Six Desires Heaven was, in other words, the heavens of the Desire Realm.
Palaces and temples rose high above the clouds. Four towering Heavenly King figures, wreathed in Death Qi, slowly lifted their bent bodies toward the sky.
"Rumble..."
Though they still maintained their downward-gazing posture, their heads were no longer pressed tightly together. Their bodies were visibly standing a little straighter, as if they were being forced away from the delicious pastry on the Lotus Platform.
"My Divine Soul Body has become even more condensed and real."
Chen Xuan quickly examined his body and was astonished to discover that this conscious soul body was already extremely close to his real fleshly body. Earlier, he had even been able to clearly hear Yan Yushu's heavy breathing and feel the astonishing touch of her snow-white skin. He was already seven or eight parts similar to a True Person.
"As long as Heartfast enters the abilities of a Heaven's Chosen, it can be strengthened."
Chen Xuan confirmed this conjecture in his heart, then immediately began studying Immortal Qi.
"Previously, limited by my Root Bone and constitution, even though I had long comprehended the true essence of the tricks, I still needed to spend a long time painstakingly cultivating them."
Chen Xuan pondered. He had discovered this serious problem back when he first cultivated the Little White Ape Trick.
A Root Bone aptitude with a strength of eight thousand jin had severely restricted the speed at which he refined Qi.
"But now, Immortal Qi has left my worldly body along with the three thoughts of my consciousness and soul."
"I'll cultivate the tricks with my Divine Soul Body!"
Chen Xuan had tremendous drive. He immediately began experimenting, visualizing the Qi-circulation diagram of the Little Green Deer Trick and ordering White Qi to flow along its route.
"Whoosh!"
A strand of White Qi traveled through the faintly translucent meridians and countless bones within his body. Golden-white light scattered like sparks, and gradually, a glimmer of green light flashed within it. It did not go out. Instead, like a single spark starting a prairie fire, it rapidly expanded, devouring, transforming, and evolving the White Qi radiance it touched.
"It really works!"
Chen Xuan could not help crying out. Even he, usually so steady, lost some composure at that moment. Merely completing one full circulation of the Qi-circulation diagram had successfully transformed more than a tenth of the White Qi into Green Qi.
The effect was astonishing. This meant that Chen Xuan would need to practice at most ten times to learn a trick!
"I knew I was a genius with extraordinary comprehension!"
Chen Xuan excitedly clenched his fist and punched the air. Unable to wait, he ordered the White Qi to begin its second circulation.
"Genius..."
A lingering voice suddenly sounded beside Chen Xuan's ear. A warm, fragrant, soft-jade aura surged toward him. "Give me..."
Yan Yushu!
Chen Xuan froze at the sound. His high-spirited expression immediately fell.
"You're not going to stop, are you!"
His Qi circulation had nearly been interrupted. In a foul mood, he turned and glared at Yan Yushu, whose face was flushed.
"Please..."
Yan Yushu's eyes were hazy. Her mind had probably been addled by the thoughts of Six Desires Heaven, and she had no idea what kind of shameless words she was saying. She stretched out her jade-lotus-like hands and pounced at Chen Xuan. He swiftly dodged and scolded her:
"You have no restraint, Yan Yushu. You have no future—you're finished!"
This time, Chen Xuan did not strike her directly. After Yan Yushu's Divine Soul Body had been shattered earlier, this Six Desires Heaven was already rapidly collapsing, and he needed to remain here longer.
"No, I don't want a future..."
The desire in Yan Yushu's eyes was almost spurting out as flames. She was incredibly difficult to deal with, using every possible means to force her way closer to Chen Xuan.
"Shut up!"
Chen Xuan was enraged. His hand shot out like lightning and seized Yan Yushu's arm. With a hook of his foot around her calf, he firmly pinned her to the ground.
"Behave yourself!"
Chen Xuan issued the warning with utter seriousness. He braced a knee against Yan Yushu's back, forced both her slender hands behind her, and used his other hand to grip her smooth, delicate neck, preventing her from turning around to kiss him and subduing her from every angle.
