Chapter 250: Candidate for Guardian

“This is… the Holy Relic of the Progenitor?!”
The moment Chris saw these two items, he exclaimed in shock.
“That’s right. This is Cain’s divine essence and his divine artifact,” Chen Xiao said with a smile. By now, Chris had already had his faith forcibly taken by Chen Xiao and become his follower.
Chris’s body began to tremble slightly.
With a wave of his hand, Chen Xiao inserted the divine essence into Chris’s body. Then, a trace from the primordial spiritual flame also entered Chris’s body, perfectly hiding the presence of the divine essence.
Chen Xiao handed the black dagger to Chris and said, “Now, you are the new Progenitor of the vampires, their new god.”
Chris stood there frozen. Although his faith had been taken and he had become Chen Xiao’s follower, he still retained his own consciousness. He never imagined he would obtain the Progenitor’s divine essence and divine artifact.
“Fuyun, stay behind and assist Chris secretly along with Yuanmie to control the vampires. In three days, when we attack the Dragon family, I want the vampires to act as a surprise force.”
Chen Xiao glanced at the sky, where it seemed there was a giant eye watching him constantly, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.
Fuyun nodded. Although the Western supernatural forces could rival those of the East in the secular world, when it came to the major forces within the supernatural world itself, they were not even on the same level. Take the vampires, for example—just one Void God within their clan dominated half of Europe.
After settling matters with the vampires, Chen Xiao left without further delay. Before departing, he planted a trace within Fuyun’s body to hide the fluctuations of his Void God, making Fuyun appear like an ordinary ninth-tier supernatural being.
As for Yuanmie, it did not reveal its spiritual nature, so no one could tell what it was. Thus, the two of them faced no obstacles in the secular world.
“Should we deal with that Church now?”
Chen Xiao’s body disappeared into the void. As he flew over the Church’s headquarters in the secular world—Vatican City—he paused briefly.
He sent his mental energy downward and found that those who came here to worship were none other than ordinary people; even the Pope was just an ordinary person.
“The Church’s headquarters isn’t here?”
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Xiao continued flying eastward.
“Chen Xiao, is that you?”
Suddenly, a faint voice echoed in the void. Chen Xiao was startled and stopped in his tracks. At this moment, he hadn’t deliberately hidden himself, so it wasn’t surprising that he had been discovered.
“A practitioner at the ninth level of the Domain? How can you exist in the secular world?” Chen Xiao felt curious after recognizing this person.
The man before him was a young man who appeared to be around twelve or thirteen years old, dressed in a light purple robe, with a hint of arrogance on his face.

“Hehehe…” Hearing Chen Xiao’s words, the man in purple couldn’t help but laugh. “Chen Xiao, are you truly stupid or just pretending to be so? We’re both candidates for guardians, and the rules set by the guardians don’t really constitute any constraints for us at all.”
“Guardians?” Chen Xiao was surprised.
“Enough, stop pretending here.” The man in purple looked at Chen Xiao and smirked slightly. “In three months, the new guardian election will begin. We’re both candidates. I came to see you hoping you’d withdraw from this election.”
“What guardians? I don’t understand.”
Chen Xiao’s face was full of confusion, but his mind was racing. Unconsciously, he remembered the smiling expression of the Great Immortal.
“You say you don’t understand?” The man in purple looked at him in disbelief. “But your name is already on the list of guardian candidates. How can you not know about guardians?”
“Could it be…” Suddenly, Chen Xiao remembered what the Great Immortal had once said—to him, the Chen family and the Dragon family were a test for him. If he passed the test, he would be taken on to do another great task.
Could that so-called great task be the guardian election?
By now, Chen Xiao had figured out from the man’s words who the guardians really were.
The rule imposed by the guardians—prohibiting those with powers beyond the Source Realm from entering the mortal world—meant that the so-called great force controlling Earth must be those guardians.
Moreover, the Great Immortal had once said that the true purpose of the Soul of China… Could it be that the Soul of China also belonged to the guardians of Earth?
Chen Xiao felt as if he had boarded a ship bound for disaster. It seemed that from the moment he entered the Soul of China, some part of his fate had already been determined.
Chen Xiao steadied himself and said, “Why do you want me to withdraw from the competition for guardians?”
A faint purple glow appeared in the man’s eyes. He smiled slightly and said, “Because right now, you don’t have the qualifications to compete as a guardian. Just a mere ninth-level power user—how could you qualify to be a guardian?”
Chen Xiao shook his head. “I don’t want to hear such nonsense. But since you won’t explain, I don’t want to know either. As for those so-called guardians, though I’m not very interested, I certainly don’t like to be forced to do anything,” Chen Xiao said coldly, standing in midair.
“Oh? So you’re determined to defy me?” The man in purple saw Chen Xiao’s expression and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.
A purple glow flashed in his hand, and a strangely shaped long sword appeared. It emitted a purple chill, but it didn’t emit any aura of a virtual god or divine laws. It was some unknown magical weapon.
“During the trials on the Continent of Origins, I used my Purple Lightning Sword to slay three mid-level virtual gods in a row. It’s your honor to die under its glow today.”

