Chapter 205: Cultivating Immortality is Actually Cultivating Truth
To avoid being affected, Li Xingtian and the others had moved far away from the center of the battlefield long ago.
The situation of Chu Xingchen's battle could no longer be seen here. One could only perceive the general situation through divine sense and the terrifying residual waves occasionally transmitted from their exchange of blows.
Master was currently in a state of possessing the full advantage.
However, Li Xingtian seemed to have opened up a second battlefield at this moment.
"What kind of dog shit did you just feed me!?" Qinghe grabbed Li Xingtian by the collar and questioned him angrily, "I asked you for a healing medicine! Not the Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill refined by your master!"
"What you just ate is the healing medicine refined by my master... not the Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill." Li Xingtian looked extremely innocent as he spoke.
"Whatever medicine my master refines has the same taste; it is only the medicinal effects that differ..."
Qinghe said angrily: "Then why didn't you say so?! Even the sect leader can't handle the pills your master refines. How can this little flood dragon of mine who hasn't grown up withstand it?!"
Li Xingtian said helplessly: "I told you to take Uncle Xie's pills from the start... You were suspicious, thinking I was hiding good things and not giving them to you. Besides, I also took the pills refined by my master when I was injured, and the effect was very good."
This was not the first time Qinghe had eaten pills refined by Chu Xingchen. Counting the one Li Xingtian gave her, it could be considered the second time.
When selling pills for Grandma Bai, seeing the group of people from Pill Peak praise the Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill so miraculously.
Especially those who took the pills, their expressions were extremely ferocious, looking like they were crying and shouting for their parents.
It looked extremely fake, as if they were possessed.
Qinghe's first reaction was disdain, and wondering: Is it really that terrifying?
It was just a mere pill. Qinghe could raise the price slightly and save up enough money for one Ten-Complete Great Tonic Pill.
Looking at that pill overflowing with medicinal fragrance, Qinghe decided on the spot to take one!
To set an example for those wastes from Pill Peak!
Later, Qinghe felt that the group of people from Pill Peak were truly tough guys!
They could keep buying and consuming this thing.
After eating this thing once, being able to muster the courage to eat it a second time.
Qinghe was willing to call these people the tough guys of the Tianyan Sect!
As for those who could eat it three times or more, Qinghe uniformly viewed them as perverts.
Qinghe took a few deep heavy breaths, but still let go of Li Xingtian's collar. She didn't expect that she would actually have a day when she was forced to become a tough guy.
The medicinal pills indeed had very good effects, but the side effects were simply too violent.
Qinghe couldn't hold on for long before she had to dispel the medicinal power and take a healing pill from the Tianyan Sect instead.
"That black-hearted kid is really fierce!" Qinghe changed the topic and looked at Xie Lingyu nearby, "I think even when Grandma Bai was in the Nascent Soul stage, she probably couldn't beat this kid."
Hearing this, Xie Lingyu did not speak but just nodded slightly.
"I guess we won't have to wait much longer; that should end soon..."
Before Qinghe could finish speaking, Li Xingtian by her side seemed to hear some instruction. He took out a Ghost Head Saber from his spatial ring.
This Ghost Head Saber flew towards Chu Xingchen's direction automatically without Li Xingtian needing to drive it.
Qinghe looked at Li Xingtian with a puzzled gaze. She wasn't sure about other things, but this kind of spiritual treasure that looked top-tier at first glance, she could recognize at a glance.
"Is your spiritual treasure so versatile? Don't top-tier spiritual treasures usually have some tempers? Or did your master leave the spiritual treasure with you for safekeeping?"
Li Xingtian looked in the direction the Ghost Head Saber was flying:
"Master gave it to me."
Hearing this, Qinghe's expression revealed a hint of surprise: "If you put it that way, that black-hearted kid treats you pretty well."
"Master has always been very good to me."
Qinghe glanced sideways at Li Xingtian's expression. This demeanor actually seemed quite sincere.
It seems this black-hearted kid is quite nice to his own people.
Just as Qinghe wanted to ask for some gossip, an extremely terrifying and bloody spiritual power erupted from afar.
It was like a demon lord descending upon the world.
Li Xingtian was also stunned. This aura... he was intimately familiar with it.
The cultivation method Master practices is similar to Eldest Senior Sister's, with spiritual power that appears slightly righteous and peaceful.
This familiar feeling at this moment is most likely Master using his own divine ability...
But this makes no sense... If the cultivation heart method and the divine ability don't match, even with a spiritual treasure, the power would differ greatly.
Could it be that the divine ability I cultivate can suppress this turtle?
Qinghe's expression became a bit unpredictable for a moment. She watched the distant sky covered with blood clouds, like a doomsday natural disaster coming.
In his spiritual sense, Chu Xingchen's original spiritual power instantly transformed, and a stream of extremely terrifying bloody aura coiled around his body.
Qinghe frowned tightly: "Is the black-hearted kid going to suffer?! I'm going to check the situation!"
However, Xie Lingyu reached out and stopped Qinghe:
"No need. Wait here for a while."
Qinghe looked suspiciously at the two of them but discovered that they didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.
