Chapter 175 - 159: After Death, a Sarira Golden Body!

Chapter 175: Chapter 159: After Death, a Sarira Golden Body!

Above Copper Mountain, the clouds churned, radiating an immense, imposing pressure as if an entire world lay hidden behind them.

Supported by his Qi Power, Chen Sha hovered in midair with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing up into the sky. His eyes were filled with disbelief.

"This scene..." he murmured.

It looked exactly like the moment he had witnessed in the Cosmic Light Fragments, when Dugu Qiubai, in the Great Innate Realm, performed the Sword Opening Celestial Gate. The only difference was that right now, in the Divine Land World, the sacred Southern Heavenly Gate did not manifest in the mortal realm. There was only the majestic pressure rolling through the clouds.

"Why? Can the people of the Divine Land World also shatter the void and ascend, just... without the guidance of the Southern Heavenly Gate?" he wondered. "The Southern Heavenly Gate... seems to be on me."

Countless speculations flashed rapidly through Chen Sha’s mind.

At the same time, the Martial Artists who had come to Copper Mountain to watch the battle could all feel, on a spiritual and mental level, a profoundly mysterious Qi mechanism gathering and churning in the clouds above the peak.

Take Jiang Chengzi, for example. He was also in the Great Innate Realm. Martial Artists at the Great Innate level could clearly sense the changes in the Qi mechanism between heaven and earth. His eyes widened as he stared at the high heavens. Besides Chen Sha’s figure hovering in midair, he felt an intense, instinctual attraction deep within his soul, as if the high clouds held something every martial arts practitioner dreamed of.

"This... is..."

Jiang Chengzi rapidly scoured his memory for the ancient texts of the True Martial Dao Sect, hoping to find corresponding information. A moment later, his mind trembled.

"The rumors of shattering heaven and earth... they are true," he thought. "But why does it seem like the defeated Long Zaitian achieved this? There are still a few in the Martial Arts World who are stronger than Long Zaitian. Why haven’t they been able to do it?"

In the distance, still on Copper Mountain, the mysterious man cloaked in black also felt his mind tremble. After Long Zaitian was smashed out of midair by a punch, the man sensed the Broken Qi Mechanism resonating through the vast expanse of heaven and earth.

"Did he really do it? How is that possible?" he wondered. "It’s been clear that for thousands of years, such shattering could not occur in this world, unless heaven and earth are reviving and the rules are reemerging..."

His thoughts raced, and his gaze immediately fell onto Long Zaitian’s body, which had crashed onto the cliffs of Copper Mountain.

"Master!" At this moment, Ma Rulong let out a mournful roar and dashed out from the shadows, gathering the body of the generation’s Demon Saint into his arms.

With his sharp eyesight, the mysterious man immediately saw that Long Zaitian’s life force had completely vanished, but in its place...

Ma Rulong was filled with horror and shock as he felt his master’s corpse. It was actually as hard as iron, with skin as translucent as jade. Touching it felt like touching a body forged from Vajra. Furthermore, being so close, Ma Rulong could even smell a faint, natural fragrance emanating from Long Zaitian’s body. It was a unique scent, much like the lingering incense found on divine statues in temples after long periods of worship.

"Master, what is going on..." he muttered.

In the distance, the mysterious man’s eyes lit up brightly.

"Although the person is dead, the physical body has attained an immense achievement," he thought. "It is just like the Physical Nirvana, the Celestial Demon Relic, and the Daoist Corpse Dissolution spoken of in the myths of the Three Religions... That means his spirit might have..."

He looked up high into the sky. With mortal eyesight, he couldn’t discern anything, but the sight of Long Zaitian sparked a sudden realization, immediately bringing one person to mind.

"Chen Canxuan... rumor has it he also left his corpse behind... Could it be... the exact same phenomenon?"

In that instant, as he looked at Long Zaitian’s corpse again, the light in his eyes blazed fiercely.

"Even though I don’t know if he is truly dead or alive, or whether his spirit has actually broken away from his body, this Golden Body he left behind is undoubtedly the most precious Martial Arts Dao treasure in this world!" he realized.

