63: Chapter 63 Lin Fan of Versailles
"Hiss, hiss..."
Lin Fan opened his mouth and let out a pure hiss characteristic of the Heavenly Snake Clan.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye.
When the dust settled.
The Heavenly Origin Realm expert landed. Looking at the empty ground and the "human corpse" nearby (which was actually Lin Fan's discarded tattered clothes wrapped around stones), he was stunned.
"He escaped?"
He roared in anger, "Search! He's wounded, he can't have gone far!"
"Yes! My Lord!"
Mingling among the snakes, "Lin Fan" was currently holding a scimitar, hacking around pretentiously while shouting in fluent Heavenly Snake language, "Over there! I saw him running that way!"
"Chase him!!"
A large group of Heavenly Snake Clan warriors, fooled by his antics, howled and gave chase in the opposite direction.
Watching those foolish silhouettes, Lin Fan was overjoyed.
"This God-level Disguise Technique is truly freaking amazing."
He didn't follow the main group. Instead, he took advantage of the chaos to slip away, finding an extremely hidden crack in a rock wall nearby that was only a palm's width wide.
"Bone Shrinking Art!"
Lin Fan's body twisted eerily as he squeezed inside.
Deep within the crack was a hidden space.
Lin Fan used the dragon slaying saber to dig out a small hole about two meters square, then carefully sealed the entrance with rubble, leaving only a few air holes.
"Phew..."
Lin Fan slumped onto the ground and let out a long breath.
He was safe.
He glanced at his tactical terminal.
The command center had sent dozens of messages, all from Liu Haoran.
"Lin Fan! Why have you stopped?!"
"The GPS shows you haven't moved! Are you injured?!"
"Answer me!!"
Lin Fan gave a bitter smile and replied, "Commander, stop rushing me. I'm digging a hole."
"Digging a hole?"
"Yeah, it's full of mad dogs out there. I'm hiding to wait out the storm. And while I'm at it..."
Lin Fan pulled out those buckets of high-quality snake blood he hadn't had time to enjoy from his space ring, his eyes filled with fanaticism.
"While I'm at it, I'll enter secluded cultivation and level up."
Inside the command center.
Looking at Lin Fan's reply, Elder Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"This kid... he actually has the mind for secluded cultivation at a time like this?"
"Regardless, as long as he's alive, it's fine." Elder Li breathed a sigh of relief and immediately contacted Liu Haoran, "Haoran! Lin Fan has gone into hiding near coordinates (334, 889)! Get over there as soon as possible!"
"Copy that!"
Fifty kilometers away from Lin Fan's hiding spot.
Liu Haoran was covered in blood, leading the guard company in a frantic push forward.
Suddenly.
Boom!!
The space ahead suddenly shattered.
Two terrifying figures radiating an ancient aura blocked the path.
The person on the left was five meters tall, with muscles bulging like rocks, holding a massive stone hammer—the Heavenly Snake Clan Desolate Realm Expert, Mountain Breaker!
The person on the right stood upon black water, with the phantoms of nine venomous pythons circling him—the Heavenly Snake Clan Desolate Realm Expert, Savage River!
"Liu Haoran, this path is closed."
Mountain Breaker said in a muffled voice, his stone hammer slamming heavily onto the ground, triggering a small earthquake. "Go back. That kid's life is ours."
"Get lost!!"
Liu Haoran's eyes were bloodshot. Without any nonsense, he directly burned his primordial essence blood.
"Get the hell out of my way!!"
A world-shaking battle of the Eight Desolates level erupted.
Terrifying energy fluctuations swept across a hundred-mile radius; mountains collapsed and the earth cracked.
And at this moment.
Right on the edge of the center of this great battle.
Inside that narrow rock cave.
Lin Fan was completely unaware of this. He had blocked out all external perception, soaking himself in dense blood qi, his mind entirely immersed in cultivation.
"Great Sun True Dragon Body, Second Tier..."
"Break for me!"
On the wasteland at the periphery of the Abyssal Battlefield.
Boom—!
Origin Qi surged, sweeping in all directions as three figures collided frantically in the air.
"Liu Haoran! As a descendant of a Tian Jun Noble Family, can you only scurry away like a rat?!"
The Heavenly Snake Clan Desolate Realm Expert Mountain Breaker roared, his giant stone hammer carrying the power to shatter mountains and split the earth as it slammed toward the golden-light-wrapped figure ahead.
On the other side, Savage River stepped on a black water venomous python, sinisterly sealing off all paths of retreat.
