Chapter 146: Chapter 146: The Undying Lu Changsheng
The punch of the Savage Elephant King erupted with a sonic boom, strong enough to shatter mountains and rocks!
The Mysterious Yellow Tower radiated myriad rays of light, blocking the attack of the Savage Elephant King.
When the Savage Elephant King’s punch struck the radiant light of the Mysterious Yellow Tower, the light shook violently, causing Lu Changsheng’s body inside to tremble and his blood to churn.
For the first time since refining the Mysterious Yellow Tower, Lu Changsheng withstood such a ferocious attack.
The Mysterious Yellow Tower almost couldn’t bear it.
“A low-grade defensive Immortal Artifact?”
The Savage Elephant King was quite surprised that Lu Changsheng had actually blocked its punch.
“Then, how about this! Tenfold Wild Strength!”
The Savage Elephant King took a deep breath and threw another punch.
This punch was ten times more powerful!
With one punch, the myriad rays of light from the Mysterious Yellow Tower rapidly dimmed, unable to block the force of the Savage Elephant King!
It wasn’t that the defense of the Mysterious Yellow Tower wasn’t strong enough but that Lu Changsheng’s cultivation level couldn’t supply enough True Qi to the tower to withstand the Savage Elephant King.
Lu Changsheng was forced to throw a punch, clashing fists with the Savage Elephant King.
Bang!
Both figures staggered, with Lu Changsheng being knocked back a hundred steps, while the Savage Elephant King only retreated two or three steps.
“You too are a Body Refiner?”
The Savage Elephant King was somewhat surprised.
Ordinary practitioners at the second level of the Void Refinement Realm would have been gravely injured after taking such a punch, but Lu Changsheng was just slightly outmatched.
“With the two-level gap in realm, plus the Savage Elephant King’s astonishing ancient beast physique, victory was impossible through ordinary means.”
Lu Changsheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and swallowed a Red Emperor Dragon Strength Pill to temporarily enhance his cultivation.
“Your momentum has increased. I didn’t expect you to have so many top-grade Elixir Pills, but your struggle is futile in the face of absolute disparity,” said the Savage Elephant King, looking on coldly as Lu Changsheng consumed the Red Emperor Dragon Strength Pill, still unable to match its own strength.
Besides, the Red Emperor Dragon Strength Pill provided only a temporary boost in cultivation, and both in realm and physical prowess, Lu Changsheng was still inferior to the Savage Elephant King.
This was a peerless Great Demon that had cultivated for thousands of years!
“Tiangang Sword Array!”
Lu Changsheng deployed eighteen Flying Swords, directly invoking the third level of the Tiangang Sword Array to attack the Savage Elephant King.
The Flying Swords crisscrossed in a dazzling display.
Shhhh!
The True Martial Sword grazed the Savage Elephant King, tearing a shallow golden wound.
But that was all.
The Savage Elephant King’s robust vitality rapidly healed the wound.
“Vajra Indestructible Skills!”
The Savage Elephant King activated the Buddhist Sect’s cultivation technique, his body shining with golden light, and forcibly endured the attack of the Tiangang Sword Array. The third level of the Tiangang Sword Array could not penetrate its Vajra Indestructible body.
“The demon must have obtained the Vajra Indestructible Skills from Immeasurable Temple after killing its monks back then, and I didn’t expect it to have reached Great Perfection over these years,” Murong Shi thought while engaging in fierce battle with a Supreme Elder of the Reincarnation Hall, shocked to see the Savage Elephant King using the Heaven Rank defensive technique of Immeasurable Temple.
With its already formidable physique and the defense technique of Immeasurable Temple, the Savage Elephant King was simply terrifying.
While enduring the attacks of the Tiangang Sword Array, the Savage Elephant King continued its relentless assault on Lu Changsheng, each punch brimming with immense power.
Lu Changsheng, splitting his focus, simultaneously commanded the Tiangang Sword Array to keep attacking the Savage Elephant King, poured True Qi into the Mysterious Yellow Tower to maintain defense, and engaged in close-quarters combat with the Savage Elephant King.
Every collision brought the overbearing strength of the Savage Elephant King, and Lu Changsheng struggled to withstand it.
Had Lu Changsheng’s cultivation been at the fourth level of the Void Refinement Realm, the Nine Revolutions Divine Demon Body Refining Skills would have ascended to a higher level, and he would not have been suppressed by the Savage Elephant King.
During the brutal battle with the Savage Elephant King, Lu Changsheng also realized a severe problem, without close-combat martial techniques, Lu Changsheng was at a disadvantage should the Savage Elephant King close in on him.
Lu Changsheng made use of the Yin Yang Dragons Cauldron inside him to furiously refine Elixir Pills such as the seventh-grade Phoenix Blood Resurrection Pill and sixth-grade Dajuqi Dan, then his Innate Taoist Body absorbed the medicinal energy provided by the cauldron non-stop, doing his best to restore his True Qi and repair his muscles and physique.
