Chapter 88 (1/2)

Chapter 88

Chapter 88 Heavenly Punishment

Covered by the darkness of night, Long Chen climbed to the peak of a mountain . The bright moon hung high above, lighting up his surroundings so that he could see the scenery hundreds of miles around .

At this time, Long Chen no longer had to be as worried as he had been while being chased by Ying Hou . This was an exceptionally good spot for him to cultivate .

Within this primal, thick forest, the spiritual qi in the air was several times greater than in the capital . He needed to borrow that advantage to advance another level .

Ever since he had run into Ying Hou when killing Xia Changfeng, he had repeatedly fought on the brink of death . Long Chen’s resolution had actually greatly advanced from that .

He could feel that a certain bottleneck was starting to weaken . This was his best opportunity to attack the next realm .

The peak of the mountain top could only be reached by climbing up extremely steep cliffs, so he had no need to fear any beasts disturbing him . Sitting cross-legged atop a boulder, his twelve cyclones began to revolve .

s.p.a.ce trembled and twelve huge vortexes appeared behind his body, growing to a terrifying size of three hundred and thirty meters .

This was the first time Long Chen had fully summoned his cyclones outside his body since arriving past the tenth Heavenstage .

That was because he was afraid that that oddity would alarm his opponents . It was unheard of for someone to possess ten or more cyclones from Qi Condensation . But in this place, he finally had free rein to use his full power to absorb heaven and earth’s spiritual qi .

Those twelve huge cyclones were like twelve mouths, like whales drinking in water, greedily absorbing spiritual qi and sending it to Long Chen’s FengFu Star .

That scene could practically be seen with the visible eye . s.p.a.ce started to warp as all the spiritual qi within hundreds of miles began to gather towards Long Chen .

BOOM!

In just six hours, Long Chen’s FengFu Star emitted an explosive sound . That was because his spiritual qi had reached a critical boundary, a sign he was about to enter the next realm .

But Long Chen wasn’t the slightest bit excited because he knew that this was just the start . There was still a long process he had to work his hardest to get through .

Back when he had condensed his tenth cyclone he had experienced the trouble of being ‘close’ to advancing . He was already used to how unorthodox the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art was .

For most martial artists, advancing would only require breaking past a single barrier, which was often thought of as breaking out of a single pair of ‘shackles’ . Extremely talented people might have to break through multiple shackles . But no matter how talented someone was, to break through out of Qi Condensation would definitely never require breaking out of more than nine shackles .

But when Long Chen had broken through to the tenth Heavenstage, although he hadn’t been counting, he was sure he had long since surpa.s.sed a thousand shackles .

The next two times he had broken through, Long Chen hadn’t even bothered remembering how many barriers he had had to break through of . In any case, it was just a continuous charge by him until he finally broke through .

So when his FengFu Star emitted this first sound, Long Chen wasn’t at all excited . He simply continued absorbing energy .

More and more energy began to pour into his FengFu Star . It began to quickly circulate, at the same time emitting continuous explosions .

Long Chen didn’t bother with that . He simply did his best to absorb more and more energy . Clouds and winds gathered around him . The energy all around charged towards him .

Hundreds of miles away from Long Chen was an enormous tree . At the top of the tree was a white-robed woman watching him .

“What a powerful foundational aura . It looks like humanity will gain another astounding figure . ” After muttering that, her figure faded away .

Long Chen’s FengFu Star was incessantly trembling . This wasn’t out of Long Chen’s expectations . From the start, he was unable to advance to the next realm .

This continued for three full days . Long Chen’s FengFu Star was beginning to circulate slower, and in the end, it completely paused . Long Chen couldn’t help celebrating . This was the true sign he was about to make a breakthrough .

BOOM!

Suddenly, heaven and earth trembled . The twelve cyclones behind Long Chen slowly separated, revealing a thirteenth cyclone amongst them .

When this thirteenth cyclone appeared, the originally sunny and cloudless sky immediately turned dark with pitch-black clouds . Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed . Everything within thousands of miles went completely dark .

“What’s going on?!” Long Chen was completely horrified . He realized that all those black clouds were like a huge whirlpool, and the whirlpool’s center was facing right at himself!

It looked nothing more than a huge demonic eye . It expressionlessly focused on Long Chen . At the same time, a terrifying destructive will pushed down upon him .

Long Chen immediately realized he was unable to move an inch . He was unable to even bat his eyes .

He wildly cursed inside as he saw more and more black clouds gather in the sky . The lightning within the sky gradually converged at the center of the black clouds .

“Is it going to strike me?!” Even if Long Chen was stupid, he would still be able to predict what was about to happen . He madly struggled .

But it was as if his whole body was being pressed by a huge mountain . Despite his best efforts, his body merely continuously trembled .

Crack .

The huge boulder beneath his foot cracked . Such a st.u.r.dy boulder was actually unable to bear Long Chen’s weight .

Even if Long Chen’s was braver, he wouldn’t be able to help trembling in fear . He tried running, but he felt as if a whole mountain was crus.h.i.+ng him from every direction . He was only able to make very limited movements and was simply unable to flee .

“This is Heavenly Punishment . You are unable to flee . Gather your full strength to resist . ”

As Long Chen was wildly cursing inside and was incredibly anxious, a voice suddenly rang in Long Chen’s ears .