Chapter 234: Divine Power Delivered to His Doorstep, the Essence of 【Bing Ji】, and a Giant Sword Mad

Chapter 234: Divine Power Delivered to His Doorstep, the Essence of 【Bing Ji】, and a Giant Sword Made from Dry Grass (4K)



As Xueheng picked up a stone slightly larger than his palm and carefully dusted off the dirt from its surface, Cat's mouth twitched as she asked, "Ah Jing, why do you like throwing stones so much?"

Xueheng weighed the smooth stone in his hand and smiled as he replied, "Because the stone is there."

Cat scoffed, "Are you a mountaineer... That's not a very auspicious saying."

She was referring to George Mallory, the mountaineer who, when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, famously replied, 'because it's there', and later died on the mountain.

Xueheng glanced at the approaching figures in the distance and whispered, "Don't worry, I've calculated my fortune, and it looks very promising."

Cat covered her face with her paw and sighed, "That's too unreliable..."

Xueheng took a deep breath, and with his flesh, muscles, tendons, and blood working in unison, he channeled the essence of the ultimate technique through the spiral-piercing power that converged in his right hand.

He clenched his palm, and the hard stone was instantly crushed into distinct, sharp fragments.

"True Dragon Star Cluster!"

It was a rain of piercing meteors.

As they curved upward, each one carried a strong spiral air wave, possessing a power comparable to, or even surpassing, that of an armor-piercing bullet.

Eight members of the Dragon Sect were racing through the air when they saw the meteor fragments, which had a coverage area of several tens of meters and seemed to blot out the sky from their perspective.

"Spread out, quickly!"

The leader was startled and immediately shouted the order.

However, it was too late, and it took time for his voice to carry.

"Puff, puff, puff, puff!!!"

Five of the members didn't react in time and were hit by countless projectiles, instantly turning into minced meat, with not even a fragment the size of a thumb left behind.

Among the remaining three, the leader extended his right arm, and countless slender shadows drilled out from his right sleeve, constantly moving rapidly in the air, deflecting and shredding all the meteor fragments directed at him.

The other two covered their heads with their hands, and their black robes, which concealed their entire bodies, were blown to pieces, revealing their true forms.

They had tall and muscular builds, with tightly packed black scales covering their bodies, large and sharp claws on their hands and feet, snakelike triangular features on their faces, and vertical pupils in their eyes that shone with a dark golden light.

The leader clicked his tongue. "These few useless wastes... You two, go first."

The two 'snake men' nodded and abruptly increased their speed, dashing toward the center of the park.

The leader watched them with a thoughtful expression, his gaze then shifting to the distant figure shrouded in shadow flames, with only a pair of eyes visible.

"So, he's not a mere martial artist... Is he also a recipient?"

Xueheng watched the two 'snake men' rushing toward him. With his left hand holding the green Rubik's cube, he naturally lowered it and used his index finger to turn one of the cube's sides.

A green vortex appeared in his palm, into which he plunged his right hand.

As if drawing a sword from its scabbard at his waist, he abruptly pulled out the two-meter-three-long Forgotten Giant Sword, brandishing it with a terrifying, dull pressurized sound.

As if calculated precisely, the two snake men had just reached his vicinity when Xueheng's arc-shaped sword draw encompassed them both.

"Bang—"

The ancient, giant sword first struck one of them at the waist, carrying his body along as it continued its swing and collided with the other.

"Bang—Crack—!"

The sound of cracking bones reverberated as the two snake men were sent flying even faster than they had come, crashing through the park's trees, stone chairs, fountain... They flew over a hundred meters away, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

The leader of the Dragon Sect watched this scene, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably.

This battle prowess... It somewhat exceeded his expectations.

Xueheng, however, was unaware of the leader's thoughts. Seeing that his attack had landed, he intended to pursue his advantage. His figure flashed, and he crossed the hundred-meter distance in an instant, arriving near the two snake men.

At this moment, the two snake men were piled on top of each other, embedded in the wall of a public restroom. Xueheng held the Forgotten Giant Sword with both hands, raising it high above his head, intending to brutally chop them into four sections.

But just then, he hesitated, subconsciously abandoning his original plan. Instead, he held the Forgotten Giant Sword horizontally, as if 'prodding' at something.

His internal energy surged, undergoing extremely complex changes, and in that instant, Xueheng, holding the Forgotten Giant Sword, rapidly 'prodded' five times in succession—so fast that it defied belief that such a massive sword could move in that manner.

