Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 511 - 494: Blood Sphere
Zhou Leng spoke, without using any techniques, just channeling all his strength, wielding the vast Star Gazing True Qi, his Qi Blood vibrating, and unleashed a punch.
The punch exceeded the speed of sound, exploding the air, forming a visible circular white mist.
"You..." The Blue-skinned Sea Siren had no time to argue, quickly casting a spell, a massive water wall forming in front of it.
Boom!
Zhou Leng punched through the water wall, smashing into the Great Innate Sea Siren.
In an instant, the necklace on the Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s neck shattered, and its body was sent flying backward.
Zhou Leng stomped on the rooftop, with a booming sound, blasting a big hole, his entire body like an arrow, shooting towards the Blue-skinned Sea Siren.
"You court death!" The Blue-skinned Sea Siren roared in mid-air, raising a wave tens of meters high, like a world-ending tsunami, crashing towards Zhou Leng.
Zhou Leng intended to feel the Sea Siren’s power, and without dodging, he pushed his palms forward.
The Celestial Tide Palm of the Ancient River Sect.
At the moment his palms touched the wave, Zhou Leng felt a misperception; the once unfamiliar wave turned from foe to friend, under his control.
A spherical wave, ten meters in diameter, instantly formed at the center of the wave, where the palms struck.
Zhou Leng’s palm power completely merged into the water sphere, which then, like a cannonball, flew backward, smashing towards the Blue-skinned Sea Siren.
The water sphere was already extremely fast, the Blue-skinned Sea Siren couldn’t comprehend this strange power and retreated a bit slowly, being hit hard.
Boom!
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s shriek mixed with the sound of the exploding water sphere echoed across the sky.
Zhou Leng fixed his gaze and saw the Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s body crash through a wall, falling into a Giant’s house.
He had previously tested the buildings here, and despite countless millennia of weathering, the hardness of these constructions was comparable to top-tier concrete buildings.
"That water sphere just now..."
Zhou Leng vaguely felt that thanks to the Star Gazing True Energy, the nature of his True Qi had undergone a peculiar transformation.
Ordinary True Qi could only control the body’s power.
But now this True Qi seemed to control the power of heaven and earth to some extent.
This was originally something only a Grandmaster or Martial Saint could achieve.
In a flash of thought, Zhou Leng rushed in through the big hole the Blue-skinned Sea Siren had made.
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren, whose body was all bloody, shouted: "Our sea sirens’ vision is more adapted for underwater, in the air we can’t see people clearly from afar, equivalent to nearsightedness in humans! I wasn’t provoking..."
Zhou Leng struck out with a palm, the Blue-skinned Sea Siren rolled to flee.
"The fight’s already on."
Zhou Leng gave the Blue-skinned Sea Siren no chance, relentlessly pursuing.
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren turned pale with fear, not daring to take even a single blow directly.
At the eighth strike, Zhou Leng, using the Celestial Dragon Flash, delivered a palm at a speed the Blue-skinned Sea Siren couldn’t evade.
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren had no choice but to counter with a palm.
Bam...
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s arm exploded into fine blood mist, and before it could scream, Zhou Leng’s large hand pressed on its forehead, True Qi gushing out, like a dragon’s claw closing.
Bam!
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s head was crushed, blood splattered, eyeballs fell to the ground, and teeth scattered.
The Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s aura suddenly condensed, then quickly dissipated.
Zhou Leng collected the spoils from the Blue-skinned Sea Siren’s body and turned to leave.
From the corpse, a transparent blood sphere, about the size of a ping-pong ball, floated out, hovering behind Zhou Leng.
Zhou Leng could not see it at all and continued running towards the direction of the Damaged Heavenly Bone.
Earlier at the shore of Tai Lake in Shuizhou Demon City, he encountered a Great Innate Beastman named Barbaric Star Tiger, whose strength was similar to this Blue-skinned Sea Siren.
Both of them were relatively strong Great Innates, but far from the top-tier.
Last time, Zhou Leng completely relied on the Star Phoenix Rejuvenation Technique’s flesh-regenerative ability, exchanging injuries for advantage, draining Barbaric Star Tiger’s strength, almost drawing even, eventually scaring Barbaric Star Tiger away with his powerful regenerative ability.
