Eternal Swordsman - 2
Chapter 45 The Strange Beast

In the Martial Temple, huge waves of energy fluctuations rippled like surging currents in the ocean. The ground of the temple began to tremble and the walls sustained by the ruins of the Dao laws began to tremble. The amount of energy required to cause such a scene was enormous.

"Wait there" Apollo stood up to watch over Jia Lin, his hands constantly flashing as he concocted the Blood Joining Medicine Fluid nonstop. This liquid would lighten Jia Lin's body burden by about 8%, the other 92% would have to be borne by Jia Lin and Jia Lin alone. This was already a great help from Apollo and the Blood Joining Medicine Fluids.

"Ahh ahh"

Jia Lin cried out nonstop, his meridians formed and broke and reformed and broke again. This endless cycle caused Jia Lin's interior to feel like it was burning, his bones were cracking, and his whole heart was as if it was about to explode at any moment.

"Do you want to live"

"Do you want power"

As Jia Lin held back the immense vitality of the blood essence of the god beast, his soul trembled in such a way that he was lifted trembling in deep fear for some strange and puzzling reason. This fear came from his soul and in his mind, a dark voice sounded. This voice caused his mind to tremble and his mind of the world to tremble with a strange fluctuation of energy.

"Hm. What is this" Apollo could feel something strange was going on. After all, he could see a deep fear in Jia Lin's eyes, and this fear was not caused by the process of him absorbing the blood essence.

"Do you want power"

That voice sounded within Jia Lin's mind once again. Jia Lin knew that this voice did not come from his mind and only sounded out there. The voice that promised this power came from his soul, the deepest part of his soul and that was what scared him the most.

Every scream he made sounded as if it was mixed with the roar of a dragon. Above Jia Lin's head, three sets of Blood Joining Medicine Fluids floated up and as they did, they flooded his body, washing his bones and organs. But every time they did, the golden blood essence would destroy his body once more.

"Why" Jia Lin rolled around on the ground, sometimes she would hold her chest, next she would hold her head. The huge dragon shadow soaring in the endless sky allowed his mind and not only that but he could hear voices calling out to him, offering him countless powers of strength.

"T... No, I. I don't want to" Jia Lin thrashed, blood spurted out of his chest and his skin cracked, spitting out blood.

In the world of Cultivators and Magicians, it was reasonable to know that the stronger something was, the greater its resistance to those who wanted to control it. It was also the same for things like blood essence, if a martial cultivator or Mage wanted to absorb and fuse with blood essence that was at a level surpassing their own, he said, the blood essence would provide a very strong resistance.

Especially if that blood essence belonged to someone or a being who was extremely powerful and possessed incredible self-esteem. Why would they allow their blood essence, their foundation to be absorbed by others who were much weaker than themselves. In a sense, it was only a waste of their foundation if that person could only absorb a very small percentage or nothing at all and die.

That was why many such powerful blood essences would refuse to be absorbed by cultivators and magicians, even worse by those from the mortal realm.

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The Dark Abyss at this moment was extremely chaotic, sometimes, at times, huge waves of energy would burst out from unknown locations and dig the ground as well as destroy nearby rocks and other such things in the area. This shockwave of energy came at an unknown time and if it got stuck in the middle of it, there was a high chance of death.

In the outer area of the Dark Abyss, there was a cave that was the shape of a tiger mouth. The rocks that make up the cave are deep black, making the inside of the cave darker than the outside. The walls of the cave shook frantically as stones fell from the walls, smashing into the ground violently, in the middle of the cave, a glowing compass was seen illuminating an area of 30 meters.

The compass holder is Sun Meng. He had been forced into this cave due to the powerful energy fluctuations that were happening outside. Behind him were three young men from the Leveling Earth Sect who had accompanied him and were also forced to take this cave as a shelter.

"How long do you think this Shock Wave will last," one of the youths asked as he looked outside.

"The shockwave lasted only a few minutes of what I could see. But strangely, why did this happen, it had never happened in the past" the young man wore a puzzled expression on his face.

"There's no time to think, we have friends" Sun Meng took a few steps back, her eyes became sharp and her muscles began to recover. The Broken Rock Blade in his hand began to tremble, sending out a buzzing sound.

"Hah" the young men turned around, from the entrance of the cave, a huge beast slowly entered. This beast looked like a tiger but it also looked like something else. His claws looked as if they were made of iron and on his back, bone spikes were sticking into the air.

Its aura was extremely strong and every step it took, the ground beneath it would crack due to its weight. His fangs were dripping with purple liquid, it seemed like poison.

The ferocious beast that looked like a tiger, even after seeing Sun Men's shocking momentum, still did not stop walking towards them with a brutal light in its eyes. The beast was forced into the cave by the shockwave that occurred outside.

It would never have thought that it would meet humans here of all places. After all, the Dark Abyss had not existed in such matters for a hundred years. The beast roared loudly, its roar causing the cave to tremble even more.

"Reverse. Act as soon as there is an opening, and remember, don't be distracted or else, it's all over for you" Sun Meng shouted, shouting, he could sense how powerful the beast aura was and thus he knew it was extremely powerful. Not only that, he also knew that he would have to give his all for this fight if he wanted to protect the lives of others behind him.

Raar

The beast roared and leaped towards Sun Meng and the others, its laws shining with a purple hue filled with poison. The air around the claws rotated and it seemed like all the darkness inside the cave was sucked towards the claws.

"Break of Hearts Dance"

Sun Men's body slowly moved with an unbeatable rhythm, the stone blade in his hand trembled with excitement. His muscles were tapped and his desire to fight surged.

Clang

Bang

"What"

Claws and swords collided and Sun Meng was forced to retreat a few steps. But the beast did not retreat nor was it forced to retreat but instead shot towards one of the youths, its fangs dripping with poison.

Every step the beast took, the ground would explode. Thus showing that the strength of this unknown beast was extremely strong!

"Not so fast"

The image of the Third Ancestor rippled behind Sun Meng and his aura instantly skyrocketed. His skin turned into something half stone and half skin, his flesh body was extremely hard and the ground beneath him sank due to his increase in weight.

"Three Months Sundering"

Sun Meng's broken stone blade sent out a buzzing sound within the cave, around the edge of its blade, three illusory moons appeared. These three moons were extremely small and resembled small stones, the moment this illusion appeared, they shot towards the beast at high speed, the air split as it passed by due to how sharp they were.

Clang

Clang

Clang

Three months collided with the beast's body. The bones in his body received most of the blows but were still forced back. One of the bones in his back was broken and although the two months of illusion did not cause much damage, it was still enough to break two claws.

“How could such a creature. His body is so tough” thought Sun Meng out loud. His hand formed a signature and he started reciting the Heart Sutra of the Broken Stone Clan.

The gravity around it increases as the concept of the deep earth envelops. The heart sutra he read seemed to be connected to a high heaven. Dao law runes began to shine all over his body and the image of the third ancestor shone with a mysterious light.

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