12 Chapter 12 – Reaching Seventh Stage of Body Purification

Zhu Xuan peeked out at the entrance of the cave cautiously.

The place was eerily silent and there was no sign of any living thing anywhere close-by. He walked out and found 8 dead people on the ground. He thought "Looks like 2 escaped, and the warthog chased after them."

He started collecting the loot from the dead people. When he was almost finished looting them, he heard a loud roar from the direction of the lake.

He had a bad feeling about it. He immediately set off towards the lake. He reached the lake in a few minutes and what he saw made him really angry.

Bai Ling and Bai Wuji were facing the Warthog in a distance; they looked bloodied all over and exhausted. There are three people surrounding the warthog, not moving. They are the other three people from Bai clan, and it looks like they already died at the hands of the warthog. And close to his direction, he saw Cai Guo, and an old man with one of his hands torn off, hiding behind a tree showing their backs to him and looking at the battle.

Zhu Xuan understood that those two Cai family people knew they can't defeat the warthog, and so they draw it towards the lake and diverted its attention to the Bai clan people. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart thinking how despicable and cunning this Cai family acted without any morals. He couldn't help bet relate them to his sister Shenmi from his previous life and second brother Zhu Lang from this life and his blood boiled in anger.

Consumed by rage, he formed a sword with his fire Qi and dashed towards the two people of Cai family who were hiding behind a tree. The old man next to Cai Guo detected something and turned around. He saw the young man with powerful killing intent dashing towards them, aiming the blade at his young master.

He caught Cai Guo with his one hand and pulled him away, but Zhu Xuan's sword still caught the old man's hand and sliced it off of his body. He fell on his back with blood now flowing from his severed hand. Zhu Xuan ignored the old man and turned towards Cai Guo.

Cai Guo was terrified out of his wits. He had a close call with death earlier with the warthog, but he cleverly diverted it towards the Bai clan people and safely escaped. He was only hiding nearby and rejoicing on their sad fate caused by him, when this young man attacked him out of nowhere. He had no idea who Zhu Xuan was and why he was trying to killing him with such ferocity.

He shouted lividly at Zhu Xuan "Please, please don't kill me"

But Zhu Xuan didn't hear his voice at all. He swung his blade towards Cai Guo's neck and his head fell to the ground. He turned towards the old man and was about to attack when he heard another roar from the Warthog.

He looked at the direction of the battle and saw the warthog charging at Bai Ling and Bai Wuji. Pulling Bai Ling with her, Bai Wuji tried to sidestep, but they were still grazed by the warthog and flew a distance and fell down.

The old man from Cai family used the momentary lapse of distraction of Zhu Xuan to get up and escape into the forest. Zhu Xuan didn't chase after the old man. He knew if he didn't go help, Bai Ling and her uncle will definitely be killed. So he moved towards the warthog at a fast speed.

He formed two fireballs in both of his hands and threw it at the warthog, before it had a chance to charge again at the two from Bai clan. He shouted at the two people "Don't attack it and stay low, I will draw the beast away."

Fireball hit the warthog, one on its face and one at its side. It stopped and looked at Zhu Xuan with blood red eyes in anger. He threw two more fireballs at it, but the warthog dodged it this time and gave a loud roar filled with rage and charged crazily towards him. Zhu Xuan turned around and ran towards the forest away from the two.

He moved left and right in swift movements among trees like he was born and lived in the forest for years. He heard crashing sounds and turned while running; he saw the Warthog was rushing towards him in a straight line crashing the trees on its way with a mad rage. He complained to himself "I just threw a few fireballs at you, why are you chasing me with madness like I took your precious treasure."

Little did Zhu Xuan know that when it was led by Cai family to the lake it saw the other dead warthog, which was its mate, and became extremely mad. It thought the Bai family people where the one that killed them. It attacked them with ferocity and right when it was about to kill them all, Zhu Xuan attacked it and stopped it from killing them. It became insane in anger, lost all reason and started chasing him like crazy.

It gained on him and dashed towards him. He sidestepped to avoid it, but little did he expect it will fling its head on the side and hit him with its strong tusk. Zhu Xuan flew away and hit on a tree and fell down.

He got up, his left hand limp hanging on his side. His hand is broken and he can only use one hand now, and he had no idea how many bones got broken in his body; he felt pain all over his body. He cursed at how strong this warthog is, even though it is injured heavily and at the same level as the other warthog.

It charged towards him again, he used the tree and jumped away from it and threw a fireball at its face. It just left a burn mark at its face. He is heavily injured and his fighting strength greatly reduced. So the power of his fireball also in turn didn't do much damage. Before he can even throw another fireball, it charged and hit him again. He flew again and got up unsteadily with few more broken bones and blood all over his body.

He knew if he got hit once more by the warthog, he will absolutely die. He used the tress and hid behind them to disrupt its line of sight and dodging. While moving, he was thinking and suddenly a crazy idea formed in his head. He planned to breakthrough right now in the middle of the battle.

Seventh level is a major breakthrough point in body purification, just like fourth stage and tenth stage. This will heal his injuries due to breakthrough and give him more power to kill the warthog. But, usually cultivators sit in meditation and breakthrough, but breakthrough in middle of the middle has huge risk. He reassured himself "If I don't risk it and breakthrough, I will definitely die. I might as well give it a shot."

He took one of the blood Linghzi and swallowed it without a second thought and ran the Qi and essence through absorption mantra, while moving left and right behind the trees.

Energy rushed into his body from the blood Linghzi and the Qi around him like a tide, and he heard a bang sound. He reached the seventh stage of blood purification. His bones started mending and injuries healed at an astonishing speed. He felt itching on all the injured area and he felt his bones became denser and his blood changed to pure and dark red. He felt ten times more powerful than before and he also felt light and can move faster.

He didn't have time to analyse more of his body's changes because the warthog charged at him again. He dodged again and formed a shield using fire Qi and jumped up at its head. He used the shield as a cushion from its head hitting him and jumped on its back. He formed flaming fist on both his hands and hit its spine with all his force with both his hands few times with dark red flames.

He suddenly realised the flames are in dark red colour now. When he started practising, the flames were in orange colour. When he reached fifth stage, they changed their colour to red and now they are dark red.

He was shaken off his thoughts when the warthog moved its body to throw him off. He held on to it tight, and formed a big dark red hammer from his fire Qi which will give more power in its attack. He held the hammer, used heavy force and smashed it at the same place of the spine he was attacking earlier. He heard a breaking sound, and he swung his hammer again with even more force and crushed its spine completely.

Warthog fell down and crashed. It let out a roar of pain, tried to stand up but it couldn't because of it broken spine, much less move.

Zhu Xuan jumped from its back towards its head. He swung the hammer down and crushed its skull.
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