Chapter 267 : Placing Oneself in Danger to Survive
Chapter 267 : Placing Oneself in Danger to Survive
The divine sense shadow coldly smiled, taking a step forward and suddenly growing to several hundred meters tall, like a mountain, its full form difficult to perceive.
...It was the Dharma Body!
As it took a step, Chu Sang's expression changed drastically. She crushed several flash talismans, forced to retreat several li. Her previous position was immediately crushed into a giant crater several meters deep. It wasn't hard to imagine that if this foot had landed on her, she would be no different from an ant crushed underfoot... It was an overwhelming suppression without any suspense...
The Dharma Body grew taller and taller, almost blocking out the sun and moon. Her field of vision was filled with only this terrifying colossus, nothing else remained. Simultaneously, the Dharma Body took another step forward. The heavens and earth trembled, and its casual step, shrinking distance, caused the terrifying divine power pressure to overturn the entire region. Under this powerful pressure, Chu Sang felt her body out of control, even breathing became difficult. The spiritual power within her body fluctuated greatly, seeming as if it would burst all her meridians.
Her brows furrowed as she took several deep breaths, forced to use her divine sense to suppress the turbulent spiritual energy within her body.
Unable to remain passive, she applied several pressure-resistance talismans to herself and launched the first attack.
The Dharma Body was a massive entity completely condensed from divine power. Ordinary spiritual energy could hardly leave any trace on it. Chu Sang's series of attacks gained no advantage. At this moment, compared to the Dharma Body, she was truly like an ant before a giant. The opponent could easily crush her into dust with a light step.
After suffering several setbacks, Chu Sang had to change her strategy. She quickly distanced herself, transforming her sword into a bow. Drawing the bowstring, she concentrated power and released. Her palm drew and released several times, her fingertips flying like shadows. In just a few breaths, hundreds of arrows filled the sky.
The Dharma Body reached forward and crushed the hundreds of fiery red arrows instantly.
"This Dharma Body is merely condensed from a strand of my divine sense, using only a tiny fraction of divine power. But divine power is far beyond what a lowly insect like you can shake. Attempting to break my Dharma Body with this meager power is too naive and foolish, hahaha." The human god let out a cold sneer.
Chu Sang looked up at him and smiled again. "Not necessarily," she sincerely reminded, "Why don't you look behind you?"
The hundreds of scattered arrows had somehow reconvened, merging into a single, more powerful fiery red arrow. Surprisingly, the image of a roaming fire dragon appeared on the arrow, soaring through the nine heavens, roaring through forests, and diving down—
Chu Sang had successfully refined and condensed Karma Burns the Three Realms and the Dragon Breath. The power of this arrow exceeded her own early Divine Transformation stage, breaking through to the Unity stage!
The Dharma Body's expression changed for a moment but quickly returned to calm. The mockery in its words became even thicker.
Even if this arrow was more powerful than before, so what?
Whether Divine Transformation stage or Unity stage, in his eyes, there was no difference. It merely changed from something he could easily crush to something that required slightly more effort to crush.
He repeated his previous tactic, intending to crush this arrow again. However, after his divine power penetrated the arrow, it didn't easily crush it like before.
...How is this possible?
No matter how powerful the spiritual energy, under absolute divine power, there should be no possibility of resistance.
No matter how arrogant and slow to react this self-important upper god was, he finally realized at this moment that the arrow before him wasn't condensed from spiritual energy at all, but rather from this damned girl's own divine sense?!
This person could actually attack directly with divine sense??
He wasn't unfamiliar with the strength of lower realm cultivators. Forget about a Divine Transformation stage, even Great Perfection or Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivators, whose power approached that of upper realm human gods, rarely could materialize their divine sense directly into a weapon for attack. What background did this person have?!!
The Dharma Body was forced back several steps by this divine sense attack, its movements slowing for several breaths. Chu Sang seized the opportunity to once again infuse her divine sense into her sword, fiercely slashing at the golden body's hand.
This attack also had considerable killing power, but having learned from the previous lesson, the Dharma Body was much more cautious and didn't allow her to gain any advantage.
No one is a fool who stands still to be beaten.
Any technique is most effective only the first time when the opponent is unprepared.
It had to be admitted that divine sense attacks could indeed cause substantial damage to the Dharma Body, but Chu Sang's realm and weapon were an insurmountable obstacle. The minuscule amount of health reduced was insignificant to the Dharma Body.
Chu Sang was well aware of this, but the divine artifact in her hand was already the best weapon in the lower realm. It was difficult to find stronger refining materials to break through in the Spiritual Abyss Continent, and raising her realm in a short time was extremely challenging. Moreover, she had just broken through not long ago. To advance another realm in such a short time, even if just a small realm, was extremely difficult.
