Strength Frenzy Scroll!

At the thought, a flicker of pain crossed Elder Xu's face, along with... an even firmer resolve to kill Yang Yu!

He was an Earth Rank expert.

And with his high position in the Ghost Infant Sect, Elder Xu naturally had no shortage of money.

From time to time, wealthy merchants and dignitaries who knew about cultivators offered him tributes and bribes.

As these funds accumulated, his wealth had grown quite considerable... Most went toward his daily cultivation expenses, but Elder Xu had also used some of the rest to purchase treasures he could hold in reserve as his last resort!

Before accepting this mission and coming to deal with Yang Yu, Elder Xu had never imagined he would need to use his trump-card treasures.

But now...

Everything had changed.

The threat Yang Yu posed had exceeded Elder Xu's initial expectations. He no longer underestimated Yang Yu in the slightest.

He now treated him as a formidable enemy on his own level!

With his life hanging by a thread, the Cosmic Force inside Elder Xu erupted. He abruptly quickened his attacks, unleashing a terrifying barrage of palm strikes that forced back Yang Yu, who had been relentlessly engaging him at close quarters!

Driven back, Yang Yu snapped out of his epiphany in saber techniques, and his expression shifted slightly.

With a whoosh, he retreated over a hundred meters.

Gripping the Yama Battle Blade tightly, he watched Elder Xu warily as the yellow-robed man stood motionless in the distant wind and rain.

At that moment, for some reason, Yang Yu sensed a terrifying threat from Elder Xu, four or five times greater than before.

It was as though something terrifying was about to be unleashed.

And it would descend at any moment!

"Boy!"

Elder Xu looked at Yang Yu from afar and spoke coldly.

"You're impressive."

"With only a Human Tier cultivation level, you can fight me to a standstill... To be honest, I've even come to appreciate your talent."

"If you hadn't killed so many members of my Ghost Infant Sect that reconciliation was no longer possible, I would have done everything I could to beg the sect master to spare your life and give you a way out."

"What a shame."

"It's too late for any of that now. Today, only one of us will leave here alive."

"You're an opponent worthy of respect and serious consideration... So I'll use everything I have to send you to your grave!"

Elder Xu's voice echoed across the wilderness. At that moment, even the rain pouring from the sky was disrupted by the immense aura surrounding him and blown away, unable to come within twenty meters of him.

As he spoke, Elder Xu's aura climbed steadily.

By the time he finished his final sentence, an old parchment scroll spilling radiant light had appeared in his hand.

Black, red, and yellow light swirled around the scroll.

It looked like a magical item that belonged only in the West's most ancient tomes of magic...

At a single glance, Yang Yu's pupils reacted as though pricked by needles, and his eyes narrowed sharply.

The source of that powerful sense of danger and oppression... was precisely this radiant parchment scroll!

Once he saw it, he immediately confirmed his suspicions.

"A last-resort treasure?" Yang Yu's heart sank slightly. A treasure that an Earth Rank expert held in reserve as a trump card would surely possess unimaginably terrifying power.

Elder Xu smiled.

Yang Yu's expression left him feeling quite smug and satisfied.

"Boy!"

"Open your eyes and take a good look. This treasure was made by the renowned Western master of magic, the Heaven Tier archmage Suo'esi... It's called the Strength Frenzy Scroll!"

"Once unsealed, the magical source energy stored within it can increase an Earth Rank expert's physical strength more than threefold for half an hour—an enhancement across the board! This scroll is a life-saving treasure I've always kept in reserve."

"Today, I'll let you see it for yourself."

The Strength Frenzy Scroll.

Among the spells in the Western magical system that could be made into scrolls, it was quite famous!

That was because almost any cultivator below Earth Rank who trained their physical strength could use it... Its compatibility was extraordinary!

At the same time, the increase in strength it granted Earth Rank experts was also terrifying!

Once an Earth Rank expert activated a Strength Frenzy Scroll and received the enhancement of the Strength Frenzy Spell... they could even survive against a Heaven Tier expert for a short while!

