Killing Demons: Upgrading from Calligraphy

As he took a step into the gap leading to the Phoenix inheritance, Qi Xiu saw a burst of golden light in front of his eyes, like a gilded waterfall falling before his eyes.

When the light in front of your eyes gradually fades away and your vision becomes clear again.

An extremely huge forest, with even the clouds at the middle of each giant tree, contained Qi Xiu.

"This is……"

Looking at the giant trees in front of him, which were more than hundreds of thousands of feet tall and each of them was like a pillar of the sky, Qi Xiu was slightly surprised.

Even though he was knowledgeable and had millions of ancient books at his disposal, he had never seen any tree roots that could grow so big.

Moreover, these giant trees show no signs of developing any intelligent life; they are just ordinary trees.

But logically speaking, if it were an ordinary tree, it would not be possible for it to grow so huge.

"The place where the Phoenix Emperor inherits his legacy is indeed extraordinary."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered this place of inheritance, he encountered an incomprehensible situation. Qi Xiu became even more curious about the Phoenix inheritance.

He thought about releasing Hu Tianzong from the True Dragon Realm.

The young patriarch of the Hu family in Liaodong was also shocked by the huge tree in front of him that exceeded normal limits.

With his hands behind his back, Hu Tianzong walked around the huge tree, clicking his tongue:

"What a strange thief! What a strange thief!

Such a big tree has vitality that is almost as abundant as some monsters that have been practicing Taoism for many years.

But there is no sign of it developing intelligence or transforming into a demon.

It’s unreasonable, very unreasonable.”

Looking at the towering trees that pierced the sky and even reached the clouds up to their waists, Hu Tianzong had never seen such a sight before and his face was filled with disbelief.

The dragon's eyes shone with purple-gold charm. Qi Xiu slowly glanced around and saw a sea of ​​forest that stretched as far as the eye could see.

The majestic vitality that is still strong today has turned into an ancient golden sea, slowly nourishing every blade of grass and every living thing here.

It seems that it is precisely because of the nourishment of this ocean of vitality that the trees here have grown so large, even breaking through their original limits.

but……

With his eyes flickering as he looked at the rich and indissoluble vitality in the void, Qi Xiu tried to absorb some of it.

But the vigorous vitality that can be seen everywhere cannot be absorbed even a little bit.

It's as if this piece of vitality has been branded.

As an outsider, he has no right to use it.

"Even ordinary trees can be nourished to this extent. If there are living creatures here, I'm afraid..."

Before Hu Tianzong could finish his words, the ground suddenly shook violently and roared rapidly, as if some huge monster was running towards them.

"Oh my god, I have such a bad mouth, whatever I say will come true!"

Hu Tianzong patted his lips lightly, grinned helplessly, and was about to mobilize his skills to use his method.

But he was seen making several hand seals on the spot, but it was like he was dancing in the air, and there was no response at all.

"Ok?"

His face suddenly changed, and Hu Tianzong hurriedly tried a few more times, but no matter how he pinched the magic formula and urged his internal cultivation, he could not generate a trace of power.

Even the red cloak on his body could not be used as an offering, and it turned into a completely ordinary piece of clothing.

"What's happening here?!"

Completely confused by the situation, Hu Tianzong's face turned red. He scratched his head and looked at Qi Xiu beside him, wanting to cry but without tears.

Gazing at Hu Tianzong, whose cultivation had been completely sealed, Qi Xiu's dragon blood trembled slightly, and a word suddenly flashed through his mind.

"The Great Dao Divine Forbidden!"

"The Great Dao Divine Forbidden?"

When Hu Tianzong heard this word for the first time, he searched his entire mind but could not find any matching information.

“Well, this is a unique method of the Phoenix Clan.

It can render ineffective all Taoist powers within a certain area of ​​Phoenix Nest.

Back then, the Phoenix clan relied on this unique method to preserve their bloodline from generation to generation.

Judging from this, this should be a phoenix nest."

After revealing the power of the Great Dao Divine Forbidden Law, Qi Xiu pursed his lips. If this was really the Phoenix Nest, then the degree of danger here would be difficult to estimate...

"This great divine ban is so miraculous. How come you are okay, Taoist priest?" With a lingering fear on his face, Hu Tianzong looked at Qi Xiu with a complicated expression.

He saw Qi Xiu use his skills with his own eyes, and there was no hindrance at all.

"No matter how powerful the phoenix is, it cannot suppress a real dragon."

In fact, after knowing that there was a great divine ban set up here, Qi Xiu checked his entire body.

However, this vast power that is said to be able to seal the Great Avenue cannot affect the blood of the true dragon, who is revered as the master of all worlds.

