Chapter 756: Chapter 755 Heavenly Hidden Fruit (Second Update)
A night of fierce battle.
Those who train in martial arts generally have robust bodies, but unless they are Horizontal Practice Martial Artists, they can only attain strength slightly superior than ordinary people, impossible to rise to the heavens.
Even experts in the Void Origin Realm, without utilizing their Vigorous Air, are no different.
Yet, Shi Xiaole and Xia Yunxi have engaged in a battle throughout the entire night.
"Is it because I practised the Vajra Unbreakable Body and consumed many horizontal training medicinal materials?"
Shi Xiaole pondered, but soon shook his head.
The Vajra Unbreakable Body isn’t just a horizontal martial arts training technique, and he noticed that every time his energy was exhausted, a new desire would immediately emerge within him.
Was it the Blood Sun Mediator?!
So was this damned thing responsible for his boundless energy?
The morning sunlight streamed through the window pane, casting a golden glow on the exposed snow-white arms and slender legs of the couple in bed.
Shi Xiaole was ignited once again.
This time he was certain that the Blood Sun Mediator was causing the mischief, turning him into an insatiable ’beast’. He must gain control!
Who knows if this was prematurely depleting his energy?
But why was Xia Yunxi so strong?
Upon his direct questioning, the already awake Miss Xia blushed and after fidgeting for a moment, she whispered, "In Nine-Colored Granny’s heritage, there is a martial art... Ah!"
"What’s wrong?"
On Xia Yunxi’s beautiful face was a touch of astonished joy and doubt, "How can it be? When I was cultivating just now, it seemed like my Vigorous Air has greatly improved, and every time I see you, I..."
Shi Xiaole swiftly sat up and began to inspect Xia Yunxi’s body with his spiritual power, and after a moment, a deep horror flashed in his eyes.
The Blood Sun Mediator, he had sensed its presence in Xia Yunxi!
Can this thing be infectious?
In the history of the Martial World, at least in recorded times, such a phenomenon had never occurred. Therefore, even the members of the Dreamy Sect probably didn’t know the exact effects of the Blood Sun Mediator.
Shi Xiaole attempted to cultivate and found that his Vigorous Air had also improved significantly, his cultivation level was nearing the mid-stage of the Divine Barrier Realm.
What Shi Xiaole and Xia Yunxi didn’t know was that thousands of miles away, in a beautifully decorated palace in Tian State, a young girl veiled in black was also at a loss.
Something seemed different in the dark, but what was it?
Shaking her head, Ren Mengzhen discarded the distracting thoughts and re-entered her cultivation state. She was just a little away from perfecting the breakthrough method and was expected to step into the Divine Border Realm soon.
Experimenting again, Shi Xiaole and Xia Yunxi engaged in several more rounds of intense battles, however, their cultivation level didn’t improve this time round, making Shi Xiaole realise that perhaps only the first time had any effect.
Regardless of the impact of the Blood Sun Mediator, at least for now, the benefits seemed to outweigh the disadvantages.
Xia Yunxi’s talent was lacking, even with Nine-Colored Granny’s legacy, her future achievements would be limited, which was a major problem that had always perplexed Shi Xiaole.
But now, it seemed he had found a solution.
Didn’t Ren Mengzhen enhance her own talent through the Blood Sun Mediator?
Then, theoretically speaking, Xia Yunxi could also leverage the same method to enhance her talent using Ren Mengzhen.
Observing over several days, Xia Yunxi indeed told Shi Xiaole with disbelief that her cultivation speed had quickened, and several times faster than before.
Even though it was nowhere near Shi Xiaole’s rate, according to her description, it was only slightly inferior to Xin Zhuliu’s, and could be considered a top-tier talent in Tian State.
With one worry off his shoulders, Shi Xiaole felt at ease. Other than spending time intimately with Xia Yunxi, he devoted all his attention to cultivation.
First was his cultivation level. After several days of consolidation, he eventually broke through to the mid-stage of the Divine Barrier Realm, his Vigorous Air improving by about fifty percent.
Then, it was swordsmanship.
After transforming the first two moves of the Divine Wind Movement into swordsmanship, Shi Xiaole was dedicated to researching the third move. Day by day, with unrelenting efforts, he finally made headway.
"Harnessing the power of the world through rotation is the secret to breaking the boundary of the world. When applying it to swordsmanship, the rotating body is no longer a person but a sword."
Wind can exist in any form, and form implies the technique of exerting force.
Underneath an unoccupied waterfall in Nine Heavens Mountain.
Shi Xiaole sat cross-legged in mid-air, the Red Left sword quietly suspended in the air above his legs.
At some moment.
The Red Left sword suddenly unsheathed, the sword’s aura rolled forward like a twisted braid. With every inch it rolled, the power around it intertwined a little more, actively integrating into the sword momentum.
In just a moment, over hundreds of meters, the blue-red sword aura had expanded from twenty feet thick to two hundred feet. It immediately took a turn and rushed towards the sky.
Boom!
A large hole ripped open in the clouds, which took half a day to close.
"The power of this move is three points stronger than Chaotic Wind Cloud. Let’s call it Wuji."
Wuji signifies that, under conducive conditions, it can absorb the surrounding power to the maximum extent for personal use, similar to the Effortless Seeking Technique. However, one is offensive while the other is defensive.
Speaking frankly, implementating Wuji increased Shi Xiaole’s attack power to the standard of a lower sixth tier. If combined with Crossing the River with a Single Reed, he was confident in matching a sixth-tier Earth Immortal.
