Chapter 336: The Incredible Disciple Of Obsidian
In the valley, among the abnormal beings encircling and attacking from all directions, three figures, like fireflies in the night, were not only noticed at once by Mond, this Half-Step Heavenly Human, but also immediately noticed by Xie Feina and the others in the Blood Condensation Realm.
“Three Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters?”
Xie Feina felt the feedback from the clash of qi and blood, and her heart could not help but pause.
Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters!
For such existences, the brain had already completed quenching, and as far as living beings were concerned, the brain was the key to controlling the body and qi and blood. Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters who had completed brain quenching had reached another level in control over the body, reaction speed, and manipulation of qi and blood.
Even with the same physical fitness, because of the Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters’ control over qi and blood, the density of the condensed qi and blood in their bodies far surpassed that of the Blood Condensation Realm.
If the qi and blood condensed in the Blood Condensation Realm was like mist, then the qi and blood condensed in the Heavenly Human Realm was thick like mercury, heavy and suffocating, simply not the same thing as that of the Blood Condensation Realm.
Once qi and blood clashed even slightly, it was like an egg striking a stone, shattering on impact, obvious beyond doubt.
“It’s over, this time we’re all finished…” Deputy leader Emilia looked at the three rapidly approaching figures and could not help but show despair.
According to the Forbidden Zone data of Mist Mountain Domain City, when an abnormal army appeared on the outermost edge of the Forbidden Zone, usually only one Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster might appear. After all, a Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster was not so easily achieved. Even though abnormals also cultivated and improved, that level was not easily broken through.
Not to mention, historically, the number of Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters eroded into abnormals was not large. Scattered throughout the vast Forbidden Zone, even if one went a thousand kilometers deep, it was still hard to encounter one.
Now they had entered barely more than two hundred kilometers into the Forbidden Zone, and three came at once. Their luck was abysmally bad.
Mond looked at the three Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters less than two kilometers away, sighed, then turned and said quietly to everyone in the team:
“When the battle begins, everyone scatter and flee. Whether you can escape will depend on your own fate.”
Based on his earlier estimation, if the summoned abnormal army included even one early Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster, that would already be considered good, and in that case, with Luo Wu Shang of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall blocking, they might still have some fighting chance against the abnormal army.
But three early Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters were not something they could block.
After hearing this, the people of Mist Mountain Domain City followed Mond’s instructions and began selecting directions they would attempt to break through.
As the distance between both sides shrank to less than one kilometer, Luo Wu Shang, standing proudly in midair, once again underwent transformation, energy surging around her like flames. She then raised her hand.
“Everyone, engage the enemy!”
As her words fell, a giant qi and blood phantom hand grabbed the smiling Titan King Kong Fendi in midair and squeezed directly.
Although Titan King Kong Fendi struggled desperately, his terrifying qi and blood about to transform into a giant ape and emit a heaven-shaking roar, in the face of the massive gap in strength, even using his trump cards, Titan King Kong Fendi lasted only one second.
With a bang, he met the same end as Son of Storm Tania.
“Even Titan King Kong Fendi could not withstand a single move?”
Mond watched Titan King Kong Fendi explode like a watermelon. Even though he had seen such a scene once before, he was still deeply shocked.
Within the Forbidden Zone’s Half-Step Heavenly Human ranking, Titan King Kong Fendi was significantly higher than Son of Storm Tania, mainly because of his outstanding physical fitness.
For those eroded and turned abnormal, their physical fitness would skyrocket in all aspects. Titan King Kong Fendi originally possessed close to 450 tons of strength; now his strength likely exceeded the early Heavenly Human Realm’s minimum threshold of 600 tons. It was hard to imagine that even so, before Luo Wu Shang he still had no power to fight back.
Luo Wu Shang’s display immediately drew the attention of the three Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters in the abnormal ranks. They looked at her almost as if seeing food, and almost simultaneously lunged at her.
“Three Heavenly Human Realm bosses?”
