After mushing the girl, the rock spirit turned to face Ling Han. Despite having no facial features, it still gave Ling Han a feeling of being stared at.
“This place may be a holy land for cultivation, but its also a dangerous place!” Ling Han muttered. “However, if I can subdue a few rocks spirits, then I could ‘spread beans into soldiers,’ surely enough to give people a great surprise.”
The Thousand Corpse Sect thirsted for the “spatial Spirit Tool” in his hand that could accommodate living things for the purpose of hiding a large army inside—when they launched an surprise attack, the effect of it would definitely be shocking.
In the time he was lost in thought, the golem charged over and fired a punch, momentous and heavy, breaking through the speed of sound; a visible void instantly formed behind the fist, with chaotic burst of the sonic boom.
Ling Han laughed, also greeting with a punch, and said, “Think I’m scared of you, let’s see whose fist is harder!”
Peng!
The two fists clashed as a shock wave instantly burst forth. The golem was sent flying, its right arm shattered.
Ling Han was astounded. He didn’t hold back in this punch, simply not using arts or Fist Qi, but it only shattered one of the golem’s arm yet not made the the golem explode completely. It could be seen how powerful the golem was and how tough its physique was.
Against the golem, there was no need to hold back.
Because…
The golem’s shattered arm turned into infinitely small rocks that fell on the ground, but immediately began rolling as if it had its own life. When the rocks gathered underneath the golem’s feet, the rocks fluttered and connected to the severed arm.
In an instant, the golem’s arm returned to how it was.
Strange Fire didn’t have a physical body and wasn’t hurt by brute force; on the other hand, the golem had a tough physique on top of its terrifying recovery power.
“Ang!” The golem’s head opened, as if cracking open a large mouth, unleashing a furious roar; it had never suffered such a great loss, having its arm shattered by someone else.
Teng, teng, teng, teng, it charged at Ling Han in large strides, and with each step, the ground trembled slightly, showing its terrifying mass.
It fired another punch.
“Can’t beat you into submission?” Ling Han smiled and also fired a punch. Peng, the golem’s right arm was shattered again, and this time, Ling Han didn’t wait for it to recover, charging up and firing a flurry of punches.
The golem’s body was very hard, not much different from rare metals of the same tier, but it still couldn’t be mentioned in the same breath after all; otherwise, it’d be iron man and not golem.
…The rock spirit was somewhat lacking in defense when compared with the gold spirit, but its recovery power was strong.
After receiving a dozen punches, the golem was completely shattered into bits and pieces, spreading all over the ground. However, these small pieces of rock immediately began rolling and recombining. Ling Han didn’t stop it, but when it was about to finish reconstructing, he fired a punch and shattered it into bits and pieces again.
The golem began to reconstruct, but every time it was about to finish, Ling Han would break it up. After five consecutive times, it finally stopped reconstructing, and the several hundred pieces of shattered rocks began to wriggled one after another, turning into several hundred small golems!
“Ang!” These golems synchronized and roared in anger. Instantly, the pieces of rocks that lay on the desolate field all “stood” up.
They were all golems!
“Sh!t!” Ling Han was somewhat surprised that he actually landed in the den of golems—was this luck extremely terrible or extremely good?
“Ang!” All the golems roared towards the sky, echoing one another.
“Haha!” Ling Han laughed loudly. With this many golems, he could organize a powerful army. He waved his hand and said, “Quickly come in to the bowl.”
Peng, peng, peng , there were at least a hundred large golems charging towards Ling Han, and the shattered golem took advantage to reconstruct. The life force and recovery power of these type of spirits were truly a bit overbearing.
Ling Han greeted them by firing punches wildly at these golems. His battle prowess was too terrifying, sending a golem flying with each punch, but these golems were unharmed, immediately charging right back.
Hard to take care of!
Just the right time to polish his fist techniques.
