Chapter 33: Next, It's Your Turn!
Deep in the Relic Battlefield, tens of thousands of miles in. Above a towering forest of withered trees.
Zhuge Qing floated in the air, holding the Seven-Fowl Li Fire Fan. With a casual wave, streaks of pure white flame shot out in all directions. The forest beneath his feet, filled with resentment, instantly ignited with a great fire.
Hundreds of resentful souls were swallowed by the flames, and several Qi Refinement Realm demonic beasts were also buried in the sea of fire.
Zhuge Qing beckoned casually with an indifferent expression, retrieving several demon cores from this desolate forest and collecting them into his bag.
Zhuge Qing's gaze fell deeper into the Relic Battlefield.
The Foundation Establishment demonic beasts he encountered along the way were few and far between, and the speed at which his points increased was even slower.
If this continued, although he had many disciples assisting him, the gap between him and other Candidate Saint Sons would only grow larger.
"I wonder if those seven fellows can resolve Lin Xuan!"
Zhuge Qing casually took out a Soul Bead the size of a peach pit. The Soul Bead stored the essence souls of the seven people, and it was relying on this single Soul Bead that Zhuge Qing could control those seven people.
Crack, crack!
Suddenly. On this jade bead emitting a faint green light, a shocking scar abruptly cracked open. The scar spread rapidly across the entirety of the jade bead, finally causing the entire jade bead to explode into a cloud of powder, scattering all over the ground.
"This..."
Zhuge Qing's pupils shrank abruptly. Once the Soul Stone of the seven people shattered, he naturally knew what this presaged.
"They died. But Lin Xuan is just a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator. When I met Lin Xuan back then, although his talent was extremely strong, at most he could only match a cultivator at the fourth or fifth level of the Void Core Realm."
"Now I sent out seven great generals under me in one breath, yet they actually failed too. Not only that, these seven people all died!"
Zhuge Qing's expression instantly became gloomy. Perhaps Lin Xuan had some trump card to perish together with others.
Immediately. Zhuge Qing took out another tracking talisman; this talisman already had no reaction whatsoever.
There were two possibilities for this. The first possibility was that Lin Xuan was truly dead, and the mark on his body was also destroyed.
The second was that Lin Xuan had already discovered the tampering he had done and resolved this tracking mark by himself.
Although Zhuge Qing comforted himself that it was the first possibility, for some reason, a feeling of unease always remained in his heart. Furthermore, this feeling was constantly amplifying in his heart.
"This place is not suitable to stay for long!"
Zhuge Qing sized up the surroundings. Just as he was preparing to leave.
A Black Lizard like a small mountain swooped down from the mountain range on one side. It whipped up a burst of wild wind and even snapped a group of withered trees in the withered forest at the waist; its momentum was extremely strong.
"Roar!"
The Black Lizard opened its giant mouth with fangs and came roaring.
"Golden Core Realm demonic beast!"
Seeing this massive black shadow attacking like a mountain, and sensing that suppressing feeling on the Black Lizard's body, Zhuge Qing was shocked in his heart.
This was the outermost region of the Relic Battlefield where even Foundation Establishment Realm demonic beasts were hard to find, yet a Golden Core Realm demonic beast actually jumped out directly.
Furthermore, looking at its momentum, it was that ferocious.
"Seven-Fowl Li Fire Fan!"
Zhuge Qing protected his body with the high-quality imitation magic treasure in his hand. At the same time, a burst of raging flames like ocean waves erupted from the Seven-Fowl Li Fire Fan, showing a trend of submerging the Black Lizard.
Meanwhile.
On the back of the Black Lizard, a beautiful silhouette enveloped by a stream of demonic energy suddenly appeared.
At the same time, with a casual wave of her hand, a small golden shield flew out from her sleeve robe. Under the urging of injected divine consciousness, it grew in the wind. In just a few breaths of time, it became a giant shield several zhang wide, protecting the front of the Black Lizard.
It blocked the flames outside.
"Person of the Demon Race!"
Zhuge Qing sensed this stream of extremely pure gloomy and cold energy, and surprise appeared in his eyes. Just as he wanted to take out his identity token to ask other disciples for help.
Whoosh~
A piercing strong wind appeared out of thin air from behind Zhuge Qing.
