Chapter Twenty-Nine: Heart of Darkness

Shi Xuan and the others began to each copy a copy of the Tianlong Bo Tiandu, and then collected it, Shi Xuan put the letterhead and the Tianlong Botian Duel together and prepared to secretly find the prince.

"The desire for power is really terrible, even my own brother can do it, this

Jiang Bingkun is also ruthless enough. In the future, we must remember not to use this set of exercises casually, otherwise if we are discovered by the Jiang family, it is estimated that we will be killed," Chen Kaijia reminded.

Shi Xuan naturally understood, "I won't use it until the critical moment, what should we do now?"

"In my opinion, since we have received his favor, let's bury him in the ground, which can be regarded as burial," Chen Kaijia said.

Shi Xuan and Chen Kaijia dug a grave in the cave and buried Jiang Bingqian on the spot, they did not dare to leave a tombstone, for fear that later generations would discover the secret of the tomb.

"A generation of emperors didn't expect to be buried so hastily by us, this is also the sorrow of being in the emperor's family, the poison of power is too terrible", Shi Xuan looked at the man who once looked down on the four seas.

Jiang Bingqian's bow and arrow and spear were also all buried, although these two spiritual weapons were powerful, they were too conspicuous and easy to kill.

"I can't imagine that the two of us have witnessed the darkest secrets of an empire in such a dilapidated cave, how much dark history has been buried in this world", Chen Kaijia and Shi Xuan began to walk back, not wanting to stay any longer.

"Under the glamorous appearance, there is too much dirt, the Danyang Empire now shows that the people live in peace, but it is built under the rule of bloody wrists, and now the empire has nearly a million soldiers, and many weak neighbors are facing a huge threat, Jiang Bingkun's ambition is far more than the Danyang Empire, he has the ambition to unify the southwest continent", Chen Kaijia said some secrets.

"When the time comes, there will be a war, and I don't know how many people have been destroyed, and how many people have been displaced, there is such an emperor, it is indeed a disaster for the people", Shi Xuan replied.

"I really hope that we can find the fallen prince so that he can one day return to the Danyang Empire and eliminate this tyrant," Chen Kaijia said.

"I'm not worried about the rest, I just hope that this country will not continue to be turbulent, and continuous stability is the most important", Shi Xuan thought of the countless low-level civilians who were miserable.

"Now we are weak, and we can't change these things, the only thing we can do is to find Jiang Yuheng as soon as possible."

Shi Xuan and the others quickly descended the mountain, galloped on horseback, and rushed back to Danyang City, this time with a fourth-order purple gold lion king's spirit core, Chen Kaijia would definitely be able to achieve a good ranking in the family trial.

Shi Xuan has been practicing the exercises he has obtained with all his strength in the past few days, and the fragmentary Divine Dragon Emperor he obtained before only had the first one, which was very incomplete, and now his strength has reached the eighth order of the Xuanmai Realm, and that exercise has shown that he is not very tired and can not support him to continue to practice, this Tianlong Bo Tiandu can just help him continue to practice.

This exercise is worthy of being the secret of the Jiang family of the royal family, Shi Xuan also felt enthusiastic after reading it, with his current strength, he can only cultivate the first article, and the remaining three can only be practiced after his strength is promoted.

The first exercise can improve the physical strength and strength of the practitioner, can stimulate the potential of the meridians, when the exercise is running, the aura in the meridians can be temporarily increased several times, and the strength will be greatly enhanced, for Shi Xuan and Chen Kaijia These melee masters have a very huge improvement, once they are skillfully used, when facing the enemy, they even rely on brute force to kill the enemy in an instant, the so-called one blow into the soul.

Shi Xuan studied for a few days, but he still felt that it was extremely complicated, it was extremely difficult to improve such a powerful aura in a short period of time, the difficulty of this exercise cultivation was that it required the cultivator to control multiple streams of aura into multiple meridians at the same time, and the use of aura must be very proficient, Shi Xuan's fire element was extremely violent, and it was very difficult to use it accurately and flexibly.

Shi Xuan's continuous practice for more than ten days has more than doubled his strength, which is far from the more than ten times described in the exercise, and he still has a long way to go in this exercise.

However, Shi Xuan was not in a hurry, he also knew that this process needed to be gradual and not rushed, as long as he used it regularly, one day he would master him thoroughly.

