5: Chapter 5 First Kill

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"The other Chosen Ones have all started moving, why is this guy just standing there stupidly?"

"It's over, it's over! One step slow, every step slow. He's going to fall far behind!"

"Junior Brother is using his Spiritual Sense to scout the terrain. With his cultivation and Heart-Nature, his detection range is at least several dozen miles radius." Well, Senior Brother couldn't stand watching people slander his Junior Brother either.

"Spiritual Sense? He really is cultivating immortality? Are web novels true? Is the country cultivating immortality behind our backs? Am I the only one kept in the dark?"

"Shut your mouth! In this Age of End Law, Spiritual Qi is thin. Unless you're a Genius, even if you were given a Cultivation Technique, you wouldn't understand it." Second Senior Brother couldn't hold back his fiery temper either and snapped back.

"I wouldn't understand an immortality Cultivation Technique even if I was given one? This reminds me of some heavenly mechanics manuscript."

"Seriously, I wouldn't understand it either even if given to me. Sorry, I'm trash."

"..." Sister Qing looked at everyone's silly bullet comments, her lips twitching uncontrollably.

—National Destiny Space

Ye Qingxuan didn't know about the bullet comments in the live stream. Fixing his eyes on his target, he stepped forward, turning into a gust of clear breeze and flying toward the ore vein. Although the Foundation Establishment Stage allows one to fly by manipulating objects...

...this place was completely unfamiliar to him. If there were any powerful demons or Demonic Beasts, he might get killed as soon as he landed. It was better to play it safe: traveling by transforming into wind saved effort and was low-profile.

Moreover, although the Spiritual Qi in this world was much richer than Blue Star's, it was enough to break through to the Golden Core Stage. However, Daoist Ye was an undocumented person sent in by the National Destiny Game.

Although he didn't know if he had secret heavenly concealment on him, undergoing the Golden Core Tribulation here would be equivalent to launching an ultimate move right in the face of the other world's Heavenly Dao. He didn't want to be struck by heavenly punishment.

Before figuring things out, it was better to play it safe. Just as his Master said: if you can win, fight; if you can't, run.

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"Holy crap, this... transforming into a clear breeze? Are you sure it's not special effects?"

"To the guy above, if you concentrate, you can watch it immersively! Special effects? Fuck, he really is cultivating immortality! Mom, I want to learn this too!!"

"This group of Daoists keeps telling people to believe in science, yet they themselves transform into wind and fly?"

"According to experts earlier, we're currently in the Age of End Law, where only Geniuses can Cultivate immortality. A bullet comment earlier said this Daoist is the number one Genius, so it seems our China is in safe hands."

"I just went to check the Chosen Ones from other countries. Japan's is a ninja, the United States' seems to be a gene-enhanced human, and Britain's is a blonde beauty. None of them are ordinary people."

"This National Destiny Space doesn't seem to select people randomly; none are ordinary. At worst, even small countries have special forces kings and such."

"Daoist Qingxuan's Wind-Walking Technique has progressed even further. There's no trace of spellcasting at all, truly completely natural."

"Brother Qingxuan is even more amazing than before. If only he could teach me... [fangirl face]"

"You from Yaowang Valley, can you stop being such a fangirl? You've only met my Junior Brother three times, and aren't you older than him?" Sister Qingling couldn't hold it in.

"Brother Qingxuan is so amazing, what's wrong with me admiring him? Are you jealous? ←_←"

"Hmph, my Junior Brother grew up under my eyes, what would I be jealous of? Fangirl, my Junior Brother doesn't teach fools!"

Yaowang Valley, Sichuan Province

"Damned old woman, what's wrong with me admiring Brother Qingxuan? Did I offend you? Hmph, menopausal."

"However, Brother Qingxuan, I admire you even more now! I'm going to Cultivate too, setting a goal first to surpass that old woman."

Lin Yao ran off to find her Master.

Lin Yao, the youngest disciple of the current Medicine King, was already in her thirties this year but was still like an overgrown child. Standing tall at 1.7 meters with a baby face, her Heart-Nature was also like a child's, and her cultivation was at the Early Stage Foundation Establishment.

Back then, Ye Qingxuan surpassed the older generation at the age of fifteen, becoming famous throughout the cultivation world, after which he descended the mountain to travel and visit various sects.

