Ling Han swung his sword and broke through the head, feeling fatigued all over, and sat abruptly onto the ground.
This large snake was truly terrifying. Under the circumstances of allowing him to attack at will, he still exhausted all his energy to kill it. If this large snake possessed the intellect of a normal beast, then the result would be the complete opposite; he wouldn’t be able to do anything about this huge monster.
Ling Han let Hu Niu out. The little girl kept kicking the large snake, fully showing her childish temperament. Ling han was very interested in the bump on the snake’s head because it meant that it was growing flood dragon horns, which were treasures—absolute treasures!
Flood dragon horns ground to dust could be used in medicine, their effects were manifold, of which the most famous was boosting the sex strive, making men as vigorous as a dragon and as fierce as a tiger. Of course, Ling Han was not at all interested in boosting his sex drive; he was very confident in this area.
According to the legends, a true dragon was an auspicious sign of the divine plane, possessing the supreme power of toppling mountains and overturning seas; inside the flood dragon horn was a shred of the true dragon’s godly qualities, and if it could be extracted, wouldn’t that be kick*ss?
He used the Demon Birth Sword as a butcher’s knife, slicing the bump on the snake’s head carefully in case it damaged the flood dragon horns.
The progress was very slow; not that Demon Birth Sword wasn’t sharp enough, but Ling Han’s power was a bit weak. This large snake’s scales were truly too hard, making his progress extremely slow.
However, half an hour later, Ling Han finally peeled off the scales, cutting open the skin and revealing the bump completely.
He sliced it open, but didn’t find the corneum, so he cut and cut. Only after digging much more did a small black dot appear. Ling Han was startled; he sliced open the surrounding flesh, only to find that it was actually tiny black stone.
He reached to grab it, but as he made contact, he groaned. Endless chaos charged into his consciousness, making his head feel like it was about to burst. He forcefully endured it, wanting to enter the Black Tower.
However, as his consciousness was attacked, he actually couldn’t immediately make any contact with the Black Tower.
He couldn’t help but be shocked as the thoughts of chaos in his consciousness continued to expand. Black Qi grew from his entire body as his divine consciousness was rapidly being possessed.
“Ling Han!” Hu Niu yelled, baring her teeth and roaring; Ling Han at this moment gave her the feeling of a complete stranger.
Ling Han forcefully endured it, maintaining one last shred of clarity. At last, he finally gained contact with the Black Tower, and xiu , he entered the Black Tower, instantly summoning supreme power. Waves of black Qi surged out from within his body as if a pit of snakes that were reluctant to leave, still wanting to worm it’s way into his body; however, inside the Black Tower, this was absolutely unrealistic.
Hong , Ling Han soared into the sky, completely expelling the power of chaos.
He breathed rapidly and heavily—it was truly too terrifying. If he were slightly slower, his consciousness would’ve been infested completely by the chaos. He’d become like the large snake, muddleheaded and living based on instincts.
He never would’ve thought that a small piece of black stone could actually be so dangerous.
“I understand now. It’s no wonder the large snake felt gave me a familiar feeling… that’s Demonic Qi!” Ling Han clapped his hands, finally remembering.
He exited the Black Tower. Hu Niu immediately dove towards him, nudging him with her head and looking like she never wanted to let go.
“Alright, alright, I’m fine.” Ling Han laughed and rubbed Hu Niu’s hair, then looked towards the black stone inside the snake’s head.
The black stone was the size of a peanut, not uniform in shape and different from Asura Demon Emperor. This black stone’s looked like nothing special and had no shred of Demonic Qi circulating within it, which was why Ling Han had been careless and almost became infected with no hope of reprieve.
He used the Demon Birth Sword to scoop the stone up, and with a pa , the black stone rolled on the ground several times before lying silent on the accumulated snow.
A strange scene appeared—the large snake immediately shriveled up, and within only a few breaths’ time, the large corpse was already rotten. Its scales turned into ash, and pa, pa, pa, the bones broke one after another.
