Martial Art: Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique (Minor Accomplishment) Experience: 23,421 points Realm: Dao Foundation Novice Lifespan: 380 years
After shouting, Chen Xian swiftly glanced over the panel.
"Upgrade!"
After three thousand months of diligent cultivation, your Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique has reached Major Accomplishment. Dao Foundation Novice, ten thousand drops of origin power, blood vitality soaring into the heavens.
As the panel's prompt appeared, the mingled aura of blood vitality and Origin Qi around Chen Xian instantly formed a gale of force that shot into the sky, rising five or six zhang high.
Ding Chen and the others had just rushed out of Seven Mile Mountain when they sensed the startling aura behind them. They all turned back, dumbstruck.
They had no idea what Chen Xian was doing, but the bloodflame Origin Qi surrounding him was truly terrifying.
Even from several hundred meters away, their hearts trembled in fear.
After ten thousand months of arduous cultivation, your Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique has reached Major Accomplishment. Dao Foundation Minor Accomplishment, origin power like a furnace, blood vitality like a pillar.
In an instant, Chen Xian discovered that the rotating Dao Foundation vortex within his Jade Sea was faintly taking the shape of a furnace. It revolved without cease, its Origin Qi more than ten times denser than before.
Origin power continuously emerged from the center of the vortex. It was no longer measured in drops, but pooled together outside the Dao Foundation, condensing into a furnace.
"Fifty cauldrons!"
Chen Xian clenched his fists, his heart surging with incomparable excitement.
At this moment, his entire body brimmed with boundless strength. He even felt that a single breath from him would be immensely powerful.
He urgently circulated the Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique. The soaring bloodflames around him formed a solid Ox Demon Body Refinement behind his back, black and crimson all over, with flowing gilded patterns coursing across its body.
"Ah!"
Unable to hold it in any longer, Chen Xian threw back his head and let out a low roar.
The Ox Demon phantom also raised its head and roared earth-shakingly, pinning the old horse beneath it so thoroughly that it could not move.
"Hmm?"
The Lesser Demon King charging toward him suddenly frowned. "With such blazing force, he is at least in the Dao Foundation Realm."
But how could there be a martial artist who had forged a foundation among the Cook Soldiers?
After ten thousand months of arduous cultivation, your Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique has reached Major Accomplishment. Dao Foundation Minor Accomplishment, origin power like a furnace, bloodflames like clouds. Experience: 421 points
Boom!
Along with the panel's prompt, Chen Xian's realm and strength surged once more.
His realm had not changed, but his strength had clearly increased by more than threefold. The rotating furnace within his Jade Sea became even more solid, no longer remaining in a vortex state.
This was the true forging of a Dao Foundation.
Feeling his body grow larger, his physical strength reach sixty-five cauldrons, surging Origin Qi roll like tides, origin power condense like a furnace, and blood vitality gather into clouds above his head, he was as powerful as the charging Demon Man.
"Truly the Dao Foundation Realm?"
The charging Lesser Demon King was full of shock, yet he did not care. Gripping his great saber, he rushed past and slashed at Chen Xian.
Chen Xian had no time to look at the panel. He leaped from horseback and met the Lesser Demon King head-on.
He did not know what kind of demon the latter was, but its aura was more than ten times stronger than that Demon Lord's had been.
Bang!
Terrifying Origin Qi collided with the Lesser Demon King's demonic aura. Chen Xian, originally brimming with confidence, discovered that he was not as formidable as he had imagined.
Not only did that strike fail to send the opponent flying, but Chen Xian himself could not hold out for even three breaths before the opponent's fiercely murderous great saber sent him flying.
Hmm?
Chen Xian was a little dazed!
He was now at Dao Foundation Minor Accomplishment, with physical strength of sixty-five cauldrons. He could have absolutely slain that previous Demon Lord with a single slash.
Yet against this demon, he was actually no match?
Having gained the upper hand with one strike, the Lesser Demon King snorted coldly. "So it was you!"
Only after drawing close could he clearly sense that Chen Xian's aura was identical to the aura lingering in the camp.
In other words, the person who had killed the Demon Lord of his clan was the young Cook Soldier before him.
Of course, judging by the young man's strength, the Lesser Demon King certainly did not believe that he was truly a Cook Soldier.
