Before leaving, the Martial Saint had instructed Wu Qiankun to keep a close eye on the Qiao family. Logically, Wu Qiankun should have gone after them at this time.
Only this time, he hesitated.
Not until Qiao Mu and the cat disappeared into the distance did he come out of the darkness and look toward the messy grove.
Dao Zhen's body on the ground was covered in blood, with twisted bones, and it was obvious that he was dead.
Wu Qiankun naturally had no qualms about the dead, so he stepped forward and searched carefully.
"The storage bag was indeed looted by that Qiao Shuangzhao." Wu Qiankun said to himself.
Most of the storage bags of immortal monks have restrictions, so it is not easy for ordinary warriors to use the storage bags.
It was not surprising that the storage bag was taken away, but what Wu Qiankun was more concerned about was not those personal belongings.
He stared at Daozhen's body lying in a pool of blood at his feet.
"He just died."
"This man's name is Daozhen. I heard he is a Heavenly Dao Golden Core cultivator. Don't miss him."
He thought about it and recalled the teachings of the Martial Saint when he was young and taught his three thousand disciples.
The three thousand disciples in the past were almost all martial arts geniuses who had fought each other in the sea of blood... Hai Wuya was not among them. He was already studying in Tianlao when the three thousand disciples were fighting. The name of the "Seventy-two Sages" of the Wu Ji Club was more like a title for Hai Wuya.
Putting aside the weirdos like Hai Wuya, the three thousand disciples in the past were rivals of each other, the winner lives and the loser dies.
Therefore, the vast majority of the three thousand disciples already had their hands stained with each other's blood.
As the best among them, Wu Qiankun was given the title of "Little Martial Saint". This was naturally because he was the most ruthless one among them, with a cruel style of doing things, and was the closest to a Martial Saint.
Wu Qiankun stretched out his hand and gently touched Daozhen's remains. He ignored the blood on his hand and showed a strange look on his face. He said to himself:
"For martial artists, dietary supplements have always been of utmost importance. They can nourish qi and blood, and are beneficial to the progress of martial arts."
"Among them, there are two best tonics."
"First, they are natural treasures, such as hundred-year-old red fruits and thousand-year-old ginseng. These treasures are basically controlled by immortal cultivators, and only a very few lucky people are lucky enough to obtain them."
"The second is various monsters with strong bodies."
"But in fact... ..other warriors also have strong blood and energy, which can be regarded as a tonic for warriors. Although not as good as monsters, they can still be used."
For Wu Qiankun and others who have practiced the Wu Sheng Ling Xi Jue.
The other warriors are also stepping stones that can help him take a further step.
The essence of Wu Sheng Ling Xi Jue is not only about plundering blood and internal strength, but also about refining the spirit. This alone is far beyond the power-absorbing method of thousands of years ago.
The Martial Spirit Holy Rhinoceros Technique made him a Martial Saint who was unprecedented in the art of refining the spirit.
But that’s not enough.
Wu Qiankun narrowed his eyes quietly and reached out his hand towards Dao Zhen’s corpse head on the ground.
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"The recipes for Wu Sheng Ling Xi Jue are not extensive enough."
"A tiger can eat cattle, sheep, and wolves, but it cannot eat this damned God."
"So, I named this technique..."
"Taotie Heaven-Swallowing Technique."
The Martial Saint sat on the collapsed sky boat, holding the inhuman Elder Qingzhuo in both hands, and spoke lightly.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is no longer in human form. Today, Elder Qingzhuo's facial features are distorted and his limbs are deformed, but the hands of the Martial Saint have an invisible suction force that holds him down firmly.
"You are considered a warrior?" Elder Qingzhuo had a cold look on his face, and he looked angry, but not afraid.
"When will the martial arts of a warrior be able to deal with a Dharmakaya?"
Elder Qingzhuo was indeed not traveling in his real body.
His foundation in Taoism was damaged. Ever since he returned from Baili Desert, his real body has been hiding in the cave of the Da Dao Sect and has never left. On weekdays, he only lets his Nascent Soul Body act on his behalf.
Although the Nascent Soul Dharmakaya is not as good as the cultivator's real body, it is not far behind.
It's just that Elder Qingzhuo's foundation is damaged, and even his true body is not as good as other Yuanying Zhenren... So he will act more cautiously.
This Nascent Soul Dharmakaya is actually not a body of flesh and blood, but the Nascent Soul Dharmakaya that Elder Qingzhuo spent a great deal of money to refine.
