Lord Xue Ying

The Void Castle. Inside the cultivation room located at the miniature cavern-dwelling belonging to Xue Ying.

‘Nope.’

‘It still doesn’t work.’

The illusory world looked beautiful. Inside it, there was a nine-petal black flower bud forming. Many veins could be seen on every leaf and petal. Each vein was being altered slightly at this moment. Xue Ying was trying his best to maintain the black flower bud, yet it still collapsed in the end.

‘I have yet to obtain that feeling of grand perfection; I am quite far from it’ Xue Ying immediately understood the difficulty after attempting to create the third style of Destruction Flower. Even though he created the Destruction Flower when he was at the Unity realm, and that difficulty was similar to creating the ‘third style of Destruction Flower’ at the Primal Chaos realm, his current realm was much higher and profound as compared to when he was at the Unity realm.

In order to perfectly fuse both Daos together and reach absolute perfection, the technique had to be combined perfectly without anything more and anything less. Only then could Xue Ying create a killing technique at the ninth level strength!

The current him…

If he attempted the ninth level of Star Pagoda, he could get through it without relying on the Three-Colored Layered Cloud. What he depended is on his own defenses. Firstly, he had cultivated the Imperial Dragon inheritance to great perfection. Secondly, he had the help of ‘void-ification’, and he was able to hide in the Mirage too… only with the three factors was he able to qualify as someone at the ninth level power given his defensive techniques. If Xue Ying included his secret treasure, his defenses could reach top five amongst all Primal Chaos cultivators.

But he was much weaker in his offense.

Xue Ying could currently unleash 30 Destruction Flowers of the second style at the same time. Compared to golden-armored Destruction Devils at the ninth level, he was quite lacking, much less against those like ‘Primal Chaos Hall Master’ and ‘Monarch Xing Huo’. Monarch Xing Huo was most well known for his offensive techniques. The two words ‘Xing Huo’ made it easy for others to guess what he specialized–brutality and tyranny!

‘The feeling is too disordered. Every time I try fusing in a more profound Dao, the difficulty will greatly increase.’ Xue Ying felt frustrated in his heart.

Because he was not able to touch even a single ‘corner’ of the technique he sought to create.

He was only able to feel that the move he thought of did not give off any wonderful feeling. It was a failure on all ends.

“Hu…”

Xue Ying closed his eyes, calming himself down gradually.

‘No rush. I must not be overly anxious.’

‘Currently, I do not have any idea of how to create a ninth level move belonging to the Dao of Mirage due to a lack of foundation… as for the third style of Destruction Flower, my foundation is sufficient, and I have many opinions on how to proceed.’ Xue Ying thought, ‘As for the consecutive failures, it is because this is a ninth level move ultimately, and even geniuses have to take a long time trying to create a ninth level move.’

Of the two Unity realm experts in the six great holy grounds who reached the seventh level strength, the cultivation speed of Core Imitation Religious Master was slow. It was because he created his own ‘Core Imitation’ system. As for ‘Great Emperor Jin Yi’, his cultivation speed was relatively fast–he reached the peak of the eighth level in just about eight billion years or so! He then experienced further refinements through battles, entering the ninth level power after 50 billion years. He was frighteningly outstanding.

And Great Emperor Jin Yi was someone who genuinely created a domain move at the ninth level. It was hard for others at the ninth level to touch him within his domain.

Naturally, Great Emperor Jin Yi was an ‘ancient cultivator’. Ancient cultivators did not seek comprehension. Instead, the ancient cultivator only had to unleash the move! It was much easier to cultivate in that system as compared to Xue Ying’s law and profound mysteries system. But one had to admit that it was amazing for the other party to take just 50 billion years at the Primal Chaos realm to create a ninth level move.

Great Emperor Jin Yi…

With that cultivation speed of his in the past, Cosmos Gods felt that it might be possible for him to enter the final realm.

Nevertheless, he remained at the ninth level after so long.

In history, there was only ‘Swordmaster’ from the Great Void Heaven Temple who was as talented as he, soaring through the path of cultivation.

‘I do not have to compare myself with Great Emperor Jin Yi.’

‘After all, there are many ninth level experts like Monarch Xing Huo who only reached the ninth level strength after cultivating for a long period.’ Xue Ying calmed himself down. He then continued pondering and finding ways to create a new move.

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The cultivators were facing the Destruction Devils from afar. Both parties clashed with each other many times in the inner region.

“Kill.”

Another battle started and ended by the boundary of the inner region.

The Destruction Devils lost and escaped in a sorry state.

