Free Web NovelChapter 223: Chapter 213: Radiance 7
Moon Tower, Hong Residence.
Inside a dark, violet-black palace.
A bewitching woman, her lips and hair a striking violet, was clad in nothing but a simple bikini-style lingerie set. She slowly sat down at the head of the table, looking at Hong Ling and Hong Lingxiang on either side of the dining table.
"You’re back a little early today. You two, care to join me tonight for a new game? I’ve collected some new ’toys’ to play with."
A dark red tentacle silently extended from behind the woman, coiling around a pastry on the table like a hand and delivering it to her lips.
She, meanwhile, crossed her legs and took out a compact mirror, meticulously touching up her makeup.
"Thank you for your kind offer, Mother, but we prefer to live a more normal life. For you, overindulging in pleasure is of no consequence, but we would be unable to bear it and would ultimately be lost to it," Hong Ling said respectfully.
"You don’t actually think you’re normal, do you?" The woman’s smile was a mixture of mockery and pity.
"Perhaps we aren’t, but we hold ourselves to a final standard—to maintain one last baseline," Hong Lingxiang added from the side.
"How dull. Life is short. What’s the point if not for pleasure?" the woman said, raising an eyebrow.
"You’re right to admonish us, Mother. We are too rigid," Hong Ling said, quickly lowering his head.
"A pity. I remember when you were just little darlings who tumbled out of my body. In the blink of an eye, you’ve grown so big, and not fun at all... So young, yet acting more and more like those old fossils... Oh, right..."
The woman suddenly seemed to recall something.
"Speaking of which, a Supreme from the Three Sects came to ask me if I had any connection to a small martial arts hall in the Outer City. When I heard the name, I remembered it was that Qingfeng Temple you mentioned, little Ling."
"Qingfeng Temple? The Three Sects? It’s a subordinate faction of a friend of mine. Thank you for looking out for them, Mother," Hong Ling said hurriedly.
"Just a mere Outer City martial arts hall, yet it’s connected to the Inner City’s Three Sects and has ties with you, the head of the Inspectorate. This Qingfeng Temple... it’s somewhat interesting." The woman seemed to have developed a sliver of curiosity and interest.
The Hong Ling siblings lowered their heads, not daring to reply.
"Forget it, forget it. Look how scared you are. Do I look like the type to eat people?" the woman giggled charmingly.
’...’ ’You don’t eat people, that’s true. You just like giving birth to them. And if a child doesn’t meet your expectations, you stuff it right back in and ’eat’ it on the spot.’
The Hong Ling siblings couldn’t help but recall the scene they had once witnessed: their mother eating her own child.
They shivered involuntarily.
She truly used her Progenitor’s Blood Heart to devour the infant, preventing her bloodline from being passed on elsewhere.
From this perspective, their mother, Hong Wuxin, truly did love them.
Over the years, she had been promiscuous and given birth to many, but they were the only two children she ever acknowledged. Perhaps this had something to do with their mysterious father.
The three of them fell silent. As their mother, Hong Wuxin, was eating, she suddenly grabbed a nearby maid, ripped her clothes, and prepared to get down to business.
From beneath the table, a mass of dark red tentacles surged from her body, stripping the maid naked in moments. Just as she was about to enter the maid’s body, amidst the girl’s pale, terrified expression...
VMMMM.
Suddenly, a faint but distinct, special vibration emanated from an exquisite, pure white earring on Hong Wuxin’s earlobe.
Her movements paused. She frowned deeply and threw the maid aside.
"There’s an urgent notification. You two eat by yourselves."
The moment she finished speaking, she vanished from her spot.
The next second, her body teleported directly into the main hall of the highest level, the Extreme Desire Heaven.
The other seven had also teleported in at the same time. They were all disguised by massive black robes, floating in mid-air.
The eight of them formed a large circle, unable to see each other’s faces or sense any auras. Only their voices could be transmitted.
The long black robes trailed down like mermaid tails, drifting gently.
