Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 872 - 857: The Disciple’s Nature - Trial Mission!

Chapter 872: Chapter 857: The Disciple’s Nature - Trial Mission!

Xiao Chen’s words fell, and he looked towards his third disciple, Jian Jinghong.

"The Sword seeks the straight path, disdaining the twisted; in cultivating Swordsmanship, it reveals its sharpness without cover."

This is Xiao Chen’s third disciple, Jian Jinghong!

"Disciple obeys, I will surely annihilate the foreign races and unify Xuanling City!"

The Iron Sword on his back let out a faint hum, as if responding to its master. A moment later, Jian Jinghong stood up and said to Xiao Chen with a deep voice.

Xiao Chen nodded. The Swordsmanship made his disciple seem somewhat cold; every gesture was like a drawn sword, ready to strike. Even now, sipping tea before Xiao Chen, he still held himself as straight as a sword, rooted in the ground.

Then Xiao Chen’s gaze shifted to his fourth disciple, Xiong Sheng, who was now very tall. In terms of stature alone, among the brothers, he was the largest; and he had inherited the Purple Gold Battle Body that Xiao Chen himself had practiced.

By now, he had cultivated it to the fourth level of the Golden Battle Body. His War Body stood thirty-nine zhang high, capable of shattering mountains and splitting rocks. It could be said that Xiong Sheng was the true inheritor of the mantle among the nine disciples.

Added to his natural great strength, Xiong Sheng’s cultivation of the Golden Battle Body was twice as effective. He was also the disciple who received the most guidance from Xiao Chen and, following his example, tempered the Golden Battle Body, embarking on the path of the Blood Crystal Diamond.

"Master," Xiong Sheng’s imposing size made him look somewhat ferocious.

But in fact, before Xiao Chen, he felt quite at a loss, just as he did now under Xiao Chen’s gaze. The big man involuntarily touched the back of his head and, after calling out to his master, didn’t know what to do next.

"Fourth brother, Master is asking you something," nudged Zi Yuan as she squeezed over, grabbed onto Xiong Sheng’s body, and quickly climbed onto his shoulder, sitting on one side with her eyes curved into crescent moons, whispering in his ear.

"Master, I followed the others and gathered some warriors who like refining their bodies, establishing a Strength Alliance. However, without your permission, I have not leaked a shred of the War Body Techniques we practiced."

Eventually, Xiong Sheng finished speaking haltingly. Over the years, the brothers had become extremely familiar with one another and naturally understood each other’s characters. Despite Xiong Sheng seeming to be simple and honest, in a real fight, he was an absolute man-shaped fierce beast who would tear apart foreign races with his bare hands.

"Your Golden Battle Body should soon reach the fifth level," said Xiao Chen, looking at Xiong Sheng as if he could see through him. In fact, to cultivate the Purple Gold Battle Body did not require condensing Blood Crystal Diamonds to crystallize the flesh.

The cultivation of the Golden Battle Body was about tempering skin, flesh, and bones. As for later merging all the flesh and blood with energy and forming Blood Diamonds with great determination, that was a deeper level of the physical path.

"Yes, Master. Because I need to condense the Diamond Flesh Crystals, I have not yet been able to advance to the fifth level of the realm," said Xiong Sheng.

Xiao Chen nodded and then said, "With the fourth layer of the Golden Battle Body, coupled with the condensation of the Blood Crystal Diamonds, you are sufficiently strong to challenge the common warriors of the fifth level of the Towering Realm."

"You shall be the Pavilion Master of the newly established Refining Body Pavilion in the War God Temple," Xiao Chen then said to Xiong Sheng. "As for your followers, let them assist you for now. Help set up the framework of the War God Temple’s Refining Body Pavilion."

"Master... I obey!" Xiao Chen’s decisive words surprised Xiong Sheng. He was just about to decline but, seeing the look in Xiao Chen’s eyes, he swallowed the words he was about to say and accepted the charge.

"Huang Xiaotian," Xiao Chen’s gaze next shifted towards his fifth disciple, and he spoke out.

"Hehe... Master, no need to worry yourself about me. I have set up the Sacred Beast Control Alliance, just a trivial affair," Huang Xiaotian said, startled as if struck by lightning when Xiao Chen looked his way. He suddenly stood up from his seat and said to Xiao Chen, "It’s just about going into the Desolate Ancient Forest and capturing some Exotic Beasts for other warriors to use as War Beasts."

"I reckon most of them satisfy your own appetite!" Xiao Chen’s originally gentle face suddenly turned cold. This fifth disciple had a fondness for indulgence and acted on whims, unrestrained. However, that also contributed to his rapid advancement in cultivation, and he now had reached the fourth level of the Towering Realm.

"Fifth brother is lying! You promised to catch an Azure Luan Bird for Yuan’er as a War Beast, yet you’ve failed to do so after all this time," said Zi Yuan, who was still sitting on Xiong Sheng’s shoulder, pouting her lips and pointing at Huang Xiaotian.

"Cough cough..." Embarrassed by Zi Yuan’s pointing, Huang Xiaotian’s honest face immediately flashed with awkwardness. The promise of the Azure Luan Bird was a ploy he had come up with two years ago when Zi Yuan was pestering him to test a medicine and he wanted to escape; he hadn’t expected her to remember it so clearly.

