Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

Xu Tianjun remained silent, bowed, and then turned to leave.

At the edge of the square, Xu Menghan was somewhat shaken, looking around, it took a long time to calm his agitated emotions.

Xu Tianjun's figure slowly emerged, looking at Xu Menghan, he asked, "Who did you just see?"

"Xue Qing."

Upon hearing this, Xu Tianjun let out a light sigh, "Go back then."

He said no more and turned to leave.

He never expected that Xue Qing's talent was so monstrous to attract the presence of the Sun-Eroding Cry.

With such a powerful entity backing her, Xue Qing's rise is already set in stone, likely to become a prodigy dominating an era on the Martial Path.

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This time, the progress of the Heaven Burial Competition was far more intense and swift than Chu Zheng anticipated.

The gathered talents were too many, each match was a hard battle; the losers were eliminated, and the winners moved forward stepping over their opponents' corpses.

In less than half a month, Chu Zheng fought ten battles, facing opponents who were descendants of the Great Emperor from the Demon Race, inheritors of Ancient Cultivation Secret Techniques, and even Martial Cultivators, but for him, he encountered little obstruction, forcing his way through with the numerous Divine Skills of a Qi Cultivator, carving a bloody path.

These ten bloody battles made Chu Zheng's cultivation soar almost madly, the tempering in the slaughter allowed his cultivation to surge upward by more than tenfold, nearing the Perfection of the Eighth Order First Layer.

Finally, Chu Zheng was welcomed by his last competition.

If he won this one, he would emerge from nearly ten thousand talents, entering the final list of a hundred, gaining the qualification to go to the Cosmic Edge and participate in the final Heaven Burial Ceremony.

In the desolate Small World, Chu Zheng stood on the shattered ground, with an aura that was condensed and heavy, the repeated fierce battles did not make his aura weary, rather it became sharper, honed through blood and fire, like a Divine Weapon about to be unsheathed.

This last duel was against an Immortal Path Cultivator of the Human Race.

Within a few breaths, his opponent stepped through the air, Qi Strength surging around him, his aura reached the Perfection of a First Tribulation True Immortal.

He stared at Chu Zheng, his gaze cold to the bone; in these days, Chu Zheng's reputation had already spread nearby, which he had heard of, but today, the victor would certainly be him.

"Remember, the one who kills you today is Yuan, Yuan Jianchen."

A cold smile emerged from the corner of his mouth as he announced his name.

Before his words even fell, he suddenly raised his hand, his fingers formed like a sword, swiftly pointing to several hidden acupoints around his body.

Buzz—

A violent aura erupted from his body, the heavens above seemed ignited, infinite fiery clouds gathered out of nowhere, rolling and boiling, the scorching high temperature caused the tens of thousands of miles of void to boil.

At the critical moment of this final duel, he didn't hesitate to invoke his own Immortal Tribulation, Fire Tribulation, attempting to break through in battle and directly ascend into the Second Tribulation True Immortal Realm.

Using the absolute advantage of the Great Realm, invoking the majestic heavenly might, to completely crush Chu Zheng, this strange variable, into dust!

Outside the battlefield, Xu Menghan, who had been diverting attention keeping an eye on Chu Zheng, saw this scene and his expression changed instantly.

The suppression of a Great Realm was already an insurmountable chasm, let alone at such a critical moment when heavenly power like the Immortal Tribulation descends, even if Chu Zheng had more strange methods, against absolute power and heavenly might, it was likely hopeless.

Even Martial Cultivators who specialized in physiques and were skilled in reversing the Martial Path rarely dared to clash head-on with a Tribulation Crosser under the Immortal Tribulation.

"Reaching this point has not been easy."

Xu Tianjun slightly shook his head, let out a cold laugh, his eyes filled with indifference.

He had already concluded that Chu Zheng's road ends here, Yuan Jianchen's move, though risky, with his Yuan Family's foundation and the preparations made in advance, had a high probability of successfully crossing the tribulation, at which point crushing Chu Zheng would be no more than a flip of the hand.

Yuan Jianchen had clearly made ample preparations as well, around him surged a water-blue Protective Immortal Light, the extremely rich Heavenly Yin Mysterious Water transformed into overlapping cold water screens, protecting him at the center, vigorously resisting the terrifying tribulation fire descending from the heavens, which infiltrated every gap.

