A flash of golden light shone forth, and in an instant, its immense brilliance blotted out the blazing noon sun!
Amid everyone's cries of alarm, the sun vanished! Only then did someone shout.
"The sea!"
All of a sudden, a vast blue sea appeared, its waves glittering. The entire Gu Family Village seemed to sink beneath the water's surface as a bright moon slowly rose!
"An anomaly! A Divine Body!" Gu Xuanzhen froze, then abruptly rose to his feet!
A Divine Body! Once fully awakened, its bearer would become a god-level powerhouse! It was an unparalleled physique that might even reach the Sacred Realm!
"A Divine Body! A Divine Body!"
Gu Xuanzhen felt as though he had fallen into a dream. A mere youth from a remote mountain village was actually blessed with a Divine Body! He did not even notice when he tore off his cherished long beard, standing there blankly in a daze!
"I clearly examined him with the 'Eye of Breaking Delusion' last time. He was plainly an ordinary Mortal Body! How could he be a Divine Body?" Gu Xuanzhen gaped, unable to stop himself from wondering whether old age had dulled his skills!
"This anomaly!" Gu Lianxing was equally shocked, her heart pounding wildly! Unlike the Gu Family Village clansmen crying out in astonishment at the anomaly, she was one of the few people present who knew what a Divine Body was!
"A Divine Body! A legendary physique! Among Great Yan's three billion people, there are only a dozen or so Divine Bodies! This brat..." Gu Lianxing felt her heart trembling. She had merely returned to her grandfather's hometown with him, only to discover a Divine Body! It was like digging up a lump of gold from the dirt!
"A Divine Body! An anomaly!" Gu Yue's expression changed!
Clatter!
The Talent Stone fell onto the table. Gu Shaoshang had interrupted the second anomaly that was about to unfold—Immortal King Descends Upon the Nine Heavens!
Huff!
Gu Shaoshang took a deep breath and calmed his pounding heart.
The Primordial Ancient Sacred Body possessed far more than one anomaly! If anomalies such as the Yin Yang Life and Death Diagram, Immortal King Descends Upon the Nine Heavens, and the Chaos Sprouts Golden Lotus all appeared, the consequences would probably be severe!
The golden light, the sea, and the bright moon all vanished.
The crowd fell silent for a long while before erupting into tremendous cheers!
Even if none of the clansmen knew just how powerful this physique was, its spectacle alone explained everything!
The crowd shouted as they surged onto the high platform, lifting Gu Shaoshang high into the air and tossing him up!
"This should all have been mine! Gu Shaoshang, I won't let you go!" Gu Shaoyou stood to one side with a gloomy face, roaring madly in his heart! Unwillingness and jealousy gnawed at his heart like venomous snakes.
"I won't accept this! Why don't I have a physique? Why am I only an ordinary Mortal Body?" Gu Shaoyou clenched his fists tightly.
"Yingzi... did you see that? Our son..." In a corner of the crowd, Gu Jiu watched Gu Shaoshang being tossed up and caught by the others. He raised his head to the sky, his eyes seeming to glisten with tears.
That afternoon, the Gu Family Village held another banquet. The normally frugal Gu Yu had exceptionally held a celebration feast for his daughter.
"Brother Jiu! Shaoshang really brought you glory this time!" A man raised his bowl of wine and drained it in one gulp.
"Good!" someone shouted loudly.
"Come on, Brother Jiu!"
"Drink!"
At the banquet, Gu Jiu was more radiant than ever before. The man who had not touched a drop of alcohol for years drank himself utterly drunk!
After seeing off the group of youths, Gu Shaoshang saw several men carrying his father back, the smell of alcohol wafting from him.
Gu Shaoshang opened the door. The men carried Gu Jiu onto the bed, then staggered away.
"Alcohol in this world is generally weak. How much did Father drink to end up like this?" Gu Shaoshang frowned as he took off Gu Jiu's clothes.
"Yingzi... I'm useless... I can't avenge you... I..." Gu Jiu muttered a few words, tears faintly visible in the corners of his eyes.
"Mother..." Gu Shaoshang trembled all over. Seeing that Gu Jiu had fallen asleep, he gave up on asking. If Gu Jiu would not say anything, there was no use asking.
He took out a Replenishing Pill and fed it to Gu Jiu, then returned to his room and lay down.
In the Mirror World, Gu Shaoshang opened his drastically changed status panel.
