Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Taking advantage of Hao Taichang's distraction as he watched the Flame Beast, Zhang Yuanjing used Earth Escape and burrowed into the ground. However, Hao Taichang reacted quickly, and because of his extensive network and broad knowledge, he recognized Zhang Yuanjing's earth entry and immediately summoned a flying sword, striking the outer slope of the earthen hill. At the same time, he landed on the hill, opened his divine sense, and deeply probed the ground below.

After entering the earth, Zhang Yuanjing naturally headed downwards. Before he could escape even a few meters, a tremendous force came from the ground, as if a sharp magical weapon was breaking through the earth to kill him. He quickly turned and burrowed diagonally downwards, heading towards the Fire Dragon Abyss.

However, to his surprise, after penetrating the earth by only ten meters, he found extremely hard rocks everywhere below, and these rocks seemed to be connected as a whole, leaving no gaps to drill through.

The magical weapon from behind flew out of the earth, moved above Zhang Yuanjing's position, and plunged into the earth again, forcefully separating the soil and slashing towards him.

Zhang Yuanjing had already guessed that this must be the Nascent Soul cultivator's magical treasure. If he were outside, he would have no way to avoid or resist it. But in the earth, the treasure's drilling speed was much slower. Therefore, he relied on constant changes in direction and the obstruction of the mud and rocks in the earth to temporarily save his life.

Hao Taichang's attention was mostly on the Flame Beast that was breaking through, and he didn't care about Zhang Yuanjing's evasion. He only used a wisp of divine sense to control the flying sword, continuously chasing after him, not allowing him any chance to escape.

The movements of the two naturally alarmed the Flame Beast that was breaking through. It had reached the most critical moment, its demon core was about to take shape, and it would ignore both Zhang Yuanjing and Hao Taichang as long as they didn't attack it.

Hao Taichang waited for a dozen breaths, and seeing that the flying sword in the earth still couldn't kill Zhang Yuanjing, his white eyebrows furrowed together. He immediately doubled the divine sense controlling the flying sword, and the sword's speed instantly increased several times, quickly catching up with Zhang Yuanjing and slashing him in the back. However, Zhang Yuanjing was wearing a magical treasure-level armor, and although he was staggered by the blow and suffered some minor injuries to his internal organs, he was not seriously harmed.

"Oh? This kid has good stuff!" A surprised look appeared on Hao Taichang's dry, tree bark-like face. To be able to block his sword, even if he only used ten percent of his power, the item must be a magical treasure. And a defensive magical treasure that could be used during the Foundation Establishment stage was even rarer.

After all, he had extraordinary knowledge, and a trace of unease immediately arose in his heart. Could this person be a disciple of some great power traveling abroad?

However, this thought only flashed in his mind before being forcibly suppressed. He once again controlled the flying sword to slash, this time aiming for Zhang Yuanjing's posterior neck. The Flame Beast was about to break through, and he had to quickly resolve this little trouble, regardless of its origin!

Zhang Yuanjing was unable to dodge flexibly in the earth. He immediately adjusted his direction, burrowing diagonally downwards, while visualizing the true inheritance token in his mind, manifesting a small golden shield to protect the back of his head. However, below were hard rocks, which he could not penetrate. He could only curl up into a ball, relying on the small shield transformed from the true inheritance token to protect his head and neck.

Just as the flying sword was about to strike the small shield, Zhang Yuanjing suddenly felt the ground below loosen, and it was no longer rock, but soft soil. He immediately plunged into it, quickly diving down. Only when he reached a depth of nearly twenty zhang did the pressure of the soil come from all directions, slowing his speed. He quickly used the Dividing Earth Technique and continued to dive downwards.

At this time, after several years of secluded cultivation in Mengshan, his cultivation had become even more profound. Relying on the Dividing Earth Technique, he could now dive to a depth of twenty-four or five zhang in the earth.

After Hao Taichang's flying sword chased for fourteen or fifteen zhang, it gradually became sluggish, and then, under the guidance of his wisp of divine sense, it stopped in the earth.

