Free Web NovelChapter 377: Chapter 141: Slaying an Arrogant Girl in the Gangfeng Forbidden Land, First Success with the True Scripture and Riding the Wind, Pursuit, and a Desperate Escape
Chu Fan’s figure flickered through the mountain forest, becoming a faint gray blur.
He possessed the "Wave Riding and Wind Chasing" Trait. Each step was as light as a feather, and his speed was astonishing.
He sped northwest, his destination the exceedingly perilous Gangfeng Forbidden Land the old Hunter had mentioned.
His sole purpose for this journey was to begin cultivating the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture.
He had obtained this marvelous Cultivation Technique from Liang Yuhen, a female disciple of the Iron Armor Sect. Though it was only a fragment, it was anything but ordinary.
Its cultivation requirements were extremely stringent, with the environment being the primary concern. One had to be within the Gangfeng Forbidden Land and draw the world’s purest yet most violent Innate Wind Seed into their body.
Then, the thirty-six meridians within the body had to be gradually transformed into semi-ethereal Wind Veins to lay the foundation.
From then on, one needed to continuously devour the Wandering Wind Spirits of the world to advance the Cultivation Technique.
Strong gales were common near Cyan Yang Ancient City, but a place like this forbidden land was nowhere to be found, so the True Scripture had remained unused.
According to the True Scripture, the winds of the Gangfeng Forbidden Land were no ordinary natural phenomenon.
They were, in fact, a convergence of the world’s purest and most violent energies, as sharp as the blade of a Divine Weapon, which is how they earned the name "Gangfeng."
These winds could easily rip through flesh and scrape meat from bone. Even the Protective Gang Qi and Magical Treasure Spiritual Light that Cultivators took pride in would melt away like ice and snow under the Gangfeng’s constant assault.
For an ordinary Martial Artist, forget drawing a Wind Seed into the body; just stepping into the forbidden land and enduring the Gangfeng’s erosion was a near-certain death sentence.
If an ordinary Spirit Awakening Realm Cultivator were to go there, they would be reduced to a pile of bones in an instant.
Although Chu Fan didn’t know exactly how terrifying the forbidden land was, he had absolute confidence in his Vajra Undying Body.
He was certain that his well-tempered physique was more than enough to withstand the initial baptism of the Gangfeng.
Chu Fan covered the distance of over one hundred miles at full speed, taking just a little over four hours.
As he sprinted, the Experience Points for his Running Technique quietly increased by over six hundred and seventy.
[Skill: Running Technique (Third Limit Break 7265/10000) (Traits: Wind under the Feet, Light as a Feather, Wave Riding and Wind Chasing)]
He stopped at the foot of a massive, barren mountain and immediately sensed something strange about the place.
A powerful wind blew against his face, carrying a piercing sharpness that felt like a knife’s edge, completely unlike the gentle breezes of the other forests.
’The direction is right. The Gangfeng Forbidden Land must be in these mountains.’
Chu Fan pushed against the wind, moving swiftly along the rugged mountain path.
The higher he climbed, the faster and sharper the winds grew.
His clothes whipped about in the wind, and it wasn’t long before the sharp force within it tore them to shreds, leaving him looking rather pathetic.
Before long, he arrived at the edge of a cliff.
Ahead, the Gangfeng howled, sounding like ten thousand ghosts wailing. Pale green streams of air, visible to the naked eye, cut through the air and the cliff face like sharp blades.
An ordinary person would be torn to pieces in an instant here.
’This is the place,’ Chu Fan thought, his resolve firming.
The pure, violent energy within the wind was exactly as the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture described.
His gaze swept across the area, and he froze.
There, at the cliff’s edge where the Gangfeng raged most fiercely, sat two people: one old, one young.
The girl was about sixteen, with a pretty face, but her eyes held an imperious arrogance.
The old man’s hair and beard were white, his face gaunt. His eyes were closed in deep concentration.
Strangely, a faint blue barrier of light enveloped them, completely blocking the Gangfeng that could shred even a Spirit Awakening Realm Cultivator.
They were clearly using this place for cultivation as well, and they had an Exotic Treasure for protection.
Chu Fan didn’t want any trouble. Acting on the principle of ’I won’t bother you if you don’t bother me,’ he carefully chose a spot on the far side of the cliff, away from the pair. He wanted to find a place to sit and attempt to draw in the Innate Wind Seed.
But just as he found a relatively flat rock and was about to sit, a cold, imperious female voice pierced the air.
"Where did this bumpkin come from? Don’t you know the rules? Scram! This place belongs to my Medicine King Valley!"
The speaker was, of course, the young woman.
Chu Fan’s brow furrowed. He turned to the girl, who had now opened her eyes, her face a mask of disgust. "Since when did the Gangfeng Forbidden Land become private property?" he asked calmly. "You do your cultivation, and I’ll do mine. We won’t get in each other’s way. What gives you the right to tell me to scram?"
The girl clearly hadn’t expected anyone to dare talk back to her. She was stunned for a moment, then her pretty face turned cold as frost. "Hah! What a frog in a well. You’ve never even heard of the Medicine King Valley of Qing Province? I’m giving you a chance to live by telling you to scram. Don’t be an ungrateful fool!"
"Medicine King Valley?" Chu Fan shook his head, his tone still level. "Never heard of it. Even if the emperor himself showed up, he’d have no right to monopolize a place like this, which was formed by nature."
’I finally found this Gangfeng Forbidden Land after rushing over a hundred miles. You tell me to scram, and I’m just supposed to scram?’
Chu Fan had no intention of leaving.
"How dare you!"
The girl shrieked, "Within Qing Province, every major Noble Family and Noble Sect shows deference to my Medicine King Valley! Who the hell do you think you are, spouting such nonsense here!"
Before the words had even left her mouth, she flicked her finger. A pearl the size of a walnut, wreathed in faint crackles of electricity, shot toward Chu Fan’s face, whistling through the air!
Its speed was incredible, carrying the force of wind and thunder!
Chu Fan’s eyes narrowed. ’This isn’t a warning shot. It’s a Killing Move!’
With a subtle shift of his feet, his Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step activated, and his figure drifted half a step to the right like a willow catkin.
BOOM!
The pearl grazed the corner of his robe and slammed into the mountain wall behind him, exploding violently.
Shrapnel flew and dust filled the air. The hard rock wall, which could withstand the Gangfeng, had been blasted with a crater a foot deep!
The violent blast of force pushed Chu Fan back over twenty feet, his arms crossed to shield himself and his feet carving two trenches in the ground.
He lowered his arms, his face darkened.
’If that had been anyone else,’ he thought, ’they would have been gravely injured, if not killed!’
"Oh?" A flicker of surprise crossed the girl’s face when she saw that Chu Fan had actually dodged. freewebnoveℓ.com
Then, as if she’d discovered a new toy, she turned to the old man, who still had his eyes closed, and said in a cloying voice, "Third Grandpa, look! This boy is a little interesting. He actually dodged my Wind-Thunder Pearl. How about a bet? With the next one, I guarantee there won’t be a single bone left of him!"
