Chapter 708 – Breaking Through To Middle Revolving Core
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A barrel-thick beam of black light tore through the seawater, turning into a devilish black spear that thrust straight towards the Giant Leviathan's auditory organs. This was one of Xuan Wuji's fatal finishing blows. Once this move had left his hands, all of the surrounding seawater instantly heated up to the temperature of magma. However, under the immense deep-sea pressure it didn't actually vaporize, but instead roiled and churned around. The black spear surged with a massive spiral of utterly hot water as it smashed toward the Giant Leviathan's ears.
Demonshine's heart tightened. Perhaps the Giant Leviathan really wouldn't be able to withstand such an attack. The Giant Leviathan's auditory organs were similar to a normal person's eardrums. No matter how powerful its defenses were, these eardrums were still a great weakness.
With a stir of his thoughts, Demonshine no longer sent the Giant Leviathan to attack. Instead, he made it gather most of its tentacles to cover and protect its ears.
Bang!
The black spear smashed into the thick meat wall formed by hundreds of tentacles. Most of the outer tentacles were cut straight off, blood pouring into the waters.
However, Xuan Wuji's attack had also been offset. He would no longer be able to harm the Giant Leviathan's weak point a second time.
Several torn off tentacles wasn't much to the Giant Leviathan. Once Demonshine discovered how effective this move was, he simply completely gave up on counterattacking and manipulated all the tentacles to cover up the Giant Leviathan's ears as he plunged straight into the deep sea.
The Giant Leviathan had a streamlined and smooth body; it could maintain an extremely high speed in the sea.
"This brat!" Xuan Wuji's expression became dark and gloomy. He had never thought that even with the interference of the Giant Leviathan Horn, Lin Ming would still be able to so calmly command the Giant Leviathan so that his attacks became much less effective.
By using that one attack Xuan Wuji had consumed a great deal of energy. He swallowed a pill and coldly ordered, "Follow it!"
The group of seven chased after the Giant Leviathan all the way down. Along the way, all seven of them constantly attacked the Giant Leviathan. Xuan Wuji had a very profound grasp of the Giant Leviathan's weaknesses. Although they wouldn't be able to do a massive amount of damage at once, they could still create numerous small wounds all over its body.
The Giant Leviathan dripped with blood. Wherever it went it would leave behind a river of blood, dying the entire sea red.
Beside Xuan Wuji, the Turquoise-Eyed Ape Clan Patriarch stretched out its tongue to taste the bloody waters. He chuckled and said, "Elder Xuan, it won't be long. Several days at most until the Giant Leviathan drops dead from exhaustion. Remember that we agreed that the Giant Leviathan's heart and spine will be left to my Turquoise-Eyed Ape Clan. Elder Xuan, make sure you don't forget!"
Xuan Wuji coldly coughed and said, "This old man will naturally keep his promises!"
As soon as he spoke, he lifted his hand again and sent out a black beam of light, attacking an old wound on the Giant Leviathan's body and making it expand even more.
"These damn brats!" Demonshine spat out. He wished that he could tear apart that damn Xuan Wuji and his little buddies. It was true that the Giant Leviathan was known as being invincible under the Divine Sea, but that didn't mean this big fellow could just sit down and allow anyone to attack it, especially since Xuan Wuji's attacks were all specifically aimed at the Giant Leviathan's weak points. With a group of these brats attacking the Giant Leviathan, it had already lost a great deal of blood. There weren't any visible effects yet, but if this continued for another one to two days, then it would certainly have an effect on the Giant Leviathan. If this continued, then death by blood loss was possible.
B Bang!
The Giant Leviathan's dimension shook again. Xuan Wuji and the others had combined forces to attack the balance maintaining the Giant Leviathan's ventral fins!
The Giant Leviathan's ventral fins were only 200-300 feet thick and not too wide. If Xuan Wuji and the others attacked together, then it truly was possible to slowly cut off a ventral fin!
Seeing that the ventral fin was injured, Demonshine's heart burned with a blazing fury. However, he couldn't think of any solutions to this. This was just like an elephant being chased by a horde of blood-sucking mosquitoes; it was impossible to effectively counterattack.
