“Escape!”

Before Lin Qianxuan could finish uttering the word, You Xi had already started to flee.

However, at the same time, Lin Qianxuan’s palm had already gripped the Heaven-swallowing Sword within the gun box.

“You little brat! Don’t run!!”

Furious, Zhu Qianqiu came crushing down with an overwhelming force, the three peaks condensed from the realm now seemingly turned into reality.

No, they indeed turned into reality.

Substantial forms filled by True Essence.

Zhu Qianqiu no longer concerned himself with the wastage or whether Lin Qianxuan would be too destroyed to use as medicine; an ocean of True Essence burst forth as if costless, with torrents of True Essence shooting out, covering the whole sky like a barrage.

He was tricked by Lin Qianxuan to the point of almost losing his life.

If it weren’t for his past experiences training in thunder, escaping this time would have been questionable.

Yet even so, he suffered a loss of Primordial Energy to rush out of the boundless Thunder Realm.

Therefore, he no longer harbored any illusion. At this moment, he had only one thought: kill Lin Qianxuan first.

As for the consumption of any Innate Fetal Essence during this process, he didn’t care anymore.

It’s better than watching him escape and leaving nothing behind.

Suddenly, You Xi was hit by one of the attacks, pausing in movement and drastically reducing her speed.

In the next moment, Zhu Qianqiu launched an assault, gathering True Essence of lightning, frost, and flame; the three peaks fell from the sky in unison, pressing down on Lin Qianxuan.

The pressure of those three grand mountains was so immense that You Xi could not even flap her wings, and Lin Qianxuan seemed to be suppressed, unable to rise.

They were being pressed down towards the ground.

From ten thousand meters high, the three peaks plummeted at high speed, with Lin Qianxuan and You Xi beneath them, striving desperately to escape the range of pressure from the peaks but were locked in place, unable to evade.

The descent of the trio was so fast that friction with the air produced heat, a faint red glow appeared, and the air itself began to burn.

The peaks edged closer to Lin Qianxuan and You Xi, already upon the True Essence Shield.

“Pop~! Crack~!”

Like a bubble being pierced, it shattered instantly.

Zhu Qianqiu seemed to see the scene of Lin Qianxuan and You Xi being blasted to death on the spot from such a strike.

Yet at that moment, a golden light pierced through the three peaks!

Whether thunder, frost, or flame, they all appeared feeble before this light.

The Heaven-swallowing Sword was an Artifact Embryo.

A weapon capable of accommodating rules.

Even relying solely on its own material, it was enough to break through all laws.

Moreover, the sword seemed to carry some sort of special attribute.

An attribute of dissolving all things.

No sound, not even a tofu-cutting sensation, Lin Qianxuan seemingly just stabbed into the air, the blade puncturing through the gun box, piercing the three peaks of True Essence, and incidentally running through Zhu Qianqiu’s heart.

“Bang~!”

Zhu Qianqiu’s palm came in attack, Lin Qianxuan couldn’t withdraw the sword and instead endured the blow with You Xi, being blasted away instantly.

“Boom~!”

You Xi and Lin Qianxuan crashed to the ground, breaking a massive tree embraced by three people, creating a large pit in the dirt.

Lin Qianxuan’s mouth and nostrils overflowed with blood, eyes filled with bloodshot veins, ears ringing, his inner organs severely injured, many chest and rib bones fractured, and the right arm holding the sword almost shattered to bits.

In fact, if it weren’t for You Xi’s utmost protection, he would have had his heart veins shattered on the spot, leading to death.

You Xi wasn’t doing well either; her left wing was damaged, now nearly completely bent.

Lin Qianxuan strained his eyes towards the sky, seeing Zhu Qianqiu enshrouded in Tri-color True Essence staggering down on the ground, his aura fluctuating unpredictably, the Heaven-swallowing Sword stuck in his body as he stumbled towards Lin Qianxuan and You Xi.

“Eat him, eat and you can live…..”

Right now, Zhu Qianqiu had only this one obsession left.

The sword did more than just inflict a piercing injury, it destroyed his heart along with the True Essence, severely damaging the heart and acupoints.

At this moment, he’s nearly at death’s door.

Unless, somehow, he could grow another heart.

Without a heart, even as a Circulation Realm expert, he faced a dead end.

He couldn’t think of much anymore.

He just wanted to eat Lin Qianxuan.

“Eat you…..”

Lin Qianxuan looked at Zhu Qianqiu closing in, struggling to stand up.

He deciphered Zhu Qianqiu’s body language.

Zhu Qianqiu was literally at his last gasp.

Lin Qianxuan extended his left hand, Inner Qi converging between his fingers, transforming into a long spear.

The technique of “Silk Hand.”

However, optimized by Lin Qianxuan; those strands of Inner Qi could be woven into various forms.

Creating this long spear was naturally no challenge.

Zhu Qianqiu, too, strained to gather whatever True Essence he could muster, forcefully thrusting out a palm.

Lin Qianxuan stopped You Xi from helping, launching the Inner Qi spear from his palm.

“Puff~!”

“Bang~!”

Lin Qianxuan flew out, caught by You Xi, the two colliding with a tree.

By now, Lin Qianxuan was even more severely injured, though he avoided vital areas, his left arm was nonetheless cleaved from the shoulder, obliterated by the Palm Force.

The wound was still adorned with frost, scorched by flames, and faint, yellow electric arcs flickered, even giving glimpses of internal organs inside the chest cavity.

On the other side, Zhu Qianqiu had a jade-like white spear piercing through his brow.

The spear’s shaft had been obliterated by the Palm Force, leaving only the spearhead piercing his brow.

He stood frozen in place, past events flashing rapidly through his mind.