“General Mo Gu, when will be the next time we act?” The escaping team returned to the Lost World Corridor. The three golden-armored Destruction Devils were walking side by side. Of which, there was one who was high and thin. The golden-plated armor on his body was exquisite. His head was covered in fine golden armor. Three black twisted horns protruded from his head and the scaled-skin of his contained faint lines of light circulating through. It appeared and disappeared occasionally. He was General Mo Gu.

“Retreat first. I’ll let other teams move with me the next time.” General Mo Gu’s violet eyes swept across the two by his side.

“Yes.”

Of these two golden-armored Destruction Devils, one was at the ninth level, and the other was at the peak of the eighth level. General Mo Gu was clearly only at the peak of the seventh level, but the two of them were extremely respectful to him.

Because the ‘kings’ had sent a strict order.

General Mo Gu… had a status equivalent to ‘General Fu Qian’, riding above all other golden-armored Destruction Devils! Only the ‘kings’ had the authority to order them.

“Sou sou.”

General Mo Gu walked within the Lost World Corridor. His speed was breakneck. He would tear through space time after time.

Nevertheless, as he traveled, there was a violet-armored winged male following him silently from behind. He was one of the six ‘kings’, and this king specialized most in escaping. During this period, he had always been protecting General Mo Gu in the dark.

“Mo Gu…” The eyes of the violet-armored winged male were filled with expectations, “It is about time. I only require him to send us out. He doesn’t have to be too strong. After tempering him for a while more, it will be time for us to leave for the cultivator’s world. I am really looking forward to it.’

To the ‘kings’, General Mo Gu and General Fu Qian were extremely useful. That was why they were exceptionally favored upon and were being protected in the dark by the kings.

As for other Destruction Devils? These kings were indifferent. They still favored upon the ‘golden-armored Destruction Devils’ since they were at least the primary strength in the future battle with the cultivators. Furthermore, there could be new ‘kings’ emerging from them. As for those at a lower level? They were ants! These kings did not care about them even if more of such existences died.

‘Currently, eight golden-armored graded lairs have emerged. With two destroyed by the cultivators, there are six remaining.’

‘These six lairs have given birth to two with the shadowless talent. They are also giving birth to more golden-armored ranked Destruction Devils.’ The violet-armored winged male attached great importance to golden-armored graded lairs because he came from one.

‘In the space of golden-armored graded lairs, the patrols and guards are denser. It is much harder for these lairs to be discovered. As long as we have more golden-armored graded lairs, us Destruction Devils will only become stronger and give birth to more with the shadowless talent and more golden-armored devils. There will also be more ‘kings’ emerging.’ The violet-armored winged male thought.

Compared to the cultivators, they were ultimately still on the weaker end–there was still a gap in their overall strength. Even if they entered the cultivators’ world, they had to do things stealthily and did not dare to battle with them openly. Fortunately, they were innately good at surviving. If they could not win, they could still escape. All the cultivators could only watch as they become stronger over time.

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Lost World Corridor.

The black-robed Xue Ying was currently walking in a bright spatial corridor. In his eyes, everything around him was displaying all sorts of profound mysteries of the void. It was indeed a holy ground for those cultivating the void.

‘Mn?’

The black-robed Xue Ying suddenly stopped. He could scout his surroundings through the most fundamental particle of the void, the ‘black fog spherical holes’. Xue Ying did not have to deal against those patrolling Destruction Devils and did not have to break apart those methods concealing the entrances to the lairs. He merely had to peer through the black fog spherical holes. But the Lost World Corridor was ultimately too big, and in 10 billion years, Xue Ying had merely found 26 blood-armored graded lairs. He was conducting his search with a much lower efficiency as compared to what Scarlet-Browed Mountain Master did in the past.

That was right too.

Scarlet-Browed Mountain Master had the complete inheritance. It was not just his incarnation that could teleport through an ultra-long distance, he even had an avatar technique that made him better than Xue Ying at scouting.

‘This is?’ The black-robed Xue Ying was filled with disbelief.

“Hu.”

He took a step before entering the warped space ahead. Xue Ying was directly brought to a sealed area very close to what he saw.

As he checked the area at an extremely close distance, through the many black fog spherical holes, Xue Ying was able to see that not far away, there was a space of lair with an incomparably beautiful ancient void tree, and a total of nine golden eggs.

‘Golden-armored graded lair?’ The heart of Xue Ying could not help but accelerate. He thoroughly inspected the place. He did not see wrongly. The color of those eggs… were gold!