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Chen Xiang could overtake the blue-eyed panther anytime he wanted, but he was intentionally pursuing it neither too fast nor too slow. His goal was very obvious, he wanted to follow this blue-eyed panther and take a look at its eventual destination.

The old men inside the Elder Courtyard quickly saw through Chen Xiang's intentions, this made their hearts a bit uncomfortable.

Chen Xiang followed the blue-eyed panther until they arrived next to a large tree. That blue-eyed panther climbed up onto that large tree as Chen Xiang soon followed.

Above that tree was a hollow entrance. As Chen Xiang went inside the opening, the blue-eyed panther started howling and trembling, there was no escape route, only a dead end.

Inside that hollowed out area, there was a haystack. Upon which, were a few stones that resembled eggs and emitted a strong azure aura. Chen Xiang sucked in a mouth full of cold air and exclaimed, "Azure Profound Fruit, and five of them! This is the key material required for refining a Foundation Building Dan!"

The Azure Profound Fruit was a type of tuberous fruit. Very rarely, did the roots under the ancient trees sometimes start to gather a large amount of Spirit Qi. If at the right place and time, along with some special conditions being met, the roots may turn into a fruit. However, having a tree meeting these prerequisites was extremely rare!

After being briefly shocked, Chen Xiang quickly took these five fruits and placed them into his storage pouch. Then he said with a smile to that blue-eyed panther, "Thanks! I will spare you life for this!"

Jumping down from the tree, Chen Xiang was very excited. He quickly left that part of the forest. He had never expected that he would obtain five Azure Profound Fruits. But this was even more shocking for the Elders inside the Elder Courtyard. Although they were all very strong experts, seeing this little devil who had not even entered the True Martial Realm obtain such good materials, they could not help but envy him.

Morning arrived as warm sunlight permeated the atmosphere throughout this Mysterious Realm. Currently, Chen Xiang was holding a steel blade and standing high above a mound, watching the lush green prairie for demon beasts.

"This annoying brat is just standing there in broad daylight. He's seeking his own death! That's the grazing area for the Grade-10 Iron Armor Bulls!" Elder Dan sneered.

"This brat has some bizarre and unique martial skills. He's actually able to make demon beasts fear him! Is this a type of Dragon Martial Art?" Wu Kaiming had a doubtful look on his face.

At this time, Chen Xiang, who was still standing on top of the mound, saw around twenty bulls coming out from inside the forest. Marching with a heavy pace, each one was howling, their bodies covered in a topaz colored armor that looked very sharp and tough. The one leading the herd had two scythe like horns protruding from its head. From its posture, it seemed ready to charge and crush anything in it's path.

All of a sudden around twenty or so beasts appeared, not only that, but they were Grade-10 demon beasts! If any ordinary martial artists saw this, they would surely choose to avoid the herd. But Chen Xiang wasn't an ordinary martial artist as he drew out his blade and rushed towards the pack.

"This crazy brat! Isn't he just seeking death?" Wu Kaiming could not help but exclaim. Although he had some grasp about Chen Xiang's true strength, he did not think that Chen Xiang would be able to deal with all the Iron Armor Bulls.

Seeing someone rushing toward them, the herd of Iron Armor Bulls suddenly started bellowing. The relatively larger bull leader rushed out from the herd and emitted an angry growl. Its thick and strong hooves trampled on the prairie with each step splashing various grass and dirt up into the air. Letting out thunderous sounds, it dashed towards Chen Xiang, and along the way even aroused a burst of fierce wind.

The two giant horns on the Iron Armor Bull were pointing straight at Chen Xiang. It was like two sharp and giant thorns were speeding towards him.

Before the bull was about to reach him, Chen Xiang stepped aside and at the same time, brandished his blade in a chopping motion. Chen Xiang had poured his vigorous True Qi into the broadsword, which in turn transformed into a Qi Aura that gushed out of the blade, making it even more sharper.

"Clang"

The steel broadsword slashed onto that Iron Armor Bull's neck as sparks and intense Qi waves burst out from the impact. Chen Xiang's steel blade was shattered into pieces. He did not actually manage to cut the bull's neck, and only destroyed his own weapon.

At this very moment, Chen Xiang realized that common Ordinary Grade Weapons would not be able to easily deal with Grade-10 demon beasts. Even though he added his vigorous Qi Aura, his blow only shook the Iron Armor Bull and nothing more.

Chen Xiang's blow actually caused zero injuries to the bull, and it was clear how sturdy the Bull's Iron Armor was!

"This brat is still too immature. You know, sooner or later, he'll suffer a setback." Elder Dan sneered. She and Wu Kaiming were looking at the large bull herd that was galloping towards Chen Xiang from far away.

Chen Xiang threw away his broken weapon as his complexion turned serious. He clenched his hand into fists and revolved the invisible True Qi within his body. In response, the True Qi from the five divine beast forms as they surged out and gather at one place, transforming into the colorless and invisible Universal True Qi!

This was Chen Xiang's true strength, simultaneously using the True Qi of the five elements!

"[Dragon Aura Fist!]"

The Universal True Qi that was around Chen Xiang's fists was suddenly converted into Dragon Aura. The aura surroundings his fists instantly changed and looked as if they had been moulded out from pure gold. With terrifying power and momentum, punches flew out one after another in a seemingly endless storm of piercing Qi waves.

Seeing this draconic might suddenly appear, the bull was terrified as it's whole body started shivering. Chen Xiang relentlessly and ruthlessly pounded the bull with a barrage of blows. In the blink of an eye, dozens of punches were sent out, and in that moment the golden fist's images were flashing, all of which struck directly onto the bull's head. Whenever a blow landed on the Iron Armor Bull, gushing blood soon followed. Chen Xiang's fists sheathed in the destructive Qi Aura broke through the bull's head and entered into the bull's body as it destroyed the inside of the bull.

In just a few seconds, more than 200 clean [Dragon Aura Fists] landed onto that bull's head. Afterwards, the Iron Armor Bull fell down with a loud thump.

After Chen Xiang entered the 9th level of the Mortal Martial Realm, his True Qi became even more vigorous as the result of being compressed. Even if he were to continuously use the Universal True Qi to launch his violent attacks, he did not need to worry anymore about his True Qi consumption.

The remaining twenty or so Iron Armor Bulls that were rushing at him from afar were also subjected to that faint draconic pressure. Their instincts screamed in fear and they turned around to quickly try and escape.

Chen Xiang fiercely leapt into the sky, like an arrow fired from the ground into the air, and flew over the entire herd of bulls. He then emitted a crazy howl before blasting a palm towards the ground.

This blow of his suddenly burst out into an azure and red aura. The source of these two clashing auras was the vigorous Azure Dragon and Vermillion Bird True Qi, which he had completely released and fused together into a fearsome Qi Aura. He then used his divine sense to gather and compress it to form the enormous palm.

After the compressed True Qi from Chen Xiang was completely released, it looked like something solid, unlike the previous gas like form!

The giant palm fiercely pressed downwards, completely covering those twenty or so bulls!

A thunderous booms resounded as the land burst into a fierce tremor. A huge palm imprint emerged onto the prairie's surface. Chen Xiang withdrew the rest of the remaining True Qi and poured it into the two dark beast forms inside his dantian. The beast forms were similar to transparent crystals. As long as they were filled with True Qi, they would start emitting Aura once more.

Chen Xiang flew down from the air and walked towards the sunken palm imprint. In just a blink of an eye, those twenty or so bulls had been crushed to death and turned into gigantic meat patties. Inside this crater that resembled a palm imprint, was an area was filled with blood and meat, creating a very nauseating scene.

Wu Kaiming blinked his old eyes a few times, just to make sure he wasn't going senile before the he squeezed out two words from the gap between his teeth. "Abnormal freak!"

Just like him and everyone else watching, they had been secretly shocked by Chen Xiang's strength. In their opinion, only an elite few disciples among the Inner Sect Martial Courtyard were capable of such a feat. It must be known that those Inner Sect Disciples have been here for a long time and learnt many martial skills and compressed their True Qi to a very rich form!

Collecting the ravaged corpses of the bulls, Chen Xiang backtracked. He wanted to quickly enter the Inner Sect!

Chen Xiang had just instantly killed twenty three Grade-10 demon beasts, furthermore it was done in a very leisurely manner. He soon returned to the original starting point, where he waited for Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De.

After waiting for almost a day, Chen Xiang saw Zhang De with an expression full of happiness walking in the distance. From just one glance, he could already tell that Zhang De had completed the task.

"Old Man Zhang, congratulations!" Chen Xiang quickly laughed.

"Hei Hei. Same to you Chen Xiang, but you have passed the test in one go! Furthermore you're so young. You're really someone with boundless prospects!"

Yun Xiaodao still hadn't returned. This made Chen Xiang and Zhang De somewhat concerned, but they did not have to wait for long. Suddenly, they heard a hawk's cry followed by a kind of very proud laughter.

"Ha Ha, I earned a lot!" Yun Xiaodao's laughter resounded. Chen Xiang and Zhang De looked up, only to see a giant black hawk flying high in the sky. Seated on which, was a grinning youth.

Yun Xiaodao had actually tamed a Blackhawk! Taming a demon beast is a very difficult thing to do, but Yun Xiaodao had done it, and had indeed earned a lot.

All three returned safe and sound, moreover with a very rewarding experience. At this time, Wu Kaiming and Elder Dan also arrived before them.

"Treasures that you have obtained yourself or demon beast corpses you have brought, as I said before, are yours. However, you do need to report them."

Chen Xiang took out the ravaged corpses of the twenty three demon beasts which had been morphed into the giant meat patties, along with five Azure Profound Fruit. This scared Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De, who both emitted a high pitched shriek of shock. They were very clear about the Iron Armor Bull. They knew it was a gregarious type of demon beast, moreover with very strong defensive capabilities, and decent power. Yet now they were nothing more than giant meat patties. With just a glance, they knew that Chen Xiang started with a heavy hand and had, in a single breath, gotten rid of these demon beasts.

