I Cheated While Cultivating - Chapter 186
Chapter 186: Chapter 186: The Proclaimed Future!
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Successor?!
What does that mean?
Upon hearing the words of the Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal, Zhou Heng’s heart couldn’t help but fill with shock and suspicion. Could it be that this overpoweringly aggressive overseas loose immortal had once been a member of the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer?
Former Hornwood Star?
“It is precisely because I am your successor that I must eliminate you! To remove future threats!”
The voice of the Hornwood Star was extremely deep. The Golden Dragon shone brilliantly, its form suddenly grew to over a hundred miles long, obscuring the sky and blotting out the sun, and opened its massive mouth to swallow the Green Jade Dragon that the Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal had transformed into.
At the same time, Pei Hongdao, Qi Rui, and the peak figures of the Shenxiao Sect all manifested the full might of their Dharma Bodies.
There was an elder holding scrolls, integrating boundless information, transforming it into torrents that swept away; there were misty clouds drifting around fairy towers and pavilions, from within which sword lights brewed, shattering the void; there was a sea of red thunder that contained the principles of creation and destruction, resembling the brilliance of heavenly power.
These were the ultimate forces of the current era, the pinnacle of power beneath the celestial beings.
As laws intertwined, the land for hundreds of miles around shook, and everything roared. Even thousands of miles away, the shocking and extraordinary event here could be seen.
This was the great power that could truly move mountains and drain oceans; in many worlds, it would be enough to be worshipped as divine. Yet now, it was united in an attack on a single target.
“Just with you all, you think you can kill me?!”
The Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal roared in rage. His Green Jade Dragon Dharma Body suddenly expanded, causing the energy of the green wood in the heavens and earth to surge. Within a thousand miles, flowers, plants, and trees all lit up with a bright green glow, floating up and converging towards the Green Jade Dragon.
His mana, not belonging to any of the five elements, was nonetheless able to mobilize such a vast amount of the energy of the green wood. It was simply inconceivable, like a celestial being operating the power of laws.
Under the gathering and refining of this massive amount of the energy of green wood, the Dharma Body of the Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal suddenly transformed into a Hornwood Flood Dragon that stretched a thousand miles long. Its enormous body floated and sank in the clouds of the sky, appearing before the eyes of countless creatures.
“Hornwood Flood Dragon!” Zhou Heng recognized what the Dharma Body of the Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal had manifested.
In this Dharma Body, he felt the power of the stars and constellations, extremely similar to the aura of the current Hornwood Star with the Golden Dragon Dharma Body, yet there were some differences.
This was likely the core legacy of the Azure Dragon Hornwood Star, cultivated to perfection using the Hornwood Flood Dragon Dharma Body as its foundation.
It seemed that this Green Jade Dragon Loose Immortal most likely had been the predecessor Hornwood Star of the Zhou Tian Boundary Officer.
But how had he become a loose immortal?
“Green Jade Dragon! Have you lost your mind, daring to reveal a thousand-mile Dharma Body, causing a public spectacle, not afraid of the celestial beings coming to get you?!” The Hornwood Star roared in anger, simultaneously extending his Golden Dragon Dharma Body further and making the two golden horns on his head even brighter, charging towards the Hornwood Flood Dragon Dharma Body.
Within a thousand miles around Huangtong Mansion City, including four or five prefectural cities adding up to a population of tens of millions,
these tens of millions of people all looked up to the sky and caught sight of a part of the gigantic flood dragon.
They saw the green dragon’s body that resembled a collapsing heavenly pillar slowly moving above the clouds, where each and every scale seemed like a mountain, as if everything else in the world, compared to it, was utterly insignificant and negligible.
What kind of monster is this?!
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Tens of millions of people witnessed this Flood Dragon Dharma Body, their hearts shocked to the extreme, utterly astonished.
For ordinary people, this was something beyond their decades of life experience; such a colossal Dharma Body had not been revealed by anyone for a very long time.
Even Martial Artists felt that such power was incredibly overbearing and inconceivable, as if the Martial Arts they practiced were not in the same world. Could one really cultivate to such an extent?
This was truly the cultivation of an Immortal!
“Hahaha! If I did not know that the Celestial Men are unable to intervene right now, how could I be so bold?” The Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator laughed heartily, twisting his dragon body, and declared loudly, “Do not fantasize about deceiving me. I might know as much as you do, if not more, hahaha!”
