72: Opening the divine aperture, a sucker

Three days later.

The divine essence pill was complete.

Four divine essence pills flew out from the eight trigrams furnace.

Jiang Yunfan was overjoyed, and he quickly took out a jade bottle to store the divine essence pills inside.

"Thank you, Senior."

"Refining these Medicinal Pills for you consumed a lot of my magic power. I need to go into a deep sleep for a while. Don't bother me unless it's important."

The Bagua Furnace Artifact Spirit went into a deep sleep.

Jiang Yunfan planned to go into seclusion to open his divine aperture. He wanted to see how Heaven-Defying he would become after opening it. He sent a message to Luo Qing, "Luo Qing, I'm going into seclusion to Cultivate. If anyone comes looking for me, tell them to wait."

"Yes, Pavilion Master."

Jiang Yunfan entered his room to Cultivate, setting up a Barrier.

He picked up the jade bottle and poured out a divine essence pill. A fragrant medicinal scent wafted towards him, making him feel refreshed and invigorated.

He swallowed the divine essence pill in one gulp.

The medicinal power of the divine essence pill nourished his Soul, making his Soul continuously grow stronger, and his Spiritual Sense also became more powerful.

After completely absorbing the medicinal power of the divine essence pill, his Soul solidified, almost like a Primordial Spirit, but it couldn't compare to a Primordial Spirit; it was too fragile.

Jiang Yunfan was a little nervous, afraid that something unexpected would happen when opening his divine aperture. If something did happen, he would die.

"System, give me information about opening my divine aperture. I want to know if there will be any accidents when I open it."

"[Today's Intelligence (Orange): Host opens divine aperture. The divine aperture is successfully opened, but the Soul suffers severe damage and is on the verge of collapsing. You completely fall unconscious until your Soul collapses and your Dao disappears.]"

I died.

Jiang Yunfan was startled.

No.

There must be a solution.

He had already successfully opened his divine aperture, just one last step away.

"System, how can I avoid my Dao disappearing and dying?"

"[Today's Intelligence (Orange): The divine essence pill can repair the Soul. The Host can hold a divine essence pill in his mouth beforehand.]"

Knowing there was a solution, Jiang Yunfan breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he had extra divine essence pills; otherwise, rashly opening his divine aperture would have been a dead end.

Jiang Yunfan resolutely proceeded to open his divine aperture. He used his Spiritual Sense to impact the divine aperture on his Soul. A pain that penetrated his Soul instantly twisted his face.

The pain in his Soul far exceeded physical pain.

Jiang Yunfan took out a hundred-year thunder-struck wood and held it in his hand. He injected True Essence, and the thunder-struck wood instantly drew in the power of lightning to numb his body. He wanted to use the lightning to numb his body to alleviate the pain.

He impacted the divine aperture again.

Ah!

A scream escaped him.

Fortunately, Jiang Yunfan had set up a Barrier in advance; otherwise, the scream would have echoed throughout Helian City.

The lightning numbness was useless; the pain in his Soul was an inhuman pain.

Jiang Yunfan had an impulse to give up.

But to become stronger, he had to endure the pain.

Ah!

Another shrill scream came out.

Jiang Yunfan was in so much pain that he slammed his head hard against the ground, shattering the stone slab. Even with his head bleeding, he didn't stop hitting it.

Screams followed one after another.

The divine aperture loosened. Just as Jiang Yunfan was about to open his divine aperture, he took out a divine essence pill and held it in his mouth. He then charged at the divine aperture in one go.

The divine aperture shattered.

His Soul suffered severe damage. Jiang Yunfan instinctively swallowed the divine essence pill in his mouth and immediately fell into a coma.

The opening of the divine aperture caused a celestial phenomenon.

Above the Void Realm of Helian City, winds and clouds surged, lightning roared, followed by the sound of a conch shell, and purple Qi enveloped Helian City.

Such a phenomenon startled everyone in Helian City. One by one, they looked up at the phenomenon in the Void Realm.

"What kind of phenomenon is this?"

"Purple Qi coming from the East, this is a Saint phenomenon."

"The Great Conch, this is a legendary Great Emperor phenomenon."

"It's too strange."

No one knew what caused the phenomenon.

Inside Tianji Pavilion.

Jiang Yunfan was still in a coma. The medicinal power of the divine essence pill was slowly repairing his damaged Soul.

Opening the divine aperture was a certain death situation.

Fortunately, Jiang Yunfan had made preparations in advance by refining the divine essence pill, and he also knew about his certain death from the System, which allowed him to hold the divine essence pill in his mouth beforehand, turning death into life.

These conditions were all indispensable.

Missing even one would have led to a dead end.

Although Jiang Yunfan was in a coma, his Soul seemed to merge with the entire world. He had no trace of Qi, just like a dead person.

The external phenomenon had disappeared.

