Chapter 2101: Little Yellow Chicken Resurrected

The temple, suppressed above the black vortex, was like a cork blocking a drain. He had wanted to explore it before, but his cultivation was too low to get close. Now that he was a true god, although the black currents were terrifying, he no longer needed to fear them too much.

Flying straight, a distance that would have taken two hours to traverse was covered in just a few minutes.

The massive temple appeared before him again, black mist swirling incessantly, cracks everywhere in the space.

Arriving above the vortex, he immediately felt strands of special force tearing at him, as if trying to swallow him in.

"Let's go in and take a look!"

Divine power surged within him, wrapping around his entire body. With a slight shake, he immediately plunged inside.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

The shattered space around the vortex tore and lashed at him, something even a false god could not withstand. But for him now, it was not difficult.

Before him was a pitch-black passage, leading to an unknown destination.

Yet it gave him a feeling of abundant spiritual energy, urging him to explore.

"Could this be... the entrance to the Divine Realm?"

Recalling the passage between the Master Teacher Continent in the Kunxu Realm and the Upper Firmament, Zhang Xuan was not in a hurry; he stopped.

That passage was guarded by the Hundred Schools of Thought to prevent the mercury spiritual energy from seeping through. Whether it was the seal or something else, the shadow of Confucius was present.

This one was the same.

The temple behind was guarded by Confucius's will, and the divine energy before was also captured by Confucius from within.

Moreover, after his own will replaced Confucius's to guard the temple, he learned the rules: anyone who defeated his will could also obtain a strand of divine energy.

Unfortunately... his will was too strong. Zhao Ya and the others could not defeat it at the same level; otherwise, he would have sent them to collect it long ago.

"I'll go back first to explain, then come back to explore after settling things..."

Seeing that the vortex could not harm him now, Zhang Xuan did not rush to enter further. Instead, he shook his body and flew out.

Because of his battle with Confucius, Zhao Ya and Han Jianqiu were surely extremely worried; he had to return quickly!

Flying back to the barrier did not take much time, and he soon arrived at the headquarters of the Tongxuan Palace.

With a thought, he disguised his aura as that of a false god.

Breaking through to godhood would trigger a heavenly tribulation. By concealing his cultivation, he might be able to delay it.

With a light grab of his hand, the space previously sealed by the god was torn apart, and he stepped inside.

Reappearing, he was above the Jietian Stone.

Orienting himself, he tore through space again.

The next moment, he appeared above the Zhuxing Palace.

Seeing that the heavenly tribulation had indeed not arrived, Zhang Xuan sighed in relief and looked around.

The battle between the Tongxuan Palace, the Xuanjing Sect, and the Piaomiao Immortal Sect against the four great sects had now completely ended, with countless corpses left on the ground.

"Teacher, you're back?"

Sensing his aura, Zhao Ya and the others rushed over excitedly, their faces full of emotion.

Seeing that his disciples, though battered, had no major injuries, Zhang Xuan also relaxed: "What's the result?"

"Sect Masters Bai of Xuanjing Sect and Gu of Piaomiao Immortal Sect have been captured, and the others have surrendered. These two sects are virtually defunct. As for Tongxuan Palace, after the palace master fought with the sect master, they could no longer resist and were all captured!"

Zhao Ya explained.

After Palace Master Kong chased Zhang Xuan away, the rest fell into disarray.

Zhao Ya and the others had all reached the false god level and carried false god weapons. Even though the three great sects had many experts, they could not withstand them. With the addition of the hundred thousand true immortals joining the battle, a one-sided situation quickly emerged.

As a result, almost all the experts of the three great sects were wiped out, and the remaining, knowing they could not win, surrendered.

"Good that it's resolved!" Zhang Xuan sighed in relief.

Among the four great sects and the ocean life, those below the immortal lord level were certainly the majority, so there was no worry. What concerned him most were the false god experts. But with Zhao Ya and the others breaking through, and after he entered the Upper Firmament and killed more than a dozen false gods from the enemy side, they were no longer a concern.

After inquiring further and learning that the four great sects' losses, though considerable, were not as great as imagined, Zhang Xuan finally relaxed.

"Did you collect Little Yellow Chicken's ashes? I want to pay my respects personally..."

Little Yellow Chicken died for him.

If it hadn't blocked Confucius, he wouldn't have been able to purify the divine energy smoothly and ultimately break through.

"We collected them, but..."

Knowing the bond between the teacher and this beast pet, Zhao Ya and the others had gathered the ashes burned to dust as soon as the battle ended.

Zhang Xuan frowned: "But what?"

"These ashes, when gathered together, are still burning..." Zhao Ya smiled bitterly and pointed ahead.

Zhang Xuan quickly looked and indeed saw a golden flame burning incessantly in the air not far away.

That was where Little Yellow Chicken had been killed and burned to ashes by Confucius's clone.

Shaking his body, he arrived nearby and frowned.

The flame before him, though small, clearly contained life gestating within.

