Chapter 522 - 513: The Baptism of Natural Aura

Chapter 522: Chapter 513: The Baptism of Natural Aura

"Hehehe, sorry to keep you all waiting! The battle is only just beginning! Dilaka, you’d better be ready!"

It spoke in a human tongue! Not only that, but the voice was so familiar—it was Toad Child, who had just been devoured!

"Hah... a little interesting! To actually possess such a Beast Transformation Secret Technique! Is it to enhance your physical strength? But before my Immortal Extinction Sword, physical strength is meaningless!" Dilaka chuckled, then raised his right arm high. "Twelve Sword Realms! Second Sword! Breaking Army Ascending Dragon!"

However, just as Dilaka’s words fell, the toad’s steel-like mouth snapped open. A cloud of foul-smelling, purple-red gas instantly spewed out, solidifying the moment it hit the air and forming a purple sphere that shot toward him!

Watching the purple-red sphere, which was barely a meter in diameter, Dilaka’s brow twitched. This kind of solid, straight-line attack was completely useless against him. What’s more, he didn’t feel any sense of it locking onto him.

’Trying to trick me? Forget it. Even if there’s something strange about this, I’ll cut you down all the same!’

CLANG!!

The Giant Golden Sword swung down with Dilaka’s arm. A terrifyingly long and narrow beam of Sword Qi tore a ten-thousand-meter-long gash across the sky with unstoppable force! The spatial region that had just recovered was brutally ripped open once more! The Sword Qi passed through the very spot where Toad Child had been standing, as well as the path of the flying purple-red sphere. This slash seemed to sunder heaven and earth, yet it was deceptively simple!

Watching the spot where Toad Child had vanished, the spectating Saints in the distance looked on with astonishment. At this moment, there was no sign of Toad Child left, as if he had been completely annihilated by that single beam of Sword Qi.

But just when everyone assumed this was the case, a purple-red Gate of Space opened within the torn Void Space. Out from the gate crawled a massive toad—it was none other than Toad Child! He was not only completely unharmed, but there wasn’t even a trace of him having defended against the attack.

"Breaking Army Ascending Dragon?! Hehe, just a weak little beam of Sword Qi, and you actually dreamed of hurting me! Dilaka, you’re still far too naive!"

Stepping slowly out of the Gate of Space, Toad Child sneered. He suddenly threw his head back and let out a soundless roar. The space around him began to tremble violently. The purple-red gas that Dilaka had just shattered with his sword rapidly reformed, and as it did, it swelled to countless times its original size! The airflow converged into Toad Child’s mouth, and in the blink of an eye, he had inhaled all of the purple-red gas. Then, his mouth abruptly expanded, and terrifying fluctuations of Primordial Power emanated from it!

"Purple-red Breath!!"

With a deafening roar, a purple-red Elemental Power Cannon tens of meters in diameter, laced with an incredibly foul and venomous aura, locked onto Dilaka and blasted toward him!

"Ignorant!"

Dilaka’s right arm remained in its downward-slashing posture. He stated indifferently, "With my Twelve Sword Realms, the Attack Power of each domain is ten times that of the last. How could you call it a ’mere’ beam of Sword Qi? Breaking Armies!"

The sky abruptly darkened. An X-shaped beam of Sword Qi carrying terrifying Attack Power instantly met the Purple-red Breath. With a BANG, the Purple-red Breath was obliterated by the crisscrossing Sword Qi before it could even react!

This time, however, Dilaka hadn’t aimed the Sword Qi at Toad Child, but at the space below him. This caused countless onlookers to reveal expressions of disbelief.

’Could it be? Did he miss?’

But as soon as that thought appeared, Dilaka, whose arm was still in a downward-slash posture, suddenly flicked it upward. A violent spatial tremor materialized out of thin air. In that instant, the X-shaped crisscrossing Sword Qi merged into one! After a moment of distortion, it miraculously transformed into two golden giant dragons that spiraled upward into the sky!

"Ascending Dragon!"

With mouths wide open, the dragons gave Toad Child no chance to react before swallowing him whole. They spiraled madly into the heavens, broke through space itself, and entered the chaotic spatial turbulence! This was followed by an explosion that shook the entire Extreme Martial Continent!

A rain of blood fell! The foul wind died down. Dilaka sheathed his sword and stood still, his eyes filled with nothing but indifference. His Sword Intent had long since reached the pinnacle of perfection. In fact, if he just had a reason, he could reach the rank of Saint Peak and become an existence on par with One of the Nine Heavens!

But because of Nameless’s plea, Dilaka had always suppressed his Martial Artist Realm, keeping it at the level of a Nine-Ring Saint. Otherwise, he would have certainly been moved into the ranks of the Nine Heavens, becoming One of the Nine Heavens, or rather, a Martial Artist who had signed the Nine Heavens Contract! Once he signed it, he would no longer be able to act against any Martial Artist or Magical Beast below the Holy Sanctuary Peak. If that happened, who would be left to be the Guardian of Holy Tomb Mountain?

’Toad Child... is dead?’

A dead silence fell. This was the question in everyone’s hearts. The rain of blood and gore falling from the sky made it impossible for them not to consider this outcome. But was it really true? The answer, of course, was no! As a Nine-Ring Saint, how could he not have a few life-saving tricks up his sleeve?!

