Chapter 281: Chapter 281 - Brutal Test
When I heard Roberts Joshua’s words, my face turned pale.
An overwhelming sense of crisis nearly swallowed me whole.
Roberts stood up and was about to leave.
"Wait!"
I called out to Roberts again.
I walked quickly up to him and said slowly, "Can you let me witness your true strength?"
Roberts was stunned and said somewhat puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"I want to know how big the gap is between you and me." I took a deep breath.
Roberts’s eyebrows knitted slightly.
He said solemnly, "You might get hurt."
"As long as I don’t die, it’s fine." I turned around and came to the courtyard.
After thinking for a while, Roberts eventually followed me out.
As our eyes met, Roberts asked, "Are you sure you want to spar with me?"
I nodded and said, "Yes, I hope you won’t hold back."
After saying that, my Inner Strength burst out in an instant!
This was my own strength, not borrowed from Earth Fiend Valley!
Therefore, I was still far from the level of a Grandmaster.
Roberts looked at me full of Golden Light and said coldly, "Fine, I’ll satisfy you."
After saying that, Roberts’s figure vanished into the air, and he almost instantly appeared in front of me!
Facing Roberts, I didn’t dare to hide my strength. I roared and immediately activated the Third-layer Saintly Body Skill!
And to meet Roberts’s fist, I used my trump card, the Absolute Beginning Sacred Fist!
The collision of our fists created a massive shockwave!
A violent wind swept through in an instant, uprooting nearby trees!
Cracks appeared on the Golden Light on my fist.
Suddenly, the Golden Light retreated, and my flesh bore the brunt of the punch.
My body flew backward, smashing the wall behind me.
My arm was almost shattered, and blood flowed all over my body.
Even after my body was tempered, I still couldn’t withstand Roberts!
Looking at me lying on the ground, Roberts slowly walked over.
"You’ve already made rapid progress, but it’s not enough." Roberts left these words.
I lay on the ground, not saying anything.
I stared at the sky, with moonlight shining on my face.
"Vance Johansson... is he even stronger than Roberts Joshua?" I murmured softly.
——
Roberts left, and Mason lay on the ground, not getting up for a long time.
His mind flashed with countless thoughts, looking somewhat numb.
More than ten minutes later, Mason struggled to get up from the ground.
——
Enduring the pain in my body, my eyes once again became resolute.
"I won’t lose to Vance Johansson, nor to the Sean Family." My voice was slightly cold.
I quickly sat cross-legged on the ground and began healing my wounds.
Then, I took out the Pills from the snakeskin bag.
These Pills were the purest Inner Strength for martial artists, and their effects were no less than that of Divine Medicine.
Like eating beans, I stuffed them into my mouth.
Soon, I felt the breakthrough’s threshold.
Perhaps it was the truth about the Sean Family that had hit me, or perhaps the gap in strength had ignited my fighting spirit.
In any case, my realm had unknowingly improved a lot.
This breakthrough went smoothly, and I easily crossed this level, stepping directly into the Eighth Layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
At this time, the sky had already brightened, and Victor Green returned from outside.
He looked at the surrounding environment and hurriedly said, "Mr. Raymond, what happened here?"
I shook my head without saying anything, just continually stuffing Pills into my mouth.
"Oh yes, these Pills are for you." I didn’t swallow all the Pills from Earth Fiend Valley for myself.
I gave three bags to Conrad Schroeder and Victor Green respectively.
I kept the remaining bag as a cornerstone for my breakthrough.
I continued to consume the Pills, and long-term qi input imposed a huge burden on my dantian.
But I had no intention of stopping. A whole snakeskin bag of Pills was swallowed by me.
This purest Inner Strength exploded in my dantian, almost bursting the entire dantian.
The intense pain caused beads of sweat to appear on my face.
But my expression remained unchanged, appearing calm.
I guided my Inner Strength in my dantian to circulate continuously within my body’s meridians.
This was to offset the burden on my dantian.
Slowly, the pain in my dantian began to fade.
It was clear that my experiment had been successful.
If it weren’t for this method, the restrictions on my consumption of Pills would be too great.
This would also indefinitely delay my cultivation.
After three days and three nights.
I finally touched the edge of the Ninth Layer of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
But because my qi had reached a dried-up state, I had to stop temporarily.
I stood up and then picked up the Spatial Magic Artifact that Roberts had given me and examined it.
Roberts didn’t tell me how to use this Spatial Magic Artifact, so I could only explore it myself.
My divine sense moved, and a wisp of blood essence flew out from the center of my brow.
I dripped the blood essence onto the Spatial Magic Artifact, only to find that it didn’t respond at all.
"It seems this method is wrong." I couldn’t help but frown.
Next, I injected a strand of my divine sense into the Spatial Magic Artifact.
"Buzz!"
Finally, the Spatial Magic Artifact reacted!
A series of lights bloomed on the Spatial Magic Artifact, and my divine sense could freely enter and exit the Spatial Magic Artifact.
With just a thought, I could control the Artifact.
"It really is a treasure." I thought to myself.
I took a turn inside the Spatial Magic Artifact, and apart from the three corpses, there was nothing else inside.
So, I withdrew my divine sense.
I stood up from the ground and an idea surfaced in my mind.
I took out my phone and called Conrad Schroeder.
After the call was connected, I said, "Help me arrange a meeting with the Four Great Families of Chuzzle."
Conrad on the other end was stunned and somewhat surprised, "Meeting the Four Great Families? Mr. Raymond, is there something going on?"
"Well, you could say that." I said.
Conrad asked, "When?"
I thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow."
Although Conrad was puzzled, he still agreed.
After hanging up the phone, a touch of coldness flashed across my face.
After my conversation with Roberts, I understood one principle:
At the bottom, growth must be accompanied by the plundering of resources.
This King of Chuzzle cannot just be an empty title.
