Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294
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You would only possess the strength through this kind of upgrade. It is impossible for your martial arts comprehension to have increased as well. You would at most be able to only express the battle prowess of the third or fourth layer.”
In front of me, such battle prowess is practically trash!” he said disdainfully.
Ling Han’s right hand moved and a sword appeared out of thin air—this was no ordinary iron sword, but the Demon Birth Sword!
Today, he was definitely not going to spare Luo Ji Feng.
“This, this, this, this, this, this, what kind of Spirit Tool is this?!” Luo Ji Feng’s expression went through a dramatic change. Even if the martial intent in the Demon Birth Sword had not been restored, a Level Ten Spirit Tool was still a Level Ten Spirit Tool, after all. Merely one look at the patterns engraved on the body of the sword would arouse a powerful feeling of hopelessness, as if one was facing an ultimate elite standing at the apex of strength.
“Level Ten Spirit Tool, Demon Birth Sword,” Ling Han said calmly. He did not hide anything this time round.
“Level Ten Spirit Tool! Level Ten Spirit Tool!” Luo Ji Feng mumbled, powerful greed instantly appearing on his face. “I understand, the basis for your confidence is this Demon Birth Sword! Hahahaha, a Level Ten Spirit Tool is indeed powerful, but you have no way to activate the martial intent within it, so at most, it would only be a threat to me due to how sharp it is!
I have to thank you for gifting me with such an ultimate treasure. Hahaha, only I deserve to have this Spirit Tool!”
“Is that so?” Ling Han extended his left hand, and with a mental command, weng, weng, weng, weng , veins appeared on his hand, shining with a colourful light.
Pu!
Luo Ji Feng instantly choked. This was martial intent, the genuine thing!
“How could this be, how could this be!?” He was instantly driven mad. If one used an alchemical pill to forcibly upgrade one’s own cultivation level, that would only mean a strength upgrade. It was not possible for martial arts cultivation to be upgraded as well.
Could it be that Ling Han was really in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, yet he had only forcibly suppressed his cultivation level previously?
Yet, a seventeen-year-old Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artist who was also an Earth Grade alchemist… no matter how he looked at it, it was nonsense. How could there be such a monster in this world?
No matter how he dared to contemplate, he could never imagine that Ling Han’s soul used to belong to an ultimate elite of the Heaven Tier who was the Alchemy Emperor. Thus, not just Earth Grade alchemist, he could even immediately transform into a Heaven Grade alchemist.
And as long as there was enough power, with his divine sense of the Heaven Tier, how could it be that he could not form martial arts intent?
Ling Han lightly shook the Demon Birth Sword. Weng , the precious sword shone, and two patterns gave off a faint light. This meant that he had managed to revive a portion of the martial intent in the Demon Birth Sword.
Even if it was only a little bit, how awesome was a Level Ten Spirit Tool? A terrifying might washed over him, instantly causing Luo Ji Feng’s heart to tremble like crazy. His legs weakened so much that he had almost fallen to his knees on the ground.
Previously, merely the decree of a Spiritual Infant Tier elite was enough to make Fu Yuan Sheng and the other two Spiritual Pedestal Tier elites only capable of resistance but unable to make a move. A Level Ten Spirit Tool was naturally even more awesome. Unfortunately, Ling Han was only able to activate two patterns after all. Moreover, they were only faintly shining, so the martial intent released from them was too limited. As a result, Luo Ji Feng still managed to keep a large part of his battle prowess.
“I shall accept such a precious sword as my own!” Luo Ji Feng was astonished, but at the same time, he was even more excited.
Chapter 307
Chapter 307: Kill Just the Same
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Luo Ji Feng was extremely astonished, because Ling Han was actually capable of reviving a Level Ten Spirit Tool. Though it was only a little bit, it was already enough of a shock. However, he also thought that if even Ling Han was capable of reviving a Level Ten Spirit Tool, then what about him?
If this Demon Birth Sword fell into his hands, it would definitely be able to express even more powerful might.
