Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 517 - 500: One-Foot Sword

Wang Yunbo’s expression changed slightly as he took out a demonized emblem from his pocket.

Zhou Leng recognized this; the Cyan Flame had sent one before.

This is a simplified version. Although it can’t transmit a large amount of information over long distances, as long as one party presses it, the recipient within a certain range will receive a prompt.

"There’s a change in the team stationed at Divine Power Land, I need to return immediately."

Zhou Leng glanced at the vast ruins of buildings in the distance and said, "I’ll just practice my punches for a bit and come back. If I encounter danger, I’ll call for help loudly, and you’ll hear it."

Wang Yunbo took out a demonized emblem from the Magic Spirit Bag and handed it to Zhou Leng, saying, "Take this, press it hard if you meet danger, and we will all receive it."

"Alright."

Wang Yunbo headed back while Zhou Leng put the demonized emblem into his pocket and ran towards the direction of the Giant City ruins.

After running dozens of kilometers, far from the camps of various races, Zhou Leng observed all around.

This area was flat, like a plaza, with only a statue not far away remaining with two legs.

Surrounded by tall buildings, the area was obscured from view, so no one would discover him.

So, Zhou Leng, carrying the withered dragon head, fully operated the Star Gazing Technique and began to practice his punches.

Starting with the basic Overlapping Waves Palm, he practiced slowly at first, then faster.

When practicing slowly, it looked no different from before until he practiced quickly.

Boom... Boom...

One palm after another, each strike supersonic.

Circular white shockwaves surrounded his arm, constantly exploding with repeated booms.

After finishing the Overlapping Waves Palm, he began to practice the Celestial Tide Palm.

The Celestial Tide Palm, a palm technique of the Ancient River Sect, was more powerful and imposing.

However, the sound of the shockwaves was smaller because some of the power was integrated into the moves, forming destructive force rather than dispersing.

In the past, Zhou Leng’s perception was not clear, but now upon personally seeing the shockwaves fade and the sound diminish, he suddenly had a great realization.

As he repeatedly performed the moves, the techniques of Celestial Tide Palm continuously flashed in his mind, with light and shadow flowing.

Zhou Leng stood in place for over ten minutes, suddenly pushing his right palm forward.

Rumble...

Thunder erupted from the flat ground, with shockwaves vibrating.

The Celestial Tide Palm’s killing move "Thousand Tides" became fully formed.

A single move, Thousand Seas, integrated the Overlapping Waves Palm.

A single move, Thousand Tides, unified the Celestial Tide Palm techniques.

To succeed in executing a killing move meant mastering this martial arts technique to the highest degree.

Zhou Leng smiled slightly and began to cultivate the Void-Breaking Finger.

He aligned his right index and middle fingers like a sword, circulating True Qi.

Hiss...

A whole foot-long pale white True Qi burst forth, cutting through the air with a constant hissing sound.

The Finger Sword reached one foot, marking the Great Success of the Void-Breaking Finger.

Zhou Leng felt greatly relieved, having been somewhat worried about the slow progress in cultivating the Void-Breaking Finger.

Now, he realized that it was purely due to insufficient body and True Qi.

Now that his body and True Qi were strengthened, the Finger Sword Qi immediately broke through to one foot.

Zhou Leng walked forward continuously, his right hand forming a sword with aligned fingers, and True Qi spewing from his fingertips, beginning to cultivate the Void-Breaking Finger.

True Qi like a sword, cutting through the air with a hissing sound, as if breaking through the void.

The fingertip sword Qi became more stable and slowly condensed into a sword shape, becoming increasingly powerful.

Suddenly, the Finger Sword Qi scattered like shattered white flowers, blooming around him.

Zhou Leng turned around and looked behind him.

Four green-skinned orcs stood not far away.

One of them was unexpectedly the Great Innate Manxinghu he had encountered in Shuizhou Demon City.

Only back then, Zhou Leng was masked.

