In a way, a weapon was one’s second life. Unless one was forced, how could one throw away one’s weapon? Besides, the nine-ringed saber had a significant meaning for Woo Lejia. Given that he took the initiative to leave it behind, what exactly did he see in the void?
In a further ring, Wu Hanning was bright-eyed and highly spirited as she watched the fight. She almost wanted to go up to Ou Yangming’s ring to have a taste of the attack
‘Ah, it’s such a mighty simulated spiritual ability. Perhaps that person is the only one in the whole imperial family… No, in the whole world who can pull it off.
‘But judging from that person’s identity, he won’t show up unless the world is on the verge of destruction.’
“Your Royal Highness, looks like the imperial family’s Spiritual Fist Technique is going to be passed on to a different person,” Zuoqiu Hongyuan commented and laughed. He was talking to Wu Hanning, but he fixed his gaze on Ou Yangming and displayed intense fighting will.
Ever since Ou Yangming dominated the ring as a Yin Grade martial artist, he attracted everyone’s attention. The young fellow had accepted challenges from seven people thus far, whereas Zuoqiu Hongyuan and Wu Hanning seemed to have been forgotten throughout the period.
Nonetheless, Zuoqiu Hongyuan would not envy Ou Yangming because of this; he was not a short-sighted person. Despite that, he was keen to fight the unpredictable opponent. He could not wait to have an exciting match against Ou Yangming to release the burning fire in his heart.
As for the gap between their cultivation bases…
At this point, nobody regarded Ou Yangming as a Yin Grade martial artist anymore.
Even Zuoqiu Hongyuan admitted that the young fellow was capable of challenging him.
Wu Hanning curled her lips into a beautiful smile beneath her scarf.
“Young Master Zuoqiu, you’re overthinking it. Master Ou is part of the imperial family.”
“What?” Zuoqiu Hongyuan was slightly stunned, and he finally looked surprised. “Brother… Ou is a part of your clan?”
Wu Hanning proudly put her hands behind her back without saying a word.
She thought, ‘Even if he isn’t now, he’ll surely become one of ours in the future.’
After all, the imperial family would value Ou Yangming because he learned the secret technique, and they would rope him into their system at all costs.
Ou Yangming was God-gifted, but there were many gifted powerhouses like him in the imperial family’s past generations. Additionally, Wu Hanning was even more confident about this because she was sure the secluded member of the imperial family would be interested in the young fellow.
Her eyes looked hollow as she stared at Ou Yangming
‘Work hard! The more powerful you become, the nearer you are to me!’
Chapter 313 - The Birth Of A Supreme Great Ancestor
Chapter 313 The Birth Of A Supreme Great Ancestor
“Boom, boom, boom…” Woo Lejia was in a miserable state in the ring. Similar to the two previous Yang Grade powerhouses, he gave up his dignified and creditable combat method because his only goal was to escape the big multicolored tiger’s attacks.
He would be considered brainless if he still wanted to uphold his dignity while he tried to escape.
Woo Lejia kept shifting his body and sometimes exerted all his force to counterattack. Nonetheless, the man knew his efforts could barely prolong his existence. He did not stand a chance to defeat a great-ancestor-level half-spirit beast, especially a frightening one that could constantly recover and had endless energy.
No. Without external forces, his chances of escaping were minimal too.
Even so, he never gave up.
The Woo family disciples were not as prominent as the imperial family disciples, but they had a profound inheritance too. For many generations, they were the most loyal guardians of the imperial family, and their deceased ancestors taught them to never give up.
Therefore, no matter how formidable the big multicolored tiger was or how dangerous the situation was for Woo Lejia, he never surrendered.
He knew he would be giving up the path to the peak of martial arts if he admitted defeat.
Ou Yangming controlled the big multicolored tiger and kept attacking Woo Lejia. Throughout the process, he became more familiar with the simulated spiritual attack.
In actuality, Wu Haohan’s Simulated Spiritual Art was mighty but crude and full of loopholes. The only commendable thing was the gigantic beast’s valiant aura, which was hair-raising and could affect one’s combat power.
When Ou Yangming grasped the ability through his unique Military Fire and his great mental power, he could not simulate the gigantic beast well enough. However, when he transformed the beast into the big multicolored tiger, which he encountered in the past, everything changed.
He seemed to have found a path that suited him very well, and he successfully finished his journey on it.
Hence, the simulated big multicolored tiger became more vivid and powerful.
Ou Yangming had a strong feeling that he was a king-the king of the spiritual world that he created. Everything in the world was done according to his wishes; whether it was the environment or the big multicolored tiger, who could force a powerhouse at the peak of Yang Grade Class Five to a dead-end, they were all within his control.
If he wanted to end the fight earlier at this moment, he could simply increase the big tiger’s mightiness to kill Woo Lejia.
Despite that, he was incredibly curious.
‘If I assist Woo Lejia with my might, can he break through?’
As such, instead of ending the fight in a hurry, Ou Yangming gave Woo Lejia sufficient pressure and slowly increased it. The fight would naturally end if Woo Lejia gave up, but if he persisted through the greatest perseverance, perhaps he could advance to the next grade.
