From a martial arts disciple to a god through countless trials and tribulations

Chapter 85 Meeting with old friends
The next day, the sun reached its zenith.

Chen Xuan left the Six Desire Heavens with a refreshed look, as if his whole body was filled with endless energy.

"The second chapter of the Yellow Millet Sutra has been completed."

He walked out of the lakeside courtyard and strolled leisurely, with a cyan-gold glow flowing on his body, as if he was about to ascend to heaven and leave in the next moment.

"My benefactor, are you going to become a god?"

A colorful little bird flew out from its nest in the eaves, and when it noticed the change, it widened its eyes. In the nest, several little birds poked their heads out, and their pairs of eyes as big as green beans stared at Chen Xuan in unison.

"It's still a long way from being a god."

Chen Xuan shook his head and smiled. At this moment, what he had gained from spiritual cultivation was reflecting his present body, and some strange phenomena could no longer be hidden and burst out.

"Wow!"

Wherever his feet passed, rich life energy burst out, and the tender grass turned green and grew wildly.

The Huangliang Sutra belongs to the wood element and controls the power related to life and plants.

"Senior Chen is about to become a great Taoist monk." By the lake, some monks from the Demon Suppression Division saw this scene and were shocked and speculated.

Some of them had seen the scene of monks being promoted to Daozang, which was very similar to what Chen Xuan was experiencing at the moment. The energy between heaven and earth resonated and was aroused because of one person!

At the same time, they were shocked to find that Chen Xuan was able to kill the Cui family's Fire Virtue Master, but he was just a Transcendent Monk! This discovery left them dumbfounded.

"call!"

With every breath Chen Xuan took, wisps of green spiritual energy emerged from the plants and trees around him, and began to converge like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea.

"Something's wrong. There's a lot of noise."

Chen Xuan suddenly frowned, because the grass and trees within a radius of dozens of meters began to shake and fall with him as the center, just like ministers kneeling to the newly enthroned emperor.

Moreover, the scope is expanding and becoming more and more serious.

Soon, the grass and trees within a radius of 100 meters began to boil, and countless strands of green life energy gushed out crazily.

The scene is too grand.

Chen Xuan had once seen two cultivators from the Cui and Lu families who had mastered the second chapter of the true scripture in Peach Blossom Spring. They were not like him at all.

The Taoist Canon [Yellow Liang Wood] has not yet been condensed!

Chen Xuan immediately told Yan Yushu, who had just been promoted to Taoist priest, about his experience through the communication talisman.

Yan Yushu pondered for a moment and replied, "Perhaps this immortal path you are taking is the first time it has appeared in the world, hence this strange phenomenon."

Chen Xuan is now the number one person practicing the Huangliang Sutra. He has sensed the will of heaven and caused a huge movement.

"call!"

Chen Xuan was like a towering tree, rooted in the earth, madly devouring and absorbing the life energy between heaven and earth. Green light filled the air, his physical condition improved, and the strength of his qi and blood increased rapidly.

"No, run away, stay away from Senior Chen." A group of monks from the Demon Suppression Division screamed and fled. They were horrified to find that their vitality was rapidly fading.

Chen Xuan was shocked when he saw this. Not only the plants and trees, but even the life force in the human body began to be devoured?

He quickly sensed his own condition.

"Most of the life energy that has gathered has gathered at the liver point."

A brilliant green ball of light appeared at the liver point in Chen Xuan's body, nurturing something powerful.

The Daozang is about to be born.

"If Daozang sprouts and grows inside my body, won't I turn into an inhuman monster?"

Chen Xuan's scalp was tingling. It was a strange feeling, as if a new "organ" was about to grow in his body. It was chilling.

He was very satisfied with his human body and did not want to become a terrifying monster with three heads, six arms and covered with scales.

But there is no way back. To practice the true scriptures, you can only go one way to the end.

Chen Xuan took the initiative to leave the lakeside and entered an uninhabited forest to continue studying the blue light ball that appeared in his body.

"Wow!"

The green light in the forest surged like a vast green ocean, with such a huge momentum that it covered an area of 300 meters.

