"You found me, huh?"
Inside the temple, Su Nan also looked up, his gaze locked on the woman in the sky.
One couldn't deny that these demon kings who could control the power of heaven and earth had an extraordinary sensitivity in their five senses. Just by staring at each other, they could sense each other's presence.
"Very well, since you're in such a hurry to die, I'll grant your wish," Su Nan said calmly.
Originally, he had wanted to wait for the woman to cause more destruction before making his move. That way, he would harvest more incense offerings and wishful power. After all, things that come too easily are often not valued.
"As expected, just a Xuan-tier," the woman remarked as she stared in Su Nan's direction. Her long hair billowed, and her appearance was stunning. Normally, she should have been pleasing to the eye, but at this moment, she exuded a chilling aura.
Flames surged, turning into a sea of fire that covered the sky above Mount Song. The power of heaven and earth gathered, and in an instant, the entire sky above Mount Song was enveloped in a crimson sea of fire.
The violent power surged as if to tear apart the heavens and the earth.
Su Nan's expression remained unchanged. He didn't plan to waste time as he had done with the middle-aged demon king. He wanted a quick and decisive battle. Since he needed to appear as a holy figure, the sooner the battle was resolved, the better.
He used his racial talent, Starlight Mysterious Body.
Under the starlight, his spiritual power and vitality doubled, and his essence energy tripled!
At this moment, his spiritual power instantly reached the level of the peak of the Xuan-tier.
All his essence energy was converted into vitality energy and then fully infused into his spiritual power.
Suddenly, his spiritual power increased by eight to nine times compared to before!
His spiritual power, which had been at the late Xuan-tier, was now comparable to that of the early King-tier!
The immense power of his spiritual power made Su Nan feel as if he could kill the woman in the sky with a single blow.
"What is this ability?" the woman in the sky exclaimed.
Naturally, the woman immediately noticed Su Nan's change in the air and sensed the surge in his aura, causing her delicate eyebrows to furrow slightly.
"Interesting."
Even though Su Nan's aura now matched hers, she showed no signs of panic. Instead, she looked at Su Nan with interest.
She could tell that Su Nan's forced enhancement of his power was definitely not sustainable.
In Su Nan's current state, it would be as simple as crushing an ant to kill a Xuan-tier peak. However, dealing with her, a King-tier, was a different matter.
As long as the opponent was at the early King-tier, no one could kill her in a short amount of time.
She was confident about that.
However, just as she had this thought, her face suddenly changed.
She actually felt Su Nan's aura rise again.
In Su Nan's spiritual space, the pool formed by the convergence of incense offerings, which had a diameter of over ten meters, had disappeared entirely and had all been transformed into spiritual power.
His spiritual power, which had already been comparable to the early King-tier, had once again skyrocketed.
With a breath, his spiritual power soared again, reaching the mid King-tier!
With the infusion of incense offerings, his spiritual power had directly increased by one level. It seemed insignificant, but the increase was enormous.
It was worth noting that at the King-tier, each small realm's increase was significant.
"What is this feeling?"
The powerful force made Su Nan intoxicated.
However, before he could fully experience the surging power, countless chaotic thoughts flooded his mind, making him feel like he was going mad.
Anger, resentment, dissatisfaction...
Numerous negative emotions rushed into his consciousness like a bursting dam, giving him a feeling of impending mental breakdown.
"These are... the negative emotions from the incense offerings!"
Su Nan instantly understood what was happening, and his heart sank.
Last time, when he attempted to use the incense offerings, it was just a negligible fraction, not even one-thousandth of what he had now. At that time, he didn't notice any problems, but now there was trouble.
There were a large number of negative emotions within the incense offerings, and this was something he knew.
However, he hadn't expected there would be so many.
It was important to note that this was incense offerings that had been refined by the Divine Wish Spirits. He couldn't even imagine what would happen if he used unrefined incense offerings.
"It seems that using incense offerings directly to enhance my spiritual power is not advisable."
If people from the Celestial Dynasty of the Heavenly Kingdom had all done what he did, using incense offerings directly to enhance their spiritual power, it wouldn't have been long before they played themselves to death before the Heavenly Clan even had to intervene.
People who practiced the Dao of Incense Offerings had powerful spiritual power, but that didn't mean they could directly use incense offerings to strengthen their spiritual power.
Perhaps using it once or twice wasn't a problem, but if used frequently, there would definitely be problems.
Moreover, when his spiritual power reached the mid King-tier level, Su Nan noticed another issue.
