First Revolution of the Golden Body Art (Middle Stage)

Gao Fei paid no attention to anything else. With more than three hundred Merit Points, plus the Beast Core,

there was no way he could let the Cat Demon escape.

While Magistrate Xue tangled with it, he quickly caught up and grabbed its tail.

He turned, bent his thighs slightly, and sank his spiritual power.

Dust on the ground was blown flying in all directions.

With an over-the-shoulder throw, he slammed it viciously into the ground.

Gao Fei did not release the tail. He kept dragging it the other way and kept throwing it.

After several times, he still had not heard the system notification.

Before slamming it into the ground again, he yanked hard, pulling its head before him.

With a full-force Dark Force strike, the Cat Demon, dazed from the throws, had completely lost its ability to resist. It could only watch helplessly as the fist grew larger and larger.

The Cat Demon was fast and quick to react, but among those of the same realm, once caught, it could not run.

System notification: Merit Points +289

Remaining Merit Points: 4635

Gao Fei glanced at the notification. This Cat Demon was a little better than Yellow Great Immortal, not quite as wicked.

He put away his spear, dug out the Demon Core, and looked toward the battle between the Fox Demon and Li Jie.

Li Qingyao could not be of much help. Li Jie was still at a disadvantage.

"Magistrate, go help them. I'll keep cleaning up the Minor Monsters."

After saying that, Gao Fei charged once more toward the monsters in the Early Spirit-Absorption Realm, but his dream of going on a killing spree was extinguished.

The monsters scattered and fled. Gao Fei only managed to catch two.

There were no more monsters in sight. His physical strength should now be at the Peak Spirit-Absorption Realm, but it was still a little short.

He took out the two Spirit-Absorption Realm, Perfected Demon Cores he had just obtained.

System: Add one thousand Merit Points to the Golden Body Art.

In the first year, you adjusted your entire body to its optimal state and began tempering it. Your physical body grew stronger.

In the five-hundredth year, you sensed a bottleneck and increased the frequency of the Transforming Force vibrations tempering your entire body.

In the nine-hundredth year, you finally pierced through the bottleneck. The First Revolution of your Golden Body Art entered the middle stage, greatly increasing your physical strength, reaction speed, and power.

You tested it. Your physical body should now be comparable to the Early Jade-Liquid Realm.

In the thousandth year, your strength increased.

The two Demon Cores in his hands had lost most of their luster and were about to turn to stone again.

This body-tempering art really had a huge appetite. Looking at the remaining three Spirit-Absorption Realm, Early Stage Demon Cores, then at the Fox Demon still fighting one against three in the distance, Gao Fei hardened his heart.

"Let's just count today as a loss. System, add two thousand Merit Points to the Golden Body Art."

In the first year, your physical strength increased.

In the fifteen-hundredth year, your physical strength increased. The Beast Cores' spiritual energy was exhausted, and the spiritual energy absorbed by your body from the outside world could not sustain the consumption. Progress began to slow.

For two thousand years, his physical body had continuously grown stronger. He felt vastly more powerful, but he would need to test exactly how much.

He circled around and approached the Fox Demon from the side, preparing to launch a sneak attack.

The air beside his palm began to warp from a peculiar vibration.

The surrounding monsters were either dead or fleeing. The Fox Demon was in no hurry and even wore a smile.

"Enough. I'm done sparring with you. I never expected such a remote place to produce a genius like you. You should be satisfied that you could fight me for so long at the same realm."

As she spoke, the Fox Demon leaped onto a tree, stepped onto a branch, and turned toward Gao Fei's direction. Her smile vanished.

"Come out. Sneak attacks are useless against me. I've already developed divine sense."

"Do you have a twin brother, one who also has a Pure Yang Constitution?"

Gao Fei awkwardly patted dust that was not on him and walked out, lying without so much as a blush.

"Yes, but my older brother hasn't appeared for a long time. Have you seen him?"

The Fox Demon's eyes were filled with killing intent, so intense that even her smile could not conceal it.

"He's dead, just like my father and elder brother. You owe me a life. When will you repay it, so I can come collect?"

