93: Chapter 93 Dragon Blood Body Forging

The torrential rain washed over the earth, and it also washed over the heavy murderous Aura on their bodies.

Suddenly, the Shadow Leopard King moved!

Its figure instantly transformed into a wisp of faint cyan smoke on the spot. The next moment, dozens of transparent, half-moon-shaped wind blades, like cannonballs fired from their chambers, tore through the curtain of rain from all directions at a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture, madly rushing toward Gao Feng to shred him!

The sharp sound of air being pierced even drowned out the howling wind and thunder!

Facing this overwhelming attack, Gao Feng's eyes remained as calm as an ancient well, and the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand danced before him, creating an impenetrable golden curtain of light.

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang—!"

A series of crisp, dense sounds, like heavy rain beating on banana leaves, suddenly erupted. Upon touching the blade curtain formed by Gao Feng's pure Qi and blood, those incredibly sharp wind blades were like crashing into the hardest reef, either sent flying or directly shredded into fragments filling the sky.

However, this was merely the beginning.

Just as Gao Feng was being harassed by the wind blades, the Shadow Leopard King's true body, which had transformed into cyan smoke, appeared silently behind him. A sharp leopard claw, shimmering with a metallic cold light like the Grim Reaper's scythe, swiped toward Gao Feng's back with a lethal arc!

This strike was swift, concealed, and ruthless, pushing the art of assassination to the extreme!

However, just as its sharp claws were about to touch Gao Feng's body, a cold, triumphant smile curled up on Gao Feng's lips. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

His body didn't even turn around, yet as if he had eyes in the back of his head, he suddenly ducked down in an incredible posture, narrowly dodging this fatal claw strike!

At the same time, the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand was like a living viper, backhanding upward toward his rear at an angle that defied the Laws of physics!

The speed of Gao Feng's backhand strike was even faster than the Shadow Leopard King's sneak attack!

The Shadow Leopard King's emerald green pupils suddenly constricted; it clearly had not expected this human's reaction speed and physical flexibility to be terrifying to such a degree!

At this critical moment, it displayed the astonishing reaction ability of a king. Its extended front claw suddenly kicked off the air, and relying on a force that appeared out of thin air, it forcefully shifted its body backward by half a fraction!

"Shhh-la—!"

Even so, Gao Feng's incredibly sharp blade still carved a terrifying wound deep enough to see bone on its chest, and cyan blood instantly stained its magnificent fur red!

"Aooo—!!!"

The intense pain completely ignited the ferocity of the Shadow Leopard King!

It let out an angry roar, no longer attempting close combat, but suddenly distanced itself from Gao Feng, its figure turning into countless indistinguishable cyan afterimages within the narrow, long canyon.

For a time, the entire canyon was filled with the sound of wind and cranes, and countless wind blades, more solid and sharp than before, seemed to form a storm of death, completely enveloping Gao Feng from all directions!

This time, Gao Feng did not passively defend again.

He slammed his feet onto the ground, and his entire body transformed into a bolt of golden lightning, actively rushing forward to meet the wind blades filling the sky!

He wielded the three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand like a golden propeller!

"Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang!"

He actually used an incredibly brutal and unreasonable method to forcefully carve a path through that death storm composed of countless wind blades!

His speed fully exploded—fast! Faster! Even faster!

He pushed his own lightness skill and movement technique to the absolute Peak of his life, his figure likewise trailing golden afterimages within the narrow canyon, engaging in an ultimate duel of speed against speed with those countless cyan ghost shadows!

This was a dance of death that was incredibly magnificent yet dangerous to the extreme.

The entire canyon became their stage, where golden streams of light and cyan ghost shadows constantly chased, collided, intersected, and separated amidst the storm; every collision would splash a stream of blinding sparks and a spray of scattering blood rain.

Gradually, the Shadow Leopard King felt fear. It discovered that the speed of this human before it was not inferior to its own in the slightest, and in terms of absolute explosive power, he was even slightly superior; furthermore, the opponent's combat techniques were far beyond what it, a beast that only knew how to fight by instinct, could compare to.

With the ebb and flow of the battle, the wounds on its body became more and more numerous, the flowing blood staining the rainwater in the canyon cyan, and its speed also began to inevitably slow down due to injuries and the consumption of stamina.

Yet Gao Feng was like an indefatigable war machine; although his breathing was somewhat disordered, his eyes became increasingly sharp and focused!

Finally, in the moment they crossed paths, Gao Feng seized a 0.01-second opening that the Shadow Leopard King revealed because it couldn't dodge in time, and his figure appeared by the Shadow Leopard King's side as if teleporting!

The three-pointed, double-edged blade in his hand no longer had any flashy techniques; it was just a simple horizontal slash, returning to basics, fast to the extreme!

