“Interesting.” Ao Jian Cheng had both hands behind his back. His gaze swept pass Zhao Huan who hadn’t stored the Yellow Dragon Fruit as he said, “Huh, it’s actually the Yellow Dragon Fruit, no wonder it triggered a battle. Honestly, even I’m a bit moved.”
“What? Senior Brother Jian Cheng, this is our sect’s disciple.” The purple-clothed youngster looked at the ground for a while, his gaze locked onto a sleeve—it had traces of blood on it, but a moon design could still be seen underneath.
Ao Jian Cheng immediately revealed killing intent, and said threateningly, “You guys have such great nerve, daring to slaughter our sect’s disciples!”
“Hmph, they coveted our things and wanted to kill and rob us, so were we supposed to stretch our necks and await death?” Zhao Huan said, unwilling to give in. In the Rain Country, he was the prodigy of one of the eight large noble families, but here he suffered threats on his life repeatedly; it was a truly great contrast.
“The people are already dead, and you guys can say whatever you want,” the purple-clothed youngster said coldly, “I can say that you guys killed and robbed this sect’s disciple, yet still tried to put the blame on them.”
“Put down the Yellow Dragon Fruit and take your own life!” he said haughtily.
Qi Yong Ye and the others were angered half to death; could they be more unreasonable?
“When all is said, you guys simply set your eyes on the Yellow Dragon Fruit.” Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “You guys go first, leave this to me.”
“You…!” Qi Yong Ye and the others hesitated.
“You guys still don’t believe me?” Ling Han raised his eyebrows with soaring confidence.
“Go!” Qi Yong Ye and the others originally suspected that he was Ling Han, and now they no longer doubted it, turning one after another to leave. Staying here, they would not only be unable to help Ling Han, but instead become a hindrance.
“You talk quite big!” The purple-yellowed youngster laughed grimly—a mere small fry at the first layer of the Gushing Spring Tier dared to speak of blocking them? Where did he get such courage? He immediately leapt out, wanting to block Qi Yong Ye and the others.
Ling Han also moved, unleashing a metal sword. With a shua , Sword Qi flew out.
The purple-clothed youngster was forced to stop and reached to wipe the wound on his cheek slit open by Sword Qi. He couldn’t help but be infuriated, and said, “Damn it, you dare hurt me!”
“So what?” Ling Han said indifferently.
“Die!” The purple-clothed youngster dove out again, but this time, his target was Ling Han. As he stretched his arms and legs, martial intent flowed; his battle prowess was extremely shocking, at least ten stars.
Possessing battle prowess that surpassed one’s tier by three stars in the Spiritual Ocean Tier was very remarkable.
Ling han didn’t dare to be careless. Ding, ding, ding, ding, the long sword danced rapidly, Sword Qi surged through the sky, and Four Seasons Sword Technique followed his will smoothly as he battled fiercely with the purple-clothed youngster.
Chapter 331
Chapter 331: Preparing to Breakthrough
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Ling Han was very freakish, but the ninth layer of the Gushing Spring Tier was a shortcoming after all. His battle prowess could rival nine stars in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, but encountering the ten-starred purple-clothed youngster, he was still the side weaker by a level.
Within a few moves, he was at a disadvantage, only guarding.
However, this still stupefied Jian Ao Cheng and the purple-clothed youngster.
Since when could first layer of the Gushing Spring Tier’s be this ferocious?
In Jian Ao cheng’s eyes, killing intent was burning. If such a freak raised his cultivation to the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, wouldn’t he be able to instantly kill him? No, such a prodigy had to be quickly eradicated.
He liked to battle prodigies because the feeling of crushing prodigies was extremely pleasant—definitely not because he could lose.
The purple-clothed youngster roared repeatedly, one move more vicious than the previous, but Ling Han’s battle prowess was only weaker than him by one star; how could he possibly take Ling Han down by exerting a bit more strength? Besides, Ling Han still had too many trump cars that he hadn’t revealed.
