I forge immortality with a pagoda.

He clasped his hands together, like two purple-gold mountains colliding, clamping the blood diamond tightly between them.

An invisible wave of energy suddenly spread outwards from Shen Yu, causing the air to stagnate.

Among the onlookers, some with weak cultivation immediately stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

When the smoke cleared, everyone looked closely and saw that there was no longer any blood diamond in Shen Yu's palms, only a clump of bone and blood mud sliding out of his palms.

"What?!"

Jin Anping's pupils constricted sharply; he could hardly believe his eyes.

This newcomer, Shen Yu, actually shattered his Bone-Corroding Yin Fiend Finger with just his bare hands?!

Not only him, but Gu Feizheng, Wei Qingjun, and the Kaiyuan disciples who were watching the battle from behind the courtyard gate were also dumbfounded, their mouths agape.

No one expected that this seemingly gentle Senior Brother Shen would have such formidable physical strength!

This level of strength is probably not much different from that of the true disciples!

Shen Yu's taking this deadly attack head-on was not without its price.

At this moment, his palms were a bloody mess, and his bare white finger bones were even visible, a truly pitiful sight.

However, under the influence of the purple aura, these terrifying wounds were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. As soon as the blood seeped out, it was evaporated into a blood mist by the aura, and not a single drop fell.

Shen Yu didn't stop, and stomped his foot hard, causing the solid ground to crack inch by inch.

He leaped like an arrow, instantly bridging the distance between the two and appearing in front of Jin Anping.

Jin Anping finally came to his senses and felt the suffocatingly fierce aura emanating from the other party. His heart trembled and his liver and gallbladder were shattered.

At this moment, all his strongest techniques had been broken, and most of his true qi had been depleted. He had no fighting spirit left.

He immediately let out a strange cry and tried to turn around and run away.

"Trying to leave? Too late!"

Shen Yu snorted coldly, and his large hand shot out with incredible speed.

Before Jin Anping could take a step, he was grabbed by the back of the neck.

A powerful purple aura surged forth from the meridians of his arm, like an angry dragon, forcefully penetrating Jin Anping's body.

It shattered his meridians and key acupoints, leaving them in a chaotic mess.

Then, it directly broke into Jin Anping's dantian and began to frantically destroy his true qi!

"Ah—!" Jin Anping let out a shrill scream, his face turning deathly pale instantly.

Putting aside the pain of destroyed meridians, the true qi filling his dantian was rapidly dissipating, and his cultivation level was on the verge of collapse.

The pain of having his foundation destroyed plunged him into utter despair.

He no longer cared about saving face, tears streaming down his face. "Senior Brother Shen, Master Shen! I was wrong! I was blind and offended you! Please, have mercy on me this time!"

"My true qi... my cultivation level..."

Shen Yu ignored him and continued to activate the Purple Fiend.

Only after destroying most of Jin Anping's true qi did he finally throw him on the ground, satisfied.

This attack directly shook Jin Anping's very foundation, causing his cultivation level to plummet from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the first level.

After doing all this, Shen Yu gave a warm smile and said, "Senior Brother Jin, according to the sect rules, since you failed the challenge, you must give up a treasure suitable for the Qi Refining stage."

After a long while, Jin Anping finally came to his senses, his eyes filled with dejection.

Looking up, Shen Yu's seemingly harmless smile appeared terrifying, like that of a demon.

Swallowing hard, Jin Anping's arm trembled as he reached for his storage bag.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally said in a hoarse voice, "Senior Brother Shen, please take these five high-grade spirit stones."

Shen Yu didn't even look at it, and with a casual wave of his hand, he took the spirit stone into his hand.

"That's fine."

Having said that, he ignored Jin Anping, who was like a dead dog, and turned to walk into the Jia Sixteen Courtyard.

After Shen Yu's figure disappeared into the courtyard, several followers hurriedly ran over, helped the limp and powerless Jin Anping to his feet, and fled from the gate of the Jia Sixteenth Courtyard.

At this moment, high in the sky, atop Lanxiu Peak.

Yue Jianxin, who had been watching the Sixteenth Academy, withdrew his pupil technique and nodded.

"This kid has a lot of tricks up his sleeve..."

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Inside the sixteenth courtyard of the Jiazi building, Gu Feizheng and Wei Qingjun greeted Shen Yu.

Gu Feizheng spoke first, saying, "Senior Brother Shen, you have truly broadened our horizons today! We never expected that you would not only be proficient in Taoist arts, but also possess such terrifying physical strength, even able to withstand Jin Anping's Bone-Corroding Yin Sha Finger."

Wei Qingjun nodded repeatedly, his eyes shining: "Senior Brother is truly awe-inspiring! After this battle, those petty villains will surely dare not provoke us again."

Shen Yu cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, "Just lucky, nothing more than luck."

Even the outer disciples of the Kaiyuan Sect who had previously retreated back to their courtyards gathered around, their eyes filled with awe and admiration as they expressed their respect for Shen Yu.

Shen Yu simply nodded slightly to everyone without saying anything more, then bid farewell to Gu Feizheng and Wei Qingjun and returned to his room.

Sitting on the futon, Shen Yu concentrated and began to circulate his magic.

The vital energy circulates continuously in the meridians, nourishing the damaged meridians and repairing the wounds on the palms.

It wasn't until the moon hung high in the sky outside the window, casting its clear light, and the shadows of the ancient trees in the courtyard stretched long on the ground, that the injuries to his palms had mostly healed.

Exhaling a breath of stale air, Shen Yu opened his eyes, his gaze sharp and restrained.

He flipped his hand and took out the three high-grade spirit stones he had obtained from Jin Anping, examining them carefully.

These two spirit stones are bright and clear, containing pure spiritual energy, far superior to those of lower-grade spirit stones.

High-grade spirit stones are already rare in the cultivation world. Last time, he won a prize at the Yangquan Dharma Assembly and only got two.

With a thought, streams of spiritual energy are drawn in, flowing into the body like trickling streams.

Shen Yu closed his eyes again, guiding the spiritual energy to merge with the true qi, circulating it throughout his body along the cultivation path, constantly refining it and transforming it into his own cultivation.

Time flies, and two months passed quickly in the daily practice.

During these two months, in addition to diligently cultivating, Shen Yu would go to Lanxiu Peak every few days to spar with Yue Jianxin in swordsmanship.

The process was grueling, but the rewards were substantial.

His understanding of swordsmanship deepened day by day, and his sword strikes became more agile and swift. Although he was still far from being as adept as Yue Jianxin, he was no longer as stiff and sluggish as before.

Since the day he ruthlessly defeated Jin Anping and knocked down his cultivation level, his fearsome reputation has spread among the inner disciples.

For the past two months, no one has dared to come and provoke him, which has allowed him a period of peaceful cultivation.

Shen Yu rose from the futon, cast a spell, and the room, which hadn't been cleaned for months, instantly became clean and bright, which also improved his mood considerably.

Having cultivated for this period of time, my cultivation level has reached the peak of the fourth level of Qi Refining, and there is no further room for advancement.

The spiritual spring within the courtyard was insufficient for him to successfully break through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

Now, the Xuanqiong Pagoda can be used again. As long as he can refine another Qi Refining Peak demon beast, he can use the pills transformed from the demon beast to push his cultivation to the fifth level.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu pushed open the door and walked out of the courtyard.

With a leap, he stepped onto the Flowing Cloud Flying Boat and headed towards the Daoist Cultivation Pavilion within the sect.

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