Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 63 Firm Belief

Chapter 63: Chapter 63 Firm Belief

"Be careful! On the left!" Just at that moment, the brother who had remained motionless behind, Li Baiyun, shouted a warning.

"On the left?" Li Baisheng had just registered the warning when his left arm suddenly throbbed with pain, as if it had been brutally smashed by a giant hammer, sending him flying through the air.

"Boom!" A large tree, wide enough for three people to embrace, blocked Li Yunsheng’s flight path, and he slammed hard into the tree before slowly sliding down to the ground.

Shi Feng, still holding a bundle of firewood in his arms, as if he hadn’t lifted a finger, looked toward Li Baiyun and shook his head disapprovingly. "I told you both to come at me together. I’m in a hurry, and now this delays me further."

"Arrogant!" Li Baiyun roared, pulling a silver serpent-shaped thin sword from his storage ring and thrusting it toward Shi Feng.

The Silver Snake Sword seemed to come alive, transforming into a silver snake shadow. With its mouth open, it spat out hundreds of densely packed serpent-shaped sword shadows. In front of Li Baiyun, sword shadows crisscrossed, spinning toward Shi Feng like a small tornado.

"Full of openings, how could this even hurt me?" Shi Feng’s lips curled into a derisive cold smile, he didn’t retreat but advanced, dashing into the maelstrom of Li Baiyun’s sword shadows. In the blink of an eye, he was engulfed by the sword shadows, and when Shi Feng reappeared, he was already behind Li Baiyun.

As the dragon-shaped sword shadows dissipated, Li Baiyun’s Silver Snake Sword reverted to its original form, and on Li Baiyun’s face was a look of disbelief—eyes wide, "How... how could this be..." before he fell backward with a "thud," his fate unknown.

"Hey, we should get going, they’re waiting for our firewood," Shi Feng turned back and called out to the middle-aged martial master who had been picking firewood with him.

"This... this youngster is too formidable." At this moment, the middle-aged martial master was completely dumbfounded. Yesterday, when Shi Feng had punched Hee Xuan flying, he thought Shi Feng was only slightly better than Hee Xuan. But now, with just a few moves, he had taken care of the Li brothers, who were at the Four-star and Five-star Martial Spirit Level. Just how strong was this youngster?

It was not until Shi Feng called him that the middle-aged martial master snapped out of it, and his view of Shi Feng completely changed.

"I’m coming." The middle-aged martial master nodded to Shi Feng and trotted toward him with the firewood. As he approached Shi Feng, the martial master couldn’t help but tense up, "Young Master Shi, is it okay to just leave them like this? What if demon beasts come and drag them away?"

"Then they can only blame their bad luck," Shi Feng said. "The moment they decided to challenge me, they should have been prepared to face death. Let’s go."

"Oh, okay." The middle-aged martial master nodded in agreement. He didn’t dare to go against Shi Feng’s wishes anymore. If he meddled in what wasn’t his business and angered Shi Feng, being just a lowly martial master, his life could easily be snuffed out.

Shi Feng returned to the camp, where tents were already set up. Around the tents, martial artists were arranged to take turns standing guard to prevent the sudden attack of demon beasts.

Despite the martial artists arranged around them, no one dared to let their guard down, for demon beasts could still potentially appear from the sky or from underground.

In the Demon Beast Mountain Range, danger could arise at any moment.

Night had fallen, and the camp was aglow with bonfires. After Shi Feng had eaten a chicken leg from a Second-stage Fire Chicken Demon, he was about to return to his tent to rest when he saw two figures approaching him.

It was the brothers Li Baiyun and Li Baisheng.

"What’s the matter? Haven’t you two had enough?" Shi Feng sat by the fire, looked up at them, and said.

"No," Li Baiyun shook his head gently and said, "We came over to make it clear to you that since we are inferior in skill, we will not harbor any improper thoughts towards Moon Fairy until we have defeated you."

"That’s right!" Li Baisheng also said seriously, "But this doesn’t mean we’ll give up. We will practice diligently, and within five years, we will certainly surpass you! Defeat you!"

"You have no chance," Shi Feng said frankly. "With your abilities, even a hundred years of practice wouldn’t allow you to beat me. I advise you to give up on this idea."

"You!" The brothers said in unison, "You really are too arrogant!"

"Ah!" Shi Feng sighed and said, "I’m just telling the cruel truth. It’s up to you to listen or not." After saying this, Shi Feng no longer paid attention to the brothers. In truth, he was only speaking the brutal honesty. Slowly standing up, he walked towards his tent. From outside the tent, Li Baisheng’s voice of discontent still carried through, "Just wait for us. Within five years, I will definitely be able to defeat you! Definitely!"

The space inside the tent was very small, with just a grass mat and a cotton blanket. Shi Feng sat cross-legged on the blanket and poured out one Primordial Stone after another from his Storage Ring, began to channel the Nine Nether Technique, and started his Cultivation.

The night of Cultivation flew by in an instant, and Shi Feng opened his eyes with a shake of his head in disappointment.

After a night’s absorption, with the ferocity and dominance of the Nine Nether Technique, he had absorbed three thousand Lower Grade Primordial Stones in one night. Including the nearly three thousand he had absorbed the previous night in the inn at Demon Beast City, he was now left with twenty-four thousand Lower Grade Primordial Stones from the Yin Yang Double Strange, and he had yet to start using the five hundred Mid-Grade Primordial Stones.

But after these two nights with six thousand Primordial Stones gone, along with the Power of Death he had absorbed from the Martial Artists and demon beasts along the way, Shi Feng’s Martial Arts Cultivation had only increased by one-third of ten percent. To step into the Four-star Martial Spirit level, just relying on absorbing Primordial Stones for Cultivation, at the very least, he would need another seven nights to absorb more than twenty thousand Primordial Stones.

The further one progressed in Martial Arts Cultivation, the more difficult the Advancement became, and this was even with Shi Feng practicing the Nine Nether Technique, which was so tyrannically against the heavens that it absorbed energy like a whale taking in water.

If it were anyone else, advancing one star within the Martial Spirit Level would take years of prolonged Cultivation. Even if the Primordial Power in their Dantian had been accumulated enough through years of effort, it still depended on Martial Arts Enlightenment. Some people with insufficient insight might be stuck at the threshold and find it difficult to break through in their lifetime.

And Shi Feng, who was a Martial Emperor Peak in his previous life, lacked nothing in Martial Arts Enlightenment. As long as he had enough energy, he could directly advance.

However, Shi Feng had discovered another issue. Ever since his Dantian merged with the Sacred Flame, the energy required for advancement was now double what it had been in his previous life. Yet, the power he could wield at his current Three-star Martial Spirit level was already somewhat stronger than in his previous life.

This discovery left Shi Feng unsure whether it was good or bad. If he could regain his peak strength, his power would be even stronger than before. Yet, the journey would be much longer and more arduous than in his previous life. Returning to the peak of the Martial Emperor was going to be even more difficult.

"In my lifetime, I have sought the ultimate in Martial Arts; what is this but just spending a bit more time and effort? With my return to the peak, I will gain strength far greater than before, and perhaps this is just the opportunity I need to break through my shackles!" Shi Feng’s face gradually grew firm.

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