Chapter 426 - 269: Long Journey, The Doubt of the Broken Sword

Chapter 426: Chapter 269: Long Journey, The Doubt of the Broken Sword

BANG!

Yu Fei was sent flying like a bowling ball, slamming into the ground and carving out a crater.

The moment his guard was broken, he instinctively had a bad feeling.

At the critical moment, he unleashed a strand of Sword Qi containing a beacon, only to see a giant claw swiping toward him.

It moved so fast it left afterimages. Even with his neural reaction speed boosted fifteenfold, it still seemed impossibly quick.

As the giant claw was about to connect, Yu Fei barely managed to teleport away, dodging the devastating blow at the last possible second.

The plump giant bird, which looked like a rooster magnified tenfold, beat its wings in midair. A dozen massive wind blades shot out, sealing off the space around Yu Fei.

Left with no choice, he unleashed another strand of space-piercing Sword Qi from where he stood, sending it toward the giant rooster’s eye in an instant.

The beast’s massive beak, as hard as refined gold, pecked with lightning speed, and the Sword Qi instantly disintegrated.

Simultaneously, Yu Fei teleported to a spot just ten feet in front of it. His sword, Zhanming, came slashing down. Though the distance was clearly too great, half of the greatsword’s blade bizarrely pierced through space and struck the giant rooster’s neck.

"SCREEEE!"

A shrill cry rang out. Zhanming sent a cloud of feathers and sparks flying, but the beast was completely unharmed.

But the act of having its feathers clipped by Zhanming enraged it further. A red shadow flashed, and its right wing swatted down on Yu Fei with lightning speed.

The speed was almost beyond the limits of Yu Fei’s reaction. Caught completely off guard, he was once again slammed into the ground and mercilessly thrashed.

Beside the training grounds, Ye Shuping calmly lifted a cup of tea, blew on it gently, and took a slow, deliberate sip.

"Mm, this year’s Tianluo Jade Leaf is quite good."

His expression was one of pure contentment, and he paid no mind whatsoever to Yu Fei, who was currently getting pulverized.

The giant rooster on the training grounds was a beast that Ye Shuping had specially raised in the Profound Bright Palace.

The creature looked like a rooster for a simple reason: it was a rooster.

When Yu Fei first learned this, he thought it was completely absurd.

The absurd part wasn’t that Ye Shuping was raising a rooster in his training hall, but that this creature was a *7th-tier* rooster!

Heaven only knew how Ye Shuping had managed to raise it; Yu Fei couldn’t comprehend it at all.

In his Reversing Destiny Vision, he could see a red talent floating above the absurd rooster’s head, but he had absolutely no intention of trying to mark it.

’A 7th-tier... This thing is on the same level as a Grandmaster!’

Of all the animal talents he had ever seen, this giant rooster’s was the highest. Too bad he couldn’t beat it.

According to Ye Shuping, the rooster’s history was unrepeatable. Although its life-form had reached the 7th-tier, its abilities were one-dimensional and rather weak for its rank.

Its defense and speed were average among 7th-tier beasts, and its attack methods, aside from a crude wind blade technique, were no different from those of an ordinary rooster.

Pecking, wing-slapping, and jumping to scratch—that was its entire arsenal. The thing couldn’t even fly!

In Ye Shuping’s eyes, this "weakest of the 7th-tier" rooster had been beating Yu Fei to a pulp for three months straight.

The most frustrating part was that his Melt Gold Jade Body Skill was cultivated to a point where it could hardly be improved further. Even the highest-grade jade resources had a negligible effect on his progress.

As a result, Yu Fei’s Iron Body defense had long surpassed that of others at his cultivation level. The giant rooster couldn’t break through his defenses, but tragically, he couldn’t break through the rooster’s either. At best, he could manage to pluck a feather.

And so, he and the rooster spent their days torturing each other. He would manage to slice off a feather, and the rooster would seize an opportunity to peck him or swat him to the ground.

Neither side was ever injured; they merely reaped an equal amount of misery.

The more the rooster fought, the more fired up it became. The more Yu Fei fought, the more infuriated he grew.

In the midst of these tense and stimulating battles, Yu Fei gradually began to master his beacon ability.

The most obvious progress was how Yu Fei was pushing his beacon ability to its limits in actual combat. Originally, he had planned to use a dozen or so beacon-infused Sword Qi strands to create a Teleportation Field.

But the giant rooster showed him in no uncertain terms that he was dreaming.

The naturally enhanced speed of a 7th-tier creature made its combat rhythm as fast as lightning. Yu Fei had no opportunity to release multiple beacons; he was doing well if he could manage to get just one out in the heat of the moment.

Two hours later, Yu Fei’s clothes were in tatters, his body covered in scratches. Even the surface of Zhanming was now covered in faint nicks; that pair of claws was harder than any metal.

Zhanming was a mid-tier weapon with good potential, and while it was suitable for Yu Fei’s current level, it no longer provided him with any extra advantages. Still, Yu Fei was used to the blade and had no plans to replace it for now.

Ye Shuping scattered a handful of rice at the edge of the training grounds. The rooster instantly forgot all about its epic three-hundred-round battle with Yu Fei, squawking excitedly as it ran off.

"Dammit!"

Looking utterly wretched, Yu Fei stumbled back to Ye Shuping’s side, grabbed the teapot, and started pouring its contents directly into his mouth.

In just a few gulps, the entire pot of Tianluo Jade Leaf was gone. He was impervious to heat and cold, but the sight still made Ye Shuping’s eyebrow twitch.

No matter how many times he’d seen it, he could never get used to how crude the boy was.

"You know, once you can cause substantial harm to Ah Zhen, or even threaten its life, you can proceed to the next stage of your training."

Ah Zhen was the name Ye Shuping had given the giant rooster. The name was derived from its species, the Red-Brocaded Pearl Fowl, but it always reminded Yu Fei of a certain old, familiar song.

THUD!

Yu Fei set down the teapot. The scratches on his body were already vanishing before his eyes. This wasn’t the effect of the Tianluo Jade Leaf, but a result of his own Iron Body training, which had reached an extremely high level.

"Teacher, is there any way to speed up the process of honing one’s spiritual intent?"

Yu Fei really couldn’t take being crushed by Ah Zhen day after day. He felt like he didn’t even have the strength to truss a chicken—literally.