"What's going on here?" Wang Xuan was a little annoyed. The reason he had chosen so carefully was that ordinary low-level martial arts worlds and medium-level martial arts worlds could no longer accommodate his true body's arrival, while mythological worlds might be dangerous and not suitable for vacation.
Only this powerful high-level world can accommodate his true form's arrival, and there is nothing that can threaten his safety.
Frustrated as he was, Wang Xuan had no choice but to try his best to conceal his presence if he didn't want this vacation to end in failure.
Fortunately, as he broke through to the seventh-order God-Demon realm, and further comprehended the Heavenly Dao for ten years, his control over power had become extremely meticulous.
He sealed off all 480 million pores on his body, preventing his aura from leaking out in the slightest, thus no longer being rejected by the world.
Of course, if he exerts even a little more force, he might shatter space and be expelled by the world's will.
"Zhaoji, Chan'er, I can't act freely in this world. It seems I'll have to rely on you two to protect me from now on," Wang Xuan said with a shrug, somewhat helplessly.
However, Cai Yan and Diao Chan were extremely happy. They excitedly said, "Great! The level of this world isn't high. With our cultivation, we can do whatever we want!"
The two young ladies had cultivated diligently for many years, but whether in the mythical Three Kingdoms world or the Xuan Tian world, their cultivation level was only so-so, without any experience of becoming a master.
Now that they've finally arrived in a world with a low level of martial arts, they decide to join hands and venture into the martial world.
Wang Xuan sighed and said, "I don't know what world we've come to. You two ladies, why don't you go and check out the surrounding terrain first?"
Cai Yan and Diao Chan exchanged a glance, each summoning a flying sword and soaring into the air to observe.
Not long after, Wang Xuan heard Diao Chan say, "Young master, there is a huge Buddha statue not far away, and there is a train moving in front of the Buddha statue. Is it a demon beast?"
"Buddha statue? Demon beast?" Wang Xuan had a vague feeling of familiarity, but he couldn't make a judgment for the time being, so he asked Diao Chan to take him and fly towards the Buddha statue.
After they flew forward for dozens of miles, a huge Maitreya Buddha statue stood nearby, clearly the Leshan Giant Buddha!
The Leshan Giant Buddha on Earth is 71 meters tall, but the Leshan Giant Buddha in this world is hundreds of meters tall. It is not something that ordinary people could carve. It must have been the work of a cultivator.
As for the fireball-shaped monster that Diao Chan mentioned earlier, Wang Xuan could now clearly see its appearance; it was a fire unicorn engulfed in flames!
"It seems the tide is rising right now. The Leshan Giant Buddha, the fire unicorn, the water is submerging the Buddha's knees, and the Lingyun Cave is burning. This is the world of wind and clouds!" After thinking for a moment, Wang Xuan quickly guessed what kind of world this was.
"I never expected that the level of the Fengyun World would reach the half-step god-demon realm, which is much stronger than the Liaozhai World. This is truly unbelievable!"
After Wang Xuan was amazed, he carefully recalled the plot of the world of Fengyun and felt that it was not without reason.
Although the level of the Fengyun World may not seem high at first glance, there are two ultimate bosses inside!
One of them is the Great Sun Tathagata, who can pierce through timelines and send people from five hundred years in the future to five hundred years in the past. This kind of method is simply inconceivable. Even though Wang Xuan has now broken through to the seventh-order God-Demon realm, he is far from being able to do this.
Wang Xuan estimated that the Great Sun Tathagata's cultivation level was probably no lower than his own, and he should also be a seventh-order god-demon!
As for the other ultimate boss in the world of Fengyun, it is Nuwa, who mended the sky with stones.
If the Great Sun Tathagata exists in the future, then Nuwa exists in the past; these two powerful beings occupy two different timelines in the world of Fengyun.
The mere fact that she was "Nuwa" was enough for Wang Xuan to take her seriously. Someone capable of refining stones to mend the sky couldn't be weak in cultivation.
