Chapter 37

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Chen Xun now deeply felt the importance of inheritance and the vastness of the noble clans and sects, which were far beyond what ordinary barbarian tribes could compare to. It was no wonder that the Su family had a constant stream of Rebirth Realm experts, while it was almost impossible for a barbarian tribe to produce a Heavenly Barbarian.

Su Tang continued, "The essence of the True Yang Ninth Level and the Barbarian Martial Ninth Layer lies in refining oneself. Advancing to the Rebirth Realm means that the physical body undergoes a blood and bone marrow transformation, returning to the innate state of the fetus, allowing the天地灵气 (heavenly essence) to flow unimpeded through the muscles, bones, and flesh. The barbarian martial arts call this breaking through the flesh barrier. Only by advancing to the Rebirth Realm and breaking through the flesh barrier can the soul sea phenomena hidden in the mystic acupoints transform back into ancient bloodlines. The purer the bloodline, the more powerful the supernatural abilities, but there are also fatal drawbacks…"

The Heavenly Barbarian that Wupang passed down was equivalent to the Rebirth Realm of the cultivators in Yunzhou. Above the Rebirth Realm, there were many other great realms such as the Heavenly Yuan and Yuan Dan, which required a lifetime of pursuit.

Chen Xun had previously known very little about these things, but now he understood them more clearly. He asked Su Tang, "If ancient bloodlines are so precious, why do they have fatal drawbacks?"

"Can ordinary fetal bodies and physical forms withstand the divine and demonic aura of ancient bloodlines?" Su Tang countered, "The purer the ancient bloodline, the harder it is for the physical body to bear, and the more difficult it is to break through the flesh barrier. I only managed to break through the blood and bone marrow transformation barrier and advance to the Rebirth Realm after my ancestor went deep into Mount Tushan and obtained a nine-leaf ginseng. Your soul sea phenomena are so extraordinary; I imagine the difficulty of advancing to the Rebirth Realm for you will be ten times greater than mine…"

Chen Xun thought about it and realized that his soul sea phenomena were formed from the blood of a six-armed giant demon. To withstand this drop of demon blood, his physical body would need to be cultivated to an unimaginable level of strength!

However, all of that was for the future, and there was no need to worry about it too much now.

Chen Xun stood up and saw that Dagu Peak was already two hundred miles to the south. He asked Su Tang in surprise, "How long was I unconscious?"

"You were unconscious for half a day," Su Tang said.

"Then why did you carry me in the direction of Xiling?" Chen Xun asked again.

"You were struck by the electric snake lightning, but there was still a thread of life in your body. I couldn't get you back to Canglan in time to save you, so I thought there might be medicinal herbs in Xiling that could cure you…" Su Tang muttered.

Chen Xun was speechless. "Are you stupid, or really stupid? If you sacrificed yourself, would the Five Venerables of Bai Xi really let me live and then give the Su family an excuse to invade Xiling and destroy their clan?"

"There's always a chance, right?" Su Tang, caught off guard by the boy's criticism, defended herself timidly, "If the Five Venerables of Bai Xi caught me, they would likely offer me to the Xuanhan Sect…"

Chen Xun laughed helplessly. Su Tang wasn't stupid; he thought that if the Su family had more disciples like Su Tang, Canglan might be a better place.

"Did that evil ape and the beast in the stone wall finish their fight?" Chen Xun asked.

"After you fell from the cliff, I carried you out of Dagu Peak and didn't stay to watch the fight between the evil ape and the beast," Su Tang said, still feeling the aftereffects of the danger they had faced when Chen Xun carried her off the cliff. "After so long, the evil ape hasn't come after us. I think either they both suffered severe injuries, or the evil ape has been killed by the beast in the stone wall…"

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Chen Xun was not willing to leave without any benefits after risking his life to lure the giant ape down the cliff. Now that his injuries were healed and his cultivation had advanced, he naturally decided to return to Dagu Peak with Su Tang.

From a distance, they could hear the roars of beasts and the cries of birds.

Chen Xun looked up and saw that the primeval forest in the direction of the stream valley was violently shaking, with snow and broken branches flying out. The intensity of the battle inside the forest was unimaginable.

"What's happening?" Chen Xun and Su Tang looked at each other, wondering if the giant ape and the beast in the stone wall had been fighting non-stop.

The location of the forest's shaking was slightly off from the isolated stone pillar in the stream valley. Chen Xun thought that the beast trapped in the stone wall wouldn't easily break free from the stone pillar's constraints, and the roars and cries coming from the distance suggested that more than just two beasts were fighting.

It seemed that all the powerful barbarian beasts in Dagu Peak had gathered in the stream valley to engage in a frenzied battle.

Why had all the barbarian beasts in Dagu Peak gone mad?

Although Chen Xun had advanced to the seventh layer of the Barbarian Martial realm, his strength was still not enough to match those barbarian beasts, and Su Tang had just stabilized her injuries, making it unwise to take unnecessary risks.

Chen Xun climbed a giant tree and looked in the direction of the stream valley. As the valley gradually calmed down and the earth-shaking battle sounds moved to the right slope of Dagu Peak and then to the south, the two of them cautiously approached the valley.

The valley was in chaos, with giant trees broken, rocks shattered, and the ten-meter-thick ice frozen solid, now shattered into pieces.

The ground was littered with the corpses of beasts, their blood staining the valley red, and the pungent smell of blood filled the air.

Chen Xun had spent years in Pythong Tooth Ridge and had seen different groups of beasts fighting in the winter, but he had never seen such a brutal slaughter.