As far as he knew, the cooks within Demon-Slaying Pass were the trash among human martial artists, not even qualified to enter the battlefield.
"Blood Moon Ten Consecutive Slashes!" The Lesser Demon King gripped his great saber tightly, once more erupting with scarlet demonic aura as he slashed toward Chen Xian.
One slash after another.
By the fifth slash, the armor on Chen Xian's body was already about to crack.
He was greatly shocked. He used origin power to protect his armor, barely preventing the opponent's terrifying saber aura from shattering it.
Eight slashes, nine slashes...
Each slash was stronger than the last, forcing Chen Xian back again and again.
When he blocked the tenth slash, he had already retreated over a hundred meters.
The final slash sent him flying another dozen meters. He crashed to the ground, his internal organs churning, sweetness rising in his throat, only for him to force it back down.
"Chen Xian...!"
Ding Chen and the others cried out urgently from afar.
Chen Xian had no mind to spare for them. He had never expected that, despite being at Dao Foundation Minor Accomplishment, with origin power like a furnace, bloodflames like clouds, and an incomparably mighty Ox Demon Body Refinement behind him, he still could not withstand the Lesser Demon King's ten consecutive slashes.
Clearly, this demon was stronger than him. Killing it would not be a loss.
The problem was that he had no Experience Points left to upgrade his martial art.
No...
I still have my lifespan!
Chen Xian swiftly summoned the panel and glanced over it.
Lifespan: 420 years
"Sacrifice it!"
Watching the Lesser Demon King raise his saber and charge at him again, Chen Xian gritted his teeth and sacrificed one hundred years.
You have sacrificed one hundred years of lifespan to upgrade the martial art Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique. Technique at Completion, origin power like a blazing furnace, Dao Foundation Major Accomplishment. Realm: Dao Foundation Major Accomplishment Lifespan: 320 years
Chen Xian froze slightly. He remembered that when he had first sacrificed lifespan, he had needed to sacrifice fifty-one years just to reach Body Refinement Completion.
He was now in the Dao Foundation Realm. Even if he raised only a minor realm, would one hundred years not be too little?
Could it be that as his cultivation realm rose, his lifespan had become more precious as well?
"Sacrifice another hundred years!"
For safety, and to verify the thought in his heart, Chen Xian once again sacrificed one hundred years of lifespan.
You have sacrificed one hundred years of lifespan to upgrade the martial art Ox Demon Golden Flame Technique. Technique at Completion, Dao Foundation like a heaven-and-earth furnace, origin power overflowing, bloodflames forming clouds, Dao Foundation Perfection. Realm: Dao Foundation Perfection Lifespan: 220 years
Boom!
An incomparably powerful surge of origin power and bloodflames erupted from Chen Xian's body, its terrifying force blasting the Lesser Demon King, who had just charged over, backward.
"He got stronger?"
The Lesser Demon King was startled. Chen Xian had not been his match moments ago, so how had his origin power suddenly become as vast as a long river after taking ten consecutive slashes?
"The strength of a hundred cauldrons!"
Chen Xian rose stiffly from the ground and swung the long spear in his hand. The Ox Demon Body Refinement behind him let out an earth-shaking roar.
The next moment, he thrust his spear and charged toward the Lesser Demon King.
A trace of madness flashed through the Lesser Demon King's eyes. He believed Chen Xian had swallowed some pill that explosively increased strength. He knew such pills could not last long.
Once the medicinal effect faded, Chen Xian's cultivation and strength would not only plummet, but it would also become extremely difficult for him to recover in the future.
He only needed to endure until the medicine's effect passed, then he could kill Chen Xian.
Otherwise, there would be another fierce general before Demon-Slaying Pass, greatly hindering the Demon Race's efforts to breach the pass.
The Lesser Demon King began defending with all his might, but how could he have known that Chen Xian had truly reached Dao Foundation Perfection, more than ten times stronger than him?
He could not hold on for even one breath before Chen Xian's spear blasted him a hundred meters away, leaving his chest a mangled mess of blood and flesh.
Run!
The Lesser Demon King flipped himself upright and, without the slightest hesitation, turned and fled toward Blood River Forest.
"Young Wolf King, do not flee!"
At that moment, a thunderous roar came from the northeast.
The Young Wolf King turned his head for a look, his pupils suddenly contracting. "Pei Menglong?"
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