“Hahaha! It’s time to exterminate these pieces of trash!” There was a hearty laugh, and several hundred elites appeared on the battlefield, all of them bearing Suns and Moons behind their backs.
Gasp!
Several hundred Sun Moon Tier elites!
One had to realize that even the Golden Lion Nation only had a total of 100 or so Sun Moon Tier elites. Now, however, several hundred Sun Moon Tier elites had suddenly appeared. What did this signify?
Ling Han’s heart instantly jolted. ‘These are elites from the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire!’
The events that had transpired here were already extremely uncanny to begin with. Now that elites from the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire had appeared, it was only natural for Ling Han to think that the invasion from the Golden Lion Nation was entirely at the bidding of the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire.
However, why had this place been transformed into a land of death?
Chapter 1060 - Murderous Aura
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Run!” The members of the assault squad were all transfixed with shock. Who would’ve imagined that there would be several hundred Sun Moon Tier elites in the Golden Lion Nation’s army?
They were nothing but trash before such an overwhelming power!
“You think you can still flee?” Once the Sun Moon Tier elites attacked, there was nothing the Mountain River Tier cultivators could do to resist. They were all suppressed in an instant. Fortunately, the Sun Moon Tier elites weren’t planning to kill them. They merely sealed their cultivation before tossing them aside.
Only Zhao Lun was able to break through the enemy’s overwhelming encirclement. In fact, the armor on his body even allowed him to fly! Coupled with its powerful defenses, even the large number of Sun Moon Tier elites couldn’t defeat and capture him.
Meanwhile, in the chaos of the battle, no one noticed that one other person had also gone missing.
Ling Han had naturally entered the Black Tower to hide.
“Take them away!” an elite ordered. “No one is allowed to disrupt His Majesty’s plans!”
“Understood!”
The battlefield was instantly cleaned up. At the same time, numerous catapults started to wreak havoc among those from the Eastern Rain Nation’s army who hadn’t crossed the furious river yet. At least a quarter of the Eastern Rain Nation’s army was swallowed by the furious river.
The remaining soldiers all turned around to flee, not daring to advance any further.
Who told them to launch an attack without gathering any intelligence on the Golden Lion Nation’s army first? It was only natural that they suffered a heavy defeat.
Fortunately, the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire didn’t plan on starting an all-out war with the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire. Thus, their reinforcements only hid on the sidelines, and didn’t massacre the students from the academy, merely capturing them.
It was clear that they had an elaborate scheme.
Ling Han silently watched on from the Black Tower. The elite from before had let his mouth slip, saying, “No one is allowed to disrupt His Majesty’s plans!” Of course, he didn’t know that someone was eavesdropping on him from a hidden place, so his words couldn’t be counted as a slip.
The amount of information conveyed by this sentence was immense.
Sure enough, the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire was behind all of this. In fact, they might have directly ordered the Golden Lion Nation to act as they had.
Ling Han was extremely curious. What on earth did the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire want?
It wasn’t long before the surroundings became quiet.
Ling Han exited the Black Tower and quietly left the battlefield, heading toward the north.
The Eternity Sky Majestic Empire had resolutely seized a large chunk of land, and then used a large army to block access to the furious river. It was clear that they were scheming something in this place. Ling Han wouldn’t be able to gather any more information in this enemy encampment, as it was merely an outpost.
He ventured deeper and deeper into the Eastern Rain Nation, yet he became more startled the deeper he went. This was because the surroundings were deathly silent, with all traces of life exterminated.
Ling Han summoned his Cloud Piercing Shuttle and started to carefully search the land as he speedily zipped through it.
The Cloud Piercing Shuttle was incredibly quick, and Ling Han’s eye was also especially sharp. Thus, his search was also extremely quick. He had already finished searching a large swathe of land in a very short amount of time.
The land before him suddenly became crimson as if it had been burned by a heavenly fire.
Weng!
The Cloud Piercing Shuttle suddenly shuddered as if it had been struck.
Ling Han hurriedly landed the shuttle and then stowed it away. He then started to carefully inspect and sense his surroundings.
This expanse of crimson land radiated an overwhelming murderous aura.
‘What is the emperor of the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire trying to find here?’ Ling Han thought to himself. ‘And what on earth are they doing to this place? They even turned this stretch of fertile land into a vast expanse of crimson land.’
He walked forward slowly, not daring to let his guard down.
A feeling of danger suddenly gripped his heart. Bursts of murderous aura surged from the ground before him, fusing together and surprisingly forming a humanoid figure.
Boom!
The humanoid figure immediately launched an attack at Ling Han, its arm extending without limit as its fist smashed toward Ling Han’s face.
‘What on earth is this?!’
Ling Han lashed out with his sword, the Fast Technique allowing his strikes to arrive first even though he had attacked later.
Shua, shua, shua!
He performed seven strikes in an instant and sliced the humanoid figure into eight segments.
The humanoid figure dispersed into a misty form once more, yet it instantly started to condense together again. It was as if Ling Han’s sword strikes hadn’t dealt it any damage.
“Interesting…” Ling Han muttered. He waved a hand and summoned the Asura Demon Emperor.