There were various theories, becoming the talk of countless people... "Sword Demon, you can't escape."

Several Heaven and Man Realm Cultivation Level experts surrounded the red-haired Sword Demon, confining him with their Domain.

The Sword Demon was infamous, having killed countless people and slaughtered an entire city.

This matter alarmed the Big Dipper Sacred Land, which issued a bounty. People from various Sects sent experts to hunt down the Sword Demon.

The Sword Demon's expression was cold, without any emotional fluctuations. "Escape? You are not worthy to make me escape. You are only worthy of becoming ghosts under my sword."

He unleashed a sword with extremely heavy killing Qi. With one sweep, terrifying Sword Qi broke through the Domain that confined him. They were all sent flying by the Sword Qi, their expressions horrified. The Sword Demon was only at the Middle Stage of the Heaven and Man Realm; how could he be so terrifying!

"Go."

They felt fear and decisively fled, but they were trapped by the Sword Demon's killing Domain. The killing Qi eroded their minds, and they all lost control of themselves.

"Kill!"

They fell into a killing frenzy and began to fight among themselves.

The sword in the Sword Demon's hand suddenly flew out, piercing through their bodies and killing them. Their Primordial Spirits were devoured by this sword, showing that it was an extremely terrifying demonic sword.

The Sword Demon retrieved his demonic sword and left.

Soon after.

Two people arrived and discovered the killed Sect Disciples.

"Senior Brother, look, it's Junior Brother Zhao."

"He must have been killed by the Sword Demon. This Sword Demon's strength is even stronger than rumored."

"Senior Brother is the Big Dipper Sacred Land's first true Disciple; he will definitely be able to kill the Sword Demon."

Being praised like this, Chu Feng felt a little proud.

Chang Xi said, "Senior Brother, I heard that there's a Heavenly Secret Master in Helian City who possesses Divine Calculation and Wonderful Prediction. Why don't we go to him to predict the Sword Demon's whereabouts?"

Chu Feng said, "I've also heard of him. Rumor has it that he is a Disciple of the Tianji Sect and should have some skill. But he charges one million Spirit Stones for each prediction. It's not worth it for a single piece of information."

"We'll search ourselves. If we really can't find him, it won't be too late to go to the Heavenly Secret Master to predict the Sword Demon's whereabouts."

The two left to search for the Sword Demon.

Not just them, but experts from various Sects were also searching for the Sword Demon.

The bounty issued by the Big Dipper Sacred Land was extremely generous: five million Low-Grade Spirit Stones and a Medium Grade Spiritual Artifact for whoever killed the Sword Demon.

Not only could they receive generous rewards, but they could also make a name for themselves.

Purple Cloud Mountain.

Many people gathered here.

The Yun Family members all had cold expressions.

Yun Qianxi angrily said, "That damned Heavenly Secret Master, how dare he leak the Secret Realm's secret!"

"Family Head, send people to Helian City to kill the Heavenly Secret Master and retrieve that one hundred million spirit stones."

Yun Dongchen's face was gloomy. "The Heavenly Secret Master is known for his Divine Calculation and Wonderful Prediction; he's not famous for nothing. Didn't you try to kill him before, and he escaped? Before you could send people to find him, he slipped away."

"Our Yun Family can only endure this loss for now and find an Opportunity to get it back later."

Elder Yun Luo said in a deep voice, "Family Head, why don't we just kill all these people and let our Yun Family monopolize the Secret Realm?"

Everyone else was surprised, not expecting Elder Yun Luo to be so ruthless, but this suggestion was indeed good.

Everyone looked at the Family Head, awaiting his decision.

Although Yun Dongchen also wanted to monopolize the Secret Realm, he wasn't blinded by desire. "The Heavenly Secret Master sold this Secret Realm to who knows how many people. What if we kill these people! More will come. These people are Disciples of Sects and children of prominent families. Killing them is easy, but once the information leaks, our Yun Family will become the target of public criticism."

The Yun Family members also sobered up.

"Did you buy the Secret Realm Opportunity from the Heavenly Secret Master?"

"Are you too!"

"That's right, I spent one million Spirit Stones to get this Opportunity. I thought only I knew about it, but I didn't expect him to sell this Opportunity to so many people. It's despicable."

"I also spent one million Spirit Stones. I actually think that one million was well spent. After all, we knew about the Secret Realm a step ahead of others. I heard there's a big sucker who spent one hundred million spirit stones at the Heavenly Secret Master's place to buy a Secret Realm Opportunity. It should be this one. Compared to that big sucker, we only spent one million to get this Opportunity. Isn't that a huge profit?"

"Really, who is this big sucker?"

Yun Qianxi's face turned ashen when he heard their conversation. He had actually become the 'big sucker' in their mouths, and his hatred for the Heavenly Secret Master intensified.

The faces of the Yun Family members also became incredibly grim.