Wang Feng was suddenly hit by a burst of golden flames and burnt to ashes.
Or, that was what it looks like. As the next second, Wang Feng appeared near the Lion and struck down with his sword, "Mountain Cleaver!"
His sword shone like with golden and brown color and slashed down on the Lion, but it only left a slightly smaller wound on the thick skin of the Lion, making it angrier.
He instantly used his Shadow Phantom Steps and rushed back, avoiding a claw attack from the Lion. The Lion roared while Wang Feng helplessly sighed.
The Lion was a High Tier 2 Monster Beast (Qi Transformation 8th Stage), not only that, it had a very high defense because of it's thick skin and Physique.
Wang Feng had been fighting this guy for a few minutes, trying his best to not get injured, though he also couldn't make it really injured. 'Not to mention those flames. They're not normal.'
The golden flames that the Lion was excluding and attacking with were too hot and explosive than normal flames. Even the flames of a Tier 3 Beast wouldn't be this strong. Wang Feng didn't have the time as he suddenly felt something from beneath him.
So he vanished from his place like a shadow after using his technique. Just as he moved, a pillar of Golden Colored Flames erupted from the ground. He sweat dropped, but didn't stop and avoided a claw from the Lion.
"This is a serious problem..", his expressions grew grave. He knew he had to fight and couldn't escape as the Lion didn't let him. He had tried to leave once, after seeing how though it was to even break through its natural defense, but the Lion intercepted.
He breathed slightly harder from the constant use of his movement technique and sheathed the sword before bending his knees and taking a stance while closing his eyes. The Lion saw this and roared before it's body was covered by its Golden Flames and charges towards him.
Wang Feng eyes suddenly opened and the sheathed sword shone with Blue, Golden and Brown colors. He looked at the beast that was charging at him with great speed and spoke, "Earth Splitter."
With that, he used his Shadow Phantom Steps and vanished from his place and clashed with the Lion midway. The next moment, the two passed each other and stopped by sliding a few steps away.
Wang Feng had burns on his hands and arms, his clothes were slightly burned from places as well and he felt his hands numb and throb. The Lion on the other hand, had a long gushing wound on it's side, extending from it's shoulder to it's leg.
The Lion roared again, this time in pain and rage. It's red eyes set ablaze as it sent a flamethrower at him. Wang Feng felt the sting from his arms, but didn't react to it and dodged.
'that was my current best move and it wasn't even enough to severely wound it.', he thought with a serious face. This Earth Splitter along with the Mountain Cleaver were moves he learned from the Five Element Sword Art.
Although, the attacks looked simple, they weren't exactly so. He had to keep a certain percentage of Qi from all the elements he used to keep them balance, otherwise, they would blow up upon themselves and cause a backlash on him.
It was honestly unbelievable that he mastered this Sword Art to this level in just a few day, the credit going to him physique and talent, which made it easier for him to comprehend and use these moves.
But even with all that, he couldn't reach the level where he could combine the Five Elements perfectly. So currently, Earth Splitter was his strongest attack.
'*ugh* If it was any other beast of the same cultivation, it would have been severely injured by that attack... What to do...', he suddenly grunted as he dodged a claw from the Lion only to be hit by its massive flaming tail, sending him flying.
As he was thrown back, the Monster Beast turn and attack him with it's mouth while he was still in air, clearly intending to bite him down. 'looks like I don't have any other option....', he thought eeriely and closed his eyes.
The next moment, just as the monster beast was about to chomp down on him. A burst of Qi erupted from him that sent the Lion sliding back with a roar.
Wang Feng somersaulted in the air and landed on the ground. But, something was different from before. A gray, nearly black, Qi and aura surrounded him as he opened his eyes that shone eeriely while looking at the Lion.
His aura erupted from the 2nd Stage Qi SeaRealm to the 3rd Stage. He looked down on his hands for a second, 'So, it's like this...', before looking at the Lion, who was looking at him with slight weariness.
"Beast ....", he looked at the Lion, his voice heavier than usual and seemed to carry an eerie and unsettling feeling. "...be honored. You are the first person to see me in this form.", his tone sounded arrogant as if he didn't consider the Lion someone worthy of his time.
The Lion roared in anger and indignation before it again bursted with flames and charged at him, this time the intensity of the flames and the speed of the Lion was greater than before. It had felt a sudden shift in the human in front of it and it's instincts told it to go all out, so it did.
As it charged, the flames continued to grow stronger, making the surrounding grass to burn and trees to lose moisture. Wang Feng snorted, "Mongrel! I'll show you not to mess with me!"
He took the same stance he had taken before and sheathed his katana, his body erupted with strong dark grayish and three colored Qis. The Three Qis blended together onto the sword before the grayish Qi entered and seamlessly folded onto the blend of Qis, enhancing them and adding a chilling layer of frost and darkness to it.
He spoke when the beast was just a meter away from his, his eyes deadly calm and full of killing intent, "FrostDemon Severance", he unsheathed the sword and blurred in his position for a second
In the next moment, everything looked the same with him standing in the same position as the Lion was about to crash into him.
