Sparring with Hongyue

"How do you feel?" Hongyue's eyes seemed to glow as she leaned closer.

Kurozawa took a deep breath, then his entire body was engulfed in flames, burning and evaporating all the residual blood on his skin.

The smell of blood was too strong; he found it a bit pungent.

Looking at Hongyue walking over, Kurozawa clenched his fists, his muscles tightening with a sound like twisting steel bars: "I feel better than ever."

The Potential Points from low-level Demons, initially, were roughly twenty to just under forty points each.

But after Kurozawa quickly killed dozens of them, it dropped to a little over ten points, and then decreased further and further, until it was the same as with ordinary people, each one only providing Kurozawa with about one point of potential.

However, because Hongyue had gathered a large number of low-level Demons, nearly a thousand of them, the amount of Potential Points Kurozawa received was quite substantial, reaching a peak of five thousand five hundred and thirteen points.

Now, it would probably take tens of thousands of human lives, or more, to provide him with an equal amount of Potential Points.

If the Potential Points he received later hadn't started shrinking significantly, he might even have accumulated over ten thousand points.

But these five thousand five hundred plus Potential Points already made Kurozawa quite satisfied.

Under normal circumstances, if he wanted to kill a thousand Demons and accumulate this many Potential Points, it would take at least a year and a half.

Because even low-level Demons with insufficient rationality know to run when faced with an invincible opponent.

Kurozawa couldn't split himself, unless he were to spend all his time hunting.

And the Power of Despair, which had been stuck at 300 points, likely due to a quantitative change leading to a qualitative change, also broke through that stubbornly unchanging 300 mark and rapidly advanced, reaching 400 points before getting stuck again.

Kurozawa had a premonition that if he wanted to go further and raise his Power of Despair above 400 points, he would probably need to harvest the despair of the top three Upper Moons, or carry out an even larger massacre.

Hongyue reached out and poked Kurozawa's tough and thick abdominal muscles, feeling the rebound force transmitted from them, and said, "Your physical attributes don't seem to have changed, but there seems to be some change again, though I can't say exactly what it is."

"I just feel like you're more dangerous."

With over five thousand five hundred Potential Points, Kurozawa used six hundred points to fully upgrade Water Breathing in order to more efficiently harvest those low-level Demons. He gained a new ability, the highest domain of Fighting Spirit that both Kokushibo and the Stone Pillar possess, the Transparent World.

In addition, Kurozawa spent over four hundred Potential Points to upgrade the Higan Suzume Eye to max level, the fourth level.

Now, under Kurozawa's skill icons, there were already two mastered skills, which looked quite pleasing.

Water Breathing (Stage 6) Water Breathing Sword Forms (Stage 5) Higan Suzume Eye (Stage 4) Sun Breathing (Stage 1)

Although Kurozawa had been practicing the Immortal Demon Body for a while, the awkward thing was that the Sun Breathing level was still in the first stage. It was very difficult for him to advance to the second stage where he could skillfully use the Breathing Technique on his own, let alone Total Concentration Sun Breathing or even Total Concentration: Constant.

Both Water Breathing and Higan Suzume Eye had turned gray, indicating they had reached their peak and could not be upgraded further.

However, what surprised Kurozawa somewhat was that the amount of Potential Points needed to max out Water Breathing Sword Forms was terrifyingly high, even comparable to the three thousand points for a perfect Immortal Demon Body, requiring roughly three thousand two hundred plus points.

Kurozawa speculated whether Yoriichi Tsugikuni's Sword Form level, where every blow could sever anything, was the perfected Sun Breathing Sword Form? However, because his current remaining Potential Points were over four thousand four hundred, he could only choose between perfecting the Immortal Demon Body and maxing out Water Breathing Sword Forms. Both were very tempting, and Kurozawa hadn't made a decision yet.

And the fourth stage Higan Suzume Eye could amplify Kurozawa's dynamic vision to the extreme.

He could clearly see the movement trajectory of every single dust particle in the air, and the texture and veins of leaves falling in the dark night. Combined with the ultra-precise Fighting Spirit Perception, it could be said that within a three-meter radius of himself, Kurozawa was invincible. Even attacks as dense as a torrential downpour, he could easily dodge.

Furthermore, if an enemy possessed the Transparent World and Kurozawa also possessed it, in a standoff where Fighting Spirit Perception was effectively nullified for both, then the Higan Suzume Eye, which was like a weakened but distinctly different dynamic vision ability compared to Fighting Spirit Perception, could come into play.

However, the Higan Suzume Eye's boost to Kurozawa's attributes in other aspects was not strong.

This kind of explosive ability was not like using Total Concentration Breathing to mobilize muscles and breath throughout the body, which could provide a fixed percentage increase and could be used almost for a lifetime.

The Higan Suzume Eye seemed to add a significant attribute value when overall attributes were low, but its effect weakened significantly when overall attributes were high. For ordinary swordsmen, the Higan Suzume Eye was naturally more cost-effective.

But for a muscular monster like Kurozawa, it was only moderately satisfying.

After all, it wasn't Kurozawa's own Secret Technique. Even if he learned it with Potential Points, it could only be treated as an ordinary ability.

Lowering his head to look at Hongyue's fair cheeks, Kurozawa suddenly said, "Hongyue, we haven't formally fought yet."

"Want to spar? Just so I can try out these new abilities."

He raised his head, and his black eyes burned with high fighting spirit.

However, Kurozawa clearly knew that he was not Hongyue's opponent yet, because he still had over four thousand Potential Points unused.

But his hands were itching for a fight, and he still wanted to see Hongyue's true strength and see where the gap was.

Hongyue was slightly startled, then said seriously, "Okay."

She clenched her small, fair fists, then her ruby-like eyes suddenly transformed, becoming blood-red vertical pupils full of wildness and danger in just one second.

When Hongyue entered combat state, her temperament seemed infinitely close to her original form, Muzan Kibutsuji, radiating a dangerous and terrifying aura.

Those scarlet eyes in the dense night were like two blood moons, cold and devoid of emotion.

Kurozawa's heart tightened.

Hongyue had always faced him with a gentle and lovely demeanor, but if Kurozawa truly treated her as an ordinary woman, that would be a huge mistake.

Seeing Hongyue in this state, Kurozawa felt a slight sense of unease.

"Kurozawa, actually, I've always looked forward to fighting you, hoping you could suppress me head-on." At this moment, Hongyue's voice seemed to be mixed with a lot of ice shards, her tone sounding bone-chillingly cold and indifferent to everything.

Kurozawa gradually adapted, and suddenly felt a strange sensation, finding such a Hongyue radiant with a dazzling brilliance, and he slowly became excited.

Hardened, my fists hardened.

On the other side, Hongyue watched Kurozawa silently, her flesh and blood simultaneously beginning to mutate. Layers of ruby-like cuticles extended, overlapping repeatedly, quickly covering her entire body, even on her face there was a layer of blood-red mask, only revealing a pair of scarlet vertical pupils.

At the same time, scarlet blood-colored reverse blades condensed or became sharply pointed at her fingertips, elbows, knees, the outside of her wrists, and shoulder blades.

After transforming into this impenetrable blood-red armor, her body also grew taller, reaching a height of nearly eight feet, or about 2.7 meters, like a small female giant, but not bloated or ugly.

The armor was actually more like biological scales clinging tightly to her skin, appearing slender and agile, giving off an extremely strong sense of oppression.

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