“Niu’s meat!” Hu Niu screamed in anguish.
Ling Han’s face twitched. Earlier when he was attacked by the chaos from the black stone, the little girl didn’t scream so tragically, did she?
Alas, a foodie was always going to be a foodie!
However, this large snake’s peculiarities were all because of this black stone?
Otherwise, how come the entire corpse crumbled once the black stone was taken out!
This could explain why a Spiritual Pedestal Tier beast could grow up to several thousand meters, but why the black stone had such effects was another problem.
“Stinky rock!” Hu Niu raised her feet and trampled down fiercely at the black stone.
The little girl’s speed was too fast and Ling Han couldn’t stop her in time at all… but he was immediately shocked, because nothing happened to Hu Niu after stamping it over and over. Moreover, Hu Niu even picked up the black stone, pa, pa, pa, smashing it, yet it still had no influence on her at all.
Were the heads of foodies so empty that they couldn’t be effected?
Ling Han didn’t dare to try and let Hu Niu take the black stone again, taking Hu Niu into the Black Tower before letting Hu Niu hand it to him.
Weng , the intent of chaos attacked once again as endless demons and hells manifested the chaos of the universe.
Ling Han activated the power of the Black Tower. Weng ‘ these demonic thoughts were instantly blocked from his consciousness.
He discovered that this could toughen his divine consciousness—though, of course, it was under the Black Tower’s help, or else it would be courting death.
“Small Tower, what’s this thing?” Ling Han asked.
“Missing too much memory, might know, but can’t remember at all right now.” Small Tower’s emotionless voice sounded out.
Ling Han put the black stone, looked towards Hu Niu, and said “But how did Hu Niu block the attack of the chaotic intent?”
Hu Niu pat her chest as she said, “Niu’s a genius!”
“Haha, you certainly are a genius.” Ling Han remembered the strange Spirit Base inside her body; even if he activated Eye of Truth now, he still wouldn’t be able to see through Hu Niu’s dantian; the little girl’s strangeness index was also ridiculously high.
” Xixi 1 .” Hu Niu smiled happily.
Ling Han picked up the Black Stone, weighed it in his hand, and said to himself, “Its not bad. It can be used to toughen divine consciousness and increase the soul’s strength.”
“Not only that,” Small Tower spoke up. “There’s a shred of Chaos Origin Source inside.”
“Chaos Origin Source? What’s the heck is that?” Ling Han asked.
“Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, Three begets all things,” Small Tower said, “Dao is the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and Great Dao forms the Supreme Ultimate, which turns into Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang can also be seen as order and chaos.”
Ling Han was astounded and said, “This piece of black stone can actually… trace back to the Origin Source?”
Dao begets One (nothingness; or reason of being), One begets Two (yin and yang), Two begets Three (Heaven, Earth and Man; or yin, yang and breath qi), Three begets all things. All things carry the females and embrace the male. And by breathing together, they live in harmony…
Chapter 397
Chapter 397: Blood Light House Changes Master
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
Wh
at was Dao?
Heaven and Earth’s Origin Source, the true essence of the world.
According to legends, gods grasped the Dao of Heaven and Earth and were invincible in the world, transcending life and death.
Martial arts, alchemy, and formations were three different angles of pursuing the Origin Source, searching for Dao. However, just as Small Tower said, Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, and Three begets all things. Mortals were commonplace, even Ling Han who was a Heaven Tier in his former life remained at the level of all living things, striving to trace the Source Origin and searching for the “Three.”
He was still very far off in martial arts, but in alchemy, he reached the peak stage of Heaven Grade, with one foot into the path of godhood, qualifying to contact the “Three.”
But now, a small piece of black stone actually contained the Chaos Origin Source, reaching the “Two” level.
“If one could completely grasp the source of chaos within the black stone, couldn’t one jump straight into god realm?”