This went on for another 10-12 hours. The Giant Leviathan was losing more and more blood, and the right rear ventral fin was already half cut off; it was greatly affecting the Giant Leviathan's speed in the water.
But at this moment, a gigantic canyon appeared in front of the Giant Leviathan.
It was a deep sea trench.
The deep sea trenches of the South Sea could reach 500,000 to 600,000 feet, or even 700,000 to 800,000 feet deep. This was several hundred miles. At this depth, the water pressure would reach an unimaginably terrifying degree. Even if it were the Giant Leviathan or the various deep sea clans, they couldn't stay submerged forever.
As for Xuan Wuji, he was a land-dwelling human. Even with the support of the deep sea clan's secret skills, there was still a limit to how deep he could go; it was somewhat less than that of the Giant Leviathan and the various deep-sea clans.
Now, let's see who could dive deeper!
Demonshine grit his teeth and commanded the Giant Leviathan to plunge directly downwards. Even if he couldn't throw off Xuan Wuji, the area of this deep sea trench was narrow enough; it wouldn't be easy to avoid the Giant Leviathan's tentacles here.
The depth rapidly increased!
220,000 feet!
230,000 feet!
250,000 feet!
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The Giant Leviathan constantly swallowed the high-pressure sea water, filling its blood and muscles and balancing out the enormous pressure of the deep sea. As for the disciples of Divine Phoenix Island, because they were in a separate dimension, they weren't affected by this pressure at all.
After reaching a depth of 260,000 feet, Xuan Yuqie and the Demon Region Eastern Faction Sovereign were the first ones who were unable to withstand going any further. The thick protective shields of energy they formed around their bodies had begun to emit crackling noises. Obviously, they had reached their limits. Even with the deep sea clan's Water Repelling Pearl, they couldn't go any further downward.
"You two return first,"Xuan Wuji tersely ordered.
"Yes." Xuan Yuqie and the Eastern Faction Sovereign immediately stopped. If they went any further than that, the barrier they had made to protect themselves could instantly shatter. At that point, they would be crumpled to death by the extraordinary sea pressure, without a chance to react. As Life Destruction masters, if they were to die here because of sea pressure it would truly be laughable.
This went on...
290,000 feet…
300,000 feet…
Right now, they were already 200 miles deep underwater. The Black Flood Dragon Clan Patriarch and the two second stage Life Destruction Turquoise-Eyed Apes couldn't bear the pressure and turned to go back.
330,000 feet…
At this time, Demonshine could feel the Giant Leviathan's entire body shaking. Even as a great beast of the deep sea, there was a limit to its ability of pressure self-adjustments.
"These damn brats are really insistent." Demonshine looked at the scene outside of the Giant Leviathan and began cursing wildly. Indeed, to him, who had lived for tens of thousands of years already, characters like Xuan Wuji were simply little bumbling babies.
350,000 feet…
At this depth, there were already several million jin of pressure on every square foot. Xuan Wuji grimaced, finally stopping. Even with the secret techniques of the Turquoise-Eyed Ape Clan, he was also approaching h his limit.
Right now, 90% of his energy was already being used to resist the immense pressure of the deep sea; he simply couldn't attack. Even the Turquoise-Eyed Ape Clan Patriarch wasn't much better off. If they fought here, then they would consume a massive amount of energy. If they even used just a few moves, it would nearly deplete their energy reserves. At that time, even returning to the surface alive would pose a problem.
"They can count their lucky stars. Let's return to the 100,000 feet sea-depth first." Xuan Wuji left behind a monitoring soul mark on the Giant Leviathan's body before turning around and swimming back up.
The Turquoise-Eyed Ape Patriarch had long had the intention of returning. He immediately stopped diving and swam back up.
Seeing those two annoying and disgusting brats leave, Demonshine finally sighed in relief. 350,000 feet was near the limit of what the Giant Leviathan could withstand. Although the Giant Leviathan's body was incomparably tough, it also had a much greater surface area. Thus, it naturally had to withstand a much greater amount of pressure.
At this depth, the Giant Leviathan had to rapidly consume energy. Even though it absorbed heaven and earth origin energy at an extraordinary rate, it still only managed to barely maintain itself.
"We've been trapped in this trench by those dirty bastards!"
