25: Chapter 25 So, how do you suggest we divide it?

Jiang Lan opened the "Profound Rock Sacred Body Art" and began practicing from the "Qi Refining Chapter".

The "Profound Rock Sacred Body Art" was a Heaven Rank earth-element body technique. It was a Cultivation Technique created by fusing one's own earth Spiritual Qi with the Profound Spirit body technique, and only Cultivators with Earth Spiritual Roots could Cultivate it!

Jiang Lan had Five Spirit Roots, so naturally, he could Cultivate it!

The greatest characteristic of this Cultivation Technique was that its force was very fierce, one could say extremely fierce! The instant he threw a punch, his fist would suddenly transform into a thousand-ton giant rock, smashing out fiercely; generally, it could smash a Cultivator of the same level into a pulp with a single punch!

However, the punching speed was a bit slow, and it was quite demanding on Earth Spiritual Qi.

But for Jiang Lan, it was fine; after all, he had the "Ten Thousand Mile Boots" and the "Heavenly Demon Spirit Helmet," which could just happen to compensate for the shortcomings of this Cultivation Technique!

Jiang Lan began to study the "Profound Rock Sacred Body Art" within the "Supreme Qi Gathering Formation".

After starting to practice the "Profound Rock Sacred Body Art," Jiang Lan finally realized how Heaven-Defying the "Ancient Desolate Sacred Body" was!

First, his cultivation talent was extremely high; he could learn any Move to extreme proficiency after practicing it just once!

Second, his Physique was particularly formidable; with the same Move, a punch thrown by the "Ancient Desolate Sacred Body" had ten to fifty times the power of a normal Body Cultivator!

Jiang Lan only used three hours to Cultivate the "Profound Rock Sacred Body Art" to the "Qi Refining Sixth Layer"!

The "Ancient Desolate Sacred Body" could be said to be born for battle; it was a true Battle Sacred Body.

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Of course, not everyone was a bully; there were also Cultivators who knew there was a tiger in the mountain, yet chose to head toward the tiger mountain! They lived by the motto: the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish!

Just as Jiang Lan had swallowed a "supreme grade qi gathering pill" and began to concentrate on his cultivation, three red dots suddenly flew toward Jiang Lan at high speed from 2,000 miles away.

Two "Qi Refining Level Twelve" Cultivators and one "Qi Refining Eleventh Layer" Cultivator; but what was quite strange was that all three were "No Sect"!

That's not right?

Everyone who could enter the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm" was a Cultivator from the Nine Sects and Eighteen Schools, or at the very least, from a small affiliated Sect of the Nine Sects and Eighteen Schools; how could they be "No Sect"?

Looking again at the blood-colored numbers jumping above their heads, "34", "32", "26".

"Hiss~" Jiang Lan gasped!

That meant the three of them had killed a total of ninety-two Cultivators!

Added together, they had actually killed thirty-five more people than he had!

The problem was, Jiang Lan was well aware of how much "padding" there was in his own kill count.

In reality, it was "White Leaf Sky" who helped him kill them, and it required "Sun Qichao" to be very cooperative in gathering the people together.

The three people coming this time were truly ruthless; it was obvious they were coming to kill him. As long as they killed him, it would be equivalent to dropping the equipment, Magic Treasures, Cultivation Techniques, and Talismanic Incantations of fifty-seven people!

The three people flying over were none other than the "Gao Family Three Siblings" who were born and raised in "Cloud Peak City": "Boss Gao", "Gao Second Brother", and "Gao Third Sister".

The three of them had lost their parents at a young age, and they all relied on "Boss Gao" selling fish to support the three siblings.

Ten years ago, suddenly one day, an old Daoist who was heavily injured and being chased by enemies escaped to "Cloud Peak City" and was coincidentally rescued by "Boss Gao" and brought home.

After the old Daoist was unconscious in the Gao home for three days, he finally passed away with regret.

The "Gao Family Three Siblings" bought a coffin and buried the old Daoist.

Later, when the three siblings were organizing the old Daoist's belongings, they discovered a book, "Qi Refining Twelve Chapters," and twenty "Low-Grade Spirit Stone"s.

Just like that, the "Gao Family Three Siblings" stumbled into the great Dao of cultivation.

The Spiritual Roots of the three siblings were also quite Heaven-Defying; "Boss Gao" had a Single Metal Spiritual Root, "Gao Second Brother" had a Single Earth Spiritual Root, and "Gao Third Sister" had a Single Water Spiritual Root.

In just ten years, the "Gao Family Three Siblings" grew from former fishmongers to high-level members of the "Cloud Wandering Pavilion" of Loose Cultivators; ordinary small Sects would have to give them some face when they saw them!

"Boss Gao" was originally a fishmonger, always adhering to the principle of "the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish."

This time, the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm" opened early, and the "Gao Family Three Siblings" had received the news in advance; somehow, they managed to find a way to sneak into the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm."

