I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 933: Chapter 227: Fist and Bone

Perhaps it was their nature or the influence of their cultivation methods, but the Feitian Clan, who studied the Asura Path, were extremely warlike. Thus, their aesthetic standards were vastly different from ordinary people.

The ferocious, the strong, even the bloody, all were admired. Even for a church leader like the Pope, ferocity was a must.

The Great Asura King battle was a grand ceremony that had not been seen in Ned City for many years, so when the grand array of the Asura arena rose within the city, almost the entire Feitian population of Ned gathered together.

All the Feitians wanted to see just how powerful the cultivation of the Great Asura King was. Even the monks from the temple could not resist their greedy and angry desires, and cultivators with realms above that of a great Feitian almost all went to watch the battle.

While Ned City was in turmoil, no one noticed the tall, thin figure that melted into the night within the shadow of the temple’s dome, nor did they perceive the white streak extending from the base of Jiuda’s divine chariot to the temple.

With his six senses fully extended, Tang Luo entered the temple as if it was devoid of any people. His powerful spiritual pressure knocked out all the Divine Guards he encountered.

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Having passed the dizzy Divine Guards, Tang Luo finally entered the sacred ground of the Feitian Clan, the core of the Veda Temple, and laid eyes upon the ancient Divine Artifact passed down through the ages, the Asura God Statue.

Originally assuming that the towering main hall of the temple was just to showcase its majesty, it was only upon seeing the Asura God Statue did Tang Luo realize how much effort the Feitian Clan had put in to build a temple around such a gigantic stone figure.

Desire, irritability, destruction, strife—the moment he entered the Blood Fiend, he felt that uniquely Asuric aura.

Shifting his gaze away from the Asura God Statue, Tang Luo looked down and saw bodies everywhere, left by Feitian cultivators who had failed their proof of Asura. Some had just recently died, with the expression of terror still on their faces, while others had already twisted into piles of white bones.

Seeing this, Tang Luo also roughly understood why there were so few strong individuals among the Feitian Clan. With such a high death rate, coupled with the scarce resources of the Wilderness, it would be odd for any strong cultivators to emerge.

Muttering complaints inwardly, Tang Luo leaped up and slowly approached the Asura God Statue. The closer he got, the more his blood qi became restless, as if something was being drawn out. It started with just a surge of blood qi, but as he came within nine yards of the Asura God Statue, his blood qi became so turbulent it was like boiling, and a violent, bloodthirsty killing intent surged in his heart. Tang Luo knew the Asura God Statue was affecting his mind.

Employing the secret technique to clear his Dao Heart, Tang Luo held on to his True Heart, settled slowly to the ground, and after calming the surging blood qi with some breathing exercises, he stood up again. Withstanding the immense pressure, he moved closer to the Asura God Statue.

This time, he had only taken a few steps when his blood qi erupted once more. Sitting down again to regulate his breath, it took him a good half-quarter of an hour before he was able to calm his blood qi again.

Just as he was about to approach the Asura God Statue once more, a strange spiritual energy entered the main hall from beneath the earth, and a white skeletal figure rose at the entrance of the hall, accompanied by Feng You, the assassin from the Ancient Blood Tower, who Tang Luo had met briefly in a side hall.

Turning around, Tang Luo addressed Feng You, who showed a look of surprise, “With the Asura arena taking place in the city, the Daoist Priest is in the temple. It seems that the Ancient Blood Tower’s goal is not to support Jiuda’s ascension, but this Asura God Statue!”

Feng You was truly astonished. He had thought that Tang Luo would have been chased by Daoist Priest Liaoyin with no escape to heaven and no door to earth, but he never expected to meet him again in the main hall of the Veda Temple.

After a brief moment of surprise, Feng You with the White Bone Mask turned his eyes and chuckled, “How does the gentleman know that it is not the Daoist Priest, but the Blood Tower who covets the Asura God Statue?”

