Chapter 538: Promoting to Become a Law Elite
Yu Hua once more entered a recovery state as he silently leaned against the side of the mountain.
Xia Fei used this time to raise his cultivation to a new level.
Level 6 was a dividing line for a Law Adept. At level 6, one’s cultivation would receive a major boost, and one would receive the t.i.tle of Elite Law Warrior!
Just like how Great Law Emperor Yu Hua could defeat two Law Emperors, there existed an impa.s.sable chasm between warriors and elites. Many people would fall before this natural barrier. Could Xia Fei rely on Yu Hua’s secret trick to break through that threshold?
The first pattern gradually formed in his mind, and without rest, Xia Fei moved onto the second, third, fourth, and fifth!
This was like a sprinter doing warm-up runs. Xia Fei repeated the process from the first to the sixth totem over and over, and the moment he felt himself lacking, he would immediately stop and restart from the beginning!
The effects were obvious as the sixth rank of the s.p.a.ce law became clearer and clearer!
Sprint!
Sprint again!
Xia Fei had tried this countless times when cultivating his speed ability. He had never imagined that the secret to advancing in the s.p.a.ce law would be like sprinting, using the inertia from one’s past attempts to charge through the threshold!
This also had an obvious advantage. Each attempt at level 6 meant repeating the previous five thresholds, reviewing the old to learn the new. Through constant review, Xia Fei’s strength was consolidated.
There was also an obvious disadvantage: energy consumption!
Yes, each sprint would rapidly consume energy. On average, he would spend one grade 3 Origin Crystal an hour!
This was a ma.s.sive number! Ordinary Law Adepts could never bear this price! Even if they understood the secret, they would find it difficult to apply it, for they simply did not have the crystals.
Fortunately, Xia Fei had a rather abundant store of crystals, at least enough to get him through level six. As for afterward, only G.o.d knew.
A short twenty-four hours later, Xia Fei was one-third of the way to level 6. This advancing speed could be considered mad. Xia Fei was immersed in cultivation, unaware of the rising and setting of the sun.
With another step, he would possess even greater power.
His desire for power was at its maximum, and Xia Fei grew more and more excited.
Yu Hua was very quiet. Occasionally, he would open his eyes and look over at Xia Fei and Furball. One was a natural warrior with a 100% open seventh brain region and another was a crafty holy beast.
There was an imperceptible smile on his lips. He seemed to feel happy over Xia Fei’s cultivation speed. When he saw Xia Fei, he seemed to see a younger version of himself.
Closing his eyes, Yu Hua adjusted his mindset and muttered to himself, “Now is not the time; not yet…”
…
“Break!” As Xia Fei shouted, that level 6 threshold that Law Adepts considered a natural barrier shattered.
Standing up and looking around, Xia Fei felt a powerful energy surging out of his seventh brain region. It was like water spilling out of a broken dam which coursed through his entire body!
Yu Hua opened his eyes and counted off with his fingers. “Only four days! You needed only four days to reach level 6! I really don’t know what to say about this speed. Are you a genius or a madman?”
Xia Fei did not answer, overcome with joy and pleasure from this sensation of strength.
“I learned this way to break through the level 6 threshold in my youth. This method can only be used once. When you reach level 9 and attempt to break into Law Sovereign, you must not use this method, or else it will do more harm than good.”
Xia Fei nodded. “Then what’s the shortcut for advancing to Law Sovereign?”
Yu Hua smiled. “There’s no such thing as shortcuts in this world. It’s only a matter of method. Back then, I was lost on the road to level 6 for an entire year before finding this workable secret technique. Efforts and enlightenment have always been necessities on the path of laws.
“As for the secret art to reaching Law Sovereign, I will also teach it to you, but not now.”
Xia Fei’s opinion of Yu Hua had greatly changed. Even though this unscrupulous merchant had many secrets and had an arrogant and wild side, who did not?
People had many faces, and was Xia Fei not also hiding a violent warrior personality behind his smiling face, a dagger held behind his back?
As long as that person meant him no harm, Xia Fei would even make friends with a chaos-sowing demon king.
A man with no likes or pa.s.sions was not someone one could have deep relations.h.i.+ps with. At the very least, Xia Fei now knew of Yu Hua’s other face. Those fellows who hid their true selves very well were even more likely to draw Xia Fei’s suspicion.
“I still need to rest for three days. Consolidate your efforts for a bit. After three days, we’ll go and pay Dark Ghost a personal visit!” Yu Hua sternly said.
Xia Fei was startled. “You’ve already found Dark Ghost’s base?”
Yu Hua nodded. “I’ve found someone who can take us close. Dark Ghost’s s.h.i.+p moves around constantly, but he still needs to do business and has to interact with other drug peddlers.”
After saying this, Yu Hua closed his eyes again. Xia Fei had just broken into level 6, and he was actually rather tired. He did not continue cultivating and instead began studying martial techniques.
To Xia Fei, studying martial techniques took less of his seventh brain region, so it could be considered a sort of break.
Using studying martial techniques to take a break? Only a madman like Xia Fei would do such a thing.
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In the black sea of stars, Dark Ghost’s barge concealed itself within an asteroid belt.
“Success! I’ve finally succeeded!” Dark Ghost held up a bottle of golden liquid in excitement.
Xia Fei’s brain-healing medicine had been like a curse, causing any pharmacological a.n.a.lysis machine to break down, which had caused Dark Ghost an enormous loss, but Dark Ghost was a Master Apothecary with some skills of his own. Purely through the most primitive a.n.a.lysis methods, he had managed to find the recipe.
