Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World

At the entrance of the grand hall, a tall black-clad figure walked in unhurriedly.

The newcomer was dressed in black, his face cold and chiseled as if carved by a knife. In his hand, he held an ancient longsword, its blade stained with blood, dragging a crimson trail on the ground.

What was most shocking was that he showed no trace of spiritual power, yet exuded an unfathomable oppressive aura.

”Who are you?”

Mo Tianxie squinted his eyes, his gaze serpent-like as it scanned the newcomer.

The young man in black raised his eyes, a cold glint flashing within them.

”Gu Sheng.”

The simple utterance of two words caused the temperature in the hall to plummet abruptly.

”Gu Sheng?”

Mo Tianxie furrowed his brows in thought, then sneered coldly.

”An insignificant nobody dares to intrude upon my Five Poison Sect? Courting death!”

Gu Sheng curled his lips in mockery.

”Master Mo seems to have forgotten. Half a month ago, outside Golden Crow City, you severely wounded a Martial Artist named Gu Lie. Do you still remember?”

Mo Tianxie was initially stunned, then realized.

”Oh? That old fool who overestimated himself? I merely swatted away an ant. What, are you here to avenge him?”

”He is my father.”

Gu Sheng’s voice was calm, yet it sent a chill through everyone present.

Upon hearing this, Mo Tianxie laughed heartily.

”Hahaha, so that’s it! That old fool was struck by my Five Poison Heart Devouring Palm. By now, he’s probably turned into a pool of blood and pus!”

Killing intent surged in Gu Sheng’s eyes, and the ancient sword in his hand began to hum.

”So, I came to seek an explanation.”

”Seek an explanation?”

Mo Tianxie grinned wickedly.

”Boy, do you know where you are? This is the main hall of my Five Poison Sect! You came alone, merely to court death!”

With a sudden wave of his hand, dozens of elite disciples emerged from around the hall, each wielding a poison blade, surrounding Gu Sheng.

”Kneel and beg for mercy now, and perhaps I can grant you a swift death.”

Mo Tianxie said sinisterly.

”Otherwise, you’ll taste the Ten Thousand Poison Heart pain!”

Gu Sheng looked around, his expression unchanged.

”Is this all?”

”Arrogant!”

Mo Tianxie shouted angrily.

”Take him down!”

Dozens of disciples attacked simultaneously, various colors of poisonous fog, needles, and blades raining down on Gu Sheng like a storm.

Gu Sheng stood still, only lightly raising the ancient sword in his hand.

”Broken Wind.”

With the utterance of those two words, the ancient sword suddenly burst into a blinding blue light. A sweep of sword qi shot out, dispersing the poisonous fog, shattering poison needles, and breaking poison blades wherever it passed.

”Ah!”

Screams echoed incessantly. Dozens of disciples flew backward, crashing into the stone pillars of the hall, vomiting blood uncontrollably. Some were even cut in half by the sword qi, their internal organs spilling onto the ground.

Mo Tianxie’s pupils constricted sharply.

”A Spiritual Artifact?!”

Gu Sheng flicked the blood pearls off his sword and stepped forward slowly.

”Now, it’s between us.”

Mo Tianxie’s face was as dark as water.

”Boy, don’t think you can act recklessly just because you have a Spiritual Artifact! I am at the peak of the Xuanwu Realm and hold a Heavenly Rank Spirit Talisman, killing you is as easy as slaughtering a dog!”

”Is that so?”

Gu Sheng sneered.

”Then why are you trembling?”

Mo Tianxie was enraged by the words yet found his palms sweating. The oppressive aura this young man exuded was even stronger than when facing the Golden Crow City Lord.

”Courting death!”

Mo Tianxie roared furiously, his palms exuding a purplish-black poisonous light.

”Five Poison Heart Devouring Palm!”

The palm wind howled, carrying a stench-filled poisonous fog towards Gu Sheng.

Where the poisonous fog passed, the stone slabs of the floor corroded into pits, showcasing the intensity of the poison.

Gu Sheng neither dodged nor evaded, instead sheathing his sword and clenching his right fist, punching directly towards the poisonous palm.

”Courting death!”

Mo Tianxie grimaced.

”Daring to take my poisonous palm head-on!”

Fist and palm collided, and an energy wave exploded.

”Pugh—”

Mo Tianxie spat out a mouthful of blood, his entire body flying out like a cut kite, crashing heavily onto the main seat of the grand hall, smashing the jade chair into pieces.

”Sect Leader!”

The disciples exclaimed.

Mo Tianxie struggled to rise, yet a smug look appeared on his face.

”Haha...boy, you’ve been hit by my Five Poison Heart-eating Powder, within three breaths, you’ll turn into a pool of pus and blood!”

Gu Sheng stood in place, expressionless as he looked at him.

