Chapter Thirty-Five: The Firewheel is Complete, A Hundred Thousand Pounds of Force

  Linwan City South, Qimen Daochang.

  "A few days ago, I sent someone to Huoyun Island to ask for an explanation. How did it go?" asked the master of Qimen, stroking his white beard.

  Qī Hóng sighed and said, "The people of Huǒyún Daochang will naturally deny it in every way. This kind of dirty trick, once admitted, would make them lose their argument and damage their reputation. So, the people of Huǒyún Daochang insisted that they had nothing to do with it, saying that Sòng Rén Yùn was just unlucky and encountered a strange beast."

  "So, you think it's the black hand under Huoyun Daochang?" The eyes of Qi Mengmen's master flashed with a hint of sharpness.

  "We got this news from Xu Yang, and it's the only possible explanation! Song Ren is a steady and down-to-earth person who would never deviate from the path of ascetic practice. That road was paved with the blood and sacrifice of over a dozen Xuan Masters from our sect over several decades, and there has never been an incident where a monster harmed anyone. It's basically safe. So the most likely possibility is that it was done by the black hand of Huoyun Daochang."

  Qimen's master nodded slowly: "As far as I know, Huoyun Daochang's ascetic team this time has sent out three Xuan Shi, which is not in line with common sense. It seems that this matter is 80% to 90% their doing, humph, do they really think Qimen has no one?"

  "What should we do, Father?" Qi Hong asked.

  "Send someone to the City Master's Mansion and request a public notice!" The master of the Qi Gate's eyes sparkled with sharpness, "I want to have a decisive battle with Huoyun Daochang on the drum tower in the north of the city, to settle the grudges between our two Daoist schools once and for all!"

  Qī Hóng's face lit up with excitement, his father had reached the pinnacle of Xuan Shi many years ago, and was stronger than Huǒ Yún, the master of Huǒ Yún Arena in his later years. This time, on the dueling platform, Qī Mén would surely emerge victorious.

  The northern city's dueling arena is a rule set by Lin Yuanjun, as he did not want to see a chaotic territory, so he prohibited large-scale armed fights and also did not allow private killings. However, there were always grudges to be settled between various forces, so Lin Yuanjun learned from other cities and established the rules for settling scores in the dueling arena.

  Like Qi Men and Huo Yun's grudge, it can be settled on the dueling platform, where the loser will pay a heavy price.

  "My son will go and take care of it." Qi Hong turned around and left.

  Just out of the door, I met my younger sister Qi Xiu.

  "What's wrong?" Qi Hong asked, seeing Qi Xiu spinning around in circles.

  "Brother..." Qi Xiu had always been a bit afraid of this brother, and asked in a low voice, "Where are you going?"

  "Go to the city master's mansion, Father has an urgent matter." Qi Hong raised his foot and was about to leave, towards this younger sister, he had always been emotionally distant.

  "Big brother!" Qi Xiu hastily called out to him, "About Shi Liang's matter..."

  "I don't have time for this," Qi Hong said somewhat impatiently. "Isn't it just a matter of capturing a Xuanwu disciple and interrogating him? Why bother me with such trivial matters?"

  This remark hit Qi Xiu right in the heart, and she hastily said: "Such a trivial matter, I don't dare to trouble Big Brother, let's just have Little Sister take care of it."

  Qī Hóng nodded slightly, indicating his agreement. He took out a silver token and said: "With this token, you can command any of the Daoist priests in the Dao field. Remember, do not abuse it." Then he hastily left.

  Qī Xiù's face revealed a triumphant and sinister smile, his heart seething with malice as he thought: "Xǔ Yáng, I'll see how you die!"

  At this time, Xu Yang had already carried a simple leather bag and once again entered the Giant Python Mountain Range.

  With the map obtained from Master Song Ren in hand, Xu Yangqi used "Bao Ma Shi", his feet as swift as wind, and rushed forward at high speed.

  "My speed has increased a lot compared to when I returned to Lin Yuan City from the Giant Python Mountains," Xun Yang said, unknowingly arriving at the valley where he had fought Hong Xi before. The clothes were still intact, and the blurry Fire Cloud Sect emblem could still be recognized. "Now, even if Hong Xi were to come back to life, I would have the confidence to contend with him."

  Recalling the thrilling battle at the beginning, the kind of hair-raising and desperate struggle for survival, Xu Yang's heart was surging. He sighed slightly and then headed straight into the deeper part of the Giant Python Mountain Range.

  After another half day's walk, the trees became more and more luxuriant, and the mountain range rose and fell greatly. Easily, Xu Yang found a naturally generated cave.

  "This place is undisturbed, it's a treasure land for cultivation." Xu Yang threw stones to ask the way, confirmed that there were no wild beasts in the cave, and walked in to start investigating.

  The cave was relatively high and dry, with a layer of soft sandy soil on the ground, and there were animal footprints. Xu Yang identified them for a moment and found that they were all small animal tracks, so he put down his mind and put down his luggage.

  Walking out of the cave again, Xu Yang found a boulder that was as tall as two people and weighed about 50 kilograms, or 1,500 pounds! He wrapped his hands around the crevices on the stone, took a deep breath, and lifted this massive boulder.

  If this scene were seen by others, it would definitely evoke an exclamation. The realm of the mysterious and unfathomable, actually has such power, can only be described with the four words "heavenly innate strength".

  With this huge stone blocking the entrance, Xu Yang looked at the cave that had completely darkened and patted his hands in satisfaction. Now, he finally didn't have to worry about being disturbed and could wholeheartedly impact the Xuan Shi boundary.

  Xu Yang ate a piece of dry rations and drank several mouthfuls of clear water before starting to adjust his breath.

