"Molten Core System activated!"
BUZZ!
Xiao Xuanye felt a searing heat in his chest as countless sophisticated machines inside him whirred to life, making him feel an overwhelming surge of power. Two thrusters appeared beneath his feet. As jets of white-hot fla erupted, he lifted off the ground and began flying through the air!
"Hahaha, I can fly!" Xiao Xuanye laughed wildly, incredibly pleased with himself.
Flying—or more precisely, flying under my own power—has always been an unattainable dream for ordinary humans. And today, I, Xiao Xuanye, made it a reality! Even if I'm not doing it all on my own… it still feels incredible!
As he flew, he familiarized himself with his new strength. When he neared the mysterious cave, he even deliberately plunged straight down.
BOOM!
He smashed a huge crater into the hard rock below.
"Holy crap!"
"Old Xiao is incredible!"
"I'm so jealous!"
Guo Jufeng and the other Grandmasters arrived with their main force just in ti to witness the scene. Their eyes went wide with envy.
They were filled with regret! If only one of us had agreed to the experint before Xiao Xuanye did. Then we'd be the ones showing off right now!
Xiao Xuanye walked out of the crater, each step accompanied by the sound of grinding machinery, like a Transforr. The sound was deeply satisfying and incredibly imposing. His pupils glowed with a faint red light. It was as if transparent lenses had been overlaid on his retinas, where a flood of data and coordinates constantly shifted, undergoing automatic analysis.
He glanced at an ard elite. A line of text flashed across the lens: "Combat Power: 5."
He then looked at Guo Jufeng. "Combat Power: 101."
Finally, he looked at another Grandmaster. "Combat Power: 93."
"Hehe..." Xiao Xuanye grinned, his teeth glinting with a distinct tallic sheen. He was about to exchange pleasantries with Guo Jufeng and the others.
"BEEP! BEEP!"
"Warning! High-energy reaction detected ahead!"
An alarm suddenly blared.
"Hmm?"
Xiao Xuanye glanced toward the mysterious cave, and his vision was instantly filled with static. At the sa ti, a trendous boom accompanied by a shockwave rippled out from that direction.
"Who's fighting?"
"Is it Long Tianji?" Guo Jufeng and the others wondered in alarm.
"I'll go take a look!" Xiao Xuanye snorted, then shot into the air again, the first to fly toward the mysterious cave.
As soon as he arrived, he saw Lin Tang, wearing Long Tianji's face, exchanging fierce, bare-handed blows with Number Seven. A phantom of a raging ape materialized above Lin Tang's head, roaring as it hamred down. Not to be outdone, a phantom of a Black Tortoise—a hybrid of tortoise and snake—appeared above Number Seven. It absorbed the blows while snapping back.
The re shockwaves from their battle were enough to make the mountainside collapse and the trees char into dust. Had this been before his transformation, Xiao Xuanye would have been terrified and fled imdiately.
Now, however, seeing the combat power displayed by Lin Tang and Number Seven, he sneered.
A power level of less than three hundred. What a joke of a Martial Saint! Nothing but a fraud! And you, Long Tianji! A re two-fifty! How dare you act so insolently before ?!
He clasped his hands before his chest. A blazing white light gathered in his palms, forming a sphere.
"Face my Nuclear Light Super Killing Cannon!"
BOOM!
The air warped and the temperature skyrocketed. The ground beneath Xiao Xuanye's feet fractured, spitting open long, deep fissures. A two-ter-thick column of white light shot toward Lin Tang and Number Seven, enveloping them completely.
The next mont, fire and light erupted into the sky, forming a mushroom cloud. As the dust settled, a crater over ten ters in diater was revealed, stunning Guo Jufeng and the others who had just rushed over.
"Hiss—"
"So powerful!"
"That strength is incredible!"
They gasped, but just as they were about to cry out in shock, they saw that Lin Tang and Number Seven were not only completely unhard, but their clothes didn't even have a single scorch mark. The devastating attack seed to have been nothing more than a gentle breeze, completely aningless.
"What?" The crowd stood frozen.
Lin Tang and Number Seven exchanged a look, neither bothering to give Xiao Xuanye so much as a glance.
Lin Tang smiled. "The warm-up is over."
Number Seven nodded. "I admit I underestimated you. I suppose I'll have to get serious now."
For one, he wasn't a complete Martial Saint and needed to conserve his power. For another, the Saint Lord had ordered him to capture Long Tianji alive, not kill him. That was why he hadn't used his full strength, afraid he might not be able to hold back and accidentally kill his target. But now, seeing how durable Lin Tang was, he felt relieved.
Number Seven spoke again. "That isn't your true aura, and you are no Heavenly King. What exactly are you?"
Lin Tang retorted, "The sa could be said for you. What are you? A corpse?"
"Bastard! Die!"
This was Number Seven's sorest point, and he flared with uncontrollable rage. His montum surged once more. Vigorous energy erupted from him, forming a carapace-like armor over his body. A pair of fiery red wings sprouted from beneath his arms. His hair stood on end, turning stark white. The character for "Seven" on his forehead twisted, faintly morphing into the character for "King."
He threw a punch, and a phantom of an azure dragon roared from his fist!
Azure Dragon! White Tiger! Black Tortoise! Vermilion Bird!
All four divine beasts appeared, representing four Heaven-grade Cultivation Techniques practiced to their apex, all rged into a single entity. His combat power instantly multiplied.