Especially Li Xingtian; his face only showed a hint of confusion.
As if that demonic blood energy was controlled by Chu Xingchen.
However, not much time passed.
A huge and familiar phantom of a Ghost Head Saber appeared between heaven and earth, carrying boundless imposing momentum, and chopped down with a single blade!
Qinghe watched that familiar Ghost Head Saber with a shocked gaze.
As the Ghost Head Saber landed, the bloody aura slowly dissipated and vanished.
The massive residual waves of bloody spiritual power surged over. Qinghe only sensed it slightly and felt a bit creepy.
Qinghe said with a face full of shock: "Black-hearted kid... so he is actually an Evil Cultivator?!"
Hearing this, Li Xingtian instinctively refuted with a serious face:
"What Evil Cultivator? Don't talk nonsense."
Qinghe looked at Li Xingtian with an expression as if looking at an idiot:
"My god! You kid are talking with your eyes open?! Looking like that and still not an Evil Cultivator?!"
Li Xingtian wanted to open his mouth to refute, but remembering the scene just now, he didn't know how to refute.
He couldn't exactly say that he only looks a bit like an Evil Cultivator at this stage, right?
But the phenomenon of heaven and earth came fast and went fast. In just a moment, the blood clouds dissipated, and the world cleared up.
Just a moment later.
Li Xingtian received a message from his master and spoke:
"Let's go. Master is calling us over."
Just as Qinghe wanted to ask what the situation was, she saw Xie Lingyu follow Li Xingtian without hesitation towards the direction of the Cangzhou Great River.
Qinghe, with a helpless look on her face, could only follow along.
A moment later.
They saw a piece of land filled with large pits and huge gullies.
The turbid river water surged, working hard to try to fill these large pits.
No matter who came, they would not recognize this as the former Cangzhou Great River.
Chu Xingchen was standing at the center of the battle, looking in the direction of Cangzhou. He held that Ghost Head Saber in his hand.
Xu Yuan was currently lying in a large pit, covered in bloodstains, paralyzed and lying below.
Several Flowing Spirit Swords formed a small formation, trapping Xu Yuan within it.
Not far away, Ba Xia had at this moment turned into a huge crimson statue.
Only the golden stone tablet on Ba Xia's back remained shining brightly as before.
Seeing Li Xingtian and the others arrive, Chu Xingchen first threw the Ghost Head Saber in his hand back to Li Xingtian.
Qinghe looked at Xu Yuan below, who had weak vitality, and asked in a low voice: "Is it over?!"
"Mm... I guess so." Chu Xingchen nodded slightly, then looked at Qinghe, "The opportunity Senior White spoke of is probably this Ba Xia. Do you want it?"
Hearing this, Qinghe looked up at Ba Xia, which had turned into a red statue.
Originally, when looking at Ba Xia's phantom, she more or less drooled a bit, but now looking at it, she only felt a bit nauseous.
It was just like a sweet apple suddenly turning into a rotten apple with maggots.
Qinghe looked at that Wordless Golden Tablet again. The pale golden fortune at this moment seemed to be materialized right before her eyes.
She thought about it and shook her head: "This has gone bad, so I don't want it. As for this fortune, it should actually count as yours. Without you coming, I probably couldn't have handled the situation here."
"You contributed the most, so naturally you should take the biggest share."
Anyway, as long as the fat water doesn't flow to outsiders' fields. If Qinghe took the fortune herself, maybe Grandma Bai would order her out to seek luck in the future.
"Heh..." Xu Yuan in the large pit used all his strength to let out a cold laugh, looking at Chu Xingchen with disdain.
Saying so much, in the end, it's all the same.
Chu Xingchen ignored him. He looked at Xie Lingyu and said: "Do you want it?"
Xie Lingyu shook her head slightly: "The path of immortality I seek does not require fortune."
Chu Xingchen looked at Li Xingtian.
Li Xingtian shook his head gently.
Chu Xingchen looked at them and said in a serious tone: "Since you all don't want it, then it belongs to me to dispose of."
Qinghe reached out and patted Chu Xingchen on the shoulder, saying:
"Cut the crap. It's yours!"
Chu Xingchen didn't struggle. He stood up and flew to the front of the Ba Xia Giant Statue.
The Dragon-Slaying Sword had already severed Ba Xia's fortune. At this moment, Ba Xia's fortune was like a pool of stagnant water, existing entirely within the giant statue.
He summoned a Spirit Sword into his hand. Chu Xingchen used his divine ability without hesitation to shatter the Ba Xia Giant Statue into pieces.
This strike was like throwing a stone into a silent pool of water.
That dead silent Ba Xia fortune seemed to be reactivated, bursting with new vitality and shooting away in all directions.
Although Ba Xia was a phantom, it also possessed consciousness.
But fortune ultimately belongs to the world; how could it truly seek death?
Fortune is just fortune, merely waiting for the future.
The pale yellow fortune scattered in all directions. Some flew into the distance, some sank into the earth, and some went away with the water.
As the Ba Xia Giant Statue dissipated, the Heirloom Jade Seal of the Xuanwu Kingdom appeared. Chu Xingchen reached out and summoned it.