“Oh, Great Master, Little Asura’s claws are already thirsting for blood. Please give your command. Whose bottom do you want Little Asura to bite today?” An obsequious wolf instantly appeared before Ling Han.
‘Holy smokes! It’s only been a few months, yet master has already broken through to the peak stage of the medium extreme. Is he trying to defy the heavens?’
Hu!
The humanoid aura charged over, and once again swung its fist at Ling Han.
“Howl!” The Asura Demon Emperor howled as it lunged toward the enemy.
His battle prowess was at the late stage of the consummate level, so he was able to easily pin the humanoid aura down. He appeared especially smug as he bit and clawed at the blob of murderous aura. ‘You’re so weak, yet you still dare to attack my master. How stupid!’
“Huh?” The Asura Demon Emperor cocked his head in surprise. The blob of murderous aura had actually reformed into a humanoid figure again.
‘Is this an undying cockroach?’
“It’s a bit like you,” Ling Han said.
The Asura Demon Emperor was astonished. He was a being who had been born from the Demonic Qi of Primal Chaos! Although his battle prowess was nothing to write home about, he was still an extremely special existence in the Netherworld—it would be impossible to find another species whose members could become a host in the bodies of all kinds of living beings, dead people, and puppets there.
It was because of this unique ability that the Asura Demon Emperor had been sent to the Immortal Realm to search for the location of the “Lower Realm”.
“Master, this doesn’t seem to be a living being,” he speculated.
Ling Han nodded, and said, “The murderous aura here is particularly strong. Ther
e’s an undying will fluctuating through this land, and humanoid figures like this can be formed wherever the murderous aura is denser. These humanoid figures all possess a violent instinct to attack.”
The Asura Demon Emperor was stunned, and said, “Elites like this are far too terrifying. This is merely a shred of his willpower that has leaked out.”
Ling Han stroked his chin as he continued to suppress the humanoid figure, and said, “So, I also want to find out what on earth the Eternity Sky Majestic Empire is trying to do.”
“Master, it’s dangerous to keep going. It’s best that we don’t venture too deeply.” The Asura Demon Emperor was extremely cowardly.
“Don’t worry. If there are any dangers, you can walk ahead and act as my shield,” Ling Han casually replied.
“Ah!” The Asura Demon Emperor’s dog mouth instantly gaped open. His expression was as if he were saying, ‘Master, you can’t screw me over like that!’
Ling Han had tried all kinds of methods, yet this humanoid aura was impossible to kill even though it was extremely easy to smash apart. One could crush it into hundreds or thousands of pieces, yet it would quickly reform itself again. It was as if it were an undying beast.
“Let me try this, then.” He unleashed his divine patterns of flames toward the murderous aura.
Weng!
Ling Han felt as if he heard a wretched wail when the flames blasted over. This wail caused his divine sense to shudder uncomfortably. However, the effects of the divine flames were also extremely obvious, quickly incinerating the humanoid aura into ashes.
Ling Han turned to look at the Asura Demon Emperor, and found that his state was even more miserable than himself. The Asura Demon Emperor had been jolted out of the puppet wolf, and his mist-like body was squirming about continuously.
The murderous aura’s wretched wail was a divine sense attack, yet Ling Han’s divine sense had already been tempered to become extremely sturdy by the Indestructible Heaven’s Scroll. Thus, he had only felt a little discomfort. Meanwhile, the Asura Demon Emperor was genuinely at the medium extreme, so his body had been directly jolted out of the puppet wolf’s body.
Interesting.
Chapter 1061 - Sacrificial Altar
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The Asura Demon Emperor felt a bit similar to this murderous aura.
Neither of them had a physical form, and both of them existed in more of a spiritual sense. Back then, the Asura Demon Emperor had survived being sliced into eight separate pieces—this would have been impossible if it were another being, even if they were far stronger than the Asura Demon Emperor.
However, the Asura Demon Emperor was most afraid of spiritual attacks. As long as his opponent had a stronger divine sense than him, they would be able to severely wound him through spiritual secret techniques.
This murderous aura was such kind of opponent, with its attacks targeting one’s divine sense.
The Asura Demon Emperor started gagging, yet he was still in his mist-like form, so how could he vomit anything out? After gagging for a while, he returned into the puppet wolf’s body, and said, “Master, this aura is quite hard to deal with.”
“You need to temper your divine sense more,” Ling Han said.
Saying this was easy, yet there were very few cultivation techniques that could temper one’s divine sense. Moreover, these rare few cultivation techniques were generally owned by Demon Masters. Ordinary cultivators could only strengthen their divine sense as increasing its toughness was far, far too difficult.
This was similar to how cultivating one’s body was easy. Body Arts weren’t easily accessible, yet there were still numerous avenues to get ahold of them. However, what about cultivation techniques that could strengthen one’s physique? They were incredibly rare!
Of course, the Asura Demon Emperor didn’t dare say this, and could only grumble in his mind. However, he was especially curious. Not only did his master possess a powerful physique, but he even possessed a tremendously tough divine sense. Was he trying to defy the heavens? What kind of secret technique did he cultivate?
