Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 521: Chapter 521: I’m Furious! I’m Faking It.

Xu Yunfan would never believe there wasn’t a hidden hand at play. In all likelihood, a True Monarch had secretly intervened.

There were only so many Golden Core Fruit Positions in the world. The Celestial Spirits and Earthly Fiends totaled one hundred and eight paths. After accounting for the dozen or so True Monarchs from the world’s Three Sects, the remaining Fruit Positions were either concealed by the Celestial Dao or devoured by other Golden Core True Monarchs and absorbed into their Grotto Heavens.

How many vacant Fruit Positions could possibly be left?

After all, the world’s Cultivators were like giant rats. The Celestial Dao of the Taihua Spirit Void Realm had intended to drive Cultivators to invade other World Heavens to empower itself.

But Immortals were unwilling to be controlled by the Celestial Dao. Thus, like those giant rats, they schemed to excavate the Taihua Spirit Void Realm’s Root Origin Qi, forge a Dao Fruit, and attain the Golden Core.

They might even go a step further and become Nascent Soul Daoist Lords.

Only during a great war between the Three Sects could one find a sliver of an opportunity.

And now was the perfect time.

Xu Yunfan even suspected the Primordial Sect had started this war for the sole purpose of helping Chu Chengnan become a Golden Core True Monarch.

The roar of the Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism grew clearer. High in the sky, the formless, glowing traces of the Dao Principle representing "immovability," "support," and "weight" became distinctly visible. They formed a complex vortex of Runes, slowly rotating as it descended toward Chu Chengnan’s head.

The moment that Rune was fully integrated into the mountain phantom behind him, the Dao Fruit would be complete.

"Stop him!"

"We can’t let the Primordial Demon Sect gain another running dog!"

More furious and unwilling roars could be heard from the distance.

From the direction of the Wansheng Sword Sect, an even sharper Sword Intent was brewing.

Within the Puchen Pure Land, it seemed a powerful Buddha Light was also attempting to split off a sliver of its power to strike!

At this critical moment.

KABOOM!!!

A colossal boom shook the cosmos, but it didn’t come from an attack. It came from Chu Chengnan himself.

His entire being seemed to be transforming into an Ancient Divine Mountain taking form.

The Immovable Profound Mountain Dao Fruit, which had been hovering above his head, now manifested in the world. As if drawn by the strongest possible attraction, like a mountain returning to its rightful place, it suddenly accelerated. It fell toward the mountain phantom behind Chu Chengnan, carrying a majestic force capable of suppressing all of eternity.

The instant the Dao Fruit made contact with the mountain’s phantom.

OMM!

The instant the Dao Fruit made contact with the mountain’s phantom, a sudden change occurred.

A beam of Dark Gold Buddha Light tore through the void without warning, moving faster than the limits of perception.

This was power comparable to a Great Daoist Master at the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm!

Xu Yunfan’s pupils shrank. With his Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment Divine Thought, he couldn’t even issue a warning in time, let alone intervene.

His heart pounded, but he ultimately suppressed the urge to act.

’Heavens have mercy. I’m just a trivial Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. How could I possibly stop an expert whom the Puchen Pure Land calls a Great Arhat?’

’It was hard enough just grinding away that strand of Sword Qi, okay?’

A withered old monk clad in an ochre Kasaya appeared out of thin air directly above the Dao Fruit.

His face was like ancient bronze, with a dot of Cinnabar on his brow. His aura was as complete and solid as a Vajra monolith. He was, shockingly, a Great Arhat from the Puchen Pure Land at the Foundation Establishment Perfection Realm.

The old monk’s deep-set eyes were devoid of emotion. In his hand, a gilded Demon-Slaying Pestle, wreathed in the Nirvana Buddha Light, smashed down viciously upon the Immovable Profound Mountain Dao Fruit that was about to merge with Chu Chengnan.

OMM!

BOOM!

The deafening clang, like metal on metal, was not a physical collision, but the vibration of the Dao Fruit.

That Demon-Slaying Pestle had actually broken through the boundaries of physical Law, striking squarely upon the Immovable Profound Mountain Dao Fruit.

Buddhist Sanskrit flowed across the entire Demon-Slaying Pestle. The Buddha Power coiled around its body was extraordinary, possessing the aura of the "Nirvana Red Lotus"—a power that belonged to a higher Realm, refined from the very Origin of a Dao Fruit.

