Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Bold and powerful? Du Peng appeared in the battle stance as the new human being. With his current appearance, as long as his opponent was not blind, they would be able to feel his boldness and power immediately.
With the bulked-up muscles and the shiny scales, Du Peng looked like a general in his soft fitting armor. This was the Dragon Type that was claimed to be the strongest among the battle types of new human beings!
Qin Fen looked at Du Peng, who was cursed by misfortune. He was secretly happy for his comrade, as they had been friends since both of them were still rookies in the military. He had only just become a new human being for a short period of time, and Lin Liqiang’s team had yet to do enough research on new human beings. Perhaps they would have to wait a little longer for Du Peng and Lin Liqiang to study and find out together about the Dragon Type’s special abilities.
Boom! Du Peng clenched his dragon claws and compressed the air around his palm. It sounded like a car tire had exploded. He stared at Sakra, “This is my strongest! Let’s get started!”
Lin Liqiang was excited as he was concentrating on the upcoming spar. This was the first time Du Peng fought in his Human-Dragon battle form since he was converted into the new human being and discovered that he was a Dragon Type.
Sakra stood still like a towering mountain. With the strength of a Sacred Martial Hall’s head of department, he didn’t need to get into any battle-preparing stance when he was faced with the sixteen-star apex-level Du Peng, regardless of whether Du Peng was in the so-called Dragon Type battle stance of the new human being or not.
Purple electricity that was visible to the naked eyes intertwined and entangled around Sakra’s body, forming an electric armor around him.
These electric sparkles didn’t look thick at all, but no one dared to take it as weak electricity. It could be regarded as the strongest electric web in the Federation.
Du Peng was faced with perhaps the world’s strongest bolt user of the electric neo martial art. He wasn’t being polite with Sakra at all. He let out a dragon roar that shattered all the glass in the room. He then stomped the ground continuously with his feet, and it felt like a few hundred metal piles were hitting against the ground. His strength ran from his waist to his back as he stretched his body like a dragon and his arm was extended like a sky-scraping spear. He executed a style of Seven Stars of Immortal Thunder Firm and Fierce, reaching straight for Sakra’s vital point in his chest.
Firm and fierce! Tyranny! Qin Fen suddenly widened his eyes, sighing secretly in his heart. No wonder Lin Liqiang claimed that Du Peng will be invincible in any battle between him and any other sixteen-star martial artist. Du Peng has more of the dragon aura than the Little Dragon King Yang Lie. To be able to master both the Seven Stars of Immortal Thunder and the Phaseless Water Bird, a cultivator has to meet several strict conditions regarding their physique. Even someone as talented as Du Zhanpeng failed to cultivate these two martial arts together. Du Peng, after he has gone through two misfortunes in his life, finally nailed these two martial arts and successfully forged them into one divine art!
Du Peng as a sixteen-star martial artist with Humanity Aura Shield, and with his dragon body as a new human being, executed his attack with ultimate strength. He integrated the slicing skills of the Phaseless Water Bird into the Seven Stars of Immortal Thunder’s styles. If anyone misjudged his martial skills to be simple explosions hitting against the bod and tried to block his incoming punches, they might end up with sliced up limbs.
In the small room, Du Peng had already reached Sakra, roaring! Sakra, who had never actually shown his strength in front of Du Peng, took a step forward and lifted his arm horizontally in front of his chest like an iron bridge. The electricity that was like metal chains wrapped around Du Peng’s arm like spider webs. Du Peng felt himself being pulled forward by a strong force that threw him off balance. Sakra clenched his fingers into a fist and struck down a style of Thunder God’s Hammer in the midst of electric shocks.
Before Du Peng completely lost his balance, he quickly stepped his left foot firmly onto the ground and lifted his right knee; his whole body looked like a big bow clashing straight with Sakra’s Thunder God’s Hammer with only the power of sixteen-star.
