Infinite Fighting

Chapter 75: Chapter 66: Wind God Ruins Realm

Ever since Zhang Ji had come to this world, he had never craved an indestructible phone as much as he did right now.

He could barely see where he was going in the sandstorm.

He had no idea where he’d ended up.

Once again, he was intimately familiar with the pain of having no navigation.

Three times!!

’The first time was when I left the Eastern Extreme Country.’

’I ended up in New Fuerlos.’

’The second time, I was escaping from Falin and tried to get to the Roman Country, but I ended up in this desert.’

’This is the third.’

’Though, on second thought, an indestructible phone would be pretty hard to come by.’

’But a durable Spatial Artifact to hold a phone... that might be possible.’

’In the later game versions, after the transmigrators appeared, there were all sorts of things like Storage Rings, Qiankun Bags, item caskets, and Space Boxes... all of which could expand your inventory slots.’

’In the early versions, though, they were a bit harder to find.’

’But I think the housing system was patched into one of the earliest versions.’

’What was it called again? The Portable Ruins Realm?’

’As long as you got a Ruins Realm Core from a Ruins Realm dungeon, you’d acquire your own upgradable home space.’

’In the version I played, I remember the easiest unowned Ruins Realm Core to get was on an island called [Buci Island].’

’After landing on the island and solving a puzzle, you could just take the Ruins Realm Core from the ruins there.’

’But I didn’t see the name [Buci Island] on the world map.’

’I wonder if the name was changed later on.’

Lost in his wandering thoughts, he didn’t know how much time had passed before the storm finally subsided.

Zhang Ji emerged from the sand, shaking his head violently to fling off a cascade of sand grains.

Luckily, he had used his Yuan Qi to protect his ears and nostrils; otherwise, his head would probably be full of sand by now.

Night had fallen.

Thanks to the lack of clouds in the desert, the night sky was crystal clear.

The constellations Zhang Ji had seen countless times in the game now appeared before his eyes.

Familiar, yet somehow strange.

With limited time during the night, Zhang Ji didn’t delay. He immediately activated his Spirit Crane Stance and began sprinting toward his destination at full speed.

At his current level, he could run at over 300 kilometers per hour at full speed, and maintaining it for a good half hour wasn’t difficult.

Although he was still a far cry from some of the [B+] and [A]-rank fighters who could move at supersonic speeds as a matter of course, this was already quite astonishing.

With this kind of mobility, as long as he didn’t do anything suicidal, he could charge in and out of a typical battlefield seven times over.

In ancient times, taking an enemy general’s head from amidst a ten-thousand-strong army would be child’s play for him.

In the modern era, as long as he didn’t run into any over-the-top war machines, carrying out an assassination would be just as easy.

He wouldn’t even need to be sneaky; he could just brazenly run over, kill his target, and then brazenly leave.

Of course, Zhang Ji was a special case. He was already somewhere above C-rank but below B-rank.

An ordinary Grandmaster would be considered incredibly impressive if they could run at over a hundred kilometers per hour.

A [C+]-rank Grandmaster specializing in leg techniques might be able to burst to his speed for a short time, but they probably wouldn’t last more than a minute.

The Zenar Desert was, to put it simply, enormous.

Zhang Ji had thought half an hour of sprinting would get him there, but he still hadn’t seen the Ruins Realm marker from his memory.

’Forget it, I’ll rest for a bit!’

Zhang Ji conserved some of his Yuan Qi, slowed down, and came to a stop. He then concentrated his spirit slightly; the faint water vapor in the air was mobilized, Gathering into the shape of a hand that lifted the Moonlight Cup high above his head.

A great deal of moonlight was absorbed by the Moonlight Cup, accumulating the essence of the moon within it.

The fact that there were no clouds to block the moon here was something Zhang Ji quite liked.

After more than an hour, Zhang Ji drank about half a cup of the moon essence, then extracted some Yuan Qi from it before continuing on his way.

He estimated that, with all the stopping and starting, he had covered over five hundred kilometers.

Zhang Ji was starting to suspect he had gone the wrong way, or that his memory of the game from his past life was faulty.

But just then, he felt a light breeze.

This breeze was different.

It wasn’t a natural wind.

Zhang Ji held out his hand, felt it carefully, and began to move in the direction of the wind.

Before long, a massive sculpture appeared before him.

How massive was it?

It was a gigantic divine statue, over five hundred meters tall.

The statue depicted a beautiful young woman with a gentle smile, her light gauze robes billowing in an unseen wind.

The legendary wind god, Fudoli Zenar.

According to player research, her power at its peak should have reached the [B+] rank.

She also had a poignant love story.

Basically, the sun god Dela concealed his identity and fell in love with her. Fudoli even became pregnant with his child, but she later discovered that Dela was the enemy who had conquered her homeland.

Unable to accept this, she came into conflict with Dela, and after a period of torment, they went their separate ways.

In a one-kilometer radius around the statue, there was no sand, only a vast, flat plain.

Sand piled up around the perimeter but never blew in, leaving the wind god unburied.

This was because of the Domain formed by the wind god statue, which also served as the entrance to the Wind God’s Ruins Realm.

Zhang Ji approached the statue step by step.

The entrance to this Ruins Realm was at the foot of the wind god statue.

However, before entering the Ruins Realm, he had one more trial to pass.

The base of the wind god statue was currently covered by a massive nest made of sand and mud.