Immediately, Zhuge Qing clearly sensed a terrifying force coming from his back. The precious armor he wore and its defensive array were instantly activated.
Abruptly, a transparent golden protective shield firmly protected Zhuge Qing within it.
Bang...
Lin Xuan's punch, exerted with all his might, smashed fiercely onto the protective shield like a meteor falling at extreme speed.
Accompanied by a loud noise, Zhuge Qing's body was forcibly blasted back a dozen steps, and ripples even appeared on the bright golden protective shield.
"So hard!" Surprise appeared in Lin Xuan's eyes.
Even an ordinary Fourth Grade body-protecting magic treasure would have been shattered by his punch in his normal state just now, yet this bright golden protective shield was merely shaken a bit.
"Asura Body First Layer!"
Lin Xuan's divine thought moved. At the same time, the nearly one thousand Python-Dragon cell particles within his body roared in unison, instantly undergoing demonization.
The Creation Divine Dragon Art circulated to the extreme!
"Great Gale Blade Technique!"
Finally, Lin Xuan even added the Great Gale Blade Technique. His right fist was wrapped in a touch of azure as he instantly crossed a distance of a dozen steps and shattered Zhuge Qing's protective shield.
Zhuge Qing's pupils within the protective shield suddenly enlarged several times, revealing a shocked expression.
This protective shield was a Fifth Grade magic treasure, yet it was actually shattered by this punch of Lin Xuan.
In Zhuge Qing's line of sight, that massive fist of Lin Xuan kept enlarging. Finally, he only barely raised both hands to protect his chest.
But the next moment, he was swallowed by that giant force like a tsunami and smashed onto the earth. His muscles and bones were all broken, and the wounds on his skin cracked madly, directly turning him into a man of blood.
Holding his already broken right hand, Lin Xuan instantly landed beside Zhuge Qing.
Just now, he used his arm to replace a weapon to display the divine ability, but it could not withstand the power of the Great Gale Blade Technique and had already broken into two halves.
"Great Devouring Technique!"
With a thought from Lin Xuan, spiritual energy gushed out continuously from the wounds of that heavily injured Zhuge Qing, being devoured by Lin Xuan.
At the same time, the residual medicinal power of the Nine Orifices Hunyuan Golden Pill within his body was also playing a role.
Lin Xuan's broken right arm healed in just half a breath. The Python-Dragon cell particles within his body also began to transform.
The four hundred and eighteenth...
The four hundred and nineteenth...
...
The transformation of the four hundred and ninety-fifth Python-Dragon cell was completed...
After he exerted too much force, it instead triggered the medicinal power existing within his body, and the number of his Python-Dragon cell transformations reached straight to the count of five hundred!
Phew~ So refreshing!
Feeling the intrepid power within his body, Lin Xuan comfortably exhaled a mouthful of turbid breath.
As for Zhuge Qing on the ground, he had been sucked into a dried corpse, and the Image Recording Talisman he carried with him was also stepped on and broken.
Finally, Lin Xuan took down the storage ring on Zhuge Qing's body and threw his corpse into the Demon Suppression Tower.
Lin Xuan originally wanted to let Murong Qianqian take action to subdue him. However, although Murong Qianqian had some means, dealing with Zhuge Qing would definitely be somewhat strenuous for her.
It was better to fight fast and decide the outcome quickly.
Meanwhile, Murong Qianqian, who was standing on the head of the Black Lizard, clearly saw this process. The eyes looking at Lin Xuan were full of dread.
"He can actually directly devour other people's spiritual energy to replenish himself; even essence blood can be refined!"
Murong Qianqian could not understand what kind of heaven-defying inheritance Lin Xuan had actually inherited.
The reason she could switch from spiritual energy to demonic energy was because she could use secret techniques to communicate with a Nascent Soul Realm demonic beast acting as her puppet, borrowing the demonic beast's power to complete the switch between spiritual energy and demonic energy.
But Murong Qianqian had an illusion that the demonic energy on this Lin Xuan was so pure that it did not seem like it was borrowed.
"Alright, next, it is your turn!"
Lin Xuan turned around with an indifferent expression, looking at Murong Qianqian standing on the head of the Black Lizard as he spoke.
Although his tone was indifferent and casual, like softly narrating daily life, it made the fine hairs on Murong Qianqian's entire body stand up and her spine go cold!
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