This was a Level Ten Spirit Tool!
“Hahahaha, I shall accept this kind of precious Tool as my own!” He laughed loudly and stretched out a large hand to grab Ling Han. A black cloud expanded and numerous skulls appeared within it. It was as if the door to hell had been opened and innumerable spirits of the dead had exited.
Ling Han suddenly understood, and exclaimed, “So you are from the Thousand Corpse Sect, no wonder your aura felt familiar!”
“What!?” Luo Ji Feng was flabbergasted. “How could you possibly know of the existence of our sect?”
“Nonsense, you’ve already used the secret arts of the Thousand Corpse Sect right in front of my face. If I still can’t recognize it, then what is the use of having this pair of eyes?” Ling Han snorted.
Luo Ji Feng was extremely depressed. There had been no signs of the Thousand Corpse Sect for tens of thousands years. Moreover, in the last 10,000 years, their martial arts suffered a tremendous blow, leading to a lapse in their inheritance. There shouldn’t be anyone who would be able to recognize the secret arts of the Thousand Corpse Sect in this era, yet how could this brat from out of nowhere recognize it with a single look?
“Brat, it seems that there are a lot of secrets you’re hiding!” Very quickly, his eyes shone with a strange light. A seventeen-year-old who was an Earth Grade alchemist and simultaneously in the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, this could no longer be described as merely a miracle. He even later took out a Level Ten Spirit Tool and even managed to recognize the secret arts of the Thousand Corpse Sect with a single look. He definitely had to be hiding a colossal secret.
His heart throbbed wildly. If he was able to capture Ling Han, who knows, it might be the greatest chance in his entire lifetime.
“Don’t dream such wonderful fantasies. It’s impossible,” Ling Han shook his head.
“You know what I’m thinking?”
“Nonsense, just look at how you’re practically salivating. How could it not be obvious what kind of devious ideas you’re contemplating?” Ling Han said with a derisive snort.
Luo Ji Feng naturally had not lost so much composure that he was salivating. He gave a humph. At this moment, the surroundings were completely covered by his black Qi. One after another, skulls rolled over and over, making him feel very confident in himself.
“Brat, when I take you down, not only will I gain your fated opportunity, you will also be tortured incredibly at my hand. I can guarantee that you will be utterly miserable!”
Ling Han snorted, and sneered, “Just a damn eunuch who has no d*** between his legs? No wonder you have a catamite. Since you’re cultivating the evil arts of the Thousand Corpse Sect, your body is like a mummy, so your d*** has naturally rotted and you can only sell your behind.”
“You, you, you…” Luo Ji Feng felt as if his heart had been dealt a heavy blow. His face twisted and he suddenly gave an enraged roar, as if he was a ghost himself. Instantly, innumerable skulls appeared and pounced towards Ling Han.
This was his greatest pain. As a man, he had lost his d***, and now that Ling Han had exposed this fact right in front of his face, this instantly drove him to extraordinary depths of fury.
“Damn wretch, I have yet to call you to account for this. You almost made me blind!” Ling Han released a sharp whistle, and waved the Demon Birth Sword, using the sword technique of Mysterious Three Thousand.
Hong , seven hundred sword flashes moved at the same time. With the driving force of the Demon Birth Sword, every sword flash actually transformed into a black-armored knight formed from Demonic Qi that charged towards Lu
o Ji Feng in attack.
“F***!” Ling Han was instantly stunned. Each of these black-armored knights were at the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier. Seven hundred of these black-armored knights moving at the same time, what kind of concept was that?
Even he himself had never imagined that the Mysterious Three Thousand combined with the Demon Birth Sword would actually create such a terrifying might! Of course, this was also because with the instillation of power from the Black Tower, his power had soared to the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
He had even deliberately kept one hundred sword flashes in reserve in order to spare Luo Ji Feng’s life—he would not be able to interrogate him otherwise. But, who would have thought that the might of this strike was practically capable of defying logic?