Zhang Ji could feel a powerful life force emanating faintly from within.

’Time to ask for directions!’

Zhang Ji raised his palm, unleashing a fist-sized, dragon-shaped blast of Yuan Qi.

ROAR!

BOOM!

The Yuan Qi blast destroyed the nest and startled the creature inside.

A black sand scorpion, standing over three meters tall and more than ten meters long including its tail, appeared before Zhang Ji.

It raised its two large pincers, its segmented abdominal legs scuttling rapidly as it charged toward Zhang Ji like a large truck.

"It’s even more impressive than it looked in the game!" Zhang Ji said, raising an eyebrow.

SWOOSH!

A pincer snapped at him, but Zhang Ji had already dodged with a fluid movement, quickly getting underneath the giant scorpion.

He leaped and swiped his claw; a flash of blue light later, one of the giant scorpion’s segmented legs was severed.

HISSSSS!

SWOOSH!

Zhang Ji dodged the attack as if taking a leisurely stroll, and with another swipe of his claw, he severed another of its legs.

The large scorpion, reeling from the pain, hissed incessantly. After retreating some distance, it jabbed its tail stinger forward violently.

THWACK!

The platform right beside Zhang Ji was pierced through.

Seizing the opportunity, Zhang Ji swiped his claw, the blue Yuan Qi glinting in the night.

SLICE!

The scorpion’s tail was severed.

HISSSSSS!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The giant scorpion was clearly in extreme pain, thrashing about with wild attacks, but none of them landed on Zhang Ji.

’Although its official rating is [C].’

’I feel like, in terms of stats, it could be compared to some [C+]-rank fighters.’

’Unfortunately for the scorpion, it was facing a C-ranker like me who’s a bit beyond the standard specs.’

’A complete curb-stomp. No pressure at all.’

In a short while, Zhang Ji had dismantled all the legs on the scorpion’s abdomen and severed both its large pincers with his Leopard Claw. Before him, it was now completely defenseless.

Only then did Zhang Ji strike its head with his palm, ending its life.

It wasn’t that Zhang Ji insisted on taking it apart piece by piece; the main reason was that this creature had no real weak points.

’It was the same in the game.’

’Even if its head was smashed, its body could still move.’

’You had to dismantle its abdominal legs, tail stinger, and both pincers first. Only then would it be left with just its mouth, and it could still spit venom at that point. You had to smash its brain to finally kill it.’

’It was a troublesome monster with special mechanics; each body part had its own separate health bar.’

In fact, even though Zhang Ji had pretty much dismantled it, its abdomen was still twitching and heaving, and one of its pincers was still slowly opening and closing.

"It’ll probably take a while for it to stop completely," Zhang Ji said, shaking his head.

Ignoring the scorpion’s corpse, Zhang Ji decided not to butcher it. He hadn’t studied these Exotic Beasts in depth, and this thing was poisonous; he was afraid he’d poison himself if he tried to eat it.

Zhang Ji casually picked up one of the pincers and walked over to the scorpion’s nest.

Then he swung the pincer, smashing it against the nest of mud and sand.

CRASH!

The nest collapsed with ease.

After all, it was only built from mud and sand, perhaps with a bit of the scorpion’s saliva as a binding agent.

After a few more strikes, the nest completely caved in. Zhang Ji used the pincer to clear away the surrounding sand and finally saw the entrance to the Ruins Realm.

At the foot of the wind god statue was a rotatable mechanism with a pattern on it.

By turning it in a specific sequence, one could enter the Wind God’s Ruins Realm.

’I remember... left three, right three, right two, right one...’

After recalling the sequence, Zhang Ji began to turn the patterned mechanism.

In the game, to learn this activation code, you had to go to the Guning Country, find the old residence of the wind god Fudoli, and solve a puzzle based on a nursery rhyme passed down by word of mouth.

Anyway, Zhang Ji had just looked up a guide. He was a very impatient person.

He felt none of the joy that came from the puzzle-solving process.

He would just end up cursing out the designers during the puzzle and getting more and more frustrated.

This was also why he chose to use cheats when he played games.

As Zhang Ji turned the mechanism, he saw the platform beneath his feet begin to glow with a cyan light.

When Zhang Ji finished the sequence, a special symbol appeared under his feet.

It was the wind god totem of Fudoli’s tribe.

WHOOSH!

Suddenly, a howling wind enveloped Zhang Ji, lifting him off the ground.

He felt as if he were thrown high into the air. When he reached the same height as the wind god statue, the space around him rippled, and his figure vanished from sight.

.....

「Meanwhile, inside the Wind God’s Ruins Realm.」

Zhang Ji’s figure materialized atop the wind god statue and immediately began to plummet from a height of over five hundred meters.

Even with his current physical toughness, a freefall like this would likely leave him injured upon impact.

Fortunately, when he was about ten meters from the ground, a current of air rose from below, slowing his descent and setting him down gently.

Zhang Ji took a deep breath, exhaled, and said aloud, "Way more thrilling than playing the game! The designer who came up with this was a real genius!"

After speaking, he turned around and looked at the familiar scenery.

It was a very peaceful, ancient town, dotted with well-ordered residences and home to several thousand inhabitants.

Their technology might not have been very advanced, but here, they lived and worked in peace and contentment, free from strife, having almost completely escaped the troubles of the secular world.

From a certain perspective, this place was a true paradise.

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