The crowd watching from afar gasped in surprise. No one had expected such a turn of events; it was incredibly thrilling, more exciting than a movie.
In particular, at the end, Wang Hao actually used his blood energy to condense nine blood swords, and with just one move, he defeated the enemy with a sweeping force.
If he had used this move from the beginning, his opponent would probably have been defeated long ago.
However, this move still put a great strain on Wang Hao's body, not much less than the backlash from some forbidden techniques. If Li Zhiheng hadn't been so cunning, he wouldn't have wanted to use it.
Looking down at Li Zhiheng at his feet, Wang Hao waved his right hand, and the Yin-Yang Profound Iron Sword Embryo, which was dozens of meters away, flew back on its own and was grasped in his hand.
"Boy, don't go too far in everything, it won't do you any good." The voice of the Azure Demon Daoist rang in Wang Hao's mind; this was a spiritual transmission.
Wang Hao grinned and said, "Tell me everything you know, and I might consider making you my servant."
"Boy, you've gone too far!" Even though he was a remnant soul, Qingmo Daoren still had his pride. He then prepared to perish together with Wang Hao, and a powerful spiritual pressure surged out, directly rushing into Wang Hao's spiritual platform.
"Hmph, trying to possess me? How laughable."
Although Wang Hao's spiritual consciousness had only recently been formed, he possessed an immense number of cultivation techniques, and its strength was already terrifying when it was first formed.
With a thought, his spiritual consciousness transformed into an unparalleled immortal sword, which he slashed at the black clouds surging in front of him.
"ah!"
With a scream, the spiritual consciousness of the Green Demon Daoist receded rapidly like a tide, revealing his true form: an extremely lewd old man wearing a green robe.
Wang Hao slowly approached, while Qingmo Daoren huddled in a corner, his eyes filled with terror. He simply couldn't understand how a young man in his twenties could be so terrifying.
"Since you're so stubborn, then I'll have to resort to soul searching." Wang Hao sneered, and as he spoke, his spiritual sense swept over him in an overwhelming manner.
Terrified, the Green Demon Daoist hurriedly cried out, "Don't kill me! I'll tell you everything I know. If you kill me, you'll definitely regret it!"
Wang Hao raised an eyebrow and said indifferently, "I'll give you one last chance: become my servant, sign the slave contract, or die."
The Green Demon Daoist hesitated, weighing the options in his mind. Wang Hao's behavior was not like that of a young man in his early twenties at all. Moreover, he acted with great experience and decisiveness.
"Okay, but I have one request..."
Wang Hao waved his hand and said indifferently, "You have no right to make demands. Either submit or die. You have ten seconds left."
The Green Demon Daoist's face was extremely ugly; he hadn't expected Wang Hao's attitude to be so firm.
"If I still had my cultivation, how could I have been forced to this point by a mere Qi Refining Realm brat?"
Wang Hao, observing the constantly changing expression of the Azure Demon Daoist, naturally knew what he was thinking. However, Wang Hao didn't care; within his own sea of consciousness, the Azure Demon Daoist couldn't pull any tricks.
With the countdown about to end, Qingmo Daoren gritted his teeth, stamped his foot, and said, "Fine, I submit."
As he spoke, he abandoned his defenses against his own spiritual sense. Wang Hao nodded in satisfaction at his decisiveness, and then a red contract slave seal condensed.
The Azure Demon Daoist was also quite decisive, directly merging the slave seal into his spiritual consciousness. His body trembled, and his aura weakened.
Wang Hao waved his hand, driving away his spiritual consciousness, and then said to the unconscious Li Zhiheng, "Just possess him directly. I don't want to see this person."
Although he was speaking to Li Zhiheng, Qingmo Daoren could definitely hear him. However, Qingmo Daoren then transmitted his voice, saying, "Master, I cannot possess him yet."
"This person's body contains another power, which seems to be a fusion of the blood of every strong person. Moreover, his body has been modified and does not yet meet the conditions for possession."
