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Chapter 246: Xianwu Xingbian, Message

"It's not easy for you to have the opportunity to choose. Your father and others didn't even have the opportunity to choose."

Xie Xingzhong looked a little emotional. It was a blessing to be able to choose his own path.

Song Tonghai and other martial artists were not able to stay on the chariot for a long time due to their cultivation level, so they could only stay in the small world that Xie Xingzhong had just opened up.

Their talents far exceed those of ordinary people, but they are far inferior to Song Lingxue, and it is very difficult for them to enter the Martial Palace. The best outcome is to enter a sect under the jurisdiction of the Martial Palace, which is also a way out.

"What benefits would it bring if I could become the Palace Master's disciple?"

Song Lingxue came to her senses and asked directly without beating around the bush.

"The Hall Master's disciple is the core disciple of the Martial Hall. There are only 108 vacancies in the entire Martial Hall, and they are replaced every ten years."

"If you can become a true disciple, the benefits you can get are far beyond your imagination. The most direct benefit is that you can come into contact with extremely high-grade alien flesh and blood, and receive personal guidance from the Martial Ancestor."

Xie Xingzhong noticed Song Lingxue's intention and explained it in detail:
"With your aptitude, it won't be difficult for you to enter the realm of Martial Saint in the future. The Palace Master has no shortage of holy beasts' flesh and blood, which are of great importance to a warrior."

"In addition, as a true disciple, you will have access to abundant resources, which are enough for you to use endlessly. When you go to the battlefield to fight, there will also be people to protect your safety."

"Moreover, your father and others, as your dependents, will also have the qualifications to follow you and enter the Martial Hall together."

At this point, Xie Xingzhong paused, and then reminded:
"However, even if you pass the blood test and are valued by the hall master and become a true disciple, you will still face many risks in the future. Everyone in the martial arts hall is qualified to challenge the true disciple seat of the same realm. If you lose in a battle with the same realm, your true disciple seat will naturally be lost."

Martial arts is a school of thought that is relatively strong in combat power. However, to become a true disciple, one must also possess the combat power to sweep away all martial artists of the same level, which is naturally extremely difficult.

Therefore, any one of those who can be ranked among the true disciples of the Martial Hall has the combat power to go against the other sects, and it is not a new thing at all to kill the enemy across several small realms, or even a big realm.

Song Lingxue listened quietly, and then nodded without hesitation:

"I choose the blood test."

"After you have thought it over carefully, tell me and I will give you a reply."

Xie Xingzhong didn't want Song Lingxue to make a hasty decision, so he left her some wiggle room.

The blood test was far from being as simple as Song Lingxue had imagined.

At least half of the true disciples nowadays have never experienced the blood test, but after a period of training and tempering, they passed the selection within the Martial Hall and thus took the position of true disciples.

For Song Lingxue, the safest option is the second one, which is to pass the qualification test to enter the Martial Hall, settle down for decades, and then seek the position of true disciple.

"I have considered this carefully, and this is not just a rash statement."

Song Lingxue shook her head. One step wrong, every step wrong. Her current cultivation level was already far enough away from Chu Zheng. She could hardly see Chu Zheng's back.

If she continues to practice step by step, how long will it take for her to bring Chu Zheng out of the Immortal Alliance?

Chu Zheng was a cultivator of a different sect and had a huge secret, she knew it very well.

Chu Zheng’s situation in the Immortal Alliance is very dangerous. If an accident happens, he will be doomed.

"That's fine too."

Xie Xingzhong was not a fussy person. He immediately raised his hand and sent a message back to the Wu Palace.

The stars moved, and after an unknown amount of time, a message was sent back.

After reading the message, Xie Xingzhong's face slightly stiffened. He urged the Jade-winged Pegasus to change the direction of advance.

Before Song Lingxue could ask, he explained:

"The Martial Palace has sent a message, ordering me to take you directly to the battlefield of the heavens to find a suitable trial site."

"Thank you for your help, senior." Song Lingxue bowed.

"It's just a little effort."

Xie Xingzhong waved his hand, and while hurrying on his way, he began to remind Song Lingxue some things to pay attention to during the blood test.

He had never undergone a blood test, and a lot of the information he had was hearsay, so it was not necessarily accurate. But regardless of whether it was useful or not, he told it all in detail.

Knowing is always better than not knowing.

The jade-winged Pegasus pulled the chariot and roared past under the bright starlight.

After traveling for a long time again, the Jade-Winged Pegasus entered a strange starry sky.

The gorgeous nebulae are no longer scattered across the universe, but are stacked up one after another, as if with an up and down distinction, forming pieces of starry sky.

A large number of life stars and the vast and boundless continent are blooming with layers of auspicious colors. From time to time, giant beasts larger than the stars roam in the void, interweaving a wild and desolate scene with few people.

"This place... is the heavens."

Xie Xingzhong's brows were filled with solemnity.

The heavens are the world of alien species.

