novelraw Chapter 420 - 330: Transcending Human Martial Arts, The Martial Arts Gate Opens!
Chapter 420 - 330: Transcending Human Martial Arts, The Martial Arts Gate Opens!
The skilled attacker soars in the nine heavens above.
Before the fierce bird strikes, it first glides and surveys, appearing invincible, while other birds hide in submission. Viewing keenly as it descends, injuries are ensured, a lone charge can vanquish an army.
This is the Bird Soaring Array.
Gazing at the great roc across the sky, Su Mu’s eyes flickered slightly.
Within the Sea of Consciousness, the Crystal Human Form trembled slightly, solidified spiritual power emerged to manipulate the surrounding airflow, the speed so swift that in the blink of an eye, it surpassed what the naked eye could catch.
Within a few breaths.
Transformed into a stream of light, Su Mu seemed poised to catch up with the Bird Soaring Array formed by the thousand men.
"Good, I finally found his weakness!"
"The weakness lies in the aspect of speed, and this can be exploited to defeat him..."
At the head of the battle array, an old warrior with a square face clenched his fists, murmuring uncontrollably.
The strength Su Mu demonstrated earlier could not be described as mere terror. His unparalleled attack and impregnable defense appeared simultaneously in one person.
The old warrior had been in the team for over twenty years, participating in many brutal battles, but every time he found himself in the battle array, even if comrades fell, even if there were sacrifices, even if the next moment he too might fall in battle, he believed that in the end, the Blood Eagle Team would certainly win.
Unless confronted by the Martial Saint with mighty power.
Otherwise, as long as it was a living being, no matter how powerful an individual, there would always be a weakness.
The toughest task the old warrior had ever undertaken was more than twenty years ago, a campaign against a Giant Beast Cave, where they encountered a dying Tier Eight Mutated Ice Frost Giant Flood Dragon near a ruin.
The terrifying creature had a body length exceeding fifty meters, reaching a horrifying sixty-eight meters, definitely the largest fierce beast the old warrior had ever seen.
Initially, they despairingly believed they had encountered a Saint Level fierce beast.
After paying a heavy price to kill it, just the Blood Core within its head was as tall as a two or three-story building.
On its Blood Core, there were six terrifying golden marks, each taller and larger than a person, though that sixth golden mark was not fully consolidated.
But it was enough to be shocking and extraordinary.
Should the six golden marks correspond to human martial artists, it equated to Sixth Forging, beyond the Fifth Forging Grandmaster realm.
However...
Since the birth of human civilization, the limit for a Grandmaster has been Fifth Forging, at least the old warrior had never heard of anyone advancing beyond Fifth Forging.
For this reason, Fifth Forging is the limit for Grandmasters, hence the titles of Titled Grandmaster and Titled Great Grandmaster.
That battle also cost the Blood Eagle Team dearly, the most significant reduction in personnel in a hundred years, and information about the Ice Frost Giant Flood Dragon with six terrifying marks on its Blood Core was entirely sealed by the War Zone.
All the warriors who participated in that battle were later interviewed by the War Zone and required to keep it strictly confidential.
Perhaps before the Ice Frost Giant Flood Dragon got injured, its strength was even more formidable.
But at that moment, its injuries were its greatest weakness, enough to be fatal, a trait present in all living beings, such as the Red Flame Fierce Bear, also at Tier Eight.
Its greatest weakness was its sluggish speed, and not long ago, when the Blood Eagle Team encountered it, they engaged it flexibly with the Bird Soaring Array, avoiding lethal attacks, and then subdued it.
The old warrior believed it would be the same this time, and victory would ultimately belong to the Blood Eagle Team.
Thinking of this, he sighed in relief; if a weakness exists, there is naturally a way to breach it.
"Go!"
From his mouth issued the command, and immediately within the battle array, the Blood Eagle warriors fused with their Blood Eagles, almost merging into one. Then the battle array transformed.
