After the two worlds merge, they are expected to advance to a higher level and become a multiverse world that surpasses the mythological world!
Chapter 249 Taking on a Disciple, Chenxiang
Wang Xuan opened his eyes and suddenly saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth standing in front of him, staring at him in disbelief.
It turns out that when he was refining the wick of the Lotus Lantern, although he still concealed his aura, his body changed back from an invisible breeze state and could be detected by the naked eye.
"Who are you? What are you doing in my house?!" The young man stared at Wang Xuan in shock for a moment before finally coming to his senses and pointing at Wang Xuan, shouting.
Wang Xuan had already discovered the young man's identity through his divine sense. He was none other than Liu Chenxiang, the illegitimate son of the Third Holy Mother Yang Chan, the protagonist of this world!
After Liu Chenxiang shouted that, the experts that Yang Jian had sent to protect Liu Chenxiang realized that something was wrong and instantly flashed over.
However, this person kept the strict instructions in mind and did not appear directly in front of Liu Chenxiang. Instead, he used an invisibility spell so that Liu Chenxiang could not sense his presence.
"Troublesome!" Wang Xuan frowned and waved his sleeve at the expert hidden in the shadows.
His sleeves instantly grew larger and longer, taking the expert at the peak of the Celestial Realm into his sleeves. No matter how the expert struggled, he could not break free.
This move, "Universe in the Sleeve," is a renowned and powerful divine ability. If Zhen Yuanzi, the ancestor of earth immortals, were to use it, even Sun Wukong would not be able to break free.
With Wang Xuan's current cultivation level at the peak of the mid-stage of the seventh rank, suppressing a cultivator at the perfect fifth rank is naturally a piece of cake.
Liu Chenxiang stared in shock at the scene, her eyes filled with fear.
As the protagonist of the world of Lotus Lantern, Liu Chenxiang is intelligent and has heard legends of immortals, Buddhas, ghosts and monsters.
Just now, Wang Xuan displayed his supernatural powers in front of him, which made him realize instantly that Wang Xuan was not an ordinary person, nor a god or immortal, but a monster in disguise.
"May I ask who you are, and what brings you to my home?" Liu Chenxiang asked cautiously.
Wang Xuan did not answer immediately, but instead looked Liu Chenxiang up and down several times. His Eternal Divine Eyes saw through Liu Chenxiang inside and out.
In Wang Xuan's eyes, Liu Chenxiang's head was filled with a towering purple aura of destiny, and three aura canopies had formed, making him a person with heaven-defying luck.
It's important to understand that even in a mythological world, Dong Zhuo, who controlled a significant portion of the Han Dynasty, only managed to condense a single aura of fortune. Liu Chenxiang's extraordinary fortune truly befits his status as a protagonist of this world!
Every protagonist in each world possesses incredible luck, enjoying smooth sailing and seemingly invincible.
However, the protagonist's luck in this world also has a flaw: the great fortune of Heaven is time-limited. As the saying goes, when fortune comes, Heaven and Earth lend their strength; when fortune goes, even heroes are powerless. This is the principle at play.
The protagonist of the previous world of the Lotus Lantern was Erlang Shen, Yang Jian. Back in the prequel to the Lotus Lantern, Yang Jian was incredibly powerful. He once fought against the Heavenly Court, forcing the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother to compromise.
However, when the story of the Lotus Lantern came to the point that Yang Jian wanted to change the Heavenly Laws, he could not do it himself. Instead, he had to rely on his nephew Liu Chenxiang to change the Heavenly Laws. This was because Yang Jian's destiny in the Heavenly Dao had ended.
Besides his extraordinary luck, Liu Chenxiang's innate talent was also unparalleled. As the son of the Third Holy Mother Yang Chan, Liu Chenxiang was originally a descendant of immortals. Furthermore, blessed by the great destiny of the Lotus Lantern world, he was transformed into an innate Dao body, possessing the potential to become a god or demon!
In the original story of the Lotus Lantern world, Liu Chenxiang's ability to make rapid progress in cultivation, storm the Heavenly Court and change the Heavenly Laws, and become incredibly powerful, was not something that Sun Wukong could achieve with the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill and Pan Tao.
If he hadn't been exceptionally talented, he wouldn't have been able to break through to the seventh-order God-Demon realm even if he had consumed countless pills and peaches!
The seventh-order divine and demonic realm, also known as the Golden Immortal in the immortal path, is immortal and requires comprehension of the laws to break through.
Do you really think that by catching an ordinary domestic pig and feeding it enough peaches and pills, it can break through to the seventh-order divine demon realm and become a divine pig?
Don't even think about it. Even when Wang Xuan reached the seventh-order God-Demon realm, he used the origin of the world to enhance his talent and comprehension, and painstakingly studied the laws of the Heavenly Dao before he achieved his breakthrough.
