Return to the City

The Three-Cycle True Essence Pill was said to let a Xiantian Realm expert directly rise by one level.

But after he completely refined it, the remaining two meridians had not been fully opened.

Even the Yin Wei Meridian, one of the Yin Wei and Yang Wei Meridians, had only been opened a little over halfway.

On careful thought, it made sense.

The Purple Sun Pill had greatly widened his meridians, vastly increasing their capacity. A pill that could originally raise an ordinary person by one level—

where a bowl of water had once been enough for a breakthrough, his meridians probably needed a whole basin now.

But that was not entirely a bad thing.

With several times, or even ten times, the true qi capacity of the Xiantian Realm as his foundation, once he broke through to the Vajra Realm, his strength would surely undergo earth-shaking changes.

As for the Blood Saber Manual and the Wind-Thunder Vajra Body, he needed to read them in their entirety before they could be reflected and deduced on the panel. He could not finish them anytime soon.

Now was not the time to cultivate.

Chu Jiang looked toward the edge of the altar, where a blood-colored saber was thrust diagonally into the ground.

It gleamed with an eerie light in the darkness. Its blade was like blood, its hilt like bone. The bloodstains on its edge seemed not yet dry, giving off a pungent stench of blood.

Merely standing there quietly, the saber radiated an incomparably sharp aura. Decades of time had left no traces of age upon it.

It was like a brand-new treasured saber.

Even the full-force strike of the Great Vajra Palm at the mastery level had failed to damage it in the slightest, proving its extraordinary nature.

Chu Jiang pulled out the blood-colored saber and wiped the blood from it clean. Two small characters were engraved on the blade—Blood Sun.

"Blood Sun Saber!"

It was a good name for a saber. He liked it.

"It's a fine saber, but it has no sheath!" Chu Jiang frowned slightly. It would be a pity for such a good saber to go without a sheath.

"Master Chu, I pulled this from that monster. Please take a look..." Lu Feiyang offered up a dark-red sheath. He had found it as soon as Chu Jiang went to retrieve the saber.

Though that monster had been rather disgusting, he had no choice but to grit his teeth if he wanted Chu Jiang to remove the Southern Border Gu Arts from his body.

Just thinking about a Gu Worm crawling around inside his body made him shudder.

Chu Jiang accepted the sheath, surprise flashing in his eyes. He did not know what material it was made from, but it felt icy cold in his hand, like touching a block of ice.

It was a perfect match for the Blood Sun Saber.

"Well done!"

Chu Jiang did not stint on praise. Having subordinates was good—whatever you needed, someone would bring it to you without even being asked.

Liu Guangwu stared in a daze. How was this guy even better at flattering than Ma Han? He had originally ranked third in the group, but this fellow made him feel a sense of crisis.

No, he had to find a way to drive this guy away.

"Master Chu, could you remove the Gu Worm from my body? I feel like something is gnawing on my flesh. It's really uncomfortable." Lu Feiyang put on a pitiful expression. Although he had not noticed anything unusual inside himself yet, he tried his best to make his condition sound as miserable as possible.

Hearing Lu Feiyang's words, Chu Jiang could not help laughing.

This foolish kid really thought he had put a Gu Worm into his body.

These young masters who had only just entered the martial world were easy to fool. They had basically no experience. If it had been someone else, the effect might not have been this good.

"Alright, come here!"

Suppressing the urge to burst out laughing, Chu Jiang called Lu Feiyang over and randomly poked at his body.

Then he deliberately made a grasping motion toward Lu Feiyang's back with his palm.

"That's enough. The Gu Worm has been taken back!"

Lu Feiyang was overjoyed and laughed loudly. "Heh, I really can't feel it anymore! This Gu Worm is amazing. Some other day, I'll have my father hire someone to teach me how to play with them."

Looking at Lu Feiyang's exaggerated expression, Chu Jiang almost suspected that he really did know Gu arts. The expression was damn convincing.

