Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 1116 - 970 Return to Earth Immortal

Chapter 1116: Chapter 970 Return to Earth Immortal

The winds howled fiercely.

Xin Hongyun’s hand rose to recall the "Fire Cloud Sword". A complex expression appeared on her face, "Why have you managed to cultivate to such a realm?"

"For that, I must thank Sir for the scriptures gifted to me all those years ago, which led me into cultivation, and by a fortuitous coincidence, I obtained another tome of side-door teachings that brought me to my current level of cultivation," Fang Xi replied with a chuckle, toying with the "Sky Demon Slayer Sword".

"Sir’s achievement is truly admirable. It’s only a pity that you fell into the side-door and have no hope of achieving true fruition..."

Xin Hongyun vaguely knew why fate had intertwined her path with this man. She immediately said, "Sir saved Hongyun’s life. If you wish for true fruition, Hongyun is willing to do everything to help Sir gain entry into the Shu Mountain Sect..."

"So, to join your Shu Mountain, I have to undergo reincarnation willingly?" Fang Xi sneered, flicking the "Sky Demon Slayer Sword", "Unfortunately, I quite like the side-door. We side-door cultivators, speak only with our flying swords... And I do indeed want this Dragon Turtle Inner Pill."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the Si Chen Sword transformed into twelve rays of sword light, which flew out like a dreamlike illusion.

"Fire Cloud, go!"

Xin Hongyun’s eyebrows raised as several fiery red clouds appeared on the Fire Cloud Sword. They looked as fierce as the great sun, and she thrust her sword directly downward.

Thud thud!

The future shadows of the Si Chen Sword instantly solidified, fiercely clashing with the Fire Cloud Sword.

And then...

They were severed by the Fire Cloud Sword in eight strikes!

The Fire Cloud Sword was one of the nine famous swords of Shu Mountain Sect and was at the level of a Pure Yang treasure.

The "Si Chen Sword" Fang Xi was currently refining was no match for it.

But this sword was not without its strengths. Although its eight future flying swords were shattered, the present flying sword was undamaged.

This was the power of the Law of Time!

Not only that, but Fang Xi pinched another sword table.

The four remaining Si Chen Sword bodies immediately became intangible. Even though the Fire Cloud Sword slashed right through them, they were not damaged in the slightest.

It was as if only the past shadows of the sword remained in that spot.

—The past is immutable!

Thus no matter how sharp the Fire Cloud Sword was, it could not harm the "Si Chen Sword" in the slightest.

"Slash!"

Xin Hongyun reacted swiftly, knowing that she couldn’t find a way to defeat this white flying sword. She flicked her fingertips rapidly.

The Fire Cloud Sword chimed clearly, abandoning its entanglement with the Si Chen Sword, and slashing towards Fang Xi!

Fang Xi sighed, his right hand casually swept through the air, and the divine thunders of the five positive attributes, such as Jia Wood and Bing Fire, Wu Earth... appeared, transforming into Five Elements Divine Thunder, bombarding the Fire Cloud Sword consecutively.

Moreover, his left palm revealed needles thin as cow hair, precisely the Five Elements Annihilation God Needle!

His left hand moved, and the needles connected end to end like a long thread, constantly striking the tip of the Fire Cloud Sword.

Although the Fire Cloud Sword was a Pure Yang treasure, its master could not even be considered as an Individual Immortal. It was difficult to employ two or three tenths of its full power and let out a wailing sound as it was knocked flying back.

Witnessing this, Fang Xi rubbed his hands together.

The forces of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements converged, turning into brilliant and colorful rays of light!

—Yin and Yang Reverse Five Elements Two Yi Extinguishing Divine Light!

The Divine Light technique, known for being the fastest in the world and hard to avoid.

Countless rays of light entwined the Fire Cloud Sword, preventing it from unleashing its power.

The remaining Yin and Yang Reverse Five Elements Two Yi Extinguishing Divine Light flooded towards Xin Hongyun like a torrent!

Whoosh whoosh!

The winds were piercingly cold.

The five-color Xia Light slowly dissipated.

