Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Don’t worry, big brother will be fine. I can sense it, once he wakes up, he’ll reach a whole new level!”

As Ling Wan finished speaking, Liu Hanyi and Mo Qing had yet to answer, but Chi Yan, nibbling on sunflower seeds at the stone table, responded casually, as always, without a hint of concern.

”A whole new level? Chi Yan, are you talking about... Heavenly Rank Third Realm?”

Upon hearing this, Mo Qing’s eyes lit up. He knew that Yun Xiao had already reached the Half-step Heavenly Rank, just like him. If he goes further, wouldn’t he reach the Heavenly Rank Third Realm?

”Perhaps, it’s not just the Early Stage of Floating Life Realm!”

Chi Yan cracked a nut with a snap and swallowed it, once again uttering shocking words that left the few people at the table looking at each other in disbelief.

Though they hadn’t focused on cultivation over the past two months, their unique physiques made breakthroughs much easier than for ordinary people.

Breaking through from Half-step Heavenly Rank to Heavenly Rank Third Realm is already difficult, yet Chi Yan hints that Yun Xiao’s breakthrough might exceed even the Early Stage of Floating Life Realm, which sounds almost like a fantasy.

Nevertheless, recalling the young man’s constant miracles, they couldn’t help but harbor another layer of expectation, one that might soon be realized.

......

Within the courtyard room.

On the bed lay a youthful, serene boy, who was Yun Xiao, having been unconscious for nearly two months. With Liu Hanyi and Mo Qing taking care of him now and then, he hadn’t become too disheveled.

From a distance, Yun Xiao appeared merely asleep, albeit for an extraordinarily long time. Who could sleep for two months without waking?

The injuries Yun Xiao sustained this time were severe. After the battle at the lake bottom on Impermanence Island, his Meridian Qi was depleted. In the end, he had to forcefully use the power of the Golden Snake Worm Xiao Wu, further exacerbating his injuries.

This may be the worst injury Yun Xiao suffered since his rebirth. Before passing out, he couldn’t assure that it wouldn’t affect his Cultivation Foundation irreparably.

Despite Yun Xiao’s show of force back then, his sword defeating Lu Tianrun and his fire confronting Fu Lingxue with great vigor, if able to choose, he certainly wouldn’t tread such an arduous path.

After two months of unconscious recuperation, Yun Xiao’s meridians remained chaotic. Even the consecutive needle treatments from various Heavenly-grade Pulse Refining Masters seemed to have little effect on his injuries.

However, on this day, peculiar changes arose within Yun Xiao’s body. Starting from his right palm, a trace of blood-red appeared, remarkably mystical.

The Blood-red Crescent Mark transformed by Blood Moon Jade brightly glowed then, with countless crimson rays illuminating every meridian within Yun Xiao’s body like a guiding lamp.

Since the Long Xiao Battle God’s rebirth, everything began because of this Blood Moon Jade. This quirky object forming a blood-red crescent mark caused numerous wondrous transformations in Yun Xiao’s reborn physique.

Activating the Five Elements Ancestor Veins, unlocking the Dragon Pattern Lock, accepting the Dragon Taming Sword, and incorporating Xiao Wu claiming to be the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, perhaps all were tied to the Blood Moon Jade, rendering Yun Xiao invincible at the same level, even capable of cross-tier combat.

At this moment, as Yun Xiao’s meridians were chaotic, and he seemed about to lose his past heaven-defying talent, the Blood Moon Jade once again independently generated a power.

If an ordinary cultivator were in Yun Xiao’s current condition, they might never awaken again, and even if they did, they would lose all Meridian Qi, becoming ordinary with no cultivation whatsoever.

Yet, as those blood-red rays softly infused Yun Xiao’s disordered meridians, something miraculous occurred. As if under certain guidance, countless chaotic meridians were straightened and even grew resilient.

This was what Heavenly Rank Medical Pulse Master Qian Sanyuan and Heavenly Poison Vein Master Qingmu Wu exhausted endless heart power to no avail, yet a mysterious blood-red light accomplished it effortlessly.

The events unfolding within Yun Xiao were unseen by others, even he remained in a semi-conscious state. All was the Blood Moon Jade’s power acting autonomously, seemingly protecting its master subconsciously.

It was precisely due to this correcting power from the peculiar Blood Moon Jade that Yun Xiao, whose meridians were previously chaotic, now found them realigned, with formidable energy surging forth, shooting straight skyward.

Phew... Phew...

The Heaven and Earth Energy within the room seemed drawn by some mysterious force, rushing towards Yun Xiao, eventually infusing into his meridian network, nourishing his strength enhancement.

Crack!

In a certain instant, it seemed that something invisible had shattered, and the Heaven and Earth Energy gathered within Yun Xiao’s meridians instantly found an outlet and entered a much larger space.

