Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 969: Extermination of the Clan
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Liao Niechong was the fastest. In his view, with five against one, the advantage was on his side. Yet, the outcome was grim; within a mere moment, he was nearly dead.

“Kill him!”

Seeing Liao Niechong’s dire state, Zhen Xu’s eyes twitched. He realized they had encountered a tough opponent today.

Retreating at this point would be highly disadvantageous, as they might be caught and picked off one by one. It was better to press on with a united effort to overturn the human before them.

“Boom!”

The massive weapons of Zhen Xu and his three companions struck the Concealment Bell. The bell quivered slightly but managed to withstand the attack.

The Concealment Bell was a mid-grade Celestial Treasure, and it didn’t have the defensive power to withstand a combined assault from four mid-stage Sun Moon Realm fighters.

However, Chen Fei’s perfected Desolate Slaughter Night Star Sword provided a defense far superior to that of the mid-stage Sun Moon Realm. Even a combined effort of four was insufficient to breach it.

Seeing the Concealment Bell intact, the expressions of Zhen Xu and his three companions shifted noticeably.

If their combined strength couldn’t break through this human’s defense, what else could they do?

Chen Fei didn’t give them much time to think. He twisted the Qianyuan Sword in his hand and swung it towards Zhen Xu.

The edges of the Qianyuan Sword, black and white, delineated the boundaries of heaven and earth. It seemed as if Chen Fei had flipped the day and night with a single strike, and the chaotic, violent energy emanating from it was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

At this moment, Zhen Xu faced the aura of the Qianyuan Sword and finally understood what Liao Niechong had felt earlier.

“Help me!” Zhen Xu roared angrily. His entire being erupted with energy as his forbidden techniques activated and his soul began to burn.

Not just Zhen Xu, but the other three of the Hill Clan also activated their forbidden techniques, fearing that they might not get another chance if they were too late.

Chen Fei remained unmoved, his soul breaking down by 30%. The explosive power within him surged again, as if it might burst his entire body.

The speed of the Qianyuan Sword increased dramatically, crashing into the stacked blades in front of him.

“Boom!”

The explosion roared to the heavens, even overpowering the sounds coming from the valley behind them.

The faces of Zhen Xu and his three companions changed drastically. Their large bodies involuntarily staggered backward, their weapons trembling uncontrollably, nearly slipping from their grasp despite their desperate attempts to hold on.

Yet, even so, the immense force transmitted through their blades continued to ravage their bodies.

Attempting to channel the force into the ground by retreating, they found it nearly impossible.

Chen Fei took a step forward and slashed again.

At the Sun Moon Realm, Chen Fei felt some regret that the Suppressing Dragon Elephant technique was no longer as effective as it once was.

The additional force advantage was less pronounced, and the technique’s ability to leverage power was not as useful.

It wasn’t that the characteristic was gone, but at the Sun Moon Realm, attacks now contained divine powers, which were the forces of the rules.

Using Suppressing Dragon Elephant to harness the opponent’s divine power seemed somewhat unreasonable.

Thus, Chen Fei couldn’t borrow much power from Zhen Xu’s attack earlier. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even need to use Soul Dissolution.

Fortunately, Chen Fei now possessed the Celestial Suppression technique. From the fifth rank onward, Celestial Suppression was about refining the rules to temper the body.

This was originally a technique that began at the Sixth Stage Rule Integration Realm, but Celestial Suppression could be practiced from the fifth rank.

Moreover, Celestial Suppression focused on proving the Dao through power, not merely physical strength, targeting the primary rule of power.

Once Celestial Suppression was perfected, forcibly refining the opponent’s attacks and then rebounding them could occur once again.

“Let’s talk, let’s talk!”

Seeing Chen Fei swing his sword again, Zhen Xu yelled loudly, his voice filled with terror.

What kind of monster was this human? Despite all being in the mid-stage Sun Moon Realm, their strengths differed so dramatically.

Chen Fei said nothing. If he wanted to strike, he would; if he wanted to stop, he would. There were no favors here.

If there were any, it would be for the final victor, and clearly, the victors were not the Hill Clan.

“Boom!”

Another piercing explosion sounded. This time, Zhen Xu and his three companions could no longer hold onto their weapons. Their weapon-bearing arms burst into a mist of blood, and several blood holes appeared in their bodies.

The extreme violence of the Desolate Slaughter Night Star Sword left even the notoriously resilient Hill Clan with no resistance.

Chen Fei twisted the Qianyuan Sword in his hand. Amid the terrified and despairing gazes of Zhen Xu and his three companions, he cleanly sliced through the heads of the three Hill Clan members, sparing only Zhen Xu’s life.

“Bang!”

The Hill Clan bodies hit the ground with a dull thud, while Zhen Xu fell on his rear, staring in horror at Chen Fei.

“Now you can talk about the Black Rat,” Chen Fei said coldly, pointing at the Black Rat on his shoulder.

Moments later, Chen Fei killed Zhen Xu and the dying Liao Niechong, extracted their spiritual essence, took the five mid-grade Celestial Treasures, and disappeared from the spot.

The battle in the valley behind grew fiercer. With so many mid-stage Sun Moon Realm warriors entering, the previously accessible heavenly and earthly treasures had already been claimed by earlier arrivals.

