Chapter 771 - 770: A Motorcycle-Riding Evil Spirit Knight? One Person, One Mosquito, Splitting Up
Chapter 771: Chapter 770: A Motorcycle-Riding Evil Spirit Knight? One Person, One Mosquito, Splitting Up
Following Chu Sheng’s directions, Gu Yuexi headed northeast along the black mist.
Halfway there, Chu Sheng veered off in another direction.
"The enemy is an Evil Spirit Knight. Its strength is just right for you."
With that, Chu Sheng left.
Gu Yuexi proceeded alone.
Before long, a black stone castle appeared in her view.
Arriving at the castle gate,
Gu Yuexi saw the "Evil Spirit Knight" Chu Sheng had mentioned.
Its skull burned with blue Soul Flame, and an eerie light flickered within its eye sockets.
It clutched a rusty iron chain, its entire body radiating a bone-chilling aura of death.
The strangest thing was its mount.
It was a bizarre motorcycle wreathed in blue flames!
Gu Yuexi extended her Divine Thought to probe the Evil Spirit Knight’s Cultivation.
Divinity Transformation Sixth Layer.
Its Power of Law was mainly used to temper its physical body, making its Divine Soul relatively weak.
’No wonder the mosquito said it would be a suitable stepping stone for my advancement to the Divinity Transformation Realm.’
For ordinary Cultivators to advance to the Divinity Transformation Realm, three conditions must be met simultaneously.
Qi Blood Power, Soul Power, and Law Comprehension.
Qi Blood Power and Soul Power could vary in strength.
Take the Evil Spirit Knight before her, for example.
As a melee unit from the Netherworld, it was naturally skilled in close-quarters combat.
Its physical body was exceptionally strong, but its Divine Soul was far weaker than that of Cultivators at the same Realm.
However, their Law Comprehension had to reach the required threshold.
Even being a sliver short would prevent them from advancing to the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Almost all Cultivators who failed to reach the Divinity Transformation Realm were stuck at their level of Law Comprehension.
They could spend their entire lives without ever touching the threshold of the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Gu Yuexi was the exact opposite.
Even without considering her mastery of Law from her first life as Immortal Venerable Shi Xi,
in her second life as the Beast Taming Empress, her Law Comprehension had also far surpassed that of her peers.
With the profound accumulation of her two previous lives,
if one were to disregard her Cultivation Realm and only discuss Law Comprehension,
even an expert at the Celestial God Realm would be eclipsed by her in terms of Law.
What was most difficult for others, Law Comprehension,
was the simplest part for Gu Yuexi.
Now, to advance to the Divinity Transformation Realm, she was only missing one final condition: stabilizing her foundation.
The best way to stabilize one’s foundation was through real combat.
Defeating enemies stronger than oneself, honing one’s skills in battle, and solidifying a wavering Realm.
Back on Blue Star,
Gu Yuexi had never stopped fighting.
Her advancement speed was far beyond that of ordinary people, yet her foundation had always been stable.
After being captured by the Celestial Derivation Sect and imprisoned in the Spirit Realm for a year,
she had relied entirely on meditation and Cultivation to advance to the Profound Understanding Realm.
But without real combat, her foundation had inevitably become unstable.
Ever since Chu Sheng rescued her,
she had re-entered a rhythm of high-intensity battles.
It was because of this
that she was able, in just a few short days,
to soar from the Profound Understanding Early Stage all the way to the Profound Understanding Peak, skipping several minor realms along the way.
Now,
she just needed to defeat the Evil Spirit Knight before her, using the battle to completely solidify her foundation at the Profound Understanding Peak.
Once she did that, she would have met all the conditions to advance to the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Of course, if she were to use her full strength,
defeating an Evil Spirit Knight at the Divinity Transformation Sixth Layer would be effortless.
She could simply draw her Godslaying Ruins Sword and cut the Evil Spirit Knight down from its horse with a single strike...
Er...
Or rather, cut it down from its motorcycle.
Or, she could directly crush it with the Power of Law.
That would also allow her to kill the Evil Spirit Knight instantly.
But doing so wouldn’t serve the purpose of tempering her foundation.
So, Gu Yuexi simply took an ordinary longsword Magical Treasure from her Storage Pouch.
She didn’t activate any Power of Law, nor did she don her Empress Battle Armor.
She prepared to fight the Evil Spirit Knight relying solely on her Spiritual Power and pure combat skill.