All the abilities of the True Dragon's body showed no signs of being sealed; they operated freely and without any abnormality.

"Ok."

After hearing what Qi Xiu said, Hu Tianzong spread his hands helplessly:

"In this case, the task of obtaining the inheritance will only be left to the Taoist master."

"Don't worry, the Great Dao Divine Forbidden Regulations usually only work around the Phoenix Nest. Once you enter the Phoenix Nest, they will disappear. Then you will have a chance to appear."

"If that's the case, I'm relieved."

Hearing that he would not be a burden, Hu Tianzong laughed and then bowed and said:

"If that's the case, then please take me into the Dharma Realm, I am powerless right now.

Staying outside... hey, it's dangerous."

Looking at Hu Tianzong who looked as if it was a matter of course, Qi Xiu laughed and waved his sleeves. The True Dragon Realm opened up again and took it in.

At this time, the figure running in the distance also revealed its true form.

oh oh oh-

The deafening crowing of cocks shook the four directions, and visible sound waves swept over. The huge trees that were like pillars of heaven in the places passed by were shaken and cracked, and the grass leaves tens of meters high on the ground exploded into balls of green mist.

"Is that... a rooster?"

Staring at the figure swooping down towards him, Qi Xiu had a strange look on his face.

Because the figure that shook the four directions with just one crowing was actually a rooster as big as a hill, with colorful tail feathers, a sharp beak, a bright red crown on its head, and a terrifying storm that could be rolled up from the ground with a flap of its wings!

The colorful rooster was extremely fast. The moment Qi Xiu saw it, it suddenly leaped into the air and landed directly in the next second as if it had teleported.

boom!

The sharp beak that seemed to be made of gold pecked down fiercely, and the infinite and hot majestic yang energy rolled up wisps of golden light. Behind the colorful rooster, an ancient nest made of countless precious leaves of sacred trees slowly emerged.

"Dao Shen Realm?!"

Qi Xiu looked at the colorful rooster that manifested the Dao body in astonishment, with a look of surprise on his face. It was hard for him to imagine that this was actually a rooster in the Dao body realm.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, no matter what others said, I would not believe that there was a rooster in this world that had cultivated to the Dao Body Realm.

Although he was surprised, facing the terrifying blow head-on, Qi Xiu's body shook and instantly turned into a wisp of green smoke, and landed on the head of the colorful rooster.

The dragon's eyes were glowing with purple-gold light. Qi Xiu's eyes moved, and he took in the entire aura of the colorful rooster.

“This bloodline…is just a completely ordinary rooster.

Sure enough, the living creatures here, like these towering trees, have all been nourished and transformed by the vast vitality.

Even an ordinary rooster was forcibly elevated to the Dao Body realm."

With this discovery, Qi Xiu became even more certain that this was the location of the Phoenix inheritance.

Otherwise, what else could emanate such a powerful and majestic vitality?

With Qi Xiu riding on its head, the colorful rooster's eyes suddenly flashed with strong anger. The five colorful tail feathers behind it suddenly stood up and suddenly transformed into five flying swords. The sword light was fierce and swept across the world. Wherever it passed, the void was torn into terrifying cracks as black as ink.

Ding ding ding ding——

There was a crisp and deafening collision sound, and dazzling sparks suddenly exploded from Qi Xiu's back.

The dragon scales glowed spontaneously, firmly blocking the attack of the five flying swords. The dark green scales, which were flowing with heavy colorful auras, flashed slightly, and immediately bounced the colorful flying swords away.

"Whoa whoa?"

Seeing that his tail-feather flying sword, which was powerful enough to split mountains, part rivers, and chop the sky, didn't even scratch Qi Xiu's skin, a hint of horror flashed in the eyes of the colorful rooster.

"Lie down!"

Qi Xiu easily blocked the attack of the colorful rooster, his dragon eyes gleaming with a sharp light. In this phoenix nest, his true dragon blood became more active. He raised his palm like a knife, and a fierce and murderous aura was brewing at the edge, destroying layers of the void.

scoff!

With one blow of the hand knife, the whole rooster's head was chopped off with a "swish", like a volcanic eruption, turning into a column of hot blood rushing into the sky, releasing a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, turning the area within a hundred miles into a molten land.

The light from the dragon scales flourished spontaneously, sweeping away the chicken blood that was falling like a rainstorm.

But just as Qi Xiu dodged and fell from the slowly collapsing body of the rooster, he saw a ray of red-gold divine light suddenly flowing through the inside of the rooster's body, which was just stiff on the ground.

This ray of light is extremely obscure and difficult to understand.

If it weren't for Qi Xiu's dragon eyes, ordinary people would not be able to notice it at all.

