C11 (1/2)

There were many people coming and going inside the Hidden Dragon Village. They kept cleaning up the broken limbs and throwing them into the bonfire on the altar.

A travelling merchant from a nearby town, upon discovering the miserable state of this village being massacred by bandits, hurriedly reported to the official. A team of ten armed Great Chu soldiers had just arrived from Tianhuang City and were cleaning up the mess.

No one knew that in the dried up well beside the altar, there was a young man who was gritting his teeth and bitterly cultivating. He did not know about the night and day changes and continued his cultivation in the cave for nine whole days.

It was fortunate that his body had the characteristics of a vampire and he wouldn't suffer from hunger, but he had already reached his limit. When the spirit energy in the area slowly dissipated, Hong Ling stopped cultivating and stood up.

At this moment, the youth's entire body was filled with pungent filth, and his body was extremely sticky.

”Early stage Essence Refinement into Qi!”

Hong Ling clenched his fists. He really did not think that in a short nine days, he would directly step into the early stages of Essence Refinement into Qi from the state of awakening, and become a true cultivator of the martial way.

Sensing the Authentic Qi surging in his body, Hong Ling's eyes flashed with a cold light. Since his body and the Primordial Spirit had undergone two mutations, he no longer had any problems cultivating this Jiuzhuan Profound Technique.

Furthermore, because he had broken through the ninth stage of the World Barrier, Hong Ling was extremely sensitive to the surrounding spirit energy and the rate at which he absorbed it was even faster than usual.

As he advanced to the early stage of Essence Refinement into Qi, the density of the dragon aura was already enough for Hong Ling to maintain his peak battle strength for an entire fifteen minutes while in his Dragonform.

Back then, he had only maintained his Dragon Transformation state for a quarter of an hour. Even though it was the same time now, he could guarantee that Hong Ling's fighting strength would always be at his peak condition, which included the use of Authentic Qi and his soul power.

”It's time to go out!” Hong Ling's eyes lit up, he was currently dressed in a tattered set of pants, with his upper body bare. However, a monstrous killing intent was congealing in his body, ”Black Mountain Bandit Zhang Yan, I wonder if you are ready, I am not dead yet!”

After drilling through the pitch black tunnel, Hong Ling took one last look at the huge cave and fiercely smashed his fist on the tunnel's stone wall.

Rumble, countless stones fell down, washing up and filling up the tunnel bit by bit. Hong Ling stood at the bottom of the dried up well, raised his head and stared at the huge boulder above his head, and fiercely breathed out his Turbid Air.

Bending down slightly to gather his strength, he fiercely leapt forward and the Authentic Qi in his body instantly exploded, bringing him soaring into the sky.

With his right fist covered in a dark golden Authentic Qi, when he was near the entrance to the well, Hong Ling smashed his fist fiercely against the huge boulder.

”This won't do. Rushing straight ahead is too dispersed. Moreover, without the point of force, it's impossible to exert much strength.”

Sensing the state of the stone, Hong Ling's eyes flashed with a dark golden light. Evidently, he had already used his soul power to scan and sense the structure of the dried well.

”This well must be at least 30 feet deep. If I want to borrow force from the wall, I only have 3 points of strength. This way, I won't have enough strength to break this giant rock!” Hong Ling pondered, ”Moreover, because I don't have enough starvation energy, I can only finish the battle quickly. Forget it, once I transform into a dragon, it will be fine! ”

Once he said that, his consciousness sunk into the Reverse Scale s on his chest, unlocking the seal made by the dragon aura. In an instant, both the Primordial Spirit and his body completed their Dragonform.

The youth was shrouded within the dark golden Dragon Scale. Tiny arcs of lightning floated around him as a majestic aura surrounded him, causing the space around him to slightly distort.

At this time, Hong Ling activated both his soul power and Authentic Qi. He gathered both of them into his right fist at the same time, and continuously gathered his energy.

This was the most powerful fist that he had comprehended while cultivating, but it would consume a large amount of his own dragon aura. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Hong Ling would not dare to rashly use it. However, he had no other choice. If he didn't go out now, he would really starve to death in this dry well.

Boom! The youth stomped hard on the ground with his right foot and immediately rushed into the sky. When he was ten feet higher than the others, he used his left foot to step on the wall of the well to raise his body again.

When he reached the sixty meter mark, Hong Ling stepped on the other side of the well with his right foot, causing his figure to rise yet again. When he was thirty meters away from the well, both of his feet stepped on the wall at the same time, he quickly bent down and gathered his strength, and fiercely punched out.

His right fist was filled with and soul energy, through Hong Ling's accumulation of soul force, it quickly smashed onto the huge boulder. With a boom, the huge boulder was instantly sent flying with a punch, and shattered into countless stones in the air.

Once again landing at the bottom of the well, Hong Ling withdrew his True Dragon Body, and then fiercely leaped up. He soared into the sky, and in an instant, steadily landed on the edge of the well.

”Who dares to trespass into the Chu Army's territory!”

A vigorous and angry shout suddenly exploded by his ear, causing Hong Ling's heart to tremble, as he looked towards the origin of the voice. Over there, a group of fully armed Chu soldiers were surrounding a middle-aged man, the weapons in their hands had already been unsheathed.

Hong Ling did not dare to move. He could feel that there was a tyrannical aura on that middle aged man's body. Other than middle stage Essence Refinement into Qi experts, the only thing that could make him feel fear was an even stronger existence.

Evidently, that middle-aged man was a cultivator of the middle stage of Essence Refinement into Qi. His cultivation was incomparably deep and around his side, there were nine soldiers of the early stage of Essence Refinement into Qi.

My name is Hong Ling, I am the only survivor of Hidden Dragon Village. I was once trapped in a dried up well with a huge rock.

Hong Ling cupped his fists and revealed his identity to the group of people, he did not dare to offend them.

The middle-aged man was clearly the leader of this group of soldiers. He waved his hand at the moment, and had everyone put away their weapons, not because he believed in Hong Ling's words, but because he had absolute confidence in him. Even if the young man was lying, or perhaps the person was the murderer, they could easily take care of him.

”Young man, I am the captain of Tianhuang City's tenth patrol, a middle stage Essence Refinement into Qi cultivator, Li Yan.”

Staring straight at Hong Ling, Li Yan wanted to find some clues from the young man's eyes, but the young man's gaze was still as clear as water, not afraid of his status or cultivation at all.