Gu Shaoshang (Mirror Master) Age: Eleven Innate Divine Ability: Tail-Feathered Mantis Shrimp! (Mutated Ninth-Rank Divine Ability) Bloodline: Primordial Ancient Sacred Body (Unawakened) Cultivation: Foundation Establishment, Second Stage, Tough Skin Like A Drum. Evaluation: Ordinary, Zero-Star Source Power: 5.8 points Techniques: Basic Fist and Foot Techniques (Level Eight), Basic Saber Technique (Level Five), Tiger Roar Fist (Level Three), Xingyi Quan (Level Five), Horse Stance (Level Three), Primordial Python Star Devourer Record (Level One) Items: One Hundred-Forged Long Saber Combat Power: Twenty-Nine
Gu Shaoshang looked at the status panel, and the joy he had been suppressing in his heart finally erupted!
The Tail-Feathered Mantis Shrimp was ferocious by nature and possessed exceptionally sharp vision. When attacking, the force exerted by its arms could reach 2,500 times its own body weight, with an acceleration rate of ten kilograms.
When attacking, it could launch the tip of its striking limb in one-fiftieth of a second. Its top speed exceeded eighty kilometers per hour, and its acceleration surpassed that of a 0.22-inch-caliber pistol bullet. It could produce up to sixty kilograms of impact force, while the instant high temperature generated by friction nearly reached the temperature of the sun's surface! Even steel would vaporize!
This mutated Ninth-Rank Divine Ability, named after it, brought him even greater joy than the Primordial Ancient Sacred Body!
Just imagine it: even a tiny shrimp could unleash such terrifying power! What kind of force could Gu Shaoshang, whose entire body possessed more than two thousand jin of strength, exert?
"Unfortunately, if not for the excessive backlash, it would certainly be an unrivaled Divine Ability!" Gu Shaoshang sighed inwardly. No one's body could withstand such terrifying amplification!
Innate Divine Ability: Tail-Feathered Mantis Shrimp (Mutated Ninth-Rank Divine Ability): Advantage: Can instantly unleash over one hundred and twenty times the strength of all the body's muscles. The acceleration of a punch can reach ten thousand times! Disadvantage: Even a human body forged from refined steel would turn into molten iron after throwing one punch! Using it means certain death! Use with caution!
"Unfortunately, even if someone possessed such a Divine Ability, who would dare use it? And its three-second activation time truly makes it a useless Divine Ability!" Gu Shaoshang muttered. In a Life and Death Struggle, one second was enough to kill someone ten times over. Who would give you three seconds to prepare?
Bathed in purple light, Gu Shaoshang suddenly burst into loud laughter!
Even Gu Shaoshang would not dare use a Divine Ability that guaranteed death upon use!
However, paired with the Myriad Heavens Projection Mirror, there was no Divine Ability more suitable for Gu Shaoshang! Under the purple light of the Mirror World, Gu Shaoshang possessed an immortal body!
"Within the Myriad Heavens Projection Mirror, all projections! I can kill them all! Perhaps one day, I can even evolve this Divine Ability into a fist technique..." Gu Shaoshang sat cross-legged on the Stone Platform, and the countless distracting thoughts in his mind gradually faded away.
Huff.
Gu Shaoshang let out a long breath and rose to his feet.
"Challenge Gu Ji!"
A flash of purple light passed by, and space slowly unfolded like folded paper being pulled open.
Gu Shaoshang's vision blurred, and the familiar houses and furnishings of the Gu Family Village appeared before his eyes.
The familiar crossroads, the familiar bluestone pavement, and the burly man walking ahead—Gu Ji!
It was precisely the time and place where Gu Ji had beaten him into vomiting blood with a single punch!
Gu Shaoshang took a deep breath. Since activating the Projection Mirror, he had only challenged Gu Ji once—and had likewise been instantly defeated by a single punch!
"But this time, it's my turn to show my might!" Gu Shaoshang's gaze grew solemn.
"Gu Ji!" Gu Shaoshang slowly clenched his fist!
Roar!
As his tendons and bones rang out like a tiger's roar, Gu Ji pounced like a fierce tiger descending the mountain!
A foul wind struck his face. Gu Shaoshang's long hair flew backward, and his clothes rustled loudly!
His body suddenly retreated half a step. Then, with an imposing air, his front foot advanced another half-step. He exhaled sharply, and every hair on his body stood on end as he explosively exerted his strength. He threw a punch!
It was the fiercest move in Xingyi Quan—Half-Step Collapsing Fist!
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