In the place where Xin Hongyun had been standing, there was now a Divine Shuttle one didn’t know when had appeared!

This shuttle was several zhang long, with countless scales linked together on its surface, exuding an unbreakable aura, and it successfully blocked all of Fang Xi’s Yin and Yang Reverse Five Elements Two Yi Extinguishing Divine Light.

"Indeed, she had a treasure to protect her," said Fang Xi with an air of having expected this. The "Si Chen Sword" appeared above the Divine Shuttle out of nowhere, casting down a strand of gray-white sword silk.

Zap!

As the gray-white sword silk streaked past, the already-damaged inner arrays of the Divine Shuttle let out a cry of despair and shattered into pieces.

With a clear whistle, Xin Hongyun leaped out from the Divine Shuttle, her body surrounded by crimson clouds.

In the void, many Magic Chains appeared and tightly bound her within them.

Fang Xi flashed and plucked Xin Hongyun’s treasure pouch, withdrawing the Dragon Turtle Inner Pill, a hint of a smile on his face, "This item... seems to have more affinity with me."

In the next instant, a formless sword light flashed in the void.

The many Magic Chains instantly shattered.

With a long howl, Xin Hongyun’s Fire Cloud Sword glowed dazzlingly red, transforming into a crimson long rainbow, and slashed towards Fang Xi!

"What a Shu Mountain!"

Caught off guard, Fang Xi’s right hand shone with a silver-white radiance, and he caught it empty-handed.

The rainbow-shaped Fire Cloud Sword disappeared instantly.

"Taiyi Formless Sword?"

Fang Xi sneered, "An ambush?"

The Si Chen Sword’s radiance flicked for an instant, forcing out the figure of a monk from the void.

Surrounded by a misty sword light, barely visible, he was none other than the ’Monk Di Xin’ from the Shu Mountain Sect!

This person, unlike Xin Hongyun, had already achieved the fruition of an Individual Immortal, and even amidst Individual Immortals, he was a first-rate figure!

It was also he who had just rescued Xin Hongyun from her predicament.

"Uncle Master, he stole my flying sword!"

Xin Hongyun suddenly spat out a mouthful of essence blood, her face painted with panic, "My Fire Cloud Sword was taken by him using the Void’s great teleportation technique, I have no idea where it was teleported to..."

"Amitabha!"

Monk Di Xin’s face bore a troubled expression, his two white eyebrows hanging down to his shoulders, but he did not pay much attention to Xin Hongyun. Instead, he folded his hands towards Fang Xi and bowed, "Fang lay Buddhist... This poor monk can see that you have outstanding talent and potential. You will surely not be confined to a small pond in the future... As my niece has always been arrogant and rarely opens her heart to her peers, how about we arrange a marriage between you? If you agree, the ’Fire Cloud Sword’ will be the token of the agreement."

"Cough cough..."

Looking at the seemingly stern yet actually frivolous monk, Fang Xi was somewhat choked up.

Although Xin Hongyun was quite attractive, he clearly would not engage in such a losing deal.

’Shu Mountain still has some capable people, for sure, recognizing that Xin Hongyun’s fate and opportunities are closely related to me. If they want to preserve her Earth Immortal fruition, the only option is to make peace with me...’

’Since she does not wish to reincarnate as a disciple, then she can only become my wife.’

’It’s quite a clever scheme, too bad...’

He smiled and declined, "I am not willing!"

Xin Hongyun’s face immediately turned ominously pale with rage.

However, Monk Di Xin said, "If that is the case, this monk has no choice but to first invite the lay Buddhist to Shu Mountain as a guest. When the Fire Cloud Sword is found, only then can you be allowed to return."

"As expected... The Shu Mountain Sect is still as overbearing as ever. It was like that last time, and it is the same now..."

Fang Xi sighed and flicked the ’Sky Demon Slayer Sword’ in his hand, "Monk, do you know the name of this sword?"

Without waiting for Monk Di Xin to speak, he continued, "This sword is called ’Sky Demon Slayer Sword’; it was a premier flying immortal sword which, after my engraving of the Sky Demon Mysterious Seals, possesses endless power to wield and command the force of extra domain Sky Demons. Would you dare to make a bet?"

