Chương 301: Using the Heaven Firmament

Within the tower, Long Feng lowered his sword and breathed heavily as several corpses around him faded into motes of light.

"I should've spent a bit over an hour here already. Rank four Imperials and one rank five have already appeared so this time…" The next second, ten more figures appeared as well as five wild beasts. Three figures were rank five Imperials while the rest were all rank four Imperials, including the wild beasts. Long Feng sighed bitterly.

"Great." The figures attacked the instant they appeared without waiting for Long Feng to seize the initiative. Each figure held different weapons and they were all very proficient in using them, while the wild beasts mainly attacked with their claws, fangs and even tails. Long Feng's expression hardened and he began to use the Nine Firmament Steps technique; even for him, three rank five Imperial realm warriors would be a big headache.

He vanished, reappearing behind one of the rank five Imperial figures and swung his sword, aiming to finish the figure off at once. But he underestimated the figure'e reaction speed. His sword strike missed the figure's neck and tore open a wound across it's chest. A normal person would at least fall back after such an injury, but these figures couldn't feel pain at all. The injury couldn't even compare to a tickle to them.

The large sword in the hands of the figure descended heavily with the sound of wind upon Long Feng.

"Hmph!" Long Feng watched the descending sword and snorted coldly. His sword energy seethed and exploded with greater power than before. Moreover, it transformed from white to pitch black, appearing extremely scary. This was the demon sword energy. It was no longer a skill but a form of energy, something Long Feng could use at will with even greater power. Gathering the energy into the sword in his grasp, he swung it upwards and parried the descending broadsword, sending it spinning out of the figure's grasp.

The figure staggered backwards slightly and rushed forward again without pausing. Long Feng once again gathered his sword energy to attack but suddenly sensed a powerful force rushing towards his sides. The other two rank five Imperials and the weaker figures naturally wouldn't stand by the sidelines and watch the show. They attacked ruthlessly, and if Long Feng forcefully went ahead to kill the figure before him, he would have to withstand the several attacks head on. His body definitely couldn't withstand those.

Without hesitation, he moved aside, avoiding the attacks and letting the figure off.

"They are getting really troublesome. I'll handle the weaker ones first." Long Feng paused and narrowed his eyes as the figures reorganized themselves and surrounded him. He settled his gaze on one of the rank four Imperial level beast and he vanished, reappearing before it. The beast growled and swiped it's razor sharp claws at him and at the same time, the other figures and wild beasts charged at him instantly. Letting them all close in on him would be a foolish decision, even for Long Feng.

But he was confident in killing a single rank four Imperial beast before they arrived. His demon sword energy gushed with greater intensity, forming a large blurry sword behind him. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. The sword lasted for a split second before it broke apart into the demon sword energy again, and Long Feng himself barely noticed it.

His sword gleaned with black energy as he swung it, cleaving through the claws of the wild beast and splitting it in two parts. He immediately vanished just as several attacks landed where he stood previously, completely destroying the two parts of the dead wild beast. Long Feng silently reappeared behind a rank four Imperial realm figure that was at the back of the group. The figure had just released an attack and couldn't even react in time before his head was spinning in the air and Long Feng was gone.

He would find it hard to deal with the three rank five Imperials as long as the weaker ones continued interrupting. Any of their attacks could deal severe injuries to him. After all, his energy was comparable to the imperial realm, not his body. Even a rank one imperial cultivator's direct attack on his body without any energy shield would be life threatening. So it would be be best if he killed all the rank four Imperial figures and wild beasts before he faced the three rank five Imperials.

And with his current strength, it was very easy for him to evade several attacks and kill them one by one. It could be said that if he went through the hundred continent meeting a second time with his current cultivation, then both Dong Fang and Lei Jie wouldn't be his opponents. Of course, it was also possible that they had all increased their strengths since they came to the mainland. Within a few minutes, Long Feng had thinned down the numbers to just five figures.

The wild beasts were all dead and only the three rank five Imperials and two more rank four Imperials were still standing. Their lower numbers made it slightly harder for Long Feng to kill them; the rank five Imperials would respond instantly and counter him. After a few more failed attempts, he paused and faced the five figures seriously.

"This is enough actually. I don't need to thin you down anymore." He grinned and charged forward head on, his demon sword energy surging into the sky. The five figures also rushed forward with the three strongest taking the lead. They arrived before Long Feng almost instantly and pincer attacked him.

