Medical Sage

In the dim underground cavern, the massive body of the Snake Viper, drenched in blood, tightly barricaded the entrance. An overwhelming stench and the potent smell of blood permeated the air. Its eyes fixated on Chen Fei, creating an atmosphere of spine-chilling dread that slowly rose within the cavern.

Indeed, the Snake Viper’s power was terrifying. Merely by being on the cavern’s dry land, it already exerted a pressure on Chen Fei no weaker than what he had felt from Jack the Blade. The implications of this were self-evident.

If this beast were in its home territory, the underground river, even Chen Fei might be forced to turn tail and flee pathetically. The environmental amplification was simply too overwhelming. It was no wonder that Elder Ming Daocuan had been driven out by it in the past.

However, even though the aquatic Snake Viper had ’come ashore’ onto the land of this underwater cavern, making the situation troublesome, Chen Fei was still confident he could resolve it. After all, Jack the Blade had fallen at his hand. The Snake Viper was not much stronger than the former, so there was no way he couldn’t take it down.

At this thought, a faint glint of light and ferocity flitted across his pitch-black, glass-like eyes. He then raised his hands and held them flat in front of him. After a brief silence, a scorching flame suddenly surged forth, its temperature frighteningly high. This thing was terrifying, for it was the very source of the thirteen strands of Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire within him—the purest essence of his blade’s boundless power.

PFFT!

While this dreadful thing hovered over his left hand, a milky-white light began to burn slowly on his right.

CRACKLE. POP.

Chen Fei awkwardly tightened his grip with both hands, and the sound of cracking joints immediately followed. The boiling hot source of the Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire and the gently burning milky-white light began to churn, unleashing a ferocious energy.

HISS... HISS...

The Snake Viper’s gaping maw suddenly began to hiss with unease. When the source of the Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire and the milky-white light appeared, its blood-red, bell-sized eyes suddenly contracted. A shockingly humanlike expression of terror and intense anxiety surfaced in its fierce, beastly eyes. It sensed danger—the risk of severe injury, even death.

HISS... HISS...

Its mood grew even more agitated. Its massive body writhed madly, dragging long, deep marks across the ground and destroying many rocks in its frenzy. If its intelligence had been higher, enough to communicate with humans, it might have been unable to resist screeching in fury like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, *Impossible, how could this be…*

So agitated. As the orchestrator of this scene, Chen Fei stood his ground, his dark, glass-like eyes staring intently at the two powers in his palms. One was the source of the Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire, the other was the source of Spiritual Energy from the ”Scripture of Meditation.” At such a close distance, he could feel the terrifying power contained within these two forces even more clearly.

Perhaps I can try something. While in this state, Chen Fei stared at his hands and suddenly smiled, his expression somewhat eerie and hair-raising. It seemed he had just thought of something ’fun’ to experiment with. Immediately, his hands began to move...

His gaze focused intently on the two completely different, restless energies in his palms. His eyelids twitched, his mouth curled into a grimace, and then, incredibly, he began to slowly bring them together.

Damn it, is this kid a lunatic? What the fuck... Upon witnessing this, even the figure who had remained hidden in the darkness all along couldn’t help but pale, cursing inwardly. He hastily retreated a good distance, wanting to get away from this dangerous place. In his view, this was pure madness.

However, just as the hidden observer chose to retreat, Chen Fei’s eyelids flickered.

What was that just now... He seemed to have sensed something but couldn’t be sure. Seeing this, the hidden figure’s expression changed suddenly once more. Using every trick he knew, he concealed himself completely within the darkness.

HISS!

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

At that moment, the Snake Viper, as if unable to bear the intense pressure any longer, let out a deafening hiss—a shriek that could pierce eardrums. Its massive body, like a dark stone mountain, charged at Chen Fei, carrying with it a heavy, crushing wind and immense pressure, cracking the ground in its path.

This beast really doesn’t want to give me any time. A bitter smile touched Chen Fei’s lips. His actions were experimental and required time, but now...