"Twenty three… Elder Brother Chen you truly are abnormal!" Yun Xiaodao said. He then took out the corpses of two tiger type demon beasts and one of a large bear. He then embraced the giant black hawk behind him and said, "Lao Hei has been tamed by me, therefore he belongs to me!"

"That is natural!" Wu Kaiming said with a smile.

Zhang De had killed four giant wolves and also found a Three Thousand Year Blood Ginseng. His harvest was also not bad.

"Are you going to sell those Azure Profound Fruits?" Elder Dan asked while staring at the five fruit placed by Chen Xiang onto the ground, which was circulating an azure light.

"Not selling!" said Chen Xiang with a low snort.

Azure Profound Fruit!

Zhang De and Yun Xiaodao were once again shocked. Chen Xiang had actually gotten such a good thing, this made both of them secretly jealous of Chen Xiang's luck.

The rank of the Foundation Building Dan could not be counted as a high rank, but the herbs required for making it were very rare. The costs and rarity for these herbs could even be compared with those needed for some high level dans! The Azure Profound Fruit was one of the main ingredients, and even though its rank was not that high, the Foundation Building Dan was a wonder drug in helping someone enter the True Martial Realm so they were sold at very expensive prices.

"Sell it to me, afterwards I'll help you in refining the Foundation Building Dan for free! I do not casually refine pills for others!"

Elder Dan was also very interested in the Azure Profound Fruit. Although she had previously obtained ten of them, they had all been quickly used up. It was really a long time ago, and she had not since refined a Foundation Building Dan.

"If you had previously not made things difficult for me, giving you one of them would not matter to me, but now I'll not sell it to you for any price!" Chen Xiang flung aside his head. He does not want to see her again.

Yun Xiaodao hastily pulled Chen Xiang in the next instant, fearing that he would provoke Elder Dan's anger. If that were to happen, it would become very troublesome.

"500,000 crystal stones for one, will you sell?" Elder Dan sneered. She does not believe that Chen Xiang would not be tempted.

"I will not sell!" Chen Xiang firmly replied.

"1,000,000 crystal stones, selling or not?" Elder Dan coldly asked.

"Sold!" Chen Xiang grinned. 1,000,000 crystal stones was absolutely not a small amount, and if he was not going to sell, well then he was an idiot. Furthermore, this would also be bad for his relationship with Elder Dan.

"Humph, I'm not going to buy!" Elder Dan said and like a angry little girl, stamped her foot on the ground and turned to leave.

Chen Xiang curled his lips and said, "Tch, this woman is breaking her promise. Earlier she had said she would marry me if I win. I laboriously defeated her and now she's going back on her words. What should I do…?"

When Elder Dan heard his statement, she turned back and coldly said, "1,000,000 crystal stones. I'll buy!"

Chen Xiang really wanted to rip off Elder Dan's mask and take a look at the appearance of the Extreme Martial Sect's only female.

"How is the relationship between you and the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire's Empress, is it okay?" Chen Xiang asked. He had suddenly gotten an idea...

"We're both female and our relationship is also not bad! Why do you ask?" Elder Dan replied.

"I'll give you two Azure Profound Fruits. Can you help me refine one set of the Foundation Building Dan herbs and then send one dan to Xue Xianxian and the other to Leng Youlan in Icewind Valley?" Chen Xiang's eyes were rotating.

At most, successfully refining a complete set of herbs for the Foundation Building Dan would result in two dans if done without any wastage. Normally alchemists were only able to refine one dan, but Chen Xiang firmly believed that Elder Dan was capable of producing two dans.

"I will not take your crystal stones. It can be regarded as a gift to Elder Dan." Chen Xiang said. He really did not want to have such stiff relations with Elder Dan, because later on he not only wanted to enter the Extreme Dan Courtyard, but also planned to stay in the Extreme Martial Sect for a very long time. Maybe in the future, when he goes out to explore the Chenwu Mainland for experience, he might stir up some trouble. At that time, he may need to get shelter in the Extreme Martial Sect.

Wu Kaiming, Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De could all see Chen Xiang's reason for acting like this, and they also very much supported it.

Elder Dan was silent for a moment before saying, "Do you want to know why I hate you?"

Chen Xiang shook his head, sighed then said, "I would very much like to know."

"If you defeat me I'll tell you!" Elder Dan picked up two Azure Profound Fruit. With far less hatred in her voice, she asked, "Who is Leng Youlan to you? You already have Xue Xianxian as your fiancee, yet you still think of others. Men really are like this."

Chen Xiang quickly explained, "Youlan is my sworn sister and I had sent her to join the Extreme Martial Sect. However, I did not know the Extreme Martial Sect's rules beforehand, which is why she later went to Icewind Valley, but that is too far away. I can not go there anytime soon, and as her sworn brother I must take care of her. That's why I can only request this favour from Elder Dan."

"Humph, sworn sister? That's a nice way to put it. Who knows what other intentions you have in your mind?" Elder Dan finished speaking, turned around and left. Chen Xiang and the others were slightly surprised, Elder Dan's voice had a tinge of jealousy in it...

"Elder Brother Chen… I've been calling you this from the very start! Will you also take me as a sworn brother or not?" Yun Xiaodao said with a depraved smile while looking at the three Azure Profound Fruit in Chen Xiang's hand.

Chen Xiang blankly looked at Yun Xiaodao before replying, "You're a very rich guy! You do not need to care about this little thing!"

"Elder Brother Chen really had ill intentions when receiving your sworn sister." Yun Xiaodao muttered. He also knew a bit about Leng Youlan. She and Xue Xianxian were similar, both were known as one of the most talented in the younger generation.

Wu Kaiming coughed dryly twice before saying, "You are starting to resolve the differences between you and Elder Dan. This is very good. Now, I congratulate the three of you in becoming one of the Extreme Martial Sect's Inner Disciples. You can take away half the demon beast corpses that you have acquired. Later on, Little Fatty can walk you through the Inner Martial Courtyard so you all can get familiarized with it.

After the three of them took away the demon beasts corpses, they left the Mysterious Realm extremely excited. Zhu Rong had been waiting outside for them for quite some time.

Because the relationship between Zhu Rong and Yun Xiaodao was quite good, he was arranged to guide Chen Xiang and the others through the Inner Sect.

The most excited person was Yun Xiaodao. As he walked out of the Mysterious Realm, he clamored to go to the squinting guy to ask for his 1000 True Qi Dans. Zhu Rong, seeing Yun Xiaodao easily win 1000 True Qi Dans, was very jealous in his heart.

On the basis that one True Qi Dan was sold for 500 crystal stones, then 1000 True Qi Dans would be equal to 500,000 crystal stones. This was a huge amount!

"Elder Brother Chen, 90% of the 1000 True Qi Dans are yours, and 10% is mine. After all, I only undertook the gambling stake and nothing more. I spoke thoughtlessly in that matter, I did not expect to gain so this much!" Yun Xiaodao said with a grin. Although this number was very large, in his eyes it was not accountable for anything. Over the many years, he had eaten far more than this amount.

When Chen Xiang saw Yun Xiaodao not paying any attention to the 1000 True Qi Dans, he could not help but secretly suck down on his tongue. But once he remembered that the Yun Family was one of the four major families within the Extreme Martial Province, he also felt that it was not a big deal for Yun Xiaodao. Just one major family held a ton of crystal stone mineral resources, herbs, demon beasts, etc. Although they were not comparable to major sects, but they were regarded as the richest right afterward the major sects.

"Fatty, your Zhu Family is similar to my Yun Family! Your wealth should also be comparable to ours right? Because you are also very stingy and treacherous!" Yun Xiaodao patted Zhu Rong's back and said with a laugh.

Zhu Rong only snorted in response. From the posture of his body, one could tell that his family foundation was very thick.

Zhang De shook his head and let out a sigh, "If one has a good background, it may very well allow them to struggle less for a few decades!"

Chen Xiang and the others followed Zhu Rong and headed towards the 329th Martial Courtyard. This was the weakest Martial Courtyard among the all the Inner Martial Courtyards. It was also the location where all the new members had to go after entering the Inner Martial Courtyard.

"There is not a single person?" Yun Xiaodao doubtfully said. Afterwards, he shouted, "Anyone!? Quickly come out to greet the newcomers!"

Zhu Rong curled his lips and said "Do not shout. For many years, no one has entered the Inner Sect. It has always been like this!"

Chen Xiang asked, "So to say, the disciples of this Inner Martial Courtyard have all gone to higher ranking Martial Courtyards? But if so, then shouldn't some disciples be defeated and forced to come here?"

Zhu Rong nodded his head, "What you said is correct, however the Inner Martial Courtyard Disciples perform many missions which are very important and dangerous! Although there are more than 300 Inner Martial Courtyards, but each one has no more than ten Inner Sect Disciples! Where I am staying right now, there are only five disciples!"

Being in the Inner Martial Courtyard comes with good benefits. Every month you can receive 300 True Qi Dan and 3000 crystal stones, and every year one True Elemental Dan. Also, whenever you go out to perform the missions, you will also get some healing and detoxification dans. Besides, there was always the reward for completing the mission. Zhu Rong got the precious White Jade Dan that way too.

"All of the disciple of this Inner Courtyard are dead. In fact, up to the 300 Inner Martial Courtyard, every single one is empty." Zhu Rong's complexion turned series. Being an Inner Sect Disciple is not extremely dazzling as everyone thinks, they also have their own life threatening missions that they were required to complete.

"Then why did you not take us to the 300th Martial Courtyard?" Yun Xiaodao blankly looked at Zhu Rong.

"Little rascal Yun, I did this for your own good! If you move up a few numbers forward, then the tasks you will receive become more dangerous. You should wait for Chen Xiang to enter the 10th level of the Mortal Martial Realm and then move forward step by step!" Zhu Rong replied.

