ASER - Chapter 123
Chapter 123: Cool or Not?
Currently, her main spoils of war were as follows: a Level 7 Reef Whale spiritual core (with corpse), 5600 Level 5 spiritual cores (including the part snatched by Han Zhuo), 8000 Three-headed Shark corpses, 100,000 Bloodvine Barnacle corpses, and Han Zhuo's storage equipment.
The assets in all of Han Zhuo's storage equipment were as follows: 600 Level 5 spiritual cores, 800 skeletal remains, "Han Descendant Bloodfire," and the rest of the miscellaneous items were worth a few hundred million...
Actually, there were also some cultivator corpses. Nothing much else; compared to the gains above, they were just small trinkets. But what pleasantly surprised A'Diao was that one of the cultivator's storage belts contained a large amount of talisman materials, some of which were Level 5. It was estimated that this fellow was also a potential talisman prodigy, but unfortunately, he was killed by A'Diao before he could develop.
Who asked them to rob the wrong person?
"Han Zhuo has so many skeletal remains. It seems the value of this kid's noble status is far higher than that of Zhao Guang, Li Yuankai, and the others. Wasn't Hanzhou said to be the weakest? It seems it's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix."
Toilet was slightly embarrassed, "Don't say that. His ancestors were indeed glorious."
A'Diao: "What's the use of having been glorious? The weakness of Danzhou and Hanzhou lies in the decline of their once strongest families. Danzhou's was even completely wiped out. As for the Han Clan, although they still hold a dominant position in Hanzhou, you can tell from this kid's 'there are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me' reaction that there are quite a few people trying to assassinate him. This shows that the Han Clan is indeed weaker than the other three prefectures now."
Toilet: "I remember you specifically searched for the strongest clans dominating the five prefectures: the Yelu Clan of Danzhou, the Xiao Clan of Qingzhou, the Dongguo Clan of Linzhou, the Han Clan of Hanzhou, and the Li Clan of Yunzhou. But Li Yuankai is not the heir, so he doesn't inherit the marquis title. Otherwise, Zhao Guang, the heir of the Yue Clan of Linzhou, wouldn't be on equal footing with him."
The Li Clan was stronger than the Yue Clan, but Li Yuankai's family status was inferior to Zhao Guang's.
Combining the two, their status was roughly similar.
This was also why Li Yuankai wanted to curry favor with Yue Xingxi. Because he wasn't qualified to marry into the top-tier families of the five prefectures like the Dongguo Clan, but he could choose to marry into the Yue Clan, the second strongest in Linzhou, to elevate his status. However, the Yue Clan probably had no such intention.
"Never mind, that's other people's business. This 'Han Descendant Bloodfire' is a bit interesting. It seems to be the bloodfire Han Zhuo used, but that's a talent-based bloodline ability, right? I've never seen it in other cultivators before. Qu Jiangnan said that the bloodlines left by the strongest Forbidden Masters of the First Era would inherit some of their abilities. This bloodfire should be a type of bloodline. Strange, Han Zhuo should be a proud person. Even if he cherished his life, he wouldn't have handed over his family's legacy manual so easily... Is there some kind of restriction on this thing? Like, if an outsider opens it, their location is revealed or they get marked or something."
It wasn't A'Diao's fault for being cautious; such things were indeed mentioned in the First Era anecdotes told by the old Daoist.
Toilet: "There are such restrictions. You should be careful."
A'Diao thought for a moment, opened 303, went inside, and then specifically set up the strongest protective shield and armor for herself before finally opening it.
Buzz... The moment it opened, a wisp of bloodfire indeed shot towards her glabella, but it was blocked by the shield she had specifically set up.
And 303 also showed that a layer of marking fluctuation had just appeared on the dimensional space wall, but because it was across spacetime and the distance was too great, the marking failed.
"Good heavens, an imprint and a mark together. No wonder that kid let me take it away without worry." A'Diao felt a lingering fear and only then realized that these old families with deep foundations had extraordinary methods that she couldn't afford to underestimate.