"Human Martial Artist Zhou Leng, right?" Manxinghu took the initiative to speak, slowly approaching.

The other three Great Innate Beastmen advanced together.

Unlike usual beastmen, the eyes of the four were slightly red, their bloodlines boiling as if they had just finished a battle.

Zhou Leng remembered that nine beastmen had died and five of them were dead, so these four beastmen...

Zhou Leng remained exceptionally calm, saying, "At this time, you four wouldn’t come to hunt me down unless the Demon stirred you up, right? Was it that volcanic giant turtle, the Cracked Shell of the Volcano?"

Manxinghu suddenly furrowed his brow, slowing half a beat, falling behind the other three beastmen.

This voice, he would remember it to his death.

That human Martial Artist, later called the Sea Siren Slayer and Arrow Holder.

A Bone Forging Martial Artist, with terrifying injury recovery ability, grinding down the Great Innate Beastman to a temper-less state, afraid of encountering a human Innate surrounding, forcing him to flee.

This was Manxinghu’s disgrace, one he never dared speak of publicly.

Unexpectedly, this person turned out to be Zhou Leng, who made it to the hunting list of the Celestial Calamity Army.

Originally, with exactly four Innate besieging him this time, he should have been happy, yet for some reason, from the first glance of this person, Manxinghu felt something was off.

He couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong, merely squinting to observe.

The redness in his eyes gradually faded.

This person, his skin compared to the last time, now had a faint layer of glow. Although extremely faint, it felt completely different.

Not like an ornament, more like a terrifying defensive force.

No accident, this human’s flesh recovery ability was stronger than last time.

Moreover, last time it was Bone Forging, capable of countering one beastman Innate, now it was Muscle Stage, with a reduced dragon skull on his back.

Having absorbed so much strength, can he face four beastmen now?

Among the Great Innate beasts, the most powerful, Blood Axe Hoof, was not inferior to Xu Ming, being the Son of the Demigod!

But Blood Axe Hoof hadn’t entered the Broken Heaven Bone.

Even having one orc genius today entered the Broken Heaven Bone, yet died in the Divine Power Trial.

If that orc genius were here, Manxinghu wouldn’t hesitate, the combined force of five would surely kill this person.

But now, the other three beastmen were about at his strength level, with the strongest only slightly stronger.

"Phew..." 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Manxinghu took a deep breath.

Don’t scare yourself!

Even if his strength is already the same as mine, he can’t possibly defeat four people.

How could we fail? At worst, it’ll be a stalemate!

Mangxinghu said, "This human is very powerful, don’t underestimate him." As he spoke, his pace slowed by half a beat, falling half a step behind.

An orc sneered, "Humans only play tricks; their strength is nothing."

"That’s right, Lie Jia Zhiyan is correct. Our comrades’ tragic deaths are probably related to the false information released by humans!"

"Take this human’s head as a tribute to our comrades."

"Beast God, to bravery!"

"Beast God, to bravery!"

The three Great Innate Beastmen all burst into crimson flames, their powerful auras twisting the air and creating immense pressure.

Only then did Mangxinghu use his power.

Zhou Leng watched Mangxinghu’s small movements and recalled he once said that green-skinned orcs had defective brains.

Now it might need a slight correction: most green-skins have no brains, but occasionally, some with genetic mutations have fully developed ones.

Bang!

The three beastmen crushed the ground and charged at Zhou Leng.

Mangxinghu followed them.

Facing four Great Innate Beastmen, Zhou Leng stepped forward to meet them.

If it were the infamous Blood Axe leading three beastmen, they’d definitely turn and run.

But what could four ordinary innate beastmen use to break through the completed cultivation of the Taiqing Sea Robe!

Zhou Leng took a step forward, and a semi-transparent water-blue robe appeared around him, adhering to his skin.

A vortex gently rotated in his chest, and light shimmered around him.