Chen Xiang also agreed, "We have just entered the Inner Sect. We can now learn more higher leveled martial skills. Only after we get a good grasp on them and our strength stabilizes should we move forward!"

"Come on. I'm only in the 200th Martial Courtyard. It took me a very long time to rise up to that level. You better clean up the place, I'll leave now." Zhu Rong walked away very quickly. He was worried Chen Xiang and the others would ask him to help them clean up.

This Martial Courtyard contained many small houses. The residence and Marital Courtyard were at the exact same place. Later on, Chen Xiang and the others did not need to take a different road to head to the Martial Courtyard from their residence.

"I'll not sleep here. You two can hurry up and clean it yourself!" Yun Xiaodao giggled and then also left.

Because no one has lived here for many years, there were a lot of dead leaves and dust gathered around. It took most of the day for Chen Xiang and Zhang De to finish cleaning the courtyard.

Chen Xiang decided to stay in a building with a ton of training equipment. He did not find much use to these equipments, they were not too light but one needed to spend a large amount of time to exercise with them.

"This kind of stuff is only used to kill time. For genuine practice, one needs to carry out a variety of extreme training or go out and gain experience." Zhang De said.

At this time, Yun Xiaodao came back and excitedly shouted, "Elder brother Chen, I went to look for that squinting guy for the True Qi Dans. This guy actually very readily gave me the True Qi Dans, quickly take a look to check if it is not false."

As for the gambling stakes, Chen Xiang had not cared too much. He believed that if you were to ask for the 1000 True Qi Dans, it might become troublesome and might even escalate into a conflict.

Yun Xiaodao took out ten jade boxes. Inside each box were 100 True Qi Dans. After Chen Xiang examined them, he determined that they were not fake. Although the quality was not as good as his refining, but they had reached the standard requirements.

Yun Xiaodao only wanted one box. Chen Xiang originally wanted to give a box to Zhang De, but he was unwilling to accept. In the end, he bought the box for half of its price.

Zhu Rong once gave Chen Xiang a box with White Jade Dan. Chen Xiang wanted to thank him and also gave one box to Zhu Rong. In spite of this, when he took the box his face was filled with jealousy. He had intended to buy three boxes for half the price, however in the end he was kicked out by Yun Xiaodao.

Yun Xiaodao only wanted one box, and Chen Xiang originally wanted to give one box to Zhang De, but Zhang De was not willing to accept, at last he bought the box with half of its price.

"Utterly shameless fatty!" Yun Xiaodao cursed.

"We are now also considered Inner Sect Disciples. We can go and pick up some things. You can also go to the Inner Courtyard Regular Hall and look for good exercises of the Profound and Earth Level." Yun Xiaodao excited shouted before rushing out of the Martial Courtyard.

To receive these materials, one had to go to the Inner Martial Courtyard or the Extreme Dan Courtyard. A True Martial Realm Disciple was responsible for overseeing the process. Chen Xiang received 20 True Qi Dan and a True Elemental Dan, as well as 3000 crystal stones along with a handy Level 9 Ordinary Grade Weapon. It was a dragon head broadsword!

[TLN: Dragon Head on its hilt.]

Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De also casually received their weapons, and they did not pay any attention to it afterwards.

Walking on the road towards the Inner Courtyard Regular Hall, Yun Xiaodao saw Chen Xiang playing with the dragon head broadsword and asked, "Elder brother Chen, is that Level 9 Ordinary Grade Weapon any good? Me and old man Zhang use Spirit Grade Weapons. "

Chen Xiang was startled, he suddenly understood why they could casually receive the same weapon. They actually had Spirit Grade Weapons!

The cheapest Level 1 Spirit Weapon cost tens of thousands of crystal stones, so it was not that surprising for them to have one.

"I've never seen a Spirit Grade Weapon before, how is it?" Chen Xiang asked curiously.

Yun Xiaodao took out a broadsword and very proudly said, "This is a Level 5 Spirit Grade Weapon, Sky Wolf Sword! It cost me a million crystal stones. The material used to forge it, Adamantyl Iron Wolf Bones, is extremely hard! Furthermore, above the blade are spirit vein carvings which can absorb the spirit and fuse it with Spirit True Qi, making the original True Qi stronger! Inside the blade, there are meridians similar to that of us humans. When one pours their True Qi into the blade, it can have an unhindered flow of True Qi. The hilt is also inlaid with the Adamantyl Iron Wolf's Beast Dan. If the beast dan were to be excited to release the demon beast's True Qi, then it would become even more formidable!"

Chen Xiang could see that there was indeed beautiful and profound lines above the blade. After being illuminated by sunlight, the text was sparkling, and it was very beautiful!

"That thing there could be considered in top grade among the Level 5 Spirit Weapons! Although it only cost 1,000,000 crystal stones, it's overall value is incomparable to that number. Relying on the connections of the Yun Family, you managed to get a well known refiner to forge this!" Zhang De said with a look of envy mixed with jealousy and hate.

Level 5 Spirit Weapons were indeed very expensive! Chen Xiang had a refining weapon scroll. Whenever he had spare time, he would also take a brief look through it. He had a grasp on the difficulty of refining a Level 5 Spirit Grade Weapon, which was at least several times harder than refining a Level 1 Spirit Grade Weapon.

"This old man only has a Level 2 Spirit Grade Sword, but it was worth 500,000 Crystal Stones." Zhang De also took out his own Spirit Weapon. The sword was very simple, but on the blade there were spirit veins, but just not as complex as the ones on Yun Xiaodao's Sky Wolf Sword.

"Old man Zhang, what if these were to go against each other?" Yun Xiaodao grasped the hilt as the spirit veins on the blade suddenly burst into a bright light, becoming even more beautiful and charming!

Zhang De regarded his Level 2 Spirit Weapon as his lifeblood and quickly put it away with a bitter smile, saying, "In your eyes a Spirit Grade Weapon three levels below yours might be similar to an Ordinary Grade Weapon, but for me it my lifeblood. I will not court my own destruction just to satisfy your curiosity."

Chen Xiang was also debating whether or not to get a Spirit Weapon. The last time he tried to use a normal Ordinary Grade Weapon to kill that bull, it was like trying to break a stone with an egg. If he had a good Spirit Weapon, then carrying out later missions would become a lot more convenient.

Refining himself a weapon was an impossible task, Chen Xiang was already extremely busy with alchemy and he had no time to spare to learn how to forge a good weapon.

"Regrading Spirit Weapons, you do not need to worry. Your little wife is faring quite well in the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire. You can simply ask her teacher to refine a weapon, you might as well use the 'Spirit Veins Transforming Into Runes' aspect from the Refining Weapon Scroll. With the help of those spirit veins you can manufacture spirit runes! It is mentioned that spirit runes and spirit veins on Spirit Weapons act in a similar fashion." Su Meiyao said.

Regarding runecrafting, Chen Xiang was also confused because Rune Masters were much rarer than Alchemists! Although there were some poor spirit runes in the market, reputed Rune Master works had never been sold or even heard of. Ordinary Rune Masters were only able to refine some common spirit runes and had not reached the level where their runes were unique and powerful.

Chen Xiang and the others arrived at the Inner Courtyard Regular Hall. There was a total of three floors. The 1st floor contained Low Grade Profound Level Martial Skills, the 2nd Floor had the High Grade Profound Level Martial Skills, and the 3rd Floor had the Low Grade Earth Level Martial Skills.

Inner Sect Disciples could only learn these three levels of martial skills.

Chen Xiang was unlike Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De, who as soon as they arrived rushed straight to the top floor. He wanted to first take a look at the Low Grade Profound Level Martial skills, because he knew rank does not necessarily represent the strength of the Martial Skills. A combination of factors in each aspect was used to determine the strength and power of the skill.

Just like how he could use the [Heavenly Tiger Storm Killing Fist] and display strength equal to a High Grade Martial Skill!

"Fucking tricked us! There are only three Low Grade Earth Level Martial Skills. Other people have learnt them and don't want others to do the same!" Yun Xiaodao came down from above with a look of disappointment.

Zhang De had a similar expression. "There are only a few dozen High Grade Profound Level Martial Skills. There are only plenty of Low Grade Profound Level Martial Skills."

"How is this the strongest major sect!? The Martial Skills are only so so, I've come here in vain!" Yun Xiaodao cursed in a low voice. In his imagination, the strongest sect should have thousands, or at least hundreds.

The Inner Courtyard Regular Hall Manager, an old man, said with a smile, "For many years many Inner Sect Disciples have come here, and every time they were just as disappointed as you were. But in the end, they stopped complaining and have not commented on this matter, do you know why?"

Chen Xiang also felt that it was a bit strange. If the Extreme Martial Sect's Martial Skills were this bad, then they would not have been labeled as the strongest. There must be something else to it.

"Why?" Yun Xiaodao asked.

That old man smiled and answered, "Even in the Chenwu Mainland, the Extreme Martial Sect is one of the most powerful sects! How could these low level martial skills be the strongest the Extreme Martial Sect has to offer!? We have a lot of Heaven Level Martial Skills, but now they are more commonly known as Divine Martial Skills!

Divine Martial Skill? Divine Exercise? The Extreme Martial Sect had a lot of them! This was a huge shock to Chen Xiang, Yun Xiaodao and Zhang De as they stood there speechless.

"While it not the same type of Divine Exercise as those in the legends, the Heaven Level Martial Skills have largely been improved. The advantage to these kinds of martial skills is that its strength changes depending on your own power. As your strength increases, so does the might of the martial skill! If you want to have one, you better find a teacher, otherwise you will only get one if you become a True Disciple." the old man said.

Chen Xiang had no intent to find a teacher, but even if he wanted to there would be no one who would dare take him. This was because Elder Dan had made a public statement that whoever receives him as their apprentice, she would go against them with all her might.

"Why didn't you say that earlier! That's way too simple!" Yun Xiaodao swiftly ran away. With his talent, finding a teacher is rather easy for him, as for Zhang De, he also swiftly walked away.

