Martial Ascent to Divinity

As the students of the Xihai Martial Arts Academy roared, the school leadership convened a televised meeting.

The principal was displayed on the large screen, and the other school leaders were in the meeting room.

"You've probably heard about the matter already."

"For some reason, the Divine Text Bureau has suddenly expedited the establishment of the Divine Literature Academy, and there's word that they're not very satisfied with Xihai Martial Arts Academy."

"So I rushed to Xiongjing overnight to make a final attempt."

"Everyone should pool your ideas and find a way to keep the Divine Literature Academy within Xihai Martial Arts Academy's control."

"Xihai Martial Arts Academy cannot fall out of the Top Ten."

The gentle sunlight shone upon Rucheng.

After breakfast, Zhang Xinglie and Li Yuanhe returned home, while Zhou Leng went to Xu Qingjin's house.

The three of them, as if moving house, carried large parcels to Li Linhan's home, where the three elders were busy, and Zhou Leng and Xu Qingjin went to buy other things.

Li Yuanhe and Zhang Xinglie also went outside to buy, dividing into two groups.

By afternoon, the two teams returned.

The four families gathered at Li Linhan's home and had a reunion dinner, gradually leaving until the night.

Zhou Leng and Xu Qingjin, having not seen each other for a long time, strolled and chatted along the Longyou River until late.

After sending Xu Qingjin home, Zhou Leng, carrying some food, headed to the Fierce Beast World.

Since returning from the Ancient River Sect, he hadn't seen any trace of Huang and Xiaoba, not even before heading to the Innate Battle Path.

Everything under the Frost Giant Tree was as usual.

Zhou Leng glanced at the empty area under the tree, walked out of the forest, headed to the Mammoth Lake Shore, began a medicinal bath, and cultivated the Undying Star Body.

Upon returning to Rucheng, the cultivation speed of the Undying Star Body had slowed down to an extremely sluggish pace.

The ten Divine Texts of the first layer of the Crossing Body were all blurry.

The first Divine Text still hadn't solidified.

After cultivating the Undying Star Body, he began to cultivate the Taiqing Sea Robe.

The Undying Star Body only strengthened the physical body, while the Taiqing Sea Robe was a True Qi Technique, forming a powerful True Qi Martial Art to protect the body.

Not far from Mammoth Lake, a large and a small figure emerged from the forest.

After Xiaoba advanced to the Innate Realm, his body grew from one story tall to two stories tall, with eight massive mammoth tusks curving upwards and long hair like armor covering his body.

Beside him, Huang's entire body bulged with muscle, resembling a golden-coated bully dog.

The two figures spotted Zhou Leng from afar, and Xiaoba excitedly ran over.

Huang hesitated for a moment, stood in place, and his muscles slowly contracted, with fur covering his body.

Even so, he was still larger than before.

Exhausting his True Qi, Zhou Leng opened his eyes to see Xiaoba and Huang staring straight at him.

Huang grinned, stuck out his tongue, and madly rushed over, rolling around in Zhou Leng's arms, showering him with affection.

Xiaoba watched Huang enviously, also wanting to roll around in Zhou Leng's arms.

Zhou Leng hugged Huang tightly, but having not seen him for so long, Huang was wild and unruly.

Zhou Leng, laughing and crying, played for a while before closely examining Huang.

He seemed only a bit larger than before, but his impact force and struggling power were far stronger than before.

He himself had the Giant Body, plus the Undying Star Body and the Body of Tenacity, with physical strength more than tenfold that of before.

Yet, Huang could slightly move him.

Reaching out to feel Huang's body, his muscles were as hard as iron.

Zhou Leng felt relieved, knowing with Elder Tree and the Eight-toothed Mammoth tribe around, Huang wouldn't suffer any loss.

"I heard there's an Eight-toothed Mammoth tribe waging battles everywhere, even affecting the Demon Spirit World. Is it your tribe?"

Huang's eyes flickered, quickly shook his head, and then looked towards Xiaoba.

Xiaoba also shook his head, with his big ears slowly flapping.