As Ling Han said that, Small Tower immediately shook in negation and said, “Impossible! There is too little Chaos Origin Source within the black stone, and its only a fragment of the colossal Chaos Origin Source. Even if you could completely grasp a branch of it, its still far from the Chaos Source Origin.
“However, I can absorb the shred of Chaos Origin Source, and extract the Source power, repairing my body by one billionth.”
That news was massive!
After Ling Han was shortly startled, he blurted out, “You can extract the power of Origin Source? And, Black Tower is damaged? Even the power of Origin Source can only repair by one billionth?”
Small Tower shook lightly and said, “It’s precisely because I was heavily damaged that I was struck to this realm, losing almost all my memories. Extracting the power of Origin Source shouldn’t be hard. My instincts tell me that I can do it and that this piece of black stone is really too small, so being able to repair one billionth is already an optimistic estimate.”
Ling Han’s jaw dropped; just what level was the Black Tower’s existence, needing the power of Origin Source to repair it? In this lifetime, would he be able to wait till the day the Black Tower completely recovered?
However, he was only at the Spiritual Ocean Tier and had already received a piece of black stone, which meant that his fortune was heaven-defying; perhaps the Black Tower could be repaired without breaking into god realm.
One had to be optimistic.
Ling Han temporarily had no intention of giving the black stone for Small Tower to refine. The chaos intent could toughen his own martial intent, especially now that he was stuck at seven flashes of Sword Qi—part of the reason for that was that his martial intent was not tough enough.
He exited the Black Tower, bringing Hu Niu towards the core area of the Dark Demon Forest. It was very possible that there were more black stones there.
After all, the Dark Demon Forest was known for its Demonic Qi-like mists and the beasts in the core area were all possessed and terrifying as they thirsted for blood.
Before Ling Han didn’t know the reason, but now, thinking about it, if the black stone existed there for a long time, it definitely influenced the environment, thereby influencing the living creatures there.
Whether it was for Crimson Red Chilling Ice Grass or for the Chaos Origin Source within the black stone, Ling Han had to make this trip.
One day later, a stronghold appeared before them again.
The stronghold was much smaller than the previous one, but its defensive powers were increased a whole lot. Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artists patrolled the surroundings with weapons in their hands, all extremely alert.
Ling Han pondered, deciding to lodge at this stronghold.
He walked over and was requested to hand over five Origin Crystals. Fortunately, probably seeing that Hu Niu was too small, her “ticket fare” wasn’t collected, saving Ling Han a small amount.
This stronghold’s infrastructure was also consisting in wooden walls and bamboo houses but simpler—it couldn’t be helped, because this was the third ring of the Dark Demon Forest.
The entire Dark Demon Forest was divided into four rings. The first ring was obviously the core area; because of the great influence of Demonic Qi, no single force could set foot there. Normally, only Flower Blossom Tier elites dared to enter it, but they also came and went with haste, not daring to stay long.
Next was the second ring, which was the foothold of the Blood Light House and the Gust Demon Clan. It was also the foothold on the foremost frontline, often suffering assaults from beasts that came out of the core area; if one wanted to rest and reorganize there, each day of stay would cost one ten Origin Crystals.
Fiery Sun Grass was in this area; the danger there was still quite high because there was a possibility of encountering Flower Blossom Tier beasts that came from the core area.
Ling Han was at the third ring and the nearby beasts were already very frightening. There were Spiritual Pedestal Tier existences, even martial artists at Spiritual Pedestal Tier had to be careful—slight inattentiveness would be their perdition.
He brought Hu Niu to a tavern, it was the best place to seek out information.
“…Great news, great news, Blood Light House has changed hands!”
“What, is it real?”
“Haha, I just came out of the second ring, only fifty thousand meters away from the headquarters of the Blood Light House. It’s news I heard personally, it couldn’t possibly be fake.”
“Strange, wasn’t the head of Blood Light House at his prime, how come he abdicated?”