"You, are you the one called Chen Xiang? You don't need to go to look for teacher, Elder Dan has commanded that no one is allowed to receive you as an apprentice. These were Elder Dan's words and even the dean must listen. Hei hei, as soon as you came you annoyed Elder Dan. In the entire history of the sect you are the first person to do so. Look out for yourself!" The old man patted Chen Xiang's shoulder.

Chen Xiang cursed in his heart, "If I knew this earlier, I would not have given the Azure Profound Fruits to her. She even cut off my path!"

"My purpose in coming here was only to learn martial skills, how could it turn out like this?" Chen Xiang was very upset in his heart. If he did not have a teacher, he would only be able to learn these Divine Martial Skills once he reached the True Martial Realm. Although the martial skills in the [Divine Exercise of Four Symbols] was formidable, it was not stronger by that much. Furthermore, if he wanted to learn them, there was certain level of strength required.

Divine Martial Skills were mostly in the hands of the True Disciples in the True Martial Realm. These True Disciples were also allowed to receive and teach apprentices. If they were to pass their skills onto an outsider, they would be seriously punished.

Five days past as Chen Xiang swept through the entire Inner Courtyard Regular Hall. Ultimately, he only borrowed two martial skills, and they were both Earth Level.

"[Shocking Heaven Palm] and [Profound Aura Finger]! There are very refined martial skills and the bodily requirements are also very high. Take [Shocking Heaven Palm] for example, you needed the strength of the meridians in your arm to be at a very high degree, and they should be able to withstand a sudden release of large amounts of True Qi, before you can release its fearsome might. Meanwhile the [Profound Aura Finger] needs you to temper your fingers through training such as immersing them in hot molten iron, baking your fingers in intense fire… You need to forge your fingers like a weapon should be…"

"Old man I know this already, hurry up and register it for me!" Chen Xiang impatiently replied. He saw thick dust piled on these two books and knew that very few people took them because of how difficult it was to practice, however in his opinion it was not that difficult for him.

After the old man registered the skills, Chen Xiang took the books and left. These past few days he had not seen Zhang De or Yun Xiaodao. Later on he learned from Zhu Rong that they were undergoing an assessment!

Because they both wanted to find a teacher, they needed to satisfy the teacher's requirements and pass their assessment.

"Rest assured, if you want to enter the True Martial Realm the only obstacle in your path is time. The two martial skills you chose are also not that bad!" Su Meiyao said while comforting him. This was because it was she who made Chen Xiang come to the Extreme Martial Sect in the first place. If Chen Xiang was not satisfied it would be rather embarrassing for her.

Chen Xiang did not blame her because he knew that Su Meiyao's knowledge about the Extreme Martial Sect was from a very long time ago. It was natural for these things to change with time.

Chen Xiang's body had already underwent refinement in the Immortal Devil Pool. His body was in the embryonic stage of an Immortal Devil Body which was why he already met the requirements. He could easily master the [Shocking Heaven Palm] and the [Profound Aura Finger]!

Chen Xiang now had two True Elemental Dans which were High-Grade Spirit Level Dans. Even in martial sects, dans of this level were extremely scarce which was why it was generally very difficult to obtain them. That was why many individuals collected their own herbs and hired an alchemist to refine it for them

"Do not eat these dans. Not too long ago you have just entered the 9th Level of the Mortal Martial Realm. You better make sure to first familiarize yourself with this state and wait for the time when you try to impact the 10th Level of the Mortal Martial Realm. At that moment, swallow it down in one breath!" Su Meiyao said.

Chen Xiang sighed. Just as he received the True Qi Dans, he only wanted to know as soon as possible how it tasted.

[Shocking Heaven Palm] was a type of martial skill with a fearsome attacking power. In the blink of an eye, it could release a large amount of internal True Qi and generate a type of wide range invisible shockwave that could be used to attack from a long distance. At the same time, it could also be used for pin-point attacks and if one wanted to block it, they would have to waste a lot of their True Qi.

"[Shocking Heaven Palm]! Chen Xiang's five fingers spread out and a palm was blasted. In the blink of an eye, a dozen or so trees had been broken right in front of him and the soil in the ground also shook like a crest of sea waves. It truly had an overbearing might!

Chen Xiang had been practicing inside a mountain forest owned by the Extreme Martial Sect. Had he been inside the Martial Courtyard, then perhaps the whole place would have been smashed.

"In just three days I was able to execute it, that's quite quick!" Chen Xiang seeing good result was very satisfied. "Another! Let's try out… the [Profound Aura Finger]!"

A light Azure Qi Aura surged out of the top of his index finger and wrapped around it. At this time, although the Qi Aura looked very calm, it also gave off a very oppressive atmosphere.

Chen Xiang lightly poked this finger against a slab. A small hole immediately appeared, as if he had not poked a slab but a piece of tofu!

Not to mention this slab, even if it was a Level 9 Ordinary Weapon, once it was clamped by two [Profound Aura Fingers], it would also immediately shatter!

"Hei Hei, if I use the colorless invisible True Qi. wouldn't it be more formidable? Maybe Spirit Weapons can also be broken!" Chen Xiang said while laughing, he was very satisfied by this Low-Grade Earth Level Martial Skill

Although [Azure Dragon Claw] was similar martial skill, but while casting it, it was very overbearing. On the other hand although the [Profound Aura Finger] was also a type of fast attacking martial skill, but while casting it, it was very mild, and it could be used for surprise attacks.

When Chen Xiang returned to the Martial Courtyard, he saw Zhang De and Yun Xiaodao's faces brimming with happiness, and from this he knew they have definitely been taken by a good teacher.

"Elder brother Chen, you came at the right time, otherwise later on it would have been very difficult to see old man Zhang!" Yun Xiaodao said.

"Oh? Why?" Chen Xiang had a doubtful expression on his face.

Zhang De smilingly said, "My teacher is at the Extreme Martial Province border all year round, that's why I've decided to follow him, so that I can also experience this world, and can somewhat sharpen myself."

"This is also not bad, take care!" Chen Xiang slightly smiled.

Zhang De left, and Yun Xiaodao said with a smile, "Elder brother Chen, do you want to know who my teacher is?"

"Who? Don't tell me it's Elder Dan!" Chen Xiang said while laughing.

"Of course not, it's an old matron of 3rd Martial Courtyard. She and our family have some relations, that's why she has taken me as an apprentice, but while I was doing the assessment, I was very badly tortured by her, and she also took away my Blackhawk!" said Yun Xiaodao with a depressed look.

A person from the 3rd Martial Courtyard! They could be considered as the powerful experts in the Extreme Martial Sect, and this made Chen Xiang quite surprised.

"Elder brother Chen, you do not have a teacher. Aren't you dispirited because of it?" Yun Xiaodao asked in a low tone.

Chen Xiang laughed and said, "Xiaodao, you better cultivate seriously, otherwise you'll be completely left behind by me! I was able to grow up to this step alone so who wants a teacher?"

"Xiaodao, you took a teacher, yet you also haven't asked us to go for drinks and meals? You are very cunning!" Zhu Rong was coming with a smile on his face, since he knew Chen Xiang was an alchemist and also had a lot of resources, he would come here everyday. Chen Xiang also had 700 True Qi Dan so he could be absolutely considered as wealthy in the Inner Sect.

"Dead fatty, you only know how to take advantage of me! I've known you for so long, and you've never invited me!" Yun Xiaodao cursed.

"Who says? The last time we went out, I invited you to eat a bowl of noodles!" Zhu Rong immediately retorted, and he also had an aggrieved look on his face.

"Invited my ass, that bowl counted as fart. Fishing for half a day and I did not even find meat scraps." Yun Xiaodao walked towards him and kicked his foot.

Zhu Rong snappily said, "It can be considered as being invited. You were the first person who was ever invited by me, Zhu Rong!"

"Right, Chen Xiang there is the Alchemy Competition being held in the Extreme Dan Courtyard, do you want to go? The reward is two True Elemental Dan!"

"What are the competition rules like?" Chen Xiang was excited in his heart, and quickly asked.

"What about it? It is just like before. Within a specified time, whoever can refine as many True Qi Dans with better quality will win!" Zhu Rong rubbed his fatty palm together and said with smile.

Chen Xiang slightly raised his mouth, his face was brimming with a confident smile, and immediately said, "I'll definitely go!"

Finished talking, he quickly walked out of the Martial Courtyard, and started walking towards the Extreme Dan Courtyard. These days he also learned about the Extreme Dan Courtyard's location. A part of it was close to the Mysterious Realm, and a part of it was inside the Mysterious Realm.

Chen Xiang came to the eight courtyards of the Extreme Dan Courtyard, and to their surprise, they ran into Yao Haisheng!

"How is it you again? What are you doing here?" Yao Haisheng was to their surprise, in charge of the registration work here, because of how he treated Chen Xiang last time and how things also went too far so he was no longer responsible for the outside work.

Enemies often crossed each other's path, and Chen Xiang did not expect to encounter Yao Haisheng, but he had heard Yao Haisheng was a Level-3 Alchemist. He could refine Middle-Grade Spirit Level Dans, so he still had quite a bit of prestige in the Extreme Martial Sect. No wonder his manners were like that on that day.

Yao Haisheng became extremely furious when he saw Chen Xiang. Now Yao Haisheng was also paying Chen Xiang's fees to enter the Extreme Martial Sect. Not to mention, Yao Haisheng's apprentice was seriously injured by Chen Xiang.

Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong also hadn't expected that Chen Xiang would encounter his No. 2 enemy in the Extreme Martial Sect.

"Relying on you? Can you even refine a True Qi Dan? If you fail in refining, you have to pay the cost of the herbs with your own crystal stones, and if you continue to fail three time then you will be automatically withdrawn." Yao Haisheng spoke disdainfully.

