Chapter 275 - 250: Encounter with the True Body_1

Subsequently, Bao Yong announced the end of the auction. Only when Lu Yan and the crowd dispersed did he stand up and head backstage, but a few individuals were clearly eyeing him, trailing behind from a distance.

Lu Yan walked into a lounge to collect his Martial Coupons and the broken sword.

"It seems like someone’s got an eye on me."

Lu Yan said.

"No worries, we have a secret passageway. Please follow us."

The staff of the World Bank remained calm, apparently having dealt with such situations frequently.

A middle-aged man twisted a vase in the lounge, causing the floor to move and reveal an entrance. Stairs sloped downward.

"This way, sir,"

The middle-aged man gestured with a smile.

Lu Yan nodded and went down first, followed by the middle-aged man.

Down below was a passage that extended to the exit situated within a hidden courtyard.

One had to admit, the World Bank had thought of everything.

"Sir, I hope we will have the chance to collaborate again in the future."

The middle-aged man left with a smile after closing the exit.

Lu Yan returned to the inn.

He didn’t immediately leave Shengxuan City as the auction had just concluded and many people had gathered some loot. Therefore, leaving the city now would be unsafe.

In the city, the Shengxuan Sect maintained order. But once outside, it would be every man for himself.

Lu Yan consumed a Martial Pill and continued to enhance his ninth Body Refining Martial Art.

Level Three Martial Pills could rapidly enhance a common martial art. Three days later, this common Body Refining Martial Art had reached the Unity of Man and Martial Arts level.

The avatars of the nine Body Refining Martial Arts combined into a supreme Martial Arts Avatar, and Lu Yan’s mind was filled with the cultivation methods and insights of this martial arts avatar.

"I’ll call this martial art the Hundred Beast Battle Body."

Lu Yan murmured.

The main reason for this name was that most of the previous nine common Body Refining Martial Arts were related to various Alien Beasts.

"Can these two supreme Body Refining Martial Arts overlay?"

Lu Yan wondered in his heart, then activated Divine Jiao Gold Body and Hundred Beast Battle Body at the same time. His muscles instantly swelled, his body covered in scales, brimming with fierce power, resembling a prehistoric beast god.

"I seem to have transformed. If I go out at night, I might scare the kids."

Lu Yan stopped cultivating with a smile, and his body immediately returned to its original state.

"Time to return to Xuanhuo City."

Lu Yan put a few pieces of Dao Food into a cloth bag, put the Martial Pill and Martial Coupons into an iron box, packed them up and carried them on his back. Changing his appearance, he left the city.

Not long after leaving the city, Lu Yan charged into a forest.

The decision to avoid the main roads for the mountains were to avoid being followed.

Lu Yan moved swiftly through the forest like the wind, covering about a hundred meters in one step, neither rushing nor dawdling.

Although this pace wasn’t as fast as his full sprint, he could maintain it for a long time and cover a significant distance.

Before long, Lu Yan had crossed hundreds of miles, but he suddenly came to a stop.

Because he heard a rumbling noise ahead.

Lu Yan reduced his aura, circled around, and quietly approached; he landed on a big tree and observed from a distance.

Two groups of people were engaged in fierce combat.

One side, with three people, was clearly at a disadvantage as they were being surrounded and attacked by six individuals; their situation was precarious.

Lu Yan noticed that each group had a Sixth-level Master among them. However, the group with more people had two Sixth-level Masters, while the group of three only had one.

Two Sixth-level Masters surrounded a gray-robed old man. The old man was also a Sixth-level Master, but he was covered in blood and barely holding on.

"You dare to commit robbery here, Feng Family of Yueya City. Once this gets out, it will incite public anger!"

The gray-robed old man roared in fury.

However, the others remained unfazed and increased the intensity of their attacks.

SPLAT!

A longsword pierced the chest of the gray-robed old man. Then a beam of knife light flashed past, and the old man’s head flew off. His decapitated body collapsed heavily to the ground.

With the most formidable gray-robed old man dead, the remaining two couldn’t put up much of a fight. Within a few moments, they were killed.

Then, the assailants unraveled the bundles from the old man and others, checked them, and broke into smiles.

Then, one tall, lean, hawk-nosed middle-aged man whispered a few words to the others.

SWISH!

These people moved swiftly and charged toward the big tree Lu Yan was on, surrounding the tree.

CRACK!

One of them hit the trunk of the tree. The trunk exploded, and Lu Yan jumped down from the tree.

"Whoever witnessed what happened just now won’t live to tell. Let’s kill him together."

The tall, lean man ordered and attacked Lu Yan with a sharp sword, slithering like a poisonous snake.

CLANG!

Lu Yan slapped the longsword, causing a vibration that made the tall, lean man stumble backward. A frightening chill quickly invaded his body from the sword and spread throughout his whole body.

He shivered from the cold, his face paled, and he stammered, "Sir, there’s been a misunderstanding..."

Before he could finish, Lu Yan had already appeared in front of him, striking his chest.

The tall, lean man’s chest was pierced, and his whole body turned into an ice sculpture. He was thrown dozens of meters backward before shattering to pieces.

A Sixth-level Master was virtually instantly killed.

"This is a regular Sixth-level Master, right? So weak. Staying in Hidden Dragon Camp for years, I almost thought I was inferior. Turns out, I’m pretty capable."

A thought flashed in Lu Yan’s mind as he dashed towards another Sixth-level Master and struck out with his palm.

