31: Fake Dan Realm! Destroy Xuanwang!
Li Yan, hidden in the shadows, watched as Old Daoist Xuanwang and Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend began to fight.
Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend held a bone-chopping knife, with blood Qi condensed on its blade.
Every slash Senior Martial Uncle made carried a bloody, malevolent Qi, and each strike produced an ear-piercing whoosh through the air.
Old Ghost Xuanwang, not proficient in close-quarters combat, continuously opted to shoot Flying Swords, maintaining distance from Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend.
The cross-eyed old Daoist roared as he fought, "Senior Brother! There must be a thief hiding in the mist, trying to ambush us!"
"We've fallen for the thief's scheme of sowing discord!"
Xuan Sha cursed loudly, "Do you take me for a three-year-old child?"
"There's only one entrance to Broken Sword Valley, where would an outsider come from!"
Saying this, Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend unleashed a powerful, explosive slash.
The terrifying bloody, malevolent Qi shook Old Ghost Xuanwang, sending him flying back hundreds of steps, his internal organs churning with surging blood Qi, and a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.
"Wait, Senior Brother!"
"The one causing trouble must be my Rebellious Disciple, Li Yan."
Xuan Sha threw his head back and laughed, "Ha, you and I saw with our own eyes Li Yan's Soul Lamp extinguish; you still want to use this excuse?"
"I think, Junior Brother, you failed in your sneak attack and are now scared after being counter-killed!"
There was only one entrance, and Li Yan had indeed 'died' from poison just now, so Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend had no doubt this was Old Ghost Xuanwang's excuse.
At this moment, Old Ghost Xuanwang gritted his teeth and glared angrily.
He had suffered some minor internal injuries from Li Yan's sneak attack with the Golden Body Avatar earlier.
Originally, the strength gap between him and his Senior Brother was not significant; both were Peak Ban Xue Realm Cultivators.
But precisely because of the internal injuries Li Yan inflicted, he was at a disadvantage when fighting Xuan Sha.
One must know.
When two Cultivators of the same Realm fight, any slight difference can infinitely magnify the outcome.
Senior Brother Xuan Sha was determined to kill Old Ghost Xuanwang, who gritted his teeth.
"To fight is to die, not to fight is also to die!"
Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend's thick eyebrows raised, and his full beard added a touch of ferocity to his face.
"What? You want to beg for mercy?"
"It's not impossible, Junior Brother, if you just obediently become my Corpse Puppet, I can consider leaving you a complete corpse."
As Xuan Sha laughed heartily, Old Ghost Xuanwang finally understood.
The so-called revenge for his Junior Sister was all an excuse!
Xuan Sha merely wanted an excuse to kill him and refine his corpse!
Decisively, Old Ghost Xuanwang formed hand seals and bit the tip of his tongue!
The old man's sharp teeth bit through his tongue, and blood stained his yellow teeth.
A sickly flush instantly surged onto his aged face, and he let out an indistinct groan from his throat, his voice thick with the stickiness of blood: "Nine Yin Blood Gu, devour my flesh and blood, sacrifice my true spirit!"
The next moment, it was clearly visible to the naked eye.
Beneath the old man's grayish-blue skin, numerous insects wriggled.
The Gu in Old Daoist Xuanwang's body were devouring his Physical Body; he was feeding the insects with his own body!
Li Yan, hidden in the shadows, his eyelids twitching wildly: "This old man, he's refining himself into a Gu! He's a ruthless one!"
To let one's flesh and blood become a Gu, Li Yan couldn't understand what this old man was aiming for.
Cultivating for longevity, but if the price of longevity is to use one's own flesh and blood to build a nest for the Yin insects, then is such longevity still considered longevity?
Watching Old Ghost Xuanwang use his Physical Body to nourish the Yin insects within him, thereby gaining a short-term surge in cultivation.
"This old man's aura is surging wildly; he's probably going to become a False Core Cultivator."
A Cultivator without a Dantian of the Blood Core Realm, but possessing the strength of the Blood Core Realm, is a False Core Cultivator.
With a roar from the old man, Old Daoist Xuanwang gained cultivation that did not belong to him.
