Furnace Refines Great Pill (4)

Furnace Refines Great Pill (4)

"Hiss!!!"

A crescent-shaped wave of air tore through rubble and dust.

The enraged purple Thousand Jun Ant King leaped out from beneath the fallen rocks burying it. Its speed surged to the point where even Soul Sages like Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Shao Xin could see only an afterimage.

Target?

Could not be locked on!

Path?

Could not be locked on!

Method of attack?

Still fucking impossible to lock on!

Only Titled Douluo like Yue Guan, Guimei, and Dugu Bo, along with Soul Douluo such as Liu Erlong, Shui Feng, Huo Lie, and Feng Wuji, could see it clearly.

Then...

"Crack!!!"

Strands of electric arcs danced over Ye Qingcang's body.

They crackled like an eagle's cry upon touching the air.

Compared to the Thousand Jun Ant King, whose speed was too fast to see, Ye Qingcang's movements were visible to everyone—because he did not move at all!

His fingers came together like a sword, lightning gathering at their tips!

With a flip of his palm, his lightning-wreathed fingers seemed to truly become a sharp sword. Xie Yue, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and the others were stabbed into streaming tears. Even from far away, even merely watching, it felt as though a lightning-wreathed sword had pierced their eyes!

"Lightning can increase reaction speed."

"If you encounter an opponent so fast that you cannot react, you can use lightning to activate your body. The drawback is that it kills some of the cells in your body, but once those cells develop resistance, that drawback is practically nonexistent."

The outer leg that could cleave apart a mountain collided with his lightning-wreathed fingers!

The purple Thousand Jun Ant King had no choice but to halt its charge!

Because two lightning-wreathed fingers had stopped it!

They pressed against the front of its sharpest, sturdiest outer leg!

An outer leg capable of slicing through a mountain could not harm two slender fingers. Through their tear-blurred vision, Xie Yue, Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wushuang, and the others witnessed this breathtaking scene!

Even Titled Douluo like Yue Guan and Guimei were filled with astonishment!

Yet unlike the Thousand Jun Ant King, which was locked in a contest of strength, the ant king had truly gone all out, while Ye Qingcang still had the spare capacity to speak. "An ordinary human's reaction speed is around three hundred milliseconds. A specially trained human can react in one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty milliseconds. The limit for an ordinary human is one hundred milliseconds. But if you activate your body with lightning, your reaction speed can be reduced to fifty milliseconds. One minute is sixty seconds, one second is one thousand milliseconds—infinitely close to an instant..."

His fingertips curled slightly before flicking outward.

As though he were flicking a marble.

The force, compressed to its limit before erupting in an instant, actually produced a spreading wave of air at the point where his fingertips met the outer leg!

The unfortunate purple Thousand Jun Ant had just crawled out from the pile of rubble. Less than three seconds later, it became an afterimage again and smashed back into that very pile!

The rock fragments crushed by its body were as powerful as metal shrapnel from a grenade blast. Even from hundreds of meters away, the scattered debris carried immense impact force. Even Yan, confident in his astonishing defense, cut his hand when he boldly tried to catch a flying stone!

"Hiss!!!"

The purple Thousand Jun Ant King, sent flying twice, let out an unwilling roar.

It was loud, but it could not drown out Ye Qingcang's calm explanation:

"The first seven chapters of Stellar Martial Path have been perfected."

"In theory, they can grant a practitioner of Stellar Martial Path a speed of thirty-six meters per second and eighteen thousand kilograms of strength—thirty-six thousand jin."

"But that is merely the first completion."

"Before awakening my martial soul, before level ten, I perfected the first seven chapters of Stellar Martial Path. That was my first completion. After awakening my martial soul and obtaining a soul ring, at level eleven, I cultivated Stellar Martial Path again and perfected it once more. My foundation increased by doubling."

"I defined this concept as sublimation."

"And from there, I derived the concept of repeated sublimation."

"Base: thirty-six meters per second, eighteen thousand kilograms of strength."

"First sublimation: seventy-two meters per second, thirty-six thousand kilograms of strength."

"Second sublimation: one hundred and forty-four meters per second, seventy-two thousand kilograms of strength."

"Third sublimation: two hundred and eighty-eight meters per second, one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms of strength."

"The speed of sound is approximately three hundred and forty meters per second."

"The fourth sublimation can reach it."

"The combined strength of three Thousand Jun Ant Kings can reach around two hundred thousand jin. Converted, that is roughly one hundred thousand kilograms. Even if they attack together, one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms of strength is enough to crush one hundred thousand kilograms."

"This is why I recommend that every student cultivate Stellar Martial Path to the limit whenever possible. Even if you do not pursue those additional traits and seek only strength, you should still establish a solid foundation for yourself, so that your second, third, fourth, and countless later sublimations can reach their theoretical limits."

"The sublimation gained by perfecting the Qi and Blood Chapter is worlds apart from the sublimation gained by perfecting all seven of the first chapters. One can possess one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms of strength—nearly three hundred thousand jin—after three sublimations. The other may have only tens of thousands of jin after three sublimations."