The process of Chen Xuan devouring life energy lasted for a full quarter of an hour.

He was the first person to practice the Huangliang Sutra. Although he had only reached the second level of the Daozang realm, he also caused a considerable anomaly, which was very shocking.

"Qi and blood strength increased by 40,000 jin."

Chen Xuan clenched his fists and felt the strength surging in his body. Now the strength of his qi and blood has reached nearly 90,000 pounds.

Even some Daozang realm masters who use the Daozang power in the direction of force can hardly compare with him... Of course, the Daozang power of the human body is varied and cannot be measured by the strength of qi and blood.

"Continue to practice and form the Daozang."

Chen Xuan struck while the iron was hot and prepared to advance to the Daozang realm in one go.

He sat cross-legged on a rock and began to practice in seclusion. Condensing the Taoist scriptures was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Just like Cui and Lu in Peach Blossom Spring, they suddenly condensed the Taoist Canon, but it could only be an incomplete version, which required a lot of time to stabilize.

One day later.

"Crack!"

Chen Xuan made preparations and began to strive for the Daozang realm. Suddenly, a crisp sound of a shell breaking was heard in his body.

A sharp pain came from the liver.

Chen Xuan stimulated the solar energy, allowing the light from the sky to shine through his skin. He looked inside himself and found that a green-gold tree root had pierced his liver. Immediately afterwards, more tree roots grew out and wrapped around his internal organs. The scene was very creepy.

"Wow!"

Finally, a small green-gold tree, with the liver as soil, broke out of the ground and grew rapidly, its leaves scattering bits of crystal light rain.

"A tree is growing inside my body?"

Chen Xuan's scalp tingled and he pressed his fingers on his abdomen. He even had a crazy idea in his mind: to cut open his skin and see if the small tree inside his body really existed.

But in the end, he suppressed this thought and waited patiently for the birth of [Yellow Liang Wood].

The growth period of the Daozang lasts for three days.

The small green-gold tree grew to more than a foot tall, like a fairy tree. Soon, more strange things emerged.

"Wow!"

Beneath the tree, a tiny figure in green clothes appeared, carrying a hoe on its shoulder. Palm-sized and lifelike, it resembled a meticulously carved puppet, bearing a striking resemblance to Chen Xuan. "A person has grown?" Chen Xuan was stunned.

The young farmer in green looked up at the sky, waved his hand, and smiled shyly, as if he was greeting Chen Xuan.

"Yeah!"

"..."

Chen Xuan frowned and murmured, "Does this little thing have its own consciousness?"

He knew that the Daozang of other cultivators all possessed a certain degree of self-awareness.

"call!"

The young farmer in green clothes suddenly yawned, then put down his hoe, stretched, sat down under a tree, and fell into a deep sleep.

A picture full of pastoral atmosphere is frozen at this moment.

Taoist Canon [Yellow Liang Wood], successfully condensed!

"ended."

Chen Xuan pressed on the upper part of his abdomen and did not find anything shaped like a tree or a little man. He still had a normal human body.

But the Taoist [Yellow Millet Wood] is real, exists in the body, and can be seen through the solar Qi.

"The path of cultivation for the Heavenly Fate Pill is very different from that of the Ancient Scripture."

Chen Xuan vaguely felt that the Taoist scriptures he had formed were completely different from those of other cultivators who practiced the true scriptures prefixed by the real names of strange beasts from the mountains and seas. It seemed that they were two completely different paths.

“Now that I have become Daozang, I will be more confident even if I encounter Cui Che and others from the Chu Kingdom who entered the mountains.”

Chen Xuan murmured to himself, he started practicing Taoism many years later than those geniuses, but now he has caught up and the gap is not far.

He stood up from the forest, restrained his breath, and began to return to the Little Stone Lake area.

He looked up at the sky outside the Southern Wilderness. After several days of meditation in the mountains, he opened his eyes to find that the sky outside had changed.

"The rain is coming."

It's supposed to be cold in the chilly spring.

But the sky outside the Southern Wasteland was like a fire, the clouds were all red, like a summer heat wave, blowing into the mountains with the wind.

More than one powerful fire master is wandering outside the Southern Wilderness.