The world of Fengyun is clearly a semi-mythical world, yet its spiritual energy is so thin. Wang Xuan guessed that this was because most of the spiritual energy had been absorbed by the two ultimate BOSSes, which caused the entire world to be weak.
While Wang Xuan was pondering these things, Cai Yan and Diao Chan were not idle. Even in the Xuan Tian World, there were only a handful of Fire Qilin, a sacred beast. Now that one had been discovered in this world, they naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity and planned to make it their mount.
Chapter 238 Capturing the Fire Qilin
"Fire Qilin, I've taken a liking to you. You'd better come back with me and be my pet!" Miss Cai Yan shouted sweetly as she flew towards the Fire Qilin on her sword.
The fire qilin looked over upon hearing the sound. Its two huge eyes were blood red and filled with ferocity, making it extremely terrifying.
The Qilin is a legendary auspicious beast, but the fire Qilin in the world of Fengyun doesn't resemble an auspicious beast at all; it's more appropriate to call it a ferocious beast.
"Roar!" The fire qilin roared to the sky, determined to teach that clueless little fellow in the air a lesson. Enveloped in flames, it actually walked on air, charging towards Cai Yan!
Wang Xuan narrowed his eyes, showing no intention of going to help. Firstly, because he couldn't easily use his power, and secondly, because Cai Yan was capable of handling this fire qilin.
Under his divine sense, the fire qilin's cultivation level was not particularly high, only equivalent to a martial artist at the third level of martial arts, the perfected stage of the Dao.
Cai Yan and Diao Chan have both broken through to the early stage of the Transcendent Realm, which is a whole realm higher than the Fire Qilin. With the flying sword given to them by Wang Xuan, it wouldn't be difficult for them to subdue the Fire Qilin.
On the contrary, through the strength of this fire unicorn, Wang Xuan could deduce the approximate strength of the experts in the Fengyun World.
Nie Feng's father, Nie Renwang, and Duan Lang's father, Duan Shuai, were both captured by the Fire Qilin and taken to the Lingyun Cave. This shows that their strength was no match for the Fire Qilin, and they were probably only at the mid-to-late stage of the Daoist realm.
When Xiong Ba fought Nie Renwang, he didn't dare to directly confront the Fire Qilin's sharpness, showing that Xiong Ba was no match for the Fire Qilin in his early stages. It wasn't until Xiong Ba mastered the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi that he was able to defeat the Fire Qilin. At that time, he had at least reached the Perfected Dao Realm, and might even have stepped into the early Transcendent Realm.
By the same token, among the other masters in the world of Fengyun, Wuming and the Sword Saint who mastered Sword Twenty-Three were both at the Transcendent Realm.
As for the behind-the-scenes masters like Di Shitian and Xiao Sanxiao, their cultivation level is estimated to be equivalent to the Celestial Realm. They could destroy the world in a low-level martial arts world, so their strength should not be underestimated.
In the blink of an eye, the fire qilin rushed to Cai Yan's side, its scorching flames seemingly melting the air itself.
Miss Cai Yan neither dodged nor flinched. She made a sword gesture with her hand, pointed a finger, and shouted, "Go!"
A purple sword beam shot out, so fast that the Fire Qilin didn't even have time to dodge before it struck the Fire Qilin's back.
Her flying sword was none other than Wang Xuan's "Purple Lightning".
After Wang Xuan broke through to the seventh-tier Divine Demon Realm, neither the Purple Lightning nor the Azure Frost flying swords were as wielded as he had imagined. They were even less sturdy than his physical body, preventing him from unleashing his full power. Therefore, he gave the Purple Lightning flying sword to Miss Cai Yan and the Azure Frost flying sword to Miss Diao Chan.
Although Wang Xuan no longer valued the Purple Lightning Divine Sword, it was still a top-grade magic weapon. The sword unstoppably tore through the ancient Qilin's hard scales, instantly severely injuring the ferocious beast.
