Unexpected Gains

"What did he say?"

"The place Bai Lanjun is taking us to is called Prostrate Bone Territory. It's a settlement with many powerful skeletal beings."

"That's all." Wei Tianchen felt that Zhao Xing and Bai Lanjun had said quite a bit. "You and he both glanced at me and Bamboo Sword just now."

"Oh, I mean, you two are my seniors. With you two protecting me, I have absolutely nothing to fear from any powerful enemies. I can go and snatch the Soul Crystal with complete peace of mind."

Bamboo Sword grabbed Bai Lanjun, Wei Tianchen grabbed Zhao Xing, and the four skeletons jumped into the Fire Pond, then moved through the green flames.

Zhao Xing asked curiously, "Little Bai, can your fire Magic Array break the rule of traveling tens of thousands of miles in an instant?"

"The Divine Fire Sect's Magic Array doesn't violate the speed limit of traveling ten thousand miles in an instant," Bai Lanjun said. "When we travel through the Fire Pond, we still can't exceed this limit, but the distance from one Fire Pond Fire Pond to another is greatly shortened."

"Something like the supernatural ability to shrink the earth to a foot?"

"Yes."

"Little White, you also use fire, do you know about the Li Fire Divine Sect?" Zhao Xing asked. "This sect is also skilled in fire control, and they have built Fire Pond all over the world and used the Li Fire Divine Altar for teleportation."

"Oh?" Bai Lanjun raised his head, the fire in his eyes flickering, clearly somewhat puzzled. "I've never heard of this before. Does such a sect really exist?"

"I know all the sects on the Profound Yellow Continent, but only a few are skilled in using fire. I am an elder of the Divine Fire Sect, Li Fire Peak."

"Never heard of it?" Zhao Xing asked thoughtfully. "Little Bai, do you know how many God-Emperors there are on the Profound Yellow Continent?"

Bai Lanjun tilted his head. "I can't remember. I only know there are quite a few, but apart from the Blazing Fire God of our sect and the Dragon God, I can't remember the names of the other gods. Senior, which god do you worship?"

"I believe in the Dragon God," Zhao Xing replied casually.

"The Dragon God? Is the Dragon God still alive?" Bai Lanjun, somewhat bewildered. "Rumor has it that the Dragon God has fallen, and the Dragon Court has remained closed—"

Zhao Xing waved his hand, showing no intention of explaining anything.

Through his conversation with Bai Lanjun, he confirmed that the location of the Profound Yellow World had not changed, but the timing was definitely off.

It's highly likely that a time-space dungeon has appeared in the Profound Yellow World, similar to the World Transfer Tower.

"Yuan 342, if it's a spacetime coordinate, then it makes sense."

"Wei Tianchen, Bamboo Sword, and I don't know when we entered. It feels a bit like entering the World Transfer Tower."

"Are we in a time Reincarnation?"

Zhao Xing did not intend to tell Wei Tianchen and Bamboo Sword his speculation, because it still needed to be verified.

"Phew~"

The green flames suddenly diminished, and the black earth returned to view.

Zhao Xing, Bai Lanjun, Wei Tianchen, and Bamboo Sword emerged from another Fire Pond.

There were no other skeletal creatures around, and the mountain wall was above them. The Fire Pond was set up inside a cave.

"Senior, this is another Fire Pond set up by our Divine Fire Sect, only tens of millions of miles away from the ' Prostrate Bone Royal City ' in Prostrate Bone Territory."

"Prostrate Bone Royal City is the largest city in Prostrate Bone Territory. It is ruled by a king named ' Zhuo Ying,' and contains seven Soul Well."

"The White Bone King is at least Ninth Order fire seed (true spirit), which, according to the classification of the Xuanling Star Domain, is at the level of Demigod."

"His White Bone Power has also reached the Ninth Order, giving him a powerful bone body."

"For example, someone like me is Bone General Rank, a sixth-order fire seed (true spirit), but I've acquired a set of [Bone Spirit Fire Body] for myself. In terms of fire control and escape, even an eighth-order life form can't catch up with me."