Demonshine was exceedingly morose, having noticed Xuan Wuji's perception lock on the Giant Leviathan's body. As soon as the Giant Leviathan moved or decided to surface, then Xuan Wuji would organize another attack. Moreover, as time passed, Xuan Wuji might even find more helpers to come.
After the previous battle, the Giant Leviathan was covered with hundreds of small and large wounds. The damage to the right ventral fin was the most serious. It had been attacked by Xuan Wuji's focused barrage of attacks for several hours, and it had nearly been ripped off. It would take at least a month to recover. But, under the pressure of this deep sea trench, it was simply impossible for the Giant Leviathan to conjure up the excess energy to regenerate the wound.
This was a horrible situation!
At that moment, Demonshine suddenly felt a series of vibrations in another dimension. The origin energy there stirred, rapidly running out.
Demonshine was startled. He immediately shot through a space barrier and appeared in the dimension where Lin Ming was. In this dimension, the heaven and earth origin energy had formed a massive vortex of energy which was funneling into Lin Ming.
"Good young boy, you've finally broken through to the middle Revolving Core realm!"
Demonshine had thought that Lin Ming would need another week or so; he had never imagined that Lin Ming would make the breakthrough today.
Controlling the Giant Leviathan, Demonshine sent all the heaven and earth origin energy from the other dimensions into this one, so that Lin Ming could absorb it. After half an incense stick of time passed, Lin Ming had sucked all of the heaven and earth origin energy into his dantian.
The Revolving Core in Lin Ming's dantian more than doubled, and then a scene similar to when he had broken through to Black Hole Revolving Core occurred.
Within his dantian, the crystal Revolving Core first shattered, then began to collapse. After several breaths' time, it condensed into a much smaller form, and its spinning speed became much faster than before. The crystal core seemed to form a perfect ball, darker than ink. The true essence contained within was several times the previous amount.
This was the middle Revolving Core realm!
Because he had formed a Black Hole Revolving Core, Lin Ming's entire true essence was incomparable to that of a normal Revolving Core martial artist.
On the road of martial arts, the Revolving Core was a particularly special boundary. It was divided into two great stages, both of them considered separate from each other, yet linked. The first was the ordinary Revolving Core realm, and th
second was the Life Destruction realm.
Normally, when a Revolving Core martial artist reached late Revolving Core, the next step after that would be to pass the stages of Life Destruction. This was the same for the extreme Revolving Core. A Life Destruction martial artist still had the Revolving Core in their dantian.
In other words, Lin Ming was merely two boundaries away from reaching Life Destruction.
"Lin Ming, Xuan Wuji's perception has already locked onto the Giant Leviathan. He is keeping guard at a depth of 100,000 feet in the sea. As long as the Giant Leviathan moves, he will be able to sense it. He wants to lock us in here until we give up or die. What do you want to do now?" After being forced into such a miserable situation, Demonshine was crestfallen. In these depths, the Giant Leviathan wouldn't be able to support itself for too long. Three to five months was manageable, but after a year or two passed, the Giant Leviathan would die of exhaustion. As for Lin Ming, although he had broken through to the middle Revolving Core, it was still impossible for him to currently contend with the fourth stage Life Destruction master, Xuan Wuji.
Lin Ming thought for a moment, then his eyes flashed with a chilling light. "Go up for a bit. Since they want to stay here, then they have to pay the price."
Chapter 709 – Opening the Eight Inner Hidden Gates Again
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Demonshine controlled the Giant Leviathan and rose from 350,000 feet to 30,000 feet. At this depth, the water pressure was still terrifying.
Xuan Wuji was standing guard at the seabed 100,000 feet deep. If the Giant Leviathan rose again then they would most likely meet Xuan Wuji's attacks.
"Lin Ming, what do you plan on doing?" Demonshine asked. Although Lin Ming's strength had suddenly shot up, he was still far from being able to compare to Xuan Wuji. Facing Xuan Wuji head on was no different from walking into the jaws of death.
Lin Ming said, "They can guard here as much as they want. I'll go to their headquarters and see just how long they can stay. If they don't go back, then they can watch as their entire lair is destroyed and everyone killed."