Secretly, he experimented with his own strength, and it was really a great improvement, even an ordinary third-order spirit beast, it was difficult to resist his iron fist, and he also found the defects of this exercise, the spiritual energy consumption is huge, this set of exercises is about killing with one blow, and there must be a result when shooting, otherwise his own spiritual energy consumption is extremely large, and it will inevitably fall into passivity after a long time.

"It seems that my Burning Sun Meteorite Technique should also think of a way, the two complement each other, the aura that Tianlong Bo Tianduel briefly improves can greatly increase the power of the Burning Sun Meteorite Technique, and these two moves can even kill opponents of the same rank with weak defense in an instant", Shi Xuan thought of a lot.

However, as the collection secret of the Great Sage of the Terran Race, the Burning Sun Meteor Technique was extremely harsh in cultivation, and Shi Xuan couldn't get together the spiritual materials it needed in a short period of time.

For this reason, he specially found Chen Kaijia to help, he gave Chen Kaijia a list, which listed the spiritual materials he needed, and asked him to help inquire, and he himself often came and went to major shops.

As a big local family, the Chen family naturally has a rich collection, but some of the spiritual materials that Shi Xuan needs are too scarce, even Chen Kaijia can't help, but he still finds some for him.

Shi Xuan was very grateful, and he himself could only postpone his cultivation of the Burning Sun Falling Star Technique for the time being, and when he gathered the spiritual materials for cultivation in the future.

Now that there is only half a year left before Tianhua Sect recruits disciples, Shi Xuan must find a way to break through to the Ning Yuan Realm, otherwise he will not be able to enter Tianhua Sect.

Ordinary meditation and meditation, even if he has the spirit gathering talisman given to him by the academy, the progress is slow, after all, after reaching the Xuanmai Realm, each level is very consuming aura, and it is more difficult to advance to the first order in the back, and it is even more difficult to break through the Ning Yuan Realm in the ninth order.

This time, Shi Xuan was not going to practice so quietly, otherwise he would not be able to break through to the Ning Yuan Realm after the time passed.

He thought that the government department had some arrest tasks to accept, and these tasks were issued by the imperial city government, which could be accepted by anyone, and as long as the tasks were completed on time, they could also get a reward.

Shi Xuan felt that only by constantly fighting could he hone himself and stimulate his potential, otherwise his improvement would be too slow.

Outside the gate of the official mansion in Danyang City, there is a huge list of the most heinous government wanted criminals and some other tasks, indicating the difficulty and bounty of each mission.

For two months, Shi Xuan was immersed in the bounty mission, and during this time, he traveled back and forth to various places in Danyang City one day, sometimes capturing rogues, sometimes killing spirit beasts that disturbed the villagers, and sometimes conquest of thieves in the cottage.

During this time, he became a celebrity in the government, and he was often seen here to receive tasks and receive bounties, which could be regarded as a lot of contributions to the people around him, most of the tasks selected by Shi Xuan were some villains who did all kinds of evil, and as for those political criminals released by the government in order to eradicate dissidents, he was not interested.

The full battle had indeed reached the speed of improving his cultivation, and he had a faint feeling of fulfillment during this time, and he knew that he was about to advance again, and he was just a little bit away.

On this day, Shi Xuan saw a mission, which described that there was a spirit beast rebellion in Xinghua Village, thirty miles from Danyang City, some villagers were attacked, and some people were killed and injured.

Shi Xuan took the task and went, this was originally a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and the villagers lived and worked in peace and contentment, but recently, there have been many fierce spirit beasts that have broken into the village and injured many people, and their unarmed people have no power to resist, so they can only report to the official, but the government only issued a reward list, and did not send people to strangle the spirit beast at all.

Shi Xuan walked in the village with the fragrance of apricot blossoms, but few people dared to come out to walk in broad daylight, and Shi Xuan felt like walking into a ghost village.

He finally grabbed an uncle and asked, "Uncle, why don't you come out to work in the village in broad daylight?"

"Little brother, at first glance, you are a foreigner, there have been fierce insects in our village recently, eating people everywhere, and the government doesn't care, you go quickly, if you encounter a big worm, you will die", the uncle looked around nervously and was very scared.

"Uncle don't be afraid, I'm here to clean up that beast, when it usually comes out, I'll wait for it here," Shi Xuan said.

