Chapter 479 - Mirage Maze！
Chapter 479: Mirage Maze！
Translator: AstralGhost Editor: Kurisu
Bei Feng’s blood and Qi was incredibly abundant, but the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada martial technique’s burden on the body was simply too high. Just forcefully taking two steps had caused his blood and Qi to rumble as though it’d been set ablaze!
“Where are you trying to run to? Get the f*ck back here for me!”
The evil source energy in his body writhed and surfaced, and his entire demeanor felt extremely strange.
A slap was sent smacking outwards, instantly appearing above the Demonic Beast’s head!
“Hou!”
The Demonic Beast forcibly moved its head aside as numerous layers of wind barriers formed outside of its body!
“Peng!”
The formless wind suddenly congealed together, turning more solid than steel!
Large amounts of energy were directly absorbed by the barriers, but ultimately, everything had a limit. The wind barrier was directly shattered, turning into fragmented wind blades that flew everywhere!
The thin layer of wind blades directly caused Bei Feng’s attack to weaken by 30 percent!
However, the remaining 70 percent still landed solidly against the Demonic Beast’s back! Like a normal person being hit by a train, the Demonic Beast’s body was sent flying so fast that it looked like a shadow as it smashed against the metal walls!
“Peng!”
“Ka-cha!”
A teeth-numbing sound of bone shattering rang out, and the Demonic Beast’s body was directly broken in two by Bei Feng’s strike!
“Wu~”
The Demonic Beast’s eyes were filled with confusion and terror. It didn’t die immediately, and its head was still moving weakly on the upper half of its body as it tried to crawl towards the lower half of its body.
“Squelch!”
Although he didn’t know if it was possible for this Demonic Beast to still reattach its body with such a heavy injury, Bei Feng did not take any chances. Completely ignoring the pleading look in the Demonic Beast’s eyes, he directly stomped downwards with his foot!
The Demonic Beast’s head was directly crushed, and large amounts of blood and brain juices were splattered against the metallic floor.
“Huff, huff!”
Bei Feng’s reddened eyes reverted back to its normal color, and the evil energy disappeared from his body. Finally, he slumped to the ground, clutching his chest.
‘What a domineering Eight Steps Chasing Cicada!’
Bei Feng estimated his injuries and smiled bitterly. He could be said to be a lamp at the end of its fuse.
With just two steps, he’d caught the Demonic Beast that could be counted as one of the peak existences in the Void Gu realm. The ridiculous distance he’d covered with the second step could only be described as shrinking the ground into a single cun!
It was simply akin to teleportation. Just by stepping out one, he’d arrived right before the Demonic Beast!
‘I truly wonder how strong the fleshly body needs to be to finish executing all eight steps!’
Bei Feng felt some lingering fear in his heart. It’d just taken two steps, but his strength had risen two folds. Of course, the price he’d had to pay was also extremely heavy!
80 to 90 percent of his strength had been used up and a third of his body could not endure the stress, and had directly broke apart! If it were anybody else, they would have died long ago!
Bei Feng struggled to assume a cross-legged position as he began absorbing Lingqi to repair his injuries. Large amounts of Heaven Earth Lingqi were being swallowed into his body as the countless hidden injuries began to heal.
The Demonic Beast’s attack was not the main issue, as it couldn’t kill Bei Feng in one strike no matter what. However, its speed was simply too great, and if he hadn’t used the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada, he might have really been exhausted to death by it!
Time passed. Bei Feng spent three full days treating his wounds before he recovered about 60 to 70 percent of is strength.
The Eight Steps Chasing Cicada martial technique was simply too powerful. Just one or two steps together with the Mixed Yuan Body secret art was enough to let Bei Feng’s Controlled Dan level of strength to approach the Transcendent realm of combat ability!
Bei Feng did not doubt that if he used the Mixed Yuan Body to improve his strength another fold, or if he used the third step of the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada martial technique, he would be able to break past the bottleneck and attain the combat ability of the Transcendent realm!
As the saying went, grinding an axe would not hold up the work of cutting firewood 1 . Bei Feng only turned his attention to the corpse of the Demonic Beast after he’d tended to his injuries, directly stewing it in a pot and eating it on the spot.
“Peh, since you’re apologizing so sincerely, I’ll forgive you.”
Bei Feng burped contentedly and laughed as he talked to the piece of drumstick in his hand.
As he ate, he revolved his cultivation method, turning the large amounts of blood and Qi energy into a warm stream of healing energy which flowed through his veins.
Three days had passed, and Bei Feng’s exposed wounds had grown new muscles and flesh. One could see numerous patches of tender pink flesh with no skin on his body.
Bei Feng furrowed his brows as he looked at the wounds. The injuries this time were extremely heavy—one of his heaviest injuries in many years. The only time he got this injured was when he fell into the Myriad World accidentally.
“Looks like I’ll need to increase my speed again. After my wounds are healed, even if I want to continue repressing my cultivation, it won’t be possible any longer,” Bei Feng muttered to himself. As the saying went, there could be no construction without destruction.
Before this, Bei Feng still had confidence in preventing himself from breaking through. But after this fight, breaking through was a certainty.
Bei Feng no longer hesitated, and his body flashed and disappeared far away.
On the ground, there was a tiny purple gold tree the size of a palm. A small fruit not even the size of a thumb hung atop it, emanating a resplendent light. Like a tide pulsing outwards, the gold and purple light shone far into the distance!
Bei Feng paused for a moment, his expression unclear. But ultimately, he still departed. Right now, he was running out of time and had to leave quickly. There was no time for dallying.
