Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 346 The storm arises

"Two hundred years... a full two hundred years... it's truly chilling."

A hoarse, trembling sound escaped Guo Lang's throat.

Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Nine Realms experts have either passed away peacefully in blessed lands or perished in sect disputes. The number of people who have actually died is very small. There has never been a precedent of three people dying on the same day, and all of them dying at the hands of the same person.

Even more terrifying, the few ninth-level old eunuchs secretly cultivated by the imperial court were also swiftly and decisively slaughtered by Xu Yunfan.

More than ten clerks knelt behind Guo Lang, some even losing control of their bladders and fainting.

Three hundred feet away, on the roof of a teahouse, the busybody's wine jug clattered to the ground.

The lay disciple of Amitabha Temple next to him was teeth chattering.

"Master, could the 'Demon Descending to Earth' that Grandmaster Uncle spoke of be what we're talking about?"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Yunfan's cold gaze swept across the entire street, and all the martial arts practitioners took three steps back in unison, with the sound of weapons falling to the ground echoing everywhere.

Xu Yunfan's face was ashen, but a hint of lingering regret flashed in his eyes.

Although these three ninth-realm grandmasters were strong, they ultimately failed to push him to his limit, and the battle ended before they could even use the "Lin" technique.

After being infused with Xuanhuang Qi, his body felt like a bottomless abyss. The violent outpouring of the Ten Extremes True Qi had only consumed less than 30% of it.

Moreover, the Ten Extremes Martial Arts flow through the flesh and blood, and the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth is rapidly absorbed into the body like a whale swallowing its prey, restoring the depleted true energy.

Xu Yunfan looked up, his gaze sharp as lightning, and suddenly locked onto Guo Lang, who was hiding behind the Imperial Observatory's ceremonial guard.

The supervisor was slumped down in the distance, beneath a half-broken wall, his expression numb.

"Guo Jianzheng".

Xu Yunfan's voice was accompanied by the booming sound of true energy. Before the voice even arrived, he had already appeared in front of Guo Lang.

"You advised the Empress to sacrifice 36 million people with their blood. Do you still remember those withered bones drained of their lifeblood? You are worse than pigs and dogs."

Guo Lang's expression changed slightly. That blood sacrifice was precisely the method he deduced from the "Burial of Dragons Scripture" to "mend the deficiencies of heaven with human lives."

Guo Lang did not argue, but stared straight at Xu Yunfan, then sighed and said, "You are the real variable."

"boom!"

Before the mace even arrived, the Ten Extremes True Qi had already crushed Guo Lang's bones.

The moment the heavy mace gently touched Guo Lang's shoulder, his official robe exploded in the shockwave. True energy flowed through the mace and into Guo Lang's seven orifices, causing the supervisor to let out a horrific scream.

His skin began to crack, and his remains quickly weathered into a charred skeleton wrapped in official robes.

Having finished all this swiftly and efficiently, Xu Yunfan glanced at the Imperial Guard Commander, who was trembling like a leaf. This expert in internal organs felt a chill run down his spine when Xu Yunfan's gaze swept over him.

Seeing Xu Yunfan glance at him and turn around, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, a pebble pierced the air with a sharp whistling sound, and everything went black before his eyes, and he fell completely silent.

At this moment, Xu Yunfan slowly walked towards the old deacon who was huddled in the shadow of the broken wall. The soles of his boots crunched over the undried bloodstains on the blue bricks, making a soft "crunching" sound.

Three hundred feet was nothing to him in the blink of an eye.

"Will the science and technology exercise continue tomorrow?"

Xu Yunfan lowered his eyes and asked, his voice as calm as if he were asking about today's weather.

The old deacon's withered fingers gripped the schedule book tightly, the pages still stained with drops of blood splattered from afar by the Taoist of Guanshan.

He hunched over, not daring to raise his head, his Adam's apple bobbing several times before he finally managed to squeeze out a reply: "The Imperial Martial Law... it is an ancestral system of the Great Zhou Dynasty. As long as His Majesty has not issued an edict to discontinue it..." "Very good."

Xu Yunfan cut off the other person's trembling voice, and as he turned around, he glanced at the Great Zhou Imperial Court.

With a slight flicker, he vanished from the spot.
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Yujing City, a palace deep within the imperial court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Report!"

