Chapter 13: hardcore soul tempering!
The azure Blue-haired woman felt like throwing up when she saw the disgusting look in his eyes, she raised her black sword and pointed in the direction of the black-robed group then she said: "you want to kill me? I'm afraid you five alone are not enough!!"
"Kekeke, such big words from a cornered little g...." The bald head man snickered but mid laughter his gaze suddenly landed on a tree behind Elder long and gave out a low shout "Boluxi now!" It was unknown who he was speaking too
Following his shout another black-robed man suddenly descended from a tree behind elder Long!, he held a dagger and directly stabbed towards the back of her head aiming to kill her in one short!.
It happened so fast and it looked like there was no way she would escape
Fortunately, Elder long's spiritual sense has been silently inspecting her surroundings as soon as they appeared, so she immediately felt the ripple in space behind her, she snorted and she began to exude an incomparably sharp aura and for a moment she became ethereal like a sword then she made a 360 degree turn like a whirlwind.
Not only did she manage to evade the sudden attack she waved her sword powerfully horizontally and neatly cut off the attacker's head, the sword intent she released at that moment was hair raising strong and swift.
The black-robed man's eyes remained wide open as it fell, his last thought was: 'how was she so fast!"
Seeing the sudden attack had failed and how easily the sixth black robed man was killed, the bald haired blacked robed man's expression changed, his eyes revealed a surprised light and he subconsciously asked, his tone has carried a trace of shock: "you actually managed to comprehend sword intent and even enter the dao path of wind?"
Elder long shrugged and said indifferently "what do you think?"
Hearing her confirmation the Bald haired black-robed man's face grew uglier as fear gripped his stone-cold heart, he knew there was no way he could complete his mission now that his target had Dao path level mastery of wind, one had to know that people that walked the Dao path speed far surpassed others of the same realm so their survival skills were the best of the best.
Cultivatiors that comprehended the do of the wind are the bane of assassin alike, so it will require an unexpected ambush kill her or a large gap in cultivation to suppress her speed.
Both methods were impossible to for the bald haired black robed man's team to achieve, not to mention she could use that terrifying sword intent!!
Thinking up to this point he decisively made up his mind and sent secret voice transmissions to his four companions "prepare to retreat! Our intel was wrong this time, we can't kill her instead things might get dangerous for us"
"Roger"
"On your lead" the other four robes replied with voice transmissions, they also felt fear in their hearts too and would have ran away even if the bald haired elder didn't give the order.
As the black-robed group was secretly conversing Elder Long's sweat-cold voice sounded once more "only a few people knew I was coming here, tell me who sent you all and how you found me, or prepare to stay on this island forever!" her voice was low and intimidating at the same time.
The bald haired black robed man snorted: "you overestimate yourself little bitch"
Saying that he quickly took out a talisman then he threw it on the ground!
Upon hitting the floor the talisman began to spew out greyish fog that covered the view of Elder long, and as for the black-robed men, they turned in the opposite direction and began to run like crazy away from her.
But how could elder Long let them have their way after they tried to kill her, she released her sword aura once more and locked unto the five of them, then like a predator she began to hunt them down!.
soon she arrived before the closest black robed figure, this one in a particular was a Woman with very curvy body and voluptuous mellons dangling as she ran and was currently cursing her nine generations for being too slow.
"curse this stupid island for suppressing my flight, I have to get a better escape running technique when I return " the curvy black-robed woman mused as she ran with her leg on her head but then she suddenly felt a chill run through her spine and a dangerously sharp killing intent lock onto her.
"hmmm she caught up, how's that possible " the curvy black-robed woman cried in panic and turned her head to look without stopping for one bit.
Before long she saw the azure robed woman standing on a tree nearby staring at her coldly like a predator staring at their prey before devouring it.
"please let me off just this once, please I have kids and my husband awaits my return, I'll change my ways if you do" The curvy black-robed woman begged as she continued to run, she didn't for one second think of attacking, her voice sounded like an harmless princess that was being bullied by monsters and could Sway most men's hearts.
