Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 159: Human Nodes

When those attacks reached near him, he made a circle out of five nihility spheres around him and detonated them the moment the abilities were about to reach the edge of that circle.

All those abilities collided with the ring of nihility spheres and vanished together. This gave him enough time to recover to his peak with no injuries.

But now, even the lower half of his remaining cloth was damaged.

Right now, there were fifty spirit beasts in the circle, so he started creating nihility spheres one by one. Although he could create them instantly, the passive qi absorption wouldn’t be able to keep up with it.

And given those lightning strikes, he needed to have some qi for regeneration.

The cultivators watching him were stunned.

They were already shocked seeing him create ten of those deadly black spheres like it was nothing, and now he was creating them like it was merely a matter of thought.

The stronger the ability, the harder it was to use, and given how destructive and deadly those black spheres were, it was definitely not something that should be created with mere thought.

The beasts didn’t attack Jiang Hao. They felt dread looking at those black spheres around him, and unlike Jiang Hao, they were already on the verge of exhausting their blood qi. They had been attacking him for quite a long time already.

Only those who had arrived recently were in good condition, but even they had orders from their masters to wait. Jiang Hao was fully recovered, unless those lightning strikes harmed him again.

Jiang Hao was still creating nihility spheres when a new barrage of thunder strikes occurred. He had expected this, so he didn’t stop making nihility spheres. In fact, if he wanted, he could constantly detonate nihility spheres to block those attacks, but he decided against it.

His speed of creating nihility spheres didn’t decrease, and they kept increasing at a constant pace.

The eyelids of cultivators from the three sects twitched as they watched him create nihility spheres while being struck by utterly painful lightning strikes.

His ability to create those nihility spheres meant that he wasn’t even troubled by this level of pain.

Zi Rui looked at the increasing number of nihility spheres in trepidation. If Jiang Hao wished, then with this many nihility spheres, he could easily level the whole four hundred meters of the array, killing all the beasts and dismantling the array completely.

The nihility spheres had already reached fifty in total, and Jiang Hao was also healed perfectly.

He looked toward the beasts calmly. Looking at him surrounded by fifty of those nightmarish attacks was terrifying, to say the least.

Although the spirit beasts wanted to flee the array, they were stopped by their masters.

Shao Xuan looked at Jiang Hao and said through spirit sense to Zi Rui and Jia Yi.

"Looks like Ming Yue isn’t coming. We have to start. Killing even one of them would be quite a huge success."

Zi Rui sighed inwardly. Looks like they had no choice but to proceed with that.

"Once he uses these spheres, we will immediately start."

This was the reason they didn’t allow the spirit beasts to retreat. They wanted Jiang Hao to use these attacks so he wouldn’t have anything left to protect himself from their next move.

Jiang Hao didn’t know what they were plotting, but seeing that the beasts didn’t leave the array meant they were definitely up to something.

Because he could easily kill these beasts right now, and if they wanted to preserve their strength, then they would have recalled their spirit beasts.

And waited for him to remove the nihility spheres, because controlling so many nihility spheres would definitely put his spiritual qi under strain.

It was the truth. He was already on the edge, controlling fifty nihility spheres. It was tough for him too; in a few more seconds, he would be out of spiritual qi.

Spiritual qi was different. It depended on his spiritual essence, and unlike his spirit qi, his spiritual essence didn’t replenish by absorbing nature qi.

He had a lot of it, equal to a Nascent Soul cultivator, but even then, maintaining this many nihility spheres was too much for it.

Oh well, since they wanted to sacrifice these spirit beasts, who was he to deny them? In fact, he really wanted to see what they were planning.

The moment he decided to kill the spirit beasts, the nihility spheres surrounding him started moving. They were slow initially before immediately becoming too fast to even dodge.

All fifty of them landed on their desired targets. Running was impossible, using abilities to block was impossible, so the result was something everyone had already imagined.

Some spirit beasts vanished completely; others had more than half their bodies vanish. It all depended on where the nihility spheres had struck them.

