Chapter 623 408: Hua Yuexian
"Senior Brother Chen is looking for someone in the Ninth Realm or higher who cultivates Pure Yang Martial Arts..."
As soon as this student finished speaking, he gasped, realizing that the person in front of him seemed to have broken through to the Ninth Realm's Blood Exchange cultivation just within the past couple of days.
Simply unbelievable.
Recalling the time when he came here to challenge Senior Sister Sang Hensong, how long had it been?
He quickly flipped through his little notebook.
"The requirement for Brother Chen's challenge is a bit high, and there aren't many people who meet it. Let me see, only Senior Brother Zhang Chixin from the Primordial Yang Hall fits the criteria."
"Senior Brother Zhang Chixin? This name sounds a bit familiar," Chen Ku subconsciously said.
"Of course it sounds familiar. Senior Brother Zhang Chixin is currently the top figure at the Primordial Yang Hall, ranked in the top ten on our Divine Martial Mountain's Famous Persons List, and twenty-fifth on the Dragon Abyss Nine Provinces Genius List, with a cultivation of Ninth Realm Third Layer Heaven, and combat power reaching Ninth Realm Eighth Layer Heaven."
Holding his little notebook, the student recited with familiarity:
"Especially after cultivating the 'Nine Yang Immortal Scripture' from the Primordial Yang Hall, it's said that his combat power is approaching the Six Great Limits, almost reaching the Ninth Realm Ninth Layer Heaven."
After saying this.
The student quietly asked in a low voice:
"Senior Brother Chen, choosing Senior Brother Zhang's Martial Arts Mark as an opponent, isn't it a bit... uncertain?"
After all, having seen Chen Ku fight several times, although he felt Chen Ku could leap six small realms to fight others, possibly reaching the Seven Limit, now that he had just broken through the Ninth Realm First Layer Heaven, he was considering fighting Senior Brother Zhang Chixin of the Ninth Realm Eighth Layer Heaven.
The odds could be said to be less than even ten percent.
Chen Ku, in response to this inquiry, just smiled and replied, "It's just a spar, after all, there's no need to win. So it'll be Senior Brother Zhang. I mainly want to see his Pure Yang Martial Arts."
If this Senior Brother Zhang truly possesses the Pure Yang Body, then if not this time, as my cultivation improves, I will be able to defeat him eventually.
"Senior Brother Chen is right," the student said somewhat dazedly.
Mainly because all of Chen Ku's previous challenges were victorious, so he instinctively felt that Chen Ku came with a winning mindset.
Chen Ku, smiling, tossed a spiritual medicine to the student who provided him information a second time.
Then he stepped into the Martial Training Camp's sky screen.
Others there immediately asked the student:
"Bai Ke, who is Senior Brother Chen Ku challenging this time?"
When the student named Bai Ke mentioned 'Zhang Chixin's' name, it immediately caused a commotion.
"Actually challenging the number one of the Primordial Yang Hall."
This news quickly spread through members of the Primordial Yang Hall, reaching them in no time.
Zhang Chixin.
Someone nearing the Ninth Realm Ninth Layer Heaven combat power, ranked twenty-fifth on the Dragon Abyss Heroes List, unlike anyone Chen Ku had challenged before.
If Chen Ku could indeed defeat him, it would mean that Chen Ku would qualify to ascend the Heroes List.
All of a sudden.
When Chen Ku stepped into the sky screen to choose an opponent, numerous experts from various halls were attracted and curiously gathered around the Martial Training Camp, eager to spectate.
"Senior Brother Xue is here as well."
Someone noticed that Xue Bailiu had also come over with hands folded behind his back.
"And there's Miss He," someone remarked, looking at a slightly dark-skinned maiden, it was the same girl who had spoken for Tang Xuan last time. Her talent was exceedingly high, ranking fifteenth on the Dragon Abyss Heroes List. It was said she had the strength to battle with the Tenth Realm Primordial Heaven experts, quite extraordinary.
"Senior Brother Chu Fengwu."
Chu Fengwu was also present, his expression grave as he looked at Chen Ku selecting his opponent in the sky screen.
He ranked ninety-ninth on the Human List.
Originally, he should have been the most likely to encounter Chen Ku, this rapidly advancing genius, in the Martial Training Camp.
But he never expected that Chen Ku would surpass him, skipping over dozens of ranks to directly challenge Zhang Chixin, who is ranked twenty-fifth on the Heroes List.
"Senior Brother Zhang Chixin is here."
All eyes turned.
There appeared a group of people dressed in black and white attire, the uniform of the Primordial Yang Hall. Leading them was a young man, very tall, towering over his companions by a head, with a mane of black hair cascading down his back, possessing a mighty build, dignified appearance, with faint sparks of lightning flickering in his eyes.
Clearly, this was Zhang Chixin himself, the legend whom Chen Ku wanted to challenge.
"Chen Ku is a bit too arrogant. We know he's just broken through to the Ninth Realm First Layer Heaven, but to want to challenge Senior Brother Zhang, he'd need to at least have Ninth Realm Eighth Layer Heaven combat power to be qualified. Has he entered the domain of the Seven Limit? And to defeat Senior Brother Zhang, he'd need Ninth Realm Ninth Layer Heaven combat power, which is the Eight Great Limits! Does he think he's Hua Yuexian, able to leap over eight small realms to fight others?"
A student from the Yin Yang Hall, standing beside Zhang Chixin, commented on Chen Ku.
Having been at Divine Martial Mountain for nearly half a year.