If possible, Ling Han truly wanted to slaughter Ao Jian Cheng. He should be one of Ao Feng’s cherished children, and killing him would definitely make Ao Feng feel distressed for a while. However, Ling Han felt that a mental spirit always followed Ao Jian Cheng.
That formidable Winter Moon Sect’s cultivator was paying close attention to Ao Jian Cheng at every moment, and the instant Ling Han unleashed the Demon Birth Sword, it would definitely draw that person over.
Ling Han shook his head. He could only contend relying on his own strength.
“I underestimated you!” The purple-clothed youngster stopped, but did not to stop the battle. He took out a sword behind his back that gleamed like autumn water. On the blade were lines of fabric patterns, totaling nine; it was a Spirit Tool.
“Resuscitate!” He shouted lightly. Weng, weng, weng, the lines of fabric on the blade were activated one by one, glowing; however, only eight were lit up, the ninth line of fabric refusing to work.
“Making me use Long Brow Sword, you can feel proud even when you die!” The purple-clothed youngster smiled with air of arrogance, leaping out with his sword and slashing towards Ling Han. Hu , the Spirit Tool split apart the air and four flashes of Sword Qi danced all together, extremely scary.
Ling Han frowned momentarily, then just turned to run without saying another word.
If he wanted to beat the purple-clothed youngster, he had to use the Demon Birth Sword and the Mysterious Three Thousand. However, once the Demon Birth Sword was used, under the sensitivity of the Qi, the divine sense on Ao Jian Cheng would definitely realize.
That couldn’t happen!
Once he charged into the Spiritual Ocean Tier, his strength would have a shocking surge. Why was it necessary to fight desperately here?
“You want to run?” The purple-clothed youngster snorted, hurriedly breaking into pursuit.
Ao Jian Cheng displayed his movement technique and followed behind. Ling Han was too freakish—if such a prodigy wasn’t quickly eliminated, it simply would make him unable to rest or eat in peace.
However, who would be able to catch up to Ling Han who used Shadow Wind Movement Technique once he activated it?
Hu Niu was one, but for the Spiritual Ocean Tier practitioners, one had to be naturally gifted with movement techniques or have related bloodline abilities; otherwise, if they said they wanted to catch up to Ling Han who used the Shadow Wind Movement Technique, they didn’t really mean it.
However, after running for a few minutes, the difference between the two was pulled apart by a whole lot. Ao Jian Cheng took over the purple-clothed youngster, but the distance between them and Ling Han was still widening.
After chasing for a few more minutes, Ao Jian Cheng could only stop with disappointment, for Ling Han already disappeared from his field of vision.
He couldn’t help but harbor resentment; he should’ve personally attacked earlier, dealing Ling Han a fatal blow and giving him no chance to escape! But who would’ve thought that he who was in the first layer of the Gushing Spring Tier not only had nature-defying battle prowess, but also speed that could make others gape.
…He hadn’t witnessed Hu Niu’s speed, or else he’d definitely suffer a mental breakdown.
“Senior Brother Jian Cheng, did you kill…” The purple-clothed youngster arrived, and thought to ask Ao Jian Cheng whether he’d killed Ling Han, but as soon as he spoke, he knew something was off; Ao Jian Cheng’s expression was quite unsightly.
“Hmph!” Ao Jian Cheng’s expression was full of killing intent. He swore he definitely wouldn’t let Ling Han off the next time.
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After Ling Han ran for a while, his figure flashed and entered the Black Tower.
It was time to break through.
Once he stepped into the Spiritual Ocean Tier, he’d sweep across the desolate lands. So what if there was someone in the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, he couldn’t destroy them without using the Demon Birth Sword.
The Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf was still alive, but heavily injured. It woke up and immediately bared its teeth, roaring angrily and revealing its viciousness.
“Still vicious?” Ling Han hurled a slap and the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf was instantly shocked to death. He waved his hand, and the beast wolf’s blood was completely extracted, adhering to his body.
Several drops of blood were actually silver, as if mercury condensed into a ball.
This was Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf’s blood essence, and the sign of a king; there were only a few drops. Don’t be bitter about the small amount—only after reaching the Shattering Void Tier would one’s blood turn fully silver, and flinging one drop of it could kill someone in the Flower Blossom Tier.
