Once an intense battle breaks out, even a slight vigorous movement will tear clothes made of ordinary fabric.

It's really hard on the clothes.

Chen Xuzi did not answer Lu Ren's words and observed closely: "After your Bright Awakening, did you cultivate the Horizontal Training True Skill?"

Thinking of this, he pulled out a small dark golden sword from his sleeve. To Lu Ren, this sword seemed like an accessory. Chen Xuzi began chanting softly and pointed at the small sword lying in his hand with one finger.

Huh?

Lu Ren's eyes narrowed slightly. The Qi around Chen Xuzi was changing; a substantial energy emerged from his body and poured into that golden sword.

Can the human body really manipulate usable, tangible energy?

Lu Ren felt a slight shock in his heart, as if a great door suddenly opened before him.

Buzz!

With a soft hum, the small dark golden sword in Chen Xuzi's palm vibrated twice and suddenly floated into the air.

"Sword Control Technique?!"

Beside him, Li Changming blurted out, then quickly denied it.

"No, if it were truly the Sword Control Technique I imagine, it definitely wouldn't be like this."

It seemed that Chen Xuzi expended effort to control the sword, as a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. After finishing his incantation, he glanced at Lu Ren, tossed the sword, and shouted loudly.

"Go!"

Clang!

With a sword's hum, that sword flew like a shooting star, expanding rapidly during its motion. At a range of three meters from Lu Ren, it transformed into a normal-sized longsword and shot toward him.

Lu Ren's expression was solemn. His right hand was already on the hilt, and, seeing this, he drew his longsword. The pressure accumulated in the sword scabbard poured out like the Milky Way, and the sword's body flashed like a thunder snake.

Clang!!

The two swords collided instantly. The dark golden longsword was cut with a huge notch by the high-frequency oscillation and flew back, landing on the ground, transforming back into a small dark golden accessory sword.

That's it?!

Lu Ren was a bit surprised. This counts as a Flying Sword?

Is this a joke?!

The Flying Sword took a heavy blow, and Chen Xuzi spat blood on the spot, his face as white as paper.

He stretched out his hand, trembling, pointing at Lu Ren.

"What is the sword in your hand?"

Looking at the seemingly lifeless Flying Sword on the ground, Lu Ren didn't listen to Chen Xuzi's complaints. He stepped forward quickly and picked up the Flying Sword.

The first sensation Lu Ren got from holding it was its lightness. Such a normal-sized longsword was extremely light, weighing even less than half a pound.

"This metal is very strange."

Lu Ren mumbled.

This absolutely doesn't seem like a metal that could be produced in the real world.

It seems that when stationary, its atomic structure is tightly clustered, and when engaged intensely at high speed, the function applied reflects in the metal, spreading the atoms like a net, creating the phenomenon where the Flying Sword expands against the wind.

A very strange metallic substance, unheard of in the real world.

Is it unique to the Kunlun Exotic Realm?

"Give me back the Flying Sword!" Chen Xuzi shouted angrily and fearfully.

It looks like this metal is extremely rare even in Kunlun.

Otherwise, Chen Xuzi wouldn't wear that expression of losing his parents.

Indeed, metal that can be made into a Flying Sword and controlled is truly extraordinary.

Chen Xuzi pulled out a stack of Yellow Talismans from his sleeve and threw them at Lu Ren.

Without hesitation, Lu Ren turned to run, but the Yellow Talismans seemed to have eyes.

Do they even have a tracking effect?

How are they made?

Lu Ren was very interested but decided not to run. Mainly, he feared that his freshly changed clothes might completely tear under such frequent attacks.

Running around naked again?!

His Outstanding Level Basic Swordsmanship had already reached an elevated state, comparable to the top swordsmanship of leading Weapon Schools.

Even due to its foundational nature, it was upright and moderate, wielded with grandeur, precise and steady.

Swords struck like rapid rain, accurately piercing through the speeding Yellow Talismans one by one, igniting sparks, wind blades, electric flashes, and bubbles every now and then.

Lu Ren, clad in tattered clothes, slowly sheathed his sword, looking at Chen Xuzi's furious face.

The old Taoist no longer had any expression of confidence on his face.

"Well then, do you have any other tricks?"

Lu Ren said leisurely, "If everyone in the Mingyang Sect is like you, I advise against calling yourselves an Immortal Sect. It's a disgrace to the term."

Chen Xuzi, upon hearing this, suddenly calmed down and sneered, saying, "Then, let me show you why we dare to call ourselves an Immortal Sect."

With that, he initiated a complex finger incantation, and as his hand gestures changed, an odd vibrating frequency erupted amidst the turbulent magnetic field around him.

Chen Xuzi's Taoist Robe inflated, and he suddenly shouted, grasping the air with both hands. A milky white light dot appeared three inches from his palm.

What sorcery is this?!

In the end, it was Li Changming, well-versed and experienced, who couldn't help but shout, "It's tangible energy! Indeed, I was right. Developing tangible energy from personal meridians is a viable path."

果然是这样吗.

Lu Ren pondered, which meant that Chen Xuzi probably wanted to obtain the Jade Bamboo Inner Core and absorb it to become his own energy.

