Chapter 240: Xuanpin Gate, a Turning Point in the War

Few cultivators in Feiyun City know that deep underground in the City Lord’s Mansion, there is a Shadowless Spring that migrated from the Rift Valley.

Deep underground, a layer of spiritual mist permeates around the Shadowless Spring, nourishing the nearby land. Here, exotic flowers and plants grow in abundance, and no one can tell whether they grew naturally or were planted by previous generations.

These flowers and plants are different from the common ones in the world. They sparkle with strange luster under faint light and shadow. Some emit faint fluorescence, while others sway gently at a unique frequency, vying for beauty.

In this embrace of exotic flowers and plants, there is a clear spring lying quietly. The water is extremely clear, and the surface is as calm as an ancient mirror. The sparse light and the colorful flowers and plants around are intertwined and projected onto it, but strangely, no reflection can be found.

Unlike the calm water on the surface, there are storms surging deep inside the spring.

Somewhere at the bottom of the spring, it seemed as if endless spiritual energy was surging wildly, gathering towards Chen An who was sitting on a piece of jade.

Chen An, who was practicing the Qingling Huaqi Jue, absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy at an unprecedented speed to nourish his Yin Spirit.

Following a long breath, he slowly opened his eyes, and his entire soul seemed to be unable to improve at all.

With the help of Xuanyin Pill, after about half a year of hard training, his Yin Spirit has reached the state of perfection and he can give birth to Yang from Yin at any time.

To put it simply, it means that one has completed the third level of Refining Void and is about to break through to the fourth level.

To achieve this, even with the help of the Shadowless Spring, it would take a lot of time to breed a trace of Yang God power.

If there is the assistance of the most yang thing, the time it takes to generate the power of the Yang God will be greatly shortened.

The Haoyang Pill in Chen An's hand is one of these auxiliary treasures.

He took out the pill and sat deep at the bottom of the spring as usual, preparing for a breakthrough.

The difference is that Pei Zitian and Mu Baichen arrived a few months earlier and left a few days ago when their contract expired. Now Chen An is the only one left in the Shadowless Spring, so he can break through boldly without worrying about anything else.

Chen An held a bright and restrained Haoyang Pill in his hand, his eyes gleaming with brilliance. Without any hesitation, he put the precious pill into his mouth. Then his mind moved, and he devoted himself to the practice of the technique, silently refining the medicinal power.

In an instant, a yang energy as hot as the sun gushed out from the depths of the soul, as if the scorching sun was burning the earth, quickly filling the meridians of the whole body, and violently colliding with the yin power that had long been entrenched in the body, like stirring up a huge spiritual power storm.

At first, when the extreme yang energy and the yin spirit power met, it was like ice and fire being incompatible. The two clashed fiercely within the primordial spirit, producing bursts of thunderous sounds.

Chen An forced his mind to calm down, guiding the violent Yang energy and Yin energy to slowly merge. After some difficult reconciliation, the conflict between the two gradually eased, slowly showing a state of fusion.

I don’t know how long it took, but finally, in the depths of the soul, at the intersection of yin and yang, a barely visible door formed.

Chen An's eyes sparkled. This portal was the Xuanpin Gate!
The Gate of Xuanpin is a bridge that connects yin and yang, and connects the inside and the outside. It is the key to the cultivator's spirit transforming from yin to yang.

It is not a physical door, but the intersection of yin and yang that exists deep in the cultivator's soul. At this point, one can harmonize the yin and yang of the soul, refine the yin soul and transform it into the yang soul, and it has endless uses.

As the technique was practiced, Chen An clearly felt that the Yang energy and Yin spirit power in his body began to undergo miraculous changes. The two forces, which were originally incompatible like water and fire, were miraculously changing under the influence of this door.

The portal slowly opened, releasing a gentle yet powerful force of the soul, which slowly drew the body's powerful Yin spirit power into it, beginning a deep fusion and transformation.

Every time the power of the Yin God is refined through the Gate of Xuanpin, it will produce a trace of the power of the Yang God, and slowly, the entire Yuan Shen will transform into the Yang God.

At this point, the yang was born from the yin of the soul, and Chen An's cultivation level also reached the fourth level of refining emptiness!

Since there was still time left, Chen An simply continued to immerse himself in the depths of the Shadowless Spring, absorbing and refining the spiritual energy of the spring water, transforming it into Yin God Power to replenish his body, and then generating Yang God Power through the Xuanpin Gate.

When the Yin Spirit is completely transformed into the Yang Spirit, the cultivation will have reached the late stage of Refining Void. If one day it is strengthened to the extreme, there will be a chance to reach the Fusion stage!
In the blink of an eye, several months passed.

Chen An was so immersed in cultivation that he didn't notice the passing of time. But when a year was up, Li Zhen came to call him.