The term "alien species" is given by humans. All species other than humans, including monsters, are called alien species.

The Jade-Winged Pegasus restrained its movements and was no longer as ostentatious as before, and began to move forward silently.

Soon, the Jade-Winged Pegasus bypassed the overlapping nebulae and entered an ordinary starry sky.

Although this place belongs to the battlefield of the heavens, it is considered a marginal area and few powerful creatures have set foot here.

Finally, the chariot stopped near a emerald star.

Xie Xingzhong left the chariot and entered the stars. After an hour, he returned.

"A mid-grade life star, the strongest alien species, just entering the sixth level, no traces of human activity, not included in the list of immortal martial stars, can be designated as a trial field."

In this short period of time, he has searched the entire planet and confirmed that there is no threat beyond his control.

Then, he turned his head to look at Song Lingxue and explained, "The Xianwu Star Code is a number of stars shared by the Xianwu and Xianwu sects. Stars that have not been coded are those that have not been discovered by anyone yet."

"Some powerful people need to use a lot of life stars when refining treasures to protect themselves. They will basically choose from the immortal martial stars to avoid causing unnecessary killings to our human race."

These top-notch warriors, when refining secret treasures, use the starry sky as a furnace. They reach out and throw many stars into it to turn them into nutrients. They have no time to check whether there are human beings on these stars.

The existence of the Xianwu Star Code is to facilitate these top powerhouses.

Since it is not included in the list of Xianwu stars, this star is temporarily safe and will not be snatched away from the air and thrown into the furnace.

After the explanation, Xie Xingzhong began to set up a large formation all around to hide the entire star, to prevent some alien species from wandering by and eating the star as a snack.

After finishing all this, Xie Xingzhong returned to the chariot again, looking solemn:
"It has been three years since the last true succession. The blood test only gives you time for two rounds of succession. You now have seventeen years left."

"In seventeen years, no matter what means you use, kill all the alien species on this planet, and you will be considered to have passed the assessment."

In seventeen years, all alien species on the entire planet were slaughtered. This was simply impossible for Song Lingxue today.

The most powerful alien species on this planet is already in the early sixth stage, which is equivalent to a master of the immortal path or a martial arts god realm.

At this moment, Yu Ning is only in the early stage of the Martial God Realm.

Song Lingxue has just achieved Dan not long ago and has just entered the third realm of martial arts. She is still a long way from the fourth realm of concentration, let alone the realm of divine enlightenment.

To kill a sixth-order alien, she must cross the two realms of "Concentrated Spirit" and "Spiritual Aperture" in seventeen years. After the Qi-Breaking Pill melts the hundred apertures, she may be able to reverse the process and cross the border to kill the alien.

But this is only a possibility.

"You should be thankful that you have just achieved your elixir. If you have already focused your spirit or even entered the divine orifice, the standard of the blood test will be directly raised to killing a seventh-level alien species."

Xie Xingzhong was silent for a moment, then he took out a blood-red jade talisman and threw it to Song Lingxue.

"If you can't hold on, crush this talisman. There is an incarnation of me inside. Then, the incarnation will kill all the alien species on this planet and keep you safe."

This was tantamount to favoritism and fraud in the trial. If discovered by the Martial Hall, he would certainly be punished, but Xie Xingzhong did it anyway.

Since he had promised Chu Zheng to protect Song Lingxue, he naturally had to do it with a clear conscience.

"Senior, this is inappropriate..."

Song Lingxue's expression changed slightly. She naturally realized the seriousness behind this.

The reason why the blood test is called a blood test is naturally because its mortality rate is extremely high. If Xie Xingzhong is caught for such fraud, he will probably be skinned alive if not killed.

"Remember, once you use this jade talisman, you will completely lose the qualification to enter the Martial Hall. But don't worry, even so, I will help you find a suitable large sect for further study. I don't think it will be too far away."

Xie Xingzhong didn't want to say more. He waved his hand, opened a space channel, and sent Song Lingxue into it:

"After you complete the blood test, someone will come to pick you up. Go ahead. We'll meet again in the Martial Hall."

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Stars dot the sky and a waning moon hangs high in the sky.

Heavy snow was floating between the sky and the earth. The silver light reflected by the snow made the shadows between the mountains and forests even more hazy, and the air was filled with a cold chill.

The moonlight flowed along the cracks in the mountain wall into the depths of a cave. The melted snow water dripped along the cracks in the rocks and gathered into puddles. The dripping sound of water created a cool echo in the cave.

Song Lingxue was curled up with her back against the mountain wall. The moonlight that shone into the cave from the cracks in the rocks made her face look slightly pale. Her waist and abdomen, which were tied tightly by layers of animal skins, gave off a strong smell of blood.

The blood slowly seeped through the animal skin, soaked the animal hair, and instantly solidified into blood ice under the low temperature.

Song Lingxue exhaled a few breaths of hot air, and the blood in her body circulated, barely dispelling some of the coldness. She took out a piece of flesh and blood, and stuffed it into her mouth whole, with the hair and blood still attached.

