Chapter 187: Luck Is the First Trial of Cultivation!

"Correct... it is me!"

Xiang Longtao smiled faintly, though his expression was somewhat grotesque due to his drastically altered appearance.

At this moment, his right hand was pinching a martial artist who struggled constantly; this man had found his way here precisely by following Xiang Longtao's directions.

"You... how did you become like this?" On the platform, Ye Kaishan asked, his face filled with shock.

Theoretically, once one enters the First Transformation, the flesh and blood can be cleansed, freeing the body from the limitations of the mortal shell.

Let alone becoming more handsome, but his appearance certainly did not reverse like Xiang Longtao's, as if he had practiced a demonic art.

"That is none of your concern." Xiang Longtao frowned; these people were poking at the sore spot.

To form the Nine Dragons Uniting Body, he even consumed nine kinds of potent nourishing pills, and upon breaking through, his flesh and blood directly severed the Red Dragon.

Although his appearance became slightly uglier, he successfully used the medicinal power of the pills to catalyze the process, saving dozens of days of bitter effort, and his strength multiplied tenfold.

In terms of baseline strength, no one in the entire competition could surpass him.

Relying solely on pure numerical suppression, he could break skill with force, crushing over ninety-nine percent of the martial artists present.

"What do you intend to do this time?" Ye Kaishan asked.

"What do I intend? Aren't you targeting Fang Can? You even held a 'Kill Fang Assembly' here." Xiang Longtao said with a grotesque expression: "I am very interested in this matter."

'So he just wants to join.' The martial artists present breathed a sigh of relief; that made things easier to discuss.

"Since Brother Xiang wishes to join, naturally you are welcome." Ye Kaishan smiled: "With Brother Xiang's assistance, victory is certain; how about we take the initiative?"

"Take the initiative?"

"We need not wait until noon the day after tomorrow; simply search the entire battlefield for Fang Can's location, and once found, summon surrounding martial artists to come and support."

"By the way, if you see Dayan martial artists on the road, do not be idle; kill them on the spot, considering it revenge for our ancestors." Ye Kaishan said coldly.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

In the underground chamber of Great Chu, Fang Can slowly rose and began to move his body bit by bit.

The number above his head was slightly higher than when he first entered, reaching a baseline value of 10,900.

Acting on the thought that idleness was still idleness, he had just implanted the concept of bones into every part of his body, successfully making his physical strength a perfect whole, solidifying into an iron man with no weaknesses.

Whether eyes, internal organs, or blood vessels and meridians, it would take half a day of filing with a rasp just to draw blood.

As he exerted force around his body, he could seemingly hear the sound of blood surging and flowing within him.

'This fellow.' Xiang Ziyu, watching Fang Can stretch his muscles and bones bit by bit from the side, muttered silently in her heart, is this even human?

My royal brother, who is two and a half meters tall, only has twelve thousand; if this fellow's height were raised to two and a half meters, under the same weight, wouldn't his baseline strength break fifty thousand?

"Everything is ready; the body has been polished to its peak, waiting for the final battle at noon the day after tomorrow."

Fang Can looked at his own body; after this period of thousand-fold grinding and ten-thousand-fold striking, there was almost no possibility of further progress in such a short time.

"Wait, you mean you want to rely on this baseline strength of less than eleven thousand, without breaking through to the First Transformation, without relying on inheritance, to win first place in the competition?" Xiang Ziyu, standing nearby, could not help but say.

"Yes, just watch."

Fang Can nodded lightly: "At that time, you just follow behind me; you are responsible for reciting poetry, and I am responsible for killing people."

'Will this work?' Xiang Ziyu muttered silently in her heart on the side; do not let even my royal brother fail this first trial.

With this thought, she suddenly asked: "But are you not afraid I will suddenly regret it and stop reciting poetry? If I recite a poem about dark clouds covering the moon then, won't you die?"

"Floating clouds obscure the sun but not the eyes; you can try it then."

Fang Can placed his palm on the girl's head and said calmly: "I do not like deceiving people, nor do I like being deceived by others; if you do not keep your promise... no, you will not."

Looking at the calm-faced youth, the girl instinctively shrank her neck; for some reason, a thought arose in her mind that opposing the person before her would be something ominous.

In fact, the girl's intuition was indeed correct, because when this group of people raised the thought of opposing Fang Can in their minds, luck would not stand on their side.

The entire five-hundred-person Fang-Killing squad searched the whole world for trouble with Fang Can and the Dayan martial artists.

After searching for most of the day, they did not even see a shadow of Fang Can, and then they unluckily ran into two monsters who had just entered the First Transformation.

On the Dayan battlefield, a newly resurrected Yin Spirit whistled as it drifted above the city.

Although it was broad daylight, the atmosphere was ghostly and eerie, with cold winds whistling, as the Red Ghost who had entered the First Transformation through extreme methods unleashed a killing aura.

On the other side, a man in white robes looked at the dozen or so First Transformation martial artists surrounding him and sighed lightly.

"You boy are a disciple of the Huaxing Sect from Dayan, ranked 872 on the Hidden Dragon List; one person from me is enough." A martial artist sneered.

"Sigh, why is it so unlucky?" The man in white robes thought helplessly:

'Being locked up by superpower users after transmigrating is one thing, but fighting in a competition of nations only to run into more than a dozen First Transformation martial artists blocking the door; I also want that kind of luck superpower like Fang Can.'

Accompanying this thought, the youth's body began to fade bit by bit, merging into the air.

Then, amidst the wary gazes of the crowd, a voice sounded in their ears: "Our Huaxing Sect's ability allows us to actively merge into a substance after the First Transformation, becoming a pure elemental life form."

"At that time, however much strength you possess, that is how much of the same substance you can move."

"In the past, those old fossils thought of turning into iron or water, but the most common substance we encounter daily is clearly the gas we breathe every day."

"I want to see, facing nitrogen which occupies a million cubic meters and accounts for 78% of the air ratio, how will you fight?"

Accompanying this voice, a phantom giant hand pinched the dozen or so martial artists in front from above and threw them simultaneously into the high sky.

Some martial artists wanted to strike, but when their power hit the phantom air around them, there was no point of leverage, and they could only feel the violent wind surging.

"It is useless, it is useless; use your brains to think, how can a person defeat air with force?"

The phantom figure wanted to speak again, but the next moment, a terrifying force forcibly gathered that million cubic meters of air.

When the man looked down, he discovered that a huge chessboard had already unfolded beneath his feet.

"Rule-based power must be defeated by rule-based power."

"I admit your First Transformation ability is very effective against pure strength-type martial artists."

Ye Yunfeng of the Chess Pavilion smiled: "But even if you are that so-called Nitrogen Man, as long as you are still in the First Transformation, you must play chess with me."

"So... let us have a game of chess with life as the wager."

(Chapter End)