Chapter 476: Martial Art Breakthrough to the Fourteenth Level (1/2)
Chapter 476: Martial Art Breakthrough to the Fourteenth Level
Translator: 3herylEditor: Hitesh_
There were bones wherever the eye could see.
Not far ahead was a dark red mountain which had already lost all its edges to the winds' constant onslaught. There was a wide stone cave of an unknown origin inside the mountain. Ye Chen was sitting in the center of the cave and on top of a huge rock.
”Parallel space battlefield… There are a lot of Sea of Souls Realm warriors here. With my power now, I might be able to make it out alive in the battles with some rather powerful warriors, but I would die eventually once I encounter a master level warrior. So, I think it would be best for me to improve my cultivation for now.”
Letting out a breath, Ye Chen took out the storage ring he got from the man in yellow robes.
Inside the storage ring were countless martial manuals, but there weren't any top rank Earth Realm ones. There were four mid rank weapons, a hundred thousand mid rank spirit stones, and more than eight thousand top rank spirit stones. There were also four Spirit power crystal stones and three Demon stones. As for the top rank blade from the man, Ye Chen had already stored it in his own storage ring.
”With eighteen Spirit power crystal stones, I wonder if I could try to achieve one third of the spirit body.” Ye Chen looked down at his left hand, holding eighteen red colored crystal stones: one thumb-sized, one pinky-sized, and sixteen yellow bean-sized. Normally, the stones he found from the Life and Death Realm warriors should have been able to help him train his body into a spirit body easily. But, after millions of years, the power within the stones had decreased drastically, with not much remaining. It could not even compare to stones found in Sea of Souls Realm warriors who died a hundred years ago.
As he flipped his hand, a bean-sized stone was left in his hand. He then closed his eyes slightly, trying his best to extract the energy from the stones.
As the red energy poured into his body, he could not help but groan slightly. It was such a strange yet good feeling, as if his body had been dried out for a long time and now was trying its best to absorb the energy like a thirsty man drinking water in a desert. There seemed to be no need to try and control it.
After absorbing one stone, he started with the second one.
After half an hour, only one remained from amongst the eighteen stones, having absorbed the rest. At the same time, there were slight changes in his physical body. A dim red light covered his body, vibrating at an imperceptible frequency.
Without any hesitation, Ye Chen absorbed the last one of them.
This last crystal stone contained six times more power than the normal ones. Its red energy was like a scrambling ocean as it poured into his body through his arms before spreading throughout his whole body, including his head.
With that, the dim red light on his body brightened by a couple of times, dying his hair and clothes red, looking full of life.
Another half an hour had passed when two beams of dim red light shot out as he mumbled to himself, ”It was weaker than I had imagined it to be. The spirit power is almost finished, and the remaining ones are not rich enough.”
The most valuable part of the Spirit power crystal stone would be the spirit power essence. Although these all eighteen crystal stones combined contained a huge amount of power, they only had a couple strings of spirit power essence, which was almost equal to nothing.
”But, I can sense that my body has grown much stronger. Added with my old Pure Jade Body Boosting Spell, my body can be considered one third on its way to the spirit body, I guess.”
After reaching the peak level Late Astral Reaching Realm, his Pure Jade Body Boosting Spell was no longer that effective anymore, as it only gave him a little bit extra physical strength compared to the others. But, even the slightest advantages would count, especially during this process of him training his body into a spirit body.
”Eh? My Zhen yuan seems to be more active! Does training the spirit body have this effect as well?”
Having an active Zhen yuan would be a good opportunity for him to improve his martial arts. So, he did not waste another second and closed his eyes immediately. The Zhen yuan inside his body followed his thirteenth level of green lotus sword spell's mapping, traveling in circles after circles. He was trying to make a third breakthrough, which would allow him to reach the fourteenth level.
Whooo!
After an unknown amount of time, the whole dark red mountain started to shake.
A sharp qi shot out in all directions with the peak of the mountain being the center, also creating a huge hole in the black qi in the sky which stayed there for a long time.
In the next second, a giant, surreal, green lotus wrapped the mountain within. A green lotus blossomed, with a sword swinging sound heard continuously. It was as if a rare sword was about to come out of its scabbard.
”Such a powerful sword qi! Someone is about to make a breakthrough.” Three human figures that were hundreds of miles away stopped whatever they were doing and looked over in Ye Chen's direction.
”Although the sword qi seems to be really powerful, that Zhen yuan did not seem that intense. Let's go check it out!”
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!
The three of them turned into three beams of light, flying at an extreme speed.
Soon, the three of them arrived a few miles away from the mountain that Ye Chen was in, their eyes staring at that blossoming green lotus image.
”Haha! This is a top rank Earth Realm sword spell. If we can steal it over and train it to the same level as the warrior in there, then my power would increase by another two times!” The sword artist in dark red robes laughed.
The elder in black standing next to him touched his long beard, ”There are also ranks within the top rank Earth Realm martial arts. It indeed is the top of the top martial arts. Furthermore, it is a sword spell trained by a sword artist, and is way more powerful than the high rank Earth Realm martial arts you have trained.”
The sword artist in green said without a doubt, ”I don't mind receiving less of other things. But this sword spell, I will take it for sure. Do you guys have a problem with it?”
The middle-aged man with a balding patch on his head said with his mouth wide open, ”It would be useless for us anyways. But, I doubt he would carry the sword spell's manual with him. Perhaps, he has already destroyed it.”
The sword artist in green smiled creepily.
…
”The fourteenth level of the Green Lotus Sword Spell is indeed powerful. I cannot believe that my Zhen yuan is pure to this extent now. Plus, the core of my Zhen yuan has been carved into a green lotus.”
Ye Chen inspected internally with his soul power and realized that his Zhen yuan had also improved dramatically compared to before, looking like a floating blue liquid right now. The biggest change was inside his dantian. There was now a blue, crystalline lotus root floating in the center, within which, the true Zhen yuan core was hidden. Meanwhile, the green halo and the nine green lotus sword qi beams spinning around the core started to fuse together, eventually turning into one. Their density increased rapidly as it eventually turned into a small lotus and landed in one of the holes inside the lotus roots.
The fourteenth green lotus sword spell had succeeded!
”I wonder what kind of power this lotus sword qi have…” Ye Chen lifted up his head, seeming to know what was happening around him. He sneered, ”I guess…I will be able to find out soon.”
Outside the dark red mountain, the sword artist in green held his sword with both of his hands, waving it down heavily.
”Break!”