Wang Hao raised an eyebrow and immediately guessed what had happened. It must be that the female cultivator in Shennongjia had her blood drawn again, but this time it was injected into Li Zhiheng's body.
"Just keep an eye on him." Wang Hao waved his hand impatiently, then found his parents in the distance and was relieved to see that they were not injured.
To his surprise, his parents were not at all surprised by his abilities. They just told him to be careful in the future, as they were old and couldn't help him much.
Although Wang Hao was surprised, he did not ask any further questions. However, he planned to refine a batch of health-preserving pills before heading to Tianxing, so that his parents could be healthier and have their lifespans extended.
That night, after Wang Hao took his parents home, he learned from Qingmo Daoren that there were many remnant souls like him in Tianxing, but most of them had fallen into a deep sleep.
Even if some of them wake up, they are in a daze, like lost souls. Those who have regained consciousness and intelligence like him are extremely rare. As far as he knows, there are no more than ten of them.
Furthermore, according to Qingmo Daoren, he knows the hidden opportunities in many dangerous places in Tianxing, including storage rings left behind by powerful cultivators after their deaths, as well as thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.
However, those places are very dangerous. If Wang Hao goes there with his current strength, he will only be throwing his life away, because those places seem to have experienced some kind of great battle, and there are still many terrifying supernatural powers remaining there.
Now Wang Hao was even more curious about what Tianxing was. He planned to prepare himself for the next two months and take this opportunity to cultivate several more Dao techniques.
Furthermore, he must fully comprehend the sword technique in the wordless sword manual, including his own sword intent. Although he is currently clear about his sword mind, he hopes to return to the state of oneness with the sword.
Then Wang Hao could fight against a martial artist in the late stage of the Profound Realm without being defeated. Of course, he could only maintain an undefeated state. He would not be able to defeat a martial artist in the late stage of the Profound Realm.
Therefore, his cultivation level must break through again, advancing to the second level of Qi Refining, or even the third level of Qi Refining, reaching the peak of the early stage of Qi Refining or even the middle stage of Qi Refining, in order to have a chance to defeat someone in the late stage of the Profound Realm.
Wang Hao instructed Qingmo Daoren to keep an eye on Li Zhiheng, and then gave him a list of medicinal herbs, instructing Qingmo Daoren to collect them within two months, with a promise.
If Qingmo Daoren performs his duties effectively, it's not impossible to give him a spirit stone to help him recover some of his strength.
This made Qingmo Daoist extremely happy. He never expected that Wang Hao would have spirit stones in his hands. Now that he thought about it, becoming a servant didn't seem as bad as he had imagined.
After dismissing the Green Demon Daoist, Wang Hao returned to his residence. Although he was curious about what was inside his dantian, he needed to heal his injuries first.
The following afternoon, as Wang Hao awoke, the last spirit stone that Han Shuo had brought finally exhausted its spiritual energy, turning into a wisp of ashes and dissipating into the air.
"The spirit stones in my storage ring should be enough to support my cultivation up to the late stage of Qi Refining, barring any unforeseen circumstances."
Wang Hao muttered to himself, but once he went to Tianxing, some unexpected things were bound to happen. However, at the moment, he needed to look inward and see what was in his dantian.
As his spiritual senses penetrated deeper, he finally saw inside his body. After two rounds of cleansing and purification, the blood in Wang Hao's body was incredibly bright red, and his metabolism was extremely fast.
Even his bones were emitting a faint glow, his bodily functions were much stronger than before, and his long-stagnant martial arts cultivation was slowly increasing. It wouldn't be long before he could break through to the mid-stage of the Yellow Realm.
Wang Hao had never understood why Shi Mengqi couldn't cultivate both immortality and martial arts like him, while those low-level breathing technique practitioners could.
However, when his spiritual consciousness entered his dantian, Wang Hao finally understood why he could cultivate both immortality and martial arts, and he was also somewhat surprised.
The first thing that catches the eye is a green seed, only about an inch in size, with fine, mysterious lines on its surface, and it exudes an ancient charm.
