Extreme Reaction

At this moment, Zhong Yue could not sense anything. All his senses were sealed, even the pores of his skin were tightly shut, with not a trace of spiritual power leaking out, nor his physical strength, and his soul was more stable than ever before!

The Inner Demon born from his leap was completely refined, allowing him to enter an unprecedented state of mystique.

Time seemed to stand still, and yet it also felt infinitely long, stretching to the ends of the earth.

This was the space between life and death. After immense terror and dread, came unprecedented tranquility, unprecedented concentration of spiritual power, and unprecedented super-limit reactions!

The so-called limit reaction was the miraculous feeling formed by the high-frequency operation of every organ in his body, every trace of his spirit, and his soul, at extreme speeds.

Imagine, if at a certain moment, the speed at which your eyes captured moving objects was ten times that of an ordinary person, you would see the moving objects as if they were moving ten times slower than usual.

If at a certain moment, your thoughts were ten times faster than usual, you would feel time slowing down!

And if your body, spirit, and soul all entered a state of limit reaction, if you wanted to exert force, you could unleash power far exceeding normal times, and if your spirit wanted to release, your spirit would become unprecedentedly powerful!

If you wanted to cultivate, your cultivation speed would also be incredibly swift!

Zhong Yue's body was constantly absorbing the medicinal power from the three Feather Spirit Pills, and the medicinal power was still frantically converting into his spirit, nourishing his soul, making the Suihuang formed by his soul become taller and more majestic!

This speed of absorbing medicinal power and converting it into cultivation was something he had never even dared to imagine before.

And now, it had become a reality!

After leaping from the cliff, Zhong Yue had no sense of how long had passed. Under this super-reaction state, his reactions were extremely fast, and time had become too slow for him.

After an unknown period, Xin Huo's voice suddenly came, "Explode—"

Zhong Yue awoke, opening his eyes. The limit reaction was about to disappear. He saw that his falling speed was already unimaginably fast, and he was about to hit the bottom of the cliff!

Falling off the cliff at this speed, even if he had wings, he would absolutely be smashed to pieces!

Whoosh—

The moment he opened his eyes, he had already fallen to just above the treetops at the bottom of the cliff. Patches of pine forest stood tall, with towering trees reaching over thirty meters high. This distance of over thirty meters was covered in an instant. It was likely that in the blink of an eye, he would hit the ground and be utterly crushed!

Xin Huo's voice could not help but reveal tension as he shouted, "Quick! Unleash all your physical strength, spirit, and soul power in an instant, burst forth violently, or you will surely die!"

"Dragon Coiling Technique!"

Zhong Yue roared. A piercing crackling sound was heard, and thunder surged, instantly condensing into a coiling Flood Dragon around him, baring its fangs and claws, incredibly ferocious!

"Visualize Suihuang!"

"Ride the Thunder Across the Sky!"

Zhong Yue's roar mixed with the dragon's roar and the sound of thunder. The coiling Flood Dragon shifted and transformed, its soul egressed, becoming a hundred-zhang Suihuang, amplifying the Flood Dragon's power. At this moment, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled in the forest at the bottom of the cliff. Trees toppled with a roar. It seemed as if a Flood Dragon entwined with lightning was rampaging through the forest!

Where the Flood Dragon passed, mountains crumbled and the forest was flattened.

Boom!

Zhong Yue, with his Dragon Coiling Technique and Ride the Thunder Across the Sky, moved a hundred zhang in an instant and crashed to the ground.

Mud and scattered rocks flew everywhere, creating a large pit. Zhong Yue knelt on one knee, supporting himself with his hands. Crackling lightning seeped from his body's surface into the ground, scorching the earth black.

"I'm alive..."

Zhong Yue stood up. Suddenly, his vision blurred, and every part of his body ached intensely. His spiritual power vibrated, as if it would tear him apart. His soul also felt as if it would explode. His body involuntarily swayed, as if he were about to faint.

And within him, the medicinal power of the three Feather Spirit Pills had been completely consumed in this short moment. He even felt his body was empty, his excited spirit and soul were draining his body's energy!

In this final explosive moment, he had unleashed almost all of his physical strength, spirit, and soul power!

"Take another three Feather Spirit Pills!"

Xin Huo's voice came, "Your spirit is unprecedentedly excited right now, making your body unable to bear the burden. You need Feather Spirit Pills to replenish your energy, otherwise, your body will be hollowed out in a short moment, and then you will die."

Zhong Yue immediately took out three Feather Spirit Pills and swallowed them. He had also heard of such situations from Xin Huo. He had heard that when women in tribes carried their children, if their houses collapsed during an earthquake and a heavy beam weighing a thousand catties was about to crush the child, the mother could cross a distance in one step and lift the thousand-catties beam to save the child!

The child was unharmed, but after lifting the beam, the mother died soon after, with no visible injuries on her body. It was likely that the maternal instinct had triggered a limit reaction, and her body was hollowed out. Without the replenishment of spirit medicines like Feather Spirit Pills, she had exhausted her energy and died.

His current situation was similar to that. Fortunately, he had enough Feather Spirit Pills to replenish his body's consumption.

As the Feather Spirit Pills entered his stomach, he immediately felt their abundant energy rapidly replenishing his physical strength, nourishing his spirit and soul. His Sea of Consciousness was growing and expanding wildly!

