Stronger from Earth
Chapter 320 - 319: Ling Zai
Wang Xuan had a firm grasp of his own strength, and similarly, he could see through Chen Hu’s strength at a glance. When he said he could defeat Chen Hu with one finger, he would not need to use a palm strike.
To see through others’ strength is very difficult, only cultivators of a higher level can achieve it. Yet Wang Xuan, even though in the same realm as Chen Hu, could overlook his strength.
"Exert all my strength just to take on this finger? Impossible, this is impossible!" Chen Hu was consumed by anger, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
He wasn’t afraid to lose, but he couldn’t accept such a failure. Both at the peak of Earth Immortal, yet he was repelled by one finger—this was humiliation.
Others hadn’t exerted effort, while he had already hit his limit, everyone knew he was defeated.
Wang Xuan flicked his little finger, saying indifferently: "There’s nothing impossible about it, the difference between Peak of Earth Immortal and Peak of Earth Immortal is so vast, it’s beyond your imagination.
Otherwise, why am I called the King of Earth Immortals and not you?"
Onlookers didn’t expect the challenge to end so soon, or say that Chen Hu directly collapsed right at the beginning. The stronger Chen Hu was the idol of fellow disciples, yet he lost like this, shocking everyone.
"Is this the combat power of the King of Earth Immortals? So powerful! So terrifying!" exclaimed others.
With Wang Xuan’s steps, the crowd ahead parted into a path, not daring to obstruct him—this was the intimidation of strength.
"To challenge me, you must at least have the strength of three fingers, it would be best if you could make me use a palm strike, otherwise I would be disappointed." Wang Xuan’s figure had already vanished, leaving a resonating echo that shocked everyone.
The crowd started estimating, wondering how many fingers’ worth of Wang Xuan’s strength they had, with Chen Hu only considered the weakest little finger. After some estimation, they all shook their heads and sighed.
"I only have half a finger’s combat power." sighed an ordinary Peak of Earth Immortal.
"One finger." Someone shook their head, possessing strength similar to Chen Hu’s, challenging Wang Xuan was only self-humiliation.
"One and a half fingers." said a young man, unable to hide his pride, as if having one and a half fingers of Wang Xuan’s combat power was quite good.
A group discussed for a long time. Among several thousand, there were hundreds at the Peak of Earth Immortal, having a combat power of one finger was rare, those with three fingers were almost all True Disciple of Immortal Holy Land.
"How strong is Wang Xuan’s palm strike, claimed to be the power of the King of Earth Immortals? Could it defeat cultivators from the middle to late Pure Yang?" Someone speculated, yet none knew the answer.
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True Disciples of the Immortal Holy Land often don’t understand what the strongest in the same realm is. Their mentors don’t want them to aim too high, nor do they want to dampen their spirits, hence don’t tell them.
Only those who know have no intention of challenging Wang Xuan.
"Senior Brother, your combat power is on par with mid-stage Pure Yang masters, very formidable, why not challenge Wang Xuan?" asked a disciple from the Divine Hall of Death.
His senior brother shook his head: "If I go, I can only serve as a measuring unit for Wang Xuan, becoming a ’palm strike’ in others’ mouths, why embarrass myself?"
"Is Senior Brother also not a match for him?! Do we really have to admit he’s stronger than us, the King of Earth Immortals?" asked the junior.
The senior brother was even more helpless: "Acknowledging it or not is meaningless, others don’t care because Wang Xuan is not an uncrowned king.
To become the King of Earth Immortals, one must challenge the previous strongest Earth Immortal, receiving approval from Mother Star’s destiny boost, only then is the true king of Earth Immortals.
Acquiring that destiny is the coronation, the rightful strongest in the same realm!"
"Is it really like that?" The junior was shocked, having never heard of this theory.
"Yes, Mother Star doesn’t just have the strongest Earth Immortal, within the existing twenty-one great realms, each has a strongest in the same realm, blessed by Mother Star’s destiny.
In our Divine Hall of Death, Ling Zai, called the successor of Lord Yama, was once the King of Earth Immortals. Back then, he challenged all the heavenly talents among Earth Immortals, winning a hundred battles without a loss!" The senior recalled past glories, still proudly.
"How does Senior Brother Ling Zai compare to Wang Xuan?" The junior asked again.
