Lord of the Desert

Chapter 557 Innate Six Harmonies
At the same time, at Juehou Mountain.

Rolling clouds stretch across the landscape like a sea of ​​lead, covering the rugged mountains sculpted by endless deep snow; amidst the gray and white, occasional dark green mountain ridges pierce the sky, like the dorsal fins of a shark.

Hong Fan spread out the sand wings and hovered thousands of meters high, with a view covering a vast area of ​​dozens of miles.

swirling eddies of ice and snow drifting from the mountaintop, wisps of cloud torn apart from the mountainside, and icicles snapped from tree branches...

At this scale, strong winds also have a beginning and an end.

The vast shadows cast by the azure clouds lingered across the land, and herds of deer galloped across the black moss of the valley, followed by scattered dire wolves in pursuit.

After patiently circling for several hours along the huge claw marks on the broken ice of the long river, Hong Fan finally caught a glimpse of the golden line of his target.

It is about eight meters tall, with a slender and agile physique, and moves freely and unrestrainedly.

Separated by two mountain peaks, the King of Throat Mountain locked onto a bear-like beast unaware of its impending doom.

It strolls leisurely, then gallops wildly, leaping across a three-hundred-meter-deep ravine, swift and elusive as a flash of light...

The giant bear weighed several thousand kilograms and could easily crack rocks when it fled. Its combat power was incomparable to that of ordinary cultivators in the Hunran realm. However, in front of the Gu Diao, the beast was like a powerless infant. It died from a single pounce and claw attack.

A sharp, needle-like whistling sound pierced the sky, reverberating with the strong winds high in the heavens.

Running at over 400 kilometers per hour on the ground, although not as fast as Han Yun, the Tree God's personal guard who once dominated Shengzhou, it had already surpassed another Zhe Lei.

Fortunately, it cannot fly.

Hong Fan observed silently for a long time before diving into the sea of ​​clouds.

A hundred miles away, the wind and snow were driven away by the high temperature, and a natural cave instantly broke through the winter and entered spring.

Hong Fan closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and pondered carefully.

Huo Zhan, whose cultivation level was at the fifth level of the Yuan Magnetic Realm, was definitely among the top 150 experts in the Nine Provinces, even though he was not ranked on the Earth Ranking. The fact that this Gu Diao was able to escape unscathed from him meant that no one with only the Innate Realm could possibly defeat him.

However, when facing alien beasts, fighting them head-on is the worst possible strategy.

With the Sand Wing's extreme speed, whether to fight or retreat is entirely in Hong Fan's control; the only problem is its lack of lethality.

The Gu Diao may seem to have limited abilities, but it is naturally incredibly strong. Just now, while running, all the rocks it touched were shattered into pieces. Hong Fan looked at his own killing methods and found that even if the Fire Jade, Cannon, and Broadsword hit him head-on, they would at most cause some superficial wounds. However, the Sand Flow Blade, which was the only indestructible weapon, was not applicable to him.

The simplest solution is to seek help from celestial beings. Alternatively, if I harass it daily by flying around and occasionally firing a few shots, perhaps I can eventually annoy it away.

Hong Fan listed the plans.

However, this ferocious beast is renowned throughout the northern frontier, and I would benefit most from personally capturing it; if I cannot do it myself, there is always Kaiming who can…

After seven years of hard work, martial arts is not his only achievement.

To detonate the peak power of the Yuan Magnetic Force, black powder, with its low energy and slow detonation speed, is clearly insufficient; while strong cotton powder, despite its many drawbacks such as uncontrollable detonation speed and poor stability, is unparalleled in terms of power—in terms of energy density, strong cotton powder is three times that of granulated black powder, and in terms of detonation speed, it exceeds six thousand meters per second, ten times that of black powder, and is no less than TNT.

In addition, compared to the instantaneous "detonation" of TNT, strong cotton explosives will cause extremely violent combustion when they explode, resulting in a mixture of overpressure and high temperature that causes fatal injuries.

In my past life, a 2,000-pound aerial bomb could destroy a 15-story reinforced concrete building, while the explosive charge of a 2,000-pound aerial bomb was only about 500 kilograms of TNT.

【Let me pile up two tons of nitrocellulose, I bet it won't survive the explosion…】

Hong Fan pondered. The only problem is the detonation method and the detonation distance.

