Chapter 245: Finding The Innate Ferocious Qi, Never Before Seen Threat
“Then again, I’ve only merged with two surges of innate ferocious qi, which means I’ve only formed an early state of this physique and that’s roughly three percent of progress. If I want to achieve the full state of this physique, I’m afraid there’s still a long way to go,” Chu Kuangren murmured.
However, he was not in a hurry.
From the information contained within the innate ferocious qi, he knew that the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area had nurtured a lot of it over a very long time. As long as he gradually collected them, his Infallible Tormented Physique would be fully achieved.
Besides him, there were also the tormented souls in the Core Area who were extremely eager and desperate to obtain the innate ferocious qi.
Since they were tormented souls, the innate ferocious qi was very beneficial to them, and it could even allow them to develop some spiritual ego too.
Chu Kuangren could not help but think of the White-Robed General.
Could that person possibly be a tormented soul who had developed a spiritual ego?
Chu Kuangren shook his head and no longer thought more about it.
Then, he continued to explore the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area with his Treasure Locating Skill to look for more innate ferocious qi.
His Treasure Locating Skill would not be able to locate innate ferocious qi that had merged with some other beings. However, independent innate ferocious qi still existed within the Ancient Battlefield.
Chu Kuangren spent a total of three days within the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area and had collected several surges of innate ferocious qi, one after another.
However, these innate ferocious qi were not as concentrated as the one he had obtained upon purifying the Tormented Army. Despite that, he still managed to increase the Infallible Tormented Physique’s progress to five percent, which in return, increased his combat strength slightly.
“Another surge of innate ferocious qi!”
Using the Treasure Locating Skill, Chu Kuangren found a surge of innate ferocious qi located three thousand miles away from him and so he quickly hurried over to get it.
Yet before he could get close to his destination, he felt a terrifying energy fluctuation. Someone was fighting at the innate ferocious qi’s location.
With that, he slowed down his pace, concealed his energy, and cautiously approached.
Since this was the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area, danger existed everywhere. Just by the mere energy fluctuations alone could he sense that they were at the level of a Sage.
Here, he dared not keep a high profile.
Upon getting closer to the center of the energy fluctuations, he noticed that two figures were in battle. Horrifying surges of ferocious qi that were imbued with Sage Daoist Rhyme collided violently and caused a large part of the void to tremble on end.
Chu Kuangren then took a closer look and found that the two figures fighting were an old man in black robes and a giant ape with red eyes and black fur all over its body.
“Hmph, for a mere tormented soul which has lost its spiritual ego, how can you possibly hope to defeat me even if you have the power of a Sage?”
The black-robed old man snorted before he attacked the ape with a punch. A surge of terrifying Daoist Rhyme then erupted from his thin figure and it merged with the ferocious qi to form a giant large palm, smashing the ape into the ground.
In hiding, Chu Kuangren’s heart throbbed upon witnessing this scene.
The old man in black robes was a tormented soul as well.
However, he possessed a spiritual ego!
‘How much innate ferocious qi has he merged with?’
If Chu Kuangren could absorb the innate ferocious qi from his body, that would no doubt increase the progression of his Infallible Tormented Physique even more.
At that thought, he then secretly compared his and his opponent’s strength.
A Sage could be categorized into different stages, which were Sage, Great Sage, Sage Ruler. Despite them being in the same realm, there was a power difference between them.
Hence, the Sages had split every stage into seven steps. For example, first-step Sage, second-step Sage… First-step Great Sage, second-step Great Sage…
The first-step being the most common, while the seventh-step signified the strongest.
From what Chu Kuangren could sense, the combat strength of that black-robed old man was roughly equivalent to a three-step Sage, which was stronger than the Murong clan’s Sages.
However, he already killed the Murong clan’s Sage one year ago.
What about one year later then?
“I can win!”
Chu Kuangren secretly said to himself.
When the black-robed old man killed the tormented ape soul and obtained the innate ferocious qi, Chu Kuangren immediately attacked.
He immediately retrieved the Sacred Emerald Sword Case and three hundred and sixty-five swords came flying out of it!