Just a moment ago, Chen Xiang learned from Zhu Rong that during this alchemy competition the materials were all given by the Extreme Martial Sect and one had ten days for refining. This was mainly done so that the large amount of True Qi Dan herbs which had been collected for too long could be consumed. This way, not only could the sect quickly obtain a large number of True Qi Dans, but also it could allow the sect's alchemists to learn from each other, killing two birds with one stone.

"Of course I can!" Chen Xiang's brow slightly wrinkled.

At this time Yun Xiaodao shouted, "Not only can elder brother Chen do so, but he will also get first place, thereby winning the two True Elemental Dans."

"I spit!" Yao Haisheng burst out into laughter, "If this brat, who smells of his mother's milk which has not yet dried, can win first place, then what will us old men who have been staying in the Extreme Dan Courtyard for many years feel then? If he can win first place, then this father will take him as a teacher!"

Chen Xiang thinking about this in his heart chuckled, as if he could see in front of him what this crazy smiling middle-aged man taking him as a teacher looked like.

Many people in the Extreme Dan Courtyard casted a contemptuous gaze. No matter how talented Chen Xiang was, he was still seventeen years old, and at this age if he could refine a High-Grade Mortal Level Dan then it could be considered good. However, to refine a Low-Grade Spirit Level True Qi Dan he still fell short by a lot. After all, everyone who could refine the True Qi Dan knew that only after failing more than a 100 times could one be successfully able to refine a True Qi Dan, and they believed Chen Xiang absolutely could not afford to consume such a large number of herbs.

Suddenly, one cold voice resounded, "If Chen Xiang can win first, I'll make an exception and allow him to enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard!"

This was the sound of Elder Dan's voice, and Chen Xiang would never forget this even in his death. Her words made everybody in the 8th Dan Courtyard shudder. The Extreme Dan Courtyard consisted of eight Smaller Courtyards, and above these was the Extreme Dan King Courtyard. Only Elder Dan had the qualifications to enter this courtyard!

"If you can not win, then you will give all the original benefits you would receive from the Extreme Martial Sect over to Yao Haisheng, how about it?" Elder Dan said with a sneer.

Chen Xiang lightly smiled in response. "Alright, If I can get first not only will I get to visit a nice place, but also receive an apprentice."

"You can never win! I earned first place for the last five consecutive years! You still have a long way to go." Yao Haisheng coldly smiled, and it was as if he was foreseeing Chen Xiang's miserable defeat.

The matter of Elder Dan making things difficult for Chen Xiang was known to everyone in the Extreme Martial Sect. But now that Chen Xiang had entered the Inner Sect and received abundant resources, Elder Dan actually tried to cut these supplies off. Nobody expected that Chen Xiang would actually readily agree to such a thing.

"Youths are always like this, they can never admit defeat. Someday they will suffer and pay the price." Wu Kaiming, after learning of this bet could not help but lament, "I say Elder Dan, this brat clearly intended to please you by openly gifting two Azure Profound Fruits, why would you still act against him?"

"Humph." Elder Dan coldly snorted and said, "This brat has not suffered any losses by his supposed gift. When I refine the Foundation Building Dan, I need to expend other additional materials for refining. His Azure Profound Fruit was the rarest on the list which I had been looking for quite a long time to obtain. But I failed to find it and could only resign myself to accept this gift! If he really wanted to please me, he would not have requested me to refine two Foundation Building Dans for his pair of little sweethearts!"

When Wu Kaming heard this and he really thought about it once more, and he realized that regarding this matter, Elder Dan had indeed suffered a loss.

"I will definitely make him willingly bow his head towards me. If he admits his mistakes to me and apologizes, I can even take him as my apprentice!" After Elder Dan finished speaking, she flew away.

"I'm afraid that this feisty girl will never get married." Wu Kaiming helplessly smiled.

The Alchemy Competition would start after three days and was held in the 8th Smaller Dan Courtyard. During these three days Chen Xiang secluded himself and went into closed door training. Others thought that he was preparing for the competition, but they were very wrong. He was studying the spirit veins section in the Refining Weapon Scroll.

"Sister Meiyao, Sister Youyou, regarding these types of spirit veins you two should understand better than I! These things are very profound and can produce all sorts of bizarre effects. What do you think would happen if I engrave these spirit veins onto a dan, or during alchemy internally carve the spirit veins?"

Inside the ring Su Meiyao and Bai Youyou were stunned speechless. They had never thought about such a thing. In their opinion, alchemy was just the process of congealing the dan by fusing various types of herbs, nothing more, nothing less.

After Su Meiyao took a cold breath, she said, "I do not know but you should try! But in order to do so, you would need a very strong divine sense in order to quickly carve the spirit veins while congealing the dan. You would need an even more powerful divine sense if you want to carve it inside the dan."

"Correct, furthermore you would need to carve suitable spirit veins! My teacher once said that there were some spirit runes which had the same effects as dans in ancient times. If such spirit runes were to be engraved onto the dantian, it would allow one to quickly gather a large amount of True Qi. If it was attached onto someone's arm, that part would gain fearsome strength." Bai Youyou said.

Chen Xiang was secretly elated by the news. If he was truly successful in creating spirit runes onto dans, it would help him improve the effect of dans by several times in the future without having to use precious spirit herbs! However, he currently had too little understanding of the spirit runes.

Three days past but Chen Xiang was left without anything to show for it. These spirit runes were just too complicated and required a huge amount of mental power to analyze, memorize and grasp the information contained within them which was simply impossible to do in such a short period of time.

This alchemy competition was just a small scale event held once a year. However a large grand competition was held every ten years. At that time, not only would all the alchemists in the Extreme Martial Sect participate, but also alchemists throughout the entire Extreme Martial Province would travel here to participate in this major event.

Many people were uninterested in watching the process of an alchemy competition because it was relatively tedious. Unless it was a grand competition, in that case the scene was not only spectacular but also lively, furthermore occasionally there were some funny scenes that occurred.

"Elder brother Chen, you can do it! We will be waiting for you here 10 days later!" This time around Yun Xiaodao was concerned about Chen Xiang because of the giant bet. Although he said he would definitely win the competition, if he lost, he would be losing big time.

Elder Dan arrived and coldly stated, "Chen Xiang, your alchemy process will be supervised by me! I heard that you had won 1000 True Qi Dan and this is to prevent you from cheating, which is probably the only way you can win!"

Chen Xiang helplessly sighed, "Elder Dan, there are only 700 of those True Qi Dans remaining. I gave 100 to Yun Xiaodao and sold 200 to Zhu Rong and Zhang De. Here, I'll give you the remaining 700 True Qi Dan for custody so you cannot accuse me of cheating."

Chen Xiang readily passed over the seven boxes which made Elder Dan surprised. When others found out that Chen Xiang had 700 True Qi Dan on him, they could not help but stare at him with envy. Yet despite this, they did not dare to even think of fighting Chen Xiang. Even though there was a great disparity in their strength, if the Extreme Martial Sect were to find out about their actions their peaceful days would come to an end.

Elder Dan opened the jade boxes and confirmed there was 700 True Qi dans inside them. Afterwards, she placed them inside her own storage bracelet, only at the Elder level would one have such a sophisticated and beautiful storage equipment.

Elder Dan also wanted to take a look at how Chen Xiang planned to refine the True Qi Dan in the end. She also did not believe that Chen Xiang would be able to refine them at his young age.

The competition started as each person got their own personal room which was in turn guarded by a disciple. Moreover, their entire alchemy process were being transmitted to the Elder Courtyard which was being intensely supervised by a few old men so that no one could win by cheating.

Chen Xiang learned that the fastest someone had refined a set of True Qi Dan was half an hour. However, if he used the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace, he would be able to refine two sets of True Qi Dan herbs in half an hour. In order to make it less shocking, he intended to tone it down and refine one set of herbs per hour, plus like this he was able to be more relaxed.

Elder Dan opened Chen Xiang's Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace and apart from being very beautiful and forged by good material, she did not find anything strange about it. The only person who should know about its uses was the Brilliant Furnace's chosen master, otherwise Meng Bo would have never casually taken out this alchemy furnace and use it as gambling stakes.

"Elder Dan, how long does it generally take you to refine one set of True Qi Dan herbs? Also, how many dans can you produce in one set?" Chen Xiang asked.

"The fastest I can refine would be two sets of herbs in one and half hour. The highest amount of dans in the furnace would be six dans, but then the time of refining would be extended." Elder Dan truthfully answered. She was also relatively proud of these results. At her level, alchemists were not always refining high level dans, sometimes the Sect lacked low level dans and they needed to act as well.

When refining high level dans, they would go into seclusion. Elder Dan had not gone into seclusion for many years because she had been collecting herbs.

The herbs used in this competition was paid for by the Extreme Martial Sect, but if they failed to refine anything they needed to repay the Sect with crystal stones. That was why everyone was being even more careful than usual when refining. They did not dare to refine too quickly because they fear its repercussions, but Chen Xiang had the heaven defying Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace. If he intended to go fast, he would go fast. If he wanted to approach the limit of his refinement speed, he would be able to refine three sets of True Qi Dan herbs in half an hour!

Elder Dan saw Chen Xiang skillfully dealing with the herbs without even taking a glance at them, while at the same time processing multiple sets at once. The amount for each set was uniform and not the least bit off or different. His speed was so quick that it made people suck their tongues. Only people who had vast amounts of experience in refining would be able to do such a thing, even inside the Extreme Martial Sect only a few old men could do this.

"You've refined True Qi Dan previously?" Elder Dan asked while feeling surprised.

"Of course, I didn't come here to play!" Chen Xiang casually said, and in blink of an eye, he already finished processing several sets of materials, and started to place the herbs inside the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace

The significantly masked beautiful face of Elder Dan was full of shock. Seventeen years old, and already capable of refining a Low-Grade Spirit Level Dan. This came a shock to her, and also she felt that she had finally met someone since her birth that she could truly consider a genius. It was also the first time she had heard of a genius of this level!

Elder Dan was silent, and seriously looking at Chen Xiang refining, but the next scene made her vomit blood. Chen Xiang, while actually refining, was also diverting his attention to organize the herbs.

