Stellar Transformation-Chapter 389: Episode 13 - 9 Green Guard

Great Ape Emperor and Bull Demon Emperor were both looking at Qin Yu, awaiting his response.

Invincible in defense, victory can only be achieved by knocking down the opponent’s long stick.

Qin Yu felt somewhat anxious, as he was most proud of his own defense. However, facing an opponent who was hailed as invincible in defense, he simply couldn’t compare. Could Qin Yu surpass the understanding of combat through the second spear technique’s ultimate form?

Suddenly, Qin Yu gritted his teeth.

"Ah, Hou Fei has come out," the voice of the Bull Demon Emperor drew Qin Yu’s attention. At this moment, both the Bull Demon Emperor and the Great Ape Emperor turned their gaze towards the open-air platform outside the Inheritance Forbidden Land’s passage.

Qin Yu also looked over. A familiar figure was staggering onto the open-air platform, his body still covered with bloodstains—it was Hou Fei, whom he hadn’t seen for many years.

"Feifei!" Qin Yu couldn’t help but call out.

However, as if Hou Fei hadn’t heard, he simply sat down cross-legged by himself, with the Black Stick lying flat across his knees. Hou Fei sat there with his eyes closed, his hands tightly gripping the Black Stick.

The brisk wind blew, and Hou Fei didn’t move an inch.

"Feifei!" Qin Yu became anxious. After so many years, a surge of overwhelming emotions welled up from the depths of his heart.

"Qin Yu, stop shouting. Hou Fei can’t hear you, nor can he see you. Have you forgotten... The entire Inheritance Forbidden Land is completely enwrapped by the Heart-clearing Wind. Once inside, it’s like stepping into a small world; he can’t see anything of the outside world, nor hear any noise," Grand Ape Emperor Sun Yuan interrupted.

Only then did Qin Yu come to his senses.

He then gave a self-mocking laugh, realizing he had forgotten the unique nature of the Heart-clearing Wind in the heat of the moment.

Qin Yu stared intently at Hou Fei’s current state.

The Hou Fei of today, compared to the past, had less mischief and more perseverance. Sitting cross-legged on the stone platform in the open air, he was like a stone sculpture, motionless in the blowing wind.

"Feifei..." Qin Yu noticed from Hou Fei’s pale complexion and the fresh blood stained on his body that Hou Fei must have sustained serious injuries.

Qin Yu looked at the Great Ape Emperor and frowned, "Great Ape Emperor, Sir, has Feifei been seriously injured in the Inheritance Forbidden Land all this time?"

Great Ape Emperor ’Sun Yuan’ casually smiled and said, "In the Inheritance Forbidden Land, one must go through intense battles each time. If care is not taken, there is even a possibility of losing one’s life. The individuals sent out in the Inheritance Forbidden Land have absolutely no mercy. Hou Fei fights once or twice every day and except for successfully defeating the first set stick technique level, all other times end with severe injuries from his failures."

Qin Yu was shocked.

Once or twice every day? Knowing that each of these life-and-death battles consumes substantial Heart Power, Qin Yu knew that sustaining such frequent battles would be very painful even for himself.

"Every time so fiercely. What if Hou Fei dies?" Qin Yu looked toward the Great Ape Emperor.

The Great Ape Emperor shook his head and laughed proudly, "Die? Hou Fei, being a Super Divine Beast, started from the lowest first set spear technique when he entered. By progressing step by step, the battles have been tough for Hou Fei, but it hasn’t reached the point of death. If he dies so easily... it could only mean Hou Fei does not deserve to be a Super Divine Beast."

"Great Ape Emperor, Sir, how many times have you entered the Inheritance Forbidden Land?" Qin Yu suddenly asked.

Qin Yu remembered clearly that the Ape Clan’s Super Divine Beasts had three opportunities to enter the Inheritance Forbidden Land.

"Already three times," the Great Ape Emperor said, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes, "If I had only been twice, I might have used the last chance to help call Hou Fei out. However, now you must rely on yourself."

Qin Yu felt a surge of relief.

"The Great Ape Emperor entered three times without dying; Feifei, with his aptitude, should not easily perish." Qin Yu looked towards the Great Ape Emperor, "Senior Great Ape Emperor, how many years has Feifei been in there? What is his cultivation level now?"

A trace of joy appeared in the Great Ape Emperor’s eyes: "Hou Fei has been in there for sixty years. Sixty years ago, he was a Sixth-Level Demon King, and now... probably a Third-Level Demon Emperor."

"Just sixty years." The Bull Demon Emperor sighed, "Sun Yuan, your Ape Clan has an advantage by possessing the Inheritance Forbidden Land. Under normal cultivation, even with high talent, Hou Fei would probably take seventy or eighty years to reach the Demon King level, but now he has reached Third-Level Demon Emperor."

