That big man was shocked as he could only feel that his arms had been tightly trapped, his wrists feeling as though they were almost about to snap.
Yan Zhaoge smacked his lips, saying, “Being the first person I met in this world, I had originally intended to interact on friendly terms with you. However, as I see it now, never mind.”
“Right, you might not be able to understand these words as well.”
That big man indeed couldn’t understand them. Right now, he just wanted to extricate himself from Yan Zhaoge’s grasp.
His arms unable to move, he made a kicking motion towards Yan Zhaoge.
However, just as Yan Zhaoge had been speaking, he had already kicked out, directly striking the man’s lower abdomen.
The eyeballs of the big man nearly popped out of their sockets as his knees weakened, his entire body trembling.
Yan Zhaoge looked mildly at him, “I’ll just take you down, then see if there are any items or scrolls of some kind on you. I’ll research into the language and written characters you use here on my own.”
In great pain, the veins on that big man’s head bulged, his eyes bloodshot as he repeatedly drew in deep breaths.
That madness and bloodthirstiness within his pupils grew as the patterns of light on his body’s surface blazed more and more.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge raised his brows slightly, “Oh?”
The big man roared, the patterns of light on his entire body surging as blue lightning expanded around him like an uncontrollable tide, gradually condensing to form a silhouette within the air.
Within, a six-legged leopard enshrouded completely in lightning roared madly.
Yan Zhaoge’s eyes narrowed into slits, “Six-legged Flying Lightning Leopard?”
That big man’s body seemed to be expanding as the rumbling of thunder resounded from within, his power surging.
A crazed look appeared within his eyes as he glared unblinkingly at Yan Zhaoge, seemingly not willing to let it go if he did not rip him into pieces.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge smiled.
He increased the strength of his grip, completely shattering all the bones and veins of the man’s elbows along with the bones of his wrist!
An even greater power resembling the pressuring of Mount Tai instantly suppressed that violent lightning into tiny embers of electricity, limited within the space of a foot as it was unable to run rampant.
The big man opened his mouth, the extreme pain preventing him from even uttering a sound.
Yan Zhaoge appraised him rather interestedly, “Interesting. Turning false into real, transforming his own power into that of true lightning and thunderbolts. To martial practitioners, this should only be possible for someone having stepped into the Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster realm and cultivated aura into essence, forming a true martial soul.”
“However, this guy’s strength has not reached the level of an Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster.”
“Let alone cultivating aura into essence, he hasn’t even cultivated qi into aura yet. However, his flesh and blood is far from what Martial Artists can compare to, already being comparable to that of Martial Grandmasters.”
“Manifesting true lightning, while it does not reach the level of an Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster, it is still rather powerful as well.”
As Yan Zhaoge grabbed those arms of that big man that by now already resembled rotten mud, he saw that within the already ragged flesh and blood there shone numerous streaks of light.
It was as if an extremely strong power that originated from some kind of bloodline was unceasingly awakening.
“Could it be that this power of yours originates from the Six-legged Flying Lightning Leopard?” Yan Zhaoge clicked his tongue in wonder, “At first, I’d still thought that you were a demon having taken human form, but as I see it now, it is precisely the exact opposite. You refined and merged the bloodline of a demonic beast within your own body, through it obtaining this power?”
“I’d also not seen such martial cultivation before the Great Calamity. Could it be a newly created technique? Interesting, very interesting, just that I don’t know whether this is just so for you and your clan or if the people of this world are all like this?”
As Yan Zhaoge carefully felt the changes in the man’s body, he indeed noticed many uncertain things.
Under extreme pain and rage, that big man completely lost his sanity, emitting some strange roars.
His voice was already no longer that of a human’s, instead completely resembling the roars of a leopard!
The next moment, under everyone’s shocked gazes, the man’s entire body, enveloped by light, actually gradually began turning completely into that of a leopard!
This person, was turning into a beast!
His head gradually transformed into that of a leopard, a tail appearing behind him, wings of thunder and lightning appearing behind his back.
His four limbs also turned into the claws of a leopard. As his back limbs stood on the ground, he looked completely like a leopard in a human standing position!
His two front claws had been shattered by Yan Zhaoge, but twin claws shockingly now extended from his abdomen, clawing towards Yan Zhaoge.
Enveloped by the light, the flesh and blood of the man’s body expanded as he turned massive. Before them, he was right about to turn into a Six-legged Flying Thunder Leopard that was several feet in length and resembled a small mountain!
As this Six-legged Flying Thunder Leopard let out a crazed howl that shocked the heavens, lightning surged as it attracted the continual descent of the lightning within the thunderclouds of the sky.
Yan Zhaoge grew even more interested, “This refers to having lost control of the demonic blood within his body and suffering a backlash? While his power has increased greatly, he himself has turned into a demonic beast.”
Seeing the massive beast before him, Yan Zhaoge sighed in praise, “This bit of fighting has instead let me know quite some things. Indeed, isn’t directly fighting still better?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 422: How can the matters of scholars be called stealing?
