Chapter 549: Below the Peak, Dharma Skeleton Holy Body

When Ning Qingman commented on the world's experts, she once told Li Fei that besides the princes of the Western Continent, there were several other top-tier True Persons who possessed the strength to threaten him:

Wu Hui, the acting Sect Master of the Feathered Sect.

The Great Man of the Grassland's Fulfillment Sect.

And another one, Wuche of Pudu Temple.

These three people all possessed combat power comparable to the princes of the Western Continent!

Between a Grandmaster and a Martial Saint, between a top-tier True Person and a True Lord, there is no transitional realm.

Therefore, the Eastern Continent does not have a realm corresponding to a prince; to break through the limit of the realm, one must use special methods.

For example, Boerhu of the Northern Barbarians relies on unique beast transformation, and the Great Man relies on the power of faith.

Wuche relies on a second life-bound magic treasure.

Before Li Fei grew up, the person in the Great Lan Dynasty with the best chance of breaking through the limit of the realm and possessing Prince-level combat power was actually Bai Yan.

The Northern Barbarian trip, if the other party didn't die, tempering the 【Soldier Lord】 divine ability with the power of the soldier path, his cultivation would inevitably soar.

At that time, even without relying on the military formation, the 【Soldier Lord】 divine ability could allow him to rival an army alone, thereby possessing Prince-level combat power.

Breaking through to become a Saint in the future would also be an opportunity!

It was just a pity that Bai Yan died in the Northern Barbarians.

Now, if Li Fei wants to learn about Prince-level combat power, he can only fight with external enemies.

So "fishing" and catching Wuche, he was very pleasantly surprised.

After defeating seven Western Continent dukes, Li Fei really wanted to compete with a true Prince-level expert.

He wanted to know—

Below the peak, does he still have any enemies?!

On the deck, the person who ran out to welcome Wuche earlier was terrified.

He was a cabinet member of the Judicial Cabinet, named Ruan Chen, with True Person cultivation, usually responsible for refining and maintaining large flying escape magic treasures.

This time the imperial court sent people to pick up Li Lei and others to Lanling City, and Ruan Chen was also a member of the entourage, responsible for operating the storied ship.

No one had thought beforehand that he would be a mole, and he hadn't thought that Li Fei would appear here!

"Holy Monk..."

Ruan Chen subconsciously hid behind Wuche, already having thoughts of retreating.

At this time, four streaks of brilliant light shot from afar and landed on the deck.

They were four flags.

The Four Symbols Array rose again, but didn't go to trap Wuche and Ruan Chen, but surrounded the room in the center of the storied ship.

Royal offering Zhou Xuanwo flew from afar and nodded at Li Fei.

His task was to protect Li Lei and others well, allowing Li Fei to let go and fight.

Wuche looked calmly at Zhou Xuanwo setting up the array, without taking action to interrupt.

The moment Li Fei appeared, he knew that this operation was unlikely to succeed.

However, he was not panicked.

Even if he encountered a top-tier expert, he had the confidence that he could protect himself and escape.

Although Li Fei had just completed the feat of fighting seven with one, Wuche still had the confidence to win in battle!

Such confidence is essential for every expert!

"Amitabha."

Wuche suddenly took a step back, grabbed the Ruan Chen beside him with one hand, and the two turned into a golden Buddhist light, vanishing from the deck.

Buddhist art divine ability · 【Divine Foot Movement】!

This divine ability is somewhat similar to 【No Distance】, both capable of spatial movement.

However, 【No Distance】 is teleporting at will within a range, while 【Divine Foot Movement】 requires pre-anchoring "coordinates" and performing spatial movement between "coordinates," more like point-to-point transmission.

Just now Li Fei was waiting for Zhou Xuanwo to arrive and set up the array, while Wuche was constructing "coordinates" for Ruan Chen, so that he could take people away together.

Ruan Chen could become a cabinet member of the Judicial Cabinet, hold an important position, and be involved in many arrangements of the Buddhist sect.

So both emotionally and rationally, Wuche couldn't let Ruan Chen fall into the hands of the imperial court.

