Surviving in high-level martial arts and stacking Hextech

Chapter 109 Fang Ming, Grandmaster Realm!

Jiang Feng didn't know how long he had been waiting in the dark passageway.

Suddenly, a light appeared.

The story that follows doesn't have the foreshadowing or twists found in novels.

Hanging from the enormous cross is Zhang Ruanruan, dressed in a light blue robe. Her eyes are closed, and colorful threads are emanating from her body, like veins being drawn from her blood, slowly flowing towards the heart-like object below.

Off the field.

Xu Yuan and Lin Yuan;

Fang Ruo and Fang Ming;

Jiang Feng and Lin Lu ran into each other.

"I didn't expect you to come after all."

Beneath the black robe, Lin Lu sensed something, turned around, and quietly looked at Xu Yuan and the others, or more precisely, at Jiang Feng among them. Her almond-shaped eyes showed no joy or sorrow, only absolute calm or indifference.

"Lin...deer".

Jiang Feng's tone was very complicated; even he himself couldn't explain what kind of emotion it was.

He asked, "They say you killed Luo Feng and Ding Xiuqi, is that true?"

As if she had known he would ask this question, Lin Lu's expression remained unchanged, and she simply replied coldly, "Yes."

Upon hearing this word, Jiang Feng's face showed a pained expression. He first closed his eyes and then slowly opened them again. With this action, the pained expression completely disappeared, replaced by an undisguised killing intent.

"Then we can only be enemies," he said.

"We were enemies to begin with," Lin Lu replied.

These two sentences were like a declaration ceremony before the decisive battle. The moment the words fell, the blood and energy of everyone in the room surged and circulated, with no reservations left.

"As I said before, you and Patriarch Sikong will go to destroy the skeleton and rescue Zhang Ruanruan. Patriarch Zhang and I will provide cover." Xu Yuan transmitted his voice to everyone's minds.

"Very well!" Sikong Zhen shouted, "Leave it to me!"

Xu Yuan's side has 4 cultivators at the Meridian Opening Realm, 6 at the Sitting Illumination Realm, 2 at the Qi and Blood Realm, and Jiang Feng at the Body Tempering Realm.

On Lin Lu's side, besides herself, there were only two martial artists at the Meridian Opening Realm, Lin Yuan and Fang Ming. The number of other martial artists at the Sitting Illumination Realm and Qi and Blood Realm was also less than that on this side.

By any measure, this was a crushing defeat.

"Lin Yuan, it's better for both of us if you turn back sooner rather than later."

Xu Yuan took a step forward with a strong astral power, locking onto Vice Principal Lin.

Lin Yuan shook his head, a smile that only Xu Yuan could understand appearing on his wrinkled old face. "Why do we need to say such things between us? We've come this far, do you think you and Lan Yue would let me off the hook if I went back?"

Their conversations differed from those of the teenagers. Teenagers need extensive psychological preparation before their outbursts, recounting their insights and growth, but they didn't need that; they knew each other too well.

"Hehe." Xu Yuan chuckled. "Then let me see just how strong someone who has been hiding for so many years truly is now."

As the last word fell, starlight flickered between the two, their martial wills coalesced, and they collided with a deafening roar.

Fang Ruo's side—

"Master, you..."

Fang Ming waved his hand, interrupting her.

"Xiao Ruo, although you are the hope of our Fang family, you have not yet reached the stage of sitting in the abyss, and you are still far from the gate of opening the meridians."

He paused, then slowly raised his right hand, the star power flowing silently in his palm.

"The Fang family's future cannot be gambled on a tree that may never bear fruit. Besides, you are a woman."

Therefore, I made a decision... The Voodoo Cult is the true ladder for the Fang family's rise. And I—have already successfully entered the Meridian Opening Realm with the help of the cult.

Fang Ruo's face gradually turned pale.

It was a woman?

How ridiculous... How ridiculous!

She worked hard to dedicate herself to her family, even giving up the opportunity to have children, only to be met with the response, "Besides, you're a woman."

Over the years, she suppressed her desire to start a family countless times, and she suppressed the envy or ridicule from others countless times, telling herself time and time again that it was all worth it!

But the other person actually said she was a woman?!

In her heart, more than a decade of time crumbled in an instant, turning into fragments scattered on the ground, leaving not even a trace of nostalgia.

Fang Ruo bit her lower lip tightly, her fingertips turning white, something burning intensely deep in her eyes, yet stubbornly refusing to fall.

Seeing his son's expression change from pale to angry, Fang Ming felt a pang of pity and could only offer a comforting remark: "This is all for the sake of the family."

"What a choice the family made!"

Fang Ruo, who had completely lost faith in the family, was filled with such rage that it was almost tangible.

"Heh, the future of a family has to be gambled on a cult and women, Fang Ming, it seems you're not doing a very good job as the head of this family."

The person who spoke blocked Fang Ruo's way; it was Zhang Dongxuan, one of the only two remaining family heads.

More than seventy years ago, he and Fang Ming shone like stars in Donglin; it was their era.

Now, more than seventy years have passed, and both of them have become the heads of their respective families. However, one is already a martial artist in the middle stage of the Meridian Opening Realm, while the other is still stuck in the Upper Stage of the Sitting Illumination Realm. If it weren't for the Fudu Sect, he probably would never have had the chance to open the Meridian Opening Realm in this lifetime.

The gap is stark.

"Zhang Dongxuan." Fang Ming saw the newcomer and, unconcerned by his sarcasm, simply chuckled and said, "You alone are not enough."

"Not enough?" Zhang Dongxuan raised an eyebrow and chuckled. "Do you really think that by relying on the star power infused by outsiders to advance to the Meridian Opening stage, you can be considered a true Meridian Opening martial artist?"

"Today, I'll show you what the true Meridian Opening Realm is all about!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his aura suddenly became apparent, and the power of the stars erupted around him. He deliberately compressed that power to within half a meter of his body, otherwise the entire cavern would have collapsed under this will.

Strangely, Fang Ming, who had just entered the Meridian Opening Realm, remained completely unmoved by this martial will.

In full view of everyone, he asked Zhang Dongxuan a question.

"Aren't you curious why I'm the one left here, and not a priest from the Voodoo sect?"

"Have you ever considered why I would choose to stand here when the gap between us is so vast?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dongxuan was immediately alarmed. He, Xu Yuan, Pei Jinghe, and others had long suspected this, but they assumed that the other party was relying on the number of mutants and that grandmaster.

"No, no! Patriarch Zhang, retreat quickly!"

The first person to notice the change in Fang Ming was Xu Yuan, who was fighting Lin Yuan nearby.

He is the only person here who has cultivated to the limit of the Sitting Illumination Realm and the Mind Mirror Realm, and his perception is far superior to others.

Zhang Dongxuan finally realized what was happening.

But it was too late.

At this moment, the aura within Fang Ming's body suddenly began to surge, surge, and surge again!

Initial stage of Meridian Opening... Intermediate stage of Meridian Opening... Upper stage of Meridian Opening... Grandmaster stage!

His power surged to the Grandmaster level in the blink of an eye!

"Grandmaster level?! How is this possible—why is this happening?!"

These were the last words Zhang Dongxuan uttered before his death.

Then, he was slapped away by Fang Ming with a casual wave of his hand, crashing into a distant rock wall, and was dead beyond any doubt.

The audience was filled with shock.

Everyone, including Fang Ruo, Xu Yuan, and Sikong Zhen, was momentarily stunned.

What kind of secret technique is this?

Jiang Feng, however, turned deathly pale, because just now, he had found a possibility in the memories given to him by the Darkborn God's blood.