Zhao Xing asked with some curiosity, "Do you think my two subordinates can defeat that king of Zhuo Ying City?"

Bai Lanjun: "Without a doubt, your two subordinates' true spirits have surpassed the threshold of the king, but their physical bodies are still in their original state and have not been evolved by the bone body techniques."

"In a battle, it's easy to suffer losses."

"Are there cultivation methods here?"

"Of course. Both the bone body and the fire seed have cultivation methods. Since the appearance of the Bone Netherworld, secret methods have been descended upon the world from time to time."

"I've heard that there's a Bone God Palace in the center of the Southern Continent, where one can obtain the inheritance of a god and also find a way to regenerate flesh and blood."

Zhao Xing nodded, and then relayed part of Bai Lanjun's words to Wei Tianchen and Bamboo Sword Jian.

"He said that this Zhuo Ying City is a Demigod, and there is a Divine Temple in the core area of Bone Netherworld. In the Divine Temple, one can obtain the inheritance of a god and also the method of flesh and blood regeneration."

"However, only those who become powerful city lords are qualified to be summoned." This last sentence was added by Old Master Zhao himself. He was going to seize the opportunity to trick Wei Tianchen.

"Bamboo Sword, we can kill Zhuo Ying and take over this territory." Wei Tianchen felt this was a great opportunity to occupy and manage a piece of land, both to seek opportunities in the White Bone Divine Domain and to start working on breaking the seal left behind by Fan Qianrou.

"We can cooperate," the Bamboo Sword Venerable nodded. Zhao Xing feigned advice, "We can't go directly to deal with Zhuo Ying; we need to strengthen our bones first."

"The skeletal structure is extremely important here; it is the foundation for unleashing one's full potential."

"We are all just third-tier bone bodies—"

"There's no need for such trouble," Wei Tianchen interrupted. "Both Bamboo Sword and I possess divine artifacts. If we simply kill Zhuo Ying and acquire his wealth, the rank of our bones will naturally rise."

Wei Tianchen was arrogant and boastful, and he wanted to take down the local tyrant right away.

He and the Bamboo Sword Venerable flew together toward Fugu City.

Before leaving, Wei Tianchen chanted an incantation, and a radiant purple-gold gourd appeared from his ring. A pool of divine water poured from the gourd, forming a shimmering, golden-blue barrier. The barrier enveloped both him and Bai Lanjun.

"The Azure Water Golden God Realm can protect you. Stay here and don't move. We will be back soon."

"Wait, what about the Enlightenment Golden Hoop?" Zhao Xing asked. Wei Tianchen couldn't stray too far from him, could he?

"The power of the Azure Water Golden God Realm surpasses that of the Enlightenment Golden Hoop, so it will not be effective for the time being."

The Bamboo Sword Venerable left Zhao Xing a bone sword, which was carved from his ribs and contained sword energy with 50% of the Bamboo Sword Venerable's power.

After the two left, only Zhao Xing and Bai Lanjun remained in the cave.

"Senior, what is this?" Bai Lanjun looked at the barrier curiously.

"Oh, this is for protecting me."

"What are your subordinates doing now?"

"I ordered them to kill Zhuo Ying."

"Hiss~"

Bai Lanjun increasingly felt that Zhao Xing's background was extraordinary and unfathomable.

Thinking back to the question Zhao Xing had asked earlier, Bai Lanjun felt even more awe towards Zhao Xing.

"The questions this senior asked earlier were basically related to the god-level."

"He also asked me who held the Mandate of Heaven in the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty, and mentioned another sect, the Li Fire Divine Sect, which seemed to be under the rule of this divine dynasty, yet he didn't seem to have any respect for that 'Human Emperor.'"

"Could he be an incarnation of some Divine Realm?"

Bai Lanjun immediately buried his head in the dust.

He dared not even attempt to escape, only hoping that the big shot would let him go after achieving his goal.

Zhao Xing never expected Bai Lanjun to imagine so much.