As soon as the raw and cold flesh and blood entered the stomach, it began to replenish the lost blood and energy, and the frozen limbs gradually began to recover.

Time flies. In a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since she entered this planet. She has gradually adapted to this life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.

The number of alien species on this planet is terrifying, and because of the extremely harsh living environment, most of them are ferocious and violent and extremely difficult to deal with.

She has explored less than one-hundredth of the area she has explored, but she has already encountered danger several times and could be killed by beasts at any time.

It is obvious that wandering on the edge of death like this has tempered her, and her cultivation has increased at an unprecedented speed.

In a short period of time, relying on the flesh and blood of many alien species, her cultivation has advanced further and she has entered the middle stage of Baodan realm.

Fighting to the death, devouring blood, flesh, and essence to replenish oneself is the quickest way to ascend in martial arts.

The price to be paid is also obvious. After escaping death several times, he is now seriously injured and can hardly go out hunting again.

She stared at the puddle not far away, lost in thought for a long time, then took out the jade book, and when she picked up the pen, she paused for a long time.

Most of the night had passed, until the last remaining moonlight in the cave was completely swallowed up by the darkness before dawn. Only then did she slowly put down her pen, her lips slightly raised in a smile.

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Cangyun Realm, Southern Territory.

Wanlong City, the headquarters of Taixuan Holy Land.

Inside the secret room, Chu Zheng sat cross-legged on the ground, playing with a jade disk with his fingertips, with an inexplicable expression.

Bai Zhixiao's hidden treasures did not disappoint him. After some searching, he again obtained the remains of two semi-immortal treasures, a piece of armor, a long sword, hundreds of fairy jades, spirit stones, and countless treasures from heaven and earth.

However, Bai Zhixiao had just entered the immortal tribulation, and the cave world had just been opened up. The scope was not too large, and there was no spiritual vein yet. It could only be regarded as an embryo.

During this period of time, Chu Zheng digested some of Bai Zhixiao's memory fragments and learned a lot of inside information.

The jade disk in his hand was the medium that Bai Zhixiao used to contact the Dongsheng Demon Immortal. It was a treasure of the sixth grade, no less than the Tongxuan Lingbao.

However, it has never given birth to a true spirit and can only serve the purpose of communication.

What had always puzzled Chu Zheng was that it had been several months since he killed Bai Zhixiao, but there had been no movement from the outside world.

Even from the Taixu Holy Land, there was no sound at all, as if they didn't know that Bai Zhixiao was dead.

This is obviously unreasonable. With Bai Zhixiao's status and position, it is impossible for him to leave even a soul lamp in the holy land.

After digesting more memory fragments, Chu Zheng finally understood some of the reasons.

Bai Zhixiao was cautious after all. First, he was afraid that the Dongsheng Demon Immortal would change his mind later and put all the blame on him and sell him out to the Immortal Alliance.

Secondly, he was worried about an accident. He was afraid that his death would expose his whereabouts and bring harm to the Taixu Holy Land, so he made preparations for both scenarios.

He erased all traces of himself in the Taixu Holy Land in advance, including the soul lamp enshrined in the holy land.

There are countless powerful people in the Immortal Alliance. It is very easy to deduce some of his ideas and plans through a trace of residual soul in the soul lamp.

By then, there will undoubtedly be a catastrophe in the Taixu Holy Land.

At the same time, none of the things he carried with him had anything to do with the Taixu Holy Land, and could not even prove his identity.

Even those two semi-immortal treasures had nothing to do with the Taixu Holy Land. They were obtained by him through other channels. Most of his natal semi-immortal treasures and his collections were left in the Taixu Holy Land.

Before he tried to kill Chu Zheng, he had already made the worst plan. If he failed to kill Chu Zheng, he would immediately self-destruct and erase all traces of his physical body and soul.

The life-threatening attack before death was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but was well prepared.

However, for Chu Zheng, this gave him an opportunity.

He might be able to use Bai Zhixiao's skin...

hum-

Just as Chu Zheng was deep in thought, he suddenly felt a throbbing sensation in the depths of his soul. His expression became slightly serious and he took out a jade book.

On the jade book, lines of words gradually emerged, spanning the sea of ​​stars.

[My dear husband, I am writing to you. I have been to the Martial Hall the day before yesterday. Everything is fine. How are you doing recently? ]

[Today the moon is cold and the stars are chilly. I woke up from a dream at midnight. The chill beside me was piercing. I couldn't sleep. My heart was knotted with thoughts. I didn't want to disturb you, but I couldn't suppress my longing for you. I picked up the pen for a long time but couldn't put it down. I didn't know what to say for a while. In a blink of an eye, I missed you for most of the day. ]

[Since we first met, I have never felt that you are so far away from me. The starry sky above my head is no longer the same. Can you see the starlight I see now? ]

【A Zheng, I miss you. 】

(End of this chapter)