“It’s quite simple.” Thirty-six Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads floated out from beneath the Star Robe behind Tang Luo, “If it were only your personal goal, upon setting eyes on me, you should have given up at once!”

“Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, the gentleman indeed has an imposing manner,” the Bone Taoist couldn’t help but cough and chuckle, “But with orders from the Tower Master, even if I do not wish to oppose the gentleman, I can only toughen my skin and proceed.”

As Talismans were invoked, the Bone of Eternal Destruction, like a shifting shadow, blocked in front of Feng You, protecting the Bone Taoist. Almost simultaneously, the thirty-six Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads also rushed over with thunderous roars.

“Ding, ding, ding, ding!”

In a series of explosions, the white skeletal bones knocked away a few Yuan Magnetic Divine Pearls, but most bypassed the blockade and struck towards the Bone Taoist’s major acupoints around his body. Even more dangerous was the figure of Tang Luo, who had appeared behind Feng You at some unknown moment, his raised Star Robe disclosed a fiercely drawn back punch, surging with the roars of tigers and dragons.

Behind was the Yuan Magnetic Divine Pearl, ahead a grandmaster obstructed the way. Hardly had the conflict commenced when the Bone Taoist found himself in a dire situation. But warriors who have survived a hundred battles wouldn’t be easily defeated, or else how could they have made such a name for themselves in Zhongzhou.

In the nick of time, the Talismans were complete, and the bones on the ground transformed into several bone shields that rose up, barely blocking in front of and behind the Bone Taoist, catching the Divine Pearls but failing to block the punch.

The three types of powerful forces exploded, shattering the bone shields into pieces. The force penetrated Feng You’s body, sending him crashing into the ground. Tang Luo wanted to follow up with another strike, but the Bone of Eternal Destruction blocked in front of him, its bone claws, glowing with a ghostly light, shot towards his eyes with a force of ten thousand jun.

A force of ten thousand jun might sound fierce, but that depends on the opponent. At least in Tang Luo’s eyes, this claw with the strength of ten thousand jun was as harmless as a baby’s fist pounding on his chest, hardly intimidating—he even felt like laughing.

With Spiritual Power controlling his body, three layers of force concentrated in his right leg. Raising his knee and swinging his hip, the white bone claws weren’t even halfway to their mark when Tang Luo’s leg, capable of splitting mountains and cleaving Yue, swept horizontally towards the skeleton’s left rib.

One leg, imbued with three layers of force, would have shattered even a small mountain, let alone a skeleton. Yet when the leg struck, the white skeleton didn’t budge an inch, swallowing the force whole. More terrifying was that the originally powerful bone claw seemed to gain a new surge of strength, tearing through Heavenly and Earthly Qi with a piercing sound.

With a single block, Tang Luo barely resisted the bone claws, yet he was blasted away by a tremendous force, his body penetrated by the three forces of charging, bursting, and vibrating.

Stabilizing his form in mid-air, Tang Luo focused his gaze to see a thin veil of cloud qi moving around the surface of The Bone of Eternal Destruction.

“Wind and Cloud Transformation Technique?”

Tang Luo landed, controlling the thirty-six Fallen Imperial Magnetic Beads to form a force field that trapped the Bone of Eternal Destruction and coldly said, “I truly admire the Daoist Priest’s creativity, successfully integrating the Bone of Eternal Destruction with the Wind and Cloud Transformation Technique. Not only has it filled the gaps in its offensive weaknesses, but it can also achieve remarkable effect when against a master of physical arts. However, there is one thing I cannot figure out—how did the White Bone Sect acquire the secret teachings of the Yun Clan?”

Tight in its restraint, the Bone of Eternal Destruction couldn’t move, and the Bone Taoist, who had been knocked into the ground, dared not show his head, only raising a crumbling skeleton to transmit a message, “This is not a secret teaching of the White Bone Sect, but rather my secret teaching.”