One Sword to Immortality Chapter 47

Xu Liao entered a state of endless darkness.

Sun Bo Fang heard Xu Liao’s demonic core cracking and silently ridiculed him. “Hmph. This brat devoured so much of my aura Qi and still expect to live? Even though his inheritance is strong, but he is still a newly awakened demon after all.”

Though he still managed to stand, he wasn’t in a good shape himself – a pyrrhic victory at most. His aura Qi was almost sucked dry, and his clothes in tatters. If one saw him previously and then saw him now, it would be hard to recognize that it was the very same handsome man.

Sun Bo Fang knew that Xu Liao had failed. He slowly revolved his aura Qi throughout his body in effort to heal himself, however, he found out that no matter how much he tried to activate his power, it still failed to occur. He was puzzled.

Demonic cores are similar to a human’s heart, once it cracks, the life will end. Xu Liao’s dark demonic core had been fragmented into countless of pieces and blew away like dust in the wind. According to common knowledge, this was already the end of Xu Liao’s life – but however it didn’t seem that the young man’s power was diminishing, instead it became stronger!

Apparently Sun Bo Fang didn’t know that Xu Liao has two demonic cores! Even Xu Liao himself wasn’t aware.

The dark demonic core broke and the golden metallic thread suddenly shook. Originally, it had already reached sort of a balance with the dark demonic core, but now that the core had been weakened, it started to devour the dark demonic energy again.

At least thirty percent of Sun Bo Fang’s powers were devoured by Xu Liao.  Of course, this was only possible because Sun Bo Fang was under the effects of the drunken concoction; if not, how could Xu Liao withstand a single hit from an elite such as him? The dark demonic energy that had devoured suddenly bloated two times more than its original size! But the golden metallic thread just continued to consume like a whale inhaling the sea water. The speed of absorption was so frightening; it was just like an endless black hole; the rate of devouring even exceeded the aggressiveness of the Stars Devouring Formula, devouring the dark demonic energy without a hint of stopping.

As it devoured the dark demonic energy, the bland golden skull started growing larger bit by bit. Soon it even started growing out a vertebral! Then it started forming the edges of the rib cage then growing out the hip bone… Within moments, the whole golden skeletal structure completely formed!

This golden skeleton was surprisingly huge. Between each joint, on the hyaline cartilage there were countless of tiny cracks that were filled with a profound Qi of darkness. Along the cracks were immeasurable amounts of hidden runes shining with a glorious golden light.

Sun Bo Fang witnessed all these changes and fear started creeping into his mind. His attuned senses told him that something bad was going to happen. However, he could do nothing but only hate himself for falling into Xu Liao’s trap that weakened him, putting him in such a sorry state.

The majestic golden skeletal structure roared and made a punch. The air seemed to distort around the golden skeleton’s fist as the earth shook when it smashed into the One Hundred Myriads Golden Bug’s defensive barrier. A thunderous sound rang throughout the air as the barrier instantly shattered into fragments seemingly without resistance. Then a skeletal hand stretched out and gripped Sun Bo Fang’s head and ripped it clean off his shoulders.

The disciple of the Longevity Sect died instantly. His eyes were still widely opened in disbelief.

The golden skeleton gave a heaven-rending roar, as if it was declaring itself as the eminence of the world, a.s.serting its dominance to all living beings.  All the dark demonic energy all then swirled into it, forming a dark whirlpool.

The golden skeleton had killed Sun Bo Fang and devoured all the remaining dark demonic energy. Without any dark demonic energy to sustain itself, the wildfire within the empty sockets of its skull started to simmer. It then started collapsing slowly inch by inch into a pile, leaving only the vertebral and the skull.

Dark demonic energy gushed out of skull which then poured onto the skeleton pile. The golden skeleton then started to refine the dark demonic energy. The cracked joints shone brightly and slowly condensed into a new dark demonic core.

When the dark demonic core reformed, the Heavenly Demon Purgatory activated automatically – and within ten breaths it once again formed a shape of a young human.

Xu Liao opened his eyes slowly and supported his body up. A look of surprise flashed onto his face as he found that he wasn’t dead; moreover he was feeling better than before!

