Breaking Through to Great Grandmaster
Seeing that Lu Feng was pale and sitting cross-legged on the ground, the crowd quickly gathered around and spontaneously formed a circle to protect Lu Feng in the center.
After Canglan City was unsealed, the demon beasts no longer lingered in battle and fled in all directions.
When Song Xuanji and his companions arrived, this was the scene they saw— Lu Feng was being tightly protected by the crowd, layer upon layer.
The four tried to step forward, but were stopped by the others.
Indeed, none of these four people showed up from beginning to end, while all the Grandmaster, including Guan Shanhai, died by self-destruction, while only these four remained unharmed.
The crowd instinctively assumed they were Wu Qingfeng's accomplices.
"They're not bad people, let them in."
Upon hearing Lu Feng speak, the crowd parted to let the four people in.
However, those gazes remained fixed on the four of them, as if if they made the slightest move that would harm Lu Feng, the crowd would swarm them and tear them to pieces.
"Lu Feng! Are you alright?" Xiao Tianqi asked first.
Having just seen Wu Qingfeng's corpse outside, the four men were now astonished to see Lu Feng without a single wound.
"I'm fine, just that my True Essence was depleted and I lost some of my qi and blood. I'll be fine after a rest."
"It's alright, it's alright..."
Upon hearing this, the four people's shock deepened.
What do you mean by "only some loss of qi and blood"?
You, a Mid-Stage Grandmaster, used a technique that can only be used at the Celestial Person Realm Third Layer, and you only suffered some loss of qi and blood?!
The four of them looked at Lu Feng as if he were a humanoid monster. Despite having a thousand questions in their hearts, they could only suppress them for the time being, considering their current situation.
"In that case, you should rest well, while we head to other cities to provide relief!"
Just then, Xiao Tianqi spoke up.
"Oh no! Ji Qingqing and the others are in danger!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Feng's expression changed drastically. Having recovered a trace of True Essence, he didn't hesitate, activating his True Essence Walking on Air flying directly towards Shouyun City!
"This..." The four of them hadn't expected Lu Feng to be in such a hurry.
Song Xuanji immediately said, "Brother Xiao, you and Lu Feng go to Shouyun City together. The three of us will go to other cities separately, and then meet up in Shouyun City after we've finished our business!"
Xiao Tianqi nodded, then flew off towards Shouyun City.
"Let's go to Shouyun City to help too!"
Upon hearing that Lu Feng had gone to Shouyun City to rescue people, all the disciples decided to follow him.
Then, a large group of people flew towards Shouyun City.
The three of them, including Song Xuanji, were shocked by what they saw.
After this battle, if Lu Feng doesn't speak up, these disciples will probably never trust them again.
After discussing it for a while, the three of them flew off to different cities.
During the flight, Lu Feng opened the panel:
[Main Character: Lu Feng]
[Cultivation Level: Mid-Stage Grandmaster]
[Cultivation Techniques: Spirit Condensation Art (Beginner); Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art (Level 2) Progress 20%; Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash (Level 9); Phantom Sword Art (Mastery)]
[Perfect Martial Arts: Startling Thunder Flash; Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art; Walking on Air; Phantom Steps; Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art; Immeasurable Golden Body Art...]
[Demon Points: 289 million]
Nearly 300 million Demon Points.
Lu Feng glanced at it, then checked the introduction to the Spirit Condensation Art.
This is a Yin Spirit Realm cultivation technique, which requires one to reach the Yin Spirit Realm to practice. Judging from the description, it seems to be a technique for tempering one's divine sense.
Lu Feng is only at the Mid-Stage Grandmaster, far from the Yin Spirit Realm, and lost interest after a few glances.
Then, he focused his attention on the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art.
Now that we have plenty of Demon Points, it's a good time to improve this technique.
"System! Upgrade the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to level four!"
[Upgrading the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to level four requires 140 million Demon Points; upgrade now?]
"Promote!"
As soon as he finished speaking,
Streams of True Essence surged forth from Lu Feng's dantian, and his aura began to surge wildly!
Late Grandmaster, Grandmaster Perfection.
In the next instant, his cultivation level broke through to the Great Early Grandmaster!
However, the upward momentum of his aura did not stop; it continued to rise until he broke through to the Great Grandmaster Perfection, at which point the True Essence surging from his dantian gradually subsided.
Subsequently, the True Essence within the dantian began to compress wildly, and what was originally only a few dozen drops of True Essence now condensed into thousands of drops.
His cultivation level subsequently dropped back to the Great Early Grandmaster.
"I never expected that my cultivation breakthrough would allow my True Essence to be restored to its full potential!"
Feeling the unprecedented depth of True Essence within his body, Lu Feng murmured to himself.
However, one cannot force an improvement when seriously injured—back in the secret passage of Canglan City, it was precisely because of his serious injuries that he was unable to improve his cultivation technique.
His already lightning-fast movements became even faster as he used the Walking on Air.
With the current amount of True Essence in his dantian, he should have more than enough time to unleash the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash.
However, Lu Feng had no intention of testing the knife at the moment.
He glanced at the Demon Points:
[Demon Points: 149 million]
There are still over 140 million left.
"System, upgrade the Phantom Sword Art to its peak!"
[Upgrading Phantom Sword Art to its maximum level requires 100 million Demon Points; Upgrade now?]
"Promote!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a vast amount of cultivation experience flooded into his sea of consciousness once again, as if he had cultivated diligently for hundreds of years.
Deep within his sea of consciousness, a figure identical to Lu Feng was continuously practicing the Phantom Sword Art.
As it was unleashed, the phantoms gradually multiplied from the initial six to seven, eight, and nine!
When the nine phantoms appeared simultaneously, a crimson ripple appeared a foot away from each of them.
Just then, the nine phantom figures suddenly merged into one, and then the figure flipped its wrist...
A massive sword formation, hundreds of feet in diameter, appeared out of thin air!
Within the sword formation, countless transparent flying swords crisscrossed, their Sword Qi chilling.
[Phantom Sword Art (Perfect)]
[Congratulations, host, you have mastered the Phantom Sword Formation]
"Phantom Sword Formation?"
Upon hearing the system notification, Lu Feng murmured to himself, intending to check the effect of the sword formation.
But when he thought of Ji Qingqing and the others being in imminent danger, he immediately suppressed his curiosity, activated his True Essence with all his might, and sped towards Shouyun City!
Meanwhile, Shouyun City.
A fifth-tier tiger king is leading two fourth-tier Demon King and hundreds of low-tier demon beasts in a frenzied attack on the city's protective formation.
Attacks rained down on the great formation, causing it to tremble precariously, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.
"With a little more effort, we'll break through the formation soon!"
"When the time comes, you can enjoy all the blood and gourds in the city! But remember this—you must collect the blood first before you can enjoy them!"
Upon hearing this, the demons were overjoyed and their attacks became even more frenzied.
Shouyun City, Ji Qingqing and the others stood beside the core of the city's protective array, gazing at the crumbling array with sorrow in their eyes.
Apart from Ji Qingqing and the other ten, only one martial artist at the peak of the Hua Jin Perfection remained.
The martial artist glanced at Ji Qingqing and the others, hesitated, and ultimately said nothing.
He leaped into the center of the formation without hesitation.