The tip of the giant sword wasn't particularly sharp, but it still had a pointed shape, providing a very small area of contact.

Under those five rapid jabs, one of the snakemen's limbs fell apart, and a large hole appeared in his chest and abdomen, pierced through and through.

"Hsss—!!!"

He widened his dark golden vertical pupils and opened his mouth, revealing sharp fangs and a slender forked tongue as he let out a harsh, unpleasant scream.

"This is..."

Xueheng looked at the Forgotten Giant Sword in his hand in disbelief.

For some reason, in that moment, he had the illusion that the giant sword in his hand was a nine-foot-long spear.

And so, subconsciously, he channeled the 'Flawless' technique he had learned in the consciousness space.

As a result, the Forgotten Giant Sword was indeed manipulated like a spear, successfully stabbing out five flawless thrusts.

In the heat of battle, he didn't have time to ponder what this phenomenon meant.

Xueheng brandished the sword, and with a swing, he beheaded the snakeman whose body had been impaled like a stick... no, it was more like a brutal smash.

"Gah?!"

The remaining snakeman let out an incomprehensible cry of surprise, but before he could make any move, Xueheng pressed the tip of the giant sword against his chest.

Silver-white thunder crackled along the blade, and Dragon Thunder poured out, flowing down the length of the sword and onto the snakeman.

With the Level 5 Dragon Horn and the maximum twenty-fold gravity activated, the snakeman immediately slammed into the ground, embedded in the earth and unable to move.

"I guess one live captive is enough. Now..."

Xueheng turned his head towards the leader, the one in the black robe, who was not far away.

In the quiet park at night, the only sound was the crackling of silver-white thunder on the prone Dragonman's body.

Xueheng and the leader locked eyes for a moment. Seeing that the other party didn't make any moves, Xueheng was about to take the initiative to attack.

At that moment, the leader's figure flashed, and he disappeared from his original spot.

The next instant, he reappeared next to the prone snakeman, reaching out his right hand towards him.

Xueheng's eyebrows furrowed, and he swung his right hand with Whirling Wind Thunder, causing spiral indentations to appear as he brought the giant sword down with a dull rush of air.

"Boom—!!!"

After the loud explosion, the leader's body exploded into countless fragments.

But upon closer inspection, that wasn't the case.

Those fragments were, in fact, snakes of various shapes and sizes.

At a rough count, there were at least over two thousand of them.

Xueheng's eyes narrowed, and he subconsciously sidestepped. Suddenly, a giant, clear full moon appeared in the sky, and countless silver cherry blossoms drifted down.

He had just slashed out with his giant sword, performing the Ultimate Art - Sakura Full Moon!

In an instant, out of the over two thousand snakes that the leader had exploded into, a thousand or more were instantly slashed to death by Xueheng, the cuts smooth as if made by a sharp divine weapon.

Cat also burst into action, brandishing her silver-white Snake-Slayer Spear, and any snake that came into contact with it instantly died. In a short while, she had taken care of a couple of hundred snakes.

But there were just too many snakes.

One of the snakes landed on the snakeman, baring its fangs and biting down on his neck.

All the remaining snakes quickly slithered away in all directions, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The park soon returned to silence, and even the sound of the snakes' slithering had vanished.

"He got away..."

Xueheng slung the Forgotten Giant Sword over his shoulder and looked at the snakeman on the ground.

The snakeman's face had turned purple, and he trembled uncontrollably. The fine scales on his body fell off in large patches, and before long, he lay still and motionless, dead.

"I thought I might have a tough fight on my hands, so I prepared accordingly, but I didn't expect these guys to be as weak as candy..."

Xueheng was a little speechless.

"He not only ran away but also took out his teammates. He has no professional ethics at all."

Cat shook her head. "If he's an assassin... then this is a display of high professional ethics."

"Next time I see him, I'll have to be more careful of that strange escape technique of his. He's like a Ghost Warrior..."

Xueheng walked over to the snakeman's corpse and squatted down, reaching out to search the body.

Cat asked curiously, "What are you doing? Be careful, the poison on this guy looks nasty."

Xueheng replied, "These guys are Recipients, right? Then they should have a 'Sacred Mark'... Don't worry, I'm wearing 'Shadowflame'."

After searching for a while, he soon found a golden scale growing in reverse on the snakeman's chest.