"Scurry?"
Liu Haoran's figure paused, golden light flaring around him as a hundred-zhang phantom of a Martial God appeared behind him.
"I'm walking the dogs!"
Liu Haoran sneered, thrusting his spear to meet the stone hammer head-on.
Clang!!
The sound of metal clashing shattered the rocks for miles around. Using the force of the rebound, Liu Haoran moved like lightning, once again bolting in a direction away from Lin Fan's hiding spot.
Although he possessed the Martial God Body and unparalleled combat power, the pressure was still immense facing the siege of two veteran Desolate Realm Experts. But he could not retreat, and even more so, he could not let these two old monsters get near that forest of jagged rocks.
"Want to kill Lin Fan? Catch me first!"
Meanwhile.
Deep within the jagged rocks, inside the sealed cave.
Lin Fan jumped naked into a huge wooden bucket filled with a dark red, viscous liquid.
This was the high-quality blood of ferocious beasts and foreign races he had "stocked up" on over the past few days. Now gathered in one bucket, it radiated alarming energy fluctuations.
"Phew..."
Lin Fan inhaled, circulating the Void Breathing Technique.
In an instant, the space within the cave distorted as the Origin Qi of heaven and earth poured into his body.
Simultaneously, with a thought, he activated the overbearing technique he had just acquired—the Dragon Blood Hegemon Body Art!
Glug, glug...
The blood water in the bucket began to boil.
Streams of violent blood qi entered through Lin Fan's pores, frantically scouring his tendons, bones, and skin.
Pain!
A piercing pain that reached deep into his marrow!
The pain pierced his heart, like being roasted by lava.
But Lin Fan didn't even knit his brows; instead, he had a look of enjoyment.
"Yes, this is the kick I need!"
"System, add points! Assist my cultivation!"
With the investment of a large amount of evolution points, the skin on Lin Fan's body began to flush red, then became dry and cracked.
Crack... crack...
Dead skin sloughed off. A layer of old skin fell from his body, revealing new skin beneath that was as fair as a newborn baby's yet as tough as divine iron.
On the surface of the skin, dark golden python patterns faintly emerged.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Dragon Blood Hegemon Body Art has broken through to the second tier—Mad Python Body!]
[Physical strength has skyrocketed to 500,000 jin!]
"Refreshing!"
Lin Fan clenched his fists, feeling the power within his body that seemed capable of crushing mountains, and smiled.
But this was only the beginning.
Using the momentum of this breakthrough, Lin Fan mobilized his entire body's blood qi to launch an assault on the last unrefined auditory ossicle inside his skull.
Buzz!
A soft sound rang out.
The refinement of the final bone was complete.
All 206 bones in his body had now turned into crystal-clear jade bones, emitting a faint golden light.
Marrow Cleansing Realm, Peak!
"Next is Yuan Zong."
Lin Fan stared into the void.
The Origin Sect Realm was the watershed of a martial artist's cultivation. It involved opening the Divine Treasuries of the five internal organs and condensing a sea of Origin Qi, transcending the mundane from then on.
Ordinary people charging into the Origin Sect Realm needed to carefully search for the Gates of the Divine Treasuries; the slightest carelessness could lead to cultivation deviation.
But Lin Fan...
"Open for me!"
He didn't need to be careful at all.
With the support of his Dao-level Comprehension Ability and terrifying blood qi, he directly used the method of internal vision to lock onto the Spleen Divine Treasury within his body.
Boom!
His consciousness slammed into it, a violent collision.
The Gate of the Divine Treasury that had troubled countless martial artists shattered!
Earthy yellow Origin Qi gushed out, nourishing his entire body.
Immediately after.
Kidney Divine Treasury, open!
Liver Divine Treasury, open!
In just ten short minutes.
He had smashed open three Divine Treasuries in a row!
Three-Treasury Origin Sect Realm!
Lin Fan opened his eyes, feeling the Origin Qi surging like an ocean within him, his expression strange.
"That's it?"
He scratched his head, looking depressed. "Don't the books say that charging into the Origin Sect Realm is a narrow escape from death? Don't they say finding the Gates of the Divine Treasuries is as hard as climbing to heaven?"
"How come for me it's as simple as pushing open my own bedroom door?"
"I don't feel that sense of hard struggle or defying fate at all..."
Lin Fan sighed. If the martial artists outside heard this humblebragging, they would probably be so angry they'd cough up three pints of blood on the spot.