Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Zhang Hongwen shuddered, snapping back to reality.

Without a second thought, he knelt on the ground, crying out, "Master!"

Zhang Hongwen had no idea why Li Xuanji had suddenly passed away while divining the Heavenly Secrets.

But he was very clear that he could not extricate himself from the incident!

Although Li Xuanji was a Golden Core True Person approaching the end of his life, his seniority was unmatched in all of Five Peaks Mountain.

And only a few of the Five Peaks Mountain\'s senior figures knew of his existence.

To extend his lifespan as much as possible,

Li Xuanji would only personally take action when Five Peaks Mountain faced an existential threat.

His intervention would surely be the final strike!

The issue was that while divining the Heavenly Secrets could shorten one\'s life and cultivation, the Golden Core True Person would certainly not lose his life because of it.

Unless the target of his divination...

Fear gripped Zhang Hongwen\'s heart. He was both shocked and frightened, with hot tears rolling down.

"Stand up and speak!"

The person who appeared beside Zhang Hongwen was a beautiful woman dressed in Rainbow Feather Clothes. Her phoenix eyes held a lethal glare, her expression as frosty as the cold, her gaze piercing through Zhang Hongwen like a sharp sword, penetrating his Divine Soul.

"Do not behave like a child!"

Zhang Hongwen hurriedly got to his feet and, without waiting for her to ask, recounted the whole series of events from beginning to end.

"I am willing to take a blood oath that not a single word I\'ve said is false!"

The matter was too grave; a minor Purple Mansion cultivator like him couldn\'t possibly bear it!

The woman in Rainbow Feather Clothes fell silent for a long time before saying, "Leave now. Do not tell anyone about this matter. I will explain it to the Sect Leader myself."

The passing of Li Xuanji was a major event, touching the very foundation of the Taoist Vein of Five Peaks Mountain.

If Zhang Hongwen were not her personal disciple, and were any other Purple Mansion Superior, she would have taken action immediately!

But no other Purple Mansion, even if they knelt until their knees broke, could make Li Xuanji take action to divine the Heavenly Secrets.

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Zhang Hongwen felt like he had been granted a great reprieve and immediately exited Li Xuanji\'s Cave Mansion.

As he stepped out, he stumbled, nearly falling to the ground.

The woman in Rainbow Feather Clothes watched Zhang Hongwen leave, her eyes turning indifferent and frosty.

With a flick of her cloud sleeve, the entrance of the Cave Mansion closed silently.

Her gaze then returned to Li Xuanji, who was seated on the cloud couch.

His skin radiated a luster like jade, resembling a frozen statue, a typical feature of a Golden Core\'s passing.

A hint of bitterness crossed the woman\'s face, "Great-Great-Uncle..."

Liu Yingxiu was her most beloved disciple, and she had intended to take her as a true disciple after Liu Yingxiu\'s Breakthrough Mansion.

The sudden loss of Liu Yingxiu caused her immense pain as she also sought to find the perpetrator.

She had never imagined that it would lead to Li Xuanji\'s premature demise!

What kind of person was the fiend that plotted against Liu Yingxiu to cause such a devastating price to be paid by a Golden Core True Person?

The woman in Rainbow Feather Clothes dared not even think further on it.

She too had once practiced the Heavenly Secret Technique and knew well the risks of divining the Heavenly Secrets!

Five Peaks Mountain could no longer withstand such turbulence.

"Achoo!"

In the secret chamber beneath Dongwu Stockade, Wang Chen, who was refining a Flying Sword, suddenly sneezed.

[Heavenly Merit -10]

Hmm?

The sudden appearance of the message in his field of vision startled him.

Again?

Long ago, Wang Chen had experienced this bizarre loss of Heavenly Merit for no apparent reason.

He sneezed, and then his Heavenly Merit decreased.

And last time, it only decreased by 1 point.

This time, it\'s actually 10 points!