"Earth Firmament!" Long Feng's eyes flashed coldly and the sword in his grasp exploded with an extremely powerful force. The power within the sword could absolutely surpass the attack Huang Fang Hao used to defeat all the other overlord geniuses; of course, he was holding back severely even back then. Long Feng tightened his grip around the sword hilt and swung it around, unleashing the earth firmament strike with his new demon sword energy.

The Earth Firmament strike was much stronger than anything Long Feng had unleashed before. The only thing actually limiting it's power was his low cultivation; otherwise he had almost perfectly comprehended the profoundness within the Earth Firmament skill. A pitch black sword light flew out of the sword, enlarging as it moved. The three rank five Imperial figures seemed to have crashed head on into the sword light and were completely overwhelmed by it.

The remainder of the force went ahead and sliced the other two rank four Imperials into pieces before exploding spectacularly, unleashing the full explosive force of the demon energy. When the chaos died down, all the figures were fading into motes of light; all dead. Long Feng smiled at this.

"The Earth Firmament skill get stronger as my cultivation increases. It's like i can never outgrow it as long as my cultivation keeps rising. And I haven't even tried out the heaven firmament skill; I've had a few more comprehensions recently." The feeling of getting stronger was certainly good. He had no doubt that soon, he would be able to kill peak Imperials with such ease as well.

His smile was wiped away though when the darkness warped and several more figures appeared, and one particularly powerful aura surged outwards. Rank six Imperial realm! There were no wild beasts this time. Just five figures, one rank six Imperial and four rank five Imperials! This force caused Long Feng's expression to change. The rank six Imperial alone was equal to facing Huang Fang Hao during the hundred continent meeting; perhaps Huang Fang Hao would be stronger, but they would be similar overall.

That would be challenging, but not threatening. With the inclusion of four rank five Imperials, it all changed. It was possible that he would lose to this lineup if he was careless even for a second. Moreover, the series of fights without rest had exhausted about half of his spirit energy. This would be tough. His grip on his sword tightened as his pupils were focused on the five figures who remained standing without moving at all. Suddenly, the rank six Imperial vanished from his sight.

Long Feng's pupils shrank slightly and he pushed his feet into the ground and shot upward, turning around midair to swing his sword down at the figure that had unknowingly appeared where he stood. The figure also drew out a long sword and swung it upwards. The two weapons collided, sending a wave of energy exploding outwards. Long Feng flipped around and landed back on the ground while the figure took a heavy step back.

"Indeed. I'm barely a match for rank six Imperials." Long Feng sighed and glanced at him slightly shaking arm that held the sword.

"Again!" He grinned and attacked first, pushing the Nine Firmament Steps to his limits and appearing beside the figure with his sword already swinging out several blades of light. The figure responded with astonishing speed, blocking each of Long Feng's strikes and even sending out his own. Within a few seconds, the two of them exchanged dozens of blows before they separated.

The moment Long Feng drew back, his hairs on his body rose as he sensed three powerful attacks closing in on him from four different directions, including above his head. He had forgotten to keep an eye on the other four rank five Imperials and they had surrounded him without him knowing!

"Earth Firmament!" He unleashed this skill again without thinking twice. He certainly couldn't block the full power attacks of four rank five Imperials; even Huang Fang Hao wouldn't do that easily. This time, he focused the Earth Firmament strike's full force in the sword and stabbed it into the ground. A powerful force exploded with him as the center and spread outwards, destroying all four attacks and blasting the four attacking figures backwards.

The energy wasn't focused otherwise at least one of them would've been destroyed. Before Long Feng's energy could even settle down, an even more powerful attack pierced through the spreading force and a sword stabbed towards him.

"Damn it!" Having no time to think, Long Feng pulled his sword out of the ground and hurriedly blocked the incoming sword. His hasty actions meant he didn't have much force behind his own sword so he was pushed backwards and his sword almost fell out of his grasp. The five figures didn't relent. In fact, they got fiercer. All five of them, including the rank six Imperial attacked at the same time, blocking all paths of Long Feng's retreat. And even if he could retreat…

he hadn't even landed; he was flying backwards uncontrollably in midair. Dodging was quite impossible. Long Feng's mind spun rapidly as everything seemed to slow down. If these attacks hit him, then it was game over for him. He wouldn't die for real, but he wasn't sure just how many points he had accumulated. He didn't have time to calculate it through. He would prefer to give it his all than to fail and lose this chance. With this thought, a sharp glint flashed through his pupils.

"Heaven…Firmament!"