Immortality Starts With Investment

With a casual palm strike from Hua Yunfei, the sky darkened and the sun was obscured. Vast purple qi surged forth, shaking the entire immortal city. If not for the extraordinary nature of this immortal city, any other holy land’s city would have seen its grand formation shatter and its walls collapse before the palm even fully descended.

All the cultivators within the immortal city watched in awe and amazement. Hua Yunfei was far more terrifying than the Celestial Prince of old. He had practically reached the absolute limit achievable by a cultivator who had not yet become an immortal.

Yet Wang Xuanji merely nodded as she watched the palm descend. Her brows twitched slightly, but she did not even raise a hand. An invisible force surged outward, and the massive palm vanished in an instant.

Wang Xuanji rose calmly into the air, her azure robes strikingly visible. She gazed toward the Eight Sceneries Palace and spoke indifferently, ”So you are the successor of the Moral Immortal Venerable. No wonder.”

The Moral Immortal Venerable had achieved the rank of Immortal King in the immortal realm. The orthodoxy he left behind was extraordinary, so it was understandable that his successor could reach such a level.

Wang Xuanji clasped her hands behind her back. A divine light shot forth from between her brows.

Hua Yunfei raised an eyebrow slightly. Brilliant divine light erupted behind him as he lifted his hand and manifested a Taiji diagram in front of his body.

The Taiji diagram spun, capable of transforming everything into yin-yang chaos.

Yet the moment they collided, the Taiji diagram in Hua Yunfei’s hand exploded.

Fortunately, divine radiance cascaded down from the Eight Sceneries Palace above his head and blocked the divine light.

Even so, Hua Yunfei’s face paled slightly. His soul had been wounded—a damage that would be extremely difficult to repair.

Shock filled his eyes. Wang Xuanji’s attack had not even touched him, yet his soul was injured? And so severely? Was this the true power of an immortal realm prodigy?

At that moment, Hua Yunfei stopped holding back. The purple qi behind him surged even more violently.

In the next instant, two figures stepped out from within the purple qi. Their auras were identical to his own, and their momentum was no weaker in the slightest.

The spectators in the immortal city widened their eyes in disbelief.

”One Qi Transforming into Three Purities! He can manifest two avatars with combat strength exactly equal to his true self.”

”Hua Yunfei has fought so many battles before, even when chased by Alkaid, yet he never brought out all three at once. It seems this is his true strength!”

”A peak figure of this realm, splitting into three with a single thought—who could possibly stand against him? One Qi Transforming into Three Purities is simply a heaven-defying technique.”

”This will undoubtedly be a world-shaking battle!”

The crowd erupted in uproar. It was the first time they had witnessed the original version of One Qi Transforming into Three Purities.

However, Wang Xuanji’s expression remained calm. ”You truly are the successor of the Moral Immortal Venerable—always hiding your trump cards, just like your predecessor. But if you fight me, you stand no chance unless you go all out!

”Back then, when the Moral Immortal Venerable was surrounded and attacked by foreign immortal kings, he finally revealed the true One Qi Transforming into Three Purities. It was not one true body and two avatars…

”Rather, in addition to his true self, there were three avatars… Are you still not planning to reveal your true body?”

Wang Xuanji’s voice was calm and flat. Yet countless cultivators in the immortal city were once again deeply shocked. Manifesting two avatars equal to the true self was already inconceivable. And now it turned out he could manifest three? Had all the information about One Qi Transforming into Three Purities circulating in the cultivation world these years been false?

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The three Hua Yunfeis standing before Wang Xuanji wore complicated expressions, but they soon all broke into smiles.

In the next moment, a powerful aura descended from the depths of the starry sky. As it arrived in the high heavens, it revealed itself as yet another Hua Yunfei.

At that moment, the expressions of every cultivator in the immortal city grew complicated. This lineage was truly too cunning. Three against one was already shameless enough, yet they had still hidden one more. And it was the true body. Encountering such an enemy would be utterly despairing.

The newly arrived true body of Hua Yunfei recalled the Eight Sceneries Palace to hover above his head. He gazed at Wang Xuanji with a trace of astonishment and regret in his eyes.