The Great Roc formed by the battle array flapped its wings, its speed instantly surged, sweeping white waves roaring with piercing, urgent howls that resounded in the sky, speed instantly reaching several times the speed of sound, and continuing to rise.
In just an instant, they left Su Mu far behind, seeing Su Mu momentarily slowed in place.
On the ground, Chen Bin nodded in satisfaction, "Good, this on-the-spot judgment is decent."
But the next second.
Chen Bin’s just-relaxed expression froze on his face.
Su Mu, watching the Blood Eagle Team trying to leave him behind, showed no ripples on his calm face, instantly guessing the opponent’s intentions.
"Interesting,..."
"Turns out the battle array can also possess such high mobility, but a race of speed?"
"Although I’m not particularly skilled in speed, as I generally prefer strength..."
"But my speed is not slow either!"
A cyan light flickered in Su Mu’s eyes, his mouth slightly open, the surrounding air instantly swallowed away.
"Wind Breathing!"
Four light words slipped from his lips, a faint cyan light flowed over his body, his figure flickered, splitting into four or five afterimages simultaneously.
The afterimages pursued the soaring Great Roc from all directions at the same time.
In just an instant.
Su Mu seemed to teleport, closing in swiftly.
Feeling the sudden approach of the fierce wind from behind, the old warrior’s pupils contracted sharply, and he exclaimed in disbelief.
"This, this speed is so fast... how is this possible?"
Unmatched in attack, impregnable in defense, plus terrifying speed.
The old warrior suddenly realized...
Today, it seems they have encountered an existence with no weaknesses.
An entity without any weakness in strength, speed, or spiritual power.
This was just someone not yet ascended to the Grandmaster Realm.
Once Su Mu General Star ascends to Grandmaster, what a terrifying existence that would be!
At this moment, not only did the old warrior realize this, but many Blood Eagle warriors within the battle array also realized this, and many swallowed hard.
In their hearts, besides being shocked, there was also a deep anticipation.
Because Su Mu was from their Southern War Zone!
With the Huaxia Military Department’s martial arts contest about to commence, as long as Su Mu General Star can ascend to the Grandmaster Realm by then, with such monstrous prowess, he is bound to shine in this military martial arts contest!
The Southern War Zone was at the bottom in the last count among the five major war zones, and their results in recent martial arts contests have not been ideal.
Perhaps this time, they can deliver a small shock to the other four war zones from the Southern War Zone.
Thinking of this, the old warrior’s solemn expression relaxed and instead became somewhat relieved.
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This battle is worth fighting without regrets.
Both man and Roc exuded formidable invisible auras, beginning the chase. They spiraled above the sky, where the wind and snow stagnated, and at a certain moment, the snow fell around the Great Roc.
"Attack!"
In an instant, the killing intent emerged.
The battle array suddenly transformed, the array’s head turning into the tail, the rapid spread transformed into a great force of attack, and the Great Roc dove down from the nine heavens.
Originally at the end of the formation, Zhou Haiqing suddenly became one of the eyes of the array. At this moment, he led a thousand-man battle array to launch a shocking strike towards Su Mu.
The stagnant snowflakes in the sky, swept by the Great Roc’s wings, transformed into countless Divine Soldier blades, exuding endless coldness, enough to penetrate gold and iron. The sudden change of formation, yet the thousand men showed no pause, like a single entity.
This strike took advantage of favorable timing and location, having previously been undefeated by the Blood Eagle Warriors.
Su Mu pursued too closely.
Within an arm’s reach.
This strike was unavoidable!
Zhou Haiqing’s eyes flashed with brilliance. At this moment, images of Su Mu being blasted from midair emerged in his mind; apart from resisting head-on, he couldn’t imagine any other way Su Mu could withstand this strike.
Although the might of this strike was slightly inferior to the Tiger Wings array, it triumphed in its unexpectedness.
At such short notice, this time, even the steadfast Su Mu must fall!
Even though a thousand-man array barely defeating one person was not much to boast about,
at least it was a victory.