Ling Han launched the War Elephant Fist, and seven flashes of momentous Qi surged, evolving into eight ancient war elephants that rammed into those golems. He pulled no punches as his battle prowess immediately rocketed and the war elephants dominated, crushing into pieces any golem that was touched.
However, this only suppressed the golems and couldn’t destroy the golems’ strong recovery power. They still reconstructed, entering the fray again.
Ling Han considered storing them into the Black Tower, but every golem had its own consciousness. It would be the same after shattering their consciousness—he’d be unable to store them in the Black Tower no matter what.
It seemed like they needed a taste of power before they learned a lesson.
Ling Han unleashed the Demon Birth Sword. With the destructive power of a tenth tier Spirit Tool, would these golems still be able to recover after a strike of the sword?
Once Demon Birth Sword was unleashed, the tenth tier Spirit Tool’s vicious presence overflowed the area instantly. The golems lost some of their viciousness, beginning to hesitate. They were extremely vicious and merciless a moment ago, having no scruples at all, but now…
“Haha, you guys also know fear?” Ling Han said, laughing.
However, these golems were naturally vicious after all. They immediately regained their vicious attitude, rushing towards Ling Han.
Ling Han swung Demon Birth Sword, and instantly nine flashes of Sword Qi surged, sweeping towards those golems.
The golems weren’t highly intelligent, but they had instincts; each one of them avoided the Demon Birth Sword’s blade. However, they couldn’t completely avoid the Sword Qi. Pu, pu, pu, many golems were instantly struck by the Sword Qi and sliced into two.
This time, the golems reconstructed much slower. The Sword Qi was slashed out by a tenth tier Spirit Tool, possessing terrifying destructive power—even with the golems’ recovery speed, they couldn’t reconstruct immediately.
Ling Han suppressed all the golems once again with his own might, showing his invincibility in the Spiritual Pedestal Tier.
“Ang!” These golems retreated one after another and gathered together, piling up into a ‘human’ pyramid.
Seeing these golems continuously drilling into each other’s bodies, Ling Han couldn’t help but be astounded, blurting out, “Could it be that these golems were all broken up from a huge golem?”
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All the golems weren’t’ very tall, about one meter or so, round and even a bit charmingly naïve. However, they piled together and reached ten meters’ height now; the massive physique no longer had any charm but was instead filled with coercive power.
In an instant, the massive golem finished its reconstruction, firing a punch at Ling Han. Pa, pa, pa, pa, the speed of the fist was too fast, tearing open the air and forming ripples as the sonic boom sounded repeatedly.
An intense fighting spirit arose within Ling Han as he laughed loudly and said, “Come, come, come, let us fight three thousand rounds!”
He greeted with a punch.
Peng!
Two fists greatly different in size collided and emitted an earthshakingly loud sound, instantly forming a shock wave that pushed forward in all directions. A mushroom cloud rose up from where the two were standing, rising up to several thousand meters high, and dust filled the air; it went to show the power of this clash.
Half of Ling Han sunk into the mud, and on t
he massive golem’s fist were several cracks, which were being repaired at an extremely fast speed.
In this punch, the massive golem’s power took the upper hand, whereas Ling Han was superior as far as hardness of fists was concerned.
Ling Han nodded inwardly, the massive golem didn’t break past the threshold of the Flower Blossom Tier, but the several hundred golems all had the power of the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier; how terrifying was it with all their power stacked together?
If it weren’t for the massive gap between the Flower Blossom Tier and the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, as a Spiritual Ocean Tier, the golem’s power would have long broken through the threshold of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier.
Ling Han raised his leg and walked out from the mud. At this time, the massive golem fired another punch, but this time, the fist was wrapped in a gray brilliance, appearing somewhat worrisome.
“Martial intent?” Ling Han muttered. But could the spirit of the five elements cultivate like normal living beings?
It was obviously impossible!
This should be an inborn ability, just like Strange Fire possessing terrifying temperature, burning all things.
