Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294

by Flying Alone 孤单地飞

  Honestly speaking, if they suppressed their power to about the same as Liu Yu Tong’s current level, they would most probably only manage to achieve a tie in front of this sword technique, and this was still taking into account their abundant battle experience.

  How was this possible?

  They all had their own Black Grade mid level martial arts technique, as well as battle experience that exceeded Liu Yu Tong by who knew how many times. Yet if they battled with her on the same level, they could only manage a tie with Liu Yu Tong?

  “Black Grade high level martial arts technique!” The old monsters all exchanged a look and mouthed these six words before they all turned their eyes towards the old monster from the Liu Clan.

  They all only had Black Grade mid level martial arts technique, so there was a fine balance of power among all the Eight Great Clans. Yet now the Liu Clan had a Black Grade high level martial arts technique, which naturally meant that this fine balance was broken.

  Even if the old monster of the Liu Clan was in Spiritual Pedestal Tier, he still started to sweat when he became the sudden focus of the attention of so many others of the same cultivation level. He began to rebuke Liu Yu Tong in his thoughts. Liu Yu Tong managed to learn such a powerful martial arts technique, yet did not save it as a trump card, and actually used it in front of so many people. Wouldn’t that be trying to attract others to covet this sword technique?

  He wanted to claim that the Liu Clan did not possess this sword technique, but also knew that the other old monsters would not believe him—since Liu Yu Tong knew this sword technique, then wouldn’t that be equivalent to the Liu Clan also knowing this sword technique?

  But, he was also extremely curious. Where had Liu Yu Tong learnt this sword technique from?

  Liu Yu Tong gave a light shout, and as she brandished her sword, the Spring Rain Sword Technique was becoming more and more well-practiced. It was a martial arts technique after all, and the main purpose of martial arts technique was to be used for battle, so naturally, she could only grasp the essence of the sword technique in true battle.

  The more she grasped of the essence of the Spring Rain Sword Technique, the more she looked as light as a deity. In the eyes of the audience, it was as if she was the Fairy of the Jade Lake, dancing gracefully. As her sword danced, the rain droplets of spring danced with her continuously, creating a scene so beautiful it could cause suffocation.

  All the young men there revealed expressions of captivation. There was even a number of people who were no longer young, yet could feel their hearts wavering, as if they had returned to their youth when they would be pursuing beautiful sights and sounds, horses and dogs.

  “Enough!” The old monster from the Hu Clan spoke, extending a hand. His Origin Power transformed into a giant palm that separated Liu Yu Tong and Hu Bo. “This is just a spar. Take care not to overdo it. Let’s just consider this as a tie.”

  Hearing these words, all the others were snorting in derision in their thoughts. What do you mean by a tie? It would take at most another three moves, and Hu Bo would definitely be harshly defeated! But who dared to talk back against a Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior so publicly? Unless… someone thought they had lived for too long and would like to end their life prematurely?

  Liu Yu Tong felt very regretful. She did not intend to defeat Hu Bo, but rather to teach him a good lesson he would remember strongly.

  Hu Bo stepped back, but there was confusion on his face. He did not understand why Liu Yu Tong had become so strong. And when he saw that Liu Yu Tong had stepped back and stood beside Ling Han, a terrifying killing intent rose up within his eyes.

  This brat was actually still pestering Liu Yu Tong!

  How hateful! Damn it!

  The stronger Liu Yu Tong was and the more terrifying the talent in martial arts she displayed, the more he wanted to make this genius girl his. So, naturally, he could not bear to see her to be so close to any man.

  He was not the only one. When the young men in the area all saw this, they all looked at Ling Han with very unfriendly gazes.

  It was only now that they discovered that there was not only one beauty by Ling Han’s side. There was another beauty that was completely not beneath Liu Yu Tong by his side.

  Li Si Chan!

  Gods, the Twin Pearls of the Imperial City that were so famous have all become his women?

  Damn this f****** bastard!

  And within this one instant, Ling Han had become public enemy number one. Any of them who had the slightest bit of interest in Liu Yu Tong or Li Si Chan all considered Ling Han to be their rival. Moreover, the admirers of these two girls were enough to queue up in a line that could encircle the Imperial City three times, so the number of new enemies Ling Han had gotten could be imagined.

  …And this was only the younger generation of the Eight Great Clans and the Imperial Family.

  “Brother Ling, I never thought you would have arrived so early!” The Third Imperial Prince stepped out and gave Ling Han a friendly smile. He was a man that was meant for great things, so he would of course not lose himself in the beauty of women.

  “Hehe,” Ling Han laughed and said, “can we set off now?”

  He had already waited for quite a few days, and could no longer wait to find out the secrets hidden at the source of the underground river.

