Sword Sovereign of the Celestial Emperor-Chapter 182, True Dao, True Dao

Swish, swish, swish!

The golden folding fan spins back and forth in the air, with the air currents on the fan’s surface seemingly turning into sharp energy, unleashing golden blades. novelbuddy.cσ๓

Crack!

The purple claws collide with the golden folding fan, erupting with a tremendous burst of Qi force. The powerful force creates countless rifts in the ground, which are slowly filled by the wind-blown sand of the wasteland.

In Chu Ming’s hands, the golden folding fan is simply a killing weapon. The sharp purple claws are easily shattered, and even the claws of the purple-haired zombie are covered in scars, with sticky purple blood slowly oozing out.

After one strike knocks the purple-haired zombie back, Chu Ming immediately retreats. Now is not the time to fight the purple-haired zombie to the death; his current task is to search for treasures in the ruins.

Swoosh!

However, after taking a few steps back, the purple-haired zombie, swaying, charges at Chu Ming again, with gusts of wind blowing through the air.

Bang!

Chu Ming’s body turns into a concentrated gale, flying into the distance. At the same time, sharp Qi swords shoot from his sword, trying to stop the purple-haired zombie’s pursuit. Every time the purple-haired zombie gets within a hundred meters, Chu Ming would launch Qi swords to fend it off.

After a stick of incense burns, Chu Ming has left the purple-haired zombie far behind. At this moment, he notices a slight appearance of green around him, which turns out to be some weeds, but this is a good omen.

Advancing a hundred meters, the ground ahead becomes loose again. However, to Chu Ming’s relief, this time, only a few yellow-haired zombies appear, far weaker than the purple-haired one, and Chu Ming easily slays them.

As he continues, the probability of encountering green vegetation clearly increases. Chu Ming’s heart stirs because, in the ruins, the appearance of green vegetation often indicates the presence of Spirit Grass or Spiritual Medicine nearby.

After all, these ruins have existed for a thousand years. Over such a long time, even ordinary Spiritual Medicine gains a potency of a thousand years, making them extremely valuable.

Take the Spiritual Source Fruit, for instance. Generally, it takes at least fifteen hundred years to mature, thus its high value. In the outside world, ensuring its survival until maturity is very difficult, but in the ruins, it’s a different story.

After walking two hundred meters, the land in front of Chu Ming is completely green, with weeds and Spiritual Medicine intermingled, but still easy to distinguish. Weeds have no Qi force at all, while Spiritual Medicine emits a warm and complete Qi force, abundantly.

There are Black Profound Grass, Butterfly Flowers, Blue Star Grass, Red Pine Needles, and other plants, totaling over a hundred types. Most are first or second-level herbs, with few third-level ones and even rarer fourth-level ones. However, Chu Ming still spots a few herbs among them that stir his heart.

Swish, swish, swish!

As he strolls through the grassy field, Chu Ming bends down occasionally to pick the Spiritual Medicine from the ground and places them into his storage space. In a short time, one of the lower-grade storage rings in his hand is half-filled. Fortunately, he has many storage rings—some his own, some taken from others, and some acquired from people he killed.

In fact, the spiritual energy above this grassy area is also extremely dense. So much so that it has become a white mist around, turning into a virtual shadow, intermittently visible in the sky. Cultivating here, Chu Ming estimates it would take less than a month to break through to the True Dao Realm.

"Is this... a Transcendence Fruit?"

On a patch of grass, Chu Ming is suddenly attracted by a red plant in front of him. Hanging from the red vine is a bright red fruit with intricate patterns. He had seen such a fruit in the Celestial Flame Secret Realm before; it is indeed a Transcendence Fruit, capable of allowing one to break through to the True Dao Realm.

Snap!

Plucking the Transcendence Fruit, Chu Ming scans his surroundings. Only after ensuring there is no valuable Spiritual Medicine around does he turn to leave.

"I must find a quiet place to go into seclusion!"

Now that he has the Transcendence Fruit, once completely refined, Chu Ming is almost certain to break through to the True Dao Realm. This will significantly increase his survival chances in the Transformations Sect ruins.

After sprinting for a thousand meters, Chu Ming arrives behind a slope where a giant skeletal lizard is resting. It’s about thirty to forty meters long, with its entire body covered in snow-white bones. Seeing Chu Ming, its eyes, glowing red, flash with a violent fury.

Bang, bang, bang...

As the skeletal lizard’s tail whips through the air with a whooshing sound, it strikes violently at Chu Ming. Sand and wind fly up as Chu Ming swings the Blue Red Sword, forming a circular sword light defense in front of him. The skeletal lizard’s tail crashes into it, producing a rumbling sound, and the sword light defense shakes, seemingly about to shatter at any moment.

Puff!

"Shadowless Burn!"

As Chu Ming’s sword light emerges, it seems to cover the entire space. Black and red lights intertwine on the blade, bursting into dazzling colors, changing the very hue of the surroundings.

Puff, puff, puff...

The skeletal lizard’s defense appears extremely formidable, and indeed it is. An ordinary True Dao Fifth Layer martial artist could not even break through its defense. However, Chu Ming’s attack power is stronger. A powerful sword light flashes, directly shattering the skeletal lizard’s frame, breaking it apart from the cut of the sword light.

Boom!

The skeletal lizard’s body falls heavily, its shattered bones scattering everywhere, with many fragments among them.

Thud, thud, thud!

Chu Ming stretches out his hand to throw the skeletal lizard’s corpse aside. After scanning the vicinity and finding nothing unusual, he sits behind the slope, preparing to break through to the True Dao Realm here.

Slowly adjusting himself to his optimal state, Chu Ming takes out the Transcendence Fruit from his storage ring. The patterns on the fruit are extraordinarily bright, and as soon as it appears, abundant spiritual energy begins to surge around him.

Huff!

The Transcendence Fruit melts as soon as it enters his mouth, turning into a rolling heat flow in Chu Ming’s meridians. Reciting the mantra of "Fire Burning True Skill," the potent medicinal power of the Transcendence Fruit bursts forth within Chu Ming’s body.

All Chu Ming can do now is continuously operate "Fire Burning True Skill," slowly guiding it. At this moment, he finds that the long-static barrier of the True Dao Realm is slowly loosening under the impact of the spiritual energy, loosening...

As time passes, not only does the cultivation barrier of Chu Ming slowly loosen, but his martial arts comprehension also speeds up at an incredible rate.