Chapter 379: Beating the Stone with a Stick
"I don't want to practice magic." Yan Xu looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and sighed. Although he was unwilling in his heart, he really had no other choice. He could only use the golden cudgel that had turned into the size of an iron tower to immobilize the monster, and then let Ksitigarbha's Dharma body sit cross-legged on it to suppress it, while he took the time to start refining a new magic weapon.

The Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banner was made by the demon corpse Gu Chen using the souls of tens of millions of orangutans and the black evil threads refined from the foul air in the earth's lungs for tens of millions of years. It is extremely vicious and has a total of eighty-one sides that can be arranged into the Xuanyin Soul Refining and Soul Gathering Array. This is the magic weapon that Yan Xu wants to refine.

Although this set of magic weapons is harmful to the natural order, its advantage is that the lower limit is low and the upper limit is high, so it only needs to be an entry-level magic weapon. Moreover, as more and more souls and evil spirits are refined, the power and quality will become higher and higher, and it can be easily used to fight against opponents of higher levels when it is arranged into a large formation.

The fact that the demon corpse Gu Chen met with such a miserable end was probably related to this skill of his, because he could really pose a threat to Emei.

Yan Xu happened to have a batch of Nether Iron in his hands, which could be refined into magical weapons. In addition, this set of magical weapons was particularly effective against beasts, making them suitable for use now.

There is no distinction between day and night in the secret realm, and Yan Xu doesn't know how long he has been in there. He only knows that the eighty-one Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banners have been refined, and have begun to extract the souls and origins of the dirt in this secret realm. The quality of the banners themselves is also slowly improving, from the initial low-grade magic weapon to a medium-grade one, and now it is getting closer and closer to the high-grade one. It can be seen how fast and convenient it is to practice magic.

However, Yan Xu also had a headache, because he needed to use the merits gained from liberating souls to offset the karma generated by refining this magical weapon.

This is because the Immortal Burial World has given him special privileges, allowing merit and karma to offset each other. You must know that merit is merit, and karma is karma. Even someone as powerful as a Bodhisattva or Buddha needs the incarnation of the Ming King to bear it, and it is impossible to completely get rid of it.

Of course, Yan Xu's situation is also rather special. Firstly, because of the system, he obtains a relatively high proportion of merit, which is enough to offset karma. Secondly, this world's laws of nature are incomplete because the heaven and the underworld are broken, and the luck of this world is bestowed on him, so he still has some privileges. If he changes to a world where the laws of nature are perfect, he won't have such a good thing.

After upgrading to a mid-grade magic weapon, Yan Xu set up a large formation to refine the stubborn block blocking the passage. It was at this time that he realized the power of this magic weapon and the horror of the system.

After the eighty-one Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banners were arranged into the Xuanyin Soul Refining and Spirit Gathering Formation, the entire secret realm showed signs of being refined, which shows how powerful this formation is.

The more powerful this formation is, the more Yan Xu can feel the horror of the system.

You have to know that he has no knowledge or ability in refining equipment, and his understanding of the Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banner is limited to the novels he read in his previous life. The materials used for refining must be wrong, but he succeeded.

No, it would be more accurate to say that it was distorted into the form he imagined rather than being refined.

Turning fantasy into reality is probably the real function of the system, and it is also what Yan Xu has always overlooked.

I read too many novels in my previous life, so I regarded the system as omnipotent from the beginning, and therefore never really understood its essence in depth.

Just a glimpse of the smallest corner of the system made him feel a chill in his heart, and at the same time, he became more and more curious about whether the essence of the system was as he thought.

If this is true, then in theory he can completely refine a systematic version of the Tai Chi diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell.

Of course, it is definitely not comparable to the original one, and the system also has its upper limit. But once a high-imitation version of the Axe of Creation is synthesized, the ordinary world may not be enough for him to chop with one axe. This makes Yan Xu's heart warm up.

