"You... are celebrating too soon!"

A familiar voice emanated from the pit, sounding like a whisper from hell.

An incredulous expression washed over Xiang Lingtian's face.

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

His 重瞳神光 (Zhòngtóng Shénguāng, Double Pupil Divine Light) had struck Chen Yuan squarely. There was no way he was unscathed. He should be on the verge of death, waiting for him to extract his divine blood.

Impossible!

That was the first thought that flashed through Xiang Lingtian's mind.

But...

The reality was right before him.

Wishing it away wouldn't change anything.

A flawless, white arm emerged first, followed by Chen Yuan's entire body.

Compared to before, his clothes were indeed tattered, but he didn't have a scratch on him. As for the patterns that had appeared,

they vanished at Chen Yuan's will, receding into his flesh.

But the power remained.

Chen Yuan stepped onto the void, his aura perfectly balanced, even faintly surpassing Xiang Lingtian, whose cultivation was a level higher.

Within his body, his blood surged.

Displaying the power that Chen Yuan now possessed.

Far surpassing before!

The bloodline that the Xiang family had left in him, after being stimulated by his cultivation journey, had already begun to awaken. Later, it was further refined in the blood pool within the illusion in Shu, accelerating the process.

And now, after a deadly battle, and under the effects of that divine light, it had fully awakened.

Chen Yuan even felt that his physical body now completely surpassed his Qi refining cultivation. Crushing a mountain with a single punch was entirely within the realm of possibility.

"You... you..." Xiang Lingtian stared at Chen Yuan in astonishment.

He couldn't accept it.

He truly couldn't accept why the other's injuries had suddenly healed.

He showed absolutely no sign of his previous weakness.

It was too fast.

Even the most potent spiritual medicine in the world couldn't possibly achieve this in just a few breaths. It was simply an unimaginable situation!

"Surprised?"

A faint smile, seemingly mocking, appeared at the corner of Chen Yuan's mouth.

"How could you possibly emerge unscathed from the Double Pupil Divine Light?" Xiang Lingtian fixed his gaze on Chen Yuan and finally asked the question.

"I should thank you. This divine light is not bad. Would you like to try it again?"

Chen Yuan said softly.

"Impossible. The Double Pupil is invincible. There's no way you could avoid it. What method did you use?" Xiang Lingtian, looking at Chen Yuan's calm demeanor, was starting to break down.

The other's injuries had healed, but his hadn't.

Activating the Double Pupil Divine Light had already pushed his body to the brink of collapse. He had thought that the battle would end today, but such a twist had occurred.

With Chen Yuan's strength, wouldn't he... be able to kill him?

At that thought, Xiang Lingtian's pupils abruptly constricted.

"There is nothing invincible. All constitutions are external things. Martial artists rely on themselves. Alright, enough nonsense. Xiang Lingtian, it's time to go!"

Chen Yuan slowly clenched his right fist, a terrifying aura brewing within.

"You think healing your injuries means you can defeat me? Ridiculous! I could severely injure you before, and I can do it again now. If you don't want both of us to be seriously injured, let's both retreat today and fight again another day!"

Xiang Lingtian coldly snorted, forcing himself to remain calm, trying to intimidate Chen Yuan.

In his current state, if the other could hold on for a moment longer, he would be the one to fall!

Therefore, retreating was the best option.

But if Chen Yuan saw through his weakness, he wouldn't let him go. It would be best if the other party voluntarily retreated.

"No, try that divine light again. I feel like I haven't had enough," Chen Yuan said, looking at him.

After what had just happened, he felt that his divine blood might have a chance for further improvement, and that divine light seemed to be able to accelerate this process in a strange way.

"You're courting death!"

Xiang Lingtian's expression darkened.

"Heh..."

Chen Yuan smiled contemptuously, seeing through the other's bluff.

If the other really had confidence, he would have used his Double Pupil power the moment he appeared from the ground.

Xiang Lingtian's eyes flickered. Seeing the killing intent emanating from the other party, he knew that things couldn't end peacefully today. He immediately activated a secret technique to enhance his strength one last time.

Although there would be significant side effects afterward, he couldn't afford to worry about that now.

