Star Sky Professional
Chapter 255 - 213: Captive (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 255: Chapter 213: Captive (Please Subscribe)

Buzz!

The void vibrated violently as a blood-red sun crashed down within a hundred miles, visible to all.

The blinding light and heat swept through everything.

Endless heat mixed with Martial Arts Will and blood essence expanded recklessly outward.

The ground was peeled back layer by layer, revealing an unfathomably deep pit...

For the first time, the Path of Martial Saint of the Blue Star Federation revealed its terrifying and fierce side in the Cultivation World.

Fang Xing touched his forehead only to find that the Great Sun Mark had quickly disappeared.

Right at the center of his brow, the Great Sun Relic had lost all its luster, seemingly regressed to a Vajra Relic.

Besides that, his body felt no sense of being hollowed out.

Because executing the "Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm," what he consumed was not his blood essence or power, but the "Great Sun Divinity"!

Now, a dark crystal stone appeared in Fang Xing’s hand—it was that overlord’s crystal.

The "Great Sun Tathagata Mantra" operated swiftly, drawing the divine power contained in the blood essence from the crystal, processed by the Great Sun Furnace, replenishing the consumed Great Sun Divinity.

At Fang Xing’s brow, the Vajra Relic began to rotate slowly again, emanating the Great Sun Radiance.

He formed a "卍" with his hands and stared at the center of the blood-red sun, prepared for the next move.

After all, the Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm was merely a Fourth Rank technique and might not kill the chief of the Wind Department in one blow.

Since he had already shown his trump card, he couldn’t let the opponent live to return!

Thus, he did not hesitate to quickly draw the divine power from the "power bank" to restore his strength for a second strike, intent on crushing all risks at their inception!

Whoosh whoosh!

A light breeze blew, the light scattered.

Above the unfathomably deep dark pit, a brief flash of cyan brilliance could be seen.

A closer look revealed that it was a slightly damaged ancient bronze lamp; the small flame within the lamp had long been extinguished, and the spiritual treasure seemed greatly damaged, with a faintly unstable aura around it.

"Hmph!"

Fang Xing’s Martial Arts Will surged mightily, like a tidal wave sweeping across.

A flash of black and blue, and behind that Green Sun Demon Lamp, a small cyan-black infant appeared.

It was only the size of an adult’s palm, naked, with cyan-black skin and an emaciated figure.

Yet, its face was strangely familiar, juvenile yet resembling an old acquaintance to Fang Xing.

"Master Wanfa?!"

He threw a punch, a formidable fist shadow appeared, crushing towards the cyan-black infant.

Suddenly!

The cyan-black infant opened its eyes, bursting forth with emerald light from its pupils and flashing a sinister smile at Fang Xing before disappearing into the void.

When it reappeared, it was hundreds of feet away.

"Instant Teleportation?"

This was a renowned divine skill, typically performed using their own Nascent Soul, which Fang Xing had certainly heard of.

Though he didn’t understand why after killing the chief of the Wind Department, what emerged resembled Master Wanfa’s Nascent Soul.

Without hesitation, he struck again!

The Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm manifested once more!

However, this time, Fang Xing focused not on power but on sealing.

The Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm had in total nine techniques.

The first technique he used, "Great Sun Illumination," was an aggressive move.

Now, Fang Xing was using the sixth technique—"Palm Buddha Country"—renowned as the premier sealing method!

Buzz!

A crimson sun emerged with a Buddha at its center—the Great Sun Tathagata himself!

The Great Sun Tathagata stretched out his fingers, creating a "Palm Buddha Country" on the spot.

Thousands of crimson "卍" seals locked down heaven and earth, like the countless sands in a red river, capturing a cyan-black Nascent Soul.

The face of the Great Sun Tathagata faintly resembled Fang Xing’s as he looked down at the Nascent Soul in his palm, much like Tathagata looking at Sun Wukong trapped under the Five-Finger Mountain, revealing a slight smile.

The Great Sun Tathagata’s fingers closed together as crimson "卍" seals continuously merged into the cyan-black Nascent Soul, forming the tightest seal.

Truly, this ghost infant was unlucky.

Firstly, it was severely injured by the first technique of the Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm, "Great Sun Illumination," barely surviving thanks to the spiritual treasure, but its Nascent Soul’s origin had consumed too much, unable to continuously use Instant Teleportation to flee at the outset.

Nascent Soul Instant Teleportation, reputed as the first divine skill for Nascent Soul True Monarchs to escape, is not to be underestimated.

Even being able to teleport a few times, it could ignore many arrays and prohibitions.

But Fang Xing’s "Palm Buddha Country," encompassing all realms and creating a Buddha country on the spot, along with the consumption of Great Sun Divinity, had such a high status that it even suppressed the Nascent Soul in terms of the authority of void attributes!

This led to an extremely rare scene in Nascent Soul battles—the Nascent Soul being captured alive!

After a moment, the Great Sun Radiance dissipated.

Fang Xing held in his hand a dark green Nascent Soul, deep in thought.

By now, the Nascent Soul had fainted, its eyes tightly shut, only a small swastika Buddhist seal on its forehead slowly rotating.

"Why would the Fake Infant inside the Wind Department’s master be Master Wanfa? Could it be that it was refined from Master Wanfa?"

He could guess some of the sequence of events: "Previously, Master Wanfa seemed neither human nor ghost... Could it be that he inadvertently met the conditions for refining a Fake Infant?"

In fact, Fang Xing had to admit that after hearing his uncle mention the Fake Infant, he was somewhat tempted.

After all, obtaining a Fake Infant would grant him the combat power of a Fake Infant immediately after his Core Formation!

With the Sword Dao Realm he had infused at Sword Heart Peak, qi, gang, intent, shi were all readily available, only lacking in mana.