Born into poverty, he began martial arts training at eight, reached Postnatal Peak at twenty, lost his way forward, and thus had to create his own path.

By chance, he saw the scenery of the Three Mountains and developed a Martial Technique.

Innate at forty-seven.

Founded the Three Mountains Sect at fifty.

At one hundred and eighty, he observed his entry into the Circulation Realm, joining the ranks of the world’s top masters.

Afterwards, his cultivation gradually slowed, and the path ahead seemed increasingly difficult.

At five hundred and twelve, nearing the end of his lifespan, he finally ceased being stubborn, gathered Innate Fetal Essence, and refined the Longevity Pill.

Once he started, he found it impossible to stop.

Wanting to survive, to remain youthful, he required more Innate Fetal Essence each year, but for the sake of longevity, he did not care.

Everything went smoothly, for he had already reached the human Peak, and there was almost nothing he couldn’t accomplish effortlessly.

Until he encountered Lin Qianxuan and developed a greed.

Zhu Qianqiu closed his eyes, still somewhat unable to comprehend how he could die at the hands of an Innate.

Lin Qianxuan felt the root bone feedback from the milestone, his body became slightly stronger.

No, it became much, much stronger.

Zhu Qianqiu’s Root Bone Attribute nearly equaled that of over a dozen Innates.

He consumed the essence of others to supplement and benefit himself, naturally achieving first-class Root Bones.

If not for the limits set by Heaven and Earth, he would have long entered the Pill Body Realm.

[Hint: You have crossed two levels to kill a Circulation Realm Peak master while in the Postnatal Realm, and obtained the “Glorious Fragment” level milestone [Leapfrog Maniac].]

[Leapfrog Maniac: You may choose to expend one minor tier of your Cultivation to strengthen your Root Bone Attribute. (Note: Only fools concern themselves with levels.)]

Indeed, when Lin Qianxuan killed Zhu Qianqiu, he even suppressed his cultivation.

He used the intensity of Inner Qi at the Postnatal Realm.

So it was directly two levels crossed.

The text color of this Glorious Fragment level milestone is red, very striking.

“Use cultivation to exchange for root bone?”

After a brief thought, Lin Qianxuan understood what this meant.

He could cultivate with stronger root bones, and progress in cultivation was sure to be rapid.

Then he could exchange cultivation for root bone, obtaining even faster cultivation speed.

By stepping on his own feet, he could remain in one realm for ten or twenty years, but his root bone could advance limitlessly.

Root bone also represents combat power.

Which means, even in the Postnatal Realm, he could possess the combat power of the Circulation Realm.

“Let’s try exchanging for one minor tier of root bone first!”

With a thought, a portion of Lin Qianxuan’s acupoints, which had been open, abruptly closed.

To be precise, two hundred and forty acupoints were closed.

At the same time, Lin Qianxuan’s physique became slightly stronger, his self-recovery ability and so on were all enhanced.

Thus, Lin Qianxuan roughly estimated what a minor Innate realm represented in terms of Root Bone Attributes.

Approximately like a Yu Chenfeng with the Wind-Rattling Hammer.

It used to take about a year to reopen those two hundred and forty acupoints.

But now, Lin Qianxuan felt a week would be the longest it would take.

On average, one can improve by the equivalent of Yu Chenfeng’s Wind-Rattling Hammer within a week in terms of Root Bone.

Much stronger than the previous need to kill across levels to gain Root Bone Attributes.

After all, there weren’t so many Innate masters for him to kill in this world, right?

It’s also fortunate that Lin Qianxuan killed Zhu Qianqiu, gaining his Root Bone Attributes; otherwise, it would have been difficult to say if his own injuries could be withstood.

But now it’s different.

The granulation of Lin Qianxuan’s wounds was visible to the naked eye, and in at most three days, the wounds could close.

It’s just that missing a left hand feels weird.

As time reached dusk, Lin Qianxuan’s physical condition had stabilized, he even began to absorb Heaven and Earth Energy to cultivate.

You Xi brought over a grilled fish for Lin Qianxuan.

Lin Qianxuan’s right arm was nearly fractured into many pieces, and unless the Inner Qi was mobilized to forcibly move, he couldn’t move it, so he could only let You Xi feed him bit by bit.

“Just like the Condor Heroes, but the partner isn’t Xiao Longnu; it’s the condor…hahaha…ouch…hiss…”

Suddenly, Lin Qianxuan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

But the laughter tugged at his injuries, making him gasp in pain.

You Xi gave him a sidelong glance in annoyance, continuing to feed him.

…..

On the other side.

In mid-air, Xi Yunyi was lying on the back of Bicchao Shaman, who was flying at full speed, and said, “Master, faster, faster!”

“How much faster?” Zhang Qingjue said with annoyance: “I’m not skilled at flying, this speed is already the limit, besides, if the Three Mountains Master wants to kill him, we’d probably only have the chance to collect the corpse now anyway.”

Hearing this, Xi Yunyi couldn’t help but look a bit grim.

Finally made a close friend, who knew something like this would happen, anyone would be unhappy.

“If Brother Tan dies, I will avenge him!” Xi Yunyi gritted his teeth.

“Then you’ll have to outlast the Three Mountains Master; by the time you have the strength to take revenge, he’d probably have exhausted his lifespan already.” Zhang Qingjue mocked his overconfident disciple, then frowned again and said, “This isn’t right, this isn’t the direction towards the Three Mountains, it seems they have even exchanged blows, the Heaven and Earth Energy here is so chaotic….”

Zhang Qingjue was quite puzzled, an Innate and a Circulation, what was there to fight over?

Shouldn’t it be a one-handed suppression?

Suddenly, he caught sight of smoke and flames rising in the distance.

And Xi Yunyi naturally saw it too.

“Master, there’s a fire!”

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