Lin Yao was defeated by Ye Qingxuan with a single palm strike, and ever since then, she pestered Ye Qingxuan, regarding him as her idol. Meanwhile, Qingling felt like the Junior Brother she raised was being stolen away, so the two were constantly at odds.

In fact, Lin Yao also knew that in this Age of End Law cultivation world, being able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage before thirty could be called a Genius. Then, ten years of hard cultivation to break through to Middle Stage Foundation Establishment...

...another thirty years to break through to Late Stage Foundation Establishment, and in theory another sixty years to reach Foundation Establishment Perfection. This was the normal Cultivation speed for a Genius. There was no helping it; in the Age of End Law, Heaven and Earth's Spiritual Qi was simply too thin.

However, everyone was stuck at Late Stage Foundation Establishment; the only one at Perfection was Ye Qingxuan.

But large sects had Medicinal Pills that could accelerate this process, and Yaowang Valley was a leader among them. Someone like Ye Qingxuan wasn't a Genius; he was a monster, an Immortal Reincarnation—this was universally acknowledged by the whole cultivation world.

—National Destiny Space

Turning to Ye Qingxuan's side, traveling as wind, he arrived at his destination in less than two minutes.

Ye Qingxuan observed his surroundings. This was a large Blood Jade mine with a pretty high yield. Blood Jade was a Low Grade spiritual jade containing a small amount of Spiritual Qi, used as spiritual material for refining Treasure Artifacts and jade talisman Formation Plates.

Furthermore, in the center of the mine, a mass of Spiritual Qi gathered without dispersing. At the spot where the jade mine's Spiritual Qi was richest, a giant snake coiled—likely the guardian beast of the jade mine, or rather, the mine was its territory.

"This snake is over thirty meters long? It even has a fleshy lump on its head, is it about to transform into a Flood Dragon? But why does it feel so weak?"

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"Holy crap, such a huge snake, it could swallow me in one bite!"

"Good lord, look at its head, there's a fleshy lump! Is it about to transform into a Flood Dragon?"

"A snake becomes a python in ten years, a python becomes a boa in a hundred, a boa becomes a Flood Dragon in five hundred, and a Flood Dragon becomes a Hornless Dragon in five hundred. Is the legend true? Is this big snake really about to transform into a Flood Dragon?"

"To the guy above, Cultivators have already appeared and you're still talking about legends? I just want to know when the government will release immortality Cultivation Techniques. Don't let it be that you're all flying on swords while I'm still squeezing onto the bus!"

"Still, such a big snake looks terrifying. Can Brother Daoist win against it?"

"Terrifying my ass! A beast that hasn't even reached Foundation Establishment strength—at most its Physical Body is a bit tough. Even I could split it alive, let alone Junior Brother." This hot-tempered comment was definitely from Second Senior Brother.

—Divider Line for the Big Snake—

"You look pretty intimidating, but your Aura is truly weak, lacking even the most basic hazard perception."

Ye Qingxuan observed for a while. The big snake didn't react at all, confirming that this snake was just a weakling. In the words of the cultivation world, it was at the "Ant Realm", while to this snake, Ye Qingxuan was at the "Senior Realm".

No longer hiding, he directly revealed himself. Perhaps because it was close to transforming into a Flood Dragon, its vision was quite good. Suddenly seeing an intruder appear in its territory, the big snake flew into a rage.

"Siss-roar-roar-roar!"

The big snake coiled its tail and stood its upper body upright, wanting to swallow the intruder before it.

"Quite an imposing Aura, but unfortunately, fierce on the outside and hollow inside."

Ye Qingxuan's figure flashed, appearing atop the big snake's head, standing with hands behind his back. Looking from afar, the image was unimaginably shocking.

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"So cool!!! No wonder cultivating immortality has always been the dream ability of Chinese people. Just listen to Master Daoist's disdainful tone—having real strength truly lets you do whatever you want!"

"Lay practitioner, stop sighing. You can't envy it. Possessing strength without a matching mental state will ultimately leave you controlled by power. Daoist Qingxuan's mental state is already no weaker than those old monsters in secluded cultivation."

"Is the commenter above the one who got beaten up by a monkey?"

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this poor Daoist is not angry, not angry," Zhang Yuzhuo silently recited the Calming Incantation.