This method of keeping captives was likely quite common in the Kunlun Exotic Realm.

People were like pigs and dogs, and spirits were no different before stronger cultivators.

His gaze grew serious, feeling a very terrifying energy gathering from the milky white light point emanating from Chen Xuzi's body.

As this pea-sized milky white light point flickered in Chen Xuzi's hand, he threw it lightly towards Lu Ren with a face as pale as gold paper.

"Go."

Alarm bells rang in Lu Ren's mind, but he didn't have the slightest intention of retreating, stepping forward.

Li Changming saw this and couldn't help but shout.

"Lu Ren, retreat for me!"

Lu Ren turned a deaf ear.

Ten Earth Knot, release!

The Fifth Difficult-to-Conquer Land Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect evolved smoothly, as Chen Xuzi looked dumbfounded, and with four arms shielding its head, it charged towards the milky white light point flying at him.

Boom!!!

An earth-shattering explosion suddenly erupted, the milky white light screen expanded outward like an ever-growing sphere, an air ripple burst forth visible to the naked eye, raising a huge mushroom cloud in the sky filled with dust.

Eventually, due to the obstruction of the mountain terrain, the ever-growing sphere was compressed into an oval shape, before bursting at its limit.

Bright!

Just like Mingyang Sect's purpose where Chen Xuzi belonged, infinite clarity expanded, as if heaven and earth turned into pure white, even the sun in the sky was overshadowed.

Li Changming not far away dared not linger, involuntarily retreating again and again.

His expression was cold and stern, having rolled up his sleeves, no matter what, Lu Ren was the emerging talent of Huaxia, possessing great potential within the Bright Awakening Martial Taoist Family, if harmed, it would be a tremendous loss for Huaxia.

Given Lu Ren's exceptional talent, he had managed to cultivate Ten Lands Great Accomplishment Golden Body Bodhisattva Path to the Fifth Extremely Difficult to Conquer Land in a short span, demonstrating Bodhisattva Dharma Aspect with his physique.

In the future, he might reach the Ninth Step of Bright Awakening, thereby exploring Determination Path Realm.

The realm once reached by Old man and Shakyamuni.

Can one truly achieve immortality, the Land of Origin might provide clarity on everything.

All of this awaited silently, and currently, counting Lu Ren, only two people could harbor such hopes.

If he were to fall here, without leaving someone behind, Li Changming would have nowhere to hide his old face.

He took a deep breath, disregarding the dust swirling into his body, finally spewing out a gust of air, dispersing the mushroom of dust in front.

Revealing a massive crater in the distance.

Chen Xuzi panted heavily, his figure seemed to have shrunk a circle, staggering.

Li Changming watched him coldly.

"You're dead."

Chen Xuzi laughed loudly: "Many have said that to me, yet I live and thrive."

Li Changming's thin body swelled slightly, about to step forward when he suddenly paused, his gaze fixed tightly at the bottom of the crater that appeared.

Chen Xuzi also fell silent, his expression filled with disbelief.

"This... how is it possible, this is absolutely impossible!!!"

At the bottom of the crater buried under earth and stone, a large hand suddenly extended, pressing onto the ground, followed by Lu Ren's five-meter tall body slowly emerging from the burial below.

At this moment, Lu Ren was surrounded by rising smoke, with hollowed wounds appearing on his four arms.

"Ding, you've been attacked by the Bright Sun Great Light Technique, you've suffered heavy damage."

Indeed, he suffered heavy damage.

From the collision with the Bright Sun Great Light, a large mass of flesh was dissolved from his arms, exposing bone clearly, even a layer of bone was eroded.

He looked up at Chen Xuzi, his gaze carrying fury.

This time, he truly suffered heavy damage.

Boom!

The huge body instantly broke through the sound barrier under immense power, akin to the roar of a plane, Chen Xuzi barely managed to bring the finger to his breast.

Lu Ren grabbed his whole head, crushing it as if it were a watermelon.

The vertical eye on Lu Ren's forehead opened, locking onto the spirit released by Chen Xuzi, swiftly dragging it into the Inner Realm.

Everything happened in an instant, even Li Changming hadn't had time to react before it was over.

After a long while, Lu Ren's stiff movement slowly relaxed.

"Ding, you have slain Mingyang Sect of Qionglai Peak's seventh series Elder Level, Chen Xuzi (Seventh Step of Bright Awakening), you gained two skill points."

Following that, was a flood of system notifications indicating passive increase in Spiritual Proficiency.

If upgrading at such a frequency, reaching Tier One, Third Tier would be quite swift, believing it would take just over half a month to level up.

And his physique, due to recent high-level battles, had almost always seen considerable leaps, as if maximizing the release of his body's potential, only about ten percent progress short of leveling up further.

"What is this?"

Having returned to human form, Lu Ren saw a silk handkerchief falling from Chen Xuzi's chest, reaching out to pick it up, he carefully examined its contents.

Li Changming ran over, seeing Lu Ren simultaneously nibbling on Highly Concentrated Nutrient Pills, while scrutinizing the content on the silk handkerchief.

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