A terrifying aura began to emanate again, and in Xiang Lingtian's pupils, two beams of light began to merge, emitting the same tyrannical, mysterious, and dim light as before.

Within a radius of several thousand meters, the atmosphere became somewhat oppressive due to this aura.

Xiang Lingtian took a step forward, like an immortal or god, his long hair dancing, light scattering, and looked down on Chen Yuan, saying:

"Are you... sure you want to fight?"

"Too much nonsense!"

Chen Yuan spat out those words. Then, his right fist slammed forward, an incredibly powerful force, far exceeding before, instantly erupted, and his own powerful Martial Dao True Intent began to overwhelm the other party.

The moment Chen Yuan threw his punch, a mysterious demon god phantom also condensed behind him, mirroring Chen Yuan's movements and throwing out its fist.

"Extinguish!"

Xiang Lingtian no longer hesitated and decided to fight to the death. The two beams of light in his pupils merged into one, and the divine light burst forth instantly, rushing towards Chen Yuan.

But...

This time, the situation was completely different from before.

Before, Chen Yuan's methods were instantly pierced and destroyed, but this time, they were evenly matched. The divine light was destroyed by Chen Yuan's full-force strike.

No, to be precise, they were both destroyed!

However, this was enough for Chen Yuan.

"See, the Double Pupil isn't invincible!" Chen Yuan said with a smile.

As for whether the other party was gradually unable to hold on due to his own strength, it was not so important to him. As long as he could win, that was all that mattered.

Contrary to Chen Yuan, Xiang Lingtian felt a chill in his heart.

The divine light had been blocked!

It was over!

His greatest reliance was no longer working.

However, Chen Yuan did not give him much time to think. Taking advantage of the other's weakness, he would naturally go all out to kill him. He suddenly leaped forward, his own Martial Dao True Intent merged with heaven and earth.

He threw out another punch.

One punch,

Two punches,

Three punches...

Finally, after Chen Yuan had exhausted all his strength to throw out the seventh punch, Xiang Lingtian could no longer hold on. The Double Pupil Divine Light that had erupted for the last time was directly shattered.

Then, this powerful force landed directly on Xiang Lingtian's body.

Beneath his clothes, his flesh shattered even more severely, especially a crack that extended from his abdomen all the way to his neck, exposing the bone. Faced with this incoming force,

He sank in his heart and could only block with all his might.

And his fate was the same as Chen Yuan's before. He was like a kite with a broken string, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and suddenly fell from the void to the ground.

Smashing out a deep pit.

Around the deep pit, cracks split open, and if you looked down from above, you could see that these cracks were like a huge spider web.

Silence, silence!

Everything seemed to repeat what happened before.

The only exception was that the person standing in the sky now was Chen Yuan, and the person below was Xiang Lingtian, who had been so high and arrogant before.

Chen Yuan's eyes were calm, and he was about to finish off the other party directly.

Lest he, like Chen Yuan, suddenly made a reverse comeback.

That... would really be speechless.

Therefore, a quick kill was the right thing to do.

If Xiang Lingtian had attacked him recklessly, the ending might be different now. Even with the blessing of the divine blood, he might not be able to do anything to this guy in a short period of time.

"Wait a moment..."

Just as Chen Yuan was about to make a move, Mo Luo's voice suddenly rang out.

"What does senior want to say?"

Chen Yuan frowned slightly.

"Since this child can find your whereabouts so accurately, the people of the Xiang family must also know of your existence. It's naturally best to increase your strength."

"Hmm?"

Mo Luo's somewhat random words made Chen Yuan feel puzzled.

"The Double Pupil is different from other constitutions. These eyes can be transplanted. This old monk can help you. You possess the Xiang family's divine blood, which has now awakened. If you use this to activate the Double Pupil Divine Light, its power will definitely not be less than that of this person."

Mo Luo continued.

"Take his eyes?"

Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes, looked down at the silence below, and said with a faint smile:

"Thank you for your kindness, senior."

"Hmm?"

"But..." Chen Yuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

"My path is already an invincible path, there is no need to borrow the techniques of others!"