At the same time, he concentrated fully on circulating Immortal Qi, unwilling to waste even a shred of time.
"Mmph..."
Her black hair cascaded like a waterfall, covering most of Yan Yushu's bewitchingly flushed face. With her face buried in the ground and suffering immense humiliation, cherry-like crimson rapidly spread from her cheeks across her entire body. She looked as if she had been steamed ripe.
"Wait..."
Yan Yushu's desire this time was not as fierce as its previous eruption. After being swiftly pressed to the ground and subdued, she regained a little clarity and angrily scolded him:
"Who are you? Let go of me!"
This position was far too humiliating. She had never experienced anything like it and was so ashamed and furious she could have died.
Chen Xuan briefly told her his name, but the strength in his hand did not lessen in the slightest. His words were sharp. "Yan Yushu, you've lost your head!"
Yan Yushu could only yield and plead. "I can control myself now, Daoist Friend. Please don't bring trouble upon yourself..."
Chen Xuan interrupted her directly. "Who exactly is bringing trouble upon themselves? Yan Yushu, don't be so outrageous."
"Ah..."
At his words, Yan Yushu immediately fell silent, because she sorrowfully discovered that although she had regained a sliver of lucidity, her body was still scalding hot, as if it had a mind of its own.
Pinned to the ground, she twisted her body. One calf bent upward, and her jade foot struck Chen Xuan's back. She was not using any force—in fact, it felt like a tickle. It was a kind of teasing...
"This, this isn't me..." Her voice carried a sobbing note. She felt that she had lost all her dignity.
"Hmph!"
Chen Xuan had grown thoroughly impatient and did not bother responding to Yan Yushu. He could feel that the Little Green Deer was about to emerge!
"Whoosh!"
The White Qi circulated rapidly within his body. More and more Green Qi radiance appeared. Finally, Immortal Qi completely changed from white to green, and a clear, sonorous deer cry suddenly rang out!
"Ee-ah!"
A several-meter-long azure elk phantom leaped out from behind Chen Xuan. Its antlers resembled azure coral in deep water, gorgeous and radiant. An aura of life filled the air as it threw back its head and let out a long cry!
"It worked!"
Chen Xuan was so excited that he nearly jumped on the spot, but he quickly regained his composure. Without pause, he commanded this strand of Green Qi to begin circulating the Qi-circulation diagram of the Little Firebird Trick, which he already knew by heart.
Learning just one wasn't enough.
He had to keep learning!
This was the third kind of Immortal Qi, and the difficulty of cultivation had doubled again. But to Chen Xuan now, it was no obstacle.
Time flowed away like water.
"Chirp!"
A scarlet firebird phantom unfurled a ten-foot span of flaming wings behind Chen Xuan. Its crest feathers were long and incomparably graceful.
The firebird danced through the air. Fiery flames dripped from its brilliant feathers, burning the air and the earth, as it stretched out its neck and cried.
It worked again!
"Mm!"
At the same time, a muffled groan, seemingly rushing down a thousand li in a single torrent, came from beneath Chen Xuan.
Yan Yushu's tense body slowly went limp, as though all the bones had been drawn from it. Like soft mud, she lost every ounce of strength.
"Good!"
Chen Xuan was ecstatic, his heart overflowing with intense satisfaction.
Ordinary people needed several years to gain even an initial glimpse of the path to these tricks, yet he had spent less than half an hour and consecutively mastered two of them—and they were Immortal Qi tricks belonging to two entirely different directions!
This speed was terrifying. If outsiders heard of it, they probably would not merely be frightened—they would be scared to death!
"This trip to Six Desires Heaven was completely worth it. I've saved at least two months of painstaking cultivation!"
Chen Xuan thought this to himself. Then he looked down at Yan Yushu beneath his knee and murmured regretfully, "Why did it end so quickly? I still wanted to refine some other tricks..."
"..."
Yan Yushu lay facedown on the ground, her face buried deep within it. Like a snow-white fox that had died, she was frighteningly silent.
"...Get up."
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