The castle in front of Ling Tian was pitch black engulfed in a gloomy aura. It was very similar to a gothic castle yet the towers were hundreds of meters taller than expected which gave it an unusually sharp look. Inside the towers were many rooms, each one belonging to a devil cultivator.
Ghosts and Demons were stationed on the main body of the castle in groups, ready to be deployed for battle. Greater Demons had shrunk down to their small form splashing lava everywhere they walked.
Ling Tian observed them all indifferently as if they were all ants. The only thing that made him frown a little was the feeling that came from the tallest tower.
'A Heavenly King for sure... This is gonna be fun.' he thought in excitement. He couldn't control his bloodlust anymore as he raised the Serpent Sword.
A majestic aura of Dark Qi exploded from him, alerting the entire castle. It was as if a black sun had suddenly appeared in the dungeon.
He summoned all his power and countless Sword Rivers appeared around him, their red color gave them a very evil feeling. The sword rivers slowly morphed and became serpent-shaped. Each one a mile long and big enough to look down on the castle.
The beings in the castle screamed in terror as if the world had come to an end, the reason was fairly simple; When they looked up, they saw countless red serpents each seemingly as big as the castle looking down on them with horrible killing intent.
An aura of equally great power if not greater sprung forth from within the castle, A man with 7 eyes and 2 mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth floated in front of the black sun formed from Ling Tian's aura.
"I have heard of you, Serpent Sword Scion. The one who defeated that arrogant brat. I am The Earth Devouring Heavenly King. Judging from your Qi, you are not from a righteous sect. What business do you have here?" Said the man with a low deep tone.
Ling Tian smiled with a hint of craziness in it, "Are you retarded? What could the reason be? Let me think... I have come to congratulate you! Obviously!" Sarcasm dripped from his voice.
The man's killing intent came forth, "Congratulate me on what?"
Ling Tian's crazy smile widened, "On your Death."
The serpent sword rivers attacked as countless sword Qi's were unleashed on the castle. The air exploded as destructive waves wreaked havoc on everything. The sound of the explosions shook the surface part of the dungeon as each sword river made contact with the castle. Countless beings died instantly.
The 7-eyed man retreated with a frown, 'I need to be careful, he is a threat.' He had abandoned the castle without a second thought. He formed a sign with his hand and bizarrely opened his lower mouth. It opened to the point it was bigger than his body.
From within crawled out countless worms, each one grew to be a hundred meters long. These worms fell on the ground and then went berserk as they moved toward Ling Tian.
The latter seemed to let go of everything as his eyes lit up in red color, "HAHAHA!" he laughed as the Serpent sword suddenly grew bright. It grew brighter and brighter. A few moments later, he had summoned his Sith Blade. He charged toward the worms without care. The entire dungeon seemed to have become a scene from hell as disgusting worms charged at him while dust and fire had engulfed everything in a dozen miles radius.
As he passed by, each worm was cut into a thousand pieces. Each piece melted while it caught fire. Countless drops of worm's blood that were on fire began raining from the sky. From afar only a red line could be seen passing by the worms as they exploded and fire rained down.
The Heavenly King panicked as he saw Ling Tian approaching at immense speed, his worms were useless. He shouted, "Don't get arrogant! I am a half-step Demon King!! Tremble in fear!" he formed a strange sign with his fingers. His body began changing into something else.
He grew bigger and bigger and eventually, he was so big that his head collided with the ceiling of the dungeon that was several miles tall. It seemed that he had used the worms to stall Ling Tian. The latter didn't seem to mind.
Ling Tian felt a little disgusted looking at the giant worm in front of him, it had 7 eyes and two mouths. It was as big as a mountain and so long he couldn't tell how much.
"This brings a whole new meaning to the word disgusting worm." He said as he flew up and ignored the smaller worms. They tried to chase him but couldn't fly.
