Before we could even arrive at the fifth ascension point, we can see a 'distortion event' from afar. Countless black spots are present in the green forest. We all felt our scalp tingling upon seeing this.
"We'll go to the next one."
Captain Jikel made a fast decision the moment we saw that. Immediately, we got away from it.
[Corruption detected. Current progress: ??%]
This prompt popped up when I came close to the black spots. So those are corruption? What are these..?
I placed this matter in the back of my mind since I wouldn't be able to find answers to it no matter what. I'll just wait for this prompt to finish loading.
Thankfully, the sixth, seventh, and eighth ascension points are all normal. We are lucky enough that 2 of them are active. By the time we went to the ninth, something happened...
Boom!
Shockwaves appeared nearby. It didn't take long for us to see a beautiful female cultivator with a frosty expression being chased by more than 10 people.
"Cai Ning, give up! Your senior brother won't be here to save you!"
"Tsk."
What. bad. luck. Are we really unlucky or is the cultivation world this dangerous?
"Song Er, is your cultivation civilization this dangerous?"
"Quite."
Captain Jikel seemed to couldn't hold it up anymore and asked a female combatant with him. Hearing her answer, I can imagine his face begging for more answers.
"Don't ask me about this. When I went out as a child before, I encountered 20 small events, 10 medium events, and 2 large events. This one should be classified as a large one."
"A large one? Why?
"Heh. You'll see later. By the way, running away doesn't work here."
I had an ominous premonition after hearing this. Wait, it can't be, right?
"First brother, there are people here!"
The one called as 'First Brother' erupted with his True Immortal aura after hearing this.
"Hm. Kill them all, even if we need to use 'that' treasure."
"Mn."
So it is what it is. The classic cliche of bumping into a beauty being chased by some evil men.
"Prepare to fight. Don't use the sealing cards nor your other vessels."
A hint of tiredness appeared in his voice. As expected, being in this immortal plane is really tiring.
We all erupted with our strength. The Deities activated their Domains while I and Maen used our Embryonic Domain. We all used the Authority that now matched to a cultivation world, so the distorted beings didn't turn.
Hm. So they've all visited all the civilizations and gained insight into their Authority? As for me, I saw some cultivators who used darkness-related techniques back on that battlefield, so I am all set.
The one called Song Er drew the first blood as she beheaded a black-clothed man with her crescent blade. Waves of water overlapped her saber, a sign of Water Authority.
Boom-!
Explosions resounded as Maen's fist bombarded the enemy. His Pseudo-Authority of fire is at full play, causing fire damage to his enemy. The enemy only managed to block a few of his punches with his sword before dying.
'Finally, a normal battle.'
I am about to tear up as I can finally experience a normal battle. I dove straight into the middle of 5 Tribulation Transcendence lackeys and slashed the <
'<
Black mist emerged from my domain and blinded the senses of my enemies. This is the God-Ranked technique that I decided to learn 3 days ago. With my current EXP, I upgraded its mastery to <
It can now block the 5 senses of more than 20 targets, which is very useful.
The other 9 got pre-occupied by my time phantoms attack, giving me the chance to single out one enemy and eliminate him.
"Die!"
She unleashed a flurry of spear attacks at me blindly, but I countered them all. Then, I felt that her single strike got strengthened around four-fold. It aimed straight at my chest.
Clang-!
I used my sword, which is powered up by <
[700,000,000 EXP has been gained.]
I unleashed my sixth strike, slashing her in two parts. Blood spurted out on her body as it fell down.
The other nine, who are now free from the time phantoms, attacked me blindly. Too bad to them, this <
I planned to kill them in one whole swoop. I lured them slowly into a single place by weakening the restrictions on them. Of course, the cultivators took advantage of this, though I dodged them all.
"He's there!"
"Kill him!"
Good.
My seventh strike was unleashed upon them. Since they are all clustered from attacking me at the same time, they couldn't avoid it.
A lightning dragon flew out of my sword. As if it has a spiritual intelligence, it devoured every single Tribulation Transcendence enemy that I had.
[720,000,000 EXP has been gained.]
[690,000,000 EXP has been gained]
...
This is the effect of the <
I didn't rejoice at my current achievement as a Human Immortal suddenly launched an attack at me.
"Die!"
The Human Immortal got closer and closer, but I didn't lose my calm. As to why..
Swoosh!
A crescent blade pierced from the back of his head, claiming his life.
"Tsk. this is why I don't like it here."
The crescent bade flew back to the girl who spoke to Captain before. She only looked at her 16s yet she already has such power?
Well, I'm sure that it's not her true age.
I flew back to the safe range that allowed the Deity Realm on our side to send help immediately. Having no choice, I launched millions of sword phantoms to them in long range. I only used my <
With this, my combat power with Spirit Vessel alone soared.
Notices popped up every dozen seconds, indicating that I killed Tribulation Transcendence experts en masse.
"Y-you!"
The one called First Brother let out a horrified scream as Captain Jikel turned his head into mush. HE didn't even have the time to use 'that' treasure that I don't know of.
"First Brother!"
The other Human Immortals' morale dropped after seeing this. They've wanted to escape, but they couldn't just shake off the Alliance's Deities. In the end, we wiped them all out.
"She left."
"Whew. What an ungrateful person."
We didn't notice during the fight, but that Cai Ning already escaped far away. This feels like shit.
"We'll first find a place to recuperate. 31st Formation!"
"Ha!"
They went into different positions, each of them serving as a node in this array formation. When they've completed their preparations, the array's power took effect.
The group's presence became very low. Though, the price of this is the gradual decrease of Qi reserves.
We all left this place hastily, with the priority of finding a good spot to recover.