Although A'Diao's heart was pounding, she discovered the book was self-immolating... Damn!
A'Diao flicked her fingers, separating the disappearing pages and memorizing them at the fastest speed...
Rustle, rustle, all the pages quickly burned to ashes.
Toilet: "Did you memorize it? But for this kind of bloodline-related thing, it's useless even if others memorize it. You should have gained some understanding of it at the time, right?"
A'Diao memorized about eighty or ninety percent of it and indeed gained some understanding. As for whether it was useful, it was hard to say. "Anyway, it's a method to stimulate bloodlines. It's fine if I don't have the Han family bloodline, but what if I have my own family's bloodline? After all, my aptitude is so awesome... Forget about the Chen family. What if the Xie family side... Ugh, forget it. Chen Ran and her are both hard to describe, probably no significant bloodline there."
A'Diao had indulged in a little fantasy, but when she thought of Chen Ran, the sycophantic, hypocritical "pure stream" official with zero cultivation aptitude, and Xie Yuqing, who spent all day in the Small Spirit Gate on beauty treatments, her head immediately throbbed.
Forget it, forget it. One must be content.
A'Diao took 400 of the 6200 Level 5 spiritual cores and converted them into 8 million energy points, first upgrading Toilet to Level 11. After discovering that upgrading from Level 11 to Level 12 required 50 million energy points, she took out another 2500 Level 5 spiritual cores and raised Toilet to Level 12.
She had thought that the remaining 3300 Level 5 spiritual cores might be enough to get close to Level 13.
The result...
Level: 12 (Current Energy: 0/300,000,000. Note: Level 12 provides 5000 cubic meters of storage space and can automatically absorb ambient spiritual energy to upgrade all exchanged skills by +15 levels.)
Mental Power: 46 million.
Synchronous Spiritual Energy Release: 30,000 wisps.
Exchanged Skills:
All skills +101, 202, 303... Currently all Lv. 25.
Exchangeable Skills:
1: Intermediate Curse Speechcraft Blind Box (Randomly awakens a speechcraft curse skill, content as its name suggests. Exchange once requires 1 million Mental Power, upgrade once 500,000 Mental Power.)
2: Appoint Soldiers Summon Generals 404 Array (Group offensive grand array. Within this array, using the Appoint Soldiers Summon Generals Daoist art can enhance the power of the latter's soldiers and armor, as well as their ability to recover vitality and blood. Specific consumption is calculated based on the degree of soldier and general attrition, converted from Mental Power and personal Spiritual Power. Exchange requires 30 million Mental Power, use once requires 5 million Mental Power, subsequent consumption calculated separately, upgrade once 10 million Mental Power.)
3: Mental Power Will Cultivation Method Volume 4 (No exchange needed, can be directly imparted by Toilet via enlightenment.)
4: Grade B Aptitude Marrow Cleansing Formula (Auxiliary medicinal supplement formula. Exchange requires 50 million Mental Power. PS: Recommended for use when body impurity cleansing and bone separation and displacement have reached maximum effect, for optimal results.)
5: "Space Notes Volume 1" (Space-type secret art, exchangeable for 300 million Mental Power.)
The 404 Array was already exchangeable. A'Diao had felt quite satisfied, but now her heart felt empty again.
Here it comes, here it comes, more good stuff, but it's so damn expensive.
A'Diao's saliva almost dripped from her eyes, but she swallowed and decisively exchanged for the 404 Array first. Then, she kept 1000 of the 3300 Level 5 spiritual cores and fed the rest to her two Great Spirit Gates. A'Diao then saw that the height of the Great Spirit Gates had expanded to ten meters.
Ten-meter-high Great Spirit Gates, they looked magnificent, hehehe!
The spiritual energy released by the two Great Spirit Gates was also so dense it was beginning to turn liquid.
The higher the level, the better the effects of 101 and 202. Then, A'Diao set her next plan.
First, consume skeletal remains to widen meridians and simultaneously increase mental threads to 999.