The Shadow Leopard King didn't even have time to make any reaction; reflected in its emerald green pupils was only a brilliant golden blade light that was constantly enlarging!

"Puff—!"

A huge leopard head, filled with unwillingness and terror, soared into the sky, and hot blood gushed wildly from the headless torso like a fountain!

The Shadow Leopard King's massive headless corpse rushed forward for several dozen zhang under the effect of inertia before crashing heavily to the ground with a "boom."

Gao Feng slowly sheathed his blade and stood still, letting the rain of blood filling the sky drench him into a bloody person.

After successfully hunting two powerful exotic beasts in a row, Gao Feng's self-confidence was greatly boosted, and the trace of wavering that had originally arisen from his battle with Longduota completely vanished.

He no longer viewed the upcoming hunts simply as tasks for collecting Materials, but instead regarded them as the most important Cultivation and tempering before his Breakthrough to the fifth rank.

However, he soon discovered that he had still somewhat underestimated the terror of this Southern Wilderness dense forest.

His third target was a wood-attribute thousand-year-old tree demon. Unlike the previous two exotic beasts that relied on pure strength and speed, this tree demon was far more sinister and far more dangerous.

It had no fixed form; its true body was deeply rooted in the depths of a huge swamp spanning several miles, while the entire expanse of trees, vines, and flowers above ground were actually just parts of its body.

The moment Gao Feng stepped into this swamp forest, he had already entered the hunting ground of this thousand-year-old tree demon.

At first, everything seemed normal, but soon Gao Feng noticed something wrong.

He discovered that he was lost. No matter which direction he walked, the surrounding scenery seemed not to change at all; it was as if he had fallen into a huge green maze composed of trees.

Immediately following this, the attacks began silently.

A seemingly ordinary vine would shoot up without warning like a viper, coiling toward his ankles; those seemingly harmless, colorful flowers would suddenly open their petal disks filled with sharp teeth, spitting out highly toxic pollen with strong paralytic effects; even the soft soil he stepped on would suddenly turn into a quicksand trap, attempting to swallow him inside.

Although these attacks could not cause substantial damage to Gao Feng, that omnipresent, impossible-to-guard-against sense of sinister weirdness kept his mind in a state of high tension.

Gao Feng knew that he must find the true body core of this tree demon as soon as possible, otherwise he would sooner or later be exhausted to death here.

He stopped his steps, closed his eyes, and pushed his own perception to the extreme; the Eye of Delusion Breaking opened once again!

This time, he did not use his eyes to look, but instead used his "heart" to feel the energy flow of this forest.

In his world of perception, the entire swamp forest transformed into a huge life network composed of countless green energy veins, either thick or thin, and all the energy veins eventually converged toward the place with the most intense energy fluctuations at the very center of the swamp!

Found it! Gao Feng suddenly opened his eyes, brilliant light exploding from them!

He no longer paid attention to those endless harassments, fixed his direction, pushed his own speed to the extreme, and rushed straight toward the center of the swamp like a sharp arrow released from a bowstring!

Seemingly having sensed Gao Feng's intention, the entire swamp forest went completely berserk!

Countless trees seemed to come alive, waving their thick branches like millions of wildly dancing giant arms, smashing down toward Gao Feng, covering the sky and earth!

Above the ground, there were even thousands of huge vines, hard as steel, bursting out of the soil like a net cast from heaven and earth composed of countless giant pythons, attempting to completely shred and swallow Gao Feng!

Facing this terrifying scene like the end of the world, there was not a trace of fear on Gao Feng's face; instead, he revealed a smile filled with arrogance. "Well come!"

He let out a long whistle, and the crimson-gold Qi and blood in his body no longer held anything back, exploding with a roar like a dam-bursting flood!

"Burn!"

Accompanied by his low shout, an incredibly scorching golden flame instantly rose from within his body, wrapping his entire person inside!

Wood fears fire; this is the most basic principle of Five Elements restraint between heaven and earth.

The "Qi and Blood True Fire" transformed from Gao Feng's purest Qi and blood power was undoubtedly the most lethal nemesis for this wood-attribute thousand-year-old tree demon!

Those originally aggressive giant vines and branches, the moment they touched that golden flame, were like ice and snow encountering their nemesis, making "sizzling" sounds and instantly being ignited into fly ash!

Gao Feng's entire person transformed into an unstoppable golden fireball, forcefully burning a path of death leading to the center of the swamp in that green ocean composed of countless vines and branches!

"Squeak—!!!"

A sharp hiss, filled with pain and fear, that did not sound like anything any living creature could make, suddenly erupted from the deep depths of the swamp!

Finally, the true body of that thousand-year-old tree demon was forced out by Gao Feng!