"Why call us over in such a hurry? Out with it, what’s going on?" A young, magnetic male voice was the first to speak, tinged with impatience.
"The Observation Tower detected an abnormal power fluctuation. It’s very close, over by the Yanshan Mountain Range ruins," a gentle female voice replied.
"Oh? The Yanshan Mountain Range ruins? Hasn’t the Observation Tower been adjusted to only react to unconventional-class power? Could it be..." another voice, that of an old man, asked in confusion.
"You are not mistaken. It has indeed detected unconventional-class power," the gentle female voice replied.
"If I recall correctly, the unconventional power we reset the threshold for must be approaching or at our level to even qualify for the Observation Tower’s monitoring. Is that right?" the old man asked in a low voice.
"Correct. The last time we saw a reaction of this magnitude was during the Super Adaptable’s frenzied rampage," the gentle female voice confirmed.
"How interesting," Hong Wuxin laughed. "Why bother guessing? Why don’t we just go have a look?"
"One of the powers is Supreme Master Yunxia of the Nine Dreams Sect. She is one of the people from the Taixu Primordial Disk. According to our agreement, it’s inconvenient for us to interfere," the gentle female voice replied.
"...Agreement, agreement, always the agreement! Aren’t those folks from the Taixu Primordial Disk overstepping their bounds a bit!?" Hong Wuxin said, displeased.
"They are directly subordinate to the Federation. If you have a problem, you can take it up with them directly. No one here is stopping you," a cold, young male voice spoke for the first time.
For once, Hong Wuxin didn’t retort, clearly wary of the man who had spoken.
"Let’s just wait and see. It’s still far from here; it won’t affect anything," someone said nonchalantly.
"Then it’s settled. We’ll wait to see the Taixu Primordial Disk’s attitude. If..." The cold male voice was about to make the final decision, but before he could finish...
’Warning: Power fluctuation has exceeded set limits. If its trajectory changes, it may pose a threat to the urban area at any time. Please handle immediately.’ A cold, emotionless female voice abruptly cut him off.
Everyone fell silent.
From their position, everyone could perceive the notification transmitted from the Observation Tower the moment it was issued.
"Exceeded set limits... This is...!?" For the first time, a trace of uncertainty appeared on Hong Wuxin’s face.
"Chen Family, I’ll trouble you to go to the scene and take a look," the cold male voice commanded.
"Yes." One of them nodded slightly, stepped back, and vanished in an instant.
"I’ll go too!" The figure with the gentle female voice also disappeared.
Hong Wuxin smiled and left as well.
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Tianzhan Cliff.
A vast lake of white light unfolded beneath their feet, sending out ripples like water.
Countless streams of Inner Strength surrounded Lin Hui, layer upon layer.
Master Yunxia held her longsword vertically, pressing her fingers horizontally against the center of the blade to form a cross. A faint, colorful light began to coalesce between her brows.
She stared at the encircled Lin Hui, her eyes having turned completely white. Her irises and pupils were gone, replaced by pure, radiant light.
"This Lake of Pure White is formed from ten percent of my power. It can completely isolate and suppress the fluctuations of any external Inner Strength within its bounds. As long as you are within this range, the circulation of your Inner Strength will be several times slower than normal."
Master Yunxia’s gaze fell upon the motionless Lin Hui.
"Come. How will you deal with this predicament? Show me your true strength as the Observatory Master of Qingfeng Temple!"
"This isn’t your real strength, is it?" Lin Hui said softly.
"As I said, this is only ten percent of my power. If you can’t even break through this Lake of Pure White..."
SHIIING!!
In an instant, a terrifyingly fast flash of sword light, like a streak of silver lightning, grazed past Master Yunxia’s cheek, vanishing as quickly as it appeared and leaving a shallow bloody line.
Lin Hui’s figure slowly materialized less than ten meters behind her. He turned and sheathed his sword.
"Does that count as breaking through?"