Second, complete bone separation and displacement 300 times, use up both Formula C and D, push cultivation to the peak of dual A-rank, and then charge towards Forbidden Master.
Third, turn the 1000 Level 5 spiritual cores into talismans as war reserves for the current volatile situation in the Southern Sea Region.
The plan was simple, but the simpler it was, the more efficient. It indeed suited her current optimal progress model.
Soon, A'Diao calmed her mind and entered a focused cultivation mode.
But the plan was perfect, reality was harsh...
Seven days later.
Inside the cave space's Spirit Plant Body, spiritual liquid was still being released, but basically couldn't be stored.
A'Diao looked at the already 1500 mental threads, speechless, her tone hesitant and apprehensive, "Is this normal for me? Qu Jiangnan said that in my current situation, before reaching Forbidden Master, the upper limit cannot be expanded through Daoist orthodox rules. The limit for stripping mental threads is fixed, firstly by the total amount of the spiritual body, and secondly by willpower control. She predicted that getting a hundred threads before Forbidden Master would be my absolute limit. She didn't know the size of my spiritual body, so her prediction wasn't wrong. But I knew it myself. I previously estimated that 999 threads would be about right, aiming for the auspicious and nice-sounding number 999. But now it's damn 1500, and it feels like I haven't reached the limit yet. Moreover, my meridians haven't reached their limit either. What's going on? Has my spiritual body's aptitude been cleansed further?"
She didn't have Qu Jiangnan's Heavenly Eye, nor the method for spiritual body introspection. Her understanding in this area was truly limited. Usually, she relied on Toilet to check her aptitude. However, when stripping mental threads before, she could vaguely sense a boundary, but now the situation had exceeded her plans, and she couldn't figure it out.
This was originally a good thing, but the time cost couldn't keep up, and neither could the resources, mainly the skeletal remains.
1300 pieces were consumed too quickly.
She had thought that such a large amount of spiritual liquid accumulated over seven days would be purely enough for making talismans and breaking through to Forbidden Master. But now, none of that was accomplished; everything was stalled at the mental threads and meridians.
Toilet: "I suddenly feel that although the resource environment expansion curve you've achieved through schemes and forceful acquisition has seen exponential growth, your aptitude improvement curve is even higher. That's why you still feel like you don't have enough resources."
Toilet: "Your spiritual body has indeed been cleansed further. Part of it is due to Formulas C and D, but a larger reason is that you previously risked confronting the reef whale's spiritual body. That stimulated the solidified part of your spiritual body, unsealing a portion of it. This is a tremendously good thing."
It was a good thing, and A'Diao couldn't feign dislike like a "green tea"... but it really was quite annoying.
Stimulated by the reef whale and Mysterious Person A, she now felt "there are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me." She wanted to advance to Forbidden Master to protect her life, but now that the upper limit of her mental threads had expanded, she had to continue investing time and resources, systematically maximizing the cultivation prospects of Spirit Attachment and building her foundation to the limit.
"No wonder the frequency of bone separation and displacement has multiplied several times, directly reaching 800 sessions. It's probably because a part of my spiritual body was cleansed, strengthening it and increasing my tolerance for bone separation and displacement. The same principle applies to the meridians."
Actually, A'Diao could have directly started pushing for Forbidden Master. After all, she didn't need to worry about spiritual energy resources. It was just the time cost and the cost of skeletal remains that were... But after thinking it over, and remembering Toilet's smug excitement when it saw Spirit Attachment and urged her to become its disciple, she could foresee the future prospects of this thing.
Plus, the prospects of having more meridians were even clearer.
For the long-term future, A'Diao gritted her teeth.
"Then I'll continue stripping them!"
"Strip them to the current limit! I hope it won't disappoint me in the future. At least, I should be able to easily hang Qu Jiangnan up and beat her, make her serve me tea and water, and make her Mental Power burst out biubiubiu! And that top-tier conquerable target, Yue Xingxi, put a sack over her head, drag her into a dark room, hang her up and beat her... She'll definitely give a lot of Mental Power, hehehe!"
Full of ambition, she excitedly resumed her cultivation.
