Forge your destiny into a sword, slash your soul and ascend to immortality

Chapter 98: Ying Family Temple and Chongxuan's Cannon
The first two rounds of battles ended successfully. All the [Lingjizi] from the major Dharma lineages performed well regardless of winning or losing, and demonstrated their talents and abilities to the fullest.

For the two overseers watching from the sidelines, this was enough to determine the course of the subsequent battle.

Huang Yan then spoke:
"In this round of the Douyu competition, the difference in strength is quite clear."

"If my estimate is correct, the [Ying Clan], [Zhongxuan Palace], [Zaowangdian], and [Zhushan Sect] should be the top four."

"Ying's Zihe is the current head chef of the Kitchen God's Restaurant. His Spiritual Abilities are far superior, and his strength is unparalleled. This is undisputed."

"As for the [Zhongxuan Palace] and [Zhushan Sect], they've become more and more creative. Their progress has become more and more obvious over the years. The more I play, the more I understand."

"This year's Lingjizi from Chunyangxu is quite outstanding and should be able to secure fifth place."

"Among the remaining three sects, Cihangzhai and Jingyun Shrine are not weak in terms of cultivation, but compared to the others, their combat power is not outstanding, so they should be ranked sixth and seventh."

"The Yuhua Sect is the weakest and will definitely be eliminated at the bottom."

"In recent years, the development of the Yuhua Sect has been very weak. I'm afraid it might really fall in rank and completely fall out of the Twelve Dharma Lineages of the Academy."

The internal circulation within the Divine Dynasty is extremely serious. Even if there are only twelve Dharma lineages, once they become weak, there will be a crisis of survival.

I only heard the fisherman say:
"I think that boy wielding a sword is pretty good. He has quite the demeanor of Chun Yangzi from the past."

"The [Ying Futu Realm] has been in decline for so many years. Apart from the [Ying Clan], which can still maintain a certain level, the core disciples of other lineages are mostly just filling in the numbers."

"You have achieved enlightenment for too short a time. You haven't witnessed the scenes of the struggles between [Ying Jiazi], [Yan Fuzi], and [Chun Yangzi]. That was much more exciting than what is happening now."

"A bunch of lower-rank three-grade beasts, beheading an untitled fourth-grade [Star Picker] like a chicken."

"If we use our trump cards, even the top three cultivators can give it a try. Those beasts are the ones who really have a chance to step out of the realm and fish in the void."

"However, since the last catastrophe, [Chun Yang Heaven] was destroyed, [Yambuti] collapsed, the great cultivators were either dead or gone, and [Yingfutu Realm] lost two of its three legs. There will be no such grand event again!"

The fisherman sighed a few times, which was rare, and Huang Yan, who was standing beside him, was also quite surprised.

Much of the past of [Yingfutu Realm] was buried in the dust of history, and even he was unaware of it. However, the fisherman in front of him was a living fossil who had witnessed everything.

Huang Yan watched the fisherman talking excitedly and asked a question tentatively:
"Senior, this generation's Ying family scion Ying Hao has forged his destiny with the third-grade [Spiritual Momentum]. His foundation is so profound that even if I were to fight him, I wouldn't be sure of winning."

"Isn't he worthy of the title of 'Ying Family Son'?"

The fisherman shook his head and said:
"It's not as easy as you think!"

"The ancestors of the Ying family established the foundation of the family with the Ying Family Temple."

"That temple connects and suppresses five top-level caves, and supports tens of billions of people."

"Only the most gifted among these 10 billion people are worthy of leaving the [Ying Family Temple] and inheriting the Ying family's [Human Emperor] lineage in this world."

"This son of the Ying family in front of me is naturally extremely talented. His innate [Destiny] is perfect, and he has obtained the number of nine taels and nine qian. When [Destiny] was established, he also carried the [Heaven Burning] Destiny and accepted the third-grade heretic [Yan Mo Luo]. Before reaching the third grade, there should be no bottleneck in his cultivation, and he can push forward smoothly all the way."

"However, to truly earn the title of [Ying Family Son], one is still a little short of the required skills."