“He didn’t abdicate on his own accord, but he was defeated!”
“Hey, hey, hey, Blood Light House’s head is a Flower Blossom Tier warrior, an almighty expert who can stand side by side with Heavenly Silkworm Court’s head, Devour Bone Court’s head, and Gust Demon Clan’s head! He was actually defeated by someone?”
“Exactly, and its rumored that the one who defeated the Blood Light House’s head is a grandmaster of fists, able to burst forth with ten flashes of Fist Qi. It was only nineteen consecutive punches before Blood Light House’s head was put down, forced to submit his authority.”
“Hiss, who was that? That’s way too fierce, right?”
“Don’t know, that person is very secretive; he calls himself the Fist Emperor.”
“Fist Emperor? That’s quite domineering, isn’t it?”
Ling Han listened and was somewhat shocked. Of the four large forces, the Blood Light House was forced to change heads—a major event. Just where did this Fist Emperor come from, not only having strength, but also having high aspirations?
‘Emperor’ titles shouldn’t be used rashly. In his former life, there was only Sword Emperor and Setting Sun Saber Emperor who were called emperors, while he attained supreme accomplishments in alchemy and was still being called the Grandmaster of Alchemy.
This represented invincibility within a tier.
Sword Emperor, invincible in the sword path! Saber Emperor, the sole supremacy in the saber path! As for him, he stood at the peak of alchemy.
Calling oneself the Fist Emperor would probably attract many fist experts to challenge him, because if they accepted his title, then it was equivalent to acknowledging that he was first in fist path; how could these grandmasters of fists tolerate that?
Ling Han stroked his chin. Should he also call himself some sort of emperor and attract some aggro? It seemed to be quite an interesting idea.
“Your news is not really new, that was at least a month ago.” Someone on the side was unwilling to have the limelight taken away, immediately interjecting. “Now, many figures on the prodigy roll are gathered at the Dark Demon Forest, and that’s the most sensational event.”
“Why?” This news attracted the curiosity of many. After all, the figures on the prodigy roll were elites that could become Flower Blossom Tier and even Spiritual Infant Tier wa
rriors. With so many of them gathered at the Dark Demon Forest, it could be called a distinguished gathered.
“Its said that a treasure has come into being at the core of the forest!” that person said, feigning mysteriousness.
“What treasure?” everyone asked in surprise.
Chapter 398
Chapter 398: Heavenly Luck Stone
Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu
“What treasure?” Everyone revealed a curious look.
Treasure—just that word alone made people’s blood boil. Moreover, it was able to draw the attention of the people on the prodigy roll—such a treasure was obviously extremely precious.
The person chuckled; seeing everyone’s gaze concentrated on himself instantly gave rise to a strong sense of vanity. They continued, “Exactly what I’m not sure, but I heard it’s a rock.”
“A rock?” Everyone was astounded. What was so special about that rock that it actually attracted so many figures on the prodigy roll?
Ling Han was startled—could it be the black stone? Inside, it harnessed the Chaos Origin Source!
However, he immediately shook his head inwardly. Such power… even he couldn’t absorb it in his previous lifetime’s peak, not to mention a few Spiritual Ocean Tier and Spiritual Pedestal Tier warriors. Leaving other things out, he couldn’t even endure the chaos intent inside the black stone with his heaven tier divine sense, and had to rely on the Black Tower to suppress it, so other people were naturally even less qualified.
Unless… they were as strange as Hu Niu.
“Haha, you’re slinging the bull, nothing about a rock is worth fighting over,” someone mocked.
“It really is a rock, I’m not lying to you guys.” That person immediately swore. Martial artists all liked respect, and being doubted instantly made the person anxious.
However, most people still didn’t believe it—what about a rock was worth fighting for?
“That’s right, it certainly is a rock called Heavenly Luck Stone,” someone said.
“Yes, yes, I remember now, it is called Heavenly Luck Stone!” the person from earlier said in a hurry.
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