In his hand, the silver blade of his sword, illuminated by the white light of the Inner Strength, looked like pure mercury.
Master Yunxia reached up, touched the blood on her face... and tasted it.
In the center of her pure white eyes, a dot of pitch black abruptly appeared.
"It counts... It more than counts!!"
She spun around.
An intense, blinding white flame began to rise from her skin.
Her white robes billowed. From the white flames of Inner Strength behind her, a colossal white dragon composed entirely of Inner Strength burst forth with a roar.
ROAR!!!
A dragon’s head the size of a truck soared up from behind Master Yunxia, pulling a massive body over a hundred meters long.
The white dragon dove, spewing a blinding pillar of draconic breath from its mouth.
BOOM!!
In that instant, a massive hole was blasted through Tianzhan Cliff. The entire precipice creaked and cracked, slowly breaking apart as its front half plunged into the abyss below.
"KILL!!!" Master Yunxia seemed to have fallen into a strange, frenzied state. Gripping her sword with both hands, she swung it forward.
The white dragon of Inner Strength above her followed her lead, plunging down and crashing toward Lin Hui’s position.
"Ancient Dream Divine Technique: Taiyin Dragon Breath Sword!!"
She laughed maniacally as the seal within her body rapidly broke: thirty percent, fifty percent, seventy percent, ninety percent!
SWOOSH!!
The next instant, there was a flash of silver sword light.
The massive white dragon and the endless white Inner Strength were split in two.
Lin Hui’s figure abruptly appeared before her, mere inches away, a smile on his face.
Ruyi came chopping down.
CLANG!!
The ground beneath Master Yunxia’s feet exploded and then broke apart. She, along with rock and soil, plummeted into the bottomless abyss.
Gritting her teeth, she held her sword with both hands, barely blocking the strike.
But the terrifyingly immense force, amplified by supreme speed, created an impact that reminded her of when she was still an ordinary person, facing a ten-meter-tall, nine-tailed scorpion charging at her. It brought back the pain, the shock, and... the fear!
PTUI!
Her internal organs were concussed, and she spat out a mouthful of blood as she was sent hurtling downward at high speed.
In mid-air, she tilted her head back and saw Lin Hui standing on the edge of the broken cliff, his waist-length black hair drifting in the wind, his longsword held horizontally, looking down on her.
Behind him, the phantom of the nine-tailed scorpion from her childhood seemed to appear.
"What... what in the world are you!!"
At this moment, she finally cast aside all restraint. If she had been worried before that going all-out might attract the Observation Tower’s attention, now, she saw in Lin Hui the fear and shadow of her own childhood.
In this instant, a powerful rage surged from the depths of her heart, compelling her to disregard everything else.
"I will not be afraid again! Not of anyone!!" Looking at the phantom of the nine-tailed scorpion, Master Yunxia seemed to see through it to another, even larger shadow that had always been hiding behind the scenes.
She had always striven for the limits of power, frantically breaking through, trying every method possible.
And for what!?
"KILL!!!!"
Master Yunxia roared madly.
At that moment, the final Martial Dao form belonging to a Bright Extreme Grandmaster—the Final Martial Form—erupted into being.
The Ultimate Martial Dao Form is what happens when a Martial Artist trains their Martial Dao to its absolute peak. Their entire being merges with their Martial Dao, and their body is completely transformed into the perfect vessel for unleashing the might of their Martial Arts.
If a Martial Artist’s overall attributes increase fivefold upon stepping into the Triple Harmony Grandmaster realm... freewёbnoνel.com
...then entering the Final Martial Form, a state exclusive to Bright Extreme Grandmasters, would instantly amplify their average overall attributes fifteenfold! At the same time, their Inner Strength would transform into a power called True Power, and they would gain a terrifying regenerative ability far beyond the norm.
The only drawback was that this form was developed purely for slaughter. It had no openings, no hesitation—everything was for the sole purpose of killing the enemy, making it impossible to even hold back.