"The ox-nostrils from Longhu Mountain just love looking for trouble."

"Amitabha, excellent, excellent. Daoist Yuzhuo, better just watch in peace."

National Destiny Space—

Ye Qingxuan simply stomped his right foot, driving a subtle force down from the big snake's head that instantly shattered all its bones, turning the terrifying, upright snake into a mere crawling worm.

Ye Qingxuan sent out his Spiritual Sense attempting to communicate with the big snake, but: "Although you snake are close to transforming into a Flood Dragon, you're mentally deficient—a pure Vicious Beast with not a shred of spirituality to speak of. How strange."

On Blue Star, let alone a snake close to becoming a Flood Dragon, even a boa possessed the IQ of a five-year-old child. Yet this big snake was a wild beast driven purely by devouring instincts.

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"A snake close to Foundation Establishment strength and almost transforming into a Flood Dragon has no intelligence. It seems the cultivation civilization of that world isn't very high. With Junior Brother's strength, he could probably massacre his way through that world." Second Senior Brother was as reckless as ever.

"Second Senior Brother, shut your mouth! Look what you've turned our fine Junior Brother into! When have you ever seen a Daoist massacre an entire world for no reason? That's called the Demonic Path!"

Sister Qingling quickly refuted, afraid that others would think her Junior Brother was a bloodthirsty killer.

"Third Senior Brother is right!" Very classic Fourth Senior Brother...

"What's wrong with the Demonic Path? The Demonic Path is also part of the Three Thousand Great Daos, recognized even by the Heavenly Dao. Sometime later, Daoist Qingxuan is welcome to visit my Heavenly Demon Palace. This humble girl can explore the Dao of Slaughter together with Daoist Qingxuan, saving certain people from smearing our Demonic Path."

A certain Saintess of the Heavenly Demon Palace who wished to remain anonymous posted a bullet comment.

Miaojiang, Heavenly Demon Palace. An enchanting woman with an angelic face and a devilish figure, dressed in a white shirt and black silk short skirt, looking like an urban white-collar worker, yet emanating a spellbinding Aura that mesmerized all living beings.

She was the current Saintess of the Heavenly Demon Palace, Yun Huan, the number one Genius of the demonic sects who broke through to Foundation Establishment at twenty-two.

Back when Ye Qingxuan traveled the world and visited various sects in the cultivation world of Miaojiang, he encountered this demonic Genius and likewise defeated her with a single palm strike, shattering her pride of over twenty years.

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Ye Qingxuan only felt it was boring. The Demonic Path's number one Genius? Is that it?

Afterward, he left, but this Saintess seemed to have had some strange trait awakened in her. Unsure if she was beaten into submission or what, she stuck to him like a dog-skin plaster.

Wherever Ye Qingxuan walked, she followed, annoying Ye Qingxuan endlessly. Beating her was useless—it only made her happier; killing her was out of the question as it would easily spark a war between the Dao and Demonic Paths. He could only return to the mountain to go into seclusion. If he couldn't afford to provoke her, he could at least hide from her.

Yet this demonic Saintess kept finding all sorts of ways to send Ye Qingxuan messages, gifts, and pay visits in person, making Ye Qingxuan throw away his phone and go straight into deep seclusion.

"Vixen, shut up. Do you have some kind of masochistic tendency? You dead pervert, flirty vixen (angry face)."

Third Senior Brother and Sister Qingling flew into a rage. There was nothing she could do since she really couldn't beat her, because Yun Huan's current cultivation was at the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, which was a bit stronger than her.

The First Senior Brother didn't like fighting, and the Second Senior Brother was a reckless brute. They couldn't let the Junior Brother beat her either, because the more she was beaten, the happier she became. The Fourth Senior Brother? He was a taciturn fellow, so forget about it. Besides, she couldn't outtalk her, so what else could she do?

"Hehehe, I just like the way you despise me yet can't beat me."

"Ordinary people are trembling in fear. How does it feel like the big shots of the Cultivation world are pretty much the same as us?"

"It's right that they're pretty much the same. They're all human; they're just people who are a bit stronger than ordinary people. What else could be different?"

"A bit stronger? More like hundreds of millions stronger! Look at this Daoist Ye. With a gentle stamp of his foot, such a huge snake was directly paralyzed. I'm afraid just a glare from him could stare me to death. How could I not be scared?"

