Chapter 732: The Body Technique Evolves Again

Chapter 732 -728: The Body Technique Evolves Again

“On your journey here, you must have seen countless such battlefields. Have you found any Spiritual Artifact fragments?” Lin Hao asked.

Bai Yu didn’t know what Lin Hao was getting at, but the mere fact that Lin Hao was speaking to him made him visibly excited. He straightened up, coughed twice, and looked ready to launch into a long-winded explanation.

But just as he opened his mouth, Lin Hao waved his hand dismissively. “I don’t want any nonsense. Just answer yes or no.”

Bai Yu’s mouth hung open. After a moment, he snapped it shut, nearly choking on his own saliva.

He shot Lin Hao a resentful look but dared neither to get angry nor to speak.

He ultimately shook his head, signaling that he hadn’t.

Lin Hao’s brows furrowed.

This was the question that had been troubling him.

Over the past ten-odd days, he and Xu Zihao had come across countless battlefields. Yet, aside from the few Spiritual Artifact fragments they found in a small pool in an inconspicuous corner at the very beginning, they had found nothing since.

This explained why they still only had a single storage spiritual ring.

The battlefields they encountered afterward grew larger and larger, yet there were no Spiritual Artifact fragments to be found. This put Lin Hao on alert.

Spiritual Artifacts are refined from various materials, and their fragments can be purified and re-forged by Artifact Refiners.

That was secondary. Spiritual Artifacts contained runes, and top-tier Artifact Refiners could extract Origin from them.

And speaking of Artifact Refiners, one couldn’t help but think of the Jinglian Saint Institute.

The Jinglian Saint Institute on the Nine Yang Continent was a secondary concern. What worried Lin Hao was the possibility that someone from the Jinglian Saint Institute in the Divine Demon Destruction Domain had descended to the mortal plane and entered the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm.

If that faction could descend, it meant that numerous major powers from the Divine Demon Destruction Domain had likely entered the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm.

This was not good news for him.

If he still possessed his full cultivation, Lin Hao wouldn’t be concerned. But since his power had not yet recovered, he had no choice but to be cautious.

Eventually, the three of them set out again.

They traveled for a full day, encountering a few Devil Beasts along the way, all of which were dispatched by an eager-to-impress Bai Yu.

He attacked directly with his Divine Soul, and few Devil Beasts could withstand more than two of his attacks under its divine radiance.

But this was the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm, after all. The rare few Devil Beasts that could withstand more than two attacks were terrifyingly powerful, forcing even Bai Yu to go all out to defeat them.

At first, Xu Zihao started to speak.

If Bai Yu hadn’t been there, Lin Hao would have used these Devil Beasts for his own training. Now that Bai Yu had killed them, Lin Hao had lost his training partners.

But Lin Hao stopped him.

For Lin Hao, watching Bai Yu fight the Devil Beasts was a form of training in itself.

Lin Hao committed the scenes of Bai Yu fighting the Devil Beasts to memory. Then, in his mind’s eye, he would sometimes become Bai Yu, and other times become the Devil Beast, using the virtual combat to evolve and perfect his Blood Shifting Skill.

The human body was profound and unfathomable. Lin Hao saw the infinite potential of the Blood Shifting Skill; killing a Martial Artist at the Sixth Layer of Spirit Transformation Realm was by no means its limit.

That night, Lin Hao didn’t spar with Xu Zihao. Instead, he sat cross-legged, replaying the day’s battles between Bai Yu and the Devil Beasts over and over in his mind.

Meanwhile, Bai Yu had become the most loyal of sentinels, standing guard for Lin Hao from a distance.

In the darkness, Bai Yu’s eyes were fixed unblinkingly on Lin Hao, shining like stars.

On the other side, hidden by the night, Xu Zihao was keeping a close watch on Bai Yu.

He didn’t trust Bai Yu.

Bai Yu surely had a reason for following them.

Bai Yu could tell that Xu Zihao was watching him, but he paid it no mind.

To have reached the Seventh Layer of Spirit Transformation Realm at his age, he was clearly a genius. And he did indeed have a reason for following Lin Hao.

He had watched the beginning of the great battle between Lin Hao and Lin Wu in the Divinity Realm, but had been forced to retreat before it was over.

