Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294

by Flying Alone 孤单地飞

  The dragon elephant was fiercer; it rolled its long trunk and actually curled up the fire lion, throwing it back towards Xuanyuan Zi Guang.

  “How’s it possible!?” Xuanyuan Zi Guang cried out. Both had combined Qi, but his numbered 22 flashes! He clearly had the advantage in numbers, so why was he still inferior to Ling Han? Could it be that he was actually inferior to Ling Han when it came to the quality of Qi?

  This was something he couldn’t accept.

  He fired another palm, finally negating Ling Han’s attack. He couldn’t help but look sour as the result was beyond what he’d anticipated.

  “No!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang immediately discovered that a type of special vein-like patterns intertwined around the dragon elephants, as if a divine light was enveloping them. It was precisely that vein-like pattern that made the dragon elephant’s battle prowess increase substantially.

  Coming around this point, he instantly recovered his confidence. It wasn’t that the quality of his Qi was inferior to Ling Han’s, but the mystical arts his opponent grasped that could compound the power of Qi.

  “I, Xuanyuan Zi Guang, am definitely not weaker than anyone!” he said boldly and loftily, launching fierce attacks once again.

  Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “Then today, I’ll beat you till you’re convinced!” He activated the Eye of Truth, and the opponent’s slightest flaws were enlarged in his eyes. He evaded flexibly, and continued to attack fiercely.

  He had the Iron Sheet Body and even cultivated the Nine Dragons Tyrant Body Art, so not only was his physique tough, his brute force was also amazing, most suited for close-quarters combat. If one were to be struck directly by his iron fist as the twenty flashes of Qi burst forth, even Spiritual Infant Tier elites probably wouldn’t be able to cope with it.

  Xuanyuan Zi Guang knew that his close combat capability was formidable, so he obviously wouldn’t fight hand-to-hand, hurriedly shifting his feet and pulling apart the distance between them as much as possible instead.

  However, under Ling Han’s Eye of Truth, his flaws continued to enlarge. Each step was traceable, which allowed Ling Han to target him beforehand by calculating his path, continuously intercepting Xuanyuan Zi Guang and posing a great threat to him.

  Xuanyuan Zi Guang roared repeatedly. He had never fought with such an annoying opponent, and it almost drove him mad.

  “You’ve infuriated me!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang’s black hair stood up towards the sky, and his thick eyebrows rose; he turned his hand to unleash a long back saber.

  ‘What, he was actually a saber user?’

  Ling Han was astounded; seeing that Xuanyuan Zi Guang was always bare-handed, he’d assumed that Xuanyuan Zi Guang was most skilled in palm techniques.

  “Being able to force me to use a saber, you’re not bad,” Xuanyuan Zi Guang said loftily. With the saber in hand, he immediately regained level-headedness, and his arrogance returned to being sky high.

  “What’s the difference?” Ling Han said smilingly.

  “Experience for yourself!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang struck with the saber, and hong, 29 flashes of Saber Qi fired out, slashing violently towards Ling Han.

  29 flashes!

  Ling Han’s expression turned stern. He hurriedly carried out the Demon Fairy Step, evading the Saber Qi shooting past him.

  Not only was the amount shocking, but also… this saber was at least a seventh tier Spirit Tool, and the Saber Qi fired from it was extremely sharp. Even with Ling Han’s physique equivalent to sixth tier rare metals, Ling Han didn’t dare to take it head on.

  “29 flashes of Saber Qi!”

  “My God, how can there be such a freakish guy!”

  “I’ve always thought he used palms. Who would’ve thought he’s actually a saber user, and his talents in the way of the saber is actually so terrifying!”

  “Perhaps even Absolute Saber Sect’s Small Saber King is inferior to him, huh?”

  Everyone cried out, shocked by Xuanyuan Zi Guang’s strength and talent. This youngster concealed himself deeply; who would’ve thought that he was truly skilled in saber techniques?

  Ling Han unleashed his Purple Bale Sword resolutely. His right hand moved as 23 flashes of Sword Qi flew out.

  “Another freak!” everyone cried out once again.

