Chapter 358: Chapter 142 Spiritual Energy Enters the Body! Three Flowers Gathering at the Top!_3
No matter the opponent was human or a demon monster, he had to give his all to win!
“Boom!”
Suddenly, Hong Zhenxiang took a deep breath. An attractive force emerged from the Qi-Blood Furnace above his head, forming a vortex of flames, like a hurricane wildly swirling. Within a hundred meters radius, trees shook and bent as if an invisible force was converging.
Sand flew and stones rolled as the hurricane howled!
“What is that? Is that Commander Hong? What kind of move is that?”
Su Changkong was still continuously cutting and chopping at Mo Ying’s body, not giving it a chance to breathe. He was somewhat astonished, perceiving the amazing momentum coming from Hong Zhenxiang!
“Whoosh!”
An invisible force entered the Qi-Blood Furnace; after transformation, it poured into Hong Zhenxiang from above his head. His aura skyrocketed wildly. As he threw a punch, the successive waves of sound that were coming at him were blasted to collapse and roll back, shaking Hong Yin to the point of losing control and staggering back!
“This… Is he drawing in spiritual energy?” Hong Yin’s eyes widened in disbelief as she watched Hong Zhenxiang’s aura surge.
Spiritual energy was everywhere, nourishing everything in the world. Yet ordinary martial artists could not sense its existence. Only innate martial artists who had opened their Heavenly Pulse could sense spiritual energy, refine essence into Qi, and strengthen themselves.
Yet, Hong Zhenxiang before her seemed to be drawing in nature’s spiritual energy. Could he possibly be an innate martial artist? If he truly were, she wouldn’t have been able to pressure him this much!
Of course, Hong Zhenxiang was not an innate martial artist. His eyes stained with streaks of blood-red: “Since childhood, I have consumed the flesh and blood of alien beasts, giving me a unique constitution that allows me to vaguely sense the existence of nature’s spiritual energy. Now… I am going to draw it into my body and break into the Innate Realm!”
Hong Zhenxiang possessed a remarkable talent from childhood, having accidentally eaten the flesh of a rare and exotic alien beast. It made him severely ill, nearly killing him, but after having survived, he had undergone rebirth. His martial arts progressed at an astonishing speed, rising rapidly.
With Pei Yang’s nurturing, Hong Zhenxiang had long reached the Qi Blood Twelve Transformation. When he reached that breakthrough, perhaps due to his unique constitution, he could feel a strong and mysterious energy in the world, which he understood to be spiritual energy.
However, without having opened his Heavenly Pulse, even though he could sense the existence of spiritual energy, he couldn’t refine or utilize it.
But now, facing the tremendous pressure from Hong Yin, Hong Zhenxiang didn’t want to fail. He put all his effort into refining the spiritual energy with his Qi-Blood Furnace, forcefully drawing in the spiritual energy into his body! He was taking a desperate gamble, trying to forcibly break through to the realm he had long dreamed of, the Innate Realm!
“Boom!”
A massive amount of spiritual energy converged above Hong Zhenxiang’s head. Although others could not sense the spiritual energy, they could clearly see a huge distorted vortex in the sky, like the warping produced by intense heat!
“Whoo!”
Hong Yin realized that she couldn’t allow Hong Zhenxiang to succeed, so she pushed her demonic power to the extreme, and her jade flute emitted a rolling sound filled with the intent to kill.
But it was futile. As a great amount of spiritual energy entered his body, Hong Zhenxiang’s every gesture seemed to carry the might of heaven and earth, effortlessly resolving the sound waves!
And as a vast amount of spiritual energy entered his body, above Hong Zhenxiang’s head, the Qi-Blood Furnace gradually condensed and metamorphosed, turning into a flower bud that then slowly bloomed, casting a pale green light that illuminated the dark Black Swamp Forest as if it were brightening!
The air even seemed to be filled with a refreshing floral fragrance.
“That’s the Human Flower of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Flowers! Commander Hong… has ascended to the Innate Realm?”
The huge commotion made Su Changkong take his attention away from the fight. Seeing the green flower floating above Hong Zhenxiang’s head, so beautiful and magnificent, he couldn’t help but be shocked and amazed!
Innate martial artists refined spiritual energy, opened their Heavenly Pulse, and reached the realm of ‘Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, Five Qi towards the Yuan.’
The so-called Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Flowers referred to the blossoming and flourishing of three essences, signifying essence, Qi, and spirit! They are also the realms sought after by innate martial artists!
Hong Zhenxiang, having absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy and refined essence into Qi, seemed to have condensed the very first steps of the ‘Human Flower.’
