Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest-Chapter 436 - : Treasure Pavilion
Chapter 436: Chapter 436: Treasure Pavilion
The moment Wang Chen’s palm struck the City God Statue, the surface of the latter’s head immediately began to show signs of softening.
And it rapidly permeated inward!
Petrify to Mud was effective!
However, before Wang Chen could feel any joy, a deep and powerful force seeped out from within the City God Statue.
The softened area solidified once again.
Two forces from the same origin but in opposition were in a stand-off inside the head of the City God Statue!
Wang Chen’s palms were pressed tightly against the back of the City God Statue’s head, as he desperately poured in Mana, continuously stimulating the Great Perfection level Mudstone Technique.
Meanwhile, the City God Statue stood immobile, counteracting him with its core energy.
At this moment, Wang Chen was caught between a rock and a hard place.
Intuition told him that if he withdrew his hands or exhausted his Mana, he would face a devastating counterattack from his opponent.
This counterattack was powerful enough to break through his Vajra Invulnerability!
With no other options, Wang Chen could only fully stimulate his Qi Sea, continuously pouring his accumulated Mana into his palms.
Although his cultivation level had reached the second tier of the Purple Mansion realm, such tremendous consumption was difficult to sustain for long.
What was terrifying was that the force from the City God Statue seemed endless, with no sign of diminishing.
Watching his Mana swiftly decline, Wang Chen made a snap decision to trigger the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net wrapped around his arms.
He planned to rely on the Spiritual Power within the Demon-Slaying Net to fight this war of attrition!
Wang Chen was grateful that his previous encounters exterminating Evil Wraiths had allowed the Demon-Slaying Net to accumulate a massive amount of Spiritual Power within it.
Otherwise, this battle would have been doomed to failure!
Both sides were thus at a standstill, the battle shifting from tumultuous conflict to a silent drain.
An even more perilous covert battle!
Time slipped by quietly, and Wang Chen’s hands never left the City God Statue; his palms seemed welded to it, his whole body suspended without falling.
The Mana in his Qi Sea Dantian had long been exhausted, and the force sustaining his output was entirely from the storage of the Demon-Slaying Net.
But the Spiritual Power inherent in the Heaven-Ensnaring Punisher Net was not infinite either, being rapidly siphoned away,
gradually declining.
Apart from the depletion of Mana and Spiritual Power, this kind of stand-off was a tremendous test of Wang Chen’s mental resolve.
The City God Statue’s countertime assaulted him wave after wave; although invisible and intangible, it constantly hammered his defenses, and even a moment’s negligence could lead to disastrous failure.
As time went on, with repeated impacts and counterattacks, Wang Chen gradually fell into a profound and mystical state.
He set aside life and death, ignored the enemy close at hand, and his Divine Soul seemingly stepped out of his body to observe the battle from a higher perspective with absolute calm.
The Clarify Technique was quietly activated.
A miraculous scene unfolded.
Wang Chen’s “gaze” penetrated the thick shell of the City God Statue and saw its “heart” beating violently within.
That was a huge earthy-yellow crystal, continuously releasing earth-based power.
This was undoubtedly the core of the Ancient Mechanical Puppet!
It had to be destroyed!
Intuition told Wang Chen that the longer the stand-off lasted, the more disadvantageous it was for him.
The primal force of the City God Statue was too robust, probably unfazed by the depletion of the Demon-Slaying Net’s Spiritual Power.
With lightning-fast thoughts, Wang Chen then began to decrease the Mana he was pouring in bit by bit.
With this give and take, the retaliatory force of the City God Statue surged, rapidly solidifying the softened part of its head, in turn infiltrating Wang Chen’s skin and eroding his muscle, bone, and flesh.
If Wang Chen’s Heavenly Dragon Vajra Method had not been cultivated to the sixth-tier realm, his hands would have turned to stone instantly.
But even the Vajra Invulnerability has its limits; he could barely hold on for now, but the outcome would be the same if it lasted too long!
At this time, Wang Chen had already gathered his Divine Sense.
Suddenly, he launched an assault toward the earthy-yellow crystal at the core of the City God Statue!
Due to his extraordinarily high Divine Soul attribute, Wang Chen’s Divine Sense was much stronger than that of other cultivators of the same tier, thus he had already mastered the Dharma Technique skill “Concentrated Spirit Bundle.”
Concentrated Spirit Bundle was somewhat similar to Yang Yi’s Soul Extinguishing Stab, but it was far less sharp and malicious. Simply put, it was a mental shock wave capable of affecting and disrupting a cultivator’s Divine Soul consciousness.
It shared a mysterious similarity with the imposing power of an aura!
Wang Chen had no expectations for the Concentrated Spirit Bundle to destroy the core essence of the City God Statue because it was simply impossible.
All he sought was to disrupt its normal operation.
Having locked onto the target in advance, his Divine Sense struck the earthen-yellow crystal with unerring accuracy.
The City God Statue shuddered violently, and the force it was emitting suddenly became disordered.
The oppressive force against Wang Chen consequently diminished significantly.
Overjoyed, Wang Chen did not hesitate to gather all his power into his palms and slammed into the head of the City God Statue.
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The attack exceeded Wang Chen’s limits, causing blood to ooze out from his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.
With a muffled “boom,” the back of the City God Statue’s head suddenly burst open, its half skull flinging apart in all directions.
Snap!
Wang Chen brought his palms together, slicing downwards like a sharp blade, cutting through the thick backshell of the City God Statue without any hesitation.
The next moment, he landed on the ground.
No sooner had his feet touched the ground than Wang Chen soared up again, slamming his palms against the now split open lower crotch of the City God Statue.
Crack!
This blow proved to be the last straw that broke the camel’s back. Accompanied by a sharp sound of shattering, the immense body of the City God Statue actually split in half.
Reaching all the way to the top!
The Ancient Mechanical Puppet bestowed by the Ancient Immortal Sect fell apart in two halves, teetering and then collapsing with a thunderous crash.
Bang!
It shattered into countless stone pieces.
Landing on the ground once more, Wang Chen found it hard to believe that this formidable opponent had been destroyed just like that.
A huge earthen-yellow crystal rolled to his feet.
Wang Chen took a long breath and reached out to take the crystal into his hands.
This trophy truly wasn’t easy to come by.
Destroying the City God Statue hadn’t earned him any Human Virtue or Heavenly Merit.
This confirmed his earlier speculation that it was a Puppet Mechanism, the boss guarding the level.
Without a doubt, this crystal was the reward for clearing the level!
The crystal, the size of a melon, was heavy in his hand, weighing at least a hundred pounds, clear and beautiful to the eyes.
Wang Chen could feel the immense power contained within it.
What made it especially valuable was that it looked brand new even after a thousand years.
So, how much was this crystal worth?
Wang Chen couldn’t estimate, but it definitely wouldn’t be cheap. Selling it for tens or even millions of Low Spirits would be normal.
After all, it was a relic from an Ancient Immortal Sect.
Boom!
While he was pondering, the ground suddenly shook violently.
Along with a rumbling sound, an ancient bronze-colored stone gate rose from the ground ahead.
It was right where the City God Statue had previously stood!
The stone gate rose to a height of ten feet and stopped, and three True Seal Talisman Scripts emerged on its surface.
Treasure Pavilion!
