Chapter 1 Rebirth

  Huǒ Láng has been forced to retreat, this little guy is too troublesome, every time he makes a move, Huǒ Láng must carefully avoid him.

  Chen Xuan has now resorted to using Huo Lang as a practice dummy, with no pressure on himself as a sixth-grade cultivator. The seventh-grade Huo Lang is just right for practicing his sword skills, and the wounds on Huo Lang's body are getting more and more numerous.

  The Fire Wolf let out a loud roar and quickly retreated backwards, not wanting to continue fighting this young man anymore. This young man was too abnormal, every time the Fire Wolf saw Chen Xuan draw his sword, all the hairs on its body stood up.

  "It's too late to leave now!" Chen Xuan roared.

  "Cutting Wind!"

  The blade flashed through a beautiful arc, cutting across the Fire Wolf's neck, and an invisible thread of blood sprayed out. The Fire Wolf fell to the ground in defeat.

  A pair of wolf eyes stared fiercely at Chen Xuan, who would have thought that the young man, who didn't seem particularly strong, had a knife technique that was so divine and magical. Huo Lang reluctantly closed his eyes.

  After a fierce battle with Huo Lang, Chen Xuan's understanding of Jian Feng had deepened. The angle of his sword strikes became even more precise. With one slash, the sword shadows that filled the sky increased from ten directions to twenty. This meant that when Chen Xuan made a move, Huo Lang would have to dodge attacks from twenty different angles. Even with Huo Lang's incredible speed, he couldn't avoid all twenty of these deadly strikes.

  After a fierce battle with Huo Lang, Chen Xuan also suffered some minor injuries, his left shoulder was scratched by Huo Lang's wolf claws, leaving four deep gashes that exposed the bone.

  He took out a hemostatic pill and swallowed it, then took out the wound powder and sprinkled it on the wound. He tore off a piece of cloth from his body and simply bandaged the wound. Chen Xuan was in so much pain that he gritted his teeth and cursed, "Damn this fierce Fire Wolf!"

  Arriving at Huo Lang's side, Chen Xuan stripped off Huo Lang's fur, which was a good thing worth at least 20,000 taels. He reached out and dug out Huo Lang's inner dan as well.

  "Whoa!"

  Chen Xuan obtained the inner dan of Huo Lang, a fire wolf. His own inner dan from killing a sixth-stage Da Li Yuan was only about the size of a ping-pong ball, while Huo Lang's inner dan was as big as an egg. A single seventh-grade demon beast inner dan could sell for 50,000 taels. This time out, not only did he practice his knife skills, but also made a small profit.

  Chen Xuan suddenly remembered something and quickly communicated with Lao Li.

  "Lai Lao, you said that Tian Xuan can absorb other people's spiritual energy for his own use. Can he absorb the spiritual energy of magical beasts?" Chen Xuan asked.

  "This set of skills I haven't practiced either, and I can't give you any advice. Your best bet is to try it out yourself and see!" said Lao Li.

  Whether it's a human or a demon beast, the spiritual energy on their body will slowly dissipate after death, which is also an inevitable matter. The Heaven Swallowing Technique mentions that it can absorb other people's spiritual energy for its own use, but it doesn't mention whether the spiritual energy of demon beasts can be absorbed or not.

  Sitting cross-legged, a whirlpool of air appeared above Chen Xuan's head.

  "Absorb!"

  Only to see that after Huo Lang's death, his lingering spirit was being absorbed bit by bit into the swirling vortex of air on Chen Xuan's head.

  "Refine!"

  The airflow disappeared back into Chen Xuan's body, Chen Xuan opened his eyes and a smile appeared on his face. It was useful, although not much, but it had absorbed three-tenths of the Fire Wolf's spiritual energy.

  Get up, pick up the steel knife and hurry away from this place. After a fierce battle, more demons will come here soon. Besides, Chen Xuan absorbed the spirit of Huo Lang, and there is a feeling that he is about to break through. Therefore, Chen Xuan must find a safe place to let himself break through safely.

  Chen Xuan sprinted to the left, rushing through the dense forest, and arrived at a small valley. Behind the valley was a cliff about 200 meters high, with a cave on the cliff face that could accommodate one person.

  Arriving at the edge of the cliff, a two-hundred-zhang cliff no longer posed a threat to Chen Xuan.