Toilet: "???"
Seriously, why do you always want to hang up beautiful women and beat them? Are you a pervert?
However, A'Diao was suddenly bewildered.
"What's going on? Suddenly I'm getting several million Mental Power. Are those people regretting giving me the corpses?"
What A'Diao didn't know was that at an outpost in B Zone, not far from her, the destination Commander of a Thousand and his men had gone to, the situation was currently not good.
Carnage was everywhere.
Not just them, a total of over three thousand cultivators at the outpost were resisting with all their might.
At this moment, the Commander of a Thousand and the others felt like they'd been royally screwed.
Seven days ago, they had eagerly come to this outpost to settle down, originally intending to find a place to rest, digest their resources, and collectively agree on a unified story for outsiders.
Because there were so many of them, the people at this Outpost No. 2 had asked. Upon learning they were refugees, they were sympathetic and welcoming, even telling them to settle in without worry.
Their resource gains were not exposed. Just as they were getting comfortable and happily thinking about digesting their resources, Outpost No. 2 was suddenly attacked by Fishmen the very next day.
Damn!
Moreover, these Fishmen were even more troublesome than the shark swarms. Sharks couldn't come ashore and could only manipulate water for ranged attacks from underwater. But Fishmen were different; they were amphibious and humanoid. They could condense tangible fishbone spears for ranged attacks with incredibly strong penetration. Importantly, they were very agile, smarter than sharks, and understood teamwork and stealth assassination.
Of course, the most troublesome thing was their numbers.
Over twenty thousand of them, all Level 5, and among them were three Level 6 Fishmen bosses.
It seemed that demonic spirits from two other Level 5 lairs had integrated and launched a joint attack.
This situation usually wouldn't occur, but coincidentally, both lairs belonged to the Fishmen race, which facilitated their alliance.
This was too difficult. It would have been better to just find a random island and hide with Big Brother.
Aaaah!
These thousand-plus people were filled with unspoken frustration and regret, but they couldn't retreat. It would be dishonorable, and in truth, they couldn't retreat anyway; they were surrounded.
It's over!
Three thousand people holding out for seven days were already at their wit's end. The more desperate they became, the more they missed a certain Big Brother.
Big Brother, where are you?! Come quickly!
On the other side, the Commander of a Thousand's mentality was quite different from theirs. Rain lashed against the goggles on his face, washing them with a cold gleam, but also producing a sizzling, corrosive sound.
The battle situation was too urgent, and the army's repair masters were insufficient. Most people's armor was in bad shape. The only ones in slightly better condition were some cultivators with deeper foundations who had a few spare sets of armor on hand and were temporarily fine.
But most people couldn't hold out much longer.
"Lao Zhang, that Commander of Ten Thousand Big Brother you mentioned, can you contact him?" The garrison commander of Outpost No. 2, under immense pressure, had already asked the Commander of a Thousand twice to contact the other party for rescue.
The Commander of a Thousand smiled bitterly inwardly, thinking that Big Brother (A'Diao) definitely wouldn't have guessed that while she was previously wary of being schemed against by the military, now that a crisis had arrived, the military wouldn't scheme for shit; they'd be desperate to invite help with a grand sedan chair.
"No, the signal is too bad, I can't contact them at all. B Zone has had restricted communication recently anyway, and soon this area will be completely sealed off by the Fishmen Shamans' arts using water vapor."
"There's no way."
The garrison soldiers of Outpost No. 2 despaired.
It was too difficult, they were about to fall. Once the defenses were breached and the Fishmen swarmed ashore, they would be slaughtered.
"Prepare to scatter. Save whoever can be saved..." The leader of Outpost No. 2's garrison was a Commander of Ten Thousand, one rank higher than the Commander of a Thousand, and had already prepared for the worst.
Just as he was about to give up all hope, at this very moment, a flying ship broke through the clouds.
High-attack, powerful cannons bombarded, forcefully breaking the water vapor seal.
In the water, some Shamans who weren't killed by the ranged attacks quickly dived underwater, looking at the flying ship tens of thousands of feet high, and spoke.