Eventually, Ou Yangming noticed that as the fight was dragged longer, the consumption of his mental power became greater than its compensation. It was also worth noting that he was equipped with the Qi Return necklace. Without the equipment, the young fellow could not have held on for so long even if his mental power was more substantial than this. Nevertheless, he noticed that Woo Lejia had become an arrow at the end of its flight.
“Pow…”
The big multicolored tiger attacked with its claw and finally struck at the exhausted Woo Lejia, causing him to fall to the ground. The beast later lunged at the man again, where he could smell its running saliva and bloody breath.
Before this, Woo Lejia had used up all the power in his body. In a way, his abilities were squeezed dry, and he could no longer evade the beast. If that was not the case, the man could not have been hit by the big multicolored tiger.
Seeing as the big tiger came closer to him and released such a threatening aura, Woo Lejia was utterly disheartened.
After experiencing the unbelievable fight, he became so immersed that he stopped wondering if it was an illusion or reality.
Woo Lejia thought he was going to die for sure.
An odd feeling rose from the bottom of his heart, and he somehow had unexplainable emotions.
His memories filled his head and flashed in front of him at that instant.
Woo Lejia thought about his parents and close ones, and he saw the scenes when he first began to practice martial arts. Moreover, the man remembered the loneliness and sweat that he endured when he cultivated hard, as well as the danger and encounters when he fought alongside his partners.
Everything appeared in his mind in the form of endless images.
Time seemed to have slowed down, and his mind was detached from the limits of life, death, and time as it became far-reaching.
Woo Lejia had never experienced this before, and he understood something at this moment. He vaguely felt that he would do better if he was given a second chance.
‘I’m not resigned to this-I’m not resigned to the outcome!’
He roared furiously from the bottom of
his heart, ‘I’m not willing to die like this!
‘I want to see my close ones, and I’d like to climb to the peak of martial arts!’
That said, the big tiger’s mouth and awful breath, which were approaching him, pulled him back to his senses.
Hopeless, dispirited, hopeful, indestructible… As he underwent an alternation between entirely different emotions, his mind was close to crumbling.
Next, Woo Lejia’s eyes lit up all of a sudden. The big multicolored tiger, that made him fearful and pressured, disappeared. He was greeted with the ring, Ou Yangming, and the blue sky.
‘Oh… It wasn’t a real great-ancestor-level half-spirit beast; it’s the Martial Arts Battle.’
Woo Lejia’s mouth trembled and was left agape while looking surprised about having escaped death.
Following that, the bizarre emotions from before gushed into his mind, and his brain seemed to have broken down as a result.
His thoughts slowly became lively. Even as he calmed his mind, he found himself in the intense excitement earlier.
Those were two entirely different feelings, but they strangely coexisted.
Woo Lejia sat with his legs crossed in the ring and closed his eyes. His essential Qi was being recovered bit by bit, and it began to circulate inside his body. Furthermore, the man’s mental conception went deep inside his body to merge with his essential Qi.
Ou Yangming withdrew his attack and thought, ‘This is as far as I can help you, and it’s up to you from now on…’
Nonetheless, Woo Lejia did not disappoint him. The moment the man sat with his legs crossed, Ou Yangming sensed a peculiar power being spread from his body.
It was mental power-mental power that specially belonged to Woo Lejia.
Martial artists often had numerous ways to assist their cultivations before they advanced to Extreme Grade, but they were also faced with the biggest bottleneck at the peak of Yang Grade Rank Five.
Nothing could help them at that stage.
This was because a Supreme Great Ancestor was qualified enough to contact Heaven and Earth’s power, thus their bodies were not the only thing that had to be tempered.
To enter Extreme Grade, one had to prepare one’s willpower. Only by incorporating one’s mental conception to one’s body, where fusion would occur, one could arrive at Extreme Grade.
Everyone was made different because of dissimilar intrinsic qualities. In fact, even twins did not have the same mental power.
One had to incite one’s mental power to be combined with one’s martial arts, by which one’s spirit and body would merge, to enter Extreme Grade.
Hence, a Supreme Great Ancestor could not help his or her younger generations even if one wanted to.
For countless years, it had been publicly known that one needed to rely on oneself to get to Extreme Grade.
Needless to say, there were some precious treasures in the world. If they were found through chanced encounters and were consumed, the difficulty of becoming a great ancestor could be lowered.
Having said that, those precious treasures were extremely rare and were near extinct. Besides, one would be considered opportunistic to become a Supreme Great Ancestor through this method, and one’s combat power would likely be inferior.
Ambitious martial artists would never resort to that method.
After going through a fearsome life-or-death fight, Woo Lejia was wholly tempered from head to toe. In particular, his willpower and mental conception received 360-degree changes.
A weak yet highly potential aura was born from the deepest part of his body.
It was his mental power.
Merely having mental power was not enough because the power had to be integrated with his body and fused with his essential Qi. His spirit and body had to merge.
It was yet another mountainous moat, and it was a stumbling block for many powerhouses at the peak of Yang Grade.
However, when Woo Lejia operated his nearly depleted essential Qi, he naturally combined it with his mental power.
