First-Rate Families Breached in Succession, True Power Soars
A quiet street corner outside Demon Capital Martial University.
Hong Gui's fiery, delicate body still clung to Dongfang Yueming like an octopus. She whispered in Dongfang Yueming ear, her voice unusually serious. "Little brother, don't blame me for not warning you. That Baihu, although she usually seems cold and emotionless, like a machine, her true strength is terrifying!"
"Moreover, the cultivation method she practices is extremely strange; if she targets us, it will be very troublesome."
Faced with Hong Gui's well-intentioned reminder, Dongfang Yueming simply nodded and didn't take it to heart.
"I don't care about her strength; as long as she doesn't mess with me, I naturally won't touch her."
He reached out and skillfully pinched the Hong Gui's pert, plump buttocks, eliciting a sweet, seductive moan from the enchantress.
"You little devil, go back now." Dongfang Yueming released her hand. "I have important things to do."
Hong Gui's peach blossom eyes were filled with a bittersweet resentment and reluctance, but she also knew that Dongfang Yueming was a man of his word.
"Hmph, heartless man who pulls out his penis without a second thought."
Hong Gui glared at him with extreme displeasure, but then immediately put on an incredibly alluring smile, tiptoed, and gave him a fierce peck on the lips. "Then go ahead and do your thing. But don't forget, tonight at the Cloud Hotel, I've prepared the most exciting game... You absolutely, positively have to come!"
Leaving behind this promise brimming with endless possibilities, Hong Gui, in her high heels, swayed her alluring waist and reluctantly turned to leave.
She went back for two reasons: firstly, to take a shower and change into her battle attire; and secondly, because she had secretly made a decision.
"This kid desperately needs True Power Realm cultivation technique given his current strength," Hong Gui thought to herself. "It seems I have to go back to my family and see if I can steal a True Power technique from the old man or the treasure vault for him."
Watching the Hong Gui disappear around the street corner, Dongfang Yueming withdrew his gaze, his eyes instantly turning extremely cold and sharp.
The information he had gathered from the black market about the Demon Capital flashed through his mind.
"Guan Family."
Dongfang Yueming had identified a very clear target.
The Guan Family of one of the top families in Demon Capital has a Supreme Elder at the [True Power Realm Third Stage] overseeing the family. Although the Guan Family's library is heavily guarded, it is precisely the perfect "experience point" for Dongfang Yueming.
Deep within the Guan Family's extremely luxurious private estate, a library built of exceptionally sturdy Star-Patterned Steel stands quietly.
"Buzz!"
An invisible spatial ripple flashed by, Dongfang Yueming, relying on the absolute teleportation of [The Horizon Within Reach] and the top-level concealment of [Heaven and Earth Assimilation], passed directly through the three-foot-thick blast door like a massless piece of air and entered the top floor of the Sutra Repository.
He strolled leisurely through the array of infrared rays and extremely sensitive blood and qi detection arrays.
Soon, he found a jade slip in the innermost safe that emitted an extremely faint fluctuation of True Power.
"Found it."
However, just as he put the jade slip into his storage bag!
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
Suddenly, an extremely piercing and shrill alarm sounded throughout the entire scripture library! This jade slip was actually attached with an extremely tiny gravity-sensing array, which would trigger the alarm instantly if it were moved from its position!
"Who dares to trespass on my Guan Family's private property?!"
With an extremely violent roar, a terrifying [True Power] that seemed capable of tearing the entire scripture library apart surged up from the deepest part of the manor, transforming into an extremely dazzling blade of light, which slashed down fiercely towards the scripture library at an incredibly terrifying speed!
The Guan Family, that Supreme Elder at the True Power Realm Third Stage, has made his move!
Faced with such a terrifying attack that would drive even a Perfected Meridian Opening Realm Perfection despair, Dongfang Yueming didn't even lift an eyelid.
Now that I've got the item, I'm not playing with you anymore.
"Whoosh!"
His figure vanished from the spot in an extremely eerie manner a second before the blade's edge struck, as if he had never existed.
"BOOM!!!"
The library was cleaved in two by that single strike, dust billowing everywhere. The Guan Family, the Supreme Elder, rushed into the ruins in a fit of rage, but apart from the scattered debris, he couldn't find even a hair on the thief's head.
The top of an abandoned building, several kilometers away from the Guan Family's estate.
Dongfang Yueming sat down cross-legged and took out the jade slip he had just "borrowed".
[Ding! Learned the "Blazing Sun True Power Art" (Yellow Grade) (0/4000, Not Yet Entry)!]