Upon seeing this familiar body-protecting divine skill, Mangxinghu’s knees went weak, and he slowed another step.

He was way too familiar with this power; he couldn’t win, simply couldn’t.

Moreover, this time the body-protecting divine skill was even more solid than before, clearly not on the same level.

Mangxinghu turned his head, looked around, and etched the surrounding environment into his mind.

Both sides cracked the ground and rapidly approached each other.

The four beastmen spread out like hunting lions, attacking Zhou Leng from four directions.

Zhou Leng scanned the four of them, first disregarding Mangxinghu who was already on guard, and focused on the most imposing Great Innate Beastman.

This beastman was half a head taller than Mangxinghu, clad in thick armor, wielding a legendary giant hammer.

Amidst booming sounds, the two sides came closer, and closer.

"Die!"

The four beastmen attacked together, Mangxinghu was half a beat slower, ready to retract his force and change direction at any moment.

Zhou Leng seemed oblivious to the other three, heading straight for the strongest beastman, who grinned, brandishing his giant hammer at him.

In an instant, Zhou Leng’s final step shattered the ground, with a great pit collapsing behind his heel, sending debris flying.

Zhou Leng propelled himself at the beastman at near sound speed.

The four beastmen were momentarily stunned.

Underestimated him!

Too fast, this human is too fast.

Their weapons had just been raised, barely beginning to fall, when Zhou Leng arrived in front of the first beastman.

Leveraging his speed advantage and their underestimation, Zhou Leng delivered an almost unimpeded palm strike.

Ten Thousand Tides, Mountain-Separating Bull-Striking Force.

Zhou Leng’s right palm blasted out, launching a white shockwave with a speed even Great Innate Beastmen couldn’t comprehend, landing between the first beastman’s chest and abdomen.

The four beastmen were simultaneously astonished, yet secretly relieved. It was a Sanctuary Armor; though not legendary, it could withstand a blow from a human at the Muscle Stage without a problem.

However, the momentum of this palm was somewhat overwhelming, resembling the collapse of a thousand mountains and seas.

Mangxinghu squinted; this palm far exceeded before, even surpassing him.

Bang!

The palm landed solidly.

The armor slightly dented but did not crack.

The beastman’s smile surfaced for but an instant before the struck beastman flew backward, and Zhou Leng ducked the remaining three beastmen’s attacks, pursuing the retreating beastman.

The other three beastmen hurriedly attacked Zhou Leng’s back.

In mid-air, the beastman suddenly opened his mouth and spewed a spray of blood, the mist mixing with fragments of organs.

Including pieces of the heart.

"Something’s wrong..." Mangxinghu went ice-cold.

A single palm strike hitting a careless Great Innate, spitting blood was understandable.

But to have even the heart shattered, this power...

Subsequently, the three beastmen saw the beastman spewing blood while flying, his exposed limbs and head’s skin undulating like waves, transmitting to the ends.

With each wave, it seemed as though the entire body suffered an impact.

In mid-air, the beastman’s skin suddenly exploded, the flesh beneath shredded to chunks, exposing stark white bone, flesh and blood splattering.

Mangxinghu felt his scalp tingle.

Before the bleeding beastman hit the ground, Zhou Leng caught up, sweeping his fingers with sword-like Qi across the neck.

Swoosh...

A light sound, the body split in two.

The three beastmen froze momentarily; even if carelessness was a factor, but...

Zhou Leng turned and charged at the next beastman.

"Howl..."

The remaining three beastmen, sensing death’s threat, no longer dared to be careless, and instantly entered berserk state, sacrificing lifespan to unleash bloodline power.

Their aura rose a full tier.

In an instant, their force became enough to crush their prior selves.

Among the three beastmen, differences emerged.

Two beastmen, after unleashing their berserk power, rushed towards Zhou Leng.

Mangxinghu, after unleashing his berserk power, sped towards the beastman camp faster than when he came.