But the flash of embarrassment was fleeting, disappearing without a trace.

"Little sister, the Azure Luan Bird is a descendant of a Divine Beast, not easily found on the Desolate Land. I’ve been searching for one for you all this time. Once I find it, I’ll subdue it for you as a War Beast," Huang Xiaotian reassured.

After Huang Xiaotian spoke, seeing that Zi Yuan was not persisting, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, others faced this scene with nothing but chuckles.

"Very well, since you are so familiar with exotic beasts and have even captured them for the tribe’s warriors to tame as war beasts, I shall give you a task."

Yet Xiao Chen remained cold-faced as he spoke.

"Please instruct me, Master. Even if I have to scale a mountain of swords or plunge into a sea of fire, I will surely complete the task," Huang Xiaotian hurriedly responded.

"Your master doesn’t need you to scale a mountain of swords or plunge into a sea of fire, but this task is no easier to accomplish."

The fifth disciple, Huang Xiaotian, possessed a unique beast spirit power that allowed him to merge with exotic beasts, becoming one with them, as if he were an exotic beast himself—a supremely secret technique in the Desolate Ancient Forest.

"Since you have been able to find so many exotic beasts, it just so happens that our Gu Yuan Tribe has only one guardian war beast, the Dragon Blood Moon Gazing Rhinoceros."

As Xiao Chen spoke this, he paused. However, his next words made everything clear to those who were listening.

"Master, I do not possess your great power to subdue an entire group of exotic beasts!" exclaimed Huang Xiaotian.

"I have not asked you to subdue them. Your mission is to enter the Dragon Fall Mountain Range and investigate which areas are home to groups of exotic beasts, preferably those with divine beast bloodlines. Report back to me, and I will personally go to tame them to guard our tribe!"

Hearing Xiao Chen’s words, Huang Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief. With his current level of cultivation and his Golden Patterned Bear that had already become a three-star exotic beast, merging with it allowed him to completely conceal his presence deep within the Desolate Ancient Forest.

The fifth disciple, Bu Canghai, possessed the Hidden Soul Talent and was practising the Soul Revitalization Technique passed down by Xiao Chen. His Hidden Soul Talent could now be controlled freely, and his soul power had already broken into the realm of the Supreme.

With his current cultivation at the fourth level of the Towering Realm and his Hidden Soul Talent, even a Supreme wouldn’t detect his presence.

"Master, I have established a Soul Shrine within the War God Temple and command two followers, both possessing a trace of mutation in their spirits and cultivating the common soul techniques you placed in the Martial Arts Pavilion," spoke Bu Canghai in a clear voice.

"However, individuals with mutated spirits are extremely rare. To this day, I have found only two," Bu Canghai added, a hint of regret in his voice.

"Canghai, the soul itself is a forbidden domain for martial artist cultivation, and for a soul to develop a mutation is one in a million. Having two such individuals is already an immense fortune. Why be so covetous and fret over this?"

"I was shortsighted!" Upon Xiao Chen’s reprimand, Bu Canghai snapped back to reality.

"I also have a task for you." Seeing that Bu Canghai quickly regained his composure, Xiao Chen nodded and spoke again.

"Thousands of years ago, in our Border Wasteland Region, there was a battle division within a marquis department known as the Xuan Kong Marquis Department. Are you aware of it?"

Upon hearing Xiao Chen’s words, some disciples nodded while others shook their heads. Xiao Chen did not stop there but continued.

"This Xuan Kong Marquis Department could rival a Supreme-level marquis department. It was not because of the martial strength within the department, but because it was an Array Dao Tribe originating from the Formation Way."

Xiao Chen’s words made Tian Fang’s expression turn excited. He too had heard of the Xuan Kong Marquis Department, but tens of thousands of years had turned it to ashes.

Although a secret realm had formed due to special reasons, after the years of visitation by countless warriors, if there were any treasures left, they would have been thoroughly looted. Tian Fang wondered why his master was bringing it up now.

"Now, the site of the Xuan Kong Marquis Department is enclosed by a large array forming a secret realm. For others, it’s filled with danger, but with your Hidden Soul Talent, Canghai, you can merge into it and investigate what still exists within the ruins of the Xuan Kong Marquis Department."

"The task I am giving you is to go to the secret realm formed by the ruins of the Xuan Kong Marquis Department and conduct your investigation."

Xiao Chen could not be certain if there remained any treasures in this secret realm, but even if there were none, it would serve as a cultivation experience for Bu Canghai.

If he could use his Hidden Soul Talent to fully integrate into the array, discovering something else would naturally be even better.

"Sixth junior brother, please take care!"

It was Tian Fang who stood up and gestured towards Bu Canghai. The Xuan Kong Marquis Department was established based on formations, and even though it had turned to ruins, what remained was related to the Formation Way. If he could indeed obtain some relics from within, perhaps they could unexpectedly aid the newly established Formation Pavilion of the War God Temple.

Ps1 Dear readers, you can join the group, V group 590596166, ordinary group 310191782

Ps2 Also, the chief is asking for recommendations, monthly tickets! If you have any tickets in hand, throw them to the chief! It’s already the second day; the chief’s hands are too slow at typing.