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By then, Chen Xuan in the sky had already completed his breakthrough.

He had officially become a Five Yuan Nirvana Realm expert!

Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace simply did not know about this. Otherwise, Qin Xiuqing would have regretted it until her guts turned green.

She had actually let such a genius disciple go!

Of course, at that moment, the various great sects of the Eastern Xuan Region had sent out groups upon groups of people to search for Chen Xuan.

They all wanted to be the first to find him.

It was just that without any definite information, they did not know where he had gone.

Many people all thought he had gone to a high-grade dynasty, or a super dynasty.

Their search efforts were focused on those places too!

None of them had ever considered that he would appear in a low-grade dynasty like the Great Yan Dynasty.

Only Ma Fengbin of Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, following Ling Qingzhu's hint, quietly arrived at the Great Yan Dynasty.

However, he was not in a hurry to look for anyone. Instead, he went around asking about the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.

He hoped that information was true!

Meanwhile, after Chen Xuan completed his advancement, his gaze turned downward.

He abruptly discovered that Lin Dong, his beast, and that demon spirit had already been surrounded by several dozen demonic beasts!

And the Mist Crocodile Leopard King was watching from afar as well.

At its command, several dozen demonic beasts attacked Lin Dong and the others in perfect unison.

In the end, they battered them until they were covered in wounds before barely letting them off.

Lin Dong and Little Flame collapsed limply on the ground like dead dogs.

Their whole bodies were covered in blood, looking especially wretched.

Ding, Lin Dong generated resentment. Emotion Points +100

Ding, Little Marten generated resentment. Emotion Points +100

After receiving several hundred more Emotion Points from them, Chen Xuan could not be bothered to keep watching.

He simply left.

In the days that followed, aside from coming to the Mist Forest every few days to observe Lin Dong's situation, Chen Xuan personally guided Jiang Xue in her cultivation the rest of the time.

Under his full guidance, Jiang Xue's cultivation also rose day by day.

She had already broken through to Form Creation Realm Greater Completion!

She had left her father far behind.

What surprised Chen Xuan the most was Lin Dong. Under the high-pressure supervision of the Mist Crocodile Leopard King, he had actually broken through to the Form Creation Realm as well.

Clearly, the Stone Talisman had helped him tremendously.

However, it was still only a drop in the bucket.

Little Marten also had no way at all to break through those dozens of Bewilderment Arrays.

He was so anxious that he had shed quite a lot of fur.

As Lin Dong's strength increased, it would not be long before the Mist Crocodile Leopard King could no longer interfere with him.

Therefore, in order to keep him trapped in the Mist Forest

and prevent him from developing peacefully, Chen Xuan decided to find an even stronger demonic beast to replace the Mist Crocodile Leopard King.

So he had the people of Eagle Martial Hall help him ask around.

Very soon, there was a discovery.

In the end, from the information sheets provided by the martial hall, Chen Xuan chose two demonic beasts to serve as guard beasts.

They were the Shaking Heaven Demon Ape on Shaking Heaven Mountain, and the Ancient Dragon Ape in the Ancient Ruined Ravine.

Both demonic beasts were at Creation Realm Minor Completion!

With strength like that, watching over Lin Dong, who was merely at Form Creation Realm Minor Completion, was simply not difficult.

And so.

Chen Xuan went straight to the Ancient Ruined Ravine.

He entered the valley.

Along the way, it was strewn with countless bones.

An extremely savage, murderous aura.

It spread out from the depths of the valley.

After reaching the inside of the valley.

Chen Xuan saw a colossal figure several dozen zhang tall. That was the Ancient Dragon Ape at Creation Realm Minor Completion!

Under the sunlight, its pitch-black body looked as if it had been cast from refined iron, flashing with a cold, powerful sheen.

Especially the sharp black horn on its forehead.

It was covered in obscure and intricate patterns.

This was the absolute symbol that it possessed dragon blood within its body: the Dragon Horn!

And at this moment.

It was crouching there with total focus.

Like a boulder, motionless.

Not far from it was a blood-red pool that looked as though it had been condensed from fresh blood.

