95: Chapter 95 The Mysterious Quasi-Saint
Zhuang Chen smiled faintly upon hearing this.
With his hands behind his back, he gazed deeply at the void that had regained its calm, his tone steady yet meaningful.
"Appropriate? What's inappropriate about it?"
"Treasure has a spirit; it belongs to the virtuous."
"Furthermore..."
He turned his head, glanced at the old instructor, and then scanned the surrounding crowd.
"The foreign races have indeed gone all out this time."
Dean Zhuang Chen stroked his beard and explained with a chuckle.
"In addition to those rare resources, they have also promised to open up a portion of their race's secret realms for the outstanding students of our Great Xia Martial Academy to go and train."
"No matter how you calculate it, we are the ones profiting from this deal."
"Besides..."
"Do you think our human race... would really make a losing deal?"
"They want to take the great sage essence blood? That depends on whether they... have the ability to take it!"
He paused, a light of confidence flashing in his eyes.
"Obtaining that drop of great sage essence blood requires more than just luck."
"Inside, there are not only powerful Thunder Beasts guarding it, but also the many trials left behind by the Thunder King back then."
"Our human race's Li Wushuang and Chu Xianer are certainly no pushovers!"
"Li Wushuang's Great Sun Sacred Body naturally restrains lightning, making him like a fish in water in that environment."
"Once the sacred blood in Chu Xianer's body erupts, her physical strength will be enough to rival a true Young True Dragon cub!"
"With them there, that drop of essence blood might not necessarily fall into the hands of others!"
The instructors nodded in agreement after hearing this.
Everyone favors their own; they naturally had absolute confidence in the geniuses cultivated by the Great Xia Martial Academy.
Jiang Baihe listened from the side, laughing inwardly.
"Hehe, you old fellows are still too young."
"While Li Wushuang and Chu Xianer are strong, compared to that little Prodigy... they might be lacking a bit."
"That kid is a freak who literally tore a true Young True Dragon cub apart with his bare hands!"
"If they knew that the leader of the 'Xing Dao Trio'—the one who swept through the ruins alone and ground all the geniuses into the dirt—is actually among this batch of students, and is even my precious martial nephew..."
"Tsk tsk tsk, I really want to see their expressions then! It'll surely be spectacular!"
He suppressed his laughter, his gaze inadvertently sweeping over the mysterious powerhouse standing by the void rift like a stabilizing pillar.
Although the face was obscured, that faint yet terrifying pressure that seemed to merge with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth made even him, a peak Martial Emperor, feel a tremor in his heart.
A Quasi-Saint!
This was a genuine Quasi-Saint powerhouse!
Only one step away from stepping into that supreme, transcendent realm of the Saints!
A being standing at the very top of the starry sky's pyramid!
Everyone cast respectful glances toward the mysterious powerhouse and nodded in greeting.
Respect for the strong is a universal law among the Ten Thousand Races of the Starry Sky, regardless of race or stance.
However, a hint of doubt rose in Jiang Baihe's heart.
"Strange... why does this person's aura feel a bit familiar?"
"It's as if I've seen it somewhere... or perhaps it's just a sense of deja vu..."
He tried hard to recall, familiar figures flashing through his mind, yet he couldn't quite grasp that fleeting spark of realization.
Furthermore, facing a Quasi-Saint, he didn't dare to use his divine sense to investigate recklessly, so he could only suppress this doubt in the depths of his heart.
Perhaps it's some reclusive senior of the human race?
...
Inside the Thunder King Pool.
Ning Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
Before him was a vast, boundless purple ocean, likely larger than an entire planet!
But what flowed in this ocean wasn't water, but... lightning!
It was lightning power liquefied to the extreme!
Countless thick arcs of lightning jumped and crisscrossed over the sea's surface like numerous purple lightning dragons playing, emitting a scalp-numbing "sizzle" sound.
In the sky, dark clouds gathered and lightning snakes danced wildly, as if a world-ending lightning punishment could descend at any moment to blast any intruder to smithereens!
This was the Thunder King Pool!
A world constructed entirely of Lightning Laws!
Every inch of space here was filled with violent lightning factors; for those whose physical bodies weren't strong enough, this was hell!
But for those with powerful physical bodies, this was a supreme holy land for tempering!
Ning Yuan looked around and found the surroundings empty, without a single soul in sight.
"Tsk! Random teleportation again? How boring!"
He curled his lip, his face full of disdain.
He had originally thought he could start fighting right away, perhaps find that Yu Wangji for a spar and complete his mission.
Now it seemed he had to find people first.
"However... this place is quite suitable for tempering the physical body."
He checked his current state.
Sure enough, as said before, the essence sea in his body had been tightly sealed by an invisible force of law, like a sturdy shackle; he couldn't mobilize even a trace of essence power.
Even his soul power was suppressed within his sea of consciousness, unable to be projected outward to sense the surroundings.
What he could use now was only pure physical strength!
But for Ning Yuan, this wasn't a problem at all!
One could even say he was... like a fish in water!
He casually threw a punch.
He didn't use any techniques, relying solely on physical strength for a casual strike.
Boom!
The Sea of Thunder ahead instantly exploded!
A terrifying punch force, like an enraged dragon emerging from the sea, forcibly carved out a vacuum channel several hundred meters long in the Sea of Thunder!
The surrounding lightning arcs were shattered by this force, dissipating into specks of light, unable to close for a long time!
"Hmm, not bad."
Ning Yuan nodded in satisfaction, a sharp light flashing in his eyes as he looked at his fist.
Although he lacked the boost of essence power, his hundred-million-jin blood qi foundation was still outrageously powerful!
Even if he faced a true pure-blooded True Dragon, he would dare to tear it apart with his bare hands!
Here, he was invincible!
Even against those so-called Flying Heaven Realm Prodigys, he dared to look down on them!
He identified the direction and locked his gaze toward the deep center of the Sea of Thunder.
There, the lightning was most dense, its color gradually changing from purple to a deep black, emitting a heart-palpitatingly terrifying fluctuation.
That was the core area of the Thunder King Pool!
And the location of all the opportunities!
According to the information obtained earlier, the rules of the Thunder King Pool were simple: the closer one got to the center, the higher the quality of the lightning liquid, the stronger the Thunder Beasts, and of course, the greater the probability of obtaining essence blood!
Besides that legendary drop of great sage essence blood, several drops of essence blood from ordinary foreign race Saints were scattered in the outer regions, along with a significant amount of emperor sovereign essence blood!
These things, while not comparable to the great sage essence blood, were definitely priceless treasures!
For any martial artist, they were an irresistible temptation!
Especially for those martial artists who wanted to go further on the path of the physical body, this was simply a fatal attraction!
"Hehe, babies, here I come!"
Ning Yuan grinned, revealing a row of white teeth, his eyes flashing with excitement.
"Charge!"
Boom!
His foot slammed onto the sea surface.
He shot out like an arrow from a bow, trailing a long white wake across the sea as he sped toward the center of the Sea of Thunder!
His speed was so fast that he even left a series of afterimages behind him!
Wherever he passed, the thunder waves rolled as if an ancient ferocious beast were passing through!
"Little Yu, oh Little Yu..."
"You'd better not run too fast."
"If someone else beats you down first, then my mission will be hard to complete!"
"You must hold on! Wait for me to come... beat you up!"
Ning Yuan prayed silently in his heart as he ran wildly.
That appearance of his was exactly like a hunter worried his prey might escape.
As for rule suppression or Thunder Beast obstruction...
Before his iron fists, they were all nothing but floating clouds!
"Those who block me..."
"Die!"