As the two huge forces collided with each other, Sakra switched from the hammer to a sword. A beam of electricity shot out from his sword fingers and penetrated Du Peng’s lower abdomen from a short range. The pungent smell of burnt meat filled every corner of the room. Sakra kicked Du Peng in his lower abdomen with his right foot, kicking him into the air, sending him flying backward.
His techniques! Du Peng laid in the ruins after his body broke through several walls. He looked up at Sakra. So this is the true strength of a Sacred Martial Hall’s head of department. It was clear that the sixteen-star, Dragon Type Du Peng who went berserk was stronger than Sakra. However, he lost to Sakra’s skillful martial techniques in an instant.
Qin Fen looked at Sakra’s martial techniques and nodded gently. This was the advantage of the seniors. They may not have an impact as strong as the younger generation of martial artists, but their experience, techniques, mentality, and reactions were far better than the younger generation.
If he wished to defeat Tagatha, it wouldn’t be enough even if he were to acquire the Celestial Aura! He not only needed to kill Tagatha, he also had to fight for the world’s number one title in the Great Ensemble within half a year’s time!
Sakra looked back at Qin Fen and said calmly, “I’ve demonstrated what I wanted to tell you with all my moves just now. Find me a room…”
He said he has demonstrated everything he wanted to say, so what he meant must be his techniques. Qin Wen bowed gently to him. Despite the fact that his strength was above Sakra, Sakra was still his master! The demonstration just now was out of a master’s concern for his disciple.
Du Peng had already left during their conversation. He had gotten the conclusion and experience that he wanted from the battle just now. It would be a waste of time if he were to stay there any longer.
Compared to other people, Du Peng’s star-level strength was the weakest and his time was the most pressing among all. He wouldn’t want to waste even one second of time.
Qin Fen helped Sakra and Ferrero to settle down. He breathed a long sigh of relief. Watching dozens of soldiers nervously picking up the ruins caused by Du Peng, he made a decision.
Seclusion! He would start seclusion longer than all other seclusions he had in the past! The seclusion this time had only one purpose: to meet the masters. He needed to meet with Zeng Yicheng, Zong Juelu, and the others to have special training that he had never been through before.
Seclusion was nothing strange to martial artists. Almost all martial artists would choose to go into seclusion if they realized they were on the verge of a star-level breakthrough. This was true even for civilians who were not hardcore martial artists, or an office worker who didn’t really enjoy their work. Literally everyone would choose to go into seclusion to achieve the breakthrough if there was hope for them to improve their martial dao star-level strength.
The Federation was being openly supportive of everyone practicing martial arts. They had even listed a clause in the Federation’s constitution that required all working organizations to provide unconditional support for those employees who were seeking for a star-level breakthrough through seclusion. They should also be granted with paid holidays. If any organizations were to go against this clause, there would be a penalty with the amount of a hundred times their salaries.
The Constitution was the highest law in the Federation. Those organizations operating under the divine beast martial artists were originally supportive of everybody practicing martial arts. Other companies dared not do something that would violate the Constitution.
Since Qin Fen had embarked on the journey of martial artists, he had been through many seclusions. Sometimes he secluded himself in a small space, sometimes he would put everything down and just travel around freely.
Seclusion did not necessarily mean confining oneself completely in a small space. The word seclusion was referring to mental seclusion rather than physical seclusion.
What Qin Fen wanted to do this time was complete seclusion. Both mental and physical seclusion; thorough seclusion; a long-term seclusion.
Long-term seclusion needed to be sustained by some special means. Qin Fen did not want to be woken up by hunger when he was in seclusion and in the strange space. He didn’t want to be disturbed when he was fighting those masters.
He was still a human even though he had very strong martial strength; he needed to consume food too. Even a martial artist with the Celestial Aura needed life-sustaining nutrients.
A special nutrient solution tank and an oral-nasal respirator. Lin Liqiang had customized these life-sustaining machines for Qin Fen.
