Qi Refinement Great Cultivator

"Take this punch!"

Xu Fan let out a loud shout and threw a feint!

As he punched, he instantly activated the Golden Sword Talisman, locking onto the scholar, the strongest of the three.

"Third Brother, watch-"

The scholar in the lead was about to warn him when he realized that a keen Sword Qi had locked onto him. His expression changed drastically.

A streak of golden Sword Qi flashed past, cleaving the scholar in two in an instant. Blood gushed out!

"D-demonic art?"

At the sight, Yuan Er's expression changed drastically, and he shouted:

"Third Brother, quick, let's attack together!"

The fat man in the loose robe struck the force of the punch aside with his palm. Hearing Yuan Er, he leaped up and bore down with the force of Mount Tai!

The True Intention of his palm technique and his True Qi swept in every direction. Fierce winds howled, and even the ground rapidly sank beneath him as he displayed the full might of a Grandmaster at the Greater Mastery Stage!

A ribbon of silvery-white light suddenly met him head-on.

Boom!

Violent energy swept out in all directions!

It sank the small island, and lake water rushed in.

The two figures broke apart as soon as they clashed, each putting some distance between them.

"Splendid."

Xu Fan glanced at Yuan Er, who had already fled over a thousand meters away, and chuckled as he lightly rubbed his palms.

Yuan Er had called for them to attack together, only to abandon the fat man and flee for his life alone. He truly had been decisive.

Still, that saved Xu Fan a great deal of trouble.

Even now that he had reached Fetal Breathing Peak, it was still very difficult for him to kill a Grandmaster at the Greater Mastery Stage without relying on any outside help.

He had only one Spirit Turtle Talisman left on him, and his sole offensive talisman had already been used up.

"What kind of demonic art is that?"

The fat man in the loose robe dared not let his attention wander. He glanced at his deathly pale, stiff right hand, and his hefty body trembled involuntarily.

That Yin Sha power had ignored his protective True Qi and crippled his right hand outright.

He had never heard of such a method.

Could it really be a demonic art?

The person before him was nothing like a Grandmaster, and he could discern no pattern in his methods.

That power was neither Qi and Blood nor True Qi, but a completely different and strange force.

"Why can't it be an immortal art?"

Xu Fan countered, never pausing in his movements or giving him a chance to catch his breath.

The Golden Light Technique and Yin Sha Mysterious Light erupted together!

He then used the Divine Movement Technique to move around the battlefield. After a dozen or so breaths, the fat man's body finally crashed to the ground, unwilling to accept his fate.

"Gluttony Evil Desire Instruction? Azure Origin Spirit-Concentrating Art?"

After looting the two men, Xu Fan picked up the two Cultivation Methods. The [Taiji Dao Evolution Diagram] appeared in his eyes and recorded them.

Both were Higher Vehicle martial arts. Although neither could be cultivated to the Divine Intention Great Grandmaster level, they were still decent.

"Once I become a Qi Refinement great cultivator, I'll settle accounts with every one of them!"

Xu Fan hacked the corpses into pieces and threw them all into the lake to feed the fish.

He turned and leaped away, heading toward another island in the lake.

A full moon hung in the sky.

Silvery light spilled down, and ripples shimmered across Peach Blossom Spring Lake.

Xu Fan sat cross-legged on a massive rock, moonlight shining on him and two jade bottles placed before him.

Hoo~

After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Fetal Breathing Peak. My reserves are full; it's time to refine Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi."

His essence, Qi and spirit had now reached perfection, all at their peak. It was time to break through!

The [Plain Luminary Supreme Yin Wondrous Instruction] stated: "Emperor Flow Serum is the essence of the supreme yin, while Moonlight Yin Qi is drawn from the moon. Refine the two together, and supreme yin will arise of its own accord."

Law Power circulated throughout his body as he refined the Emperor Flow Serum and Moonlight Yin Qi in his hands. His presence gradually became unstable.

By the time it had completed eighty-one full cycles,

Xu Fan's presence suddenly soared. The moonlight in the sky seemed to be drawn to him, gathering around him of its own accord and bathing the surroundings in its glow.

The Law Power circulating through his body turned silvery white, its power far surpassing that of Fetal Breathing!

Whoosh!

Xu Fan opened his eyes and flicked a finger.