Lin Ming had already formed his Black Hole Revolving Core and broken through to the middle Revolving Core realm. His strength had risen to yet another level. He estimated that with his current abilities, he should just barely be able to defeat a second-stage Life Destruction martial artist. But as for his true combat strength, he would need to fight with a second-stage Life Destruction martial artist to find out. Just from this, ruining their headquarters yet again wouldn't be too difficult.
"Massacre their headquarters?" Demonshine's eyes brightened. "Hahaha, I like! Boy, your tastes suit this Saint perfectly! Don't worry. With this Saint managing this Giant Leviathan, it shouldn't be difficult to stay here for half a year. Let go of your limits and destroy everything around you! I can't wait to see just what expression those damn brats will have! Hahahaha!"
The more Lin Ming thought about it, the happier he was with this idea. This would place those bastards in a dilemma. If they continued to stay here and guard this area, then Lin Ming would ruin their entire headquarters. But, if they left, then he could calmly order the Giant Leviathan to return to sea level and restore itself to its best condition. This was truly a good move.
Lin Ming said, "Don't worry. I'm going to temper my body first."
As he spoke, he took out a gold fruit from his spatial ring. This was the profound gold divine fruit!
The profound gold divine fruit was similar to a mushroom of the mortal world. But, while a mushroom grew atop old wood, this profound gold divine fruit had grown atop a Demon God Bone.
It was known that a millennium-old Lingzhi that grew from old wood was considered a wondrous medicine. Then, having absorbed the essence of the Demon God Bone, the value of the profound gold divine fruit could be imagined.
When Lin Ming had gone into the 1000-mile forbidden zone within the Eternal Demon Abyss, he had encountered four corpse devils. The corpse devils had bodies as durable as a heaven-step treasure. This had made it so Duanmu Qun's and the others' attacks couldn't even scratch them.
If it weren't for Lin Ming's battle spirit, which he was able to pour into the Purple Comet Spear and substantially increase his striking power, then even he wouldn't have been able to do anything to those four corpse devils.
When Lin Ming had chased a corpse devil back to its den, he had gone into that tomb and discovered the secrets within.
The reason they had such a terrifying defense was all because of this profound gold divine fruit.
The profound gold divine fruit was an extreme Yang and extreme light-attribute body transformation treasure. With those four corpse devil's cultivations, they naturally couldn't swallow it. But they absorbed the root of the profound gold divine fruit. When the profound gold divine fruit grew, it would absorb the essence within the root of the Demon God Bone. Thus, the energy within the root was naturally much weaker. The four corpse devils were just about able to absorb this with their cultivation.
"Lin Ming, you want to swallow this?" Demonshine was startled. The profound gold divine fruit could be classified as a Lingzhi grown using a Demon God Bone as nourishment. The inherent energy within was extraordinary. Demonshine wasn't absolutely sure that Lin Ming would be able to withstand its effects. Not just that, but a profound gold divine fruit was a top-grade material of materials. If it was directly eaten then the effects would be quite lacking in comparison.
"Lin Ming, don't you intend on becoming a top alchemist in the future and refining this profound gold divine fruit? If you do, then the effects will be several times better."
Lin Ming shook his head, saying, "If I become a top alchemist, I fear it will take several years to do so. At that time I'll already have new lucky chances. It's not worth it to save this profound gold divine fruit and waste my own potential. For me, there is no heavenly treasure that is as valuable as time."
"Hehe, well said, boy. You really don't need to care about something like a mere profound gold divine fruit. This is a top-grade body transformation medicine. After eating it, it will greatly enhance your body's defensive powers. Perhaps you might even become as durable as a top earth-step treasure or a heave-step treasure!"
A human's body couldn't be compared to a corpse devil's. Even having the durability of a top earth-step treasure was freakish.
At this time, Lin Ming was not just tempering his body and increasing his defensive power, but he was also trying to take advantage of this opportunity to open the second of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates—the Gate of Limit.
At this time, a long time had already passed since Lin Ming opened the Gate of Healing. His body transformation foundation had become very solid since then. With a quality body transformation medicine like this profound gold divine fruit, then it shouldn't be too difficult to breakthrough to the Gate of Limit.
Black Hole Revolving Core, middle Revolving Core Realm, and the Gate of Limit opened too. Just what degree will my combat strength reach?"