Wang Hao's expression brightened with joy, and he murmured, "I never expected that the seed of the Primordial Chaos Green Lotus would be in my dantian all along. Could it be that Zi Yue wants this?"
"But that's not right. This seed should have formed after I destroyed the Ancient Chaos Green Lotus, and its effect is not as good as the mature Ancient Chaos Green Lotus."
Wang Hao shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Then, he saw many fragments of weapons, which he didn't know when they had been absorbed into his dantian.
Although these were the weapons used by those who attacked him back then, they have now lost all their spirituality. However, they can still be used again because the Yin-Yang Profound Iron Sword Embryo can absorb weapons to increase its own level.
With a thought, Wang Hao moved over a hundred weapon fragments out of his dantian, and then placed the Yin-Yang Profound Iron Sword Embryo into the fragments, just as expected.
The sword embryo emitted a black and white divine light, slowly drawing the surrounding weapon fragments into its blade.
Wang Hao withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention. As the fragments of weapons disappeared, his dantian finally returned to its "clean" state, with only a blue seed quietly floating there.
"I can cultivate both immortal and martial arts, could it be related to the Ancient Chaos Green Lotus Seed?" Wang Hao carefully sensed it and found that the spiritual energy in his body did not intersect with the Green Lotus Seed.
However, when he covered his entire dantian with his spiritual sense, he discovered a patch of pale yellow mist in a corner, blocking his spiritual sense from entering.
When the spiritual consciousness came into contact with the yellow mist, it made a "sizzling" sound, and that wisp of spiritual consciousness was rapidly dissolving.
This startled Wang Hao, who immediately severed his connection with that wisp of spiritual consciousness. This was the first time he had ever seen such a situation, and he stood in front of the yellow mist to observe it carefully.
He discovered that the mist was like a large curtain, occupying a quarter of his dantian, but it did not cause him any harm. However, when his spiritual sense touched the mist...
Ripples would appear, and spiritual consciousness would rapidly dissolve. At the same time, a chaotic and extremely violent Daoist aura emanated from the curtain, leaving Wang Hao completely baffled.
"This chaotic feeling...it seems familiar," Wang Hao murmured, while also being surprised to discover that his ability to cultivate both immortal and martial arts seemed to be related to this yellow mist.
Because after the spiritual energy and true energy flow into the dantian, they are absorbed by this yellow mist, and then flow to all parts of the body through two different routes.
Furthermore, the spiritual energy and true energy that are absorbed are much purer and of higher quality when they flow out again, and even the operation of the cultivation technique is smoother.
Wang Hao's spiritual consciousness coalesced into his own image, and he stood in front of the yellow curtain for a long time, but he still couldn't figure out what it was. However, there was one thing he was certain of.
At the center of this yellow curtain, there must be a treasure that even he has never seen before, and this treasure may be what Zi Yue wants to obtain.
Just as he was deep in thought, he suddenly sensed his phone ringing. He put aside his doubts and his spiritual consciousness withdrew from his body like a tide, returning to his spiritual platform.
As soon as he answered the phone, he heard his old colleague Liu Jinlin say, "Kid, I've already negotiated with the higher-ups at the Burning Lamp Academy. You can enter the academy."
"However, you need to participate in some competitions and enter the academy as the winner. As long as you win first place, the cultivation resources you will receive will be very generous."
Wang Hao nodded, all of this was within his expectations. He smiled and agreed, and learned that the departure time was set for two months later. During these two months, Liu Jinlin asked him to handle the relevant matters on Earth.
After hanging up the phone, Wang Hao felt a little melancholy. He looked at the empty living room and found that the weapon fragments around the sword embryo had disappeared, and the Yin-Yang Profound Iron Sword Embryo was emitting the aura of a top-grade magic weapon.
Cultivators' weapons are divided into treasure weapons, magic weapons, spiritual weapons, divine weapons, Dao weapons, and immortal weapons. Each level is further divided into four stages: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.