While Yan Xu was imagining the future, the Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banner continued to extract everything in the secret realm, transforming these unimaginable filth into nutrients that could improve its own quality.

He still underestimated the Xuanyin Soul Refining and Soul Gathering Formation formed by dozens of magical instruments. With the continuous extraction and refining, the monster under the formation was sucked out along with the stagnant water, revealing the clean bottom of the secret realm and the blocked pipe.

At the bottom of the secret realm, the dark hole was blocked by shit-yellow stones, leaving only a small gap. No wonder so many fish souls accumulated here. It was blocked like this, and it was not just a split urine. It was a good thing that it didn't explode. At the moment, the big formation had not stopped, constantly scraping the blocked stones, but it could only scrape off layers of powder. It would take a long time to completely open it.

Yan Xu stretched out his hand, and the iron tower-like golden hoop fell into his hand again. Then he took a deep breath, and the restrained energy and blood quickly filled his body like a dam opening to release water, and his whole body seemed to swell up.

He shook his shoulders, and the sound of his muscles stretching was more like a steel cable being tightened around a metal part. Yan Xu exhaled a hot breath and felt that he was in great shape.

Although Yan Xu relied on his physical body to step into the extraordinary realm, he was relying on the ghost body from Xiang Gui.

The ghost body has the ability to evolve autonomously, allowing Yan Xu to transform from a mortal into an extraordinary physique, but the upper limit of the ghost body is not high. After all, although ghosts are not weak in the Japanese world, they cannot be called powerful, let alone in a big world like Xianzang.

The other two physiques, Sword Saint and Thunder Body, are more auxiliary, so from that period he realized that he could not rely solely on physique. Therefore, he practiced internal martial arts hard, and combined internal strength with the Lightning Thunder Fist, trying to create his own electric current martial arts to promote the further evolution of his body.

But the limitations of the physical body are not so easy to break, because breaking the bottleneck is like pouring two liters of water into a one-liter bottle.

Simply breaking the bottle can allow water to pour in, but it cannot keep it in. Therefore, unless one is extremely gifted and has one set of abilities after another like nesting dolls, one can make breakthroughs as easy as drinking water and eating. Otherwise, one must rebuild and construct a new system while breaking it. This is also the purpose of practice.

Although Yan Xu had made many attempts before, he was still far from success. It was not until his strength level was raised to the Jindan stage, and he obtained pure magic power and the Qingmu Sutra, that he had a chance to break through.

The Jindan stage not only improved his realm, but also provided a large amount of pure mana, which was enough to break the original bottleneck and build a new system.

The Aoki Sutra gave him an extraordinary recovery ability, which greatly shortened the impact of the breakthrough and did not leave any hidden injuries.

The bottleneck that had troubled him for a long time was broken, and Yan Xu, who had made another breakthrough in his physical body, was in high spirits. With a straight stick in his hand, what was he waiting for? He had to fight to the death.

With an excited smile, Yan Xu shook his arms, and his muscles and bones exploded. A force emerged spontaneously. After being infused into the golden cudgel through multiple blessings, he had an illusion that he could poke a hole in the sky. However, poking the sky was unrealistic, but poking the ground was okay.

With a loud shout, he briefly accelerated and blew up the air. The golden hoop, which broke through the speed of sound, smashed the thousand-year-old stone at the entrance of the cave with a tremendous force, even though the stone, which was harder than diamond, still cracked.

Eighty! Eighty! Eighty!

With the silent blessing, Yan Xu swung an iron rod, leaving an afterimage, smashing the stone hill-like concretions, which were then absorbed by the formation that had not yet stopped.

With the help of this essence, the Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banner that was stuck at the boundary broke through again and became a top-grade magic weapon. Its power increased greatly, and the extracted power condensed into a long and thin tornado, penetrating deep into the cave and extracting the essence that was blocked therein.

Although it was clearly a helping hand, Yan Xu felt a chill down his spine just from looking at it, and he took a moment to calm down before continuing to smash.

(End of this chapter)