BXBX NOVEL Chapter 193: 192: Accidental Encounter with the Jiang Family!
Chapter 193: 192: Accidental Encounter with the Jiang Family!
In these six hours, Du Gang had encountered eight aerial beasts, all of which were of the rank one and two of Sector Lord level. Luck had been on his side.
“Eight saint crystals have enhanced my Ancient God’s Body to 95,000 kilometers. I only need one more for its perfection!”
At this moment, Du Gang had transformed into a speck of dust, quietly observing a black bull a few thousand meters away that was moving back and forth, snorting fire from its nostrils.
“This black bull feels more formidable than the previous ones I’ve encountered!”
The aerial beasts he had encountered before had mostly been of the rank one and two of Sector Lord level. The feeling this black bull gave him, though, was more aligned with third or fourth rank.
“Stronger strength means more saint crystal energy in its body. Should I fight
Du Gang was somewhat hesitant. Since entering the ruins, he had been trying to avoid crowds as much as possible, moving carefully so as not to be discovered.
At this moment, Bara opened their mouth to say, “The third or fourth-rank strength means this black bull is formed from a medium-quality saint crystal. The energy is equivalent to ten lower-grade saint crystals…”
“Killing this kind of black bull is equivalent to killing ten of the previous aerial beasts…”
Du Gang’s eyes lit up and he decided to take action. Fortune favors the brave. Soon, he floated slowly like a dust mote and soon got close to the big black bull.
“Shh!”
The bull had not yet noticed Du Gang, still patrolling back and forth, snorting fire from its nostrils.
As it turned its back to Du Gang, suddenly, he made his move.
“Transform!”
With a quiet shout, Du Gang quickly transformed into a two-thousand-kilometer entity, carrying his spear and attacked the bull’s vital points.
“Die!”
In this strike, not only did he use all his strength, but he also included three strands of Original Law.
“Moo-
The black bull detected the commotion behind it for the first time, gave a low moo, but it was too late to turn around. A powerful oppressive force came from behind, slowing its reaction.
It was the Original Law of Gravity!
“Zing!!”
The Ancient Divine Spear struck the black bull’s vital points without any hindrance.
“Ahhh–!”
The black bull let out a pain-filled scream from its attack, its body struggling wildly. It managed to break free from the gravitational restraint, despite its body bleeding. It forcibly turned around.
“Shh shh!!”
The black bull was utterly enraged. Its eyes were bloodshot, staring at Du Gang as if it was ready to devour him.
To think that a usually herbivorous creature would want to eat him, one could imagine the hatred Du Gang’s attack had provoked.
“Moo!!”
With a resounding bellow, the black bull charged. Its thousand-meter body was like a speeding locomotive, roaring as it charged towards Du Gang.
“It’s so fast!”
Besides its speeding body, a wave of Original Law power had spread around the black bull. Similar to the gravitational origin he had previously released, Du Gang was also affected.
He retreated quickly, attempting to escape from the side, but he wasn’t fast enough. Seeing that escape was impossible, he swiftly applied his spear technique and lunged again at the black bull.
“Kill!
A spear and a bull’s horn violently collided.
“Boom!”
This collision resulted in a draw, but Du Gang involuntarily took a step back.
It was evident that with only a two-thousand-kilometer body size, he was slightly less powerful than the black bull.
“Sky-breaking Strike!”
The moment he blocked the attack, Du Gang quickly launched another attack, aiming at the bull’s head.
“Moo!!!”
Similar to before, while this attack made a loud noise upon impact, it had no significant effect.
“These bull horns are really hard!”
While Du Gang commented, his face relaxed, as he had already seen through the black bull. It relied mainly on its size and horns.
If that’s the case, he no longer needed to hold back. He needed to seize the moment and kill it.
With that in mind, Du Gang quickly adjusted his stance, directly increasing his size to ten thousand meters and attacked the bull again.
This time, the power he exerted was more than just a few times that simple.
“Boom!”
“Bang!”