Luo Wu Shang’s eyes lit up as she watched the three attackers, and she took the initiative to meet them.
Those in the Blood Condensation Realm already had a chance to drop Energy Blood Essence when killed; needless to say, what dropped from the Heavenly Human Realm would definitely be better.
“She plans to handle three grandmasters alone?”
Mond stared in astonishment at Luo Wu Shang who had taken the initiative to engage.
The Heavenly Human Realm was called grandmaster not only because their physical fitness far surpassed the Blood Condensation Realm, but more importantly because their control over body and qi and blood had become inhuman. The dense qi and blood in their bodies could raise the power of their martial skills to another level. It was like one person wielding a wooden stick and another wielding an iron rod; the destructive power was on completely different levels.
So even with the same physical fitness and the same martial skills, the power displayed by someone in the Heavenly Human Realm far exceeded that of the Blood Condensation Realm.
Although there were rumors that among the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, someone had mastered Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, when facing Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills used by Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, at best it would be an even match. Yet Luo Wu Shang now faced three grandmasters. Two fists could not beat many hands; taking the initiative and charging into their encirclement would only lead to a quicker death.
In midair, four enormous qi and blood phantoms, each over two hundred meters tall, appeared and struck at each other.
Boom!
As qi and blood collided, the surrounding area for several kilometers shook, causing the people of Mist Mountain Domain City, who had been preparing to flee, to not dare move, afraid of being killed by the shockwaves.
After this brief exchange, Luo Wu Shang’s phantom and the phantom of a male from the Forest Race opposite her were both shattered, their strengths unexpectedly evenly matched.
But the phantoms of the Three-eyed Tribe male and the Blood Pattern Clan male, both also Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, crashed directly into Luo Wu Shang.
Bang!
Luo Wu Shang’s body fell like a cannonball, blasting out a crater with a radius of over a hundred meters in the ground as hard as C-grade alloy. Other abnormals caught in the shockwave, including those in the Blood Condensation Realm, were obliterated without remains.
This scene made the Blood Condensing Realm masters from Mist Mountain Domain City shudder.
They were not unaware how hard the ground within the Forbidden Zone was. Even a full-powered Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill strike would only dent it by more than ten centimeters. But a single Heavenly Human Realm strike had blasted out a crater twenty to thirty meters deep…
Just as the people of Mist Mountain Domain City thought the battle was over and were waiting for death to descend, a figure walked out of the crater, brushing off the dust as if nothing had happened.
“Not dead?”
Mond’s eyes almost popped out as he watched the figure walk out of the crater.
As a Half-Step Heavenly Human, he had seen clearly how Luo Wu Shang had been struck just now by the two Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters. Under that blow, not to mention Titan King Kong Fendi, even a true Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster would have died.
Yet now Luo Wu Shang stood in midair; apart from some damage to her clothes and some bleeding, she had no other issues.
Not only Mond, but the three abnormal Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters who had attacked her, whose faces had been smiling before, now showed clear astonishment.
“As expected of Heavenly Human Realm bosses, their attack power is really strong.” Luo Wu Shang glanced at her still-bleeding, bruised shoulder and arm, slightly impressed.
This was her first time crossing hands with Heavenly Human Realm bosses, and she had not expected them to be this strong. Son of Storm Tania’s full-strength axe had only broken her skin, yet the Heavenly Human Realm bosses’ attacks had injured her muscles and bones.
Even with her recovery power, if she took a few hundred such hits in a short time, it would be fatal.
“Looks like I have to take this seriously.”
Luo Wu Shang looked at the three abnormal Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters and directly drew a Third-Tier long sword glinting with cold light. She thrust the sword blade into the ground as qi and blood surged madly around her, making the earth within several kilometers tremble.
This move was exactly the Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill, One Sword Splits the Heavens, that Luo Wu Shang had learned by imitating prisoners of Wushan Prison.
But this move consumed a huge amount of qi and blood. Even after advancing to the Blood Condensation Realm and entering a Transcendent State, she could only use it several dozen times.