HSSB422: How can the matters of scholars be called stealing?
Accompanied by the patterns of light on the man’s entire body growing more and more intense, accompanied by him completely transforming into a Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard, Yan Zhaoge’s opponent was rising unceasingly in strength!
When he had finally completely beastified, no longer being a human, instead having become a true Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard, his strength skyrocketed like a wild, surging tide.
It was as if that human body had always been a cage imprisoning a ferocious beast.
Today, that cage having been destroyed, the imprisoned beast finally broke out of it!
Faced with the Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard that lunged over like a small mountain, pressuring down on him, Yan Zhaoge smilingly raised his palm before pushing it downwards.
After having beastified, that big man now resembled a small mountain. Let alone when he was standing, crouching down on all limbs, he was still much taller than Yan Zhaoge.
However, as Yan Zhaoge raised his palm and pushed it downwards, he gave off a feeling to others of him being much taller than the massive beast before him.
It was like the descending of a divinity. As the palm descended, it was like the toppling of the heavens.
All the hair on the body of the Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard abruptly stood on end.
Because two of its claws had been disabled, under the spiking pain, its mind instead cooled at this moment.
Having lost its humanity and demonised, its acute sense for anger was instead greater.
At this moment, the threat of death that overwhelmed the mind of this Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard caused it to unconsciously turn and flee!
Therefore, all everyone could see now was this Six-Legged Flying Thunder Leopard, having been ferocious as the
heavens earlier as it had looked set to battle to the death and rip its opponent apart having left the cage imprisoning it, now suddenly turning and fleeing as it faced Yan Zhaoge’s upraised palm!
That speed was truly even greater than when having lunged towards Yan Zhaoge just now.
Seeing this, Yan Zhaoge was amused, “Upon having lost its humanity and turned into a demonic beast, it has instead become a little more intelligent?”
However, while he found it to be funny whilst also exasperating, Yan Zhaoge did not have any intentions of letting his opponent go at all. His palm still descended with a strength that shocked the heavens and the earth as he directly snapped this Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard’s spine!
A boom resembling the explosions of thunderbolts resounded as that flying leopard let out a mournful wail, falling to the ground, its body twitching as it was rendered unable to move.
Looking at it, Yan Zhaoge sighed, “Why must it be this way? Having been unable to communicate through language, we could have slowly and peacefully tried to interact in a friendly manner. Why did we have to come to blows? Although, I feel that the efficiency of such was higher.”
That Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard indeed possessed a powerful life force as having nearly been broken into two sections by Yan Zhaoge, it was still not yet dead, even having some strength remaining as lightning flickered unceasingly about its body.
However, it had already completely lost all thoughts of resistance, on its last legs as it was sprawled out on the floor, its gaze that was on Yan Zhaoge filled with pleading.
Yan Zhaoge appeared completely unaffected as he sat down on its back. The flying leopard instantly let out yet another mournful wail.
“Let me see if you have anything valuable on you,” Yan Zhaoge said as he reached out towards the ground.
Due to having completely beastified earlier, that big man’s luggage had been struck by the fierce lightning.
The things inside were currently strewn across the ground, some preserved while others had been blown into smithereens by the lightning.
Yan Zhaoge collected those preserved items with aura-qi before beginning to examine them.
Now, Feng Yunsheng, Xu Fei, Ah Hu and Ying Longtu approached as well. They looked at the massive beast Yan Zhaoge was sitting on.
“Senior apprentice-brother Yan, this leopard was transformed from that person?” Han Long’er looked curiously at that Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard.
While examining the objects within his hands, Yan Zhaoge casually answered, “That’s right.”
Feng Yunsheng appraised it for a bit before saying, “It is already completely a demonic beast, its flesh and blood rich in spiritual qi as it is already completely different from that of humans.”
As he appraised a seal, Yan Zhaoge said simply, “It is a special cultivation technique, the initial step possibly being refining and merging the blood of demonic beasts into one’s own body. Afterwards, cultivation is no longer like for us who cultivate our qi as they instead use the power of a demonic beast’s bloodline as a foundation to raise their level of strength.”
“However, other than providing a boost to one’s power, this demonic beast blood should also be unceasingly affecting a cultivator’s rationality.”
“If because of this or that, a person’s will collapses, his rationality vanishing, the power of the demonic beast might instead turn on its host, causing the person to ultimately turn into a demonic beast himself, not able to resume human form.”
Yan Zhaoge spread his hands apart, “This person’s consciousness should have gradually dispersed after being heavily injured by me. At the same time, his rationality was also consumed by the emotions of hatred and rage. Wanting to live, wanting to resist, wanting to take revenge, he finally went past his limits and became like this.”
Xu Fei and the others all clicked their tongues in wonder, “Still, this really is a unique technique ah. Not having reached the Essence Spirit Martial Grandmaster realm, yet able to wield and control true lightning, still possessing a rather great amount of power at that.”