"Now."

Zi Rui screamed, and about a hundred cultivators from all three sects entered the array immediately. They looked at Jiang Hao in fear, but they still began circling him.

The new cycle of lightning strikes was coming too. It might give them a little time to take their positions, but knowing that Jiang Hao could still attack during the strikes was a bit dangerous for them.

They might die, but they had to take this risk.

Jiang Hao took the thunder strikes head-on again and watched as these cultivators took position on the edges of the array.

Ming Yue’s eyes widened a little, but she didn’t remind Jiang Hao, as she knew that Jiang Hao must have already guessed it.

These cultivators weren’t here to attack Jiang Hao, but to act as additional nodes for the array. Human cultivators could act as nodes, all they had to do was provide spirit power inside the existing array nodes.

Jiang Hao looked above to see the changes, and as expected, the clouds had thickened and darkened. The thunder veins had increased.

Just as he thought that this might be it, a hundred more cultivators entered, along with spirit beasts, and they too took specific positions and started releasing their qi.

They hadn’t entered earlier because they were stronger than the previous hundred cultivators, and if Jiang Hao had attacked earlier to kill those first hundred, then they would have discarded this plan. But it seemed Jiang Hao really didn’t take them seriously.

Well, it was good for them. Now they had to make this plan work. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

They had planned to let Jiang Hao believe that ten was the maximum number of lightning strikes before, but that was false. They had used only half the power of the array. There were more nodes in the array that they had not previously activated.

Now, with two hundred new human nodes and the remaining hidden nodes, this array could strike Jiang Hao twice simultaneously and constantly without pause.

Let’s see if he can heal now.

"Oh Jiang Hao, you took us too lightly. You think we wouldn’t have any tricks up our sleeves. We might not have known about your regeneration, but we still prepared more than what we had expected your abilities to be.

And now it looks like we were right in our assumption. You really are an unkillable monster, but let’s see if you survive this.

Killing you two is a very important mission for us. It is unfortunate that Ming Yue didn’t enter the array, or we would have completed our mission perfectly.

But everything can’t go your way, so we will just kill her later. Don’t worry, she will join you shortly after this inheritance closes."

Ming Yue didn’t respond to Zi Rui, as she was listening to Jiang Hao’s spirit sense voice.

"Senior Sister, no matter what happens, do not come inside the array."

"Junior Brother, what are you planning? Why let these bastards complete their plan so easily?"

"Senior Sister, if I had done that, then those other hundred wouldn’t have even entered the array. Isn’t it better this way? Let them feel at ease, they might all leave that safe pathway and enter the array at some point."

"Whatever Junior Brother, but remember, if the situation truly turns grim for you, then you had better teleport away, or I will definitely come in."

Jiang Hao didn’t respond, but he understood that she meant it. He might not be able to change her mind.

Forget it, it might not even reach that point anyway.

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Two lightning bolts streaked toward him like intertwining snakes.

They struck directly at his head. He was flying in the air, but the strength of the two lightning strikes hitting him together was enough to push him to the ground. He didn’t resist and let himself be buried into the earth.

The lightning continued falling and kept pushing him deeper. A pit formed where he landed.

This time, since he truly wasn’t getting a chance to heal, his wounds wouldn’t close. His upper body was almost burnt, but even then, the lightning wasn’t able to penetrate too deeply into his body, and since he was refining the two lightnings, he was gaining more qi.

He activated his spirit sense and looked outside. With his spirit sense, he could easily detect the cultivators outside the array.

The main cultivators were still outside, but some others had already started moving inside.

They all flew to a certain height and began attacking the pit from above.

He had expected this much, but he didn’t care about their attacks.

In the end, they were just extra qi for him.

"Junior Brother, are you fine?"

He heard the slightly tense voice of Ming Yue through spirit sense.

"What could possibly happen to me, Senior Sister?"

"Then tell me when you’re dead, hmph."

Jiang Hao was tongue-tied.