Zhang Longhu was in a dilemma, agreeing was bad, and disagreeing was even worse... How could he not cry!

If he agreed to let Chen Xiao represent the True Martial Sect in the Heavenly Pride Battle, it would be fine if his identity was not exposed in the end. But if it was, the entire True Martial Sect would be labeled as traitors and double-crossers!

They wouldn't have a good time in the entire Immortal Hidden World in the future.

But if he didn't agree, Zhang Longhu had no doubt that Chen Xiao would tear down the True Martial Sect on the spot.

So, choosing the lesser of two evils, Zhang Longhu had no choice but to agree while crying.

He gave Chen Xiao a written certificate and said with a sad face, "Immortal Master, please participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle as the Holy Son of my True Martial Sect. It is a grievance for you, Immortal Master."

Chen Xiao waved his hand and said indifferently, "It's not a grievance. It's an honor for me to represent the True Martial Sect in the Heavenly Pride Battle, haha... Alright, I have no more questions, so I'll take my leave first, Sect Leader Zhang. Farewell, and we'll meet again if fate allows!"

Finally, Chen Xiao cupped his hands at Zhang Longhu.

Zhang Longhu thought to himself that it would be best if they never met again, but he said, "Immortal Master, let me see you off!"

Just like that, Zhang Longhu personally escorted Chen Xiao to the gate of the mountain before bidding farewell and leaving.

Seeing this scene, Su Mei'nan, who was waiting outside the mountain gate, was full of surprise and shock: "Brother Chen, what's going on? Didn't you say you were going to help me get revenge, how come..."

She thought that the Taoists of the True Martial Sect were so close to Chen Xiao, could it be that Chen Xiao had been corrupted by the other party's sugar-coated bullets?

Thinking of this, Su Mei'nan's heart tightened suddenly, and she became vigilant.

She was worried that Chen Xiao would turn against her.

Chen Xiao said with an indifferent expression, "Who said I didn't help you get revenge? That Li Beiwu was the Holy Son of the True Martial Sect, and I've already killed him. Your great revenge has been completely avenged!"

"What? That Li Beiwu actually became the Holy Son of the True Martial Sect? And you killed him?"

When Su Mei'nan heard these words, she was so surprised that she felt like she had been struck by lightning, leaving her charred inside and out.

"You even killed their Holy Son, so why are they still so polite to you?"

Chen Xiao might not be clear, but Su Mei'nan knew that the Holy Son was the face of a sect.

It was no exaggeration to say that if the most important person in a sect was the Sect Leader, then the second most important was the Holy Son!

Generally, this role was held by the most promising person in the sect, or the Sect Leader's child.

For example, in the Sleeves-Tucking Sect that Su Mei'nan used to be in, the Holy Maiden of the Sleeves-Tucking Sect was the Sect Master's daughter.

Just as Su Mei'nan was struck dumb, with her mind in a whirl, she heard Chen Xiao say, "Although I killed their Holy Son, I am willing to be the Holy Son and participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle for them."

"Ah? Brother Chen, you became the Holy Son of the True Martial Sect? And you're going to participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle?"

Su Mei'nan exclaimed in surprise.

"What? Is there a problem?"

Chen Xiao asked with a frown.

"No, no..."

Su Mei'nan thought to herself, you really aren't afraid of your identity being exposed at all, and you're even going to participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle! I really don't know what you're thinking!

Chen Xiao ignored Su Mei'nan's fuss and directly announced the next arrangement: "Let's go back to True Martial Town first and find an inn to stay in. I'm going to cultivate in seclusion. Don't disturb me for the next few days! When I come out of seclusion, we'll go to Hou Tu City!"

Having just obtained 500,000 spirit stones, Chen Xiao decided to spend a few days refining and absorbing all of them.

If there were no accidents, he would be able to break through to the seventh realm after refining these spirit stones.

In fact, that was exactly what happened. Two days passed, and Chen Xiao refined all the spirit stones. The whole process was surprisingly smooth and fluent, without any accidents. It was truly a natural success!

Chen Xiao successfully broke through and reached the seventh realm of the Nine Revolutions Azure Abyss Formula. He only needed to break through twice more, and this cultivation technique would be complete!

The seventh realm of the Nine Revolutions Azure Abyss Formula was a new height for Chen Xiao. Even in the dream he had once had, he had never reached this realm.

But to his regret, the seventh realm did not bring him a qualitative change.

Of course, his body and yang spirit, including his True Essence power, had undergone a huge improvement, but these could not be called qualitative changes, only quantitative changes.

But it couldn't be said that there were no changes at all. After the breakthrough, a mass of dark golden mist appeared in his mind.

His brain told him that it was called Yi (Intent), but if he wanted to turn Yi into his own, he still needed to slowly comprehend it.

Chen Xiao comprehended it for most of the day, but the golden mist surrounding the Yi did not diminish in the slightest. Chen Xiao had no choice but to give up.

It seemed that comprehending this Yi had to be done slowly and couldn't be rushed!

Mainly because he couldn't rush it even if he wanted to!

Overall, this seclusion was very successful. He didn't experience any difficulties or dangers, and his strength had improved greatly. Chen Xiao was very satisfied with this!

