Chapter 494: Chapter 486: The Secret of Blue Star_2
This is probably the only person who can engage in a life-and-death battle with him during a spar, and back then contributed a lot of True Qi...
Unfortunately, he lacks spirit, and now their strengths have diverged.
"Don’t think I don’t know your trump cards."
Han Yun City sat down next to Xu Lingjun, rummaged through his fishing gear, and found a fishing rod. He baited it and cast it into the water.
He glanced at Xu Lingjun and said, "If I could transform the True Qi my enemies strike into my body into my own use, my progress wouldn’t be so much inferior to yours now... But alas, I don’t have it."
He sighed with a bit of envy.
What he cultivated was the Supreme Level Technique, Emperor Blood Heaven Slayer, which, in terms of destructive power, ranked in the top three among Supreme Techniques.
Thus, he was always worried, what if one day Su Xun overtook him, what would he do...
Where would he find an opponent?
But who would’ve thought he was overthinking it entirely, and the one actually left behind was him.
As for Han Yun City’s words,
Xu Lingjun wasn’t too surprised, as the two had sparred countless times together over time... Especially Han Yun City, who was adept at breaking through before battles. Yet, even though every time they fought it was invigorating, not only did his cultivation not advance, it regressed instead.
Though the lost True Qi could be quickly replenished...
But Han Yun City wasn’t foolish, naturally understanding that the cultivation technique Xu Lingjun practiced might be far beyond his Emperor Blood Heaven Slayer.
"I really wonder what kind of miraculous technique you are cultivating, to be so much more profound than mine."
Xu Lingjun said, "The origin of my cultivation technique should be quite clear, right? Years ago, I kindly helped an old lady, and a beggar saw it, then sold me a copy of ’Infinite Divine Demon Body Refining Technique’ for ten bucks, which led to the Xu Lingjun you see today. Honestly, my biggest regret in life is not buying all of his techniques, sigh, now when I want to find him again, I can no longer locate him."
Han Yun City pouted and said, "Ling Jun’s Biography!"
"What?"
"Your story is exactly like a popular recent novel called ’Ling Jun’s Biography’."
Han Yun City said, "And another one called ’Overbearing Lingjun Falls in Love with Me,’ where your cultivation technique source is from you loving learning in the past and accidentally finding a ’Pure Yang Divine Skill’ inside a textbook, which is why you have today’s achievements... Oh right, there’s an even more absurd novel saying you sleep by day, but in your dreams, your real self goes to another world to hone, hence the rapid progress..."
He paused, then said, "Why did you stop talking?"
Xu Lingjun: "Because I don’t know what more to say, the imagination is just too wild, isn’t it?"
"Those people make their living this way, how can their imagination not be rich?"
Han Yun City said, "I was puzzling before why you specifically went to Cuowu Sect, what scheme you were brewing. Now I understand, you were trying to use Sun Bumie’s strength to break through to the Profound Realm, right? Did you fail?"
Xu Lingjun shook his head: "What I need is a life-and-death battle, not everyone is as crazy as you."
"I do have a suggestion, should you be interested."
Han Yun City suddenly opened his mouth.
"What is it?!"
Han Yun City said, "Do you remember the secret Sun Yangwei told you before he died?"
Xu Lingjun asked, "The real reason why Blue Star is targeted?"
"Actually, this has been on my father’s mind all along."
Han Yun City said, "Know thyself, know the enemy, and you will never be defeated in battle. If we can find out what might make our Blue Star so coveted, we can counter it... So, during this time, although we’ve been plotting the Polar Star Battlefield battles externally, we’ve also begun exploring the Secret Realm proactively."
"What were the results?"
"Twelve Grandmasters entered different Secret Realms separately, trying their best to explore inside, seeking anomalies, but the results were nothing but failure."
Han Yun City said, "The further in you go, the stronger and harder to deal with the Demon Beasts become. Out of the twelve Imperial Grandmasters, only nine returned safely, and three Grandmasters remained forever inside the Secret Realm."
Xu Lingjun was shocked: "Even Grandmasters perished?!"
"After all, inside the Secret Realm, who knows what environment we’re really facing... So what dangers lie within, remain equally unknown to us. The surviving Grandmasters didn’t delve very deep, and the deceased, even more so, couldn’t reveal the truth to us."
Han Yun City shook his head and said, "Over the past year, many batches of Martial Artists entered, even deploying Mecha within, all to no avail. Once they ventured too deep into the Secret Realm, all communication devices lost efficacy, rendering surveillance impossible."
Xu Lingjun’s gaze lingered long on Han Yun City, after over a year of not seeing each other.
His current cultivation had already reached the Seventh Layer of Profound Realm.
Yet, combining it with his Emperor Blood Heaven Slayer’s increasingly valiant battle prowess, although not a match for Grandmaster Realm masters, if fighting at his limit, it wouldn’t be impossible to have a chance.
Regrettably, it would take a limit fight to achieve...
This past year and more, it seems that not only he has made progress.
This young man has progressed rapidly as well, just not to such an exaggerated extent.