The fire qilin let out a mournful cry and plummeted from mid-air into the Jialing River below.
"Oh no, I think I used too much force just now. Could I have killed this fire qilin?" Changyin stuck out her tongue and quickly cast a few spells downwards.
As soon as the incantation was uttered, a column of water surged up from the Jialing River, seemingly transforming into a solid pillar. Directly above the water column, it supported a monstrous beast over ten feet tall—none other than the fire qilin from before.
The Fire Qilin had just been struck by Cai Yan's sword and was immediately disemboweled. It was now on the verge of death, and if it weren't for its strong resistance to blows, it would have died long ago.
"It's good that he's not dead. He'll be perfect as my mount." Cai Yan ran over happily, took out a palm-sized ring from her spatial ring, and poured her magic power into it.
With the infusion of magic power, the ring instantly grew larger until it could encircle the fire qilin's neck. Then, Cai Yan stopped channeling magic power and placed the ring around the fire qilin's neck.
This ring is called the Beast Taming Ring, a beast-taming technique created by ancient cultivators in the Shu Mountain world. In ancient times, ferocious beasts roamed freely, and powerful celestial immortals and golden immortals often captured these beasts to serve as guardian deities of the mountains. It was this Beast Taming Ring that subdued these ferocious beasts.
The fire qilin was on its last legs. Even though it knew that Cai Yan had ill intentions, it had no strength to struggle anymore and could only let Cai Yan put the beast-taming ring around its neck.
After doing all this, Cai Yan cast several more spells, and the Beast Taming Ring tightened rapidly. Accompanied by a pain that penetrated to the very soul, the fire qilin let out another mournful cry.
With the Beast Taming Ring on, the Fire Qilin's loyalty was assured. A satisfied smile appeared on Cai Yan's face before she took out a healing pill from her spatial ring and fed it to the Fire Qilin.
This pill of hers is no ordinary pill either. It was originally used by a powerful Earth Immortal in the Shu Mountain World to heal injuries. If given to a ferocious beast like the Fire Qilin, which is at the peak of the third rank, the effect would be absolutely amazing.
The wounds that Cai Yan had ripped open were healing at a visible speed, and even the scales covering the Fire Qilin's body were growing back!
The Fire Qilin's enormous eyes revealed a look of shock, and it immediately turned and fled without hesitation, wanting nothing more than to retreat back into the Lingyun Cave.
Before the fire qilin could even grasp reality, it involuntarily retreated and obediently stopped in front of Cai Yan as she cast a few spells.
Seeing that Cai Yan was having a great time, Wang Xuan couldn't help but remind her, "There are some good things in the Fire Qilin's lair. They are of no use to you, but they are treasures to the natives of this world."
"What? We can find treasure here?" Cai Yan and Diao Chan's eyes lit up as they excitedly flew towards Lingyun Cave.
Although the passages in Lingyun Cave were intricate and complex, with the Fire Qilin leading the way, Wang Xuan and his companions quickly searched the entire cave without using their divine sense to explore.
They found a large number of Blood Bodhi, as well as the Snow Drinking Mad Saber, the Fire Kirin Sword, the Six Unyielding Techniques of Aohan, and the Ten Strong Martial Arts Xuanwu True Skill.
If Wang Xuan hadn't stopped them, Cai Yan and Diao Chan probably would have plundered the section of dragon vein that was formed from the tailbone of the Yellow Emperor, truly leaving the land bare.
If Nie Feng and Duan Lang were to enter Lingyun Cave again, just like in the original storyline, they wouldn't be able to find a single hair.
“I have given you countless treasures, but these things in Lingyun Cave are of no use to you. What do you plan to do with them?” Wang Xuan asked.
The two young ladies said rather haughtily, "Are you the only one allowed to take on disciples? We're also planning to take on disciples in this world, and these treasures in Lingyun Cave will be perfect for arming them!"