Sun Yuan smiled indifferently: "Our clan’s Super Divine Beast, ever since our ancestor descended from the Divine World and created this Inheritance Forbidden Land, every generation’s Super Divine Beast has ’Understand Tao through Battle.’ Our cultivation speed has little to do with time but is related to the number of battles."

"Although it’s only been sixty years, Hou Fei has experienced life and death battles up to twenty or thirty thousand times. With so many battles, reaching Third Level Demon Emperor is no surprise. Qin Yu, let me ask you, how many life and death battles have you had since you entered the world of immortals, demons, and beasts?" Sun Yuan turned to Qin Yu.

Qin Yu thought for a moment and apologized with a smile, "About ten."

Ten versus twenty or thirty thousand—the disparity was clear to everyone.

"You’re just showing off." The Bull Demon Emperor glared, "Life and death battles, you think it’s so easy to find an equal opponent? If the opponent is too strong, you might lose your life. If the opponent is too weak, it does not count at all. A battle of life and death and managing to save your life, you think that’s easy to achieve? In my life, such battles are fewer than a hundred. Besides your Ape Clan’s Inheritance Forbidden Land, where else can Hou Fei fight so many battles in sixty years?"

As the conversation progressed, Hou Fei, who had been sitting cross-legged on a stone platform on the cliff terrace, stood up.

Holding the Black Stick, Hou Fei re-entered the passage.

"Senior Great Ape Emperor, if I want to go in, do I just rush over?" Qin Yu’s voice suddenly echoed.

"You really want to go in?" The Great Ape Emperor looked at Qin Yu with surprise.

Facing a defense that is unbeatable and an attack power comparable to ten times that of a Third Level Immortal Emperor, the Great Ape Emperor didn’t think Qin Yu stood much of a chance.

"Qin Yu, I know you have the Ten Thousand Beasts List, but that’s useless." The Great Ape Emperor thought Qin Yu wanted to use the Ten Thousand Beasts List, "If you send out a Demon Emperor from the Ten Thousand Beasts List, the Inheritance Forbidden Land will automatically produce an opponent of equal power but with ten times the attack power. The more Demon Emperors you send, the more opponents the Forbidden Land will produce. You can only rely on yourself."

"Senior Great Ape Emperor, no need to persuade me anymore; I just want to know, exactly how do I go in?" Qin Yu asked again.

The Great Ape Emperor looked at Qin Yu.

Facing the gaze of the Great Ape Emperor, Qin Yu’s eyes remained unchanged.

"Alright, if you want to go in, just fly over there, but remember... once you fly in, you can’t easily come out again. You must fight your opponent before you earn the right to come out," the Great Ape Emperor explained carefully.

"I know," Qin Yu said, preparing to fly over.

"Wait a moment, there’s one more thing," the Great Ape Emperor hurriedly said, and Qin Yu also stopped, "Qin Yu, once you enter that passage, you must be ready for battle. The only safe place in the entire Inheritance Forbidden Land is that outdoor terrace."

The Great Ape Emperor pointed, "That’s the spot, where Hou Fei just recovered from his injuries. It’s the safest. Once you step into the passage, you will face a battle."

"I understand," Qin Yu nodded.

"Qin Yu, once you fight with your opponent, you don’t necessarily need to win, just save your life from his hands and escape to the terrace rock platform, then you can come out. The way to come out is... to step on the green stone at the edge of the terrace rock platform, stand on it, and the Forbidden Land will automatically transport you out."

Qin Yu nodded, then flew towards the small floating mountain.

Watching Qin Yu’s figure, the Great Ape Emperor and Bull Demon Emperor exchanged glances.

"Sun Yuan, do you think Qin Yu will make it out alive?" the Bull Demon Emperor asked softly.

"He...the chances of him coming out alive are slim," the Great Ape Emperor shook his head and said.

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Qin Yu moved swiftly through the Heart-clearing Wind, which didn’t harm him as it brushed against his body.

He landed on a terrace stone platform.

The area of the terrace stone platform was not vast, with a smooth green stone at the edge — that was the way out. Qin Yu looked back and, indeed, the entire Inheritance Forbidden Land had turned into a small world on its own; he couldn’t see anything from the outside at all.

"Foreigner, you have a short preparation time; you will soon be facing your enemy," a voice resounded in Qin Yu’s mind.

Qin Yu’s expression changed.

His body moved as fast as lightning, rushing into the deep, seemingly fathomless passage in front of him. The passage was quite long, but with Qin Yu’s speed, almost like instantaneous movement, he quickly crossed this passage and arrived at a very spacious hall.

