Chapter 1139: Chapter 1137: The Terrifying South Sea Martial World (4k MegaChapter, Requesting Subscriptions!)_2
Ling Zixin’s face was filled with longing and admiration, she murmured, "Those six Fake Sky Origin Realm masters, each and every one of them is a domineering overlord, peerless in their own realm, commanding respect and reigning supreme in their own eras. It’s very possible that the first real Sky Origin Realm master in over a hundred thousand years will emerge from their ranks!"
If the Forbidden Martial Emperor is legendary, then the Sky Origin Realm masters are mythical.
Even the mighty ten proud sons of the South Sea, none of them dare claim with certainty that they will become Sky Origin Realm masters, which shows just how esteemed and powerful those six Fake Sky Origin Realm masters are.
"Sky Origin Realm, huh?"
Shi Xiaole didn’t express too many opinions on this, nor did he engage in wishful thinking, as aiming too high wasn’t his style. Instead, he started inquiring about other situations in the South Sea, to which Ling Zixin knew everything and spared no detail,
In the South Sea, any power that could be called top-tier had a Forbidden Martial Emperor at its helm.
Take the Carefree Sect for example, with two, and the Ling Family, being one of the top ten noble families, also had two, which is considered weak among the top ten noble families.
Some slightly stronger ones had three. For example, the Xuanyuan Clan, which is the foremost among the top ten noble families, not only had three Forbidden Martial Emperors but their ancestor was also one of the six Fake Sky Origin Realm masters.
And the Hundred Battles Tower, known as the most formidable power in the South Sea, actually had two Fake Sky Origin Realm masters and as many as six Forbidden Martial Emperors!
On the Emperor List of the East Victory Continent, there are only five Forbidden Martial Emperors. Adding the unknown, the number probably doesn’t exceed twenty. But according to Ling Zixin, there are close to a hundred in the South Sea.
The contrast between the two sides is indeed stark. As for who is stronger on a one-on-one basis, that would only be known after comparing.
"The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant, making the strength of martial artists indeed stronger, but to become a Forbidden Martial Emperor, one needs to understand the Supreme Martial Arts, which doesn’t seem to have a direct relation to the strength of spiritual energy."
Shi Xiaole raised a question.
Ling Zixin nodded, "That’s true. But perhaps the young brother doesn’t know, from the ancient times, there has been a method passed down. According to this method, under the guidance of a master or a senior, it maximizes the likelihood for the younger generation to understand the Supreme Martial Arts!"
Shi Xiaole was alarmingly moved.
In the East Victory Continent, whether you understand the martial arts depends on personal fate. When did the Supreme Martial Arts become something you could systematically comprehend?
However, soon Shi Xiaole further understood that the method Ling Zixin mentioned only increased the likelihood of comprehending the Supreme Martial Arts, and in fact, this likelihood, compared to ordinary people, was still negligibly low.
Only the geniuses among geniuses had the chance to comprehend from it.
In the vast South Sea, how many of their peers were cultivated by the top powers as proud talents, and with the Void Origin Realm Martial Emperor having a lifespan of three thousand five hundred years, how many generations exist in the present age?
Yet with such a vast base number, there were still only nearly a hundred Forbidden Martial Emperors born.
There’s also an issue that those who have succeeded only with the guidance of masters and seniors often comprehend a Supreme Martial Arts that is the same as or largely similar to their teachers, lacking personal creativity.
According to Ling Zixin, below the six legendary figures of the South Sea, the first master, the White Cloud Emperor of the Hundred Battles Tower, only has an early stage of eleven percent in the Supreme Martial Arts, comparable to the Martial Emperor and the owner of the Ghost Carriage!
This proves that at the top level, there isn’t much difference between the two places.
The ship sailed leisurely.
From time to time, pirate groups led by Void Origin Realm Martial Emperors appeared, but when they saw the Ling Family’s special flag, they all pulled back their sails and hurriedly dodged.
Although the Ling Family was not as powerful as in the past, they were still a behemoth in the South Sea, not something that just anyone could provoke.
Shi Xiaole spent most of his time cultivating and only went out occasionally to catch some fresh air.
Months flew by in a blink of an eye.
His spiritual strength was hammered to a level of three percent. His Vigorous Air also gradually rose with the continuous driving of the "Purple Blood Great Method."
After reaching four hundred and sixty strands of Heart Sword power, he reached a bottleneck and couldn’t improve further in the short term.
With both the Death Martial Arts and the Demon Martial Arts, the former was drawing death energy from black stones daily but still making slow progress, and the latter was only able to advance through the transformation of the Death Martial Arts.
It was his Wind Sword Way, already at the pinnacle of ten completion, that recently showed signs of a significant breakthrough.
