Come On, Son! You Got to Breakthrough Now!-Chapter 311 - 236: A Familiar Sinister Presence_2
Chapter 311: Chapter 236: A Familiar Sinister Presence_2
With the next breath,
Gu Qingfeng’s Blood Qi Power exploded forth, terrifying to the extreme like the Divine Brilliance Great Sun, dispelling all the eerie and cold aura.
Immediately thereafter,
came a strange and ghastly roar. When the darkness cleared and Gu Qingfeng looked towards the Jade Talisman again, he found the fresh blood had vanished without a trace.
“Evil Spirit—”
“An Evil Spirit powerful enough to ensnare a Saint!”
Gu Qingfeng crushed the Jade Talisman in his hand, yet his expression was unprecedentedly solemn.
Ever since he achieved Perfect Body Refining and his life transformed, Gu Qingfeng had not taken the so-called Evil Spirits to heart.
Especially after Gu Yang established the Divine Martial Dynasty and forged the Nine Tripods to suppress the Nine States, all Evil Spirits had completely vanished without a trace.
But now,
Gu Qingfeng realized that the situation was not so simple.
The blood in the Jade Talisman was not ordinary blood, but teemed with the power of an Evil Spirit.
Indeed.
It was an Evil Spirit!
For such a power, Gu Qingfeng was naturally not unfamiliar.
He originally thought that Evil Spirits were merely base and vile things, but now it seemed they were not so simple.
The Heavenly Cloud Saint who left the Heavenly Cloud Ring might have perished at the hands of an Evil Spirit.
Even,
Gu Qingfeng doubted whether the one who left behind the Jade Talisman was truly the Heavenly Cloud Saint; that in itself was questionable.
“An Evil Spirit capable of causing the fall of a Saint, there must be a great secret within the Nine States!”
Gu Qingfeng took a deep breath, then turned to look at the blood-stained ore.
He tried using his own Blood Qi Power on the rock, but instead of triggering the chill and eerie power from before, a brilliant Saintly Power burst forth.
Seeing this,
Gu Qingfeng concluded that the blood within the ore was not from an Evil Spirit, but from a Saint.
A stone tainted with Holy Blood!
Gu Qingfeng believed that this stone was definitely not as simple as it seemed.
Otherwise,
why would it be collected inside the Heavenly Cloud Ring by the Heavenly Cloud Saint?
And then,
there was the ancient cauldron.
As Gu Qingfeng’s Divine Thought touched upon this Holy Weapon, it triggered a fierce resistance, waves of oppressive might flooding over him like a tide.
“Resistance!”
“Alive Saints do not frighten me, let alone a mere Holy Weapon!”
Gu Qingfeng scoffed, followed then by a Divine Thought far exceeding the Daoist Palace Realm, pressing down on the ancient cauldron, under such absolute power even the Holy Weapon could barely make a ripple.
In an instant,
the cauldron trembled with a mournful wail, as if a living being were unwilling to submit.
But under the absolute suppression of force, the cauldron’s resistance was almost futile.
While pressing down with Divine Thought, Gu Qingfeng also clenched his right fist, striking the cauldron with sufficient power to shatter mountains and ravage rivers, causing this Holy Weapon to tremble violently.
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Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Each punch was infused with terrifying Blood Qi, enough to burst any cultivator within the Daoist Palace Realm, and under such ferocious onslaught, the cauldron quivered all the more.
The resistance that was once strong, was now suddenly much diminished.
Seizing this opportunity, Gu Qingfeng directly imprinted his own Divine Soul Mark onto the cauldron, and the previous struggles and resistance instantly disappeared.
With the next breath,
the information about the cauldron surfaced in Gu Qingfeng’s mind.
“Cloud Thunder Cauldron!”
This was the name of the Holy Weapon.
All Holy Weapons have their own ranks, but ultimately, only the cultivator wielding the Holy Weapon can determine its strength.
Even those just entering the Saint Realm or the peak Saint potentates leave Holy Weapons that are essentially the same in nature.
Of course,
the power of the Saint concealed within the Holy Weapon does differ.
At this moment,
As Gu Qingfeng controlled the Cloud Thunder Cauldron, he finally felt the vast power contained within the Holy Weapon. He tried to stimulate it with his Blood Qi, and immediately a towering Saintly Power erupted.
Such Saintly Power,
was more than double the strength of the Saintly Power that the Cloud Thunder Cauldron had emitted on its own.
“If I had this Cloud Thunder Cauldron in hand, I suspect the battle with the Flame Sun Saint would not have wasted so much time!”
