hooklinebooks Chapter 588 - 408: Sense of Crisis—Ye Jian Stops at the Second Level? What a Joke!
Chapter 588 - 408: Sense of Crisis—Ye Jian Stops at the Second Level? What a Joke!
Aside from the world’s number one after the Great Sage, which no one has ever successfully cultivated, the "Cyan Lotus Martial Seed", the objects condensed by the ordinary Three Flowers technique are mostly unremarkable lotus shapes. Only the top-tier Three Flowers techniques can condense into other forms.
For example, the world’s second, the "Three Flowers of the Sage" of the Bright Church Court, condenses into the form of a Fierce Beast.
The world’s third, the form cultivated by the Ye Family’s Formless Three Flowers, will condense into a transparent gate, unique to the Formless Three Flowers. But today, he saw another unprecedented terrifying gate.
"Such a terrifying Three Flowers, how, how is this possible, is this really just the Three Flowers technique?!"
The so-called Three Flowers technique was created by martial artists to seal the continuously leaking Three Jiao Gate of Primordial Qi, with Primordial Qi being Qi and Blood, Spiritual Power, and Martial Momentum.
Yet, the Flame Gate before him clearly also integrated the Power of Laws!
But how can the Three Flowers technique integrate the Power of Laws?!
On the First Floor, Su Mu’s Shadow of Time merely unleashed a strike with a wave of his hand.
But at this moment, Ye Jian was desperately mobilizing power, forming a gate. Yet, at that moment, this Gate of Formlessness paled in comparison to the Flame Gate.
The moment the two gates touched.
Crack!
With a sudden shattering sound, the gate formed by Ye Jian with all his effort had little resistance before the Flame Gate.
However, Ye Jian did not easily give up.
Ye Jian roared furiously, and then another force erupted from within him. Suddenly, numerous ferocious black patterns appeared on his face, then spread over his body, releasing rolling black smoke.
With this black force joining the battle, the previously one-sided situation was reversed.
At this moment, the consciousness of the observing Su Mu shook suddenly.
He saw clearly.
"As expected, there was no mistake in my perception!"
Su Mu definitely wouldn’t be mistaken this time; the force erupting from Ye Jian’s body at the moment was very familiar to him, something he had consumed quite a lot before.
Because this black force carried an endless aura of evil and violence.
"Evil aura... This is the power of the Master of Endless Black Fog!"
This was the first time Su Mu felt this power from someone else, and even Ye Jian could actively wield this power in combat.
Su Mu’s consciousness trembled slightly, a sense of crisis emerged, and as his heart sank, killing intent began to brew. However, just a moment later, Su Mu dismissed the thought of taking direct action.
For Su Mu, it would be easy to kill Ye Jian in the Junlin Pavilion, but if Ye Jian was not an accident...
There’s a possibility that one of the two top-tier Martial Arts Families in Huaxia, the Ye Family, is being eroded by the Master of Black Fog. Some of the Ye Family’s senior members might already be the minions of the Master of Black Fog.
"Ye Jian’s individual will hasn’t been lost, so things might not be that severe. Hopefully, I’m overthinking it..."
In any case, Su Mu was well aware that if he took action to kill Ye Jian in the Junlin Pavilion, it would inevitably attract the Ye Family’s attention, and this would definitely affect his plan to kill Sima Jingshu elsewhere.
"Ye Jian can’t be killed yet; even if he were to die, he can’t die directly in the Junlin Pavilion."
Suppressing his killing intent, Su Mu gave Ye Jian one final cold glance; Ye Jian was already like a dead man in his eyes. Immediately, he chose to retract his consciousness.
Otherwise, he feared he couldn’t resist killing Ye Jian.
Ye Jian was completely unaware that he had been close to death multiple times without knowing it.
The Second Floor of the Junlin Pavilion.
Puff.
Ye Jian suddenly coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood, taken aback, with a mix of shock, zeal, and pride on his face.
"The ancestor’s Three Flowers actually integrated the Power of Laws?"
"No wonder it’s among the strongest Martial Saints in the world. Could it be that the ancestor reached a new realm after perfecting the "Formless Three Flowers"?!"
"I, too, practice the Formless Three Flowers, and I have the legacy of a predecessor not inferior to the ancestor. Perhaps, one day I, Ye Jian, might also reach this step, or even surpass the ancestor!"
"And the First Floor was so perilous simply because I was too careless. It won’t happen a second time."
