As the Universe Turns - Chapter 1178
Chapter 1178 Re-entering Xishu
The surroundings became very quiet. Only the whistling sound of the wind blew past. The twenty corpses on the ground were controlled to take their lives in an instant.
The cultivators in the distant Ancient Yang City were all dumbfounded, as if they had lost their souls. If Greed had been personally killed by Xiao Chen, what about the twenty-odd black-clothed men around him?
At this moment, everyone felt a chill run down their spines. They had never seen or heard of such a strange killing method. They had never even touched it before, yet they had already died. What was this …
Seeing Xiao Chen walking towards them, many people were shocked and hurriedly retreated into the distance. It seemed that in their eyes, the Lord of Lustless Heaven was even more terrifying than the rumors had said.
“All the losses here today, you guys go find the Heavenless Palace …”
Xiao Chen said indifferently as he walked forward as if nothing had happened. At this moment, it was naturally impossible for the cultivators in Gu Yang City to let him stay and compensate for everything that had been damaged here. It was already a great fortune that he did not injure anyone.
As for the three elders of Gu Yang City, cold sweat had already condensed on their backs. Although the entire city was protected by defensive formations, they had also seen the battle just now. If it was slightly expanded, they would probably have to destroy half of the city.
The three of them looked at the corpse of Greed on the ground and felt a chill down their spines. Greed was one of the Seven Palace Masters of the Heavenless Palace. Needless to say, he didn’t have the slightest bit of strength to resist.
And this Xiao Yichen, according to the rumors, not only did he kill Tai Yinsi, he also killed Greed. This was probably because Heavenless Palace would not let him go no matter what.
At this moment, the three of them exchanged a glance and silently nodded. The three of them understood that no matter what, they must not provoke this person. But after all, Greed had died here. It was probably the Heavenless Palace Hall’s side, so it was a bit troublesome …
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After leaving Gu Yang City, Xiao Chen arrived at an empty plain. Looking into the distance, he saw the hills rise and fall. There was still a long distance from Lustless Heaven. Now that his whereabouts had been completely exposed, he could no longer follow the route he had set before. Otherwise, he would encounter all sorts of troubles.
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen no longer hesitated. He immediately took out the transmission jade slip from his sleeve and sent the last message to Zi Yuan and the others. After that, he immediately crushed the jade slip.
The jade slip was sent by Spiritual Energy. He now suspected that the reason why his whereabouts were exposed was most likely because Heavenless Palace had intercepted Spiritual Energy from his jade slip. From this, he could deduce his location.
This Heavenless Palace’s methods were indeed formidable. No wonder there was once a saying that if someone was targeted by the Heavenless Palace, unless they escaped to the Hill of Illusory Ruins or even the Land of Bone Corrosion, they would not be able to escape.
Although the three Saints of the Heavenless Palace Hall had never come out, their methods were definitely not something ordinary Quasi-Saints could compare to. At this moment, Xiao Chen was even slightly suspicious. Every move he made, the three of them knew everything like the palms of their fingers.
If that’s the case, then it’s really troublesome. Back then, even if father and mother escaped to Acheron Valley, they still couldn’t escape Tai Huazi’s pursuit …
‘”Tai Huazi, Heavenless Palace” Xiao Chen squeezed his finger, and without hesitation, he immediately went to the other side.
Two days later, he arrived at an endless mountain range. Wan was the same as the 100,000 dense forests outside Xianyuan Five Realms. This place was covered in dense forests, and people rarely traveled all year round. In the depths of the mountain range, there were often many taboos. Even Transcendent cultivators would not easily go inside.
“Uh …”
Suddenly, Xiao Chen’s face turned pale. He let out a muffled snort and immediately stopped. However, when he saw the cold sweat dripping down his face, it turned out that he had noticed a faint breakthrough in his cultivation as early as yesterday. It was just to prevent Zi Weisi from discovering his tracks. Therefore, he was doing his best to suppress it all along the way.
“It really isn’t the right time …”
Cold sweat trickled down Xiao Chen’s face as he raised his palms, slowly stabilizing the restless True Qi in his body. This time, he could feel that if he successfully broke through, he would definitely break through to the fifth level of the Undying Concept, the True Return Concept.
In this way, as long as you can smoothly “return to simplicity and truth”, then becoming a Saint will be right in front of you. As long as you succeed in breaking through to the Saint realm, then at that time, Tai Huazi, Zhong Jiuzhen, Cui Hanzi, none of you will be able to escape …
During this period of time, he had experienced many life-and-death battles, and it was inevitable for his cultivation to break through. However, he did not come early or late, but came at this time.
At this moment, more and more cold sweat was gathering on his face, because in the past two days, he had been traveling rapidly, and his dantian was also beginning to show signs of coldness.
If a cultivator encountered a breakthrough in cultivation, it was the result of good fortune. Often, at this time, a profound sect expert would enter the realm of abundant spiritual energy in the sect and cultivate in seclusion. Only after their cultivation broke through would they come out.
If a Loose Immortal wandered far away from the four seas, he would need to find a place with excellent spiritual energy to break through his cultivation. If he was a disciple with a shallow cultivation, he would often need his master or elder to guard him from going astray.
However, regardless of which one it was, they had to not be disturbed. Their cultivation base was no different from normal cultivation. Once they were disturbed at this critical moment, their cultivation base would retreat drastically. In the worst case, they would enter the Fire Demon Realm and even injure their Primordial Spirit.