Gu Qingfeng’s lips curled into a smile.
The power of the Holy Weapon indeed had not disappointed him, it had certainly increased his overall strength by thirty percent.
One must know,
A thirty percent increase in strength was not a small number.
With this Holy Weapon in hand, even if other Holy Lands came with Great Saint Weapons, Gu Qingfeng was confident of putting up a fight.
After all—
Nowadays, no Saints emerge.
The strongest forces other powers could deploy were only Semi-Saints.
Ever since the battle with the Flame Sun Saint, Gu Qingfeng had realized that, although he was in the Daoist Palace Realm, he already possessed a foundation of strength comparable to a true Saint.
A Saint wielding a Holy Weapon and exerting its full power could naturally not be weaker than a Semi-Saint with a Great Saint Weapon.
Moreover,
Not everyone was capable of activating a Great Saint Weapon.
After taking control of the Cloud Thunder Cauldron, Gu Qingfeng found that if one’s cultivation was not sufficient, forcibly activating the power of a Holy Weapon would require the cultivator to blood sacrifice to the Holy Weapon.
Simply put,
To activate even a fraction of the Holy Weapon’s power, one needed to be at least in the Daoist Palace Realm. If one was below the Daoist Palace Realm and wanted to activate the power of a Holy Weapon, they would have to make a blood sacrifice of their own body.
Similarly,
The usage threshold for a Great Saint Weapon was at least a Saint; anyone less than a Saint would find it difficult to truly unleash the mighty power of a Great Saint Weapon.
Although a Great Saint Weapon was indeed incredibly powerful and could easily suppress many cultivators, without truly activating its internal power, it would naturally not be simple to subdue a Saint.
Therefore,
If there was no Saint wielding a Great Saint Weapon, it would require a Daoist Palace Realm cultivator’s blood sacrifice instead.
Hence,
Now that Gu Qingfeng possessed strength on par with a Saint and had the Holy Weapon Cloud Thunder Cauldron in hand, he was in an invincible position, in a certain sense.
The premise was,
No real Saints were born.
If a Saint came wielding a Great Saint Weapon, that would be a different story.
Of course,
There was another method to use Holy and Great Saint Weapons, which was to directly stimulate the Divine Thoughts left within them by Saints, as with the Flame Sun Mirror.
But,
The power of the Divine Thoughts left behind by any strong cultivator was limited, and this was the foundational heritage of all the major powers.
Of course,
That said again.
As long as it was not a Saint wielding a Great Saint Weapon, if it were any other Semi-Saint with a Great Saint Weapon, Gu Qingfeng would not fear it.
“It’s just a pity that the Flame Sun Mirror was shattered. Otherwise, if I took the Holy Weapon from the Shangguan Family, I would have two Holy Weapons in my hands!”
“With that, my foundation would be even stronger…”
Gu Qingfeng thought about the shattered Flame Sun Mirror with some regret.
But in that situation, it was impossible for him not to give his all.
If he hadn’t given it his all, he might have been the one to fall.
Thus,
Shattering the Flame Sun Mirror was a necessary action.
If he had been at the peak of the Daoist Palace Realm and could easily suppress the Divine Thoughts of the Flame Sun Saint, Gu Qingfeng would have certainly taken the Flame Sun Mirror for his own use.
Even if he didn’t use it himself, leaving it for his descendants would not be a bad idea, after all, no one would complain about having too many Holy Weapons.
Subsequently,
With a thought from Gu Qingfeng, the Cloud Thunder Cauldron vanished, reappearing in an instant within the Dan Tian Dao Palace.
He had a premonition that with a mere thought, he could summon the Cloud Thunder Cauldron forth.
Such mystery,
Left Gu Qingfeng even more astonished.
By comparison,
The Evil Slayer Blade, which he had nurtured and refined for many years, could not enter his Dantian like the Cloud Thunder Cauldron.
Clearly,
To have such a capability, one would need at least a Holy Weapon.
As for the Evil Slayer Blade, in Gu Qingfeng’s view, the blade should be considered on the level of an ancient weapon given the years he nurtured it, though this also depended on who wielded it.
If it fell into someone else’s hands, the Evil Slayer Blade would just be akin to an ancient weapon.
But if wielded by Gu Qingfeng, he could surely use the Evil Slayer Blade to shatter the Flame Sun Mirror.
“If there’s a chance, I could perhaps reforge the Evil Slayer Blade. If this Divine Weapon could ascend to a Holy Weapon, the role it could truly play would definitely be far stronger than the Cloud Thunder Cauldron!”
Gu Qingfeng pondered secretly.