  Peng, peng, peng, Sword Qi and Saber Qi clashed continuously, turning into infinite exploding fragments. This time, Xuanyuan Zi Guang wasn’t at a disadvantage at all. He had the absolute advantage in the amount of Qi, and under the blessing of a treasured saber, his Saber Qi was sharper and had more destructive power.

  “Saber Slashing Hell!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang let out a battle cry and swirled his treasured saber. 29 flashes of Saber Qi turned into one and formed an extremely thick Saber Ray, slashing towards Ling Han.

  Ling Han also struck with the sword; 23 flashes of Sword Qi, blessed with the bone patterns, united into one, going towards the Saber Qi.

  Chapter 580

  Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu

  “You usually always use palms because you encountered a bottleneck in the way of the saber. That’s why you changed to cultivating palm techniques, wanting to comprehend by analogy and thus obtain a breakthrough in the way of the saber, achieving 30 flashes of Saber Qi,” Ling Han said while fighting.

  “That’s right!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang didn’t deny it. “Everyone thinks that 29 flashes of Qi is the limit, but I know that 30 flashes is the real completion. With my talents, I obviously need to reach perfection!”

  Ling Han nodded lightly. The reason why the Mysterious Three Thousand was Three Thousand and not Three Thousand One Hundred was because it assumed that 29 flashes of Qi was the limit martial artists could cultivate.

  However, limits were to be broken, or else how would one know what a limit really was?

  “Lose!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang charged up, closing the distance with Ling Han on his own accord; clearly, he was confident in his current strength. Of course, closing in wasn’t to fight hand-to-hand with Ling Han, but to control the distance at about a meter or so, allowing Saber Qi to showcase its greatest power.

  Ling Hans swung his sword in counter, and laughed loudly. “I complemented you twice, and you really think I’m afraid of you?”

  Hong, a thick long flash of Sword Qi erupted. This was also a combined Sword Qi, and it also had the addition of a bone pattern, which substantially increased its power. Like a dragon, it slashed towards Xuanyuan Zi Guang.

  “Saber breaks heaven and earth, I’m lord of the world!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang shouted loudly, and the saber’s momentum instantly increased greatly. The baleful saber intent seemed as if it could cut open the heavens.

  This saber strike was very strong!

  Ling Han carried out Desolate Hell Sword art, and a sky-ful of sword lights spread out, enveloping him tightly and forming a super-strong defense.

  This sword art’s forte was its defense to begin with; on top of Ling Han’s current battle prowess, obviously not even a drop of water would trickle through.

  Hong!

  The sword and saber collided, and the martial intents also collided fiercely; this could be called the strongest battle in the level of the Flower Blossom Tier.

  “A similar Flower Blossom Tier, so why is the difference in strength so great?” The other people who were invited to participate in the contest cried out one after another. Comparing their strength, this difference was not just a tiny bit—they didn’t even have the courage to catch up.

  This shocked their confidence too much.

  Pang Xiang Rong clenched his fists tightly and encouraged himself on the inside. He would definitely surpass these two people… definitely!

  The two geniuses unleashed their radiance to their hearts’ content as if they were two suns shining on earth. This battle wouldn’t effect their reputation no matter victory or defeat; the victor would simply shine brighter.

  “Amongst this generation’s geniuses, a figure that will surpass the millennia old and ra
ise the extreme might appear, shining for ten millennia and leading martial arts,” a figure of the older generation exclaimed. They advanced step by step, and when they climbed to the Flower Blossom Tier, they were at least sixty to seventy years old. At that time, the body’s functions were already on decline, and even if one advanced to the Flower Blossom Tier and revived one’s vigor, they couldn’t be compared to a person who broke through at twenty to thirty years old.

  A martial artist’s entire life was to compete against time, rushing to break through one stage after another when their Qi and blood was the most vigorous. If one couldn’t catch up to time, they could only be eliminated by time.

  “Buddha’s Saber Slash!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang unleashed another great move. As the saber slashed out, there was the actually the image of Buddha’s mercifulness and compassion for all beings accompanying it.