Seeing the two vanish, Li Fei also activated 【No Distance】 and vanished from the deck.

In the high sky more than 1,500 meters away, a golden Buddhist light flashed, and Wuche appeared here with Ruan Chen.

【Divine Foot Movement】 is not as free and easy as 【No Distance】, but its advantage is that the distance of spatial movement is farther, and it can transmit people together.

"Go quickly, return to Pudu Temple."

Wuche said to Ruan Chen, while handing a Buddhist bead to the other party.

He himself could rely on the "coordinates" prepared in advance to withdraw, but to take Ruan Chen away together, he had to reconstruct "coordinates" for the other party.

This definitely wouldn't be in time, so he let Ruan Chen go by himself.

Ruan Chen took the Buddhist bead, didn't say a word, first applied an invisibility spell to himself, and then went away with the wind.

He had just left, when Li Fei appeared nearby.

Once the spatial coordinates of 【Divine Foot Movement】 are triggered, it is difficult to cover up, and for someone like Li Fei who also mastered spatial divine abilities, these triggered "coordinates" are like bright lights in the dark night, very eye-catching.

So it was very easy for Li Fei to chase over.

Seeing that Ruan Chen was no longer there, Li Fei was not in a hurry, just looking calmly at Wuche:

"It looks like you don't intend to run?"

Wuche had 【Divine Foot Movement】 on his body; if he wanted to leave, indeed even top-tier experts would find it difficult to keep him.

"This poor monk also wants to witness the style of a great nation."

Wuche put his hands together and smiled slightly.

In just a few days, Li Fei's battle of fighting seven with one had spread throughout the world.

Li Fei also smiled:

"Very good, I hope you don't let this Marquis down."

As his voice fell, the two vanished from the spot at the same time.

Wuche was the first to appear 1,500 meters away; before Li Fei appeared, the nine-ring tin staff in his hand flew out, turning into a thunder dragon hanging high in the sky!

This was his first life-bound magic treasure—Nine Tin Flying Dragon Staff.

The "Nirvana of Crossing the World Thunder Method" was fully activated, the sea of clouds for a radius of a thousand meters was dyed silver, and Wuche completely hid his figure.

Li Fei followed closely and chased over.

He had just appeared, when the surrounding sea of clouds immediately began to rotate, countless thunder lights poked their heads out from the cloud vortex, turning into thirty-six 30-zhang-tall thunder beast Vajras, holding knives, swords, axes, and halberds to seal the eight directions of the sky!

Attacking Shi Caiming just now was just a small test, and now was the true face of the "Nirvana of Crossing the World Thunder Method," this Buddhist number one thunder method!

This thunder and lightning world was the manifestation of the Nine Tin Flying Dragon Staff's array.

Li Fei, clad in golden armor, stood on the ocean woven of thunder and lightning.

Eight thunder beast Vajras carried a magnificent momentum, breaking through the air, and surrounded from eight directions.

Li Fei raised his right arm, light flashed in his hand, and a Ghost Slaying Blade appeared.

He swept with the blade, various images turned into brilliant heavenly light, finally condensing on the blade edge— 【

【Ignorant of the Heavens】!

The eight Jin Gang Thunder Beasts were almost simultaneously sliced in half by this line of heavenly light, then exploded with a boom.

Amidst the earth-shattering sound of thunder explosions, the ocean formed by lightning was heaved into a giant ring-shaped wave, piling up layer upon layer as it flew backward, growing higher and higher until it finally transformed into a hundred-foot-tall thunder curtain.

The remaining twenty-eight Jin Gang Thunder Beasts appeared behind this hundred-foot thunder curtain, pushing it back against the flow!

At the same time, the eight Jin Gang Thunder Beasts just destroyed by Li Fei 'reborn' on the spot and attacked again!

Li Fei could clearly have used 【No Distance】 to dodge, but he didn't dodge at all, charging straight at a Jin Gang Thunder Beast wielding a giant axe; the moment the axe blade reached his head, he split the Jin Gang Thunder Beast in two with a single slash.