Qin Fen took off all his clothes, revealing his strong and slender muscles. He laid down peacefully inside the special machine, and he looked very calm.
Inside the deep, dark, and borderless space, Qin Fen floated quietly in this special spiritual space where he couldn’t plant his feet onto the ground.
After seeing the Founding Society’s technology and the research on space technology, Qin Fen admired Atlantis’ technology more and more. Atlantis could create a special spiritual space that the Founding Society could not.
It was strange; the special space was changing rapidly, and colors appeared around him. Green filled every single corner of the space. At first glance, he thought that he had once again entered Pandora, the dimension that was opened by humans. However, when he looked closely, he saw that they were very different from the plants in Pandora. Qin Fen had never seen any of the plants he found here.
A loud roar sounded suddenly. Qin Fen looked around for the source of the sound. He could feel the dangerous aura through his skin; it was the same feeling as when an ordinary person walked in the wild and suddenly had a pack of wolves appear behind them.
In the dark woods, a sudden sparkle could be observed. Qin Fen wasn’t surprised when he met with the figure of light floating in front of him. The emotionless figure of light explained something to Qin Fen with his ever frozen, unnatural tone, “Simulated survival game. Your physical body will die too if you die in here. Please try your best to survive on this planet that was once discovered by Atlantis during their star trek.
The planet that Atlantis had discovered? Qin Fen didn’t have time to ask more questions. The figure of light disappeared as soon as it appeared.
Qin Fen walked quietly under the huge plants that he didn’t know the names of. He saw an apple-like fruit that was the size of a villa, hanging down from a towering tree’s branch.
The growth of plants in any region was usually determined by the other creatures in the area in which they were located. After seeing such a huge apple, Qin Fen faintly felt that the creatures he was about to face may have an unprecedentedly large size.
Trees not far from him were shaking. Qin Fen saw a huge and strong body that was as tall as a multi-story building. It would only take a gentle whip of its thick tail to snap a thick tree.
A dinosaur! Qin Fen looked at the absurd creature in front of him. It turned out that dinosaurs existed even on other living planets during the era of Atlantis.
The dinosaur, which was a few stories in height, opened its mouth and roared into the sky. It went berserk and ran forward as if it had not seen Qin Fen, who was blocking its path.
It’s scared? Qin Fen read some surprising information from the small eyes of the dinosaur. Why would such a huge creature be frightened of something? In the era of dinosaurs on Earth, dinosaurs were the overlord of that era! The one-and-only lord. However, the dinosaurs here are frightened?
“Au au au au…”
Behind the dinosaur, some other creatures let out a few roars that sounded wild and excited in a rhythm. It was a group of creatures that looked similar to humans. They walked upright, had four eyes on their head, two in the front, and each on the left and right. They had blue skin and a tail on their back. They were two meters in height.
Compared to the dinosaur’s size, these ‘living creatures’ that were riding on some boar-like creatures were relatively very tiny in size. However, it was this tiny creature that was chasing after a fleeing huge dinosaur.
He could see that the pursuers were acting leisurely. It was more of a game than a hunt to them.
Qin Fen tried to be nice by giving way to the side. His movement attracted the attention of a pursuer. He pulled the fur behind the wild boar and stared at Qin Fen with a strange look. He suddenly put his hand around his mouth and let out a few cries. The wild boar spread its six legs and ran wildly towards Qin Fen.
Hostility! Prey! Qin Fen was able to read two intentions in the eyes of this pursuer in an instant. This predator had lost his intention to hunt the dinosaur, he wanted to hunt Qin Fen.
In an instant, Qin Fen felt the danger.
It was a very strange feeling. Since Qin Fen had stepped into the Celestial Aura realm, there weren’t many creatures in the whole Federation that could make him alert, including the devil beasts. However, the creature with blue skin here made him feel threatened.
Boom! The wild boar suddenly burst into a mass of meat sauce. It didn’t even have the chance to let out a cry before it died under the spiritual force of the blue-skinned creature.