"It's a high-grade human flying ship, acid-resistant. People from the powerful clans of the Five Prefectures might be here. Be careful!"
"Attack, attack, attack!"
The Fishmen race wanted to forcibly break through the island outpost's defense line before reinforcements fully arrived, so they frantically intensified their attacks. The main Fishmen forces at the front line charged ashore even more madly...
A dense wave of attackers, flesh and blood flying, Daoist arts raging.
High above, the flying ship dared not descend, fearing its energy core would be blown up by the Shamans' ranged attacks. So, it opened its hatch... Three hundred people on flight devices swooped down.
The Commander of a Thousand looked up at the sky and saw the Yue Clan's emblem.
In an instant, the woman at the forefront flickered through space, evading the Fishmen's ranged attacks, and successfully landed on the ground.
She casually threw out a large pile of essential supplies.
"Distribute the armor and repair fluids, allocate the medicine properly. Hold on for another seven days. I have successfully contacted the military; reinforcements will come." Yue Xingxi wasted no words. After speaking, she went to the front line. Zhao Guang didn't rush to fight but stayed in the rear to oversee the distribution of resources and manage logistics.
Why venture deep into B Zone at such a critical time? It was because both siblings believed the situation in B Zone was even more urgent than in A Zone, and with no support, the internal front line was likely to collapse completely. Their support at this time would be most effective. Before coming to the southern coast, their family had analyzed the various difficulties the front line here might encounter and had prepared a large batch of supplies in advance.
Before coming to B Zone, Yue Xingxi and her brother had specifically contacted the military, proposing to explore B Zone and provide support if there was an urgent battle. The latter was overjoyed... and that led to the current situation.
Weren't they afraid of their efforts being in vain?
Zhao Guang looked at these wilderness cultivators fighting bloody battles, and at the human corpses nearby that no one had time to collect, his heart burning.
Thinking of the constant admonitions from his family elders and the education in big-picture thinking he had received since childhood, he took a deep breath.
If you're afraid, retreat and let others go.
Since you've stepped up, you can never retreat.
With resources and support, everyone's morale was immediately greatly boosted.
A'Diao wondered why the Mental Power was gone again. Had those people all died?
Forget it, never mind. Time to cultivate.
Another seven days passed.
Under A'Diao's full-powered cultivation, the skeletal remains finally... reached 0.
Currently, she had pushed her mental threads to 5555 and her meridians to 333.
But she had also finished making 500 Level 5 energy talismans. Because she was still unwilling to invest so much time, seven days ago she had started trying to simultaneously enter the stage of controlling threads. As long as they didn't leave her body, it seemed she could enter this stage prematurely, as she had done it several times before.
Then... could she try to control the threads to make talismans?
While splitting threads, she could also control the already differentiated threads to make talismans, and also practice the effect of her 333 meridians transporting spiritual power.
This could be considered a reasonable training item, killing two birds with one stone.
High difficulty was fine; practice makes perfect...
This "practice makes perfect" came at the cost of scrapping 500 Level 5 spiritual cores. That's right, only 500 energy talismans were made from 1000 spiritual cores, but the effect was terrifying.
A'Diao: "I feel like I can mass-produce Level 6 talismans now. I just lack Level 6 spiritual cores and Level 6 talisman materials."
The feeling of her foundation improving was too exhilarating. She suddenly didn't regret pouring in resources.
Becoming a Forbidden Master would certainly make her powerful for a time, but she wouldn't be able to enjoy this exhilarating feeling of standing at the peak of the aptitude pyramid and seeing a more distant future.
She could already envision the grand scene of herself as a Forbidden Master, commanding wind and rain...
"But my current combat power should be able to sweep through Upper Rank Transcendent cultivators, right? Maybe I could even fight a Glimmer ranker and survive."
Just the fusion of her two spirit clusters and the explosive power of her 333 meridians were enough to make her spiritual power intensity comparable to the peak of Upper Rank Transcendent, not to mention the Yuan Staff, her physique, and the enhancement from various skills...