Helplessly, Chen An had to stop practicing and his spirit returned to his body.

Looking at the Shadowless Spring, whose spiritual energy dropped drastically, Li Zhen was horrified: "What did you do!"

During this year, he had been guarding outside the bronze gate and did not find anything unusual, nor did he find any attempt to deliberately destroy the Shadowless Spring.

Chen An said calmly: "I didn't do anything, I just absorbed a billion more spiritual energy from the spring water."

"Absorbed a little more?"

At this time, not only the spiritual energy of the spring was greatly reduced, but even the spiritual mist surrounding it had also become much lighter. Li Zhen didn't believe that he had only absorbed a little more.

"I asked you in advance, it's okay to absorb more, you said just absorb as much as you can."

Chen An was helpless and had to practice the technique on the spot: "If you don't believe me, I'll show you."

As the technique was practiced, like a whale swallowing water, the wisps of spiritual mist lingering around the spring were rapidly absorbed into the meridians along the acupuncture points around the body.

The visibility in the vicinity is visibly improving.

"That's enough! That's enough!"

Seeing this, Li Zhen hurriedly stopped him.

The amount absorbed by him alone is enough for nearly ten people, and if he absorbs more, it will be endless.

Unexpectedly, I made a mistake and met a person with extraordinary talent.

Li Zhen murmured in his heart, could it be that this boy has a purple spiritual body?

The Zixiao Lingqiao Body is a legendary spiritual body, and its cultivation speed is ten times that of ordinary rare spiritual bodies!
If this is the case, it does make sense. Not only is the matter of the Shadowless Spring a small matter, but Feiyun City has also gained a cultivator who has the potential to advance to the fusion stage!
This matter must be reported to the city lord immediately!
After the two of them left the Shadowless Spring, Chen An immediately said goodbye and returned to his family.

As he entered the cave in the back mountain, he immediately took out the Book of Five Poisonous Soul Curse and "looked after" these people one by one according to the list given by Chen Fengshuo before.

These were the formation masters of the Liman tribe who participated in the construction of the Linghuang Blood Moon Formation. With their deaths, the progress of the formation was naturally put on hold.

Before, in the Shadowless Spring, Chen An wanted to take the time to curse a few times occasionally, but considering that it was not his territory, he did not act rashly.

This time when he returned to his family and his strength greatly improved, he naturally had no worries and started using the Five Poisons Curse Soul Book.

Rift Valley.

Chen Fengshuo felt that he could not hold on any longer. He had previously reported various problems to Manzhi, hoping to delay the progress of the formation.

Later, as he wished, it was delayed for a while. However, after Manlie found that the speed of the formation transformation had slowed down, he personally inquired about it, and then, against all odds, ordered the formation to be built first, and these problems would be left to be solved slowly in the future.

Seeing that the formation was about to be transformed, he couldn't help but worry, and even almost forgot the real purpose of coming here undercover.

Thinking about taking back the supreme martial arts of the Liman tribe, the Eight Gates Divine Veins Technique, to the human race, he felt both anxious and excited.

What made him anxious was that this matter was extremely difficult. With his cultivation level at the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, it was nothing short of a pipe dream to obtain the technique.

Either get it from a few core barbarian tribe members, or sneak into the barbarian king's treasury. Neither of these two options is easy.

The reason why he was a little excited was that this matter was quite challenging. If he could succeed, it would not only deal a huge blow to the barbarians, but would also be a milestone in his undercover career.

After all, the last time he went undercover in the Demon Sect, there were no Jindan cultivators there. With his cultivation level and a few tricks, it was not too difficult for him to control them.

But this time it was different. Not to mention the huge King Liman who was in charge of the barbarian tribe, even those Void-refining cultivators alone would not be something he could handle.

Although the Illusion Blood Transformation Technique allows him to disguise himself as a Void Refining Barbarian, he only has the aura of cultivation but no corresponding strength.

With such complicated emotions, Chen Fengshuo spent a month in agony, locking himself in his residence and dealing with the formation every day.

But a month later, he realized that the speed of the formation's transformation had slowed down significantly.

The reason was that two formation masters from the Liman tribe were inexplicably missing, causing the formation progress to not keep up with the plan.

They are the most core formation personnel besides Manzhi, and are the backbone of the Liman tribe's formation masters.

Without them, the formation's progress would naturally be much slower than before.

Out of curiosity, Chen Fengshuo walked around with other formation masters and found out after learning the details that the mysterious man had actually set his sights on the Liman tribe again!
The entire Liman tribe fell into fear and panic as the curse spread.

During this period, several people died because they could not withstand the power of the curse.

Among them were the two formation masters who were at the early stage of refining emptiness.

While feeling happy, Chen Fengshuo was also somewhat frightened. If the mysterious person targeted him, he might be hurt by mistake.

