Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

251: Human Dao Xian YuanAs the words fell, the sword intent within Fragrance Hall—no, all presence—vanished.

Holy Master Qingyun felt a slight chill. He had long heard of Immortal Lord Qin’s name; he was an existence that even the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty and the Exquisite Dao Land treated with solemnity.

He was definitely a top-tier expert among Immortal Lords! Forget this idiot of a County Consort; even his Qingyun Holy Land could not withstand his wrath!

Sun Xingzhe also swallowed hard, feeling his legs go weak. Seeking death—seeking death! Just... don’t drag me down with you.

He was truly afraid that the person before him would, in a fit of rage, erase everyone present from this world.

Seeing the group silenced by fear, the Consort assumed they were intimidated by her and immediately became arrogant again.

”You! Hurry up and do something! Stop healing me for now and cripple this Holy Master Qingyun first! Quickly!”

”Seeking death!” Holy Master Qingyun roared, drawing his sword instantly. A sharp killing intent bore down, making the County Marquis and his Consort feel as if their scalps were about to split open.

No, it wasn’t just a feeling; they were actually splitting.

Holy Master Qingyun was the world’s foremost Sword Immortal, and he possessed the Qingping Sword, an Immortal Lord Dao Weapon refined with his own heart’s blood.

In terms of offensive prowess, he easily ranked within the top five in the current world, even when including the various Immortal Lords.

Even a mere wisp of his killing intent was enough to break through the Physical Body defenses of a Half-Step Saint Lord like the Consort, who had relied on resources to stack her cultivation; let alone that spineless weakling of a County Marquis.

But just as he intended to kill the two, Qin Jiang raised a hand and pressed it onto his shoulder, suppressing all the killing intent.

”Holy Master, your sword heart is in disarray. If you continue like this, you will never reach the realm of an Immortal Lord,” Qin Jiang said.

Holy Master Qingyun felt his silenced power in shock. He couldn’t believe the gap between the Immortal Lord level and himself was this vast!

But that was the reality; he truly had no power to resist.

Buzz~

Qin Jiang pressed two fingers against Holy Master Qingyun’s forehead, and a wisp of purple-black gas drifted out from his true spirit.

Holy Master Qingyun felt his mind clear instantly, and his expression became calm.

He looked at the floating wisp of gas, his pupils shrinking slightly. Tribulation Qi!

This was something that should only appear at certain nodes on the Eastern Journey path! How could it be here?

This Tribulation Qi was extremely rare and could cloud even an Immortal Lord’s mind. It was only now that he realized he had been influenced by it.

Qin Jiang grasped the wisp of Tribulation Qi and stored it within a spatial dimension.

He had already learned about Holy Master Qingyun from the Black White Sword Ancestor. The world’s foremost Sword Immortal was supposed to be bold yet refined, a person like a jade-like Young Master.

Such a person would never have behaved as he just did.

However, he hadn’t known the cause until the moment the Qingyun Sword Immortal intended to strike; only then did he notice the anomaly.

”Thank you for your assistance, Immortal Lord,” the Qingyun Sword Immortal said, cupping his hands in a respectful salute.

”You are too polite, Holy Master. It was just a small matter,” Qin Jiang replied.

Opposite them, the Immortal Phoenix Consort finally realized something was wrong. Although she didn’t know much about the cultivation world, she knew that the title of ’Immortal Lord’ was no joke.

On this continent, if anyone dared to call themselves an Immortal Lord, someone would come knocking within three days. If they didn’t grind them to dust, they would at least leave them heavily injured for three to five hundred years.

If they dared to offend again, they could prepare for the end of their Dao and life.

As she pondered, Qin Jiang’s gaze fell upon her. Although there was no pressure, she felt as if a mountain weighing billions of tons was pressing down on her neck.

Beads of cold sweat slid down her temples. She seemed to have misjudged the situation; this guy wasn’t sent by her elder brother.

Qin Jiang looked at the fat woman.

In truth, when he arrived, he had already scanned the Domains under the jurisdiction of the Qingyun Holy Land and the Zixuan Holy Land.

