Chapter 367

Chapter 367: Chen Taixu Becomes a Saint, the Northern Realm Goes Haywire!

Xiao Yang had prepared for so long, and he had rehearsed the alchemy steps countless times in his mind.

When he finally started crafting pills, every step felt like second nature to him.

He anticipated all possible issues and details.

Everything went swimmingly.

From this batch of spiritual herbs, he managed to refine nine pills.

The only surprise was that when the pills formed, it triggered a pill tribulation, costing him one Enlightenment Pill.

Otherwise, he could have gotten ten!

At that moment, having obtained his Enlightenment Pill, Chen Taixu had entered the Qingyun Secret Realm for seclusion to break through to the Sacred Martial Realm.

Meanwhile, Long Chen also chose to break through to the Sacred Martial Realm at the peak of Qingyun Mountain.

Xiao Yang couldn’t afford to relax.

He activated the mountain’s defensive formation.

Soon, a layer of mist surged forth, shrouding the entire Qingyun Mountain.

The other disciples of the Qingyun Sect on the mountain were startled by this scene.

Everyone looked up in shock towards the sky.

Zhao Fan gathered all the disciples of the Qingyun Sect and commanded them to return to their respective cultivation places—not to come out without a sect order.

Nangong Hui ordered the children of the Nangong family and the Chen Taixu’s disciples to keep watch on the mountain.

It didn’t take long for someone to notice the changes happening on Qingyun Mountain.

The dense mist enveloped the entire mountain.

Qingyun Mountain vanished from the sight of the people below.

This sight left the informants of the major factions nearby astonished.

Everyone was curious about what exactly was happening on Qingyun Mountain.

The Qingyun Sect had activated its protective mountain formation again.

Such a scenario had only occurred twice before.

Once was when the Refining Sect and countless other experts attacked the Qingyun Sect, aiming to obliterate it.

That time, the Qingyun Sect activated the mountain formation and eliminated all those invading enemies.

Even Wang Ao, the leader of the Refining Sect, and Sect Holy Son Wang Kunpeng met their ends on Qingyun Mountain.

That battle left the mountain strewn with corpses.

The second time Qingyun Mountain was engulfed in mist was when Bai Li Yao Sheng stormed the place.

With the arrival of the Yao Sheng, Xiao Yang naturally had to take it seriously.

And now, it was the third time Qingyun Mountain was enveloped in mist.

So it was clear that something major was happening on the mountain.

And they were right to guess so.

A tremendous event was indeed unfolding on Qingyun Mountain.

Whether it was Chen Taixu or Long Chen, as long as one of them successfully broke through to the Sacred Martial Realm, the entire Qingyun Sect would skyrocket.

With a Martial Saint of the Sacred Martial Realm overseeing, who in the Northern Realm would dare to provoke the Qingyun Sect so easily?

Xiao Yang stood guard beside Long Chen.

Liu Qingyun, Ling Xian’er, Nangong Hui, and Zhao Fan watched from afar.

They were all on edge.

Especially Liu Qingyun.

Long Chen was now an elder of the Qingyun Sect.

The success or failure of his breakthrough to the Sacred Martial Realm directly affected the fate of the Qingyun Sect.

At that moment, Long Chen, having ingested an Enlightenment Pill, gradually entered a profound state of cultivation.

“Sudden Insight?”

Xiao Yang sensed the changes in Long Chen.

Long Chen’s current state resembled sudden insight, but not quite.

Because in his previous life, Xiao Yang had the fortune to enter a state of sudden insight during his breakthrough to the Sacred Martial Realm. It was that moment of clarity that allowed him to advance, making him the only Sword Saint of the Qingyang Sword Sect in a thousand years.

However, even as a Sword Saint in his past life, he was still a pawn for Jiang Qitian and could be discarded whenever Jiang Qitian pleased.

Jiang Qitian favored Qin Fei after all.

Qin Fei possessed an Innate Dao Body, and his potential was limitless.

In this second life, Xiao Yang realized that Jiang Qitian had never regarded him as a successor.

He was just a blade in Jiang Qitian’s hand, a weapon to clear obstacles for Qin Fei.

In his previous life, he was just sewing clothes for others.

But now, in this life, he would only live for himself.

Xiao Yang looked at Long Chen.

The conclusion from his past life had already been altered.

Countless life trajectories had changed due to his reincarnation.

In his previous life, Long Chen had no chance to take revenge on Jiang Qitian.

But in this new life, Long Chen was determined to reclaim everything that belonged to him.

In the past, Jiang Qitian had not fallen from grace either.

But in this life, he was already disgraced and had his dantian shattered by Long Chen, becoming a waste.

And now, Long Chen was about to break through to the Sacred Martial Realm.

Xiao Yang cautiously sensed the changes surrounding Long Chen.

Long Chen sat cross-legged on a large rock, one hour, two hours… ten hours… he remained motionless.

His breathing was slow and steady.

Time flew by.

One day, two days, three days… Long Chen sat for seven days straight.

In those seven days, apart from exuding an enigmatic aura, nothing else extraordinary was evident.

On the eighth day, Long Chen finally exhibited a change.

His body seemed to transform into an endless black hole, continuously devouring the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

At that moment, the spiritual energy on Qingyun Mountain had revived.

While on the mountain, Xiao Yang continuously improved the expansive formation.

The earth veins deep underground also stabilized completely.

Furthermore, Xiao Yang had created a spiritual eye on the back mountain to draw out the earth veins’ spiritual energy.

