Chapter 149: Awakening the True Martial Realm Experts! (3/3)

"Qi Martial Realm, Yuan Martial Realm, True Martial Realm, Sky Martial Realm!"

"My cultivation is currently no more than the early stage of the Qi Martial Realm, yet I actually thought my strength at this level was enough to protect myself."

"How utterly ridiculous!"

A wry smile appeared on Qin Feng's face. As it turned out, his cultivation was still at the very bottom. With such strength, encountering a powerful expert would mean instant annihilation, leaving him entirely defenseless.

"During the fierce battle earlier, I could feel the bottleneck of the mid-stage Qi Martial Realm loosening."

"Now that I've obtained a vast amount of resources, I should be able to break through to the mid-stage of the Qi Martial Realm!"

Qin Feng examined the remaining storage rings, finding numerous spiritual herbs and primordial stones within. His eyes flickered as he murmured softly.

"Cultivate!"

"Only when my cultivation reaches the Sky Martial Realm can I truly be considered to possess the power of self-preservation!"

Qin Feng closed his eyes and circulated the Profound Jade Sacred Scripture, sensing faint wisps of energy outside his physical body being drawn inward.

"Once cultivation reaches the Qi Martial Realm, one can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for practice!"

"It's just that cultivating this way is far too slow!"

After practicing for a moment, Qin Feng opened his eyes, shook his head slowly, and wore a look of dissatisfaction.

"Let's try cultivating with primordial stones!"

Qin Feng held two primordial stones in his hands, closed his eyes, and plunged back into cultivation. A vast surge of spiritual energy poured out from the primordial stones and was rapidly absorbed into his body.

"Cultivating with primordial stones is indeed much faster than absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!"

"Yet compared to directly swallowing spiritual herbs, it is still much slower!"

Once he had thoroughly absorbed the spiritual energy from the two primordial stones, Qin Feng did not take out more stones, opting instead to cultivate with spiritual herbs.

"Cultivate!"

Qin Feng swallowed a five-thousand-year-old spiritual herb in a single gulp. Instantly, a violent surge of energy erupted within his body, and the Profound Jade Sacred Scripture spun rapidly to absorb the medicinal potency.

"Continue!"

Qin Feng swallowed spiritual herbs and spiritual fruits one after another. The aura emanating from his body grew increasingly formidable, and his physical strength heightened continuously.

...

"He's not chasing after me!"

Terrified, Tao Yun fled madly. He only stopped after exhausting the true Qi within his Dantian and the primordial stones inside his storage ring.

He had fled all the way without daring to look back. Now that he had stopped and glanced backward, finding no sign of Qin Feng, a look of having cheated death washed over his face.

"It's simply too terrifying!"

"His cultivation is merely at the early stage of the Qi Martial Realm, yet he can slaughter martial practitioners of the Yuan Martial Realm as easily as crushing ants."

Suspended in mid-air, Tao Yun quietly recovered the true Qi in his Dantian, though his mind continued to flash with the scenes from earlier, filling his heart with dread.

"Whoosh!"

Having recovered a fraction of the true Qi in his Dantian, Tao Yun identified his direction and flew rapidly toward the outer perimeter of the Black Moon Forest.

He had to report this matter to the elder!

...

Chen Haozhou and the other surviving outer disciples flew rapidly toward the outer edge of the Black Moon Forest once they confirmed their own safety.

"Is this true?"

Sun Shengzhou wore a solemn expression, his eyes fixed intently on Tao Yun as he asked in a deep voice.

"Reporting to the Elder."

"Every word this disciple speaks is the absolute truth!"

"That martial practitioner's cultivation is only at the early stage of the Qi Martial Realm, yet he was able to unleash the power of one thousand four hundred soaring serpents."

Standing below, Tao Yun spoke with a respectful and fearful expression.

Once he found the elder, his inner tension and sense of crisis rapidly dissipated, replaced by a profound wave of security.

"The early stage of the Qi Martial Realm unleashing the power of one thousand four hundred soaring serpents!"

"This is undoubtedly a terrifying prodigy!"

"Moreover, a prodigy even more terrifying than the Holy Son!"