"You have already refined this dan?" Elder Dan could sense the flame transmuting inside the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace. The flame would suddenly become large then suddenly small, and these subtle changes were very difficult to detect. She almost wasn't able to sense these subtle changes, and it could be clearly seen that Chen Xiang's ability to control fire was just superb.

Chen Xiang unenthusiastically said, "Alchemy is too boring and consumes a lot of time. Only this way it can be a little interesting."

"Don't you fear that your furnace will explode? Diverting the mind in two places like this can easily lead to failure!" Elder Dan snorted.

"Hei hei, I'm currently using my mind in three places. One side for refining the dan, another side on organizing the herbs, and also talking to you!" Chen Xiang said while laughing, and listening to this Elder Dan could not wait to give him a beating, but she also clearly knew while refining dans how tedious and boring it could be.

Chen Xiang slowed down his tempo, and he could only use the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace like this if he was familiar with the process of refining the dan. He could divert his mind to several places, and this was not only due to the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace, but also because he mainly relied on his subtle sense of alchemy. This sense was his talent, otherwise, he would never be able to learn alchemy so easily!

All the materials were with Elder Dan, and she first gave Chen Xiang only ten sets, waiting for him to completely refine them, but Chen Xiang had quickly organized them. In this little private room ten square boxes were placed on the ground, which were the herbs for refining the True Qi Dans.

"Elder Dan, at my age, if I enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard, then what are the advantages? Like what will I receive?" Chen Xiang asked, and thinking that he could live together with the mysterious Elder Dan for ten days or so in his heart, he was inexplicably excited.

"If you really can enter, then it certainly will be beneficial, but it would also depend on me because the Extreme Dan Courtyard is managed by me." Elder Dan said with a low chuckle.

"Elder Dan, how about I give you a little Hell Spirit Grass and we forget past matters and start anew. How does that sound?" After Elder Dan's mysterious hatred Chen Xiang did not have good days.

"We never had any hatred between us! I am just doing this due to my preferences." Elder Dan said.

Chen Xiang sighed and said, "I will use the Hell Spirit Grass for one answer, and you tell me why you hate me! As you previously said, as long as I win, you'll tell me, but I can not wait for that time."

"Although the Hell Spirit Grass is very precious, but for me it not rare." Elder Dan said with a cold snort.

"Why are you doing this?" Chen Xiang had no words, he suddenly felt Elder Dan was angry with him, and this is simple like a mentality of a little girl. He had once suspected whether or not he was a lookalike of an enemy of Elder Dan, and that was why she was hating him like this.

"Admit your mistake to me, and yield to me! If you do so then I'll be satisfied, and perhaps I can even receive you as my apprentice!" In Elder Dan's voice there was some pride in it, and she felt soon she would see this stubborn youth be shrewdly under her skirt.

"Dream on! Even in death I'll not!" After this Chen Xiang didn't pay any attention to Elder Dan, and only felt somewhat strange because Elder Dan was obviously doing this in a fit of anger which was simply like the mentality of a little girl.

More than an hour past by, Chen Xiang opened the alchemy furnace, and took out six purple dans and put it in a jade box, then once again placed the herbs inside the Brilliant Flame Dragon Furnace, continuing to refine more True Qi Dans.

His actions were very casual, and looked similar to how roadside steam bun sellers steamed their buns, however, Elder Dan who watched this was very surprised, because Chen Xiang was truly able to refine True Qi Dans. Moreover it only took him one hour for refine one set of herbs, and using one set he was able to refine six dans. Only if refined out gingerly, so that no herbs would be wasted while refining, would one be able to congeal six dans. This would also take some time and also consumed a lot of one's spirit!

But Chen Xiang did this so leisurely! Elder Dan remained silent, and watching Chen Xiang's casual appearance, in her heart she was not too happy. After watching this refinement of one set of herbs by Chen Xiang, she was clear that the ultimate winner was likely to be Chen Xiang.

Chen Xiang did not pay any attention to Elder Dan, and even when Elder Dan asked him, he only casually responded with a few words. It seemed he was angry, and this made Elder Dan secretly clench her teeth.

More than one hour later and another set of herbs were refined out once again. Chen Xiang, for the entire day and night, did not rest and kept on refining True Qi Dans. One day later, Chen Xiang had refined out eleven set of herbs. This speed made Elder Dan speechless due to surprise, and Chen Xiang did not even fail once!

In the eyes of Chen Xiang, refining True Qi Dan now was like making rice balls, but among the Low-Grade Spirit Level Dans, he only knew how to refine the True Qi Dan. The other dans required a lot of herbs, and currently he didn't have a lot of crystal stones so he could not afford the consumption of herbs.

Ten days soon went by and Chen Xiang refined a total of a hundred set of herbs, in which he also rested for sometime, which came to a grand total of 600 True Qi Dans! This alchemy speed in the entire Extreme Martial Province was definitely first, and if Chen Xiang was willing to help some family to refine True Qi Dans, he would definitely earn a lot of crystal stones very quickly!

At the end of the competition, Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong both quickly arrived, and they saw Chen Xiang had a relaxed expression. In their hearts they felt a little strange as in their opinion, Chen Xiang is should not be able to win.

"Brother Yao, you really made this old man not be able to hold a candle against you. In just in ten days you actually refined out 400 True Qi Dans! More than fifty last year so this year the first place position should belong to you." One old man with a look of respect was looking at Yao Haisheng.

Yao Haisheng's face was filled with pride, but he modestly smiled and said, "Ha ha, this is all due to luck. Besides, I and that brat, who doesn't know immensity of heaven and earth, had a bet so I did everything I can do in order to win!"

"Yao Haisheng, previously you said as long as you lost to me, you will be my apprentice, do these words still count?" Chen Xiang walked over and smiled.

"Of course it counts, you speak as if you have beaten me!" You Haisheng laughingly said, "If this is true, this is the funniest joke I've heard of! Even if you can continuously refine ten days, that also makes me a little surprised."

This time others one after another revealed how many True Qi Dan they each refined, and except for Yao Haisheng, the maximum others refined was about 200 or so, while the minimum was 30 dans. Not many people had participated, only about 30 people, and each of them were relatively good alchemists inside the Extreme Dan Courtyard.

Yao Haisheng and other alchemists all laughed at Chen Xiang, but Elder Dan's words in the next moment made their smile freeze.

"Yao Haisheng, you lost! This brat refined 600 True Qi Dans!" Elder Dan said, and in her voice there was a trace of hatred, because it was not the result she wanted to see.

"Hei hei, Elder Dan you are very kind! I thought that you were intentionally and superficially making things difficult for me." Chen Xiang let loose a deep breath and afterwards took out six jade boxes, each one containing 100 True Qi Dans.

The courtyard became deathly silent. Nobody could believe that Chen Xiang was actually able to refine 600 True Qi Dans in just ten days!

Everyone had a look of suspicion in their eyes while looking at Elder Dan. For an instant, they suspected that Elder Dan had helped Chen Xiang cheat but then remembered that was completely impossible because of how much Elder Dan hated Chen Xiang.

At this time, Elder Dan had seven jade boxes in her hand. These were the True Qi Dans she had previously confiscated. Afterwards, she opened all the boxes, and verified the contents showing everyone there was no cheating involved.

"Although I didn't want to see this result, Chen Xiang has indeed refined out 600 True Qi Dans within ten days. He also only spent a total of 100 sets of materials!" Elder Dan's words made everyone once again shudder.

Only a hundred set of materials! This meant that Chen Xiang was able to refine out 6 dans every single time with only a single set of herbs!

"Abnormal freak!" Zhu Rong spat out these words from his mouth. Yun Xiaodao's mouth actually started twitching. He had not expected to have such a heaven defying friend this close to him.

Yao Haisheng's teeth was trembling, with wide open eyes he was staring at the True Qi Dans placed on the ground. As long as they were an alchemist, it was clear that these dans had been refined not too long ago. In addition with the heat emanating from a box, it was clear that the dans in that specific box had been refined two days ago!

Yao Haisheng and the other alchemists could clearly determine that the True Qi Dan in the six boxes from Chen Xiang had been refined not too long ago. Moreover, they were all of very high quality, no, all of them were top grade quality!

Elder Dan coldly said, "Now do you believe me? I have to admit, this fellow's level of alchemy is very high, even I can not accomplish such a feat. Each and every one of his True Qi Dans is top grade quality. It was also refined out in such a short time with each set of herbs producing six dans!"

Yao Haisheng suddenly shuddered. His eyes had turned red and his heart felt literally dead. However, towards Chen Xiang he had now had nothing but admiration. What could he do when even Elder Dan had admitted defeat?

At the very next instant, Yao Haisheng knelt down and knocked his head down towards Chen Xiang, thunderously shouting, "Teacher! Please accept this disciple's salute!"

Seeing such a sluate from Yao Haisheng, many alchemist almost waddled. They very eagerly gave themselves two slaps, wanting to check whether or not they were dreaming!

An alchemist of the True Martial Realm had just taken a teacher who was in the 9th level of the Mortal Martial Realm, furthermore he was a youth. This was simply a joke, the Extreme Martial Sect's biggest and most ridiculous joke.

Chen Xiang was also startled, he had not expected Yao Haisheng to so readily take him as a teacher. This was due in part to the presence of Elder Dan and the other alchemists. Yao Haisheng could not afford to lose the trust of others, he might get cursed behind his back and for him that was worse than death!

Yun Xiaodao vigorously pinched Zhu Rong's fat hand, making him emit a horrible shriek.

"Haha…. It's not a dream. Elder brother Chen has won!" Yun Xiaodao burst into laughter. Zhu Rong also took a deep breath before accepting this absurd reality.

"Hei hei, apprentice please rise!" Chen Xiang said with a depraved laugh as he walked towards Yao Haisheng and helped him stand up.

