Chapter 3 - 03 - Continuous Breakthroughs

Even though he suspected the sword in his hand was fake, King was not afraid of the huge and hideous monster in front of him at all.

To him, this was just a few ’lines of text’ that looked a little scary. This was probably because there was something wrong with his way of thinking, since normal people obviously would not think like this.

"Rusty iron or a good sword, I don’t care. With something as lowly and ugly as this, you actually dare think about attacking me? You deserve to die."

King did not even bother with the instructions and walked straight toward the monster. He did not run and simply walked with an extremely leisurely attitude, making the system panic because if this continued, he would be stomped into minced meat by the huge monster.

[Master, please immediately transform into the Heavenly Dao Swordsman state and use the divine skill.]

"Shut up!"

Faced with the system’s reminder, King replied irritably. Was just a ’little’ system trying to tell him what to do?

He not only looked down on the people in this world. He looked down on everything. Even the system that helped him was no exception.

[...]

The system could only remain silent at this moment and pray that its master was not an idiot. Otherwise, it would have to disappear right after appearing.

The closer he got to the monster, the more extraordinary the aura radiating from King’s body became. Some people saw him doing something crazy but did not stop him and only ran with their heads down because they thought he could not do anything anyway.

King’s footsteps suddenly began to glow. From the top of his head, the light quickly spread throughout his entire body.

His short black hair suddenly became long and pure white. His black eyes quickly turned into glowing golden eyes. Patterns carrying an indescribably noble aura appeared in his pupils.

His black techwear outfit was also completely ’bleached white’. A transformation that completely changed the color from black to white was completed within one second.

The monster had noticed King’s presence. It immediately charged forward like a container truck speeding down a highway.

The monster’s piercing roar carried a shockwave that struck directly at King’s body, but it was neutralized by some invisible force.

King’s cold gaze looked at the monster as if he were looking at something already dead... No, to be more precise, it was like a line of text he had crossed out with a single stroke.

"First Divine Skill - Heaven Splitting Sword."

King gently swung his sword, the movement looking as if he had used no strength at all, yet it released a suffocating pressure.

The moment he swung the sword, the layer of rust surrounding the Heavenly Dao Sword vanished, revealing a gleaming sword with exquisite patterns that were incomparably noble.

"What the hell is he doing? He’s about to die, and he’s still over there waving his sword?"

Someone saw this and immediately cursed at King’s actions. In his eyes, King was gently waving the sword at an extremely slow speed, while the monster was less than a second away from pouncing on him.

At this moment, the speed of King’s sword swing suddenly increased. It was so fast that even a rank II cultivator could not possibly see clearly what had happened and could only see the tip of the sword suddenly pointing straight into the sky.

A powerful sword qi slash directly split the building in half and flew straight into the sky, splitting the gloomy sky that looked like it was about to rain into two halves, bringing along a sudden downpour. The raindrops that landed on King’s body immediately vanished without making him even slightly wet.

The huge monster that had seemed impossible to resist earlier was still charging straight toward King before suddenly being split into two, separating to both sides.

It had no blood, so nothing splashed onto King’s pure white outfit. Only dark qi continuously poured out and mixed into the air.

Right after the slash, King immediately canceled the Heavenly Dao Swordsman state. This state was indeed powerful, but it consumed too much energy.

"Dark qi? Can’t let it go to waste."

Although King did not know exactly what to do, his body was immune to corruption, so he directly absorbed all the dark qi.

At the same time, the system’s notification sounded in his mind.

[Congratulations, master has successfully eliminated a corrupted rank III, 3-star cultivator.]

[Your Level has increased to rank III, 3-star.]

[You are absorbing a large amount of dark qi...]

[Your Level has increased to rank III, 4-star.]

[Your Level has increased to rank III, 5-star.]

[Your Level has increased to rank III, 6-star.]

King’s Level jumped from an ordinary person directly to rank III, 6-star before finally stopping. He had established an unprecedented record that no one would even dare to imagine, let alone surpass.

The trial strength immediately disappeared, but right after that, King felt the power in his body continuously rising.

This feeling was not much weaker than the power he had when trying out the divine skill. After all, the system was not crazy enough to let King try out a divine skill at maximum power.

"Doesn’t feel bad. I feel like I could knock down a whole cow... Wait, that’s not right. I should say I could knock down an entire building."

Having suddenly become so powerful, King did not know how to compare his strength for the moment.

He only knew that if he brought this power back to his previous world, he would have enough strength to challenge all the armies across the world.

Everyone stopped running and stared at King with their eyes wide open. They kept rubbing their eyes because this was way too unrealistic.

How could a young man who had not even started cultivating unleash such an absurd level of power?

"You..."

Before they could even ask anything, the building quickly collapsed. That monster would have needed a lot of time to destroy this building, but King only needed one divine skill.

"Run!"

Everyone screamed in terror and continued running in all directions. King did not care and only wanted to feel the new power he had received.

A chunk of concrete weighing hundreds of kilograms fell onto King’s head and immediately shattered into pieces. As for him, he was completely fine except that his hair was slightly messy.