"When your speed reaches a certain level."

"When your strength reaches a certain level."

"When your body can control that speed and strength."

"Every punch and kick you make will inflict astonishing damage through seemingly plain attacks. If your speed reaches the speed of light, any charge built up with momentum will be no less devastating than an asteroid impact."

Yue Guan, Guimei, Dugu Bo, and the others did not understand what an asteroid impact was.

But they understood numbers.

What did one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms of strength mean?

Dugu Bo's strength was only around ten thousand kilograms.

Yue Guan and Guimei were somewhat better.

But neither exceeded twenty thousand kilograms of strength.

The Sea God Trident, weighing one hundred and eight thousand jin, could crush Bo Saixi, a level ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo. That showed an Ultimate Douluo's strength was only around fifty-four thousand kilograms, at most no more than sixty thousand kilograms.

Though that was related to the areas in which soul masters specialized.

Ye Qingcang had fought Tang Chen.

Tang Chen possessed one hundred thousand kilograms of strength.

If the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King had not been fighting Tang Chen for control of his body, Tang Chen, using the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation, truly could have killed Ye Qingcang with a single blow.

But in terms of normal strength alone, he was still far inferior.

Not to mention that Ye Qingcang also had Magnetic Field Martial Path.

If humans like Yue Guan and Guimei could understand, then the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings could understand as well. Though their grasp of strength was even poorer than Yue Guan's group—at least Yue Guan and the others knew how heavy one jin was, while they could not comprehend what one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms meant—that did not stop them from surrounding Ye Qingcang!

Surrounding the human whose strength was no weaker than theirs!

One against one and one against three were entirely different concepts.

This was not mathematics, where one minus one equaled zero and three minus one equaled two.

One against one, you might be able to kill the other party.

One against two, you might be able to take one down with you.

But one against three, you could not even take one down with you.

It was like fighting with bayonets on a battlefield.

You had one blade; they had three.

The target you charged only needed to focus on defending.

The other two would handle killing you.

"And Magnetic Field Martial Path, as the middle chapter of Stellar Martial Path's three sections—first, middle, and last—holds its mysteries in controlling the power of heaven and earth..."

Surrounded by the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings, Ye Qingcang slowly closed his eyes!

He threw a punch forward!

A towering snowy mountain came rushing toward him!

Fist Intent like an avalanche sent the crimson Thousand Jun Ant King flying. It pierced through the air into weathered stone caverns, smashing through three caverns each over a hundred meters wide before its momentum finally ceased at the fourth cavern more than five hundred meters away!

Then, he twisted his body one hundred and eighty degrees!

If Xiao Wu was all soft bones, then what Ye Qingcang displayed now was bonelessness!

In a posture that defied human anatomy, he went from facing away from the purple and green Thousand Jun Ants to keeping his lower body still while turning his upper body toward them. It was a posture that did not look human at all!

His fist became a palm!

One slap struck the purple Thousand Jun Ant on the head!

One of its six large eyes instantly exploded!

"Hiss..." The spectators, including the three Titled Douluo Yue Guan, Guimei, and Dugu Bo, watched the Thousand Jun Ant King that had lost an eye and been sent flying hundreds of meters away. Its miserable condition required no further description, and they all felt phantom pain in their own faces.

Especially Dugu Bo.

He immediately recalled the agonizing experience of being dragged around by Ye Qingcang more than half a month ago.

However, with the purple Thousand Jun Ant King blocking the blow, when Ye Qingcang's slap continued downward toward the green Thousand Jun Ant King closest to one hundred thousand years old, the ant king opened its jaws and bit down on his hand!

Ant acid dripped onto Ye Qingcang's hand, burning white smoke from his Gang Qi!

But before Yue Guan's group could attempt a rescue, before they could even cry out, they saw Ye Qingcang pull his hand free and shake it... flicking away both the ant acid and the Gang Qi stained by it. His palm was completely unharmed!

Then he reapplied Gang Qi and crushed one of the Thousand Jun Ant King's six eyes with a single finger!

Grabbing the empty hole, he twisted at the waist and dragged the Thousand Jun Ant King back in front of him. Even though its six outer legs carved six deep furrows into the ground, it could not withstand Ye Qingcang's one hundred and forty-four thousand kilograms of strength!

Driven mad by pain!

Its six outer legs were like six spears!

It completely abandoned defense and stabbed toward Ye Qingcang's body in a life-for-life attack!

They pierced through his highly defensive cloak!

They pierced through the school uniform beneath it!

But they did not pierce Ye Qingcang's flesh!

It was like wooden blades striking cowhide!

Six small dents were visible, but they simply could not break through his defense!

Ye Qingcang raised his leg and delivered an inhumanly brutal kick to its abdominal sac. Unlike the small sonic boom cloud from before, this kick contained all of Ye Qingcang's strength and force. With one kick, a massive ring of sonic boom clouds exploded outward!