“Perish!”
Luo Wu Shang slashed at the Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster of the Forest Race who had attacked her earlier.
In an instant, the valley floor split open, forming a Rift Valley stretching several kilometers. From afar, it looked as if a barrier of light had fallen upon the earth.
The Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster of the Forest Race held his battle saber horizontally. The phantom he had manifested suddenly shrank and gathered into the saber, forming a massive, seemingly solid blood-colored battle saber blocking in front of him.
Boom!
The blood-colored battle saber shattered on the spot. But it was as if the saber had a life, layer by layer diverting the terrifying sword light. Borrowing that force at the last moment, the Forest Race Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster dodged the sword light, retreating several hundred meters through the air before stabilizing his body.
Immediately, the attacks of the other two Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters landed on Luo Wu Shang again, adding two more wounds to her just-healed body. But Luo Wu Shang acted as if nothing had happened and counterattacked again.
For a time, Luo Wu Shang alone fought back and forth against the three Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, only slightly at a disadvantage.
“A great opportunity! Everyone get ready to escape!” Mond watched Luo Wu Shang battling fiercely in midair, and a trace of hope rose in his eyes.
With strength like hers, even if she was not equal to their domain city’s mid-stage Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, she was probably not far off. With such a top-tier expert holding back the three abnormal Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters, they had a chance to escape.
But just as Mond finished speaking, he saw something astonishing in the area where both sides were clashing, leaving Mond, who had been preparing to flee, completely stunned.
The abnormal army encircling the Obsidian team found that when they attacked the gray-robed disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, those disciples were like chicks before steel; attacks landed on the grey-clothed disciples without effect, and in return, the disciples grabbed the attacking abnormals and smashed their heads with a single punch.
Even the high-level Blood Condensation Realm abnormals, whose Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills struck the grey-robed disciples, at most caused minor injuries—wounds deep enough to expose bone. Yet a few seconds later, those disciples were once again full of vigor.
As for some Advanced Bone Forging Realm grey-robed disciples, they did not even suffer minor injuries; at most, a cut would appear on their bodies, and that cut healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, like undying monsters…
“How is this possible!”
“Are these disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall really human?”
At this point, it was not only Mond who was stunned. The other super geniuses from Mist Mountain Domain City were also dumbfounded, doubting their own lives.
If the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had only one disciple as monstrously strong, that would be one thing, but these nearly two hundred disciples, facing abnormals whose strength was at least close to the Blood Condensation Realm, had not a single one truly breached in defense. This was simply beyond comprehension.
Thousands of abnormals charged, yet when they hit the circular formation formed by fewer than two hundred of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they melted like snow, collapsing instantly, all falling outside the circle.
“Xie Feina, are all disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall this strong?” Deputy leader Emilia could not help asking Xie Feina as she watched the disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, each with a body seemingly made of steel.
For any one of these nearly two hundred disciples, even if she used her full strength, she felt she could at most carve one bone-deep wound on them, yet she did not dare to take a direct hit from any of their attacks.
This made her seriously suspect that she had gone wrong somewhere in her cultivation to end up with such a vast gap.
Xie Feina fell silent for a while, unsure how to answer Emilia.
In her impression, the Bone Forging Realm disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were strong, especially some of the top-tier ones, but never had there been a case where every Bone Forging Realm disciple was so strong that even the full-powered strikes of high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists could not truly harm them.
What Xie Feina did not know was that the Bone Forging Realm disciples before her were not ordinary; they were all core disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and the main force of Heavenly Might. Previously they might have still lagged far behind experts like Luo Wu Shang, but with time, all of them had at least reached 100% proficiency in the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, and the more talented had reached the Second Level Perfection Realm.
They already had the ability to tangle with even Half-Step Heavenly Human experts, let alone be troubled by high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists.
The battle lasted twenty minutes. Over eighty percent of the thousands-strong abnormal army was lost, and the three abnormal Heavenly Human Realm grandmasters were all wounded. After exchanging glances, the three chose to flee. The abnormal army completely collapsed, frantically escaping toward the deeper Forbidden Zone without daring to look back.
