Chapter 919 - 408: Gatekeeper! (Part 2)
Having learned from his previous lesson, the bald man immediately changed his attack strategy, intent on leaving Xu Ran with no room to retaliate.
He never wanted to experience the feeling of being turned around in defeat again.
He dared not bet whether Xu Ran could truly decipher and learn the spear technique in such a short time!
Simply changing the spear technique, he directly used the most aggressive attack method, even employing the Triple Dark Force to send Xu Ran flying.
The bald man breathed a sigh of relief because, during Xu Ran’s process of being sent flying.
The first dark force caused Xu Ran’s body to fly backward violently.
The second dark force made the injury on his palm worsen.
The third dark force, with its strong impact, pierced through Xu Ran’s flesh and went straight into his body, or else such a perfect red arc wouldn’t have appeared in mid-air.
During Xu Ran’s process of being sent flying, the bald man saw the injury on the palm becoming severe.
It must be known.
Compared to other weapons, the spear itself was huge, and Xu Ran’s iron spear was extremely heavy, weighing several hundred pounds.
To hold the iron spear steadily in one’s hand, the palm was a crucial element.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have kept attacking Xu Ran’s palm from the beginning.
At this moment, Xu Ran’s palm was bleeding profusely, and his body power, which had achieved Great Success of the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body, had been sealed, with no Innate Qi to heal the body.
Not just the palm, even the chest area pierced by the third dark force, Xu Ran had no way to heal!
One could say that the scales of victory had completely tipped in favor of the bald man.
"At this rate, passing the spear technique trial will take a long time, I..."
Suddenly.
His gaze was drawn to a shadow emerging from the dust.
This shadow was extremely small, barely a meter tall, but in its hand, it held a spear twice its height, looking out of place.
This figure, without a doubt, was Xu Ran.
Instantly.
The bald man widened his eyes, staring at Xu Ran emerging from the dust, his expression suddenly becoming strange.
"No, didn’t his chest just spurt blood? What happened now?"
It must be noted, the chest area is critically close to the heart, and with one wrong step, it could pierce the heart directly.
Once the chest is injured, without Innate Qi and Great Success of the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body’s regenerative speed, it’s impossible to stop the bleeding in such a short time.
Knowing this, the bald man was so surprised.
The bald man’s oddity was noticed by the junior sister watching the battle.
"Senior brother, what is going on with the bald man’s expression? Hasn’t Xu Ran been sent flying? And his palm and chest are injured."
"Without Innate Qi and Great Success of the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body, Xu Ran couldn’t have recovered so quickly, could he?"
"Would such a reaction to a wounded person provoke this reaction from the Gatekeeper?"
In the current situation, the bald man had firmly locked the victory, with no signs of failure.
Having such an expression now, isn’t it self-deprecating?
"No!"
The ever-observant senior brother also focused on Xu Ran’s body in the swirling dust.
"Xu Ran’s injuries seem to have healed?"
"Impossible!"
The senior brother’s words were immediately met with rebuttal from the junior sister.
"Without Innate Qi, without Great Success of the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body, plus the chest injury so close to the heart, how could it heal so quickly?"
The junior sister was confident Xu Ran couldn’t heal so quickly.
The fact that the Innate Qi and Great Success of the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body were sealed by the Nine-Layered Giant Tower was known to all.
If Xu Ran could unlock this seal, he wouldn’t have appeared in the trial in the first place.
Moreover, Xu Ran himself was just a child under two years old, with a body that hadn’t fully developed, in fact, hadn’t started developing at all.
To lift a several hundred-pound iron spear with such a fragile body was already an incredibly daunting task.
If the body could also quickly heal injuries, it would be the ultimate monster.
Moreover, the wound site was so close to the heart, usually speaking, it couldn’t recover that swiftly.
However.
The senior brother understood the junior sister’s point well.
After all, his major was in physical cultivation, providing him significant knowledge on body development and capabilities at various stages.
However.
The facts lay before his eyes.
He clearly saw in the Sword Dao.
The profuse bleeding from the palm had stopped, and there was no liquid spilling from the chest.
Moreover, Xu Ran’s silhouette showed no signs of covering the chest area.
Simply from the silhouette, Xu Ran undeniably had stopped the bleeding.
Indeed, the facts.
Just as the senior brother speculated.
"Tap—"
With steady steps, Xu Ran emerged from the dust, stepping on the ground.
Seeing the palm, once profusely bleeding, now only bore a large patch of red — traces of the earlier blood, with no new blood flowing.
Clearly, the bleeding had stopped.
Not only that.
Looking at Xu Ran’s chest, only a bright red was visible, with no liquid spilling from it.
Upon closer inspection.
It was observed.
A mere millimeter from the heart, the clothing bore an extremely tiny hole, under which lay Xu Ran’s snow-white skin!
Everything Xu Ran presented now proved that he was indeed the one who had been sent flying, palms torn, and chest spurting blood.
However.
In an instant, his body had healed.
"How is this possible?"
The bald man, seeing Xu Ran’s current state, was in utter disbelief, exclaiming aloud.
Having just walked out of the dust, Xu Ran had fully anticipated the bald man’s reaction.
"Since birth, absorbing the morning light and moonlight daily has had significant benefits!"
With just a few words, Xu Ran elucidated the reason for his quick recovery.
It must be noted.
Xu Ran’s Innate Saint’s Sacred Body wasn’t something he had since birth but was cultivated later on.
Before cultivating the Innate Saint’s Sacred Body, he had been absorbing morning light and moonlight consistently.
These two substances, it must be known, can condense Innate Qi from them.
One could say, these two energies rank only two levels below Innate Qi; in the current Origin Realm, they are extremely rare materials.
Because of this, the injury that Xu Ran suffered could heal so fast.
At the same time, Xu Ran also revealed a point.
That is, from birth, he had his own cognitive ability!
This implies that Xu Ran, from birth, was exceptionally intelligent, capable of learning various Divine Techniques and skills rapidly.
In a state of shock, upon hearing Xu Ran’s words, the bald man looked at the less than two-year-old child as though seeing a monster.
"Freak, truly a freak!"
After a moment of silence, the bald man, in a state of shock, uttered these words hesitantly.
He was the Gatekeeper, a human appearing not long after the Origin Realm was born.
During that time, the sun and moon were far more terrifying than now, and he too absorbed the morning light and moonlight among them.
Knowing well the functions of these two materials.
Though not as effective as Innate Qi in refining the body, they are just next to Innate Qi.
And the greatest advantage is that these are naturally present, requiring no competition.
Only, at the beginning of the Origin Realm’s birth, not many people noticed the naturally existing two substances.
By the time they were discovered, the released morning light and moonlight had lost much of their intensity.
Moreover, luck was needed to absorb them.