novelraw Chapter 130
Chapter 130
In ancient times there was the overlord lifting the tripod, now there was Wang Yu hurling the Earthrock Bull with an over-the-shoulder throw.
The Earthrock Bull, clad in a rocky armor across its whole body and weighing tens of thousands of jin, was lifted by Wang Yu through skillful use of borrowed force. With one fierce over-the-shoulder throw, he smashed it to the ground, shattering the surrounding earth.
The dazed bull bellowed a few cries.
Countless fist shadows rained down upon its soft abdomen, each punch carrying the strength of nine dragon tendons. In less than three breaths, blood spurted from its mouth.
How similar this was to Wang Yu three years ago.
Only this time, the roles of victim and victor had completely reversed.
Yet, it was still a second-rank Bull Demon, not so easy to kill. Acting on instinct, it activated a secret bloodline technique. The rocky armor on its body suddenly jutted outward, launching sharp stone spears in all directions.
Wang Yu was forced to leap back, shielding his head with his arms as he quickly retreated.
When he lowered his arms and regained vision, the Earthrock Bull had already risen. Its entire body glowed with an earthy yellow spiritual light. It actually stepped into the air, countless fragments of condensed spirit rock spinning before it.
These fragments merged into a massive drill-like stone spear, and it charged once more.Wang Yu narrowed his eyes.
This was the first time he had pushed the Earthrock Bull this far with only his physical body. Since it had already unleashed its bloodline secret art, the Body-refining test had reached its limit.
“If you will not honor martial virtue, then I too will not hold back.”
With a thought, he cast Soul-Devouring Demonic Armor. Black baleful ghostly qi surged around him, and his killing intent peaked. His right foot lightly stomped the ground.
Cold ice spiritual power roared forth.
Ice Coffin Curse.
After countless revisions, his mastery over this spell was flawless. Instantly, heavy walls of ice rose up one after another, blocking the bull’s charge.
Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.
Five walls of ice in succession were all shattered by the spinning stone spear, but its spiritual light dimmed greatly, leaving little power remaining.
The corner of Wang Yu’s lips curved upward. His fists clashed together.
Mysterious Yin Hands.
Giant gray-white hands manifested perfectly from fingertip to elbow, each three zhang tall, clinging to the outsides of his arms.
The distance between him and the bull closed to an arm’s reach.
Suddenly.
Wang Yu pressed his palms together, the Mysterious Yin Hands clamped onto the whirling stone spear, and with one upward twist, it crumbled to dust.
The Earthrock Bull widened its eyes and spat out a ray of golden light.
It was a rhombus-shaped piece of metal filled with a fierce sharp aura, cutting even the wind apart.
“So, old bull, you still had a killing move hidden.”
Wang Yu pulled back his left arm. The Mysterious Yin Hand detached from his body and slapped the bull into the ground, pinning it firmly.
His charged left arm, empowered by the divine strength of the Corpse Arm, swung forward. The fist collided with the oncoming golden light. At the moment of impact, the golden light pierced flesh and shattered bone.
It burrowed entirely into the forearm of the Corpse Arm before it finally stopped. Wang Yu felt no pain through the corpse limb, but his mouth opened in shock.
The power of this killing move was beyond imagination. If his head had been struck, even the Black Fiend Armor might not have withstood it, despite the Corpse Arm carrying the defense of mountain-ridged corpse qi iron plates.
For it to bore through like this, this Earthrock Bull was by no means weak.
“I underestimated you.”
Without delaying the battle, after blocking the golden light’s assault, Wang Yu attacked from both sides, combining it with the Mysterious Yin Hand to drive the Earthrock Bull deeper underground.
He struck for several minutes until the rocky armor on its body was shattered, then finally killed the bull with his fists.
Years of companionship were lost in a single moment.
Shaking his head, he stored the corpse into his storage pouch. This early second-rank Earthrock Bull was quite valuable. Even eating its flesh alone would greatly benefit Wang Yu’s body cultivation.
From his left arm he pried out the origin of that golden light. It was actually an irregular rhomboid piece of metal, only the size of a fingernail. After carefully examining it and washing it with spiritual power, his face lit up with joy.
“Third-rank spiritual material, Earth Spirit Gold!”
Third-rank corresponded to the Core Formation stage. This item was sufficient as material for refining a life-bound artifact, but it was too small, not even half a portion, making it hard to fully utilize its value.
If fused into a second-rank artifact, it would feel like a waste.
A bit of a chicken rib, yet as an unexpected gain it was still a small fortune worth being satisfied with.
The Earthrock Bull had no way to refine this material, so it only made crude use of it.
After storing it properly, Wang Yu guided his flying sword to pick the Earth Spirit Dendrobium growing on the cliff. This was essentially a kind of moss that grew on rocks and had considerable medicinal value.
By an alchemist’s standards, it was enough for about five portions.
Carrying these gains, he returned to soak in a hot spring.
Half an hour later.
Within Cracked Cliff Cavern.
As usual, he healed while bathing. The damage to his corpse arm could not be treated by ordinary means. He could only use the Corpse Demon Secret Technique to absorb yin energy and corpse energy for slow recovery.
But these two energies required special environments to be produced.
For the time being, Wang Yu placed the Corpse Demon Secret Technique into Idle Slot 4. Once the injury healed, he would remove it. According to his plan, it would likely remain there until he broke through to Foundation Establishment, when he could keep this incomplete secret art for long-term use.
As for the Body-refining art Flood Dragon Force, not only had he fully comprehended it, but his realm had also reached completion.
That was the Nine Dragons Tendons.
With the great dragon of the spine as the core, nine flood dragon-like veins stretched like entering the sea into his four limbs and bones, greatly enhancing his physical strength. This was the foundation of his struggle with the Earthrock Bull.
Overall, his physique was inferior to that of the Earthrock Bull, but not by too much, at most weaker by thirty percent, something that technique could make up for.
Back then he had spent a great price in the Gold-Filled Pavilion to purchase dragon-blood from a beast of the dragon lineage. He consumed all of it, gaining this peak first-rank physique. His blood and vitality were as abundant as those of a beast of the same level.
If nothing unexpected happened, this was enough to meet the requirements for breaking through to Foundation Establishment.
Yet Wang Yu was not satisfied.
He still had the unique treasure Vajra Liquid for body refinement Foundation Establishment. After several more months of tempering, he could attempt to consume it, complete body refinement Foundation Establishment, and gain the combat power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator in advance.
At that time, the Divine Strength Corpse Arm could retire.
He could then find a third-rank corpse arm as a temporary substitute. Of course, the prerequisite was that the Corpse Demon Secret Technique must also be supplemented to the second-rank level. Otherwise, he could not suppress the deathly aura, and the one to suffer misfortune would be himself.
The breakthrough in body refinement had to be postponed for now.
The problem of subsequent cultivation methods was also a headache. Wang Yu leaned toward using the deduction function of the idle slot to advance them.
[Idle Slot 4: Flood Dragon Force (deducing…)]
Flood Dragon Force (20/100): 96 session per day, 16 years to completion.
This method was the same as the Cold Blood Technique. Both required twenty years to advance in grade. For a long time, Slot 4 would remain occupied.
But Slot 3 could be moved.
Because the moment Wang Yu had been yearning for was about to arrive.
[Idle Slot 3: Demonic Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse (Completion ↑)]
Demonic Embryo Mysterious Origin Curse (100/100): 108 session per day, 100 years to completion.
To raise this Curse to the next rank required a full hundred years.
For the foreseeable future, Wang Yu would not consider placing it again. This curse was already of high grade, enough to serve him for a long time.