“But isn’t it necessary first to refine Innate Qi and return the body to the Innate Body in order to ascend to the Innate Realm?” Su Changkong was shocked as well as confused, having heard Hong Zhenxiang speak about the Innate Realm before.
Hong Zhenxiang definitely didn’t have any Innate Qi; otherwise, he would have risen to the realm of the innate martial artist long ago. Why would he have waited until now?
“Roar!”
Hong Zhenxiang felt the power, an unprecedentedly formidable power that made him unable to help but let out a heaven-shaking roar from his mouth.
“Boom!”
As the roar swept through, Hong Yin only felt a momentary darkness before his eyes, the demonic power within his body suppressed, and the jade flute in his hands shattered inch by inch!
“No… No good! Run!”
Hong Yin was filled with terror, cold sweat seeping from his forehead. He knew his limits well; having merged with a Demon Monster Crystal Core, he was extremely strong among the lower-ranking Demon Monsters and could almost sweep away all the Martial Artists in the Qi-Blood Realm. But facing an Innate Martial Artist, he was definitely no match!
Hong Yin wanted to flee, but as Hong Zhenxiang took a step forward, his burly body appeared in front of Hong Yin, with the Human Flower radiating a cyan glow blooming atop his head, and a terrifying pressure emanating from his eyes. He raised his fists high and smashed them down furiously.
“Boom!”
Amidst the violent sounds of bones shattering, Hong Yin’s shoulders exploded, and his entire body was nailed into the ground as if he were a steel peg, with only his head exposed, his face filled with bewilderment and fear. It was a crushing force.
“Die!”
Hong Zhenxiang stood imperious as a Heavenly God, his fists rubbing against the air, sparking white smoke and sparks as he continuously and relentlessly bombarded the half-buried Hong Yin!
“Bang bang bang bang bang!”
The ground trembled, dust and smoke billowed to the sky, each punch causing depressions and vibrations in the earth, and a wild wind swept through, sending pebbles and soil flying like bullets, the dust rising to the heavens.
Fierce! Tyrannical!
Hong Zhenxiang punched wildly, with Hong Yin barely able to fight back.
After delivering over a hundred punches, Hong Zhenxiang finally paused to catch his breath. As the dust gradually dispersed, there was a nearly thirty-foot-wide enormous crater on the spot, a destruction that seemed impossible for a flesh and blood body to cause!
Within the crater, there was no sign of Hong Yin’s body; in its place, there was a pool of flesh mixed with soil, and an undamaged Crystal Core emitting a dark red faint light.
Utterly crushed to pieces!
Meanwhile, in Su Changkong’s battle, Mo Ying, sliced and diced by Su Changkong, eventually ran out of demonic power. The once writhing fragments of its body also lost vitality, leaving behind two Crystal Cores on the ground.
One dark red Demon Monster Crystal Core, and one black sphere the size of half a fist fell to the ground, along with a Token.
“Won…” Su Changkong let out a sigh of relief. That Token must be the Identity Token, and without taking the time to inspect the black sphere, he collected it with the Crystal Cores and slipped them into his bag, planning to study them later.
This battle was a complete victory!
In his fight against Mo Ying, Su Changkong won with ease. Despite Mo Ying’s own formidable strength, it was still lifelessly chopped down by Su Changkong, snuffing out all its vigor to the last!
Not only that, but Hong Zhenxiang also triumphed mightily on his front, and it seemed he had a breakthrough into the Innate Realm during the battle, crushing the red-clothed man Hong Yin into meat paste with absolute violence!
“Is this the power of an Innate Martial Artist? Indeed, it’s not something a Martial Artist in the Qi-Blood Realm can compare with!” Su Changkong also greatly aspired to and longed for such a realm in his heart.
“Hahaha! Zhenxiang indeed is the invincible War God!” Pei Yang couldn’t help bursting into jubilant laughter. Two Monster Men had kidnapped him, coercing Hong Zhenxiang to come here to kill him.
But the situation resulted in one surprise after another. One was naturally Su Changkong’s arrival, whose strength was incomprehensible, and the Mo Ying, which could mimic others’ moves, was crushed and cut down without much ability to fight back.
Moreover, Hong Zhenxiang had a breakthrough in the midst of battle, displaying the divine might befitting Dafeng State City’s strongest!
Taking a few breaths, Hong Zhenxiang looked up at Su Changkong and Pei Yang, a smile on his face as if he wanted to say something.
“Crack! Crack! Crack!”
But the next second, a series of flesh-tearing sounds erupted from Hong Zhenxiang’s body. Wounds split open all over him, bright bursts of blood spraying out, and with a mouthful of fresh blood spouting forth, his burly body slumped to the ground, blood spreading beneath him!
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