Facing this strike, Su Mu slowly closed his eyes. To Zhou Haiqing, it was as if Su Mu had given up. Seeing this, his heart was complex but couldn’t help feeling some excitement. Zhou Haiqing was very grateful Su Mu had saved him, and also respected Su Mu.
Yet, Su Mu alone challenged their Blood Eagle Team of a thousand people, leaving everyone with pent-up anger. Zhou Haiqing took a deep breath.
What if genius is only your gateway?
No matter how monstrous, today it will be defeated!
But this time, Zhou Haiqing’s expectations were destined to fall short.
Because their opponent was Su Mu.
Man can certainly overcome the heavens!
Just as the Great Roc was about to reach that figure, Zhou Haiqing could already feel the warmth emanating from Su Mu’s body. At this critical moment,
in Su Mu’s Sea of Consciousness, his dazzling galaxy shook violently, and three lotus flowers containing Qi and Blood, Spiritual Power, and Martial Momentum gradually sprouted.
Then slowly unfolded.
At the moment the Great Roc imposed life-and-death pressure.
Su Mu finally captured the fusion opportunity of the three strongest Three-Flower Martial Arts of the time; he finally saw the door that was previously vague and unclear.
Thus...
He slowly opened his eyes, and the cyan lotus blossomed in his Sea of Consciousness, resonating with the Gate of Formlessness and the Flame Seal.
The blooming cyan lotus took residence in the Gate of Formlessness, which then slowly opened. The Flame Seal on the great door completely lit up, forming the first unprecedented Fusion Door.
This scorching, boundless ancient door was no longer just Spiritual Power, Martial Momentum, Qi, and Blood alone.
But rather a complete fusion of the three, with all of Su Mu’s insights into the Rule of Fire added in.
At this moment, a flash of ecstasy and emotion swept across Su Mu’s eyes.
His martial journey to this point had already completely transcended the human martial arts of this world; everything after this would rely on his own exploration.
In this human world, even a Martial Saint was unqualified to teach him!
He was already a pioneer, a creator!
"Cyan Lotus Martial Seed..."
"No, now it should be called the Martial Arts Gate, a gate uniquely belonging to Su Mu, no longer associated with any Three Flowers Technique..."
"This Fire Gate is only the beginning; there will also be the Water Gate, Wind Gate, Gate of Power, and even space and time. The Martial Arts Gate is enough to encompass myriad things, until it controls the power of all the rules in the world."
"By then, with all the world’s mighty forces upon me, I shall be the martial arts, I shall be this heaven and earth!"
Boom!
Su Mu entered an unprecedented mystical realm; even without entering the Crystal Transformation state, he was in a state almost omniscient and omnipotent, even stronger!
"Let’s try it!"
As his thoughts raced, the Fire Gate in his Sea of Consciousness slowly opened.
Suddenly, an overwhelming terrifying aura rose from Su Mu.
Faced with the monstrous strike, Su Mu slowly raised his hand, his eyes shimmering with dignified crimson light.
"Fire!"
In the next instant.
All the flames between heaven and earth gathered into his right hand. At this moment, Su Mu’s entire being trembled slightly; he felt the flame’s call, and at this moment, he was the master of the flames.
Roar------
At that instant, across the firmament, resounded a dull, thunderous roar, this was the flames roaring.
A layer of scarlet film circulated in Su Mu’s hand, then straddled heaven and earth.
Before this layer of film.
The supersonic snow-blades melted instantly before they could approach, turning into blue smoke.
A thousand men and a thousand eagles’ expressions dramatically changed, and suddenly they felt their scalps tingle as a powerful, intense premonition of death surged in their hearts.
That layer of fire membrane was like an insurmountable chasm, touch it and you die!
But the battle array had no time to change, nor could it stop its forward momentum, like moths drawn to a flame, their doom seemed sealed...
Yet in the next instant.
The chasm disappeared.
The monstrous strike fell.
The silhouettes of both sides intertwined.
Boom!
The earth shook and mountains swayed, dust billowing skyward; when the dust settled, a small mountaintop in the distance vanished into thin air.