Swoosh—
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It was none other than that mysterious old monk.
At this moment, the old monk gazed up at the sky, and in his deep eyes, a look of shock had surfaced.
If anyone else had looked at the sky right now, they would not have noticed anything unusual, but in the old monk's eyes, he could perceive a scene — a sight that was enough to leave him awestruck and even alarmed.
"This appears to be the legendary Divine Punishment descending."
"However, nine-tenths of it still lingers in the heavens. Such a terrifying force, and yet only one-tenth has actually fallen."
"Is it because only one-tenth of the power descended that the might of the Divine Punishment failed to manifest?"
"How did he accomplish this? Not only did he cultivate the legendary Divine Punishment Mystic Art, but he was actually able to weaken the power of the legendary Divine Punishment itself — using only one-tenth of its might to punish the cultivator?"
The old monk suddenly shifted his gaze toward the direction Chu Feng had departed, and he remained rooted in place for a long while, unwilling to look away, lost deep in thought.
"Just who is this boy?"
"Chu Feng — could he be a member of the
If anyone who knew this old monk had seen his eyes at this moment and witnessed such an expression, they would surely have found it inconceivable.
After all, very few people could ever elicit such a look from him — let alone a young man.
……
"Father and Grandfather truly are remarkable. If not for the experience they imparted to me, breaking through would have been harder than ascending to the heavens."
Chu Feng concealed himself within the void, hurtling through the air in the direction of the Tang family. Though he had already become a second-level half-step Ancestral expert, his heart still trembled with lingering fear.
Because while this breakthrough had appeared ordinary on the surface, it was in truth far from it. Chu Feng had not simply broken through the barrier between the first and second levels of half-step Ancestral — he had also undergone the tempering of the Divine Punishment Mystic Art.
It was just that this first tempering had not produced the heaven-shaking, earth-shattering spectacle spoken of in the legends. One could even say that it had not caused the slightest disturbance at all.
But even so, it still left Chu Feng with the sensation of having narrowly escaped death.
The moment he had broken through that barrier, before his cultivation fully advanced, he had felt an extraordinarily terrifying force manifest in the sky — and lock onto him. That was the power of the Divine Punishment.
Chu Feng believed that if all of the Divine Punishment's power had descended, he would most likely have been reduced to ash and dust, with no chance of survival whatsoever.
But the full force of the Divine Punishment had not fallen. In the end, less than one-tenth had descended.
And the reason for this was thanks in large part to his father,
When his father had passed the Divine Punishment Mystic Art down to Chu Feng, he had also taught him the methods for withstanding the Divine Punishment.
After all, the power of the Divine Punishment was capable of destroying heaven and earth, and the higher the realm one attempted to break through to, the more terrifying it became. While extraordinary willpower was required, attempting to withstand it by brute force alone was simply impossible.
Therefore, to resist the power of the Divine Punishment, one needed a proper method. The simplest approach was to train oneself — to gradually adapt to the power of the Divine Punishment by enduring its tempering.
Advancing step by step in this manner was the only way to endure even greater punishment.
But the Divine Punishment was, after all, incomparably terrifying. If one did nothing to prepare and attempted to receive its full power head-on, forget about adapting — one would likely be blasted to death on the spot.