At the same time, he spread out his seemingly boundless Mana, creating a storm of astral essence that surged in all directions, meanwhile intertwining laws and altering rules.
On the spot, he suppressed the imposing presence of Pei Hongdao’s, Qi Rui’s, and the Hornwood Flood Dragon’s Dharma Bodies, as well as that of the Supreme Dharma Body from the Shenxiao Sect, forcefully pushing back these four Peak Great Grandmasters dozens of miles.
Especially the Hornwood Flood Dragon, who bore the brunt of the impact; the core of his Dharma Body, his pair of dragon horns, dimmed in brilliance, as if they had suffered considerable damage from just one strike!
Too strong!
Such might was truly, supremely overwhelming!
Now, the Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator made one feel that even if a real Celestial Man were to descend, it would not be any different.
“You really are too weak!” The Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator sneered coldly.
Immediately after, he opened his Flood Dragon’s gaping mouth, took a powerful breath, and the four Peak Great Grandmasters were involuntarily sucked towards his mouth, with even the surrounding void collapsing, the space itself being drawn towards his maw.
This was like the great returning void, about to devour all things!
Just at that moment, a dimly discernible defense between illusion and reality descended from nowhere, creating a world that seemed to encapsulate all things within the void into a dream.
The Laws of all things in the universe shifted accordingly, as if all rules had to follow the will of the master of this dream. In an instant, the absorbing power of the Hornwood Flood Dragon Dharma Body disappeared, allowing the four Peak Great Grandmasters to move normally again.
However, this mystical dream world only existed for an instant before it was broken through by the Hornwood Flood Dragon Dharma Body of the Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator, and the rules of the world returned to their original state.
The shattered dream coalesced into countless points of glimmering light, ultimately converging into an outline of a human silhouette floating in the air.
“Sixth Rank?! No, this is a more refined Primordial Spirit. Heh, it turns out to be a Celestial Man reincarnated.”
The Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator looked at the glinting silhouette and immediately discerned its nature, scoffing, “What kind of fool would choose to abandon all their achievements from a lifetime, risking the danger of being lost in the womb, to reincarnate and cultivate again?
“Even if you have awakened some memories and Divine Skills from your previous life and reclaimed some of your Primordial Spirit’s essence, what use is it? You are still as weak as an ant.”
The figure made of glimmering light did not speak, just stood quietly there, yet a radiant aura still emanated from her, as if she was ready to launch an offensive at any moment.
Pei Hongdao, the Hornwood Flood Dragon, and the Shenxiao Sect also had solemn expressions, bracing themselves for battle.
Qi Rui, however, remained unfazed. Reaching into his sleeve, he drew out a Longsword wreathed in the rich aura of mountains and rivers, surrounded by the light of clouds and mist. As soon as the Longsword appeared, the surrounding void and Laws twisted.
It was indeed a Divine Weapon!
Seeing this, the Green Jade Dragon Loose Cultivator’s expression changed slightly, but then he seemed to relax and sneered coldly, “Pure Yang Palace truly has vast resources, equipping even Fourth Rank Peak masters with Divine Weapons of Celestial Men. However, a Divine Weapon of Celestial Men is still just a Divine Weapon, not a Celestial Man, and might not necessarily be able to do anything to me!”
At this moment, Zhou Heng, still using Yan Shouyi’s projection, was looking for an opportunity to use the Paralysis Card and became vigilant once again.
It seemed that every time the Yu Long Loose Immortal talked too much, he was hiding other purposes.
The Paralysis Card was not something to be used recklessly.
If he used it on the Yu Long Loose Immortal while his alertness and defenses were at their highest, the chances of killing him would surely decrease significantly.
He still needed to find the right opportunity.
Pei Hongdao, Qi Rui, Jiaosu, and other top Great Grandmasters also felt that the Yu Long Loose Immortal talking so much suddenly seemed abnormal, but when they extended their Divine Sense Perception, they seemed to detect no abnormalities around them.
Just then, through Yan Shouyi’s projection’s perception, Zhou Heng seemed to suddenly notice a black shadow speeding up from behind the four of them and quickly shouted a warning.
“Watch out!!”
But it was already too late.
This black shadow turned out to be the tail of the Hornwood Flood Dragon’s Dharma Body, and with a bang, it smacked the Jiaosu who had manifested the Golden Dragon Dharma Body, sending him flying into the air and out of the crowd.
