Chapter 121
Chapter 121 – Late Mortal Core realm, 65 Dragon Marks
Inside a delicate courtyard within the inner circle area of the Black Sect, a young man dressed in white clothes stood solemnly. This courtyard occupied an entire mountain peak, and it was one of the best locations within the inner circle. Aside from Guan Yi Yun, only a few other disciples could have a place similar to this one.
This young man seemed to be in his late twenties. With a sharp facial figure and a handsome look, he could easily stand out amongst the crowds.
Swoosh!
A man suddenly appeared in the courtyard and walked up to this young man. The man who had suddenly appeared cupped his fist and greeted the young man, “Senior disciple Fan.”
The man who came was the same man who had hunted Jiang Chen in the Myriad Demon Mountain.
“Jiang Wei, how is everything?”
The young man asked. His name was Fan Kun, one of the strongest inner circle disciples. With a cultivation base at the peak of the Heavenly Core realm, he’s second only to Guan Yi Yun.
Jiang Chen’s body wobbled, and 8 illusions of his own image appeared. Each illusion looked completely identical to his real self. 9 Jiang Chen’s moved and surrounded Big Yellow.
“Hehe, Big Yellow, can you find out which is the real me?”
All nine Jiang Chen’s asked at the same time. Doesn’t matter if it was their expressions, movements or tones, they were all completely identical. Big Yellow felt confused.
“Damn you, you’re amazing! You really obtained the Bloody Combat Wolf’s innate ability! Crazy, abnormally crazy! You’re really a super abnormal monster!”
Big Yellow fell down onto the ground. He felt excited and speechless at the same time. He had witnessed another miracle today, all while feeling speechless because of Jiang Chen’s insane ability. This method of breaking through was just crazy.
Jiang Chen would be able to absorb any innate abilities from any demon beasts, and turn it into his own ability. This abnormally terrifying ability, if anyone knew about it, they would probably die from fright.
With a thought, all 8 illusions retracted back into Jiang Chen’s body. With a bright smile on his face, Jiang Chen said, “Hehe, with the Nine Phantom Wolves, my overall combat strength have increased to another level; this illusion can surprise my opponent in a fight.”
“Abnormal monster!”
Big Yellow begun having more interest towards the skill Jiang Chen was cultivating, but he forced himself to restrain it due to not wanting to give a bowl of his own blood.
“Oh right, who was the one who wanted to kill you last night?”
Big Yellow asked.
Hearing this, Jiang Chen’s face darkened, “I’m sure he was someone from the Black Sect. If my guess is correct, he was from the inner circle.”
“I don’t think you have offended any inner circle disciples from the Black Sect? It seems like you haven’t even met any inner circle disciple since you came to the Black Sect.”
Big Yellow was puzzled.
“Yesterday, the man in black said something about me offending someone I shouldn’t have. I’ve never offended anyone from the Black Sect… Looks like the one who wanted to kill me didn’t want to kill me because of offending someone from the Black Sect… Do you think there’s any possibility it was related to Nan Bei Chao or Liang Xiao?”
Jiang Chen guessed.
“I don’t think so. The Heavenly Sword Sect and the Burning Sky Pavilion are enemies with the Black Sect, and no matter how powerful Nan Bei Chao and Liang Xiao are, it is impossible for them to ask someone in the Black Sect to kill you. Besides, that Nan Bei Chao is so proud of himself, he had agreed to the one-year fight date with you, someone like him wouldn’t use such a despicable approach to kill you. If this is wrong, then he would have killed you back in the Whirling Sun Square.”
Big Yellow said.
“Hmph! I don’t care who it was, but I won’t forget it! Those who tries to kill me will never have a good ending! Let’s go back to the Black Sect, I want to find the one who tried to kill me.”
Jiang Chen let out a cold snort. After breaking through to the Late Mortal Core realm, he had achieved the goal he had when coming to the Myriad Demon Mountain. Now, he needed to go back and concoct a pill that could strengthen his foundation, and start preparing to break through to the Heavenly Core realm.
Whenever he broke through, Jiang Chen could precisely feel how many Dragon Marks he needed for him to break through to the next stage or realm. Thus, in order for him to break through to the Heavenly Core realm, he would need a total of 100 Dragon Marks. Now, Jiang Chen had 65 Dragon Marks in his Qi Sea, so he needed another 35 Dragon Marks in order to break through to the Heavenly Core realm.
35 Dragon Marks wasn’t a small number. Besides, the Dragon Transformation skill consumed massive amounts of energy when breaking through, and whenever he broke through to a higher realm, it would become more difficult to progress further, therefore, it was a tough goal to break through to the Heavenly Core realm. However, on the other hand, Jiang Chen only needed a huge amount of energy to break through to the next realms and stages. For the once greatest saint in the world, there was no bottleneck when breaking through. He was only doing what he had basically done before, and whenever he reached a new realm, he would have perfect control over the natural Yuan energy, as he had already learned to control it once before.
Crack!
Just as Jiang Chen and Big Yellow were about to leave the valley, they heard a cracking sound coming from the cave. Although the sound was weak, Jiang Chen and Big Yellow could still clearly hear it.
“There’s something in the cave.”
Both of their eyes were glowing, and they walked into the cave together. They had examined the cave when they came here previously. It was just a 10 meter wide, old and ruined cave. Aside from the stone wall at the back of the cave, there were only some loose rocks on the floor.
Crack~
That was the sound of something cracking. Jiang Chen and Big Yellow both looked at the stone wall at the back of the cave, and then, they saw a crack appear on it. The sound was coming from the wall.