The man in purple raised his hand, and the Purple Lightning Sword in his grasp suddenly emitted a purple glow, accompanied by deafening sounds of wind and thunder, shooting toward Chen Xiao’s throat.
“Killing three mid-level Void Gods in a row…?”
A hint of coldness appeared in Chen Xiao’s eyes. Crystalline snowflakes suddenly began to drift around his body. Within a three-mile radius around him, the area turned into an icy world.
This was the domain unleashed by Snowflakes Drifting after it absorbed that black spear, having evolved further. In this domain, each snowflake seemed to be the essence of Snowflakes Drifting, imbued with the attribute of “Defying Heaven.”
Sharp!
The snowflakes in the air resembled sharp blades, swirling along mysterious trajectories. As soon as the purple lightning emitted by the man in purple entered this domain, it was weakened by the layers of snowflakes and vanished before reaching Chen Xiao.
“Oh?”
The man in purple was slightly stunned upon seeing this, then smiled and said, “I underestimated you. Being able to withstand one of my sword auras is truly remarkable.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the Purple Lightning Sword in his hand trembled three times, and three even thicker sword auras surged forth, shooting toward Chen Xiao’s body again.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Chen Xiao sneered. His body remained motionless, but the snowflakes swirling in the domain suddenly changed direction, forming strange whirlwinds that swept up the snowflakes and rushed toward the three sword auras.
The sound of metal colliding rang out. When the snowflake whirlwinds dissipated, the three sword auras also disappeared.
“Being able to withstand my three sword auras proves you’re qualified to be a candidate for guardian,” the man in purple said, frowning slightly.
“Hehehe…” Chen Xiao laughed instead. “You’ve finished attacking. Now it’s my turn.”
“Hm?” The man in purple was momentarily stunned.
“You said just now you wanted me to die under your sword. Since you can’t kill me, it will be you who dies.”
Chen Xiao’s eyes sharpened. The domain around his body suddenly retracted, and a crystalline snowflake formed in his hand.
“Snowflakes Drifting, protect my body! Defying Heaven, strike!”
Chen Xiao roared. Outside his body, the phantom of “Defying Heaven” appeared suddenly, while Snowflakes Drifting entered his body, forming a thin barrier to protect it.
Chen Xiao leaped forward, his entire body turning into a phantom as he dove at the man in purple.
“Hmph. I already showed you mercy just now. Since you want to die, I’ll fulfill your wish.”
Two purple glows burst from the man in purple’s eyes. His Purple Lightning Sword suddenly unleashed terrifying lightning power, creating a purple world of thunder and lightning around him.
“Kill!”
Chen Xiao remained unmoved. At this moment, he seemed to have become “Defying Heaven” itself, charging forward with unstoppable sharpness.
“Die!”
The man in purple’s entire body turned purple. His Purple Lightning Sword swelled suddenly as he swung it at Chen Xiao’s body.
Boom!

The Heaven-Bending Amputator and the Purple Lightning Sword collided suddenly, emitting a loud noise. The space around them was destroyed and then reformed over and over again, a total of more than a hundred times.

Pfft!

The man in purple threw his head back, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His body flew backward for over ten meters before coming to a stop.

Chen Xiao also suffered greatly. Blood as thick as a thumb flowed from the corner of his mouth, and his face turned slightly pale. Yet his body stood firm in mid-air like a pillar, unmoved.

“Not bad, Chen Xiao. You really have some skills…” The man in purple spat out the blood from his mouth. “Apart from that pervert Shui Jing, you’re the first person to make Wan Si Yu Xiu look this embarrassed.”

Wan Si Yu Xiu, the man in purple, slowly exhaled. His face showed no expression at all, as if he had entered some strange state.