Chapter 1597: Chapter 54: Golden Divine Skill, Godly Being, One Punch to Shatter a Mountain! (Part 2)
These kinds of matters are now all handed over to Xie Xiaojiu and entrusted to Shen Wenyan to help handle.
The wealth obtained from selling everything off later will all be converted by Xie Xiaojiu into resources for his cultivation and delivered into his hands.
So, in the period to come, his Source Points can still continue to increase.
Thinking it over, he swept his gaze past the Skill of Reading and Writing, then over Five Animals Fist, Swimming, Wind and Thunder Steps, and Wind Thunder Arrow Skill.
By now, techniques like Five Animals Fist, even after multiple Break Limit attempts, can no longer keep up with his pace.
Swimming, Wind and Thunder Steps, and Wind and Thunder Arrow are the same.
Their help to him is already very small.
Only some Divine Skills derived from breaking through Swimming still give him a certain degree of support.
As for movement techniques like Wind and Thunder Steps and archery like Wind and Thunder Arrow, they can almost be ignored.
On the path of movement technique, no matter how fast, it cannot be faster than his current method of merging with space and ignoring obstacles.
With the Taixu Yin Yang Sword, a Martial Arts above Ultimate Grade, at his side, his movement technique already points straight to the essence; it is no longer a simple change of dodging and shifting.
In front of this Martial Arts, a superior martial arts like Wind and Thunder Steps is already dull and lackluster, completely unable to compare.
But among the traits derived from Wind and Thunder Steps, there are still a few that he takes seriously.
Shrinking Ground to Inches, Deep Pool Wind Calm, Space Rhythm.
These three, each is extraordinary.
[Shrinking Ground to Inches (Deep Purple)]: Space Divine Skill.
[Deep Pool Wind Calm (Deep Blue)]: Wind Element Divine Power.
[Space Rhythm (Deep Blue)]: Can sense the existence of space.
Two Divine Skills, and one that grants him extraordinary perception in the aspect of space.
After thinking in his heart, he then skipped past them.
Among these three traits, the one most helpful to him next would be the Divine Skill Shrinking Ground to Inches.
But this Divine Skill has already reached the Deep Purple tier; the next step is the Gold tier.
He likewise could not pour a hundred Source Points into it.
So, his gaze quickly swept toward Five Animals Fist.
His eyes instantly locked onto a few traits.
Five Internal Organs Store Essence, Master of Fist Skill, Bear and Tiger Body.
[Five Internal Organs Store Essence (Light Blue)]: Essence Qi is stored within the five internal organs, the viscera strengthen on their own.
[Master of Fist Skill (Deep Blue)]: Possesses extraordinary Talent on the path of Boxing, enough to found a sect and be ranked as a Grandmaster.
[Bear and Tiger Body (Light Blue)]: The fleshly body is different from ordinary people, the physique is innately extraordinary, possessing Bear and Tiger Power.
These three traits are also, in his view, the three most noteworthy traits derived from Five Animals Fist, yet he abandoned investing Source Points into them in an instant.
He has not learned any Boxing now; Master of Fist Skill is hard to give him any direct bonus.
Black Dragon Swallowing Whale Skill can barely be considered a fist-and-kick art, but it is more accurately a Palm Skill.
Five Internal Organs Store Essence is a trait that only becomes worth investing in over a long stretch of time; in the short term, it can hardly benefit him.
Bear and Tiger Body, when compared to a dragon body, pales in comparison and is likewise not worth investing in.
His gaze swept over these few Skills, and he could not help but shake his head inwardly.
"In the end, only supreme-grade Cultivation Techniques are worth it!"
His gaze fell on the Cultivation Technique Vajra Immortal Body.
[Skill]: Vajra Immortal Body (Five times limit-breaking 101/60000) (traits: Dragon Elephant Power (Deep Purple), Leakless Body (Deep Blue), Ten-Foot Golden Body (Light Purple), Golden Body (Light Gold))
"Ten-Foot Golden Body is also one of my current trump cards!" Looking at the panel, a thought flashed through his mind.
Then, without further hesitation in his heart, his mind moved sharply.
[Consume 20 Source Points, Ten-Foot Golden Body (Light Purple) → Ten-Foot Golden Body (Deep Purple)]
[Nine-Foot Golden Body (Deep Purple)]: A type of Divine Skill, the entire body like glazed gilded gold, untouched by water and fire, Golden Body unbroken, strength enough to move mountains.
He glanced at the panel once.
Continue!
His mind moved once more.
[Consume 100 Source Points, Nine-Foot Golden Body (Deep Purple) → Ten Zhang Golden Body (Light Gold)]
[Ten Zhang Golden Body]: A type of Divine Skill, the entire body like glazed gilded gold, all laws hard to invade, Golden Body undying.
"All laws hard to invade, Golden Body undying!"
Looking at the panel, he muttered under his breath, a vague impulse in his heart, an urge to display this Divine Skill here.
He had just raised it by two tiers in succession, one minor tier and one major tier.
