Chapter 9: Divine Demon Body

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"Come on!" Meng Chuan looked down at the platform, his eyes burning with eagerness.

Wu Qi was momentarily stunned by the Dean's command, but then his eyes brightened. He grinned at Meng Chuan on the arena stage. "Alright, let's fight then!"

With a single stride, he reached the arena, moving much faster than Bai Guan before him.

"Clang." He took the shield from his back and drew a thick-backed sabre from within it. The sabre was entirely black, faintly glowing with a red light.

With a shield in one hand and the heavy sabre in the other, Wu Qi stood there like an unshakeable mountain. An invisible aura emanated from him, causing the many junior disciples watching from afar to tremble.

"Senior Brother Wu Qi's Divine-Demon Body cultivation is the Dark Cloud Devil Body, isn't it?" Meng Chuan asked, realizing the awe-inspiring aura was clearly from a Divine-Demon Body.

"Indeed, it is the Dark Cloud Devil Body!" Wu Qi declared, then suddenly charged towards Meng Chuan. He moved alone, yet it felt like an entire army was bearing down. There were no feints, just a pure surge of speed and power.

Boom!

Wu Qi, shield in hand, closed in like a phantom, directly ramming his shield into Meng Chuan. The force was enough to collapse a house.

However, Meng Chuan moved his foot, evading the shield bash and appearing at Wu Qi's side. A flash of his blade was already slicing towards Wu Qi.

"Kill!" The moment his shield missed, Wu Qi skillfully swung his heavy sabre, clashing it against Meng Chuan's blade.

Clang—

The two blades collided, sending sparks flying.

Wu Qi took a step back and steadied himself, while Meng Chuan pushed off the ground, flying several yards backward.

"He can unleash such power by using a secret technique?" Wu Qi's pupils contracted.

Mortal cultivation stages: Foundation Establishment, Inner Refinement, Marrow Cleansing, Mortal Transcendence, and Impervious.

The first three stages are relatively common; they allow practitioners to cultivate true qi and gradually strengthen their mortal bodies, with no significant differences in power between individuals.

However, the fourth stage, 'Mortal Transcendence,' means shedding the mortal coil! At this stage, one begins cultivating a Divine-Demon Body, allowing mortals to possess a portion of the power of divine-demons. The increase in power is astonishing. Wu Qi cultivates the Dark Cloud Devil Body and has reached the peak of the Mortal Transcendence stage. His strength and speed are terrifyingly immense, far surpassing those at the peak of the Marrow Cleansing stage.

If he were to face a normal Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator in a sabre duel, he could kill them with a single strike.

Even if a Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator wielded a shield, one strike would make them cough up blood.

The disparity in strength was simply too vast!

"The power he just unleashed was nearly 70% of mine, equivalent to my strength during the late Mortal Transcendence stage." Wu Qi was astonished. "Is this the power of a secret technique?"

He had long known about the terrifying nature of secret techniques.

In fact, his chances of winning this fight were very slim.

"I still have a chance to win," Wu Qi gritted his teeth and charged again. He was as ferocious as a cavalry charge, swift and impactful.

"My power surge from the secret technique is still less than his. Three Autumn Leaves is, after all, a speed-oriented secret technique," Meng Chuan thought to himself. With a flicker of his body, another 'Meng Chuan' appeared more than ten yards away.

"Over here!" Wu Qi, having cultivated the Dark Cloud Devil Body, was adept at sensing his surroundings and could perceive the approaching figure.

Unlike Bai Guan, who was completely defenseless, Wu Qi could even sense and react to the speed, which was the greatest strength of the 'Three Autumn Leaves' secret technique.

"Boom!" His heavy sabre sliced down with a single stroke.

"Clang!!!"

His strike landed on empty air, but his shield blocked Meng Chuan's elusive blade.

"So fast, I still missed!" Wu Qi's heart tightened. Fortunately, he cautiously kept his shield protecting his surroundings. Wielding a shield in one hand and a heavy sabre in the other, he was executing the 'Two Poles Shield-Sabre Art,' a unique martial art from Jinghu Dao Academy. This top-tier martial art offered a very high chance of survival on the battlefield, which is why Wu Qi chose the Dark Cloud Devil Body, perfectly suited for this art.

The Dark Cloud Devil Body, combined with the Two Poles Shield-Sabre Art, made his defense impenetrable and his attacks fierce. With this combination, he had earned the rank of the top Mortal Transcendence stage disciple in Jinghu Dao Academy.

"The Two Poles Shield-Sabre Art, with its Yin and Yang, is indeed formidable. However, I wonder how many moves it can block from me?" Meng Chuan's voice still echoed as he lunged forward.

"It's no use, you can't hurt me," Wu Qi declared, standing his ground. His coordinated use of sabre and shield once again blocked Meng Chuan's elusive strike.