  Chapter 127

  Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu

  “Let’s set out!” One of the old monsters gave a wave of his hand. Previously, the youths of his own Clan were not here, so he naturally could not allow anyone else to pass through that opening first. But things were different now.

  Whatever reminders needed were already given, and no one was now wasting their time on pointless chatter; they all entered the river’s waters.

  They all passed through one by one, entering into the hidden area behind the Light of God.

  Ling Han’s expression instantly became serious. If a place had the Light of God, then even he—someone who had once been an ultimate warrior of Heaven Tier in his last life—had to proceed cautiously lest any careless move on his part caused his death. The reason why he had been willing to create an opening and allow so many people entry was also because he intended to have these people enter first to scout out any possible dangers.

  Of course, fateful encounters were always accompanied by serious danger. If one wanted to obtain great rewards, one would of course have to prepare to face great risk. This would be fair to every single person.

  After the opening still lay a stretch of the underground river. They continued to advance, and soon, a piece of land appeared in front of them.

  At this moment, they should be deep within the Blood Gushing Mountain, yet it was actually empty inside, containing a gigantic empty space.

  They all stepped onto land. It was not too dark here, as there was a mysterious light flickering in the area that lit up the belly of this mountain. However, they were not able to see too far ahead, as if there was something that was hindering their sight.

  A lot of them separated from others and left. Even those who were from the same Clan had divided themselves into quite a considerable number of teams.

  Firstly, this was to not put all their eggs in a single basket, and secondly, even those who came from the same Clan may not be completely united and close to each other. In that case, it was best not to stick together. If they encountered danger, they not only would not help each other, they may even hinder each other.

  Very quickly, the group of people separated into their own groups and went towards all the different directions.

  “Brother Ling, I shall take my leave first!” The Third Imperial Prince raised his clasped hands in Ling Han’s direction, with only the crimson-haired beauty by his side.

  Ling Han gave a nod, and watched the Third Imperial Prince leave.

  All of a sudden, the area had become deserted, and only Ling Han, Liu Yu Tong, and Li Si Chan were left behind.

  “Where should w
e go?” Liu Yu Tong asked. This place looked like a plain. Aside from the underground river behind them, every other direction was absolutely empty. She really did not know which direction they should decide on that would be the right choice.

  Ling Han took out the treasured saber and used his divine sense to communicate with the scrap of consciousness in the saber, wanting to incite the instinctive reaction of the treasured saber to find the remains of Jiang Yue Feng.

  Yet, there was absolutely no reaction from the treasured saber.

  How strange!

  Ling Han frowned slightly. If Jiang Yue Feng had really joined the ranks of Heaven Tier, then even if he had been dead for over ten thousand years, his body would still not decay. The ultimate warriors of Heaven Tier had already walked a very long way on the path of martial arts, and their martial intent was deeply carved into every drop of blood, every piece of flesh, and every bone in their bodies.

  From a certain point of view, the remains of these ultimate warriors could also be considered as a kind of Spiritual Tool—in truth, a large number of Spiritual Tools were made from the bones of extremely powerful demonic beasts. Human bones could also be used, of course. But that was much too terrifying, so practically nobody dared to do such a thing.

  Thus, the remains of the user and his Spiritual Tool contained the same martial intent, so they should be attracting each other, yet why was there completely no reaction at all?

  Unless!

  Ling Han’s expression took a swift turn. Unless there was nothing left of Jiang Yue Feng’s body! Then, naturally there would no reaction from his Spiritual Tool at all.

  But what had actually happened at that time that even the remains of an ultimate warrior of Heaven Tier had completely disappeared?

  “Let’s just walk somewhere,” he said. They didn’t know which direction was the best anyways.

  The three of them advanced and after they had walked for a while, Ling Han suddenly stopped.

  “What’s wrong?” Liu Yu Tong asked.

  Ling Han did not say anything. He went off slightly to the side of the direction they were heading in and came to the side of a huge boulder.

  The two girls followed in his footsteps, but did not see anything particularly interesting about this boulder. There was only a stalk of grass growing at the side of the boulder. If they had not examined it clearly, they would have thought that it was a piece of bone.

  “What kind of grass is that?” They were both very surprised.

  “This is Bone Eating Grass, and it will only grow on a dead body,” Ling Han explained. There was something else that he did not say, and that was that only the dead bodies of at least Deity Transformation warriors would cause the growth of the Bone Eating Grass.

  “Ya!” The two girls instantly turned pale. Though the two of them were martial artists and death should be something very common to them, women would still be women. If a woman heard that she could possibly be stepping on a dead body, her heart would definitely skip a beat.

  Ling Han struck with a palm, and the huge boulder was flung away with the force of his strike.

  “Ah!” Both girls gasped in shock, for there was a skeletal hand extending out of the ground. The pure white finger bones emitted an eerie feeling.

  “Don’t be afraid. He has been dead for over ten thousand years,” Ling Han said.

