Xiangxi was mountainous, with winding roads and lush vegetation on both sides, where wisps of gray-white yin evil Corpse Qi floated among the green leaves.

The boy firmly gripped the treasure sword in both hands, continuously attacking the vital points of the green-skinned zombie. Thankfully, the zombie's joints were rigid, making its movements less agile than a normal human's. Moreover, the treasure sword from Dai Family Field wasn't the kind of thin iron sheet used for sword performances on Earth; it could easily cut through branches as thick as a thumb. The boy exerted some effort and, with a loud shout, forcefully decapitated the zombie.

From a distance, Shi Feiyang watched and felt that this child had potential. He transmitted a wisp of True Qi from afar.

The boy felt a warm current engulf his entire body and couldn't help but cheer: "I've leveled up! I've leveled up!"

That wisp of True Qi was equivalent to at least three years of a martial artist's cultivation accumulation. He punched and kicked, feeling lighter and stronger.

"King Yan! Am I really in a true world, or am I in a holographic game world? King Yan?"

"Don't call me King Yan; I'm not King Yan," Shi Feiyang responded. "If you think it's real, then it's real; if you think it's fake, then it's fake."

Those who obsess over philosophical ideas can easily become madmen. A crucial reason for this is the blurring of the boundary between reality and illusion. Once this fallacy is entertained, philosophers may become madmen, followers of Buddhism may become deluded in empty zen, and Daoists might take false for true, babbling about the supernatural incessantly.

Shi Feiyang instructed the boy to continue killing zombies. The boy, smart and cautious, used stones to lure individual zombies when encountering a group and killed them one by one.

Soon, he arrived outside Chenwei Village and had killed over a dozen zombies, "leveling up" three times in total.

Outside Chenwei Village, there was the Ghost Fire Corpse Formation set up by Seventh Sister Zhang and Eighth Sister Qu. Once stepped into, massive amounts of yin evil Ghost Fire would erupt from the ground, and numerous zombies burning with green flames would crawl out.

Not even Li Yuanhua or Tong Yuanqi could withstand this Ghost Fire Corpse Formation. Merely a spark could incinerate the common youth's body to ashes, with zombies absorbing even his Primordial Spirit.

Shi Feiyang spied this from afar and pressed down through space, suppressing the Array so that it couldn't activate.

The boy entered the ambush and faced no trouble. After killing another zombie, Shi Feiyang infused another wisp of True Qi into him and then imprinted a martial art into his mind.

"I've leveled up again!" The boy was still feeling the warmth, and his mind was filled with new knowledge. "Wow, and there's Secret Martial Arts Manuals, Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword!"

These imprints felt as if he had practiced each movement arduously, forged through a thousand trials.

With sword in hand, he exhibited the moves, his swordplay like a dancing dragon—thrusting forward, stabbing back, slicing left, and picking right. He practiced the full set of sixty-four movements of the Eight Diagrams Mysterious Sword.

"I'm so cool! Wow, I'm so cool!" the boy exclaimed joyfully. "King Yan, if I go in and kill all the zombies in the village, will there be even better rewards?"

"Don't call me King Yan!"

"Oh, but what should I call you then?"

"Just call me... Emperor Yuan Yang."

"Emperor Yuan Yang, good! Emperor Yuan Yang, good!" Fan Esheng, who was watching on the side, felt his heart being ripped apart with envy, lavishly praising and then tentatively asking, "Have you really traveled to another world these days? Is this child someone you captured from the Heavenly worlds?"

"Something like that."

Fan Esheng suddenly felt somewhat dejected: "So you have... succeeded? Ah, congratulations! Fellow Daoist, you really have a remarkable gift, to be able to traverse the Heavenly worlds so effortlessly..."

"I can't traverse the Heavenly worlds just yet," Shi Feiyang responded while reflecting on his recent experiences. "I can only sense my hometown, and even then, I can't cross over, nor can I move a single speck of dust from that world."

Fan Esheng said, "Otherworldly Heavenly Demons disrupting the world and enslaving humans are mostly like that." Being a true millennia-old demon, he knew far more than Shi Feiyang.

"So, I've become the 'Heavenly Demon' of my home world?"

Fan Esheng chuckled: "Exactly! If people in that world sacrifice to you using specific methods and invoke you, your Primordial Spirit Dharma Body could descend into that world, though with some restrictions... Traveling between worlds, traversing the Heavenly realms, even Golden Immortals rarely achieve this; what you've done is already remarkable!"

After a moment of silence, Fan Esheng tempted Shi Feiyang: "The Heavenly Secret Demon Technique is indeed wondrous. We must continue our cultivation, and once we've fully mastered it, I'll go to that world first, to develop some followers for you and have them jointly wish and sacrifice to summon you over."

"There's no need for that right now," Shi Feiyang said, focusing on solidifying his current realm.

A cultivator's cultivation realm could regress. Many entered certain realms inadvertently and became overly excited or conceited, bragging everywhere. A change in mindset could mean never re-entering that realm again.

This time, Shi Feiyang was comprehending the Liangyi Six Harmonies Micro Dust Formation while cultivating the Heavenly Secret Demon Technique. The chance to enter the realm of "harmonizing with the Dao and knowing the Heavenly worlds" also had an element of chance, where a single misdirected thought could shut the gate. Besides, moving souls from another world back and forth required stability and practice.

Fan Esheng knew his only chance to be freed from the Demon Scripture was to cultivate the Heavenly Secret Demon Technique with Shi Feiyang, so he kept urging him.

Shi Feiyang understood his intentions: "There's no need to rush. As long as you stay by my side, when the time comes for you to be liberated, I'll absolutely let you go."

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