Ling Han absorbed the essence, turning it into vigor that nourished his body.
The blood was drying up at a rapid pace, turning into a scab stuck on his skin. The color of it was extremely light as the essence within had all been absorbed.
Ling Han felt like his body was going to burst. Absorbing the blood essence of a beast king at the Spiritual Ocean Tier was greatly beneficial to him.
However, this wasn’t enough!
Ling Han waved his hand again; the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf instantly broke into parts, each bone separated, fluttering midair. One drop of white bone marrow immediately emerged from the bone.
Blood and bone marrow were the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf’s true essence.
Normally, the bones needed to be continuously boiled and simmered for at least a day and a night before the bone marrow could become soup; however, inside the Black Tower, there was no need for such trouble. Ling Han only had to raise his hand to do it.
He opened his mouth. Xiu, xiu, xiu, the bone marrow’s essence instantly flew into his mouth and was swallowed by him.
Weng , the Five Elements Chaos Lotus vibrated slightly as Origin Power flowed violently inside, sending the bone marrow’s essence to every corner of his body and strengthening his bones and muscles.
“More spirit medicine!” Ling Han waved his hand; stalk after stalk of spirit medicine was pulled from the ground, lining up in front of him.
He chose some spirit medicine that strengthened his physique and compacted his origin from the spirit medicines he harvested at the Devil Sky Mystery Realm and the Winter Moon Sect’s medicinal garden. He pressed with his right hand and the liquid medicinal essence was instantly extracted.
Ling Han opened his mouth and swallowed like a whale.
Hong , his entire being was like it turned into a pill furnace. Inside his body were several types of spirit medicine and the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf’s bone marrow and blood. He turned his body into a pill furnace, refining these essences and nourishing his body.
He felt as if he would soon explode.
‘It wasn’t enough, it hadn’t reached the limit,’ Ling Han thought to himself. He would break through at the instant his body reached the limit, compacting his fundamentals to an unshakable degree.
Hong, hong, hong , wave after wave of energy detonated inside Ling Han’s body. His skin cracked and streams of blood poured out, but his eyes were still shining; he almost touched the door of the extreme.
Pa, pa, pa, his skin continued to crack open. Even the Rock Cliff Body couldn’t tolerate the violent energy wreaking havoc inside his body.
At this moment…!
Chapter 332
Chapter 332: Two Spiritual Oceans!
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Hong.
Inside Ling Han’s body, an earthshaking change happened.
His muscles, bones, and veins were becoming stronger, breaking through the Rock Cliff Body’s limits and bringing it up a level. This wasn’t the Indestructible Heaven Scroll’s contribution, but a breakthrough acquired from him pushing his own body.
Such a great change didn’t occur on his body alone, but also in his dantian.
He had fused nine nuclei long ago, and turned nine spring’s eyes into one—the most important step in breaking through to the Spiritual Ocean Tier. His spring’s eye was surprisingly large, as if a great lake, and now it was super-spring’s eye that was expanding at the rate of a tsunami.
Forming an ocean!
Hong long long , the spring’s eye burst out a surprising amount of Origin Power. If Ling Han used his divine sense turned into a human figure for comparison, the spring’s eye had already become a vast body of water, so extensive that the end couldn’t be seen.
Hiss, this could already rival the spiritual ocean in his previous life when he was at the peak of the first layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, but now he just broke through and the Spiritual Ocean was still expanding at a fast pace, far from reaching the early stage of the first layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
Truly astounding.
This process for Ling Han was following a beaten path. Tidal wave after tidal wave, the spiritual spring turned into an ocean, massive and boundless.
After whole three hours, the spiritual ocean’s expansion finally stopped. However, as Ling Han thought he’d smoothly advanced, a tide suddenly rose and the spiritual ocean transformed again, beginning to split!
‘Sh!t, what’s this situation?’
