Chapter 766: Evil Spirit
Chapter 766: Evil Spirit
The most important detail was that the amount of Quintessence Xiao Chen’s body could now contain reached an incredible level. Once he advanced to Martial Sage and converted his Quintessence to Heavenly Sage Laws, the number of Heavenly Sage Laws would be astonishing.
Why was it since ancient times, all the demonic geniuses that refined their Quintessence twice usually ended up becoming really major characters?
This was the reason. As long as one could endure loneliness and not care about their reputation during Martial Monarch, when they broke through to Martial Sage, they would immediately leave their opponents, who previously liked to use their cultivation to suppress them, far behind.
Xiao Chen, congratulations. After suffering so much, you finally became a half-Sage, Ao Jiao said sincerely from the Immortal Spirit Ring.
Whenever Xiao Chen used the Quintessence Gathering Pill, she personally witnessed the heart-wrenching pain that he experienced, feeling the same pain in her heart.
While their cultivations remained at Martial Monarch, lagging far behind the other geniuses of the same generation, those demonic geniuses could only hide their pride deep in their hearts, unable to reveal it.
They had to take the long view and wait to display their might. They had to endure loneliness and all sorts of tribulation. Someday, their hard work and effort would pay off, rewarding them with what they desired.
Xiao Chen revealed joy on his face, but his mind remained calm. “It is still not enough. I only just advanced to half-Sage and have not comprehended any Heavenly Sage Law. I cannot waste any of the remaining twenty-odd pieces.”
Time passed. One day…two days…three days… In the blink of an eye, another twenty days elapsed.
Xiao Chen suppressed the impetuousness in his heart. Each day, he slowly absorbed one painting piece.
Although he proceeded with deliberation, he advanced steadily and surely. On top of that, the proficiency gained from the first ten painting pieces displayed quite a remarkable effect with the latter painting pieces.
He caught hold of more than thirty beams of blue light, sending his cultivation soaring. This improvement was due to a Sovereign Martial Emperor, so there would not be any side effects.
As for the fact that the Heavenly Roc Emperor was a Fiend Emperor, Xiao Chen thought long and hard on why his cultivation could still increase despite that, and came to a tentative conclusion.
The martial way had many twists and turns. However, when one reached the peak, they returned to its origins. The basic energy was actually all the same.
Xiao Chen also got ten-odd purple beams of lights. Finally, he found a Fist Technique, the Kun Peng Fist.
[TL Note: Kun is a legendary fish that is said to be able to transform into a Peng, which is Chinese for Roc.]
The most important thing was that after wasting ten-odd chances, he managed to seize a golden beam of light containing Heavenly Laws.
Suddenly, in the mysterious world within Xiao Chen’s body, the tightly shut Door of Sages opened a crack. In that instant, he obtained a hundred faint golden Heavenly Sage Laws.
These Heavenly Sage Laws were all about two centimeters thick, looking like light ribbons swaying about his dantian.
If a cultivator of the same cultivation were here, he would discover that the Heavenly Sage Laws behind Xiao Chen moved up and down like waves as they flickered with a faint golden glow.
One beam of golden light transformed directly into over a hundred Heavenly Sage Laws. If Wu Yuankai were still alive and had seen this, he would no doubt vomit blood.
Wu Yuankai had cultivated so hard and killed so many for the treasures he used. He had been a half-Sage for more than a decade before he managed to comprehend ten-odd Heavenly Sage Laws.
Furthermore, Wu Yuankai’s Heavenly Sage Laws had been merely threadlike. Now, by obtaining one of the Heavenly Roc King’s Heavenly Laws, Xiao Chen immediately gained a hundred Heavenly Sage Laws.
Each Heavenly Sage Law was about two centimeters thick, more than ten times stronger than Wu Yuankai’s Heavenly Sage Laws.
However, the color of Xiao Chen’s Heavenly Sage Laws was rather dim. Plus, since these were not Heavenly Sage Laws that he comprehended himself, he could not use them as he pleased just yet.
After Xiao Chen completely absorbed these Heavenly Sage Laws, they would turn into purple lightning-attributed Heavenly Sage Laws. Only then would they truly belong to him.
No wonder those half-Sages had gone crazy when they saw the painting pieces.
These half-Sages also knew that the reputation of these painting pieces was exaggerated. However, if they were lucky and grabbed a golden beam of light, it would be equal to them increasing their cultivation by ten-odd years.
However, this chance was too low. Of Xiao Chen’s thirty-odd painting pieces, with around a hundred attempts and Ao Jiao’s guidance, he only managed to seize one golden beam of light.
It would be nearly impossible for those half-Sages with one or two painting pieces to obtain the golden beam of light.
After settling his excited emotions, Xiao Chen started to refine these Heavenly Sage Laws, infusing his Quintessence and spiritual mark on them.
The Purple Thunder Divine Incantation slowly circulated, and the purple clouds around his dantian turned into a thick mist and gradually dispersed. Then it slowly permeated into the hundred faint golden Heavenly Sage Laws.
The permeation process was extremely difficult and exhausting. After all, he obtained these Heavenly Sage Laws from the Heavenly Roc King’s Heavenly Law and not his own.
Time trickled by slowly. Xiao Chen’s heart remained as calm as a still lake. Not rushing, he slowly permeated his Quintessence into the Heavenly Sage Laws, using a lot of patience.
After half a day, he finally refined a faint golden Heavenly Sage Law, turning it pure purple.
