Zhang Yong stared at the sky as he fell, "Hah, ironically, I never died before to die here."
Although his voice was laced with peace, it was only a facade as he fell
"But I don't want to die, I don't want my end to be like this."
His appearance was pathetic. Who would have thought that the person who said he was not always afraid of death would stoop to hesitate in front of him like this?
It was truly pathetic, Zhang Yong felt pity for himself strongly
"It doesn't matter anyway, when I fall I'll die, nothing will change that fact."
The sky became blurry around Zhang Yong as he descended towards the ground as he said thoughtfully. He had lived and died so well, it was a miracle that he could still think soberly, but this time there was no going back.
That was when he realized that he wasn't struggling because he wanted to live. He was afraid because he did not know what lay after death. In all his fights, he never truly faced his own mortality, and was content to cheat fate again and again
But in the face of real death, all his previous pride about being strong disappeared, only to be shocked by the reality of his weakness
A person can train his body as he wants, but if you do not change the mentality of weakness, neither strength nor training will benefit you
And now, here he is about to meet his end in an unknown place, alone without anyone. If he had wanted to choose, he would have preferred to be buried next to his village.
Despite his indifferent behavior, Zhang Yong's heart was beating with fear. He hated this feeling of helplessness.
He closed his eyes, preparing for the impact. Suddenly he felt a sense of calm wash over him. He thought that maybe death wasn't such a bad thing.
And maybe finally he can rest
With a deafening crunch, Zhang Yong hit the solid ground. His body collapsed like an egg hitting a rock, and all the air left his lungs with a painful sound. It seemed as if the ground had swallowed his entire body, dirt and debris filled his vision and his blood was seeping out onto the ground. In an instant, his blood had formed a puddle beneath him.
His bones had pierced his flesh and were clearly visible to the eye. His condition was miserable and bloody and he was still staring at the sky, but who would have expected that he was still alive and thriving?
But death seemed easy compared to what happened to him now. The damage was great and very dangerous, but he was not dead. A part of him still remained, some thread of consciousness that refused to be cut from him
He stared at the sky as if his matter was over and he just had to wait until he died, he actually wondered how he was still alive
With a severed arm and a mutilated eye, bones out of place and blood flowing all over the place, he was not even in a position to be called human. Even if he survived, would he be able to live a normal life?
"You have survived then," a voice suddenly sounded in the place
Zhang Yong did not move, he was still staring at the sky in vain. He could move his pupils, but the owner of the voice was still out of his vision.
It was definitely not a man's voice that was dropped by this voice, somehow feminine, it was a comforting voice in a way
Zhang Yong tried to speak words, but no sound came out
"You can't talk and the damage to your body is great." Suddenly, Zhang Yong felt a hand landing on his head, but there was no one there, which made him think, is this how those who are about to die feel?
Suddenly, like magic, the bones began to return to their place, and the severe bleeding began to diminish little by little
In an instant, Zhang Yong's miserable body condition had become better. Except for his arm and his deformed eye, everything else had been cured.
Slowly, feeling in his limbs began to return little by little. Suddenly, he slowly stood up from the ground and stared around
"I'm behind you"
Zhang Yong turned towards the voice, and behind him was a girl with extremely long black hair in a snow-white robe
Zhang Yong's throat trembled for a second, "Why did you save me?"
A smile appeared on the girl's face, "I don't know, but I found it impressive that you fell from such a height and survived without even the internal energy to protect you."
Zhang Yong looked up from the cliff and began to make his judgment, "What made you stay here, you were able to cure me so you must be able to get out of here."
"If only it were that easy, but this place is surrounded by a powerful natural matrix."
Hearing this, Zhang Yong's eyes were filled with doubt. Using the loyalty relationship that the system had told him before, his arm turned into a wing like Kuro's and he flew high to get out of the cliff, but before covering a long distance, Zhang Yong hit something like a wall and fell to the ground, lying down again.
The girl approached and looked at Zhang Yong from above, "I told you, this place is surrounded by a natural matrix that keeps everyone inside here. A person can enter but cannot exit. The higher your level, the stronger the repelling force."
Zhang Yong stared at the sky with a blank look. The girl withdrew, stepped back and turned around as if leaving. "You can only hope to stay here until death."
At the moment the girl started to hear a sobbing sound, she turned around and saw Zhang Yong covering his eyes with his arm and sighed, "Stop crying, this won't solve-"
Suddenly the sound of wailing changed to the sound of laughter, a laugh appeared on Zhang Yong's face, it was a desperate laugh as he stared at the sky.
"Haha....Haha....I now understand why the sky kept me alive....Just why?" He whispered, his voice carried by the wind. "Why should I die like this? After everything I've been through...I always knew I was weak but I always tried to cover up this deficiency inside me, but it's as if the sky itself wants me to die."
At that moment, a deep hatred arose in his heart, he hated the world, he hated fate, he even hated himself, he hated his own weakness and immaturity.
The death situation he felt as he fell revealed to him how pathetic and hopeless it was
The girl quietly watched Zhang Yong and couldn't speak
"Have I done anything to Heaven to hate me so much, to want to kill me so much, do I deserve this?"
