HPDBC #228 - Breakthrough to the fourth level!
#228 - Breakthrough to the fourth level!
Beneath the bright moon, a figure was speeding along with the raging wind.
Liang Jin flew with the wind all the way, from day to night, getting closer and closer to his destination.
His heart finally relaxed a little.
"Hmm?"
But when he sensed his surroundings, he noticed something was wrong.
Why were there a group of people following him?
These people were all martial artists with strong skills.
Although they were still far from Liang Jin, they were closely tailing him.
"Did I offend them?"
Liang Jin felt puzzled.
Whether it was villages, towns, sect residences, wild shops, manors, roads, forests, etc., he passed straight through them.
But Liang Jin had clearly ignored these people, flying straight past them, without even saying hello.
Yet these guys actually chased after him, what was going on?
Suddenly.
"咻!"
Accompanied by a sound of air being torn.
Among the group of people behind, a stream of light shot into the night sky and then exploded violently.
A brilliant firework immediately bloomed in the darkness.
Liang Jin certainly didn't think these people were setting off fireworks for no reason.
This was obviously a means of communication.
As the saying goes, 'One arrow piercing the clouds, ten thousand soldiers and horses come to meet.'
Many sects would use fireworks, firecrackers, signal arrows, and other means for long-distance communication.
"What's going on?"
"Do they have to chase so relentlessly? And call for people along the way?"
Liang Jin felt very helpless.
After someone in the group behind set off fireworks, soon it seemed that someone else set off another kind of firework.
Then sharp signal arrows soared into the sky, and even a few carrier pigeons were released.
Now, Liang Jin was completely speechless.
"Forget it, I'm the only one who can get that natural treasure."
"No one else can even think about snatching it from me!"
Immediately, Liang Jin sped up again, flying faster into the distance.
This made the martial artists following behind almost exhausted.
They kept yelling and cursing behind him:
"Damn it! Why did that bastard speed up again? Dare to break into my sect's forbidden sacrificial ground at night, don't even think about escaping!"
"I can't do it anymore, I really can't chase anymore! This thief runs too fast!"
"Damn it, who exactly is that guy? My junior sister and I were on a date, and he sneaked past us, is he a pervert peeping on us?!"
"As the King of Thieves, I was about to rob the rich and help the poor, but this guy flew past me without a word, scaring me so much that I almost got exposed and caught. I won't stop until I catch him and ask him what's going on!"
"Brother, you guys keep chasing, I really can't keep up, my inner strength is almost exhausted! Remember to ask him for me when you catch up, did he see anything he shouldn't have seen at Guanyawu?"
"Grandpa, are you okay? Why can't we catch up with him after chasing for so long? Are you old? Are you not as good as young people anymore?"
...
While these people were still struggling to catch up.
Liang Jin had already left them far behind and soon disappeared without a trace.
He continued to speed along, and his inner strength was being consumed faster and faster.
Time continued to pass.
Liang Jin was gradually starting to feel overwhelmed by the continuous rush.
And ahead, a high cliff finally appeared.
Orange Cliff, he had finally arrived!
Many wild oranges grew here, hence the name.
At the end of Orange Cliff were cliffs and precipices, the bottom of which was unfathomable in the dark night.
When Liang Jin arrived here, he finally felt a burst of weakness all over his body.
"Although this 'Wind-Stepping Shadow Legs' saves inner strength, it can't withstand my use for such a long time."
"Fortunately, I finally reached my destination before my inner strength was completely exhausted."
Liang Jin had used his lightness skill to rush for a day and a night, which was a huge drain on him.
In the end, it was also because his realm was still too low.
Using this earth-level lightness skill with a fifth-grade realm always felt like a small horse pulling a big cart.
When Liang Jin's realm improves, not only will the power of 'Wind-Stepping Shadow Legs' be stronger, but he will also have more than enough inner strength to drive it for a long time.
Liang Jin steadied his mind and looked around.
He saw that many of the wild orange trees on the edge of the cliff had fallen, and upon closer inspection, he could indeed find many traces of fighting.
"It seems like this is the place!"
Liang Jin jumped up and jumped directly off the cliff.
He didn't have much inner strength left, but it was still enough to cope with his descent to the bottom of the cliff.
Soon.
Accompanied by a gust of wind, Liang Jin landed steadily at the bottom of the cliff.
A stench of corpses came from nearby.
Liang Jin shuttled through the night and soon came to the place where the stench came from.
Two corpses were lying on the ground, and the corpses had already rotted severely, so they smelled so bad.
Near the corpses, a strange flower was growing on the stone wall.
The roots of the flower seemed to have tenacious power, able to penetrate deeply into the stone wall.
However, the branches of the flower seemed to have suffered heavy damage, causing the flower to be only connected by a little bit of skin to prevent it from being completely broken off.
Surprisingly, even at the bottom of this dark cliff where you couldn't see your fingers, this strange flower could still emit a faint golden light, which was gorgeous and colorful.
At a glance, it was extraordinary!
As he approached the flower, the unique fragrance of the flower was even more refreshing, and even the inner strength of his whole body was slightly agitated.
Looking closely, he found that the flower already had signs of withering and wrinkling, and it was feared that it would begin to decay in less than two hours.
"This is the Zixiao Baoxuan Flower?"
Liang Jin marveled, who would have thought that such a natural treasure would grow at the bottom of this dark cliff.
Immediately, Liang Jin tried to pick the flower.
Although only a little bit of skin was left on the branch of the flower, the skin was exceptionally tough, and Liang Jin needed to use three points of strength to tear it off.
