White-Robed Chief

Chapter 1046: Refine

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Lesser Ultimate Sword shattered, leaving only Mi Ren, Zheng Ze and a young Taoist monk.

Mi Ren’s expression dulled. “Junior Brother Zheng, Junior Brother Meng, Ultimate Sword!” he said calmly while gently swaying his longsword. The blade of the sword became bright and warm as if it had turned into a glimpse of clear autumn water.

Similarly, Zheng Ze and Meng Yu swung their longswords. The blades of their longswords also underwent a strange transformation. It looked like they were wielding a stretch of crystalline spring water.

The sword became dazzlingly quick. With one gentle stroke, it struck the two elders who flew towards them.

“Hey!” The two elders screamed as they staggered backward.

They looked down and saw the cut on their white, jade-like palms. There was a trail of blood on their right palm where fresh blood was seeping out.

“Very well!” The two elders did not retaliate. Their eyes glistened with a menacing red. “The Ultimate Sword! We’ll see how many more of that you can muster!” the elders sneered.

Mi Ren and his two compatriots stood in a peculiar stance. They maintained the sword array, which was capable of gathering three people’s power into a single body. The sword shone with a clear luster and rested in their grips as if it had no weight. The three of them looked composed. They fixed their gaze on the two elders and remained motionless.

There was a grim look on Zheng Shoufang’s face. He hardly dared to breathe while staring at his enemies.

Zheng Yuwan held her breath too, for fear of drawing the attention of the two elders.

She shifted her gaze towards Chu Li, who was as motionless as a dummy. He looked like he was stunned.

Little did they know, earth-shattering changes were occurring inside Chu Li’s body. A mighty force was colliding within his body, cleansing all his internal organs, muscles, and bones. The ever-present force was altering every single inch of his body, making him stronger than ever before.

“Phew...” Zheng Yuwan could not hold her breath any longer and let out a long exhale. The two elders turned to look at her and that scared her into having hiccups. She was too afraid to move. Yet, the more she tried not to move, the more she felt the urge to hiccup.

The two elders had spooky red eyes — eyes that looked like they were filled with endless killing intent. Zheng Yuwan was so terrified that her whole body froze. At that moment in time, she would much rather that she was knocked out cold.

The two elders passed over her and landed on top of Chu Li.

Chu Li stood rooted to the ground. Seeing the jade flute in Chu Li’s hands, past resentment and newfound hatred jumbled together and overwhelmed the elders’ emotions. They took another look at the sword array laid out by Mi Ren’s trio. Knowing the Ultimate Sword’s power, they decided to tread cautiously and confront Chu Li first.

Chu Li looked out of character. Moreover, he looked extremely vulnerable now that he was without the sword array’s protection. The elders could easily destroy him with a single strike, so why not?

The two dashed towards Chu Li in two flashes of red.

“Careful, brother Du!” Zheng Ze shouted alarmingly.

Chu Li remained motionless.

“Boom!” Chu Li’s figure was flung into the air. He was hit hard.

Zheng Ze gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could have done. Even if he had used the Ultimate Sword, his body movement technique would not have made it in time.

Zheng Yuwan screamed. It seemed that she saw Chu Li get turned into a skeleton in front of her very eyes.

She felt nothing other than terror when all those Ultimate Temple disciples were turned into skeletons. Though Zheng Yuwan was not close to Chu Li, she still considered him a benefactor. The sight of Chu Li getting turned into a skeleton was too much for her to bear.

A smirk etched out across the hollow cheekbones of the two black-robed elders. It seemed that they too had seen Chu Li’s now-skeletal body.

To everyone’s surprise, Chu Li landed on the ground firmly. He frowned at the elders.

The mighty power inside his body had absorbed the palm energies, consuming them like the Heavenly Demonic Orb. However, the palm energies were still present inside Chu Li’s body and showed no signs of stopping. Thus, he was still unable to use his martial arts and harness his inner energy.

“Die -!” The burly elder dashed towards Chu Li and struck another palm at his chest.

Chu Li was sent flying into the air once again.

“Ah!” Zheng Yuwan did not even have the time to celebrate before she found herself screaming again.