However, it was obvious that among the shadows of the spectators, countless experts had faintly sensed the extraordinary nature of Long Zaitian’s body. Just as these experts were getting restless but remained hesitant out of fear of Chen Sha looming in the sky, one person moved without hesitation.

It was the storyteller.

WHOOSH!

Ma Rulong had just stood up with Long Zaitian’s corpse in his arms when a tall scholar appeared before him, accompanied by a soft chuckle.

"Little friend, it would be best if you left your master’s remains in my care."

As soon as the words fell, before Ma Rulong could even react with shock or anger, his arms grew light. The tall scholar had already snatched Long Zaitian’s body. In the blink of an eye, right under everyone’s watchful gazes, the man rapidly fled into the distance.

At this moment, the expressions of the many hidden experts drastically changed. Someone immediately recognized the storyteller’s true identity.

"Pang Saint!"

"It’s him! The Devil who terrifies both the Black and White Paths!"

Jiang Chengzi had also thought about fighting for Long Zaitian’s body, but he hesitated. After all, Chen Sha was still hovering above Copper Mountain, and Jiang Chengzi did not have the courage to make a move right in front of him. He never expected that the world’s third-ranked expert, Pang Saint, would be hiding in the shadows.

In midair, Chen Sha was still carefully comprehending the Broken Qi Mechanism flowing between heaven and earth. Unlike his insights gained within the Cosmic Light Fragments, this Mental Realm Qi mechanism felt incredibly real to his spirit. He faintly sensed that a great profoundness was hidden within, one that could allow his Martial Arts to advance another step.

Unexpectedly, screams of alarm rang out from below. Looking down, he saw a middle-aged scholar snatching Long Zaitian’s body from Ma Rulong’s arms and speeding away. Immediately after, he heard the man’s name amidst the crowd’s panicked shouts.

"Pang Saint?" Chen Sha’s eyes flashed as a thought struck him. "Teng Zijing!"

"How dare you try to snatch the spoils in front of the Master!" Teng Zijing, who had been guarding below, flapped its wings and flew out to intercept.

As he ordered Teng Zijing to intercept the thief, Chen Sha also dove down. Long Zaitian was defeated by his hands; how could he let someone else run off with his spoils of war?

SWISH!

After plundering Long Zaitian’s Golden Body, the scholar-garbed Pang Saint sprinted along the cliffs of Copper Mountain and leaped down into the bottomless abyss. In truth, he was well-prepared. With Power of his caliber, a ten-thousand-foot cliff posed no danger whatsoever. Leaping and flashing like a divine ape, he descended Copper Mountain in less than half a cup of tea’s time and began sprinting wildly through the Lin.

He was, after all, the third most powerful person in the world. Even though Teng Zijing flapped its wings in pursuit, it could not close the distance between itself and Pang Saint.

Carrying Long Zaitian’s Golden Body, Pang Saint dashed across the wilderness, glancing back from time to time. Seeing that only Chen Sha and Teng Zijing were chasing him, he felt slightly relieved.

"It is for the best that Yuan Ruhua didn’t give chase," he thought.

As long as the invincible South Sea Tide Watching Pavilion Master wasn’t after him, Pang Saint felt no pressure at all. On second thought, although Yuan Ruhua was invincible in the world, he was only invincible within a Half-step Distance in front of him. His Body Technique and speed weren’t necessarily the absolute best in the world. The fact that the world’s tenth-ranked Bai Zancang managed to escape from his hands proved that his speed was indeed lacking; he couldn’t possibly catch up to him.

Therefore, with only Chen Sha on his tail, Pang Saint felt very confident. Although he had witnessed Chen Sha’s strength and knew he was a formidable foe, all he needed to do was escape with the Golden Body. As long as he didn’t get tangled up in a fight with Chen Sha, he would be fine. Once he shook off his pursuers...

Pang Saint glanced at the Golden Body and laughed heartily in his mind, "The one and only secret to shattering heaven and earth belongs solely to me!"

