Chapter 285: Succession of Battles (3)
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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The moment the Blood Wings entered the second circulation.
Pouring out the rapidly amplified fire power, he severed the breath of the three-headed snake.
“Just what kind of Purple Lightning Escape Art speed is…”
Was it an unexpected event?
The mid-Void Refinement stage demonic beast died in the blink of an eye.
The complexions of the three Elders, who watched the three-headed snake sliced into thousands of pieces and collapsed, stiffened hard.
That was also brief.
Yin Cheon-ho, who could not hide his desolate sign, firmed his eyes and swung both hands like a windmill to gather the surrounding worldly source Qi.
Simultaneously,
The remaining two Elders did not stay still either.
Pouring out their law power, they set up a barrier sturdier than a fortress wall, and offered the corpse of the three-headed snake sliced just now as a sacrifice to shoot a curse.
Sizzle!
Around the time he was burning the curses rushing from all directions with his lightning Qi.
The bone fragments in the corpse of the three-headed snake shot out like thorns and gathered in the air, transforming almost into a human shape.
Screech!
He extended a fist toward the skeleton that rushed while making a bizarre noise as if its joints were twisting.
The moment the giant fist of the Golden Body Dharma Image reached the skeleton.
Boom!
The skeleton that raised its body from the corpse could not even endure a single strike and shattered to pieces.
It was turned to powder under the overwhelming physical force harbored in the Golden Body Dharma Image.
Around the time the two Elders frowned as if dumbfounded.
Clang…!
The sound of a bell echoed from somewhere, and the blood pooled on the ground boiled and swelled up almost like an egg.
‘…It is terrible.’
The entire surface of the earth was filled with wriggling eggs.
It was as if the human world was dyed in hell every time the bell sounded.
Thud, thud, thud!
In an instant, a swarm of insects poured out from the swollen eggs.
Beetles possessing thick armor, centipedes possessing hundreds of legs, unidentified monster insects possessing sharp wings…
All kinds of insects popped out and charged toward him.
Around this time.
He noticed an important characteristic of the Blood Buddha, the demonic secret heritage deployed by Yin Cheon-ho.
Every time the bell sounds, the surrounding scenery transforms into something more and more terrible. As if becoming closer to hell.
‘It is a spell that becomes stronger as time flows.’
However, the same went for this side.
The Blood Wings, the secret technique tempered by the Supreme Great Ability, also became exponentially stronger as the circulations repeated.
Of the two divine abilities, which one possessed a higher limit?
‘Of course it is the Blood Wings.’
Whatever the truth was. At the very least, Jin So-myeong believed so.
The moment the Blood Wings entered the third circulation.
The blood drops that seeped through his pores condensed in the air, forming the shape of wings.
The distant Qi amplified by the Blood Wings.
Rumble!
Simply by scattering the boiling energy wave, the insects that were rushing like crazy burst to pieces and turned to powder.
Although the insects that burst and died transformed into a green toxic fog, even that was useless.
Swept in a spiral shape by the Five Elements Divine Thunder, they became ash and could not even approach.
“Hah.”
As the battle continued, far from being exhausted, Jin So-myeong became incessantly stronger, and
The leisure of the three Elders including Yin Cheon-ho vanished completely.
“He is a monster-like fellow.”
“Just where on earth did a rogue cultivator who just ascended to the Void Refinement stage master such a powerful secret heritage?”
As they muttered as if hard to believe, tension wavered in their eyes.
The two maintained a solid defensive stance, and Yin Cheon-ho opened his storage pouch to pour out all kinds of spiritual objects.
Unidentified bone fragments, wriggling flesh, a pure white lotus beautiful enough to stare blankly, and so on.
He deployed a formation by consuming precious spiritual objects without sparing.
Following that,
He struck his chest with his palm to spew dark-red blood. He consumed even a large amount of True Blood, which was the essence of cultivation.
A moment.
The pupils of the Blood Buddha that was sitting cross-legged and looking down were completely dyed in blood.
Clang! Clang!
The sound of the bell echoed twice in succession.
This bell sound was uniquely loud. To the extent that his head was on the verge of breaking just by hearing it.
“Urgh…”
His temples tingled as his vision distorted.