With a single thought, he could cover millions of miles; these two lands held no secrets from his consciousness. The commoners under Qingyun Holy Land’s rule, while not necessarily living in luxury, were at least free from rampaging demons.

When the Disciples of the Holy Land slew demons, although they often failed to control their Sword Qi and destroyed large swaths of farmland, the compensation paid was enough to buy ten times that amount.

Furthermore, and most importantly, there were stations for recruiting Disciples throughout the Qingyun Holy Land where Aptitude could be tested for free. Anyone with talent would not be overlooked.

This was why the Qingyun Holy Land had been able to catch up to the old-guard Holy Lands in just ten thousand years.

Simply put, while there was only one Saint Lord Level expert in the Sect, there were nearly ten Half-Step Saint Lords.

The number of Mid-Stage and Early-Stage Sword Immortals far exceeded other Holy Lands, even more than some Dao Lands.

Of course, these phenomena excluded Immortal Phoenix County.

The County Marquis and his Consort embezzled land and mineral resources. Everything in the county belonged to the Marquis’s Manor, and even the lives of the commoners were controlled by them.

It truly was a case of being unable to live and unable to die.

The trial set by Qingyun Holy Land in Fragrance Hall—the chicken finishing the mountain of rice, the dog licking up the mountain of flour, the fire burning through the immortal lock—

In reality, only if the County Marquis opened the locks of the granaries and released the mountains of rice and flour within would the tribulations in Fragrance Hall vanish.

Otherwise, even if rain was prayed for, this insatiably greedy Immortal Phoenix County Marquis would still collect it all into his own granaries.

The commoners of Immortal Phoenix County would still starve and die of thirst.

Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on his face, just like when he was in the Long family’s dungeon years ago.

Under normal circumstances, teaching the Consort and Marquis a lesson and forcing them to release the embezzled resources would be enough to get by.

Many powers on the continent operated this way: if they couldn’t act themselves, they’d let someone else do it, then step in to resolve it and take most of the benefits.

But he didn’t want to do that.

The sliver of humanity remaining beneath his detached exterior made him unwilling to do so.

He had already cultivated to become invincible in this world; if he couldn’t act according to his own heart, then what was the point of cultivation?

Suddenly, it felt as though he had returned to the time when he first comprehended the Ten Directions Overlord Record.

”Grinding them to dust is too easy on them. Turn them into Human Dao Immortal Sources and install them beneath Immortal Phoenix County,” he said.

Hearing this, the Consort and the Marquis’s faces changed instantly, turning pale with terror. It wasn’t that such things hadn’t happened before—at worst, I’ll just give up some money!

Just as they were about to beg for mercy, they found that their bodies could no longer move.

Holy Master Qingyun’s expression also changed slightly. ”Immortal Lord, refining a True Immortal into a Human Dao Immortal Source is a forbidden technique jointly banned by the Seven Great Dao Lands. Violators will be besieged by them.”

The so-called Human Dao Immortal Source was actually a secret method to refine a living True Immortal into a source of energy, fusing them with a sphere made from an Immortal Gold Mother Root.

Afterward, it would be buried within a region’s Wind and Rain Array to serve as the switch that controlled and regulated the area’s weather.

Once a True Immortal was refined into an energy source, their lifespan would no longer be limited.

And because the energy contained within a True Immortal was so vast, it would naturally siphon the surrounding World Source Qi, making the depletion almost negligible.

In other words, once made into a Human Dao Immortal Source, what awaited them would be never-ending torment.

The consciousness of the Human Dao Immortal Source would merge with the entire Wind and Rain Array. Everything would be reflected in its consciousness; it would clearly feel every living being stepping on the ground or walking into filthy places.

One could say that every Human Dao Immortal Source would eventually become like an idiot, yet they would be unable to die.

Back then, it was precisely because this method was too contrary to humanity that it was collectively banned.

”It matters not. If the Seven Great Dao Lands are displeased, I will pay them a visit personally.”