Master Ghost, don’t you think that this concoction is a bit different from Xia Fei’s?” Yu Guhe uneasily said. “Xia Fei’s is light yellow, while yours is golden, and the scent is also stronger…”
Dark Ghost glared at the Yu brothers. “Cut the chatter! The ingredients are the same, so how could there be a problem? I used only the best of ingredients, so the scent will naturally be thicker and the color brighter!”
Despite these words, Dark Ghost had no confidence. Xia Fei’s recipe was so bizarre that even his most advanced a.n.a.lysis machine broke. Moreover, the ingredients were all lethal. This was the first time Dark Ghost had encountered such a wicked drug.
He looked around unpleasantly at his subordinates. Mu Linbai s.h.i.+vered while Yuan Dian, who had bandages tied around his arm, quickly looked the other way. As for the Yu brothers, they were so scared that they started trembling.
It must be said that the Yu brothers were quite unfortunate. Everything from the moment they stole Xia Fei’s medicine up to now had been a nightmare. They planned to make big money once Dark Ghost found the recipe, but all they did was cause Dark Ghost to break his precious a.n.a.lytical instruments and almost go broke!
Dark Ghost had been so angry that he had sent Mu Linbai and Yuan Dian, both Law Sovereigns, to capture Xia Fei, but in the end, Yuan Dian had been heavily injured. If not for Dark Ghost’s astonis.h.i.+ng medical skill, he might have even died!
All of the blame was put to the Yu brothers, and they had spent the last few days under house arrest, each day like a year.
“You, come and test this medicine!” Dark Ghost thrust a finger and tyrannically proclaimed.
Yu Qinghe was so scared that he almost p.i.s.sed his pants. Pointing at himself, he said, “Master Ghost, my brain region isn’t damaged.”
“Enough nonsense. You’re the one who brought the medicine. If you’re not trying it, who? You expect me to test it on my subordinates?”
Yu Qinghe’s face turned dark. He was truly unfortunate. If he had known that this would happen, he would have never stolen Xia Fei’s medicine. What he had thought was a chance at fortune had really been a ticking time bomb! Now, the disaster had finally come to him.
Yu Qinghe, who knew that several lethal ingredients were part of this recipe, naturally refused to drink it no matter what.
Dark Ghost ordered Mu Linbai to force it down Yu Qinghe’s throat, and his nose was pinched so that it could be poured straight down.
“Hot! So hot!”
Yu Qinghe’s face turned red, and he began tearing his clothes.
*Crack!*
He bared his upper body like a crazy man, becoming frantic, and his eyes began to turn red.
*Plus.h.!.+*
He vomited blood!
Yu Qinghe wiped at his mouth and dejectedly howled, “Blood! It’s blood!”
*Thump!*
After howling a few times, he suddenly fell over with blood pouring out of his ears, nose, mouth, and eyes. It was an extremely gruesome death!
Dark Ghost walked over and inspected Yu Qinghe’s body, muttering to himself, “How did he die? The recipe is completely right! What’s the problem?”
He had no idea that Xia Fei’s drug-making method was essentially its own school, the mixing method a secret which was impossible to reproduce!
Just knowing the recipe was not enough and did not provide the means of reaching the true medicine.
Yu Guhe, Yu Qinghe’s brothers, had been scared silly. He dropped to the floor, his face pale, overcome with regret for stealing Xia Fei’s medicine.
“I don’t believe it!
“I refuse to believe that a puny Law Warrior who’s not even an Apothecary can surpa.s.s me in this field!”
Dark Ghost went crazy!
He was a genius—a genius at concocting wicked drugs. Xia Fei’s medicine had given him his greatest predicament. There was no making sense of it! It was a bizarre and insane medicine!
At this moment, a white-haired one-eyed elder walked into Dark Ghost’s laboratory. Upon seeing him, everyone lowered their heads. Even Dark Ghost stopped shouting, becoming extremely quiet.
“Master Cruel Eagle, you came at just the right time. I can’t keep waiting any longer. Please, you must help me go to the Yu family and capture that Xia Fei chap! If I don’t unlock the secret to this medicine, I’m gonna go crazy!” Dark Ghost ripped at his hair and roared.
Cruel Eagle had brilliant eyes which exuded a dignity that could not be profaned.
“There’s no need to go,” Cruel Eagle coldly said. “Their people are already on the upper floor. It won’t be long before they get here.”
Everyone was stunned. Dark Ghost questioned, “How did they get here? How many?”
“Two, one a Law Emperor. They opened a Spatial Gate and forced their way in.”
Mu Linbai frowned. “Yu Jiang? That’s a problem. That old man is a Law Emperor. None of us is a match to him.”
Cruel Eagle shook his head. “If it’s Yu Jiang, I would leave already. I don’t have the strength to fight against a peak Law Emperor. The one who came is Yu Hua, his family’s other Law Emperor.”
“Yu Hua? Didn’t he stop concerning himself with his family’s affairs a while ago?” Yuan Dian asked as he began to untie the bandages around his arm.
*Bang!*
As he spoke, the doors to the laboratory blew open!
Yu Hua and Xia Fei stood side by side, their eyes dark and sinister.
Striding forward, Xia Fei pointed his finger at the people in the laboratory, coldly asking, “I heard that someone wanted to capture me?”