Immediately afterward, the dragon tail wrapped around him and surprisingly threw the Jiaosu along with his Golden Dragon Dharma Body straight into the Hornwood Flood Dragon’s Dharma Body’s mouth. During the whole process, Jiaosu seemed completely unaware, with no chance to resist.
“Hahahaha! A bunch of fools!!” Yu Long Loose Immortal laughed heartily; the thousand-mile Hornwood Flood Dragon’s Dharma Body shook, instantly shrinking into a small loach no bigger than a palm, about to turn into a streak of green light and flee.
It turned out, all his previous actions were meant to distract everyone so that he could, without anyone noticing, use his dragon tail to launch a surprise attack on Jiaosu and swallow him.
Now that he had succeeded, he naturally would not linger any longer; the best plan was to leave. As for Zhou Heng, the Ziwei Master, he hadn’t fully grown yet; there would be time to kill him later.
“You’re the real fool!!”
Yet at that moment, the corners of Zhou Heng’s mouth curled up in a cold smile. He raised his hand, pointing at the fleeing Yu Long Loose Immortal and shouted loudly:
“Freeze!!”
In an instant, an unbelievably strong force of restraint descended, freezing the loach-sized Yu Long Loose Immortal into stillness amidst its attempt to flee as a green light.
His mana fluctuations, his Divine Sense, everything about him was frozen in place!
Only his thoughts were still active.
At the same time, he felt the Jiaosu he had just swallowed beginning to break free from the restraint, trying to fly out of his mouth.
How could this be?
He had clearly subdued this “successor” by knocking him out and restraining him!
“Damn it!”
The Yu Long Loose Immortal’s heart was filled with horror, realizing he had fallen into a trap.
Jiaosu was clearly just a bait!
Just now, these four top Great Grandmasters and Zhou Heng must have used some means to communicate secretly, pretending not to notice the dragon tail, using Jiaosu as bait to lure him into believing he had succeeded and then escaping.
Damn it all!
Cursed, why didn’t I consider this? How could I be so careless?
Why?!
“Attack!” Qi Rui raised his longsword, shouting loudly: “Together, kill him!!”
Simultaneously, the foretelling that Zhou Heng had begun earlier was reaching its midpoint as he declared solemnly:
“Based on the connection of He Mengqiu’s illusionary dreamscapes, Zhou Heng, Qi Rui, Pei Hongdao, and Zhong Shenyi secretly communicated and devised a plan to outsmart the Yu Long Loose Immortal.
“The Yu Long Loose Immortal, eager to obtain Jiaosu’s Dharma Body, was thus lured by the bait of Jiaosu, tricked into successfully capturing him and attempting to escape, his state weaker than when he was in the thousand-mile dragon form.
“This is logical.”
Next comes the latter part:
“The Yu Long Loose Immortal, in a weakened state, fell victim to Zhou Heng’s freezing technique, rendered unable to move or resist.
“Thus, Qi Rui with a Divine Weapon in hand, along with Pei Hongdao and Zhong Shenyi, struck from the outside, while Jiaosu struck from the inside; an attack from both sides, a pincer movement.
“The Yu Long Loose Immortal unable to resist, his life hung by a thread.
“In the end, the Yu Long Loose Immortal died under Zhou Heng’s might of the Peak Purple Thunder Seven Strikes!
“This is the future I proclaim!”
Immediately thereafter—
Zhou Heng used a “Peak Card”!
“Peak Card: Grants one attack with the highest proficiency level of a Martial Arts technique or a Taoist Formula.”
In a flash, all the quintessence and secrets of the Purple Thunder Seven Strikes washed over his mind.
The proficiency of this Absolute Fourth Rank Martial Arts technique reached its peak, and his aura expanded like never before, as if a Thunder God stood right there.
[Absolute Fourth Rank]Purple Thunder Seven Strikes: Level 16 (16000/16000)
Zhou Heng shaped his fingers into a blade, his body crackling with lightning, and his gaze locked onto the paralyzed Yu Long Loose Immortal suspended in the air. He immediately struck down from the air.
He used no weapon, yet wielded a sharpness more terrifying than any blade.
A boundless violet thunder gathered in his palm, forging a peerless purple thunder blade seemingly capable of splitting heaven and earth, of annihilating all creation.
“Furious Thunder Rends the Heavens and Earth!!!”