At this point in time, Yao Haisheng's sadness was difficult to describe. He had not expected that he would ever take the one person he hated the most as his teacher. This might make him be unable to ever raise his head high ever again.

"This is my gift to you!" Chen Xiang said as he gave Yao Haisheng 100 True Qi Dan and an Azure Profound Fruit!

This gift of his made everyone petrified. Their gazes instantly gathered onto the Azure Profound Fruit! Almost everyone here was an alchemist, who in the world would be unable to recognize the Azure Profound Fruit, this precious and extremely rare spirit herb!?

Little gift!? The Azure Profound Fruit as a little gift!? This was simple too huge a blow for them!

Both of Yao Haisheng's hands were trembling as he took the so called 'little gift' from Chen Xiang. He was originally deeply sad, however he felt much better now. At least doing this little obeisance to Chen Xiang as his teacher was not all that bad. He was no fool and knew that Chen Xiang intended to resolve the conflict between them!

"Thanks… a lot....... Teacher!" said Yao Haisheng somewhat choppily.

"Chen Xiang, here is your first reward! Early morning tomorrow report to the Extreme Dan King Courtyard. If you are late, wait and accept the punishment!" Elder Dan threw a small jaded box to Chen Xiang before going to the other alchemists who took out their respective refined True Qi Dans.

"Elder Dan, can I choose to not enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard?" Chen Xiang was worried that he would be oppressed there by this mysterious Elder Dan turning his life miserable.

"That won't do! It was an agreed bet between you and me. If you refuse and violate this then you will have to leave the Extreme Martial Sect!" a cold snort from Elder Dan resounded.

Chen Xiang sighed bitterly. He suddenly felt that he did not gain any benefits from the bet between him and Elder Dan.

"Haisheng, although I am now your teacher, at best I can only refine True Qi Dan. Maybe later I will even have to ask some advice from you. There is no need to refer to me as your teacher, instead just simply call me by my name. I will wait for the day when you are sincerely convinced I have the qualifications for you to call me teacher. At that time, you can once again address me as such." Chen Xiang said.

Having Yao Haisheng call him teacher everyday, even Chen Xiang felt a little sorry. Not to mention what Yao Haisheng was probably feeling.

Regarding this point, Yao Haisheng was also quite grateful. He knew from now on he could not act against Chen Xiang otherwise he would be severely punished.

Long before Chen Xiang entered the Inner Sect, his fame had spread throughout the entire Extreme Martial Sect. Now, not only did he win the alchemy competition, but he was also allowed to enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard making Chen Xiang even more famous!

Chen Xiang and Yun Xiaodao returned to their martial courtyard. While they were walking on the road, Yun Xiaodao suddenly said with a smile, "Elder brother Chen, do you remember not too long ago how I spoke about having a few very nice sisters?"

Chen Xiang nodded, "I do, but you also said they would despise me and treat me like dirt."

"How could I even say such a thing seriously? It was just a joke! Either way, I'll arrange for you and them to meet face to face. You're still single, you can simply get married!" Yun Xiaodao said with a depraved smile on his face. That way, he would be able to get a brother-in-law with boundless prospects which was a very good thing.

"Tch, my fiancee is Xue Xianxian! If these sisters of yours want to marry me they would first have to get permission from her!" Chen Xiang pursed his lips and said. Currently he just wanted to quickly enter the True Martial Realm and go searching for Xue Xianxian.

"Brother-in-law come on! Although my sisters are not nearly as talented as Xue Xianxian they are all really pretty!" To Chen Xiang's surprise Yun Xiaodao actually called him brother-in-law already.

Zhu Rong witnessing this could not help but stop himself and give Yun Xiaodao a nice kick. "Although your sisters really are rather pretty, at the same time each and every one of them are brimming with pride and arrogance! There is no way brother Chen would like them!"

"Younger brother Chen, I also have a sister, and her talent is also not bad! Her appearance is also much better than this rascal's sisters, those prudish tarts!" Zhu Rong's chubby face was filled to the brim with a smile, "My dear brother-in-law, at what time do you want to go for a stroll within our Zhu Family?"

"Dead Pig, you and I must fight!" Yun Xiaodao angrily said.

Watching this dramatic play from Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong, Chen Xiang secretly thought that it would be great to never meet these younger and elder sisters of theirs. Especially Zhu Rong's, maybe his sister would be like him and be a heavyweight level female!

Chen Xiang's attitude became very resolute. His refusal to Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong was akin to a solid war fortress regarding their meetings with their younger and elder female relatives.

Barely before the dawn of the next day, Chen Xiang hastily entered the Mysterious Realm. Though he knew that the Extreme Dan King Courtyard was inside but he did not know the path to it.

"Well, you came quite early! Come with me." Wu Kaming said with a happy smile. Regarding Chen Xiang, Wu Kaiming was very interested. Originally, Elder Dan had forbidden anyone to receive Chen Xiang as their apprentice but now not only did he get himself a True Martial Realm apprentice, he also obtained the permission to enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard.

Chen Xiang did not know what it meant to enter the Extreme Dan King Courtyard but Wu Kaiming knew very well what it meant!

The Extreme Dan King Courtyard had the simple appearance of a very ordinary house. Above the entrance was "Extreme Dan King Courtyard" (太丹王院) only these four characters and nothing else out of the ordinary

"Elder Wu, in the end just what kind of place is the Extreme Dan King Courtyard?" Chen Xiang asked.

"Hei Hei, you will know once you go inside! I will take my leave now, take care!" Wu Kaiming's smile was very mysterious. Seeing this, Chen Xiang had a bad premonition for the near future.

The Spirit Qi inside the Mysterious Realm was very rich. Chen Xiang felt that if he stayed here for a bit, he would definitely be able to cultivate a large amount of True Qi. But no matter how much faster this process was, it was still incomparable to the speed when he cultivated using pills.

"You came quite early! Were you brought in by Elder Wu?" The sound of Elder's Dan's voice came from close by.

Chen Xiang walked towards the sound and replied, "Yes. What exactly do you want me to do here in the Extreme Dan King Courtyard?"

"I'm the only person who stays here in the Extreme Dan King Courtyard. Now, you will also stay here!" Elder Dan responded, her tone was extremely serious.

"Why?" Chen Xiang was very shocked in his heart. He was going to stay here everyday alone with her, this would definitely not be a good thing!

"I'm preparing to go behind closed doors for quite sometime in order to refine dans. You will call all the shots here in the Extreme Dan King Courtyard and essentially become its master!" Elder Dan replied, "You do not have to do much here, after all there are already specialists who are responsible for planting the spirit herbs. Regarding all the other matters, they are also managed by someone. The only important thing you need to do is maintain the dignity of the Extreme Dan King Courtyard! As to how this goes, you will naturally understand later."

Chen Xiang was dazed for a brief second. He had never expected Elder Dan to trust him with such an important matter. Considering her words, Elder Dan probably did not hate him that much.

"Was it all due to something I've done? Or.. did she do it all in a fit of anger???" Chen Xiang arrived at a somewhat funny conclusion.

Chen Xiang sucked in a mouth full of air and asked, "Elder Dan, about those Foundation Building Dans..."

"How much time did you think it would take? I have already refined it and sent it to the Divine Weapon Heavenly Empire and Icewind Valley." Elder Dan's tone was somewhat angry when she replied. She had not expected Chen Xiang to actually still be worried about this issue.

Chen Xiang nodded his head in reply and said with a smile, "Than thanks a lot Elder Dan! You can rest assured and head behind closed doors to refine dans!"

"Chen Xiang, I'll ask you once again. Are you willing to take me as your teacher? You should know that I have never received an apprentice!" Elder Dan asked. A sliver of gentleness could be found in her voice.

Chen Xiang shook his head. "No, besides haven't you already stated that you would make life difficult for anyone who received me as an apprentice? If you were to take me as your apprentice, would you not have to make life difficult for yourself?"

"Humph, as you wish!" Elder Dan took out a jade card and hurled it towards Chen Xiang before storming away.

Chen Xiang caught the jade card and carefully look at it. Above the card, there were actually hair like patterns which he recognized as spirit veins! Furthermore there was also a trace of a unknown power. Above this jade card, a set of words were written, "Extreme Dan King Courtyard, Chen Xiang"!

From then on, Chen Xiang was the only one living inside the Extreme Dan King Courtyard, but he also had a large amount of freedom.

Ever since he received Yao Haisheng as his apprentice, Yao Haisheng rarely appeared. He claimed it was because he needed to go into seclusion for alchemy. In reality, he was just trying to escape because he did not have the face to see others since he had taken Chen Xiang as his teacher.

Chen Xiang and Yun Xiaodao rarely went to visit the 329th Martial Courtyard, but they were still members of this Martial Courtyard. What made them a bit surprised was that Zhu Rong actually gave up the lucrative benefits of the 200th Martial Courtyard and went to live with Chen Xiang and the others. His reason for doing so was to better persuade Chen Xiang to meet his sister.

In this way, Chen Xiang and Yun Xiaodao, along with Zhu Rong, this stingy fatty, became friends. Though they often cursed at each other, they had very good brotherly feelings towards each other.

"Elder brother Chen, we've been waiting for you for quite some time!" Yun Xiaodao, upon seeing Chen Xiang walk into the martial courtyard hastily jumped up. Because Chen Xiang now resided in the Extreme Dan King Courtyard inside the Mysterious Realm, Zhu Rong and Yun Xiaodao did not have the liberty to enter it. Although they had something to discuss with Chen Xiang, they could not look for him.

"What is it?" Chen Xiang asked.

Zhu Rong was waving a sheet in his hand and helplessly said, "Yes, well due to the careful selection of this little rascal Yun, we received a very boring and nonsensical task."

Chen Xiang now remembered that it has already been one month since he entered the Inner Sect and they needed to perform a task arranged by the sect. In this one month, he had learned some new martial skills along with the water attributed [Black Tortoise Divine Exercise]. While the majority of these were more defensive oriented martial skills, and there was only one or two different types, it had made Chen Xiang very satisfied with his progress.