By the time the medicinal power of these three Feather Spirit Pills was depleted, his Sea of Consciousness had grown to an area of one hundred mu, and his spiritual power had nearly doubled!

"How much time has passed, and my spiritual power has grown so much?"

Zhong Yue was stunned. From his jump off the cliff until now, it had only taken about the time it takes for one stick of incense to burn. He had consumed six Feather Spirit Pills, and his spiritual power had nearly doubled!

"If I continue to consume at this rate, perhaps over nine hundred Feather Spirit Pills will only last for about a month..."

He had originally thought that over nine hundred Feather Spirit Pills were an immense fortune. Now, it seemed he was still too naive. Under Xin Huo's brutal cultivation method, even more Feather Spirit Pills would probably not be enough!

"Now, climb up from the bottom of the cliff, and then jump again."

Xin Huo said gravely, "Your body is not broken, and you weren't injured. So this time, you need to take six Feather Spirit Pills. Also, this time you will carry a large stone when you jump off the cliff. Yes, this stone. Carry this stone up the cliff, and then carry it down."

Zhong Yue stared blankly at the rock in front of him. This rock weighed at least a thousand catties, and it was even bigger than him!

Let alone carrying this stone and jumping off the cliff, even climbing this steep cliff would be an incredibly difficult task.

"Little Yue, jumping off the cliff is to train your explosive power, while climbing the cliff is to train your control. You will carry the stone and visualize the Flood Dragon. Let the dragon's claws grip the cliff and climb upwards. Controlling the strength of the dragon's claws and the coordination between the dragon's body and your own will help you master every bit of your strength."

Zhong Yue nodded. Immediately, his spiritual power moved, transforming into a Flood Dragon. This time, his visualization of the Flood Dragon was much faster than before, and his reaction speed was quicker.

With the Dragon Coiling Technique, Zhong Yue picked up the stone and came to the foot of the cliff. Looking up, the clouds were deep, the cliff was high, and the top was not visible.

Crack, the dragon claws dug into the cliff face, and with a slight exertion of force, the stones crumbled. Zhong Yue frowned slightly, "Xin Huo wasn't wrong. My control is indeed lacking now; I have no sense of coordination. Only with the visualized Flood Dragon can I make it exert force wherever I want, and as hard as I want. That's what it means to truly control one's own power."

He calmed himself and carefully sensed and pondered the flow of power when the Flood Dragon coiled around him. After a long while, Zhong Yue moved again, carrying a thousand-jin stone and visualizing the Flood Dragon as he climbed towards the summit.

The Flood Dragon wrapped around his body, its claws gripping the cliff face. Under Zhong Yue's control, he climbed upward step by step.

This climb was fraught with peril. A slight misstep could crush the rocks, and Zhong Yue encountered several dangerous situations, nearly falling from the mountainside.

Fortunately, the Flood Dragon had four claws, and the other three remained gripping the cliff, preventing him from falling, though it was still incredibly dangerous.

As he continued to climb, his control over the visualized Flood Dragon became more proficient, his mastery over its strength more subtle, and the dangerous situations became fewer. He was also getting closer to the summit.

At the Drinking Horse Platform on the summit, beasts in the mountains cried out. Arriving at the lake to drink, he saw a red-clothed girl with her clothes rolled up, her shoes off, her feet dangling in the lake, splashing bright droplets of water.

"Taotao, you think that Zhong Yue came here?"

A black-clothed girl walked on the water with light steps, approaching from across the lake. "Where is he?"

The red-clothed girl smiled brightly, her expression sunny. "I only saw him ascend the Drinking Horse Platform, but I didn't see where he hid. It's strange; this Drinking Horse Platform isn't big, where could he have gone?"

The black-clothed girl stopped, her eyebrows slightly furrowed. The water beneath her feet churned, revealing the back of a large fish. The fish's back alone was about forty to fifty feet long, a manifestation of Spiritual Power, forming a giant fish!

"Zhong Yue of the Men's Court, to actually take one of my Fish-Goose Twin Flight moves. He's a worthy opponent."

The black-clothed girl's expression was cold, and she said softly, "But he's too timid, hiding away like this. He has no manly spirit, which is despicable. Taotao, since he doesn't dare to show himself, let's go..."

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly looked towards the edge of the cliff. A ferocious and menacing dragon head emerged from below the cliff. The Flood Dragon extended its claws, gripping the edge of the cliff. Zhong Yue, with the Flood Dragon coiled around him, ascended the Drinking Horse Platform carrying the thousand-jin stone. He then set the stone aside, panting heavily.

The two girls looked at him. The young man was shirtless, sweat glistening on his body, flowing along the lines of his tensed muscles. Even while resting, he exuded a wild aura.

"The person we were looking for has arrived. Senior Sister, I'm not needed anymore, right?" the red-clothed girl said with a laugh like silver bells.

Zhong Yue followed the sound and saw the two girls, his eyes widening slightly. "These two senior sisters look familiar..."

The red-clothed girl chuckled. "Junior Brother Zhong, you saw me singing on the boat back then, not bathing naked."

"Junior Sister Tao, are you implying he saw me bathing?"

The black-clothed girl's expression turned displeased. "He only saw my shoulder at most, nothing else."

Zhong Yue's face darkened, and he thought, This is bad. "It's Yu Feiyan and Tao Daier from the Women's Court! How do they know I'm the one from that night? Right, Senior Sister Ting must have sold me out!"