One breath... two breaths... three breaths...

Mo Tianxie’s smile froze on his face.

”Impossible! How are you unharmed?”

A faint white mist suddenly steamed up around Gu Sheng, and wisps of light purple poisonous smoke were expelled from his pores.

He sneered contemptuously.

”Five Poison Heart-eating Powder? Just trash.”

”You... who exactly are you?”

Mo Tianxie finally panicked.

”The Five Poison Heart-eating Powder is the poison of our sect. Below the Xuanwu Realm, those who touch it will die. How could you possibly...”

Gu Sheng stepped forward slowly.

”Have you heard of the Yinji Poison Emperor?”

”Yinji Poison Emperor?!”

Mo Tianxie was struck as if by lightning.

”Impossible! That’s the legendary supreme of the poison path, who fell a thousand years ago! You...”

”It seems you know.”

Gu Sheng sneered coldly.

”Then you should understand that your Five Poison Sect’s pitiful poison techniques are not even worth trash compared to the poison emperor’s legacy.”

Mo Tianxie’s face turned ashen, and he suddenly shouted harshly.

”Boy! Don’t be complacent! Our Five Poison Sect’s ancestor is an Earth Martial Realm expert. If you kill me, the ancestor will make you wish you were dead!”

”Earth Martial Realm?”

Gu Sheng sneered disdainfully.

”Is that really impressive?”

Before the words were finished, the Broken Wind Ancient Sword in his hand had already been unsheathed.

The sword light was like lightning, flashing by.

Mo Tianxie maintained his threatening expression, but his head had already flown high. Blood gushed from the neck, splattering on the faces of the disciples around.

The main hall was deathly silent.

All the disciples of the Five Poison Sect were dumbfounded, unable to believe the scene in front of them.

Their invincible sect leader was... beheaded with one sword?

”The Sect Leader... is dead?”

A deacon murmured.

”Run!”

Someone shouted, and the hall suddenly descended into chaos. Hundreds of disciples fled toward the outside of the hall like startled birds, many being pushed to the ground and trampled mercilessly.

”Run?”

Gu Sheng’s mouth curved into a cold smile.

”No one from the Five Poison Sect will be spared today.”

Before the words were finished, his figure had already transformed into a shadow. The fallen leaves on the ground didn’t even have time to be swept up by the air currents before Gu Sheng had appeared thirty feet away, slamming a palm onto the back of a frantically fleeing Five Poison Sect disciple.

”Ah——”

The scream was cut short.

The disciple’s body flew like a rag and smashed against the stone wall, with blood trickling down the wall’s cracks.

Gu Sheng expressionlessly retracted his palm and turned to his next target.

His movements were incredibly fast, each strike precise and ruthless, leaving no room for mercy.

The Five Poison Sect disciples discovered in horror that no matter how they scattered and fled, that death-like shadow would always follow them relentlessly.

An incense stick later, Gu Sheng walked out of the main hall of the Five Poison Sect slowly.

His robe was still clean as new, not even a crease in sight, as if the massacre just now had nothing to do with him. Behind him, crisscrossed corpses silently testified to the brutality of the slaughter.

”The Five Poison Sect, nothing more.”

Gu Sheng said softly, taking out a silk handkerchief from his bosom, calmly wiping his fingers.

Suddenly, his brow moved slightly, sensing an unusual fluctuation coming from the Innate Spirit Embryo within his body.

Gu Sheng closed his eyes and concentrated his spirit, following that guidance to the Five Poison Sect’s storeroom. Pushing open the heavy iron door, a scent mixed with medicinal fragrance and musty smell hit his face.

”This is...”

Gu Sheng’s gaze fell on an unremarkable jade box in the corner.

He reached out, and the jade box automatically flew into his palm. Upon opening it, a spirit grass with five leaves, each of differing colors, lay quietly inside.

”Five-Colored Immortal Spirit Grass?”

Gu Sheng’s eyes carried a hint of surprise.

”It’s said that this grass’s five leaves belong to the five elements. Used alone, it’s highly poisonous, but refined together, it makes one invulnerable to all poisons...”

Without hesitation, he placed the jade box into his storage ring, then flicked his fingertips, sending a wisp of azure flame onto the main hall of the Five Poison Sect.

The fire quickly spread, and in no time, the entire Five Poison Sect premises were engulfed in a sea of flames.

Gu Sheng stood in the distance, watching the towering fire light up half the sky, his expression still as calm as ever.

”Time to go back.”

He turned and left, his silhouette stretching long in the firelight.

The next morning, in the Gu family main hall.

”What? The Five Poison Sect was exterminated last night?”

The teacup in Gu Lie’s hand almost fell, and he was oblivious to the tea spilling on his robe.

The escort master, who had come to deliver the news, knelt on one knee, his voice trembling.