Chapter 1 Rebirth

  He sat cross-legged, operating the Heaven Swallowing Technique to absorb the scattered heavenly and earthly spiritual energy of the three people. The true power in Chen Xuan's dantian was growing rapidly, already reaching the peak of sixth grade.

  "Little one, don't just absorb spiritual energy into your dantian, merge the absorbed spiritual energy into your body to temper your flesh. Only when your flesh is strong can your body carry more of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!"

  Lai Lao saw Chen Xuan constantly absorbing spiritual energy into his dantian and reminded him with a word.

  Chen Xuan immediately stopped absorbing the spiritual energy into his dantian, and instead channeled all of it into his body. The violent spiritual energy rampaged wildly within Chen Xuan's body, causing yellow impurities to seep out from his skin pores. This was the filth within Chen Xuan's body being cleansed by the heavenly spiritual energy.

  Ouch!

  His whole body felt like it was being cut by thousands of small knives, and Chen Xuan almost fainted from the pain.

  "Old man, why didn't you remind me? How painful it is!"

  Chen Xuan grinned and exchanged spiritual awareness with Lao Li.

  "You little brat, don't be too greedy. Later on, you'll understand that the stronger your physical body is, the faster you can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Your dantian will also become wider and more resilient. Unfortunately, there's no cultivation method for strengthening the physical body. If you want to practice the Devouring Heaven Technique to its highest level, your body must keep up with it. What is Devouring Heaven? It means swallowing the heavens into your belly! If your body isn't strong enough, even if you manage to swallow it in, it'll burst you apart!"

  "Let's put it this way, if your body is a water tank that can hold water, the true energy at the beginning of cultivation is like water. The water tank can hold water without any problem. However, when you reach the Lingwu realm, the true energy undergoes a change and what's stored in the tank is no longer water, but maybe pebbles. When you reach the Zhenwu realm, it's not even pebbles anymore, but possibly big rocks that can shatter the water tank as soon as they enter. This is also one of the reasons why many warriors cannot advance further in their cultivation. Although every step forward will bring about a corresponding improvement in both the soul and the physical body, if you want to go further, you must temper your physical body. The stronger your physical body becomes, the greater its capacity for endurance will be!"

  After listening to Lao Li's introduction, Chen Xuan calmed down and focused all his energy on operating the Tianyin Divine Art to absorb spiritual energy to cleanse his body. Chen Xuan knew that every time Lao Li reminded him was for his own good.

  Lao brought Chen Xuan from Earth, at first Chen Xuan still had some scruples, but after half a year of getting along, the two have become both teacher and friend. Sometimes Chen Xuan would sigh that if it weren't for Lao, he would have to take many detours, with Lao as his teacher constantly guiding him, his cultivation has been able to advance rapidly.

  An hour later, Chen Xuan opened his eyes to find a layer of grayish grime on his skin. He circulated his true energy and flicked the grime off, and his skin was now whiter than before. As he stood up, his body emitted another series of crackling sounds, feeling very comfortable.

  Chen Xuan picked up the steel knife and lightly scratched his arm, surprisingly without breaking the skin, leaving a white knife mark. His physical body had doubled in strength compared to before, and he gained an additional skill for future cultivation.

  "Get in shape!"

  "Hey kid, I feel that when you chopped off that man's left arm, there was a faint wave of spiritual energy fluctuation. Go take a look!"

  Chen Xuan walked to the severed arm, picked it up and looked at it, but didn't find anything unusual. Suddenly, he saw a ring on the left hand's ring finger, so Chen Xuan took it off.

  "Lai Lao, there's no spiritual energy fluctuation as you said, only a ring on the deceased's hand." Chen Xuan said.

  "Focus your mind and use your spiritual sense to penetrate deeply into the ring!"

  Chen Xuan's interest was piqued, and his divine sense gradually passed through the ring. Chen Xuan saw a large gate with bright eyes in front of him. What kind of place is this? His divine sense continued to penetrate deeper, crossing over the gate.

  Chen Xuan felt a buzzing in his head, and he found himself in a room with various types of demon beast cores, several boxes of gold and spiritual stones, and some unknown herbs scattered on shelves. There were also a few books placed on a stone table.