He formed sword rivers and froze them into Ice form then fired them at the giant worm, but to his surprise, it just swallowed them up. He moved back and tried the liquid form but it didn't work. The worm just ate his long-range attacks as if they didn't exist, to begin with.
Ling Tian frowned, 'He is too big for close-range attacks and will just eat long-range attacks. How to deal with this?'
The worm suddenly closed its mouth and when it opened them again, endless acid splashed toward Ling Tian. He managed to quickly dodge them but the land was not so lucky. The acid began melting everything it touched instantly as far as the eye could see. A lot of toxic smoke rose from the ground to the air which burned Ling Tian's lungs and skin.
'It can just splash acid and make the air more toxic as the battle is prolonged, I will run out of Qi eventually and die if this continues. I can't harm it but it can harm me. I need to think of a way to kill it.' He thought grimly as he realized he was not strong enough to take an enemy so strong but he wasn't willing to back down and flee yet.
He opened the system as he dodged another sea of acid, he had 4 million points due to the many beings he had killed but it wasn't enough to upgrade his cultivation. He had long ago disabled the Log's report alerts since it was very annoying.
He was at a loss on what to do, he was stuck between a rock and a hard place; He had to either run away and suppress his crazy killing intent which seemed very hard to do since it had just begun erupting, or he had to kill the enemy in front of him which seemed impossible.
He looked at the Sword Arts/Skills and made a decision. 'I will just add 3 million points to Water Emperor Sword Art and 1 million to Sword Qi wave slash.'
He did it without hesitation. The system went crazy as countless notifications filled the Log.
[Sword Art: Water Emperor evolved into its Ultimate form: Sea Emperor's Sword Art. Lesser Divine-Grade Sword Art identified.
Sword Art: Sea Emperor evolved into its final form: Sea God's Sword Art. Greater Divine-Grade Sword Art identified.
Sea God's Sword Art has been mastered to the MAX. (-2.8M EP Total)]
[Sword Skill: Qi Wave Slash evolved into its true form: Earth Splitter. Heaven-Grade Sword Skill identified.
Sword Skill: Earth Splitter evolved into its Ultimate form: Earth Splitter, Mountain breaker. Lesser Divine-Grade Sword Skill identified.
Sword Skill: Earth Splitter, Mountain breaker evolved into its Divine form: Heaven Cleaver. Greater Divine-Grade Sword Skill identified.
Sword Skill: Heaven Cleaver has been mastered to level 3. (-1.2M EP Total)]
Ling Tian flew up as he dodged the acid splash of the worm and the Toxic clouds that were forming, suddenly a massive amount of information flowed in his mind. He grew distracted for a moment and flew into one of the Toxic clouds.
He appeared on the other side, one of his hands was only bones and the rest of his body had melted horribly, and yet he didn't let out a sound because he was too focused on absorbing the new information.
He had gained 3 attacks, Earth Splitter, and its evolved form Earth Splitter Mountain Breaker. Then the divine form called Heaven Cleaver. He knew how to move his Qi and the technique to execute the attacks.
The Sword Art, however, was truly big. It was a whole new dimension of using the Sword with Qi and water attacks. It had countless attacks for 1 simple reason.
'Water takes the shape of its container, it is everchanging with infinite potential. That is why it is the best element for Sword arts. It gives the Swordsman the freedom to do whatever he wants and supports him. The Sea God's sword art gives the user absolute control over water, the only limit is the Swordsman's imagination on how to use it with his Sword and Qi. Thus it has an infinite number of combinations for attack, defense and etc.' Ling Tian realized with wide eyes.
He stopped dodging and simply waved his hands at the coming waves of acid, countless water blades came to life and cut it apart. He smiled as he grasped his sword firmly, "Time to exterminate this pest... Heaven Cleaver."
Lian Qiu and Huo Bing Reached the Xuan Empire. Surprisingly, the little crocodile had a cocky smile as he rested on Lian Qiu's shoulder smugly. It seemed they had reached an agreement of sorts.