The Yin-Yang Xuan Iron Sword Embryo, a top-tier treasure, was more than enough for Wang Hao to use, and when combined with spiritual energy, it allowed him to unleash even more powerful sword techniques.
He planned to use these two months to put the two Foundation Establishment Pills into the Earth Cauldron and refine them again. With the wonders of the Earth Cauldron, as long as the materials were sufficient, the quality of the pills could be improved.
At the same time, one must also comprehend the second sword technique in the wordless sword manual, and attempt to decipher the scribbled symbols on the silver animal skin scroll obtained at the foot of Mount Tai.
There was also a jade slip related to the Ram-Headed God. Wang Hao vaguely felt that this jade slip might contain some secrets. At this moment, he missed the female ghost a little.
If the female cultivator's remnant soul could pull him back into the consciousness space, he would have ample time to accomplish these tasks and even improve his cultivation.
......
Time flies. In the past two months, only Li Zhiheng came to see him once, bringing many herbs and materials for refining weapons, all of which were ordered by Wang Hao.
Although Li Zhiheng has regained consciousness, he is still under the control of Qingmo Daoren. Moreover, after the last battle, Wang Hao has become his inner demon, and he will live in Wang Hao's shadow for the rest of his life.
Two months later, on the day of departure, Wang Hao said goodbye to his parents and then took Li Zhiheng to find his old colleague Liu Jinlin, preparing to go to the South Suburb Airport together.
When Liu Jinlin learned that Li Zhiheng, who was at the Qi Refining Realm, was actually Wang Hao's subordinate, he was truly shocked. After all, such a young Qi Refining Realm cultivator would be considered a prodigy anywhere.
However, he didn't ask any further questions. After all, everyone has their own secrets, and those who can go to Tianxing are all geniuses. Bringing one or two servants is also allowed.
The three arrived at the airport, boarded a square spaceship, and a moment later, with a roar, the spaceship slowly rose into the air and flew towards Tianxing, looking at the scenery outside the window.
Wang Hao's mood gradually became excited. He learned from Liu Jinlin that the Ancient City of the Netherworld was 120,000 miles long, with a vast territory and abundant true energy.
The ancient city has five gates, each corresponding to one of the five academies. The Burning Lamp Academy is adjacent to the Dragon and Phoenix Academy and together they guard the east gate of the ancient city. The other four academies each guard one gate.
Because outside the Ancient City of the Netherworld lies the territory of many ferocious beasts, with extremely complex terrain and vast mountains inhabited by hundreds of millions of ferocious beasts.
Besides the five major martial arts holy lands, there are many other organizations based in Tianxing, but their bases or academies are all located near the gates of different ancient cities.
This was done to prevent ferocious beasts from entering the Ancient City of the Netherworld and slaughtering the people of Tianxing, and also to facilitate the disciples in the training academy.
The academy of Tianxing almost completely imitated the ancient sect system, and most of the buildings in the Minghuang Ancient City were also the same as in ancient times.
Of course, these are all well-preserved ancient buildings, while many ruins have been demolished and rebuilt, with high-rise buildings erected, separating the old town from the new town.
The ferocious beasts on the celestial star would attack the ancient city of Minghuang every few days, which led the five great nations to join forces and spend a huge sum of money to build modern firearms on the city walls.
There are hundreds of energy cannons of various types on each city wall. Most importantly, there are no ordinary people on Tianxing; they are all martial artists.
Although over 90% of them are Yellow Realm warriors, they are still the main defensive force on Tianxing.
After two months of arduous cultivation, Wang Hao successfully broke through to the second level of Qi Refining. The two Foundation Establishment Pills in the cauldron actually fused together, and their medicinal power was many times greater than before.
Wang Hao successfully repaired the damaged magical artifacts, at the cost of three spirit stones. However, with these artifacts, Wang Hao should now be able to compete with the late-stage Xuan Realm expert, Beitong.
As for the ram-headed jade slip and the silver animal skin talisman, Wang Hao still couldn't understand them. He only vaguely felt that the former contained a powerful cultivation technique.