At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared a few steps behind the Lion and sheathed his sword with a click. The figure said, "it's over.", just as he spoke, 'Wang Feng' dissolved from his position like a phantom while the flames surroundings the lion went out from his left side making a gap appear in it's cloak of flames, from head to it's tail. It's body from that place was covered in a layer of frost, and it fell to the ground, motionless.
The figure turned around, revealing itself to be Wang Feng. Previously, Wang Feng had used his Movement Technique and moved so fast that it left a phantom in his initial place and attacked the Lion with his sword.
He started walking to the Lion as the dark aura around him slowly resided, leaving him gasping for breath. 'that was more intense than I thought.'
Just now, he had used the Yin Qi from the Undying Golden Skeleton which temporarily boosted his cultivation and allowed him to use the Yin Qi in accordance to his own Qi. But there was a slight problem.
'Looks it will likely enhance my dark thoughts while using it and makes me feel arrogant and superior....', he thought to himself as he analyzed the battle after he activated the Golden Skeleton.
He then popped a recovery pills and Qi Replenishing Pill into his mouth, given by Xia Ning Chang, during the battle, he had expanded a lot of his Qi, leaving only 30% of his Qi in his reserves.
The pill started desolving and the Qi in them started to slowly enter his dantian, recovering his Qi as it was slowly refined. He didn't actively refined it and reached the Lion.
He looked at it's injuries with interest, the wound didn't bleed and was covered with a rigid frosty layer. 'the move is much more sinister than I had initially thought.'
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[Frost Demon Severance]
[Description: TheFrost Demon Severancewas a technique formed by the combination of Water, Earth, Metal and Yin Qis. It was like a heavy(Earth) strike of a sharp blade(Metal) that silently strikes the opponent(water) and freezes the opponents wound and penetrate into his body, freezing the opponents blood and Meridians (Water and Yin)]
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Just as he was observing the Lion, he felt a pulse of heat from it which made his eyes narrowed and hold the handle of his sword.
Suddenly, golden specs started exiting the Lion's body and gathering upon it's corpse. He watched in confusion and fascination as the specs started gathering and eventually stopping and condensing into a blob of flame.
Wang Feng's eyes widened to the extreme as he nearly shouted, "Beast Flame!?". He felt his mind turn and thought of countless things, reviewing his knowledge of the world from the novel over and over again.
'this... this shouldn't be here! There was never a Beast Flame like this one in Martial Peak.', as far as he remembered from the novel and manhua, there were only flames like the Phoenix Flames and Golden Crow Flames in this Verse, both being classified as Divine Flames, formed by Divine Beasts.
But now, in front of him was a Beast Flame that only appeared in other novels. His mind went into overdrive, trying to find a plausible decision.
But his contemplation was cut short when he saw the flames suddenly surge and take a form of a smaller version of the Lion and leaping towards him with a roar. He widened his eyes and backed away, feeling the unbearable heat from it, which instantly made his skin dry.
His expressions grew severe as he analyzed the flame. The flame excluded an aura that was slightly lower than that of the Lion in strength and was absorbing the surrounding Qi, making the aura stronger with great speed.
'it doesn't matter now. All that matters is that this Flame exists here and is trying to attack me.', he thought while dodging another attack from the Beast shaped Flame. 'but first...', he dodged another attack by leaping towards the Lion's body and storing it in his inventory, before he had to jump aside again.
He thought of ways to deal with it, while dodging, and was suddenly hit with a thought, 'can I absorb it?'
He remembered that Beast Flames can be absorbed and integrated into the Dantain by the cultivator, which drastically increases their attack output. With that in mind, he started devising a plan to absorb the flame in front of him. But...
From the side, he heard the rustling of bushes and his heart sank. He dodged another attack from the flames and saw two men hiding behind a set of trees from the corner of his eye. Both wearing red colored robes with a white undershirt.
Just from their robes it was apparent that they were desciples from the Storm Manor, one of the forces near High Heaven Pavilion. The two desciples hid among the trees and came upon the scene of Wang Feng dodging the attack from the Golden Beast Flame.
....
The two desciples looked at each other with shining eyes and looked back towards Wang Feng. One of them spoke exclaimed in slightly disbelieving tone, "Brother Gu, is that the Gold Incinerating Flames?"
The other one replied while observing Wang Feng and his cultivation, "it is. But what I am curious about is, how can a 5th Stage Initial Element Realm Cultivator fight it without losing any ground, not to mention that there should be a Gold Blaze Lion if there is a Gold Incinerating Flame here."
The first one went silent at that and said, "does it matter? The kid is weak and probably won't last long. We can just wait till then and snatch the flame.", he said with a nonchalant look but the greed in his eyes couldn't be concealed.
The desciple surnamed Gu narrowed his eyes, "you want to use the kid to consume the Flame's energy? Brother Mian, are you sure?"
The desciple surnamed Mian nodded, "that guy is just a Lower Base Desciple of High Heaven Pavilion so he shouldn't be too important, otherwise he wouldn't be alone here." Desciple Gu felt that was plausible and nodded.
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[Title: Gold Incinerating Beast Flame]