Chapter 63

Update Time: 2013-04-29

Humans are the most intelligent of all beings, and thus powerful!

The wisdom, experience, luck, and even a momentary inspiration of people can change the course of their lives!

Gongsun Furan has only a medium to high talent as a martial artist. At just over thirty years old, it would be quite an achievement for him to reach the middle stage of the Heavenly Punishment realm! His current accomplishments are largely due to his good luck and the constant bursts of inspiration!

At this moment, he was bare-chested, and his originally lean body was covered with countless rock-like muscles! He spread his legs wide, bent his waist, and sat in a horse stance, with his fists at his waist. With a fierce cry, he punched forward with all his might. His right arm's muscles visibly swelled, as hard as metal!

Whoosh! Like a sudden gust of wind, the air in front of him seemed to be pierced by this punch. The destructive power was far beyond the peak of the Heavenly Punishment realm, reaching the level of Heavenly Fortune!

Boom! His left foot lifted and fell in sync with his arm, pressing the hard bluestone slab under his feet into a depression without breaking it. This showed how finely he controlled his strength. Each strike was perfectly executed without any wasted force!

The countless pits on the bluestone floor were created this way!

Whoosh, whoosh! With this movement, his two hands struck out with a loud thud, and his legs pounded the ground like wooden stakes, shaking the entire training ground with a thunderous roar! Fortunately, this place was extremely sturdy and soundproof, or such a loud noise would have disturbed everyone's sleep. It was clear that building this training ground was very useful.

Hey! A stream of internal energy suddenly emerged from Gongsun's mouth, extending several meters before dissipating in the air! His body swelled significantly, growing about ten centimeters taller, and his lean figure instantly transformed into a muscular man. For a moment, his punches were like the wind. He exerted force from his waist, and his leg muscles tightened. His right leg lifted like a snake emerging from a hole, and in the blink of an eye, he kicked out more than twenty times in all directions—solar plexus, throat, chin, chest, ribs, waist, lower body, knee, ankle, etc. All the vital points on the front of the human body were covered by this leg! The leg shadow formed a blur, as if countless legs appeared in an instant! This was truly incredible, considering the high physical strength required for such a leg technique. Most cultivators would not dare to try it, for fear of breaking their bones instantly. But Gongsun could do it!

He gathered his qi and lightened his body, leaping eight meters into the air like a kite. His fists and feet moved like lightning, striking in all directions, leaving shadows in the air. The air seemed to be stirred up by a tornado, with wind vortices appearing and the thunderous roar shaking the vast training ground!

The explosive power he unleashed in this instant was enough to take down over a dozen top-tier Heavenly Punishment martial artists!

Swoosh! Gongsun did a somersault and landed on one knee, with countless shadows still lingering in the air, showing how fast he was!

Swish! He drew the golden wind spike, and the power instantly flowed into the golden chain. Bang! This two-zhang-long terrifying weapon straightened like a spear, with the tip of the spike glowing faintly, extremely sharp! It seemed to cut through the air around it, truly terrifying!

Swish, swish! The two-meter-long section at the tip of the chain stabbed out like a snake's tongue, stirring the air into a chaotic mess! One-meter-long green wind blades were activated by his internal energy, whizzing towards the surrounding space of the training ground. However, there was a distance limit, and the wind blades dissipated in the air after three meters, far from the walls.

Gongsun was not at the peak of Heavenly Fortune, so the wind blades he activated could not reach ten meters! But this was still quite impressive. This yellow-grade lower-tier wind spike, in the hands of a typical peak Heavenly Punishment cultivator, would only form a wind blade on the surface of the weapon to enhance its attack power. It would never shoot out! But Gongsun had achieved what others could not, showing that his current status was not by chance!

As he performed these movements, the wind spike was wielded by Gongsun, and for a moment, the entire training ground was filled with the piercing wind spikes, alternating between soft and hard. Each segment of the chain was as hard as steel when rigid and as flexible as silk when soft! The coverage was extremely wide, and one could imagine how many experts would be taken down by this terrifying weapon in a group battle!

He swung wildly, the chain shadows covering the sky, the spike tip exuding a lethal aura!

Swish! Gongsun finished his practice, the spike tip deeply piercing a wooden post. Bang! The wooden post turned to powder! Gongsun was drenched in sweat, his body returning to its original state, with his internal energy significantly depleted. But his eyes were bright, for he had made progress today, even if it was slight. Progress was better than regression, and it was gratifying!

He retracted the wind spike and put it away, feeling quite pleased. "What a great feeling! This technique is truly remarkable. My skills are improving rapidly, and I will soon enter the Heavenly Fortune realm. Then... ha ha!" Gongsun was extremely pleased, celebrating his good fortune.

Indeed, this was the ultimate body-strengthening technique he had comprehended from the beauty's head image and the cultivation route map he had obtained by chance—the Thunderbolt Vajra Body Strengthening Technique!