  Arriving at the entrance of the cave, inside was a damp atmosphere, Chen Xuan found a clean place to sit down.

  The Revolving Heaven Swallowing Earth True Essence circulated within his body over and over again, each circulation deepening Chen Xuan's true essence by a fraction.

  When the orbit turned thirty-six times, Chen Xuan's true energy in his dantian had slowly become viscous, and the Tianyun Decision was still continuing to turn.

  Only a loud noise was heard beside the ear, and all the true energy returned to the dantian.

  Chen Xuan stood up, and his whole body's bones made a crackling sound.

  Yunzhuan Zhenli punched out a gust of wind and thunder fist towards the wall, with a loud crash, the stones on the stone cave fell down with a rustling sound.

  It's incredibly powerful, at least twice as strong as the True Energy of a Fifth-Grade Postnatal cultivator. If I were to encounter the Fire Wolf again, I could take it down with just one slash.

  "If the spiritual energy of the demon can be absorbed, then can't the spiritual energy contained in the demon's inner elixir also be absorbed?" Chen Xuan asked himself.

  The inner elixir is the essence of the demon beast's body, if one can absorb the inner elixir of the demon beast, Chen Xuan dare not think about it, what kind of state would that be.

  But Chen Xuan is not a hesitant person, once he thought of it, he would do it immediately.

  He then sat down with his legs crossed, holding the inner elixir of Huo Lang in his hand. As he operated the Swallowing Heaven Technique, threads of spiritual energy could be seen flowing from the center of Chen Xuan's palm into his body, following the meridians and flowing towards the Dan Tian.

  Half a time unit later, without any spiritual energy input, Chen Xuan opened his eyes to see that the green inner elixir on his hand had turned grayish white. He almost jumped up in shock and hastily used his divine sense to communicate with Lao Li.

  "Lai Lao, did you see that? I was actually able to absorb spiritual energy from the demon beast's core! My true strength has increased by another 30% compared to when I broke through to sixth rank earlier!" Chen Xuan exclaimed excitedly.

  "You little brat, you've got a lucky break! Who would have thought that this 'Swallowing Heaven Technique' is so overbearing? Others cultivate it with great effort, but you can quickly upgrade by directly devouring it from others. If people knew you were cultivating such an overbearing technique, they'd definitely chase you around the world every day. It's not your fault, but you're guilty of possessing this treasure! I wonder how against-the-heavens the person who created this technique was!"

  Lao Li's voice was filled with emotion in Chen Xuan's mind.

  "Lui Lao, you haven't told me what level my knife skills are at yet!"

  "I don't know either, this is something I came up with myself, and I'm not sure what level it's at, but at the very least it should be a high-grade Earth-level technique!"

  The best martial art in my family is only Huang Jie's top grade, thinking about the martial arts or martial skills I've cultivated, any one of them would be sensational if taken out, but I still can't say it out loud, wait until later when I have the power to bring some high-level martial arts back to my family.

  Chen Xuan took out all the inner elixirs from his body and placed them in his hand, letting the Swallowing Heaven Technique absorb them. The fifth-grade beast's inner elixir could only increase his true energy by one-tenth, while the fourth-grade one could only increase it by half. He put away the inner elixirs of fifth-grade or lower beasts again, as they didn't help him much anyway. It was better to sell them back to Hui Chun Hall and earn some silver coins to exchange for pills, spiritual stones, and other cultivation resources.

  Chen Xuan stayed in the cave for two days before coming out, thoroughly consolidating his sixth-grade realm and feeling that he was not far from seventh grade, so he prepared to leave the cave.

  What's next, Chen Xuan hurriedly communicated with Lao Li using his divine sense.

  "Your current true strength is about the same as a postnatal eighth-grade pureness, and seventh-grade magical beasts no longer pose any threat to you. You don't need to go out of your way to kill those low-level magical beasts anymore. Instead, head deeper inside and find some eighth-grade magical beasts to continue tempering your Wind Slasher. Your current knife speed, angle, and other aspects still need improvement!"

  "When you reach the 7th rank, I will teach you a set of footwork techniques. With your knife skills combined with these footwork techniques, your martial arts skills will be taken to the next level!"

  Chen Xuan came out of the cave, took a deep breath, and flew towards the depths of the mountain range.