Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 158: Annoying Battle

The spirit beasts were still maintaining distance from him, their group consisting of beasts ranging from the late stage of the Soul Sea realm to the peak stage of the Soul Sea realm. Only twenty had entered for the time being.

Looks like they are planning to minimize the effect of the Nihility Sphere and extend this fight.

Jiang Hao didn’t attacked them, he truly wanted to see how dangerous it could get when he would be handling all those lightning strikes.

The lightning roared again, and this time two flashed one after another. He still wasn’t able to react to it, the moment he felt danger he got hit.

Arrays don’t have consciousness. They just attack according to their specifications, nothing else. He could only dodge by seeing the attack itself, but it wasn’t possible to dodge a lightning strike from just four hundred meters away. Not at his current level of cultivation, at least.

So, the two lightning bolts also hit their marks, one struck him directly on his head, while the other hit his left hand.

His hair was burnt along with a large scar forming on his face. His hand was charred too. Although he looked to be in bad shape, it wasn’t as severe as others might think upon seeing him. What was truly affected was only the surface of his skin. No doubt the pain was numbing, but he could still move and attack in this condition.

He judged the strength of the lightning to be at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. His passive qi barrier wasn’t strong enough to offset attacks of this level. So if he took a direct hit, he would undoubtedly receive wounds.

The intensity of the lightning increased, eventually reaching three strikes, four strikes, and then five strikes...

When it reached ten strikes, the beasts finally made their move.

After the tenth strike, Jiang Hao was unrecognizable. He looked like a mortal who had been burned alive.

Since the spirit beasts surrounding him attacked at that point, it was clear that ten strikes was the limit of this array. It wasn’t bad, actually. He really felt numbness all over his body. His movement was affected by it. His wounds were healing, no doubt, but just as he healed, he would always be struck again after sometime.

The first beast to reach him was a peak-stage snake. It twisted its tail and attacked Jiang Hao with it.

The only thing that the lightning hadn’t managed to damage yet were his eyes. He could still see everything clearly. Even if that weren’t the case, he would still be able to sense the snake as it attacked him.

His instincts worked perfectly against it.

His right hand was still in the process of healing, but he didn’t care and punched the incoming tail with it.

Piakkkkk!

"Hiiiiisssssss!.."

The place where Jiang Hao struck with his full strength caved in. The tail was nearly broken in two, limping aside like a shattered twig.

The snake tried to retreat, but how could Jiang Hao allow it? He grabbed the tail and yanked it forcefully, completely separating it from the body. After that, he grabbed the body of the snake and hurled it toward the incoming beast in front of him.

The moment he did that, another bolt of lightning struck him, and thus began another cycle of ten strikes. But it didn’t matter. He was already used to it, so he could endure it. Only the lower half of his garments remained, while the upper half was soaked in burnt blood with only few strips left.

Half of it was from this snake just now.

Just as he finished taking ten lightning strikes, a bull rammed into him from behind. He had known it was coming, but since he was slightly numb and slowed from the strikes, he couldn’t dodge it.

He flew straight toward the spirit beasts those who had been stopped by the snake’s upper half. The snake wasn’t dead yet, and when it saw Jiang Hao flying toward it, it opened its mouth to swallow him.

Jiang Hao’s numbness was already gone, and as he neared the mouth, he flew slightly upward to dodge it. While passing above the snake’s head, he formed a Nihility Sphere with a thought and hurled it toward the snake’s head. In an instant, a ten-meter-wide hole appeared in the snake’s skull, killing it thoroughly.

The moment the snake died, another beast appeared inside the array immediately. As expected, they planned to keep doing this.

"What is this guy made of? How come he isn’t feeling any pain? Not even a sound has come from his mouth through all this! Wasn’t it said that every lightning strike is immensely painful?"

Shao Xuan couldn’t believe his eyes as he watched Jiang Hao take lightning strikes without the slightest change in expression.

