Chapter 397: News from the Ocean! (1/2)
Chapter 397: News from the Ocean!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
With the insight and experience of the Saint Martial realm, circulating the first layer of the Halo of Dusk Stallion was more scary than harmful, and Wang Chong lifted this heavy weight as if it was as light as a feather.
Clackclack! The crisp sound of crunching bones came from his body, along with the rumbling of the twenty-seven acupuncture points beginning to open.
After a whole two hours, the final acupuncture point was opened, and the first cycle was finally completed within Wang Chong's body.
A change suddenly took place at Wang Chong's dantian. A green-black loop about the size of a thumb suddenly formed.
Though small, it was incredibly heavy. It exuded the weight of a hill, yet it glimmered like a sharp saber.
The Halo of Dusk Stallion!
In this instant, the aura emitted by Wang Chong's body became several times heavier while a completely new energy began to surge through his body.
It was not only this. When Wang Chong condensed the Halo of Dusk Stallion, his body underwent a fundamental change. He had satisfied the last condition to charge toward the True Martial realm.
Boom!
As he unwittingly touched upon the laws of the world, Wang Chong only felt like his mind was suddenly shaken, his entire soul seemingly jolted out of his body.
At the same time, a brand-new energy, imbued with the laws of the world, emerged from the depths of space-time and entered his mind. Like a land suffering from a long drought encountering a sweet rain, Wang Chong felt completely revitalized as his mental strength, Origin Energy, and physical strength instantly rose.
Meanwhile, that invisible power that had always restricted Wang Chong also collapsed!
At the Origin Energy realm, Wang Chong had reached a bottleneck, but now that the barrier between realms had been broken, a whole new 'world' was unfurling before Wang Chong, and nothing stood in his way.
”Wonderful!”
Wang Chong jumped off the ground. This was not his first time entering the True Martial realm, but the sensation of soaring energy still filled Wang Chong with exuberant excitement.
By ascending from the Origin Energy realm to the True Martial realm, Wang Chong had finally realized his hopes.
But he wasn't happy for too long. After just a few moments, Wang Chong exclaimed and fell back to the ground as something completely unexpected occurred.
Boom!
A gale began to spiral within the secret chamber. Right after he broke into the True Martial realm, the just-formed, weighty Halo of Dusk Stallion in Wang Chong's body suddenly unleashed an unimaginably terrifying attractive force.
As if Wang Chong's body had been dropped into a black hole, the Stellar Energy within him began to whirl into that thumb-sized Halo of Dusk Stallion.
Even all of the Origin Energy around Wang Chong began to pour in.
Wang Chong had never experienced such a terrifying attractive force. He felt like all his flesh and blood was being pulled in and kneaded into a ball.
In an instant, Wang Chong's brow was covered in sweat.
Bang!
The door to the hidden chamber was smashed open. At almost the same moment Wang Chong fell over, Huang Qian-er had heard something happen inside and rushed into the room.
”What's wrong?”
Huang Qian-er took a big stride forward and swiftly took Wang Chong by the arm. He was pale and sweating torrents, appearing inconceivably weak.
She had just been told to protect him while he was cultivating, and Huang Qian-er could never have imagined that he would cultivate himself into this state.
”Damn! This better not be a cultivation defect!”
Huang Qian-er had an extremely nasty expression.
The Huang Clan had sent her to protect Wang Chong. This was not simply a relationship between her and Wang Chong, but also involved the safety of the entire Huang Clan.
But if Wang Chong encountered a cultivation defect, she had no idea how she would explain things to both her clan and the Wang Clan.
No matter how powerful she was, she couldn't guard against a cultivation defect!
”What in the world are you thinking!”
Wang Chong looked at the fluctuating expression on Huang Qian-er's face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. He could immediately tell what sort of train of thought Huang Qian-er had departed on.
”Relax; I'm not in as awful condition as you imagine. You're also a warrior of the True Martial realm. Can you not find out what the problem is by inspecting my meridians?”
Wang Chong's reminder broke Huang Qian-er out of her panicked concern. Holding Wang Chong's wrist, she sensed his pulse and instantly felt embarrassed.
Although Wang Chong's aura was weak and his face pale, his pulse was very normal and steady, with no sign that he had encountered some cultivation defect.
”Hmph, if you're okay, why are you squatting on the floor!”
Huang Qian-er's face went beet-red as she threw Wang Chong's arm to the floor. When she stood up again, her face had once more cooled.
”Please, do I look like someone who's okay?”
Wang Chong was truly frustrated. He had only said that he had not encountered a cultivation defect. When had he said that he was okay?
”That's your own problem! Since you aren't dying, I'll be taking my leave!”
Huang Qian-er snorted and walked out with an icy face, the large silver sword still slung on her back.
Wang Chong could only watch with a bitter smile as Huang Qian-er coldly walked out.
This woman… she's really 'loyal to her duty'!
But Wang Chong truly couldn't be bothered to argue about these things with Huang Qian-er.
”I'm in trouble now!”
Wang Chong 'looked' at the Halo of Dusk Stallion in his body and bitterly laughed. Zhao Qianqiu had said long ago that cultivating this technique would impose a heavy burden on the body, consuming a great deal of Origin Energy and Stellar Energy, and even cause his martial realm to regress.
But Wang Chong had not expected the consequences to be so great.
He was not merely no longer a True Martial realm cultivator. He had gone from Tier 1 of the True Martial realm down to Tier 9 of Origin Energy, and then Tier 8, and finally stopped at Origin Energy Tier 7!
Just the first layer of the Halo of Dusk Stallion had caused him to fall three levels!