“How strange, why have you still not exhausted your strength?” the Savage Elephant King said after battling Lu Changsheng for the time it took to brew three cups of tea, still unable to kill him.
Lu Changsheng, who was clearly in the second level of the Void Refinement Realm, temporarily enhanced his cultivation to the third level by relying on elixir pills, but his aura never weakened.
Once the power of the Red Emperor Dragon Strength Pill was exhausted, Lu Changsheng immediately consumed another.
Lu Changsheng, with his abundance of elixir pills, was determined to outlast the Savage Elephant King, who was two realms above him.
The Yin Yang Dragons Cauldron continued to refine sixth and seventh-grade elixir pills, providing an unending supply of power.
Late in the battle, even the Savage Elephant King started to sense something was amiss, as it was continuously attacked by Lu Changsheng’s Tiangang Sword Formation. Despite its robust vitality, it couldn’t heal indefinitely, and Lu Changsheng, bearing the brunt of its domineering attacks, should have sustained even more severe injuries.
But Lu Changsheng was still not killed.
At this rate, it was the Savage Elephant King that would be worn down to exhaustion.
Realizing this, the Savage Elephant King’s aura surged once more, veins on its forehead bulging, its body expanding with each breath, concentrating all of its True Qi into one fist.
In that moment, the divine form of the elephant appeared behind the Savage Elephant King.
“Die!”
“Thirtyfold Barbaric Wild Strength!”
With all its might, the Savage Elephant King threw a punch capable of destroying heaven and earth!
“With your level of cultivation, even if you exert your full power with an Immortal Artifact, you cannot withstand this punch!”
For the first time since it had come out from the mountains of Huang State, the Savage Elephant King had exerted all its strength!
Boom!
The punch powered by thirtyfold Barbaric Wild Strength shattered the myriad of lights around the Mysterious Yellow Tower and smashed both Lu Changsheng and the tower into the depths of the earth!
The ground gave way, rocks flew in all directions, trees were uprooted and snapped!
“Lu!”
Murong Shi cried out in alarm.
“Master!”
Several disciples from Qingyun Peak couldn’t help but be moved; they only hated that their current level of cultivation didn’t allow them to assist their master against such a powerful foe as the Savage Elephant King.
If the calamity of the Demon Sects were delayed by a few hundred years, then with the power of Qingyun Peak, they and their master could have wiped out the four major Demon Sects.
“Lu Changsheng…”
Xia Ningxue’s brows furrowed slightly with worry, but she was stopped by the Holy Maiden of the Joyous Union Sect.
Liu Yun’er scoffed coldly, “The so-called experts of the Void Refinement Realm from the Immeasurable Temple and the master of the Martial Alliance all perished under the fist of the Savage Elephant King. With its thirtyfold Barbaric Wild Strength, Lu Changsheng is undoubtedly doomed.”
“If he dies, I will kill you first.”
Xia Ningxue, holding the Severing Affection Sword, pointed it at Liu Yun’er.
Liu Yun’er’s eye twitched, as Xia Ningxue’s threat was far from empty words.
Moreover, for some reason, Liu Yun’er was highly wary of the Longsword Xia Ningxue carried on her back.
All this time, Xia Ningxue had used only the superior-grade Innate Spirit Treasure Severing Affection Sword but never the Longsword she carried.
“To stand against me, the Savage Elephant King, this is your fate.”
Utilizing thirtyfold Barbaric Wild Strength and the Heaven Rank Vajra Indestructible Skills of the Immeasurable Temple, the Savage Elephant King consumed a vast amount of its True Qi, assuring Lu Changsheng’s death.
As the dust settled, a massive crater was left in the ground by the Savage Elephant King’s forceful punch, and in it lay a man in a Daoist robe with black hair, not moving an inch.
“Finally, dead.”
This was the first time the Savage Elephant King had encountered such a troublesome cultivator at the second level of the Void Refinement Realm.
Despite being merely at the second level of the Void Refinement Realm, he forced it to go all-out.
Suddenly, Lu Changsheng’s fingers twitched and he quickly got to his feet, his arms encircling, torso stretching sideways, knees bending and extending, even performing a front kick, as if warming up.
“No, this is impossible!”
The Savage Elephant King was as horrified as if it had seen a ghost.
How could a cultivator at the second level of the Void Refinement Realm withstand thirtyfold Barbaric Wild Strength!
The most eerie part was that Lu Changsheng had revived completely unharmed, showing no signs of injury!
He even had the leisure to perform warm-up exercises!
“You are indeed very strong,” Lu Changsheng said as his eyes gradually sharpened after confirming his body had fully recovered. If not for swallowing the Ninth-grade Reincarnation Pill in the final moment, he might have been killed by the Savage Elephant King. But now, Lu Changsheng had achieved his goal of depleting the Savage Elephant King’s True Qi, “Now, it’s my turn to attack.”