The Qilin Sacred Beast was stationed at this spiritual eye.

Meanwhile, the Ice-Bound Profound Flood Dragon remained guarding the underground spiritual veins.

Both sacred beasts were utilizing the earth veins’ spiritual energy for their cultivation.

The concentration of spiritual energy on Qingyun Mountain not only returned to the levels before they were damaged by the Demon Sect hundreds of years ago but surpassed it.

At this moment, Liu Qingyun and the others were also astonished.

They had been guarding from a distance.

It was a rare opportunity to witness a Half Saint break through to the Sacred Martial Realm.

Everyone focused on Long Chen, who sat cross-legged on the rock.

Xiao Yang felt the tension rise.

Long Chen’s every breath seemed to rhythmically resonate with the entire heavens and earth.

His aura gradually transformed.

Long Chen’s energy fused with the surrounding world.

If it weren’t for their eyes, even Xiao Yang wouldn’t have sensed a person sitting on that rock.

“Breathing with the heavens?”

Xiao Yang understood that Long Chen had succeeded.

This was the Sacred Martial Realm.

Transcendence and unity with heaven and man.

The Enlightenment Pill he had crafted seemed quite effective.

There were no celestial phenomena, no earth-shattering momentum, and no pressure emanating from a saint.

Long Chen sat on that rock for eight days before naturally breaking through to the Sacred Martial Realm.

The only difference was that Long Chen was voraciously consuming the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Long Chen devoured the spiritual energy for three days and three nights before finally stopping.

This nearly drained the spiritual energy on the entire Qingyun Mountain.

Liu Qingyun, Ling Xian’er, and Nangong Hui were all dumbfounded.

Long Chen had just broken through to the Sacred Martial Realm and had almost drained the entire mountain’s spiritual energy.

Zhao Fan was only in the Qi Refining Realm and couldn’t sense the changes in the surrounding spiritual energy.

He also couldn’t make out anything.

“Congratulations, Master Uncle!”

Xiao Yang stood up from the ground and congratulated Long Chen, who was on the rock.

Long Chen opened his eyes.

His gaze was unfathomably deep.

Raising his right hand, a flying sword immediately appeared in his palm.

A sharp wave of sword Qi spread out from that small sword.

He swiftly performed the Qingyang Sword Technique, imprinting a divine thought into the flying sword.

Long Chen began refining the flying sword anew.

Before long, the flying sword transformed and was swallowed into his belly.

Long Chen rose from the rock.

“Today, I’ve entered the Sacred Realm…”

Long Chen declared with pride.

“Congratulations, congratulations…”

“Congratulations, Elder Long…”

“Congratulations, Master Uncle…”

Liu Qingyun and Ling Xian’er walked over.

“Xiao Yang, thank you…”

Long Chen looked at Xiao Yang, his expression solemn.

Without Xiao Yang, there would be no current Long Chen.

One could say that Xiao Yang was Long Chen’s benefactor.

Xiao Yang was also quite excited; the Qingyun Sect could finally stand shoulder to shoulder with other sects.

The most excited and thrilled person was none other than Liu Qingyun.

The Qingyun Sect was about to be revitalized under his leadership!

At that moment, Ling Xian’er and Nangong Hui were also exuberant.

If Long Chen could break through to the Sacred Martial Realm, so could they.

Just then, a powerful aura suddenly erupted from the back mountain of Qingyun Mountain. The next moment, the entire world changed, and the sun and moon lost their light.

A massive figure appeared in the sky above Qingyun Mountain.

“What the…”

The spies from nearby factions were left dumbfounded by this shocking sight.

“It’s the old man…”

Xiao Yang was taken aback.

Chen Taixu had made such a ruckus!

The ethereal silhouette unleashed a divine power that caused everyone’s souls to tremble.

“The might of the Sacred Realm…”

The cultivators near Qingyun Mountain were utterly terrified.

“Today, I, Chen Taixu, have entered the Sacred Realm…”

Chen Taixu’s voice spread across the entire Qingyun Mountain, echoing through the heavens.

“What…”

“Chen Taixu became a saint?”

“How is that possible…”

The informants from the factions outside Qingyun Mountain were all bewildered.

The news quickly spread.

The entire Northern cultivation world was in an uproar.

When the news reached the Qingyang Sword Sect…

“Master Uncle has become a saint?”

Ling Daochen was utterly shocked.

All the elders of the Qingyang Sword Sect were dumbstruck.

In the Qingyang Great Hall, Qin Fei’s face darkened ominously.

Chen Taixu became a saint, and the Qingyun Sect had a Sword Saint in residence now.

That made it all the harder for him to kill Xiao Yang.

“Absolutely outrageous!”

“Crash!”

Qin Fei smashed the armrest of his throne.

Standing beside the throne, Jiang Ting was ecstatic.

She knew Qin Fei was the young master of the Demon Sect, and she was aware of his intentions to kill Xiao Yang.

She had been worried for Xiao Yang’s safety.

But she couldn’t leave Qingyang Mountain to find him.

Because her father was still in Qin Fei’s hands.

If she left Qingyang Mountain, Qin Fei would surely torment her father.

That guy Qin Fei was simply a devil devoid of humanity.

Now that Chen Taixu had become a saint, with his protection, Qin Fei couldn’t kill Xiao Yang.

“The day of the enthronement ceremony has been set for September 28th. I, Qin Fei, will assume the position of Sect Leader of the Qingyang Sword Sect.”

Qin Fei surveyed the crowd.

Everyone in the hall was left in shock.