"When the Holy Son was in the early stage of the Qi Martial Realm, he could only fight to a draw with opponents in the late stage of the Qi Martial Realm, and when facing Yuan Martial Realm practitioners, he had to avoid their sharp edge!"

"Yet this one directly defies the heavens to punish Yuan Martial Realm opponents from the Qi Martial Realm, and even sweeps through a group of Yuan Martial Realm experts!"

Sun Shengzhou's heart was filled with shock.

Compared to this piece of news, the life or death of Ling Feng, Chen Chao, and the others was now utterly insignificant.

Sun Shengzhou pondered inwardly.

Tao Yun would not dare deceive him, so everything Tao Yun said must be true.

How utterly incredible.

Inside the Black Moon Forest, there truly was a martial practitioner who, at the early stage of the Qi Martial Realm, could unleash the power of one thousand four hundred soaring serpents.

"And there was a blazing sun—could that have been a divine ability?"

"It must be a divine ability!"

"Perhaps the reason that martial practitioner's combat prowess is so heaven-defying is precisely because of a divine ability!"

"If I can obtain that divine ability, my combat strength will surely surge! I will become a top-tier expert!"

Sun Shengzhou's heart beat frantically. After dismissing Tao Yun, his body soared into the sky, rushing toward the depths of the Black Moon Forest.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

Sun Shengzhou pushed his speed to the absolute limit, spreading his soul power to scan his surroundings.

Searching all the way, he temporarily failed to find Qin Feng's figure, so he flew directly toward the place where Ling Feng, Chen Chao, and the other outer disciples had fallen.

"Damned beasts!"

When Sun Shengzhou arrived at the location where Ling Feng, Chen Chao, and the other outer disciples had perished, what met his eyes was a pack of fierce beasts gnawing on corpses.

"Boom!"

A furious expression appeared on Sun Shengzhou's face as the aura around him erupted violently—wild, boundless, tyrannical, and majestic.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

Under the oppressive might of Sun Shengzhou's aura, the numerous fierce beasts below were instantly pinned to the ground, prone. As time passed, blood streamed from their seven orifices, and they were crushed to death by the pressure.

"Even in death, disciples of the Sacred Moon Sect are not things that you lowly beasts are permitted to defile!"

Sun Shengzhou unleashed monstrous combat prowess, striking the ground to carve out a pit hundreds of meters wide, and buried the bodies of Chen Chao and Ling Feng.

"Whoosh!"

Sun Shengzhou scanned the surrounding area, deduced the direction Qin Feng was likely to have flown, and quickly gave chase.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Sun Shengzhou's aura radiated recklessly, his soul power continuously sweeping across the terrain below.

A vast number of fierce beasts below were startled by Sun Shengzhou's aura, pressing their bodies flat against the ground and emitting low whimpers.

Some fierce beasts of the Yuan Martial Realm, upon brushing against Sun Shengzhou's aura, reacted as if struck by lightning and fled in panic.

...

"Almost there!"

"I'm about to break through!"

Qin Feng possessed a terrifying regenerative ability that allowed him to ignore the side effects of continuously swallowing spiritual herbs as he rapidly consumed them one after another.

Deep within his body, the Profound Jade Sacred Scripture spun rapidly, transforming the energy of the spiritual herbs into nourishment that reinforced his physical strength.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

...

Suddenly, a thunderous sound echoed from within Qin Feng's body, immediately followed by the echoing roar of a soaring serpent.

"I've broken through!"

A look of joy appeared on Qin Feng's face. After completely refining the energy within his body, he opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.

His cultivation had broken through to the mid-stage of the Qi Martial Realm, and the seven hundred soaring serpents' worth of power in his body had increased by an additional five soaring serpents.

"Continue adding points!"

"This place is fraught with danger; I must maintain my peak combat strength!"

Qin Feng murmured softly, gently tapping the plus sign within his right-eye's vision to reveal his personal interface.

Name: Qin Feng

Realm: Mid-stage Qi Martial Realm

Strength: Seven hundred and five soaring serpents' worth of power (+1) (+10) (+1000) (+10000)