He felt as if his spiritual power was about to burst!
"Is there a limit to the growth of spiritual power?"
He instantly thought of a possibility, and his heart sank again.
However, now was not the time to think about these things.
His eyes locked onto the woman in the sky, who had sensed the change in Su Nan's aura and was about to leave.
"Trying to run? It's too late!"
Su Nan couldn't let her escape. If he allowed the woman to leave now and she returned after his Starlight Mysterious Body effect wore off, he would be in trouble.
Without hesitation, his spiritual power transformed into a spear and shot out.
Unlike before, when he used his spiritual power to attack silently, this time his spiritual power had solidified into substance!
Danger!
A previously unprecedented danger enveloped the woman, and she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
Her perception of danger as a demon king told her that if she didn't leave now, she would die!
Without thinking, the woman tried to escape.
But her speed couldn't match the speed of Su Nan's spiritual power.
The spears broke through the air as if they had directly traversed space, and in an instant, they were already in front of the woman.
In the distance, people gazed up at the sea of fire that covered a radius of dozens of miles, their hearts filled with despair.
In the face of such a powerful entity capable of large-scale attacks, their attempts to escape were meaningless.
"Buddha's manifestation! Buddha's manifestation!"
Many people cried out in their hearts.
Prayer was the only thing they could do.
It seemed as if their prayers had an effect.
Suddenly, everyone saw the woman in the sky let out a miserable scream, and with splatters of blood, her body stumbled and almost fell from the sky.
"What... what's going on?"
Everyone was stunned and didn't understand what was happening.
Only some Ling-level players with far better eyesight vaguely saw something piercing through the woman's body.
But it didn't end there.
Before everyone could react, two more spears were shot in quick succession.
Su Nan held nothing back and, in an instant, his spiritual power turned into three spears and was launched.
But don't underestimate these three spears; they were the entirety of his spiritual power!
With the launch of three spears, his spiritual power was instantly depleted.
The result did not disappoint him, though.
The spears tore through the air, and as a demon who practiced the Way of Law, the woman had no way to withstand such an attack.
Her body was pierced by the three spears, and she could only let out a miserable scream before her blood dyed the sky.
She could no longer manipulate the power of heaven and earth, and her body fell like a stone from the sky.
Fast!
Too fast!
From the moment Su Nan took action to the woman falling from the sky, everything happened in the blink of an eye.
"Buddha has manifested?"
"It must be Buddha's manifestation!"
"Buddha has truly manifested once again!"
Although there was no appearance of the Golden Buddha this time, naturally, everyone attributed the woman's fall on Mount Song to the Golden Buddha.
Countless people cheered and knelt in the direction of Mount Song.
"Could it be that there are really gods and Buddhas in this world?"
At this moment, even those who had been skeptical of gods and Buddhas began to waver.
In the command center of Greater Jing City:
When they saw the woman's bloodstained fall from the sky, they fell silent.
"Who is that? How could she be so strong?"
"While Wang Nan also killed a demon king, it seems that this person is even stronger than Wang Nan."
"Zhang Yang practices the Way of Law, and this person on Mount Song can only be that guy, Lang Thirteen!"
...
"Master, did you kill that demon king?"
"What realm are you really in?"
On Mount Song, the two high-flying demon beasts were dumbfounded.
Their master was very strong, and they had witnessed it a long time ago when he single-handedly killed a demon king with one blow.
However, they had never expected that Su Nan would instantly kill another demon king now!
That was a demon king! Not like them, these low-level Ling-tier demons.
The two demon beasts exchanged glances, and at this moment, they were very certain that their master's realm had already reached the King-tier.
They even suspected that their master was at the late King-tier, or even the peak of the King-tier!
Thinking about this, the throats of the two demon beasts rolled, and they couldn't help but feel relieved that they had dared to attack Su Nan in the past.
Su Nan looked at Eagle High and said, "She's just severely injured, she shouldn't be dead. Go and bring her back."
"Be careful not to be noticed."
He could see very clearly that although the three spears had pierced the woman's body, they had all missed vital points at the critical moment.
The reason the woman fell from the sky was entirely due to the severe damage to her spiritual consciousness.
Of course, even if she hadn't been injured in vital areas, being pierced by three spears, coupled with the damage to her spiritual consciousness, she was probably not far from death now.
"Alright!"
Eagle High flapped its wings and turned into a stream of light, quickly flying towards the spot where the woman had fallen from the sky.