The Evil Spirit Knight on the other side had no idea Gu Yuexi was using it as a whetstone.
It had merely sensed the approach of a member of the Human Race and came out of the castle to face the challenger.
Seeing that the enemy was just a Female Cultivator at the Profound Understanding Realm, with strength far beneath its own,
the Evil Spirit Knight immediately dismissed the thought of reporting this to its superiors.
’A rookie like this can just be killed.’
’No need to bother my leader and get chewed out for nothing.’
"KILL!"
A hoarse roar escaped the Evil Spirit Knight’s throat as it violently twisted the throttle.
The motorcycle’s tires screeched against the black stone ground, kicking up a shower of sparks. Wreathed in eerie blue Soul Flame, it shot toward Gu Yuexi like an arrow loosed from a bow.
With a slight shift of her feet, Gu Yuexi gracefully sidestepped, nimbly dodging the Evil Spirit Knight’s head-on charge.
At the same time, she flicked her wrist, and her longsword whistled through the air, slashing toward the Evil Spirit Knight’s back.
The Evil Spirit Knight neither dodged nor evaded. The Soul Flame on its back suddenly flared up, transforming into a wall of fire that lunged at Gu Yuexi in a counterattack.
The battle had officially begun.
Gu Yuexi and the Evil Spirit Knight traded blows, evenly matched for the moment.
With every clash,
Gu Yuexi was refining the Spiritual Power within her body, making its circulation smoother and more condensed.
At this rate, a victor wouldn’t be decided anytime soon.
「Meanwhile.」
After leaving Gu Yuexi and flying southeast for over ten li,
a new Netherworld graveyard appeared in Chu Sheng’s view.
This graveyard was much larger than the first one it had encountered, covering an area at least three times the size.
The Netherworld creatures within weren’t just Skeleton Monsters; there were also rotting Zombies.
The Zombies moved slowly but possessed immense strength, their fingernails coated with a virulent corpse qi.
The strongest among them, a few Zombie Commanders and skeleton generals, had already reached the Divinity Transformation Realm.
This was the same level as Chu Sheng’s current Realm.
There were tens of thousands of these densely packed Netherworld creatures, a swarming, dark mass.
Spotting Chu Sheng, an intruder reeking of life, they immediately shrieked and charged forward.
An aura of death surged forth, blotting out the sky.
Faced with the overwhelming horde of Zombies and Skeleton Monsters,
the now-experienced Chu Sheng was completely unfazed.
With a single thought, it directly unleashed its Thunder Domain.
"[Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison!]"
The terrifying domain of purple lightning expanded in an instant, enveloping the entire graveyard in the blink of an eye.
Within the domain, lightning flashed and thunder roared.
Bolts of purple lightning as thick as bowls descended from the sky, crashing down upon the horde of Netherworld creatures with an air of destruction.
"BOOM! BOOM!"
Beneath the terrifying lightning inferno,
the Skeleton Monsters and Zombies within the Thunder Domain were instantly blasted to bits.
Bones and rotten flesh scattered across the ground, the Soul Fire in their skulls directly annihilated by the lightning.
But soon,
new Skeleton Monsters and Zombies would crawl out of the graveyard to fill the gaps left by the dead.
But they had just clawed their way out of the earth and hadn’t even straightened up
when the might of the boundless lightning tore them to shreds, unable to withstand it for even a second.
Under these circumstances,
the graveyard’s speed of resurrecting Netherworld creatures couldn’t possibly keep up with Chu Sheng’s rate of slaughter.
In the blink of an eye,
there were no more standing Skeleton Monsters or Zombies in the graveyard.
The ground was piled high with charred bone fragments and rotten flesh, and the pungent smell of burning filled the air.
’Damn, that used up a lot!’
It glanced at its Divine Blood and Divine Soul values.
In just this short time, it had actually consumed a tenth of its reserves!
Still, it was quite satisfied.
’At least I’m much stronger than before.’
In the past, when it used the Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison,
a single use would instantly drain all of its Qi Blood and Mental Power.
After using it, it would be too drained to even fly, making it a one-shot ultimate move.
But after advancing to the Divinity Transformation Realm,
it could now precisely control the consumption, so it wouldn’t be "drained" the moment it opened its domain.
With no Skeleton Monsters or Zombies to interfere,
Chu Sheng slowly flew to the center of the graveyard.
It bent down, aimed its proboscis at the ground beneath it, and plunged it deep inside.
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