At this moment, he was mobilizing the White Bone Power, attempting to open up his Internal World.

Wei Tianchen said that the power of the divine object surpassed that of the Enlightenment Golden Hoop.

"Can I use a divine object to erase the bindings on the Enlightenment Golden Hoop?"

Zhao Xing possesses two divine objects: the Primal Chaos Dao Tower and the Heaven-Changing Divine Needle.

The Enlightenment Golden Hoop is a good thing, but the constraints on it must be eliminated.

However, he must first open up his Internal World.

"The World Core is hidden within the bone body. It's not that the bone body's power seals it, but rather that it seals itself." Zhao Xing tried it and found that the World Core remained completely still. It seemed to be a self-protection mechanism jointly created by the Primal Chaos Dao Tower and the Original Seed.

"Little White, do you have any magical artifacts?"

Bai Lanjun was speechless. Did I look like I possessed a magical artifact?

"Senior, I didn't."

Zhao Xing tried to open his Internal World but found that he could not, so he had to sit down cross-legged and cultivate.

"Now we can only wait. With Wei Tianchen dead at Zhuo Ying's hands, the restraints will be Destruction."

"If the divine creature I summon arrives, there is hope of escaping control."

However, what Zhao Xing couldn't understand was that if this was no longer the original time and space, then the divine artifacts he left behind shouldn't be able to be sensed.

So what is this "sense of calling" I have?

Before long, the green fire Fire Pond suddenly began to pulse.

"Hmm?" Zhao Xing immediately became alert. He lifted Bai Lanjun's skull and asked, "What happened?"

"Senior, someone has started the Fire Pond; it should be one of my Senior Brother," Bai Lanjun said. "However, I didn't notify them."

As they were talking, two skeletons appeared in the Fire Pond.

It was dark red all over, with golden stars shimmering on its forehead and joints, like diamonds.

It was entirely blue, with bones shaped like diamonds, and many secret patterns and crystals inlaid on its body.

Because the Azure Water Golden God Realm has a concealment function, and the cave Fire Pond itself is relatively large, the two skeletons did not discover the presence of Zhao Xing and Bai Lanjun.

"Are they also members of the Divine Fire Sect?"

"Yes, one of them Hu Qing, who is my Senior Brother, and the other is named Yan Jun, who is my senior sister."

Hu Qing held a bone knife and was a martial artist of the Seven Tribulations True Spirit level, Golden Body Fire Body was also at the Seventh Order.

Yan Jun is Seventh Order True Spirit Soul Illusionist with the Seventh Order [Profound Bright Dao Bone].

"Where did Junior Brother Lan Jun go? We agreed to meet at Flame Territory, but I haven't seen him, and he's not here either," Hu Qing complained.

"They probably went to Fugu City to trade ahead of us." Yan Jun looked around. "Judging from the heat of the fire array, they seem to have just left."

"Let's go to Fugu City too. We had a pretty good haul this time, and maybe Junior Sister can get you an eighth-tier Dao Bone."

As Hu Qing and Yan Jun talked, they flew out of the cave, completely unaware of the hidden barrier in the corner.

About three days later, the two returned to the vicinity of the Fire Pond.

Hu Qing is missing three ribs, and the diamond on her forehead has lost much of its brilliance, while Yan Jun's skeleton is also damaged.

The two skeletons, somewhat wolfish and fox-like, returned to the cave Fire Pond, seemingly having just been through a great battle.

"... I didn't expect Yingzhuo City to be in such chaos. Luckily I ran fast. Junior Sister, how are you?"

"The injuries aren't too serious. I really don't know who challenged that White Bone King. Yingzhuo has a tenth-tier fire seed."

"Let's lay low for a while, then go out later and see if there's anything we can pick up."

"Um·-"

Zhao Xing overheard their entire conversation.

"It seems that Wei Tianchen and Bamboo Sword have made their move. I wonder how the battle is going. However, if Ying Zhuo is only Tenth-Level True Spirit, he probably won't be a match for them. What a pity."