Chen Xiang was just thinking about asking about the task at hand when Yun Xiaodao laughed and said, "This is one very good task, it's about the matter of the Heavenly Dragon Treasure."

Heavenly Dragon Treasure! It was one of the most recent matters that caused major uproar these past ten days. This was an treasure from the ancient times. A dragon had fell on the Chenwu Mainland and left it, and along with it appeared the emergence of rumors about a map regarding the Heavenly Dragon Treasure. But this map was also very expensive, and was around 100,000 crystal stones for a copy!

At first the majority of people thought it was fake and someone only put forth this false information to earn some crystal stones. But after detailed analysis by some elders, the place marked as the treasure was indeed the location where the dragon inside the legend had once appeared.

That place was called Perishing Dragon Mountains and could be regarded as a dangerous area!

"How can there be any Heavenly Dragon Treasures? When the rumor had not even appeared our Zhu Family searched the place thoroughly and it didn't have farts!" Zhu Rong contemptuously said.

"Humph, my Yun Family had already searched over a hundred years before your Zhu Family ever went to search!" Yun Xiaodao said.

Perishing Dragon Mountains containing a mystical treasure, this was a legend from long ago. Many people had gone to search for it but no one found anything.

Chen Xiang took the paper from Yun Xiaodao and looked at the map. As well as the details from the Extreme Martial Sect's explanation of the task, they were responsible for investigating whether or not it was true, and for reporting any further information before the task could be considered finished.

"Although it may be a rumor, it is also a very easy thing to do. We can almost treat it as playing around! However, I heard that many individuals from major sects have also arrived to search for it. Not only it has caused commotion in the Extreme Martial Province, but it is same for all the other provinces!"

"There truly are many idiots, so many have come rushing here from afar!" Zhu Rong laughed.

"Come on, so many people are heading over here so there is a high chance that it might be true! Previously, your family had not found anything there. Maybe it was because there was a Mysterious Realm there, you also know about Mysterious Realms right?

The ways any Mysterious Realm appeared were extremely special. Sometimes it suddenly appeared out of nowhere, other times someone needed to fulfill certain conditions for an entrance to appear. There were also some cases where a very strong power was needed to forcefully rip open the passage...

Just when Chen Xiang was determined to go, an old woman who was wearing an ordinary dress suddenly appeared.

"Xiaodao, due to some matters within your family, you need to take a trip back!" This woman was Yun Xiaodao's teacher, a martial artist of the True Martial Realm!

Yun Xiaodao had a look of reluctance. If it wasn't for the strength of this old woman, he would definitely not go back. However, he now had to clench his teeth and leave with the old woman.

"Elder brother Chen, this time I'll have to request you to help out! Next time I'll help you with your task!" This was the statement Yun Xiaodao left behind.

"Younger brother Chen, as you find it very interesting you can go by yourself. I do not intend to join in on the fun and also request you to do so…" The instant Zhu Rong finished speaking he left before Chen Xiang could even blink. He did not expect this fatty's speed to be so quick.

Chen Xiang let out a snort before folding the map and leaving the Extreme Martial Sect. The Extreme Martial Sect's assigned tasks were generally completed by several disciples of a martial courtyard. However, regardless of how many people go it was all fine as long as the matter was resolved.

Pershing Dragon Mountain was located at one of the border areas of the Extreme Martial Province. It was relatively close to the borders of the Beast Martial Province which was the site of the Beast Martial Sect. In this province, there were relatively more demon beasts, however, the majority of these were being raised by the disciples of the Beast Martial Sect in a cage as pets. The martial skills they learned and practiced were also invariably connected with the demon beasts.

The road Chen Xiang needed to take was very far, but he sped things up by using the [Vermillion Bird Fire Wings] to fly at night, and this allowed him to quickly cross many mountain forests.

Ten days past by as Chen Xiang made a long and wearisome journey before finally arriving at Guanlong City. From here, the distance to the Perishing Dragon Mountains was not that far. Recently many people had gathered here. After Chen Xiang asked around, he came to know why so many people believed in the legendary Heavenly Dragon Treasure!

This was because one month ago, many people in Guanlong City saw a strange and unique aura appear in the direction of the Perishing Dragon Mountains which was followed by a dragon's roar coming from the horizon. This kind of thing was very likely to be the sign of the opening of a Mysterious Realm.

After coming here, Chen Xiang also learned some Extreme Martial Sect related information. A martial arts sect, called the Peerless Martial Sect, had been incorporated and fused with the Extreme Martial Sect along with all of their disciples!

The Peerless Martial Sect was another 1st Class Sect and was ranked just behind the Chenwu Mainland's eight major Righteous Sects. It could also be considered as one of the strongest rising stars and had been established at the coastal areas of the Extreme Martial Province. Unfortunately, the entire Peerless Martial Sect had been swallowed up by the sea and the suffered very heavy losses. In order to continue the development of their disciples, the Peerless Martial Sect's Dean seeked the majority of the disciple's agreement before incorporating themselves into the Extreme Martial Sect.

The Peerless Martial Sect's Dean originally had some relations with the Extreme Martial Sect and their marital skills had actually stemmed from them! Since it had accepted the help of the Extreme Martial Sect, being incorporated into the larger Sect was not a bad thing for them and could even be considered a joyful mother.

"Motherfucker, just what kind of shitty task did this father come here to complete!? The Extreme Martial Sect is actually holding a large scale banquet here for the Peerless Martial Sect and giving them a large welcoming dinner!" Chen Xiang thinking about this secretly cursed in his heart.

As for the Extreme Martial Sect's disciples it was also a joyful matter. This was because in the entirety of the Peerless Martial Sect's disciples there was a good number of female disciples. The Extreme Martial Sect had modified their sect rules and were now willing to take female disciples so that the Peerless Martial Sect could be comfortably integrated into the Extreme Martial Sect.

Chen Xiang also thought that the Inner Martial Courtyard would no longer have a lifeless appearance now. If it was not for the arrival of Zhu Rong, then the Inner Martial Courtyard Chen Xiang was staying in would only have two disciples!

Chen Xiang had spent a few days in Guanlong City asking and recording information from his surveys.

"Two sisters, should I go take a look at the Heavenly Dragon Treasure?" Chen Xiang asked. He learned that there were a lot of True Martial Realm experts from other sects that came here. He was sure that if a little shrimp of the 9th Level of the Mortal Martial Realm were to go he would be unable to even see a glimpse of the treasure.

"Go and take a look! Although it's almost impossible to get anything, it will introduce a new perspective and present a new outlook on the world for you, it will not be bad for you." Bai Youyou replied.

Su Meiyao also similarly agreed, "If it really is a Mysterious Realm then maybe you can fish up something, but in the case that you sense that something isn't right, escape immediately."

Chen Xiang nodded his head, he had already completed the task at this point. Now he only thought of going to take a look and nothing more.

After leaving Guanlong City, Chen Xiang entered into a patch of jungle. Like everyone else, he did not walk on the road because he knew that there existed some good herbs in the Perishing Dragon Mountains. He thought of taking a slight detour to see if he could chance upon some good herbs.

Soon after entering inside the mountain forest, Chen Xiang discovered a set of demon beast footprints. From observing the footprints, he concluded that the overall mass of the demon beast was definitely not small which made him somewhat curious. He had not hunted or killed demon beasts after leaving the Extreme Martial Sect. Besides, he also knew that demon beasts were good at finding spirit herbs, if he tracked it down then maybe something good would be waiting for him.

Chen Xiang followed the footprints as more than three hour passed. The sky had turned dark, but he could still clearly see everything inside the forest.

And in the distance he saw a black lion as tall as human!

When Chen Xiang had been residing in the Inner Courtyard Regular Hall, he read a book about demon beasts. This black lion was a very ferocious Grade-10 demon beast, and also had a great chance to evolve into a spirit beast, it was called the Night Hunting Lion!

"Who is it?" A cold and tender shout resounded. Chen Xiang saw the Night Hunting Lion from the top of a tree before jumping down. A girl had been sitting on the Night Hunting Lion's back and looked around with a ruthless and arrogant gaze.

At this moment, Chen Xiang went into hiding behind the tree. He was greatly startled because he just saw what the Night Hunting Lion was eating a moment ago… It turned out to be some humans!

"Beast Martial Sect's disciples… No one had ever thought that they were using human corpses for feeding their demon beasts!" Chen Xiang secretly thought. Although he was far away, he could still see the civilian attire on the human corpse.

It was easy for a martial arts sect's disciple to casually kidnap some civilians, however Chen Xiang saw dozens of human bodies just a moment ago!

Chen Xiang clenched his fists tightly. He was an Extreme Martial Sect's disciple and they were responsible for protecting the Extreme Martial Province. Yet now their civilians were actually being grabbed by Beast Martial Sect Disciples for the food of their demon beasts, how could he not be furious?

If this matter were to spread out, it would make all the citizens throughout the entire Extreme Martial Sect furious beyond belief!

Chen Xiang went out and walked towards the Night Hunting Lion with a cold look on his face. As he coldly glared at the girl sitting on the back of the Night Hunting Lion he thought this girl was extremely hideous despite her pretty appearance!

"Who is it? Quickly show yourself or I'll treat you just like these mortals and make you food for Little Black!" The girl loudly shouted before taking out a long sword.

"BEAST SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"

Seeing the Night Hunting Lion chewing on human flesh Chen Xiang felt anger seeping through his veins and into his heart. True Qi gushed out from beneath his feet and he instantly leapt right next to the Night Hunting Lion. Like lighting his finger shot out. That fingertip was surging and was coated in invisible Universal True Qi, which directly penetrated the Night Hunting Lion's skull!

In that one blow of his, Chen Xiang not only casted the [Profound Aura Finger] but did so with Universal True Qi. Blood madly gushed out from the little hole that had been punchered by his finger on the stark head of the Night Hunting Lion.