In the blink of an eye, he had hacked all eight thunder beasts to pieces, one per slash!

By now, the giant wave of lightning had become a monstrous force, pushed back by the twenty-eight Jin Gang Thunder Beasts until it finally formed a massive sphere of lightning.

Li Fei was at the center of the sphere.

The sphere contracted rapidly, and space began to collapse!

A streak of brilliant light sliced the sphere in half; Li Fei charged out from within, taking the opportunity to slash and break three more Jin Gang Thunder Beasts.

Above the sea of thunder, the electric light was scorching, and thunder explosions were constant.

The thirty-six Jin Gang Thunder Beasts attacked Li Fei time and time again, were hacked to pieces time and time again, and were reborn on the spot time and time again.

Li Fei's power continued to rise under the blessing of the 【Dragon Elephant】 divine ability, and the power of these Jin Gang Thunder Beasts was also constantly increasing!

The coordination of the thirty-six Jin Gang Thunder Beasts became increasingly tacit, and the formations they composed became more and more targeted.

Li Fei was struck by these Jin Gang Thunder Beasts time and again, and cracks began to appear on his battle armor, but they were quickly repaired by the 【Refining Objects】 divine ability.

This divine ability does not necessarily require the consumption of blood souls; using the world's origin energy as 'fuel' can also trigger the divine ability to repair the damaged 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】.

Therefore, without his defense being completely broken, Li Fei relied on the 【Huntian Golden Palace】 + 【Refining Objects】 divine ability to keep his 'shield bar' constantly recovering, while his 'health bar' didn't drop by a single drop!

After a few minutes of fighting, the 【Dragon Elephant】 divine ability had already been boosted to the level of 'Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants'.

With every move Li Fei made, he possessed a terrifying explosive power of billions of jin!

The power of the thirty-six Jin Gang Thunder Beasts was certainly stronger than before, but the magnitude was far less than Li Fei's.

At this moment, even if they joined forces, they couldn't stop a casual slash from him.

The momentum was like crushing a mountain; the blade slashed, and the thunder vanished!

Suddenly, Li Fei teleported to a certain spot, aimed at the churning dark clouds of lightning above, and thrust his blade out.

It was another 【Ignorant of the Heavens】, but this time it was no longer a horizontal sweep of heavenly light, but a streak of brilliant light thrusting straight upward, as if to pierce the firmament and head into the depths of the universe.

Boom—

The heavens and earth shook violently, and the sea of thunder surged.

A thunder dragon revealed its form within the dark clouds.

Li Fei instantly appeared on top of the thunder dragon's head and slashed down—

The dragon's head broke off, the dragon's body crumbled, and it transformed back into a nine-ringed monk's staff.

Li Fei's Ghost Slaying Blade struck the staff's body, leaving a blade mark on it!

Hum—

The nine-ringed monk's staff flew out, trembling violently.

The reason Li Fei had tangled with those thirty-six Jin Gang Thunder Beasts for so long was to familiarize himself with this formation, thereby finding the location of this Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff.

Having been tempered by Wenren Zheng in so many matches, he had become familiar with the rhythm of top-tier experts fighting and knew how to find the key nodes of formations and martial domains.

Trapped in the opponent's formation, it was inevitable that the opponent's formation was constantly 'interacting' with his own 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】.

True experts utilize this 'interaction' to quickly familiarize themselves with the opponent's power flow and changes, thereby finding the key nodes of the martial domain and formation, and then breaking them.

This is the fighting rhythm of top-tier experts, no longer limited to the competition of moves.

This is also the reason why Yunshu's 【Analysis】 Dao rule can play a huge role in battle.

Wuche was similarly familiar with this fighting rhythm; he also used the previous exchange to look for the key nodes of Li Fei's 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】.

But the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 is a masterpiece of combining magic and martial arts, more complex and with more profound changes than the martial domains and formations Wuche had seen before.

Besides that, the strength of the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】 also exceeded Wuche's estimates.

So Li Fei locked onto the position of the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff first, while Wuche still hadn't broken through the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】.

As the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff was slashed away and the formation was broken, the surrounding lightning disappeared accordingly.

