Nine Yang Sword Saint - Chapter 177
Chapter 177: Breakthrough How Many Levels Ultimately?
He has already lost count on how many terrible pictures he has encountered, and all these rooms in this secret realm are only going to get tougher and tougher.
There are five rooms in the golden palace. The first with triple gravity, second with nine times, third with twenty-seven times, fourth with eighty-one times and the fifth with two hundred and forty-three times.
When Yang Dingtian practiced the sword in the virtual illusion of the mind, it would take hundreds or even thousands of times of gravity to crush the body and spirit of Yang Dingtian completely. But after all, it was within the illusion of the void. At this very moment in the room, it was the reality.
Eighty-one times gravity and two hundred and forty-three times the gravity is completely terrifying. If one did not possess a certain level of ability, just a step into the room was enough for the blood vessels to burst along with the entire body skeleton collapsing.
Not to mention, Yang Dingtian still held the youngling sword of over three hundred pounds, which would be nearly a hundred thousand pounds in the last room of the golden palace.
Yang Dingtian couldn’t even lift a hundred thousand pounds heavy sword in the past, let alone fight with it.
The fifth-room boss of the golden palace was a six-handed Golden Buddha, incomparably powerful and hard. Yang Dingtian was kicked out by the six-handed Buddha numerous times; every attempt was a close shave, crushing all his bones seven times and not to mention the countless other injuries. He was on the verge of death for every single attempt and was rescued by the holy water pool every time.
Finally, Yang Dingtian completely destroyed this powerful six-handed Buddha with the Unyielding Sword, which proved that the sword is indeed indestructible.
The fire palace gets hotter and hotter towards the end, and so the boss at each level.
The fifth room of the fire palace would be filled with flowing magma everywhere, and every inch of air was up to thousands of degrees.
When it comes to this secret room, almost all the mystic qi needed to be used to protect the body from fire damage. When Yang Dingtian first entered that room, he had already used up all his qi in less than three minutes just to defend himself.
The fifth level boss for the fire palace was a strange and terrifying fire spirit. He was an energy body, that won’t feel a thing even if he was stabbed or chopped. However, it would be a nightmare if he were to land a blow on you.
His fires were snow-white ghostly flames, and it could burn through an entire body upon the slightest contact. If it were not for the Deep Sea Mystic Clothes, Yang Dingtian would have long been dead.
In the end, Yang Dingtian could only wave his youngling sword to fight off the cold flames from this devil. The sword was made of blood black gold, so the devil’s flames couldn’t damage it.
After making sure that the sword could prevent himself from getting hurt, Yang Dingtian used the Earth Seal Sword to lock away the fire ghost. Afterward, he used the Prison Break sword for a good nine times and finally managed to destroy this horrifying fire spirit.
As for the training in the wind palace, every inch of air in the fifth room was deadly. Using the calculation method on Earth, this room had a level twenty strong gale. With that being said, the highest level on Earth was generally only up till level twelve.
A level thirty gale can break metal and easily blow away objects that weigh more than ten thousand pounds. Under such circumstances, Yang Dingtian was injured for a good nine times before being able to adapt to the environment.
The last boss of the wind palace was a succubus queen of the blade. The wind blade she shot was faster than thunder and was able to pierce through a meter thick of solid steel.
Yang Dingtian’s thighs were penetrated thrice by those wind blades, once in the middle of the neck, and once on the arms. As always, the holy water pool was his savior every time. In short, the fifth room of the wind palace was way worse for Yang Dingtian.
In the end, Yang Dingtian had no choice but to rush towards the succubus queen that was covered with blades, use the Earth Seal Sword to hold her down temporarily, then use the Inferno Sky Sword to destroy the sharp blades, and eventually destroy her heart with the Formless Sword. The combination of the three swords had to be used to kill this level five wind palace boss completely.
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Yang Dingtian was now facing his last battle. In front of him was the fifth room of the ice palace, the last secret room of his trial. The thunder palace was a bug, so he was not going there.
A gush of deadly cold breeze could be felt right upon opening the door, almost reaching an absolute zero degrees of Earth. This temperature was capable of destroying any life form, even colder than the Never Freezing Lake. The room was filled with white snow everywhere.