Mi Ren’s trio moved towards the two elders, swinging their swords at lightning speed.

However, the two elders chose not to duel them. Once again, they dashed skywards to catch up with Chu Li, simultaneously throwing two palm strikes at him.

Chu Li flew into a tree, yet it was incapable of stopping him. “Boom,” the tree was disintegrated into powder.

In a single effort, Chu Li was propelled over about twenty meters then landed steadily on his feet.

“Little devil!” The two elders looked at each other in shock.

The two’s Blood Jade Palm was already fully cultivated. Under normal circumstances, one palm strike would instantaneously gobble up the essence of blood, turning the opponent’s powers into their own, while at the same time reducing them into skeletons. It was the Church of the Divine Blood’s most devastating move.

The two elders’ Bloody Garment Divine Power had attained maximum potential too. Whoever came into contact with that faint blood-like luminescence surrounding their whole body would have their essence of blood dissipated.

As for the Blood Jade Palm which Chu Li endured, it was a solid, fully exerted, full-on version of it.

Let alone a person, a horse’s essence of blood would be instantly exhausted and it would be turned into a skeleton with that one hit.

Hence, it was outrageous that despite enduring so many palm strikes, Chu Li still looked untouched.

The two elders refused to concede. They darted towards him once again.

“Boom, boom, boom...” Chu Li was beaten up and tossed around by the two like a beach ball without stopping for even for a moment. His body kept flailing around in the air, never once landing onto the ground. Yet, Chu Li appeared to look more spirited, his gaze growing brighter and brighter. It looked as if he was enjoying every bit of it.

As they threw more palm strikes at him, the force that was absorbed into his body grew and his power grew even stronger than before.

The two elders’ blows seemed to be helping to refine him.

Chu Li had been trying to gain control of this mighty force, but he just could not get the better of it. The force was like a mountain torrent, violent and unstoppable. It was uncontrollable, gushing forward with immeasurable strength.

Suddenly, his facial expression changed. The mighty power had come to a sudden halt. All of a sudden, it surged to the top of his heart, rapidly condensing into a red bean. It looked no different from a real red bean, exuding a bright bloody illumination.

“Boom, boom, boom, boom!” The two elders slammed Chu Li’s precordium madly. Meanwhile, the strikes targeted toward his head were all dodged by him.

At his precordium, a red-bean-like Heavenly Demonic Orb suddenly appeared, engulfing the two elders’ palm energies. However, there was no feeling of fullness. It was as if the Blood Jade Palm power was so weak that it was negligible.

Suddenly, the red bean fell onto his precordium. In an instant, infinite power condensed within his body. A sound like a river flowing started to be heard. It was the sound of blood flow.

Chu Li was in mid-air when a knife flash swooped from his waist.

“Slash!” The burly elder’s head flew up in the air, a perplexed expression on his face.

The red luminescence around his body seemed so vulnerable. The longsword broke it effortlessly, slashing through his neck without any hindrance at all.

“Ah-!” The thin elder yelled furiously. With one ghastly palm, he struck Chu Li’s Dantian.

“Slash!” A light flashed across his neck, sending another head into the air.

The bloody luminescence rose skywards. Zheng Ze’s trio watched in bewilderment. Zheng Shoufang and Zheng Yuwan were baffled as well.

Prior to this, Chu Li was merely a defenseless puppet. Now, he managed to annihilate two people almost instantaneously. This situation had turned around too quickly.

Chu Li immediately picked up the Heavenly Demonic Orb and tapped on the two elders’ precordium. The Heavenly Demonic Orb swallowed the elders’ blood cores. Suddenly, a sense of fullness was felt again. Nevertheless, there was no feeling of advancing to another level. It was still quite some distance to the next level.

However, these two blood cores were extremely powerful. They were superior to the ten blood cores that had been previously engulfed as these two elders had terrifying cultivation levels. The fact that they were slain by him could only be attributed to their sloppiness. However strong a person’s cultivation level was, they could still be killed if they were careless. This would serve very well as a warning.

Chu Li’s face was now as pale as paper. The consequence of using several different secret skills at once was now beginning to show. Although there was a feeling of fullness in the Heavenly Demonic Orb, Chu Li felt extremely weak all over his body.