Zi Rui himself was shocked by the scene. He knew that crimson lightning wasn’t ordinary lightning, it was designed to torture the opponent while killing them. Yet Jiang Hao had endured ten of these strikes multiple times without uttering a single word so far.

Not to mention he could still fight, as if he didn’t even care about the lightning strikes.

"His will is commendable, Patron," Jia Yi sighed. A heaven-gifted genius was being targeted wrongfully. He truly didn’t know what to say. How good it would have been for all of humankind if Jiang Hao and Ming Yue had never been wronged, and instead, everyone had helped them grow stronger.

Then perhaps humans wouldn’t be occupying only ten percent of this entire world.

"We have to make a decision now. Sending beasts slowly won’t achieve much. Don’t forget he possesses inexhaustible qi and blood qi. He will never tire, and those beasts will only die.

The only option we have is to not let him heal at all. For that, we must attack him while he is being struck by the crimson lightning.

Our previous plan didn’t account for his insane regenerative abilities, so this is the only valid option now."*

Shao Xuan nodded and said, "Fine then. Let’s send fifty spirit beasts now. He’s already getting tossed around by twenty. I doubt he’ll last much longer. The only concern is whether Ming Yue will appear or not."

Zi Rui nodded and made preparations.

Jiang Hao had just managed to barely dodge a water pillar, which was created by a bloodline ability, while simultaneously sending a Nihility Sphere toward the spirit beast who had used it.

Every Nihility Sphere meant one death. Dodging them was impossible due to his superior spiritual strength.

His attention wasn’t only on this battle but also on the fact that more and more spirit beasts were entering. The area of the array was only four hundred meters. Each beast in the Soul Sea realm ranged from three or four meters to about ten meters.

So, the more they entered, the more cramped the space became. But this wasn’t something bad for him. In fact, it would work in his favor, his single Nihility Spheres could now easily strike more than one beast.

Although he wasn’t particularly keen on killing them quickly.

He kept moving, getting hit by lightning strikes and bloodline attacks. The bloodline abilities didn’t do much damage to his body, but they were still bothersome. Not to mention he was getting tossed around whenever he got hit.

His situation really looked quite bleak, at least from the perspective of other cultivators who didn’t know about him.

For Ming Yue, this was nothing. They had been tossed around far more brutally by Huan Caiyi during training. Minor skin and muscle injuries were nothing compared to the bone-breaking injuries they had suffered then.

Jiang Hao had just been struck by a fireball launched by a hound. He was flying through the air when the lightning strikes resumed again. But this time, the beasts didn’t wait for the lightning strikes to finish. Multiple bloodline abilities came toward him. Dodging them was impossible.

He got hit by metal spikes, fireballs, boulders, water spheres, and many more. His body, already battered by lightning, took more damage than usual from these abilities.

The combined impact was enough to hurl him to the ground. It wasn’t just from the lightning strikes, which not only electrocuted him but struck with the force of metal rods, but also a boulder that hit him from above.

When he crashed into the ground, a small depression appeared, and he went at least ten meters into the earth.

He sighed. Now he was considering to increase the number of Nihility Spheres to kill more, the battle was beginning to feel less like a challenge and more like an annoyance.

He saw a metal spike coming toward him. This time it was larger than the ones that had struck him earlier.

Although these spikes had managed to hit him, they had never truly pierced through, not because of some supreme defense, but because they were simply too weak to contend with the refinement of his physique.

Oh well, it’s time to get a little serious. He flew upward, and five Nihility Spheres began floating beside him, one of them targeting the spike head-on.

There was no suspense for that part, the spike vanished into thin air while he rose from the hole, flying into the sky. When he saw that nearly fifty more bloodline abilities were coming toward him, he created five additional Nihility Spheres alongside those already floating with him.

The best part of the Nihility Sphere right now was that it didn’t need to make contact with something to detonate. He could detonate it with his spiritual qi alone.