Ling Han circulated Origin Power and fired War Elephant Fist, battling the massive golem head-on.
Hong! Hong! Hong!
The two weren’t in the Flower Blossom Tier, but their battle prowess broke through the theoretical limit of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier and could be called half-step Flower Blossom Tier; thus, their battle was also extremely fierce, and as the fists collided, their combined destructive power was shocking.
Fortunately, this was wilderness, allowing them to battle to their hearts’ content.
And Ling Han did. No Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior could possibly let him be so unbridled, and when encountering a Flower Blossom Tier opponent, he would have to constantly think about how to stay alive and wouldn’t be able to put all his spirit into the battle.
Now it was different since this was truly an evenly matched battle. The massive golem’s power was even slightly stronger than his, boasting even more surprising recovery power, allowing Ling Han to attack as much as he liked without having worry about killing his sparring partner because of using too much force.
Hong , as he threw a punch, seven flashes of Fist Qi were fired out!
“Haha, as expected, battles are the most direct and the fastest way to increase martial arts comprehension!” Ling Han laughed loudly. But on second thought, it would be too wasteful to use such a rare opponent to polish fist techniques.
“Watch the sword!” He unleashed the Demon Birth Sword again and struck towards the massive golem.
His grasp of the way of the sword was obviously higher than the fist’s, and compounded with the tenth tier Spirit Tool, the power was naturally even fiercer. Originally, the two were evenly matched, with Ling Han being behind ever so slightly, but now he immediately turned the tables, gaining quite an advantage.
It was at least a seven to three situation, and Ling Han held the seven.
“Ang!” The massive golem let out a roar. If it were struck by Sword Qi, its recovery speed would slow down by one-fold, and if it were sliced by the Demon Birth Sword directly, then the recovery would slow down by tenfold.
The rock spirit probably didn’t fear “bodily” pains, but no matter if it was Demon Birth Sword or Sword Qi, both contained martial intent, which could be used to make assaults on the divine sense terrifying, making the massive golem immensely pained.
If it had no divine sense, how could it be a living spirit? And if it had no divine sense, Ling Han would have long stored this guy in the Black Tower.
However, the massive golem was truly tough and battled Ling Han non-stop even though it was clearly at a disadvantage, exposing its viciousness.
“Ang!” It suddenly opened its mouth to roar, and a sound wave swatted at Ling Han like a tsunami.
This was a large-scale attack, so Ling Han couldn’t dodge and could only take it head-on.
Pu!
Ling Han groaned as blood oozed out from his nose and ears. The impact dug right into his body, affecting his relatively soft organs and brain, almost making him collapse right away.
Oh man, if this were any other Spiritual Pedestal Tier warrior, even one at the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, they would have been heavily injured from that roar, possibly even imploding and dying!
“You also have an ultimate move, huh?” Ling Han laughed loudly, his fighting spirit soaring. If the golem was easily taken care of, then there wouldn’t be much point in fighting. He charged up, swinging Demon Birth Sword and raising up endless winds and clouds.
The two continued to lash out at each other. Ling Han’s released his fighting spirit to his heart’s content, and although there were quite a few injuries on his body, he felt extremely at ease, as if something was about rush out from his body.
He knew that it was the tenth flash of Sword Qi!
From nine to ten was a fundamental change. The tenth flash of Sword Qi could condense into Sword Ray, so it was also exceptionally hard to cultivate. However, Ling Han forgot about the tenth flash of Sword Qi, and about Sword Ray as well, only wishing to battle to his heart’s content.
This secretly coincided with the way of the heavens; intentional pursuit simply equaled more haste and less speed. His action through inaction, following his heart, was the best path.
He struck with his sword, and after nine flashes of Sword Qi were fired out, a new flash of Sword Qi emerged. Although it was only a foot long, and disappeared on its own once it was fired, it was still a real tenth flash of Sword Qi.
