Free Web NovelChapter 29: Chapter 29: Midway Ambush
"WHOOSH!" The thunderball flickered, streaking through the torrential rain and appearing before Gu Yun in an instant.
Gu Yun’s expression remained unchanged. He channeled his Sword Momentum into his Thunder Listening Saber and swung.
Instantly, the terrifyingly powerful thunderball was sliced clean in two.
"WHOOSH!" The two halves of the thunderball zipped past either side of Gu Yun, ripping through the air.
In the blink of an eye, they struck a distant mountain peak. "BOOM!" Two explosions erupted, sending rubble scattering and dust plumes rising!
’Come on, let me see what you’re really made of.’ He immediately unleashed the full might of his Spiritual Power, at the level of the Half-Step True Martial Realm. An aura as deep as an abyss surged outward in all directions like a tidal wave.
Gu Yun slammed his palms together and shouted coldly, "Earth-Bursting Heaven-Shaking!"
A repulsive force, powerful enough to topple mountains and overturn seas, swept through the air toward the Demon Thunder Beast. The beast was sent flying by the immense force.
Gu Yun then drew his Thunder Listening Saber and slashed dozens of times. Dozens of brilliant white rays of Sword Qi soared into the air like silver dragons ascending to the heavens, all flying toward the Demon Thunder Beast.
"SHINK! SHINK! SHINK!"
Dozens of sharp rays of Sword Qi continuously struck the Demon Thunder Beast’s body. It was now covered in grievous wounds, so deep that bone was visible.
With a cold expression, Gu Yun prepared his final move. With a push of his feet, his figure flickered, and in an instant, he appeared before the Demon Thunder Beast’s head. Thunder and lightning coiled around his fist as he threw a punch, imbued with the unstoppable momentum of a thunderclap and the force of Mountain-Breaking and Mountain-Suppressing!
BOOM!
"SQUELCH!" With a dull thud, the Demon Thunder Beast’s skull instantly caved in. Its cold, blue eyes drooped.
Then, they dimmed.
"THUD!"
With a loud crash, its massive body, over fifty feet long, fell backward, making the ground tremble.
Blood poured continuously from its corpse, washed away by the torrential rain.
Gu Yun’s figure moved; he was about to approach the Demon Thunder Beast to retrieve its Inner Core.
Suddenly, the situation took a shocking turn.
A man in a blue Profound Robe suddenly materialized beside the Demon Thunder Beast. He struck out with a palm, and a vast surge of Spiritual Qi blasted a hole straight through the beast’s corpse.
He reached in and snatched the Inner Core.
The expression on Gu Yun’s face froze.
Then it turned ice-cold.
’Someone dares to snatch food from the tiger’s mouth? How dare he? Just because he exudes the aura of a Half-Step True Martial?’
’Damn it.’
Gu Yun stared at the man as if looking at a corpse. Without a single wasted word, he slashed out with his saber. A ray of Sword Qi shot across the sky, piercing the curtain of rain as it flew toward the man in the blue Profound Robe.
In an instant, it passed through the man’s body.
Gu Yun narrowed his eyes. ’An afterimage? Not bad speed.’
The man in the blue Profound Robe reappeared from another direction, a dismissive look in his eyes. "Your Excellency has decent strength, but your speed is a bit lacking." Before his words even faded,
the man’s figure transformed into a blue streak, shooting off into the distance at high speed.
Gu Yun watched him go, his expression unruffled.
’Trying to run after stealing my prize? This guy is much smarter than the Zhou Family, but did he ask for my permission before taking my things? He must have a death wish.’
With that, Gu Yun’s figure flickered. An afterimage slowly faded where he had stood, leaving behind only the dozen or so corpses of the Zhou Family and the massive carcass of the Demon Thunder Beast on the rain-swept ground.
...
Gu Yun pursued the man in the blue Profound Robe at top speed.
The fierce wind howled past his ears.
His opponent’s Body Technique was clearly impressive, but Gu Yun’s was even better.
The distance between them steadily closed.
When Gu Yun was only a thousand feet away from his opponent, he activated Three Thousand Thunder Flashes. A clap of thunder suddenly echoed through the air.
The moment the thunder cracked, his entire body transformed into a streak of lightning and shot forward.