"Then the Demon Spirit World must connect to other places, far from us here. Come, have some zongzi, burgers, and roujiamo."

Zhou Leng brought out food he had specially kept for Huang and Xiaoba.

The large and small ones devoured the food like they were starved, chomping down hundreds of pieces, and even after finishing, they still gazed at Zhou Leng.

"Can you eat heavy salt now?" Zhou Leng looked at Huang.

Huang immediately raised his right foreleg, revealing thick leg muscles, panting with a grin, tongue out.

Zhou Leng looked at Xiaoba and said, "You've reached the Innate Realm, let's have a contest."

Xiaoba extended his trunk, wrapping it around Zhou Leng's body.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath, without using True Qi, exerted his arms, trying to pry open Xiaoba's trunk.

According to his estimation, Xiaoba was only at the True Liquid Innate stage, but possessing Blood Shocking Innate strength, he should be limited in strength relying only on physical power.

Xiaoba's trunk didn't budge an inch.

Zhou Leng looked up, incredulously at Xiaoba; he had the Giant Body of Wonders, cultivated to the extreme, combined with his recent Ancient River Trial, his body's strength was absolutely not inferior to Xiaoba's in the Vitality Stage.

Xiaoba chuckled, smugly.

Huang barked beside them, gesturing.

Zhou Leng suddenly understood and asked, "You both encountered a Beast Tomb and gained great benefits?"

The large and small figures nodded together.

"No wonder..." Hearing they had also met with serendipity, Zhou Leng felt balanced in his heart.

"Then I'll use True Qi."

After saying this, Zhou Leng fully operated his True Qi to break free.

The power difference is more than threefold without True Qi and using True Qi.

Yet, Xiaoba's nose didn't move a bit.

Zhou Leng looked at Xiaoba again, are demigod bloodline fierce beasts really that strong?

Having no other choice, Zhou Leng used the Taiqing Sea Robe, allowing True Qi to surge and weave into an Armor of Qi across his body surface.

The Taiqing Sea Robe pushed open Xiaoba's nose, startling Xiaoba so much its eyes widened.

Huang also opened its mouth wide, incredulous.

Xiaoba has been so brave on the battlefield, its dog eyes have seen it.

Even ordinary fierce beasts at the same innate level, even those a small realm higher than Xiaoba, were crashed into confusion by Xiaoba, let alone fight, simply no match.

Xiaoba released his nose, stomped excitedly with its six legs on the ground, woofed a few times to Zhou Leng, and ran towards the tribe, leaving a long line of dust behind.

Zhou Leng and Huang played around together.

In no time, Xiaoba returned at a gallop, reached in closely and dropped five medicinal fruits with its nose.

Three of the medicinal fruits appeared ordinary, while two medicinal fruits looked quite different.

One was an insect medicinal fruit, and the other was a beast medicinal fruit.

The insect medicinal fruit's appearance was of a centipede that was thirty centimeters long, resembling a series of flattened purple cherries linked together.

The beast medicinal fruit was twenty centimeters long, shaped like a rabbit covered in tiger stripes, with skin somewhat resembling orange peel.

Ordinary medicinal fruits are hard to sense any special aura, much like common herbs.

But these two insect beast medicinal fruits emitted a subtle breath, getting close allowed one to clearly sense the dense power inherent within the fruit.

As if they could explode at any moment.

In terms of pure power, they are not worse than those in Hundred Peaks Valley, only second to the Dragon Blood Flower.

The Dragon Blood Flower is a stellar treasure, second only to the Dragon Scale Vermilion Fruit.

Having left Hundred Peaks Valley for a month, Zhou Leng had only consumed four Dragon Blood Petals, the medicinal effect too potent for continuous consumption.

These two medicinal fruits obviously have more strength than any innate Promotion Medicine Fruit from the Dragon Race, Giants, or Demons, and exceed even those of the Sea Sirens.

Zhou Leng examined them carefully and put them away.

Xiaoba swung its nose, chirping lightly, and Huang acted as an interpreter.

