Chapter 215 - Bodily Path, Fiendgod! (1/2)
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The burly, bronze-skinned man was called Yun Jiangang; he belonged to the Yun Clan, but his family was nothing more than a subordinate of the Li family that Yun Baili and Yun Xuli belonged to. Despite this, he was a talent that reached the Bodily Path equivalent to a third-floor Heavenly Genesis Realm before thirty-three thousand years.
This boundary was called a rank-three Fiendgod. By refining and enhancing the energy stored within the body, they can amplify their bodily prowess. The enhancement to their physique is limited by the Heavenly Laws, but this method enabled a direct bypass.
In the Bodily Path, cultivators are defined by nine ranks and three stages. The three stages were initial, advanced, and peak. This was determined by the intensity of their vital energy and nothing more. In terms of flexibility in cultivation base, the Bodily Path allowed the least amount of deviation. Therefore, there aren't many people who can exceed a rank in combat without a Mortal Dao, supreme martial arts, or top-tier armaments.
When Yun Jiangang stepped forward, his fighting intent and vital energy erupted into a torrential storm. Witnessing this, everyone took a step back. While they were formulating a plan to take action, they didn't come to any actual agreement. However, when they saw Yan Zaizen wield the warhammer and appear abruptly, a majority of them exhibited caution.
They would wait and see the fate of Yun Jiangang before deciding their next course of action. Yun Baili also took the same stance. That warhammer caused his heart to tremble and he felt a wisp of lethal danger in his heart.
”Hmph!” Yan Zaizen coldly snorted. This Yun Jiangang was truly too slow. With a kick of his right leg at empty space, space rippled, and he soared out with ghostly speed. His speed was so fast that Yun Jiangang eyes constricted with shock. Before he could even shift his hand, a fist had already appeared before his chest.
BOOM!
Yan Zaizen used his free hand to deliver a ferocious strike. Yu Jiangang's body didn't shot backward. Instead, a vast booming shockwave echoed as Yan Zaizen's clenched fist made contact, and his body craned forwards.
The sides of Yun Jiangang's mouth had dripping stomach fluids and his eyes had lost their focus. The torrential vital energy that shrouded his body dissipated like a fire in a gust of frosty air.
”I...I…” Yun Jiangang tried speaking but his entire body, mind included, was discombobulated. It was as of the life was knocked out of him. He directly lost consciousness in that frozen and odd pose.
”...?” Yan Zaizen's brows furrowed. He didn't even punch with his full might or dash with his full speed. This was a probing action to get a gauge of his opponents strength. However...this felt like a mortal met a superhuman.
This was not a fight.
In the Deluge Realm, he had a remarkably difficult fight with Yu Shi. Now that he thought about it, Yu Shi had his own dao and formations of the entire realm aiding him. At that time, his strength could exceed a bestowed dao fourth-floor Heavenly cultivator.
”...” When the other younger generation members, especially the ones with a weaker cultivation base than Yun Jiangang saw this, they were aghast! Even Yun Baili and Hei Long's pupils shrank and their hearts trembled.
Talent aside, they couldn't even react to Yan Zaizen's movement!
As Yun Jiangang lost the support of Yan Zaizen's fist, he floated in outer space like a dead, bent fish. Yan Zaizen clenched his fist and felt something. His gaze traced the unnamed warhammer. Just holding it, the inscriptions lit up faintly. It was nearly imperceptible.
”It's enhancing my strength?” Yan Zaizen's thoughts spiraled. He had never wielded the warhammer in an actual fight and thus didn't detect the difference. Now that he could compare himself to a rank-three Fiendgod, he realized its miraculous features.
”It enhances my physique without my vital energy. How's that even possible?” He felt bewildered by the logic. After all, armaments were external tools, they didn't enhance one's strength directly from its foundations but empowered the energy that flowed through it.
Pinaka was the excellent example of this. She had her own strength and miraculous features but she combined that with her user, not her user using that for himself.
”Do you truly have a link to Herculeans?” He couldn't help but solemnly ponder. The amplification was not minor. In fact, it was impossibly huge. It seems to be resonating with his physique, so it increases the foundation of the user by a set amount. It was like a miraculous, inconceivable law.
If a weak person wielded it, they would receive the same percentage of enhancement as a strong person. Therefore, the greater the physique, the greater the benefits.
Yan Zaizen knew this from the information funneled into his mind. It didn't describe its passive increase but its active features. By channeling vital energy, true-essence, or other types of proper energy into Sky Shatter, it can enhance the user's body and vital energy by a set amount.
At first, he thought 'body and energy' were the same thing, but that evidently wasn't the case. Sky Shatter was truly heaven-defying!
”So...is that why I only feel a reduced pressure now?” As he continued wielding Sky Shatter, this grand warhammer, the pressure he felt increasingly weakened. ”With this, I wonder what is the upper limits of my strength?” He hefted Sky Shatter on his shoulder, a loud explosion occurred as warhammer met flesh, but Yan Zaizen only stably stood atop space.
With a devilish smirk filled with unyielding confidence, dark-amber eyes that blazed with infinite vitality, and a sky-shattering momentum, Yan Zaizen turned towards the group of heavenly cultivators. He took a single step forward.