An extremely confident aura condensed on his body. He was not interested in taking Xiang Lingtian's eyes at all. Everything was better original.

Besides what he just said, Chen Yuan didn't want to lose big over small gains.

His eyes were practicing the Heavenly Eye Pupil Technique.

What if there was a conflict with Xiang Lingtian's Double Pupil?

What invincible Double Pupil.

His path of destiny was the true invincible path.

Hearing Chen Yuan's answer, Mo Luo said nothing more. He was just making a suggestion. Refining the other party's eyes would indeed help Chen Yuan.

But what he said was not wrong.

Martial artists always rely on themselves for cultivation, not spiritual bodies or eyes.

A brief few breaths passed, not delaying anything. He looked down at the completely dispersed smoke below, leaving only a somewhat deep pit.

With a hook of his mouth, a burst of fist force erupted.

But what was greeted was a sword light.

Divine talisman!

As the successor of the dignified Xiang family, he naturally had this kind of life-saving item in his hand. It was a pity that it was not enough. As the sword light shattered the fist force and slashed towards Chen Yuan with lightning speed,

Having already prepared, he quickly took out a divine talisman from his sleeve.

He had this too!

The sword light and the divine light slammed together, making a terrifying roar. Immediately afterwards, another Double Pupil Divine Light struck, Xiang Lingtian still had some remaining strength!

"Extinguish!"

Chen Yuan opened his mouth and spat out a word, and in an instant, a dragon's roar shook the sky.

The powerful saber light directly shattered this divine light, which was far weaker than before.

Chen Yuan took advantage of this opportunity to strike again.

The disheveled Xiang Lingtian rushed out from below, met this blow head-on, and couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood, collapsing on the ground, breathing weakly.

Looking at the eyes overlooking him in the void, Xiang Lingtian suddenly felt a little familiar.

It was so similar!

Why was this Chen Yuan so much like the patriarch?

Was it his illusion?

It must be, otherwise there was no way to explain it.

What a pity...

He had come to intercept Chen Yuan full of ambition, but he had ended up in such a situation, which was really ridiculed. This was not an interception at all, it was simply courting death!

What a pity...

He had failed to fulfill the patriarch's expectations, to extract the Xiang family's divine blood from Chen Yuan's body, and bring his head back to the elders of the Xiang family to see.

What a pity...

He had not yet completed his great cause, had not revived Chu, had not shaken the world, had not roamed the martial world, and had not sat on the dream emperor's throne.

Careless...

Xiang Lingtian exhaled a long breath, the daze in his eyes gradually dissipated, and gradually focused on Chen Yuan, giving birth to seven points of respect, two points of complexity, and one point of imperceptible fear.

How good it would be if such a person were from the Xiang family!

He was unable to defeat him with his cultivation surpassing Chen Yuan's and his terrifying Double Pupil, and even allowed him to make a reverse comeback. Even he, his opponent, felt incredible.

Below the Transformation Stage, someone could actually do this.

Moreover, he was only in his early twenties.

His future was limitless.

However, while sighing and admiring him, he knew that this person would definitely be a great enemy of the Xiang family in the future, the kind that would never stop until one of them was dead.

"You have been defeated."

Chen Yuan walked down step by step.

Looking down at Xiang Lingtian on the ground, he didn't care about his complex expression at all.

His weak aura meant certain death.

Xiang Lingtian's mouth cracked open:

"I have been defeated, indeed I have been defeated, but don't be too happy, my Xiang family will not let you go, you simply don't know the terror of the Xiang family."

As he said this, blood tears actually flowed from his eyes.

He destroyed his eyes, he couldn't possibly leave them for Chen Yuan.

In fact, Chen Yuan didn't need them either.

"How terrifying? More powerful than the imperial court? If that's the case, you wouldn't need to be lurking rats." Chen Yuan stopped about ten zhang away from Xiang Lingtian, and slowly raised his hand.

Preparing to completely end the other party, and take away his Destiny.

It was just that he didn't know what the opportunity would be this time.

Could it allow his cultivation to take another step forward?

But before he could make a move, before Xiang Lingtian could say any more last words, a bloody light suddenly lit up on his body, and then bloomed under Xiang Lingtian's somewhat terrified gaze.