With a single strike, the bull’s horn broke instantly. Half the bull’s body was pierced, and it was obvious that the black bull was near death.
Just then, a surge of power came from afar.
Someone was approaching!
Du Gang was startled and stopped attacking the black bull and watched the distance with caution.
Whoever was coming was moving quickly. Almost as soon as he stopped, he was already nearby.
After seeing who it was, Du Gang frowned.
Three people, one a ninth rank of Sector Lord level, the other two were fourth rank, they were previously standing with the Jiang Family.
“Haha!”
“Never thought that you would actually come in!”
“Good job, brother! I’ll be rich!”
The leading ninth rank of the Sector Lord level, was overjoyed, his eyes shining with excitement as he looked at Du Gang.
“Moo!”
At this moment, seeing more humans arriving, the big black bull was scared and began to flee with its wounded body.
“You two go after that bull, leave the Ancient God to me!”
The Sector Lord of the Ninth Rank obviously wanted to take all the credit and was trying to send the other two away.
Although one of them was unwilling, he didn’t harshly react, but instead followed the big black bull.
However, the other person didn’t move an inch.
“Zhou Tai, know your place. You’re nothing more than a dog of our Jiang Family, how do you dare give orders to me?”
The man named Zhou Tai, a Sector Lord of Ninth Rank, reacted at this moment and looked at the person who was deriding him, feeling shocked at heart.
“Jiang Wenbo, watch your mouth. Our Zhou Family might not be as powerful as your Jiang Family, but we won’t allow such disgrace. Moreover, I’m following young master Jiang Wenxing…”
Zhou Tai said discontentedly. And while he didn’t dismiss him outright, there was a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.
Unfortunately, Jiang Wenbo seemed to care less. When he heard Zhou Tai backing down, he seemed quite pleased. When he saw Du Gang, he burst into laughter: “Ancient God, I didn’t expect you to dare to step in here. Such guts, this time, I will make sure there’s no place for you to rest in peace…”
After saying this, regardless of Zhou Tai, he turned into a shadow and rushed towards Du Gang.
As for Zhou Tai, he stood still on the spot, with no intention of intervening.
Seeing that the more powerful enemy of Ninth Rank Sector Lord didn’t make a move, Du Gang extinguished his hope of escaping in a flash.
He wanted to see exactly how powerful this so-called heaven’s chosen one was.
A Fourth Rank Sector Lord, really a suitable opponent!
“Battle!”
After his shout, Du Gang quickly shrank, becoming the size of a normal human.
It wasn’t that he was giving the opponent a handicap. On the contrary, his speed would inevitably be hampered at a larger size. Hence, becoming smaller made him more agile.
“Boom!”
In the first exchange, Du Gang used his three threads of Original Law.
He couldn’t help it. His enemy, a Fourth Rank Sector Lord, had already activated four world domains. Only by doing this could he resist them. “Three threads of Original Law, worthy of an Ancient God…”
The first round between the two ended in a draw.
However, the methods employed by the two were different. Jiang Wenbo simply activated the four world domains without using any other means.
But Du Gang had to use three threads of Original Law.
Jiang Wenbo slight center of his lip slightly curled upwards: “Still, you fall too short compared to me!”
After saying this, he showed one thread of his Original Law.
“So what if you understand three threads of Original Law?”
Jiang Wenbo smiled: “Compared to the Original Law, striving to increase the cultivation realm is the right path!”
Indeed, the difficulty levels between the two were different.
Original Law belonged to things that were very desirable but not easily attainable. Some people, even while staying at the Sector Lord level for their entire lives, may not be able to comprehend even one thread of Original Law.
However, it was different with cultivation at Sector Lord level. Despite it also being difficult to cultivate, it was simpler in comparison. By putting in efforts, gradual improvements could still be made.
“Battle!”
The two soon returned to the brawl. This time, however, Du Gang was obviously at a disadvantage and was retreating in defeat.
“It seems that it’s too much to handle after all?”
The main thing Du Gang wanted to test was whether what Kong Xu had said was true: one thread of Original Law can cross one rank.
