Chapter 776, Never Surrender

Translator: Silavin

 

Under the medicinal effect, Qin Yichen’s wounded body began recovering at an extremely rapid rate, those seemingly vicious wounds gradually closing.

 

A full hour and more passed after consuming the Pill before Qin Yichen, seated in meditation, slowly opened his eyes.

 

Injuries that would require at least half a month of bedrest had mostly healed within just over an hour!

 

This was Qin Yichen’s greatest advantage.

 

“As expected…” Sensing his body’s major recovery, Qin Yichen couldn’t help praising. Without this medicine, even with his other Pills, recovery in such a brief period would have been impossible.

 

After resting momentarily and adjusting his physical condition to its optimal state, Qin Yichen’s gaze turned toward the ninth stone stele.

 

Condensing eight stacks of force had already inflicted massive trauma upon his physical body. Forcibly condensing nine stacks was something his body absolutely could not withstand!

 

It might be so severe that Pills would no longer work…

 

A single misstep might cause his body to explode from being unable to withstand the power!

 

Moreover, what concerned Qin Yichen most was what was beyond this stele. Who knew whether a tenth stele existed!

 

Standing before the stone stele, Qin Yichen pondered at length. Finally, his breathing gradually stabilized. At that moment, within his dark eyes, no trace of fear or retreat remained.

 

The next instant, with a mental command, the Yuan Energy within his body began layering like ocean waves.

 

One stack… two stacks… three stacks…

 

Within mere breaths, Qin Yichen had already stacked to sixfold force.

 

As the force stacked, a blood mark emerged from his shoulder. Immediately, blood flowed forth, ultimately trickling down Qin Yichen’s arm and dripping onto the ground, leaving striking crimson marks.

 

Upon stacking till the seventh, the blood across Qin Yichen’s body increased continuously. Even across his face appeared line after line of blood marks. His vision became obscured by deep red blood. Yet this did not cause his movements to cease.

 

The powerful eight stacks of force began slowly condensing.

 

*Pff!* As eight stacks of force compressed, terrifyingly extreme power suffused his body. Even the surrounding space seemed to transmit horrifying pressure, nearly crushing his body to explosion.

 

Fortunately, Qin Yichen had already experienced this once before. Immediately, the Myriad Dao Divine Armour arm guards enveloped him, a domineering force temporarily forcibly suppressing that explosive sensation.

 

Nevertheless, even so, Qin Yichen currently felt his hearing and sight fail, as though all sounds in Heaven and Earth had completely vanished. Only that violent force, the power seemingly intent on tearing his body apart, continuously assaulted his nerves.

 

After the eighth stack was done, Qin Yichen’s chest heaved violently, his form becoming somewhat unsteady.

 

Logically, this was already his absolute limit. Forcibly stacking further would certainly cause his physical body to explode!

 

Qin Yichen obviously understood this. Even with his formidable Physique, he could not endure the exponentially increasing backlash!

 

His hands, shrouded beneath dark energy, still appeared grotesquely swollen. At this moment, Qin Yichen’s fists clenched desperately tight…

 

[Can I live with myself if I stop here!?]

 

Within vision blurred by blood, a graceful silhouette seemed to appear. This silhouette gradually clarified, transforming into Feng Qianxue’s form. Those glass-like eyes, filled with affection, gazed at him tenderly.

 

Feng Qianxue was the woman he did not wish to miss again. The woman who he did not want to see suffer even the slightest harm…

 

The Ouyang Family had vanished without trace. With Qin Yichen’s keen perception, he knew that behind them, a massive hand must still be manipulating events!

 

Without identifying the mastermind, a second or third attempt at her Martial Soul might occur!

 

In an instant, Feng Qianxue’s graceful form dissolved. Lu Linghan appeared, sitting by the window, eyes vacant as she gazed into the distance, the image of one awaiting her beloved’s return manifesting in his vision.

 

Lu Linghan, born with Yin Meridian, yet even after obtaining the Profound Dark Eternal Body Technique, willingly remained the small woman behind Qin Yichen.

 

Finally, unable to endure being a burden, she had departed from him…

 

She would certainly be waiting for him to find her!

 

“Ahhhh!” Within this space, a long roar suddenly erupted. Qin Yichen’s blood-obscured eyes abruptly snapped open. Within those eyes, not the slightest trace of hesitation remained!

 

[The path of the strong has never been smooth sailing! To become someone capable of protecting those I wish to protect, how could I speak of surrender!]

 

*Boom!* As Qin Yichen’s roar concluded, the force already suppressed to its absolute limit, stacked once more!

 

*Pff!* In that instant, across Qin Yichen’s body, terrifying blood marks ruptured open, blood spraying in all directions.

 

Intense agony swept through every part of Qin Yichen’s body, as though intent on burying his entire mind!

 

Yet even so, that stacking force showed not the slightest tendency to stop, continuing its frenzied accumulation.

 

“Break!” Qin Yichen’s voice seemed distorted from his larynx enduring compression. His blood-marked palm suddenly struck toward the stone stele ahead.

 

Simultaneously, that overwhelming nine stacks of force finally completed its stacking.

 

*Bang!* In that instant, Qin Yichen’s body actually exploded.

 

*Hum…* At this moment, his palm had split open completely, exposing white bone. Yet beneath this shattered palm, astonishing fluctuations rippled outward. Wherever they passed, space itself produced visible ripples to the naked eye!

 

Even Gu Feitian’s full-power strike could not cause such Space Turbulence. Yet beneath Qin Yichen’s palm, within that nine stacks of force, he had achieved it!

 

*Crack!* The wordless stele, nearly a hundred metres in size, beneath this single palm strike, accompanied by a tremendous crash, exploded apart!

 

The ninth stone stele had actually been shattered by Qin Yichen’s single palm!

 

The instant the wordless stele shattered, Qin Yichen’s body, due to the power’s complete release, collapsed to one knee upon the ground.