Feeling that the blood bead that the patriarch had given him suddenly condensed a devouring force, he seemed to be a little dazed, and his flesh was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His blood was being drawn away...

"No, no... patriarch, you... lied to me..."

Xiang Lingtian's voice became weaker and weaker. The blood bead was taking away not only his Xiang family's divine blood, but also his life force!

Chen Yuan frowned, looking at the scene in front of him with some doubt.

It seemed... a little wrong.

Soon, in just a few moments, Xiang Lingtian, the once invincible successor of the Xiang family, was completely cut off from life, and completely fell on the spot!

When he died, he even became a... dried corpse.

Leaving only a pair of deep eye sockets, as if even his eyes had been drawn away.

And under Chen Yuan's Heavenly Eye, a streak of azure Destiny light instantly surged towards Chen Yuan.

......

......

Liang Province, a certain mountain peak.

Xiang Qianqiu, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes, and a faint smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth.

If you looked closely, you could see that his pupils also condensed into two in an instant.

Double Pupil!!!

Xiang Qianqiu also had the Double Pupil!

But the situation was not like this. In fact, the Double Pupil that Xiang Lingtian awakened was planted by him in his youth, so he warned Xiang Lingtian not to use the Double Pupil frequently.

Because once it was used too much, the abnormality would be discovered.

Xiang Lingtian, this collateral branch of the Xiang clan, who was cultivated by him from a young age, was a substitute, a pawn that he had planned twenty years ago.

It was a pity that the substitute was still a substitute after all.

He could never become the way he wanted him to be.

Fortunately, the genuine product of that year had returned!

Xiang Lingtian's eyes were filled with reminiscence, and a picture appeared in his eyes, a picture from more than twenty years ago.

It was in a broken temple, and he had successfully found that woman, Chen Yuan's mother, Chen Xuanling, through some means.

"Qianqiu, Qianqiu, can you let him go, he's just a child!" Chen Xuanling begged the indifferent young man in front of her bitterly.

Xiang Qianqiu looked down at Chen Xuanling and said lightly:

"For the sake of reviving Chu, he must be sacrificed. Don't you know how much effort I have put into him?"

At the beginning of her pregnancy, Chen Xuanling was happy, dispelling the pain of her brother's disappearance. She looked forward to his growing up little by little, and Xiang Qianqiu also showed a deep paternal love.

But unexpectedly, she learned that things were not like this.

Xiang Qianqiu had tried his best to give birth to his own bloodline in order to use him to revive Chu.

So, she fled...

Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, she fled...

But Xiang Qianqiu was Xiang Qianqiu after all. Even if she ran to the ends of the earth, she could not escape his palm.

For the sake of the child in swaddling clothes, she found the painting saint Wu Daozi and asked him to help take care of the child. Wu Daozi agreed without saying much.

And she stayed here waiting for Xiang Qianqiu.

"I don't want to either, but in order to revive Chu, it must be so. At worst, I'll just have another one." Xiang Qianqiu answered Chen Xuanling like this back then.

But Chen Xuanling's body stiffened, and she looked up at Xiang Qianqiu with tears in her eyes. That was a strange look. Xiang Qianqiu had changed, he was no longer the high-spirited man he used to be.

After experiencing many hardships, his heart for reviving Chu became even deeper, even to the point of doing anything to achieve his goal.

Then, Chen Xuanling committed suicide, breaking her heart and scattering her cultivation. If Xiang Qianqiu had taken action at that time, he could have saved her, but he didn't.

He just quietly watched Chen Xuanling's eyes gradually lose focus.

The words that Chen Xuanling said when she grabbed his hand before she died kept ringing in his mind:

"He is your child!"

"He is your child!"

On the top of the mountain, Xiang Qianqiu, who was sitting cross-legged, looked north, and Xuanling's voice rang in his ears again.

He smiled lightly:

"He is my child, but... he is also the blood of the Xiang family."

"What a pity, I gave you a chance to live a stable life as an ordinary person in Ping'an County, but you just had to enter the martial world and re-enter my eyes!"

.......