The regret stemmed from the fact that One Qi Transforming into Three Purities was apparently no longer a secret in the immortal realm. Now that he had arrived in this world, hiding his true body had become much harder, and it would be far easier for others to suspect which one was the real him. That was truly a pity.

Wang Xuanji looked at the four figures before her. A faint smile finally appeared on her face.

She then turned toward the Hua Yunfei above whose head the immortal artifact floated—the one everyone assumed was the true body—and said, ”You are not the true body… Even at this moment, you still hope to use the immortal artifact’s protection to confuse my vision and affect my judgment of your real self. No wonder you could become the number one genius of this realm!”

The onlookers erupted in uproar once more.

For the first time, shock appeared on Hua Yunfei’s face. With One Qi Transforming into Three Purities, the true body and avatars were nearly identical, showing no discernible difference. Yet this immortal realm prodigy had seen through it?

His expression turned grave to the extreme.

In that instant, the four figures each wielded a supreme weapon: one held the Diamond Ring, one the Yin-Yang Diagram, one the Plantain Fan. Aside from the Eight Sceneries Palace, all were supreme Extreme Dao Weapons.

Their positions formed a mysterious formation that perfectly complemented one another. Layered together, their combined aura rose to an even higher level.

Countless cultivators in the immortal city were shaken to their core. An enemy like Hua Yunfei was simply too despair-inducing. Even if their strengths were equal, fighting one against four was already suffocating enough. Yet each of them also wielded powerful weapons. It was simply too oppressive.

However, Wang Xuanji, who held nothing in her hands, still stood with her arms clasped behind her back, showing not the slightest fear. Only a divine light rippled between her brows as she spoke calmly, ”Come.”

In the next moment, a beam of divine light slashed toward Hua Yunfei’s true body. The four figures did not hesitate for even an instant. They charged downward with overwhelming force.

For a time, it seemed as though purple qi flooded the heavens and the world itself inverted. The combat prowess of both sides was truly terrifying. Had they not deliberately avoided the immortal city, the shockwaves from their battle would have razed it to the ground.

At this moment, Hua Yunfei resembled four divine generals. Each one fought like an entire army. Countless divine techniques rained down, while the supreme Extreme Dao Weapons smashed forth relentlessly. The Eight Sceneries Palace opened its gates wide, unleashing streams of phenomena that resembled entire worlds seeking to exile Wang Xuanji.

Such methods left everyone watching chilled to the bone. They all believed that even if the Celestial Prince and the Lotus Emperor were still alive, they would meet the same fate if surrounded and attacked by Hua Yunfei—perhaps dying even faster than before.

The crowd’s shock toward Hua Yunfei reached its peak. His combat strength was horrifying, his techniques varied and numerous, and his treasures plentiful. For a moment, many even began to doubt whether the Heavenly Emperor’s heir could truly contend with him.

Yet soon, something even more shocking occurred. Despite facing endless techniques and attacks, Wang Xuanji remained standing in place, appearing peerless and detached, as if she existed beyond this world entirely.

Countless divine arts and dao techniques could not approach her by even half an inch. The assaults from the various Extreme Dao Weapons were equally profound, yet Wang Xuanji did not even need to lift a hand. Even when the immortal artifact Eight Sceneries Palace unleashed streams of phenomena, Wang Xuanji merely raised her hand. Immortal light flowed across her body as she casually pried the phenomena apart with her bare hands, remaining completely unaffected.

Everyone was stunned. Hua Yunfei was already terrifying enough. But Wang Xuanji, who had descended from the immortal realm, was even more astonishing. Was this the true terror of an immortal realm prodigy?

While the crowd remained shaken, Wang Xuanji, who had stayed calm and composed the entire time, spoke lightly, ”You are quite impressive. Unfortunately, you are limited by your aptitude… You possess only a Sacred Spirit Root and do not even have an immortal physique! It ends here. Soul-Quelling Decree!”

In the next instant, divine light surged between Wang Xuanji’s brows. A sword beam shot forth with a resounding boom…

In that split second, endless purple qi parted before it. The Taiji diagram was pierced straight through, and even the immortal artifact Eight Sceneries Palace trembled violently.

The sword beam was unstoppable, moving at an inconceivable speed. In an instant, it arrived right before the brow of Hua Yunfei’s true body…