Chapter 127 - Temptation from the Fair Lady
Once he was prepared for the training, Shi Mu’s chest began to heave, and wisps of real qi started slowly flowing out of his dantian, circulating Qi through all the veins in his body before returning back to his dantian. This process was repeated over and over again, and during its circulation, his real qi kept drawing heavenly energy in from the environment, which then joined the real qi in his body and gradually strengthened it.
As the cycles went on, the speed with which his real Qi was flowing continually gained momentum. Eventually, it finally grew to the point that it was like a massive river was surging through his veins. At this time, Shi Mu was cloaked in a thin mist, his skin moistened and red, and his veins all standing out, like earthworms that appeared to be trying to break free from his body.
Shi Mu’s eyes were glinting in great pain as every one of his muscles protruded, attempting to break the blockade that was his skin. Meanwhile, the flow of real Qi in his body had reached its highest speed! He did not hesitate and grasped the jade bottle at his side, pouring out the Wall-Breaking Pill and swallowed it. Immediately, he felt as if a cold polar ice had plummeted down to his stomach, and the pill’s coldness soon spread to his torso and limbs.
Shi Mu trembled and felt his blood freeze, while his face turned abnormally pale. The flood of real Qi came to a sudden halt, and was forced by the coldness to compress and become denser.
As time went by, his real Qi was finally condensed to a thin wisp. But the next moment, without warning, it suddenly exploded and turned into the wild flood again.
A thunderous noise reverberated through his body, and his heart throbbed fiercely at the impact. Simultaneously, a undescribable force rushed out from his dantian.
He felt as if his skin had suddenly broken, like a piece of thin paper pricked open. All of a sullen, a great deal of the heavenly energy around him flooded into his body. Just like a prisoner who had not seen the sky for years, Shi Mu felt that the air was indescribably fresh - a freshness that he had never tasted throughout his young life, and that every pore of his skin had been bathed in a comfortable coolness. At the same time, the mist that had been curling up his body lifted, his body also recovered its normal look. Shi Mu tried clenching his fists, elated to find himself full of energy, and his force one-level stronger than before.
So he had finally succeeded in breaking into the fifth stage of the Art of the Heavenly Elephant! The bottleneck was like a high wall before he took the pill, but now it had melted down, like a piece of thin paper. No wonder it was named the Wall-breaking Pill.
Hardly able to contain his excitement, he stood up, throwing his fists into the air and stretching his body. To his surprise, his movement created a strong wind, accompanied by the sound of explosion as his fist or foot thrust into the air.
Shi Mu was so excited that he drew his black blade and began to practice the Thirteen Series of Gale Force Blade Art. A beam of black light floated distinctly in the air near his body, and the glint of his blade suddenly divided into six or seven shadows at either side, simultaneously striking a spot in the air from both sides.
He played with his sword, like a young boy presented with a toy for the first time, and was reluctant to stop until an hour later. He then went to his stone bed, sat on it, and sank into a deep contemplation, his eyes glittering like the surface of a pond under the moon.
At the time when he reached the fourth stage of the Art of the Heavenly Elephant, he had tried to practice the Art of the Great Ape, but failed, due to his lack of real Qi.
But he had not been idle since then. From that failure, he knew that he would have enough real Qi in his dantian to resist the corroding force of Devil’s qi as long as he made it to the fifth stage of the Art of the Heavenly Elephant.
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Twelve blood-red moons were suspended in the dark grey sky.
In a yellow valley laid a small pool that was just two meters in diameter. Its red water seemed quite vibrant in such a grey world. Fragments of skeletons lied disorderly around the pool, and, judging from the number of bone pieces, there were enough bones here to make 5 skeletons.
Right now, the clamor of weapons clashing disturbed the water, making it quiver a bit. Three skeletons wearing bone armors had besieged a skeleton in broken bone armor. The one with the broken bone armor was Silk. Through her broken armor, broken ribs with numerous fissures could be seen, and three of them were missing. Her upper body was trembling from the imbalance.
Silk swept with her bone blade and repelled two blades that striking at her from the front, but the impact made her body shake more violently. Just then, a white bone spear stabbed from another side at her vertebra. If the spear did hit its target, Silk may have been smashed to peices, and there was no way she could duck, given her present condition. But she had her ways. Without warning, the black formula sealed in her soul inside her skull suddenly shone! In no time the green gleams in her eye sockets gained alarming brightness, and, with a strange movement, she flashed to the saide, the spear missed her bones and stabbing at empty air. Then she stepped forward, effortlessly cutting down one of the skeletons with her bone blade.
But, again, the other two blades launched their attacks with air-piercing sounds. Silk suddenly knelt down to duck the attacks, and the blades missed.
The next second, the two skeletons were cut into halves at the waist, and, with two clear sounds, they fell to the ground, followed by another two crisps sounds as their skulls crashed onto the floor. Silk did not hurry to stand up but quickly stomped on all the bones near the pool. Each bone piece would release a ball of green light when it was crushed, which would then flow into Silk’s mouth and strengthen her soul.
During the next few moments, she fumbled in the piles, looking for some solid bones to fit her missing parts. After a short while, her body was rebuilt, solid and sound, which delighted her very much. She cracked into a blissful smile, gazing at the red pool in front of her, the green fire in her eyes flickering.
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