Now, it seemed to be basically true!
“Golden Light Secret Method first layer—Slay! ”
Just when he was about to be defeated, he quickly performed the Golden Light Secret Method, which he had learned in the past.
This Yellow Grade secret method was indeed not simple. As soon as he used it, he immediately managed to turn the tables. The battle between the two again reached a stalemate.
“A Yellow Grade Secret Method?!”
Jiang Wenbo exclaimed: “Did you actually manage to cultivate a Yellow Grade secret method that is so difficult to train?”
This time, he was genuinely surprised.
In his eyes, the cultivation of Original Law had some elements of luck in it.
However, the Yellow Grade Secret Method was different. They also had it in the Jiang family and he had practiced it before. But sadly, despite practicing for tens of thousands of years since entering the Sector Lord level, he hadn’t even made it past the first stage.
In his eyes, the Yellow Grade Secret Method was more difficult to practice than one thread of Original Law.
This was actually a misunderstanding. Their family had many resources, like the Tower of Original Law, very much enough for allowing these children to comprehend Laws with more ease.
But the Yellow Grade Secret Method was different. Each one was precious and under normal circumstances, it was only started by True Gods.
They didn’t even mention Sector Lords, even for those at the Eternal level, it was extremely difficult to make any progress in their cultivation. Right now, Zhou Tai standing behind them couldn’t help but exclaim.
“The Ancient God really does have great talent!”
With three threads of Original Law and the first layer of a Yellow Grade Secret Method, just on this point, he surpassed the majority of people.
What a pity, he is too young!
Unlike Jiang Wenbo, who’s not using his head, underestimating the Ancient God.
He had carefully seen, the Ancient God was only 119 years old; a terrifying age indeed.
“When I was a hundred years old, it seemed I was only at the Meteorite Level…’
Zhou Tai couldn’t help expressing regret: “What a pity, out of all people, why did he have to offend the Jiang Family?”
For him, although the Ancient God might possess a divine body, it was a fallen race, only having one member, and couldn’t muster any real threat, bound to be eradicated by the Jiang Family.
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”
The power demonstrated by the two at this moment was equally formidable, and the battle had reached its climax.
In fact, Du Gang was performing somewhat better on the battlefield, suppressing Jiang Wenbo.
“Damn it, how is that possible!”
Jiang Wenbo roared furiously, looking utterly disbelief.
“You’re just taking advantage of your status as a Jiang family member, what can you do?”
As Du Gang attacked, he also verbally assaulted him, “I’ve just entered the Sect Lord level, merely reaching Rank One strength, and I have already suppressed your Sect Lord Level Four. Can you understand how useless you are…”
“You’re a divine body…”
Jiang Wenbo protested unwillingly.
But Du Gang laughed coldly, “The true wonder of a divine body doesn’t emerge until reaching the Eternal Level or above. Have I used any methods other than that? Trash will always be trash, always making excuses for themselves!”
“Humph!”
Jiang Wenbo was completely enraged, choosing to go all out and releasing all the measures he had previously held back.
Suddenly, the tide of the battle turned, and Du Gang was at a disadvantage.
“Keep shouting!”
“Weren’t you very cocky before?”
Sensing this, Jiang Wenbo immediately smirked.
But Du Gang sneered internally.
He looked down on opponents who became angry at a slight setback and bragged when they had a small victory.
It was quite clear that Jiang Wenbo had never cultivated his mentality;
He did not understand the principle of not being arrogant in victory or discouraged in defeat and Du Gang wondered how he could have cultivated to the level of a Sector Lord.
Thinking this, he couldn’t help but shake his head internally.
The people of Penglai Island might have a high level of cultivation, but their abundance of resources and strong background meant they’d never undergone any hardships, causing a huge disparity in their mindset.
“Have I lost?”
Du Gang laughed coldly and said, “Well, why don’t you defeat me then? What’s the use of all your yelling?”
Just then, the Fourth Rank Sector Lord who had been chasing the big black bull returned.