A streak of Law Power skimmed across the lake, instantly parting the water in two and revealing the lake bed clearly.

"A Qi Refinement great cultivator truly is terrifying."

After the breakthrough, both the quality and quantity of the Law Power in his body far exceeded those at the Embryonic Breathing Realm. The two simply could not be compared.

No wonder he had never heard of a genius in the Land of Wu killing someone above their level. He had only heard of higher and lower cultivators fighting on equal terms. So this was why.

With a gulf between realms like that, he too would choose the soft persimmons to squeeze.

"The strength of my Divine Sense also far exceeds my spiritual sense, and it's more active."

He sensed it briefly and swept his Divine Sense around at will, nodding in satisfaction.

Spiritual sense could not attack and served only as an aid, but Divine Sense could kill without a trace.

Of course, that was assuming the other person's cultivation and Divine Sense were weaker than yours.

"I wonder how it compares to a Divine Intention Great Grandmaster's?"

He still greatly coveted a Divine Intention Great Grandmaster's ability to seek out enemies a thousand li away.

Since he could not readily use supreme yin Law Power in the Land of Wu, he would travel about using his cultivation in this world's martial Dao!

"I'll start with that demon fish in the lake!"

A sweep of his Divine Sense quickly located the demon fish at the center of the lake bed. He immediately rose on the wind and walked through the air.

"Riding the wind and traversing the void-now that's a true immortal."

In less than a quarter of an hour, he crossed several hundred li and arrived above the center of the lake.

He flicked a finger, sending a Golden Light Technique into the lake.

As blood welled up on the surface, the depths churned. Before long, the corpse of a fish over ten meters long floated to the surface.

"So this is a Demon Beast's inner core?"

Xu Fan split open the demon fish's skull, took out an inner core the size of a fist, and examined it closely.

Whether in the Land of Wu or the martial world, demons had inner cores, and their intelligence was no less than that of humans.

In the Land of Wu, inner cores were highly valuable, excellent materials for refining pills and crafting artifacts.

"I'll keep it for now."

He casually put the inner core into his Storage Bag. With a thought, the [Taiji Dao Evolution Diagram] appeared deep in his eyes and absorbed the entire demon fish.

"Kill another three or five Demon Beasts, and it'll be fully charged."

Xu Fan turned his gaze to the Yin Mountains across Peach Blossom Spring Lake. He could faintly sense the presence of three demons, all considerably stronger than this demon fish.

"I'll lie low for a while, then master another spell. Once it's charged, I'll pay the Han Household another visit."

He and the Han Household were already locked in a fight to the death, so naturally he had no reason to spare them.

Even if the Han Household had a Hidden Dragon Ranking genius who had joined Saber-Nurturing Valley, he would kill them all the same.

A genius?

Who wasn't a genius?

Bingzhou.

The Mu Household.

"You're saying Xu Fan has hidden himself away at Peach Blossom Spring Lake again?"

Mu Yunyang frowned and stared at Yuan Er.

"You Three Heroes of the Yin Mountains were all at Innate Major Accomplishment, yet two died and one fled?"

How was that possible?

A little over two months ago, Xu Fan had steadily lost ground against him and escaped his grasp only through despicable means.

Now he could kill experts at Innate Major Accomplishment?

The Three Heroes of the Yin Mountains had killed someone at Innate Major Accomplishment before. They were no ordinary fighters.

Even he would have to be careful facing them alone, and might not be able to defeat them unscathed.

Much less leave two of the Three Heroes dead and one fleeing.

"Young Master Mu, it's absolutely true!"

"Before the three of us brothers could even make a move, Xu Fan killed one of us with a demonic art. Third Brother and I couldn't beat him in the end, so we fled separately."

"My Movement Method was the best, so I managed to escape!"

Yuan Er nodded hurriedly and embellished the account, especially that golden Sword Qi, which had been utterly chilling.

He was the only one left now, and had no chance of killing Xu Fan on his own. He could only rely on the Mu Household.

An old man with white hair and beard, dressed in splendid robes, had appeared beside the two of them at some unknown point. He spoke in an even tone:

"Xu Fan's 'spirit' has indeed become clearer. I'll make the trip, then."

"Anyone may execute a practitioner of the Wedding Robe Divine Art."