Chapter Sixteen: The Evolution of the Barbarian Elephant

  The fierce and powerful Elephant Fist technique, with its surging energy and blood like a dragon. Every day, Xiao Yi would punch out tens of thousands of times. After ten days had passed, his understanding of the first form of the Elephant Fist, "Fierce Elephant Turns Over", grew deeper and more profound, with a sense of fusion and smoothness that was beyond words. And in the depths of his mind, the second form of the Elephant Fist technique slowly began to take shape.

  Crack!

  Another crack appeared on the surface of the monument, in front of Xiao Yi. This 23-zhang-high Soul-Sealing Monument was already covered in scars, its body full of fist prints and holes, almost smashed to pieces by Xiao Yi's blows. In his view, it would probably take no more than two days for him to completely shatter this monument.

  Rumble!

  At this moment, the sound of the Zhongyuan Stele collapsing came from afar. Xiao Yizhi stopped in his tracks, his eyes slightly condensed as if they could penetrate through nothingness and see into the distance.

  In front of the collapsed tombstone, a hint of longing appeared in Jian Qing's eyes. As the dust settled, a purple dan pill floated before him. The purple dan pill was surrounded by three-colored auspicious aura, and an extremely pure power emanated from it. Taking a deep breath, Jian Qing's spirit shook, and the spiritual trauma he had suffered due to the collapse of the Purple Cloud Sword suddenly improved by more than half.

  "Heavenly Stair Soul Pellet!"

  Jian Qing's eyes widened in surprise as he let out a low whistle. Even among the Lei Jian Bing Department, there were not many strong practitioners of the Rong Hun Realm who could condense soul pellets. At most, they could only condense pellets that approached the Tian Jie level. In comparison to Tian Jie pellets, Di Jie pellets had at least ten times less medicinal power in both quantity and quality.

  "Wait! It's not just the Three-Colored Auspicious Aura!"

  Jian Qing's eyes widened as he carefully observed, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath of cool air. He saw that the purple soul dan was surrounded by three colors of auspicious energy, in addition to its substantial appearance. There were also two strands of auspicious energy that were vague and uncertain, sometimes condensing into substance, sometimes approaching transparency, as if they might disappear at any moment. Jian Qing carefully sensed, despite his spiritual world being sealed, he still caught a hint of obscure energy.

  "Half-Step King's Stair Soul Pellet!"

  Jian Qing's voice was calm and steady, with a sharp glint in his eyes. "What is this Half-Step King Stage Soul Pellet?" he asked, his tone implying that he knew the answer all too well. He understood the significance of this pellet, as well as its value. Even among the younger generation of the Lei Jian Bing Department, it was enough to drive them crazy. Perhaps even a few of the leaders would be unable to sit still upon hearing about it. In Jian Qing's memory, even the clan leader back then had only managed to condense a Heaven Stage Soul Pellet, which was still far from reaching the King Stage.

  Carefully taking out a celadon vase, he put the Soul Pellet inside, and Qing Sheng took a deep breath, his eyes filled with excitement. With this Soul Pellet, in a short period of time, he would certainly be able to reach the hundred-foot pole head, and further, even directly transcending the Bone Forging Small Round Fulfillment, reaching that Great Round Fulfillment realm was not impossible.

  Jian Qing looked again, under the 25-zhang Soul-Tomb Stele, the suppressed alien tribe had turned into powder, and the tomb was full of ashes. It was impossible to distinguish which of the hundred realms' great tribes it was. The aura dissipated, and there was no longer any trace of it in this world.

  Next, Jian Qing sat down cross-legged, no longer intending to take action. Time was running out, and there were less than five days left. The ordinary ten-zhang stele couldn't even enter his eyes now. He calmed his mind, condensed his breath, rested and recuperated, using the aura of the Soul Pellet in his bosom to nourish his spirit and completely heal his injuries.

  The next day, several soul-suppressing steles in the stele forest collapsed and shattered one after another, and everyone gained benefits from them.

  Rumble!

  On the second day, Xiao Yi stood in front of it, and the 23-zhang-long Town Soul Stele finally could not withstand that fierce and powerful fist strength, and suddenly shattered into pieces. Then, a piece of cyan scale as big as a human head slowly fell down, Xiao Yi stretched out his hand to catch it, his mind was shocked, in his spiritual world, there was a dragon's roar that seemed to be real, yet not quite, with a kind of wild and strange aura.

  He stared incredulously at the cyan scales, if he wasn't mistaken, these cyan scales belonged to the Wild Dragon, the same ones he saw on the body of that Wild Dragon in the ancient dragon cave back then.

  At the same time, in the depths of Xiao Yi's bloodline, the dormant dragon's essence was fully revived, and a strand of invisible energy was emitted, passing through Xiao Yi's physical body and transmitted into this piece of Qinglin.

  Boom!

  In an instant, a huge green-scaled elephant emerged in Xiao Yi's spiritual world. This was the Elephant Spirit, which broke through the obstacles and descended into Xiao Yi's spiritual world despite the sealing power of the ancient battlefield. What's more, Xiao Yi hadn't even thought of the Elephant Totem, yet the Elephant Spirit had taken the initiative to descend.

  In the vast spiritual world, the barbaric elephant spirit stood tall and proud, its light golden eyes flashing with a golden glow, as if it had come to life, emitting a thunderous trumpet sound. This trumpet sound reverberated continuously in the spiritual world, growing more majestic after a few breaths. On the body of the green-scaled elephant, the originally ancient and noble aura became even more robust, as if an ancient and great power was beginning to awaken. Under Xiao Yi's shocked gaze, the barbaric elephant spirit began to transform, or rather, underwent an evolution that Xiao Yi could not comprehend.