If he encountered him again now, he would end up like this Blue-skinned Sea Siren.
Zhou Leng twisted his neck left and right.
The fight was not fully satisfying, he needed new opponents to test his new realm.
Zhou Leng looked ahead.
Almost, almost there.
As long as he advanced to Grandmaster, he wouldn’t need to worry about so much.
The so-called great families are just Grandmaster forces.
After advancing to Grandmaster, everything could be resolved using Grandmaster’s methods.
Elder Song’s grudge from when his body was crippled, could be resolved by a Grandmaster.
The grudges accumulated over the years with his uncle Ma Xingkong could be resolved likewise.
The blood of the Heavenly Bone in Zhou Leng’s eyes steadily rose.
The power of the Damaged Heavenly Bone silently eroded everyone.
The gradually intensifying battle intent rose in the hearts of everyone within a radius of several thousand kilometers, wavering.
After running hundreds more kilometers, a shower of blood-colored arrows tore through the sky, flying towards him.
Turning his head, he saw a Great Innate Hundred-Eyed Bow launching a sneak attack from several hundred meters away.
Zhou Leng, using the Celestial Dragon Flash, adjusted his direction with exquisite stepping technique while running at high speed, evading the arrow storm, charging towards the Hundred-Eyed Bow.
The Hundred-Eyed Bow missed the mark and fled immediately.
Zhou Leng, each step leaving large pits in the ground, chased down the Hundred-Eyed Bow.
With only three moves, a palm shattered the chest and abdomen of the Hundred-Eyed Bow.
The Hundred-Eyed Bow ultimately was not skilled in close combat.
Zhou Leng bent down to collect its Magic Spirit Bag.
At the same time, two transparent blood spheres flew out from the body of the Hundred-Eyed Bow and hovered behind Zhou Leng.
This time, even as the transparent blood spheres flew past him, Zhou Leng still couldn’t see them.
Zhou Leng continued forward, constantly encountering Sea Sirens, Demons, and Beastmen.
Unlike the Demons he first encountered, some of these creatures seemed more frenzied and belligerent, attacking on sight.
Gradually, the number of blood spheres behind him increased.
When the blood spheres increased to ten, Zhou Leng suspiciously glanced around.
The strange aura he sensed earlier vanished in a flash, perhaps it was just an illusion.
Zhou Leng continued running forward, and slowly, most of the Demons he encountered were wounded.
Their eyes were blood-red, looking even more ferocious, yet strangely, most would just take a close look and then turn away.
It took Zhou Leng quite a while to realize why.
His body was too clean, without a single injury.
Being so close to the Ruins of the Fallen Heaven Bones, in an area of intense fighting, an unharmed body would cause any sensible Great Innate Master to be suspicious, only foolish Beastmen would mistake him for easy prey.
As he got closer to the Ruins of the Fallen Heaven Bones, the blood tint in his vision accumulated to half.
Like half a glass of red wine.
Suddenly, sounds of fighting came from ahead.
Zhou Leng sprinted over, circled around a corner, and looked toward the source of the noise.
Four human martial artists were besieging two Demons.
Both sides were at the Great Innate level.
The human martial artists held the upper hand, and the two Demons were slowly retreating.
These were two Winged Horned Demons, with four horns on their heads and a pair of fleshy wings on their backs, resembling standing black giant sheep, over three meters tall.
Under the Innate level, ordinary human martial artists found it very difficult to match against Demons.
It’s tough even for those at the early Innate stage, but starting from the Great Innate level, human martial artists, having been honed through countless trials, were no longer inferior to ordinary Demons.
Zhou Leng scanned the four people.
Two of them should be martial artists from Dragon Country, one of whom participated in the siege of the Undying Knight at Shuizhou Base.
The other two resembled martial artists from the countries of the Southern Ocean.
After Dragon Country ascended to become the foremost nation on Blue Star, only the Elephant Country and Xiong Country still contended for dominance, while other surrounding small countries had completely given up, radically changing their attitude towards Dragon Country, reverting to the way they treated a sovereign nation centuries ago.