"Ah... AAAAAAH..."

In that moment of silence, a sudden, piercing scream rang out from a corner. All eyes shifted, and what they saw was a slender, beautiful woman—it was the apprentice Toad Child had brought with him! But at this moment, the woman’s expression was twisted in extreme pain! Her slender body was continuously contracting and expanding, and tragic cries escaped her lips!

"AAAAH... Ma... Master... You... you..."

BANG!!

Before the woman could finish her sentence, her eyes bulged, and her entire body suddenly exploded, turning into a shower of blood and shredded flesh that fell from the sky. In her place was an egg-like object covered in a dense network of veins and mangled flesh. Visually, this egg-like object was utterly disgusting!

POP!

With another popping sound, the egg-like object burst open, splattering thick, green phlegm everywhere and releasing an extremely pungent, foul stench.

Immediately after, a human figure emerged from the egg-like object. The figure was completely covered in the thick, green phlegm, making it unrecognizable at first glance. However, a familiar aura emanated from its body—an aura that belonged to Toad Child!

"Haaah... We meet again. It seems we’ve all underestimated you."

These words confirmed everyone’s suspicions. The green figure was indeed Toad Child!

"A pity, but I am not so easily killed."

The green phlegm slowly slid off, revealing Toad Child’s hunched figure.

"An Evil Technique?!"

Dilaka’s brow furrowed, a flash of coldness in his eyes! He was certain that even if his previous attack couldn’t kill Toad Child, it should have at least inflicted a grievous wound. The Power of Breaking Armies could shatter any defense in the world, and the Rising Dragon Power could purify all the world’s filth! Breaking Army Ascending Dragon was the only one of the Twelve Sword Realms that possessed the power of retribution.

Therefore, the only reason Toad Child could stand before him now was because he had used the Evil Technique in the Eyes, sacrificing his female apprentice to be reborn from a desperate situation.

"Evil Technique? This is a Secret Technique that took me three hundred years to comprehend, and you dare call it an Evil Technique! But no matter. The real fight begins now! Black Lotus, Dragon Spear, do you two dare to join me and attack together!"

"Why wouldn’t we dare? From the looks of that last attack, it was nothing special! Lotus Seed Bomb!" The Black Lotus Child held his Black Lotus as a ball of white light shot from the top of its white stamen. It then drew a strange Array Map in the air. Within this Array Map, seven light spheres of different colors appeared. The Array spun, and the light spheres spun with it. One by one, lotus seeds shot out like cannonballs, streaking toward Dilaka, suffused with a thick aura of destruction!

Meanwhile, Sun Yi had not stopped channeling his Secret Technique for a single moment. The phantom of the Giant Dragon behind him grew more and more solid, looking as if it might break through space and fly out at any moment!

However, just as the three were about to unleash their Secret Techniques, the Ancient Will that was soaring into the sky suddenly erupted with a powerful shockwave. It instantly locked down Dilaka’s Immortal Extinction Sword, the Black Lotus Child’s white lotus stamen, Sun Yi’s Silver Dragon Spear, and Toad Child’s White Jade Zen Staff!

This scene left the four of them utterly stunned! For a moment, they were all frozen in place!

"What’s happening!"

The Black Lotus Child said in astonishment, staring at the white lotus stamen in his hand, which was now sealed by white light. Sun Yi’s Secret Technique was interrupted, and the backlash instantly caused him to spit out a mouthful of crimson blood. His face became extremely pale!

"It’s that Ancient Will!"

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Sun Yi clutched his chest. He stared intently at the Ancient Will in the sky, which was continuously erupting with fluctuations, unable to hide the shock on his face!

’Ancient Will?’

Finally, everyone’s gaze gathered on the pillar of light soaring into the sky...

...

「Within Holy Tomb Mountain, on Holy Beast Mountain.」 In the clan grounds of the Lightning Armor Dragons, the place where Mu Chen and Xiaohai were located underwent another tremendous change! The flowerbed that had been emitting a soft white light was now shining even more dazzlingly!

Mu Chen, who was seated within his Sea of Souls, suddenly felt a warmth spread throughout his body. Immediately after, his entire body was dyed a brilliant white, and even his Sea of Spirit was no exception. As the intense white light spread, even the Extreme Spirit Pearl hidden in his mind couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

An unprecedented feeling of comfort spread through his entire being. Mu Chen felt as if every tiny part of his body was moaning in bliss, greedily absorbing the Natural Aura emanating from the white light!

He could seemingly see everything inside his body, and all of it had turned a vibrant green, filled with Natural Aura. His meridians became more elastic, his organs grew tougher, and his bones became harder. His entire being seemed to be undergoing a qualitative transformation.

The most obvious change was to his meridians. They hadn’t been directly widened, but the constantly increasing toughness made Mu Chen absolutely certain that they could now withstand a much more powerful impact from his Soul Power.

The green light continuously washed over his entire body, and strands of impurities began to be rapidly expelled from his pores. Mu Chen had experienced Strengthening the Foundation and Nourishing the Essence many times before by consuming pills and through various opportunities, but those were all improvements to his constitution from the inside out, after the Medicinal Power was digested. This time was different. The vast Natural Aura contained within this white light was like a pool of life-giving water, cleansing every corner of his body from the outside in.