Supreme Emptiness

If it had been an ordinary person, this sword would have disemboweled them long ago, but for Xu Ganglie, it merely cut through a layer of skin.

It didn't even touch the bone!

This man's physique was unbelievably strong!

Xu Ganglie wiped the bloodstains on his chest, finally enraged.

"You dog, you dare to wound me?"

With a loud bang.

His powerful legs pushed off, and his whole body pounced forward.

From a distance, he looked like a giant toad.

Jiang Fan couldn't dodge in time.

Yet he remained calm, displaying "Seven Stars to the North" once again.

Xu Ganglie roared, "Die!"

Ignoring the pain, he grabbed the wooden sword with both hands.

Little did he know, Jiang Fan had been waiting for this moment.

Without any hesitation, he suddenly activated the wooden sword's electric shock effect.

Crackling—

A continuous current instantly surged into Xu Ganglie's body.

His body twitched violently and fell stiffly from mid-air, lying motionless on the ground.

He was truly like a toad.

But.

What made Jiang Fan's scalp tingle was.

The current that could make an ordinary person stiff for over three breaths.

Xu Ganglie had only stiffened for a moment before recovering!

He angrily climbed up, forcefully snapped the wooden sword into two pieces, and threw them harshly at Jiang Fan's feet.

"Little bastard, now you should die, right?"

With that, he transformed into a blur and charged at Jiang Fan.

To Jiang Fan, it felt like a mountain was crashing into him!

The elder let out a desperate cry, "Dodge quickly!!!"

He could almost see Jiang Fan's fate.

One collision, and he would surely turn into a blood mist.

Jiang Fan also felt a chill in his heart.

This was his last chance!

He drew the Purple Sword from his back with a reverse grip, not even having time to unravel the cloth wrapping.

He slashed towards the charging Xu Ganglie from a distance.

The movement was clumsy and slow.

It elicited a sneer from Xu Ganglie, "You can't even hold the sword properly, and you still dare to..."

As he spoke, Xu Ganglie froze.

He realized that the distance between him and Jiang Fan had suddenly stopped closing.

Moreover, he saw in his line of sight a lower half of a body, with only the legs left, continuing towards Jiang Fan by inertia.

Finally, just as it was about to reach Jiang Fan, it fell with a thud.

And his own body dropped heavily to the ground.

Looking down at his body.

His lower half was gone!

Immediately, the delayed pain struck so fiercely that he let out a scream of agony: "Ah! Ah!! My body, my body..."

Splurt—

He didn't suffer for long.

Jiang Fan unhesitatingly pierced his throat with a sword, ending his life.

Until his death, he never understood what had just happened.

"That was close."

Jiang Fan wiped the sweat from his forehead, showing a look of relief.

If it weren't for obtaining the Purple Sword.

He feared he would have met his end here today.

"It's just a pity about the Thunder Pattern Spiritual Wood Sword." He picked up the broken wooden sword, heart aching.

It had accompanied him for so long, and had often helped him out of dangerous situations.

Today it was caught in the crossfire and met an untimely end.

The disheveled elder walked over with an apologetic expression, saying, "I'm sorry, young hero, I didn't deliberately lead him to you, it was just a survival instinct."

"Let me compensate you with some silver."

Jiang Fan glared at him coldly, "Who cares about your silver? You almost cost me my life. Do you think a simple apology will suffice?"

Suddenly, he recalled Xu Ganglie's mention of the "Iron Blood True Scripture." Read latest chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

"Copy the 'Iron Blood True Scripture' for me, and we'll call it even!"

The old man's lips trembled.

After a brief thought, he gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, I must repay the favor of saving my life."

The reason he hadn't handed over the "Iron Blood True Scripture" to Xu Ganglie was that once he did, he would be killed.

But the Jiang Fan before him didn't seem like a heartless villain.

So, he pulled out an iron scroll covered in dense writings, which was a body refinement technique.

Jiang Fan glanced at it, his pupils contracting involuntarily, "A Profound Level lower-grade body refining technique?"

The old man squatted down to copy, speaking with some pride:

"This is the Giant Sect's top-level body refining method, watched only by elders and the sect master, otherwise, why do you think Xu Ganglie chased me into the Green Cloud Sect territory?"

Jiang Fan, however, caught the implication, "Watched?"

"What, no one practices this body refining method?"

"Is there a problem with the technique?"

Also, he was puzzled.

If it was the top-level technique, why was an outsider able to take it away?

The elder's old face stiffened, this kid was really sharp.

He had immediately noticed something wrong.

So, he sighed helplessly, "There's no problem with the technique."

"It's just that it requires a lot of resources."

"Look for yourself, what it takes to practice the first layer."

Jiang Fan looked closer, his face turning peculiar.

"Fourth-level Spirit Pills, ten Fierce Tiger Pills."

The elder said, "Now you understand why no one practices this technique?"

"The Fierce Tiger Pills, only a Four-Star Soul Master can refine them!"

"But where can you find a Four-Star Soul Master? Not to mention the Giant Sect, even the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion doesn't have one."

"So, this technique is as good as useless, just for show!"

The elder remembered his pursuit ordeal.

He felt quite aggrieved, "I must have been out of my mind to think of this as a reward."

"You can't practice it, and it attracted pursuit, I nearly lost my old life."

"Young man, you can take it back to read, but don't practice it. Without the Fierce Tiger Pills, it's useless even if you try."

Jiang Fan rubbed his chin, saying nothing.

The Fierce Tiger Pills, others couldn't refine them.

But he could!

He could practice this technique without any trouble!

Suppressing his excitement, Jiang Fan nonchalantly went to check Xu Ganglie's body.

He found quite a few items.

However, Xu Ganglie followed the path of body refinement, so there were no cultivation techniques or Foundation Establishment Pills.

But there was a bag of shiny crystal stones that caught his attention.

"Hmm! Xu Ganglie was quite wealthy, he actually had a hundred Mid-grade Crystal Stones, which is equivalent to a thousand Low Grade Crystal Stones!"

The elder glanced over, becoming instantly envious and swallowing hard.

Crystal stones?

Jiang Fan looked at the elder with surprise, the elder was taken aback: "Young hero, doesn't the Green Cloud Sect use crystal stones?"

"In the Nine-Sect, it's hard to measure various high-value Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures with silver."

"Therefore, crystal stones are the standard currency."

Jiang Fan let out an "Oh" and pocketed the loot.

Soon, the elder finished copying the technique, checking to ensure every word was correct, then he put it away.

"Farewell."

The elder also got up to leave.

But suddenly, he swayed and fell to the ground, his vision going black.

Jiang Fan paused his steps and said, "What's wrong with you?"

"Ol...old problem, nothing serious..."

The elder struggled to breathe, pulling out a bottle of medicine from his bosom, only to find it broken.

All the pills inside had been lost during his escape.

He was instantly thrown into a panic.

Jiang Fan frowned.

With the thought of helping to the end, he went over to check the elder's pulse and smelled the medicine bottle.

"So it's a problem with your meridians."

He searched the elder's belongings, found the necessary materials.

A short while later, he had refined a few pills, fed one to the elder, and placed the rest beside him.

When the elder woke up, Jiang Fan was already gone.

"He saved me? But my spirit pills were all gone, where did he get them?"

"Spirit Pills can only be refined by Soul Masters."

At this moment, he glanced at the spirit pills before him.

And his pupils contracted involuntarily!