In this hall, Qin Yu paused momentarily.

Because... there appeared to be six passages in front of Qin Yu, and these six passages were not long. Qin Yu could vaguely see that at the end of these passages, there should also be a similar spacious area to the hall he was currently in.

Qin Yu looked up at the line of large characters carved on the hall wall.

"Heaven Shattering Manual!"

"Such a powerful aura." Those four characters alone made the depths of Qin Yu’s heart tremble as if what was before him was not just writing but a towering mountain piercing the sky that he had to look up to.

Qin Yu’s gaze swept away.

Besides the characters ’Heaven Shattering Manual’ on this wall, there were images and some writing showing a person using a long stick in a series of images. These images were divided into six sets, namely—

Heaven Shattering Manual of Seventy-Two Strokes!

Heaven Shattering Manual of Thirty-Six Strokes!

Heaven Shattering Manual of Eighteen Strokes!

Heaven Shattering Manual of Nine Strokes!

Heaven Shattering Manual of Three Strokes!

Heaven Shattering Manual of One Stroke!

But those images were extremely mysterious, almost illusionary, constantly shifting and fluctuating, making it impossible for Qin Yu to see even one image clearly — he even started to doubt if they were images at all.

"My Ape Clan descendant, when ascending to the Divine World, if you can master the Heaven Shattering Stick, then you may join my sect and become my disciple." This line, engraved at the bottom of the secret books of images, truly startled Qin Yu.

"The one who wrote this must be that predecessor of the Ape Clan who came down from the Divine World," Qin Yu speculated in his heart.

Just then, an icy voice rang out in Qin Yu’s mind.

"Foreigner, considering you possess a Low-Grade Defense Divine Artifact Battle Armor, be warned not to use it, otherwise... you will be killed immediately."

Qin Yu was shocked.

"Your opponent has a strength comparable to yours and is using the ’Heaven Shattering Thirty-Six Strokes’ spear technique. If you achieve victory without using the Divine Artifact Battle Armor, or survive and escape to the outside stone platform, you will be permitted to leave the Forbidden Land safely."

Upon hearing all this, Qin Yu’s expression changed.

"Not using the Divine Artifact Battle Armor? How am I supposed to fight?" Qin Yu was getting anxious.

He did not doubt the veracity of the voice; those capable of manipulating the Cosmic Shattered Gold Flow, nearly as large as constant stars, could easily kill him. For instance... throwing Qin Yu into the Cosmic Shattered Gold Flow would likely result in instant death.

"Proceed to Battlefield Number Two!"

The icy voice sounded, and Qin Yu then felt as though stars had shifted. Once he took a closer look at where he was now, it was an open space inside a mountain. Qin Yu’s mind stirred, he looked back... indeed, there was a passage leading here, and through this passage, Qin Yu could faintly see the other end.

The other end of the passage should be the hall he was in just now.

"Could it be that this place is one of the ends of the six passages I saw earlier?" Qin Yu speculated in his mind.

Qin Yu’s guess was correct. The six passages led to six battlefields, and at this moment, Hou Fei was under training in the battlefield reached by the first passage, while Qin Yu had been mysteriously transferred to the second battlefield by the ’Inheritance Forbidden Land.’

"Whew!"

A figure suddenly appeared in Battlefield Number Two, holding a long green stick, extremely slim, with his upper body bare. This was Qin Yu’s opponent.

"Foreigner, your opponent is me," said the man coldly, looking at Qin Yu. "I am Green Guard of the Six Great Guards of the Inheritance Forbidden Land."

"Green Guard?" Qin Yu dared not slack off.

"Green Guard, fight the foreigner with the same power level as him," the voice that had previously resounded in Qin Yu’s mind echoed in Battlefield Number Two while Green Guard’s face showed respect, and he bowed and said, "Yes, sir."

"Foreigner, according to the master’s rules, this is a test of your understanding of combat. If you rigidly resist attacks using the Divine Artifact Battle Armor, then you are violating the master’s rules. Rule violators will undoubtedly die." The cold voice echoed in the spacious battlefield.

Qin Yu felt that the people of this Inheritance Forbidden Land were too terrifying. He could sense that the strength of the Green Guard in front of him was unfathomable, now merely suppressing his power to match his own. This Inheritance Forbidden Land had six great guards and even a ’master.’

"You may begin now." The cold voice sounded.

Green Guard suddenly opened his eyes wide, his gaze sharply fixating on Qin Yu as if a snake had targeted him.

The long stick in Green Guard’s hand abruptly flipped, enveloping all directions like a curtain of rain, Qin Yu’s field of vision was filled with countless stick shadows, with just a starting move, Qin Yu was already inescapable!

(End of Chapter 1~~~)

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