With the reconciliation between Dugu Yan and Shui Bing'er, Skywater Academy and Heaven Dou Imperial Academy subsequently held another seven-person team battle.
Since Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's main team only had Dugu Yan as a Spirit Ancestor, despite their best efforts, they still lost to the spirit fusion technique of Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu from Skywater Academy.
Given the special circumstances between Shui Bing'er and Dugu Yan, after discussions between Li Xian Yue and the three education committee members, Shui Bing'er was granted an exchange student position to temporarily remain at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy and research spirit fusion techniques with Dugu Yan.
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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. Inside Slaughter City at this moment,
Ignaz had become a blood-soaked figure. His originally black clothing was now stained red with blood. He gripped the Blood Thunder War Spear, his eyes sharp and vigilant as he watched his surroundings.
"Bang—"
A house door was kicked open with one foot. Before Ignaz could enter, over a dozen fallen spirit masters wielding weapons came rushing toward him at high speed.
Without hesitation, Ignaz swiftly swung the Blood Thunder War Spear—thrusting, slashing, and beheading in one fluid motion. The dozen fallen spirit masters died instantly, their blood essence becoming nourishment for the war spear.
"We just want to live. Why, why must you, White Demon, kill us all?"
"Why?"
A fallen one's body trembled continuously as he cried out in unwilling rage, tears streaming down his face.
But in the next moment, a blade stabbed directly through his back. He collapsed and died, while the perpetrator stepped on the corpse and shouted loudly:
"Brothers, this White Demon refuses to spare us, so we must fight him to the death. Come with me and kill this man."
Just as he prepared to attack, Ignaz once again executed his third spirit skill: Sea Wave Phantom - Void Resonance Ocean Kill. Nearly two hundred fallen ones hiding in the house all died.
As Ignaz stepped out of the house, the entire stone structure collapsed with a thunderous crash, and large amounts of dust completely erased all traces of the slaughter.
Without any lingering attachment, Ignaz continued toward another house to kill, one after another, the slaughter never stopping, the sounds of terror never ending.
At this time, a total of 25 Spirit Douluo and Spirit Sages were in one area, fighting fiercely over two spirit bones. More than ten Spirit Sages and Spirit Douluo already lay dead on the scene, leaving only bodies destroyed by the numerous battles.
However, with an explosive sound from the sky, a war spear filled with ultimate killing intent fell from above, piercing straight through a Spirit Sage's entire body in one strike.
"All of you, die."
Before those Spirit Douluo and Spirit Sages could react, Ignaz was already before them, his right hand directly pulling out the Blood Thunder War Spear embedded in the ground.
"Red Moon Tribulation - Six Paths Spinning Devastation Slash."
The Blood Thunder War Spear spun rapidly, transforming from one into six. The high-level fallen spirit masters, who knew only to use their spirits or armor to block attacks without any defense strategy, were all cut in half at the waist, their heads separated from bodies, becoming surging blood essence that flowed into the war spear.
Before this, whether they had besieged him or remained aloof, over 400 high-level fallen spirit masters had died under Ignaz's war spear.
This was equivalent to participating in over 40 consecutive Hell Slaughter Arena battles.
The other high-level fallen spirit masters who had narrowly escaped from Ignaz's self-created spirit skills looked at him with lingering fear. Their footsteps gradually retreated, faster and faster, then they turned and fled frantically, their hearts madly chanting:
"White Demon, don't kill me, please don't kill me."
However, in the next moment, several high-level fallen spirit masters running slowly behind were violently thrown out, smashing through two stone houses consecutively and dying with shattered skulls.
Immediately after, the third self-created spirit skill was executed again:
"Sea Wave Phantom - Void Resonance Ocean Kill."
All spirit masters within a 60-meter range had their mobility impeded. Their faces showed great alarm, and some fallen spirit masters had already wet their pants, with round droplets of liquid floating in mid-air.
Without much hesitation, Ignaz's figure moved, and several heads were successively separated from their bodies, transforming into blood essence.
Ignaz walked toward a house on the right side, sensing the spirit power fluctuations emanating from within, and quickly jumped into an underground passage that had been deliberately damaged.
Following the passage all the way down to the end,
"Whoosh—"
A sword gleam thrust toward him. Ignaz quickly dodged, and his war spear rapidly struck out, seeming to pierce only air with no effect whatsoever.
Then the torches in the underground passage lit up in succession, and an extremely massive black energy blast shot toward Ignaz.
"Die, White Demon."
At this moment, Swift Wind Dog at the end of the cave had both hands tightly pressed against the handles of a two-meter-high massive device, speaking angrily.
Seeing himself in an unavoidable situation, Ignaz immediately executed his first self-created spirit skill:
"Stormy Night - Thousand-Li Piercing Extreme."
The Blood Thunder War Spear shot directly toward the black energy beam. The extremely high penetrating power of his first self-created spirit skill rapidly suppressed the incoming black energy beam.
"Hiss—"
"Boom—"
The massive explosion directly sent Swift Wind Dog flying. The support columns of the cave, ten meters deep underground, were directly blown apart, and one side of the tunnel had already collapsed.
When the injured Swift Wind Dog prepared to quickly leave, a war spear shot directly toward his face.
"I still have other things, no—"
He had just taken out a golden object and was about to press it when the war spear pierced through the top of his skull, pinning him to the wall and killing him instantly.
Ignaz walked forward and carefully examined the spirit tool fragments that had nearly cost him his life, shaking his head helplessly.
"This spirit tool looks exactly like the spirit cannons from ten thousand years later. Unfortunately, the violent explosion has completely destroyed everything useful."
However, when he turned his head, he saw a shiny object on the ground not far away, with a storage spirit tool beside it.
Ignaz quickly picked up these two items and input spirit power to examine what was stored inside. His expression gradually changed from serious to delighted.
Besides the two spirit bones that had been intercepted earlier, there were no fewer than forty to fifty spirit tools of third grade and below, along with some spirit tools he had never seen before. Even various assembly parts for the giant cannon that had attacked him earlier were there.
More importantly, the storage spirit tool contained many continental minerals—just common minerals alone weighed about one ton, with rare minerals weighing three to four thousand pounds.
While quickly exiting the cave, Ignaz took out an extremely common yet very unfamiliar cowhide map.
"The areas circled on this map—Gold Iron, West Ridge, Forging Mountain, and other mountain ranges—aren't these mineral-dense regions? And this map is even more detailed than the maps sold in stores. Could this be...?"
Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Ignaz quickly turned the cowhide map over to its back side. A landmass about two-thirds the size of Douluo Continent appeared before him.
Ignaz carefully examined the terrain marked on the map and the names of various major powers. He was both shocked and delighted.
"It seems I've obtained even better news. This continent must be what will later become the Sun-Moon Continent."