Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 414 - 399: Great Advancement

Zhou Leng recalled the legends and records within the divine texts, lifting his head to gaze at the sky above the cave.

Stars spread out, brilliant and beautiful.

In his eyes, the reflection of stars throughout the sky.

"The inheritance of the Starry Tree-man is one that people love..."

Zhou Leng never thought that life inheritance could be so warm.

But then he thought maybe life inheritance has always been warm, but he simply forgot.

The old voice of the Tree-man sounded again.

"Once you’ve completed one-tenth of your life refinement, you may open the second high-tier inheritance."

A flash of white light appeared before Zhou Leng’s eyes, and he found himself in a vast passage, unknown of its exact location.

"One-tenth? It’s not thirty million cells, but thirty trillion cells, now only ten million..."

Zhou Leng dressed, waiting for Silver Lake Moon, while recalling the process of life refinement.

At first glance, communicating with one’s cells seems trivial.

But this deep communication with oneself bridges a lasting connection between consciousness and body.

Beginning martial arts perception.

The strength of the body increased significantly.

Body activity...

"Hmm?"

Zhou Leng thought he sensed wrong, repeatedly sensing, both surprised and delighted.

Since the body activity reached around 20 times, the enhancement obviously slowed.

Because the higher the activity, the harder the enhancement.

Theoretically, his blood-shocked body, increasing body activity up to 25 times is the limit.

But now, body activity increased to 36 times.

Glancing at the demonized watch, only a day and night had passed.

The key is, the body has not fully absorbed the power of life gel, still adapting to this power, growing slowly.

A body with 36 times activity has surpassed a Tree-man, even surpassing all ordinary lives in the Ten Realms.

Even the current Deep Dark Fury might have high body strength, but its body activity doesn’t reach this level.

This level has begun to transform qualitatively.

Body activity doesn’t only enhance the flesh’s recovery ability.

Vision, hearing, sensation, all aspects have distinctly improved.

"I feel my perception seems to have improved too, after all, the brain has also been soaked in life gel..."

Zhou Leng’s heart itched, beginning cultivation in Celestial Tide Palm.

At first, felt the body somewhat stiff, the technique’s weight unsteady.

As the palm technique progressed, both consciousness and body, understanding and mastery over Celestial Tide Palm swiftly soared.

Celestial Tide Palm is a stellar martial art, cultivating at the Great Success stage is extremely slow.

In just ten minutes, Celestial Tide Palm advanced from Great Success to Perfection.

"This feeling..."

Zhou Leng finishes cultivation, seeing no one around, practicing Flying Whale Chapter from Ten Reversed Beast Fist.

Starting from the first style.

First style completed thirty-six cycles.

Second style completed thirty-six cycles.

Third style...

Fourth style...

Tenth style completed thirty-six cycles.

In an instant, the ten styles of Flying Whale Chapter turned into animations within his mind.

Zhou Leng began cultivating the dynamic Flying Whale Chapter.

A step forward, like a whale breaching the sea.

Another step forward, like a whale diving into the sea.

Each step resounded, echoing thunderously on the ground.

Zhou Leng completed a set of Flying Whale Chapter, exhaling a long breath.

Exhaling like an arrow, deeply piercing into the wall.

Sweat soaked Zhou Leng’s body, his skin and muscles gently twitching, like a swarm of shrimps emerging from water.

The body received immense strengthening, madly absorbing internal power.

Having just undergone life refinement, energy within the body constantly poured into muscles, enhancing them.

"Ten Reversed Beast Fist is a training method, primarily connecting body and technique, enabling better exertion of power. Originally, it takes a long time to cultivate."

"My body’s activity reached an extremely high level, the body even formed a kind of evolution, the originally difficult Flying Whale Chapter was now completed in one breath."

"Previously, after finishing Flying Whale Chapter, it would take a long time for the body to recover, but now recovery takes at most ten minutes. To recover faster, just eating an Ancient Tree Fossil would do."

Zhou Leng intended to carefully sense the changes in his body, suddenly turning his head, vaguely sensing traces of a spell and probing in the passage ahead.

Thinking it over, Silver Lake Moon’s trial time couldn’t be longer than his, hers was just an ordinary inheritance.

After the trial ended, guessing people are randomly teleported to a passage near the mural.

Looking again in the direction of the spell, he rushed to the other side quickly.

At the same time, a team that had searched for Radiance of the Bright Candle near the mural found Zhou Leng, then quickly sent messages.

Soon, all teams received the news.

"Surround Zhou Leng!"

Radiance of the Bright Candle ordered, and teams in various places started running.

After a day and night’s search, they were intimately familiar with the nearby passages.

Zhou Leng kept running, a team of Demons suddenly appeared in front of him.

"It’s Zhou Leng."

"Quick, send a message."

"Poor Zhou Leng, he still charges forth, unaware our team includes an Upper General, right?"

The Demons in the team glanced at a chain-wearer among them, an Upper General equivalent to a human Bone Forger Innate, higher than blood-shocked Zhou Leng by a minor realm.

The chain-wielder smiled at Zhou Leng and said to the others, "If I accidentally kill him, you must help me explain to the Radiance of the Bright Candle that he rushed over by himself."

"Of course." The other demons smiled as they looked at Zhou Leng approaching.

The chain-wielder spoke with disdain, and the iron chains behind him, like a cloak, trembled and clattered.

All the chains floated into the air, flying from the back to the front, the ends of the chains pointing toward Zhou Leng.

On the chains, there were shriveled heads bound, some human, some demon, some dwarf, and even a giant’s head.