If the emergence of Wuji had drastically increased Shi Xiaole’s attack power, then Body-Sword Integration’s maturation, offered him a unique method of attack.
In the forest, sword light moved back and forth, now fast, now slow, now up, now down, entirely unpredictable and solely dependent on Shi Xiaole’s will for its changes.
When he returned to his original position, the dense sword lights interwoven into a network, which dispersed a long time afterward.
"The Body-Sword Integration technique has significantly less consumption than Thousand One, but its single-target power is almost no less powerful. It’s only slightly weaker in mass attacks."
Shi Xiaole nodded in satisfaction.
The diversity of offensive methods gave him more options and adaptability. If the version of himself from yesterday were to take on his current self, considering close combat only, his current self would have an 80% chance of winning.
The valley where Shi Xiaole was training was a vital area of Nine Heavens Mountain. It was shrouded by three large array formations on the periphery, so besides him, no one knew his current real strength.
As he was returning to Wuling Villa intending to find Xia Yunxi, Su Yanru hurried over. She was still far away when she shouted, "Lele, there’s a big problem!"
If Su Yanru was panicking, it must be big news. Shi Xiaole quickly asked for the reason.
"Don’t ask, just follow me."
Su Yanru gave him a look, half annoyed and half resentful, pulling Shi Xiaole along with her as she headed forward. This let Shi Xiaole realize that it probably wasn’t bad news.
Arriving at the southeast side of Nine Heavens Mountain, Shi Xiaole spotted five people from a distance. They were Xin Zhuliu, three odd fellows, and Zhu Ling.
Besides these people, strands of exotic fragrance entered his nostrils, making him feel completely relaxed. Even the speed of his Vigorous Air movement increased considerably.
"Greetings to the head of the Villa!"
Seeing Shi Xiaole arrive, everyone bowed their fists in salutation, while Xin Zhuliu just sneered.
"What happened here?"
Although he asked, Shi Xiaole was already looking at the rock face in front of him. What surprised him was that the surface of the rocky mountainside was a piece of ash-gray. It wasn’t a dull gray but emitted a certain kind of light.
The strange scent came from inside the mountainside.
"Head of the Villa, we just discovered this strange situation."
Zhu Ling answered.
Shi Xiaole acutely noticed that a movable array formation covered the surroundings. This formation protection was likely added by Zhu Ling to prevent the leakage of information.
Nodding quietly, he infiltrated the mountainside using his psychic power. What was horrifying was that the things inside the mountainside blurred Shi Xiaole’s psychic power, the sensing level plummeted a few notches.
If it were anyone other than Shi Xiaole, they probably would be at a complete loss. No wonder Xin Zhuliu and the others didn’t find anything.
Shi Xiaole manipulated his psychic power to slowly invade further.
In a vague manner, he saw a glowing gray-black vine.
The vine had many tiny fruits, and at the top was a fruit as clear as a black diamond, surrounded by many dazzling stars.
What is this?
Flipping through the memory of the books he had read, Shi Xiaole felt as if he was struck by a thunderbolt, his head became white, and every pore on his body was trembling uncontrollably.
It took a while for him to barely calm down.
"Head of the Villa?"
Zhu Ling looked at him questionably.
"Move all the movable array formations in Nine Heavens Mountain here, and forbid any information leakage about this place!"
Everyone, including Su Yanru, was somewhat stunned, as they had never seen Shi Xiaole so stern before.
"If I’m not mistaken, the thing inside the mountainside is the Heavenly Hidden Fruit."
"So, it’s the Heavenly Hidden Fruit, Heavenly Hidden... What?!"
Golden Saber Elder was about to nod his head when he suddenly froze and screamed.
Even Xin Zhuliu, who didn’t care about anything, contracted his pupils, doubting his hearing.
It wasn’t disbelief, but shock.
The Heavenly Hidden Fruit, one of the top ten exotic fruits in the world.
It’s known that fruits considered exotic all possess unique effects, even capable of facilitating a person’s metamorphosis. The top ten exotic fruits can defy fate, their value is no less than that of top-tier martial arts!
In some ways, they are even more precious than top-tier martial arts.
After all, if your level isn’t up to the Void Origin Realm, top-tier martial arts would be useless. But having one of the ten exotic fruits could endow you with incredible abilities.
There is a prevalent belief in the Martial World that the Heavenly Hidden Fruit comes from the center of the Yin-Yang intersection. It possesses the power of both Yin and Yang. If someone consumes it, they can push through the mysterious life-death border.
No one knows where the life-death border is, so it’s impossible to know where to start looking and impossible to push through. In other words, only those who get a Heavenly Hidden Fruit have a chance.
Recorded in some unearthed ancient books, more than five thousand years ago, a Dragon Gate Realm Lord whose potential was exhausted accidentally ate a Heavenly Hidden Fruit. As a result, he made remarkable progress in the subsequent two hundred years and became a grandmaster!
Everyone could imagine that if the news of the emergence of the Heavenly Hidden Fruit gets out, not only the martial artists of Xuanwu State but also the entire Flying Horse Dynasty will cast their eyes here.
If not handled well, the end of Wuling Villa might come overnight.
People always say that Nine Heavens Mountain is a place of great disaster, but who knows that great disaster hides great fortune? It’s just that a great fortune isn’t always a blessing.
"I’ll take care of it right away!"
Knowing the severity of the matter, Zhu Ling didn’t dare to delay any longer and hurried away immediately.
