dressed in a tight-fitting outfit, sitting cross-legged, holding a long-handled sword, and meditating, opened his eyes.

He looked at the tremors that were already spreading in the distance, and gently pulled on the hilt of his longsword, revealing a sliver of its blade.

"Splash..."

Strands of eerie blue blade light floated silently in the air, slashing towards the void, forming a vast network that covered the sky above the lake.

"Thump!"

"bump!"

Two muffled collisions rang out, their shockwaves reverberating for miles around. The blue blade light then cleaved the waves, transforming them into gentle breezes that stirred up ripples on the lake.

The young man in tight-fitting clothes pushed the longsword back into its sheath, his eyes lighting up.

He muttered to himself, "It's roughly the aftershock intensity of an attack from the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining."

"However, the profound mystery contained in the tremor has surpassed that of most true disciples who have entered the Azure Sky Realm. Perhaps the level of their cultivation techniques and the depth of their realm expansion are already close to those of the two newly promoted true disciples this year."

"An ancient remnant soul that fell from the ancient times and has been resurrected in the present era from the corpses of others..."

He slowly stood up, gazing at the small airship falling from the sky, his pupils radiating an even brighter light.

With a push of his feet, his whole body transformed into a stream of dark blue light, rushing towards the direction where the small flying boat had crashed.

In just a few snaps of his fingers, a semi-transparent, blood-red phantom appeared before his eyes, bringing a hint of excitement to the face of the young man dressed in a tight-fitting outfit.

"My arduous practice over the past ten years is now in need of a sufficiently strong opponent to validate what I have learned."

"I am Yu Changqing, and I ranked third in the previous Qi Refining Level 1 True Disciple ranking."

Please advise.

The blade clashed and exploded, changing the color of the sky and earth.

The sun, high in the sky, was covered by thick dark clouds, and no light could be seen for miles around. Everything was covered in a silvery frost.

Suddenly, a silvery-blue full moon slowly rose, replacing the sun, scattering a majestic and solemn aura, and stirring the death energy suspended between heaven and earth.

A blade of light, almost black with a deep blue hue, descended from the sky, carrying the intent of judgment, falling straight down.

"Another unexpected turn of events!"

"I'm not looking for you right now, get lost!"

The translucent, blood-red phantom roared loudly, its hideous hand, stained with black blood, reaching out to grab the blade light falling from the sky.

"Bang... Ring... Ring..."

Yu Changqing's sword light, imbued with the intent of judgment, shattered, transforming into fragments of shimmering blue light on the palm covered in black blood, scattering into the void.

Upon seeing this, Yu Changqing's expression became even more excited.

He stepped into the void, ascending straight to the heavens, his longsword seemingly in harmony with heaven and earth, reflecting the deep blue full moon behind him.

The blade of the Mo Dao pointed directly at the translucent blood-red phantom. As the full moon turned, the even more terrifying blade light subsided, covering the deathly aura within a ten-mile radius, transforming into a blade of light filled with tranquil annihilation, carrying the vast intent of a judgment before death.

"The number of geniuses in the world is as numerous as carp crossing a river, but those who can overcome the adversity of the first level of Qi Refining to defeat the fourth level of Qi Refining are extremely rare..."

"Today, I will surely succeed!"

Within a radius of a hundred miles, one could see the extremely concentrated blade light falling from the sky.

The translucent, blood-red phantom sensed the laws of heaven and earth on the dark blue blade light and saw the almost all-consuming will within it. Its expression changed, and it could no longer care about Xiong Zhou, who had suddenly disappeared without a trace after the small flying boat was destroyed.

The ancient remnant soul raised its hand, and black blood surged from the depths of the earth, evolving into a blood sea phenomenon.

"Variable, death!"

Drops of black blood transformed into sword light, following some kind of law or principle of heaven and earth, slashing towards the blade light in the sky.

Without the slightest sound or the lingering aftershocks of the clash of laws, in a fleeting instant, the azure crescent moon blade and the sword light formed from dark blood vanished simultaneously.

This exchange of attacks was surprisingly evenly matched.

The translucent, blood-red phantom took a step back, looking at the figure in the sky, a look of disbelief appearing in its blood-red pupils.

He growled, "Impossible! This is impossible! How can a mere ant resist my power!"

"Why can't you and that variable with dog demon bloodline respect me properly and just die peacefully?!"

Yu Changqing's face was slightly pale, but his eyes gleamed with a sharp light, as if he had realized something.

He murmured softly, "Since entering the realm of subtlety, I have cultivated for over a decade and have reached the pinnacle of the path of Qi cultivation."

"Today, I have seen the gaps in the laws of heaven and earth... I have seen the shortcomings in the methods of those who came before me... and I have gained enlightenment about myself."

"Ancient Soul, behold this sword."

The deep blue full moon set in the sky.

It transformed into an illusion, merging into the blade of the Mo Dao, becoming a wisp of inscription on it, carving out a unique path forward that was no longer bound by constraints.

That judgment, imbued with the principles of heaven and earth, expands into a thread of laws unique to each individual. Even if it is not even a prototype, even if it is extremely incomplete, its height, which is almost on par with the laws of the Azure Sky Realm that have existed for hundreds of millions of years, is so dazzling and so eye-catching.

The translucent, blood-red phantom slowly raised its head, looking at the manifested laws that were level with heaven and earth and belonged only to the individual, its face filled with disbelief, as if it had been frightened.