"Amitabha, this benefactor need not fear. In reality, Cultivators like us do not harm ordinary people without reason. As for Fellow Daoist Ye, everyone had better not try to compare with him. Let alone ordinary people, even in the entire Cultivation world, almost no one is his match. When people like us encounter Fellow Daoist Ye, we are pretty much like that snake. A Genius is merely the threshold to see him."

"..." Great Master, after hearing your comfort, I am even more terrified.

At this moment, we turn the camera toward the National Destiny Game.

"I still wanted to ask the local beast for some clues, but whatever. Let's put its waste to use."

As he spoke, he traced with a sword finger, and a flash of Sword Qi swept past. The snake's head flew up, and Ye Qingxuan extended his right hand, circulating his Qi to draw it in. The big snake's blood gushed out like a fountain. In no time, the big snake was drained dry, and its body became completely shriveled.

"Ding! Congratulations to the Hua Chosen One for slaying the Level 4 Vicious Beast, Flood Dragon Snake, occupying its territory's Low Grade Blood Jade vein, and starting to distribute rewards."

All citizens of Hua Country will have their physical fitness improved by 10% (intelligence, strength, stamina, endurance, and recovery ability increased by 10%).

The Dragon Vein's recovery progress increased by 10%.

National Destiny increased by 10%. Effect: All resource production increased by 10%, water quality in some areas purified, and air quality purified."

"Ding! Congratulations to Hua Country for obtaining the Low Grade Blood Jade vein. Beginning 10x synchronization. Ding! Congratulations to Hua Country for obtaining the Medium Grade Blood Jade vein."

Voices echoed continuously in the minds of everyone around the globe.

Everyone who didn't believe in the National Destiny Game finally discovered by now that this was real.

All citizens of Hua Country immediately and clearly felt their physical fitness rapidly improving. In the hospital, many patients directly threw off their blankets and strode swiftly off their hospital beds.

Many patients or elderly people who were on the verge of breathing their last suddenly had their vital signs stabilize. The medical staff didn't even have time to attend to them because they were experiencing the euphoria brought by the improvement in physical fitness, and the exhaustion brought by working overtime rapidly faded away.

At scientific research institutions, Breakthroughs that were originally stuck at a critical node for a long time suddenly saw a flash of inspiration in their minds, and the difficult problems were readily solved.

At this time, the National Destiny Game's rewards were not yet over.

"Ding! First killer, additional reward of 10% physical fitness improvement."

"I am the first person to complete the occupation. With the additional reward, my physical fitness has increased by 20%. Solely in terms of the Physical Body, I am already no less than a Body Cultivator of the Golden Core Stage."

Inside an office on Zijin Mountain,

listening to the secretary reporting the latest situation in Hua Country, the leader leaned back in the chair, feeling the changes in the body. A smile appeared on the face, making the whole person look five or six years younger.

The Second Elder's physical changes were the same, looking much younger. The smile on the face couldn't be hidden no matter what: "According to intelligence reports, before the National Destiny Game started, the number of immigration applications surged, but just moments ago, the number of immigration applications dropped to 0."

The secretary quietly glanced at the two leaders and found that the leader's smile was even more obvious. The secretary said: "So you knew long ago that there would be such a result now. You truly are far-sighted."

"Stop flattering blindly. I'm not a Daoist priest who can predict the future." The leader scolded with a smile:

"Those people's hearts were no longer in Hua Country long ago. Leaving them behind would instead be a hidden danger; it's better to let them leave cleanly. Those who stay behind now are the true descendants of the Dragon."

The Second Elder: "However, we can take this opportunity to clean out those parasites. The preparations made previously are sufficient, and we can close the net."

The leader: "Master Yuanxin said it well. With Little Friend Ye's strength, nothing in the National Destiny Space can stump him. Our Hua Country can ride the wind of this future Immortal and soar into the sky as well. Clean out those parasites; we cannot let them affect our takeoff."

Following that, order after order was issued, and the upper echelons began to churn. Those people who used to throw their weight around were sought out one by one, making the entire upper echelons jittery, but it quickly calmed down.

Let's return to Daoist Ye here. Daoist Ye began doing Alchemy.