The senior brother patted the junior on the back of the head and said: "Kid, where do you come up with so many questions!" In truth, he didn’t know.
Ling Zai had attempted to hit the strongest in Pure Yang and succeeded, now newly entered Divine Infant Realm, he shone brightly in this war, slaying three same realm Demon Kings consecutively.
In Celestial Sword Mountain’s camp, many Sword Immortals heard of Wang Xuan’s news, but were internally unconvinced, believing Sword Cultivators were always invincible in the same realm.
"King of Earth Immortals? Lei Duzun is the strongest in Divinity Transformation, now he has broken through to Dharma Body Realm. In two to three years, he will reach the peak of Earth Immortal to challenge the throne of King of Earth Immortals!" Zhao Rugou said.
"Now he’s recognized as the King of Earth Immortals with the blessing of same realm’s strongest destiny, and our discussion is pointless." Gai Fu said coldly.
In fact, he knew, Lei Duzun’s strongest throne in Divinity Transformation was taken by Wang Xuan, Lei Duzun was defeated in a single battle, his combat power inferior to Wang Xuan.
Now Lei Duzun had broken through but is still overshadowed by Wang Xuan, more so this time, Lei Duzun is only early Dharma Body Realm. Wang Xuan has already reached the peak and became the King of Earth Immortals.
At this moment, Wang Xuan was verifying his achievements, during the great battle against Ten Thousand Beasts Realm, he enslaved tens of thousands of demon beasts, slaughtered more than 100,000 alien race members, and also healed many injured.
Even excluding the matter of Dark Pixiu Saint, he could receive a generous reward, though there was no direct cash reward due to miscalculation margins.
Eventually, Wang Xuan chose a forest on Mars as his private territory, about a county in size, but gaining private territory within the solar system is very rare, very few can own private land there.
His army of fifty thousand demon beasts was retained, as for the numerous demon beasts slain, their remains were given to the Federation suffering great losses, well distributed.
"Are you Wang Xuan? I am Lingdu from the Divine Hall of Death, come to challenge you!" An adorable Indian girl appeared, with a red dot on her brow representing auspiciousness.
Wang Xuan glanced at her, stretched out three fingers, shook his head, and said "I’ll use at most three fingers, you best not humiliate yourself."
Yet the girl was rather confident, saying "My senior brother was also once the King of Earth Immortals, he told me I now have eight or nine-tenths of his strength.
Don’t fool me, I’ll definitely defeat you!"
The Indian Girl wielded a golden wheel, which shot out with a swoosh, its sharp edge cutting toward Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan could see the trajectory of the golden wheel clearly. He reached out and gripped it, holding the wheel firmly, rendering its tremors useless.
"Your senior brother seems to spoil you, yet your strength can never become King of Earth Immortals, even if you are now in Pure Yang Realm, you’ll still lose against me.
Go back, I have no time to play house with you." Wang Xuan casually struck; the golden wheel buzzed and was thrown away.
The Indian girl stretched her hand to catch it, but was forced back by a strong impact, her chest heavy and uncomfortable, clearly reaching her limit.
Defeated so easily, the girl was exceptionally aggrieved, bawling as she ran away, leaving Wang Xuan bewildered.
Looking at the countless millions of demon beasts from Ten Thousand Beasts Realm that he possessed, Wang Xuan considered it a great wealth, not to be wasted.
They were unqualified as mounts, being alien, and would surely cause great chaos if they rebel in the future. Such hidden dangers shouldn’t be kept.
"In that case, they can only be eaten." He thought it reasonable as an ingredient for alchemy and artifact refining.
After all, they were free, these demon beasts weren’t raised by him, eating them wouldn’t be distressing, regardless of whether they’re Earth-Level Demon Beasts.
However, before he could process these demon beasts, cultivators from Life Science and Divine Gene Group approached him, offering a high price to buy them.
Meanwhile, Little Yama and Ling Zai of the Divine Hall of Death were consoling their junior sister, harboring quite a grudge against Wang Xuan.
(The third update transformed into a pigeon flying away, I just want to sleep, want to go tease the daughter of Zhou Gong, so...
The accumulated five Chapters of rewards this month—I will surely fulfill them, I promise here, if there are not five Chapters as extra updates, I am a puppy!)