“What the f*ck?”
The black-robed old man was shocked as he did not expect to be ambushed.
Facing the incoming majestic sword qi and the impact of the Daoist Rhyme from within the Four Seasons Sword Formation, the black-robed old man quickly channeled his ferocious qi and struck out a punch to intercept it.
The black fist landed on the sword formation and shattered the sword qi. However, the remaining streaks of sword qi scattered in all directions instead to surround the black-robed old man.
“Godd*mn it!”
“The sword formation’s energy is so strong!”
The black-robed old man instantly knew that he could not defeat the sword formation. So while the sword formation was not fully formed yet, a streak of black ferocious qi immediately shot out from his fingertips, slipping through the formation’s gap and into the distance.
He was looking at the sword formation’s user.
Once he saw his opponent’s appearance, he was extremely shocked not only at his opponent’s otherworldly temperament but his identity as well.
“This energy… It’s a living person?”
“I can’t believe a living person came into the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area. Besides, his cultivation level is only at… Honorable Realm?”
The black-robed old man found it a little hard to believe.
An Honorable Realm cultivator could deploy a sword formation of this degree and venture that deep into the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area.
“Young lad, I believe this must be your first time in the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area. Then you must know of the three great beings in this area that you should never provoke. Well, I’m one of them, so it’s best that you… ”
“Attack!”
Before the black-robed old man could finish speaking, Chu Kuangren had already activated his Four Seasons Sword Formation and instantly unleashed its most terrifying Sword-based Daoist Rhyme!
He could tell that the black-robed old man was trying to buy time, but what he did not know was when his opponent had called for help.
In that situation, that fight had to end as soon as possible!
With that, the full might of the Four Seasons Sword Formation erupted and its immeasurably terrifying and mysterious sword qi suppressed the black-robed old man after a short while.
“D*mn it.”
“Young lad, if you dare to kill me, I shall…”
A flash of horror flashed across the black-robed old man’s eyes. The power of this sword formation was even more terrifying than he had imagined.
Before he could finish his sentence, a surge of energy formed by the cycle of the four seasons, the rotation of the sun and moon, and all the natural phenomena within the formation turned into a colorful giant sword that struck down upon him!
With a bang, extremely terrifying streaks of sword qi swept out in all directions. The black-robed old man was smashed to pieces by that giant sword!
When the sword qi had dispersed, Chu Kuangren immediately dashed into the sword formation and gathered all the innate ferocious qi that his dead opponent left behind.
That surge of innate ferocious qi was more concentrated than the ones he had collected in the past few days. He reckoned it could increase the progress of his Infallible Tormented Physique to around ten percent.
So he kept that piece of innate ferocious qi and was just about to leave.
However, an extremely terrifying aura instantly locked on to him at that moment. A black finger was approaching him from across the sky.
Surges of ferocious qi tumbled through the clouds and rumbled the world.
Even Chu Kuangren could not help but become interested upon witnessing that attack.
The Descendant Self Sword unsheathed from his waist while the Six Supreme Foundation Levels within his body released a dazzling divine light. He then activated the Golden Jade Body and deployed all the three transformations of the Exquisite Nine Orifices Sword Heart. Paired with the ferocious qi from his Infallible Tormented Physique, he struck out a sword attack!
The purple sword ray was vast and contained a surge of Emperor’s Aura.
Eventually, that sword ray collided with the approaching giant finger attack.
The two surges of energy intertwined with each other, forming a terrifying force of impact that spread everywhere. Even Chu Kuangren could not help but fall back hundreds of feet.
His expression was incredibly stern.
The user of that finger attack was no doubt the strongest enemy that he had ever encountered!
He then took out a jade talisman and was prepared to crush it at any time.
It was one of the items that he had obtained from the Fantasy Roulette this year, called the Great Shift Talisman. Since that item contained spatial energy, it could instantly transport him to hundreds of thousands of miles away.
That was also one of the reasons why he was so confident in entering the Core Area. Even if he did encounter something dangerous that he could not defend, he could still escape at any time.