SWNOVELXO Chapter 158: Sublimation of Mind and Great Increase in Strength
At this moment, in a mountain valley, Huo Ming's gaze was icy, and his tone was chilling. Intense flames surrounded his body, and the ground instantly began to burn.
Moreover, an extremely hot aura, flickering in and out of visibility, surged from within Huo Ming's body, pressing down on Gu Chen, trying to make him kneel in submission.
That was the aura of someone in the Huanxu Realm!
Furthermore, as one of the distinguished prodigies in nearly a hundred realms, Huo Ming was clearly the best among those in the early stages of the Huanxu Realm, his strength far surpassing ordinary Huanxu Realm cultivators!
Zheng Zhiyuan, standing by, changed his complexion at this pressure. Like a leaf in a tempest, he quickly retreated a great distance away.
But no matter how much Huo Ming's aura assaulted him, Gu Chen's expression remained unchanged.
"A crow also dares to compare itself with a phoenix?" he spoke slowly, repeating this phrase.
"Very well!"
With a boom, a fierce flame erupted from Huo Ming, turning half the sky red!
The unique flame of the Fire Crow Clan—Mystic Bright True Fire!
The blazing fire contained strands of golden aura, which was the bloodline power of the Golden Raven Clan within Huo Ming, aiding him!
"I've changed my mind!" Huo Ming, surrounded by flames, looked at Gu Chen and said coldly, "I will burn you to a skeleton and make you a fire slave, never to transcend for all eternity!"
With another boom, as soon as his words fell, Huo Ming struck out in anger, aiming a palm at Gu Chen.
Whoooosh—
The blazing Mystic Bright True Fire ignited the ground and sky, particularly turning the earth almost crystalline in mere moments, a testament to the immense power of the Mystic Bright True Fire.
Eventually, the roaring flames took the form of a giant Fire Crow with bloodlight flickering in its pupils, pouncing to kill Gu Chen.
Huo Ming, the strongest of the younger generation of the Fire Crow Clan from the upper realms and early in the Huanxu Realm, was confident that he could subdue Gu Chen, who was merely in the God Transformation Realm, with just one move!
"Become my fire slave, enslaved by me for life after life..." Huo Ming's eyes flickered with a cold light.
Boom!
The next moment, a thunderous explosion rang out across heaven and earth, interrupting what Huo Ming was about to say next.
Facing that overwhelming Mystic Bright True Fire, Gu Chen didn't even bother to use his Sun True Fire. As his extraordinary mana surged within him, reaching 5,500 years, he stood with his hands behind him. With a fierce wave of his sleeve, a great wind instantly rose in the valley, and thunderous booms echoed through the void, as if it was about to collapse.
In the face of Gu Chen's exceptional cultivation, what was the so-called Mystic Bright True Fire? It was directly shattered by the mighty waves of his mana.
Seeing this scene, Huo Ming naturally froze, and Zheng Zhiyuan, who was at a distance, was also dumbfounded.
Whoosh!
The next moment, before Huo Ming could react, Gu Chen took a step forward, and in an instant, he was already in front of this monster of the Fire Crow Clan, pointing like a sword at his forehead.
"Get lost!"
Seeing this, Huo Ming, furious to the point of bursting, roared. Although he did not know how Gu Chen had unraveled his Mystic Bright True Fire, he was convinced that as someone in the Huanxu Realm, he could not possibly lose to Gu Chen, who was merely in the God Transformation Realm.
Seeing his opponent's pointed finger, Huo Ming, extremely arrogant, used two fingers to block his forehead, a sneer on his lips.
As a member of another race, his physical body was naturally his strong suit. How could he be afraid of Gu Chen?
Thump!
The next moment, blood splattered and severe pain struck. Huo Ming couldn't help but let out an involuntary shriek of agony.
"Ah..."
He cried out in pain, all because the two fingers he used to block Gu Chen were directly severed!
The fingers were connected to the heart, and for those of another race, this was no different. The severing of fingers was an intense pain, unbearable even for Huo Ming, who screamed out loud.
"What?!"
Zheng Zhiyuan, the heir of the ancient Zheng family of the Spiritual Realm, stood at a distance, utterly dumbstruck. Everything that had happened today had overturned his understanding.
What had he witnessed? Huo Ming, famed across nearly a hundred realms, was actually defeated by Gu Chen. Under the suppression of a major realm, was he so easily maimed by having two fingers severed?
"I..."
Zheng Zhiyuan's mouth hung open, his expression one of utter disbelief, completely flabbergasted.
Gu Chen remained calm. His body was remade twice, and he had unlocked a body's divine treasure. How extraordinary he was! Even those who were also second-stage body cultivators couldn't match Gu Chen, let alone Huo Ming.
No matter how demonic Huo Ming was, challenging Gu Chen with mere physical strength was tantamount to seeking death.
But Huo Ming did have some mettle. Bearing the pain, he shouted angrily, "Die!"
In the Huanxu Realm, the Divine Return to Void, melding with the void, breaking through to this realm led to a significant increase in soul strength.
Huo Ming, a prodigy, although only in the early stages of the Huanxu Realm, possessed a two-foot-tall primordial spirit, confident that this alone was enough to subdue Gu Chen, who was still in the God Transformation Realm.
Hum!
Seeing Huo Ming unleash a soul attack, Gu Chen was naturally unafraid. His glabella shone, and within his ancestral orifice's sea of consciousness, a three-foot-five-inch primordial spirit suddenly opened its eyes.
"Ah..."
The next moment, when Gu Chen's spirit light collided with Huo Ming's, as expected, the latter once again let out a scream of agony, his head feeling as if it were splitting apart.
In terms of the soul, naturally, he was still crushed by Gu Chen.
Thump!
Right after, Gu Chen threw a punch, landing on Huo Ming's chest. If not for his protective treasures, this strike alone would have almost disintegrated him.
"Pfft..."