"[Ying Futu Realm] has been a dominant force for too long. Without challenges and tempering, even someone as powerful as Ying's son may not be able to fully realize his true potential."

"Without the competition between Chun Yangzi and Yan Fuzi, it's like fine steel missing a single tempering step. The resulting sword will naturally lack a bit of color."

What the fisherman picks up effortlessly are all secrets that cannot be heard anywhere else.

……

[Fighting Victory] Within the illusion, the third round of fighting is in full swing.

In this round, Jing Qian faced Lingjizi from the Zhushan Sect, the girl with hot clothes and bright eyes.

The girl had a great figure. When she smiled and pinched her waist while greeting Jing Qian, Jing Qian's sword-drawing speed was almost affected.

It was not until a strand of sword tore the girl's pretty face apart and a dense swarm of small centipedes emerged from the wound that Jing Qian gathered his mind and began to fight to the death with the opponent.

However, the insect girl's fighting style was extremely strange, making it difficult for him to grasp it for a while.

The insect girl allowed Jing Qian's sword light to tear her body apart at will. She didn't care at all about the sword light wandering in her body, and she also ignored the many insects that were chopped into pieces and died.

Although she was seriously injured, her life was not affected at all.

Her magical powers, spiritual consciousness, and spirit have long been integrated with the insects. As long as all the insects in the sky are not completely dead, she can survive!
Jing Qian slashed for a long time, but the girl didn't fight back, but he had already focused his attention to the fullest.

The [Zhushan Sect] is best at using poisons, and Jing Qian is extremely careful about this. He uses his magic power to eliminate all physical objects that can be touched, and even his vitality is no longer obtained from the outside world. Instead, he relies on the supply of the [Virtual Realm] and produces and sells it himself.

Although it is impossible to kill so many tiny insects at once, we are safe for the time being.

He was not afraid of the other party's tough approach, but he could not accept his own failure.

At this moment, the girl actually spoke:

"This little brother from Chunyangxu, please be gentle."

"I had just been promoted to [Extended Life] when Grandma pulled me in. I didn't have time to raise new insects."

"These treasures are all from my fortune accumulated during my time at [Destiny] and [Dragon Elephant]. They are not worth the money you have destroyed."

"I am the newly promoted Lingjizi of the Zhushan Sect, and was given the name Yuzhu by the sect. My cultivation is too weak, and there are no suitable insects in this Zhuling Cave Heaven. Even if I were given another hundred years, it would be useless."

"Your swordsmanship is so sharp, I'm naturally no match for you."

"However, I brought a poison from the sect, and I'd like to give it to you for your taste."

"If you can hold on, I'll lose this round."

"If I have managed to poison you by chance, please forgive me. Don't bother me when you leave the cave in the future."

"It's embarrassing!"

This was the first time Jing Qian had seen someone using poison so openly, but he had already been extremely vigilant.

[Sumeru Ghost Skin] was at full firepower, wrapping itself in magic power. He even drew out a [Life Fire] from the [Life Stove], stuck it on the ghost skin and burned it, blocking anything that could interact with him.

But at this moment, a strange nursery rhyme was sung by the raindrops:

"Squeaky, squeaky, the wooden horse is growing teeth."

"Chewin' on Grandma's silver hair."

"Grandma turned the brass key and opened the rag doll where I was buried."

"A bee is pecking at my eye candy!"

"The snake bit the tip of my nose and it itches!"

"Toad licked my earlobe!"

"The scorpion stung my tongue and it bled!"

"The centipede is drilling into my heart!"

……

This ballad was sung very beautifully by the gentle voice of the raindrops.

If you ignore the meaning of the lyrics, it's probably best sung to lull children to sleep.

But Jing Qian noticed something was wrong the moment the song started!
A trace of fierce poison suddenly appeared in his body, rapidly destroying his organs and tissues, quickly eliminating his vitality.

He couldn't help but sit down cross-legged and began to try every possible way to drive away this horrible poison.