He didn’t even have the time to sit down for a long rest to fully recover from his injuries. But just the energy that was absorbed into his body as he travelled was enough to allow him to recuperate rapidly!
At this time, five days had already passed since the time Bei Feng had fought with the Demonic Beast, and his injuries had already recovered by 70 percent. Although he had sensed a huge commotion before him, as well as the fragrance of a strange fruit, Bei Feng did not feel tempted at all and directly left without hesitation!
In the past few days, Bei Feng had also encountered many Demonic Beasts. But these Demonic Beasts were much weaker compared to the tiger-leopard one. They were all slain by him within a few strikes.
A spirit fruit like that which could cause such a huge commotion would surely attract a large number of Demonic Beasts to gather. Bei Feng did not want to waste any precious time here.
Another half a month passed, and his strength had already recovered to 90 percent of his peak. At this point, no matter how he tried to conceal his own blood and Qi aura, it would revolve automatically by itself. His entire body’s blood and Qi was now akin to an ocean!
“Found it!”
Bei Feng stopped walking and looked at the exit of the maze with an ecstatic expression.
“Weng, weng!”
A sound rang out from behind Bei Feng as numerous white roots suddenly burst out of the incomparably tough tunnel!
A terrifying energy ripple accompanied it, and a strange fragrance hung in the air. Just by smelling the fragrance, Bei Feng felt his hidden injuries recovering rapidly!
“Ka-cha!”
The metallic wall was directly shattered, and at the point where it was shattered, a palm-sized silver flower bloomed from it.
At a single glance, it looked like it was part of the metal wall. But Bei Feng was certain that this flower was definitely a very high grade medicinal herb that had been growing inside the wall concealed all along. It was only at this time it just so happened to have reached maturity and bloomed.
For such a big movement, the surrounding area was surprisingly quiet. The palm-sized flower bud was just beginning to bloom, and only took a long time before a single petal bloomed.
‘Retrieve it!’
A single thought remained in Bei Feng’s head as if it’d taken root in his brain, causing him to want to approach the flower.
‘Wait!’
Bei Feng had already reached the exit of the maze, and with just one more step, he would exit it. But in that moment, he actually doubled back as if enchanted, wanting to get closer to the flower. In that moment, he suddenly awoke from his daze and realized that he’d already approached over a dozen meters nearer to the flower.
An intense sense of danger overcame his entire body, causing goosebumps to rise all over his skin and jolting him awake. Those thoughts earlier were not his own; it was the flower’s pollen affecting him, and before he knew it, he’d actually fallen for it!
Bei Feng hurriedly retreated. After throwing the flower one last glance, he walked towards the maze’s exit resolutely.
As he stepped out of the maze, he could clearly see a small snake Demonic Beast about the size of an adult’s arm and with a sharp horn on its head slitering within 10 meters of the plant.
From Bei Feng’s estimation, this Demonic Beast’s strength was likely a level stronger than even the tiger-leopard creature he’d met!
“Pu-chi!”
However, the result was incomparably shocking. When this powerful Demonic Beast came near the flower, white light suddenly shot out of the flower bud and slashed across the Demonic Beast lightly. In Bei Feng’s perception, the Demonic Beast’s life fire was instantly snuffed out. As its head landed on the ground, its body continued to writhe crazily.
“Wha— a plant can manipulate flying swords?”
Bei Feng was completely speechless as he looked at the scene. Following that shock was a heavy lingering fear. If he hadn’t awoken in time earlier, he would most likely have died there as well!
This place was simply fraught with danger. There was no allowance for carelessness at all. At this moment, he could not help but think back to that stalk of purple gold palm-sized tree he came across the other day. Perhaps it was the same as well?
The moment he stepped out of the maze, the heavens and the earth spun and stretched again. Bei Feng did not resist, knowing that he was being transported to another location again.
White was the only thing in his eyes. Soon, Bei Feng adjusted his vision and looked around him.
There was only a bookshelf in front of him; an ancient tablet lay beside the book shelf. Some words were written on top of the stone tablet in small seal script.
‘Too unscrupulous!’
Bei Feng could not help but to curse internally after reading the words.
All the spirit herbs in the maze were actually mirages, and although it would feel like the real thing after consuming them, the attacks sent out by the mirages were not fake. Getting struck by the attacks would similarly result in death!
Furthermore, there was actually a time limit to pass the maze. More accurately, the entire maze was actually a large illusory labyrinth!
The time limit for exiting the maze was extremely short, and one could only rely on themselves to find the exit. If a certain time limit was passed, it would be impossible to come out forever!
The size of the maze that everyone entered was the same. But the size would change at anytime depending on how many negative thoughts one had.
In other words, if one’s heart and mind was not resolute enough, they would be constantly beguiled by the fake spirit herbs, and continue pursuing the spirit herbs in the maze without rest. Eventually, the maze would grow bigger and bigger, and the number of spirit herbs would increase. In the end, one would only die of old age inside, without ever finding the exit!
But this was actually quite similar to real life as well. Many people had pursued the vain and useless things in life, thinking that it was glamorous. Although it felt like those things were precious at the time, they were actually not worth much. When they looked back at the end of the day at how much they’d missed, they would be overcome with fear at the scale of everything.
Bei Feng sighed and shook his head with some lingering fear. If Bei Feng’s will had not been resolute when he came across his first spirit herb in the maze, he might very well still be inside the maze, frenziedly looking for more spirit herbs.