  Ling Han snorted—roaring once whenever unleashing a move, how annoying could you get!? However, Xuanyuan Zi Guang couldn’t release a true killer move because of pressure Ling Han put on him; the latter similarly didn’t have any spare strength to use the Mysterious Three Thousand. It couldn’t be helped; there was no spare energy to accumulate power, since the battle was too fierce.

  If someone still had spare strength to unleash an ultimate move, then it proved one point—the opponent wasn’t strong enough, failing to prevent it.

  However, both parties didn’t dare to spare strength, lest they were crushingly defeated without unleashing their ultimate move as they held back.

  Xuanyuan Zi Guang frequently launched powerful moves to suppress Ling Han. This way, he could also accumulate some power for an ultimate move.

  Ling Han wouldn’t possibly give him the chance. After guarding against a powerful move, he raised his right hand and used the Desolate Hell Sword’s strongest killer move, forcibly interrupting Xuan Yuan Zi Guang’s power accumulation.

  They battled fiercely, equally matched all along; the battle was at a stalemate.

  “I’m invincible!” Xuanyuan Zi Guang roared angrily. The power of the bloodline activated, and endless flames rushed out from within his body. They turned into waves of raging fire and formed true dragons, true phoenixes, and other ancient divine beasts that surrounded his body, their auras shocking.

  His battle prowess instantly rocketed, breaking through the level of the Flower Blossom Tier and advancing into the Spiritual Infant Tier.

  Ling Han snorted, and said, “I was waiting for you!” He took out a medicinal pill from behind his back and threw it in his mouth.

  It was the Five Turns Black Jade Pill—precisely what he had refined a few days ago.

  This was a high-level Earth Grade medicinal pill which allowed Deity Transformation Tier warriors to increase by five stars their battle prowess, and seven stars in case of the Spiritual Infant Tier ones. Theoretically speaking, Flower Blossom Tier elites couldn’t take it, because the increase in power was too much—it would forcefully burst their body. However, Ling Han cultivated the Indestructible Heaven’s Scroll and reached the level of Iron Sheet Body, being completely capable of withstanding such medicinal power.

  Hong, his aura also began to rocket upwards.

  Theoretically, the Five Turns Black Jade Pill could empower the Flower Blossom Tier elites by adding roughly ten stars of battle prowess… the condition was that one could withstand such violent medicinal power; Ling Han’s battle prowess originally surpassed fifteen stars, and increasing by another ten stars of battle prowess obviously meant he advanced into the Spiritual Infant Tier.

  The two great geniuses continued to exchange blows, and Ling Han had the advantage!

  After Xuanyuan Zi Guang’s power of the bloodline was activated, it could add roughly five stars of battle prowess, pushing him into the Spiritual Infant Tier. However, Ling Han, whose battle prowess was originally equivalent to his, gained ten more stars of battle prowess.

  This difference was an entire five stars of battle prowess!

  Of course, their battle prowess already advanced into the Spiritual Infant Tier. Five Stars’ difference in the Flower Blossom Tier placed in the Spiritual Infant Tier would shrink abruptly to half a star, but for two geniuses matched in strength, was half a star’s difference not enough to determine who was superior?

  An advantage didn’t represent a victory, but after Ling Han had the advantage, he had the spare power to accumulate power to unleash an ultimate move.

  10,000 Techniques Return to One!

  Ling Han condensed the 23 flashes of Sword Qi into a pseudo-Ray, and as his sword struck out, a Sword Ray shot out. It was only the thickness of a finger, yet it emitted a frightening chill, slashing towards Xuanyuan Zi Guang.

  It couldn’t be dodged!

  Xuanyuan Zi Guang immediately realized it. This sword attack already locked onto him, and it was extremely fast; it definitely couldn’t be dodged.

  He shouted loudly, and placed the saber horizontally before his chest, doing his utmost to resist.

  The Sword Ray swept by, and Xuanyuan Zi Guang was sent flying. Like a kite with a severed string, he fell heavily onto the ground, hacking out blood violently. Lowering his head for a glance, he saw the saber actually had a shallow mark.

  He still wanted to battle, but as he took a stride, another mouthful of blood spurted out. He slumped onto the ground, without the strength to stand.

  If it weren’t for the extremely high level of the treasured saber in his hand, the 10,000 Techniques Return to One would have slashed him into two parts.

