Nine Realms Sword Emperor
Chapter 227 - 228: Arrival from the Punishment Hall (3rd Update) (Please Favorite, Reward, and Recommend)

Chapter 227: Chapter 228: Arrival from the Punishment Hall (3rd Update) (Please Favorite, Reward, and Recommend)

In the depths of the palace, if someone were to enter at this moment, they would discover a half-human, half-dragon creature within.

No, it would be more accurate to say it resembled an ancient battle dragon, its tail the only part yet to fully materialize.

"Phew."

The transformation into a dragon finally ceased.

A sigh of relief escaped from within Chu Fengmian’s heart.

It was only when Chu Fengmian was on the brink of becoming a real ancient battle dragon that the dragon transformation on his body slowly stopped.

The boiling blood of the ancient battle dragon began to calm down, and the scales on Chu Fengmian’s body started to fade away.

The crisis of the dragon transformation had at last been temporarily resolved.

Moments earlier, the situation had reached a critical point, with complete transformation being narrowly avoided.

Once transformed, Chu Fengmian would have become a beast known only for slaughter, effectively no different from being dead.

"I’ve finally pulled through."

Chu Fengmian, sitting on the ground, was drenched in cold sweat. It had been a long time since he had experienced this brush with death.

Especially just now, when Chu Fengmian had felt his body almost slipping out of control, an experience he had no desire to repeat.

"Hmph, you’re lucky," Xing Xuan scoffed, upon seeing Chu Fengmian unharmed, thereby finally relaxing, yet he couldn’t help lecturing Chu Fengmian.

"The Battle Dragon Technique might be powerful, but it’s not without its dangers, you know. With such impatience for success, you might have died before even making a breakthrough."

"Your current strength has already reached its limit. You must find another opportunity to break through this bottleneck."

Bottleneck.

Chu Fengmian was well aware of the bottleneck Xing Xuan referred to.

His cultivation realm had already reached the peak of the Divine Sea Realm, and the power from the ten drops of ancient battle dragon blood had also elevated Chu Fengmian’s realm.

And Chu Fengmian’s power had reached the strongest level just below the Divine Power Realm. He didn’t believe there was anyone under the Divine Power Realm who could be his match.

What he had just attempted was a trial to push into the Divine Power Realm.

Given Chu Fengmian’s current realm, should he propel his cultivation to the Yufeng Realm, his strength would directly reach the level of the Divine Power Realm.

However, reaching the Divine Power Realm and becoming a saint was indeed an extremely difficult feat, and Chu Fengmian’s rash advancement had actually brought him close to grave danger.

Just as Xing Xuan had said, it was necessary to find certain opportunities for Chu Fengmian to charge into the Yufeng Realm and attain the strength of a saint.

He had been too hasty.

"I really need to take it one step at a time."

Chu Fengmian sighed. He wasn’t normally the type to rush for success, but ever since hearing about Zhi Lingtian’s situation from Han Yueli, he had been extremely anxious.

Zhi Lingtian had obtained the Transcendent Holy Herb and was only one step away from becoming a saint, so Chu Fengmian also needed to attain the power of a saint to contend with Zhi Lingtian.

Otherwise, even with all his might, Chu Fengmian would likely be struck down by Zhi Lingtian. The power of a saint was far beyond what Chu Fengmian could currently match.

Below the saints, all are ants. In front of a saint, there isn’t much difference between the peak of Yufeng Realm and an ant.

With Chu Fengmian’s current strength, he could only be considered a slightly larger ant, perhaps able to resist a little, but to contend with a saint was still an impossibility.

"Chu Fengmian, get out here! Accept the punishment from our Punishment Hall!"

No sooner had Chu Fengmian risen to his feet than a murderous roar rumbled in from outside.

"Has someone come?"

Hearing the roar, Chu Fengmian sneered in his heart.

Having slaughtered so many Chu family disciples, Chu Fengmian knew the Chu family would not let the matter rest, and now, as expected, someone had come.

The people from the Punishment Hall.

The Punishment Hall was one of the largest divisions within Wusheng Academy; though not ranked among the top three halls, its status was even vaguely above them.

The Punishment Hall held the power to mete out punishment within Wusheng Academy. Even the core disciples were subject to their discipline.

Typically, if a disciple offended the Punishment Hall, a single trumped-up charge was sufficient to doom the disciple beyond redemption.

The Punishment Hall was undoubtedly one of the most difficult forces to contend with in Wusheng Academy.

Chu Fengmian glanced outside to the North Hall, where a group was hovering in the air, standing before the Houtu Huangtian Array, yet no one dared to take a step forward.

Clearly, they had previously suffered at the hands of this Houtu Huangtian Array and didn’t dare to forcefully breach it, only able to shout from the outside.

"Since when did this North Hall possess such an array?"

Among the group, an elder at the forefront furrowed his brows as he stared intently at the array atop the North Hall.

The North Hall was historically devoid of any array. When exactly had this formidable array appeared, and how was it that even he could not break it?

The elder, named Cheng Wu, was a Supreme Elder of the Punishment Hall, at the pinnacle of the Yufeng realm, and had few rivals below the level of a saint.

That he, with all his might, could not disrupt the array was indeed a bit inconceivable.

"Reporting to the Supreme Elder, this array was not... present yesterday,"

a Chu family disciple respectfully answered.

This Chu family disciple, having not entered the North Hall during Chu Fengmian’s slaughtering rampage the previous day, had watched from afar, fortunately saving his own life.

"Not there yesterday? Impossible, how could such a powerful array appear at the North Hall in a single day?"

Cheng Wu huffed coldly, scanning around him.

"This array was most likely set by that old fellow, Xing Xuan the Sage of the North, before leaving the academy, to provide his disciple, Old Chen, a sanctuary."

"This array is truly troublesome."

"Supreme Elder, what should we do if Chu Fengmian and that Old Chen keep hiding in this turtle shell?"

a Punishment Hall disciple quietly inquired.

It was clear they could not break the array, and with Chu Fengmian and Old Chen continuing to hide inside, they naturally had no solution.

"Hmph, can he stay in this turtle shell for his entire life? If Chu Fengmian is willing to stay hidden within this turtle shell for his whole life, then he poses no threat to our Cheng family, nor to you Chu family,"

Cheng Wu sneered.

Hiding in a turtle shell?

Any other martial artist might consider it, but Chu Fengmian would not.

Chu Fengmian’s character was a thousand times more arrogant than even Zhi Lingtian. How could he ever resort to being a shrinking turtle.

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