Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

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It could be said that the journey to the spiritual realm was of immense significance, for the one who obtained this artifact would be able to traverse the Eight Desolations and exert pressure over all beneath heaven!

As they continued to move forward, the ancient charm of this place grew increasingly dense, and the sense of the years' sediment deeply branded itself into everyone's heart.

The ancient temple was really too vast; they had proceeded for a full half an hour and still had not reached the end, seemingly boundless, as if it were a mini world in itself.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, roars of a fierce beast resounded, as a tremendously ferocious creature emerged from the surrounding darkness, pouncing towards Gu Chen and his companions.

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, Yuwen Wind let out a cold snort. He didn't have the time to waste on these beasts. With a clanging noise, sword qi appeared one after another in the air, then pierced fiercely forward.

Puff puff puff!

In an instant, countless sprays of blood scattered, the beast wailed miserably, its cries unending.
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However, there were many such beasts in this place, as if the cages of an alien world had been opened, one after another continually lunged out.

"Kill!"

Ouyang Yu, the contemporary emissary of Burning Heaven Valley, let out a cold cry as he struck out with his palm, fierce flames billowed, and a great wave of flames appeared, instantly turning over a dozen beasts that had come forward into ashes.

Boom!

Xu Mu of Mount Tianzhu also took action. With a stern face, he executed a move Gu Chen had seen before, the Superior Martial Skill of Mount Tianzhu, the Cloud Dragon Claw Exploration. Amidst the spreading clouds, a claw gleaming with metallic luster probed out, shattering the beasts blocking the way in an instant.

"Roar!"

At that moment, a sky-rending roar was heard, and three huge beasts that resembled giant apes appeared. Their eyes were fierce, their pupils blood-red, desperate to choose a human to devour.

The three newly emerged beasts were very powerful, nearing the innate stage, and scarcely weaker than Yuwen Wind and others who had not yet broken through the Xuan Realm.

"Amitabha!"

Young monk Xu Ya from the Sumi Buddhist Sect stepped forward, his body surrounded by waves of Buddha light, possessing a force that shock the soul. As the Buddha light spread, some of the martial arts masters from the Nine States who were slightly closer inadvertently conceived a slight inclination to convert to Buddhism deep in their hearts.

Fortunately for them, Xu Ya's Buddha light was not aimed at them; otherwise, they might really "become enlightened" on the spot.

The mere aftermath was already this potent, let alone facing the Buddha light directly. Although the beasts did not possess human intellect, inevitably, the ferocity in their eyes visibly diminished.

Seeing this spectacle, Gu Chen tugged at his eyebrows. Such a method was somewhat similar to the protective Buddha light that Ananda from the Dragon Elephant Buddhist Sect had once used.

But then, Gu Chen thought again and let it go; after all, the Sumi Buddhist Sect was known as the foremost of the myriad Buddhist sects in the Nine States, and the Dragon Elephant Buddhist Sect was founded by an apostate from Sumi Buddhist Sect. If Ananda could do it, naturally it made sense that Xu Ya could too.

"Roar!"

Those three beasts were truly extraordinary; in a moment, they managed to break free from Xu Ya's spiritual suppression of the Buddha light, their wild nature rekindled, intending to kill him right there.

"Lay down the butcher's knife!"

Dressed in monk's robes and with a handsome face, Xu Ya, the successor of the Sumi Buddhist Sect, uttered a sound like a Buddhist chant, and at that very moment, the three beasts once again became docile, their expressions becoming more serene, almost as if they were about to kneel down in front of him and worship him.

"Buddhist methods are indeed unfathomable," Lu Xing exclaimed, finding these techniques especially fearsome.

Bu Nantian, Xue Jingyun, and Xiang Yang all naturally felt the same way. They did not fear a head-on fight, but Xu Ya's methods were too strange. A few words could subdue three fierce beasts, converting them into devout followers, which was terrifying to them.

The unknown is always the most frightening, a statement that naturally has its rationale.

"Hmph!"

At this moment, Yuwen Wind from the Vault of Sky Sword Sect let out a light snort, followed by a dazzling sword light that flashed. With a schlicking sound, the three beasts were decapitated, their blood gushing from the wounds.

"Let's not waste any more time here," Yuwen Wind said.

Young monk Xu Ya frowned. These three beasts were extraordinary, and he had intended to subjugate them to increase their side's fighting power, but Yuwen Wind saw through his purpose and used a single sword strike to kill all three beasts.

Xu Ya did not say much more, and after exterminating all the beasts, the group set out again.

Finally, after an indeterminate amount of time, they arrived at the deepest part of the ancient temple.

At the end of the temple, there were two vortexes, one dazzling with light and the other dark and profound, as if representing the extremes of yin and yang, located on opposite sides.

"Ancient heavenly seed!"

At this moment, Yuwen Wind of the Cloud Heaven Palace was exhilarated, his palms trembling slightly. He knew that the "heavenly seed" was hidden within one of those two vortexes.

"Heavenly seed!"

Xu Ya, the successor of the Sumi Buddhist Sect, Xuan One of the Wuji Dao Gate, Ouyang Yu of Burning Heaven Valley, Xi Mu of Mount Tianzhu, and finally Lu Qing of Cloud Heaven Palace, each with a solemn expression, stared unblinkingly at the two vortexes not far away.

Indeed, the greatest opportunity within the spiritual realm, the purpose of that supreme power from the ancient era, was to obtain one of these heavenly seeds from this very place.

The reason it was called a heavenly seed was because this seed possessed the ability to defy the heavens and change one's fate!

Hence, it was named a heavenly seed.

Moreover, nourished by the heaven and earth forces of the boundless void, the seed matured after enduring endless eons.

It even began to form its own heavenly and earthly rules; a single heavenly seed could be described as a small-scale world!

By integrating with the heavenly seed, a martial artist effectively absorbed the power of a small world into their body, and this small world would continue to grow along with the martial artist. How strong would one be with the power of an entire world bestowed upon them?

In that small world, a martial artist could say they were akin to a god of creation!

Such was an immense opportunity, a supreme blessing that might appear only once in many eras. And for the Nine States, this was the only heavenly seed, which could also be considered the last one!

Not only in the present Nine States but even in the ancient and primordial eras, if a heavenly seed were to come into being, the resulting struggle would be enough to overturn the entire Nine States.

The contemporary emissaries of the six great sacred sites were indeed very fortunate; in this era, the heavenly seed was destined to be theirs, because no one could compete with the six great sacred sites for this opportunity.

The six great sacred sites also would never allow this heavenly seed to fall into the hands of outsiders.

At this moment, Yuwen Wind and the others watched two vortexes at the end of the ancient temple, both positioned at the opposite ends—one brilliantly light, the other profoundly dark—unsure which one truly harbored the heavenly seed.

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