  In the two great geniuses’ battle, Ling Han was slightly better in the end.

  “This isn’t fair!” Yin Le immediately shouted, pointed at Ling Han, and said, “He took a medicinal pill, which is against the rules!”

  Chapter 581

  Translator: Reverie_ Editor: Kurisu

  “Against your motherf*cking sister!” Yi Hong immediately jumped out. “Yin Le, you’re just a sore loser! Pah, what a man you are, not at all open-minded! Want to lean over here on this old lady?”

  She pointed at her own billowy chests. Her female rascal character was already getting out of hand.

  “Yin Hong, mind your bearing!” Immediately, a senior reminded.

  “Yes!” Yin Hong then turned around, bowed slightly, and pretended to be a virtuous lady.

  Yin He, however, said, “Martial arts contest compares individual strength. Xuanyuan Ziguang relied on his own power of the bloodline, but this guy used medicinal pills, so it’s obviously not fair! Otherwise, give an Element Gathering Tier a Super Origin Pill—wouldn’t they be able to kill even Flower Blossom Tier warriors? What meaning does it still have?”

  Super Origin Pill, a forbidden medicine in the legends, also known Transcendental Pill. No matter who it was, eating one pill, they could immediately transcend from a mortal and advance into the Flower Blossom Tier, or even reach the level of the Spiritual Infant Tier. Thus, they would obviously be able to kill Flower Blossom Tier warriors easily. After the medicine’s effects disappeared, the user would also immediately die since their body couldn’t withstand the power of transcendence.

  However, this medicinal pill only existed in legends, and had never been truly refined, let alone used. Yin Le used this as an example just to illustrate that the act of using medicinal pills was against the rules of the contest.

  Instantly, many people began discussing animatedly, and those nodding in agreement were not in the minority.

  Ling Hans sneered, and said, “Borrowing external power is certainly unfair, but don’t forget: I personally refined this Five Turns Black Jade Pill. Xuanyuan Zi Guang possesses the power of bloodline, but that’s because he’s lucky! Can I not rely on my own efforts to make up for my own battle prowess?

  So reasonable!

  With that said, many people instantly leaned towards Ling Han.

  However, these people’s opinions weren’t important. What was important was what the few higher-ups who had the deciding power said.

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bsp; After a short while, Yin Xue Yang opened up. “Since Han Ling is an alchemist himself, he can use medicinal pills. This battle, Han Lin wins!”

  No final verdict could be announced on a man before his death!

  Yin Hong exulted. She’d assumed that Ling Han couldn’t defeat Xuanyuan Zi Guang, but this guy actually gave her a great surprise.

  Yin Le’s expression was gloomy. The contest this time wouldn’t directly decide who would become the Pavilion Master candidate, but it still held a great deal of weight.

  The key was that he’d thought this was a sure victory; he’d invited Xuan Ji Yun and Xuanyuan Zi Guang not sparing any expenses, yet they were both defeated by one person, making him unable to accept it.

  Exceptional at alchemy and martial arts, was there such a freakish person in the world?

  …There was; one appeared in the north region earlier, called Ling Han. He even embarked onto the supreme road of Heaven Grade alchemist. Moreover, it was said that this person’s martial arts talent wasn’t bad, either, and he even entered a mystery realm to partake in seizing treasures.

  Wait, could there really be that many such geniuses?

  Han Lin, Ling Han? Reading it backwards, wasn’t it the same?

  Yin Le instantly came to a realization; Han Lin was Ling Han! Rumor had it that Ling Han received the Twelve Palaces’ legacy, and even knew the whereabouts of a divine treasure-trove, so then it was understandable why he’d change his name.

  Dare to spoil his sport? ‘Then you’re dead too!’

  Killing intent flashed within Yin Le’s gaze. He decided to immediately spread the news that Han Lin was Ling Han, and as for whether his guess was right or wrong… why would it matter—as long as he could get that brat killed.

  He no longer protested, since the elders of the pavilion already declared their decision. If he protested again, it would only damage his image and make him lose even more points.

  After three rounds of contest, Yin Hong obtained a total of eighty points, ranking steadily at first place.