If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn't be able to tear it off with their bare hands.
After obtaining the flower, Liang Jin's gaze turned to the two decaying corpses on the ground.
"It seems these two were martial arts experts who fought to the death over this flower, ultimately perishing together."
"It's a pity, not only did they lose their lives in vain, but they ended up benefiting me."
After sighing, Liang Jin directly swallowed the Zixiao Baoxuan Flower.
In the next moment, a warmth arose from his abdomen.
Following closely, this warmth actually turned into scorching heat, and then into scalding heat.
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Liang Jin only felt a scorching heat all over his body, and his whole person began to turn red, like a large shrimp about to be cooked.
This startled Liang Jin:
"Not good! The medicinal effect is too strong! It's about to exceed my ability to withstand it!"
Liang Jin didn't expect the Zixiao Baoxuan Flower's medicinal power to be so fierce.
Immediately, he sat down on the spot and began to cultivate, in order to consume the medicinal effect.
The strong medicinal effect continuously surged within his body, and Liang Jin guided his internal force to circulate wildly within his body, thereby driving these medicinal effects to generate new internal force, and constantly impacting Liang Jin's meridians and acupoints.
Under the effect of the medicinal power, Liang Jin's internal force rapidly increased, his meridians became wider, and some originally blocked meridians and acupoints were quickly unblocked.
This also led to Liang Jin's martial arts cultivation gradually improving.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.
Liang Jin's aura suddenly soared, then quickly converged.
Then it soared again, and then slowly calmed down.
This cycle repeated many times, initially the fluctuations were very large, but slowly the fluctuations became smaller.
In the end, Liang Jin's aura finally gradually smoothed out, and his aura was drawn into his body and would not be easily released.
Liang Jin also opened his eyes:
"The Fourth Rank, I have finally officially entered!"
"Thirty years of cultivation is indeed not a joke!"
At this time, Liang Jin's entire temperament had undergone a slight change, as if he was increasingly able to integrate into nature.
Liang Jin stood up and felt his own body.
At this time, he only felt full of energy, and even the internal force consumed by using lightness skill for a long time before was quickly replenished, even more abundant than before!
Even the fatigue all over his body disappeared completely.
Liang Jin practiced a set of fists to move his body and adapt to the new realm.
Every punch he threw out was powerful and heavy, able to stir up a whistling wind.
As his fists became faster, the surrounding wind whistled constantly, the grass and trees were broken, and even deep fist marks were left on the stone wall.
When he finished a set of "Great Subduing Demon Fist", he was surprised to find that now he could fully exert and apply all the moves in the "Great Subduing Demon Fist".
"After entering the Fourth Rank, I am already able to fully exert the power of a Profound-level martial art."
"No wonder many Fourth Rank martial artists I encountered before only possessed Profound-level martial arts."
"It seems that the scarcity and rarity of Earth-level martial arts is probably just one reason."
"It's also because for their Fourth Rank strength, the power of Profound-level martial arts can be fully exerted, which completely satisfies their needs."
"I'm afraid only Third Rank martial artists would be dissatisfied with Profound-level martial arts, thus desperately pursuing Earth-level martial arts."
"Because Profound-level martial arts can no longer fully exert the strength of the Third Rank realm."
Liang Jin quickly understood this principle.
Of course, this does not mean that Earth-level martial arts are useless to martial artists below the Third Rank; in fact, they are very useful.
It's just that if you want to completely release the power of Earth-level martial arts and display the true power of the Earth-level, your own realm also needs to keep up.
Liang Jin's gaze turned to the two rotten corpses on the ground again.
He searched for a while, and the corpses only had some tokens, unknown pills, weapons, etc.
Liang Jin really didn't care about these things.
"Alright, it's time for me to go find the Tomb of the Demonic Sound."
"It seems I have to continue using lightness skill to travel."
Liang Jin shook his head helplessly.
He still needed to hurry to Mashi Bay to find the tomb of that martial arts expert.
He had already spent a lot of time to retrieve this Zixiao Baoxuan Flower; if he didn't rush over immediately, who knew if the tomb of that martial arts expert would be discovered by others.
Liang Jin moved his body and soared into the air.
… …
On the Orange Cliff.
A group of martial arts experts were now panting as they chased over.
After arriving at the edge of the cliff, they all collapsed and sat on the ground, exhausted.
It was not easy for them to chase after him.
If Liang Jin hadn't been running in a straight line and easily leaving traces behind, these people really wouldn't have been able to catch up here.
And those who could persevere to this point were all experts of the Fifth and Fourth Ranks.
Ninety percent of the martial artists who were chasing Liang Jin before had already given up halfway.
"Damn it, where did that guy run off to? Who exactly is he? How can he run so fast?"
"This is already a cliff, that guy wouldn't have jumped off, right?"
"His lightness skill is so high, he wouldn't die even if he jumped off the cliff. But my lightness skill can't compare to him, or will one of you go down and take a look?"
"No, no matter what, I have to find him! How dare he fly over the head of my Six Doors, doesn't he take my Six Doors seriously?"
"My Canghai Sect will not give up until we catch this thief! My sect leader is teaching his disciples the secret arts, and this guy flew over the roof all of a sudden, he must be spying on my sect's martial arts!"
… …
Just as a group of people were still discussing incessantly.
Suddenly.
A powerful aura instantly appeared, suppressing everyone present into subconsciously shutting their mouths.
Following closely, only a figure was seen slowly approaching.