Hong , seven hundred black-armored knights rushed past. Not only was the Corpse Qi that was all around completely dispersed, all the skulls were completely shattered as well. Luo Ji Feng had died without a whole body, leaving behind not even a single scrap.
Luo Ji Feng might not even be able to resist merely one black-armored knight of the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier, what more when seven hundred of such powerful beings assaulted him at the same time.
“Ai!” Ling Han sighed. This was great, he had directly killed Luo Ji Feng, so all the trails were broken. His thoughts took a turn. “I’ll go look for that scholar boy!”
He returned quickly; when he arrived at Luo Ji Feng’s courtyard, he grabbed the scholar boy in a single move. He knocked the latter unconscious and stored him in the Black Tower. Then, he too flashed into the Black Tower and began his interrogation.
“I was forced, I was forced!” The scholar boy was scared half to death and filled with even more incomprehension and fear about the space inside the Black Tower.
No matter how Ling Han asked, he said he didn’t know anything. He had only been taken in by Luo Ji Feng after the latter had come to the town. At first, he thought that he had met his benefactor, but the result was… he was also disgusted. As a result, he always used brute force, wanting to torture Luo Ji Feng, yet that only made the old wretch even more pleased.
Ling Han could only once again knock the scholar boy unconscious and toss him out of the Black Tower.
This trail was not broken yet, because Cheng Fei Jun was still alive.
He made the scholar boy ask Cheng Fei Jun over to Luo Ji Feng’s courtyard. In order to make the scholar boy obey his commands, he simply stuffed an alchmical pill into the latter’s mouth and forced him to swallow it. Ling Han lied and said that it was poison, and if the scholar boy was not given the antidote in three days, he would die.
The scholar boy was not the slightest bit doubtful. Because Luo Ji Feng had not returned all this while, he felt that it was very possible that the former had already been killed by Ling Han. When he thought that even such a terrifying person like Luo Ji Feng had been dealt with by Ling Han, how could he dare to resist?
Not long after, a sound arose from the doors to the courtyard, and the sounds of two pairs of footsteps approached.
“How could it be you!?” When Cheng Fei Jun saw Ling Han, he could not help but look extremely astonished. No matter whom he saw, it would not be as unacceptable to him as seeing Ling Han here.
Ling Han humphed and said, “I am the elder in charge of discipline. Why do you not kneel upon seeing me?”
Cheng Fei Jun was dazed by his bluff. After hesitating for a moment, he instantly looked vicious and said, “You’re bluffing me! Where is Master Luo? Master Luo!” he exclaimed in shock.
“How troublesome!” Ling Han moved, and with a single palm strike, knocked him unconscious. Then, he turned his eyes towards the scholar boy.
“I’ll do it myself,” the scholar boy hurriedly said. He knocked himself into the wall, and with a tong , he fainted.
He really did know how to conduct himself.
Ling Han could not help but break into laughter and stored the two of them simultaneously into the Black Tower.
He returned to the inn and once again entered into the Black Tower. Then, he began to interrogate Cheng Fei Jun.
“Ling Han, you are really daring. Even if you are an Earth Grade alchemist, but to imprison another alchemist privately, this is still a heavy crime!” Cheng Fei Jun called out sternly once he awoke.
“When has even a dreg of the Thousand Corpse Sect become so arrogant?” Ling Han shook his head.
“What nonsense are you spouting, who’s a dreg of the Thousand Corpse Sect?” Cheng Fei Jun’s expression changed drastically, yet he turned about and asked Ling Han, “Speak less nonsense, and quickly let me go!”
“Now that you’ve entered into my space, you still want to leave?” Ling Han smiled calmly. His body rose up into midair, and with a casual wave of his hand, a large hill sprouted out of the ground, forming a change in their environment.
Pu!
Cheng Fei Jun instantly choked, his eyes fixed in a stare, as if he had become an idiot.
“This is an illusion, this is an illusion!” he mumbled to himself, his whole body trembling.
Pa!
Ling Han delivered a sharp slap, and the pain immediately made Cheng Fei Jun cry out in pain. This was definitely no illusion!
