Chapter 1035: Nine Revolutions Buddha Heart Lotus

Chapter 1035: Nine Revolutions Buddha Heart Lotus

Minghan Heavenly Lake.

The waters of the Heavenly Lake were as still as a mirror, with only ice spirits dancing lightly and gracefully. At the edge of the lake, Mu Xuanyin and Yun Che stood facing each other from a distance. Both were dressed in snow-white robes, but under Mu Xuanyin's silent aura, Yun Che's momentum and presence were as insignificant as dust.

Yesterday was the final day of rest. Today marked the beginning of arduous training.

"Let your master see your limit state. Do not hold back any strength."

As Mu Xuanyin's icy voice fell, Yun Che's profound energy erupted abruptly. The Evil God Realm Gate — Evil Soul — Heart Incineration — Purgatory opened in an instant, and the color of his profound energy shifted from colorless to pale red. After a brief pause, Heaven-Shattering activated forcefully, causing a qualitative change in his profound energy that turned it into a blood-like crimson. His originally somewhat steady profound energy suddenly became like an enraged beast, growing wild and frenzied.

Along with it, Yun Che's gaze also grew wild.

Mu Xuanyin's icy brows moved slightly as she spoke coldly, "Attack."

"HAH!!"

Yun Che roared loudly, summoning the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword. His entire being's rampaging profound power surged upward, and both the Golden Crow Flame and Phoenix Flame ignited simultaneously, bursting forth from the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword as a several-zhang-long flaming sword beam. With a roar, he unleashed "Annihilation of Heaven and Earth" toward Mu Xuanyin.

The airflow over the Heavenly Lake was thrown into chaos. The startled ice spirits swiftly fled. Yun Che was like a suddenly erupting volcano... However, just as the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword was still ten zhang away from Mu Xuanyin, this suddenly erupting, seemingly terrifying storm of profound power vanished without a trace in an instant.

Yun Che and his sword froze in midair. The power he had just erupted seemed to be completely absorbed by an invisible black hole, disappearing without a single shred left, and without making even the slightest sound.

Ahead, Mu Xuanyin stood quietly, her gaze deep and cold, her snow-white robes still. From start to finish, she made not a single move, nor did she release any profound energy at all.

Yun Che descended woodenly to the ground and stared blankly for a long time.

His limit-level power, in front of Mu Xuanyin, was truly like a speck of dust before the vast ocean — not even worthy of being called insignificant.

"Not bad."

Mu Xuanyin's icy gaze held no ripples, but she gave Yun Che what seemed like a commendatory evaluation. Then, she slowly raised her right hand.

Yun Che, still in a daze, suddenly felt a deadly sense of danger bearing down on him. His body instinctively reacted, using Star God Remnant Shadow to shift his position in an instant... But five streaks of cold light, impossible to catch with the naked eye, shot out as if from the void itself, striking directly at his body after the teleportation, without missing even one of the five phantom images he had cast.

Pff!

The instant the five streaks of cold light touched his body, they suddenly halted and then silently dissipated. But Yun Che's heart spasmed, and cold sweat poured down his entire body, because any one of those five streaks of cold light was enough to kill him instantly.

He had only sensed the approach of one cold aura, but the next moment, he was touched by five cold auras simultaneously — and this was after he had used Star God Remnant Shadow to teleport.

Yun Che took a deep breath and raised his head, only to find that Mu Xuanyin was no longer in front of him. He quickly turned around, sweeping his gaze across the surroundings, but there was only emptiness. When he turned his gaze back, he saw at a glance that Mu Xuanyin was standing right in front of him, less than ten paces away.

"The depth of your profound energy far surpasses those of the same level, and your burst capability is acceptable. This should be a gift from the Evil God's power." Staring into Yun Che's eyes, Mu Xuanyin said coldly, "But your most important sense of touch is far too lacking."

"Sense of touch?" Yun Che was slightly stunned.

"Follow your master to a place."

Mu Xuanyin waved her hand casually, and the space ahead was silently torn open. Before Yun Che could react, his body was sucked into the spatial rift.

With a flash and a brightening before his eyes, he had already appeared in another world.

Looking out from the low altitude, everything ahead and behind was hazy and misty. It was an extremely pale and extremely thick fog. Ordinary fog could not block Yun Che's vision, but here, the thick fog limited his visibility to less than a hundred zhang. He strained to see into the distance, only vaguely making out groups of jagged ice mountains rising and falling.

Directly ahead, less than ten zhang away, was a massive sealing profound formation emitting cold light like ice crystals.

"This place is called Mist Deadly Valley. It is used within the sect to punish disciples who have committed grave mistakes. If a disciple commits an unforgivable error, they are thrown into this valley and left to fend for themselves. And the result is always that they quickly die a miserable death within, without exception."

The cold here naturally could not compare to Minghan Heavenly Lake, but the howling of the wind carried a bone-chilling eeriness.

