Chapter 290 First Battle
Burning Gold Valley's Body Refining Technique, Titanium Body.
Lin Feng floated in the air, his upper body bare, and the majestic Titanium Body manifested, a silver radiance flowing all over his body. He held his long sword high, guiding the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him, roaring ceaselessly as if infused with the invincible spirit of a diamond.
With a swing of his sword, the surrounding spiritual energy immediately gathered on the blade like flames, fiercely slashing towards several Security Guardians.
Unlike the fewer but elite Law Enforcement Officers and the battle-hardened Guardian Envoys, Security Guardians had the nature of ordinary police officers. This time, all who came were regular Foundation Establishment Cultivators. How could they withstand the fierce strike of an elite from a Great Sect?
Another disciple from Tianling Ridge's Inner Sect, Yang Chun, bellowed angrily and darted forward swiftly, his arms swinging wildly as if an elephant raising its trunk. It seemed effortless, yet it contained an unmatched prodigious strength. The mere wind brought up by his arms was enough to crush a bull to death by spewing blood!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the blink of an eye, Yang Chun clashed with Lin Feng three times and three blasts of wind arose in the air, nearly forcing the observers to lie down.
Yang Chun did not retreat a step, licking the wounds on his arms, but the saliva evaporated from the scorching Flame Power within the wounds. Lin Feng was smashed hard into the dirt, creating a three-meter-wide pit. Yet, when he climbed out, he was completely unharmed.
Titanium Body was not simply embedding countless titanium metals into the body. The method of wrapping a layer of titanium armor around the body was meaningless, as most Cultivators could kill such practitioners with the "Strike Beyond Mounts" technique. Burning Gold Valley's Titanium Body involved ingesting a large amount of mononuclear titanium ions, allowing titanium particles to enter one's metabolism, then employing a Secret Technique to force the body's Life Source Material [Protein] to couple with the titanium particles. In this way, each protein of one's own became part of the titanium alloy armor, or rather, one's physical body was a Biological Titanium Alloy Armor! Although its toughness was unchanged compared to a normal body, its strength was increased a hundredfold!
"Damn!" Yang Chun had to admit that the Cultivator from Burning Gold Valley completely restrained him in terms of Cultivation Technique.
"Ha!" Yang Feng shook his head, seemingly unharmed.
Metal ions conduct electricity, so even the nervous system could integrate titanium elements, allowing even biological electrical signals to transmit faster.
In just an instant, Yang Chun lost track of his opponent within his field of vision.
Mountain River City's disciple Dong Jiao lunged desperately, clapping her hands together, transmitting a strong Shock Force indistinguishably through the air. Yang Chun felt stifled and short of breath, but inside him the more rigid Lin Feng received greater resonant damage, slowing his steps.
Behind!
Yang Chun, enduring the discomfort, threw a swinging elbow strike.
"Boom!" In that instant, the explosive sound from Yang Chun's fist was stronger and bigger than Dong Jiao's Earth Fury Palm, displaying the superior mana of Tianling Ridge far surpassing his peers.
However, what met him were two slashes of Sword Aura.
The enhancement from Titanium Body covered every corner inside the human body, it was simply too perfect. For critical organs, they could even form a structure similar to a "Prison Thunder Cage," [Faraday Cage], making even electrical attacks non-problematic!
Within just a few bouts, Yang Chun was covered in blood.
Damn it… If there were a weakness to Titanium Body… the weakness of Titanium Body…
A thunderbolt emerged in the distance, and then in an instant, it struck, leaving a ring of scorched marks on the grass. Li You stood in the middle like the God of Thunder, electricity dancing around him. His gaze was locked firmly on Lin Feng in front of him.
"Why?" He couldn't understand. The Body Refining Technique such as the Titanium Body required tremendous willpower to master. How could someone with such willpower become a follower of an Evil God?
It didn't make sense!
"Heh heh heh... You will understand," Lin Feng uttered a ghastly laugh. Immediately, he darted to Li You's side.
"Hmph!" Li You kicked sideways, his leg whistling through the air like a real whip. At the moment the cracking sound erupted, his foot had already struck Lin Feng's chest. The immense power penetrated Lin Feng's heart, forcing this already tough metallic organ to temporarily cease functioning.
It wasn't just you who could enhance biological electrical signals!
Lin Feng, while still in midair, adjusted his stance. However, Li You was faster. A disciple from Thunder Pavilion hunched down with his right fist raised high, flinging it like thunder. A strong magnetic field drove massive mana, turning into pure destructive force that instantly filled the Titanium Body. Thunder tore through the air, the atmosphere exploded, sending Lin Feng flying far away. Lin Feng tried to stand, but nearly fell.
Coupling the titanium element with protein to transform your entire body into an active biological alloy sure makes you impervious to strikes. Similar to a Prison Thunder Cage structure, it also protects your organs. However, your body contains too many free charges, making your resistance to elemental magnetic weak compared to an ordinary person!
The intense spiritual power fluctuation must have alerted the Cult's Witch. Li You bit her lower lip and raised her hand to shoot a seven-colored thunder into the sky. This was the signal for the attack to begin. The dozens of Foundation Establishment Disciples lurking around the village would swarm up and utterly destroy this Cult stronghold.
While Wang Qi was in the Qi Cultivation Stage, he could already tune electromagnetic waves using Heavenly Song, changing the hue of spells, as per the cosplay of the Seven Strikes of Purple Thunder. For a Guiyi Alliance disciple, this was unequivocally a fundamental skill.