Jing Qian underestimated the Bamboo Mountain Sect. How could a top-tier sect centered around poison be so weak as to use physical poisons to deal with high-level cultivators?
The nursery rhyme sung by Yuzhu is a poison of sound waves, a poison of vibrations, but also a poison of emotions and cause and effect.

But in the final analysis, this is a memetic poison of the [Star-Picking] level.

Anyone who hears, sees, touches, imagines, recalls, or understands this nursery rhyme will be addicted!
If one wants to spread this poison, one doesn't even need the source of the poison. One just needs to describe it to the other person so that they know of the existence of the poison and they will be poisoned.

With Jing Qian's cultivation level, he had no way to avoid this fierce poison and could only endure it.

However, this is a top-tier fourth-grade poison. How could a mere [Dragon Elephant] resist it?
His body quickly withered and he was on the verge of death!

At this moment, a piece of flesh in his heart collapsed, and the majestic life force burst out, actually pulling his almost dead body back!
It only took a moment for his complexion to change from grayish blue to rosy red!
But Yuzhu's chanting continued, and the effect of the poison continued. Jingqian's body, which had just recovered, was about to die again in the blink of an eye.

The second granulation tissue continued to disintegrate, bringing the dead Jingqian back to life.

But he just came back to life and died again, very cleanly!
The third round of [Fighting to Win] turned into a very strange tug-of-war.

Jing Qian lived and died, lived and died, and he always held on to his last breath!

Yuzhu on the opposite side was also a little confused. In the first two rounds of fighting, both the powerful overhauls of [Jingyun Shrine] and [Yuhuamen] were killed by the sound of her singing.

Who would have thought that in the third round, this most stubborn and monotonous swordsman would actually play some fancy tricks on her.

Casting the poisonous [Star Picking] across levels is not without cost, and Yuzhu also tried her best to chant this ballad.

But the swordsman opposite always gave her some hope, but also disappointed her.

Every time I thought the opponent was going to be completely poisoned to death, I always managed to raise his health at the most critical moment.

How many chances does the opponent have to revive?
Yuzhu sang for a whole hour. If she stood in front of a big city, singing like this would probably massacre all the people in the city with tens of millions of people.

But Jing Qian really held on!

After dying and coming back to life seventy-six times in a row, the granulation tissue above his atrium was almost completely exhausted.

When he was completely desperate and thought he was about to lose the game, the nursery rhyme just stopped!
This tug of war ended with Jing Qian's victory.

It turned out that Yuzhu couldn't withstand the toll of the poison and was the first to run out of energy!

The third round of fighting officially ended. Jing Qian won consecutive battles and had already scored three points.

This was better than he had hoped for.

The illusion shifted, and Jing Qian's poison-torn body was perfectly restored. But for a moment, he was still somewhat immersed in the song, unable to extricate himself.

This meme poison is so strong that even a fisherman with great abilities cannot completely remove it.

If Jing Qian had not completely eliminated the influence of this poison, he would probably be poisoned even if he really left [Zhuling Cave Heaven].

He closed his eyes and rested, sensing carefully. Then, a trace of sword energy lingered above his heart, and he completely forgot any memory of the poison.

This was a struggle that exposed his shortcomings, and it was of great reference significance for Jing Qian's subsequent practice!

After the first three rounds of fighting, the overall situation of [Fighting to Win] became clearer.

The only four contestants who have won consecutive battles are Ying Shizi, the chef, the mecha man and Jing Qian.

This is a unique existence in terms of strength and luck!

Huang Yan was surprised that Jing Qian could defeat Yu Zhu.

In Huang Yan's opinion, the memetic poison prepared by the Zhushan Sect for its disciples is quite difficult to deal with.

Even if he used his own [Picking Stars] cultivation to handle it personally, it would still take a lot of effort.

However, this [Chun Yang Xu] Lingjizi unexpectedly burst out with amazing vitality and successfully avoided the other party's poison.

On the path of spiritual practice, everything is truly possible.

However, the fisherman always had strong confidence in Jing Qian.

In his eyes, this kid who accepted the things from [Wuyan] has become a potential [Yanbuzi].

In the [Yingfutu Realm], another [Yanbuzi] is born, and who knows how much trouble he will cause.