Thus, with nearly twenty thousand mid-stage Sun Moon Realm fighters now present, those seeking satisfactory gains had to tackle the more challenging foes.

As time passed and more mid-stage Sun Moon Realm fighters joined the fray, killing the alien beasts became possible. Once the beasts were dead, the scramble for resources would depend on each individual’s capabilities.

However, these matters were irrelevant to Chen Fei now. He had already collected a satisfactory amount of primordial crystals from the valley.

The remaining spiritual materials could be contested by other Sun Moon Realm fighters.

Chen Fei moved swiftly, crossing three thousand miles to a mountain peak and directly teleporting into the mountain’s core.

He first distributed the spiritual essence of the five Hill Clan members to the Qianyuan Sword and Concealment Bell, then took out the contents of the five Celestial Treasures.

Unlike some overly confident Sun Moon Realm fighters, most who came to the Glass Space had stored some valuable spiritual materials elsewhere.

Or they sold the spiritual materials in exchange for more needed items.

After all, it was hard to predict what would happen when competing with other alien races in the Glass Space.

In the five Celestial Treasures, healing and detoxifying elixirs occupied most of the space, with only a few top-grade primordial stones and scattered cultivation pills.

Chen Fei had anticipated this. He categorized and stored the items from the Celestial Treasures, then shrank them to dust-sized particles and stored them in his sleeve.

After completing this, Chen Fei took out several spiritual materials from the Concealment Bell and placed them before the Black Rat.

Chen Fei had spared Zhen Xu’s life briefly to ask about the Black Rat.

In the choice between a clean death and a torturous one, Zhen Xu wisely chose the former. As a result, he provided Chen Fei with comprehensive information about the Black Rat.

Of course, there might have been deliberate omissions, but at least Chen Fei gained some understanding of the Black Rat’s situation.

Sky Chasing Rat!

This was the name of the Black Rat’s race, also known as the Treasure-Seeking Rat. In the long history of the Return to Nothing Realm, the race once had a period of brilliance.

It was rumored that at its peak, the Sky Chasing Rat race was guarded by a powerful being at the Open Heaven realm.

However, something unknown happened, and the entire Sky Chasing Rat race was exterminated overnight.

Despite having an Open Heaven realm expert, the race was wiped out in a matter of days.

Not only were the Sky Chasing Rats in the Return to Nothing Realm annihilated, but those in the lower realms also suffered severe massacres.

It was said that the slaughter was not due to direct invasions into the lower realms but rather involved manipulating the rules of fate and causality. Using the shared bloodlines from afar, the extermination was carried out through the void.

Such power seemed incredible, and hence it remained a rumor, its truth uncertain.

Yet, over such a long period, the Sky Chasing Rat’s presence had become exceedingly rare in the Return to Nothing Realm, and even if found, it was only in extremely diluted bloodlines.

The Black Rat Chen Fei currently held contained a portion of the Sky Chasing Rat’s ancestral bloodline.

This was the history of the Sky Chasing Rat. After learning a bit about it, Chen Fei was more interested in how to cultivate the Sky Chasing Rat or, more specifically, how to enhance the growth of the Sky Chasing Rat bloodline within the Black Rat.

If Chen Fei were in Sky Sea City, he could look up more detailed information.

Now, in the Glass Space, he had to rely on what Zhen Xu had said.

The Sky Chasing Rats had an exceptionally keen sense for various heavenly and earthly treasures. Sometimes, their detection was not based on smell but rather an innate feeling.

This was due to a special rule dust embedded in the Sky Chasing Rat’s bloodline. The stronger the Sky Chasing Rat, the more refined this rule dust became, enhancing their ability to track treasures.

According to Zhen Xu, to improve the Black Rat’s ability to track treasures, the simplest method was to elevate the rat’s cultivation level.

Currently, the Black Rat was at the early fourth rank. Raising it to the fifth rank Sun Moon Realm would significantly boost its ability to track treasures, even if its bloodline did not continue to revert to its ancestral form.

Chen Fei had previously managed to advance the Black Rat from the third to the fourth rank relatively easily.

However, raising the Black Rat from the fourth rank to the fifth in a short time was more challenging, considering Chen Fei himself was only at the mid-stage of the fifth rank Sun Moon Realm.

Aside from advancing the cultivation level, another method was to continue the bloodline’s ancestral reversion.

The Sky Chasing Rat had a peculiar trait: if it entered a master-servant contract with another race, it could absorb the rules from the master’s divine powers to enhance its bloodline.

This method was dubious. It could be a trap set by Zhen Xu to lure Chen Fei into a dangerous situation.

After all, using divine power rules to nourish the Black Rat could severely damage one’s own powers, especially in the perilous Glass Space.

Zhen Xu, whether Chen Fei fell for the trap or not, had already spoken of it, knowing he wouldn’t be around to see the outcome.

But if Chen Fei couldn’t resist trying, Zhen Xu’s goal would be achieved.

At this moment, Chen Fei was prepared to test this theory.

For Chen Fei, unraveling divine powers was a routine matter, unlike other Sun Moon Realm experts.

The Black Rat sat on the ground, looking at Chen Fei, puzzled about what its master intended to do.

“Calm your mind and focus!”

Chen Fei instructed, pointing a finger at the Black Rat’s head.

The divine power, Pillar Mountain, began to fracture.