"Little brother, what are you kidding, that big insect is the size of a cow, your size is not enough for it to fill in the gaps, let's go, it's coming soon", the uncle carefully hid in his home after speaking.

Shi Xuan searched all the way along the road in the village, and saw that many places had been destroyed by fierce beasts, and there were still traces of blood in some places.

"These dog officials of the government usually do not take less taxes from the people, but at the critical moment, they become turtles with shrunken heads, and they completely ignore the life and death of the people", Shi Xuan cursed.

Shi Xuan didn't plan to go outside to investigate, he was ready to wait for the arrival of the spirit beast.

At dusk, Shi Xuan finally waited for a strange movement, and a loud roar shocked all the villagers, even if they were hiding at home.

"Is it finally here, livestock?"

Shi Xuan drew his big knife and ran quickly towards the place where the sound came from. At this moment, a huge divine arm demon ape was messing in front of the door of a house, and it was frantically pounding the house, trying to enter the house and commit murder.

"Livestock, come here and die", Shi Xuan shouted.

Hearing the voice, the Divine Arm Demon Ape turned around and confronted him, Shi Xuan was not afraid, raising his knife and preparing to fight.

The Divine Arm Demon Ape began to grin, his arms beat his chest, the white-gray fur was directly opened, his eyes were crimson, he was unusually bloodthirsty, and he was extremely fierce, and the people in the house were already crying in fright.

The strength of this beast was not weaker than the Iron Palm Demon Bear that he and Chen Kaijia encountered on the mountain. However, Shi Xuan was not afraid, his strength had increased greatly this time, and he was just testing him.

Shi Xuan's whole body emitted a terrifying fire, and the snow-bright broadsword struck out a terrifying qi blade, and the hair was blown off, and some trees were instantly broken.

His fist gloves erupted with terrifying power, Shi Xuan and the Divine Arm Demon Ape launched a crazy power battle, the Divine Arm Demon Ape as the leader of the strength of the spirit beasts, one punch can smash a huge stubborn stone, hitting someone is like crushing a grasshopper to death, but Shi Xuan is tough with him.

Like a golden stone impact, pieces of terrifying flame aura overflowed, at this moment, more than a dozen blood marks appeared on the arms of the god arm demon ape, Shi Xuan's great strength directly cut through his defense, and the seven slashes that broke through the sky finally played to the level it should have, and Shi Xuan's strength was difficult to exert its power in the past.

The Divine Arm Demon Ape screamed in pain, his arms beat his chest again, and he attacked Shi Xuan fiercely, and the huge force swept the surrounding courtyard directly, and many apricot trees were smashed.

Shi Xuan urged the Heavenly Dragon Bo Tianduel to fight with it with all his might, and the Divine Arm Demon Ape burst out of their clan's bloodline talent, smashing Shi Xuan away with one punch, leaving a furrow on the ground, Shi Xuan jumped up, and with a backhand punch, he also smashed the Divine Arm Demon Ape away, and slammed it to the ground, smashing a big hole.

This is completely a physical fight between two power-type creatures, the human race has never been a creature with strength, but Shi Xuan has achieved a terrifying power that is rare in many human races at this moment.

Shi Xuan was unforgiving, taking advantage of his illness to kill him, it was a terrifying operation to raise the knife, and a huge opening was cracked from the neck of the god arm demon ape, and soon the beast died.

Shi Xuan felt the aura wandering in his body, at this moment his strength had increased at least three times, which was inseparable from months of hard cultivation, and now he was able to fight against the Divine Arm Demon Ape with his own strength, which was impossible a few months ago.

He quickly obtained the spirit core of the Divine Arm Demon Ape, and then told the villagers in the house that he had killed the spirit beast that was causing trouble.

Soon the people in the village knew about it, and many people came to watch, and everyone saw the dead Divine Arm Demon Ape, so they believed that Shi Xuan's words were true.

Shi Xuan didn't think it was so simple, he asked the villagers if there had been any accidents of spirit beasts entering the village before, and the villagers told him that there had never been such a powerful spirit beast entering the village to hurt people before, and the fierce beasts that came several times were different.

The village names still didn't dare to be careless, and there were still fierce beasts that hurt people and didn't come out of the mountain.

In the past two days, it suddenly came out that the next village was also attacked by powerful spirit beasts, and after Shi Xuan heard about it, he rushed to the next village to rescue.