He doesn't mind watching the fun and is really looking forward to it!

……

The fourth round of fighting started on time. The strength of Jing Qian's incarnation did not change at all, but he felt that he had gained a lot spiritually.

He was quite impressed by the charisma displayed by the three [Lingjizi]. Every victory he won was not easy.

This made him feel more and more that he underestimated everyone in the world.

The disciples of these great lineages have made extremely thorough preparations for the Zhuling Dongtian trip.

It was far from what he had imagined. Once the sword energy was released, it would kill everyone instantly.

But that's what makes it interesting!
Deep competition and serious competition are the sources that force him to continue growing.

Opposite him, a magnificent [Chain Divine Machine] appeared. His opponent in the fourth battle was the stove mecha brother from [Zhongxuan Palace]!
When Jing Qian entered the cave, he was ambushed by the mecha warrior of [Zhongxuan Palace] on the opposite side and was seriously injured.

Now that I have finally reached the other side, I must give it a try!
Compared with a hundred years ago, this [Chain Divine Machine] is undoubtedly much more refined.

All the parts on the divine machine were disassembled into chains of finer dimensions and rewoven and reassembled.

If we talk about entering the cave heaven, the number of chains used to construct this [Chain Divine Machine] is in tens of thousands.

After a lot of time, this number has reached millions.

This also greatly increases the power of [Chain Divine Machine].

When Jing Qian's sword thread came with wind and thunder, [Chain Divine Machine] mobilized half of the chain to form a huge shield, wrapped itself in it, and resisted it.

The sword thread that Jing Qian used as a test cut deeply into the metal shield, and the twenty-one sword shadows that followed almost pierced through the shield completely.

He was eager to fight and he liked this kind of tough opponent the most!
Then the sword threads slashed out wildly, and in an instant, they completely cut through the opponent's condensed shield.

Just as he was about to press on with his victory and thrust his sword deep into the shield, the scene behind the shield became apparent, shocking him so much that his hair stood on end!

He saw three thick gun barrels with a diameter of one meter, forming a multi-barreled turret, aiming straight at him with an extremely terrifying cold light.

【Chain God Machine·Multi-turret Mode】!
The next second, Jing Qian instantly turned into a beam of light and escaped to the side.

He instinctively dodged in the direction the gun was not aimed at.

After a hundred years of cultivation, [Bi'an Weiyang] has a speed of escape exceeding three times the speed of sound, and the spiritual sense of ordinary cultivators cannot lock onto it at all.

But Ye Chong, the newly promoted master craftsman of Qianlian, who belongs to the third workshop of Chongxuan Palace, is no ordinary person.

He took out three shells of different shapes and stuffed them into the three gun barrels.

Each of these three shells is a [Star-Picking Bomb] cast by the Third Workshop with the combined efforts of many master craftsmen and countless precious resources!
Each one of them has the power of [Picking Stars] and the might of a full-strength strike.

Ye Zhong fired without hesitation, three fourth-grade shells, each with its own unique characteristics, aimed at Jing Qian and chased him.

This [Battle Victory] illusion strengthened everyone at the same time!

But relatively speaking, Ye Zhong's unlimited ammunition is the most amazing!
The actual ownership of these three rounds of ammunition is not in his hands. They are the products of the third workshop of the [Zhongxuan School] and are precious experimental products that have not yet been finalized.

He was lucky enough to carry it with him so that he could use the magical power of the [Zhuling Dongtian] to conduct more test firings and record the experimental data.

He is just a tool!

In the modern world, if he dared to fire these three shells at will, he would probably be forced to work illegally in a workshop for a thousand years.

But in this illusion, he was able to have seven consecutive successes and shoot out twenty-one [Star-Picking Bullets]. This was a precious experience that would make most of the [Zhongxuan Palace] envious.

After firing three cannonballs, Ye Zhong's [Chain Divine Machine] was almost melted and completely destroyed.

It would take at least half a year for his magical machine to recover from the firepower of three cannons at the same time.

At this time, Ye Chong, without the support of the divine machine, had fallen to his weakest state.

