Chapter 342: Chapter 317: True Body Eight Refinements, Top Quality of the King Class_1
Around the Cangming Valley, there was no one in sight. Clearly, Wu Hao and the others were long gone.
With a flicker, Lu Yan entered the Cangming Valley.
He had already noted the safe zones within the Will Power pattern.
Two Martial Spirits followed closely, but as they approached, the Will Power pattern blossomed with light, and a terrifying aura spread out, causing the two Martial Spirits at the Primordial Spirit realm to halt in shock.
"The Will Power pattern, recorded by the will of immortals, is indeed highly sensitive to Martial Spirits. It reacted as soon as they approached."
A thought struck Lu Yan.
For a regular Martial Cultivator, the Will Power pattern would only be triggered when entering its area.
"Damn it..."
The two Martial Spirits at the Primordial Spirit realm were seething with rage, but to no avail.
Lu Yan couldn’t be bothered with them, and went straight into the deep recesses of the Cangming Valley, where he sat down cross-legged.
At this moment, the Dao Book had begun to refine the Immortal Bone, with robust energy surging out. Lu Yan first utilized it to restore the three Martial Arts Avatars that had self-destructed.
The Martial Arts Avatars were recovering quickly.
While the Dao Book was refining the Immortal Bone, Lu Yan himself wasn’t idle either. In his palm, a Blood Ginseng appeared, about as thick as an arm, with ginseng roots flailing wildly like a large octopus.
Crunch crunch...
Lu Yan started eating it in big bites. The ginseng was crispy and sweet, and before long, the entire Blood Ginseng had entered Lu Yan’s belly.
An intense heat radiated from his belly, diffusing throughout his body.
Lu Yan instantly started using the True Dragon War Body to refine the energy of the Blood Ginseng.
The energy of the Blood Ginseng was incredibly startling, far surpassing the power of the Immortal Demon Fruit.
A day and a night later, after refining the Blood Ginseng, Lu Yan found that his accumulation had reached its limit. Deep within his bones and flesh, he began to feel a tingle.
Transformation was about to begin.
Lu Yan’s eyes gleamed brightly.
The transformation from Seven Refining to Eight Refining was extremely swift, and had finished after just a few hours.
Lu Yan swung his fist, and his fists resounded strongly. He felt a dramatic increase in his physical powers.
He had finally accomplished the Eighth Refining of his True Body, greatly enhancing his power.
"The True Dragon War Body is close to reaching the ninth layer."
Lu Yan saw this in his mindspace.
During his refinement of the Blood Ginseng, the three Avatars had already recovered. After the Avatars recovered, Lu Yan gathered the energy from the Immortal Bone to enhance his True Dragon War Body.
The final two layers of the True Dragon War Body were slow to enhance, requiring an astonishing amount of energy. But the energy contained in that half piece of Immortal Bone was equally astonishing.
After a moment, the True Dragon War Body broke through in one leap to the ninth layer.
All at once, energy from the skies and earth raced toward Lu Yan.
"Acquired Martial Body, the gift from Heaven and Earth."
Lu Yan was greatly overjoyed.
"I’ve missed this feeling. It’s been a long time indeed."
And, he hadn’t expected that, in cultivating the True Dragon War Body to the ninth layer, he would receive a gift from Heaven and Earth.
Because the True Dragon War Body was a merger of the supreme level of body-refining Martial Arts.
Based on past experiences, a merged Martial Arts would not receive gifts from Heaven and Earth.
"Perhaps it is because after the merger, it fell short of the highest rank, reaching only the sixth level."
Lu Yan speculated.
In the past, when lower-level Martial Arts were merged to form higher-level Martial Arts, they would directly reach the highest state of Unity of Man and Martial Arts without receiving gifts from Heaven and Earth.
But now, after merging to form Divine-level Martial Arts, it was only at the sixth level, still far from the ninth level. Thus, he was still able to receive gifts from Heaven and Earth.
Lu Yan’s body was like a gigantic funnel, wildly absorbing the energy from Heaven and Earth.