Just like streams flowing into the sea, when this energy forcefully rushed into another larger space, it also indicated that Yun Xiao had truly broken through to the Early Stage of the Heavenly Rank Floating Life Realm.

If Qian Sanyuan, Qingmu Wu, and others saw this scene, they wouldn’t know if their eyeballs would fall to the ground in shock, because this was beyond their imagination.

Over the past two months, Qian Sanyuan, Qingmu Wu, and even the elders from the two branches of the Meridian Refining Master Association would occasionally come to observe the changes in Yun Xiao’s body, but they were always at their wit’s end.

They could neither wake Yun Xiao from his coma nor straighten out the chaotic meridians within him, everything was just leaving it up to fate while doing their best.

However, Qian Sanyuan, Qingmu Wu, and others knew that with Yun Xiao’s meridians in such chaos, even if he could wake up, his talent would probably be reduced to freezing point, and he might even become an ordinary person, which was not an impossible scenario.

An exceptional genius, a great hero who saved the human race of Tenglong Continent from danger, ended up in such a condition, whenever they thought of this result, Qian Sanyuan, Qingmu Wu, and the elders from the Meridian Refining Master Association sighed deeply.

At the same time, the hatred in their hearts towards Wuyan Palace and the Spirit Fighting Commerce reached an extreme point. The hardliners from the Sky Poison Institute like Qingmu Wu and Feng Qiyun, or young talents who got along well with Yun Xiao like Ye Kusi Mo, frequently clamored to settle accounts with these two major factions.

Because everyone associated with Lianyun Mountain knew who was responsible for Yun Xiao being in such a miserable state, even unconscious for two months.

If it weren’t for Wu Zhukong and Wei Duzheng’s ruthless actions, hitting Yun Xiao after he had fought the Holy Grade Heavenly Spirit, he might not have ended up in a state of neither life nor death.

It was because those two factions disregarded righteousness, forcing Yun Xiao into a desperate struggle. Even though he killed Lu Tianrun, the Vice President of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, his cultivation talent, and even his life, might be forfeited as a result.

Most ordinary cultivators on the continent, under the deliberate concealment of Shenxiao Sect, were unaware of Wuyan Palace and Spirit Fighting Commerce’s actions.

But Qian Sanyuan and Qingmu Wu had witnessed it with their own eyes, so when the cultivators from the Meridian Refining Master Association heard this fact, they were filled with indignation.

Ultimately, Qingmu Wu and others did not go to seek trouble with Wuyan Palace and Spirit Fighting Commerce. They knew clearly that before the President emerged from seclusion, this group of people might not stand a chance against those two powerful factions.

Although the Meridian Refining Master Association had a wide network and could summon some experts to help at any time, the fact remained that Wuyan Palace and Spirit Fighting Commerce were among the top four powerful factions, and the experts they recruited might not dare to challenge such formidable forces.

Therefore, everything could only be put on hold until Yun Xiao truly awakened to make further plans.

What they didn’t know was that Yun Xiao not only did not lose his talent this time, but instead, he turned misfortune into blessing, breaking through to the true Heavenly Rank Third Realm.

From Earth Rank Third Realm to Heavenly Rank Third Realm, this might be the first major watershed on the continent, a breakthrough where a cultivator liberates themselves from earthly constraints and soars into the skies, a qualitative change triggered by a quantitative transformation.

On Tenglong Continent, Earth Rank experts were as common as cattle, but Heavenly Rank experts were exceedingly rare. Many top factions might only have one or two Heavenly Rank experts.

Becoming a Heavenly Rank expert allows one to dominate an area, establish their own faction, and deter others from provoking easily. A Heavenly Rank expert is an absolute pillar in high-end forces.

For instance, if a powerful family loses its Heavenly Rank expert pillar, it may soon fall into decline and be swallowed up by other forces.

Such events are commonplace on Tenglong Continent, illustrating the significance and rarity of Heavenly Rank experts.

Even though Yun Xiao in his previous life reached the level of Saint-grade Peak, he still had to tread carefully step by step after rebirth to reach his current position.

Breaking through to the Early Stage of the Heavenly Rank Floating Life Realm has allowed Yun Xiao’s rebirth journey to take another solid step, drawing him closer to his peak period in his previous life.

Shu!

However, when Yun Xiao subconsciously thought that this breakthrough was coming to an end, unexpectedly, the Blood Moon Jade’s blood-red light flickered, suddenly splitting off a beam that landed on his Waist Storage.

A sound of breaking wind was heard, and a human-sized blood-red light sphere appeared out of thin air above Yun Xiao’s prone body, emitting a subtle bloody aura.

When this blood-red light sphere appeared, it seemed to stir Yun Xiao’s long-quiet blood energy entirely, his face flushed red as if endless blood was about to burst out.