Having survived the First Floor’s trial, Ye Jian immediately began to recover, consuming elixirs to restore his condition, and then releasing his Martial Arts Golden Body.
A colossal Martial Arts Golden Body over fifty meters tall quickly formed; seeing his giant Martial Arts Golden Body, Ye Jian’s face was filled with pride and confidence.
He is a Titled Grandmaster!
With great confidence, he stepped forward.
Then, a calm voice emerged.
"Endure three rounds against me to step into the Third Floor."
As the words fell.
Ye Jian was all over with a shiver, reflecting a towering Martial Arts Golden Body in his pupils, breaking over fifty meters in size in an instant, and still growing!
Fifty-five meters, then breaking through sixty meters!
Gulp.
Ye Jian’s pupils constricted sharply, and he swallowed with a start, then shouted in shock.
"Impossible!"
"The Second Floor’s trial corresponds to the Golden Body Second Forging level, testing the Second Forging Golden Body. How could anyone in this world condense a Martial Arts Golden Body surpassing the Titled Level at only the Second Forging?!"
Ye Jian was stunned on the spot, but the Shadow of Time would not pause for this reason.
The Martial Arts Golden Body clenched its fist.
Then punched out.
...
In a nearby tavern of the Junlin Pavilion, First Saint Martial University’s celestial pride, Lu Xun, recognized Su Mu, and immediately Lu Xun was downing drinks, trying to suppress his Qi Blood Power, hoping to numb himself with alcohol.
Under the persuasion of many juniors and trainees, Lu Xun had regained some confidence.
He thought that stopping at the Third Floor of the Junlin Pavilion was already quite decent.
But just after him, someone directly passed the Eighth Floor and even reached the top of the Sword Monument.
And considering such terrifying phenomena, Lu Xun guessed that Su Mu might likely have a chance to reach the top of Junlin Pavilion!
For a moment, the confidence Lu Xun just gained was ruthlessly stomped into the ground by Su Mu.
Just a wall away, in another private room.
Huangfu Xue had a rather peculiar expression, as earlier Su Mu had asked a lot about the Ye Family, yet the questions were all strange.
"Su Mu, just ask directly, what do you want to know?"
Su Mu shook his head in response.
Seeing this, Huangfu Xue didn’t ask further. Knowing Su Mu’s personality, she knew that asking wouldn’t yield many answers to things he didn’t wish to discuss.
Without further ado, Huangfu Xue filled her glass, took a hearty gulp, declaring her small dissatisfaction.
"Su Mu, how many floors do you think that Ye Jian guy will pass this time?"
"How many floors?"
"I guess he failed... He fell on the Second Floor."
Ye Jian fell on the Second Floor?
Upon hearing this, Huangfu Xue paused, nearly spitting out the drink she had just taken, but both her heart and face were filled with smiles, thinking that Su Mu was just trying to amuse her, after all, Ye Jian was truly annoying.
"Haha, stopping at the Second Floor, if that really happened, it would be great. Although Ye Jian is annoying, he is after all a Titled Grandmaster, a realm achieved after the Fifth Forging, worthy of a title!"
"I must admit, Ye Jian truly is a martial arts prodigy..."
Just as Huangfu Xue was about to say more, suddenly, a commotion erupted from the direction of the Junlin Pavilion.
For a moment, Huangfu Xue trembled, her beautiful eyes flickering with disbelief, subconsciously glancing at Su Mu, only to see that Su Mu’s face remained calm, quickly swallowing her shock and turning towards the Junlin Pavilion.
Could it be...
No way!
At the same time, in the adjoining room where Lu Xun was, someone also noticed the anomaly, exclaiming loudly.
"The Second Floor, it’s the Second Floor, I was watching just now, that Ye Jian and Senior Brother Lu, both on the Second Floor!"
Lu Xun, however, remained oblivious as he continued drinking, mocking himself with a laugh. After all, Ye Jian was a prodigy of the Ye Family; reaching Titled Grandmaster under fifty was itself demon-like, and his failure at the Third Floor wasn’t something he could equate with himself.
How could someone like me hold a candle to that?
That’s not even a funny joke!
Completely depressed, Lu Xun drank another large bowl of wine, immediately slumping onto the table, missing out on hearing the continued discussion among his juniors and trainees.
"Even..."
"Even what?"
"I must have been seeing things. I seemed to notice that the Third Floor of the Junlin Pavilion remained motionless, though it had briefly illuminated when Senior Brother Lu entered..."