"Four thousand points as the starting point? Sure enough, once you reach the True Power Realm, the consumption has reached an extremely terrifying level." Dongfang Yueming clicked his tongue in amazement.
"However, I have plenty of points! Point Allocation!"
[Ding! 4000 points consumed, advancing to the first level of True Power!]
"Boom!"
The moment the command was given, the extremely thick purple Meridian Opening energy within Dongfang Yueming's body seemed to be thrown into a bottomless black hole, beginning to collapse and compress wildly!
Quantitative change leads to qualitative change!
A tiny, yet terrifyingly powerful force, capable of annihilating all matter, was born deep within his dantian!
This is... True Power!
"Continue!"
[Ding! 4000 points consumed, advancing to the second level!][4000 points consumed, advancing to the third level!]
[Ding! 6000 points consumed, advanced to the fourth level!][6000 points consumed, advanced to the fifth level!][6000 points consumed, advanced to the sixth level!]
[Ding! 9000 points consumed, advanced to the seventh level!][9000 points consumed, advanced to the eighth level!][9000 points consumed, advanced to the ninth level!]
[Ding! Consumed 12,000 points, "Blazing Sun True Power Art" has advanced to True Power Perfection!]
"Buzz--!"
As the final notification sound faded, the true energy within Dongfang Yueming's body was completely transformed, turning into a terrifying ocean of extremely viscous True Power, resembling liquid metal!
[Lower-Tier True Power Perfection: True Power as Fine as Silk]!
He casually extended a finger, and a wisp of True Power, hundreds of times thinner than a hair, swirled around its tip. Yet, this extremely faint wisp of energy caused an incredibly terrifying sense of rupture in the surrounding space!
"Hoo..." Dongfang Yueming let out a long breath.
"This is currently the publicly acknowledged pinnacle of skill."
"But..." Dongfang Yueming shook his head.
His cultivation technique is only at the Yellow Grade, which is just the most ordinary lower-level Perfection.
Moreover, within this Demon Capital, there are not only even stronger experts of True Power, but also mysterious and unpredictable patriarchs at the Sea of Consciousness Realm. Not to mention the unknown terrors lurking in the mysterious Boundary beyond this seemingly prosperous world.
"That's not enough! We must advance the True Power Technique to the Heaven Grade Perfection level as soon as possible!"
Dongfang Yueming stood up, his eyes flashing with an extremely fanatical light.
If one isn't enough, then go to a few more.
For the next two hours, the entire elite family circle of Demon Capital experienced an extremely bizarre, even somewhat eerie, "Nightmare."
Dongfang Yueming transformed into a true midnight Ghost, relying on his Heaven Grade stealth and teleportation techniques.
He first visited the Lin Family in the east of the city, and amidst the extremely dense alarms and the roars of the Lin Family's True Power, he calmly took away a copy of "Overturning Water True Power Art" (Yellow Grade).
Return to the hiding place.
"Point Allocation to Perfection! Fusion!"
[Ding! The fusion of "Blazing Sun True Power Art" and "Overturning Water True Power Art" has been successful! Obtain the Profound Grade True Power Technique - "Water and Fire True Power Great Evolution Art" (Perfection)!]
[The Middle-Tier True Power Perfection: True Power is as Deep as an Abyss!]
His True Power reserves instantly increased tenfold!
"Again!"
Subsequently, he visited the Chen Family in the north of the city and the Zhao Family in the west of the city, and right under the noses of the two True Power experts, he took away two more Yellow Grade True Power techniques!
"Point Allocation to Perfection!"
"Fuse the two Profound Grade True Power techniques... once again!"
"BOOM!!!"
[Ding! Congratulations, host! Fusion successful!]
[Obtained the Earth Grade True Power Technique - "The Great Wilderness True Power Treasure Scripture" (Perfection)!]
"Whoosh!"
A dazzling beam of True Power, seemingly capable of transforming into various forms such as swords, spears, and halberds, shot into the sky from within Dongfang Yueming's body!
[Upper-Tier True Power Perfection: True Power Transformation]!
"Huff..."
Dongfang Yueming opened his eyes, his body surrounded by an extremely terrifying pressure. With a casual wave of his hand, the ethereal True Power instantly condensed into an extremely solid dark golden longsword, its Sharpness aura soaring straight into the sky!
"Earth Grade True Power Technique, Upper-Tier Perfection."
A sharp, piercing glint flashed in his eyes.
"Now, I only need four more Yellow Grade materials to synthesize this True Power Technique, and then I can deduce the Heaven Grade True Power Technique!"