The sun was setting, hanging upon the treetops. The Fox Demon's beautiful figure stood on the branch, swaying gently with the wind, her long swords standing at either side.

If she had not been a monster who wanted to kill him, Gao Fei would not have minded admiring this beautiful painting a while longer.

"My life is staying with me. You can't take it."

"I'd like to try!"

As she spoke, the Fox Demon pointed with her hand. The two magical artifacts split apart, one shooting straight for Gao Fei's head, the other attacking Li Qingyao.

"Dividing her attention in two!"

Li Jie's voice rang out. With a clang, a shield blocked Li Qingyao.

Holding a longsword, he rushed swiftly toward the Fox Demon, intending to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao.

Who would have thought that another longsword appeared in the Fox Demon's hand?

"This humble one divides her attention in three. Otherwise, why would the Shangqiu Fox Clan make an exception and accept me into their ranks?"

"Don't worry, I understand the ways of the world too. Go back and tell your master that I'm merely cultivating a Jade-Liquid Realm subordinate. Once I succeed, I'll soon leave with my family. I pose no threat."

At this moment, human and demon were locked in close combat, yet the Fox Demon still had the spare attention to speak.

The shield protecting Li Qingyao was within Gao Fei's expectations. He had not counted on anyone else saving him anyway.

His spear danced, spiritual light flowing over it.

One strike sent the incoming magical artifact flying. The longsword flew far away to gather force, then swung back to stab at Gao Fei. When that strike failed, it immediately flew away again.

Its flight path was not complicated. It seemed she was still unskilled at dividing her attention in three.

"Clang, clang, clang...!"

After more than a dozen collisions, Gao Fei seized an opening. His spear came down like Mount Tai Crashes Down, smashing the flying magical sword viciously into the ground and leaving a sword-shaped crater there.

Just as Gao Fei began gathering power in his palm, preparing to destroy the sword, the sword attacking Li Qingyao in the distance shot toward him at terrifying speed.

The sword smashed into the ground did not fly back up. With the Fox Demon controlling only one flying sword, it became extremely nimble.

He did not want to be stabbed, so if he could dodge, he would dodge.

This was not how one tested one's defenses. If his defense proved insufficient and he got pierced through by a sword, then he would truly die with everlasting regret.

The flying sword he had knocked away was as clumsy as a child who had only just learned to walk. This one, however, moved like a grown adult walking, completely at will.

Gao Fei felt somewhat frustrated.

This is martial arts! How did it turn into a cultivator controlling swords?

But when he remembered that this was a cultivation art created by immortals, he understood.

Still, the flying sword's attacking force was lacking. It seemed a little too flashy.

Yet when he saw Magistrate Xue get cleaved away by the flying sword that had just risen from the ground before he could even rush before the Fox Demon,

Gao Fei understood. It was not that the magical artifact flying swords were weak; it was simply that Gao Fei had improved too quickly.

He looked toward the Fox Demon. The two were still locked in close combat, while the shield remained not far from Li Qingyao.

Gao Fei shook his head and began retreating. He wanted to test the range at which she could control the magical artifact flying sword.

Thirty meters, sixty meters.

Once he had retreated beyond sixty meters, the magical artifact flying sword stopped pursuing him.

From the moment her magical artifact flying sword's first attack had been blocked, the Fox Demon had begun taking Gao Fei seriously.

Her magical artifacts had been made in Shangqiu. Their power dropped when she divided her attention in three, and her skill was not yet sufficient, but they were still not something a Middle Spirit-Absorption Realm cultivator could block.

Especially after she focused on controlling a single flying sword, even a Middle Jade-Fluid Realm cultivator would find it hard to withstand.

Yet he had actually forced it back beyond sixty meters.

She hated it. She hated her own carelessness.

One had been destroyed from the very beginning, greatly reducing their power.

At thirty meters, her control over the magical artifacts weakened again. If it rushed beyond sixty meters, the slightest lapse in attention could let that brat destroy the magical sword.

These three swords were a set of magical artifacts she had forged at great expense. Controlling them together had once been as easy as moving her fingers.

Now that one was gone, she was like a four-legged beast with one leg broken—she limped even when walking. It was already good enough that she could still fight.