Hao Taichang's expression flickered uncertainly as he swept to the top of the place where Zhang Yuanjing had burrowed down. He probed with his divine sense and discovered that beneath the soil layer at this location, the continuous giant rocks actually had a ten-zhang square hole that was more than twenty zhang deep, as if a profound cultivator had used a powerful magical treasure to forcibly dig away an entire piece of giant rock.

Hao Taichang's guess was not wrong. However, the one who dug away this piece of giant rock was a late-stage Nascent Soul elder of his Hidden Yang Sect.

Back then, in order to build a solid fortress for the Guo family to protect the safety of the alchemy refining site, the Hidden Yang Sect leader of that generation specially dispatched a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to come here, holding a high-grade magical treasure, and forcibly split off a large piece from the giant rocks under the earthen hills around the Fire Dragon Abyss to build the Fire Dragon Hall. The excess was also made into a Dragon Severing Stone.

After years of sediment filling, this hole had long been level with the surrounding earthen hills, and no longer looked different. At the critical moment, it saved Zhang Yuanjing's life.

However, this hole was extremely close to the Fire Abyss, with only a three or four-foot thick wall of giant rock separating the hole from the Fire Abyss. Being in it was like being placed in a steamer heated by a raging fire, constantly suffering the pain of roasting.

Hao Taichang investigated the surrounding situation clearly, and immediately sneered. He controlled the flying sword with a trace of divine sense, making it patrol back and forth in the soil layer at the entrance of the cave, blocking Zhang Yuanjing's escape route, and then ignored it.

He didn't believe that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could persist under the scorching of the earth fire. Either he would be injured by his flying sword when he escaped, or he would be roasted to death by the earth fire. He wanted to see how this person would choose.

As a Nascent Soul cultivator, if he concentrated his spirit and fully controlled the flying sword, he could of course penetrate to a depth of twenty zhang in the earth. However, at that depth, the flying sword would lose its agility and impact due to the pressure and obstruction of the soil layer, and it would be impossible to break through Zhang Yuanjing's defensive magical treasure.

Although his attention was not on Zhang Yuanjing just now, that wisp of divine sense still fed back an image of a small golden shield. This object was quite illusory in form, but judging from its aura, it also had the strength of a magical treasure level.

He was certain that this kid must have a great background. Either kill him and destroy all traces, or let him go, but also figure out his identity and leave a connection. Of course, this would have to wait until after he captured the Flame Beast.

"Roar, roar, howl——" The Flame Beast let out a long roar, full of joy and delight. The earth fire around it surged and undulated, emitting sparks of fire essence, as if cheering and paying tribute to its king. The Flame Beast opened its large mouth and swallowed this essence, which was condensed with a huge amount of fire spiritual power. The fiery red inner core in its belly suddenly shone brightly, breaking free from some kind of restraint and showing a lively and agile spirit.

"Hahaha, the inner core is formed, good beast, you're the one!" Hao Taichang was extremely excited and laughed loudly, as if he, not the demon beast, had formed the core.

The Flame Beast's intelligence greatly increased after breaking through the demon core, and it naturally knew what this human cultivator was up to. However, it didn't plan to avoid battle and sink down. Having just broken through to a higher realm, it wanted to use this human cultivator to test its newly acquired power.

The Flame Beast "roared" and took the initiative to attack, spitting out a black-red ball of fire. This ball was only half a foot in size, but the fire spiritual power compressed within it was incomparably majestic, at the critical point of explosion, and its power was astonishing.

Hao Taichang smiled contemptuously, moved his feet, and dodged it. This simple move was the path of an Enlightenment Realm demon beast. Although this beast had reached the Demon Core Realm, its use of power was still stuck in its original stage.

With a wave of his hand, he summoned a five-colored feather fan. He cast a spell, and several streams of fire swept towards the Flame Beast. This fan was called the Five-Colored Flowing Fire Fan, a middle-grade magical treasure that he had collected feathers from five kinds of fire-attribute birds, supplemented with various spiritual metals and mithril, and nurtured in his dantian for hundreds of years. He could use it with ease and perfection.