It was clearly a Lifebound Spiritual Treasure, forged from the True Intent of its owner’s own Dao Fruit after they had attained the Bodhisattva Fruit Position.

Xu Yunfan gasped. ’The Puchen Pure Land is so damn shameless. Those Bodhisattvas play really dirty, even bringing out their own personally refined Spiritual Treasures.’

’What was a Spiritual Treasure? There were Magical Artifacts, Magical Treasures, and Spiritual Treasures. A Spiritual Treasure could be called the vessel for a True Monarch’s attainment of the Dao.’

"NO!"

Chu Chengnan’s furious roar, his eyes looking ready to split from their sockets, echoed through the clouds.

He was at his most vulnerable moment, when his body and soul were merging with the Dao Fruit. He could only watch helplessly as the Immovable Profound Mountain—the vessel for his life’s hope of achieving the Dao—was brutally pierced by the Spiritual Treasure’s immense power.

The Dao Fruit instantly dimmed and disintegrated. As if swatted down by a giant, invisible palm, it let out a mournful cry and sank into the depths of the gushing Earth Vein and Muddy Fiend of Cold Crow Pass. It merged with the rampaging, chaotic Earth Qi and once again vanished between the Rules of heaven and earth.

The once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity of a Dao Fruit’s descent was thus severed.

The terrifying backlash from having his attempt to attain the Golden Core interrupted erupted suddenly.

The vast aura around Chu Chengnan, which had been steadily climbing, seemed to be brutally choked off by an invisible giant hand and plummeted wildly!

His Grotto Heaven Foundation, which was supporting the Dao Fruit, took a direct hit from the Spiritual Treasure’s power, emitting a CRACK like shattering porcelain.

His burly, solid frame shook violently as he spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood mixed with a yellow-black Spiritual Light. His face instantly turned ashen, and the mountain-like, profound aura around him crumbled. He fell from the sky like a kite with its string cut.

The majestic pressure of a Great Daoist Master at Foundation Establishment Perfection was gone, leaving behind only a bleak and desolate Death Qi.

A chill went through Xu Yunfan’s heart. ’The attempt to reach the Golden Core has failed.’

He subconsciously put more force into the Eight Sceneries Primordial Qi he was controlling.

Down below in Cold Crow Pass, the crowd of Cultivators who had activated the Mountain Protection Array were also filled with regret.

Some of the older Cultivators shook their heads and sighed.

"For a thousand years, not a single person has become a True Monarch and attained a Dao Attainment Fruit Position. This was the most promising attempt yet, but alas..."

It was a pity that the Three Sects were always at each other’s throats. Whenever someone from one Sect was about to become a True Monarch, the other two would naturally do everything in their power to stop them.

"Pfft!"

The Great Arhat who had thrown the Spirit Treasure Demon-Slaying Pestle was not faring well either.

Having forced himself to use a Bodhisattva’s Spiritual Treasure far beyond his own Realm to deliver the fatal blow, the Great Arhat’s Buddha Light trembled violently. His Glazed Golden Body was suddenly covered in a spiderweb of cracks, like an unbaked clay Buddha statue on the verge of shattering. His aura plummeted, a clear sign that he had suffered a terrifying backlash.

At that very moment, Xu Yunfan reacted instantly.

’If I don’t act now, when will I? Otherwise, if there’s a reckoning later, I’ll have a hard time explaining myself. To get by in the Sect, strength is one thing, but attitude is another.’

Xu Yunfan flew into a real rage!

A fake one.

Naturally, he had to put on the perfect act.

The instant he completely ground away the final wisp of entangled Sword Qi, his eyes turned as cold and sharp as a blade.

"You damn monk! Pay with your life!"

"Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi: Thunder Prison!"

Without another word, he unleashed the killing blow he had been brewing for so long. Xu Yunfan formed a Two-Handed Seal, pushing the Thunder True Intent of the *Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying True Scripture* to its absolute limit.

The Eight-Colored Clouds he had cultivated from the *Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture* surged and churned around him, instantly transforming into a sea of lightning that covered a ten-mile radius.

The eight aspects of the Cloud Qi—Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui—did not fight separately. Instead, Xu Yunfan commanded them with the Divine Sky True Intent, manifesting the thunderous profundity capable of the utter Destruction of all evil.

Golden, purple, and incandescent-white pythons of lightning and dragons of thunder shrieked and roared. Carrying the brilliant heavenly might to judge all creation, they ignored the distance of space and rained down upon the Great Arhat, whose Golden Body was on the verge of shattering.

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