From ancient times until now, many people had entered the cultivation breakthrough stage, but they had been informed by their enemies. The enemies took the opportunity to attack them. Some had successfully broken through and killed their enemies with one palm, while others had their entire sect annihilated by their enemies.
Right now, Xiao Chen needs to find a place that no one can travel to. Whether he has enough spiritual energy or not doesn’t matter anymore. What’s important is that he can’t be found by the people of Heavenless Palace at this time, especially Zi Weisi whose cultivation is not below him …
Twilight gradually closed in. There was also a gloomy feeling in the mountains. There was a reason for the old saying, “It’s not dark in the mountains.” However, Xiao Chen could no longer care about it. After removing the aura from his body, he immediately began to use his qinggong to go deeper into the mountains.
Another two days passed. These two days, the forest was gloomy, and the deeper they went, the more suffocating they felt.
Many places were still shrouded in poisonous miasma marsh gas. Even if a cultivator entered, their internal organs would be corroded in less than three moments.
In the past two days, Xiao Chen hadn’t stopped searching for a place to hide. However, this afternoon, he suddenly had a bad premonition that the people from the Heavenless Palace might have already entered this endless forest. However, he didn’t know how many people had come from the other side, or how many Quasi-Sage experts were there.
On the third day, Xiao Chen’s expression became uglier and uglier. Cold sweat dripped down his forehead. His dantian was also extremely painful. He could no longer continue forward. He had to find a place to calmly circulate his cultivation. Otherwise, not only would his cultivation level be hopeless, he would also suffer an extremely heavy backlash.
“Rumble!”
Right at this moment, a thunderous sound rang out in the sky. Immediately after, beans-sized raindrops fell down, causing the dense forest, which was already heavy with Yin Qi, to instantly become even darker.
Xiao Chen looked up into the sky. This rain came at the right time. This way, he could completely conceal his aura. Even if the Heavenless Palace brought along spirit beasts, it would not be easy to track him down.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated. He moved forward. When night fell, the thunderstorm still hadn’t stopped. Lightning streaked through the night sky, as if dormant fierce beasts were about to tear the earth apart.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. The cave was pitch black. Only when the lightning cut through the sky could one see Xiao Chen, who was moving his martial arts cross-legged in the cave.
However, it was undoubtedly impossible for Xiao Chen to break through in just a few hours. Therefore, Xiao Chen was not trying to make a breakthrough in his cultivation. Instead, he was trying to find a way to suppress the chaotic zhenqi first.
“Rumble!”
The thunder outside grew louder and louder, and the lightning seemed to tear apart the heavens. The trees were shaken left and right by the strong wind, but at this moment, a cold killing intent quickly rushed towards the cave where Xiao Chen was.
The killing intent wasn’t coming towards him, but rather, those people themselves carried an extremely heavy killing intent. There were about seven or eight people dressed in black. Under this storm, they were getting closer and closer to Xiao Chen’s cave.
“There’s a cave ahead. Let’s go take a look inside.”
The few of them unfolded their movement techniques and arrived outside the cave. They carefully went inside. Lightning flashed in the sky and thunder rang out. Waves of rain swept into the cave.
“Someone is inside! He’s inside …”
“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”
“Ah!”
Miserable cries rang out in the chaos. Xiao Chen sent out several silver needles in succession, killing four people. The remaining three people were killed by the three silver needles shot out of the cave before they could escape.
“Rumble!”
Lightning flashed and thunder rang out. In the blink of an eye, there were already seven more corpses outside the cave. These people were obviously scouts sent by the Heavenless Palace.
Xiao Chen knew that this place was not suitable for him to stay for long. The Heavenless Palace’s tracking methods were indeed formidable. He had barely managed to suppress his True Qi just now. Now, he had to take advantage of the fact that the rest of the Heavenless Palace hadn’t caught up to him and leave this place immediately.
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Three days later, Xiao Chen had already left the mountain range. However, his expression was not good at this moment. It was only because two days ago, he was unable to avoid Zi Weisi’s divine sense and let the other party catch up. Fortunately, he had the Blood Transformation Needle that Shen Jing had given him back then. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to escape successfully.
At this moment, his complexion was getting paler and paler, and the cold sweat on his forehead was condensing more and more. His cultivation was about to break through, so he had to find a quiet place to break through. If he suppressed it again and again, his entire body’s meridians would surely be burned.
“Shit …”
Xiao Chen raised his palm and saw that there were already fiery red lines on his wrist. If he continued to forcefully suppress his True Qi, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Why would the people of the Heavenless Palace be able to find him every time?
At this moment, he finally began to suspect. He looked up into the sky and saw that there was a faint Spiritual Energy flowing above the nine heavenly clouds. At this moment, he seemed to have thought of a countermeasure.
Many places in the Spirit Ruins Realm were too rich in spiritual energy, and if they went to the mortal world where the spiritual energy was thin, then the Heavenless Palace and Zi Weisi’s tracking secret arts would be greatly reduced.
Thinking of this, Xiao Chen turned his head and looked around. This place wasn’t close to West Shu, but it wasn’t far either. In at most two days, he would be able to rush to the Land of Mortal World in West Shu … The place where he knew Leng Baihu back then.