Chapter 23 - Breaking through into the Fifth Layer of Common Law Warrior (2)
Not long after congregating large, individual masses of pure Origin Energy within his dantian, and where he had finished consuming all the cultivation liquids stored in those gourds, Sun Kang fused the individual masses of pure Origin Energy together and immediately broke through into the fifth layer of Common Law Warrior stage.
"Finally!" Sun Kang said with a bright smile hung on his lips.
He then looked at himself and saw how he was covered in dark black filth which had dried on his skin and uniform. Besides, the dried black filth exuded a really strong smell that could probably chase beasts away if they got as much as ten feet around Sun Kang.
"What a terrible smell." Sun Kang said and shook his head.
Of course, he was used to the ferric smell of blood, but not this kind of smell.
So, he immediately stood to his feet to find where he would wash off the dark-black stains on both his skin and uniform.
As he searched for where he would find even just a small pool of water, Han Heng who had been cultivating after snatching a particular cultivation material from the jaw of a powerful beast, also broke through into the fifth layer of Common Law Warrior stage.
"Yes! Now that I have broken through into the fifth layer of Common Law Warrior, I will try my best to break through into the sixth layer. After that, I will go back home to collect Battle Art scrolls from my Great Father, especially that art called the 'Crimson Fire God Myriad Disintegration Art' that only cultivators with a Fire Soul Constitution and from the sixth layer of the Common Law Warrior stage can learn." Han Heng said and produced a smile in his face.
He then recalled Sun Kang's face and said with a resolute expression written all over his face, "Hu Cheng, we shall meet again at the Ascending Law Warrior stage on the one-versus-one challenge platform of the sect's Inner Court. And by that time, I hope you savagely defeat me again, because you are now my drive for excellence."
"I have seen your spectacular feats and realized how ordinary I am, despite being the only in my family to possess a Fire Soul Constitution, and being the only one truly capable of learning the Crimson Fire God Myriad Disintegration Art to the ultimate stage, and its complementing, greatest transformation technique named the Supreme Fire God Void-Annihilation Form."
Once Han Heng said up to here, his smile disappeared and was replaced by a deep level of seriousness. He then stood to his feet to leave where he was and continue with his search for consummate cultivation items which he would use to progress his cultivation stage from the fifth layer to the sixth layer.
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"Why is a pool of water hard to find in this damned wilderness? Or is it until I venture into the other regions that we have been instructed never to enter? Ugh! I need to wash these smelly thick stains off me. The putrid smell it's constantly giving off is beginning to get me." Sun Kang said with a frustrated expression in his face after walking for 3 hours now and couldn't find water anywhere.
After walking for another thirty minutes and couldn't find water, he directly gave up on that quest and proceeded to slay beasts so that he could amass more cultivation items
"Well, this experience will surely act as a bitter reminder for me to always go everywhere with water." Sun Kang said said and grunted.
Not long after walking, he came across a group of Outer Court Disciples who looked at him with fear and concealed deep envy within their eyes.
Of course, Sun Kang could see the fear and jealousy hidden deep in their eyes and only smiled inwardly.
He however simply nodded at them and went his way, causing that group of people to be heavily relieved. They had thought that Sun Kang whose strength and combat prowess they knew to be exceptionally high, might attack them to forcefully take away all the cultivation items and battle scrolls that they had worked really hard to acquire.
But not long after, Sun Kang came across another group of people in his path which consisted of only three people. As soon as Sun Kang saw them, his eyes shone. Then a wicked smile slowly developed on his lips.
"Please folks, go on. I won't attack you and take the cultivation items that you have managed to obtain so far. As you can see, I have broken through, so I wouldn't be needing your vastly inferior items that will be totally insignificant in every way to my cultivation growth." Sun Kang savagely said and directly left their presence. While the group of people that he spoke to in that manner, quickly developed both bitter and angry expressions in their faces.
"So, what does this proud fool exactly think of himself? I would like to see how far the blockhead would go."
"Nah. Let him be. He has developed wings now, so let him fly. However, it won't be for long. By the time Shou Jie, who was crowned unanimously by all of us as the number one Outer Court Disciple in our batch returns with his highly formidable group of friends and followers, then we would see whether this bastard is truly something that's that amazing and marveling to talk about. Stupid trash human." One said while the others nodded their heads in agreement and with eyes that had fire of excessive indignation burning deeply within.
Sun Kang who intentionally spat out those words, didn't like this group of people. He had heard them speak about him over and over in a really bad way to their colleagues during his fights with other opponents back then.
Then one that he heard that made him totally pissed off at this group, was how they mentioned to their colleagues that it was possible that Sun Kang secretly killed the Outer Court Disciples that he accompanied that time to pick up cultivation roots and flowers for the sect, and then discovered a powerful cultivation manual and a special battle art scroll in the process. He then practiced it to a certain stage and returned to the sect to be seen as someone who was innately strong, formidable and powerful.
Sun Kang who wasn't paying any attention to what that three-person group were discussing amongst themselves, suddenly heard the blow of a trumpet that caused his mind to go into great shock, before the fair-complexioned skin of his body abruptly turned pale in the next instant from something totally disastrous that he thought about.
"Solitary Demon Sovereign's Oceanic Blood Trumpet? What the heck is it doing in this world?!" Sun Kang said inwardly as he began to dash quickly to where the trumpet sound came from.
But a few seconds later, another blow of the trumpet rang out which caused Sun Kang's mind to turn chill from excessive fear of what will happen to this world, once some sets of people residing far away in the void to evade the absolutely devastating attacks of the Divine Punishment Clouds, got to perceive the peculiar sound that will emanate from the trumpet.
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Far away on an invisible continent that sat on a floating solitary mountain which was dark black in color and was massive enough to support a major planet as its foundation, was a gigantic temple that had a bright blood-red roof, and had really huge and thick walls made purely from the bones of presumably billions of corpses of people and beasts.
Then seated within this enormously huge temple in the cross-legged position, was an old man that caused the fabric of space around him to lacerate and gash due to the pulsing, godhood-level powers of the Law of Darkness, Law of Blood, and the Law of Slaughter which constantly revolved around his emaciated, thin-looking figure.
"Solitary Demon Sovereign's Oceanic Blood Trumpet? How nice to hear it blow once again!"
"Blood Lotuses Chamber Members of the Solitary Demon Temple, go and get me the inheritance trumpet of our demised ancient master. And if you must reduce the world to dust, do so and return triumphantly with the trumpet. If not, don't ever think of coming back here, or you will be fed the entire flesh of your body!"