56: Chapter 56 Lu Shuangxue Reappears, the Key to the Saint's Inheritance

Chu Chen had detected the murderous glint in Tang Shan's eyes long before the woman let him go.

He wasn't surprised by Tang Shan's sneak attack; lightning flickered across Chu Chen's body as he extended a finger.

In an instant, he flicked back the steel needle tainted with black gas.

Swish! The steel needle shot straight into Tang Shan's body. He never expected his sneak attack to be discovered by this kid.

“Ah...!!” Tang Shan screamed in agony as his body began to dissolve into a pool of bloody water.

“Being kind to your enemy is being cruel to yourself. Don't you understand this principle?”

“How did the power behind you let such a naive person like you out? Aren't they afraid you'll die young?”

Chu Chen said to the woman. She was also frightened, having truly felt a fatal danger just now.

If the man before her hadn't acted, she would likely have been the one turned into that pool of blood on the ground.

After regaining her composure, the woman said to Chu Chen, “Thank you, Fellow Daoist. I saved you once, and now you've saved me once, so we're even.”

The woman smiled cutely, seemingly having already forgotten about the sneak attack.

Hearing her words, Chu Chen didn't refute her. Even if she hadn't intervened, dealing with a few people at the Ninth Level of Dragon Transformation Realm would have merely been a light warm-up.

“If you say we're even, then we're even!” After saying this, Chu Chen performed the Shrinking Earth to an Inch divine ability and vanished from the woman's sight in an instant.

Looking at the man who had suddenly disappeared, the woman exclaimed in surprise, “What kind of technique is this? It's so powerful. With such speed, even if I hadn't appeared, those people might not have been able to catch him.”

However, in the void, a figure was silently watching all of this.

“To think the long-lost Shrinking Earth to an Inch divine ability would appear on a youth in the Cave-Heaven Realm. How truly interesting.”

In the blink of an eye, ten days had passed. Chu Chen had traveled from the inner region of the Demonic Mist Forest Sea to the edge of its depths.

After reaching the edge of the depths, Chu Chen occasionally encountered Divine Fire Realm demonic beasts.

Chu Chen remarked with emotion that even at the edge, he was already encountering Divine Fire Realm beasts. If he truly entered the depths, there might even be beasts above the Divine Fire Realm.

There were even rumors that deep beneath the Demonic Mist Forest Sea, a Saint Realm Great Demon from the previous era lay slumbering.

However, rumors were just rumors; no one had ever actually seen this Saint Realm demon.

Over the ten days, the Blood Induction Curse on Chu Chen had completely vanished.

Since the Saint Inheritance hadn't opened yet, he planned to find a quiet place to refine and absorb the Immortal Bridge Realm Blood Induction Curse within his body.

After a day of searching, Chu Chen found an area with few demonic beasts and prepared to refine the Blood Induction Curse.

The outer region of the Demonic Mist Forest Sea!!

At this moment, a youth was rapidly heading toward the depths.

He was the child who had escaped from Shi Village, Shi Yu.

Although Shi Yu was the age of a child, he had the face of a youth.

Now, with a face full of smiles, he whispered to himself, “To think that after this Saint lived a second life against the heavens, I could still obtain the key to another Saint Inheritance.”

“It seems this Saint is indeed a person of great fortune. In this life, I will surely contend for that Supreme Emperor's Throne.”

“But after I obtain this Saint Inheritance, I'll first settle the score with that kid. If not for him, how could this Saint have been forced to use half of my origin to escape when I awakened?”

“This hatred is irreconcilable. Once this Saint finds you, I will pull out your tendons and skin you alive, then refine your soul into a lamp wick to suffer the agony of burning flames every day.”

At this time, disciples from various major forces in the Nine Provinces were flooding into the Demonic Mist Forest Sea like a tide, all for the sake of the Saint Inheritance.

During this period, a major event also occurred in the outer region of the Demonic Mist Forest Sea: a newly established force, the Heavenly Court, had risen.

Led by the Puppet Demon Lord, they had plundered the resources of one-third of the sects in the outer region of the Demonic Mist Forest Sea within ten days.

Now, the reputation of the Heavenly Court was growing. Not only in the inner region, but even those from external forces entering the Demonic Mist Forest Sea had heard of it.

“Junior Sister Lu, congratulations! You've awakened the Ice Snow Saint Body. I believe it won't be long before you become the successor of the Xuanhuang Chamber of Commerce.”

A youth dressed in a blue robe spoke, his face beaming with a smile, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, and his eyes revealing a hint of gentleness and kindness.

He spoke softly to Lu Shuangxue.

“When that time comes, Junior Sister Lu, don't forget about your senior brother!”

However, Lu Shuangxue didn't even look directly at the blue-robed youth, merely saying coldly, “Chen Xuan, are we that close?”

“Even if I become the successor of the Xuanhuang Chamber of Commerce, it has absolutely nothing to do with you.”

“I advise you to put away your schemes. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? I suggest you don't overstep, or don't blame me for being merciless.”

As soon as Lu Shuangxue said this, Chen Xuan's face turned ashen, and the surrounding disciples looked at him with strange expressions.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, he said, “Junior Sister Lu must be joking. I was just kidding, please don't take it seriously.”

Lu Shuangxue didn't respond. She already had someone in her heart and could no longer accommodate anyone else in this world.

Seeing that Lu Shuangxue didn't respond, Chen Xuan fumed inwardly, “Who are you acting like an ice queen for? I'll get you sooner or later.”

“When the time comes, I'll make you sing 'Conquered' for me in bed.” Just as Chen Xuan was lost in his fantasies, Lu Shuangxue's voice drifted over.

“Chen Xuan, go block the demonic beasts ahead. I'll lead the disciples to retreat first.”

At this moment, Chen Xuan felt like ten thousand grass mud horses were galloping through his heart. So, she only called him when she needed a tool, huh?

“Alright, Junior Sister, you go ahead. These mere Early-stage Cave-Heaven Realm beasts—I can kill them with a flick of my finger.”

However, by the time Chen Xuan finished speaking, Lu Shuangxue had already led the disciples toward the depths of the Demonic Mist Forest Sea.

Now, after Chu Chen finished refining the Immortal Bridge Realm Blood Induction Curse, his cultivation level began to skyrocket.

It rose all the way from the Cave-Heaven Third Stage to the Cave-Heaven Ninth Stage, just one step away from the Dragon Transformation Realm.

“Wait, why?! A Xiantai Realm powerhouse who was even one foot into the Saint Realm could only help me reach the Cave-Heaven Ninth Stage?”

Chu Chen said indignantly. He thought it should at least push him to the Dragon Transformation Realm, but it only reached the Cave-Heaven Ninth Stage.

“Chu Xiaozi, be content. This Blood Induction Curse is an external source after all, and given how unique your physique is, reaching the Cave-Heaven Ninth Stage is already quite good,” Ming Yuan explained.

“Now you can insta-kill those in the same realm, and fighting across realms is as easy as eating or drinking. What more do you want?”

Hearing this, Chu Chen felt it made sense. His Demon God Body required a massive amount of resources.

For an Immortal Bridge Realm source to stack him up to the Cave-Heaven Ninth Stage was indeed not bad.

In the next moment, Chu Chen seemed to sense something.

It was a very familiar aura, so he immediately went out to investigate.

A group of cultivators was being targeted by a beast that had ignited its divine fire.

Chu Chen scanned the crowd and suddenly spotted a familiar figure.

Junior Sister Lu!!!