All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 965 - 244 The Merit of Preaching (4200)

The corrosive rain, driven by the raging wind, pounded against the window panes of the outer buildings of Xuanye, sounding like countless venomous insects gnawing on decaying wood. Nian Quan sat cross-legged on the mat in the alchemy room, injecting the prepared essence of the medicinal materials into the new-style alchemy furnace, when he suddenly heard his door being opened.

This alchemy room in the Lower City District was purchased by Nian Quan specifically to avoid polluting his residence with alchemy failures, and no one else should know about it. The visitor having a key meant they could only be one of two people.

Nian Quan slightly opened his ice-blue left eye and glanced at the door, thinking, "As expected." Huo Qing, with a white cat atop his head, carried a large bag of jars and a stack of Jade Books as he walked toward the alchemy room.

"Here are the materials you wanted, along with Spiritual Network information."

With his slender figure and harmless appearance, although quite young, Huo Qing was often perceived as a model employee who had worked diligently for decades only to end up half-dead — this was the impression most people had of Huo Qing. But Nian Quan saw differently; he could clearly discern that Huo Qing’s seemingly lean physique was, in fact, refined flesh and blood, and his Soul Spirit was exceptionally robust, merging with his body to vaguely form an ever-flowing, harmonious Formation Map.

—This guy, he’s grown much stronger again, "Grass and Wood Withering and Flourishing Return to Flame Soil," perhaps heading towards Great Success.

Nian Quan withdrew his gaze, with thoughts stirring in his heart.

Though not surpassing him, Huo Qing’s strength indeed rose rapidly, especially after following An Jing to his hometown and awakening his ’Fate Pattern.’ Huo Qing’s cultivation in ’Martial Arts’ advanced by leaps and bounds, vastly different from Immortal Path cultivation.

Martial Arts. An Jing’s world cultivation system originated from Immortal Path, abandoning longevity but focusing on enhancing combat power.

The goal of Immortal Path is longevity and freedom, pursuit of the Great Dao, where various Magical Combat skills are merely protective measures, not fundamental secrets. But Martial Arts differ; this path’s purpose is destruction and warfare, resisting annihilation, exploiting various Magical Combat skills to the extreme, imprinting them directly onto the body and Soul and Spirit, transforming into ’Divine Abnormality’ and ’Formation Map,’ eventually forming a unique ’Inner Array Realm,’ and fully converting one’s existence into the complete form of a certain Art of Combat.

Nian Quan himself also cultivated Martial Arts, commenting: "Every move is the Art of Magic."

Immortal Path’s Magical Combat requires specialized Magic Talismans, Magic Artifacts, and Array Plates, but martial artists differ. Their fists and Spirit Techniques are the strongest Magic Talismans, and their flesh and Soul and Spirit are their Great Formation and Divine Weapon.

Even unarmed is powerful; if one wielded Divine Weapon, strength would be as swift as a tiger. For Nian Quan, after cultivating Martial Arts, his combat power advanced by leaps and bounds; previously, peers and other high school masters who could go toe to toe with him now couldn’t withstand even three moves from him.

Even the leader from First Middle School, Yan Chengju, who had previously surpassed Nian Quan with hard power, found after several sparring sessions that despite completing the full form of the Five Spirit Artifacts, he still couldn’t gain the upper hand against Nian Quan.

One must understand, he undoubtedly received preferential treatment and practiced with Great Cultivators to gain experience — why, with all these advantages, couldn’t he overpower Nian Quan?

Martial Arts simply held terror in matters of combat.

While Nian Quan marveled at Martial Arts’ excellence in this regard, he faintly detected a bloody scent.

As Huo Qing moved inside, Nian Quan could confirm the bloody scent emanated from him.

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Curiosity got the better of Nian Quan: "Was it those unseeing gangs being paid again?"

"No." Huo Qing, heading to the alchemy safe house’s bathroom to wash his face, raised his hand, displaying blood on the back, indifferent: "Two fairly professional private agents followed me as soon as I left the house, attempting to kidnap me and Xiaoqing later."

"I didn’t intend to kill, but once the fight began, it became a matter of life and death. In the end, I thought even sparing them would only bring trouble, so I crushed them directly."

Huo Qing spoke casually, yet an intense bloody air wafted from his words. The white cat atop his head meowed in agreement, seeming quite enraged, supporting Huo Qing’s decision.

"These people are getting excessive, must we not go out anymore?"

Nian Quan didn’t view Huo Qing’s killing as wrong; in his eyes, even someone with Huo Qing’s temperament had to resort to lethal force, proving just how aggravating those ’agents’ were.

Following, spying, stealing personal items, sudden attacks, intending to abduct close ones... Suffice to say, these individuals deserved their fate.

Of course, Nian Quan understood this was merely the companies’ probing — of them or rather, An Jing.

Since An Jing eradicated the Night Niche Gang and demonstrated his skills, the name ’An Xuan’ resonated throughout Xuanye, and his showcasing of Immortal Spirit Root drew major forces’ interest.

Initially, contacts came merely with collaboration intentions, then negotiations ensued. Corporations showed great interest in An Jing’s physique, yet he consistently declined, unwilling to share his physical and bloodline data.

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