He contended with the tribulation fire while looking at Chu Zheng with a cold and mocking gaze, seeking to find fear on his face.

However, the panic and confusion he expected did not appear.

Chu Zheng's expression from start to finish did not waver the slightest, he slightly shook his head, with a hint of mockery flashing in his eyes:

"Courting death."

To invoke Heavenly Tribulation at such a critical life-and-death battle, Chu Zheng had done such a thing before.

But that was with the Repair Panel as an absolute shield capable of backing up any accident; without that heaven-defying foundation, acting in such a way is undoubtedly putting oneself in a perilous nine-death-one-life situation, where any slight mistake could lead to tribulation fire backlash, resulting in the obliteration of both body and soul.

Moreover... it was right in front of him.

At the instant the Fire Tribulation descended, Chu Zheng moved; he didn't even unfold his Dharma Phase, instead walked leisurely, advancing towards Yuan Jianchen who struggled in the tribulation fire and Xuan Water, and then slowly raised his right hand.

A sword-like finger emerged, and at his fingertip, an extremely brilliant golden talismatic pattern suddenly lit up, the light not blazing but imbued with the annihilating True Intent causing myriad laws to wilt.

"Break!"

A condensing-to-the-extreme golden Finger Gang burst forth from Chu Zheng's fingertip, piercing through the void instantly, dismissing the Heavenly Yin Mysterious Water's barrier around Yuan Jianchen, tearing through the majestic heavenly might and violent tribulation fire.

At the moment the Finger Gang shot forth, Yuan Jianchen's pupils shrank sharply, he felt an unprecedented breath of death, frantically driving Immortal Essence, his Protective Immortal Light flashed to the extreme, while his water screens surged to intercept.

Sizzle—

The golden Finger Gang touched the incomparably tenacious Heavenly Yin Mysterious Water barrier, which disintegrated in a flash; the heavy Protective Immortal Light behind it did not even last a single breath before silently puncturing a hole.

In the blink of an eye, the golden Finger Gang had already passed through all obstacles, striking right at the center of Yuan Jianchen's forehead.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

Yuan Jianchen's expression was completely stiff, transformed into ultimate shock and disbelief.

The Immortal power in his body which he tried to resist with halted abruptly, then disintegrated at a terrifying speed, completely dissolved, along with his Divine Soul Origin which swiftly vanished under that annihilating power.

In the heavens above, the vast fiery clouds that had been locked onto Yuan Jianchen seemed to lose their target, roiling violently for a moment before slowly dispersing...

One exchange.

It perhaps wasn't even an exchange.

From the moment Chu Zheng raised his hand to the point the Finger Gang was shot, to the disappearance of Yuan Jianchen's aura, the entire process took less than a breath.

Yuan Jianchen's just invoked Second Tribulation Immortal Realm had not yet truly been set foot into when he perished!

Seeing this scene, a normally indifferent Xu Tianjun abruptly leapt from his seat, his face almost pressing against the light screen, the previously calm eyes now filled with unprecedented shock and terror.

His foundational skills far surpassed the ordinary, and during that lightning-fast moment of Chu Zheng's action, he clearly saw the entire process.

At the instant before the golden Finger Gang reached the target, Yuan Jianchen had instinctively channeled his Protective Immortal Light to the fullest, the density and strength of that light far exceeded that of an ordinary Second Tribulation True Immortal, even containing Defense Divine Power within.

However, such powerful defenses didn't last even a single breath before that golden Finger Gang; it wasn't shattered by brute force but thoroughly disintegrated from the fundamental energy structure level!

It seemed as if that kind of power was born to end all Immortal Laws!

"What... kind of Divine Skill is that?!"

Xu Tianjun muttered in a loss of words, his face for the first time showing astonishment along with a hint of indescribable gravity.

In the battlefield, Chu Zheng slowly retracted his finger, not even glancing at the corpse on the ground rapidly losing all radiance, turned around, and left.

He had already obtained the qualification for the Heaven Burial Ceremony, aside from that, he was not interested in anything else.

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After the last match ended, Chu Zheng soon received a message to gather at a Boundary Gate above Heavenly Abyss City.

A few days later, the grand procession was fully assembled.

Crossing into the Boundary Gate, after several transfers, nearly half a month later, Chu Zheng finally reached the destination of this journey.

Cosmic Edge.