No matter how impressive a talent dog is, it can't cheat to this extent!
Fortunately, she wasn't a talent dog, she was a cheater.
Chu Sang hadn't forgotten her cheat artifact, the point allocation system. After completing this demon race storyline, the system had rewarded quite a few points. She allocated all the points to talent and strength, maxing out everything that could be maxed. At the same time, she consumed the spirit herbs that could rapidly increase strength from the heavenly treasures she had found in the demon realm earlier. Her dried-up dantian was instantly filled with a large amount of abundant spiritual power. She compressed the surging spiritual power into liquid, forming tiny streams that converged into small rivers, then into vast rivers and seas, surging and billowing. Her dantian, stretched to its limit, became increasingly hot, as if it might explode at any moment.
She quickly consumed a Fire Spirit Pill. At this moment, Chu Sang couldn't help but sincerely thank Sixth Senior Brother's pill refining skills.
During his time studying at the Pill Condensation Sect, Mu Chihuai's pill refining skills had improved considerably. Previously, as a young master from a pill refining family who spent money lavishly, he never had to worry about the cost of pill materials. Although his pill condensation success rate was high during daily refining, he didn't skimp on materials at all, not understanding the concept of frugality. He would throw materials into the pill furnace by the handful, never considering the conversion rate of the pills. Later, deeply moved by Chu Sang's beautiful spirit of frugality, the material cost for refining the same pills decreased dramatically.
He successfully refined two Fire Spirit Pills from one Fire Blossom.
When breaking through to the Divine Transformation stage, Chu Sang had used one Fire Spirit Pill, leaving one remaining. She had originally planned to save it for breaking through to a major realm after her current realm stabilized, but now she had no choice but to use it for a breakthrough.
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At the border of the demon realm, Xing River City.
After receiving news of demons harassing the border of the cultivation world, Lingqing Sect disciples, along with those from other sects, were immediately dispatched to deal with these troublemaking demon cultivators.
After several days and nights of relentless purging, most of the demon cultivators in this area had been dealt with. Actually, there were still quite a few demon cultivators left who were cunning and elusive, having tricked these honest sect disciples several times. Tantai Ming and the others originally thought it would take at least half a month to handle, but unexpectedly, on the previous night, internal strife seemed to have erupted among the demon cultivators, and they unexpectedly withdrew.
After several sects gathered to exchange intelligence, they all concluded that internal problems had arisen within the demon race.
Wen Renyue tried to contact Mo Baizhou, who was in the demon realm. Fourth Senior Brother had been sent by the Sect Master to infiltrate the demon realm and gather information before they arrived, so he should know quite a bit about the inside story. Strangely, no matter how they tried, they couldn't contact him.
Little Junior Sister also hadn't returned to the team, seemingly vanished into thin air, unreachable.
"Wasn't Little Junior Sister with us when we came? How did she disappear on her own?" Tantai Ming listlessly bit into a piece of beast meat, too worried to eat properly.
Gu Chang'an frowned, "Knowing Little Junior Sister's personality, she most likely had her own ideas and left on her own without having time to discuss with us due to the sudden situation. It's probably related to the demon race."
After some discussion, they decided to first infiltrate the demon realm to gather intelligence. With the unused demon qi talismans left by Chu Sang, their infiltration into the demon domain was quite smooth. Even if their disguises weren't perfect and might reveal some flaws in their behavior, at this time, no one in the demon race had the leisure to pay attention to these outsiders.
Some kind of turmoil had indeed occurred within the demon domain. Along their way, they saw many demons hurrying about, and more than once witnessed large troops of demon soldiers and generals marching out of the city in grand processions. After sending out the naturally sociable Tantai Ming to gather information, they learned the reason.
Currently, the Demon Sovereign and several great demon lords had gone missing, their fates unknown. There were even rumors that these major forces had engaged in a deadly internal struggle, all perishing.
With no leader, the demon race was now in complete chaos, unable to take care of themselves, let alone target the cultivation world.
Half a day later, they finally received a belated message from Mo Baizhou. Little Junior Sister had indeed snuck into the demon domain alone. Hearing this news, everyone immediately felt their hearts skip a beat, worried that Little Junior Sister might have gotten herself into trouble since they hadn't been able to contact her for days...
Mo Baizhou first reassured his fellow disciples, telling them not to worry. He had run into Little Junior Sister and had been with her these past few days. She had even managed to turn the newly appointed Demon Sovereign to their side.
It turned out that the internal strife in the demon race a few days ago was orchestrated by Little Junior Sister.
After hearing all the inside details, Tantai Ming drew in a sharp breath and managed to squeeze out, "Wow! As expected of Little Junior Sister, wherever she goes, someone's in for trouble!"