In the past, the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm" only had 100 spots, so the "Gao Family Three Siblings" definitely wouldn't have been able to get in, but this time the quota was opened up, and ten thousand people entered at once; fishing in troubled waters was, for the "Gao Family Three Siblings," just two words: "Professional"!

After the "Gao Family Three Siblings" entered the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm," they originally only killed some Cultivators from small Sects who were alone.

But the "Ancient Desolate Secret Realm" suddenly underwent strange changes, battles were happening everywhere, and Cultivators were dying miserably at every moment. The "Gao Family Three Siblings" simply let go of all restraint and began a massive slaughter, taking this opportunity to snatch up enough resources to reach the "Nascent Infant Realm"!

The "Gao Family Three Siblings" currently each had at least twenty-plus Spirit Storage Bags hanging on them; the three of them were laughing wildly, their mouths stretched wide, revealing rows of stark white teeth.

The "Gao Family Three Siblings" now had increasingly larger appetites; they no longer cared for lone Sect Cultivators, so they set their sights on Jiang Lan!

"Boom!" A muffled sound exploded from within Jiang Lan's body. Jiang Lan finally broke through to the "Qi Refinement Stage" Seventh Layer before the "Gao Family Three Siblings" arrived!

Jiang Lan reached out his hand and stroked the cold little head of the "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox" curled up on his shoulder.

The "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox" obediently rubbed its little head against Jiang Lan's hand, then stretched out its cold little tongue to lick Jiang Lan's cheek!

"Giggle… Alright, that tickles…"

The "Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation" was indeed Heaven-Defying; in just one day, the "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox" had actually cultivated to the "Qi Refinement Stage" Eleventh Layer!

The "Gao Family Three Siblings" began to execute their Move while still hundreds of miles away from Jiang Lan!

A gust of cold, sinister wind blew past, causing Jiang Lan's long hair to flutter in the wind, and his robes were whipped up by the sinister wind!

Jiang Lan was instantly struck by an illusion, and his entire person was pulled into a vast, white world; there was no sound, no wind, no sun—in short, there was nothing, only endless rolling white mist that drowned him completely!

Feelings of despair, suffocation, and fear took turns playing out in Jiang Lan's heart!

Suddenly!

The "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox"'s palm-sized body suddenly lit up with a blue halo, shooting out a beam of blue light that fiercely pierced into the center of Jiang Lan's brow, instantly pulling Jiang Lan back from the vast, white illusion!

The "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox" was inherently a charm-type Divine Beast, and illusion techniques were its innate ability.

For the "Gao Family Three Siblings" to use an illusion technique, in the eyes of the "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox," it was indeed a bit like "wielding a broadsword in front of Guan Yu."

"Big Brother! This kid has already fallen for my illusion technique!"

Three figures slowly walked out from the darkness.

One figure at first glance looked like a middle-aged laborer, about forty years old, with slightly graying hair; it was "Boss Gao."

Another figure was dressed extremely cleanly, even to the point of being a germaphobe; dressed in white, holding a folding fan, spotless, it was "Gao Second Brother."

The last figure was a "Young Maiden," wearing a pink cheongsam; the two pink, tender peaks on her chest and her slightly upturned, perky buttocks stretched the pink cheongsam into a large S-shape, as if it were about to burst open the next second! It was "Gao Third Sister"!

The three of them didn't look much like three siblings at all, but they all had one common characteristic!

That's right, it was an extremely heavy Killing Intent!

The kind of baleful aura that only forms after killing enough people!

"Big Brother, Second Brother, after we kill this person in front of us, I only want the "Little Ice Fox" beside him; the rest belongs to you all!"

Normally, the "Gao Family Three Siblings" would first use an illusion to trap the enemy, then immediately unleash their strongest killing Move to execute them!

Then, the equipment, Magic Treasures, Talismanic Incantations, and Medicinal Pill that dropped would be split equally among the three!

But after killing Jiang Lan, there would definitely be a huge drop; the fox Spirit Beast alone was estimated by them to be worth at least 3 million "Spirit Stone"s, and there was also a set of High Grade equipment, and even the Heaven-Defying "Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation," so the three of them had to negotiate how to split the loot before taking action.

"Third Sister! This fox is clearly at least a High Grade Spirit Beast; even if we sell it to the "Myriad Beast Sect" for breeding, it could sell for at least 5 million "Spirit Stone"s; stop dreaming!"

"Second Brother! Then how do you suggest we split it?"

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The sound of the three arguing suddenly exploded, and before long, they were actually wrestling with each other!

'I'm not even dead yet, and you three siblings have already started splitting the loot?'

Jiang Lan watched the "Gao Family Three Siblings" before him, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly, his iron fists clenched, making a cracking sound.

The "Nine-Tailed Ice Fox" clenched its little fists tightly, its teeth gnashing; they actually wanted to sell this Divine Beast to the "Myriad Beast Sect" as a breeding pig?

"Big Brother! I've discovered a problem; this kid doesn't seem to have fallen for the illusion technique!"