After waiting a few days, Hu Qing and Yan Jun went out again, seemingly looking for a bargain.

At this moment, with the enhancement of the Enlightenment Golden Hoop, Zhao Xing had already unsealed the three major magical powers: the Azure Flower Mana, the Vast Ocean Mana, and the Red Lotus Mana flowed within his body, appearing quite extraordinary.

Two weeks later, the two returned to the vicinity of the cave, but they were chased and killed.

Although Zhao Xing could not leave, he could sense the outside world.

Outside the cave, Hu Qing, holding his old friend's hand, was seen repeatedly slicing through a group of skeletal creatures.

Hu Qing was not weak, but unfortunately, there were just too many people surrounding the two of them.

The leader, a Yellow Diamond Bone Body, had already reached the eighth-tier True Spirit Fire Seed in Zhao Xing's eyes, along with more than thirty Six Tribulation True Spirit Fire Seeds behind him. Each of their bone bodies was extraordinary, enough to crush the two of them.

"Your Senior Brother and sisters tried to take advantage of the situation, but instead became the targets?"

Bai Lanjun was speechless. He didn't know what had happened either, and it seemed that the situation was very bad.

Hu Qing's bones were cleaved away by a yellow diamond skeleton wielding a crystal spear. In mid-air, he was shaken by a force.

The skeleton simply fell apart.

However, before landing, flames erupted from Hu Qing's skull, immediately reassembling the skeleton.

Yan Jun was using her True Spirit Illusion Technique to restrain them, and it was because of her restraint that the two were able to barely hold on.

However, Zhao Xing could clearly see that the two's White Bone Power values were constantly decreasing, and even their True Spirit Fire Seed was dimming. "If this continues, your two fellow disciples won't be able to hold on for long."

Gradually, Hu Qing's swordsmanship became somewhat disjointed, and the man with the Yellow Diamond Bone Body seized the opportunity and suddenly attacked!

"Call out!"

The crystal spear flew through the air and struck Hu Qing directly, pinning him to a boulder in the mountainside.

"~" A strange power emanated from the crystal gun, absorbing his embers.

"What kind of weapon is that? It can even absorb the true spirit of others?"

"Senior, that's the Bone Spirit Spear," Bai Lanjun said. "It's a magical artifact crafted from Bone Spirit Stone and Soul Crystal."

"It is a magical artifact that can absorb the power of another's fire seed."

"Being killed by the Bone Spirit Spear will result in the loss of most of the True Spirit Power, and may even lead to the forgetting of memories and secret techniques," Bai Lanjun said calmly.

Zhao Xing looked at Bai Lanjun with some curiosity. "Why aren't you worried about them?"

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Bai Lanjun: "I can barely protect myself, so worrying is pointless. Besides, they all know the ' Bone Dissolution Great Method '."

The Bone Dissolution Great Method, similar to the method of Reincarnation, is believed by Wei Tianchen to be the master of the White Bone Divine Domain, who Heaven and Earth Attainment and used a unique method to replace the operation of the Heavenly Dao. The Bone Dissolution Great Method is the Reincarnation Secret Technique here.

"As long as the spell is cast in time, the Senior Brother Junior Sister will be reborn in a secret Soul Well. As for the losses, they can be made up for later."

"I see."

"Senior," Bai Lanjun hesitated, "Could you please save them? These two fellow disciples have a fairly good relationship—."

Zhao Xing did not respond, but continued to watch, Bai Lanjun said nothing more.

Hu Qing detonated half of his skeletal body to cover Yan Jun's retreat back to the cave, where they escaped through the Fire Pond pit.

Others cannot use the Fire Pond, so as long as he can buy some time, his junior Junior Sister Yan Jun can escape.

Seeing Yan Jun fly into the cave, Hu Qing planned to use the Bone Dissolution Great Method to return to his Soul Merging Rebirth, thus ceasing the fight.

If he continues fighting, more and more of his cultivation will be absorbed, and his strength will drop drastically after rebirth. He will also lose his memories.

