427: Chapter 421: Three-Eyed Divine Being and Big Black Dog 427: Chapter 421: Three-Eyed Divine Being and Big Black Dog After confirming that the Flame Power was unable to completely kill Murakami Taro, Chen Hai flipped his hand and took out the Hongming Blade once again from his Storage Pouch.
At times, he severed Murakami Taro’s head.
At times, he thrust the blade through Murakami Taro’s heart.
At times, he sliced down, cutting Murakami Taro in half at the waist.
At times, the Hongming Blade turned him into a dried corpse.
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Each time Murakami Taro was killed, the intervals it took for him to revive became noticeably longer.
However, because the watch that Chen Hai was wearing had been completely damaged, he was unable to estimate the exact time Murakami Taro took to revive each time.
With a loud “Bang…”
On the ninth time, the moment Murakami Taro died at the hands of Chen Hai, the moment he fully expired, his body burst apart.
Standing over two meters tall with a dog’s head, after the explosion, there were neither bone fragments nor a trace of flesh visible.
Only numerous currents of air, fine and dense, crisscrossed the void within the stone cave.
These streams of air, in form, were at least seventy to eighty percent similar to the eerie black air from before.
However, their color had changed from pure black to a somewhat peculiar gray-brown.
“Damn this thing…” Seeing the gray mist that almost filled the entire cave, Chen Hai unwittingly furrowed his brows.
He was worried that this gas would act like the black air before, attacking him on its own.
The moment Murakami Taro burst open, Chen Hai had immediately used his Flame Power to form a protective shield of fire around himself.
Regrettably, all his efforts were clearly in vain.
This gray air, pervading the void, still looked vibrant but seemed to have lost its aggressive nature.
If the black air from before was the power of a Great Demon, then the current gray air was clearly several levels lower in terms of power.
“The power of a Great Demon was beyond my absorption capability, but what about this power now?”
After confirming that the gray air did not attack him on its own, and feeling slightly relieved, such a thought suddenly surfaced in Chen Hai’s mind.
After hesitating for a while, he finally gritted his teeth.
Stretching out his hand, his leech-like Divine Soul’s phantom extended from his arm, and bit directly into the nearest stream of gray air.
Originally, when he had attempted to absorb that abnormal black air, just a tiny bit had almost caused his entire Divine Soul to collapse.
Yet now, while still somewhat strenuous, absorbing this gray air did not give him the same sense of impending collapse.
This gray air seemed to contain mixed elements.
Besides the power that Chen Hai could directly absorb, there were also traces of Murakami Taro’s fragmented memories, and one bizarre, incomprehensible scene after another.
Murakami Taro’s fragmented memories, apart from some linguistic elements which might be of some use to him, were directly extinguished by Chen Hai.
As for those bizarre scenes, they were even more fragmented.
Chen Hai caught only a glimpse of a huge black dog, following a three-eyed, golden-armored divine man, standing on an iron warship sailing through the sky.
These scenes made no sense to him at all!
Hesitating slightly, Chen Hai did not immediately extinguish these scenes, but simply ignored them for the time being.
It was unknown how much time had passed, but that strand of gray air was finally completely refined by him.
“This gray air, it’s a good thing!”
“Just refining a single strand has already replenished all the mana I had lost.”
“Even my power seems to have advanced a bit after refining this strand of gray air!”
Setting aside the various memories within the gray air, the power it contained alone had already benefited Chen Hai considerably.
And at this moment, what he had absorbed was just one strand of gray air.
The gray air present everywhere in this stone cave, compared to the eerie black air from before, was at least ten times more in quantity.
This tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of gray vapors, if they could all be refined…
Thinking of the great benefits he might obtain, Chen Hai couldn’t help but lick his lips.
Leaving a trace of his spirit to guard the surroundings, he sat cross-legged.
Cultivating with this kind of gray vapor, though somewhat arduous and time-consuming, was many times more efficient than regular cultivation!
Now, an entire cave’s worth of gray vapor lay before him.
Heaven bestows it not in vain.
Wouldn’t Chen Hai be wasting the precious opportunity given by the heavens if he couldn’t consume and refine it all?
“Cultivators, their Primordial Spirits reside in the void, their Divine Souls indestructible.”
“Saint Cultivators, their wills merge into their own bodies, their Physical Bodies undying.”
“Sky Howl, we have been master and servant for a time, are you sure, not following the path of a Demon Immortal, but wanting to achieve a Holy Body with your Physical Body?”
It was still the same ironclad battleship, where the Three-eyed Golden-armored God Man stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.
He seemed to be looking down on the skies, but there was an indescribable sense of heroic loneliness about him.
“Master, with your Physically Sanctified body, in terms of combat power, in the Three Realms and Six Paths, how many can contend against you?”
“To receive from master the Secret of Undying and the Method of Physical Body Sanctification, it’s Sky Howl’s fortune!”
“As for a Demon Immortal, if I attain the status of Demon Saint, I could bite a group to death in one bite…”
At this moment, the speaker was that Big Black Dog.
It looked like he was the servant to that Three-eyed Golden-armored God Man.
Regrettably, the vision Chen Hai saw halted just at this point.
Previously disdainful of these peculiar visions, he suddenly woke from his Meditation.
Looking up, he saw that about one-tenth of the gray vapor filling the cave had disappeared.
In one strand of gray vapor, which contained just a little bit about that Big Black Dog by the eerie lake, the quantity of gray vapor that Chen Hai had refined increased, and the images formed were clearly more vivid and lifelike.
“These gray vapors now are what transformed from that bizarre black vapor that merged into Murakami Taro’s body!”
“Could the owner of these forces be that Big Black Dog?”
“But how could this Big Black Dog appear in Takamagahara, Japan?”
“Could it be that during some great changes in the world, it drifted into what is known as the fragment of Primordial Takamagahara due to some reason?”
“Maybe it and those purported Eight Million Deities within Takamagahara have always been at odds, inherently hostile to each other?”
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After a brief rest, Chen Hai’s mind began to wildly speculate again.
Regrettably, the more he thought, the more confused he became.
“What does it matter, what identity or origin this Big Black Dog has, or why it appeared in Japan?”
“All I need to know is that refining and consuming these gray vapors can enhance my strength.”
“From the scene I just witnessed, this Big Black Dog must know the Secret of Undying, having truly condensed a Demon Saint Body.”
“The bit of power it sent across realms, after corrupting Murakami Taro, explains why this guy has always been so hard to kill!”
“After consuming all the gray vapor in this cave, perhaps, I might glimpse more scenes!”
“What if, this so-called Secret of Undying, I could also catch a glimpse of a hint?”
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Thinking thus, Chen Hai, after a short rest, once again immersed himself in the consumption and refinement of the gray vapor in the cave.
Transcending to a Saint had always been the path he truly wished to tread.
He vividly remembered the Becoming Saint Method he had acquired from the Black Water Leech Emperor!
But knowing the Dharma Method was one thing, whether he could truly cultivate it successfully was another.
The so-called stone from other mountains can polish jade—perhaps, the Method of Physical Body Sanctification of the Three-eyed Golden-armored God Man could bring Chen Hai some insights, making his understanding of the path to becoming a saint even deeper?