Although it was cracked a bit, being able to return it is better than not being able to return it.
Immediately following that, only the Wordless Golden Tablet remained.
Chu Xingchen reached out to touch the Wordless Golden Tablet, and an indescribable temptation was transmitted.
As if as long as one absorbed this golden fortune, one would become a true Child of Heaven. Becoming an immortal would be just around the corner, and life would be smooth sailing.
Chu Xingchen rubbed it gently, then without any lingering attachment, injected his own spiritual power into it and began to shatter the Nameless Golden Tablet.
Even though Xu Yuan was currently only breathing his last and unable to move, and he had also trapped him, no system prompt for completing the task popped up.
It is very obvious. The thief mentioned by the system does not necessarily refer to Xu Yuan.
Rather, it refers to every person who coveted this fortune.
As for those tempting feelings transmitted by the fortune, Chu Xingchen was quite calm.
If having fortune allows one to do whatever they want and turn danger into safety in everything.
Then how would the True Dragon, which possesses even more fortune, end up dead in the wilderness?
Moreover, this fortune, according to the system, is only a part of the fortune that flowed out after the True Dragon died.
That sentence from the system—[There is no True Destiny in the world]—how could it not be correct?
True Destiny ultimately belongs to all living beings.
Based on the system's prompt, and looking at the fortune before him.
Chu Xingchen always felt that this fortune probably carries a great Karma.
A moment later, the Nameless Golden Tablet revealed some cracks.
Immediately following that, the Golden Tablet exploded violently.
The golden fortune shot toward the sky like a wild horse that had broken its reins.
In just a moment, it dissipated without a trace.
Almost at the same time, the prompt for completing the system task rang out.
[Hidden Task Completed — Battle of Fortune]
[Task rewards have been distributed to the System Backpack]
[Task Conclusion: There is no True Destiny in the world, merely a cricket shaking a tree, a mayfly moving a giant tree.]
[Better to escape all Karma than to seek all kinds of Karma.]
[Cultivating Immortality is Actually Cultivating Truth.]
As the fortune drifted away completely.
The expressions of Xie Lingyu and Li Xingtian were slightly surprised, but they remained calm.
Qinghe, on the other hand, looked at Chu Xingchen with a face full of disbelief, asking in confusion and anxiety:
"Black-hearted kid, what are you doing?! You just let such huge fortune run away like that?!"
Hearing this, Chu Xingchen turned around, revealing a somewhat embarrassed smile on his face, and said:
"Sorry... my hand slipped."
"Damn it! Who are you fooling?!"
"My hand really slipped! Who wouldn't be tempted by such big fortune?" Chu Xingchen revealed a look of deep regret and said,
"I was too nervous just now and my hand shook a bit. Who knew those fortune would run so fast."
Hearing this, Qinghe could only look at Chu Xingchen with eyes that hated iron for not becoming steel.
Although she didn't know if this kid did it on purpose.
But knowing the result, it would have been better to let her take it!
This is great now.
Don't know who will benefit from it!
Xu Yuan's somewhat turbid and spiritless eyes watched Chu Xingchen's actions.
Then, a cold light flashed, and a sword went straight into Xu Yuan's head.
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A few days later.
Chizhou, Great River.
Boom!
A huge spiritual power fluctuation was transmitted, but the splashed water was not considered large.
Li Yingling held the map of the water veins of Chizhou and was currently leading Qinghe to dismantle the array bases set up before.
Qinghe had a look of lifelessness on her face. Basically, wherever there was a water vein on this journey, a base had been set up there by this kid. It was simply too exaggerated.
And that kid Chu Xingchen was also extremely stingy. He wouldn't let her blow them up directly to save trouble.
Making Qinghe dismantle the bases bit by bit and take them away.
Now Qinghe actually believed a bit that the fortune was really let go by Chu Xingchen's hand slipping.
This kid not only has a black heart but is also quite stingy.
It wasn't that Qinghe loved doing this work. It was just that Chu Xingchen gave Qinghe two choices.
One was to go dismantle these array bases, and the other was to take the broken Heirloom Jade Seal and return it to Zhao Xuan, and explain the situation to Zhao Xuan.
Although Qinghe felt that the cracking of the Heirloom Jade Seal was just a coincidence, if she had a clumsy mouth and didn't explain clearly, carrying this black pot would be such a loss.
She naturally wasn't afraid of some Zhao Xuan; she was afraid of Bai Xuanling.
That black-hearted kid can talk well, so it's appropriate for him to go and explain. Anyway, if there are problems, the black-hearted kid will carry the blame.
Working is working, it's better than being found fault with by Grandma Bai when returning to the Tianyan Sect.
After carefully dismantling another array base.
Qinghe looked at Li Yingling and asked with a somewhat hesitant tone:
"Little Yingling... how many have we dismantled now? How many more are left to dismantle... How sick in the head is your master?"
Li Yingling glanced at the map with markings:
"Not many. At your progress, it should be about done in another month."
"A month?!" Qinghe looked shocked, "Your master definitely has a problem with his brain!"
"This was designed by Second Senior Brother."
"Oh... him..."
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