A full twenty-four long chains formed a sphere, protecting the chain-wielder.

The chain-wielder stood still with his arms crossed.

The chain-wielder watched Zhou Leng get closer and smiled, "Zhou Leng, I suggest you stop in front and wait for the Radiance of the Bright Candle. Otherwise, I won’t mind adding another head to my chains. Don’t even mention the Blood Shock Martial Artist, there are also two Bone Forger human martial artists on these chains..."

When they were fifty meters apart, Zhou Leng stomped the ground, dust rising around him, and dashed forward.

The speed, over 240 meters per second.

Except for the chain-wielder, none of the demons reacted in time.

The chain-wielder did react, but he was more puzzled in his heart, how could Zhou Leng be this fast?

Even a Bone Forger Innate Martial Artist might not be so fast.

He became wary, as twelve chains rapidly swirled around him to form a strong defense.

The other twelve chains shot out like venomous snakes from twelve directions.

The ends of the chains, like spearheads, whistled through the air, aiming at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng stretched out both arms, unfolding them to the sides at an unimaginable speed, like arms sweeping through the sea.

This move used the transformations of the Overlapping Waves Palm and Celestial Tide Palm techniques.

Surging True Qi wrapped around his arms, which acted like whirling vortices, and in the blink of an eye, all twelve chains were entangled and seized in his hands.

"Not bad." The chain-wielder remarked indifferently and was about to activate the chains to sever Zhou Leng’s arms.

The other demons all smiled, having seen too many martial artists die this way at the hands of the chain-wielder.

Zhou Leng grabbed six chains in each hand, and then True Qi surged and both arms went through Blood Shock.

More than three times the True Qi infused into his arms.

His arms, like giant pythons, jerked violently, transmitting the dark force along the chains.

The chain-wielder’s body suddenly lifted off the ground, losing balance, and slammed heavily into the ground.

Zhou Leng yanked backward fiercely.

Riiiip...

The connection points of the twelve chains at the chain-wielder’s back were severed, flesh tore open, blood sprayed, revealing broken bones.

The chains were connected to his bones.

The chain-wielder screamed in agony, Zhou Leng released his grip and rushed forward, once again like fishing for the moon in the well, seized the remaining twelve chains, and yanked hard.

Riiiip...

The last of the chains broke free as well.

The whole back of the chain-wielder was torn open, the bones inside connected to the chains completely severed.

The chain-wielder lay on the ground, wailing in pain.

All the demons stood dumbfounded, unmoving.

Zhou Leng grabbed the chain-wielder’s neck and lifted him.

"I ask, you answer."

Blood filled the chain-wielder’s mouth, looking at Zhou Leng, eyes flashing with awe.

Demons are the most frenzied but they also adhere most to the laws of animals.

Respect the strong and disdain the weak.

"I... signed a contract... can’t talk..." Blood bubbled in the chain-wielder’s mouth.

"You’re useless." Zhou Leng clenched his right hand, breaking the chain-wielder’s neck, his head tilted and fell to the ground.

Zhou Leng looked at the Demon Warlock.

The Demon Warlock slowly said, "All our accompanying Demon Warlocks have already signed contracts."

"Oh." Zhou Leng reached out and squeezed his head lightly, the skull burst, brain matter and blood splattering everywhere.

"Anyone who hasn’t signed a contract?" Zhou Leng continued the interrogation.

Soon, some information was extracted.

A day ago, the mural cave collapsed, forcing everyone to leave.

Aiden used the excuse of avoiding the Blood of Tyranny and the Mountain River Celestial Peak to leave the vicinity of the mural cave, in reality forsaking the chase of Zhou Leng, which sparked the Radiance of the Bright Candle’s displeasure.

The Radiance of the Bright Candle gathered his men and heavily bribed other Demon Worship Sect members and demons to come nearby.

If a Demon Grandmaster wasn’t being chased everywhere by the Blood of Tyranny, the Radiance of the Bright Candle might have even offered a high price to invite a Demon Grandmaster to search.

Now the demon forces have assembled, with more and more Bone Forger and Muscle demons.

Zhou Leng requested a map, but the map was only stored within the magic of the Demon Warlock, inaccessible.

Zhou Leng ran while estimating his own strength.

If it were Bone Forger Innate, there’s no problem.

If it were Muscle Innate, unless the opponent was a tremendous genius, Zhou Leng could handle it.

After all, having cultivated the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique and inherited from the Starry Tree-man, even if only a little, his body’s recovery ability far surpassed before.

While Zhou Leng was running, he heard a scattered sound of footsteps ahead.

As he turned a corner, a familiar figure came into view.

Covered in a leather jacket, Tu Rong stumbled forward, his right arm broken, body covered in wounds, head full of blood, eyes unfocused.

His body swayed like smoke in the wind.

The once minor delinquent, now Innate, appeared extremely weak.

"Tu Rong?"

The Martial Guard Department had many informants, and having known him before, Zhou Leng had a deep impression of him.

"Zhou Leng? Thank goodness..."

Tu Rong pulled out a phone, walking and coughing up blood, "I’ll send the map to you, you need to run quickly, the Radiance of the Bright Candle wants to kill you."

"Were you looking for me?" Zhou Leng asked in confusion, not understanding why Tu Rong was risking everything to help him, could it be due to his identity as a Martial Guard?

"Add me as a friend, quick." Tu Rong showed his friend code.

Zhou Leng was puzzled, but knowing his identity as a Martial Guard Department informant, he didn’t doubt. While adding him as a friend, he said, "You rest first, no rush."