Seeing the turbid water surface in the center of the swamp suddenly explode, a huge black tree stump, with a diameter exceeding ten zhang, pitch-black all over, and covered with countless twisted human faces on its surface, slowly rose from the bottom of the ground!

At the top of that tree stump, a green crystal, as crystal-clear as jade and emitting a majestic Aura of life, was flickering on and off; that was the life core of this thousand-year-old tree demon!

"Die!"

Gao Feng's target from beginning to end was only that core!

Stepping on the burning vines, he leaped into the air, transforming himself into a golden spear that pierced heaven and earth. With a terrifying Aura capable of incinerating all things, he thrust fiercely toward that emerald-green core!

The thousand-year-old tree demon let out a final, desperate screech. All the twisted faces on its massive black stump suddenly opened their mouths, spewing out a thick, ink-like green poisonous miasma!

This poisonous miasma was the essence of its thousand years of Dao cultivation; it was lethal upon contact, killing instantly, and could even corrode refined iron into slag in an instant!

However, in the face of Gao Feng's extremely Yang and rigid Qi and blood True Fire, all the deadly poison appeared so pale and powerless.

The moment the dense poisonous miasma touched the golden flames, it was ignited instantly, emitting a series of crackling explosions and turning into smoke that filled the cloudless sky!

The golden spear was unstoppable. Under the thousand-year-old tree demon's gaze filled with despair, it fiercely pierced the emerald-green life core!

"Crack—!"

With a crisp sound like shattering jade, the core, which had condensed a thousand years of essence, was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, followed by a "boom" as it completely shattered!

As the core shattered, the entire swamp forest for several miles around lost all vitality in an instant.

Those wildly dancing vines and branches withered and decayed in an instant, finally turning into black dust that filled the sky and drifted away in the wind.

Every hunt was a trial between life and death, and every battle made his control over his own strength and the application of his combat techniques more perfect and fluid.

His fourth-tier Great Perfection Realm, which had originally reached a Bottleneck, was repeatedly honed and solidified through these extreme battles, becoming increasingly unfathomable.

After collecting the heart blood of seven different types of fourth-tier exotic beasts required to refine the "dragon blood body forging pill", he found a natural volcanic cave with vigorous subterranean fire to serve as his temporary Alchemy room.

The process of Alchemy was far more dangerous than he had imagined.

The energy contained within the heart blood of those exotic beasts was simply too vast and violent. Even when using the exquisite techniques of ancient Alchemy to smelt it, that violent energy several times nearly caused his specially crafted Pill Furnace to explode.

Gao Feng had to continuously channel his own Qi and blood power into the Pill Furnace, using his own strength to forcibly guide and harmonize that violent energy; this was a huge drain on him.

For seven full days and nights, Gao Feng did not sleep or rest, devoting himself entirely to this unprecedented Alchemy session.

His face became incomparably pale due to the immense exhaustion, his lips cracked, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Finally, at the dawn of the seventh day, when the first ray of sunlight shone through the crevice of the cave, a clear, resonant humming sound like a Dragon's roar suddenly erupted from within the Pill Furnace!

A dense Medicinal Pill fragrance, filled with vast life essence and impossible to describe in words, instantly permeated the entire cave. The fragrance even caused the dry moss on the cave walls to regain vitality at a speed visible to the naked eye!

It's done!

A smile of extreme exhaustion and relief appeared on Gao Feng's face.

He slowly opened the Pill Furnace, only to see nine pills, entirely crimson gold, their surfaces covered in strange patterns like Dragon scales and still pulsing slightly as if they possessed life, lying quietly at the bottom of the Pill Furnace.

dragon blood body forging pill!

Gao Feng did not hesitate in the slightest; he picked one up and swallowed it.

The Medicinal Pill melted the moment it entered his mouth, turning into a terrifying torrent hotter than magma, instantly surging toward his limbs and bones!

At that moment, Gao Feng felt as if his body was about to be burst open alive by that vast energy!

That violent torrent of energy was like a wild horse off its leash, rampaging through his already incredibly tough Meridians!

Every inch of flesh, every bone, every cell groaned under the unbearable burden of this overbearing medicinal power!

Intense pain, unimaginable intense pain, instantly swept through every nerve in Gao Feng's body!

He felt as if he had been thrown into an erupting volcanic crater, his body being repeatedly burned, torn apart, and reconstructed, both inside and out, by the hottest magma.

He could even clearly hear his bones emitting "crackling" sounds throughout his body, and beads of dark red blood seeped out from the surface of his skin; in the blink of an eye, he had turned into a "blood man".

Any person with a slightly weaker will would likely have completely collapsed in this inhuman pain, or even exploded and died!

But Gao Feng's eyes always maintained a sliver of clarity; his will had long been tempered as hard as a rock through the trials of living two lifetimes and countless life-and-death battles!