The human and wolf continued to advance forward. The murderous aura here all treated a certain region as the core, and would continuously gather until it reached a certain threshold, after which it would form a humanoid figure.
It wasn’t long before another humanoid figure appeared and charged toward Ling Han.
It gave a piercing cry that was silent yet directly entered one’s mind and triggered tumultuous waves.
“Battle of divine senses? Who’s scared of whom?” Ling Han unleashed his Seven Kill Subduing Soul Technique toward the humanoid aura.
Pu!
The humanoid aura was instantly blasted into smithereens. Its obliterated parts still wanted to gather, yet were unable to do so no matter what as if they had lost their adhesiveness.
Sure enough, the weak point of this murderous aura was its divine sense, which was also its strong point. As long as one had a stronger divine sense, they would be able to easily defeat this murderous aura.
Ling Han waved his hand, causing the fragments of murderous aura to shatter into countless pieces that scattered into the surroundings.
“Master, your might is truly brilliant! You’re definitely the strongest prodigy in all of heaven and earth and in the past epoch and the future epoch! Not one of the strongest, but the strongest!” The Asura Demon Emperor heaped praise on Ling Han.
Ling Han chuckled, and said, “Since I’m so great, you, my underling, can’t be too weak, either. I’ll hand the remaining opponents to you.”
“Fine— not fine!” The Asura Demon Emperor was just about to pat his chest and agree, yet he instantly dropped his tail in fright when he cast his eyes ahead. This was because an even larger murderous humanoid aura had appeared ahead.
They had already defeated a few humanoid aura figures, and they knew that the larger their bodies, the more murderous aura they possessed. At the same time, it also meant that they were stronger.
As for the one before them right now… If it roared, the Asura Demon Emperor wouldn’t simply be jolted out of the puppet body. Instead, his entire body would shatter into pieces.
Although his existence was peculiar—it wouldn’t matter even if he was shattered into pieces—who would want to be blasted into bits for no good reason? It hurt like hell, okay?!
“Master, save me!” the Asura Demon Emperor cried pitifully.
Although he had the body of the puppet wolf, and had a battle prowess at the late stage of the consummate level, it was as if the murderous humanoid aura figures were his nemesis. They specialized in divine sense attacks and completely mitigated his advantage of having a powerful physique.
Ling Han tried to absorb the murderous aura into his Black Tower, yet they possessed a martial intent even though they weren’t genuine living beings. They were like God Tools, and it was therefore necessary to erase their martial intent before they could be absorbed.
However, without the support of martial intent, the murderous aura here would also completely vanish.
Thus, the Black Tower couldn’t provide him any help.
Ling Han unleashed his Seven Kill Subduing Soul Technique, instantly causing the head of the humanoid aura figure to explode. However, the other parts of the humanoid aura remained unscathed.
A harrowing sight played out before them. The humanoid aura plucked its own head off before sending a surge of murderous aura toward its neck and growing another head.
The humanoid aura didn’t have a set form to begin with, and it could reassemble itself even if it was hacked into dozens of pieces. As such, it was naturally easy for it to regrow its own head.
“This one is slightly stronger.” Ling Han attacked again, activating his divine patterns of flame as he unleashed his Seven Kill Subduing Soul Technique. Both of these techniques were extremely effective against the humanoid aura figures.
The humanoid aura didn�
�t yield, instead launching into a ferocious battle against Ling Han. Spiritual attacks that caused incredibly uncomfortable piercing pain were contained in all of its attacks.
It took Ling Han quite some time and effort to finally dispose of this humanoid aura figure. The process had been straining, and it was as if he had fought an intense battle against a powerful enemy.
“Master is so amazing! Master is so great!” The Asura Demon Emperor instantly started to flatter Ling Han again.
They continued to advance, and after dealing with a few more humanoid aura figures, a gigantic humanoid aura figure that measured nine meters in height suddenly appeared before them.
Even Ling Han furrowed his brows in apprehension, let alone the Asura Demon Emperor, whose eyes were already popping out of his head in fright.
There was far too much murderous aura gathered here!
“Rargh!!” A spiritual attack surged over as the gigantic humanoid aura slammed its palm on them. More surprisingly, this spiritual attack transformed into a tangible wave that even caused the ground to rumble and tremor.
Ling Han instantly pushed any thoughts of battle out of his mind.
Shua!
He immediately grabbed the tail of the puppet wolf and entered the Black Tower along with the Asura Demon Emperor.
Boom!
Dust billowed through the air as the palm of the giant humanoid aura struck into the ground. However, it was a little baffled. Where were its opponents?
The Black Tower was pushed along by the shock wave, drifting into the distance along with the other particles of dust.
Ling Han exited the Black Tower and immediately started to flee.
There was absolutely no point in battling the humanoid aura here. If he battled against Demonic Beasts, he could at least hope to obtain some nutritional Spiritual Meat. As for humanoid aura figures? He would receive sh*tl!
That being the case, what was the point in battling against them?
Ling Han frenziedly ran away, evading the humanoid aura figures if he could. If he couldn’t avoid them, he would hack them aside with his sword and then seize the opportunity while they regathered themselves to flee.
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