A'Diao felt excited just thinking about it, but she quickly calmed down.
The current limit had been more or less reached.
Toilet: "Mm, what I see here is about the same. Any more mental threads and meridians would be more troublesome if you can't control them. It's just right now. Anyway, you're out of skeletal remains. Are you going to start pushing for Forbidden Master?"
A'Diao: "Of course."
Others were extremely cautious when pushing for the Forbidden Master rank, possibly needing protection from seniors or preparing a large amount of backup resources. But she didn't need to; her foundation was too high. The breakthrough was a matter of course. The only question was where to break through.
Toilet reminded A'Diao to choose a desolate place. Her aptitude was too high, and the celestial phenomena caused would be very intense, likely attracting some powerful demonic spirits.
Also, there might be Glimmer rank experts in B Zone. If she encountered one and was ambushed, it would be troublesome.
A'Diao deeply agreed. Anyway, all resources were used up. A'Diao directly came out of seclusion. As soon as she came out, she sensed something was wrong.
The low temperature was one thing, but the torrential rain seemed even heavier, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
A'Diao looked directly towards the location of Outpost No. 2. Had demonic spirits attacked there?
But A'Diao only glanced at it before piloting her flight device towards the sky.
She was going to high altitude.
A'Diao flew to the maximum altitude her flight device could reach.
Ten thousand meters high, dark clouds swirled, and lightning seemed visible at close range. There was no air to speak of here, and her armor's respiratory system issued a warning.
A'Diao stopped here. After sensing the terrifying, majestic thunder and space elements nearby, she finally decided to choose this place.
Toilet: "Advancing to Forbidden Master has three important steps. First, break the spirit cluster and condense the spiritual core. Second, open meridians and connect the core to the meridians. Third, determine the main elemental talent and establish the system of laws. You chose here because you feel your physique's attributes are more suited to thunder and space?"
A'Diao: "Isn't that obvious? 'Space Notes' even appeared in the skill list, which means it's officially recognized that I have space talent. This talent is incredibly rare. Regardless of its level, since I have it, I must develop it. After all, escaping and saving my life depend on it. As for the thunder element, I've cultivated so many Daoist arts, and there's basically none I feel I can't control, but it's also clear my comprehension of thunder arts is the highest. Plus, with my two spiritual cores, one for each element is just right."
That was true. Toilet also quite agreed.
As A'Diao spoke, she began to charge at the threshold of Forbidden Master. The process would surely be smooth; it was just that the commotion would also be truly immense.
Right at the beginning, her 333 meridians and terrifying aptitude caused the elemental bodies within a ten-li radius to riot.
And the range of this riot was still expanding at a terrifying speed.
The cultivators at Outpost No. 2 naturally didn't sense anything due to the difference in altitude and distance, and also because the cultivation of the people on the island was insufficient. However, technicians inside the Yue Clan's flying ship faintly saw an energy cluster at the edge of the radar's detection range... but it was too far away.
"To be able to detect it from this far, that energy cluster over there must be incredibly strong, at least a Level 8 demonic spirit."
"Damn, B Zone is too terrifying. The two young masters won't be in danger, will they?"
"Where are the promised reinforcements? Did the military stand our family up?"
"Couldn't be. It was agreed upon before. Miss and Young Master took great risks to come and support."
They were worried. Meanwhile, a fleet of military warships, still 20 kilometers from Outpost No. 2, broke through the clouds, tearing a path through the torrential rain. However, only one ship headed for Outpost No. 2; the rest flew towards the high altitude.
Were they attacking the sky?
What, was there an avian-type lair in the sky?
The main ship, under the protection of escort ships, flew tens of thousands of feet high and soon entered the thundercloud layer. Because of this, their more advanced sensors also detected an extremely strong energy cluster in an area a hundred kilometers away from them.
"A Level 8 or even Level 9 demonic spirit? Do we need to be on alert?"
"No need, it seems to be stationary."
"Strange, how can there be such a strong demonic spirit in B Zone?"