Looking at the huge ball of snake blood suspended in the air by spiritual power—weighing a full five to six tons—he could use this snake blood for Alchemy to make a blood qi pill. Its effect was to increase blood qi and enhance the strength of the Physical Body. Immediately taking heaven and earth as the furnace, spiritual power as the catalyst, and essence, Qi, and spirit as firewood, he ignited the true fire.

Scorching this massive ball of snake blood, he turned around, casually swiped and guided, using spiritual power to extract the snake's gallbladder. Watching the Impurities in the snake blood rapidly vanish under the scorching of the true fire, leaving only the essence of blood qi, a thought flashed through his mind as a sky full of Sword Qi danced, separating the big snake's skin, flesh, and bones—what a slaughterhouse scene.

Watching five or six tons of snake blood being burned by the true fire until only a fist-sized essence of blood qi remained,

Ye Qingxuan took out medicinal herbs like ginseng and astragalus from the Storage Pouch that replenished blood qi, scorched them with true fire, and extracted their essence. Looking at the snake gallbladder before him, he threw it directly into the true fire.

Ye Qingxuan formed hand incantations with his fingers, casting the pill-condensing hand seal. The three Materials merged into one, followed by quickly executing the pill-retrieving seal. The ball of liquid in the air separated, successfully forming 72 Medicinal Pills. Daoist Ye hurriedly took out a jade bottle to pack them away.

Pouring out one, the medicinal pellet was the size of a dragon's eye. Looking at its texture, it was like Blood Jade, and blood seemed to swim within the Medicinal Pill, with three medicinal patterns emerging on its surface.

"Even ordinary blood qi pills can be refined to produce medicinal patterns. It looks pretty good. What name should I give it? Three-pattern blood qi pill? Forget it, let's just call it blood qi pill."

Saying this, he swallowed one directly, sat cross-legged, and carefully felt the effect of the Medicinal Pill. The spiritual power inside his body circulated, and the Medicinal Pill was completely digested. Feeling the degree of his body's improvement, his strength had increased by over a thousand catties.

"It probably increased by the strength of one ding. Only the first one is effective; the second one's efficacy is halved, and the third one is directly useless, only capable of replenishing stamina. It can barely be considered a Low Grade Spirit Pill."

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"Daoist Ye is awesome! Waving his hand to slay a snake flood dragon, and even doing Alchemy in the Void Realm. The Medicinal Pill even has medicinal patterns—is this the top-grade Medicinal Pill mentioned in novels?"

"Daoist Ye is too strong, waving his hand to complete the mission. This reward is outrageous, with a 10% overall physical improvement. My grandma was almost on her last breath, but once the reward was issued, she got straight up from the bed and hoed two mu of land. Thank you, Daoist Ye (kowtow)."

"Indeed, this physical fitness improvement is too great. Now my wife looks at me with a completely different gaze."

"The poster above is acting suspicious."

"Poster above +1"

"Poster above +2"

"Daoist Ye, my friend wants to ask what effects the pills refined from that big snake have."

"Poster above, there's no one else here, just say it directly."

"Conjuring a friend out of thin air, huh."

"Didn't the Junior Brother say so? What was refined using the snake blood and snake gallbladder are pills that replenish blood qi. Blood qi is strength. As for one ding, according to the current calculation, it's a little over a thousand catties." The Third Senior Brother's commentary is never late.

"Isn't that half a ton? Doesn't that mean a single Medicinal Pill could turn me into a weightlifting champion?"

"A champion, my foot! Poster above, ever since the National Destiny Space opened, all competitive sports have been completely suspended. You can only collect your championship in your dreams."

"The poster above is right. With the National Destiny rewards, sports competition is no longer fair. The citizens of big countries will grow stronger and stronger, while small countries can only be left further and further behind."

"Speaking of which, is it still too late for me to go to a Daoist temple and take a Master? Immortal cultivation is real, I want to Cultivate too!"

"Poster above, you're saying this too late. The official authorities issued an announcement long ago forbidding anyone from disturbing the Daoists' quiet cultivation, and the Daoists all talk about fate when accepting disciples and passing down spells. If you really want to Cultivate, go join the army!"

"Poster above, does that mean our mother has a Cultivation Technique?"

"Go check the official announcement yourself."

"Brothers and sisters, go quickly and look at our mom acting up again! Go look!"