His freshly transformed body began to transform again.
But this time, it wasn’t the transformation from Eight Refining to Nine Refining.
This was a transformation for the advancement of the True Body’s rank.
In the past stages of the True Body, after refinement into the Acquired Martial Body and attaining gifts from Heaven and Earth, this would increase the quantity of Inner Strength or Bone Strength.
But now, it was about raising the True Body’s level directly.
Several hours later, the transformation ended.
His cultivation was still at True Body Eight Refining.
However, Lu Yan could distinctly feel that his True Body had become stronger, his True Vigor had become more condensed and powerful, and his might had increased.
The quantity remained the same, but its quality had improved.
"What rank can my True Body be now?"
Lu Yan muttered.
If the King’s True Body also had ranks, then most King’s True Bodies could only be considered low-rank.
His previous state would then be considered mid-rank.
And now, he could be considered at the high rank of a King’s True Body.
People like Wu Hao and Ji Wuxiu would still be considered mid-rank King’s True Body.
Of course, the Martial Cultivation World didn’t have such a classification. Lu Yan had categorized them himself.
"I wonder if the Martial Spirits have left. Moreover, it’s been two days, I wonder how Yinuo is doing?"
Thinking of Shen Yinuo, Lu Yan grew anxious and shot toward the Cangming Valley.
Approaching the valley entrance, he peered outside and found no one in sight.
It seemed that the Martial Spirits had left due to impatience.
Just as Lu Yan was about to leave the Cangming Valley, suddenly, a figure came rushing from a distance yelling, "Lu Yan, don’t leave the Cangming Valley. Those Martial Spirits are hiding in the shadows."
This figure turned out to be Shen Yinuo.
Shen Yinuo’s little face was filled with anxiety as she rushed towards Lu Yan.
"You little brat, seeking death."
With a furious roar, nine figures appeared from another direction.
These were the same nine Martial Spirits from before.
The two leading Primordial Spirit Realm Martial Spirits moved at an extremely fast speed towards Shen Yinuo.
Boom!
One of the old men used the power of the Martial Spirit, grew a pair of wings from his back, and approached Shen Yinuo rapidly. He invoked the Heavenly Earth Power, transforming it into a giant knife and swiped it down towards Shen Yinuo.
Lu Yan’s eyes turned frosty. He dashed out from Cangming Valley. A bow and arrow appeared in his hands. True Vigor surged into the arrow, making it shoot out like a streak of lightning tearing the void. It collided with the giant knife.
There was a bang, and the giant knife shattered.
Vrrr...
The bowstring vibrated rapidly. In an instant, nine arrows flew out, dragging long trails of airwaves, shooting towards the two Spirit Realm Martial Spirits.
The two Primordial Spirit Realm Martial Spirits sensed the danger and started to defend themselves. After nine consecutive bangs, the two Primordial Spirit Realm Martial Spirits quickly retreated.
"How is it possible?"
They were all greatly shocked.
They could hardly stand up to the force of the arrows.
"Starfall Bow, it’s ruined."
Lu Yan glanced at the Starfall Bow and noticed cracks appearing on it.
As his power became stronger, divine weapons were no longer able to withstand his strength.
Now, his power far exceeded that of an ordinary Primordial Spirit at the First Transformation, even surpassing many at the Second Transformation.
In the Primordial Spirit Realm, they all used Spiritual Treasures.
Lu Yan teleported next to Shen Yinuo.
"Lu Yan, you’ve broken through."
Shen Yinuo showed a joyful expression.
Lu Yan nodded and said, "Yinuo, enter the Cangming Valley first. I will handle these people. Not a single one of them will escape."
"Be careful."
Shen Yinuo reminded him, but she did not enter Cangming Valley. Instead, she brought out the Great Sun Melting Furnace, ready to assist Lu Yan.
Twisting his body, Lu Yan’s power exploded. The sound of a dragon’s roar resounded. His body seemed like a giant dragon soaring into the sky, attacking the two powerful beings in the Primordial Spirit Realm.
"Kill!"