Yan Zhaoge smiled, “Six-legged like flying, twin wings behind back, accompanied amidst its travels by wind and thunder, naturally able to control thunder and lightning. These are precisely the natural talents gifted to the Six-Legged Flying Thunder Leopard, just like how Pan-Pan can control fire and water.”
The mini-Pan-Pan that was being carried by Feng Yunsheng blinked.
Yan Zhaoge smiled and patted Pan-Pan’s head before saying ponderingly, “Earlier, I had already discovered that while the spiritual qi of this world does seem to be circulating, it feels very thin. No, rather than thin, I should say that its method of circulation is not very suitable for the cultivation breathing exercises of us martial practitioners.”
Hearing his words, Xu Fei looked in the direction of that Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard, “You suspect that the spiritual qi here is more suited to being absorbed through the breathing methods of demonic beasts?”
“Therefore, this cultivation technique of guiding demonic blood into one’s body to be refined and through it changing one’s own physique might not just be an exception, instead being very common in this world?”
Yan Zhaoge clapped lightly, “I indeed have this suspicion.”
Saying thus, he leapt off the back of the Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard, next completely shattering its head with a single palm.
Since it had already lost its humanity, even if they could communicate through language, it was already impossible to ask anything out of it. Thus, Yan Zhaoge naturally no longer had a use for it.
Not requiring Yan Zhaoge’s instructions, Ah Hu walked happily over, opening his Shadow Shrinking Pouch and keeping the corpse of this Six-Legged Flying Lightning Leopard within.
“Young Master, what do we do next?”
Hearing Ah Hu’s question, Yan Zhaoge sighed, “Not being able to communicate through language, also having too little information on hand, we should first find a way to get hold of some living people. I’ll research into their language a little and gain more knowledge on this world before deciding anything further.”
“Still, we must hurry.”
Not having many objects of value remaining here, the group packed up for a bit before leaving the area.
The primordial forest contained a vast variety of demonic beasts, seemingly affirming some of Yan Zhaoge’s guesses.
As they left the primordial forest, the gradually entered a plain.
As they walked, it became getting more densely populated where they were.
However, due to the language barrier, Yan Zhaoge and the others kept a very low profile.
Only when a huge manor appeared before their eyes did Yan Zhaoge’s eyes instantly light up upon having appraised it for a moment.
His eyes were focused on an intricate building within the manor. Through the opened window, high bookshelves and countless precious books could be seen.
Seeing this, Ah Hu scratched his head, “Young Master, could it be that you are going to steal books?”
Yan Zhaoge patted him exasperatedly, “How can the matters of scholars be called stealing?”
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 423: Enhancing cultural interaction!
HSSB423: Enhancing cultural interaction
Ah Hu blinked, “What are the matters of scholars called?”
Yan Zhaoge said solemnly, “Enhancing cultural interaction between our two worlds, paving the way for the establishing of communication.”
Ah Hu opened his mouth, but did not speak.
Beside them, Feng Yunsheng chortled outright, Xu Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly while Han Long’er remained oblivious.
Finally, carrying the lofty sentiments of enhancing cultural interaction between the two worlds, Yan Zhaoge successfully ‘borrowed for reference’ a large amount of ancient texts from the book storage facility of that manor.
After a long period of analysis, Y
an Zhaoge finally gained a rather vague understanding of the language and written characters of this world.
It was like he had guessed before. The civilisation of this world also originated from the pre-Great Calamity world. However, due to the break off in civilisation caused by the Great Calamity, all could only be restarted on the foundational basis of what was left to them. Therefore, it was very different from that of the Eight Extremities World.
Luckily, however, at the end of the day, they all stemmed from the same source, with connections able to be made between them.
After much stumbling around in the dark, Yan Zhaoge finally gained an initial understanding of the world they were currently in.
This world was commonly referred to as the Floating Life World.
Like the Eight Extremities World, the Floating Life World had been formed with the breaking apart of the former pre-Great Calamity world.
The pre-Great Calamity civilisation having been broken off, only some few remnants were left behind for the people here to re-establish their own civilisation with.
Unlike the Eight Extremities World which currently walked a similar path to the pre-Great Calamity world, the Floating Life World walked on a different path.
While there was also a martial civilisation here, the martial dao was a completely different one.
The martial practitioners of the Floating Life World were known as demonic bloodline cultivators. They would refine the bloodlines of demonic beasts, next cultivating with that as the foundation on which they increased their strength.
“If those texts speak true on the environment here, the Floating Life World should be smaller than our Eight Extremities World,” Yan Zhaoge stroked his lower chin, “This way, finding the other half of the mirror and determining the position of the dimensional passageway will at least be a little easier.”
Xu Fei said, “Even so, we still have to make haste. Who knows where the dimensional passageway might be at; hurrying to a destination requires time as well.”
Yan Zhaoge tapped his head, “Precisely so.”
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