"What a fine seedling of immortality, with unparalleled talent." Wang Xuan said calmly, "I am the Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor, ruling over the Xuan Tian and governing all realms. Would you be willing to become my disciple and follow me to comprehend the Xuan Tian Dao?"
"What?!" Upon hearing this, Liu Chenxiang's face immediately lit up with surprise.
He didn't care whether the person in front of him was a god or a demon, but the other party clearly had no intention of harming him. On the contrary, they wanted to take him as a disciple, which was a good thing.
"Disciple Liu Chenxiang greets Master!" Without much hesitation, Liu Chenxiang immediately knelt down and performed the three kneelings and nine prostrations to Wang Xuan, thus formally becoming his disciple.
With the master-disciple relationship established, Wang Xuan sensed that the Heavenly Dao of this world had instantly weakened its repulsive force against him by more than half.
The reason he accepted Liu Chenxiang as his disciple was not only because he saw that the other party had exceptional talent and good character, but there was another very important reason.
Wang Xuan took the Lotus Lantern that rightfully belonged to Liu Chenxiang, and he must be compensated accordingly; otherwise, the Heavenly Dao of this world will remember Wang Xuan.
For the next period of time, Wang Xuan stayed in Liu Family Village and taught Liu Chenxiang how to cultivate the Mysterious Heaven Divine Technique.
With his cultivation at the level of gods and demons, coupled with his perfect harmony with the Heavenly Dao and his profound understanding of various laws, teaching Liu Chenxiang cultivation was naturally a piece of cake.
Liu Chenxiang's cultivation speed also astonished Wang Xuan. Even when Wang Xuan used cheat codes to cultivate back then, he was far inferior to him!
In just one day, Liu Chenxiang broke through to the Acquired Perfection Realm, and five days later he broke through to the Innate Perfection Realm.
It took Liu Chenxiang a bit longer to reach the Dao Realm, but it still only took him a month.
Of course, this was also because Wang Xuan provided him with many cultivation resources, such as thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.
Even so, this cultivation speed was enough to make Wang Xuan jealous.
It should be noted that it took Wang Xuan nearly ten years to cultivate to the point of perfect enlightenment after traversing the heavens and earth using the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth!
After entering the Dao, Liu Chenxiang finally encountered a bottleneck. He had been cultivating diligently for three days but was still unable to integrate into the Dao Perfection realm and break through to the early stage of the Mortal Transformation realm.
This actually relieved Wang Xuan, who then let Liu Chenxiang go out and gain experience on her own.
His cultivation came too easily, so it was inevitably somewhat superficial. In addition, there were still residual medicinal properties in his body that he had not been able to refine, which is why he encountered a bottleneck.
The best solution is not to let him retreat into seclusion and practice asceticism, but to let him go out and fight with others.
After several major battles, Liu Chenxiang was able to better control his own power, and the medicinal properties within his body were also brought out.
Chapter 250 Beating Yang Jian
Liu Chenxiang wanted to go out and gain experience, but his father, Liu Yanchang, strongly opposed it.
Liu Yanchang only wanted to live in Liujia Village with Liu Chenxiang for the rest of his life, fearing that his son would be captured by the gods of Heaven after leaving the village.
But Liu Yanchang was just an ordinary person. With just two simple spells from Wang Xuan, he obediently changed his mind and told Liu Chenxiang to go find the unmarried Dingxiang.
Liu Chenxiang looked at Wang Xuan with some suspicion, feeling that her father's attitude had changed too quickly, and knew that it was most likely Wang Xuan who had made the move.
However, this is a good thing for Liu Chenxiang. He has never left Liu Family Village since he was a child, and now he finally has the opportunity to go out and see the outside world. He is overjoyed!
Wang Xuan watched Liu Chenxiang leave Liu Family Village, then looked back at his palm.
In his palm was a tiny figure, about three inches in size, seemingly bound by some kind of force.
This tiny figure is the expert Yang Jian sent to protect Liu Chenxiang. The reason he turned into a three-inch-long figure is entirely due to Wang Xuan's "size-as-you-please" supernatural power.
During the month or so that Wang Xuan was teaching Liu Chenxiang, he also figured out the man's identity.
“One of the Seven Sages of Meishan under Yang Jian, but unfortunately not the leader of Meishan.” Wang Xuan was still somewhat interested in the strength of the Seven Sages of Meishan. In the book Investiture of the Gods, the leader of the Seven Sages of Meishan, Yuan Hong, cultivated the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique just like Yang Jian, and his strength was not much weaker than Yang Jian’s.
I wonder if the leader of Meishan in this world is also named Yuan Hong?
More than a month has passed since Wang Xuan captured the other party. If it weren't for the difference in the flow of time between the mortal and heavenly realms—a day in heaven is equivalent to a year on earth—Yang Jian would have noticed the anomaly long ago.
Even so, this is already the limit. Yang Jian probably already knows that his subordinates have lost contact and could arrive at Liu Family Village at any time.