  After the appraisal meeting, Xu Yang practiced day and night, and had already cultivated the other seven extreme Xuan abilities to the peak of Xuantu, and in terms of size in the starry sky, it was similar to Huo's extreme Xuan ability.

  Xu Yang's inner vision of the starry sea, now the starry sea is even more vast and wide compared to when he first reached the peak of Xuantu, with eight strands of mysterious energy, clear and distinct, not interfering with each other, slowly rotating on their own, already showing some signs of transforming the void into reality, condensing vortex wheels.

  Now Xu Yang's task is to utilize the treasure, fill up each group of mysterious energy with aura, accelerate rotation and condense into a whirlpool! Only by forming a whirlpool can one produce mysterious power, which will be endless.

  "Let's start with the Fire Extreme Xuan Wheel then." Xu Yang finished adjusting his breath, took out two scarlet-red fire Xuan crystals refined from the leather pouch, held one in each hand, closed his eyes and absorbed the Xuan energy.

  In an instant, two massive Huo Xuan energies, one on the left and one on the right, surged in from the Huo Ji Xuan Mai points on his arms, as if two fiery lines had pierced into his body. Xu Yang's body involuntarily shuddered.

  Like this direct extraction of the treasure's mysterious energy, it is much faster than absorbing from the heavens and earth. Under Xu Yang's inner sight, he discovered that in the Star Ocean, that fiery red fire mysterious energy was rapidly increasing its rotational speed, and under the continuous injection of external mysterious energy, it began to rapidly expand.

  Transforming the void into reality, the first step is to inject and expand, allowing the mysterious energy to fill the entire starry sea.

  Under the increasingly powerful coercion of Huo Xuan's energy, the other seven polar energies all rapidly contracted, until in the end some were even microscopic and imperceptible.

  Xu Yang exerted his utmost control, keeping the seven shrunk-down Extreme Void energies docile and still in the Star Ocean. Xu Yang chose to let all eight Extreme Void energies reach the peak of the Profound Void, then condense into a vortex, with this intention in mind. If the other seven Extreme Void energies were too weak, when condensing the Fire Extreme Vortex, these seven Extreme Void energies would even be forced out of his body, and from then on Xu Yang would become a thorough single-pole Extreme Void cultivator, naturally failing to cultivate the Profound Heaven Eight Sceneries Scripture. This was something Xu Yang did not want to see.

  Huò Xuán's energy had expanded to its extreme, almost occupying the entire Star Ocean.

  "Now, it's time for the second step, compression!"

  In both hands, two Fire Crystal Essences had shrunk down to the size of grains of rice, leaving behind only two specks of residue.

  The extremely swollen Huo Xuan energy, the speed of rotation is getting faster and faster, but as it rotates, its huge volume is constantly shrinking. The gaseous Huo Xuan mist is subjected to invisible pressure, with a density that is getting bigger and bigger, and its volume is also changing smaller and smaller.

  Xu Yang's forehead broke out in fine beads of sweat as he excitedly discovered that amidst the flames, tiny "water droplets" were gradually appearing.

  This is a harbinger of success, turning the virtual into reality, condensing the vortex, and turning the gaseous mysterious energy mist into liquid, forming a **vortex.

  Small "water droplets" kept colliding and swallowing each other, gradually forming a cluster of bright red **, while the surrounding Huo Xuan energy mist also rapidly dissipated.

  Deep red, under the effect of rapid rotation, was involuntarily drawn into the center of the whirlpool.

  "Right now, turn for me!" Xu Yang let out a low growl in his heart, he made great efforts to urge on this mass of crimson red **, rotating along with the swirling vortex.

  This was after all the Xuan energy that Xu Yang had cultivated himself, although it had transformed into a liquid state, but in the dark there was still a thread of connection with Xu Yang, and under the urging of Xu Yang's heart, it began to slowly rotate.

  With a loud rumble, the liquid Xuan energy was finally activated, rapidly rotating and swiftly devouring the gaseous Huo Xuan mist in the starry sea, expanding itself.

  "Finally succeeded......" Xǔ Yáng opened his eyes, spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and jumped up. He felt refreshed and light, and with one jump, his head almost hit the top of the cave.

  Xu Yang once again looked inward at the starry sea, now the other seven polar Xuan energies had returned to their normal size, only the liquid fire polar Xuan energy was constantly rotating, threads of fire polar Xuan power flowing through the body's fire polar Xuan veins.

  "The newly born Xuanli is improving my physical body..." Xu Yang felt a slight tingling sensation, which was his skeleton becoming more robust and his flesh more compact.

  With a light swing of his fist, a burst of energy was brought forth, and Xu Yang had a feeling that once he stabilized the initial stage of Huo Xuan's realm, his physical strength would undergo a leap, possibly reaching the level of a hundred jin.

  Pure physical strength reaching 100,000 jin of power, even the top Xuanwu masters in this era find it difficult to achieve. If Xu Yang's Eight Extreme Xuan Wheel is fully cultivated, under the tempering of his body, his strength will increase to what extent, truly unimaginable.

  However, Xu Yang also understood that this was the first wheel of Xuanli to improve his physique, and the improvement amplitude was the largest. Later, other Xuan wheels were successively cultivated, and when they were tempered again, the improvement amplitude would not be so high.

  "Huo Ji's initial realm is most suitable for condensing other mysterious wheels." Xu Yang knew that time was pressing, so he ate some dry rations and took out the feathered snake's shed skin from his leather pouch to prepare for condensing the Lei Xuan vortex wheel.

  This is the best quality among all treasures, the foundation of the mysterious base treasure. The feathered serpent is a spirit born from heaven and earth, an embodiment of thunder's anger. A grown-up feathered serpent, even the mysterious emperor dares not confront it head-on.

  Although this treasure is just a shed snakeskin, it's not something to be taken lightly.