Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

"Young Master!"

Upon hearing this voice, Jiang Wanning’s body trembled, and she looked at Zhou Xun with a face full of tension,

"Don’t worry!"

Zhou Xun patted Jiang Wanning’s shoulder, offering a word of comfort.

Then he stood up, waved his hand,

and the robes scattered on the ground instantly wrapped around his body. Zhou Xun stepped out.

Jiang Wanning followed behind Zhou Xun.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Cave Mansion, Zhou Xun lightly flicked his finger, and the doors of the Cave Mansion automatically opened to the sides, revealing the sinister-looking middle-aged man standing outside.

The man looked shocked, watching Zhou Xun slowly walk out from within the Cave Mansion, and then his face turned livid.

He finally realized that Zhou Xun had clearly beaten him to it!

His father had set everything up personally, and he and his senior brother were guarding it closely, yet it was still stolen by someone.

A nameless fury surged in his heart.

"Who are you, and why... why would you do such a thing? Don’t you know that Jiang Wanning is my woman!" As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Wanning, confirming that the unique aura of a virgin was no longer present.

Master Hongyu’s face flushed red with rage. He felt utterly humiliated, his eyes turning blood-red, glaring at Zhou Xun, spitting out each word:

"You... deserve to die!"

"Do you know who I am, how dare you... offend me!"

"What does fellow cultivator intend to do?" Zhou Xun said indifferently.

From the moment he stepped out, the mana aura of his Middle-Stage Core Formation cultivation had already been revealed, which was why Master Hongyu had held back from taking action until now.

"Young Master, it is he who imprisoned me!" Jiang Wanning said with an intense look of hatred, glaring at Master Hongyu.

At this moment, another Core Formation Cultivator’s mana aura swiftly approached, landing in front of the group.

It was a thin middle-aged man dressed in a black robe, with odd black markings on his face.

"Senior brother, you’re here!" At this sight, Master Hongyu rejoiced.

"It was this person who took Jiang Fairy, causing my father’s plans to fail. Senior brother, join me, let’s capture this thief!"

The slender middle-aged man heard this, a flicker of satisfaction flashed in his eyes but quickly disappeared.

His cultivation had already reached the peak of the Early-Stage Core Formation, and Jiang Wanning’s Power of Yin Essence would have been effective for him too. If he had used it, he would have already broken through to the Middle-Stage.

Now hearing that it had been taken by someone else, he felt relieved instead.

However, overseeing Master Hongyu was an order directly from Old Demon Yulu, which he dared not defy.

After all, his master had plenty of means to control them.

When Master Hongyu spoke, he naturally did not dare to truly defy and thus nodded:

"Junior brother, let us strike together!"

With that, his hands performed a spell, and a Demon Flame spurted from his palm, transforming into two fire serpents that shot towards Zhou Xun.

Meanwhile, Master Hongyu opened his mouth, and a crystalline cone shot out, instantly causing the temperature in the entire area to drop by several degrees,

Frost began to form on the surrounding rocks.

As Old Demon Yulu’s only son, Master Hongyu had cultivated an Ice Attribute Righteous Technique, which seemed quite powerful.

No wonder Old Demon Yulu wanted Jiang Wanning’s Yin Essence for him.

As a cultivator of the same attribute, Jiang Wanning’s Yin Essence could not only reduce Master Hongyu’s bottleneck for breakthrough but also enhance the quality of his Inner Core to some extent.

It was akin to a small pool of Celestial Pure Water!

Equivalent to enhancing his potential for free, no wonder such a grand scheme, arranging many people to control the Jiang Family,

was all to force Jiang Wanning to submit.

They did not expect in the end to have the fruit plucked away.

Even though they were both merely Early-Stage Core Formation cultivators, Zhou Xun did not lower his guard, he first took out the defense Magical Treasure, the Golden Jade Plate, and activated it to block in front of him.

Then he gave his Storage Bag a pat, taking out the "Profound Thunder" Sword.

This Magical Treasure, after acquiring it, had not yet been tested in actual combat, now it was the perfect opportunity for testing,

Performing a spell with both hands, Profound Thunder buzzed and hovered in front of Zhou Xun.