Revealing joy on his face, Xiao Chen continued to work hard. With the experience from his first time, the second time and third time proceeded more smoothly. Eventually, he could refine the Heavenly Sage Laws easily.
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Half a month later, the hundred faint golden Heavenly Sage laws had all turned purple. Their thickness decreased by half, but they were denser and more substantial.
Xiao Chen opened his eyes, and a light flickered before him. In his vast world, the distant Door of Sages opened slightly more again, by an almost negligible amount.
“Boom!”
In that instant, countless tones entered his ears. Those were the heaven and earth’s breathing, the sound of the great Dao.
This sound was like a bell, chiming rhythmically. The hundred Heavenly Sage Laws in Xiao Chen’s body moved with the sound of the great Dao, swaying and rising and falling.
In mere moments, his drained Quintessence completely replenished.
The surging energy filled his entire body. He could feel it pouring through him like a raging river.
When the light faded, the scene before his eyes returned to reality. Then he stared at the faint barrier at the stone doorway, the barrier that had trapped him here for two months.
Light flickered in Xiao Chen’s eyes. He did not hesitate to charge forward and circulate the vast Quintessence in his body, and then punch that formless barrier.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
His fist released a berserk light. The hundred Heavenly Sage Laws radiating from his back lit up with a bright radiance and danced wildly.
Even physical eyes would see hazy, purple light ribbons undulating like waves, moving up and down.
The formless light barrier rippled intensely, cracks spreading throughout like it would shatter at any moment.
However, after a while, a mysterious energy rushed into the barrier and mended the cracks, rebounding a huge force at Xiao Chen.
This backlash stunned him. His internal organs suffered a flood-like attack. He quickly pulled his hand back and retreated nine steps.
With each step Xiao Chen took, he dissipated a portion of the force, setting the air atremble. After nine steps, he quickly turned around and dispelled the last of it.
The Heavenly Sage Laws spun around accordingly as well. A strong wind blew within the stone hall, howling continuously.
When Xiao Chen landed, the rebound had already dispersed completely. Aside from the initial shock, he did not get injured at all.
This punch was merely a casual test of his strength after he advanced to half-Sage and grasped Heavenly Sage Laws.
Xiao Chen relaxed his fist and gazed at that formless barrier. Then, he entered deep thought. It looks like I need to shatter this barrier with one attack. Otherwise, if I give it some breathing space, even just an instant, my effort will be for naught, and I will suffer a backlash.
However, now, my full-power strike has reached the same level as when I used Deities Descending before; it might even be stronger.
After I familiarize myself with my new strength and execute Deities Descending, with the tenfold increase in combat prowess, I have a seventy percent chance of breaking this barrier.
Withdrawing his gaze, Xiao Chen looked around and noticed the corpse of the Heavenly Roc Race’s Young Race Chief, Ming Yu.
In the sealed internal environment of the stone hall in the depths of the grave palace, Ming Yu’s corpse had not rotted, looking like it had in the beginning. His eyes were wide-open, staring in a certain direction.
Xiao Chen recalled this person’s expression when he had first seen Ming Yu. He felt that something was wrong. At that time, Ming Yu had had a very confident look as he stood on the altar, facing the surrounding outstanding talents. He had not shown any fear at all.
This person was definitely not as weak as Ying Qiong had made him out to be. He had been confident of subduing the core painting piece. However, the reality was that the moment Xiao Chen and Ying Qiong entered, they discovered this person’s corpse.
What exactly is wrong? Xiao Chen thought for a while but could not come up with any ideas. Just as he was about to give up on this question, something suddenly occurred to him. He walked over to Ming Yu’s corpse and looked in the direction of his dissatisfied gaze.
Suddenly, Xiao Chen’s expression changed. At an unremarkable corner of the wall that Ming Yu stared at, there was a square piece of paper.
The color of this piece of paper looked almost exactly the same as the surrounding wall’s. If Xiao Chen had not adopted the perspective of the deceased Ming Yu, he would not have realized that the wall had a square piece of paper stuck to it.
He stood up and squinted. Then he used his Heavenly Sage Laws to circulate a vast Quintessence as he sent out a strand of saber Qi.
The purple saber Qi looked very solid; it contained Xiao Chen’s Great Perfection saber intent. Although this was just a casual strike, with his cultivation now, regular half-Sages would not dare to underestimate it.
“Zhi!”
A piercing bird cry resounded, and vast Emperor’s Might spread out like a massive mountain pressing on Xiao Chen.
Earlier, it just looked like an ordinary piece of paper. Now, it gave off a bright light and turned into a scarlet Heavenly Roc, revealing a ferocious gaze in its eyes.
This scarlet Heavenly Roc was tremendously different from the Heavenly Roc made from the other painting piece. It had an overwhelming spirituality and a strong resentment. It gave off the feeling of a ferocious man-eating beast.
Ao Jiao, who was in the Immortal Spirit Ring, revealed a startled expression and said, Xiao Chen, be careful. This is an evil spirit formed from the Heavenly Roc King’s resentment. After several thousand years, it unexpectedly gained spirituality.
Everyone had their dark side. Naturally, the Heavenly Roc King was no exception. Since he formed the Great Roc Spreading Wings Painting right before his death, it definitely contained all his resentment, killing Qi, and his other negative aspects.
While the painting was whole, the problem was not significant because the light side neutralized it.