Faced with such an onslaught, Lin Tang still didn't draw his flying sword.
He let out a long howl. "You call that a dragon? Let show you what a *real* dragon is!"
Supre True Dragon Technique! Body Transformation: Dragon!
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
His entire body was engulfed in the phantom of a colossal dragon. With a sweep of its tail and a thrust of its horns, he slamd into Number Seven once more. His Golden Core roared and his True Qi blazed. He shattered the tortoise shell, shredded the tiger's phantom, and plucked the vermilion bird's feathers bare. He even swallowed Number Seven's draconic phantom as if it were an insect.
"What kind of Cultivation Technique is this?!"
Even then, Number Seven was able to change his move. At the last possible second, arcs of lightning appeared beneath his feet. He had perfected a fifth Heaven-grade Cultivation Technique: the evasion-focused Thunder Shock Nine Transformations.
With a flash of lightning, he split into nine phantoms that scattered in all directions. The dragon Lin Tang had beco swatted five of them out of existence. The remaining four barely dodged before rging back into one.
Still reeling from the shock, Number Seven blurted out, "You're no Martial Artist! You're a demon?!"
SNAP!
A sharp pain lanced through Xiao Xuanye's eyes, and his expression crumbled. A mont ago, the way Lin Tang and Number Seven had completely ignored him had left him fuming with humiliation.
Don't you underestimate !
He was about to increase his cannon's power output when Number Seven's combat power suddenly exploded past seven hundred, freezing him in place. The next mont, Lin Tang transford into a dragon, and his combat power instantly broke one thousand. The "lenses" of his HUD crashed and then promptly exploded.
"SHIT!"
Xiao Xuanye was so terrified his hair stood on end. Without a second thought, he turned and fled.
Guo Jufeng and the others were a good distance away, but the aftershock from the collision between Lin Tang's dragon form and Number Seven sent them tumbling to the ground. Those with weaker constitutions spat up blood, their bodies going limp. Despite their numbers, a single exchange had left them all powerless to resist.
"How is this possible?"
"It's only been a few days! How did Long Tianji get so much stronger?"
I must be dreaming!
The last ti they'd seen him, during his battle with Yan Renjie at the concert hall, his destructive power was nowhere near this level. It was the sa during the fight at the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance against Ji Yongyan's forces. This felt like it was on a completely different plane of existence.
Lin Tang paid the insignificant buffoon no mind. Just as he was about to press his advantage and annihilate Number Seven, Xiao Xuanye, realizing that simply running wouldn't be fast enough, decisively activated his Molten Core System and shot into the sky.
Even if I can't beat you, I can fly! As long as I'm in the sky, I'm naturally invincible! he thought with satisfaction. He was about to circle back and rain down attacks from above.
"Huh?"
A sudden realization struck Lin Tang. There's sothing inside that Xiao Zhanchong's body... It would be a great help to my cultivation! Xirang! It's Xirang!
His eyes lit up, and he finally gave Xiao Xuanye his full attention. Ever since breaking through to the Golden Core Stage, even Centennial Elixirs had beco useless to him. Advancing through ditation alone was painfully slow. If he wanted a shortcut, he needed to devour and absorb far more precious Spiritual dicines. But in an age where the world's Spiritual Energy was so scarce, how many Spiritual dicines could possibly grow? They were exceedingly rare! Encountering even one was an opportunity he absolutely could not miss.
For that reason, Lin Tang imdiately put Number Seven out of his mind and charged toward Xiao Xuanye. "Let rip open your chest and see what's inside!"
"Pfft—" Xiao Xuanye's lips curled into a sneer.
Just as he was about to mock him, Lin Tang stomped his foot and, with a WHOOSH, also shot into the sky.
"My god!" Xiao Xuanye's jaw dropped to his chest.
Guo Jufeng and the others were completely dumbfounded.
Utterly shocked!
"H-h-he…"
"How can he fly?"
"Is he even human?!"
Number Seven was also stunned for a mont. Through his increased contact with the modern world, he could tell that Xiao Xuanye had been altered into sothing akin to a vehicle. It was probably what his follower had described as a "robot." Xiao Xuanye flying by shooting fire from his feet was likely similar to a car's exhaust.
But Lin Tang... he was flesh and blood. There was no fire coming from his feet, yet he too could fly.
It's confird. He's one hundred percent a demon, one who has cultivated to an advanced realm and mastered legendary Spells.
Number Seven's expression grew solemn as he watched Lin Tang and Xiao Xuanye fly farther and farther away, one chasing the other. As an undead Puppet, he felt no fear. Instead, he grew even more excited.
Perhaps he even has a Spell that can grant complete release? Can he bring back from the dead?
And so, he too leaped into the air without hesitation, launching himself in an arc of over a hundred ters. He landed heavily and imdiately leaped again. By leaping in this manner, he just barely managed to stay on their tail, not falling completely behind.
The Grandmasters, led by Guo Jufeng, struggled back to their feet and stared at each other, helpless. They had no way of catching up.
"What do we do?"
"Report this imdiately, of course!"
"A Long Tianji who can fly… who in the world can possibly stop him?"
When Yan Qinghe and the other elders learned of this, they were equally stunned, and then beca gravely worried.
"We can only hope that the one in Yaochi Heavenly Palace will have a way to suppress him completely after she awakens."
"The stronger Long Tianji becos, the more interested the one from Yaochi Heavenly Palace will be."
"Exactly. He will be Her perfect vessel..."
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