“Haha!” Ling Han felt even more satisfied, swinging Demon Birth Sword. The tent flash of Sword Qi soon stabilized and joined the other nine flashes, bursting forth the power it should have.
This was a fundamental change!
From this point on, Ling Han could finally be called a true king amongst martial artists.
Ling Han’s battle prowess rose steeply and instantly suppressed the massive golem’s completely, striking the powerful rock spirit into continuous retreat without a chance of retaliation.
“Ang!” The massive golem used his old trick and roared violently again, wanting to shock Ling Han with the sound waves.
“Break!” Ling Han’s eyes lit up. The Demon Birth Sword struck as ten flashes of Sword Qi flew out.
Pu, pu, pu, pu, the sound waves stormed over, but he sliced them into bits. The remaining waves were split into two and swept by his side, no longer being able to hurt him.
“Hahahha, the tenth flash of Sword Qi is powerful as expected!” Ling Han laughed loudly, bold and unconstrained.
The massive golem stopped its attacks, staring at Ling Han from afar.
“Huh, not going to fight anymore? Gonna admit defeat?” Ling Han said smilingly.
He was suddenly startled, for he saw the massive golem’s body undulate like it wasn’t a golem, but something made of water. It was extremely fierce, and what came after was its presence, which was advancing into in an extremely powerful direction.
‘Sh!t, this golem is about to advance!’
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Chapter 465: Rock Spirit Advances
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“Hey, hey, hey, no way. Is it really good to play this way?” Ling Han sighed, he’d finally had the complete advantage and cultivated out the tenth flash of Sword Qi—all was perfect…
But suddenly his opponent cheated, and no longer fought him on the same tier, rising to the Flower Blossom Tier—how could he handle this?
Ling Han was very freakish, currently only at the first layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, but his battle prowess was already halfway into the Flower Blossom Tier. Even if he advanced into the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, his battle prowess would merely become just a stronger halfway into the Flower Blossom Tier.
How could the boundary of mortals be so easily surpassed?
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br /> Even Rain Emperor relied on the power of the nation to forcefully push halfway into the Flower Blossom Tier level strength to the full Flower Blossom Tier. The power of the nation—just how many people and martial artists did Rain Country have?
Earlier, when the massive golem split into infinite small golems, it lay on the ground like an inanimate stone, probably absorbing the power of the earth and making its final efforts in breaking through to the Flower Blossom Tier. Therefore, when he and the girl came, the golem was immediately alarmed because it was in the middle of a crucial period.
The girl didn’t notice and stepped on the rock, naturally making the golem feel danger and offhandedly smacking her to death…. If someone were to poke the nose of a martial artist cultivating in seclusion, wouldn’t the martial artist be infuriated to the point of wanting to kill someone?
Currently, the massive golem couldn’t beat Ling Han, and could only forcefully begin its breakthrough. Once it advanced into the Flower Blossom Tier, killing Ling Han would be as easy as the turn of a palm. This wasn’t just about revenge, but also its survival; it had to take the chance.
Ling Han wanted to stop the golem from taking this step, but after a bit of thought, he gave up on this thought.
He intended to subdue this massive golem, so the stronger it was, the better.
The golem could cheat, but so could he!
“Small Tower, can you intervene?” Ling Han asked. This was a mystery realm and was its own small world.
Small Tower immediately said, “Although this is a small world and I’ve absorbed some Source Power, it’s still not enough to conceal the power fluctuations when intervening.”
Ling Han was instantly disappointed. After all that, Small Tower still couldn’t be used. It seemed like he could only stop the massive golem from breaking through or turn around to run.
“However, if the Black Tower was unleashed and if its power isn’t used, I can still suppress such presence fluctuations,” Small Tower continued.
“Oh?” Ling Han was moved; if the Black Tower was unleashed and the massive golem was lured in, then inside the Black Tower, wouldn’t this golem have to listen obediently even if it was a Shattering Void Tier creature, let alone a Flower Blossom Tier one?
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