Chapter 578: Chapter 577: Full Understanding of the True Intent of Wind
"Go with the flow!"
Xin Zhuliu’s strength was beyond imagination. Under his palm power, the protective barrier of Vigorous Air erected by the Devil Path master directly caved in a big chunk, and vigor overflowed from it.
With the grunting sounds, six Devil Path masters flew out in a row and died on the spot.
Shi Xiaole couldn’t help but cast a sideways glance. The opponent’s Heavenly Martial realm had reached the mid-stage, and the True Intent had also reached a fulfilled state. Although his skill level was inferior to Ji Morou and the Thousand-faced Witch, he was still considered invincible in Shuntian Capital.
Makes sense after thinking about it. Xin Zhuliu’s natural talent was higher than others, and he had practiced for more than forty years. Achieving this accomplishment was not surprising.
Shi Xiaole’s fighting spirit was high, and the speed of his sword swinging became even faster.
It seemed like the others were also stimulated by Xin Zhuliu. They all broke out with a loud yell, each exhibiting their unique skills.
The number of Devil Path masters was smaller than the heroes to begin with. They had suffered a first round of impact by Xin Zhuliu and Shi Xiaole, causing more than eight masters to die and greatly dampening their momentum.
Thus, under the attack of the heroes, they were immediately at a disadvantage.
Vigorous Air was overflowing, vigor exploded, and it was a mess outside the manor. Fortunately, no one lived here, otherwise the innocent would definitely get hurt.
Worth mentioning was that the masters brought by Ji Morou from Pudu Peak were quite strong. Among them, the strength of three people was not inferior to Xin Zhuliu.
Under the restraint of these four masters, after hundreds of moves, over 80% of the Devil Path masters who charged out were killed.
"Bunch of losers. It’s good they died. The Dreamy Sect doesn’t foster useless people. It’s about time to eliminate them with this battle."
Four figures rushed out from the manor, each picked one of the four masters, and quickly tied the battle, obviously the big masters under the Thousand-faced Witch.
"Ji Morou, do you think the place of this Saintess is easy to break? Activate the Array System."
The Thousand-faced Witch yelled tenderly, a light yellow halo spread out from inside the manor, quickly wrapping up the two circles of people in the fierce battle.
All heroes were shocked. Their attacks hit the light yellow halo but didn’t get any response at all.
"This is the Array System at the pinnacle level of Divine Barrier Realm. Once they’re in, no one can get out. Ji Morou, you’re really cunning. You use your beauty to let the natives rush to the forefront to die, while you hide far away but still manage to gain fame. Admirable, really admirable!"
The Thousand-faced Witch chuckled.
Ji Morou said nothing, her hands moved at an extreme speed, many sword lights swung out simultaneously, piercing a long street into numerous deep black holes.
At a certain moment.
Ji Morou spun her sword, with overwhelming Sword Qi piercing a hole in the light yellow halo.
It’s not that her attack power had reached the pinnacle level of Divine Barrier Realm, but she had known about the situation here and grasped the loopholes of the Array System through a secret agent in advance.
The heroes apparently had received her sound transmission. As soon as the light yellow halo broke, they all rushed out as if their lives depended on it.
Unfortunately, the time the hole lasted was too short. Only a few breaths later, it was immediately sealed up again, causing nearly half of the masters not being able to escape.
The Thousand-faced Witch intensified her attack, causing her shadows to fill the sky, leaving Ji Morou no time to attend to other matters. As time went by, the heroes inside the light yellow halo were either killed or captured under the attack of the four Devil Path masters.
Even Xin Zhuliu was on the brink of death.
And the heroes outside the halo couldn’t offer help, so they could just watch.
"After taking care of the ones inside, the ones outside can’t escape either!"
The Devil Path masters laughed maliciously, full of pride.
"It’s Morou who harmed you all. Thousand-faced Witch, I will remember this grudge. Let’s go!"
After having a glance at the corpses below, Ji Morou hid her grief, turned around and flew away.
The heroes also sighed repeatedly, but they knew that if they stayed, they would only face death. They could only grit their teeth and follow closely, quickly disappearing from sight.
"Kid, let my hand go."
The one attacking Shi Xiaole was a bald, one-eyed man, one of the four Devil Path masters. He saw the man’s arm exerting strength, the black spear pierced through the sword light, and with a spear tip, Shi Xiaole’s Hidden Edge Sword was chopped off.
When it came to a real fight, although Shi Xiaole was not his opponent, he would not be defeated so easily. Nevertheless, considering it was all but a farce, he didn’t bother to exert more effort and simply let himself be captured.
Not long after, the battle ended.
"Reporting to the Saintess, we have lost nineteen top lords this time, but we also killed thirteen enemies and captured nine."
A man dressed in black bowed respectfully and spoke to the Thousand-faced Witch.
According to the rules of the Devil Path, enemies should naturally be killed if possible. But the Demon Bone plan had come to the final stage, so they urgently needed manpower. Therefore, they didn’t kill those they could keep.
"Hmm, there are only three people who know about the Array System here. Kill them all."
The Thousand-faced Witch landed on the ground and spoke lightly.
"Yes."
Everyone shivered in unison.
Her gaze penetrated the black gauze, swept over the nine captured persons, and the Thousand-faced Witch smiled, "Bring these people for testing. Those with good aptitude, throw them into the Demon Bone Pool."
Everyone took the order and left.
Not long after, Uncle Lu returned, frowning, "Saintess, in my opinion, today’s events are somewhat suspicious."
