True Dragon Ascending Heaven Hexagram, Heading to Mu Yun Mountain Range!

Inside Vast Hall.

Everyone's gazes fell upon Li Yinglian, brimming with curiosity.

With a flip of his hand, Li Yinglian retrieved from his Storage Ring a palm-sized tortoiseshell, white as jade.

The tortoiseshell exuded an ancient, desolate aura. Its shell patterns crisscrossed like warp and weft, concealing within them the principles of the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

"This is an exceedingly rare divination-type Low-Grade Treasure, obtained by this Sect Master during my demon-slaying travels in my early years. Today, I shall use it for a divination and see whether our sect's disciples will gain anything at the Apprentice Ceremony!"

Li Yinglian spoke slowly, then began forming hand seals and activating it with True Essence.

Everyone in the hall grew interested!

In the Wild Heaven Region, magical treasures were categorized as Dharma Artifacts, Spirit Artifacts, Treasures, Dao Artifacts, and Immortal Artifacts. Each category was further divided into four tiers: low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.

Divination-type magical treasures were especially rare, because their refiners were doomed to suffer the Five Misfortunes and Three Deficiencies. This showed just how precious and uncommon this tortoiseshell was.

"Pssst, pssst, pssst!..."

As time passed, the white tortoiseshell gradually ignited with seven-colored flames.

An unfathomable ripple spread out, enveloping the entire Vast Sword Sect.

Boom!!!

At last, the seven-colored flames atop the tortoiseshell transformed into a tyrannical dragon-shaped form, shooting into the heavens and vanishing without a trace.

"What is this?..."

Everyone was utterly baffled.

Many turned to Elder Qingxu, for he was the person in the entire sect with the deepest knowledge of divination arts.

At that moment, Elder Qingxu's white beard trembled wildly as he leaped to his feet!

Ecstatic, he danced about and shouted, "Everyone! Look at the cracks on the tortoiseshell! This is the True Dragon Ascending Heaven Hexagram! Hahaha... Our Vast Sword Sect is going to produce a True Dragon Son! At the Apprentice Ceremony, who can contend with us?"

"What?"

At those words, everyone erupted in astonishment.

Ji Wushuang lifted his chin a little higher, the smile at the corners of his lips impossible to suppress!

True Dragon Ascending Heaven Hexagram!

Tsk, tsk!

Even Heaven itself thinks that I, Ji Wushuang, am destined to become that True Dragon Son and soar into the skies in a single leap?

Gazes after gazes fell upon Ji Wushuang—envy, delight, ingratiation, shock, and more.

"Good! Good! Good!..."

Li Yinglian said "good" three times in a row, the smile on his face incomparably broad!

Ji Yaoyue, meanwhile, said proudly, "I am not surprised in the slightest that the True Dragon Ascending Heaven Hexagram appeared! After all, my beloved disciple Wushuang has gathered the sect's great fortune and received Immortal Source Fortune. He is an unparalleled prodigy!"

"Wushuang possesses the Appearance of Becoming Immortal. If even he cannot become a True Dragon Prodigy, then who is worthy?"

These arrogant words greatly displeased Cui Yingying and the others, yet they had no way to refute them.

Facts spoke louder than words!

Zhao Caiyun sighed with emotion. "My Jade Maiden Peak truly is the sect's blessed land! It has produced two successive Saint Sons!"

"First Senior Sister, please watch your words! Even if a certain someone had not detonated the Ninth Grade Golden Core within his body, he still could not be mentioned in the same breath as Little Junior Brother! What is more, he has long since become a cripple!" Shen Qingqing mocked.

She glared hatefully at Chen Xuan, still resentful over that slap.

Bai Ling sneered, "Second Senior Sister, that is not quite right! What is wrong with being a cripple? Didn't he still shamelessly live off a woman and climb a high branch? He even indulged in debauchery within our Jade Maiden Peak's territory for days on end. Truly... ah!"

Before Bai Ling could finish speaking, she let out a scream as Ji Yaoyue slapped her across the face.

Ji Yaoyue's voluptuous body trembled as she rebuked, "Wretched disciple! Do you have no brain? If your words just now reached the ears of the Southern Border Demon Race, do you think they would tear you to shreds?"

"Master, this disciple was wrong..."

The people in the hall exchanged looks, yet not a single one dared to interject.

If Bai Bingyan had been an ordinary fox demon, forget calling her a fox spirit—those present would likely have immediately formed hand seals, wielded their swords, slain demons, eradicated evil, and upheld justice.