Yun Che's heart "thumped." He probed tentatively, "Master, you brought your disciple here... could it be..."

Since it was called a "deadly valley," it was certainly not a good place.

"Mist Deadly Valley is home to a large number of divine profound beasts, but they are completely different from the profound beasts you have seen in Binghuang Realm. The profound beasts that survive in an environment like Mist Deadly Valley are all extremely violent in nature. They even slaughter their own kind, let alone other species. Every profound beast you encounter inside will try to kill you. Among these profound beasts, the weakest are the Frost Biting Wolves you have seen before, and the strongest are comparable to Divine Tribulation Realm profound practitioners."

"..." Yun Che's eyes showed shock. Hearing this, how could he not guess Mu Xuanyin's intention?

"Additionally, not only profound beasts, but there are also some former Binghuang disciples who were recently exiled and have not yet died under the claws of the violent beasts. To survive within, their profound power must be at least mid-to-late Divine Soul Realm, and there are even Divine Tribulation Realm disciples. As people who are doomed to die, they will stop at nothing to prolong their lives for a while, making them far more terrifying than the violent profound beasts. If you encounter any of them head-on, you will certainly die."

"Master, you don't mean for your disciple to... enter Mist Deadly Valley for training?" Yun Che asked rather nervously.

"Correct. But not now. If I threw you in now, you would die without a burial place in less than half an hour."

Hearing this, Yun Che breathed a heavy sigh of relief. He was by no means someone who backed down from difficulties, but based on Mu Xuanyin's description of Mist Deadly Valley, with his current strength, entering it would be nothing more than pure suicide.

"Your master will give you six months." Mu Xuanyin said coldly. "After six months, I will throw you into Mist Deadly Valley. If you do not want to die too quickly inside, or if you want to walk out alive, then train hard during these six months without any slack."

Her voice paused briefly, then suddenly turned icy and ruthless: "You will not have a chance to slack off either."

"Six months?"

Since his profound power had entered the Divine Origin Realm, he had clearly felt how difficult it was to improve divine profound power. Since he started training, his profound power had hardly changed from when he had first broken through to the Divine Origin Realm. In six months, whether he could even break through to Level 2 of the Divine Origin Realm was uncertain. Even if he could... entering a deadly valley filled with dangers and swarming with a large number of Divine Soul Realm, even Divine Tribulation Realm violent profound beasts and profound practitioners, would still be pure suicide.

Yun Che looked up, wanting to say something, but the moment he met Mu Xuanyin's gaze, his entire body chilled, and he dared not say more. He lowered his head and said, "Yes, disciple will do his utmost."

"Given your comprehension, there is no need for me to teach you the Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon any further. You can comprehend it on your own. During these six months, I permit you to enter Minghan Heavenly Lake at will. However, every day at noon, you must return to the Holy Temple and spar with me once."

"Ah? Spar with... Master?" Yun Che was greatly startled.

Although sparring with a strong opponent could benefit one's profound path, the gap between him and Mu Xuanyin was far too vast. He was not even worthy of uttering the word "spar" when facing her.

"Hmph!"

With a cold snort, Mu Xuanyin grabbed Yun Che's arm. A spatial rift appeared again, and with a flicker before his eyes, Yun Che returned to the Holy Temple.

Mu Xuanyin slowly extended her jade-white palm, and the aura around her rapidly diminished until it reached a level that Yun Che could no longer sense at all.

"Your master will suppress her profound power to the Divine Soul Realm. However, while profound power can be suppressed, awareness and sense of touch cannot. Do you understand?"

Yun Che nodded, took a deep breath, and assumed a cautious stance, but for a moment, he dared not speak.

Sparring with someone at the Divine Lord Realm... let alone him, even the Realm Kings of lower and middle star realms probably would not dare to imagine it.

"Each day's sparring, I will only make ten moves. If you can successfully withstand or evade my ten moves, or if you touch me or force me back even half a step before I finish my ten moves, then you win. If you cannot, then the consequences... you will know soon enough."

The bone-chilling voice and gaze made Yun Che's heart clench tightly, giving him an extremely terrible premonition.

"If, during these six months, you do not win even once, then do not even think about going to Zhou Tian God Realm. I will not waste any more effort on a waste who is doomed to die in Mist Deadly Valley."

Yun Che's nerves felt as if they had been pricked by needles. His brows sank, and his eyes suddenly became as sharp as cold stars. He gritted his teeth slightly and said, "Disciple... will certainly not let Master down."

"It better be so."

A snowflake drifted down lightly, landing on Mu Xuanyin's fingertip. She pushed her finger forward casually, and the snowflake, as if carried by a gentle breeze, flew toward Yun Che.

A cold aura, carrying an oppressive force that instantly suffocated Yun Che, came straight at him. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, who would have thought that a drifting snowflake could become so terrifying.