Chen Xuan quickly returned to the Xiaoshi Lake area.

Hu Da, carrying a knife on his back, was sitting at the gate of the yard with a four-tusked baby elephant, sweating profusely from the heat.

"It's so hot, so hot."

The four-tusked little elephant nicknamed "Little Nose" stuck out his tongue and used his two ears as big as palm-leaf fans to fan the air hard to dispel the heat in the air.

Chen Xuan approached and asked, "Have any people from Chu entered the mountains recently?"

The old turtle asked them to receive the outsiders. The two little ghosts, both descendants of the big ghost, had come to the small stone lake and were waiting.

Beads of sweat hung on Hu Da's beard. He crossed his arms and replied, "Yes, yes, eh? It feels so cool."

The four-tusked baby elephant also felt a cool sensation. As Chen Xuan approached, it was as if a towering tree opened its canopy that blocked out the sun and cast down its cool shade like a stream of water.

Tiger Big and the little elephant with four tusks suddenly felt cooler.

"Queyu didn't lie. You really became a great Taoist monk?" Hu Da blinked and stared at Chen Xuan in shock.

Where Chen Xuan stood, the rich power of wood virtue permeated the air. This was an ability only a great Taoist master could possess.

If there were any wood-attributed cultivators from Qinglu Mountain present at this moment, they would probably not be able to contain their excitement and would kneel down and kowtow.

Hu Da never expected that after just half a month of not seeing each other, Chen Xuan had completely left him behind.

"Greetings to the great monk, my benefactor. Congratulations."

The four-tusked little elephant showed joy on its face and was very polite. It bent its two front legs together and was about to kneel down to kowtow to Chen Xuan.

Although the four-tusked little elephant did not cultivate the Wood Virtue and Green Qi, he was the most polite little ghost among the little fox's friends and sent sincere congratulations to Chen Xuan.

"No need to be formal."

Chen Xuan refused and asked Hu Da how to deal with outsiders.

Because the monks from the Demon Suppression Division were passing on messages here, many outsiders from various forces chose to enter the mountains through Xiaoshi Lake.

Hu Da replied, "I don't tolerate humans. If anyone comes forward to talk to me, even if they are a great Taoist monk, I will be fierce."

He refused to lead the way, and the foreign Fire Deity monk couldn't even find Turtle Mountain, Tiger Mountain, and Elephant Mountain.

Monks of the Water Virtue can sense the location of mountain water, monks of the Wood Virtue can listen to the words of plants and trees, but monks of the Fire Virtue are not good at these skills.

At the same time, he told Chen Xuan that several brothers and sisters of the Hu family were guarding several other routes into the mountains, and had severely beaten some human monks who were hoping to get away with it and try to meet the big monster in the Southern Wilderness.

Chen Xuan nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Tiger Master."

The task assigned by the old turtle was very simple, which was to receive outsiders. As for the Fire Virtue monks who practiced the Phoenix Bird Sutra, they could be driven out without negotiation, but other monks did not necessarily need to be treated harshly, as some even had connections with the ghosts in the mountains... The big ghosts were too annoying to receive wave after wave of outsiders, so the task had to fall on the younger generation.

At this moment, a colorful bird flew back from outside and reported the situation loudly:
"A large number of human monks are coming this way."

Half an hour later.

Dozens of figures emerged from the mountain road.

"Huh? An acquaintance?"

Chen Xuan's eyes fixed, and he was surprised to find that there was a figure among this group of people who had appeared in the royal city banquet in Huang Liangmeng's previous life.

Although his appearance and demeanor were slightly different at this moment, he would not be mistaken, because at the banquet, this person belonged to Chen Xuan's "circle".

"Sir, are you Chen Xuan?"

This figure had a very high status. He walked towards Chen Xuan with a dozen people. With a smile on his face, he actually called out Chen Xuan's name directly.

"you know me?"

Chen Xuan asked doubtfully.

This man's surname was Pei, and someone at the banquet called him "Friend Pei Daoyou".

"Yes, I came here just for you." The young man surnamed Pei responded in a low voice, with a mysterious look on his face.

(End of this chapter)