Having done all that, Li You finally looked at Lin Feng in front of her and demanded, "Why, when you possess such spells, would you still turn towards the Evil God? Where is your True Heart?"
"Hehehe... Heaven and Earth will eventually perish, the universe is destined for Thermal Death..." Lin Feng said this with a grim laugh, but not a hint of joy was seen, nor the focus typical of combat, but rather a look of utter despair: "Heaven's calamity changes, meeting the End of Fortune, both heaven and earth darken, the sun and the moon lose their light... World-Purifying True Flame, Divine Lord walks on the mortal realm, boundless paradise, home of Hongyuan!"
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"Heaven's calamity changes, meeting the End of Fortune, both heaven and earth darken, the sun and the moon lose their light..."
"World-Purifying True Flame, Divine Lord walks on the mortal realm, boundless paradise, home of Hongyuan..."
As the seven-colored lightning streaked across the sky, the village, now a Cult stronghold, was in complete chaos. Everyone was trying to flee; some crying, others laughing. Yet everyone was chanting the same baffling slogan in unison.
Far from feeling solemn or sacred, it was rather terrifying.
"End of Fortune... the abolition of Daoist inheritance, the collapse of propriety, Gods and Buddhas dispersing, the sacred way no longer exists. Within the belief of Hongyuan, this is inevitable—what does this mean? What kind of psychology does it represent?" Wang Qi slowly walked through the village, now a den of ghosts. Unseen by anyone. The twisted light of Heavenly Song concealed him, and no Spiritual Sense could penetrate the strong magnetic Mana Field.
This was a routine method of tricking an unenlightened enemy. If the opponent were a Modern Cultivator versed in electromagnetic induction, there would naturally be a hundred ways to expose Wang Qi. But this Divine Tao Witch? Powerless.
Wang Qi's primary goal in venturing deeper into this area was to investigate the changes in Spirit Power here. Although Mechanical Beasts equipped with a couple of sensing spiritual prohibitions had infiltrated the area, the limited size and number of these beasts meant they could not wholly sense the spiritual energy fluctuations of an entire region. Wang Qi's Magic Robe concealed twenty-seven sensing spiritual prohibitions, which faintly formed an array, doubling the sensing capability. This gave Wang Qi another reason to delve deeper into this area.
Spiritual Energy was originally a chaotic dispersion across the dimensions of time and space. The prayers of countless people caused their spirits to throb in the same manner. These hundreds of powerful interference sources stirred this open system. The Spirit Power Field over this village closed up, collapsing towards a fixed pattern.
And all of this was projected into a high-dimensional Hilbert Space, presented to Wang Qi in a form more intuitive than sensory perception and more rigorous than mathematical analysis.
Finally, Wang Qi, as if in a void, saw a complicated function curve.
"Hongyuan..." Wang Qi murmured.
If Hongyuan is the core of the Divine Tao System of the Hongyuan Sect, then this function curve is like one of its tendrils, a segment of its root system.
Responsible for preying on the fruits of civilization or absorbing the spirit of humanity.
"Despair a bit more, be more chaotic!" Watching the surrounding Cultists, Wang Qi couldn't help thinking, "Your chaos and despair are the nourishment that nurtures this function curve, a clear independent variable."
"As long as that Hongyuan reveals its true nature..."
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"What nonsense!" Li You was greatly annoyed by the opponent's baffling chant. While the opponent was still unable to move under the effect of the strong magnetic field, like lightning, she struck seven times, driving seven electromagnetically powered Mana into the opponent's meridians, turning into a strange current that altered the way the opponent's Mana operated. Without the enhancement of Mana, even the strength of the biological titanium alloy was mediocre, and might not withstand the slicing Sword Qi of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
Crack... Lin Feng stepped back twice, his body's Mana suppressed. During his retreat, the high electric potential caused several blue electric sparks to appear between his feet and the ground. But he didn't surrender. Instead, he charged at Li You. His hands gathered a Thunder Strike, ready to kick her away first before delivering a heavy Thunder Strike. However, he felt a mysterious force quickly nullifying his Protective Gang Qi. Startled, Lin Feng immediately grabbed her hands, the alloy conducting the electricity into the ground, causing everyone around to feel their legs go numb and cry out in alarm, jumping back to avoid the powerful electricity. Lin Feng used a wrestling technique only seen in the Mortal World to lock Li You down.
Li You was shocked and furious. Lin Feng's power was rapidly draining his Mana, and the hastily invoked Thunder Strike couldn't hurt him. Yang Chun wanted to help, but Li You shouted, "Strange Metal Power, Refining Blood like Syrup! Don't come any closer!"
In Shenzhou, radioactive metals were known as "Strange Metals," and this madman used a method of Refining Blood like Syrup to integrate radioactive elements into his blood! It's known that formerly, this was mainly done using lead or mercury to increase body mass and gain stronger kinetic energy.
Usually, his Mana was used to block and absorb radiation, ensuring an endless supply of Mana. But if he himself was restrained, his Mana bound, then this radioactive force would become a deadly weapon!
Seeing Li You on the verge of a dire situation, while Immortal Alliance Foundation Establishment Cultivators around were panicking, a pink glow transformed into a spear and harshly pierced through Lin Feng's brain. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome you to QiDian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)