Everyone's ears buzzed.

More miserable still was the Thousand Jun Ant King kicked flying away.

A remarkably distinct shoeprint had appeared on its abdominal sac.

Even with a Thousand Jun Ant King's defense, that kick had sent its Five Viscera and Six Bowels into chaos, gravely injuring its vitality and scattering seventy percent of its strength.

And even more miserable than that Thousand Jun Ant King was the crimson Thousand Jun Ant.

Ye Qingcang had sent it flying with one punch.

The entire ant... before it could even recover from the avalanche-like Fist Intent, was forced to catch a brother flying at subsonic speed.

The stack was pressed down once more.

This savage scene, so inhuman it seemed impossible, left Yue Guan and the others with extremely complicated expressions. Those who knew could be certain Ye Qingcang was human. In less than five seconds, he had shattered the eyes of two Thousand Jun Ant Kings with his fists and beaten the third Thousand Jun Ant into doubting its life. Those who did not know might have thought Ye Qingcang was the Thousand Jun Ant, using his fists to send three humans shaped like Thousand Jun Ants flying in less than five seconds!

What were the Thousand Jun Ants known for?

Great strength!

Thick hides and tough flesh!

What was Ye Qingcang known for?

Greater strength than a Thousand Jun Ant!

Stronger defense than a Thousand Jun Ant!

Therefore, Ye Qingcang's strength ＞ Thousand Jun Ant's strength, Ye Qingcang's defense ＞ Thousand Jun Ant's defense. Conclusion: Ye Qingcang ＝ humanoid Thousand Jun Ant!

If they had not known Ye Qingcang was a God Trial Taker, Yue Guan and Guimei might even have suspected that he was some hundred-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Emperor in human form.

To slap three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Kings around like a father beating his sons—let alone in human history, even in the history of soul beasts or plants, was this not unprecedented?

Others did not know you were a God Trial Taker.

But the two of us knew.

Yet even knowing that you were a God Trial Taker, we never expected you to be this kind of God Trial Taker. Even Bibi Dong had not displayed such absurdity at your age. At level forty, you were crushing three ninety-thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Kings!

Most terrifying of all: you had not even summoned your martial soul!

What was this supposed to mean?

Were you planning to use Stellar Martial Path to sweep through the world?

Now that you knew you were comparable to a Titled Douluo, you were not even bothering to hide it anymore, were you?

You had remained unknown before because you believed your strength was insufficient to sweep through the world?

And now that you thought it was enough, you were laying your cards on the table?

The question was, where did you get that confidence?

What made you think you could defeat a Titled Douluo?

Yue Guan and Guimei exchanged a knowing glance, then both looked at Dugu Bo, who was inexplicably relieved and did not seem to know what he was relieved about. They seemed to have found their answer.

And several hundred meters away, upon ground that looked as though it had been plowed by two tyrannosaurs, Ye Qingcang truly entered the state of Magnetic Field Martial Path!

"Roar!!!"

"Clang!!!"

"Roar!!!"

"Bellow!!!"

Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise.

The Four Symbols roared, the Four Spirits circled around him.

Tendons and Bones Resonance rang out as yin and yang, the eight trigrams, and the five elements revolved.

Across a thousand li of ground, dust billowed in all directions.

His Primordial Spirit manifested and merged with his body, divine light filling his eyes and soaring into the heavens.

His short hair fell to his shoulders, then to his waist.

His entire body was enveloped in a shifting, multicolored divine radiance.

Even his voice changed slightly.

Every word and action seemed to embody the supreme truth of heaven and earth.

"Magnetic Field Martial Path, command heaven and earth."

"Merge with the heavens, blend with the earth, stand between heaven and earth."

"Based on one's control over magnetic fields, one can transform oneself into the magnetic field within one's range of control. Beyond that, one can also employ spiritual power to control everything within the magnetic field."

"Metal, wood, water, fire, earth..."

"Light, darkness, wind, ice, lightning..."

"Gravity, buoyancy, attraction and repulsion..."

"Even space and time..."

"All fall under the wielder's control!"

"One's physical capabilities can also receive corresponding enhancements!"

"After completing my third ascension, my speed was 288 meters per second, and my strength was 144,000 kilograms. After the Magnetic Field Martial Path's second amplification, the current boost is fivefold. My speed can reach 1,440 meters per second, and my strength is 720,000 kilograms—equivalent to 1.44 million jin."

"And the upper limit of this amplification will rise endlessly along with the wielder's control. I could even draw upon the power of the entire continent, or even the whole planet, gathering it upon myself. Every strike would possess the power to shatter a planet."

Ye Qingcang, moving at over Mach 4, calmly explained just how close he was to being invincible in this world.

Behind him stood a group of people staring wide-eyed with fervent expressions, including Titled Douluo such as Yue Guan.

Thanks to Fishing Alone by the River for the reward of one hundred points.