Although the Sand Wing has a very high top speed, it needs to use sand to shape itself to start; considering the Gu Diao's extraordinary acceleration and jumping ability, 300 meters is the minimum safe distance.

The first method of detonation is using a fuse.

Nowadays, black powder is widely used in mining, road construction and other fields in Liangzhou. The fuse with a black powder core wrapped in white cotton thread and then covered with a moisture-proof layer is no longer a new thing. However, the burning speed of this fuse is about 100 seconds per meter, and it would take a full eight and a half hours to conduct the charge over a distance of 300 meters, which cannot meet the requirements.

The second type is the "trigger" of chalcedony spiritual energy.

This method was widely used by the Equipment Makers Bureau for instantaneous detonation. Hong Fan had also seen the actual object on the White Thunder God, but at most it was seventy or eighty feet away.

The third type is the thoughtless spirit.

True essence with intelligence can be activated autonomously and is not affected by distance. Unfortunately, the self-sustaining power of the thoughtless spirit is less than a quarter of an hour, which cannot guarantee a sufficient waiting window.

After much deliberation, Hong Fan concluded that the only feasible solution, aside from arranging for assassins to exchange lives, was to fire a high-speed bullet from a distance of 500 to 600 meters using an extra-long barrel. This bullet was too high for the Gu Diao to intercept. Considering that a beast of the Gu Diao's level possessed sufficient intelligence to think logically and learn from its mistakes, the opportunity was limited to a single chance.

With this thought in mind, Hong Fan did not hesitate to pluck a Dragon Soul Fruit and transform it into the ethereal golden mist of the Dragon Soul Tree roots.

The immense vitality manifests as a torrent of true essence, surging forth from the Hand Yangming and Hand Taiyin meridians, passing through the Lung and Large Intestine, ascending to the supraclavicular fossa, clearing the collateral meridians through destruction and reconstruction, and finally converging...

After an unknown period of time, Hong Fan awoke from his deep inner vision and sensed that his cultivation, which had been stagnant for a long time, had risen to the peak of the Innate Realm. Moreover, the vitality he had not yet fully consumed after opening the sixth meridian was further advancing towards the first level of the Yuan Magnetic Realm.

As Duan Tiannan and the "Blazing Explosion Manual" explain, the five internal organs are the source of essence and energy. Humans absorb essence and energy from the outside world, which is transformed into vitality through the circulation of the five internal organs, strengthening the body and nourishing true essence. The cultivation of the Yuan Magnetic Realm is the process of completely connecting and innately integrating the meridian and five internal organ systems.

Once a martial artist reaches this realm, a part of their physical body is separated from the acquired and becomes essentially the same as and connected with the innate spiritual energy. They can fly freely by directly interacting with the innate spiritual energy. It is precisely because the Yuan Magnetic Martial Artist can fly through the air and borrow strength from anywhere, with no flaws in their movements and no vital points in their meridians, that they are revered as the Great Flawless Martial Artist and can be called a Grandmaster.

According to the teachings of the "Blazing Explosion Manual," Hong Fan first tempers the kidneys.

The kidneys govern hibernation, are the foundation of storage, govern the bones, and produce marrow, while the brain is the sea of ​​marrow.

Although the remaining power of the Dragon Soul Fruit only refined 10% of his kidney, Hong Fan clearly felt energetic, quick-witted, and had his memory further enhanced after emerging from meditation.

Using his finger as a sword, he slashed across the forearm, drawing blood that was both golden and red.

This concentration of dragon blood is comparable to that of Kazama.

Stepping out of the cave, Hong Fan briefly tested his skills on the icy cliffs, carefully comparing them.

Compared to the average level of martial artists of the same realm, his lower dantian has three times the amount of true essence, and his basic qualities such as pure physical strength, agility, and recovery are more than 50% higher, which is significantly higher than Gu Yixin and Qu Luoyi.

If Hong Fan could fight three opponents at the same level when he defeated Yi She, he is now confident that he can confront Yuan Ci Yi Guan head-on.

As dusk fell, the snow outside the cliff danced like white moths in the golden light.

Hong Fan unleashed a crimson tide from his palm, instantly scorching a hundred meters of sky.

"Unfortunately, the last Dragon Soul Fruit isn't enough to support me in reaching the Yuan Magnetic Realm in one go..."

The valley was vast, and he gazed at the rugged cliffs, yet he still felt a sense of unfinished business.

"Otherwise, we'll have to confront it head-on this time."

(End of this chapter)