The power of this unheard-of body-strengthening technique was simply incredible!

Once cultivated to a small success, it could fortify the body and soul, making the bones and muscles as strong as refined steel. Combined with the internal energy cultivated through hard work, it could instantly increase combat power by more than ten times! One could fight a hundred enemies, and overwhelming the same level would be no problem! However, the cultivation process was extremely painful—there was no free lunch, right? As for what it would be like when fully cultivated, Gongsun had not even imagined it yet!

This was Gongsun Furan's greatest trump card for dominating the world and the fundamental reason he stood out among his peers!

He knew the terrifying power of this super technique. Imagine a great cultivator who, after cultivation, could fight ten cultivators of the same level and make them flee in terror. What would that be like?

"This technique is not only priceless but also a source of trouble! If this matter were to leak, my current cultivation and strength would not be enough to protect me. I might be killed by a great cultivator with a wave of their hand. Even if the City Lord of Ziyeh City were to protect me, would he always be by my side? Clearly not!" Moreover, with such great benefits, how could someone like Gongsun, who was devious, trust others not to be tempted?

"What if the City Lord...?"

Therefore, he was extremely cautious. Even if it meant spending all his gold coins, he built a well-sealed, soundproof training ground to hide this treasure. He did not allow anyone to spy on his practice, or they would be killed without mercy!

Thanks to his caution, he had steadily risen over the past few years!

However, as he practiced this technique for longer, he discovered even more terrifying aspects: this technique should have accompanying hand seals, and the power would not just increase ten times but at least twenty times!

"Heaven! A twenty-fold increase in power at the peak of Heavenly Punishment would be enough to challenge a peak Heavenly Fortune cultivator!"

His eyes turned red at the thought of possibly facing such a powerful opponent without losing. If he displayed this ability in public, soaring to great heights would no longer be a dream!

"The City Lord himself would recommend me to the Imperial Purple Wisteria Academy in the capital. After graduation, wouldn't I be able to achieve great things, even dominate a region and become a City Lord like him?"

Thinking of this possibility, even Gongsun, with his cold and ruthless nature, could not control his excitement and trembled with excitement!

But dreams are beautiful, and reality is harsh!

Over the years, Gongsun had used every means to investigate and even returned to the cave where he obtained this treasure multiple times, but he found nothing!

Thus, he realized he would not obtain the accompanying hand seals for this technique! He was very frustrated, but his ambition did not die!

Therefore, every time he practiced, he racked his brain to try to comprehend the correct hand seals for this technique in the depths of his mind, but that was no easy task!

If he knew that Yun Mo had easily obtained what he had longed for, he might be so angry that he would spit blood!

After calming his boiling blood with internal energy, Gongsun decided to open the mechanism and study the mysterious image again. "I must find a way to comprehend the hand seals. I, Gongsun, should be a world-dominating hero, not a worm in Ziyeh City. I want to go to the capital and show my skills to the world. I must succeed!"

Thinking of these exciting things, Gongsun stepped towards the mechanism of the beauty's head image...

...

Yun Mo not only obtained the hand seals for the Thunderbolt Vajra Body Strengthening Technique but also had over six hundred higher-level techniques in his spiritual sea!

However, he currently only knew two!

The one he was most familiar with was, of course, the basic Thunderbolt Vajra Technique!

Therefore, he faced the surrounding Purple Mist City guards without fear. With confidence in his heart, his back was straight!

"Who are you? Do you know that injuring a Red-Eyed Heavenly Horse is a grave offense?"

A Purple Mist City squad leader, who had reached the eighth level of Heavenly Favor, sternly asked Yun Mo.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have already punched him flat, without such unnecessary questions.

But this was Ziyeh City! The City Lord of Ziyeh City's power was known to all. Therefore, he had to suppress his impulse to execute this villain on the spot and instead stand on the side of justice to accuse him.

As he spoke, over 200 Purple Mist City guards spread out around Yun Mo, surrounding him.

Among them, at least a dozen squad leaders were at the sixth level of Heavenly Favor or higher, and the rest of the guards were all at the fifth level of Heavenly Favor!

This scene attracted everyone's attention. The nobles who were about to go up the stairs heard the commotion outside and curiously walked back to the door.

The sickly girl immediately saw Yun Mo surrounded by the guards and glanced at the Red-Eyed carriage that Yun Mo had knocked over. One of the Red-Eyed horses was bleeding from the corner of its mouth and unconscious, its fate uncertain. Several guards were treating the Red-Eyed horse. A hint of a strange smile appeared on her lips!

The beautiful woman from Purple Mist City, holding her younger brother's hand, frowned and asked in a stern voice, "What's going on?"

A squad leader, seeing that he had alarmed the nobles, quickly ran forward and quietly recounted how Yun Mo had saved the girl and knocked down the Red-Eyed Demon Horse!

The guard had excellent eloquence, vividly describing the events!

Oh? The nobles' gazes towards Yun Mo changed!

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