The countries of the Southern Ocean acknowledged Dragon Country’s hegemony, forming an alliance with it, and in the absence of the interference of the Demon Worship Sect, they consistently took Dragon Country as their leader.
The four of them quickly noticed him, casting a guarded glance before continuing their battle.
Zhou Leng loudly said: "I am Zhou Leng, from Ru City..."
With a thought in his mind, he added, "I am a friend of Xu Ming, entering from the Giant Dragon World. We agreed to join forces on the Great Battlefield to jointly resist the Demons."
Hearing that he was a friend of Xu Ming, the faces of the two from Dragon Country eased, and one of them smiled and said, "Join us, let’s kill these two demon spawn. But you don’t seem to be a Great Innate, so it’s best you focus on defense."
Suddenly, the two Demons splattered blood all over their bodies, forming a blood mist with a radius of dozens of meters.
"Be careful!"
All four of them retreated in unison.
The two Demons broke through the blood mist and dashed away into the distance.
"Forget it, we can’t catch up."
"What a pity."
The four walked over and briefly introduced themselves.
The two from Dragon Country were named Wang Yunbo and Yu Xiao.
The two from the Southern Ocean were named Ruan Xiangnan and Hain.
Wang Yunbo glanced at Zhou Leng, saying, "The name Zhou Leng is occasionally mentioned in Ru City and Shuizhou Demon City, but how did you advance to the Muscle Stage so quickly? From your aura, it seems stable, not like it was forced."
"Not bad, another rare young prodigy," Yu Xiao nodded in approval.
The other two from the Southern Ocean looked at Zhou Leng, a bit wary, yet also curious, as it was uncommon for someone so young to be at the Muscle Innate level in the Southern Ocean.
"I’m just in the Muscle Stage, can’t compare with you Great Innate senior brothers," Zhou Leng said humbly.
"You’ll soon advance to Great Innate too, we’re pretty much the same. Let’s go, when Wang Xiong passed through earlier, he told us there’s a Humanoid Alliance Camp in the direction of the Ruins of the Fallen Heaven Bones. It’ll be safer there."
The five of them set out together, running towards the Ruins of the Fallen Heaven Bones.
All five deliberately kept a certain distance.
The four of them were all a bit curious about Zhou Leng, initially observing him clandestinely. Even on the run, one could glean much from his movements.
Soon, they discovered that the young prodigy, though showing no extraordinary traits, possessed an exceptionally steady stance and aura, startlingly calm.
He seemed like a disciple of a famous master.
On the road, the four began to chat, with Wang Yunbo mentioning the recent Celestial Ladder United Examination and rumors he had heard about Zhou Leng.
In the end, Wang Yunbo said, "After the Celestial Ladder United Examination and the young warrior battle, there was no news of you, not even during the recent battle of Shuizhou. We didn’t expect you to advance to the Muscle Innate level in such a short time."
The expressions of the two from Dragon Country were normal, while the two from the Southern Ocean looked puzzled.
Because Demons and the Demon Worship Sect occasionally disguised themselves as human martial artists.
Zhou Leng said, "Over the past few months, I haven’t been on Blue Star, I’ve basically been wandering in the Dwarf World, Giant World, Tree-man World, and Demon Spirit World. I got lucky, had some strange encounters, and advanced to Great Innate."
"I see. Is Xu Ming still as steady as ever?"
"Steady? He called us the ’Twin Disasters of Tiger and Bear’ right in front of us, which left us speechless," Zhou Leng said.
Wang Yunbo and Yu Xiao exchanged a glance, nodding lightly.
"Since you’re a friend of Xu Ming, you’re our friend as well," Wang Yunbo concluded.
Ruan Xiangnan whispered, "This Zhou Leng friend, we also admire Senior Brother Xu Ming, but you’ve advanced so quickly, you should not only be famous in Dragon Country, but even renowned on Blue Star, yet we in the Southern Ocean have never heard of you."
Zhou Leng glanced at the two from the Southern Ocean and slowly said, "Because you’re lucky."
The faces of the two from the Southern Ocean changed slightly, but they didn’t react. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Wang Yunbo laughed heartily and said, "No wonder you’re Xu Ming’s friend, that temper suits him perfectly."