The two powerful beings of the Primordial Spirit Realm also charged towards Lu Yan.
Among them, the old man held a war knife. Clearly, this war knife was a Spiritual Treasure.
The other person, whose Martial Spirit body was covered in snake heads, brought out a long whip.
Both of their weapons were Spiritual Treasures.
They had just broken through to the Primordial Spirit Realm and not long after, would have been able to nourish a Spiritual Treasure. Obviously, these were given to them by the Primordial Spirits of Spirit Sect to bring here.
The pitch-black long whip grew rapidly lengthening like a poisonous snake, coiling towards Lu Yan.
The whip was lined with serrations on both sides. The green venom it was coated with was very apparent.
Lu Yan teleported to dodge the long whip, but the whip seemed to possess eyes, following Lu Yan agilely.
His eyes turned frosty and he stretched out his hand to grab the whip.
His skin was covered with scales, and no matter how sharp the whip was, it couldn’t cut through the defences of the scales.
"Come over here."
Lu Yan exerted force and tugged with a jerk. The whip straightened, and the Martial Spirit was involuntarily pulled towards Lu Yan.
His body twisted like a dragon, leaping forth. His claws tore through the air, clawing at the opponent.
The Martial Spirit was horrified. The snake heads all over his body lengthened crazily and bit at Lu Yan.
But Lu Yan didn’t even bother to dodge, letting the poisonous snakes bite him. They shattered their teeth but Lu Yan’s attack continued. In a flash, this Primordial Spirit Realm Martial Spirit was torn in half.
Lu Yan grabbed half of the Martial Spirit’s body with each hand. His powerful True Vigor surged into the Martial Spirit’s body, destroying its functionalities.
"Ah...."
This Martial Spirit unleashed a terrifying scream.
Because he could feel his life force quickly fading.
As the quality of Lu Yan’s True Body increased, so did the quality of his True Vigor, and so, his destructive power also increased drastically. The damage he could deal to Martial Spirits reached a terrifying level.
From half of the Martial Spirit’s body, a black shadow burst out, quickly growing in size.
It was a giant snake with nine heads. Each mouth sprayed out nine different attacks.
Nine different onslaughts – poison water, lightning, flames, gales...
At the same time, the eagle-shaped Martial Spirit, holding a war knife, slashed at Lu Yan.
Lu Yan rapidly retreated, placing the snake Martial Spirit’s body in front of him. The eagle-shaped Martial Spirit was taken aback and had no choice but to retract his knife.
He still had concerns regarding the Spiritual Treasure, but as for the nine-headed snake’s attack, he didn’t care.
Whether it was poison water, lightning, flames or gales, they all felt like someone was tickling him with a boot – he couldn’t feel them at all.
With the increase in his True Body’s defences, Lu Yan had a new understanding of himself.
Moving into the True Body Eight Refinements, his True Body quality increased, and his True Dragon War Body reached the ninth level. It was a triple increase – his defences had reached a shocking level.
His True Vigor still was eroding the snake-shaped Martial Spirit’s body.
Hiss....
The nine-headed snake made a piercing shriek. From the largest snakehead in the middle, two beams of light shot out from its eyes and struck Lu Yan’s body.
The scale that was hit instantly turned pale blue. It was rapidly turning to stone and quickly infiltrating into his flesh and blood.
Lu Yan was startled.
A strange ability indeed, one that couldn’t be defended by his defences alone. He quickly turned his True Vigor around to stop the petrification. He pushed out the dusky energy from his body and restored it to normal.
At the same time, his body flashed to avoid the light columns that the nine-headed snake shot out again.
"What are you guys doing standing there? Kill that woman."
The eagle-shaped Martial Spirit bellowed, flapped its wings, and quickly rushed to kill Lu Yan. His form became even more fierce, like a humanoid hawk.
As he flapped his wings, feathers fell off, firing towards Lu Yan like countless arrows.
Simultaneously, a huge hawk flew out from his body, crossing the void. Its wings were like divine knives, slashing at Lu Yan.