He then scanned his surroundings before locking onto Sun Bo Fang’s decapitated body. He was badly startled once again. All he remembered was the intense pain and blacking out after his demonic core shattered. During the time when he drifting between life and death, he could feel an intense killing intent and fury overflowing him from within.

“… Seems like being a demon will often cause uncontrollable changes.”

Since he didn’t know what happened, he didn’t make his life difficult further by trying to a.n.a.lyze the situation and acted as if everything is fine. The fact that he had survived made him to decide to toss all other sorts of worries to the wind.

When Xu Liao activated his dark demonic energy, he started to rotate his new demonic core. Immediately, he sensed new changes in his body.

Originally, only his skull was bland gold. But now he noticed that his vertebrae turned bland gold as well. Needless to say, these are the changes made from the golden thread’s demonic core in between his brows.

Next he tried activating his Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill and found that it also improved immensely.

The Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill were split into nine segments: Tong Yong, Hua Jing, Xi Cui, Yi Jing, Cui Gu, Lian Zhang, Huan Xue, Mo Pi, Ju Shen.

He actually broke through the fifth segment, Cui Gu!! And the golden metallic thread in between his brows grew one additional layer of runes.

Within the layer of runes was another written set of formulae: >!

The Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill is trained to nourish the body and mind; allowing the cultivator to possess a body as resilient as steel yet having a heart of gold. However, this new formula totally differed from the values of the original; as such it can also be called unorthodox.

Xu Liao didn’t realize that it was the golden skeleton within him that activated the > to decimate the barrier of the One Hundred Myriads Golden Bug and kill Sun Bo Fang.

His talented blood pulse inheritance not only has strong powers; but he is still able to awaken new abilities!

After receiving the Stars Devouring Formula, he had always used it in battle because that was his only skill that had attacking capabilities aside from the battle beasts. Furthermore, when he had been training with Sun Bo Fang, he had no time to cultivate the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill because it took too long to break through. Therefore he was quite curious on the progress of the Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill and how to use it in a real battle. Now that he awakened the >, he couldn’t hold in his curiosity to test how formidable the skill was. In that instant, he stretched his hand and pressed it on the ground.

“Tyrant’s Prestige!!”

A thunderous roar resounded and pierced into the ground. The > attack was as fast as lightning as it bore into the ground, destroying from anything within with immeasurable power.

Within the courtyard of the bamboo house, Xu Liao had already confirmed how firm the ground was due to the countless of trainings by Sun Bo Fang that occurred right at this location.

His dark demonic energy could pa.s.s through any matter but could not pa.s.s through the ground in this area. The high frequency blade waves couldn’t even scratch the ground even if he used all his might.

However…. right now… the moment the > shook the ground, the sealed ground started forming cracks.

Up till now, Xu Liao still didn’t know that the golden skeleton smashed the barrier of the One Hundred Myriads Golden Bug with brute force. If he knew, he would be even more shocked.

After witnessing the power of the >, he was very happy. “The Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill battle power is very domineering, even more dominating than the Stars Devouring Formula. Only if I trained in this skill earlier… I totally wouldn’t be afraid of Sun Bo Fang!”

The Nine Mysterious Strengthening Skill had improved by a lot. The Heavenly Demon Purgatory also had huge improvements. Xu Liao patted his own body as he examined for any other changes before starting to think about the aftermath of his surroundings.

He went to the side of the decapitated Sun Bo Fang and searched his body. Within his pockets, he found three battle beasts. One of them was the One Hundred Myriads Golden Bug. Although the battle beast had been seriously injured when the golden skeleton smashed its barrier, it can be seen to be slowly recovering.

Another battle beast is the Flame Snake. It specializes in controlling flames and it allowed the host to cultivate a set of Xian martial arts called the Flame Blade.

The remaining battle beast left Xu Liao slightly puzzled. This battle beast is named as the “Hive”. It didn’t provide any martial arts to the host, but it allowed him to command thousands of black beetles. After examining the “Hive”, Xu Liao now knew that the black beetles that Sun Bo Fang commanded actually belonged to this battle beast.

Apart from the 3 battle beasts, Xu Liao found almost 60k worth of Credits in Sun Bo Fang’s possession. He smoothly transferred the amount into his own demon identification gold card.

Translated by Gary. Edited by Jason.