He went past the two greatest obstacles in one move and acquired the capital and strength to become a Supreme Great Ancestor.
The valiant and extreme power was being accumulated in his body, then it spread along with his essential Qi, which was constantly being recovered.
Ou Yangming carefully observed the change in Woo Lejia, and he slowly curled his lips into a smile. This was because he knew another impressive Supreme Great Ancestor was being born among the Humans in front of him.
Most importantly, he had somewhat single-handedly shaped the Supreme Great Ancestor!
Chapter 314 - Solemn Promise
By this point, the crowd below the ring had already erupted into a frenzy, and chaos ran rampant.
The moment Woo Lejia sat down cross-legged like the prior two Yang Grade powerhouses, the spectators immediately leaped to their feet.
After all, although they were all Yang Grade powerhouses, the difference between the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Class was like heaven and earth. Even if those who were in Class Three or Four had advanced a class, they would still remain in the Yang Grade, which would only result in a marginal increase in strength. However, if a Class Five powerhouse were to break through…
It would result in the birth of a Supreme Grand Ancestor!
In the face of a Supreme Grand Ancestor, what could a Yang Grade Powerhouse even do?
As such, the crowd’s excitement had reached a crescendo once they saw Woo Lejia sitting down.
Even though Woo Lejia had shown no signs of breaking through yet, the crowd below was already heatedly discussing among themselves.
Naturally, those who were at high cultivation levels, especially those who were also at the Fifth Class of the Yang Grade, had acted reserved at Woo Lejia’s actions. Nevertheless, even though their lips were sealed, from the fiery passion of their eyes that were fixated on the ring, their true thoughts were as clear as day.
Despite that, just like everyone else, they hesitated, as they were also waiting for Woo Lejia’s results.
As a result, a tense atmosphere engulfed the entire complex.
Although there were some empty rings at the scene, no one decided to use them. All squabbles, be it big or small, were immediately suppressed once they arrived at the scene.
For some strange reason, everyone had unanimously taken a truce once they came.
Compared to Woo Lejia’s results, every other fight was of little consequence.
Although a majority of the people present were unable to discern Woo Lejia’s progress, this did little to impede their interest in Woo Lejia’s results.
Wu Hanning and Zuoqiu Hongyuan remained silent as well. Just like the others, they were intrigued by the situation and were willing to witness it to the end.
Usually, the advancement of a Yang Grade powerhouse into the Extreme Grade was something that took ages to achieve. This notion was ingrained heavily into the minds of the masses, and as such, no one had ever thought to go against it.
Nevertheless, at that moment, everyone’s heart seemed to be in sync.
Suddenly, the top-ranked powerhouses perked up. Their eyes were fixed on Woo Lejia, and a glint of disbelief could be seen.
They had sensed it!
The overwhelming and terrifying aura that was radiating from Woo Lejia’s body!
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Within the imperial palace, five elderly men in lavish clothing were gathered together.
Each of them were the imperial family’s Supreme Great Ancestors, and if any one of them were to appear within the capital, pandemonium would ensue.
Despite that, a solemn expression hung on their faces at that moment.
The strongest faction within the capital was without a doubt, the imperial family, and as such, they had a wide-reaching information network. News of Wu Haohan’s loss and his sudden advancement had reached their ears, and because of it, the supreme ancestors had gathered together. Had it been the birth of any ordinary Cl
ass Five Yang Grade powerhouse, the imperial family’s Supreme Great Ancestors would not even bat their eyes.
However, the fact that the Royal Family’s secret technique, the simulated spiritual attack had been learned and applied with even more potency by someone else had greatly perturbed the imperial family’s powerhouses.
After all, even among the five Supreme Great Ancestors there, not all of them had mastered this technique; and even for those who had successfully cultivated it, none of them could achieve Ou Yangming’s results. Although none of them had borne witness to Ou Yangming’s feats themselves, from the way their sources had described the situation, they immediately realized that Ou Yangming’s mastery of the technique was even stronger than the countless powerhouses that existed throughout the imperial family’s history.
Perhaps, there were only a handful of people with talents in this particular area that could go against him.
At that moment, the Supreme Great Ancestors were awaiting Woo Lejia’s results.
If Woo Lejia were to truly ascend into the Supreme Great Ancestor rank, Ou Yangming’s position would no doubt shoot up, and surpass a large portion of the existing Supreme Great Ancestors.
After all, with Ou Yangming at the lead, heavens knew how many more Supreme Great Ancestors would emerge among the masses.
Suddenly, all five of them directed their gaze towards the entrance.
A person frantically ran in at a breakneck speed.
The man had a wild but joyful look on his face. He looked as if he was too excited to remain calm.
The five elders glanced at one another. Although the man had yet to speak, his expression had already contained all the information that they needed.
Back in a large mansion within the southern part of the capital, He Hanyang could be seen resting with his eyes slightly shut. However, in truth, the excitement that was welling within him was reaching a crescendo.
Ever since he had heard the news of Ou Yangming’s simulated spiritual attack causing Wu Haohan’s rank to increase, he immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate the matter, and ever since then, he had remained rooted to his spot.
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