The powerful beasts that he usually tried to avoid were now lying on the ground, their bones broken and bodies incomplete, indicating the intensity of the battle.

These beasts included black leopards as large as oxen, winged tigers with fleshy wings, bear lions standing seven to eight meters tall, scale eagles with golden crests, giant wolves as large as bear lions, and pythons as thick as huts and nearly twenty meters long.

Each of these beasts was a dominant force on the plains, comparable to Rebirth Realm experts, yet they were now lying dead in the valley, their bodies torn apart.

The scene was so bizarre and brutal that Chen Xun found it hard to believe.

Seeing so many beast corpses, he almost suspected that all the beasts in Dagu Peak had been killed in this small valley.

Among the broken limbs and corpses, the most numerous were the giant apes with snow-white fur, numbering about eighteen or nineteen.

These apes, except for their fur color, looked identical to the golden giant ape, each standing seven to eight meters tall and lying on the ground like giant huts, but now with broken limbs and bones, a sight too gruesome to bear.

"Was it the evil ape leading the snow apes in a battle against the mountain beasts?" Chen Xun was deeply puzzled.

Dagu Peak, though appearing as a solitary peak, had a spine reaching three to four thousand meters high, and the mountain's circumference was three to four hundred miles, making it a vast area.

Even if the giant ape led dozens of snow apes to camp in Dagu Peak, it shouldn't have caused such a frenzy among the other beasts in the mountain.

Could it be that the beasts in Dagu Peak were controlled by the beast in the stone wall, determined to kill the golden giant ape?

If the beast in the stone wall had such power, why didn't it use the beasts to help it escape?

When they entered the mountain, the beast in the stone wall didn't care about people or beasts a thousand meters away from the cliff, only attacking when the stone snake lotus was threatened.

As for why the stone snake lotus was so important to the beast in the stone wall, that was unknown.

Chen Xun speculated that the most likely scenario was that the golden giant ape had been killed by the beast in the stone wall, and its body had fallen into the valley. The mountain beasts had come to fight over the body, while the snow apes tried to protect it, leading to the frenzied battle.

People die for wealth, and birds die for food.

The golden giant ape had ancient bloodlines and even divine power. Its corpse, after death, would be an extremely valuable treasure, far more precious than the black-scaled fox that Wupang had obtained in the spring.

Of course, it was also possible that the evil ape had led many snow apes into the mountain to eat the brains of other beasts, angering the other beasts, who then took advantage of its injuries to surround and kill it.

Hearing the battle sounds moving south, Chen Xun thought that the fight between the snow apes and the mountain beasts would not end soon.

Of course, the remaining beasts would be even more fierce and powerful. Chen Xun and Su Tang would not go to the south of the mountain to join the fray. The valley was already filled with beast corpses, making this trip worthwhile.

If the forty to fifty corpses of black leopards, snow apes, scale eagles, and bear lions were transported to Canglan, it would be an astonishing wealth.

Of course, Chen Xun only briefly fantasized about it, knowing that once the snow apes and mountain beasts in the south decided the outcome, the surviving beasts would return to the valley to feed on the blood and flesh of the dead, leaving them very little time.

Moreover, these black leopards, snow apes, scale eagles, and bear lions were massive. Even the "slimmest" gray wolves, which were less than a person's height, had copper heads and iron bones, making their bodies extremely heavy.

A single gray wolf weighed nearly two thousand pounds. How many of these beast corpses could Chen Xun carry out before the snow apes and mountain beasts decided the outcome?

"Take the gallbladders of those snow apes; it will be extremely beneficial for your future cultivation…" Su Tang, seeing Chen Xun's hesitation, quickly reminded him.

When Chen Xun was struck by the electric snake lightning, his black-sheathed knife and the two broken sword segments wrapped in animal skin and placed in the medicine basket had fallen into the valley and were nowhere to be found. He could only tear open the snow apes' chests and abdomens with his bare hands…

"Ah!"

Chen Xun visualized his barbarian soul, and the soul's divine light infused his arms, making him feel an overwhelming force. When he placed his hands on the snow ape's chest and abdomen, a cold aura seeped through his hands, and in an instant, white frost formed in the air.

Chen Xun was surprised, not knowing why this had happened.

Seeing Chen Xun's puzzled expression, Su Tang explained, "You suffered severe injuries, and half of your body was burned to ashes. Your soul sea phenomena absorbed heavenly essence to directly reshape your body, with the most powerful being the cold aura. This helped you break through to the seventh layer of the blood transformation realm in a short time. Your body's qi and blood have naturally turned to a cold and extreme nature. In other words, you are now a Cold Spirit Body, which all sects would vie to take as a disciple. If others cultivated high-level cold essence techniques for decades, their qi and blood might not be as pure as yours. Your soul sea phenomena are truly unimaginably powerful…"

"Cold Spirit Body?" Chen Xun scratched the back of his head. "Is it good or bad for cultivating the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul?"

"The Cold Spirit Body can cultivate cold essence much faster than others and more easily advance to the Rebirth Realm," Su Tang said with a smile. "As for whether it is good or bad for cultivating the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul, I'm not sure. After all, I've never seen anyone with a spirit body. However, if you are dissatisfied with the Cold Spirit Body, you can break it and reshape it with other essences…"

Chen Xun laughed, now understanding why his soul sea phenomena had consumed so much energy. If this happened again, the potential of the six-armed giant demon blood might be exhausted prematurely.

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