Yang Dingtian took a step in after a deep breath, and what awaited ahead was the last boss, a level five ice boss.
“Pheww…” The sword in Yang Dingtian’s hand started to burn violently.
Under such a freezing environment, Yang Dingtian would have to use his mystic qi to create fire for warmth, as his Nine Yang Mystic Meridians were not sufficient.
A gust of wind blew, a dim figure appeared in front of Yang Dingtian. A completely naked woman, very enchanting, extremely beautiful, on par with Dongfang Bingling and the Ximen Yanyan. The curve of the delicate body was exactly like the carving of god. A perfect face, perfect chest, perfect buttocks, perfect thighs, every inch of the body was perfect.
Although Yang Dingtian knew that this was an energy body formed by ice energy, it still looked exactly like a true beauty. Fair skin, elegant figure, beautiful eyes, and mesmerizing long blue hair.
Among all the bosses here, this was the most beautiful and tenderest one.
She approached Yang Dingtian, stretching out those jade arms around his neck and leaned her body towards his chest. She said softly, “Darling, I am so lonely here, can you stay here with me, forever?” Her voice was incredibly soft and incomparably beautiful.
Yang Dingtian’s body trembled as he suddenly felt a sense of bitter old, a never-ending power of ice came up from her body and drilled into the body of Yang Dingtian as if it were to freeze his blood and mystic meridians instantly.
This was her attack, gentle yet extremely dangerous. She could freeze Yang Dingtian into sculpture while hugging him with her naked body, to make the two of them be together forever.
Yang Dingtian tried to break free by utilizing all of his mystic qi, but he suddenly realized that this naked woman in front of him had no mass at all, like a soul wrapped around him, and it was completely unable to break free.
It felt as if freezing cold energy from hell had slammed into Yang Dingtian’s body, slowly but resolutely destroying his flesh and mystic meridians.
“Inferno Sky Sword……” The Yang Dingtian’s qi gushed out furiously and turned into burning flames. Yang Dingtian and the woman’s body were instantly covered in flames.
This woman was made up of ice and snow, so Yang Dingtian would have to burn her with flames and let her melt. Despite the blazing flame, this enchanting lady was still safe and sound, the endless chills continued to invade Yang Dingtian, and even moved towards his qi vessel.
Yang Dingtian’s qi was still gushing out furiously and was depleting at an unprecedented rate. However, the flames from the Inferno Sky Sword were getting smaller and smaller.
Despite being immobilized by the spirit, Yang Dingtian still single-handedly used the Earth Seal Sword, to forcefully lock her down for a short while. Sadly, it was useless to her as she could freeze everything up.
As for other methods, the Unyielding Sword was harmless to an energy form like her, so was the Formless Sword. Even the Prison Break Sword, the one specifically used to deal with energy form, was also useless. All five moves of the Yin Yang Heaven and Earth Sword were all completely useless.
“Darling, stop wasting your energy, isn’t it good to be with me forever?” The ice beauty boss said with a soft tone.
After that, her eyes turned blue as a freezing sense of chill gushed out furiously. The flame on the Yang Dingtian’s Sky Inferno Sword instantly shrunk, and the freezing cold energy rushed towards his qi vessel.
Yang Dingtian’s qi was depleting quickly, so were the flames formed by the qi. He started to lose his consciousness; he could not move. Most of his meridians were already frozen. Then, his mind, his divine conscience, and his soul were also all gradually frozen.
As long as the qi flame was extinguished, as long as the ice cold energy entered the qi vessel, it was the end for Yang Dingtian. This ice beauty may have seemed like the weakest boss with the most gentle form of attack, but she was also the most powerful and terrifying one.
Was this the end? The Nine Yang Mystic Meridians should supposedly have the upper hand in the ice palace. Yang Dingtian had already come so far defeating so many bosses, and yet he was going to get killed in the gentle arms of this ice beauty.