  The two girls immediately rolled their eyes at this. This young man was highly intelligent, had exceptional talent in martial arts, and was impossibly capable in alchemy, yet he was an absolute idiot when it came to his EQ! If they were afraid of this dead body, how could they still jump out to wound others in martial arts? Of course they were not afraid!

  Ling Han took out his sword, and carefully dug away the soil around the skeletal hand.

  With the physical strength of an Element Gathering Tier martial artist, digging some soil was of course a piece of cake. Very soon, after the skeletal hand appeared a skeletal arm, followed by the shoulder, and quickly there appeared a skull that was in an upright position.

  “Why is it not lying down?” The two girls asked curiously. After death, it should be impossible for one to maintain a standing position. Could it be that someone had buried him standing up after this person had died?

  “When the power of a martial artist has reached a certain level, and his martial intent is threaded through his entire body, then he would be able to remain standing for a few hundred years even after his death,” Ling Han explained. “My guess is that this person died from battle here, and kept maintaining this pose. Afterwards, after an uncountable number of years, perhaps something happened on the surface, causing some rocks and soil to fall from the cave ceiling which completely buried his body.”

  The two girls were both very astonished. A person would still be able to remain standing even after death? At least they had never heard of any powerful warrior of Spiritual Pedestal Tier being able to do that kind of thing.

  Ling Han continued to dig, and soon, the complete remains were in front of their eyes.

  This was obviously a male, and there was still a suit of purple-colored embroidered robes that had not yet rotted on him. However, there was shockingly a hole on the chest area of the robes—this should be the location of the wound that had caused this person’s death. Additionally, the rib in front of where the heart should have been when he was alive was broken.

  They could imagine that he had been embroiled in a fierce battle with another person, and his opponent had crushed his heart with a single punch, causing all life signs to be washed away from him after this blow.

  Yet, Ling Han directly removed the embroidered robes from this skeleton, causing the two girls to exclaim in disgust. This was something that had been worn by a corpse.

  “Unfortunate, it’s really too unfortunate!” Ling Han sighed continuously, “This is a secret treasure woven from Purple Jade Silk. It’s unfortunate that an extremely powerful blow has destroyed all its abilities, ai!” He gave a light tug, and the embroidered robes were easily torn open.

  “What is this Purple Jade Silk?” Liu Yu Tong asked.

  “The Purple Jade Heaven Silkworm is a Level Nine demonic beast, and the Purple Jade Silk is the silk that is spat out by it,” Ling Han explained very simply.

  “Hiss!”

  The two girls both inhaled sharply, a Level Nine demonic beast…. then wouldn’t that be equivalent to Heaven Tier! A piece of clothing that is woven from the silk that is spat out by a Level Nine demonic beast, that should be the ultimate kind of treasure!

  “Such protective armor should be able to withstand at least over a hundred continuous attacks from a Heaven Tier warrior before being destroyed, yet from the looks of this hole, it was pierced open by a single punch.” Ling Han raised his head, and looked up with a burning stare, “This proves that the Shattering Void Tier indeed exists in this world!”

  Chapter 128

  Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu

  The reason why Ling Han had died in his last life was because of his quest to seek the secrets behind attaining Shattering Void Tier. Now that he had seen a real proof of the existence of Shattering Void Tier, he could not help but get excited.

  But after his wave of excitement had passed, all he felt was worry and incomprehension.

  Jiang Yue Feng had obviously taken part in such a clash of the titans, but what was the reason for it?

  Everyone knew that the higher one’s cultivation level was, the larger the difference there would be between the power levels of different cultivation levels. For example, he, at the fourth layer of Element Gathering Tier, was able to pit himself even against an opponent in the first layer of Gushing Spring Tier. But, once he reached Heaven Tier, the difference of a single layer would be like the gap between Heaven and Earth. There existed a gulf that was impossible to cross between the first layer and the second layer of Heaven Tier.

  If there really rose up an ultimate warrior of Shattering Void Tier in this world, then that was
definitely an invincible existence. Why would Jiang Yue Feng still choose to battle such an opponent when he obviously knew he was no match for the latter?

  It would be fine if only one such “idiot” appeared. The thing was—there were too many of them, and all of them were powerful warriors of Heaven Tier. How could he believe such a thing?

  Beside this corpse also lay a sword, the martial intent of its previous user engraved within the seals carved onto it. This was an ultimate secret treasure, able to pass on the martial arts knowledge of this powerful warrior. Unfortunately, once it had left the restraints of the ground, the sword automatically awakened and transformed into a rainbow that exited via the water. In an instant, it had completely disappeared without any traces left behind.

  Ling Han shook his head with a sigh. The current him was really much too weak. Even if the greatest of treasures lay in front of him, he did not have the ability to make it his own. This feeling could really make one feel depressed.