Chapter 308
Chapter 308: The Thousand Corpse Sect’s Plans
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Cheng Fei Jun was struck awake by this smack, and the look he directed towards Ling Han was filled with terror.
Being able to soar in the skies physically… the Flower Blossom Tier!
The Flower Blossom Tier, someone who had transcended the mortal world and possessed power that could not be comprehended logically.
Thus, this had to be an old monster who had lived for a hundred or two hundred years. As a result, it was nothing odd that he possessed the power of the Flower Blossom Tier, nor was it strange that he had become an Earth Grade alchemist, because he had already reached such heights since who knows how many years ago.
For such an old monster to deliberately disguise himself as a young man, what were his intentions?
“You had best explain obediently!” Ling Han casually turned a hand and a force was exerted onto Cheng Fei Jun’s body, causing such pain that he immediately exclaimed in agony. In this space, Ling Han was God.
Cheng Fei Jun was really quite stubborn. Unfortunately, within the Black Tower, any kind of unimaginable torture method could be immediately brought into reality, and soon enough, Cheng Fei Jun had a mental breakdown. This was practically trying to oppose the will of a God; how could he possibly win?
Ling Han actually had other means to obtain the information he wanted, and that was to directly search his soul. For him who had a sliver of the divine sense of the Heaven Tier—added with the fact that they were both in the Black Tower—it would be extremely easy to accomplish this.
However, the process of searching one’s soul would be similar to reading every single experience and the whole history of a man—unless it was so coincidental that the information he wanted would be immediately searched out. Since it was to flip through all the memories of another, he would have to go through his experiences as well, and seeing too much of another’s experiences would definitely affect him as well. He might lose sight of which life was his, and which was Cheng Fei Jun’s.
Thus, unless it was absolutely necessary, Ling Han did not want to use soul searching arts. Moreover, after the soul was searched, the person who had his soul searched would definitely die. This was because his soul had been drawn out of his body and flipped through bit by bit, so it would naturally be completely destroyed.
Of course, the most important reason that Ling Han did not want to view Cheng Fei Jun’s whole life was to avoid dirtying his eyes. And there was no need to mention Luo Ji Feng; his world view could possibly be completely obliterated. He did not care much about whether Cheng Fei Jun would die or not; after all, even if he did not kill the latte
r now, he would kill him at a later time anyways.
For every question Ling Han asked, Cheng Fei Jun replied. Ling Han was naturally able to distinguish whether he was lying to him or not.
Strictly speaking, Cheng Fei Jun was not a member of the Thousand Corpse Sect, because he had never cultivated Corpse Qi.
About ten years ago, Cheng Fei Jun was merely an extremely talented newbie in the field of alchemy, but it was right at that time that he was found by a powerful elite of the Thousand Corpse Sect, who promised him a great reward and pulled him into the Thousand Corpse Sect.
After a trial period of three years, he had obtained ample trust and received a considerable number of ancient pill formulae, and even obtained the personal notebook of an ancient great alchemist, which instantly caused his alchemical skills to sharply improve.
Before that, the Thousand Corpse Sect did not have him do anything specific, and only required him to improve his alchemical skills as much as possible to prepare for the “big business” in future. Improving his own alchemical skills was his pursuit in the first place, so Cheng Fei Jun would naturally not refuse. Thus, he began to walk farther and farther, as well as more and more successful on the path of alchemy.
About a year ago, the Thousand Corpse Sect gave him a Strange Fire, and paid an exorbitant price to help him fuse with it. It was also because of this that he was able to become a Black Grade high level alchemist when he was only in the Gushing Spring Tier, and he was just flourishing in the limelight.
And it was at this time that he received a mission from the Thousand Corpse Sect—when Long Yong Chang and the other two passed on, he was to take control of the Star Brilliance Palace Hall. After which, through the authority he possessed, he was to add Corpse Qi into the medicine that would enter into the Nine Nations of the Desolate North and transform all of the Nine Nations of the Desolate North into a land of the dead!