Due to the presence of the woman, there was no one within several miles of Mount Song at this time, and no one noticed. A black eagle flew rapidly through the forest, following the trees between the mountains, and in a few breaths, it arrived at the foot of the mountain.
A moment later, the woman was brought back to Su Nan by the black eagle.
"Indeed, she's not dead."
When a demon beast dies, it transforms back into its true form, but the woman did not.
It could be seen that there were three fist-sized blood holes on the woman's left shoulder, chest, and abdomen.
However, at this moment, under the powerful regenerative abilities of a King-tier demon, the three blood holes on the woman's body had already begun to heal.
His heart moved, and a blood-red seal appeared in his hand.
Bloodline Servant Seal!
"Master, are you planning to..." Seeing the Bloodline Servant Seal in Su Nan's hand, Eagle High and Black Armor, the two demon beasts, exchanged glances and understood what Su Nan intended to do.
"Yes." Su Nan nodded.
Reality was not a game. In the current reality, a King-tier demon was definitely the pinnacle of combat power. Killing such an existence would be a waste, as he couldn't sell the demon's body for blood essence in reality.
Rather than killing her, it was better to keep her and have her guard the incense burner in the future.
"You two keep an eye on her for now. If she's about to wake up, notify me immediately."
The Bloodline Servant Seal required cooperation from both parties for it to work. It couldn't be forcibly imprinted.
Now that the woman's spiritual consciousness was severely damaged and she was unconscious, there was no way to use it. They would have to wait until she woke up.
"Master, she's a King-tier demon. If she wakes up, with our current strength..." Eagle High said with a bitter expression.
"Don't worry, you two just need to keep an eye on her for now. I'll personally watch over her when I return later."
He naturally wouldn't really leave a King-tier demon to be watched by two Spirit-tier demons.
He needed to enter the game, and he couldn't watch over her himself. He would have his Avatar watch over her when he returned.
After instructing the two demon beasts, Su Nan transformed into an inconspicuous little bird and flew away.
Two King-tier demons were taken care of.
Everyone in Hua Country was excited.
Wang Nan and the manifestation of the gods and Buddhas on Mount Song naturally became the hottest topics of discussion among the people.
Countless people wanted to go to Mount Song to pay their respects and take pictures.
Upon receiving this news, some other countries were not calm.
Some were envious, some were jealous, and many countries sought help from Hua Country.
However, some countries began to have ulterior motives.
Some people actually wanted to lure the demons into Hua Country.
Fortunately, the official response from Hua Country was swift, and squadrons of fighter jets were dispatched to prevent this.
Although human firearms had little effect against King-tier demons and demon kings, they were very effective against the people trying to lure the demons.
Time passed.
More than ten minutes later, the spatial portal within Hua Country's borders finally closed completely.
What relieved everyone was that during this time, there were no more King-tier demons.
...
[The third official beta test has officially begun, with a total of one billion players.]
[Starting today, when a player's bloodline is perfected in the game, it can be synchronized to reality.]
[Starting today, the game will refresh daily at midnight, and player statuses will no longer be reset. When a player dies and revives, they will be in a severely injured state, and their strength will only be able to exert one-tenth.]
In the game, Su Nan appeared at the exit.
As the game announcement had stated, his status was not refreshed this time.
One Force Shattering Heaven and the negative effects of Starlight Abyssal Body were still present.
At the same time, his bloodline power had not recovered in the slightest. He had used Spatial Teleportation twice in reality, so he could only use it twice in the game as well.
Now, the only power he could use was the bloodline of the Way of Law.
Without wasting any time, he quickly took out a life-restoring elixir to recover.
When most of the power consumed by the bloodline of the physical body and the secret power bloodline had been restored, he looked at the announcement again.
[In this official beta test, a large-scale event called "Twelve Constellations" will begin. During the event, a special space called the "Twelve Constellations" will be opened, and players can enter it through the quest panel.]
["Twelve Constellations" corresponds to the twelve provinces, and each constellation has a Constellation Lord, Constellation War God, Constellation Law King, and many Constellation Guards. Killing Constellation Guards, Constellation War Gods, and Constellation Law Kings has a chance to obtain Constellation Artifacts, while killing the Constellation Lord will guarantee a Constellation Artifact.]
[During the opening of "Twelve Constellations,"
players can earn corresponding points by killing players from other constellations as a constellation unit. Points can be exchanged for items in the points shop. Deaths in "Twelve Constellations" will not count towards the daily death count.]
["Twelve Constellations" will open today at 20:00. At that time, the world chat channel will also be opened. Players, please look forward to it.]
(End of this chapter)