Their duel was simply too terrifying; he had no choice but to flee.

After returning to the real world, an intense desire had ignited within Bai Yu.

He yearned to become stronger, to close the gap between himself and Lin Hao.

When he emerged from his seclusion, full of confidence and ambition, reality dealt him another heavy blow.

News of Lin Hao’s achievements in the Nine Yang Void Realm spread, stunning the entire Nine Yang Continent.

When the Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm opened, he had also been trying to find news of Lin Hao.

Ultimately, the news he received was that Lin Hao had reached the Sealed Martial Realm, fought two other Sealed Martial Realm experts single-handedly, and perished on the Celestial Yang Continent.

At the time, he felt no excitement, only an endless sense of loss and sorrow.

It made him reflect on many things.

The Dragon Transformation Ancient Realm connected to the Divine Demon Destruction Domain. Even if they managed to reach it, even if they cultivated to the Sealed Martial Realm Peak or reached the Yin-Yang Realm, they would still be nothing more than ants.

The Divine Demon Destruction Domain was home to a myriad of races, coexisting with ancient worlds and great archaic sects. These factions, with their ancient legacies, were like insurmountable mountain peaks.

Because the one person who had the best hope of surmounting them had already fallen.

This wasn’t to say Bai Yu’s conviction in the Martial Dao was weak—it had never wavered. He was simply lost.

His guiding light had been extinguished.

Lin Hao had been that light.

The moment everyone learned Lin Hao had reached the Sealed Martial Realm, he became the very soul of his generation of Martial Artists on the Nine Yang Continent!

Because Lin Hao had shattered their limitations.

But the moment he saw that Lin Hao was alive, all of Bai Yu’s confusion vanished.

He had found his way forward again.

The shock of seeing Lin Hao use his physical strength alone to kill three Martial Artists at the Sixth Layer of Spirit Transformation Realm was even greater than the shock of hearing he had reached the Sealed Martial Realm and fought two other experts of that realm single-handedly.

To kill a Spirit Transformation Realm Martial Artist with physical techniques was an act that defied the heavens. If Lin Hao could defy the heavens, then so could he.

The moment Lin Hao killed those Spirit Transformation Realm Martial Artists, Bai Yu’s soul had trembled, and the mountains weighing down his heart were shattered into dust.

It was at that very moment that Bai Yu’s cultivation broke through from the Peak of the Sixth Layer to the Seventh Layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Therefore, Lin Hao’s guess had been correct: Bai Yu had only broken through at the very last moment.

If he could gain so much just from watching Lin Hao fight with physical techniques, then Bai Yu naturally knew what he had to do.

Everything he had said to Lin Hao, every single word, had come from the bottom of his heart.

Sticking with Lin Hao would help him raise his Cultivation Realm—that was Bai Yu’s true motive.

Right now, Lin Hao was sitting cross-legged, clearly cultivating and seeking enlightenment. Bai Yu would not miss such an opportunity.

Therefore, even though he knew Xu Zihao was monitoring his every move, he was completely unconcerned.

However, Bai Yu was soon disappointed. Lin Hao was like a statue, utterly motionless, and even the ambient energy of the world around him remained undisturbed.

If Bai Yu could have seen into Lin Hao’s sea of consciousness at that moment, he would have been frustrated beyond belief.

For within Lin Hao’s sea of consciousness were none other than the scenes of Bai Yu fighting the Devil Beasts.

But in these mental reconstructions, the Devil Beasts behaved strangely. As their wings beat or their claws tore through the air, their bodies would suddenly swell, and a hint of Dao Rhyme would actually flow from them.

This was because Lin Hao was infusing his own consciousness into the Devil Beasts, using them to evolve his Blood Shifting Skill.

In his sea of consciousness, Lin Hao could even transform his arms into wings, shooting forward a hundred meters with a single flap. He could turn his arms into sharp claws that could rend the very fabric of space.

Of course, Lin Hao also remembered to project himself into Bai Yu’s role, using a human form to evolve his techniques against the powerful Devil Beasts.

In this manner, Lin Hao continuously switched perspectives within his sea of consciousness, making his Blood Shifting Skill ever more perfect.