This time he encountered a fierce white-fronted saber-toothed tiger with crimson eyes and an unusually fierce ferocity, Shi Xuan started a big battle again, and finally killed it after a hard battle.

Shi Xuan felt that things were too strange, so he decided to explore the surroundings.

Shi Xuan followed the footprints left by the fierce beast all the way, trying to find some clues.

Arrived at a big mountain in the distance behind the village, Shi Xuan walked on the mountain and river, he carefully looked for some traces, in this area, only this mountain could give birth to such a fierce spirit beast, Shi Xuan couldn't understand why this time was so abnormal that there had never been an incident of a fierce beast taking the initiative to go down the mountain to attack people for so many years.

Shi Xuan investigated all the way and saw that the mountain was full of spirit beast footprints, all of which had been stepped on recently, "What makes these spirit beasts so crazy, I must find out."

Shi Xuan searched in the mountains for a whole morning, and finally found something in a valley, there was a large pool of clear spring water here, and countless spirit beasts would come here to drink, but Shi Xuan saw that at the source of the lake, the water color was not normal, and there was a faint evil aura in the water, Shi Xuan walked there, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

A terrifying ferocious aura erupted through his nose, and even Shi Xuan's spirit suddenly tensed.

"Could it be that this evil aura caused these spirit beasts to fall into madness?" he recalled the crimson eyes of the two spirit beasts in the village before, as if they had fallen into madness.

This evil aura polluted the water of the lake, and many spirit beasts became crazy when they drank this water, hurting people everywhere.

Shi Xuan was highly concentrated, he didn't want to be infected by the evil aura, he had been possessed by the remnant soul of the Nightmare King before, he had already suffered from the sin of killing, he didn't want to fall again.

Shi Xuan began to meditate, chanting words in his mouth, this is a heart-clearing mantra given to him by his predecessors in the cave, it can help Shi Xuan condense his spirit and resist the erosion of evil energy.

He sensed the evil aura and searched for it, and finally found the culprit in a cave.

Shi Xuan found a huge evil creature in the cave, a huge silver-backed mandrill controlled by evil forces, with an evil aura all over his body, Shi Xuan looked at this beast, he knew that he was definitely not its opponent, this evil spirit was at least the strength of the peak of the fourth order, and with this evil force, even the masters of the late stage of the Ning Yuan Realm would definitely be difficult to deal with.

Although Shi Xuan helped the villagers get rid of this scourge, but he didn't have the strength now, at the moment he only hoped that he didn't disturb this beast, he looked at the silverback mandrill that fell into a stupor, he gently withdrew behind him, for fear of disturbing it, at this moment this silverback mandrill is being controlled by the evil force.

However, Shi Xuan's back suddenly felt cold, he heard the roar of the silverback mandrill after waking up, Shi Xuan didn't walk carefully, and began to run out of the cave with all his strength, he ran all the way, not wanting to be caught up by this evil beast.

This time, the aura of his whole body was gathered at his feet, and his legs were now open to eight big points, the speed was amazing, and there was the bonus of Tianlong Bo Tiandu, Shi Xuan only felt that countless trees were retreating beside him, and he swept through the woods like a gust of wind.

Behind him, the huge body affected the mountains, the woods crackled, the silverback mandrill broke countless trees, and chased Shi Xuan with all his might, Shi Xuan specially chose a route with dense trees to escape, which slowed down the pace of the silverback mandrill, its huge body speed and strength were extremely strong but not agile enough, Shi Xuan was like a cunning rabbit in the jungle running around.

Shi Xuan didn't expect this guy to be so crazy, and he didn't know how far he ran, but this guy still refused to give up, and behind Shi Xuan was a mess, and a large area of dense woods was opened by the silverback mandrill.

Shi Xuan's feet were weak at the moment, but when he heard the devilish howl behind him, his legs ran faster.

Shi Xuan had never been chased so fiercely in all these years, and the fierce beasts behind him grabbed trees and stubborn stones from time to time and threw them at Shi Xuan, and Shi Xuan avoided them several times.

When he arrived at a flat land, there were no dense woods here, Shi Xuan knew that something was wrong, at this time, the speed of the silverback mandrill increased dramatically, and in a blink of an eye, he came behind him, and roared violently, setting off a huge wave of qi that shook Shi Xuan to the ground, and the low bushes beside him were broken off in large pieces.