Assault! The blue-skinned monster reacted quickly. He stretched out the four fingers on his right hand and covered Qin Fen like a fishnet. There were several tricks hidden in his moves.
There was no time to make any guesses. Qin Fen flexed his arm and lifted his elbow, turning his arm into a spear-like weapon while he covered the whole body with Celestial Aura. He bumped right into the blue-skinned monster. His power that was equal to ten dragons and ten elephants hit the creature like a bulldozer hitting an old house, knocking the blue-skinned monster out straight away.
So strong! Qin Fen did not expect that the blue-skinned monster in front of him had the ability to resist the Celestial Aura Shield. Its power was not the martial dao true energy on Earth, but another form of strange energy which felt faintly like solar energy.
He forcefully pushed away the crazy blue-skinned monster with just a single move, but Qin Fen dared not relax. As soon as they came into contact, he could clearly sense that this blue-skinned monster had a hostile desire to attack. He was not hunting the dinosaur for food just now, he was simply enjoying the killing.
The blue-skinned monster flew out and landed on its feet. At that instant, Qin Fen executed a Dragon cannon style to thrust himself forward, smashing all the trees that were in his way, slashing a palm attack from high up at the creature.
In the moment of life and death, the blue-skinned monster let out a long cry at the sky. The sound rang on cloud nine and was earth-shattering.
Boom! The death cry of the blue-skinned monster stopped. Qin Fen punched him into the ground directly. All his bones broke into pieces after he was planted under the ground, then all the muscles were blasted.
Qin Fen killed the aggressive blue-skinned monster with a single palm attack. He could hear a series of continuous long cries all around him from the jungle.
Unlike the sorrowful death cry of the blue-skinned monster, Qin Fen could identify a strong sense of anger and sorrow from these long cries.
“So many of them?”
Qin Fen frowned hard. Although he had won many battles since his debut, he had never encountered this many opponents before, not to mention the fact that all of them were furious.
Sue for peace? Qin Fen believed that the blue-skinned monsters on this planet were like humans on Earth. They were a superior existence beyond the food chain. Other creatures were just their food. Who on earth would agree to their food suing for peace?
Tigers were fiercer than humans, but we would never agree with a tiger who was suing for peace with us, right? Humans would still gather as a team and kill the tiger.
The blue-skinned monsters were extremely fast. Within a few seconds, another blue-skinned monster appeared on the battlefield. He looked everywhere for the murderer who killed his companion with his four furious eyes.
After looking for two seconds, the blue-skinned monster was sure that the murderer was not on the scene. So he turned to look at his companion’s dead body in the pothole.
At the same time, a strong murderous aura blasted from the treetops. The blue-skinned monster suddenly turned back and looked in shock at Qin Fen who was jumping onto him from above. He had barely lifted his arms when Qin Fen’s battle ax-like right leg smashed his skull. The power penetrated his whole body.
Killing two blue-skinned monsters, Qin Fen felt more blue-skinned monsters were approaching at high speed. Some of them were had the strength of the Ground Aura level, and there were many with the Celestial Aura. He could even faintly sense the existence of some creatures that were above the Celestial Aura level.
Staying here, he might be able to kill several more monsters with sneak attacks. However, he couldn’t kill them all. It was not of a special reason. Even if he had acquired the Celestial Aura, even if he had many experiences in group fights, he still had no confidence in becoming the winner if he were to face hundreds of opponents with Celestial Aura strength all at once.
This was not a problem that could be solved with his unparalleled strength! Toeing the line of life and death, Qin Fen had no time to think carefully and chose to run away as fast as he could with all his strength.
The furious blue-skinned monsters were chasing after him from everywhere at a high-speed. The huge forest instantly became a huge battlefield, and they were destroying everything around them with force.
For many people, a week’s time may pass in the blink of an eye, but for Qin Fen, seven days was a dreadfully long time. Sometimes, he even thought that he shouldn’t have gotten Lin Liqiang to customize those weird life-sustaining machines for him so that he had the chance to wake up from hunger.