Lin Ming clenched his fists together, a thick fighting spirit rising inside him. He was thoroughly anticipating fighting a second-stage Life Destruction powerhouse. In fact, he even wanted to go out right now and test out his abilities.
Taking the profound gold divine fruit in hand, Lin Ming could clearly feel the terrifying energy contained within. There was no need to mention eating it, just smelling its rich fragrance made him feel refreshed, as if all the cells in his body were being revitalized.
Lin Ming no longer hesitated. He swallowed the profound gold divine fruit down his throat. As soon as it entered his mouth, it turned into a surge of heat that melted into his body.
After several quiet breaths of time, the energy began to boil up like hot water, recklessly entering into Lin Ming's blood vessels, running rampant everywhere!
Lin Ming's blood vessels and body had already been tempered many times; it was as tough as a treasure. Even so, with such a terrifying influx of energy rushing into his body, it was still a bit difficult to withstand.
This sort of situation was well within Lin Ming's expectations. All this time, Lin Ming had undergone similar scenarios many times. He bore the deep pain and calmly revolved the "True Primal Chaos Formula," manipulating the energy of the profound gold divine fruit such that it smashed into the Gate of Limit at his spine.
The spine was also called the dragon bone. It was central axis and main pillar of the human body. It supported all other bones, including the head, chest, abdomen, and all limbs. Everything depended on their connection to the spine. When a person used any strength, this first had to pass through the spine.
The spine was like a bow. The more taut a bow, the tougher it was. The more flexible a spine was, the stronger a person was. However, the truth was that a martial artist's spine often became one of their weaknesses.
This was because the spinal nerves were also located within the spine. The body of nerves was extremely complex and fragile. If these nerves were struck and cut off, then a martial artist would in essence become a cripple unless they had cultivated to an ever-living boundary. Otherwise, even with top heavenly treasures it would still be difficult to restore the contorted spinal nerves.
These characteristics of the spine made it so it was difficult to train it. A martial artist could train their muscles, organs, and bones, but it was difficult to train the nerves and marrow.
Lin Ming had completed to perfection Marrow Tempering and had also completed an initial tempering of his spinal cord. This was enough to fight those at Revolving Core and below, but when facing those at the Life Destruction realm and higher, it was still lacking.
Within the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, the Gate of Limit was used to train the supplementation of marrow.
The Gate of Limit gathered energy to enhance the defensive strength of the spine. Then, taking the spine as the center, it would guide a martial artist's entire body, allowing their strength to multiply severalfold. Besides strength, a martial artist's explosive force, bearing capacity, balance, and defensive power would all significantly increase.
Pa pa pa!
Lin Ming's back cracked and crackled. An invisible stream of origin energy rapidly twisted around Lin Ming's body, forming small storms. During this fierce collision of energy, Lin Ming's clothing was not able to withstand the impact and quietly disintegrated into dust, revealing his solid and fit back, like that of a graceful leopard.
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At this time, the skin and muscles of Lin Ming's back had become a strange, translucent, jade-like color. Lin Ming's entire spine was highlighted through this. The vertebra and the blood vessels were clearly visible and every single nerve could be made out. Starting at the bottom, from the base of the spine, a bright surge of crimson light crawled up. This bloody light gathered together, forming a bean-sized pearl of blood.
This was where the Gate of Limit was located!
Lin Ming was now heavily sweating. His breath was labored, and many of his meridians and blood vessels had burst apart, unable to withstand the tyrannical pressure and energy that ran recklessly through him. But he was completely unaware of this. He grit his teeth, gathering all the energy in his body and thrusting it towards where the energy of the profound gold divine fruit was, ramming both energies into the Gate of Limit.
Failure occurred again and again. Sweat streamed down Lin Ming like rain.
Two hours…
Four hours…
Slowly, Lin Ming's sweat began to mix with rivulets of blood. If it weren't for the strong regenerative powers of the Gate of Healing, then there would have simply been no way he could have supported himself for such a long time.
Even so, his face became incomparably pallid and his lips were deep purple. Because of the severe pain and twitching in his hands, the stone bed beneath his hands had been crushed to bits.