Just when the silverback mandrill appreciated Shi Xuan's fear, Shi Xuan took out a simple spirit talisman, which was his third life-saving means, he knew that he was going to die if he didn't use it this time, and at this moment, two strong figures came to both sides of the silverback mandrill.

Shi Xuan saw the turnaround and put away the spirit rune again.

"What a powerful evil spirit, what kind of evil thing has this silverback mandrill provoked?" said the beautiful young woman on the left.

"Be careful, you must not inhale this evil qi, or you will become a bloodthirsty monster," said a handsome eighteen- or nineteen-year-old man on the other side.

Seeing that it was surrounded by two Terran masters, the silverback mandrill abandoned Shi Xuan and began to confront the two most threatening people.

Shi Xuan stood up, dusted off the dirt, and said to the two people: "Please also ask the two senior brothers to kill this fierce beast, the villagers here are about to be killed by it, its evil aura has infected the water source, countless spirit beasts have become violent, they have broken into the village and hurt people", Shi Xuan panted and looked at the two people.

"I can't imagine that a person of the eighth order of the Xuanmai Realm would dare to provoke such a ferocious silverback mandrill, it is really terrifying," the woman said.

"Stand back for now, we'll deal with it," the man said calmly.

Shi Xuan knew that with these two people making a move, he could breathe a sigh of relief, he retreated to the side to watch the battle, and took some elixirs to recover his strength.

"Senior Sister Luo, do it", the man shouted.

Both of them are sword masters, the man is a powerful strength type master, with a unique sword aura of metal, domineering and strong, and the woman is a wind attribute swordsmanship that is smart and elegant.

The two of them cooperate exquisitely, the man's strong strength and the silverback mandrill launched a head-on attack, the woman rolled up countless fierce winds on the field, she is like a flying immortal, the speed is extremely fast, although the silverback mandrill's strength is strong, but it can't create the slightest threat to her.

The man's strong strength gathered a shield formed by sword qi around him, even if the silverback mandrill was strong, it was difficult to break the shield, his heavy sword continued to charge and slash on the field, and the huge sword qi that hit the huge force split the mountain and split the stone, Shi Xuan retreated far away again to avoid being injured by mistake.

The silverback mandrill was passive, at this moment its head was slashed many times by this strong woman in many places, dark red blood flowed all over, its blood was extremely evil, the grass and trees became withered, both of them were shocked, and did not dare to let the blood get on their bodies.

The silverback mandrill began to go berserk, its eyes crimson, and its furious power set off countless powerful shockwaves, both of them were swept away by powerful qi waves many times, and large areas of mountains, rocks, plants and trees were destroyed into powder by it.

"Senior sister, it's dying, at the end of the strong crossbow, let's finish it together", the man got up from the ground and shot out a huge golden-colored sword shadow again, this sword hit a terrifying power, the huge golden-colored sword shadow directly penetrated its chest, a large pool of dark red blood spurted, and the man quickly dodged.

His junior sister took the opportunity to ride the wind, and in a very short time, she slashed out dozens of swords, and the terrifying Qingfeng sword qi broke through the head of the silverback mandrill.

At this moment, Shi Xuan saw that the evil aura in the silverback mandrill's body seemed to be about to burst out, Shi Xuan's whole body emitted firelight, ready to deal with it at any time, a huge flame giant hand was formed, ready to shoot at any time.

The silverback mandrill was bleeding profusely, losing so much blood that its crimson eyes finally dissipated and fell in a pool of blood.

Both of them looked at the silverback mandrill that fell to the ground with a sigh of relief, they thought it was dead, and the man split its body with a sword, ready to dig up the spirit core, at this moment, an evil spirit flew towards the woman, full of evil aura, trying to engulf the woman.

"Senior Sister Luo, be careful", the man was taken aback, and the woman panicked, it was so fast that she could barely defend against it.

At this moment, Shi Xuan's flame giant hand instantly grabbed the evil creature, and a terrifying scream erupted for a while, Shi Xuan grabbed the evil soul to his side and launched a huge flame calcination.

But the power of the evil soul is so great that he is about to break free from the restraints, at this time the man reacted, he injected his strong aura into Shi Xuan's fist, Shi Xuan gained great power, and directly calcined the evil soul to death until it was wiped out.