Seeing that Du Gang was not dead, he looked delighted, thinking he could gain some merit.
“Did you get the Saint Crystal?”
Zhou Tai saw the man coming back and quickly went up to question him.
“Got it!”
The man said, pulling out a Saint Crystal from his inner world.
“Let me keep it for now, then the three of us will share the credit…”
Hearing Zhou Tail s words, the man was happy, as compared to the merit of killing the Ancient God, a medium-grade Saint Crystal seemed insignificant!
Soon, he tossed the Saint Crystal in his hand over to him. But at that moment, Zhou Tai made his move.
“Whoosh!”
He turned into a black line, swiftly penetrating the man’s body.
In an instant, he severed the man’s life essence, and he was on the brink of death.
‘You…”
Even if the man was a powerful Sect Lord, he could still talk even when he was dying.
“Why?!”
His eyes held a trace of disbelief.
They were obviously comrades, why would he attack suddenly?
“Could it be, you and the Ancient God are…”
Zhou Tai laughed, “Don’t worry, I have nothing to do with the Ancient God. I just don’t want to share the credit with the two of you trash…”
At this point, the fighting Jiang Wenbo and Du Gang on the side were also startled and instinctively backed away from each other.
Unlike Du Gang, who watched in astonishment, Jiang Wenbo’s face was full of shock.
“How dare you, aren’t you afraid that the Jiang family will kill you?”
Jiang Wenbo knew the difference between him and a Ninth Rank Sect Lord, and instead of running away, he tried to persuade Zhou Tai.
“Zhou Tai… Brother Zhou, if he’s dead, it doesn’t matter. He’s just an outsider…”
“Don’t kill me, I’m from the Jiang family. I will share the credit for killing the
Ancient God with you…’
Even now, he was unwilling to give up the glory of killing the Ancient God!
Zhou Tai chuckled, “Am I not a dog of your Jiang family? How can a human and a dog work together?”
“Why do you think I dared to make a move?”
With a brilliant smile on his face, he said, “Anyone who enters the ruins is alone. Who knows that we three were together?”
“In these ruins, I’ve never met you two. I just came across the Ancient God on my own!”
Hearing this, Jiang Wenbo finally responded, “The Jiang family won’t let you
He began to flee frantically while he was screaming. He didn’t even want to kill the Ancient God anymore; all he wanted now was to escape.
However, once Zhou Tai made his move, he would never let him escape.
He didn’t even get a mile away before Zhou Tai caught up with him, and before he could speak, he killed him with one strike.
Du Gang watched as the three originally on the same team were reduced to one in a blink of an eye, and he was left speechless.
“Are you always this ruthless?”
Zhou Tai saw that Du Gang did not escape, and assuming he had resigned himself to his fate, he did not rush to attack him. Instead, he quickly gathered the bodies of the two he had killed and placed them together.
Then he took out a small black bottle from his inner world, and as he poured its contents on their bodies, he chuckled and said, “No great man is not ruthless. How can a man survive in this world if he isn’t ruthless enough?”
“Sizzle!”
The moment the black liquid in the bottle touched the two bodies, it made a harsh sizzling sound.
Meanwhile, Du Gang smelled a pungent gas.
It was corpse dissolving powder!
Du Gang understood, under normal circumstances, the bodies of Sector Lord-level powerhouses had undergone endless fortification, very sturdy and hard to eradicate.
As for these people, they didn’t want to directly reduce the corpse to powder like he did, hence they needed this stuff.
Zhou Tai revealed a smile when he saw that Du Gang didn’t flee.
He laughed, “A man can be without money, without power, but he must be ruthless. Only by being ruthless, can he stand out…”
“You think I’m dogging the Jiang Family on purpose?”
“Yes, I do it to curry favor with the Jiang Family, but it’s all for the sake of becoming stronger…”
“To become stronger, I’m willing to pay any price…”
Before long, the bodies of Jiang Wenbo and his companion disappeared. Only two black marks remained on the ground. With a casual wave of his hand, a gust of wind blew away the marks.