"Ignore it for now. Quickly activate the celestial phenomenon disruption device, otherwise B Zone will really become the next A Zone."
"Yes!"
In the core cabin of the main ship sat a massive device, a hundred meters tall. It resembled a high tower, covered in dense totems and talismans, yet it was also filled with the cutting-edge technology of the Tang Song Nation's modern science.
This was a Grade A new type of Forbidden Item, and also a scientific research achievement of national first-class level.
It activated, and the ceiling hatch at the top of the main ship opened.
The tip of the tower released a mysterious and dazzling silver stream of light... which shot into the higher clouds, densely spreading out and causing more clouds to gather and settle...
Rumble.
The sky changed.
Coincidentally, the two regions undergoing massive changes were far enough apart not to interfere with each other for the time being. However, on a large island situated between them, with cloud phenomena swirling around its peak, two enormous Sea Vultures were digesting the spiritual cores of other demonic spirits. Sensing the energy fluctuations to their left and right, both Martial Falcons were a bit stunned.
The male bird was the duller one; its first reaction was shock. But the female bird was cunning and said, "I sense it. The aura on the left is vaguely familiar. Wasn't it over there last time..."
"Ah, yes, it's him! He also besieged me!"
Actually, no. A'Diao was fighting He Luo at that time. But this male bird harbored extreme resentment from the last incident, purely making baseless accusations, so it shrieked and cursed angrily.
The female bird slapped it with a wing, "Shut up! What are you squawking about? I see she's advancing to Forbidden Master. This person must be a top-tier prodigy from a super-elite human family, with a supreme treasure in hand that can provide her with such strong energy. This person is also extremely ambitious, daring to advance within B Zone. It seems her schemes are not small. Follow me."
"Let's go ruin her future, take her life, and seize her supreme treasure!"
"Yes, let's go kill her! Finish her off!"
The two Martial Falcons, full of valor and spirit, flew towards the left area.
A'Diao was completely unaware of this; she was indeed focused on her breakthrough.
Indeed, no mishaps occurred. When it came to breaking through, she truly could.
Spirit clusters shattered, spiritual cores formed, all 333 meridians successfully connected. The third step was the main element, and here she got slightly stuck.
"What are these dark clouds doing! Damn!"
A'Diao hadn't expected that when she was absorbing the thunder and space elements to condense her elemental law imprints, the cloud element would also rush in like crazy.
But the problem was, these were all dark clouds.
It made her spiritual core region pitch black. If the spiritual cores couldn't emit light, one would think her body contained a black hole.
"I don't have spiritual cores to carry these cloud elements..." A'Diao had a headache. Just as she was thinking about expelling these dark cloud elements from her body, she suddenly sensed two auras approaching.
Damn!
A bit familiar.
Those two Martial Falcons!!!
Toilet: "Your luck..."
Once the two Martial Falcons arrived, they would definitely try to ruin her future and take her life. How could they give her time to expel the cloud elements and successfully establish her elemental law imprints?
She had hidden tens of thousands of meters high and still attracted these two Martial Falcons. What kind of fate was this!
A'Diao felt numb, but her nature was decisive. After steeling her resolve, her thoughts raced, and she suddenly manipulated a large number of mental threads straight towards her spiritual core region.
She was distributing the dark cloud elements throughout her entire body.
Meridians, flesh, blood – stuffing them wherever she could.
Toilet: "..."
Wait, your line of thinking is?
A'Diao didn't explain, just operated frantically.
She remembered ancient texts saying that the cloud element was one of the most special elements. Clouds are formless, their laws elusive. Cultivators of it were often unpredictable. But it essentially coexisted with thunder and space. You could tell from the elements in the sky earlier: thunder and space repelled other elements but uniquely coexisted with clouds. By the same logic, they could coexist in her body too.
And who said elements could only form spiritual core law imprints and not body law imprints? To put it bluntly, a spiritual core was an energy core. But her body had long been tempered to such a degree, filled with 333 meridians. What was the difference from an energy core? Of course, it was very difficult to form a physique law imprint, hundreds or thousands of times harder than a spiritual core law imprint. But she had 5555 mental threads! She had an incredibly terrifying spiritual body!