His Nascent Soul Dharmakaya was refined from the essence of the five elements and was not a physical entity of flesh and blood.
If an ordinary Yuanying Zhenren wants to refine a Dharma body, it will take a hundred years. Even for a Yuanying Zhenren, it is not a discarded pawn that can be easily abandoned.
The Martial Saint did not speak much to him.
Qingzhuo's body was quickly stretched and twisted like noodles by the invisible suction force, and sank into the mouth and nose of the Martial Saint in a strange posture, never to be seen again.
"Isn't this a body of flesh and blood? Isn't this his real body?" The Martial Saint frowned slightly.
The physical bodies of these immortal cultivators are weak compared to their powerful magic, so the higher the realm and the more lives the cultivator has lived, the more bizarre methods they have to protect themselves.
The Martial Saint exhaled a breath of foul air, and wisps of heat visible to the naked eye came out from the top of his head, and his skin all over his body turned slightly red.
It took him a long while to return to normal. The abnormalities in his body gradually disappeared, and there seemed to be a bright divine light in his eyes.
"However, even if it is not the real body, it is enough." The Martial Saint opened his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
Killing the Dharma body of a Yuanying Zhenren and eating it showed that his Taotie Swallowing Heaven Skill was effective.
The curve of his mouth grew bigger and bigger, and finally he laughed out loud, the sound echoing throughout the whole place.
If the previous Martial Saint was a tiger, then he was equivalent to a beast that had eaten up a mountain and had nowhere else to go.
Even if an entire generation of martial artists was sacrificed, it would not be enough to produce a martial arts expert who could overturn the chessboard.
So if you want to move forward, there are only two ways.
The first is to admit that you are on a path of no return, and quietly wait for newcomers in the martial arts world to blaze a new trail.
As for the second one... it is just like him, transforming from a tiger into a glutton, extending his fangs towards the immortal living in the clouds.
This is destined to be a thorny road covered with blood. He will not be able to continue his martial arts progress without feeding on immortals. If he becomes an enemy of the immortals, he will inevitably be attacked by the nine immortal sects.
After lying dormant for forty years, the Martial Saint now has the potential to swallow the world.
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The city of Daqin.
This newly established city was now deserted; the streets were completely empty, without even a single person to be seen.
After witnessing the Qiao family using martial arts to defeat the immortals, even the devout believers who prided themselves on being smart and not following the crowd became panicked.
It doesn't take any foresight for an ordinary person to know what an astonishing event has taken place in the great Qin city.
The King of Qin, who was appointed by the imperial court, was killed, and the Immortal Dao Sect seemed to be behind it.
The immortals of the Da Dao Sect were killed by a warrior from the Qiao family. In that battle, Qiao Miao suppressed the magic with his force, and the corpses of the immortals fell like raindrops, including one or two Jindan stage cultivators.
At this moment, at the gate of Daqin City, the last wave of refugees fled out of the city, and the entire city fell into deathly silence.
It was almost night time, and in this huge newly built city, there were only a few lights and everything was silent.
Wayne stood on the top of a small hill outside the city, quietly looking down at the silent Qin City below and the people from all walks of life who were fleeing with torches, in silence.
"The world is going to be in chaos... No, when will it not be in chaos?" Wayne's face was solemn.
Soldiers against soldiers, king against king, the Qiao family charged into battle targeting the King of Qin.
The rest of the people also have their own tasks, so it is naturally impossible for them to just rush forward, as that would only lead to their death.
Wayne is the best detective in the world. He is good at martial arts rather than head-on combat. His martial arts are only at the first level, so if he blindly rushes into the battlefield in Daqin City, he will die.
He turned around and saw several new graves behind him.
They were the members of the Qiao family who died before and after the battle of Daqin Prefecture: Qiao Shui, Qiao Wei, and Qiao Miao.
Wayne turned his head and looked at Qiao Mu who was meditating under the waterfall. He felt heavy in his heart and his eyes were strange.
When he taught Qiao Mu "Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon", he once told him that since he wanted to kill the King of Qin, he must be prepared to face the storm afterwards.
The Great Yan Dynasty had already reached a precarious moment. Whether the King of Qin was killed or not, it would be an abyss and there would be no peace.
What Wayne didn't expect was... that he himself was not mentally prepared.
"I thought the Qiao family wanted to assassinate the King of Qin, but what did they do?"