Even Demonshine was alarmed by this terrifying scene. Lin Ming was someone who cultivated with body and energy. At only a young 21 years of age, he had swallowed a profound gold divine fruit, constantly pushing the limits of his body. This resulted in him frequently having to bear enormous pain in the name of progress.
Another two hours passed. Lin Ming's lips were torn from his biting and both his eyes were bloodshot.
"Break for me!"
Bang!
In that instant, all of the energy and blood vitality within Lin Ming's body rushed into that spot at the base of his spine. Then, it was like something exploded there. Following that, blood shot out from that spinal area, blasting out hundreds of feet away like a crimson arrow.
After this blood shot out from him, Lin Ming collapsed. He fell onto the broken stone bed, covered with sweat, without even an ounce of strength left.
On his back, that strange jade-like sheen slowly disappeared and his skin became solid again, his muscles going back into hiding. After breaking through the Gate of Limit, he had used up too much strength.
"Lin Ming, I have to say I'm quite jealous of you and yet, strangely, I want you to succeed. You've reached the middle Revolving Core at only 21 years of age and you've also opened the second of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates. Even the Demon Emperor of the past is far inferior to you!"
Lin Ming didn't even have the strength to answer. He was only able to crawl up and sit straight. His arms trembled as he took out a pill from his spatial ring and swallowed it, meditating afterwards.
Meanwhile, the Revolving Core in Lin Ming's dantian crazily sucked in heaven and earth origin energy, helping to restore Lin Ming's physical strength.
Two hours later, Lin Ming opened his eyes. Those dark eyes seemed to contain all the thunder of heaven and earth, making those who saw them tremble with fear.
"Let's go." Lin Ming stood up. His vision was like a keen sword as it shined with an icy killing intent.
Chapter 710 – The Death God Comes At Night
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300,000 feet down, there was such poor visibility that it wasn't even possible to see one's own hands. Lin Ming quietly left the Giant Leviathan, sneaking into the vast and endless sea. A massive wave of pressure enveloped Lin Ming. But, with his abnormal defensive ability comparable to a treasure, bearing such water pressure wasn't too difficult at all.
Xuan Wuji had left a soul mark on the Giant Leviathan, but it was only to track its movements. As long as Lin Ming was careful, it wouldn't be too difficult to evade Xuan Wuji's perception.
Lin Ming swam 100 miles down the trench before turning upwards. As he restrained his energy, he quickly rushed towards the surface.
After reaching the surface in a single go, Lin Ming flew close to sea level, straight towards the South Sea Demon Region!
After being raided twice by Lin Ming and the Giant Leviathan, the South Sea Demon Region was entirely under total martial law. There was a massive scout line in the 5000-mile radius from the South Sea Demon Region. Once the Giant Leviathan's approach was discovered, this news would quickly be reported to the main island. Thus, it was no longer possible for Lin Ming to control the Giant Leviathan and create another massacre in the South Sea Demon Region.
As he flew along, Lin Ming discovered energies from three different layers of scouts. However, with their extreme Xiantian cultivation, it was simply impossible for them to detect Lin Ming.
Lin Ming easily bypassed these scouts. In just two days of time, he arrived at the South Sea Demon Region sect.
Night had fallen. During this dark night, a chilling wind blew across the lands.
It was an excellent time for assassinations.
Several months had already passed since the last time that Lin Ming had come to the South Sea Demon Region and razed the place to the ground. Many of the ruined buildings had already been rebuilt. It was only missing the medicine garden, great protective array, training arrays, and other such structures that would require between three to five months to rebuild. In order to rebuild these structures, one needed to invest a massive amount of manpower and all sorts of resources.
As Lin Ming saw the South Sea Demon Region that had mostly been rebuilt, his lips curved into a cruel smile.
Once Xuan Wuji was the only Elder remaining in the South Sea Demon Region, just what sort of expression would he have?
Completely bundling himself up, Lin Ming was like a bat in the night. He quietly snuck into the buildings of the South Sea Demon Region.
The night wind breezed past him. Lin Ming could taste the flavor of these Demon Islands mixing with the sea air; this sort of flavor tasted faintly like blood.
The dim moon was completely hidden behind the clouds, making the sky seem even darker. Lin Ming walked on a dark path, hearing the rustling sounds of insects wherever he passed.