After coming out of seclusion, Chen Xiao took Su Mei'nan straight to Hou Tu City.

But after setting off, Chen Xiao realized that he had chosen the wrong follower in Su Mei'nan.

He had originally thought that Su Mei'nan was, after all, a native of the Immortal Hidden World and could remind him of some rules of the Immortal Hidden World that he didn't know... And the most important thing was that Su Mei'nan could act as a guide and lead the way for him.

But in fact, Su Mei'nan's knowledge of the geography of the Immortal Hidden World was not much better than Chen Xiao's... It could even be said that she was worse than Chen Xiao.

Because she had lived in the Immortal Hidden World for twenty years and had only been to three places.

One was True Martial Town, where she was born and raised.

One was the location of her master's sect, the Sleeves-Tucking Sect, on the shore of Viewing Waves Lake.

And the other was the True Martial Sect, which Chen Xiao took her to... Although she helped Chen Xiao lead the way to the True Martial Sect, in fact, she only knew the general direction of the True Martial Sect.

In fact, Su Mei'nan was already considered good. For most ordinary people in this world, they had never left the town they lived in their entire lives.

Chen Xiao couldn't help but sigh at this. Ordinary people in this world were even more worthless than grass.

Chen Xiao had originally planned to set off first and fly in a general direction. If he encountered other towns along the way, he would go down and ask for directions.

But to his surprise, Su Mei'nan didn't even know which direction Hou Tu City was in.

In the end, Chen Xiao had no choice but to go to the True Martial Sect and ask Zhang Longhu for help.

Chen Xiao's sudden visit startled Zhang Longhu into a cold sweat again.

Only after learning Chen Xiao's purpose did he put his heart back in his stomach.

In order to send this master away, Zhang Longhu directly took out a magic treasure.

It was a sheepskin map, but it wasn't an ordinary map.

After being blood-recognized as its owner, the location of the map's owner would be displayed as a red dot on the map, which was clear at a glance, just like a GPS positioning system in the secular world.

This was a good treasure for Chen Xiao. After thanking Zhang Longhu, Chen Xiao planned to leave Su Mei'nan in the True Martial Sect and set off alone.

After all, this little follower didn't even know the way and wasn't of much use.

However, the True Martial Sect didn't accept female disciples, and Su Mei'nan obviously didn't want to stay in this place where her former enemy had been.

Seeing her pitiful look, Chen Xiao softened his heart and left her a place on the Heaven-Reliance Sword again, taking her to Hou Tu City together.

Hou Tu City was located in the core of the entire southern region, tens of thousands of miles away from the True Martial Sect.

It was the largest city in the entire south, as well as the core of economy, trade, and exchanges between various forces. It was also a large city directly controlled by the super sect, the Earth Sect.

After nearly a day's journey, Chen Xiao and Su Mei'nan finally arrived near Hou Tu City.

In order not to attract attention, Chen Xiao landed in an uninhabited gully dozens of miles away from Hou Tu City and put away the Heaven-Reliance Sword.

Only then did they get on the main road and walk towards Hou Tu City.

Compared with other regions, there were obviously more pedestrians on the road to Hou Tu City.

Moreover, most of these people were young talents, traveling in groups of three or five. They were probably all young people going to participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle... To be precise, they were young people going to participate in the Heavenly Pride Battle selection competition.

Because the Heavenly Pride Battle stipulated that only 150 people could participate, and there were countless large and small sects in the Immortal Hidden World, thousands and tens of thousands were not an exaggeration.

Each sect sent out a Holy Son or Holy Maiden, which was several thousand or tens of thousands of people. Obviously, it far exceeded the upper limit of the number of people stipulated by the Heavenly Pride Battle.

Therefore, before going to Immortal Sect City, the Holy Sons and Holy Maidens from all over the Immortal Hidden World would first go to the main cities of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Sects to which they belonged to participate in the preliminary rounds.

The preliminary rounds in the three regions would select fifty Heavenly Prides respectively to participate in the final Heavenly Pride Battle main competition.

Most of the young talents on the road were just cannon fodder for others to rise to the top, but this didn't hinder their enthusiasm. They were still happy to do so.

Because even if they failed to pass the preliminary rounds, it was still a very rare experience in the martial world.

Moreover, before the official start of the preliminary rounds, no one could guarantee that miracles wouldn't happen... What if, what if good luck fell on them!

The Holy Sons and Holy Maidens were all proud people. First of all, psychologically, they wouldn't admit that they were inferior to others!

Although there were many pedestrians on the road, most of them were like Chen Xiao and Su Mei'nan, walking on their own two feet.

It was rare to see people riding flying swords.

There were a few people riding horses, but not many.

Because horses were a very useless existence in the Immortal Hidden World.

Of course, the horses here referred to real horses, not those that were transformed by Battle Qi.

Because of the special environment of the Immortal Hidden World, the horses that could survive here were precious horses with extremely outstanding conditions.

Ordinary people, or even some small sects, couldn't afford these precious horses.

And those who could afford them were all large and medium-sized sects. The disciples of these sects didn't need to ride horses. After all, their cultivation was there. Even if they didn't fly with swords, simply using their feet was much more useful than horses.

"Giddy up!"

However, at this moment, a figure riding a horse suddenly caught Chen Xiao's attention.