  He went over and took a look, they were all some martial skills and techniques, the best was only mid-level Xuan level, for Chen Xuan who had cultivated earth-level martial skills, these no longer had any attraction to him.

  "What kind of ring is this, how can it still hold things inside!"

  "This is a Lingjie, it has its own space inside. The current forging technology has been lost, and only the big door schools have it left. I didn't expect these three people to have such things on their hands. I think they must be disciples of some door school who went out to practice or some family disciples, but even the lowest level of the big door school is Lingwu realm, how can these three trash still rob?"

  It's actually quite coincidental, this group of scoundrels has been wandering around the Sunset Mountains for over a month, constantly robbing others. A few days ago, they saw two groups of people fighting each other, and in the end, one group emerged victorious but suffered heavy losses. When they were collecting the spoils of war, they surprisingly forgot to take this spirit ring, which was then picked up by this scoundrel.

  Chen Xuan had read many fantasy novels in his past life, where they talked about storage rings, storage bags and storage bracelets. Chen Xuan thought these were all nonsense, how could a ring possibly hold things? But now he really encountered it himself.

  "How strange!"

  Chen Xuan played with the ring on his hand, it's much more convenient with this thing.

  "Old Lei, how does this thing work!"

  "Just leave your soul imprint on the ring with a drop of fresh blood, and from then on, you can retrieve it at will whenever you think about it!" said Lao Li.

  Chen Xuan took out a steel knife and made a small cut on his finger, dripping a drop of fresh blood onto it. Chen Xuan suddenly felt that there was something more in his mind, the space ring, the internal space of the ring was printed in his mind, and he no longer needed to use his divine sense to observe the things inside.

  "Received!"

  All the demon cores on the ground disappeared, and Chen Xuan excitedly put the ring on his left hand's ring finger.

  "With the spiritual stone, my cultivation speed will be even faster."

  Chen Xuan simply dealt with the corpses of several people and continued to move forward. Chen Xuan's true strength was stuck at the sixth-grade peak, so Chen Xuan urgently needed to fight. Only in battle could he make a breakthrough faster.

  While going deeper, he communicated with Lao Li using his divine sense.

  "Lao Li, I felt a new understanding of my swordsmanship in yesterday's battle. It was as if I had become the sword and the sword had become me. Is this the ultimate state of mastery that I've achieved through my years of practicing Jianfeng?"

  "You little scamp is a lot smarter than I thought, you've mastered the Wind Slasher to the point of unity with your sword so quickly. Since you've mastered the first slash, next I'll teach you the second!"

  "Cutting through the void!"

  Suddenly, some words and postures of practicing sword appeared in Chen Xuan's mind.

  Sorted out the images and words in my mind, cut through the air, practiced to the point of being able to cut through the air with one knife.

  As Chen Xuan walked, he pondered the slash of emptiness. The slash of emptiness was even more demanding than the slash of wind, requiring a faster and more accurate knife speed, with more complex movements. Every knife that came out targeted the human body's fatal points, whether it was the heart, throat, limbs, or major acupoints throughout the body. It was truly unimaginable how Old Lei had created such a terrifying martial technique, one that must have been forged in the blood of countless people, seemingly created solely for the purpose of killing.

  "You little kid should know now why I don't want to pass the Seven Kills Sword to you, using the Seven Kills Sword to kill people will make you feel that killing is also a kind of enjoyment, every strike won't bring pain to people, all are fatal blows. In those years, I also concluded these knife methods by constantly killing."

  "There's a fight up ahead!"

  Chen Xuan exerted his true strength and flew towards a large tree, hiding in the dense branches to watch the battle below. He saw that there were two groups of people fighting each other, with seven or eight corpses lying on the ground. One side had only five or six people left, while the other side had as many as fifteen people. Chen Xuan took a closer look and was shocked to find that it was his own family's children who were fighting against others.

  "You Wu family actually joined forces with the Li family to deal with us Chen family children. When I return to Hongling Town, I won't let you off."

  The young man who was speaking looked over and it turned out to be Hao Ge, the son of his second uncle. Chen Xuan jumped down from the big tree and swooped down towards him.