Across the thousand-foot distance, the flash of lightning passed in an instant, overtaking his opponent.
The man in the blue Profound Robe only registered a bolt of lightning streaking past him. His vision blurred, and Gu Yun appeared right in front of him.
He came to a screeching halt, his expression darkening. "Your Excellency has some impressive moves. To think you were holding back on your speed."
"We are both Half-Step True Martials. I just didn’t want to go to the trouble. Did you really think I was afraid of you?"
As he spoke, Spiritual Qi erupted from his body, and a powerful wave of pressure rolled toward Gu Yun.
Gu Yun calmly watched this display. ’You stole my things, and now you’re the one who feels wronged?’
He immediately released his own Spiritual Power, clashing with the man’s.
The two waves of pressure collided in mid-air, grappling with each other before settling into a 30-70 split—thirty percent from the blue-robed man, and seventy from Gu Yun.
"Your Excellency’s foundation is quite profound," the man in the blue Profound Robe said, his face growing even more grim.
...
Without any more wasted words, Gu Yun drew his saber and unleashed several rays of Sword Qi. The Sword Qi soared into the air like white dragons, forming an encirclement as they descended to annihilate their target.
Then, his figure vanished from his spot.
The man in the blue Profound Robe remained unfazed. Lightning flared from his right hand, forming a blue Thunder Light Palm Seal that collided with Gu Yun’s cold Sword Qi.
"FWOOM!" The resulting shockwave spread out, shaking the surrounding forest and causing the trees to rustle violently.
But in that same instant, Gu Yun’s figure appeared before him, throwing a punch with the unstoppable momentum of a thunderclap!
The man in the blue Profound Robe paled in shock and hastily tried to defend himself.
But how could he possibly block a full-power punch from Gu Yun?
He was sent flying backward, spitting up a mouthful of blood.
But Gu Yun wasn’t about to let him go so easily.
’Anyone who dares touch my things is courting death.’
His figure vanished once more. He swung his saber, unleashing astonishing Sword Momentum. A slash of light tore through the air, heading for the man in the blue Profound Robe.
The man was powerless to resist. The Sword Momentum passed through his body, leaving him as dead as could be.
Gu Yun went to loot the corpse.
He picked up the blue-robed man’s Storage Ring.
...
「Three days later.」 Gu Yun returned to the Profound Celestial Sect.
He sensed the dense Spiritual Qi within the surrounding cave residences.
Gu Yun sat down cross-legged and began to take stock of his gains.
First were his own five Celestial Thunder Stones and the Thunder Crystal Stone.
Then, from the black-robed man he had killed in the cave—the one who tried to raid his home—there were about one hundred Spirit Stones and some other miscellaneous, low-value items.
Next, Gu Yun turned his attention to the blue-robed man’s Storage Ring.
A satisfied smile appeared on Gu Yun’s face.
Three hundred Spirit Stones lay there neatly, along with several types of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
’Damn, this guy must have been a prolific highway robber.’
There was the Inner Core of the Demon Thunder Beast, which contained a large amount of Thunder Power; a Human Tier Top Grade Martial Technique, Celestial Thunder Hand; and a Human Tier Top Grade Body Technique, Phantom Spirit Step.
The ancients said,
"A man can’t get rich without a windfall, just as a horse can’t get fat without night grass."
’They certainly weren’t lying.’
’This haul... I’ve struck it rich!’
Celestial Thunder Hand: At Great Success, one can condense a large amount of lightning in their hands and launch an instantaneous, devastating thunder-like attack.
Phantom Spirit Step: Transform the body into a phantom, making it impossible to defend against. Suitable for confusing enemies, combat, and escape.
Looking at the Celestial Thunder Hand and Phantom Spirit Step, Gu Yun already had a plan.
He would cultivate the Celestial Thunder Hand. The Phantom Spirit Step was almost useless to him, as his existing body techniques already included Three Thousand Thunder Flashes—the companion Martial Technique of the First Tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Thunder Gang Decision—and his Wandering Dragon Step, which he had cultivated to Perfection.
Therefore, he planned to auction off the Phantom Spirit Step when he had time. After all, a Human Tier Top Grade Body Technique was extremely valuable in the outside world.
Now that he had finished inventorying his gains,
it was time to enter seclusion and break through to the True Martial Realm!