"Huh? How come I'm not dead yet?" Hu Qing was hit by the Bone Spirit Spear again, but the blade of death did not fall.

Instead, the bone spear was suddenly and abruptly pulled from his body and returned to its master's hand.

Hu Qing stopped the Bone Dissolution Great Method. The Yellow Diamond Bone General on the White Bone Chariot, who had been so imposing before, was now being pierced by ordinary bone swords.

Upon seeing this sudden turn of events, the remaining subordinates immediately transformed into birds and beasts and fled.

"I... I've been rescued?"

"Click click click~"

The sword energy erupting from the bone sword spread out again and again, and the Eight Tribulation Bone General emitted a grinding sound that made one's teeth ache.

His flame was also extinguished by the sword energy. Seeing that he could not break free no matter what he did, this Eight Tribulation Bone General had no choice but to let out a roar and take the initiative to use the Bone Dissolution Great Method.

With a loud "!", the skeleton suddenly scattered and exploded, the True Spirit Fire Seed abruptly disappeared, and the imprint of the Golden Body body was erased on its own, leaving no trace.

"The Bone Dissolution Great Method is truly miraculous."

Zhao Xing looked at the bones scattered all over the ground. They were not broken, but just scattered.

"Bone God Yuan created the Tribulation-Free White Bone God Domain, allowing his true spirit to grow without facing calamities. He also created the Bone Dissolution Great Method, which is similar to the Reincarnation Secret Technique. Could he be an unconventional Martial God?" Zhao Xing wondered to himself.

Some extremists within the Qi Sect even forgo flesh and blood, cultivating only a body of golden bones. Flesh and blood decay, but golden bones endure.

However, Zhao Xing quickly dismissed this idea. Yuan had attained Heaven and Earth Attainment, and his bone cultivation path was very complete. To regard him as an extreme Qi Sect Martial Practitioner would be too one-sided.

"We don't know which senior saved us. Hu Qing, the Martial Fire Peak Elder of the Divine Fire Sect, please show yourself."

Hu Qing and Yan Jun realized that no one was answering them. So they could only stare at the bone sword, the very sword that had just saved them.

"Whoosh~" The bone sword suddenly shrank, pierced through a Bone Ring that had fallen to the ground, and also carried the scattered Eight Tribulation Bone Body into the cave.

"Inside the cave?" Hu Qing and Yan Jun followed the trajectory of the flying sword into the cave, only to find that the flying sword had landed on the other side of the Fire Pond and disappeared.

They couldn't find where they had gone, because they couldn't see through the Azure Water Golden God Realm, let alone touch this barrier.

"Thank you for your help, senior." Bai Lanjun said from inside the barrier.

"Since you're working for me, this is just a small matter." Zhao Xing pretended to be helpful by using the method left by the Bamboo Sword Venerable, and then picked up the Bone Ring left by the Eight Tribulation Bone General to examine it.

"Hmm? There are quite a few treasures here." Zhao Xing was somewhat delighted. "There are four sets of bone bodies from low to high, and there are also thousands of Soul Crystal from the fourth to the eighth tier. It seems that this is a complete set."

Absorbing Soul Crystal can transform a true spirit, but a physical body is a prerequisite for absorption. Zhao Xing is currently Three Tribulation True Spirit and a three-tribulation physical body, but because he does not have a suitable physical body, he cannot absorb any extra Soul Crystal even if he has them.

But now, this Bone Ring actually contains a complete set of resources.

"Could it be that this person is preparing to be reborn from the soul fragmentation?"

Reborn from the soul, the initial state is a low-level skeletal body, and the true spirit will also be greatly reduced accordingly.

However, if resources are prepared in advance, Eight Tribulation True Spirit can quickly rebuild itself.

"Now all of this is mine!" Zhao Xing exclaimed excitedly. "This treasure is enough to cause my true spirit to undergo continuous transformations, equivalent to passing through several True Spirit Tribulation. I'll take it!"