43: Encountering the Fifth on the List of Prodigies

Your Way of Xuanhuang is vast and boundless, encompassing all phenomena; thus, your Indestructible Xuanhuang Dao Physique is also incredibly formidable.

Now, you can easily fly, burrow, move mountains, and drain seas relying solely on your Physical Body. Even without using Dharma Power or your Primordial Spirit, an ordinary First Tribulation Primordial Spirit Realm expert is no match for you.

Moreover, with the Indestructible Xuanhuang Dao Physique, the indestructible properties of your Physical Body are not much weaker than those of pure-blooded Demons; now, even a Martial Saint cannot destroy your Physical Body.

You feel that your Dao Physique is far stronger than the Physiques inherited by those top-tier forces.

It is a pity that you have not yet figured out how to brand runes onto your Primordial Spirit; otherwise, you would not need to eat beef now.

However, you are also curious whether, if someone were to destroy your Primordial Spirit and cause your consciousness to dissipate, your Physical Body would give birth to a new consciousness just like a Demon.

To test this, you summoned the nearest xuanhuang dao soldiers and began to upgrade them, but unfortunately, things did not proceed smoothly.

Because unlike simple indestructible runes, it is ownerless—at least in your view, the runes inside Demons currently lack vitality and only perform basic functions.

However, the runes condensed by your Way of Xuanhuang are full of vitality because you, the master of the Way of Xuanhuang, are still alive.

The runes transformed by your Way of Xuanhuang would cause immense pressure on the Physical Body of anyone other than you.

Therefore, the physical bodies of the xuanhuang dao soldiers simply could not withstand the Xuanhuang runes.

You had no choice but to helplessly abandon your idea, merely spending some time to summon your dao soldiers back in batches to perfect the existing indestructible runes within them.

At 32 years old, your Divine Thought coverage reached a radius of 1,200 li, and at this time, the number of Divided Souls you have split off has also increased, reaching 4,500.

This means you can have another 1,500 dao soldiers, and it also means your rate of improvement is still slowly accelerating.

After more than five years of recuperation, the Great Qian Dynasty has fully recovered from that Demon turmoil.

And perhaps because many corrupt officials and officials who colluded with Demons were killed, the lives of the common people are now even better than they were before the Demon turmoil.

And the Seventh Prince, who became the Crown Prince in these few years, has also done many things beneficial to the common people of the world, accumulating a great deal of prestige among the populace.

Even this year, this Crown Prince actually apprenticed under Ancestor Tianji, becoming a True Disciple of Ancestor Tianji.

With the support of Ancestor Tianji, who is second on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, the Seventh Prince's position as Crown Prince has become very stable.

At 33 years old, your dao soldiers in Guzhou encountered someone blocking their path on their way to find people to fight.

This person is named Jin Xiangtian.

Jin Xiangtian, the head True Disciple of the Dragon Elephant Sect, is ranked fifth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, and Guzhou is the territory of the Dragon Elephant Sect.

He Cultivates the core Cultivation Technique of the Dragon Elephant Sect, the Dragon Elephant Divine Power Method; among water-based elements, dragon power is the strongest, and among land-based elements, elephant power is the fiercest. The convergence of dragon and elephant achieves Divine Power.

Cultivating the Dragon Elephant Divine Power Method not only results in a tough body but also confers Dragon Elephant Divine Power. The True Qi, True Yuan, and even Dharma Power cultivated can be amplified onto the Physical Body to the greatest extent; therefore, people of the Dragon Elephant Sect are all skilled in close-quarters hand-to-hand combat.

Being on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking means that Jin Xiangtian's Realm is the Innate Realm, and he is a peerless Prodigy within the Innate Realm.

Since your Transmigration, you have not truly encountered anyone on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking; now, upon the first encounter, you have met the fifth on the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking.

You became interested in Jin Xiangtian. Since he is a Prodigy, his insights into Cultivation must surely provide more inspiration than those of ordinary people; you decided to let your dao soldiers test the methods of this top-tier force's Prodigy.

On the other side, Jin Xiangtian looked at your three dao soldiers and thought, "Finally found them."

That's right, Jin Xiangtian came specifically to find your dao soldiers; his biggest hobby is fighting with people.

In a battle, he heard those people say that a group of strange Innate Realm experts had appeared in Guzhou, going everywhere looking for duels, and they were always in groups of three and loved hand-to-hand combat. To facilitate hand-to-hand combat, they even used a method to restrict the flying ability of Innate Realm Martial Artists.

Upon hearing this, Jin Xiangtian developed a strong interest in your dao soldiers. Because of his Cultivation Technique, he also likes hand-to-hand combat, so he wanted to find your dao soldiers to have a fight, and finally, today, he blocked your dao soldiers.

Seeing an Innate Realm Martial Artist delivering himself to be beaten, your dao soldiers did not hesitate and attacked Jin Xiangtian directly.

Jin Xiangtian felt the dao soldiers' method of attack and discovered there was no fluctuation of True Yuan, but purely physical force; he was very excited, as he loved hand-to-hand combat the most.

Therefore, he did not use True Yuan either, but flexed his muscles, bursting his shirt, and charged towards your dao soldiers with a confident face.

You used your Divided Soul to watch this battle up close, just when you thought that Jin Xiangtian was truly worthy of being the head Disciple of the Dragon Elephant Sect, being able to fight your xuanhuang dao soldiers relying solely on his Physical Body.

The result was unexpected; to sum it up: Jin Xiangtian charged, and Jin Xiangtian fell.

His attacks without True Yuan amplification could not cause the slightest damage to your dao soldiers, while your dao soldiers surrounded him and gave him a group kicking, finally kicking him a hundred meters away.

Of course, your dao soldiers did not use heavy hands; other than being covered in shoe prints, Jin Xiangtian did not suffer any injuries.

The whole process left you speechless; looking at his confident appearance, you thought his Physical Body was how strong, but it turned out to be just this?

Jin Xiangtian, climbing up from the ground, also knew that he had just embarrassed himself greatly; realizing that his Physical Body was far inferior, he honestly used his True Yuan.

As he activated the Dragon Elephant Divine Power Method, the shoe prints on his body disappeared, and then the phantom images of a Dragon and an Elephant manifested behind him.

Then the two intertwined and hissed, transforming into two Dragon-Elephant totems imprinted on his chest and back.

As the totems were imprinted, ancient Dragon-Elephant patterns emerged on his skin surface like living creatures, first as faint golden thin lines, then quickly solidifying, transforming into knotted dragon scales and elephant patterns that covered his entire body.

You watched this scene and sighed that it is indeed different with a tattoo; his aura is now much stronger than before.