"Could it be... Little Yellow Chicken isn't dead?"

He couldn't help but be stunned.

Cut into dozens of pieces by Confucius's clone's sword and burned by flames for so long, even a true god would have died, let alone an immortal lord... How could it feel like life was gestating?

Whoosh!

Just as he was wondering, an altar suddenly appeared beneath the flame.

It was the one he had brought from the Master Teacher Continent with Wuchen.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

Countless black streams spread from the altar, drilling into the flame.

Rumble!

The flame grew larger. Originally the size of a soccer ball, it now became as tall as an adult, then spread out to form a fireball over ten meters in diameter.

The black streams increased.

"Young master, this is a transmission between altars..."

Wuchen and Du Qingyuan arrived simultaneously.

"Altar transmission?"

Zhang Xuan was puzzled.

"Like when you entered the temple before, it's a spatial transmission between two identical altars..." Wuchen said.

Previously, to enter the temple, Zhang Xuan had specifically retrieved this altar from the Master Teacher Continent, intending to use a special method for transmission between two altars.

But...

"Wasn't the altar destroyed by Confucius's clone..." Zhang Xuan started, then suddenly froze: "Could it be... the one in the Sinking Sky City?"

There was only one such altar in the entire Upper Firmament; otherwise, he wouldn't have spent time going back to the Master Teacher Continent.

But... there was another one in the Sinking Sky City!

He and Du Qingyuan had personally gone there.

"It is indeed decay energy..."

Realizing this, he quickly looked and saw that the black gas emerging from the altar was indeed decay energy, purer than any he had seen before, somewhat similar to the contaminated divine energy the skeleton had given him.

"Could it be..."

A thought suddenly occurred to him. Just as he was about to tear through space and enter the Sinking Sky City again to see, the blazing flame before him suddenly exploded, and a little yellow chicken stretched lazily and walked out.

"Little Yellow Chicken..."

His eyes lit up, and Zhang Xuan quickly approached.

This creature before him looked no different from before, still covered in fluff, like a chick just out of its shell. However, its cultivation had reached the true god level, just like his own.

"You broke through..."

He was full of disbelief.

Previously, he had fed it Yuanli Pills, used false god blood... countless methods, but none had advanced its cultivation even a bit. How... after being killed by Confucius's clone, it not only didn't die but directly crossed two major levels to become a god?

His own rapid progress was due to hard work and talent... This guy, besides eating, could do nothing... How did it progress so fast?

"Yeah!"

Flapping its wings, Little Yellow Chicken looked smug.

"Has... your memory recovered any?"

He couldn't help asking.

"No!"

Little Yellow Chicken shook its head.

"Alright!"

Zhang Xuan rubbed his brow.

He had grieved for it for nothing. He never expected that being chopped into mincemeat not only didn't kill it but directly promoted it to godhood.

Was this what they called breaking down to build up?

After all, being cut into so many pieces, even a clone couldn't survive.

"To become a god requires divine energy. The decay energy the altar absorbed just now should be the same as the one the skeleton gave me..."

Zhang Xuan pondered.

The energy the skeleton in the Sinking Sky City gave him was exactly the same as what the altar had transmitted just now.

Little Yellow Chicken must have used this to break through the false god shackle and advance to its current realm.

However... this energy carried extremely strong decay, which even gods found hard to withstand.

That was why he had designed the trap for Confucius's clone, causing it to be severely injured and easily suppressed.

He had used the sacrifice of a hundred thousand true immortals to purify it, smoothly absorb it, and break through the shackle...

But it had absorbed it directly without purification...

"Little Yellow Chicken's bathwater can break the corrosion of decay energy... Could it be that these corrosive forces have no effect on it at all, or are even a great tonic? That's why it insisted on eating that skeleton..."

With a flash of insight, Zhang Xuan speculated.

In the Sinking Sky City, this little yellow chicken had been clamoring that it was hungry and wanted to eat the skeleton.

But at that time, the opponent was too strong, so he didn't let it have its way... Now it seemed that this guy might indeed have a way to counter it and counter the decay energy.

Thus, this creature before him was probably not an ordinary chicken but very likely a particularly powerful super divine beast!

Unfortunately, it had lost its memory; otherwise, he could have let it progress quickly, and when he reached the Divine Realm, he would have some backing.

But... other people's backers were powerful gods; his backer was a chicken... That didn't sound very good.

"By the way, master, I think I've discovered my method of advancement..."

Just as he was sighing inwardly, Little Yellow Chicken waddled over with a mysterious look and transmitted its voice.

"Method of advancement?" Zhang Xuan's eyes lit up: "Tell me about it..."

"Last time, I went from having no strength to an immortal lord because I was burned by the Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix. I was burned alive and turned to ashes. This time... it seems the same. Could it be that I need to be burned by flames to increase my strength dramatically?"

Little Yellow Chicken said.

"This..."

Zhang Xuan's eyes lit up: "That's quite possible! How about... we try?"