He very much wanted to test how strong this Divine Skill had become now.
But he understood this was not the right place.
Previously, it was Ten-Foot Golden Body; once activated, his body would reach a height of ten feet.
Now the Divine Skill’s name had changed, called Ten Zhang Golden Body.
He strongly suspected that once this Divine Skill was activated now, he could erupt with a body ten zhang tall.
A ten-zhang body, once exposed in the city, would be seen by countless eyes.
This kind of trump card, unless absolutely necessary, he would never reveal lightly.
"I need to go into the wilds and find a place where there’s no one."
He spoke silently in his heart.
He glanced at the panel again.
[Source Points]: 112.7
After consuming 120 Source Points, there were now only just over a hundred points left on the panel.
"It can still be improved!" he murmured inwardly. "But there’s no rush."
He then looked in Ji Mingyue’s direction. With no signs of movement, it was clear she was still asleep.
He then walked toward the back kitchen, simply cooked up some meat porridge, and set off to leave the city.
...
Fifty li outside Guangning City.
Heaven and earth were sealed in ice, wrapped in silver and white.
The snow wasn’t deep, but after days of intermittent flurries, the accumulation still blanketed the mountains and wilderness.
Now the mountains and forests showed no trace of green, and no sign of living creatures’ activity remained. All was deathly still, as if he were the only person left between heaven and earth.
At this moment, Jiang Ning stood alone upon the snow, surrounded on all sides by tall trees, with mountain ridges encircling him in every direction.
He held his breath and focused his mind. With a slight stir of thought, his Qi-Blood roared into motion within his body.
The next instant, an abrupt mutation occurred.
Billions of strands of golden light sprayed out from the pores all over his body, and in an instant he was like a blazing golden sun falling into the mountain forest.
His tendons and bones were like a dragon, emitting a dense series of cracks like beans exploding in a pan.
Beneath his skin, golden radiance surged forth.
Within his blood, it was as if molten lava was surging.
His body, originally nearly eight feet tall, under the shroud of the erupting golden light, expanded at a rapid pace. In a flash, his height broke through one zhang.
Then one and a half zhang, and then reached two zhang.
His two-zhang-tall body stood towering in the snow, enough to compare height with the slightly shorter trees.
"This still isn’t the limit!" he said inwardly.
Then the body that had momentarily paused its expansion continued to swell at high speed,
Three zhang... five zhang... ten zhang.
A ten-zhang Golden Body, majestically towering.
At this moment, Jiang Ning’s entire form seemed cast from immortal divine metal.
The surface of his flesh flowed with a wondrous glazed, gilded luster.
Layer upon layer of halos spread out from his body, solemn and majestic, like a great being stepped out from myth.
Compared to his figure, only a few trees around him could stand as tall as he; most of the others only reached his waist.
He lowered his head slightly and looked down at the shrunken, insignificant snow mounds and withered trees at his feet. A vast sense of power, as if he could grasp the universe in his hand, rose spontaneously in his chest.
He tried lifting his right arm.
It moved lightly and nimbly, without the slightest sense of stiffness or the sluggishness of a heavy object.
Boom——
Just this simple, rapid arm-lifting movement caused the nearby air currents to reverse violently, forming a visible wave of white air.
It blasted the snow within a radius of over ten zhang into the air, exposing the frozen black earth beneath.
His five fingers closed into a fist, and the air in his palm was rapidly compressed, producing a dull detonation, as though he had seized a ball of thunder in his hand.
"This power..." He felt the terrifying force surging within him like great rivers and seas, far beyond any moment in the past. "Compared to when my Golden Body was one point six zhang, this is several times stronger!!"
With another stir of thought, his ten-zhang Golden Body bent its knees slightly, his right fist drawn back.
He did not use any True Yuan, did not stir a trace of Divine Power. He merely used the purest, most primitive strength of the flesh.
He punched.
Dong——!!!
This punch was like beating upon the drums of heaven.
The air before his fist was instantly compressed into a wall as solid as something tangible.
The next instant, it was completely shattered by an irresistible force and then exploded outward.
A transparent fist aura, visible to the naked eye and distorting the light, burst through the air, shooting straight toward a low stone hill dozens of zhang away.
Wherever the fist aura passed, the earth seemed to be ploughed open by an invisible blade, leaving behind a straight ravine several feet deep and more than a zhang wide.
On both sides of the ravine, the frozen soil collapsed, and the accumulated snow vaporized!
The next heartbeat.
The stone hill dozens of zhang away suddenly caved inward, forming an incomparably clear, gigantic fist mark.
Immediately after, with the fist mark as the center, countless spiderweb-like cracks frantically spread out.
Rumble——!!!
The entire stone hill, over twenty zhang high, actually split apart from the middle with a heaven-shaking crash and collapsed.
Countless fragments of rock sprayed in all directions like a torrential rain. Dust mixed with snow foam soared into the sky, forming a gray-white mushroom cloud that lingered without dispersing.