But... her status was too exalted, and her strength too formidable!

What none of them expected was that Chen Xuan wore a calm, indifferent expression, with even a faint smile on his lips.

"Hmm?"

Ji Yaoyue's delicate brows furrowed slightly, and she felt deeply displeased!

This wretched disciple!

Still putting on an act?

Should he not have been terrified beyond measure, immediately currying favor with the sect and with his master, seeking their protection?

Once that news reached the Southern Border, there would be no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, Demon Race prodigies who wanted to tear this wretch apart!

In the end.

Ji Yaoyue could not hold back and asked, "Chen Xuan, do you have anything to say?"

As she asked this, she raised her snow-white swan neck a little higher, carrying an air of lofty superiority.

Yet Chen Xuan, seated in the Saint Son's seat, suddenly crossed one leg over the other as though pondering something.

A moment later.

Chen Xuan finally sighed. "As expected of a divination tortoiseshell at the Low-Grade Treasure level. Its hexagram was quite accurate..."

Everyone: "???"

Ji Wushuang gave a disdainful laugh, an arrogant look appearing on his face.

"Enough! Red Beard Elder, you and the others shall remain behind to guard the sect! This time, all True Disciples and Outer Disciples will set out to witness Wushuang's peerless bearing as the True Dragon ascends to heaven!"

"After tomorrow, my Vast Sword Sect shall firmly sit as the foremost righteous sect in Central Province!!!"

Li Yinglian spoke excitedly, then swept his sleeve and shouted, "Form the Sword Dragon!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!...

The elders formed hand seals one after another and summoned their respective flying swords.

Before long, a Sword Dragon surging with Sword Qi took shape, and the disciples understood at once, leaping onto it one after another.

Du Meng also brought Chen Xuan onto the Sword Dragon.

His thick brows were slightly furrowed, unable to hide his worry...

On this journey to Mu Yun Mountain Range for the Apprentice Ceremony, Xuan Ge would likely be accompanied by a great crisis!

For now, they could only adapt to circumstances.

Xing Peak.

Inside a stone hall.

Elder Tian Xing's face was deathly pale and his lips tinged purple as he gazed out the window at the Sword Qi Dragon breaking through the clouds and leaving the Vast Sword Sect.

"Master, it is time for you to take your Detoxification Pill!"

A red-lipped, white-toothed boy approached and presented a jade-green pill.

Elder Tian Xing took it and swallowed it, giving a bitter smile!

How could the deadly poison of the Dark Mandala Flower in his body possibly be cured by a mere Detoxification Pill?

Chen Xuan, I hope Heaven watches over the good-hearted and keeps you safe!

Elder Tian Xing sighed inwardly, his spirits exceedingly low.

What he did not know was that at tomorrow's Apprentice Ceremony, the name Chen Xuan would shine with incomparable brilliance!

Like a great sun, like a True Dragon ascending to heaven!!!

Southern Border Demon Territory.

After Bai Bingyan returned to Qingqiu, she quickly entered a mysterious forbidden ground within Ten Thousand Demon Mountain.

Only her bloodline and power could suppress an ancient formation there, preventing the birth of an unrivaled great demon consumed by slaughter!

Meanwhile, Qingqiu Secret Realm welcomed quite a few of the Demon Race's foremost young prodigies!

Every one of them stood at the pinnacle of their respective clans!

These young Demon Race prodigies had come for only one purpose... to determine whether the Seventh Princess truly was together with a cripple from the human race, as the rumors claimed!

Bai Yaowu, clan leader of the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan, stepped forward and gave an answer on behalf of her daughter—"It is indeed true! However, whether our clan will approve of the two being together remains to be discussed."

Upon hearing this, the Demon Race prodigies completely broke down!

Diao Zhenxiao, the young clan leader of the Dark Lightning Purple Eagle King Clan, returned to his sleeping quarters and drank himself mad with grief, weeping as he struggled to accept this outcome.

His confidant Diao Yiding could not bear to see it, so he consoled him, "Young Clan Leader, you must look on the bright side! What you cannot let go of, Chen Xuan has already put in..."

"Ahhh!!!"

Diao Zhenxiao let out a howl, his eyes splitting with rage. At last, he transformed into a streak of dark-purple lightning and shot into the sky!

He was heading to Mu Yun Mountain Range to kill Chen Xuan!!!