He gritted his teeth tightly, letting that terrifying energy rampage within his body, while simultaneously exerting all his strength to operate his unnamed Mind-Cultivation Technique, attempting to guide and organize this violent power.

However, he quickly discovered the problem. His fourth-tier Mind-Cultivation Technique, which had always been effective, appeared so pale and powerless in the face of this vast energy, which was fused from the essence blood of seven top-tier exotic beasts and had vaguely touched upon the Laws of heaven and earth.

It was like a small stream trying to guide the Yangtze River into the sea; not only could it not perform a guiding role, but it was also in danger of being completely washed away and swallowed by that surging torrent at any moment!

The grade of his Cultivation Technique was not high enough!

This thought flashed through Gao Feng's mind like a bolt of lightning!

He instantly understood the reason for his failure: he had the vast energy to attempt a Breakthrough to the fifth tier, but he lacked a "bridge" capable of bearing and transforming this energy!

Without a fifth-tier Cultivation Technique as a guide, this energy would forever be just an uncontrolled force of destruction, and could never become a ladder to help him step toward a higher level!

Could it be... that he was going to fail like this?

A strong sense of unwillingness surged fiercely from the bottom of Gao Feng's heart!

No! Absolutely not!

If it cannot be guided, then... refine it!

A flash of resolute madness crossed Gao Feng's eyes!

He gave up the attempt to use his Cultivation Technique to guide that energy to break through the fifth-tier Bottleneck, and instead sank all his consciousness into his own Physical Body, beginning to forcibly absorb and refine that violent medicinal power in an incomparably savage and overbearing manner!

What he wanted to do was not to break through his Realm, but to completely fuse this terrifying energy, which was enough to make an ordinary person explode ten times over, into his own flesh, bones, and internal organs!

He wanted to treat his own body as a massive furnace capable of containing heaven and earth!

This was an incredibly dangerous decision!

If he were even slightly careless, his fate would still be the collapse of his Physical Body and the destruction of his Divine Soul!

But at this moment, Gao Feng had no other choice!

"Ah—!!!"

He let out a painful roar that had been suppressed for a long time, actively giving up all resistance to the energy within his body!

He completely "opened" his Physical Body to that violent torrent of energy!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Gao Feng's body was like an anvil being beaten repeatedly!

Every bone in his body was being shattered and crushed by that energy over and over again, and then re-condensed and reshaped with even purer energy!

Every one of his Meridians was being repeatedly widened and scoured by that scorching torrent, becoming tougher and wider than ever before!

His internal organs were even more like being thrown into a Pill Furnace to be re-refined; all Impurities were burned away under this overbearing medicinal power, and in turn, they emitted a faint luster like glazed jade.

And the crimson-gold Qi and blood within his body began to undergo a wonderful qualitative transformation under the constant Fusion of this external energy. The Qi and blood, which had originally been like mist, began to become increasingly viscous and heavy, and in the end, it actually seemed to turn into drops of flowing, crimson-gold liquid gold!

Time passed slowly in this inhuman torment.

I don't know how much time had passed, but when the last trace of medicinal power within Gao Feng's body had been completely absorbed and refined by his body, which was like a bottomless pit, everything within the cave returned to calm.

Gao Feng slowly opened his eyes. In that instant, two golden divine lights, as if they had substance, flashed from his eyes and disappeared, actually shooting two bottomless small holes into the hard volcanic rock wall opposite him!

He slowly stood up from the ground.

As he rose, a thick crust of blood, formed from the Impurities and stagnant blood expelled from his body, which had long since dried, fell off his body with a "crackling" sound, revealing the skin beneath, which was as delicate and lustrous as a newborn baby's.

He looked down at his hands.

Those hands looked no different from before, but he could clearly feel what kind of terrifying, world-destroying power was contained beneath that seemingly ordinary skin!

He had not made a Breakthrough to the fifth tier. His Realm still remained at the Peak of the fourth-tier Great Perfection, and even the total amount of Qi and blood in his body was actually less than before due to the high degree of condensation.

However, his physique, the strength of his Physical Body, had undergone a terrifying, earth-shaking transformation!

He slowly clenched his fist.

"Crack... crack..." A slight, teeth-grinding explosion, as if even space could not withstand its power, rang out in the palm of his fist!

A smile filled with immense self-confidence appeared on Gao Feng's face. He raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the thick rock layers, looking far away in the direction of the Barbarian camp.

Although he had not broken through to the fifth tier, and although he still did not have a fifth-tier Cultivation Technique, relying on this terrifying Physical Body that had been tempered thousands of times by the "dragon blood body forging pill" and was now so powerful it could be called inhuman, he had an unprecedentedly strong intuition.

If he were to face that Longduota, who had one foot in the fifth tier, again now, he could win!

He could even... kill him!