The sun shone with intense heat, sparing no one. Any ordinary person would start sweating in only a few seconds of being exposed to it.
Yu Hao and Li Min glanced at each other.
I can't even see a beast with him, and he wants to compete against our most prominent rank 5 body path cultivator? This kid has some confidence. But who knows, he might have some tricks up his sleeve. Let's see what he's holding. This will also help me see just what(cultivators) we are taking along with us.
"Are you sure about that?" Yu Hao asked nonchalantly.
"Yes,"
"Fine, Feng Rui, come here." Yu Hao didn't even look behind and ordered.
A boy walked over. He seemed to be around twenty-three years old. He was wearing a tight warrior's robe of violet color. He was wearing a thin necklace of silver. His hair was black and extended to his shoulders. His shoulders were broad and his stature straight. He was missing his left ear. His skin was fair white.
He bowed his head a little to show his respect.
Yu Hao nodded and said,
"As you know everything, I won't explain further. You are the strongest rank 5 body cultivator among everyone present here as far as I can tell. Go and don't disappoint me."
"Yes, elder!" As Feng Rui said this, he went forward and positioned himself in a battle pose, ready to fight.
Yang Zhai took back a few steps and activated the Corpse Collector. When he did that, a gorilla came out and landed in front of Yang Zhai.
"So, is that your best option right now?" Fang Rui said satirically.
He was a rank 5 body cultivator. Pitting him against a rank 5 gorilla wasn't much. Even though it had some strength, the opponent it was facing was a rank 5 body cultivator.
"You do remember that I can directly attack you, right? I won't even need to fight this beast and I can directly go past it to defeat you." Feng Rui shook his head, clearly disappointed.
"We aren't forbidden from using techniques and kas during the fight, right?" Yang Zhai inquired.
"No, you can use whatever you want, even ires to defend. It doesn't matter." Yu Hao agreed.
"Good, let's begin then."
As Yang Zhai said this, both got into position.
Feng Rui didn't underestimate Yang Zhai and activated his ire right away. As he did that, rusted metal began to cover his body. In a few seconds, his whole body was covered in a thin rusted metal. Even though his body was covered in rusted metal, it wasn't heavy at all, in fact, it was quite light.
Yang Zhai, on the other hand, activated the green lines and his presence disappeared. After that, he activated four blue lines and his body toughened, including his skin, muscles, veins, and bones. Even though his strength remained the same at 35 bulls. His body toughened enough to hold to power of 189 bulls.
"Get ready!" As he said this, Feng Rui jumped forward.
The gorilla also jumped at Feng Rui. However, Feng Rui suddenly came to a stop and took a sharp turn to his left and that went past the rank 5 gorilla.
I shouldn't underestimate anyone. I need to defeat my opponent as soon as possible, Feng Rui thought.
Yang Zhai activated Earth Capture Ka and a huge pit appeared in front of Feng Rui. However, Feng Rui didn't fall in it and took another turn to go around the pit.
Yang Zhai activated Earth Release Ka and a lot of invisible compressed air balls appeared in the air. He pushed them towards Feng Rui.
BOOM!!!
The first ball hit Feng Rui. Feng Rui was thrown back with a loud sound, however, he managed to balance himself mid-air and landed on his feet. A small dent appeared on his rusted metal that covered his whole body.
"Hmm, he is supposed to be a Mastery Path cultivator. How come he managed to practice such a powerful method? I have some up my sleeve as well." As he said this, he waved his hand in a circle pattern in front of himself.
As he did that, air was released from the circle he drew in the air. The air pushed forward towards Yang Zhai. However, before it could reach Yang Zhai, many blasts happened mid-air and the air dispersed.
Feng Rui followed that exact path where the blasts had happened as this area had been cleared of the invisible spheres.
Feng Rui emerged from between the blasts and punched Yang Zhai in the face heavily. However, Yang Zhai had managed to move his left hand forward to endure the attack. He was sent flying and fell to the ground. He jumped up and readied himself again.
His hand was fine, not even a scratch had appeared where Feng Rui had struck. Right now, his body had toughened enough to endure the strength weight of 189 bulls. And the amount of strength Feng Rui released was around 160 bulls' strength. However, because he only had the strength of around 35 bulls, he couldn't withhold his stance and was sent flying.
"His defenses are impressive. I wonder what defensive method he is using?" Yu Hao saw that Yang Zhai didn't incur even a minor injury even though Feng Rui used his full strength in that punch and was amazed.
Sigh, in front of a true expert, these petty tricks aren't going to work, now do they? I don't want to reveal too many of my trump cards, and little tricks aren't going to work against him. This is the most annoying thing about body path, Yang Zhai contemplated.
Body path, even though a difficult one to cultivate, had its benefits. Unlike other paths, people in this path had to go through thick and thin with their own bodies. They had to experience everything firsthand.
As such, pains would become their companion. Their bodies would toughen up to match up rocks and metals or even more. Therefore, most average or low-level methods were useless against them.
That wasn't all. The real problem was the void rays. Even if a cultivator decided to use average methods against a body cultivator, trying to accumulate the toll on the opponent slowly, the void rays would eventually come to an end. Unlike body cultivators who used little to no void rays. In the end, the battle would tilt towards a body cultivator.
And if a cultivator decided to use high or top-grade techniques against a body cultivator, the toll would be high on the cultivator; after all, techniques were a double-edged sword. As such, kas were most useful against body cultivators, but they too could break apart with continuous use.
Thus, a battle against a body cultivator of the same rank was considered a difficult one, especially if the body cultivator managed to pull the battle into a close-range one.
Right now, even though Yang Zhai had some physical strength, it was at least four times weaker compared to his opponent.
Yang Zhai recalled the gorilla back into the corpse collector and summoned it again close to himself. They stood side by side.
After that, Yang Zhai activated the Earth Release Ka and the air began to be compressed by an invisible aura. It came to a stop when the size reached the size of a toddler's hand, about two inches.
After that, Yang Zhai moved his left hand forward and his index finger touched the compressed air ball. When he did that, a red dot appeared inside the sphere. This red dot quickly turned into a liquid that filled up the sphere.
"What is he doing?" Li Min looked at all this with narrowed eyes. Yu Hao didn't say anything and looked at all this silently.
Yang Zhai's left arm turned black to the elbow and a little above that, veins like lines appeared. Above that, small marks of purple and black colored appeared that extended till his shoulder.
This all took a few seconds.
I do not want to summon the damnation snake unless necessary, or it will take over my arm again. I can't do that again. For now, this rank 5 Red Poison should do the trick, he considered.
Rank 5 Red Poison was the limit of the technique. After that, even though halfway through developing rank 6 Red Poison in his previous life, he didn't complete it because he had obtained rank 6 Will of Malice Ka.
After that, the red sphere came to Yang Zhai's right side of the head, a little above his shoulder, and floated there. It was visible.
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