On the silver animal hide, according to Wang Hao's speculation and analysis, the patterns arranged seemed to record a certain place, but it was not complete.
Looking at the starry sky outside, Wang Hao suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He remembered the animal skin with six cranes soaring into the sky painted on it in his storage ring. He made up an excuse and went to the bathroom.
He hurriedly took out the animal hide and his own deductions about the graffiti, and after comparing them, he placed the two over each other. Sure enough, the images gradually overlapped.
A glint flashed in Wang Hao's eyes as he looked at the overlapping images before him. He quickly expanded his spiritual sense, memorized the patterns, and then murmured, "It's still a bit lacking."
"There should be four copies of this map in total. I only got two of them, and I can only tell that it is a map. I'll find an opportunity to ask Qingmo Daoren and see if he knows anything about it."
Wang Hao packed up his things and went back. By this time, the spaceship had entered the range of Tianxing. Although Earth and Tianxing were far apart, human technology had already developed wormhole jumping.
The ship was filled with young talents heading to Tianxing to report for duty, and they were all incredibly proud. However, when the ship flew over the Ancient City of the Underworld, everyone was stunned by the sight below.
At a glance, the ground is covered with densely packed ancient buildings, including glazed pagodas built in deep valleys, pavilions built on cliff edges, and martial arts training platforms built on mountain peaks.
There are even all sorts of strange and ferocious beasts, which have been tamed by powerful humans and can be used as battle pets or as means of transportation.
On the other side, there are modern buildings towering into the clouds and various hovercars flying in the sky, a stark contrast to the old town we just saw.
Even before entering the Ancient City of the Netherworld, one could already feel an overwhelming and majestic aura emanating from it.
The spaceship finally stopped in front of a light screen. Wang Hao looked closely and immediately understood the details of the light screen, because there were fluctuations of an array within it, but also traces of modern technology.
This is a defensive formation that combines a remnant of an ancient formation with modern techniques. According to Wang Hao's guess, this formation is estimated to be able to block cultivators at the Golden Core stage.
The spaceship hovered above the city's protective formation for a moment, and then saw seven beams of light shooting up from the tops of the seven towers located in seven directions, forming a huge formation.
"Boom!"
At the edge of the formation, a gate of illusory light, more than a thousand meters long, was opened.
As the spaceship entered, the gate of light slowly closed. After disembarking, Liu Jinlin led Wang Hao and the other person towards the Burning Lamp Academy in the ancient city.
It has to be said that the location of the Burning Lamp Academy was not very good. Under Liu Jinlin's guidance, the three of them passed through smoothly and entered the Burning Lamp Academy in no time.
As soon as you enter, you will see four powerful characters carved on the cliff south of Black Stone Square: “West Courtyard Martial Arts Arena”.
Each character, seven meters long, is deeply embedded in the stone wall, containing a powerful sword intent.
It appears to be the work of a supreme expert who used a sword to carve the words on the stone wall.
"The person who carved these four characters must have cultivated their sword intent to the level of sword heart clarity," Wang Hao thought to himself.
Wang Hao originally thought that there would be one or two people on the spaceship who had joined the Burning Lamp Academy like him, but now it seems that there are none.
This shows that cultivation techniques have truly fallen out of favor in Tianxing. Everyone has turned to martial arts, and many people are only using breathing techniques as an auxiliary means of cultivation.
Just as Wang Hao was lamenting that he didn't even have a single companion, Liu Jinlin said from the side, "The competition I'm talking about is the entrance competition. Don't think you have no opponents."
"That's because you arrived the latest. The other freshmen arrived much earlier. Among them, three are from Earth, and the rest are all native to Tianxing."
"The Burning Lamp Academy is divided into four academies: East, South, West, and North. It is also divided into an outer academy and an inner academy. Only when you break through to the mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm can you spar with the disciples of the other three academies."
Wang Hao nodded, and then went through the relevant procedures with Liu Jinlin. They stayed overnight in the outer courtyard, quietly waiting for the entrance competition to begin the next day.
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