"Two super warriors appeared before and after, and even killed many Dao Sect cultivators, including two Jindan cultivators, and even scared away an elder of the Dao Sect..."
Wayne was only mentally prepared for the Qiao family to kill King Qin and then leave. He never expected that the Qiao family's action would cause even the Immortal Gate Da Dao Sect behind them to suffer a setback.
You know, there are many strong men in the Xianmen. If one of them dies or gets injured, there will be stronger elders from the sect to stand up for him. After all, the majesty of the Xianmen cannot be insulted...
Forty years ago, there were still many scholars and warriors in Dayan who were not afraid of death, and they basically got what they wanted, and grass is growing on their graves.
"Wait, why does this sound similar to what the Qiao family did?" Wayne was shocked.
Although he knew that the Qiao family was powerful, he had never compared the Qiao family with the Immortal Sect in his heart.
However, the Qiao family has now produced two super martial artists in succession, forcing Wayne to re-examine this mysterious and powerful martial arts family.
"Where on earth did this Qiao family come from?" Wayne was deeply puzzled.
People only thought that the Qiao family came from the overseas island of knights... but Wayne knew very well that this was just a rumor he made up at the beginning, and now he really couldn't understand it more and more.
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The Da Dao Sect.
Inside the cave, Qingzhuo quietly looked at the jade communication talisman that kept flashing, holding his forehead with one hand, feeling a little headache.
Every cultivator above the foundation building stage has left his natal jade slip in the sect. Once it is broken, the sect will know about it soon.
If one or two monks died, perhaps the sect’s deacons would not notice it immediately.
Then dozens of foundation-building cultivators, plus the Jindan cultivator Daofei, and Daozhen, who was expected to become the sect's third Daoist son, died together in a short period of time. This was undoubtedly a major event that was enough to alarm the sect.
As the mastermind of this action, Yuanying Elder Qingzhuo would naturally be held accountable.
"Clear and turbid." At this time, a voice came from outside the cave. A middle-aged Taoist who was intimidating without even getting angry had come to the door. He was the current sect leader of the Da Dao Sect.
"Even the headmaster has come to question us."
Qingzhuo sighed, opened the formation of the cave gate, walked out of the cave in his true form for the first time, and then told everything that had happened.
This time he didn't hide it.
Because it was obvious that this could no longer be concealed, and even if one tried to conceal it, it would not be able to escape the Master's discerning eyes.
"Daofei died at the hands of the mortal Qiao family, and your Dharma body was destroyed at the hands of a martial saint?"
"The Martial Saint is not dead? Didn't he die at the hands of the Xuantian Sect's Elder Tian Xing? What kind of rubbish are those people in the Xuantian Sect? They can't even figure out the life and death of a mortal?"
In addition to being furious, the headmaster also came to his senses.
"Let's not talk about the Martial Saint. He is the leader of martial arts among mortals. Although it is unexpected that he lay dormant for forty years, it is also reasonable... What about the Qiao family? Did they jump out of the cracks in the rocks?"
A Martial Saint who can kill a Nascent Soul Dharmakaya is certainly powerful, but there is more than one elder like Qingzhuo in the Immortal Sect, and there is only one Martial Saint among mortals.
"Master, I have already investigated the matter." Elder Qingzhuo spoke hastily at this time.
He had also fallen into the hands of the Qiao family and Jian Zexian, and had secretly investigated the matter later.
"This Qiao family comes from a secret place overseas called Xiake Island..."
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"Xiake Island? The overseas islands outside the land of Kyushu?"
After listening to this, the head of the Da Dao Sect was silent for a long time.
This information was said to have been confessed by a member of the Qiao family named Qiao Zhong, who mentioned the secret origins of the Qiao family.
This is not without reason. After all, although the Qiao family's martial arts and the Kyushu warriors have the same origin, there are many differences when you look into it more deeply.
For example, the Demon Disintegration Technique that made the Qiao family famous is almost the same in name only, but in reality they are two completely different forbidden explosive techniques.
"Master, in my opinion, although the Qiao family members are ordinary warriors, we must be on guard against them." Elder Qingzhuo said seriously:
"A thousand-mile dam is destroyed by an ant hole. Although these ordinary warriors cannot be compared with our generation of immortal cultivators, their actions have indeed damaged the great cause of incense and must be guarded against."
Elder Qingzhuo has now changed his mind.