Chapter 812: 812
After spending a month and a half underground in secluded cultivation, Wu Qi returned to the surface alone to attend the sacrifice ceremony, during which Emperor Haozun had officially announced his promotion . His outstanding achievement of slaying seven Primordial experts alone had been confirmed; both the Heaven and the Buddhism League had sent Great Yu official complaint letters . So, Wu Qi's out of ordinary promotion was agreed by all the civil and military officials in the court, save King Bai Shan, who was nowhere to be found .
As usual, Great Yu did not respond to the complaints the Heaven and the Buddhism League had sent . When Liu Bang, who presented the complaints, took his leave of the imperial palace, Emperor Haozun had immediately rewarded the two official scrolls made with rare and precious materials including the silk of heavenly silkworms to one of the chiefs of internal officials . The eunuch, who was in charge of the emperor's daily meals, later made a good pair of socks out of the two scrolls!
This was the attitude of Great Yu, and the Heaven and the Buddhism League had made no further moves after submitting their protests . Nothing had changed, and Great Yu had returned to its original track, continued to move forward adhering to its rigid tradition .
After the ceremony, Wu Qi hosted a banquet in his palace, entertaining a group of close friends including Ji Ao . Later, he went back to his secluded cultivation, using the same excuse that he needed to stabilize his cultivation base as he had just stepped into the realm of Supreme Oracle, while spending some time studying the mystic arts the Secret Palace had provided him . It was not a lie, as the First Master had rewarded him countless mystic arts after learning that he had made a breakthrough . Each of these mystic arts was extremely powerful and amazing .
Liu Bang had shrunk back to his Changle Palace and made no further moves, spending his days in drinking and merrymaking only . Wu Qi had ordered someone to keep a close watch on him .
Inside Dark Yin Celestial Tower, in a great hall a hundred miles long and wide, a screen of light Princess Zhang Le had constructed, which consisted of 49,000 ancient runes, was constantly vibrating and ringing with dull thuds . Wu Qi, bare-chested and with his hair hanging loosely about his shoulders, was laughing and thrusting his fists against a silver halberd and a big black knife that were coming at him .
The man wielding the halberd was Lord Xiansheng . Hundreds of years of painstaking meditation, the mystic arts of dragon taught by Wu Qi, and with his cultivation base forcibly elevated by Wu Qi, all these had made him a first-tier Gold Immortal now . Though his understanding of the Heavenly Dao was clearly weak, as he was taking the path of body cultivator, so long as the strength of his flesh was improved, he could still make the breakthrough .
Such an extreme cultivation method would give him quite a trouble in the future, when he was about to break through into the Primordial realm, but it was undoubtedly the best way to improve his overall strength quickly . The halberd in his hand was a supreme-grade Gold Immortal artifact Wu Qi crafted for him . It was an extremely powerful weapon .
Wu Qi had robbed Buddha Futu, seven Primordial experts, and Liu Bang and his companions, so he had many rare and precious materials . He had also found dozens threads of innate energies in the colossal spirit cave beneath You Xiong Plain, which he had fused with this silver halberd, and made it into a mighty weapon which was a supreme-grade Gold Immortal artifact for now . Once Lord Xiansheng made the breakthrough, he could then nourish it with his own blood essence and divine soul, and eventually transformed it into a Primordial artifact .
The halberd gave a deep dragon roar as it came thrusting at Wu Qi . Countless silver rays rained down at him like a fierce storm . Like True Lord Gu Yi, Lord Xiansheng took the path of extreme speed . But there was one thing that set them apart . As a member of the dragon clan, Lord Xiansheng's fleshly body was much stronger than True Lord Gu Yi . And once he stepped into the Primordial realm, his physical strength would be at least a thousand times stronger . This was the innate talent of dragons, gifted by nature .
Therefore, Lord Xiansheng had True Lord Gu Yi's speed but without his weakness in strength, which gave him a terrifying potential . Even now, if Wu Qi did not use the Rhino Cloak, he could barely catch up with Lord Xiansheng's speed, and each of the strikes he countered made his fist pain, with a numbness crept from his wrist up to his elbow .
Sweating profusely, Lord Xiansheng roared with laughter as he launched a full force attack at Wu Qi . He was grateful to have Wu Qi practicing with him every day . Primordial experts were usually swollen with pride, he knew, and those who dwelt in the Nine Heavens would never go so low as to practice with their own disciples like this . In fact, not even their personal disciples would have such a privilege .
Each and every move of a Primordial expert contained Heavenly Secret . When he fought Wu Qi head-on, whenever he was dealt with another punch, Lord Xiansheng always felt his understanding of the Heavenly Dao had improved . Best of all, he did not have to worry that he might hurt Wu Qi . He could fight with all his power . And so he made each attack with all his strength and his understanding of the Heavenly Dao, without any reserve .
This was also one of the reasons he could progress so quickly . With a Primordial expert as his training partner, it would be embarrassing if his improvement was slow .
The rapid thuds had blended into one long rumble . Laughing wildly, Lord Xiansheng launched another wave of attack, a total of 7,200 jabs . Numerous silver rays fused into a sheet of silver light, blanketing Wu Qi in just the blink of an eye . Wu Qi, his face solemn, swung both arms and met the attacks with his fists . He managed to counter 7,125 jabs, but the rest came at a speed faster than he could handle and struck him in the body .
As bright sparks flew in all directions, Ao Buzun, with the black knife in his hand, gave a wild laugh and leaped over, pushing the edge of his weapon toward Wu Qi's lower body .
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