When it was five months into the sea voyage,
A thick tornado of Sword Qi burst out from the ship, tearing apart the sky. Shi Xiaole’s Wind Sword Way had broken through, smoothly advancing from the pinnacle of ten completion to the early stage of eleven completion!
Upon closer calculation, this small realm breakthrough took Shi Xiaole years of effort, and that was with the boost from the Death Martial Arts’ transformation; otherwise, the time span would have needed to increase by many more times.
Sword momentum gathered within his body, Shi Xiaole stretched out his finger, and a needle of light formed at its tip, shooting out swiftly.
On a large island ten thousand meters away.
The island master, Golden Hermit, abruptly opened his eyes, flew out of the island master’s mansion, and sensed that at some point, a sword hole had penetrated the entire island, yet, peculiarly, there was not a trace of sword qi left within it.
If this sword had been aimed at himself, then...
The Golden Hermit instantly felt a chill all over his body, turned his head, and thought he saw a ship, with a sail bearing the Ling character, fluttering in the wind.
"Could it be the Falling Sky Sword Emperor, the foremost among the three great swordsmen of the Ling Family, who is rumored to be one of Ling Family’s ten great masters, only a step away from the Forbidden Martial Emperor?"
The Golden Hermit didn’t dare to look any further and rushed back to his island master’s mansion.
Regardless of whether the person who had launched that sword strike was the Falling Sky Sword Emperor or not, he was destined to be someone beyond his ability to provoke, and it was best to act as if nothing had happened.
"My current strength should have surpassed the Galan Sword Emperor, unless he too has made progress," he thought.
Half a year was a long time for Shi Xiaole, but not for others, especially those in the top ten ranks of the Emperor List, for whom it was extremely unlikely to see major improvement within half a year.
"Uncle Lingfu, my strength..."
In another room, Ling Zixin looked at Uncle Lingfu.
Uncle Lingfu pondered for a moment and said bitterly, "Young Master’s strength, if it were the past, would have had difficulty ranking in the top ten of the Ling Family, but now, there’s an eighty percent chance, even surpassing me!"
Ling Zixin froze upon hearing these words.
In the entire martial world of the South Sea, there were no more than twenty forces stronger than the Ling Family. Even if each had ten people stronger than Shi Xiaole, he could still enter the top two hundred of the talent-rich South Sea martial world.
Taking into account some independent cultivators and undetected masters, overall, Shi Xiaole stood a good chance of ranking within the top three hundred. Don’t forget, he was only fifty-two years old.
"The pride of the South Sea, that member of the Xuanyuan Clan, was at most at the Young Master’s level at the age of fifty-two. Worthy of being the Young Lady’s son, haha, there is hope for my Ling Family," Uncle Lingfu suddenly laughed loudly, his eyes turbid.
The current Ling Family, despite its seemingly impressive momentum, was actually on shaky ground and could be removed from the ten great families at any moment. Everyone in the know was under tremendous pressure. The joining of an unparalleled genius expert could, to some extent, reverse this downturn.
Ling Zixin, on the other hand, was also filled with joy. She clenched her fists tightly in private and vowed to use her sincerity to melt her little brother’s icy, hard heart.
In the sixth month of the sea voyage.
The South Sea Continent appeared in Shi Xiaole’s line of sight.
"Liu Ruofei, you’re courting death!"
A kilometer-long blade light, approaching from afar, suddenly cleaved towards the sailing ship, and before getting close, it was cut by another sturdier sword light. The dispersed blade light was still formidable, creating deep gashes in the ocean, threatening to destroy the Ling Family’s vessel.
"Chaos Between Heaven and Earth!"
A great hand shifted the heavens and the earth, abruptly relocating the ship to another place. The one who made the move was Uncle Lingfu.
"So it’s the Outer Heaven Demons, Young Master Liu, let me assist you."
When he clearly saw the red aura outside the body of the person who had wielded the blade, Uncle Lingfu’s expression changed, and without hesitation, his palms struck out in alternation like the sun and the moon against the adversary.
The young man in white named Liu Ruofei also swung his sword, pushing the sea surface down with deep imprints from his blade technique.
Bang!
The blade-wielding adversary could not withstand the pressure of the two masters and was sent flying away, but he was ferocious and forcibly twisted his body, using the momentum to charge toward the Ling Family’s vessel.
Liu Ruofei, one of the ten prodigies of the South Sea.
The elderly man who took action, judging by his techniques, should be Uncle Lingfu, one of Ling Family’s ten great masters. The swordsmen would not fear facing either one alone, but together, they managed to suppress him.
Remembering a rumor that Uncle Lingfu had been protecting the legitimate daughter Ling Zixin since returning from a dangerous place, a cruel glint flashed in the eyes of the blade-wielder, as he raised his blade and struck towards the ship.