In his hazy recollection, he recalled a figure whose entire body was covered in golden Dao patterns and whose aura shook the heavens and earth, which overlapped with the figure of this extraterrestrial variable.

"Impossible... How could someone at the first level of Qi Refining comprehend such principles?!"

"That's impossible, he's already dead... The last person to reach such a level in this realm is already dead!"

"You are all traitors, you must all die...you must all die!"

A translucent, blood-red phantom roared loudly.

This ancient remnant soul erupted, and howling blood light gathered from the void, incredibly thick, chaotic, evil, and ominous.

A golden Dao pattern, radiating a blood-red light, manifested, transforming into a blurry, rotating disc that swung upwards, shattering the void.

Heaven and earth fell silent.

In this silence, a soft sigh echoed.

"My will is the will of Heaven, I examine the vastness of Heaven and Earth, and I alone judge the life and death of all living beings."

The blade's edge surged!

Within a ten-mile radius of the Azure Sky Realm, the laws of nature began to tremble, and the dark blue blade light merged into the heavens and earth.

Its movement signifies the movement of the laws and principles within a ten-mile radius.

Its downward slash is the embodiment of the laws and principles within a ten-mile radius, a slash of the blade.

"Whoosh..."

A sound like flowing water arose, and a phantom river, suspended in a ghostly blue light, flowed silently across the land, filled with the resolute judgment and the tranquility of death.

After a few breaths, this terrifying phenomenon gradually dissipated.

"Bang......"

On the ground, a block of earth fell.

Xiong Zhou emerged from a square hole in the ground, looking at the environment where the profound laws of magic remained, and at the semi-transparent blood-red phantom that had disappeared at the same time, as well as Senior Brother Yu Changqing, he clicked his tongue in amazement.

He muttered to himself, "This is the true transmission of the third-ranked student from last year... Isn't that amazing?"

"After exchanging a single blow with that ancient remnant soul, he instantly gained enlightenment, broke through the [Lv.5] bottleneck, and advanced to [Lv.6]."

"This is absolutely outrageous, it's outrageous to the extreme."

Xiong Zhou already had a rather outlandish speculation and imagination about those guys who ranked at the top of the Tai Li True Disciple lineage.

As it turned out, reality played a trick on us. Reality is not a fictional story, and some things probably won't unfold according to normal logic.

For example, the comprehension of certain prodigies.

This isn't a question of whether it was on or off... it was never turned off at all!

After sighing for a while, Xiong Zhou looked back in the direction he had come from, a slight tremor rising in his heart.

The power from his bloodline began to remind him.

That resurrected ancient remnant soul is not yet dead.

Xiong Zhou instinctively retorted, "No way?"

"Even a senior disciple who never closed the gates, and whose teachings are extremely effective at restraining remnant souls, couldn't take this ancient remnant soul away?"

Xiong Zhou looked rather grim; he seemed to have underestimated the difficulty of the True Disciple Ranking Mission.

"Too......"

"Senior Sister Baiyu cast a thought and launched a cross-realm attack, but she did not completely kill this ancient remnant soul."

"My dad hung it up and crushed it with one slap, but he couldn't kill it."

"It's highly unlikely that we can rely on the power of a senior disciple who is inclined towards the death penalty and whose cultivation level is at the first stage of Qi Refining."

Xiong Zhou took a module out of his storage bag and placed it on the wreckage of the crashed small airship.

"Click...click..."

The sounds of mechanical dismantling and reconstruction echoed, and in just a few breaths, the small airship, which had been reduced to wreckage, was transformed into something brand new.

After Xiong Zhou entered the flying boat, it immediately set sail and flew in another direction.

At the same time, he elevates his own inspiration, constantly aligning himself with heaven and earth through a small amount of power, and interacting with the spirituality of this world.

"If we can't handle the senior disciple who ranked third in the previous competition, then we'll rely on the senior disciple who ranked second, or even first."

"I refuse to believe that after being cut off so many times, this ancient remnant soul really hasn't suffered any loss."

In the process of communicating with these spiritual entities of heaven and earth, the knowledge inherited from the cunning bloodline is once again digested at a relatively fast pace.

In particular, the knowledge and skills that help people avoid calamities, rely on their own luck and the blessings of heaven and earth, and seek a way to survive, are truly integrated into their own foundation through continuous application.

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Beyond the Azure Sky Realm lies the Sea of ​​Void.

Nangong Qi no longer dwells on this extraterrestrial world.

He looked at this place, which he also found strange and ominous, and his face was filled with deep fear.

Nangong Qi ground his dragon teeth. "What exactly is Tai Li thinking?"

"This strange and ominous thing was also brought back from the Void Sea, and they even let those little guys at the first level of Qi Refining go in for trials?"

Holding a bronze bell, the senior brother, whose aura was ethereal, glanced at the dragon.

He said softly, "Isn't this working very well?"

"Now, a true disciple has emerged who has broken through the Dao stage. After this True Disciple Competition ends, there will likely be many more true disciples who can break through this bottleneck."

"The elder's judgment was correct, and the script we were waiting for was also deduced correctly."

Nangong Qi's expression was somewhat unnatural, filled with deep envy.

He sighed, "To reach such a level of understanding at just the first stage of Qi Refining, as long as one doesn't make any mistakes in the future, there's hope for attaining immortality..."

"The number of people who achieve immortality and attain enlightenment in Tai Li may experience an explosive growth in the future."