Chapter 239 Meeting Xiong Ba
After leaving Lingyun Cave, Wang Xuan, Cai Yan, and Diao Chan spent a few more days playing in this world.
The two young ladies originally wanted to roam the martial world and uphold justice, but the commotion caused by the Fire Qilin was too great. Martial artists in this world avoided them from a distance as if they were a plague, leaving the two young ladies feeling very depressed.
Three more days passed, and suddenly someone blocked their way.
He was a middle-aged man with a melancholy demeanor and a decadent expression. He also possessed an incomparably sharp sword intent, as if he were an emperor among swords.
"Gentlemen, I don't know if you've truly subdued the Fire Qilin, but your wandering around with it has already caused panic in the martial world!" the middle-aged man said helplessly. "You'd better tone it down a bit!"
The Fire Qilin has ravaged the world for thousands of years, earning a fearsome reputation that instills dread in all martial artists.
Now that Wang Xuan and his group are wandering around with the Fire Qilin, the martial artists are terrified, fearing that the Fire Qilin will go out of control and suddenly start a massacre.
"Who are you?" Wang Xuan had the answer in his heart, but he didn't show it. Instead, he asked a question with feigned doubt.
The middle-aged man said calmly, "I've long forgotten my name. People in the martial arts world call me Nameless, so I guess I'm somewhat well-known."
That's right, this middle-aged man is none other than Tianjian Wuming, that unlucky guy who always fights with only 10% of his strength!
Throughout the entire storyline, no matter which villainous boss wants to cause trouble, they always have to sacrifice Nameless as a sacrifice first.
If it were an ordinary person, being mocked like this by powerful figures would have killed them long ago.
But Wuming is still alive and well, and each time he only has one level of power left to fight his enemies, yet he is still incredibly fierce.
Cai Yan and Diao Chan had only recently arrived in the world of Fengyun, and they were unaware of the legendary martial arts master, Tianjian Wuming.
“Nameless, I ride my own fire unicorn wherever I want. It’s none of your business to tell me what to do!” Miss Cai Yan directly challenged him. She had sensed Nameless’s power and was looking for someone to test her skills. Nameless had offered himself up, so she naturally wouldn’t let him pass.
Wuming gave a bitter smile, his gaze fixed intently on the Fire Qilin. He could clearly sense the Fire Qilin's power, and the three people before him who had subdued it were naturally even more powerful than the Fire Qilin.
When did these three powerful figures appear in the world?
"I sensed it too. The beastly Fire Qilin has been completely subdued and will not harm the people. I apologize for disturbing you, and I will take my leave now." Wuming cupped his hands in greeting to Wang Xuan and the others, then turned and left without pausing.
Although Wuming's cultivation level was not high, his mental realm was extremely extraordinary. He sensed that Cai Yan and Diao Chan's cultivation levels were no less than his, while Wang Xuan's cultivation level was unfathomable, making it impossible for him to discern any truth from falsehood.
Back in the day, Wuming was a powerful figure in the martial arts world, having slain countless enemies. He believed his cultivation had reached the highest level in the world, and that there were only two or three people in the entire martial arts world whose strength could rival his.
After meeting Wang Xuan today, Wuming realized that there are always people more powerful than oneself, and if Wang Xuan wanted to do evil, he wouldn't be able to stop him at all. He should go back to seclusion and cultivate diligently to improve his cultivation level first.
It can be said that Wuming was struck down by Wang Xuan, which is why he left without hesitation.
Cai Yan couldn't help but feel slightly disappointed. She hadn't expected that the other party would tolerate all her provocations, which dashed her hopes of dominating the battlefield once again.
"Wang Xuan, I don't want this fire qilin anymore, you can have it." After looking at her fire qilin with a look of disgust, Miss Cai Yan handed over control of it to Wang Xuan.
Then, the two young ladies went off to travel the world together, leaving only Wang Xuan and the Fire Kirin behind.
Wang Xuan was speechless. He turned to look at the fire unicorn beside him and felt an urge to kill the beast.