He was abandoned by the emotionless figure of light in such a place for a whole week. Qin Fen’s original plan was to enter the spiritual space, meet with the eight masters, and spar with them to prove his own martial dao. He didn’t expect to be left here by the figure of light. He was surprised that there were such a bunch of scary monsters in this world.
On the first day, Qin Fen remembered the time he took to kill the monsters. On the second day, Qin Fen barely remembered that he spent the first two days tracking, ambushing, and killing.
On the third day, Qin Fen had completely lost track of the time. He focused all his attention on this battle.
In one week’s time, except for the little time he spent on resting and eating, Qin Fen spent all the rest of his time in fighting these blue-skinned monsters.
He thought there were only slightly more than a hundred blue-skinned monsters here, but as time went on and the scope expanded, Qin Fen was surprised to find that there were three hundred blue-skinned monsters.
They not only had powerful strength but they also had high intelligence. They were skilled in both military tactics and traps.
This was no longer a battle, but a real war! The war between Qin Fen and all the blue-skinned monsters.
In a week’s time, the number of blue-skinned monsters had dropped from three hundred to two hundred. Qin Fen killed more than a dozen blue-skinned monsters on average every day. Most of the time he had to fight several opponents with the strength of the Celestial Aura level at the same time alone.
These blue-skinned monsters were not only powerful, they also had a lot of strange abilities. There were fire-breathing, ice-breathing, sulfuric acid-spraying, and smoke-spraying… almost anything you could imagine.
Qin Fen gasped and looked at the blue-skinned monster that had just been killed under his feet. The surrounding trees and mountains were completely flattened by their colliding forces.
This was the hardest battle in seven days. It could also be said to be the strongest one among the blue-skinned monsters!
After the blue-skinned monsters were forced to pay the painful price these days, they had simply chosen to sacrifice many of their companions in order to form a trap. They surrounded and forced Qin Fen into this trap. The blue-skinned monster that he had just killed was waiting deep in the trap.
Qin Fen couldn’t stay here for too long. He had to leave as soon as possible after the battle. Otherwise, it would be too difficult for him to retreat if he was surrounded by the blue-skinned monsters again.
Would death in this space mean a real death in reality? Qin Fen didn’t know if the figure of light was bluffing, but he dared not test it. What’s more, he didn’t want to hide from these extremely aggressive monsters either.
Qin Fen actually preferred this kind of life-and-death battle style compared to the sparring with his masters where both parties had to control their power.
After half a month, the last living blue-skinned monster fell under the hands of Qin Fen.
Looking at the bare and lifeless world, Qin Fen couldn’t help but sigh at the tragic final battle. He fought twenty-six blue-skinned monsters with the strength of the Celestial Aura realm all by himself. They broke almost every one of his bones. He had to recover from them before he was able to kill all of them. Thinking of it after-the-fact, it was really a crazy thing to do.
In half a month, Qin Fen felt like he had lived for half a century. He had to be extremely alert in every thousandth of a second; any slack could lead to death.
Within just half a month, Qin Fen felt that he was no longer a martial artist who had just stepped into the Celestial Aura realm. His power was round and smooth. There seemed to be no unnatural edges in it. However, if Qin Fen needed to demonstrate a sharpness in a battle, he could bring out countless edges anytime.
The bright sky suddenly flashed again. Qin Fen looked up at the emotionless figure of light that was floating in the air.
“The participant has passed the first test and has the initial qualification to meet the true enlightenment of star-level strength. Initializing the second test…”
“I…” Qin Fen had yet to open his mouth and tell it that he was here to spar with the masters when the scenery in front of him changed drastically again. The scene this time was no longer the strange environment, but a huge ancient metropolitan. It was surrounded by castle walls with a height of over twenty meters, forming a huge defensive fortress that was close to being invincible during the cold weapon era.