Although their strength still fell short of Heaven Tier, it was enough to reign supreme among Earth Rank experts!

This scroll cost one hundred and thirty million!

A single scroll could be activated five times!

After those five uses, the magical source energy stored within it would be exhausted, and the scroll would turn to ash, destroyed completely.

Riiip—

Elder Xu tore open the parchment scroll in his hand.

A seal on the scroll's surface was immediately broken.

An unfathomably deep, vast surge of magical source energy, colored watery blue and fiery red, immediately descended into the world and swirled around Elder Xu.

At that moment, the area for over ten meters around him seemed enveloped in a layer of icy flames spiraling endlessly upward.

Whoooosh~~~~~~~~~~

Whoooosh~~~~~~~~~

Violent waves of power spread outward. The watery-blue and fiery-red magical source energies rapidly merged, soon pressing against one another as they surged toward Elder Xu. In an instant, he absorbed both powers in their entirety.

Boom!!!!

In the next instant, a terrifying aura far greater than before erupted from Elder Xu's body.

With a turn of his hand, he put away the parchment scroll, now marred by an ugly tear.

The Strength Frenzy Scroll contained five sealed layers of power... Each layer unsealed consumed one use.

That had only been Elder Xu's second use.

The treasured scroll still had three uses remaining.

All of this happened extremely quickly, leaving Yang Yu staring in disbelief from afar.

His mind rang like a great bell!

How was this possible!

A treasure of the Magitech Civilization?

A magic scroll?

A Western master of magic? Suo'esi?

Nothing made sense anymore!

Yang Yu's thoughts were in turmoil... He had originally believed that this tiny Earth merely concealed cultivators descended from the Immortal Civilization. Now, it seemed things were far more complicated than he had imagined!

The power of the Magitech Civilization had actually appeared here!

There were even mages!

When the parchment scroll first appeared, Yang Yu hadn't thought much of it. He had only found it somewhat familiar, as though he had seen something similar in the Insect Race's inherited information. But although he had seen it before, he couldn't recall it immediately and hadn't paid much attention.

Yang Yu hadn't given it much thought, but then Elder Xu explained the parchment scroll's origins.

Immediately, a flash of realization lit up Yang Yu's mind.

Everything became clear!

This was actually a treasure of the Magitech Civilization!

What was the Magitech Civilization?

It was a civilization locked in an irreconcilable feud with the Immortal Civilization. Whenever they met, they would fight to the death!

Yet the descendants of these two civilizations were living peacefully together on this tiny Earth?

They even traded with each other, selling their own treasures to cultivators of the Immortal Civilization?

All of this completely overturned Yang Yu's understanding of the civilizations of the universe.

Much of the information in the Insect Civilization Inheritance suddenly seemed outdated and no longer applicable!

Countless thoughts converged in his mind.

In that fleeting instant, Yang Yu considered many, many things...

That makes sense.

Yang Yu looked up ahead. Elder Xu was now wreathed in a terrifying aura, his footsteps shaking and splitting the earth as he charged straight at him.

After all, the Insectoid Civilization was destroyed hundreds of millions of years ago. Over such a long time, anything could happen... Perhaps I was making too much of it.

The Magitech Civilization is lying hidden on Earth too?

This really is getting more and more interesting.

A cold gleam shone in Yang Yu's eyes, and the aura of the Yama Battle Blade in his hand soared rapidly. During the fight earlier... he had entered a profound state of enlightenment that greatly improved his saber techniques.

At the same time, Yang Yu had come up with numerous ideas in that brief interval.

One of them was a saber technique that let the Yama Battle Blade build up power, drawing out its fullest potential and even amplifying his own strength. Yang Yu had been wanting to try it.

The Cosmic Force within him surged like towering waves, all gathering and flowing into the Yama Battle Blade.

A chilling, blood-red light spread across its edge.

He poured power into it furiously!

His gaze as sharp as an eagle's, Yang Yu gripped the blade's hilt with both hands and stared fixedly at the rapidly approaching Elder Xu.