At Gushing Spring Tier, he only had one super-sized spring’s eye, but others had nine. And now, others fused nine springs into one, turning into one spiritual ocean. Could he be the opposite, possessing nine spiritual oceans?
Fortunately, his spiritual ocean only split into two, and no longer continued to divide.
Two spiritual oceans!
One on top, and the other on the bottom, as if heaven and earth. Moreover, one spiritual ocean swirled clockwise, while the other rotated counter-clockwise, like the yin-yang fish in the diagram of cosmological scheme.
Ling Han was driven mad. After crossing into the Element Gathering Tier in this lifetime, everything was different.
Other people’s origin nucleus was singular, but he had five small origin nuclei combined. Other people’s nine spring’s eye, while he had one. Other people had one spiritual ocean, yet he had two.
Holy crap!
However, the real change probably happened when he was at the ninth layer of the Element Gathering Tier when he fused nine origin nuclei, which now emerged as an intrinsic change. After all, having small origin nuclei, it could be done as long as one had multi-element spirit base.
Nine nuclei fused into one—this was probably unprecedented, at least according to what Ling Han knew in two lifetimes. Another like this had yet to appear in the world, so his path of cultivation that followed might bring him many surprises.
Very soon, the two spiritual oceans finished expanding, completely stabilizing, which meant that he truly crossed into the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
Ling Han was shocked, because his spiritual ocean now was ten times as big as the one in his previous life.
With a thought, the spiritual ocean raised in a wave as Origin Power swept past, surging violently.
He casually threw a punch, sensing the power within. He nodded; his power could now rival the seventh layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier!
This was extremely scary. Just stepping into the Spiritual Ocean Tier, his power could rival the late stage Spiritual Ocean Tier warriors, so when he reached the peak stage of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, would it be possible for him to battle those in the Spiritual Pedestal Tier?
…Relying on his own power, and not with the help of the Demon Birth Sword.
This was very much possible; even though the higher the tier in martial arts, the larger each step, he compacted his foundation too sturdily, allowing him to possess extraordinary
tier-surpassing battle abilities.
“This time, fighting Ao Jian Cheng again, I can beat him bare-handed till he calls his ancestors!” Ling Han smiled faintly. “However, I still don’t want to expose my identity. I have to infiltrate the Winter Moon Sect to find out mother’s whereabouts, so it’s best not to use a sword.
Fist techniques? Palm techniques? Or, leg techniques?
Ah, got one, it’s Na Lan Tu’s War Elephant Fist—the one I requested when he asked me to refine pills. Its said to be quite a special Black Grade technique, which Gushing Spring Tier martial artists can’t cultivate as they’re one Tier too low to manifest martial intent.
It’d be nice if this fist technique is like the Mysterious Three Thousand.
However, Na Tu Lan didn’t have a stinky face as if his parents had died like the one Sword Emperor had when he handed it over. I guess I’ll be disappointed.”
Ling Han turned over the War Elephant Fist inside his consciousness, as he said, “Small Tower, can the second layer be opened now?”
The Small Tower’s figure surfaced; it paused slightly, seeming to attempt it, and then it immediately swayed left to right as if it was shaking its head. “No, you’re not strong enough right now!”
“Hey, hey, hey, I am now in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and counting upwards, the Spiritual Pedestal, the Flower Blossom, the Spiritual Infant, the Deity Transformation, the Heaven, and the Shattering Void Tiers, a total of six more steps left. Even if I could open one layer every time I advanced, then when I become god, I can still only open up the eight layer, meaning… god realm also has level differences!” Ling Han inferred.
This was counting closely. If, by any chance, he needed two or three Tiers before he could open a layer of the Black Tower, then just how many stages was god tier divided into?
Small Tower was silent. Its intellect was limited—or maybe it was because it was damaged too heavily, affecting its intelligence?—at any rate, it was unable to respond to questions out of its range.
Ling Han sighed. It made sense—Black Tower was undoubtedly a product of the god realm and its original owner definitely died, while the tool’s spirit was annihilated as well, rebirthing as another one. This explained that even gods were divided into the weak and the strong—dividing them into levels would naturally be normal.
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