His Divine Sense, which was already weakened due to the secret realm restriction, became even weaker.
Screech!
Before he knew it, the faint shapes that filled the surroundings burst out ghostly wails , which felt like his soul was being gnawed away.
Not to mention,
The shadow beneath his feet wriggled as it pleased and wore a bizarre smile.
Was it a simple illusion?
He could not know.
As the bell sound echoed in succession, hell descended on the human world.
Although it was a confusing situation where he could by no means maintain his composure.
Strangely, his mind was still quiet.
He even forgot the fact that the Blood Wings had entered the fourth circulation.
Laying down all the thoughts that made his head complex.
He merely swung his sword.
The faint shapes bursting out ghostly wails, and the shadow trying to penetrate his heart with sharp claws.
He sliced all of them.
With a single sword grasped in his hand, he sliced all the threats rushing like a wave.
Thus,
Within self-absorption, the Blood Wings entered the fifth circulation, and
Under the energy that welled up as if exploding, the wall that was blocking him was smashed without a trace.
6th-rank body tempering.
His physical body that had been in a bottleneck, his body tempering realm, crossed the great realm.
To the extent that he was flustered because he broke through so easily that it was hard to believe he had been blocked until now.
“To think he broke through the great realm in the middle of battle?”
The face of Yin Cheon-ho, who stared with a dazed expression, crumpled violently.
“To dare treat me as a dummy for cultivation!”
Yin Cheon-ho, whose eyes were bloodshot, gnashed his teeth and struck his chest. He vomited a large amount of blood once more.
Clang…!
A dreary bell sounded, and the sky covered with dark clouds split open, and a dark-red star appeared.
The swarm of insects that was constantly flying increased drastically, and the concentration of the faint shapes hovering around became dense.
Ssshh…!
The blood-red rain that poured roughly possessed acidity and melted the earth.
However, all of it was useless.
Was it called A Single Sword Pierces Ten Thousand Laws ?
All kinds of bizarre phenomena that turned the world into hell could not cross a single sword.
He advanced while slicing all of them.
“…!”
At the distance that narrowed moment by moment, Yin Cheon-ho’s pupils trembled roughly.
Just as he was trembling his fingertips minutely.
Biting his lips hard enough to burst blood, he shouted loudly.
“Damn it! I deploy the Three Mysteries Returning to the Source Art !”
The two Elders who stood with pale expressions were startled and nodded their heads.
A moment.
The man wearing the blood-red rosary and the man possessing a long beard melted like smoke and were absorbed into Yin Cheon-ho.
Simultaneously with the three merging into one.
Yin Cheon-ho’s realm began to rise rapidly. Before one could even blink, he reached the late Void Refinement stage.
‘That…’
Just what kind of secret heritage was it?
After being slightly surprised, he vaguely realized that the three were originally one.
‘No wonder.’
He was wondering because their coordination was too precise to be normal, and to think such a secret was hidden.
However, was there some side effect to the three becoming one?
“How I came all the way here! Because of you, five thousand years of my cultivation became bubbles! Just how will you compensate for this loss!”
Yin Cheon-ho’s face was distorted more than a malevolent deity. He did not know why, but he was incredibly angry.
“Since it became like this, I will refine you into a Jiangshi and order you around!”
The moment he shouted as if roaring.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The Blood Buddha floating in the air clasped its hands, and this time, the bell sound did not cease.
The abnormal phenomena occurring in the surroundings became endlessly stronger.
The air became hot enough to make breathing impossible, and the surrounding spiritual Qi turned into a deadly poison.
Tens of millions of demons gathered from all directions charged while presenting their claws, and simply by the wind brushing past, his skin cracked.
All kinds of indescribable threats reached the extreme and targeted his life.
Looking at the scenery filled with death, where it would not be lacking to say hell was manifested.
Jin So-myeong also took a step forward.
For some reason. Because it felt like it would work right now.
Although he had craved it since a long time ago, he had ultimately not reached it…the ultimate that the phenomenon of speed could reach.
That place felt close enough to be grasped by his hand.
Instinctively, he reached out his hand.
If there was an opportunity, it was the life he had lived until now itself.
The distant Qi originating from the Blood Wings that had entered the fifth circulation.
The physical body strengthened by the Golden Body Dharma Image.