He looked at Du Gang with a smile, “Would you prefer to kill yourself, or should I do it?”
Du Gang just smiled and said, “You can’t kill me!”
Zhou Tai didn’t laugh like Jiang Wenbo. Instead, he furrowed his brows.
Given that the Ancient God didn’t escape and was seemingly fearless… He started speaking, “Do you have…”
Before he finished, he blinked, reappearing a few meters in front of Du Gang.
“Die!”
And with that, he smacked at Du Gang.
“Hehe!”
Du Gang had long known about Zhou Tai’s treacherous nature. Seeing him launching a surprise attack mid -conversation, he let out a cold snort before quickly shrinking.
“Whoosh!”
In an instant, Du Gang had shrunk to the size of a dust particle, disappearing from Zhou Tai’s sight.
Without hesitation, after shrinking, he quickly moved away from the place.
Because he had a hunch that Zhou Tai was about to lose it. Indeed, no sooner had he fled, then he heard Zhou Tai’s angry roar.
“Ancient God, you will die!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Then, the sound of the ground exploding came from behind. “You can take your time looking!”
Du Gang gave a cold snort, kept his head straight, and hurriedly left.
With the ability to shrink to the size of dust, he at least has the ability to protect himself at the Sector Lord level.
Moreover, up to now, no one else knows that he can shrink. They just assume that he’s hiding in some kind of spatial interlayer.
Of course, Du Gang had no intention of explaining. Instead, he deliberately led others to believe that he possesses some kind of spatial secret technique.
At this moment, Zhou Tai behind him had completely lost his mind.
He risked being discovered by the Jiang Family and killed Jiang Wenbo and the other, just to take the credit for killing the Ancient God. However, in the end, the Ancient God escaped.
This makes his killing of Jiang Wenbo and his counterpart seem all the more redundant.
But the problem is, he has already done it. This means he carries the risk without getting any benefit.
“No, I must kill him before the Ancient God reveals what happened here!” Zhou Tail s eyes were red, as he quickly began to fly in one direction.
He didn’t know where the Ancient God had gone, so he could only fly randomly. Unfortunately, the direction he was flying in was the opposite of the direction Du Gang had fled.
Whereas, after Du Gang left the scene and traveled about a few hundred kilometers, he slowed down. Seeing that Zhou Tai hadn’t caught up, he knew that the guy had gone in the wrong direction. So, he continued, on his quest to hunt and earn Saint Crystals.
If it weren’t for those three interfering earlier, he would have gotten that middle-grade Saint Crystal by now.
With a hint of dissatisfaction, Du Gang sped on. Finally, after a few more tens of kilometers, he found a Rank One Crystal Beast at Sector Lord level.
“Die!”
This time, without any hesitation, he transformed into a kilometer-long giant and speared it to death with an instant motion.
Like the Crystal Beast, he shrank back to his original size at the same time.
However, he shrank back to human size, while the Crystal Beast shrank to the size of a grain of rice.
Du Gang reached out and grabbed the Saint Crystal, he didn’t hesitate and swallowed it.
At the same time, he swiftly headed underground in search of a secluded place to cultivate.
Soon, after delving a few thousand meters deep, Du Gang finally slowed down and began to absorb the energy of the Saint Crystal. And with the absorption of energy, his body kept growing.
Ninety-six thousand kilometers!
Ninety-seven thousand kilometers!
Ninety-eight thousand kilometers!
Finally, when he had absorbed about half of the energy in the Saint Crystal, his stature reached a height of one hundred thousand kilometers, or one billion meters!
Thus, the Ancient God’s body had successfully reached its peak state!
“Finally, I’ve reached the summit!”
A body measuring one hundred thousand kilometers was extremely terrifying.
In the mythological tales on Earth, Sun Wukong’s somersaults covered one hundred and eight thousand kilometers.
This meant that if Sun Wukong were to truly exist, he might not even be able to flip over Du Gang’s palm..