Unfortunately Elder Long wasn't moved by and pleas, but instead she pulled her sword and made a slash in the air at lightening fast speed!
Immediately the atmosphere changed and the the sky darkened as sword in elder Long's hand shot out waves of sword qi that swept towards the curvy black-robed direction and before long one could hear ear splitting screams as the curvy black robed woman body was ripped to shreds spatttering blood everywhere.
Just like that an early Emperor realm expert capable of ruling entire nations died without an intact corpse as for Elder Long, she didn't even take another look at the pile of corpse as if killing the woman was nothing special, Instead she spread her divine sense to track the remaining sword qi she planted and before long she transformed into a strick of blue flaming light and moved through the dense forest in search of another prey!.
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Back at the nine celestial stairway.
Adriel stepped foot on the 81st stairway and he couldn't help but show a surprised expression when he saw the divine beasts dwelling on it, unlike the other beasts he encountered he felt a sense of dread arising from the depts of his soul body even though they didn't release any aura, there were merely a thousand of them but their majesty surpassed all the other beasts below combined.
At this point, it dawned on Adriel that even though his soul realm increased recently it was very ordinary compared to the divine beast in the same realm.
Thankfully he had the mysterious energy or there was no way he would have gotten this far or have hope of advancing further.
As he was thinking the one thousand beasts divine beasts on the floor noticed his presence and they greater him by unleashing their powerful auras.
Their auras were so powerful and due to their inborn mastery of elements, their auras became visible and showed different colors namely: red fiery type aura, blue ice type auras, and so on, all converge and formed beautiful multicolored lights and swept towards Adriel like a tidal wave.
Adriel couldn't help but admire the spectacle before him but soon snapped out of his when he felt the immense pressure rapidly approaching him like tidal waves and a thousand mountains, their auras were at least ten times more terrifying than the previous floor.
He quickly focused and reinforced the mysterious energy shield around him.
Boom!!
Soon the multicolored aura light hit his golden barrier!
And as he expected the mysterious golden energy swallowed the multicolor light like a hungry black hole.
'As expected of my cheat hehehe at this rate I should be able to reach the top in no time' Adriel smiled but he didn't want to advance yet.
His soul power was too ordinary for his liking so he wanted to temper his soul.
'My soul still has the residue of that low-grade divine soul-nourishing light, even though it can help my soul breakthrough in a short time it should be able to quickly heal me' thinking up to this point he decided to let 30% of the divine aura pass through the mysterious energy barrier
Immediately he did, he involuntarily let out a pained scream when the tremendous pressure hit his soul: "Arghhh!!"
It was as if his soul was placed in a furnace, he felt his soul freeze then melt then get pierced, and then at the same time get hammered by mountain-like pressure.
He experienced constant agony as his soul began to shatter slowly but thankfully the pure white light came to the rescue and Adriels soul rapidly recovered.
This painful cycle continued and Adriel struggled through it but luckily his soul became stronger and stronger until his soul was completely able to resist the pressure without splitting apart.
"More!" Adriel shouted then he allowed 60% in directly doubling the pressure.
His tempering continued, and his soul continuously broke through eventually he increased the pressure to 95%
His action didn't go unnoticed and It didn't take long for the divine beasts to feel something was off and they directly withdrew their auras, they expected the puny human to be crawling under their majesty, but what they witnessed surprised them, although he human look like he was in pain his soul kept healing due to that strange white light
Adriel smiled disdainfully and said "is that all you got, I must say as divine beasts you should be ashamed of yourselves"
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Immediately he said that they grew really angry, they felt like attacking unfortunately they couldn't and could only unleash all their aura wanting to destroy Adriel's soul!
Adriel snorted then he completely remove the mysterious aura and took the brunt of the pressure head-on.
Time flew by and Adriel's soul forcefully withstood the pressure without dissipating!!
He grew excited
His perseverance paid off!
His soul power was now comparable to that of divine beasts at the same realm as him.
"It has been fun guys" Adriel said with a satisfied smile on his handsome face, before he directly advance to the 82nd step!