Though the man concentrated on defense, he couldn’t dodge in time due to Lu Yan’s speed. His chest was struck by Lu Yan’s palm, and he met the same fate as the tall, lean man.

The remaining four masters saw this and were scared out of their wits. They didn’t dare to fight and turned to run.

Lu Yan held his bow and arrow, fired four shots in a row, killing all four experts.

"Ordinary martial cultivators are too frail compared to Martial Spirits."

Lu Yan shook his head slightly.

He searched their bodies and found many good items.

Several hundred martial coupons, a few divine weapons, and some martial pills.

"Ah, this is... the Solidifying Reality Pill."

Lu Yan opened a metal box, and was immediately greeted by a pleasing aroma.

Inside the box, there was a martial pill. It was red as blood, and smooth and round. It was significantly smaller than a third level martial pill.

A third level martial pill was usually the size of a dragon’s eye, while this pill was probably only the size of a dragon’s eye’s core.

Lu Yan had seen it at an auction before.

The Solidifying Reality Pill can help a grandmaster increase the success rate of breaking through to the True Body Realm by 20%.

The price is astronomically high, far more expensive than the Phoenix Blood Heart Protective Soup and the Ink Jade Heart Bead, which assist in breaking through to the grandmaster level.

He remembered that at the auction, this Solidifying Reality Pill was bought for a thousand martial coupons.

Lu Yan realized that anything related to the True Body Realm was outrageously expensive, like the top martial arts, and the Solidifying Reality Pill.

Lu Yan happily put it away.

The martial pill, refined from the essence of alien beast meat and spiritual medicine, can be preserved for a extended period of time, sometimes for decades, sometimes even hundreds of years without spoiling.

With special methods, it could even remain undamaged for thousands of years without losing its efficacy.

He’s already a fourth-level master, and it wouldn’t be long before he could use it.

Suddenly, Lu Yan felt a tingling sensation on his skin, and his hair stood on end, signalling imminent danger.

Without hesitation, Lu Yan rolled sideways.

Plop!

A spear hit the ground where Lu Yan had been standing, scattering rocks and smoke. A large pit was blasted out of the ground.

Clap, clap, clap...

A middle-aged man came forward on the branches, leisurely and at ease, even clapping his hands.

"You’re young and your reaction is fast, it’s quite admirable for your age."

With a gasp of admiration, the middle-aged man landed lightly about ten meters away from Lu Yan.

Lu Yan’s pupils contracted, his muscles were tense, readying himself for defense.

This man gave him a strong sense of danger.

Now he could kill a sixth-level grandmaster without effort.

There were only two possibilities for giving him this feeling. First, the opponent was in the True Body Realm, the second was that the opponent was an abnormality like Mo Wenzhuo or Shang Wuyang.

Obviously, Lu Yan was leaning towards the former.

After all, there are far fewer abnormalities like Mo Wenzhuo or Shang Wuyang than those in the True Body Realm.

"Senior, as a person in the True Body Realm, you have attacked me without warning. Isn’t that against the behavior of a martial arts expert?" Lu Yan tried to probe.

"Spare the talk. Hand over everything on you. And remember, everything."

The middle-aged man said coldly.

Another robber.

It was truly the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

"Senior, I can give you everything. But you have to promise to spare my life, otherwise, with a burst of my inner strength, the martial coupons on me would turn into dust," Lu Yan said.

"Of course, as long as you cooperate, I keep my word."

The middle-aged man was very straightforward.

"Fine, I’ll give them to you."

Lu Yan nodded and reached out to unwrap the parcels he had.

Suddenly...

Lu Yan grabbed an arrow next to him, his inner strength exploded, his muscles bulged, and he hurled the arrow straight at the middle-aged man.

Meanwhile, his body leapt backward.

But the moment Lu Yan launched his attack, the middle-aged man reacted. With a wave of his hand, an explosive palm strike shot forward.

The wind from the palm was overwhelming, like a gigantic wave, smashing away the arrows. The man’s figure rushed towards Lu Yan like a phantom, the ferocious speed and power were shocking.

In a flash, he was upon Lu Yan, his palm aiming to strike Lu Yan.

The threat of death loomed. His palm had not yet landed, but the fierce wind was already trying to tear Lu Yan apart.

In this dire moment, Lu Yan could not afford to hold back his strength.

All twenty-five strands of his inner strength erupted, he used the Divine Jiao Gold Body, Hundred Beast Battle Body, and Cold Magic Palm all at once, pushed to the limit, and counterattacked with a palm strike.

Boom!

The two palm strikes clashed, creating a cyclone around them. The place where they were standing blasted open and sunk in.

The huge rocks and trees within a hundred meters radius erupted and turned into dust.

The palm forces clashed for only two breaths when one figure, like a cannonball, was forced back, flying hundreds of meters backward, crashing through countless large trees, and finally slamming heavily into a mountain wall before stopping.

It was Lu Yan.

He coughed up several mouthfuls of fresh blood, feeling a sharp pain in his wrist; his hand bone was almost cracked.

"He’s so strong. His body is even better than my two Supreme Physical Martial Arts combined," Lu Yan thought to himself with surprise.

The True Body Realm allows one to integrate the inner and outer self, condense the True Body and transform into True Vigor. The perfectly combined True Body and True Vigor can overpower the inner strength with ease.

Fortunately, he was not killed by a single hand from his opponent. This means that the opponent is just an ordinary True Body Realm cultivator, and not an expert in the True Body Realm. The True Body he cultivated was mostly just an Inferior True Body.