Wuche appeared out of thin air and caught the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff that had been slashed away.

Li Fei then appeared beside Wuche and slashed down at his head!

Clang—

Wuche didn't dodge or evade, actually letting Li Fei's blade strike his head!

A crack was slashed into the head that shimmered with a faint golden light; inside, there was no flesh or bone, but a certain metal engraved with dense Sanskrit characters.

"Hmm?"

Li Fei was somewhat surprised.

With the power of this slash of his, even diamond would be like tofu under his blade, but Wuche had actually blocked it with his own body?

Wuche raised his right palm and, with the force of a thunderbolt, slapped Li Fei's chest.

Li Fei met it with his left palm; in an instant, dozens of forces exploded between their palms!

"Is this your second natal magic treasure?"

Li Fei spoke while raising his right hand to slash again with his blade.

All along, the world had known that Wuche of Pudu Temple had a second natal magic treasure.

But what exactly this treasure was, few people knew.

Because even using only one natal magic treasure, Wuche was already the best among top-tier experts.

Previously, Zhou Xuanwo had fully activated the grand formation to trap Wuche, but he hadn't been able to see what the opponent's second natal magic treasure was.

Now Li Fei knew—

It was Wuche himself!

Or rather, this body of Wuche's was his second natal magic treasure—the Dharma Skeleton Holy Body.

However, he didn't refine his flesh into a magic treasure like Li Fei; he refined a magic treasure into a human form to use as his own body.

"I heard you are the second person in this world to combine magic and martial arts."

Wuche said, while raising the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff in his hand to block the Ghost Slaying Blade Li Fei had slashed down.

"This monk also combines magic and martial arts; today I will come to weigh you, this second one!"

For other warlocks, once a martial artist gets close, they have basically already lost more than half the battle.

Relying on his second natal Dharma Skeleton Holy Body, Wuche could actually fight in close quarters like a martial artist!

To a certain extent, this could indeed be considered a combination of magic and martial arts.

The Ghost Slaying Blade struck the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff, and the irresistible power made the staff's body tremble incessantly.

Even as bolts of lightning suddenly roared out from the Flying Dragon Staff and struck his battle armor, Li Fei's Ghost Slaying Blade forcibly suppressed the Flying Dragon Staff, striking Wuche's body for the second time and leaving a blade mark on his neck!

This time, relying on the 'interaction' of the 【Hunyuan Sword Realm】, Li Fei perceived more details—

This Dharma Skeleton Holy Body of Wuche's, like a Grandmaster of the Dao-Establishing realm, highly condensed the formation onto his body.

However, the formation didn't turn into battle armor, but into tens of millions of Sanskrit characters hidden within his body, rapidly decomposing, transmitting, and absorbing the power of the Ghost Slaying Blade's strike.

As Li Fei slashed, this Dharma Skeleton of Wuche's suddenly erupted with even greater power, and the Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff in his hand swept across, heavily smashing into Li Fei's chest!

Li Fei was smashed backward, the battle armor on his chest shattered, and for the first time, his defense was broken by an opponent.

He realized that this Dharma Skeleton Holy Body of Wuche's also had divine abilities, and the combination of multiple divine abilities could absorb his power and then bounce it back!

Not only that, the two blade marks slashed onto the Dharma Skeleton were healing rapidly.

Super-strong defense, damage reflection, healing... the divine abilities mastered by this Dharma Skeleton of Wuche's were all inclined toward defense.

And the divine abilities condensed by his Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff were all inclined toward offense.

Whether a warlock or a martial artist, one can master at most seven divine abilities.

But Wuche broke this limit by relying on his second natal magic treasure.

The Nine-Ringed Flying Dragon Staff has five divine abilities, and the Dharma Skeleton Holy Body also has five divine abilities!

Although when finally breaking through the realm to condense laws, one can only choose the five divine abilities of one natal magic treasure.

But below the pinnacle, Wuche's combat power is undoubtedly strong!

He, like Li Fei, also wanted to know, who exactly is the strongest below the pinnacle?

(End of chapter)