After all, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The other party is in the dark while he is in the light, so even if he wants to form an alliance with the other party, he is helpless.

Just when he was panicking, Manzhi came to his door. He was hunched over, staring at him with a pair of cloudy old eyes, and said, "Manshi, my health is getting worse and worse."

"You were also infected?" Chen Fengshuo's heart trembled, fearing that he would be the next one.

"Alas, almost all the Void Refining cultivators were not spared."

Man Zhi forced a smile on his wrinkled face: "Don't be afraid, the mysterious man seems to only target the Void Refining cultivators. You are only in the late stage of Spiritual Transformation, so you should be fine for the time being."

I don’t know if it’s because of the influence of the curse, but Manzhi seems to be older than the last time we met.

"I'm afraid it won't be long." Chen Fengshuo felt a little lonely and sad.

"lets change a topic."

As he spoke, Man Zhi took out a jade slip, stuffed it into Chen Fengshuo's hand and said, "Originally, I saw that you had a good talent in formation, so I wanted to take you as my apprentice. Now it seems fortunate that this plan did not come to pass, otherwise it would have delayed you."

"What is this?" Chen Fengshuo asked, looking at the jade slip in his hand curiously.

"It records my life-long understanding of formations. In order to prevent it from being lost, I will teach it to you today." Man Zhi held Chen Fengshuo's hand tightly and instructed.

"What are you doing?" Chen Fengshuo was quite surprised.

"I'm afraid I can't hold on for much longer. I can pass on the formation to you, but you have to promise me one thing."

"You say!"

"After I die, I will continue to pass down the art of formations within the clan. I don't ask you to carry it forward, but you must not let this art be cut off. One day, I hope to see the barbarian clan's art of formations rival that of the human race!"

As he spoke, Man Zhi became excited and began to dance: "Also, I'm afraid you will have to shoulder the burden of transforming the formation in the future."

Chen Fengshuo sighed and said, "You are talking about two things."

Man Zhi raised his eyebrows and said unhappily: "Why? You are still unwilling?"

"No, I am weak and I am afraid I cannot shoulder such a heavy responsibility." Chen Fengshuo quickly changed his words.

Hearing this, Manzhi's expression eased a little, and he said softly: "Don't worry, with your talent in formation, you should be able to take on this task, and I have already informed Manlie, he will support you unconditionally in the future."

After explaining the situation and giving a few more instructions, Man Zhi left behind the formation inheritance jade slip, hunched over, and left.

Looking at the other person's back, Chen Fengshuo felt complicated. Putting aside the racial differences, he still respected this formation master in his heart.

Unfortunately, the grievances between the two tribes over the competition for resources have accumulated to such an extent that there is almost no possibility of reconciliation.

"Senior Manzhi, I'm afraid I can't complete either of the two tasks you asked me to do!" Facing the direction where Manzhi left, Chen Fengshuo apologized inwardly.

He knows clearly what is more important.

He said he did it for the human race, but that was just talk. His vision was not that big. Everything he did was just for himself and the Chen family.

Although I don’t know why Chen An is trying to get the barbarian’s Eight Gates Divine Veins, I also know that this will definitely be beneficial to Chen An. Since it is beneficial to Chen An, it also means it is beneficial to the Chen family, and that is enough!
Beishan Cave Mansion.

Chen An put away the book of Five Poisons Curse Soul, and his face turned pale.

He had been using this treasure frequently and without any effort during this period, and even though his physical cultivation had reached the sixth level, he could not bear it.

After resting for a while, he took a few drops of dragon blood essence harvested from the dragon blood tree, and adjusted his breathing for a while. His complexion looked better.

According to the previous plan, he had cursed several Lianxu monks of the Liman tribe to death. In order to prevent Chen Fengshuo and even the human race from being suspected by the barbarians, he followed the previous method and only targeted the Lianxu monks.

Of course, he also did not let go of several formation masters with the cultivation level of Nascent Soul, and they were the special targets of his attention.

Fortunately, this effort was not in vain. Two core formation masters were killed, and the barbarian formation leader named Manzhi was seriously injured and probably would not be able to hold on for much longer.

As long as this person dies, the threat of the barbarians will be greatly reduced.

Not long after, bad news and good news came from the outside world.

The good news is that with the departure of the Shadow Barbarians, only the monks from the Power Barbarians remain in the Rift Valley.

Without the help of the Shadow Barbarians, the Power Barbarians alone would probably not be a match for the human race.

The bad news is that other human frontiers are also entangled with barbarians from other tribes. For example, Jianghuang City and Tiangangzhou are also deeply involved in the battle with the barbarian king and have no time to take care of Feiyun City.

Feiyun City has suffered heavy casualties in terms of manpower and is now unable to receive any support. If it wants to defeat the Liman Tribe, it may have to find a way on its own.

(End of this chapter)