After stealthily walking for a half an incense stick of time, Lin Ming came upon movements. He could hear the low and deep moans of a woman, her tender sighs rapidly rising. Lin Ming's mind stirred and he stopped where he was.
The South Sea Demon Region was a sect of obscenity; it was different from the killing path that the Demon Emperor had taken. The Demon Region disciples needed to have sex every day with various women, using them to increase their cultivation. Some of the women who lived at the South Sea Demon Region were forced, and some were completely willing to be used as cultivation tools. They were no different than those girls who tried to enter the Acacia Faction. After all, it was still joining a great sect. If they could curry some favor with a male disciple and obtain some resources, that would save them many years of hard work and effort.
Lin Ming placed his back to the window and extended his perception into the room. On baby pink sheets, he could see a round and buxom, veiled woman sitting atop a man, wantonly twisting around. As for that man, he was reaching out his disgusting hands and stroking her body.
The man's cultivation was at the Xiantian realm, but the woman was only at the early Pulse Condensation realm. Most female martial artists didn't have much martial talent; they only wished to breakthrough to the Pulse Condensation realm so that they could enjoy several dozen more years of youth. They never had much ambition to walk the road of martial arts to begin with.
Lin Ming stretched out his finger, and a wisp of dark green light appeared in the origin energy flow above his finger. Seeing this origin energy flow, Lin Ming was startled. His battle spirit had grown these past months!
For a martial artist, the earlier they formed their battle spirit, the greater its potential for growth in the future would be. As a martial artist trained and made breakthroughs, their battle spirit would slowly grow with them. Every breakthrough meant that the battle spirit would also grow. When Lin Ming first broke through to Revolving Core with the support of the Blood Demon Bone, he had fully formed his bronze-level battle spirit. Now, having broken through to the middle Revolving Core realm once more, Lin Ming's battle spirit had already passed from the bronze-level elementary stage to that of small success.
Every level of battle spirit was divided into four stages: elementary, small success, large success, and perfection.
Still, in the Sky Spill Continent, even an Emperor-level powerhouse would only reach a bronze-level battle spirit.
"My battle spirit is near small success of the bronze level. If I can reach Life Destruction in the future, would be I be able to reach perfection? If I reach higher stages of Life Destruction, would I be able to form a silver-level battle spirit? I wonder just how powerful a silver battle spirit is?"
Lin Ming's mind was filled with expectations. But now wasn't the time to think of these things. He flicked his finger, and the battle spirit fused into the air, shooting towards the two figures.
Swoosh! Swish!
Two wisps of air with battle spirits attached to them quickly shot out, instantly piercing through the man's and the woman's neck.
In that moment, the battle spirit plunged into their minds, making them immediately faint.
Lin Ming's figure flashed and he appeared right at their bedside.
On the bed, with fat buttocks and breasts splayed out in the open, the scene was infinitely revealing. Lin Ming pushed the woman off the male Demon Region disciple's body, and then placed a hand on his head.
Soul searching technique!
This was a secret skill of the demonic realm. Demonshine had used it before, and Lin Ming also studied it for convenience. With the intensity of Lin Ming's soul force and mind, mastering his ability wasn't difficult at all.
Because the difference in their soul force was far too great, Lin Ming was able to scour the Demon Region disciple's mind without injuring his spiritual sea, finding out whatever information he wished for.
"There are a total of seven Life Destruction Elders in total on the South Sea Demon Region's three islands…six at the first stage of Life Destruction and one at the second stage…."
Lin Ming tossed away the Xiantian realm disciple. After locking onto the location of several Elders, he quietly made his way over.
After forming a Black Hole Revolving Core, breaking through to the middle Revolving Core realm, and then opening another of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates, Lin Ming's strength had far surpassed the past him from a few months ago. Killing a first-stage Life Destruction Elder would simply be a joke now.
As for the man and woman who were having sex, Lin Ming simply left them where they were, unconscious. He rearranged them so that it seemed like they had fallen asleep from exhaustion. Lin Ming didn't really care about such minor trash as them. He had a very singular and explicit goal now: to kill every Elder here.
In the South Sea war, every Elder of the South Sea Demon Region was bathed in the blood of countless Wartime Alliance disciples. To the Wartime Alliance, a first-stage Life Destruction Elder was nearly the strongest war strength possible. It was nearly impossible to find a force to contend with them.