The Black Lightning wriggling inside his dantian.
The eye that pierced through all creation, the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye.
The Law Domain he realized upon treading the Void Refinement stage.
Even the Primordial One Qi that wove the numerous divine abilities into one.
Everything he had accumulated until now became a seed and tried to sprout something.
However, it was lacking.
Not by a lot, but because it was really just a tiny bit lacking.
The realization he had barely not reached grazed his fingertips and departed.
‘Ah…’
Did he fail to reach it this time as well? Was it a realm not yet permitted to him?
Without even knowing what realization it was, around the time he sighed in regret,
No.
One still remained.
The Infinite Void Formless Robe .
The intuition elevated by battle whispered.
That the invisibility spell useful when surprise-attacking was desperately needed at this very moment.
There was no hesitation.
Following his instinct, he deployed the Infinite Void Formless Robe. The moment he wore the barrier to loiter inside the emptiness.
Escaping from what was suppressing his physical body and soul, he was able to take one step further.
And so, eventually,
‘Ah.’
The ultimate that the phenomenon of speed could reach. He was able to grasp the realization he had eagerly desired.
The interval existing between time and time.
The gap that could by no means be perceived or reached as a living organism.
He cleaved it with his sword and entered.
Was it painful? He did not know.
In the world where everything was stopped, where nothing flowed, he took steps.
For some reason, it was difficult enough to make his breath gaspy.
So he merely walked sluggishly, yet before he knew it, Yin Cheon-ho was in front of his eyes.
He was stopped exactly in the posture of opening his mouth as if trying to shout something.
Subjectively, a considerably long time seemed to have passed, yet he had still not moved even a speck.
Looking at the scenery where time seemed stopped.
The name of the master art he had just deployed came to mind.
Time Annihilation .
The gap existing between time and time.
He swung his sword in the interval, and a red blood line was drawn on Yin Cheon-ho’s neck.
Beep…!
Along with an intense headache, a ringing in his ears that pierced his temples, the stopped time began to flow.
“Cough?!”
Looking at Yin Cheon-ho who opened his eyes wide as if incredibly flustered.
Thud!
He shattered his heart with his left elbow.
Even though his neck was sliced and his heart was shattered, he did not die, and he followed Yin Cheon-ho who was desperately trying to withdraw and thrust his sword.
Stab!
With the sword tip penetrating his dantian as the end,
“…!”
As if he could by no means understand this situation, the light in Yin Cheon-ho’s pupils, who glared as if trying to kill him, was extinguished.
The victory and defeat were decided in nary short of an unperceivable instant.
How many minutes had he stood in the ruins devastated by battle?
“Phew.”
As if waking from a dream, he let out a long breath and emerged from the afterglow.
I won.
Along with the sense of achievement that made a smile form automatically.
His mind heated by battle returned to normal, and pain rushed in a beat late.
Narrowing his brow, he scanned his body’s state, and it was truly a mess.
‘The recovery is not working well…’
Although he had achieved an undying body that did not die even if his heart turned to powder, even the cuts on his skin were not regenerated.
And strength did not enter well.
It was the feeling as if the vessel was broken and his source Qi was leaking strand by strand.
Should he recover using the Myriad Flows Restoration divine ability?
Pondering whether to do it or not, he simply stopped.
Although it was merely a groundless feeling, it was because he felt that if he recovered naturally in this state, his soul would grow further.
Around the time he scanned his mind and body in the battlefield that regained desolation.
‘Oh?’
He discovered good news.
The Black Lightning he had not been able to digest even though several years had passed since treading the Lightning Tribulation.
A part of the domineering lightning Qi melted into his Primordial One Qi.
Although it was an amount not even half of ten percent, it was sufficiently good news.
Is there not also a saying that the beginning is half?
Since he had taken the first step, now what remained was only to cultivate steadily.
‘Good.’
Since he had scanned his body’s state, now was the turn to tidy up the battlefield.
Yin Cheon-ho, who was a considerable adversary. He was looking forward to what would be inside the storage pouch of the Dark Soul Demonic Sect Elder.
And also.
Time Annihilation, which he realized at the end of the battle.
He also needed time to chew on the newly realized master art he had deployed within self-absorption.
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