Wen Renyue smacked his dog head, "A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory. Little Junior Sister is our lucky star. If it weren't for her planning this demon race turmoil, it would probably be the cultivation world in chaos now."
"Where is Little Junior Sister now? Why can't we contact her?" Si Kou Qiu asked anxiously.
Mo Baizhou paused for a moment before saying, "Little Junior Sister... she got lost."
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"??!"
"What?"
How could a perfectly fine person just get lost?
"Why didn't you say something about such a big issue earlier? Didn't you just say she was with you? How did she get lost?" Wen Renyue slammed the table and stood up. "How did you take care of Little Junior Sister as a Senior Brother, to actually lose her?"
As expected, she knew that Mo Baizhou had always lacked a sense of belonging to Lingqing Sect and rarely stayed in the sect. He was always nowhere to be found, only occasionally appearing when the Sect Master ordered him to. She guessed that this time he probably didn't take Little Junior Sister seriously at all, which is why he lost her. It really infuriated her!
If anything happened to Little Junior Sister, she would skin him alive!
Mu Chihuai hurriedly pulled the furious Wen Renyue back to her seat. "Senior Sister, can you control your temper a bit and speak more gently? Can't you see that Fourth Senior Brother is too scared to speak?"
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It was already a great honor that Mo Baizhou was willing to receive messages. If he was slightly displeased, he would hang up and disappear, untraceable even if one searched all three realms. Mu Chihuai was really afraid that if she roared like a lioness, it would scare Fourth Senior Brother away.
"This matter has nothing to do with Fourth Senior Brother."
No matter how little sense of belonging Mo Baizhou usually had towards the sect, he wouldn't joke about human lives, especially since Little Junior Sister was the sect's darling. Everyone could see that Mo Baizhou treated Little Junior Sister differently in daily life, genuinely liking this junior sister. Moreover, with the Sect Master's entrusting, he would definitely take care of Little Junior Sister proactively in the demon realm.
Mu Chihuai pressed his folding fan against one of his dimples, analyzing calmly, "Think carefully, Little Junior Sister doesn't really need our protection on a daily basis. It has always been her protecting us from behind... Moreover, if Little Junior Sister truly wanted to act alone for some reason, none of us could keep an eye on her."
This was indeed a fact. The others fell silent for a moment, after all, wasn't the evidence right before their eyes? They didn't even know when Little Junior Sister had left.
Her choice to act alone without informing others was very likely because this mission was quite dangerous, and she didn't want to drag others into it.
Thinking of this, the others felt even more complex emotions, with worry being the predominant one.
"...Central Region, Long Qi City."
After saying this, Mo Baizhou unilaterally cut off the communication, seemingly encountering some urgent matter.
Si Kou Qiu crossed her arms on the table and rested her head, "What should we do now? Little Junior Sister has been drawn into that divine decree that appeared out of nowhere. We know nothing about that thing and can't find any clues at all."
"According to what Fourth Junior Brother said, the demon race altar has been breached. Let's follow his instructions and first meet up with him in Long Qi City in the Central Region, then discuss further plans."
Gu Chang'an, as the Big Senior Brother, exercised his leadership authority.
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Trapped in this damned place, unable to sense the passage of time, Chu Sang had been engaged with this Dharma Body for who knows how many days and nights. Even the opponent had become numb from the prolonged battle.
Damn it, unkillable...
No matter what, she just wouldn't die...
No matter how severely injured she was, she just wouldn't die and could still bounce around?!!
The Dharma Body couldn't finish her off, and Chu Sang couldn't deliver a fatal blow to the Dharma Body either.
Both sides were just dragging on like this.
Continuing to drag on for such a long time was certainly unfavorable for Chu Sang. Seeing that the timing was about right, she paused her steps and stopped evading.
The upper god thought she was finally going to give up and was about to gleefully mock her when her wrist moved slightly again, and her sword intent domain unfurled.
Sword Immortal Technique, fourth layer, comprehended.
Adversity stimulates potential, and getting beaten leads to progress. These many days of getting beaten hadn't been in vain. Chu Sang had broken through to the fourth layer of the Sword Immortal Technique through actual combat. The power of her sword intent was now more than ten times stronger than before.
She compensated for the weapon's inadequacy with the sword technique.
And after breaking through the sword technique, her realm shook once again.
The large amount of spiritual power stored in her body frantically broke through barriers back and forth. The aura around her body changed rapidly. Seeing that she showed signs of breakthrough at this moment, the Dharma Body was both shocked and incredulous.
This damned girl was already troublesome enough now. If she were truly allowed to successfully break through, she would definitely be even more of a headache!
No!
Absolutely cannot let her successfully break through!
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