A blood-soaked Imperial City Guard agent collapsed to his knees outside the hall. "The Xuanzhen Sect's Guanshan Daoist has been utterly destroyed! The Nine Luminaries Sect's Venerable Chu Sheng was killed by Xu Yunfan with a single mace... Penglai Yunlan... was nailed to the base of the martial arts arena..."

This earth-shattering news caused everyone present to gasp in shock, and the hall fell silent instantly.

"very good."

After a long while, the Empress suddenly chuckled.

The soft laugh caused the temperature inside the hall to drop sharply.

But then the Empress slowly unfurled the blood-stained battle report. Upon hearing Xu Yunfan's victory, her heart sank. This man was no longer human!
The empress's hoarse voice swayed like an old branch.

"With each victory Xu Yunfan receives, he gains an additional portion of Xuanhuang Qi. When he steps into this Purple Extreme Palace..."

She traced the withered dragon vein on the map of the land with her fingertips, saying, "What you are about to face is a terrestrial immortal who has drained the fortune of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

The aged empress looked up, a half-smile playing on her lips, as she gazed at the assembled experts from the five major sects, seemingly unconcerned about the extraction of the Great Zhou's dragon vein.

“This person is narrow-minded and came from the land of blood sacrifice. When the time comes, the reckoning will fall on your heads, and your major sects will probably be wiped out because of this.”

The purple-robed elder of the Nine Luminaries Sect was the first to break the silence: "Xu Yunfan's Ten Extremes True Qi is beyond human power to break. Our sect's 'Blazing Sun Venerable' Chu Sheng's Heaven-Burning Force dissipated on its own upon touching his body. This boy has probably already reached the extreme realm."

He shook his hand and said calmly, "At the bottom of the Nine Luminaries Tower, there is a 'Great Sun Meteorite Core' sealed. If activated using a secret method, it can unleash heavenly fire to burn the soul. This was left behind by the Nine Luminaries Ancestor two thousand years ago when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant. However, the price is the complete destruction of the caster. I'm afraid..."

The Taoist priest in green robes from the Xuanzhen Sect sneered: "Which Ninth Realm cultivator is your sect willing to send to their death?"

He continued, "Our Qingyue Xuanzhen Mirror can reveal the flaws in his true qi circulation, but it requires three people to form an array to resist for a quarter of an hour... Now that Senior Brother Guanshan has perished, the array is incomplete, unless the Sword Pavilion's 'Tianxuan Sword Master' is willing to fill the gap."

Upon hearing this, the white-bearded old man from the Jiangnan Dao Sword Pavilion snorted angrily: "The Tianxuan lineage cultivates the 'Sword Dao of No Life,' where every strike is a matter of life and death! They have never learned any formations... If Xu Yunfan dies, the Dao Sect will surely launch a full-scale counterattack in its final moments. Who will stop Bi Yuan then?"

The crowd began to discuss the matter animatedly, arguing back and forth, but none of them wanted to send anyone else out.

A hint of mockery flashed in the Empress's eyes.

If the six major sects of the Great Zhou were united, the Great Zhou would have no place in the world. This is the norm, and a sense of satisfaction inexplicably arose in her heart.

At this moment, black mist surged from the scabbard in Cinan'e's hand: "The three of us can set up the 'Three Talents Demon-Locking Formation' to temporarily sever his connection with the Xuanhuang Qi with the Dragon-Suppressing Seal. This sword can also catch him off guard."

Beneath his robes were densely packed, blood-red Sanskrit characters: "The Amitabha Temple's secret 'Vajra Subduing Demon Mantra' can imprison his true energy for ten breaths... but the Nine Luminaries Sect needs to detonate a meteorite core to break through his physical defenses."

The purple-robed elder suddenly sneered, "Master's plan is brilliant! You send my disciples to their deaths while you reap the rewards?"

He abruptly slammed the table shut. "Why don't we talk about the Dragon Seal first? This is a priceless treasure of the Great Zhou royal family. Is Her Majesty the Empress truly willing to part with it?"

"Of course, this is a gift from me."

The Empress's expression held a hint of amusement: "I can even abandon the fate of the nation, let alone a mere imperial seal?"

Her gaze swept over the crowd. "But if you all continue to hold back... in a few more days, I'm afraid even the mountain gate will be crushed by Xu Yunfan."

(End of this chapter)