Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1142: Self-Destruction

Chapter 1142: Chapter 1142: Self-Destruction

"Qian Jiao, Baimei, I don’t ask for your forgiveness; I only hope that, as disciples of the Xuannv Sect, you can persuade Senior Fang not to destroy the Xuannv Sect so that it can continue to exist... If the Xuannv Sect were to perish by my hands, how could I face our founder and the previous Sect Leaders after my death!"

When Yang Ruojun said this, her emotions suddenly surged. Ignoring her injuries, she struggled forward and tightly gripped the hems of Linghu Qianjiao and Linghu Baimei’s dresses, choking up, "All the faults are mine alone! I am willing to bear all consequences! I only beg you... please persuade Senior Fang not to harm the Xuannv Sect’s elders, stewards, and the many disciples..."

She coughed violently at this point, her wounds bleeding more profusely, her face contorted in pain, yet she stubbornly refused to let go of the sisters’ dress hems.

Seeing this, Steward Zhou hurriedly came to assist Yang Ruojun, urgently saying, "Sect Leader, please take the elixir to heal your injuries!"

Yang Ruojun firmly shook her head and then looked at Linghu Qianjiao and Linghu Baimei with pleading eyes.

Linghu Qianjiao, cold on the outside but warm on the inside, saw that Yang Ruojun had no intention of healing herself and her life was slowly slipping away. It was clear she had resolved to die, and Linghu Qianjiao’s eyes inadvertently showed a trace of reluctance.

Linghu Baimei said indifferently, "Sect Leader, you are asking the wrong people! The survival of the Xuannv Sect does not depend on us but on Brother Fang."

Yang Ruojun said, "No, I know, whatever you say, Senior Fang will surely listen..."

Suddenly remembering something, she released the Linghu sisters and, struggling, grasped onto Zhuge Lian’s dress hem, pleading, "Xiao Lian, you’re also a disciple of the Xuannv Sect, you can’t bear to see the Xuannv Sect destroyed, right? Please, you must also ask Senior Fang... He just listened to your cry..."

Just earlier, when Fang Bai had executed the Silence-Ending Blade to eliminate the high-ranking members of the Xuannv Sect, it was Zhuge Lian’s cry that had stayed his hand, giving Yang Ruojun a glimmer of hope.

Zhuge Lian, seeing Linghu Qianjiao and Linghu Baimei also watching her with strange looks, blushed slightly, misunderstanding, and said, "Sect Leader, Junior Sister Linghu is right, you should be asking Brother Fang!"

"Sect Leader" paused, then muttered with despair, "Senior Fang probably hates me to the bone. My plea would be useless... useless..."

Yang Ruojun slowly released Zhuge Lian’s dress hem, reseated herself cross-legged, swept her gaze over Zhuge Lian, Linghu Qianjiao, and Linghu Baimei, then closed her eyes, weakly saying, "Qian Jiao, Baimei, Xiao Lian, the survival of the Xuannv Sect now depends on you..."

After saying these words, her body trembled slightly, and then she sat still as an old monk in meditation, motionless.

A few moments later, traces of blood slowly seeped from Yang Ruojun’s mouth and nose.

"Sect Leader!"

Steward Zhou, alarmed by the situation, realized Yang Ruojun’s life force had extinguished, and she had died by severing her own meridians.

"The Sect Leader has passed away!"

Steward Zhou knelt on the ground, crying out in grief. Around him, thousands of Xuannv Sect disciples reacted to his words, kneeling and crying out, their voices filling the area with an atmosphere of sorrow.

Linghu Qianjiao and Linghu Baimei looked at each other, astonished that Yang Ruojun had chosen such a method to end her own life for the sake of the Xuannv Sect’s continuation.

However, unlike the other Xuannv Sect disciples who knelt down, the two women felt disillusioned and no longer considered themselves part of the Xuannv Sect after Yang Ruojun had previously branded them with accusations of "betraying the sect" and being "ominous."

However, no matter what, Yang Ruojun’s death also dissolved some of the resentment in their hearts.

As for Zhuge Lian, although she was dissatisfied with Sect Leader Yang Ruojun, she had grown up in the Xuannv Sect and held deep feelings for it. Seeing thousands of Xuannv Sect disciples kneeling densely, she couldn’t help but feel a sting in her nose and her eyes redden slightly, and she knelt down as well.

Fang Bai, who was in a cultivation state, slightly furrowed his brows, then calmed down.

Fang Bai’s Essence Energy was depleting quickly, but it also recovered quickly. After swallowing more than ten bottles of medium-rank Gathering Yuan Pills, his Qi Sea quickly became replete with Essence Energy, restored as before.

Immediately following, Fang Bai tried to break through the barrier in his path to advancement, but found it still slightly lacking.

Thinking about the dozen or so Creation Pills he had previously refined stored in the Spatial Ring, although they were low-rank Elixirs, they could also increase the success rate of breaking through. Thus, Fang Bai took out all those Creation Pills from the Spatial Ring and swallowed them all.

More than ten bottles of Creation Pills amounted to over a hundred Elixirs. The power of the medicine was not trivial. After refining those Creation Pills, Fang Bai felt the Essence Energy in his Qi Sea explode in an instant. He immediately guided the Essence Energy with his consciousness to once again assault the barrier to advancement.

The human body has countless meridians, which before birth are all unobstructed. After birth, some meridians become blocked and need to be unblocked through cultivation.

In cultivation, a Martial Artist absorbs Heaven and Earth Origin Energy to unblock those obstructed meridians.

The more meridians a Martial Artist unblocks, the more areas of the body the Essence Energy can reach, and thus, both the physical strength and inherent power become increasingly formidable.

Similarly, once the meridians are unblocked, they need constant widening and strengthening to house more Essence Energy in an instant, ensuring they don’t burst from the pressure of a massive surge of Essence Energy.

When a Martial Artist’s Qi Sea accumulates enough powerful Essence Energy, it is possible to assault the blocked meridians. Once a whole meridian is unblocked and Essence Energy flows through it, the Martial Artist’s strength multiplies, fulfilling the purpose of advancing in realm.

Fang Bai used his consciousness to guide his Essence Energy, continuously attacking the last barrier within a meridian in his body.

A hundred breaths later, there was a light explosive sound within his body, and his figure slightly shook. The final barrier was successfully broken, Essence Energy filled the pathway, connecting and intertwining with other meridians, starting to circulate.

A Martial Artist, by cultivating from Acquired to Innate, and then from Innate to the Foundation Establishment Realm, only then does true cultivation begin.

In this True Martial Realm, one of the three thousand Minor Worlds, influenced by the environmental forces of heaven and earth, reaching the Innate Realm is already the limit. To cultivate to a higher realm, one must seek opportunities in the vast expanse of the three thousand Major Worlds.

In the True Martial Realm, Cultivation Techniques enabling cultivation to the Innate Realm are few, but this was not an issue for Fang Bai.

Within Fang Bai’s mind, there were thousands of Cultivation Techniques available for cultivation, while the Innate Techniques were just the most ordinary, most basic techniques for him.

After rebirth through seizing another’s body, Fang Bai chose to cultivate the formidable Dragon-Tiger-Lion-Elephant Technique in the secular world. This technique was powerful and, when cultivated to its limits, could reach the Innate Realm.

The Dragon-Tiger-Lion-Elephant Technique has nine major realms. After this advancement, Fang Bai had reached the sixth realm, the High Rank of the Surging Essence Realm, equivalent to Vast Level High Rank in this world.

Given Fang Bai’s monstrous ability to challenge those above his level, he now possessed the strength to contend with Cosmic Level High Rank powerhouses in this world.