Fine, if you won’t give me time, then let’s just do it this way. I’d love to see if this thing, should it succeed, will blow you to smithereens! He grinned again, his expression unnerving. Clenching his teeth, he threw caution to the wind and forced the two energies together.

BOOM!

PFFT! PFFT!

An aura that stirred unease in the depths of one’s soul began to rise. From the now-fused, tumultuous mass of fiery red and milky white, strands of scarlet and milky-white electric arcs, like lightning snakes, burst out with a shocking violence that made one’s scalp tingle. It was so astonishingly violent that in an instant, Chen Fei’s palms were covered in bloody cuts, his flesh already scorched.

Damn it... Chen Fei muttered, gritting his teeth. Yet, the smile gradually spreading across his face proved that he was, in fact, incredibly pleased.

This had started as a flash of inspiration, an almost neurotic idea. Considering the Meditation Sutra was his main cultivation technique and the Sanyang Sword Manual was his auxiliary one in the Qi Refining Realm, he thought that fusing them might produce some unexpected chemical reaction.

And now... he had actually succeeded.

Enduring the sharp pain in his hands, his pitch-black, glass-like eyes flickered with a restless excitement.

Both of these energies were extraordinary. Not only were they his trump cards, but either one was powerful enough to stand on its own. Yet now, as if by a stroke of fate, he had managed to mix these two things together.

Just how terrifying, how mighty this new creation was, even he himself could hardly imagine.

Damn it! He actually succeeded? Or was this a technique he could perform all along? In the darkness, the person lurking in the gloomy corner stared intently at Chen Fei, his gaze fixed on him as if he were a madman. Within his own realm of knowledge and understanding, he simply could not imagine how two completely different powers could be so casually mashed together. Was this some kind of fucking joke?

Wouldn’t it go out of control? Wouldn’t it explode? How the hell was this possible!?

However, he could not possibly know that the ”Scripture of Meditation” Chen Fei practiced was one of the supreme Immortal Sect Techniques in the Cultivation World. It was renowned for being as all-encompassing as the ocean and as unshakable as a mountain, hailed as the power least likely to go out of control. So, although Chen Fei’s actions seemed bizarre and even frightening, he had, by a fluke, touched upon a core aspect of the ”Scripture of Meditation.”

Going out of control? That was simply not going to happen.

The violent force, swirling with the scorching Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire and the milky-white Spiritual Energy of the Meditation Sutra, slowly transformed in Chen Fei’s palm. It became a blazing, dazzling flame lamp where scarlet red mingled with milky-white. A suffocating aura erupted from it, filled with a terrifying might that made one’s pupils shrink.

Did it work?

The moment the dazzling, multicolored flame lamp solidified, Chen Fei’s eyes and body couldn’t help but tremble. A strange expression surfaced on his face. It seems I’ve inexplicably cobbled together something powerful... As he spoke, the excited smile on his face grew ever wider.

Then, his pitch-black, glass-like eyes locked firmly onto the Snake Viper’s massive body. With a slight curve of his lips, he flicked his wrist, and the fearsome object in his hand shot out.

”Go. *True Red Flame Lamp*.”

The terrifying object cut through the air, leaving a brilliant trail of intermingling scarlet and milky-white light. Then, as fast as lightning, it appeared directly above the Snake Viper’s head. As the giant beast’s bell-like crimson eyes contracted sharply in terror, the flame lamp suddenly expanded and then ferociously plummeted down.

Instantly, an uncontrollably terrifying explosion thundered violently through the underground cavern.

BOOM!

Formidable power erupted like a volcano. The scalding Sword Qi of Sanyang True Fire, sharp as a blade, clung to the seemingly pure, milky-white Spiritual Energy of the Meditation Sutra as it violently burst apart. Ripples and shockwaves radiated outwards, like the mushroom cloud from a missile, instantly turning the surrounding air scorching hot.

Even the underground cavern itself seemed unable to hold up, and in the blink of an eye, it began to collapse with a deafening rumble.

Countless stones turned into rubble. The space within the cavern was scoured clean for a moment, only to be swiftly buried by falling rock from above. The scene descended into utter chaos, and in the midst of it all, Chen Fei vanished.