If they were handing out Oscars for Best Actor, he would definitely give Lu Feiyang a vote.

Chu Jiang shook his head, sheathed the Blood Sun Saber, and walked over to Blood Saber King Qi's corpse.

His shattered head was still trickling with blood, and the brain matter inside was clearly visible.

As soon as he approached, Chu Jiang sensed a mysterious energy.

It was emanating from Blood Saber's brain.

Chu Jiang pried open the brain with his bare hands and dug out a longan-sized fleshy core that glowed red.

It seemed that all the energy in the body originated from it.

"What the hell is this? Never mind, I'll keep it for now."

It was something condensed by a demon, so he did not dare consume it directly for fear of some mutation occurring.

He would study it after returning.

After taking the fleshy core, there no longer seemed to be anything important here.

It was time to leave.

"Wang Qi, since I have taken your inheritance, I will naturally fulfill your last wish."

"I still have not encountered the mysterious person mentioned in your letter. Whether he is alive or dead remains unknown, and whether to erect a monument for him is still uncertain. Today, I will erect one for you first!"

Chu Jiang looked at Blood Saber's corpse and murmured silently.

"Lu Feiyang, carry Blood Saber's corpse on your back. We're leaving!"

Hearing Chu Jiang's words, Lu Feiyang felt as though a hundred thousand horses were galloping through his heart.

"Me?"

"Sir, you're not joking, are you..."

He was about to collapse. He feared blood most of all, and this guy's upper body was practically gone. It was too horrible to look at. How was he supposed to carry him? This guy was half demon, too.

"Stop dawdling. Hurry up!"

There was no room for doubt in Chu Jiang's voice. Though Lu Feiyang was unwilling, he could only force himself to do it. Otherwise, getting afflicted with Gu again would not be fun.

Ma Han gave Lu Feiyang a look that said, "Good luck," then followed in Chu Jiang's footsteps.

"Haha, Young Master Lu, I have faith in you. I'll leave this glorious task to you!" Liu Guangwu could not hold back his laughter. Why was seeing Lu Feiyang suffer such a delight to him?

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"Fuck..."

Lu Feiyang cursed Liu Guangwu's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart.

He knew that bastard would kick him when he was down.

"Liu Guangwu, you're laughing so happily, so you can help carry the corpse too. Don't let it fall apart!"

"I'll wait for you outside the underground palace!"

Chu Jiang's voice drifted over from afar, abruptly cutting off Liu Guangwu's laughter.

"Come, come, Brother Liu. This is a glorious task." Lu Feiyang grabbed Liu Guangwu's hand and dragged him toward Blood Saber's corpse, throwing his own words back at him.

His heart had already blossomed with delight.

"We'll take one side each. You hold the lower half, and I'll hold the upper half..."

At that moment, Liu Guangwu wished he could slap himself. Why could he never keep his cool?

By the time he came back to his senses, Lu Feiyang had somehow already placed his hand on Blood Saber's corpse.

"Brother Liu, are you looking a little pale?"

Lu Feiyang was racking his brains for ways to mock Liu Guangwu. He had to make the man angry.

"Enough, enough. Stop talking and carry it!"

The two of them exerted tremendous effort before they managed to move the corpse. Though Blood Saber King Qi was dead, his body was extraordinarily heavy.

By the time they carried the corpse outside the underground palace, both were panting heavily.

Chu Jiang found a place for Blood Saber King Qi and buried him in the earth.

He erected a tombstone for him.

Chu Jiang casually glanced at the people behind him. Thirteen had come, but only seven remained now. Five had died in this battle.

Chu Jiang did not grieve too much over it. In a struggle of this level, it was impossible for no one to die.

As for Bai Ruoxue, Li Yu, and the others, they had already left ahead of Chu Jiang's group after recovering some of their strength.

Chu Jiang cupped his hands toward Blood Saber King Qi's tombstone, then turned and said,

"Return to the city!"