Chapter 290 - The Only Martial Sage! (2)
Chapter 290 The Only Martial Sage! (2)
The snake-shaped monster regretted devouring the Nine Souls Ring, but Su Jingxing didn’t give it a chance. He continued to drive the Nine Souls Ring, burning furiously!
The snake monster’s roars intensified, and its shock and anger quickly turned into agony.
This terrifying monster from the Void World could release lightning and gather tornadoes.
Inside, other than a terrifying squeezing pressure, it had no other methods.
Faced with the burning of the Nine Souls Ring, it lasted for less than five minutes before screaming in fear and leaping everywhere.
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul could sense that the snake-shaped monster had escaped the tornado and retreated from the city where the storm had landed.
Now, it was fleeing aimlessly.
Su Jingxing, who was in the Essence Soul state, did not stop it. He allowed it to escape and continued to increase the power of the Nine Soul Ring to burn in the snake-shaped monster’s body.
Finally, the snake-shaped monster let out a long cry of pain and its massive body broke into two.
The Nine Souls Ring wrapped in blazing flames saw the light of day again.
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul rode the Heaven Trampling Elephant back to the outside world.
Roar!
The Heaven Trampling Elephant ran in the air, swinging its trunk.
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul leaped onto the elephant’s back. Sword Eyes shot beams of light that pierced straight into the an eye on the head on the upper body of the snake-shaped monster that was falling to the ground.
He first destroyed an eye, then penetrated through it into the head.
In the end, he detonated the snake-shaped monster and completely destroyed it to prevent its recovery.
(Void Beast corpse discovered. Would you like to extract it?)
“…Yes!”
Stopping in midair, Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul looked at the two halves of the snake-shaped monster that had dissipated in surprise.
There was a card!
Previously, when he killed the ostrich and puffer fish monsters, he did not extract any cards.
This time, one was extracted from the snake-shaped monster.
Sure enough, this snake-shaped monster was different from the ostrich and puffer fish monster.
The latter two were ordinary beasts while the former was a Mutated Beast.
When ordinary beasts died, there were indeed no cards to extract.
Yet it was the opposite when Mutated Beasts died!
“Void Beast? A lifeform in the Void World?” murmured Su Jingxing. His main body took out the card he had extracted and held it in his palm to read the information.
Equipment Card!
According to the information, this snake-shaped monster was called the Hidden Thunder Dragon Beard Beast.
When one gathered three Equipment Cards from the corpses of the Hidden Thunder Dragon Beard Beasts and unlocked them at the same time, he would obtain a Soul Armor.
The Thunder Dragon Bone Armor!
The Thunder Dragon Bone Armor was a soul treasure armor that focused on defense. It could be worn by Essence Souls.
The power of lightning and thunder that came with it also targeted the soul. Its lethality was not bad, but it could not be released externally. It could only slash at close range.
Even so, Su Jingxing was overjoyed.
The Thunder Dragon Bone Armor was an armor worn by the Essence Soul. It was mainly for defense.
The Moon Shield condensed from the Full Moon Breathing Technique could only defend one position, and it also consumed soul power.
The Thunder Dragon Bone Armor, on the other hand, could defend all directions, and did not require soul power to be expended.
How could such a treasure armor not be a pleasant surprise?
The only problem was that he needed to gather three identical cards.
In other words, Su Jingxing had to kill two more Hidden Thunder Dragon Beard Beasts!
Were there any more Hidden Thunder Dragon Beard Beasts that had entered the Yu Nation from the Void World?
Su Jingxing’s main body and Essence Soul scanned their surroundings.
In his vision, the tornado closest to the main body was gradually dissipating.
The Essence Soul standing on the back of the Heaven Trampling Elephant also saw a tornado in the distance gradually breaking up.
Clearly, there was only one Hidden Thunder Dragon Beard Beasts in the Yu Nation.
Once it died, all the tornadoes dissipated. The hurricane that swept through the four prefectures first stopped, then slowly disappeared.
The windstorm was finally over.
Su Jingxing put away the card and let out a breath before recalling the Thunderbolt Sword.
The Essence Soul held the Nine Souls Ring in its hand and soared into the sky. It sensed the Void World and “saw” the border membrane. It passed through it and headed northeast.
The last time it came to the Void World to search for the Yu Nation’s Martial Sage was to confirm if he was still around.
Finally, he saw the Martial Sage of the Yu Nation standing at the edge of the northeast.
Due to his scruples, Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul did not go forward to greet him.