Wang Xuan had no intention of leaving. He also wanted to see Yang Jian and see if the other party's strength was as he had guessed, merely at the early stage of the seventh rank.
Moreover, if Yang Jian wants to change the Heavenly Laws, he will inevitably have to go against the gods of Heaven, and Wang Xuan doesn't mind being his ally.
After all, any battle would weaken the strength of this world. It would be best to kill a few seventh-tier experts so that Wang Xuan could gain greater benefits when the two worlds merged.
Yang Jian did not keep him waiting long. Just two days after Liu Chenxiang left, a streak of light descended from the sky and landed in front of Wang Xuan, transforming into a handsome young man with a cold and stern face.
"Who are you? Release my men right now!" Yang Jian exclaimed, his three-pointed double-edged sword pointing directly at Wang Xuan, ready to fight at the slightest provocation.
Wang Xuan shook his head, knowing that Yang Jian was truly enraged. After all, the Seven Sages of Meishan were his sworn brothers, and now that one of them had been captured by Wang Xuan, it was a slap in the face to Yang Jian!
More importantly, Yang Jian had just scanned the surrounding hundreds of miles with his divine sense but had not found any trace of Liu Chenxiang, and was worried that his nephew had also been born.
But understanding is one thing, it doesn't mean Wang Xuan will indulge him. Since Yang Jian dared to be rude to him, then there's no point in wasting words, he'll just beat him to a pulp first!
"Sword, come!" Wang Xuan reached out and grasped, using his divine power to conjure a long sword, which he then slashed at Yang Jian.
Yang Jian quickly used his three-pointed spear to defend himself, clashing with Wang Xuan.
"Bang!"
After a muffled thud, Wang Xuan stood still, while Yang Jian staggered back dozens of steps, feeling a slight pain in his arm.
"I never imagined there was such a master as you in this world. Why have I never heard of you before?" Yang Jian was greatly surprised, not expecting the other party to be so powerful.
Although they had only exchanged one move, Wang Xuan had already discerned Yang Jian's true strength; he was indeed only at the early stage of the seventh rank, and had only just broken through.
According to the setting of the Lotus Lantern world, only a few hundred years have passed since the prequel to Lotus Lantern, which means that Yang Jian has only broken through to the early stage of the seventh rank in just a few hundred years.
Hundreds of years is an extremely long time for mortals. But for a powerful expert at the seventh-tier God-Demon realm, it is merely a fleeting moment, and may not even be enough for them to completely stabilize their cultivation.
If we also consider that Yang Jian is the Heavenly God in charge of law in the Heavenly Court, and has served in the Heavenly Court for many years, with one day in Heaven being equivalent to one year on Earth, then after Yang Jian broke through to the early stage of the seventh rank, the actual time he has spent cultivating is estimated to be only one or two hundred years.
"Erlang Zhenjun is nothing more than this. Take my sword first." Wang Xuan formed a sword incantation and unleashed a sword strike, burying the mortal world.
The Wang family's ancestral sword technique has been developed by Wang Xuan to the level of gods and demons, and the sword technique can tear the sky and split the earth.
"Bang!"
Yang Jian was sent flying, feeling his internal organs churning, and a mouthful of hot blood about to spurt out, but he forced it back down.
"Open the Heavenly Eye!"
At this critical moment, Yang Jian's third vertical eye between his eyebrows suddenly opened, shooting a devastating divine light towards Wang Xuan.
The Heavenly Eye is Yang Jian's innate divine ability, and it is also the transformation of a powerful treasure. According to its grade, it should be a mid-grade spiritual treasure, similar to the Kunlun Mirror that Wang Xuan enhanced.
Wang Xuan wore a smile, his skin as smooth as jade, shimmering with divine radiance, every inch of his muscle exuding divine light.
With a single punch, he actually withstood Yang Jian's Heavenly Eye Divine Light with his bare body, shattering it with a single blow!
Before Yang Jian could use his Heavenly Eye again, Wang Xuan's figure vanished into thin air and appeared in front of Yang Jian in the next instant, knocking him to the ground with a punch.
"My current cultivation level is at the peak of the mid-stage of the seventh rank. It seems that I am only one small realm higher than Yang Jian, but if I want to defeat him, it will only take me a few moves."
The further one progresses in cultivation, the greater the gap in strength between each minor realm becomes.
Moreover, Wang Xuan has always cultivated using the origin of the world, making him one of the strongest among those at the same level.
Don't underestimate him just because he's only at the peak of the mid-stage of the seventh rank; his true combat strength is no weaker than that of a late-stage seventh rank expert.
If he possessed the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth, a supreme treasure that aided his cultivation, and still couldn't defeat his enemy by crossing a minor realm, that would be truly strange.
Yang Jian was both shocked and indignant. Back then, even Sun Wukong had no one who could defeat him, but now he was defeated by an unknown person in just a few moves. It was as if his brilliance had been completely lost.