Once he had the power of a Fake Infant, comprehending Sword Intent Formation wouldn’t be much of an issue.

And as a Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator, he would be recognized among many Nascent Soul True Monarchs as exceptionally powerful.

It could be said that his Cultivation Avatar immediately became equivalent to a Nascent Soul Sword Lord! Many benefits awaited.

Therefore, he hadn’t annihilated the demonic infant with a single palm strike, but instead used a sealing technique and chose to capture it.

"It’s a pity that Master Wanfa was also considered a powerful figure of his time, with insight and talent in the art of spells that were unparalleled, yet met such an end..."

Fang Xing sighed for a moment and then became indifferent.

After all, he had a major enmity with Master Wanfa. If this enemy were to escape, the first thing would undoubtedly be to seek him out, reclaim the Ten Thousand Transformation Cauldron, and avenge the destruction of his divided soul.

Seeing his enemy’s misfortune, he actually felt quite pleased.

He promptly took out a jade box, stuffed this ’Wanfa demonic infant’ into it, attached seventeen or eighteen Sealing Talismans, and then properly stored it away.

Swoosh!

A flash of sword light, the Cultivation Avatar held the ’Green Sun Demon Lamp,’ feeling somewhat regretful: "That strike was too harsh; the body of the Wind Department’s master along with his storage bag turned to ash, leaving nothing but this Spiritual Treasure..."

"However, possessing a Spiritual Treasure and this ’Wanfa demonic infant’ still makes this trip worthwhile, not in vain for my expenditure of two Great Sun Divinity powers to kill a Fake Infant Cultivator..."

Fang Xing let his Cultivation Avatar clean up his tracks and began to think.

The ranks of the Cultivation World and the Martial Arts levels of the Blue Star Federation could not correspond one to one.

The most notable was the Vajra Realm!

The Sixth Realm Martial Arts Golden Core could already be compared with most Jiedan Cultivators.

But the Seventh-Realm Martial Arts Vajra Realm, the combat power also falls within the Cultivation World’s range of Core Formation.

However, they correspond to those upstream True Core and even Immortal Golden Core quality Core Formation Cultivators.

Even, the combat power of such Nascent Soul Seeds during the late stages of Core Formation or at Perfect Core Formation!

In the Cultivation World, Core Formation has three grades: Fake Core, True Core, Golden Core!

No need to discuss a Fake Core, almost expelled from the ranks of Core Formation Cultivators.

And the difference between a True Core and a Golden Core, likewise cannot be reasoned by logic.

Therefore, late-stage Golden Core Cultivators and downstream True Core Cultivators, the gap is often akin to the difference between the combat power of the Sixth Realm and the Seventh Realm.

Even, Great Vajra Realm Martial Artists could already break through the gap between Core Formation and Nascent Soul, comparable to the Nascent Soul Level Body Refining Practitioners.

After this practical engagement, Fang Xing roughly understood the ranks above Nascent Soul.

"Nascent Soul Cultivators roughly correspond to the Seventh Realm Martial Saints, not much error there..."

"But there are also many types of Martial Saints; Martial Saints ascending from the Seventh Revolutions Vajra Realm and those strong Martial Saints from the Great Vajra Realm are naturally different..."

Seventh Realm—Vajra Realm!

It’s a process of continuously refining one’s foundation and cultivating the Martial Arts Golden Body.

As long as the Golden Body is achieved and reaches a high revolution, one could break through to Martial Saint, and one doesn’t necessarily need to reach the Great Vajra Realm.

But such Martial Saints, with an unimpregnable Golden Body, would have their combat power weakened.

"Such weak Martial Saints roughly correspond to Nascent Soul Early Stage Cultivators..."

"With the ’Great Sun Divinity’ driving the ’Great Sun Tathagata Divine Palm,’ my position is extremely high... And I possess powerful supportive Martial Arts, it’s fairly reasonable to be mistaken for a Nascent Soul Middle Stage or even Late Stage. Is this akin to a ’strong Martial Saint’ deploying the might of the Tathagata Divine Palm?"

As for whether there are disparities in Nascent Soul qualities?

As long as one can condense a Nascent Soul, at least all belong to the upper realm of True Core; there are no true weaklings.

"From Core Formation to Nascent Soul, actually entails a substantial level leap... Hence, forming a Nascent Soul is called a formidable barrier!"

"Blue Star Martial Arts is much smarter in this regard, carving out a ’Vajra Realm,’ which is like building a ladder on the requirement of ascending in one step... Therefore, breaking through to Martial Saint from Vajra Realm is somewhat easier than for Core Formation Cultivators in the Cultivation World breaking through to Nascent Soul."

While thinking, Fang Xing along with his Cultivation Avatar moved away.

As for the battlefield here, it was fundamentally impossible to cover up.

Fortunately, he had already cleared his own traces; no one would connect this battlefield—which presumably involved a Nascent Soul Middle Stage or even Late Stage Great True Monarch making a move—to him, a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator.

"What a pity... the mana provided by an Outer Elixir cannot replace that of a True Core..."

"Otherwise, if I could refine the ’Wanfa demonic infant’ after returning... I would possess genuine Nascent Soul combat power, making even a Martial Saint in the Blue Star Federation unquestionably a significant figure."

"So... the most important task for the Cultivation Avatar now is to quickly cultivate a breakthrough and strive to condense a ’Sword Pill’?"

After Fang Xing’s figure had disappeared for quite some time, several Demon Path Jiedan Cultivators flew in.

The Great Hall Master of Blood River Palace and the Supreme Elder of Mu Sha Sect stared at the unfathomable giant pit, their faces revealing colors of utter horror...