His voice broke for a moment and he gritted his teeth until blood gushed from his mouth. "I'm tired of this...Do you want me dead? Then go to hell, you and your rotten attempts...Since you want to kill me, what's stopping me from killing you, just because you rule everything you think?" You are unwavering.....I am here today declaring.....I will be the first to rebel against Heaven, even if I end up diving into the depths of Hell or fighting the saints, I will stand against you."
Zhang Yong gritted his teeth and stood up, "Your end will be at my hands."
The voice of the girl on the side appeared and she was smiling, "You really look like him."
Zhang Yong turned to the girl, still angry, "Are you making fun of me?"
The girl looked at Zhang Yong and approached, "Getting out of here is not impossible. You are without a dantian, so the natural array will have almost no effect on you. The problem is your weak body, so what if I told you that I can give you a technique that will make you stand before the sky?"
Zhang Yong looked suspiciously at the girl, he wasn't stupid to believe something so easily, "Do you think techniques like this exist?"
A light laugh escaped the girl's face, "Yes, you really are like him. Many have tried to conquer their fate but only a few have succeeded, so my old master has created a technique to stand up to fate itself, so powerful that the heavens have deemed it a forbidden technique."
Zhang Yong stared at the girl with a wide smile hanging on his face. If it was truly a heaven-reversing technique, wouldn't this serve his purpose? "Okay, I agree." At this moment, even if the devil had appeared to make a contract with him, he would have agreed to sell his soul for another chance.
A jade scroll appeared in the girl's hand and she threw it into Zhang Yong's hand. This jade scroll was marked with three words, "Heaven-defying body."
These three words made Zhang Yong's body tremble with excitement
The girl laughed in a cold voice, "Since you intend to challenge the heavens, why not make it one last attempt? Risk everything here and now. Either you determine your worth or you remain a loser and accept your reality. This is better than staying here to rot."
Zhang Yong touched the jade patch with his forehead and skill thoughts began quickly flowing into his brain
"This technique is exciting, instead of absorbing the energy of the energy center and penetrating, I use it to refine my flesh, my bones, and my body as a whole. Only the first level is enough to stand in front of low-level Mystical weapons."
While Zhang Yong was staying in this world, he realized that the skills and weapons in this world were classified into yellow, arcane, earthly, and heavenly.
"But it requires pure energy to absorb it, where will I get it?"
The girl's eyebrows furrowed slightly, "I want to know if you live in a hole."
Zhang Yong looked at her in surprise and asked, "Why is this?"
The girl sighed deeply, "Spiritual stones and monster cores can be used to absorb energy, don't tell me you don't carry them with you."
Zhang Yong scratched his head stupidly, "Actually, I don't even know what spiritual stones are, nor do I have them."
The girl raised her hands helplessly, "Okay, I won't say I didn't expect this. Go to that body. I noticed a storage ring on him." The girl pointed toward the body of the man who fell with him, and who seemed to be out of luck.
Zhang Yong calmly approached the corpse and quietly turned it over, noticing a strange insignia on his robe, a black dragon placing its claws on a radiant star.
Zhang Yong ignored him and started searching until he found a pendant around his neck that was a ring tied with a string
Zhang Yong picked up the ring but it didn't work. "Is this an ordinary ring? It doesn't work."
The girl hit her forehead hard, looking at him stupidly, "Of course it won't work. The necklace is surrounded by a mental seal to protect property. Give it to me, I will open it."
The ring rose from Zhang Yong's hand and flew towards the girl after a short while
She returned the ring to him, "Take it. I opened the seal. There are about a thousand stones inside. That should be enough."
Zhang Yong stared at the ring for a while, then looked up at the girl, "Come to think of it, what's your name, I don't know what to call you as… hm… you look like a ghost."
The girl looked annoyed, "You are the ghost, your family are all ghosts, I am a sword spirit, you can call me Ling Xi."
In his mind, Zhang Yong asked Yuni curiously, 'Yunni, are the points from Ling Xi not counted, because I haven't heard any notification all this time?'
(Sword spirits are a rare entity, but because their source is a weapon, points from them are not counted)
Zhang Yong nodded, sat down on the ground, took out the first Spiritual Stone, and began absorbing it
According to the Jade Scroll, this skill has nine layers, and when enough energy is absorbed, the body will begin to transform, arousing the wrath of the will of the heavens, thus causing the presence of a powerful thunder tribulation that will fall on the practitioner's body.
If a person can endure it, he will be able to pass to the next level successfully, and if he fails, death will be his end
Zhang Yong began to think that he might have stolen a lucky encounter with one of the main characters, but it didn't matter as much as he wanted to survive.
Besides, this was the first time he had been ignited by the pure energy of spirit stones, so he was taking time to absorb them
The technique seemed simple, just taking pure energy to refine the body as a whole, but no one said that it wasn't painful. The first step was to refine the bones, specifically the bone marrow. He had to puncture the bone with the energy he absorbed before he could complete the injection, not to mention that. He has to puncture all the bones, making a total of 206 bones to puncture
The second step was refining the meat. The muscle fibers had to be torn and filled with pure energy so that they would heal themselves and become stronger, which sold me more than 800 muscles that had to be torn.
The third step was skin refinement, he had to tear off his skin in order for it to grow back and become stronger
Because this extreme development makes the body stronger, it will take more and purer energy to pierce that body, at least times the initial amount that was used.
In addition, because the energy was so pure, it would be accompanied by ten times more pain than normal