From his understanding of his gun and its power of invisibility, he believed it was possible to make the statue invisible as well. Even his stone blade, a treasure of immense strength and power, could become invisible with him, so why not the turtle statue? The only potential issue was the turtle's size. He had never attempted to apply invisibility to something so much larger than himself, but that was a problem he needed to test. As far as he knew, the invisibility didn't require qi, so even if he failed, there would be no downside. If he succeeded, on the other hand, it would be a significant advantage. After all, an invisible sword was better than a normal one, so why not an invisible turtle?

As he knelt and willed the gun to extend his invisibility further, he saw Wei Yi focus its one giant eye on the turtle, confirming his prediction. Wei Yi intended to focus his attack on the turtle, a logical choice compared to the other options. Attacking blindly would only harm the giant. Liu Xing realized that while the laser created traces everywhere, they were not very deep, indicating that Wei Yi was actually holding back.

Right now, aside from holding the turtle and making it grow as large as possible, the only thing he needed to be careful about was if Wei Yi made a move to negate his invisibility, like spraying the air with blood to mark him, or any other measures. Wei Yi would likely try something later, but hopefully, there would be enough time for him to break through to the next stage.

As the invisibility spread, the flesh below the giant yellow eye began to shift again. Liu Xing narrowed his eyes. Was it trying to create another eye to attack more frequently? But when a wide slit formed, revealing teeth and a tongue, he realized it wasn't an eye but a mouth. The last time this had happened, Wei Yi had revealed many tentacles from inside the mouth, but this time, the mouth looked quite normal, with a red human tongue but sharp, jagged teeth.

Licking his lips, Liu Xing peeked into his consciousness and sent more qi toward his core. It spun and vibrated, and soon it would split in two. Liu Xing realized that if he sent all his potent qi into his consciousness, the process would begin immediately, but he couldn't do that. He needed some potent qi to defend himself and the turtle.

Wei Yi's mouth opened wide, and a ball of red condensed qi formed in front of it. The qi and the air swirled around it chaotically, growing bigger and denser. Yet, Liu Xing knew that this attack was not as strong as the one before he had entered the giant's body, and he was actually quite confident in dealing with it.

Tightening his will around the potent qi that made the turtle float atop the main core, Liu Xing inhaled deeply. The turtle was heavy, incredibly heavy, to the point that using his body alone, he would have trouble lifting it above his head. But his potent qi was different. It could carry enough weight to hurl the turtle around, and it felt ready for Wei Yi's attack.

As the invisibility spread Wei Yi unleashed a breath attack instead of a single red laser that might have turned the turtle to ash. The attack looked like a torrent of red fire lashing out from a burning furnace.

Upon seeing this attack, Liu Xing heaved heavily and pulled the turtle, making it rise like a wall, with its head pointing up and its tail pointing down toward the main core. Instead of facing the fire with the shell, Liu Xing intended to face it with the turtle's belly. If it were a real turtle, it would have been suicide, but his turtle was a statue. Surely, the shell and the belly had the same toughness.

When the fire hit the turtle's belly, Liu Xing felt as if a mountain had crashed into a building. While the main force holding the turtle in position was his qi and his control over it, he also held the turtle with both hands and pushed the shell as if trying to hold a giant gate, and he felt as if he were trying to hold a mountain with his bare hands.

Gritting his teeth, Liu Xing pushed with all his might, resisting the push of the breath attack. While at first the turtle was pushed back, a moment later, Liu Xing successfully stopped it from drifting away. Although the turtle's tail wasn't pointing directly at the center of the main core, it was still aimed toward it.

The fire that hit the turtle's belly spread around, creating a laminar flow that arched back before evaporating into smoldering air. Some of the fire actually hit the main core, but the core pulled the fire in, creating a thin ring of fire that orbited around it, like a planet pulling in space dust to form a ring.

The struggle lasted for almost thirty seconds. While he pushed with all his might, the fact that the struggle was not complicated and he didn't need to think much helped him spread the invisibility further. Now, the shell had turned invisible. If someone were to look at the turtle, it would appear as if someone had cleanly cut off the shell.

In his consciousness, his core was still absorbing the thread of qi, but Liu Xing realized that the amount of qi it absorbed per second was lower than before. This was a sign that his core was almost full, and he would soon break through to the next realm.

When the breath attack finally receded, he felt that the turtle was only slightly warm. He suspected the belly of the turtle statue was shining with a red smoldering light, but true to his expectation, this turtle was tough enough to handle the attack!

Wei Yi roared, sounding frustrated, like a young master insulted by a beggar. While Liu Xing couldn't see Wei Yi since he was hiding behind the turtle, he could sense the large amount of qi emitted from Wei Yi, indicating that he would unleash another big attack.

And Liu Xing was right. In front of Wei Yi's mouth, another red condensed ball of qi materialized. It grew bigger and bigger, then shrank, condensing itself into a ball so dense that the air around it trembled, and a hiss like boiling water could be heard. From this red ball of qi, a beam of laser the size of a huge pillar shot toward the turtle's belly.

When the beam hit its intended target, Liu Xing felt like he had been hit by a mountain that was speeding like a train. The impact was so great that his hands folded, and the invisible shell hit his head so hard his brain rattled. The turtle was dragged back so fast that in a moment it moved away from the main core. Thinking fast, Liu Xing realized that while the turtle could probably withstand the blast, the force was too strong to resist. So, Liu Xing gritted his teeth while holding the shell and controlled the potent qi covering the turtle to spin, making the turtle move sideways, as if it were a human trying to cross a narrow alley.

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The process was fast. One moment the red beam hit the dead center of the turtle's belly, and a moment later, as the turtle turned, the laser passed through, hitting the inner wall of the giant and digging through the flesh.