  Only to see that the elephant's body, piece by piece of green scales began to twist and slowly change into dragon scales. In the gaps between the many green dragon scales, a faint golden pattern emerged. In the elephant's mouth, many sharp teeth grew out, shining with cold light, just like a dragon's mouth. The two elephant tusks also became sharper and were stained with a faint golden glow.

  Finally, under Xiao Yi's gaze, the elephant's feet stretched out and were slowly covered with green dragon scales. They actually transformed into four green dragon claws, each as large as a mountain peak. The claw blades were icy cold, emitting an astonishing chill.

  At this point, the brutal elephant's face was completely changed, but it was even more ferocious than before. It raised its head and let out a long, mighty roar, a domineering dragon-like howl that shook the spiritual world of Xiao Yi, stirring up a boundless storm.

  Boom!

  His spiritual world shattered, Xiao Yi's entire body shook, his eyes regained clarity. He looked at the cyan scale in his hand again, and ancient texts floated on its surface. These texts were deeply imprinted in his spiritual world as soon as they appeared, and then disappeared from the scale once more.

  Until the last ancient character was obtained by Xiao Yi, the cyan scales suddenly petrified, and with a gentle breeze, they crumbled into dust.

  A trembling color flashed through his eyes, and after a while, Xiao Yi finally calmed down with difficulty. In the spiritual world, the brutal spirit returned to its original state, and finally dissipated slowly under the sealing power of this ancient battlefield.

  "Is this...the Tempering Bone Volume of the Barbarian Elephant's Great Strength Technique?"

  Xiao Yi murmured, from now on, it should be called the Dragon Elephant Great Power Technique. In Xiao Yi's mind, there was a cultivation method that wasn't written in any text he knew, but as soon as he saw it for the first time, he naturally understood its true meaning. The Tempering Bone Volume of the Barbarian Elephant Great Power Technique had been obtained by him just like that.

  At the same time, Xiao Yi was also secretly fortunate that this barbaric giant's Bone Tempering Volume was not trivial. With just a few words at the beginning of the volume, he was already tongue-tied and had many epiphanies in his heart.

  Humans cultivate the Blood Realm to enter the Tempering Bone Realm, which is an evolution of life, and their lifespan increases greatly. The Barbarian Elephant's Great Strength Manual: Tempering Bone Volume also contains the secrets of the Barbarian Elephant's evolution. Above the Barbarian Elephant is the Dragon Elephant, which absorbs the dragon's pulse energy, sheds its old body and transforms into a new one, evolving into a Dragon Elephant after advancing in life.

  Practicing the "Fierce Elephant Great Strength Technique" to enter the "Tempering Bone Realm" requires borrowing the dragon pulse energy. In the mortal world, there exist many wild beasts that possess a thread of dragon pulse, but almost every one of them is a powerful existence condensed from the Wild Star. Obtaining their dragon pulse energy is extremely difficult.

  The Barbarian Elephant Great Power Secret Refining Bone Volume is to lead the dragon pulse into the body, with the help of the dragon elephant shape and spirit, refine the 365 bones of the human body, making it reach or approach the life realm of the dragon elephant.

  The physical strength of the dragon elephant is unimaginable, but even with the current Blood Refining Scroll, after cultivating until now, Xiao Yi can feel his body becoming increasingly solid, slowly reaching an unbelievable state. Although this has to do with the slow fusion and subtle transformation of the Wild Dragon's blood, Xiao Yi believes that once he masters the Barbarian Elephant's Great Strength Technique and fully refines the Blood Refining Scroll, completely possessing the power of a barbarian elephant, he will likely be even stronger than he is now.

  What made Xiao Yi even more excited was that the "Bone Tempering Volume" of the Barbarian Elephant Great Strength Technique had actually reached the level of military strategy. Among them, there were also three gun techniques, which were the fourth to sixth forms of the Barbarian Elephant Gun Technique. These three gun techniques were not trivial and were the evolution of the Barbarian Elephant into a Dragon Elephant after its transformation. Each technique was astonishingly powerful, with the majesty of the Dragon Elephant, involving the level of intent. Xiao Yi thought for a moment and felt mentally exhausted, clearly unable to comprehend it at his current level.

  Half a time later, Xiao Yi slowly shook his head. He had just tried to stir up the wild dragon's blood in his veins and sensed the tens of thousands of soul-suppressing steles, hoping to find the location of the "Fusion Soul Volume" of the Barbarian Elephant Great Strength Technique. Unfortunately, there was no reaction, as if this ancient battlefield no longer existed with its subsequent essence.

  Although he felt somewhat disappointed, Xiao Yi soon let it go. If not for his possession of the Huáng Lóng Jīng Xuè (Aurora Dragon Blood), among the tens of thousands of Town Soul Tablets, how could he have found this "Bà Xiàng Dà Lì Jué" (Barbarian Elephant Great Strength Technique) 's Tempering Bone Volume in less than a month? This trip into the lost ancient battlefield had already brought him enormous gains.

  Another day passed, and Gu Feng and Huo He, the two clan leaders, almost simultaneously broke through the Soul-Sealing Stele in front of them. The twenty-zhang-long stele contained ancestral relics that left the two men astonished, but they quickly put them away, seemingly unwilling to let others know. Their gazes, shrouded in mystery, glanced in the direction where Jian Qing was located.

  In the distance, in front of a ruin, Xian Qing sat cross-legged, seemingly sensing something. He suddenly opened his eyes and a cold smile spread across his mouth. Advance notice to everyone that the guaranteed monthly ticket for May is set! The Human Emperor will be launched on May 1st!)