If he could unlock the secrets of Long Zaitian’s Golden Body and gain some enlightenment from it, perhaps this would be his most important opportunity and turning point in decades, potentially allowing him to covet the position of the true ’Number One in the World.’

Unexpectedly, just as Pang Saint thought that only Chen Sha and Teng Zijing were pursuing him, a figure draped in a loose black robe appeared ahead in the night’s Lin, blocking his path out of nowhere.

A gloomy voice echoed through the night sky: "Sect Leader Long is my good friend. Please stay your steps."

It was the mysterious man in black, the Chess Master.

However, Pang Saint’s speed didn’t decrease. His eyes flashed like lightning. Gone was the gentle, scholarly demeanor of a storyteller; instead, surging Qi Power burst out from his body.

He activated the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Yin Yang Copper Furnace Technique from the once world-renowned Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror and shouted coldly, "You Nameless rat! Skulking about, how dare you block my path!"

There wasn’t a single powerhouse in the world that he didn’t know. Even though the man in black was mysterious, Pang Saint didn’t take him seriously in the slightest. He simply pushed a palm forward. Driven by an immense force, the boundless Lin trees leaned and flew backward, seemingly uprooted by the sheer pressure of this ordinary palm strike.

This Palm Power, incomparably majestic and tyrannical in the world, materialized right in front of the Chess Master.

The Chess Master’s face, shrouded in the black robe, was indiscernible. In the dark of the night, he simply extended a finger and tapped forward.

One finger against one palm.

What seemed like an ordinary, mundane collision instantly whipped up a terrifying storm within the Lin. RUMBLE! Under this horrifying momentum, swathes of trees were truly uprooted by the shockwave and sent flying into the sky.

BAM!

Upon clashing with the Chess Master, Pang Saint was instantly alarmed. "You..."

He never imagined that there was someone else in the world whose Power was not inferior to his own. From that single collision, both men were inwardly shaken. This was immediately followed by a flurry of exchanges. After about a dozen moves, the Chess Master abruptly retreated and tapped two fingers in the void...

An illusory chess piece pressed down from above Pang Saint’s head.

"Hmm?"

Pang Saint keenly sensed the extraordinary nature of this mysterious technique. Not daring to meet it head-on, a thought flashed through his mind. He grabbed Long Zaitian’s Golden Body by its right foot and actually swung it out like a weapon!

CLANG!!!

An earth-shattering explosion rang out. It was a muffled rumble, like splitting mountains and cracking stones, followed by a terrifying resonance of clashing metal and iron. It was simply too shocking.

The phantom chess piece materialized by the Chess Master was instantly smashed to pieces by Long Zaitian’s body.

As the chess piece shattered, the Chess Master coughed.

"Cough..."

He seemed to have suffered a severe Rebound. He looked in disbelief at the Golden Body in Pang Saint’s hands, shocked that it possessed such might when wielded as a weapon.

Pang Saint was also overjoyed. With his experience, the moment he acquired Long Zaitian’s Golden Body, he could feel its rock-solid texture, surpassing any Divine Weapon in the world. It was this realization that gave him the subconscious Spiritual Mechanism to use it as a weapon.

He didn’t expect the result to be so astonishing. Relying on the hard texture of this Golden Body, even if he couldn’t crack the secrets within, he faintly felt that by using it as a weapon, he could triumph over Wang Zaixiang!

Shaken by the power of the Golden Body, the Chess Master realized that taking down Pang Saint would not be easy. However, at that very moment...

A clear whistle echoed between heaven and earth.

"You take this humble Daoist’s spoils as you please, and leave as you wish. Who do you take me, Chen Sha, for?"

Pang Saint was startled. His feet immediately shifted, not daring to tangle with the Chess Master any longer.

Unexpectedly, a thought had already crossed the Chess Master’s mind. Seeing Chen Sha flying over on Teng Zijing’s back, he pinched another chess piece without hesitation and dropped it toward Pang Saint.

He wanted to stop Pang Saint from leaving.

Trying to escape was impossible!