Glancing at Wei Yi, Liu Xing saw the yellow eye widen, as if surprised by what it saw, before it narrowed and screamed loudly again.

From this point, Wei Yi tried a variety of attacks. He let out a fire breath again, one that was not focused on a single point but spread like mist. No doubt Wei Yi was trying to kill Liu Xing with a wide-area attack. To counter this, Liu Xing rode the turtle and made it float higher, and when the attack was about to reach him, Liu Xing rotated the turtle again, repositioning himself so that he was touching the center belly of the turtle—which was scorching hot—and pressed his back against a pulsing giant heart, making sure that the attack would not reach him.

When Wei Yi created several tentacles from the inner wall of the giant and controlled them like giant hands, trying to grab the turtle, Liu Xing blasted the tentacles with his gun. When Wei Yi sent a swarm of slab meats with bat wings, spreading them like a swarm of drones, Liu Xing moved around the turtle and used it to swat them all away. When they were destroyed, blood splattered around, some landing on him and successfully marking him. For a moment, his invisibility was negated, but while panicking, Liu Xing tried to make the blood that painted him invisible as well, and to his surprise, he succeeded!

While weathering all the different attacks from Wei Yi—not once did Wei Yi unleash another attack like the laser—he continued to make the turtle grow as large as possible. The turtle was so big now that it was hard to maneuver. If angled perfectly horizontally, the head and tail would touch opposite walls.

Its entire torso was also already invisible, making the turtle's head, feet, and tail appear separated. Just a little more, and his turtle would be completely invisible, and its size was large enough for Liu Xing to begin hammering the main core!

As he lay with his belly on the invisible shell of the turtle, his core finally stopped absorbing qi entirely, and a sound of a crack, as if he had just stepped on a dry branch, suddenly rang in his ears.

Liu Xing knew, without a doubt, that the time had come.

He was ready to break through!

When Liu Xing peered into his consciousness, he saw his core spinning and vibrating so fast that it appeared almost frozen in time while trying to move, like a man frozen in mid-jump, but it was an illusion. Liu Xing knew that if he submerged himself in his consciousness, he would hear a hum so loud it would be as if he were inside the belly of a giant machinery.

Gritting his teeth to suppress his anxiety, he tried to be more positive. The source of his anxiety was because breaking through in the Core Splitting realm was different from breaking through when he was still a Lock Opening cultivator. He couldn't just open a lock; it was more like breaking through to the Core Splitting realm, where he needed to guide the core to advance smoothly. Moreover, he hadn't researched enough about how to advance stages in the Core Splitting realm, having only read briefly about the topic in the library. After all, he never thought he would cross into the Core Splitting realm so soon, let alone advance to the second stage so quickly. He only knew that the core would move around rapidly before splitting itself in two. Aside from that, he was going in blind, relying entirely on his instinct, which, while trustworthy at times, could also lead him astray.

Still, once again, even though he was submerged in a sea of anxiety, wondering "how" and "what if," there was nothing he could do about the situation, so he just hoped for the best and did what he could.

After Liu Xing steeled his heart, his heart beating against his ribs, he muttered quietly with all his will, "Split!"

The core obeyed him instantly. It began to move, as if the invisible ice that froze it had cracked and turned to dust, releasing his cultivation from its prison. With newfound eagerness that even he could feel in the physical world, he sensed the core adding another dimension to its movement.

Instead of only spinning and vibrating in place, it began to move left and right, swinging like a pendulum, following the rhythm of his breath, which he tried to control to be as calm and steady as possible. Upon seeing this movement, Liu Xing realized he needed to make the core move faster and faster until it split in two.

And so, Liu Xing tried to quicken the rhythm of his breath. He inhaled and exhaled rapidly, like a man having a breathing problem. While doing this, he cycles his potent qi around his torso so that he can speed up the movement of his shrinking and expanding lungs.

As he breathed rapidly, the core inside his consciousness began to swing faster, but as he monitored it, he realized something was wrong with its movement. While it swung rapidly to the sides, it felt almost like his core was moving blindly, akin to a deaf person trying to mimic other people dancing without hearing the music.

There was something incomplete, something he could feel reverberating within his body but couldn't comprehend.

As he thought about what he needed to complete, he continued spreading invisibility through his turtle. Right now, only the tips of the tail were visible, and only a second later, the invisibility successfully swallowed the entire turtle.

Liu Xing was now floating quite high in the upper torso of the giant. The main core of the giant spun far below him, and he saw Wei Yi cease his attacks while looking upward with its one giant yellow eye. The eye moved closer to the core, like a mother hen trying to protect one of its injured offspring, and gazed toward his position with hostility, as if daring him to attack.

Liu Xing thought calmly for a moment, then decided that while he needed to figure out what was wrong with his core, he should be more productive and do what he could.

Right now, his turtle was truly enormous. It was so big and wide that the former golden castle of the Twelve Sun Empire could fit on its back. It amazed him how he could lift the giant, heavy turtle, but while his control and will strained to make the turtle hover, the one that made it possible was probably his potent qi.

Once again, Liu Xing was amazed by Niu's gift, and wondered how he could have created the amazing gun. But, while he was supremely curious about how his friend had done it and wanted to unravel its secrets, this was not the right place or time to ponder it deeply.

Exhaling, Liu Xing made the core inside his consciousness move calmly to the other side. But this time, the exhale was not to actually guide his breakthrough. Instead, it was to release control over some of his qi.

He retracted the potent qi that encased the giant turtle, and when all the potent qi stopped encasing it, the turtle stopped hovering. Gravity reached the turtle and claimed it under its influence, and the turtle, one so big and so high atop the giant's torso, began plummeting downward.

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