"Amitabha, this poor monk... I’ll take the bet."

The Monk Di Xin’s eyes flashed a Liuli color, no matter how one looked at it, the ’Sky Demon Slayer Sword’ seemed to be no more than a piece of scrap metal. But, putting his hands together in prayer, he laughed and said, "If this old monk wins, the lay Buddhist must keep the promise and take a trip to Shu Mountain, and I will pray and chant scriptures for the lay Buddhist every day..."

"Heh heh!"

Fang Xi said no more and swung the ’Sky Demon Slayer Sword’ in his hand!

The next moment, Monk Di Xin’s complexion radically changed.

In the void, a silver light flashed, and a young man in an Earth-Attribute robe appeared out of nowhere.

He smiled slightly, and around him circulated the Five Mountains True Form; the Earth-Attribute Heavenly and Earthly Laws thundered, and he had direct access to the Law’s incarnate form!

Five Earth-Attribute hillocks emerged, merged into the Five Mountains True Formation, and pressed down fiercely!

In the void, Earth-Attribute Magic Chains appeared, seeming to lock heaven and earth, turning the surroundings into a massive cage!

The sky suddenly turned pitch black, and the five mountains crashed down, likely shaking tens of thousands of miles, causing the earth dragons to overturn and resulting in innumerable deaths and injuries!

"Not good... Definitely an extra domain Sky Demon, acting without the slightest regard for all sentient beings between heaven and earth!"

Monk Di Xin cried out in alarm, his brows knotted with concern.

Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, he had cultivated a superior fruition that would have allowed him to easily escape the range of the Five Mountains True Formation by utilizing an escape technique like emitting heart light. But it would mean abandoning Xin Hongyun.

Yet, with the extra domain Sky Demon unleashing destructive power spanning tens of thousands of miles as soon as it moved, if he fled, just a fraction of the karma could be enough to cause his decline and damage his fortune.

In this hopeless situation, he had no choice but to emit a long howl. A golden barrier emerged in his hand, rapidly expanding, and covering tens of thousands of miles, it was the Buddhism Sect’s ’Vajra Womb Bright Mandala Large Barrier’!

This barrier was an extremely powerful array that ranked just below the Sect’s anchoring ’Biyi Qi Nine Palaces Xumi Array’ within the Shu Mountain Sect!

Boom!

A Mount Tai-like peak fell, heavily smashing onto the golden barrier, causing the barrier’s golden light, heavenly lamps, golden lotuses, and Buddhist flags to sway intensely.

Then came the second mountain, the third mountain, the fourth mountain...

Mountain after mountain directly pressed on top of the original massive ones, making the ’Vajra Womb Bright Mandala Large Barrier’ emit a groan, as if overwhelmed by the burden.

Monk Di Xin’s white eyebrows turned into white light, instantly extending infinitely, coiling around each of these huge mountains.

And a formless sword light, swift as an antelope’s horns, slashed towards the young man in the Earth-Attribute robe.

Whoosh!

A flash of silver light, and Fang Xi stood in front of the young man, bringing his hands together in the middle.

Amid the dazzling brilliance, both figures along with that formless sword light vanished in an instant.

"Amitabha!"

After a while, Monk Di Xin finally repressed the Five Mountains within the Buddhist barrier, his face showing a trace of bitterness, "The ’Sky Demon Slayer Sword’... truly lives up to its name. This old monk’s ’Taiyi Invisible Sword’ is also lost..."

Xin Hongyun, thinking of her own flying sword, couldn’t help but feel extremely annoyed and was almost on the verge of spewing another mouthful of essence blood!

...

Earth Immortal Realm.

Mount Sumeru.

Fang Xi’s true form was seated beneath the Monster Tree.

The Monster Tree’s branches and leaves blotted out the sky, and if not for the protection of the Void Immortal Formation, it would’ve likely been discovered by cultivators of the Earth Immortal Realm long ago.

At this time, across from him, a flash of silver light revealed two figures, which were both his Externalizations!

Clang!

A flying sword that resembled a sliver of ice dropped down, the ’Taiyi Invisible Sword’!