The black gauze was lifted, revealing a stunning and charming face. If she was not Ren Mengzhen, who could she be? She laughed, "Ji Morou’s action seems impeccable, but if you think about it carefully, it appears a bit reckless, which is inconsistent with her deep thoughts. I think the problem may lie in the nine people who were captured."
The glint in Uncle Lu’s eyes flickered slightly.
"Ji Morou must know about the Demon Bone plan, so what she would think of would be to sabotage my Demon Bone plan. She must have guessed that I would order my subordinates to keep some survivors and cultivate the right ones into Demon Bone warriors."
Ren Mengzhen looked at her toes, feigned a kick, raised her head, and laughed: "Uncle Lu, order them to thoroughly search themselves! In addition, if among the captured ones there are suitable people, set up individual Demon Bone pools for them and store them separately!"
"But the cost of setting up a Demon Bone pool is too high..."
"A cautious mind sails a ship for ten thousand years."
Uncle Lu was stunned, shaking his head and said, "This girl, whoever goes against you will certainly get a headache."
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Shi Xiaole was locked up in a dark room, his acupoints were sealed, and his movements were restricted. Fortunately, he had learned the Heaven Shifting Earth Transferring Great Acupoint Shifting Technique and had secretly recovered his strength on his own.
However, to his disappointment, the witch did not send him into the Demon Bone pool.
"Since I’m here, I might as well stay put and focus on practicing first."
In a blink of an eye, a month had passed.
Staying in the dark cell without anyone to talk to, Shi Xiaole wasn’t restless at all, and spent his days in hard practice, which even became more focused than before.
Through countless collisions of Vigorous Air and True Intent, the Wind True Intent of Shi Xiaole became purer and purer.
Ninety percent in the middle stage.
Ninety percent in the late stage.
Ninety percent at the peak.
After a month of hard cultivation, together with the accumulation of efforts from the previous months, finally, on this day, Shi Xiaole’s Wind True Intent reached one hundred percent.
He spread out his hand, and a ball of blue crystal-like light appeared like water flow, coagulating and dispersing alternately, finally transforming into a three-inch crystal small sword. From the crystal small sword, Shi Xiaole felt an intense Sword Qi.
"My strength now should not be inferior to that of Xin Zhuliu."
The more advanced the True Intent, the harder it is to improve, and correspondingly, the increase in strength it brings is even more terrifying.
In general, it would be impossible to increase ninety percent of the True Intent to one hundred percent without decades of accumulation. Even Ji Morou and Ren Mengzhen would have to spend several years.
No one would think that Shi Xiaole, because of receiving the inheritance of the Nine-Colored Granny and having a naturally unusual Vigorous Air and spirit power, had developed a method to rapidly enhance the True Intent.
Naturally, they wouldn’t know that within a month, his strength had changed dramatically.
After his Wind True Intent reached one hundred percent, Shi Xiaole had a sudden idea and again operated the breakthrough method of the Nine-Colored Granny. This time, Vigorous Air and True Intent did not explode, but merged perfectly together.
Two hours later, Shi Xiaole had completed thousands of combinations.
At this rate, he estimated that without needing three years, he could completely merge Vigorous Air and True Intent and leap into the Divine Barrier Realm in one fell swoop!
Shi Xiaole was twenty-five this year, and three years later, he would be twenty-eight. He would be only one year later than the Martial Emperor. Once the news came out, it would certainly shake the world.
Shi Xiaole shook his head, voluntarily dismantling the previous combination.
What’s the use of breaking through quickly? His pursuit is both strength and speed.
Having seen Ji Morou and Ren Mengzhen in action, Shi Xiaole had reason to suspect that the two of them had reached the edge of the Divine Barrier Realm long ago. With their qualifications and foundation, there was no reason they wouldn’t have a method of quick breakthrough.
The reason they held back was merely to use the strongest method of breakthrough to enter the Divine Barrier Realm.
Judging by this, the other talents of Tian State were probably in the same situation.
Therefore, in order to make a name for himself in Tian State, Shi Xiaole couldn’t be careless for a moment. He had to push everything that could be improved to the limit, then use his own best method of breakthrough to step into the Divine Barrier!
Apart from three meals a day, Shi Xiaole seemed to have been forgotten. Occasionally, he could hear some gossip from the mouths of the Demon Path disciples who brought food, but it was all mocking him, saying that he was nothing more than a pathetic prisoner.
Shi Xiaole didn’t care at all.
After his Wind True Intent reached one hundred percent, he began to enhance his Illusion True Intent.
There was no time in the dark cell.
Another two months had passed.
His Illusion True Intent had risen from the prior twenty percent at the peak to sixty percent. As he opened his eyes, two ethereal swords hung in the void, then disappeared immediately.
"Under the six-tenths of the Illusion True Intent, my spirit attack can now instantly kill a typical superior Lord. Even people like Xin Zhuliu might not come out unscathed."
Shi Xiaole exhaled slowly.
The increase in his strength was too significant, it can even be described as a drastic change, and this progress wasn’t temporary. Before breaking into the Divine Barrier Realm, his True Intent can keep improving.
This meant that he could catch up with Ji Morou and Ren Mengzhen’s True Intent at the fastest speed, and even completely surpass them!
After all, even Ji Morou and Ren Mengzhen themselves may not be able to comprehend three top-level True Intents to one hundred percent.
"Young man, you’re very cool about it."
At that moment, footsteps resounded, and in the light of the torch, the bald one-eyed man who had captured Shi Xiaole was walking towards him with a malicious grin on his face.
"Great genius, great swordsman, haha, your luck has come, take him away!"
The malicious laughter changed into ridicule, the bald and one-eyed man waved his hand, and two men behind him roughly hoisted Shi Xiaole up.