Then Zhou Xun changed his Spell, and the Thunder Sword gleamed, suddenly splitting into nine Sword Lights.

"Go!"

Aiming at the fire serpents and the ice cone!

The Sword Lights shot out, turning into several afterimages, striking towards the fire serpents and ice cone!

In the next moment!

"Boom!"

A massive booming sound erupted!

Immediately, the two fire serpents were obliterated, the Sword Light destroyed them instantly!

Meanwhile, the ice cone collided with Profound Thunder itself,

The ice cone let out a mournful cry, its Spirit Light dimming as it flew back in defeat!

With just one strike, both were pushed to the disadvantage.

Seeing this, the thin middle-aged man and Master Hongyu were shocked, not expecting such a casual strike would be so hard to withstand!

Giving each other a look, they turned immediately and fled without hesitation!

Seeing this, Zhou Xun shook his head,

these two indeed had mediocre skills, just the most common Early-Stage Core Formation cultivators in Zhou Xun’s eyes, unable to withstand a single blow!

This left Zhou Xun’s desire to test himself left unfulfilled!

Seeing the two attempting to escape, Zhou Xun naturally wouldn’t give them such a chance.

His hands shifted spells again,

The nine Sword Lights suddenly converged towards "Profound Thunder," merging into it one by one!

The nine Sword Lights fused into one, and the Profound Thunder Sword shone brightly, its aura inexplicably rising by twenty percent!

Staring at the two fleeing figures, Zhou Xun gently pointed a finger,

Profound Thunder transformed into an afterimage, speeding after them.

Up ahead, the fleeing Master Hongyu and the thin middle-aged man, sensing the increasingly close Profound Thunder behind them, were terrified!

The thin middle-aged man glanced at Profound Thunder, then at Master Hongyu next to him, steeling his heart!

He raised a hand with a strike directed at Master Hongyu not far away!

Caught off guard by the attack, Master Hongyu was hit squarely, his speed halting abruptly.

It turns out the thin middle-aged man only sought to slow Master Hongyu’s pace.

As the kin of Old Demon Yulu, Master Hongyu surely possessed numerous life-saving artifacts, and if forced to pull trump cards, the outcome wasn’t in his favor,

Better a friend dead than oneself, he had to resort to underhanded tactics!

Master Hongyu was full of incredulity, eyes filled with shocked fury as he looked at the thin middle-aged man, and then,

"Splat!"

Profound Thunder pierced through Master Hongyu’s skull in an instant, killing him in one blow!

Before losing consciousness, Master Hongyu cast a hateful glance at the fleeing thin middle-aged man, then his awareness plunged into intense darkness filled with unwillingness.

Meanwhile, thirty thousand miles east of Cuihu Mountain, at a certain mountainside, an elderly man with a sinister look and dressed in a black robe pushed open the stone blocking the cave entrance and walked out.

Suddenly, a sharp pang struck his heart, a sense of inexplicable unease surged within him.

The old man was startled, promptly activating his Escape Light, hastening westward.

...

On the other side, after the black-hearted strike, the thin middle-aged man wasted no time in unleashing his potential, fleeing with all his might.

However, he still underestimated the speed of Profound Thunder.

After all, Thunder Escape is one of the fastest Escape Techniques in the Cultivation Realm,

The Profound Thunder Sword, having killed Master Hongyu, quickly chased after the thin middle-aged man, the distance between them rapidly closing!

Seeing the rapidly approaching Thunder Sword with the naked eye, the thin middle-aged man felt utter despair,

beginning to despise his master Old Demon Yulu, questioning why he had to assist the foolish Master Hongyu, now dragging himself down too.

"Splat!"

Then, the Thunder Sword accelerated abruptly, piercing through the middle-aged man’s chest with disbelief in his eyes, and after several passes, decapitating him in one strike.

Subsequently, the Thunder Sword returned, carrying the two’s storage bags and corpses, hovering in front of Zhou Xun!

Projection a sense similar to "Morning mist rises from thirty-six peaks, the dragon slayer returns from eight thousand miles afar!"