Damn it all!

Heavenly Merit is much harder to earn than Human Virtue.

Previously, the conflict between Wang Chen and the cultivators of Five Peaks Mountain yielded only 9 points of Heavenly Merit after an intense fight.

When Liu Yingxiu, who had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Cultivation, self-destructed in the end, he didn\'t gain any Heavenly Merit.

Now, to suddenly lose 10 points felt like a loss of a billion!

But unlike the last time when Heavenly Merit was suddenly deducted, Wang Chen now suspected that the reason this happened was because a high-tier cultivator had used the Heavenly Secret Technique to calculate on him.

Then, his cheat, which is the Immortal Cultivation panel, blocked it!

If such a guess is true, then the deduction of Heavenly Merit is completely reasonable.

Upon reflection, this speculation also makes sense.

Before the first deduction of Heavenly Merit, he had killed a second-generation cultivator from the Cloud Sun Sect.

This time, he even took out a Golden Core seed from Five Peaks Mountain.

It\'s quite normal to be pursued by someone using the Heavenly Secret Technique.

Maybe it was the Golden Core who took action!

The more Wang Chen thought about it, the more he felt he had uncovered the truth.

Doesn\'t this mean that, as long as he has enough Heavenly Merit, he can ignore anyone\'s calculations?

Wang Chen immediately felt greatly assured in his heart.

Thousand Mechanisms Changing can perfectly disguise one\'s appearance, and the Stealth Breath Technique can hide a cultivator\'s true identity.

If even the Heavenly Secret Technique could be exempted.

Then he could boldly do some things he wanted to do!

With this thought in mind, Wang Chen\'s spirits were lifted, and he put all his effort into dealing with the Flying Sword in his hands.

This second-tier Flying Sword, long cultivated by Liu Yingxiu, had lost its Sword Spirit, but within the sword, the imprint she left behind was still sealed.

Such imprints are like candles in the dark, extremely conspicuous.

Without completely erasing them, it would be difficult for Wang Chen to control this Flying Sword, and once used, it would be easily recognized by people from Five Peaks Mountain.

Then his identity would certainly be exposed!

With great patience and perseverance, like an ant gnawing on a bone, Wang Chen repeatedly infused his mana into the sword body.

He imbued his own aura into the Sword Spirit, bit by bit erasing the marks of the previous sword master.

At the beginning, the resistance from the Flying Sword was quite fierce.

But as time passed, Wang Chen\'s cultivation of this second-tier Flying Sword became deeper and deeper.

Three days later.

Hum~

Accompanied by a humming sound, the Flying Sword, glowing with a faint blue light on the surface, circled around Wang Chen twice in an instant, then obediently landed in his hands.

Wang Chen couldn\'t help but feel a great sense of satisfaction.

All this time, he had been confined in an underground chamber, relentlessly cultivating this Flying Sword day and night.

Now, at last, his hard work had paid off!

The imprints Liu Yingxiu left in the Sword Spirit had been completely erased, with no traces left.

And replaced with Wang Chen\'s own.

Though the time spent cultivating it wasn\'t long, he now wielded it as if it were an extension of his own body, and even if he couldn\'t yet unleash the full power of this second-tier Flying Sword, it was still far stronger than the Fire Crow Sword.

And the information sealed within the core of the Sword Spirit gave Wang Chen a deeper understanding of it.

This second-tier Flying Sword was a superior-grade Spiritual Artifact named Wind Thunder Sword, possessing the special powers of Wind Riding and Coagulating Thunder.

Moreover, as long as it continued to absorb the power of wind and thunder, its might could be further enhanced!

Most importantly, the Wind Thunder Sword was highly compatible with the Thunderbolt Sword Technique that Wang Chen practiced.

What he wanted to do most now was to head out to a deserted open area and test just how much of a boost in combat power he would get by wielding the Wind Thunder Sword and performing the Thunderbolt Sword Technique!

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