He pointed two fingers at Mystic Fiend, and hundreds of Flying Swords rose behind him.
Senior Martial Uncle Mystic Fiend's eyelids twitched wildly, and he shrieked, almost losing his voice.
"Junior Brother, you're crazy!"
"If the Yin Gu devours your body, one wrong step, and your Soul will be Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, never to Reincarnate."
Old Ghost Xuanwang's eyes were bloodshot, and he laughed maniacally, "Fifty years of cultivation scattered, Rebirth as a Mortal? This old man would rather fight to the death, with his Dao extinguished, and turn to ashes!"
"Reincarnate again? Never! Never!!!"
The old man was mad.
He would rather turn to ashes and have his Soul dissipate than be Reincarnated.
Only Old Daoist Xuanwang understood that in the current world, even if one were to Reincarnate ten times, ninety-nine percent of Mortals would still be unable to Cultivate.
To make him give up his current cultivation? He'd rather die!
"I'm going to take a gamble!"
"Get lost, Senior Brother!"
Old Ghost Xuanwang mobilized all his Flying Swords, blasting the brute Xuan Sha away.
Then.
He made a decision that almost everyone found unexpected—he rushed into the depths of Broken Sword Valley.
"Li Yan, you Rebellious Disciple!"
"This old man knows you're still alive, quickly show yourself!"
After blasting away the brute Xuan Sha, Old Ghost Xuanwang no longer feared the poisonous mist in the depths of Broken Sword Valley, but instead charged into it.
He was going to make a big gamble!
If he succeeded, he would Possess Li Yan's Physical Body and return to his youthful appearance.
If he failed, the old man would die, his Dao extinguished, and his Soul would be devoured by the Yin insects.
The next moment, Old Ghost Xuanwang grinned, revealing his sharp teeth stained with blood.
"My child, your master has found you."
He locked onto Li Yan's position and instantly appeared before the figure.
At the cost of devouring flesh, blood, and Soul, he gained the terrifying cultivation of the False Core Realm.
As long as he caught Li Yan!
As long as he caught that little child!
He could Possess Li Yan's youthful Physical Body!
But the next moment, Old Ghost Xuanwang's smile froze on his face.
The figure he caught was not Li Yan's true body, but a Golden Body Avatar.
Before Old Daoist Xuanwang could react, a second shadow silently appeared behind him.
Li Yan formed hand seals with two fingers: "Rise!"
The Golden Body Avatar shot up from the ground, its muscular, expanded golden arm, with a fist the size of a water vat, slammed into the old man's back.
The old man spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, and his entire body was blasted away like a rubber ball, crashing heavily onto the muddy ground.
He struggled to get up painfully, his face filled with disbelief.
"Impossible! I am already at the False Core Realm cultivation, why! Why!?"
Why was this?
With the mist blocking his Divine Sense, even if he were in the Feather Transformation Realm, it wouldn't be effective.
Because the old man only had the strength of the False Core Realm, but his Physical Body was still in the Ban Xue Realm.
False is false after all.
Strength can be temporarily increased by sacrificing flesh, blood, and Soul.
But his Physical Body became even more fragile, even easier to kill than before.
The old man lay on the ground, watching Li Yan's two shadows slowly approach.
Seeing this, the old man looked up and laughed sadly, "Ha... haha."
"A Saint once said, cultivation can be Heaven-Defying, it can change one's fate."
"But this Heavenly Dao is unjust; this old man has cultivated bitterly for fifty years, yet he's not even as good as a child who just entered the sect!"
"Unfair, this is unfa..."
Before Old Daoist Xuanwang could finish speaking, Li Yan controlled the two shadows, forcefully stomping down!
The two Golden Body Avatars lifted their massive legs, and like crushing a cockroach, their huge feet descended.
Old Daoist Xuanwang's Physical Body, hollowed out by the Gu, was directly stomped into a pulp.
Even at this moment, Li Yan was somewhat dazed.
He hadn't expected that through his calculations, despite such a large disparity in strength, he would be able to counter-kill this old man by relying on the mist of Broken Sword Valley.
It was also at this moment.
[Detected a Gu inner core with extremely strong side effects, which can assist the host in Breaking Through the Ban Xue Realm!]