However, when he saw the three fireworks exploding in the distance, he sneered and began to wait silently for the illusion to reset.

But the long-awaited repair has not yet arrived.

……

At the center of the explosion, Jing Qian lay dead on the ground, like a medium-rare steak.

This was the most serious injury he had ever suffered in his life. All his cultivation and magic power were destroyed, his face was burned into a lump, he couldn't even speak, and 70% to 80% of his internal organs were burned to charcoal.

However, he managed to survive!

When Jing Qian subconsciously escaped, he realized something was wrong.

There were serious mistakes in his own tactical choices, which were caused by the fear of heavy firepower left over from his previous life.

When the enemy launches an offensive, the best response is to respond with the strongest fundamental sword energy.

Once he starts running away, he will completely lose the initiative!
Even though he had outstanding escape skills, he passively became the target of the fourth-grade artillery shells and was completely unable to break free from the lock.

The final result was that in despair, he broke the [Qingping Sword Box] and cut out the fundamental sword energy, trying to use the sword energy to break the bombardment of the three shells.

The first [ray-chasing bullet] is the fastest and most difficult to dodge among the three shells.

When it chased him, Jing Qian had just released the basic sword energy, and he didn't even have time to use the [Ghost Devouring Technique].

His strongest sword was replaced by a cannonball from the opponent. It was such a huge loss!
The second [Dragon-Slaying Bomb] has the strongest attack and power!
Fortunately, when it caught up, twenty-one sword shadows stimulated by the fundamental sword energy came slashing at it, and the two weakened each other, but the residual power caused Jing Qian to suffer some minor injuries.

But when the third [Sky Fire Bomb] landed, Jing Qian's sword energy completely disappeared and there was no way to avoid it.

The sword energy was gone at all. The sword energy he slashed out with [Qing Ping Mo] lacked the accumulation of a hundred years and the blessing of [Sword Box], so its power was reduced to less than one percent of its original power.

It was difficult to even kill a [Longevity Extension] monk, let alone this fourth-grade cannonball.

He blasted out all his magical power in a humble attempt to block the terrifying artillery shells from the opposite side.

But it will be in vain!

The [Sky Fire Bomb] exploded, and the infinite fourth-grade [Sky Fire] completely enveloped it and burned it madly.

Jing Qian's body turned directly into charcoal, losing all ability to resist, and once again fell to the point of using granulation to revive and resist injuries!

This raging fire was no less poisonous than the raindrops, and it repeatedly roasted his body. Every time the granulations burst and released vitality, it was like firewood thrown into a furnace, and was devoured in an instant.

His consciousness wavered between severe pain and chaos. In a trance, he saw that what was flowing in his meridians was no longer blood, but boiling magma, burning his internal organs into charred cavities.

"If this continues, I'll really die."

He held on to his last bit of faith and moved the [Void Furnace] out. With the help of the power of the [Life Stove], he began to frantically devour the power of the [Heavenly Fire] to put out the fire for himself.

However, the capacity of this [Heavenly Fire] is more than a hundred times that of the [Life Toad Purifying Fire]. The [Void Furnace] cannot bear it for a while, and it solidifies into red glass.

He still couldn't avoid the misfortune of being burned.

This burning lasted for a whole hour!
It was not until Jing Qian was completely unconscious and didn't know whether he was alive or dead that the [Void Furnace] took away all the remaining [Heavenly Fire].

Only then did he manage to survive the three [Star-Picking Bombs] from the [Zhongxuan Palace].

However, he was already 70% cooked and had completely lost the ability to move, and could not even speak.

Jing Qian accepted the bitter fruit of this battle, which stemmed from his own indecision.

But since he managed to escape with half his life, this battle is not over yet!
He summoned up his last bit of consciousness, sent out a message, and then completely passed out:

"I leave it all to you, avenge me!"

A little black cat came out from the [Life Stove], received the message, and then rushed towards the source of the shell with its fangs and claws bared.

"Finally, it's my turn to perform!"

The cat steps are light and quick as black lightning!
(End of this chapter)