Chapter 219, Shock

Translator: Tamon

 

The previously disdainful audience now turned still, making the mechanical voice resound loud and clear.

 

Even if you include the two’s harsh taunts to each other, the match went by way too fast, faster than the calculator could announce the arrangements for all the hundred arenas.

 

It was so bad that the disciples fighting in the 1st stage second arena, 2nd stage first arena, and third arena paused to gawk at Wang Qi’s back and the wailing Fa Xiong.

 

Chen Jingyun and Deng Jiaxuan, these two Eminences, looked at each other in disbelief.

 

No way, no freaking way!

 

[It goes against heaven!]

 

[Did Wang Qi train a body cultivation method? How did he face someone training a tough body cultivation method like War Thunder Body to the fourth layer?]

 

Moments later, Bernoulli Xiaoya mocked through the shock, “That moron… Wang Qi knows Celestial Entropy. Everyone knows that. Yet he went for a melee.”

 

Celestial Entropy, a strange cultivation method that turned order into disorder. With the slightest bit of its spiritual power entering one’s body, it would cause the subject to deviate. Fighting Wang Qi up close and personal was suicidal.

 

But due to entropy amplification’s erratic nature, it was hard to make it into a magical art. Except for Searing Annihilating Heaven Palm and a few other top arts, Celestial Entropy’s entropy amplification couldn’t be used at range. Hence why Bernoulli Xiaoya believed beating such an opponent could only be done from afar with magical arts or fighting close but with weapons. Using your body was a fool’s errand.

 

But her friend’s muttering had her silent. “How did this guy train his body?”

 

[His body is harder than a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s!]

 

Ai Changyuan stared long before saying, “His mass hardly changed, so it can’t be because of a body cultivation method.”

 

Lu Qianqian was stumped. “B-but he clearly grabbed Elec-Mag Crossbow-thrown iron pieces. Even a bull would drop dead at that impact.”

 

Ai Changyuan mulled, “Is it Celestial Hymn Odyssey?”

 

“C-Celestial Hymn Odyssey? How could it have such a frightening power?”

 

Over at Mao Zimiao’s, she asked her own friends around her.

 

Catching onto something, Wu Shiqin explained, “Have you heard of Four Heaven-opening Forces, Zimiao? Strong force refers to the force keeping a particle’s subparticles (neutron, proton, electron) together; the weak force refers to matter’s decay; gravity affects the macro world, keeping matter together; and what remains is a force that has matter take specific forms and functions while giving matter various traits—electromagnetic force. Weak or strong, soft or hard, acid or base, cold or hot, all are governed by electromagnetism…”

 

In Earth’s terms, physical, chemical, and so on, properties hinged on the matter’s atomic structure. And what determines that structure is none other than electromagnetism.

 

Hence the meaning behind ‘spiritual power turns anything into a sword, be it a blade of grass or a branch.’ Spiritual power was energy’s exponent; by adding it to a weapon, you’d just strengthen the chemical bonds between them. Alas, the action was reflexive, making only a small part of spiritual power do this kind of role.

 

What Wang Qi just did was use most of Celestial Hymn Odyssey’s spiritual power to strengthen his flesh’s chemical bonds, getting every atom making up his being to be glued together. This was purely intended, making it thousands of times stronger than any spiritual power shield.

 

Unless Fa Xiong’s punch could break atoms, he could never overcome Wang Qi’s defenses.

 

But this art wasn’t without its weaknesses. Strengthening chemical bonds only worked on the physical aspect, and an opponent could just bypass the flesh by targeting the inner organs or soul with spiritual power.

 

Chen Jingyun and Deng Jiaxuan were baffled.

 

“Even I understand this concept of strengthening particle bonds, but he clearly didn’t use spiritual power to protect his body. Why…”

 

Deng Jiaxuan was the first to react, “Thunder Cage.”

 

The Thunder Cage was a Faraday cage on Earth, nullifying all electric potential. It was a structure that isolated the electromagnetic field inside from the outside one. Thunder Cell’s theoretical principle.

 

One Eminence gasped. “There’s no way he could use Thunder Cell without us knowing!”

 

Dao Seed explained, “Ionic bonds and metallic bonds are all physical bonds. Since he could strengthen them, then he could break them apart. Just break a few electric particles to charge his body and strengthen his flesh and bones. In case of his weak organs, his torso is a living Thunder Cage!”

 

Chen Jingyun said, “I’m more worried as to how someone in the Qi Refining Realm grasped such a magical art!”

 

Deng Jiaxuan’s voice was low. “Quantum field… he joined Grand Discrete Unity Treatise and Celestial Hymn Odyssey together. Quantization of spiritual power made things far easier.”

 

One Eminence gasped, “Is he really a banished immortal?”

 

Deng Jiaxuan’s turned sour. “Sir Cajal said it’s half-half. It can be either one or the other.”

 

“Looking at him now, I’m more inclined to think that he isn’t. How can a banished immortal do this?”

 

Deng Jiaxuan held his head. “Or he’s not approving principles but instead using his fine banished immortal spiritual power to control bonds? We can’t leave out any possibility…”

 

Chen Jingyun sighed, “The process is all that matters. Even if there’s a one percent chance of him being a banished immortal, I still can’t let him join the Myriad Arts Sect.”

 

The shocked Eminence pondered, “Mm, that part of the plan is in Myriad Arts Sect, Contraption Pavilion, Harmony Coalition’s Thunderous Pavilion, and Elusive Palace’s hands. He can’t join any of these sects, but he can still join the others. Heavenly Spirit Range, Scorching Metal Valley, and Harmony Coalition’s other branches are all viable options. Looking at his Celestial Entropy cultivation, entering Scorching Metal Valley might be the best fit.”

 

Chen Jingyun closed his eyes. “I’ll send someone to convince him.”

 

…

 

Wang Qi held his hands behind him under the silent watch of all his peers, uncaring of anyone as he walked over to the Argent Apex corner, where he leaned against a tree.

 

Ai Changyuan clicked his tongue. “This guy is stubborn.”

 

[With enough strength, there’s enough stubbornness!]

 

Bernoulli Xiaoya gripped her sword in the Leyan’s group.

 

She only saw him twice, but every time had her change her opinion of him. It felt like any overevaluation she had of him wasn’t overblown.

 

Many more geniuses were starting to look on with doubt.

 

[Is this the power that overcame Ai Changyuan? Can I beat him?]

 

Sun Sheng pushed his fear far down, replacing it with battle instinct.

 

“I’m not going to lose that easily! The harder you oppress evolution, the stronger it becomes!”