Yang Dingtian was already on the verge of losing his consciousness and was soon going to fall into eternal sleep. The ice cold energy had already reached the lower abdomen and would soon infiltrate the qi vessel. As for that qi flame, it was already less than half an inch, gently swaying and would be extinguished in the blink of an eye.
“I can’t die, I don’t want to die like this. Yanyan is still waiting for my rescue. I still got to seize Cloud Heaven City back. I have to go to save sister Ning Ning. I have to take revenge from Dongfang Bingling. I can’t die…… ”
At the brink of death, a last trace of will surged from Yang Dingtian’s mind. He exhausted the last bit of strength to knock his own head onto his sword. Blood gushed out from Yang Dingtian’s head and splashed on the forehead of the snowy beauty, creating a slight tint of red on the snow-white forehead, as though like a red plum.
Then, Yang Dingtian used his remaining qi and performed the Inferno Sky Sword, which ignited the drop of Nine Yang Blood, on the forehead snow beauty.
“Ah…” The snow beauty gasped in horror; her beautiful eyes were instantly filled with fear. The blood on her forehead sparked a huge ball of flame, creating a deep dark hole on her beautiful white forehead, and the flame continued to spread within.
“Ah…” The ice beauty made a terrifying gasp as she tried to wipe away the blood on her forehead. Little did she know, the Nine Yang Blood instantly stuck on her palm and was stained on her body. At this point in time, the snow beauty could no longer care about entangling Yang Dingtian as she was being swallowed in flames, gasping in pain as she frantically struggled.
Lastly, she was completely swallowed up by the blazing flames and turned into ashes.
Yang Dingtian witnessed everything in astonishment, and he definitely did not expect the final boss to be so tough yet gentle at the same time. Of course, he also did not expect that he could simply clear this ice palace level just with his Nine Yang Blood.
Come to think of it, there would not be any of these insane entanglements of the ice and fire if he were to kill her from the start. Thanks to that, the meridians of Yang Dingtian seemed to have been thoroughly baptized.
Yang Dingtian dragged his scarred body and walked back to the center of the Five Elements Hall, where he started to refill his qi for the last time. He could feel the qi constantly flowing into his body, pouring into his meridians and pouring into his qi vessel, as though a warm ray of sunlight had gradually expelled the freezing ice within his limbs. Yang Dingtian’s body had also gradually started to regain consciousness.
Five hours had passed.
Ten hours had passed.
Twenty hours had passed.
Yang Dingtian’s incomparably strong qi forced filled his qi vessel after forcing out all the ice power in his body; his qi vessel started to reach its limit and began to expand.
A white light flashed, and the inner body of Yang Dingtian fell into a state of temporary rest. Half a minute later, everything started to recover gradually. The qi vessel of Yang Dingtian had once again broken through, after uncountable times of breakthroughs before.
Yang Dingtian had gone through countless battles; he had lost the concept of time and everything else, not even the level he was at now.
Once his qi had filled up qi vessel and meridians, Yang Dingtian slowly opened his eyes and asked the three-headed giant, “Giant, what is the level of my qi? Did I surpass the three star Great Mystic Martial Master?”
The three-headed giant slowly opened his three giant eyes and said, “You are now a five star Great Mystic Martial Master!”
“Ah…” Yang Dingtian was instantly shocked.
Five star Great Mystic Martial Master? He actually broke through the five star Great Mystic Martial Master level! Yang Dingtian could feel those tears of joy in this secret realm, as breaking through level twenty was an unprecedented breakthrough for him.
Even in the beginning at the Five Elements Yin Yang Formation, where he encountered the once-in-three-hundred-years Yin Yang Festival, he was also only able to breakthrough level nineteen.
Now that he had finally become a Great Mystic Martial Master, Yang Dingtian could be considered as one of the best in the world. He had officially stepped into the ranks of the strong and was able to practice mystic skills. He could now learn the third stage of the Pig Slaying Sword Art, and his combat power could advance by leaps and bounds, like Dugu Fengwu.
The secret realm was really the most mysterious and powerful thing left behind by the ancient world; it actually helped him breakthrough level twenty at once.
“How long has it been?” Yang Dingtian asked as he recalled this extremely important matter.
