Above the Phoenix Blood Pond beneath the Melt Sea, there is actually a human figure. This was something Qi Xiu did not expect. And as the Dragon Eyes swept towards this figure, a peculiar look emerged in his gaze.

"A living dead?"

The silhouette sitting on the Phoenix Blood Pond had a vigorous vitality, and its mighty and vast energy was like a blazing sun, distorting the void. The flaming yang aura it released was even hotter than the temperature of the Phoenix Blood itself.

Yet such a powerful physical body,

was empty inside, devoid of any soul.

It was completely an empty shell!

As he moved above the Phoenix Blood Pond, the intense scorching yang energy that swept towards him caused the Dark Green Dragon Scales on Qi Xiu's body to manifest spontaneously, resisting the terrifying heat that could incinerate rivers and boil seas.

Getting closer, Qi Xiu also saw clearly the true appearance of this figure.

It was a middle-aged man about forty or fifty years old, with clear and upright features, dignified and heroic, a broad and robust build, sitting there like a divine mountain standing since ancient times, majestic and imposing.

Particularly those large hands resting on his knees, robust and substantial, exuding a weighty feeling of holding heaven and earth.

"What a terrifying physique, this person should be an Ancient Martial Practitioner from the Primordial Era."

Just as Qi Xiu was observing this middle-aged man, the voice of Hu Tianzong came from the True Dragon Law Realm.

Although he was inside the realm, Qi Xiu had granted him permission to observe the external world, so he also saw this man sitting on the Phoenix Blood Pond.

"Ancient Martial Practitioner?" Qi Xiu frowned upon hearing it.

He had encountered this name in some ancient texts but never found detailed records, just brief mentions.

According to those brief records.

The Ancient Martial Practitioners were the oldest group of Martial Cultivators, the ancestors of the extreme path martial cultivators in later generations.

However, after the Primordial Era, for some unknown reason, the inheritance of ancient martial arts was severed, with no complete Daoist inheritance passed down.

Later extreme path martial cultivators inherited only a very small portion of it.

"Yes, my grandfather once found a stele inscribed by an Ancient Martial Practitioner in a large tomb in the mountains."

Even after countless years, the remaining essence and charm on that stele frightened my grandfather so much that his hair stood on end, almost flipping the entire family home.

It's said that Ancient Martial Practitioners walked the path of using the physical body to resist heaven and earth.

Much like the also extinct inheritance of Witch Nuo, it was a lineage born before the Primordial Era, created by the Human Race to survive and propagate under harsh heavenly conditions and the persecution of myriad races.

After obtaining that stele, my grandfather studied it for thirty years.

He finally deduced two words from it."

"What words?" Qi Xiu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Purity!"

"Purity?"

"Yes, the cultivation path of the Ancient Martial Practitioners is one of ultimate purity!"

They maintain an unwavering belief, achieving unimaginable terrifying power through sheer determination." Hu Tianzong said.

"This sounds quite similar to the Domineering Body Sect," Qi Xiu slowly remarked.

The Domineering Body Sect, now reputed as the top flesh cultivation sect of Primordial Heaven, follows a similar path.

They forsake various methods, focusing solely on physical body cultivation.

Only upon achieving the status of a Primordial Spirit True Honor can they break this taboo.

And the result of such arduous cultivation is an almost unrivaled horizontally trained body, at least from what he understands.

Among the Ancient Sect Nobility of later generations, none could stand against them.

"No, although the Domineering Body Sect cultivates only the body, during their cultivation, they also utilize external methods for assistance.

Whereas the Ancient Martial Practitioners rely purely on their will and belief, transforming the mortal into the saint, endlessly refining the physical body, and excavating their potential.

They do not rely on the Three Thousand Grand Paths at all.

Each Ancient Martial Practitioner possessed unparalleled abilities.

The physical body you see before you should belong to an Ancient Martial Practitioner.

And judging by its vigorous vitality, it should be a Martial Saint capable of physical combat with a Primordial Spirit!"

"Martial Saint?"

Hearing this, Qi Xiu's eyes couldn't help but move slightly.

Ancient Martial Practitioners do not cultivate the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, thus they cannot achieve the status of Primordial Spirit.

But due to their peerless combat power, they have the ability to physically combat Primordial Spirits.

Ancient Martial Practitioners who reach this level are called Martial Saints.

"So, this should be a relic of a Martial Saint.

Presumably, he also mistakenly entered this Phoenix Nest, ultimately perishing in the Melt Sea Phoenix Blood Pond.

The body that should have perished remained alive due to the endless vitality of the Phoenix Blood Pond, maintaining its life and eventually becoming like this."

Feeling a subtle movement in his heart, Qi Xiu reached out to touch this Martial Saint's relic.

But just as he closed in within a yard of the relic, the previously tightly closed eyes of the Martial Saint relic suddenly opened, and a terrifying might that could suppress Qiankun and crush the universe erupted, with waves of unrivaled ferocity turning the originally hell-like Phoenix Blood Pond into an eternal cold cave.

This overwhelmingly fierce aura swept over, as if ten thousand calamities were descending, causing all the heavens and the dao to tremble and mourn. Qi Xiu felt an overwhelming dread, as his dragon scales condensed to the extreme, making a cracking sound as if about to shatter.

Without a second thought, Qi Xiu swiftly retreated!

As he distanced himself, the Martial Saint relic's eyes closed once more, and the terrifying might that seemed to want to destroy all heavens retracted sharply back into its body.

"Goodness, truly worthy of being capable of physically combating a Primordial Spirit.

Even after being dead for so long, with the soul fully dissipated.

Just the remaining physical body's instincts can unleash such a frightening force.

It's unimaginable, what a terrifying existence he must have been if alive." Even while hiding within the True Dragon Law Realm, Hu Tianzong could perceive the terrifyingness of that unparalleled ferocity.

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