Yun Che's reaction was extremely fast. He immediately grasped the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword in his hand, and his entire body erupted with flames. He swung his sword to meet the lightly dancing snowflake.

His greatest strength was the frontal burst power of a heavy sword in hand. Back on Tian Xuan Continent, he could level mountains with a single sword strike and shake the seas with one blow.

As the snowflake approached, there was a muffled sound. The power he had unleashed with all his strength was instantly shattered. That thin snowflake tore through the sword storm he had unleashed and came straight for his heart without any hindrance.

Yun Che was greatly alarmed. Ignoring the imbalance of his body and the sharp pain in his arms, he erupted his profound energy again and quickly unleashed Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking.

BANG!!!

The Evil God Barrier held for an instant before shattering with a crash. A freezing, massive force heavily struck Yun Che's right arm.

"AHH!"

Yun Che cried out in agony. The Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword flew out of his hand, and the terrifying force that struck his arm, upon exploding, instantly shattered all the meridians in his right arm.

Yun Che staggered back. His right arm showed no wounds or blood, and his bones were not broken, but it hung limp and heavy.

Holding his right arm, Yun Che had not yet steadied his footing when his pupils suddenly contracted violently... Mu Xuanyin's attack did not stop there. With a light turn of her palm, the space before Yun Che suddenly caved in...

BOOM!!!

Yun Che had no time to react. In that instant, he felt as if a star had exploded inside his body. A terrifyingly powerful torrent of energy surged into his body, radiating to every corner of his being, every meridian.

In just an instant, all the meridians throughout his body were severed. Even his consciousness felt as if it had been struck by a massive hammer.

Yun Che's eyes immediately lost focus. Like a puppet that had suddenly lost its life, he fell straight backward, stiff and rigid.

There was no blood on his body, not a single wound visible. But throughout his entire body, not a single meridian remained intact. Every single one was shattered worse than it could be.

Back on Lan Ji Star, he had experienced several instances in fierce battles where, due to severe injuries or the backlash of the Evil God's power, his meridians had snapped. In the most brutal cases, nearly half of his meridians had been severed... but never had all of them been severed like this.

The profound energy circulating through his meridians also dissipated entirely.

In his last vestige of consciousness, Yun Che felt as if Mu Xuanyin had come to his side. Her voice was blurry and ethereal, like a dream, but it still sent a bone-chilling ruthlessness through him.

"Painful, isn't it? Then use your body to remember this pain well."

Having all meridians severed was definitely a hundred times more painful than having all bones broken. Yun Che's lips moved slightly, and then his consciousness went completely blank. But his body, wracked by extreme pain, convulsed continuously.

Looking at the unconscious Yun Che, Mu Xuanyin's snow-white face showed only cold indifference. She reached out, grabbed Yun Che's body, and with a flicker, returned to the Holy Temple.

This was the center of the Holy Temple, a world of ice. At the center of this world was a pool only ten zhang in size, its water like a mirror. And in the center of the pool, a snow lotus was blooming proudly.

This snow lotus was several times larger than an ordinary one. Its petals were layered upon each other, each the size of a palm, exceptionally pure and flawless, and shimmering with a faint blue crystalline glow.

Its roots and stem were also like ice crystals formed from pure water, gleaming and dazzling. At first glance, no one would think it had grown naturally; it looked as if it had been carved from ice crystals.

With a flick of her arm, Mu Xuanyin tossed Yun Che's body straight into the pool. She gazed at the snow lotus in the pool, her finger, like frozen snow, tapped lightly.

Immediately, an invisible profound formation surrounding the snow lotus lit up, then slowly faded away with the movement of her finger.

"Ah."

For some unknown reason, Mu Xuanyin let out a soft sigh. She walked to the edge of the pool, pinched a snow lotus petal with her fingertips, and it gently flew off into her palm. Then, she placed it over Yun Che's heart.

CLANG!!

A dense profound light, like an azure-blue sunset, flooded the entire Holy Temple. This was because Mu Xuanyin had mobilized nearly seventy percent of her profound force in an instant. The power from the highest level of chaos merged into the snow lotus petal, then slowly seeped into Yun Che's body... In an instant, the snow-white petal blazed with a dazzling icy light. Under the light, Yun Che's body was illuminated into a gleaming ice-white. Then, faint icy lights began to reflect from his body as well, growing in number until they covered his entire body.

And the source of these icy lights was none other than his severed meridians.

The light of that snow lotus petal grew weaker and weaker until, in the end, it completely disappeared as if vaporized.

Mu Xuanyin's profound energy rapidly converged, and she removed her hand from Yun Che's heart. The icy lights emanating from the meridians within his body, which had been clearly visible, now began to visibly connect and merge...

When these icy lights completely faded away, Yun Che's meridians, which had just been completely severed, were now fully restored, without leaving a trace of damage... In fact, if one's gaze could penetrate his body, one would clearly see that his meridians now flowed with a peculiar luster like that of ice crystals.