And in the next second when this red-gold divine light flashed rapidly.

The colorful rooster whose head was cut off and even its soul was shattered came back to life. The severed head grew back intact, and even the shattered soul was healed.

Then, the strangely resurrected rooster let out a terrified scream, and under Qi Xiu's serious gaze, it suddenly turned into a shadow and fled away at a high speed.

"Your head is chopped off, your soul is shattered, and you can still live again?

So that divine light is..."

Staring at the direction where the colorful rooster fled, Qi Xiu's eyes moved slightly. While thinking and hesitating, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and suddenly chased after it.

Among the giant trees that were like pillars of heaven, a colorful rooster flapped its wings with all its might, and its feathers emitted an extremely dazzling light, turning it into a colorful rainbow light and flying straight forward at an incredible speed.

However, just as the colorful rooster looked back repeatedly and found that it had seen the terrifying existence, a voice that was extremely plain but made it feel like it was falling into hell suddenly rang out.

"The True Dragon Realm, open!"

Rumbling--

The fierce storm mixed with the extremely powerful thunder knocked the big rooster, which had transformed into five-colored rainbow light, back to its original form, and it rolled backwards in a miserable state.

“Ohh…Ohhh!”

Looking around in unbearable fear, in the dark and stormy True Dragon Realm, the colorful rooster found that he could not tell the direction at all.

The thunder hidden in the thick black clouds was ready to move, and the overwhelming and oppressive pressure made him tremble like a sieve, and his eyes were filled with fear.

"Oh my god, where did you get this thing from? A rooster in the Dao Body Realm?!"

Above a thundercloud, Hu Tianzong opened his mouth wide and looked at the colorful rooster trapped in the Dharma Realm.

The big rooster, which had no intelligence and was still in an avian state, but had the cultivation level of Dao Body, once again shocked the young master of the Hu family.

Without spiritual intelligence, how can one practice cultivation? Without practice, how can one achieve the state of Tao body?

It was a complete paradox, but it was now vividly presented before him.

"The key to the Phoenix inheritance should be hidden inside this rooster."

Standing beside Hu Tianzong with his hands behind his back, Qi Xiu waved his hand casually, and a sharp and domineering lightning suddenly shot out from the extremely thick and terrifying storm above his head, just like the three-pointed, double-edged sword of the god of justice in mythology and legend, which suddenly pierced through the body of the colorful rooster.

Boom!

There was no chance to resist. The colorful rooster, as big as a mountain, instantly exploded into a ball of blood mist. From the inside out, even its soul and will were turned into powder.

"This is……"

Seeing Qi Xiu raising his hand to kill the extremely strange rooster, Hu Tianzong was puzzled, but saw that the rooster had turned into a thick and sticky blood mist in the previous second.

The next moment he was resurrected, his body intact, as if the destruction just now was just an illusion.

"Ok?"

His expression suddenly became serious, and Hu Tianzong narrowed his eyes as he looked at the rooster that had come back to life.

He had no idea how this colorful rooster was resurrected, as if time had gone back.

"what happened?"

Unable to see any clues, Hu Tianzong turned his head to look at Qi Xiu.

"This is what I said, the key to getting closer to the Phoenix inheritance."

Before Qi Xiu finished his words, he waved his hand again and killed the colorful rooster.

But just when the mysterious red-gold divine light flashed again and was about to revive the rooster, Qi Xiulong, who had been prepared, moved his eyes slightly, his body instantly violently, and stretched out his right hand brazenly, grabbing the magical red light that had the power to change life and death.

When he suddenly grasped this red-gold divine light, Qi Xiu's expression changed slightly.

His entire right hand was turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

An extremely terrifying temperature was released from this red-gold divine light, which was about to melt his arm alive.

Even, his whole person.

The divine prohibitions of the great way, the magical creatures, plus this difficult-to-conquer characteristic... If I didn't have the body of a real dragon, I would probably not be able to catch this thing at all.

Gazing at the red-gold divine light in his hand, Qi Xiu suddenly activated the dragon blood in his body. The dark blue dragon scale-like light on his entire right arm became more and more condensed, resisting the terrifying high temperature emitted by the red-gold divine light.

The struggle continued like this until Qi Xiu had used up 90% of his strength, and only then did the scarlet-gold divine light gradually subside.

Hu Tianzong came forward curiously and stretched his neck to look at Qi Xiu's palm.

"What kind of divine object is this?"

He slowly spread out his right hand, and a strand as thin as a hair, but emitting vast vitality, and a flawless red-gold divine light lay quietly in Qi Xiu's palm.

Looking down at the red-gold divine light in his hand, Qi Xiu took a deep breath and slowly said a name:

“Phoenix blood!”

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