Whish!Swish!Whoosh!

Meng Chuan's movement technique was incredibly fast. Flash after flash of blade light, it was the Falling Leaf Sabre Art he was employing.

Initially, Wu Qi defended with confidence, but Meng Chuan's continuous, flowing strikes, one after another, made his defense increasingly difficult. Each blocked move distorted his posture, and Meng Chuan's relentless sabre art tore wider and wider gaps in his defense.

After just six strikes, Wu Qi was forced to stumble, barely managing to block.

Thud!

A lightning-fast thrust.

Wu Qi couldn't raise his shield in time to block, and the tip of the sabre was already at his throat.

"This..." Wu Qi stared at the blade at his throat, then at Meng Chuan before him.

It was his first time fighting a Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator who had mastered a secret technique, and he had lost terribly.

"I lost," Wu Qi said in a low voice. "Secret techniques are even more terrifying than I imagined. Not only do they allow you to unleash terrifying strength and speed, but your sabre artistry is also far more refined."

Meng Chuan nodded.

Secret techniques integrate body, mind, and skill, naturally allowing for terrifying bursts of strength and speed.

An ancient divine-demon once said that the human body holds immense potential. An ordinary person who has never cultivated would struggle to lift a hundred-pound object. Yet, if one could perfectly tap into their potential, mobilizing the strength of every bone and muscle, they could unleash over ten thousand pounds of force! Of course, that's merely a theoretical perfect utilization of all potential.

In reality, the higher one's mastery in skills like sabre or sword arts, the more astonishing the potential they can unlock.

The Unity Realm is the first major realm of sabre artistry.

The 'Three Autumn Leaves' secret technique dramatically increases power and even more astonishingly boosts speed! It allowed Meng Chuan's strength to reach approximately 70% of Wu Qi's (at the peak of Mortal Transcendence), and his speed utterly crushed Wu Qi's. Furthermore, his sabre control became more precise, and his moves flowed together more perfectly. In just seven continuous strikes, he broke through the Two Poles Shield-Sabre Art, which Wu Qi relied on for his defensive prowess.

"From today onward, you are the strongest among the thousands of disciples at Jinghu Dao Academy," Wu Qi said, looking at Meng Chuan. "You are the contemporary Senior Brother of Jinghu Dao Academy."

At Jinghu Dao Academy, the most capable leads.

The Senior Brother of the academy is the strongest among all disciples. After defeating Wu Qi, Meng Chuan naturally became the Senior Brother of Jinghu Dao Academy.

Having said that, Wu Qi stepped directly off the arena.

"Senior Brother Meng Chuan!" Shouts suddenly erupted from among the bustling junior disciples.

"Senior Brother!""Senior Brother!"

A Senior Brother also needed prestige.

Past Senior Brothers at Jinghu Dao Academy lacked significant prestige because their strength advantage wasn't great. None had comprehended a secret technique! With no substantial gap in skill, there was always a chance they could be challenged and defeated by other junior disciples in a contest.

But Meng Chuan was different!

He had comprehended a secret technique and, while still in the Marrow Cleansing stage, had defeated Wu Qi, who was at the peak of the Mortal Transcendence stage. Moreover, Meng Chuan would soon enter the Mortal Transcendence stage himself, and at that point, the gap between him and his fellow disciples would become even more exaggerated... even Mortal Transcendence stage cultivators wouldn't be able to withstand a single move from him!

Only an absolutely invincible Senior Brother could earn the complete trust and respect of all junior disciples.

"Hahaha... All right, come down now," Dean Ge Yu said, chuckling, unusually amiable. "Let the other Marrow Cleansing stage junior disciples compete for the remaining two spots."

"Yes," Meng Chuan immediately stepped down.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Meng," Wan Mang said, clasping his hands and smiling as he bowed.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Meng," the disciples from the surrounding Mountain Water Pavilion all bowed with smiles. Some of them had a slight fawning attitude, clearly understanding that Meng Chuan was now completely different from them – he was one of Dongning Prefecture's top unparalleled geniuses, with the potential to become a divine-demon in the future.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

One by one, Meng family juniors were employing their lightness skills, dashing towards the ancestral home.

"You little rascals, why are you running so fast?" The main gate of the Meng family's ancestral home was large, and naturally, clan members stood guard. The guards recognized these younger members of the clan.

"Meng Chuan has comprehended a secret technique!" The first Meng family youth to arrive shouted, startling the guards at the gate. While they were still surprised, the youth rushed into the ancestral home, continuing to shout loudly: "Meng Chuan has comprehended a secret technique!"

Other Meng family juniors arrived one after another.

Each of them shouted:"Meng Chuan has comprehended a secret technique!""Senior Brother Meng has comprehended a secret technique!""Meng Chuan has comprehended a secret technique at Jinghu Dao Academy!"