However, the Martial Sage of the Yu Nation did not appear to stop the wind disaster that had caused hundreds of thousands of casualties this time. Su Jingxing wanted to ask him if he was still asleep!
Filled with anger, he headed northeast.
From afar, Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul saw the Yu Nation’s Martial Sage with his back facing him again.
“May I ask…”
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul began in a low voice as it strode over.
However, it only said two words before stopping abruptly.
This was because the Yu Nation’s Martial Sage, whose back was facing Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul, suddenly turned into a ball of mist and vanished.
Vanished…
Gone!
Dead?
In his Essence Soul state, Su Jingxing was stunned on the spot.
What is this?
The Martial Sage of the Yu Nation died just like that?
I haven’t even gotten close, and I only said two words, and he’s already gone? “Or is it…”
Suddenly, Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul jolted awake. He looked at the spot where the Yu Nation’s Martial Sage had dissipated and saw a twisting translucent figure.
The figure became clearer and clearer. Finally, it appeared to be an amiable old man who was smiling at Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul.
“The heavens have spared the Yu Nation. I’ve finally met a successor, and such a young one at that. Good, good…”
“Wait!” Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul interrupted and asked curiously, “May I ask who you are?”
As for whatever he was spouting about a successor, Su Jingxing wouldn’t fall for it.
Making out the old man’s identity was the key.
“Didn’t you already guess it?” The old man smiled and said, “I’m the Martial Sage of the Yu Nation, the only Martial Sage in a few hundred years. You can call me Xia Changxuan…”
“Impossible!”
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul blurted out, “You’re Xia Cangxuan? How is that possible?!”
Xia Cangxuan, the founding ancestor of the Yu Nation.
It had been more than 400 years since then. Even if Xia Cangxuan had become a Martial Sage and guarded the Void World, he would not have lived until now.
The lifespan of a Martial Sage was 360 years.
Even if Xia Cangxuan had become a Martial Sage, he would have long died and turned into just bones.
How could he still be alive?!
Although Su Jingxing could sense that the old man in front of him was not an Essence Soul, but only a remnant soul…
Wait, remnant soul?
Shock flashed through the eyes of the Essence Soul.
“Ha, you figured it out?”
The old man met the gaze of Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul’s and smiled. “Under normal circumstances, I would have died long ago. Unfortunately, no one in the Yu Nation has successfully reached the Martial Sage realm. In order to guard the Void World, I had no choice but to extend my existence.”
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul was silent.
After a while, he said in a low voice, “Why hasn’t anyone succeeded? It’s been 400 years, has the Yu Nation not produced a single Martial Sage?”
“There are indeed several with potential and opportunities.”
Xia Cangxuan sighed and said, “Unfortunately, they all failed. Some failed at the last moment of their breakthrough and lost their lives. Some were ambushed and killed before they could make a breakthrough. Some were even assassinated by the b*stard with the surname Xiang!”
“B*stard with the surname Xiang? Xiang? The royal family of New Chu Nation?” Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul continued in surprise.
“Yes, the Xiang Family of New Chu.”
Xia Cangxuan said softly, “The Xiang Family has always tried to annex the Yu Nation. Over the years, they have sent batches and batches of assassins to lurk in the country to search for geniuses and confirm identities of those with potential. Once they find their target, they will carry out assassinations.
“For hundreds of years, they have failed, but they have also succeeded. Especially with those people of potential, as long as there are signs anyone emerging, they will carry out assassinations until they succeed.
“Their goal is simple, to cut off the birth of the new Martial Sage of the Yu Nation!
“I believe you’ve already seen the consequences of not having a Martial Sage holding down the fort.”
Xia Cangxuan smiled. “There have been two consecutive disasters with countless casualties. If this were to happen a few more times, how long do you think the Yu Nation can last?”
Su Jingxing’s Essence Soul fell silent again.
Don’t mention a few more of such disasters, just with the casualties of this wind disaster alone, the cabinet would have to pay a huge price. Only a long period of appeasement would be able to ease the pain and the panic in the people’s hearts.
If the source of these disasters that were caused by the invasion of the monsters from the Void World could not be resolved, this would be an insoluble problem.
The importance of a Kingdom Defending Martial Sage could be imagined.
Before this, Su Jingxing had never thought that in the past 400 years, Yu Nation had never produced another Martial Sage.
Now he understood.
It wasn’t that there were no geniuses in the Yu Nation, but that these geniuses had been killed before they could even grow!