For dealing with Flame Beasts, a strong attack was not the way. The key was entanglement. As long as its four feet were tied up, this beast would be at one's mercy. Therefore, he used fire as a belt, using the entanglement method, precisely to bind it. This would also prevent it from suddenly diving and increasing the difficulty of capture.

The Flame Beast was born to eat fire. Seeing that Hao Taichang was actually using fire to attack it, it immediately showed a mocking expression like a human, opened its big mouth and sucked, and swallowed the several streams of fire emitted by Hao Taichang.

Hao Taichang was not surprised but delighted, and laughed: "Stupid, do you think Hao's fire is the unrefined fire in the Fire Abyss? Since you like to eat, then eat your fill!"

After saying that, he greatly displayed his hand seals, frequently pointing at the Five-Colored Flowing Fire Fan, and immediately more than a dozen bright red streams of fire flew out, rushing towards the Flame Beast.

When the Flame Beast saw this, it instinctively opened its mouth and swallowed all the streams of fire. At the end, it even burped and glared at Hao Taichang provocatively.

Hao Taichang almost fainted: "Just broke through, so stupid! Come again!"

Immediately, the Five-Colored Flowing Fire Fan vibrated in mid-air, like colorful butterflies dancing, and streams of fire, like silk ribbons, floated around the Flame Beast.

At this time, the Flame Beast also realized that something was wrong. Its intelligence had been improved, but it had not yet learned how to use it. Now, through the actions of this human cultivator on the opposite side, it realized the problem, so it no longer swallowed the flames, but instead opened its mouth and spewed out dozens of small fire beads. These fire beads were only the size of longans. After hitting the fire streams, they exploded violently, blasting the fire streams into pieces and scattering them in the Fire Abyss. It didn't care even if the flames splashed on its body.

"Hmph, learning is not slow, but it's too late now!"

Hao Taichang had been stationed at the Fire Dragon Hall for decades, and knew the Flame Beast's habits and weaknesses very well. He had also prepared many strange objects and talismans to deal with the Flame Beast.

At this time, since he had already tested the depth of this beast and planted a trap in its body, he didn't need to proceed step by step. He immediately took out a middle-grade, low-rank Dragon Capture Talisman and threw it towards the Flame Beast. This talisman was activated in the air, turning into five golden ropes, which wrapped around the Flame Beast.

The Dragon Capture Talisman was a metal-type talisman, and it was not completely suitable for capturing Flame Beasts. After all, Flame Beasts were good at fire, and fire countered metal. The flames it spewed, which contained the power of its origin, could refine the golden ropes transformed by this talisman in a very short time.

However, just as this Flame Beast was instinctively about to use its origin flame, a strange fire spiritual power caused its meridians to be disordered, preventing the origin flame from being stimulated from the inner core.

With this delay, the five golden ropes wrapped around its huge body, one tied its mouth, and four tied its feet, causing it to lose its ability to move.

Hao Taichang smiled triumphantly, changed the hand seals, and released all his mana, about to drag this huge demon beast, whose body was more than ten zhang, from the fire to the earthen hill.

The Flame Beast's two eyes, as big as sea bowls, glared roundly, shooting out furious gazes, staring straight at Hao Taichang, who had a sinister smile on his face. At this time, it had refined the strange fire in its body, and released the origin fire from the demon core.

However, this fire could not be spewed out from its mouth, but only overflowed from the gaps in its scales, to burn the golden ropes that were binding it. Although it knew it was too late, it still didn't want to give up, and continued to release the origin fire at the cost of a large amount of damage to its vitality.

Hao Taichang naturally wouldn't take it to heart. He carefully guided the golden ropes, moving the Flame Beast, which weighed hundreds of thousands of pounds, to his side. Without external attacks, even if the golden ropes were scorched by the flames, they would not easily break, and he could calmly kill this beast.