"Once I ascend to innate, are you asking me to join the Eight-toothed Mammoth clan and fight together, have some combat achievements, and then hold a 'Fierce Beast Ceremony' to title me as a 'Fierce Beast Knight'?"

Huang and Xiaoba nodded repeatedly.

Zhou Leng sighed, "You Eight-toothed Mammoths are too kind to me. Rest assured, once I ascend to innate, I will surely help you in battle."

Yet Xiaoba was full of guilt, feeling that the Eight-toothed Mammoths had taken great advantage of Zhou Leng.

Because an Eight-toothed Mammoth was about to ascend into a Demigod Fierce Beast, all thanks to the mysterious technique imparted by Zhou Leng.

The Eight-toothed Mammoth clan once lived near the starry altar of their ancestral land, but after losing a demigod from their clan, they could not remain in their ancestral land and had to move here.

Over the years, the Eight-toothed Mammoths were strong, but never becoming demigods, they could never return to their ancestral land.

But now, Zhou Leng had given the Eight-toothed Mammoths the power to return to their ancestral land.

Xiaoba's blood boiled, continuously howling, with Huang interpreting on the side.

"You said, once the Eight-toothed Mammoths return to their ancestral land, they'll allow me to partake in an 'Ancient Beast Inheritance', bestowing upon me the power of an Ancient Beast?"

Zhou Leng's eyes lit up.

Throughout history, humans have acquired all sorts of inheritances, whether from Dragon, Giant, Dwarf or Beastman, Demon or Sea Siren, there were even those who obtained Tree-man and Giant Insect inheritances.

But never has anyone obtained an Ancient Beast Inheritance, not even the slightly lower Fierce Beast Inheritance.

The demigods of various races have exhausted their brains, but all have failed.

The Fierce Beast world is an almost closed world, trading with them is difficult, let alone obtaining inheritance.

Zhou Leng had read about two kinds of races in the Divine Texts.

One is the Star God, the other is the Void Ancient Beast, both are top-tier starry sky bloodlines.

If one can truly obtain the Ancient Beast Inheritance, then one's Powerful Body of Wonders might be pushed to its limit.

Moreover, the Ancient Beast Inheritance might very well give oneself potential beyond a Martial Saint.

"How can we let you return to the ancestral land and obtain the Ancient Beast Inheritance?"

Xiaoba eagerly spoke, and Huang eagerly translated.

Upon hearing, Zhou Leng's excitement cooled.

"Wait for your tribe's Grandmaster to ascend to demigod, then fight all the way to the ancestral land, and finally I must battle a group of demigod fierce beast descendants and survive to succeed?"

Xiaoba nodded repeatedly; in the eyes of fierce beasts, being able to battle a group of demigod fierce beast descendants is an extremely glorious thing.

Combat is the innate mission of the Fierce Beast race.

"Hmm, surely someday." Zhou Leng thought long-term planning.

However, he was very intrigued about fighting alongside the Eight-toothed Mammoths after becoming innate.

Fighting fierce beasts is far more tempering for Martial Arts than fighting regular demons.

Zhou Leng petted Huang's dog head, saying, "Don't run around these days, tomorrow I'll go to Western Sea Martial Arts Academy, then ascend to innate, and then take you to the Martial Arts Bureau to get a Spirit Beast certificate. Then you'll be free to roam in Rucheng, just remember to stay away from people, don't scare those who fear dogs."

Huang nodded.

"There will be an intelligence test then, averaging seventy to eighty points would be fine. If there are too many perfect scores, you might get captured and sold for money. Now a Spirit Beast can fetch millions, you probably could be worth over ten million."

Huang's fur bristled, nodding repeatedly.

Zhou Leng walked into Mammoth Lake, while nourishing his body and sensing Martial Arts.

Throughout these days of the natural innate battle path, continually advancing amidst nature, his power had accumulated to its limit.

Aside from the martial arts learned later, the inner power, Overlapping Waves Palm, Mountain Charging Fist, Flying Cloud Leg, Eight Trigrams Step, and Cloud Wandering Body Technique learned since childhood, all reached Divine Communication.

The six divine arts, reaching the pinnacle.