The majority of those from various halls had already developed a sense of belonging to their own hall. Although Chen Ku also took courses at the Primordial Yang Hall, no one from the Primordial Yang Hall considered Chen Ku one of their own.
So at this moment, when their hall's number one, Senior Brother Zhang Chixin, was challenged by Chen Ku, they all immediately felt a sense of resistance.
"Helan, Old Seven, Qingxuan, what do you all think?"
Xiao Tianzuo and the six from Yan Capital also came to watch immediately.
"Although I also feel that Chen Brother's challenge target is somewhat ambitious, but... for some reason."
Helan Qing, tapping his folding fan, smiled and said:
"I always want to believe in Chen Brother, and feel that he can create miracles and bring surprises."
The Martial Training Camp had already gathered three to four hundred students.
Under the heavenly dome.
Chen Ku also chose to challenge the environment, selecting a desert.
The scene unfolded.
Immediately, yellow dust flew beneath their feet, and the wild sand raged.
Woo woo woo~~
The gusts of yellow wind seemingly blew in from the northwest, making the ground beneath feel boundlessly desolate.
[Challenge Opponent Zhang Chixin]
Wherever Chen Ku's gaze reached, he immediately noticed the towering and majestic young man standing on a boulder a thousand feet away, his hands clasped in fists, eyes expressing an indifference that seemed to disdain everything.
Boom~
The moment Chen Ku's and the opponent's gazes collided, a loud explosion echoed through the sky.
In an instant.
Zhang Chixin's projection on the boulder vanished into thin air, as if he transformed himself into a red sun, rising from this sandy desert, swinging his body, and aiming a strike at Chen Ku with full force.
It was a palm, five fingers spreading downward, as if pressing a sun wheel to spin. Before it struck Chen Ku, the terrifying Pure Yang Power released from the sun wheel warped the air.
Woo woo woo~~
As the air whistled and roared.
"The 'Red Sun Great Handprint' of the Primordial Yang Hall?"
Chen Ku happened to comprehend this handprint in the Martial Arts Stele Forest while simultaneously sensing the power of Senior Brother Zhang Chixin's strike, infinitely approaching Jin Xun's Ninth Realm peak Blood Qi—indeed, nearing the peak of Ninth Realm in strength.
Without Jin Xun's Blood Qi augmentation, he instantly activated the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation within:
"Open Gate, Rest Gate, Life Gate, Shang Gate, Du Gate, Jing Gate, Shocking Gate, seven gates open!"
In an instant, he unhesitatingly opened the great formation of the seven gates within himself.
Prior to this, he had never opened the seven gates, because the Eight Gates Escaping Armor was reputed to fully open and reach the Eight Great Limits Domain, a world-shaking formation crossing eight realms to kill enemies.
Chen Ku had previously opened just four gates.
Now, however, he opened seven gates at once, for a simple reason; he understood his body better than anyone after breaking through several realms consecutively.
Boom!
As the sun wheel great handprint smashed down, it seemed as if thousands of horsemen were roaring on Chen Ku, tearing the air, and causing the air to warp.
He extended an arm, his palm trembling slightly as he pressed down, unleashing immense power to envelop the True Gang within, sketching martial arts transformations, forming a sky-reaching giant hand.
In a flash, he swept away all the sunlight above his head, striking horizontally towards Zhang Chixin.
Palm Heaven!
It was the first form of Scattered Palm, Palm Heaven, created by Chen Ku, directly unleashed.
This was because he knew the opponent's strength was formidable, eliminating the need for probing.
Directly using the power after opening the seven gates to elevate his strength to the Seven Limits, he wielded the strength of Eighth Layer Heaven with Ninth Realm, First Layer cultivation, confident to take on the opponent.
Rumble rumble!
The fierce trembling sounded as if it was going to destroy this sandy ground, both their punches and palms clashed thousands of times in an instant.
Boom!
Subsequently, as if the sky was torn apart by a mighty force, Chen Ku and Zhang Chixin's figures simultaneously suffered heavy blows, shaking and flying in two directions.
Under the heavenly dome, everyone was wide-eyed and speechless.
"What?"
"Did he actually draw in the first round with Senior Brother Zhang Chixin?"
"Has Chen Ku truly stepped into the Seven Limits with Ninth Realm Blood Exchange, wielding Eighth Layer Heaven power?!"
Even Zhang Chixin himself, under the dome, his eyes slightly narrowed:
"That's... the Eight Gates Escape Armor Formation, he can actually open seven gates? What level of strength has his body reached to withstand the reinforcement of the seven gates formation?"
Xue Bailiu was slightly solemn at this moment, because he knew well that Chen Ku still had the 'Prohibition' on him, even at Eleven Realm True Body, capable of petrifying with a single breath.
If he could exert Seven Limits power, coupled with the Prohibition within the Iron Tree, it really might hold the chance to defeat Zhang Chixin's projection.
Meanwhile,
Just as everyone was focused on the battle between Chen Ku and Zhang Chixin's projection under the heavenly dome.
...
Towards Yan Capital's direction.
Suddenly, a call as clear and noble as a saint's resounded through the sky, coming from the west, drawing everyone's gaze upwards, where they saw a fiery Divine Beast Vermilion Bird spreading its wings, veiling the sky.
On the Vermilion Bird's head, sitting cross-legged, was a youth in white, as snowy as snow, saintly as a god.
In that instant, the entire Yan Capital trembled:
"Vermilion Bird, White clothes, is it Hua Yuexian? He's here at Yan Capital."