Suspended in the pool were two blood fruits, one large and one small.

These were the Ten Thousand Beast Fruits it was guarding!

They were refined from the blood essence of countless demonic beasts.

They could allow the Ancient Dragon Ape to evolve, raising its strength to rival a human Nirvana Realm expert!

They could also temper a human's physical body and increase their strength!

Because of that, quite a few people who wanted to take the risk had been drawn here.

Chen Xuan discovered one group of people.

They were hiding in a mountain hollow, watching the area below warily.

Judging by their clothing.

They should have been people from the Ancient Sword Sect.

In his memory.

The strongest person in this sect was only their sect master, who had reached Great Completion Qi Creation Realm.

Where had they gotten the courage to make a move against an Ancient Dragon Ape at Creation Realm Minor Completion?

Chen Xuan was not in a hurry either.

He simply wanted to see how they would pull off the heroic feat of snatching food from a tiger's mouth, then get hammered to death by the Ancient Dragon Ape.

After night fell.

The people of the Ancient Sword Sect finally began to act.

They split into two groups.

Chen Xuan saw through it at a glance. They wanted to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

The idea was decent.

But facing such a berserk giant beast.

All he could say was that they were truly insane!

One team from the Ancient Sword Sect lured the Ancient Dragon Ape away.

The other team took the Ten Thousand Beast Fruits.

As the Ten Thousand Beast Fruits disappeared.

In an instant, an earth-shaking roar rang out through the Ancient Ruined Ravine.

Then that enormous figure turned back.

Seeing that the Ten Thousand Beast Fruits were gone.

The Ancient Dragon Ape raised its head and roared furiously at the sky.

Within that roar was boundless savagery and rage.

It was as if even the ground began to tremble.

Afterward, it charged madly toward the north.

Its speed was very fast.

Chen Xuan followed closely behind as well.

The Ancient Dragon Ape caused a huge commotion.

It drew quite a bit of attention.

"Good heavens, what's wrong with that Ancient Dragon Ape? It looks like someone just stole its peaches!"

"No idea which unlucky bastard went and provoked it."

"Judging by the direction it's heading, it seems to be the Ancient Sword Sect!"

"Those bastards from the Ancient Sword Sect—what did they do to it?"

"Don't tell me the Ancient Sword Sect stole its Ten Thousand Beast Fruit?"

"Those bastards can court death all they want, but don't drag us down with them!"

In the past, the Ancient Sword Sect had been used to throwing its weight around within a hundred li.

No one dared say a word against them.

But today was different from before.

They dared steal from the Ancient Dragon Ape, a colossal ancient beast at Creation Realm Minor Completion.

Was that not the same as seeking death?

So when people spoke now, they no longer held back much.

And at that moment, the three elders of the Ancient Sword Sect

had already returned to the sect.

Sect Master Liu Ku swept his sleeve, and tens of thousands of Pure Yuan Pills flew out from his Cosmos Sack.

They circled above the heads of the Ancient Sword Sect disciples.

Liu Ku ordered, "All disciples, hurry to the Ancient Sword Grand Formation, refine the pills, gather your Yuan Power, and prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Yes!"

The disciples received the pills, went to the area around the stone sword at the mountain gate, and sat down cross-legged.

"Two junior brothers, once I refine the Ten Thousand Beast Fruit and break through to the Creation Realm, I'll come out and deal with that beast!"

Liu Ku gave instructions to the gray-robed elder and the red-haired elder beside him.

He was at Great Accomplishment of the Qi Creation Realm, the closest among the three of them to the Creation Realm.

He was the one with the greatest hope of quickly breaking through to the Creation Realm!

"Good!"

The two of them nodded.

Liu Ku hurriedly took the Ten Thousand Beast Fruit and headed toward the main hall.

However, just as he had reached the main hall and was about to consume the Ten Thousand Beast Fruit, a young figure

suddenly appeared before Liu Ku.

Liu Ku was startled.

But seeing the way he was dressed, he thought the youth was a disciple of the Ancient Sword Sect.

He immediately barked, "What are you standing here for? Hurry to the mountain gate and help!"

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