Chapter 54 - Exposed (1/2)

In Zhong Yue's psyche ocean, Xin Huo was sitting casually on the head of Zhong Yue's soul. The little flame was quietly burning, prompting Zhong Yue to wonder whether or not his soul form's eyebrows were going to be burnt off by the little flame.

The little flame was dead quiet. It was strangely odd as Xin Huo would usually be hopping and jumping around at times like this.

"Between life and death," Xin Huo said indifferently.

Zhong Yue's heart thumped, and time around him seemed to grind to halt. The speed of the Sword Cocoon sword silk reduced to a crawl, while the sword silk on his back was also moving exceptionally slowly.

This, was the state of extremity between life and death. The terror and fear instigated his body, psyche, and soul to erupt with the latent potential within him, thereby granting him access to unearthly perception and reflexes.

He once jumped off the cliff countless times from the Yin Ma Tai, actively cultivating in such a state; but as his strength and prowess increased. The previous sense of danger he felt gradually numbed, and it eventually became harder for him to enter such a life and death situation anymore.

Right now, faced with one of the Ten Malefic Weapons—the Sword Cocoon, at the precipice of death, he was able to enter the marvelously elusive state again.

But this was different than the past few times, for the past few times his heart thumped in uneasiness, he had to visualize the Sui Sovereign to calm his mind and banish the inner demon within him from burgeoning.

But this time, he was submerged in an incredibly peaceful state of mind.

Before this, although it was dangerous, deep within the unconscious recesses of his heart, Zhong Yue knew that Xin Huo would not allow him to die. Hence, he had never really immersed himself to a deeper level of the state of extremity.

But now, he had dived deeper into another realm of the state of extremity as he truly found the ethereal boundary between life and death!

Even if he had entered such a magical state, the clear and present danger of the Sword Cocoon still existed. All of a sudden, the sounds of cracking bone emanated from Zhong Yue's body. He twisted his body into an odd and peculiar shape to evade the Sword Cocoon sword silk.

He lowered his head with his neck twisted around as if it was broken. His head leaned backward while his chest bulged forward and his back formed a shape reminiscent of a fully-drawn bow!

From his body, came the sounds of dislocating bone away from their original positions and his tendons being stretched taut on the verge of shredding. The ribs on his chest were all dislocated, and his backbone plunged forward with all of his muscles assisting its forward movement, trying to evade the sword silk coming from his back.

It was as if every part of his body was granted autonomy; they could move freely around of their own will. At the same time, his internal organs were also shifting places in his body so that the bones would not crash into them.

It seemed long, but it all happened in the blink of an eye, if someone saw him right now, they would cry out in fear as if having met with a monstrous creature.

Zhong Yue's body was twisted in strange and peculiar angles. The bones in his body were dislocated and shifted all around making him look like a human-like boneless python. In such a weird body posture, Zhong Yue was barely able to dodge the sword silk slashing down on his head and piercing from behind.

It was like he had disassembled his body and reassembled it again!

Streams of blood splattered into the air, Zhong Yue was still not able to fully dodge the sword silks. The sword silk pierced through his left ribs and he could feel that at least five of his rib bones were broken from the attack. Thankfully, he had shifted his internal organs away from the attacks.

There was also a narrow stream of blood that ran all the way from the crown of his head down to his nose; even his nose tip was sliced.

"Puhh——"

Zhong Yue vomited out a mouth of blood, although he had dislocated all his bones and shifted his body that allowed him to escape from death, his internal organs were still injured due to the vigorous movements, but the result was much better than the alternative.

Thankfully I had once lived as a Xiang Dragon, or otherwise I would surely be dead already!  Zhong Yue thought in his heart while he stepped on the Jiao Dragon and kept a distance away from the sword silk.

He was once assimilated into the Xiang Dragon, his intimate understandings of the body structure of the Xiang Dragon was incomparable to anyone else. It wouldn't be wrong to say he's understood the true quintessence of the Xiang Drago. In addition to that, he was visualizing the Xiang Dragon to train on his psyche and so his body was stronger than before.

It was only because of his resilient body that he was able to achieve such an impossible task within such a short period of time!

Zhong Yue's body flew out, and he was startled as he looked at 'Shui Qingyan.'

The Xiang Dragon Sword Qi slashed on 'Shui Qingyan''s neck, at that instant where the young lady's trachea and carotid artery were about to be sliced. The head of an elephant suddenly appeared out from glabella. The god-devil like elephant head then swept its trunks at the Xiang Dragon Sword Qi.

The Xiang Dragon Sword Qi was hindered for a second while the young lady's legs disappeared and were replaced with long and sharp spider legs, she seized the opportunity and retreated, preventing the Xiang Dragon Sword Qi from nearly slicing her neck off.

"Tian Myriad Mother!" Zhong Yue evaded the sword silk and stood in mid-air, he then summoned the Xiang Dragon Sword Qi back into his hand.

"Your words, who would believe them?"

'Shui Qingyan' stopped down, the elephant head and spider legs disappeared into thin air, she pressed her hand on her neck, her neck was nearly sliced into half, and her head would fall off from her body. She gazed at Zhong Yue vigilantly, and she mumbled, "You have just entered the state of extremity between life and death? I am quite curious about who your teacher is...?"