This scene left Mond and the others, who had remained at the center of the formation, gaping in disbelief.
“They ran?”
“The abnormal army ran?”
The people of Mist Mountain Domain City looked at the fleeing abnormals as if seeing them for the first time, unable to believe their eyes.
According to the records of the Four Great Domain Cities on the Forbidden Zone, whenever an abnormal army appeared, it meant certain death; any who managed to escape were absolute lucky ones.
But now, within the Forbidden Zone, the abnormal army had actually fled, and fled in such a panicked state, completely overturning their understanding of abnormals.
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Wushan Region, Chiyue Town.
A Flying Transport Vehicle bearing the mark of Tianhe Domain City slowly docked on the rooftop of Crimson Moon Tower. A team of more than ten disembarked from the vehicle, led by a male of the Human Race: Ying Hu, the peerless genius of this generation in Tianhe Domain City known to all. Those who followed were all super geniuses in the Blood Condensation Realm from Tianhe Domain City.
“So this is the headquarters of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?”
Ying Hu looked curiously over all of Chiyue Town and found that although the town was prosperous, he sensed no powerful auras here. There were not even many Bone Forging Realm disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. It was hard to imagine that this was the headquarters of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the force that had repelled three major powers in the Mountain of the Dead and was now hailed as the greatest faction beneath the Four Great Domain Cities.
“Senior brother Ying Hu, is it really reliable for us to seek cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to enter the Forbidden Zone this time?” A high-level Blood Condensation Realm youth, having just probed the area, could not help asking.
For a moment Ying Hu was also at a loss for words. Earlier, Ling Ye had lavishly praised Chiyue Town of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, saying it was filled with masters like clouds and with many auras that even startled her, which had moved him and brought him here to seek cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall for Forbidden Zone exploration.
But now in all of Chiyue Town, there were only a few decent auras; none were as fearsome as Ling Ye had described. It was really not living up to its reputation.
Just as Ying Hu hesitated over whether to cooperate with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, a Flying Transport Vehicle bearing the symbol of Mist Mountain Domain City slowly docked on the rooftop as well, and several people in Mist Mountain Domain City battle armor disembarked.
These people immediately drew the attention of Ying Hu and his companions.
“Aren’t those Emilia and Xie Feina from Mist Mountain Domain City, who are as renowned as senior brother Ying Hu and very likely to become Half-Step Heavenly Humans before the age of forty?” A beginner-level Blood Condensation Realm woman stared starry-eyed at the two stunning women who had alighted, one with two pairs of pure white wings and the other with three pairs of golden wings.
The Four Great Domain Cities were all branches of the First Domain City and could be considered one family. There were many collaborations between them, and they all knew of one another. Their peerless geniuses were idols admired by geniuses of many domain cities.
Emilia and Xie Feina were among the rare peerless genius women of the Four Great Domain Cities, admired by many talented women who hoped to one day become such peerless geniuses and reach the level of Half-Step Heavenly Human experts.
“That man seems to be Lord Mond. What is a Half-Step Heavenly Human like Lord Mond doing at the headquarters of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?”
Soon some people from Tianhe Domain City noticed Mond walking alongside them. Their eyes lit up as they looked at him, filled with questions as to why such a great figure as a Half-Step Heavenly Human would come to a place like Chiyue Town.
“Why would he come here?”
Even Ying Hu was puzzled.
Before Ying Hu could recover from his confusion, he saw Mond and the others respectfully making way in front of the Transport Vehicle, as a Human Race woman wearing silver-gray clothing stepped down. Mond, Emilia, and the others looked at her with an indescribable respect and awe.
Mond, this Half-Step Heavenly Human, personally led the way for this beginner-level Blood Condensation Realm Human Race woman in silver-gray clothing, flying together toward the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“What is going on?”
Ying Hu watched Mond and the others leave, completely bewildered.
