Immortal-Exterminating Divine Venerable

'This is pure Wood Element Secret Pattern power! If I absorb this energy, my understanding of the Wood Element Secret Pattern will probably reach an extremely high level. I might even be able to form the Heart of Wood Spirit!'

Yang Xiao couldn't help but feel smug.

The power fed back from the Bloodthirsty Divine Sword's secondary refinement wasn't ordinary energy. It contained the power of the Wood Element Secret Pattern, and this power alone could save someone cultivating the Wood Element Secret Pattern countless years of hard work.

Even Yang Xiao, who didn't know much about the Wood Element Secret Pattern, instantly comprehended it to the Ninth Great Perfection realm after absorbing this power.

He was only half a step away from forming the Heart of Wood Spirit.

Among all the Secret Patterns Yang Xiao had comprehended, this was second only to the Time Secret Pattern.

The others—the Greater Yang Secret Pattern, Nine Yang Secret Pattern, Fire Secret Pattern, Star Secret Pattern, Void Secret Pattern, Golden Roc Secret Pattern, and so on—were nowhere near this level.

And he had achieved this so easily from just a single secondary refinement.

It was clear just how incredibly powerful this ability was.

'If I run into this kind of situation again, maybe I'll be able to obtain even more Secret Patterns.'

'It seems Little Blood did gain new abilities after ascending to a Daoist Weapon; I just haven't discovered them all yet. If it gains a new ability with every level-up as a Daoist Weapon, there are probably three or four more abilities I haven't found.'

Sensing the Bloodthirsty Divine Sword, Yang Xiao was very satisfied, and even a little smug.

After all, gaining the power of another Secret Pattern was a joyous occasion for any Martial Cultivator.

Knowledge of one could lead to insights into others, and different powers could be fused into one.

Take the Golden Roc Clan's Golden Roc Secret Pattern, for example. It was created by combining the Void Secret Pattern with the Gold Element Secret Pattern, resulting in the fastest speed in the world.

Similarly, the Xuanyuan Sword Emperor's Void Sword Manual used the Earth Element Secret Pattern as its foundation, incorporating all sorts of Secret Patterns to form a complete world. A single sword strike unleashed an entire world. Who could possibly stand against it?

Yang Xiao was also walking the path of the Void Sword Manual.

While his path might not be identical to Xuanyuan's, he also needed a wide variety of Secret Patterns. He was naturally overjoyed to be able to obtain one so easily.

But after his initial joy, he thought about it more carefully and felt it was only natural for the Bloodthirsty Divine Sword to have such an ability.

After all, when the sword advanced from an Upper-Grade Treasure Weapon to a Low Grade Divine Weapon, it had absorbed the entire legacy of a True God. It was only right that it should possess such power.

With this in mind, Yang Xiao's attention turned to the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron inside his body.

The Mysterious Furnace Cauldron, by comparison, was no slouch either. The Immortal Cultivators from the Yan Family stationed here were one thing—just a dozen or so Void Immortals. But after them came nine Preachers, one True Immortal Powerhouse, and on top of that, the possessor of a Seed of the Great Dao like Yuan Haotian.

After the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron refined all these Immortal Dao Wills, how many streams of mysterious aura would appear? Yang Xiao was full of anticipation.

And then he saw it. Inside the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron, because the Seed of the Great Dao had entered, all the Immortal Dao Wills that had been so difficult to refine instantly coalesced into a single mass.

They fused into it.

Immediately after,

the nine Minor Dao Seeds followed.

They all merged into the Seed of the Great Dao.

As it instantly swelled in size, the anticipation in Yang Xiao's eyes grew even more intense, as if they were about to shoot out beams of light.

He knew how the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron worked.

The purer the Immortal Dao Aura, the easier it was to refine.

For instance, the Dao Seed he had absorbed from Huang Tianling's body had been refined very easily.

But once the Immortal Dao Wills of other Cultivators were mixed in, the process became extremely slow.

It was as if something was preventing the refinement.

Now that the Seed of the Great Dao had completely absorbed all these Immortal Dao Wills, and even the Minor Dao Seeds, Yang Xiao couldn't help but watch to see what would happen next.

'Fast, so fast! It refined it in just an instant.'

Although he had been mentally prepared, Yang Xiao was still thrilled to see the Seed of the Great Dao transform into an unprecedented amount of mysterious aura in a mere moment.

He was especially ecstatic when he saw the streams of mysterious aura surging madly out of the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron. Nearly a thousand streams integrated into his body in an instant, and still more poured out, seemingly without end.

Yang Xiao was so excited he could barely speak.

Before, he had felt that using nearly eighty percent of his Spiritual Power had been a losing deal. But now, seeing so much mysterious aura...

Yang Xiao felt it was worth it.

More than worth it.

'One thousand streams, two thousand... Haha! There are five thousand six hundred streams! With this much mysterious aura, the power boost alone will grant me the strength of fifty-six Flood Dragons. This is just too powerful!'

The power of fifty-six Flood Dragons was equivalent to the power of five hundred sixty thousand young Demon Flood Dragons. Adding the fifteen Flood Dragons' worth of power Yang Xiao already possessed, he now wielded the strength of seventy-one Flood Dragons.

This was an absolutely terrifying amount of power.

Especially under the effect of the Emperor Golden Dragon Secret Technique, Yang Xiao felt that with just his Physical Strength and various Secret Techniques, his power was already enough to face a Martial Arts Powerhouse at the Peak of Great Divine Power Seventh Layer.

This terrifying strength had already completely surpassed the power of his True Greater Yang Fire.

Yang Xiao was very satisfied.

He was especially pleased because he had already thought of a way to advance his Emperor Golden Dragon Secret Technique even further. Once he did, he could also fuse his True Greater Yang Fire into his Visible Flood Dragon.

At that point, Yang Xiao's true strength would become terrifyingly formidable.

At the very least, he would no longer have to immediately resort to using the Golden Roc True Body's power, or even borrow power from the Bloodthirsty Divine Sword, whenever he encountered an expert at or above the Great Divine Power Realm.

'I can only use my Bloodthirsty Divine Sword one more time. I absolutely cannot use it rashly again. As for the Golden Roc True Body, it's ultimately still a bit too weak. Against someone like Yuan Haotian, it was completely useless. If I encounter a Void Immortal Peak existence, I'll have to rely on other methods; I won't be able to face them head-on.'

Yang Xiao knew very well that no matter how powerful these external forces were, it was no good if his own strength was too weak.

'Since my cultivation is severely shackled, I'll just have to put more hard work into my physical body.'

However, what Yang Xiao hadn't expected was that just as he was thinking about how to carry out his plan and advance his Emperor Golden Dragon Secret Technique...

「In the Celestial Heaven, a tremor ran through the realm.」

Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch, who was still drinking with Fairy Mingyue, suddenly shot to his feet.

The aura around him erupted violently.

The entire palace rocked as if in a violent storm.

It seemed as if it would be destroyed in the very next moment.

The expressions of everyone in the hall changed drastically.

They looked at the grim-faced Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch.

They knew instantly that for some unknown reason, this newly ascended Immortal Monarch of the Immortal Realm had, at this very moment, become incandescent with rage!