novelraw Chapter 366: Ascending to Heaven in a Single Step
Chapter 366: Ascending to Heaven in a Single Step
Su Zhan did not know how long he had been searching within the Mist World.
A surge of vast and vigorous life force fluctuations caught his attention.
Su Zhan's spirits lifted, and he immediately sped towards the direction from which the fluctuations originated.
After passing through a belt of rubble where energy was in disarray, the scene before him suddenly opened up.
It was an ancient forest of unimaginable size.
The trees here were uniformly dark purple in color, commonly exceeding a thousand meters in height, with trunks so thick they would require dozens of people to encircle them.
Giant vines coiled around the trunks like pythons.
An ancient and primordial aura permeated the air.
And the source of that life force fluctuation was right at the center of this forest of giant trees.
Su Zhan suppressed all his aura and silently approached.At the forest's center, there was a rare small clearing, its soil a deeper shade of dark gold.
A white-jade sapling, almost identical to the one he had seen before, grew quietly, bearing only a single fruit that shimmered with a seven-colored halo.
A Reforge Fruit!
Wild joy instantly surged in Su Zhan's heart.
He never thought he would actually find a second one.
There was hope for his teacher's injuries!
Su Zhan's gaze immediately shifted away from the Reforge Fruit, scanning the surroundings with extreme vigilance.
The guardian was right there.
Beside the white-jade sapling, crouched a colossal creature.
It stood over fifty meters tall, resembling an ancient giant ape magnified countless times, but its entire body was covered in thick, dark red armor plating. Between the seams of the armor, faint dark red light flowed.
Its arms were extraordinarily long, fingertips touching the ground when they hung down, with bulging muscles brimming with explosive power.
Its head was ape-like, with four curved, ghastly white fangs protruding from its mouth. Its eyes burned with flame, radiating a savage aura.
The pressure emanating from its body was unmistakably Calamity-level, second stage.
Moreover, judging from its condensed aura and that heavy lava-like armor, this was a Calamity-level entity renowned for its absolute physical prowess.
"Mountain-Melting Giant Ape..."
Su Zhan recalled the knowledge he had acquired at the Vermilion Bird Academy.
The giant ape was in a semi-dormant guarding state, its snores like muffled thunder, each breath stirring a wave of scorching air.
Su Zhan's eyes turned grave.
This Mountain-Melting Giant Ape was the perfect whetstone to test his own Peak Special-risk strength and use it to break through to the Calamity-level.
And, he could seize the Reforge Fruit in the process!
The golden vertical pupil in his left eye and the silver radiance in his right eye simultaneously lit up.
Time Abyss Pupil... Acceleration, Deceleration.
Both effects activated at once.
The acceleration applied to himself caused his speed to skyrocket, while the deceleration field applied to the Mountain-Melting Giant Ape enveloped the creature.
Su Zhan's Flame of Destruction turned inward, his entire body transforming into a human-shaped streak of light, appearing at the side of the giant ape's massive head.
His right fist clenched, all his power condensed to a single point, and he ferociously punched towards its burning eye.
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape was jolted awake the instant the deceleration field took effect, its eyes erupting with furious flames.
Facing Su Zhan's lightning-fast punch.
It let out an ear-splitting roar, its massive palm covered in thick lava armor swatting towards Su Zhan.
Fist and palm, one large, one small, vastly disproportionate, were about to collide.
A cold glint flashed in Su Zhan's eyes. He did not dodge or evade.
"BOOM!!!"
An explosion erupted at the heart of this ancient forest.
The shockwave snapped several surrounding kilometer-high giant trees at their waists.
"CRACK!"
Su Zhan's right arm bent, the scales covering his fist shattered completely, dripping with blood. His entire body was sent flying backward faster than he had arrived.
He smashed through three giant trees in succession before barely coming to a stop, vomiting blood mixed with bits of internal organs.
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape was not faring well either.
The center of its palm had been blasted open by Su Zhan's punch, leaving a hole the size of a washbasin. The dark red Flame of Destruction clung like a persistent disease, madly spreading up its arm along the wound with a sizzling sound.
"ROAR——!!!"
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape let out a pained roar, its other intact giant palm slamming down fiercely towards where Su Zhan had fallen.
It wanted to crush this insect that had wounded it into paste.
Su Zhan's gaze turned icy.
Time Remolding!
Silver light flashed in his right eye, the power of time flowed around his body, and his injuries instantly reverted to their intact state from ten seconds ago.
His fractured arm bones reconnected, his shattered scales regenerated, his internal injuries completely healed.
The cost was only a portion of his Spiritual Energy and mental strength.
Su Zhan accelerated again, appearing at the exposed weak point under the giant ape's armpit created by its attack.
His left fist struck again. This time, the Flame of Destruction was highly compressed, forming a spiral drill that viciously stabbed towards the relatively weaker joint under the giant ape's armpit.
"THUD!"
The dark red drill successfully pierced through the armor, plunging deep into its flesh and triggering a secondary explosion.
"ROAR!!!"
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape pounded its chest in maddened pain, its other arm sweeping horizontally, whipping up a gale.
Su Zhan did not dodge or evade, taking the hit head-on once more.
"THUMP!"
Su Zhan was sent flying, his ribcage shattered, but he activated Time Remolding mid-air, his injuries instantly recovering.
Simultaneously, using the force of the blow, he closed in again, his knees covered in the Flame of Destruction, crashing into the Mountain-Melting Giant Ape's spine.
"CRACK!"
The battle fell into a most primitive rhythm.
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape possessed terrifying strength and astonishing defense; each of its attacks was enough to injure Su Zhan.
But Su Zhan, relying on the heaven-defying recovery ability of Time Remolding, completely abandoned defense, adopting the most extreme tactic of trading injury for injury.
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape, despite its destructive power, was utterly unable to truly kill Su Zhan.
The wounds on its body multiplied, and the dark red Flame of Destruction continuously accumulated within it.
After who knows how many instances of severe injury and remolding.
Su Zhan seized a moment when the Mountain-Melting Giant Ape's strength faltered, pouring all his remaining power into one final strike.
"DIE!!!"
Both fists combined as one, his entire body transforming into a dark red meteor.
He ferociously blasted into the Mountain-Melting Giant Ape's wide-open maw.
Crushing everything in his path.
"GUSH——!"
The Mountain-Melting Giant Ape's colossal body suddenly stiffened, all movement ceasing.
Its massive frame swayed once, then collapsed with a thunderous crash.
The impact shook the entire ancient forest.
A wisp of incredibly pure Calamity-level Life Essence, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, madly surged into Su Zhan's body.
Su Zhan landed on the ground, his injuries recovered through one last use of Time Remolding.
A vast, boundless, and mighty energy erupted within him.
Su Zhan's Stream Realm peak Spiritual Energy, propelled by this force, underwent a qualitative leap.
The Spiritual Energy began to crystallize, constructing a brilliant starry sky within his meridians and dantian.
His soul seemed to sublimate at this moment.
His perception of the surrounding space-time became unprecedentedly clear.
Ocean Realm, first stage!
Su Zhan had officially stepped into the Ocean Realm, the dream of countless Awakened individuals.
Spiritual Energy like the ocean, vast and boundless!
Then, the Aberrant system.
The black scales covering his entire body grew deeper, becoming more substantial.
Natural dark red patterns, containing the law of destruction, appeared on them.
Calamity-level, first stage.
The Aberrant Form had also simultaneously stepped into the Calamity-level.
Both systems breaking through together, ascending to heaven in a single step!