As he snuck his way along, Lin Ming relied on his own keen perception and powerful soul force to avoid another sentry post. He finally approached the great palace of the first Elder.
Carefully probing the situation, Lin Ming saw a gray-robed man. This old man was studying a jade slip with one hand while playing with two glass balls in the other. In front of him was a porcelain cup filled with a crimson, blood-like liquid.
"The first one…"
Lin Ming took a deep breath. He had noticed this Elder had attacked the South Sea Demon Region the first time around. This Elder's cultivation was only at the early first stage of Life Destruction. With Lin Ming's newfound abilities, killing him would only take a heartbeat.
Lin Ming quietly rubbed his spatial ring and withdrew the heaven-step spear.
At this time, the Elder stirred in his room. His eyebrows twisted together. Although he didn't discover Lin Ming, he could feel a thick killing intent aimed at him.
Who!?
The first-stage Life Destruction Elder reflexively moved to draw out his lance from his spatial ring. But at this time, the great wooden doors to his room suddenly shattered into fine powder as a highly concentrated spear light thrust straight towards him, aimed right between his eyebrows.
Before the spear light had arrived, the gray-robed Elder already felt an incomparable pain between his eyebrows, as if he had already been pierced.
In that instant, the gray-robed Elder's hairs all stood on end. He could clearly feel the specter of death looming over him!
"Haa!"
The gray-robed Elder issued a deep shout and a lance jumped from his spatial ring into his hands as if it had a mind of its own. He no longer had time to dodge. He decided to thrust his lance at Lin Ming, forcing him away by threat of mutual annihilation, but at this instant, the gray-robed Elder felt the space around him twist. In the next instant, that singular white spear seemed to teleport right in front of him.
A spear pierced right through his skull, and the power of a battle spirit erupted, instantly shredding that gray-robed Elder's brain to pieces, blood and pulp shooting out!
The Elder had instantaneously died!
Lin Ming hadn't chosen a weak point like the heart or throat, but instead the brain. This was to immediately kill his opponent without allowing him to even cry out.
"Done."
Lin Ming took away the gray-robed Elder's spatial ring and corpse. Afterwards, he quietly left the room. His first assassination here had gone smoothly.
However, just as Lin Ming was about to find the second Life Destruction Elder, a loud and deafening alarm horn sounded over the entire Demon Island. Then, torches lit up from all over, converging from all directions of the Demon Island, composing a massive line of flares.
Every Revolving Core Protector and Life Destruction Elder flew into the air, spreading their perception to search the entire area.
Lin Ming was startled. "I've been discovered!"
He felt he had done everything cleanly and quietly; he actually had no idea how he was found out.
"The South Sea Demon Region is truly worthy as a fifth-grade sect with thousands of years of inheritance; they have methods to guard against assassins!" Lin Ming muttered to himself. He guessed that there was probably a lifesoul jade slip or some other similar mark on the first-stage Life Destruction Elder. As soon as he died, this contingency was activated and he was found out.
The flying Life Destruction Elders and Revolving Core Protectors quickly locked onto Lin Ming's position. They soon surrounded him.
Since he was already discovered, Lin Ming no longer hid himself. He gripped his white spear and soared up into the air.
He wondered, did all of these martial artists surrounding him realize that their fate was to be chased down and slaughtered by him?
There were a total of six Life Destruction Elders. The one leading them wore a silver mask. He was the Demon Region Eastern Faction Sovereign!
This Elder instantly recognized Lin Ming. He clenched his teeth in hatred. "Little brat, so it was you again!"
Lin Ming glanced at the Demon Region Eastern Faction Sovereign. Just ten days ago, he had followed Xuan Wuji to chase down the Giant Leviathan. Although his attacks weren't too strong, he had attacked the Giant Leviathan's already opened wounds, causing no small amount of damage.
After the Giant Leviathan had submerged deep inside the sea trench, the masked Elder could no longer help due to the massive water pressure. Thus, he returned to the South Sea Demon Region.
Lin Ming sneered. "That is also what I want to say. So it's you again, eh? I was just about to look for you to settle some old debts, but I never thought you'd deliver yourself right to my doorstep!"