He reached out and touched the scale.

[Detection of divine substance. Absorbing divinity...]



"As expected!" Xueheng raised an eyebrow, tearing off the golden scale and holding it in his hand.

"Then, the other one..." Xueheng's gaze fell on the other Snake Man's body, which he had already dismembered.

He searched the body for a while before finding a thumb-sized chunk of reddish-golden muscle on the inside of the thigh.

[Detection of divine substance. Absorbing divinity...]



As he touched it, the divinity count on the panel began to rapidly increase by several dozen points per second.

Xueheng's eyes lit up with pleasure.

"I wonder when the Dragon Sect will attack next? I could really use some more."

(At this moment, Xueheng's concept image:)



...

In a dimly lit alley, hundreds of snakes of various shapes and sizes slithered and gathered, intertwining to form a human shape. A black robe materialized, covering the figure so that its true form couldn't be discerned.

"There was a serious miscalculation in the estimation of his combat power... Two Snake Servants are not enough."

He said thoughtfully.

"More crucially, he's not just a mere martial artist... That ability that covers his entire body like armor made it impossible for my 'poison' to take effect."

"Damn that An Luping! That dirtbag from the Outer Ring always provides unreliable intel."

He grit his teeth in frustration.

"Forget it, I'll report back first. The Divine Child should understand my predicament..."

...

"Knock knock—"

Ning Yuantai, who was in his SUV watching videos on his smart ring, heard the knocking on the window and quickly turned off the video. He turned and saw Xueheng.

"Brother Xue!"

He greeted him and opened the door, stepping out of the car.

Only then did he notice the strange corpse Xueheng was carrying.

"Hmm? Brother Xue, what's that?"

Ning Yuantai asked curiously.

"It suddenly appeared and attacked me just now... It seems to be a member of some kind of foreign god cult called the Dragon Sect."

Xueheng casually explained.

"This guy died from poisoning. I was thinking if we could analyze the poison in his body and create an antidote?"

Ning Yuantai's face turned solemn. "To dare to attack you in broad daylight, in public... Those heretics of the foreign god cults are getting bolder by the day."

Xueheng looked up at the dark night sky but remained silent.

"We should be able to. The equipment at the Stop Warfare base is pretty comprehensive." Ning Yuantai walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk.

"Brother Xue, just put it in here."

Xueheng did as he was told, and Ning Yuantai closed the trunk.

The two men got into the car, and as the engine roared to life like a beast, they drove out of the parking lot towards the Stop Warfare base.

Along the way, Ning Yuantai asked curiously:

"Brother Xue, why did the Dragon Sect target you?"

Xueheng glanced at Cat and thought for a moment before replying, "It's a long story, and it's a bit hard to explain for now."

Upon hearing this, Ning Yuantai wisely refrained from asking further questions and instead steered the conversation to another topic.

As they chatted, Xueheng opened the skill panel.

[Divinity Held: 2163]



The two Dragon Sect Recipients provided him with a little over a thousand points of divinity.

'That's about the same as what I got from that guy from the Flower God Association whose name I can't remember.'

Xueheng thought to himself.

'Recipients are indeed a lucrative business, just like divine artifacts.'

However, unlike the last time he absorbed divinity from a Flower God Association Recipient and activated the 【Plant Covenant】, this time, no new divinity skills were activated.

'Is it because the Sacred Marks of these two Snake Servants didn't meet the activation requirements? Or...'

Xueheng looked at the 【Dragon Horn】 on the panel.

'Did they have divinity skills that I've already activated?'

'Never mind, it doesn't matter. Being able to absorb divinity is already an unexpected windfall.'

Xueheng happily closed the panel.

This sudden attack by the Dragon Sect felt more like a gift delivery than an assault.

Aside from divinity, he had also gained some other insights from the battle...

Recalling how he had just used the Forgotten Giant Sword to execute 'Flawless' and 'Sakura Full Moon', Xueheng fell into deep thought.

"Could this be the true usage of Bing Ji? Or is it a sign that Bing Ji is about to undergo an evolution?"

"Transcending the limitations of the weapon in my hand and achieving the state of 'One Weapon to Rule Them All'?"

"Like the legendary swordsman, Duan Yu, who could wield any object as a sword... If my hypothesis is correct, does that mean I can pull out a blade of grass and wield it with the same might as a giant sword?"

...

(End of Chapter)

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