She was a prodigy blessed by the heavens!
Prodigies had to do what others couldn't.
Guide threads, establish law imprints.
Triple law imprints.
Thunder spiritual core law imprint, space spiritual core law imprint, and also a cloud physique law imprint!
Her body was like a celestial phenomenon, undergoing unpredictable changes, transforming into another small world.
A small world of cultivation.
A small world of the Dao.
For her prospects, for her future, for the hardships and ambitions she had carried all along her path.
Do it!
The male and female Martial Falcons, currently with the mindset of "male and female master thieves making their fortune," flew madly, approaching that sky region at their fastest speed.
Female bird: "I can feel it converging. That person is in the process of establishing elemental spiritual core law imprints. Quick! This is our perfect chance to ambush. Just one hit, and she'll suffer cultivation deviation and court her own death!"
Male bird: "No, I want to kill her instantly! Let her repent in hell for offending me!"
Go, go, go!
They finally broke through the whistling, dense layer of dark clouds and saw the figure amidst the crisscrossing lightning.
Kill!
The two flapped their wings, their metallic feathers, radiant and capable of piercing mountains and armor, shot out like needles... Swish, swish, swish they tore through the air, passing afterimages in a blink, instantly traversing the void.
And then arrived right in front of A'Diao...
When she opened her eyes.
The metallic feathers, inches away, twisted.
Twisted and broke.
She raised her hand, pointing her staff.
A thick, distorted black lightning bolt crackled. With a single leap, it instantly jumped from here to the male bird five hundred meters away.
Zzzap... The male bird felt its body go numb. Then, an armor-piercing critical hit. Its internal organs were all electrocuted into charcoal, and its brain core also cracked, leaving only a Level 6 spiritual core.
The female bird froze for a moment, then suddenly turned and fled.
It was very smart. Its powerful sensory talent, originating from a Level 7 demonic spirit, made it foresee that the situation was wrong. This human before it had already transformed, transformed to a level it could hardly imagine.
A casual strike with Glimmer-level killing power – what kind of level was this?
She had just broken through to Forbidden Master, and she hadn't even used Daoist arts!
Run, run, run!!!
The female bird had just started to flee when it suddenly felt a terrifying energy aura above its head.
It looked up.
A person holding a staff leaped down from the clouds. Where the staff pointed, a ferocious thunder sword condensed.
Condense, descend!
Exterminate Evil!
As soon as it was seen, it descended.
It shrieked, all its energy surging towards its head, and also launched its strongest mental shockwave attack at A'Diao.
But before it could see this human instantly killed by its mental attack, it belatedly realized its bird head had been pierced by a straight thunder sword...
And from the perspective of the sky, there was a bird in the heavens, so fat and large. But dark clouds swirled around a formless body, and lightning crisscrossed, a sword emerging.
After the thunder sword pierced through, it dissipated into the vast sky. The corpses of the two Martial Falcons fell one after another. And that figure shot down, collecting the two enormous bird corpses in succession, just as they were about to fall into the deep sea.
Stepping on the void, a backflip, swoosh! The automatically arriving flight device landed at her feet. Then, she casually twirled the Yuan Staff, which controlled lightning, in a cool sword flourish between her fingers.
Steady and stable, exuding an aura of dominance.
At that moment, lightning crawled over her body, flowing like threads. The swirling dark clouds could only follow her figure.
Soaring between heaven and earth, unstoppable across B Zone.
Delivering bird heads from a thousand li – a light gift conveying deep sentiment. She accepted it with a smile and was greatly pleased!
However, at this moment, her calm face showed no trace of pride. Internally... she was screaming like a groundhog, "Awooo, awooo!"
"How was it, how was it, stinky Toilet? Did you record it for me? Damn! How am I so cool!!!"
"Hahahaha!"
Toilet: "..."
I am Toilet, not a prop you hired for a photoshoot.
But... it was pretty cool, damn!
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