novelapdf Chapter 565 Soul Fusion Might! Slay!
Chapter 565 Soul Fusion Might! Slay!
Ten breaths have passed.
The forms of the four Soul Generals suddenly collapsed, transforming back into millions of black streaks of light that flew back into the Black Soul Banner.
The black mist on the banner slowly dissipated, returning it to its original pitch-black state.
Chen Fan tucked the Black Soul Banner back into his waistband, stood with his hands behind his back in the center of the battlefield, surrounded by more than a dozen mangled corpses lying haphazardly, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.
The entire room fell silent.
The Nascent Soul cultivators from the seven sects of the Desolate State stood frozen in place, their expressions stiff, as if they had not yet recovered from the shocking scene just now.
The Golden Sword Master still held his golden sword in his hand, but the tip of the sword was already touching the ground.
The medicine Taoist's mouth was agape, his white beard stained with a bloodstain that had been splattered there at some unknown time, but he was completely unaware of it.
Tie Zhenshan and Sha Wanli stood like two stone statues, not daring to move an inch.
In Liangzhou, Ma Chengkong's face had completely frozen.
He had lived for hundreds of years and experienced countless battles, but he had never seen anyone kill two mid-to-late Nascent Soul cultivators and more than a dozen early-to-mid Nascent Soul cultivators within ten breaths.
This is no longer a battle; this is a massacre.
He had just been thinking of taking the black banner.
Thinking of this, Ma Chengkong's back was soaked with cold sweat.
Leaning on his tiger-headed broadsword, Qin Dao, covered in blood, grinned and laughed, "That was exhilarating! That was fucking exhilarating! Fellow Daoist Chen, I, Old Qin, am sticking with you! From now on, if you tell me to go east, I'll never go west!"
Han Yueshan landed beside Chen Fan, the shock on his face not yet completely gone, but it was quickly replaced by a more complex emotion.
He looked at Chen Fan, his lips moved, but in the end he only bowed deeply and cupped his hands, saying, "Huangzhou owes Guest Elder Chen a life."
Chen Fan helped Han Yueshan up and said calmly, "City Lord, there's no need for this. Let's gather our troops and assess the battlefield first; we shouldn't linger here."
Han Yueshan nodded in response, his tone unconsciously becoming more respectful.
Next comes cleaning up the battlefield.
The storage bags and magical artifacts of more than a dozen Nascent Soul cultivators were scattered throughout the battlefield. There were seven or eight Nascent Soul level magical artifacts alone, and countless spirit stones and pills.
Chen Fan didn't stand on ceremony and put all these things into his storage bag. He also searched out the talismans on the cultivators from Yunzhou and Leizhou one by one.
According to the rules of the national competition, participants can steal points from each other, and the points in the opponent's seal will automatically be transferred to their own seal.
When Chen Fan transferred the points from the cultivators of Yunzhou and Leizhou into his talisman, the numbers on the talisman jumped and then began to rise rapidly.
It should be noted that Leizhou and Yunzhou are both among the top-ranked prefectures in the thirty-six prefectures, and the number of monsters hunted in the ten days or so since entering the valley is quite considerable.
All these points have now been credited to the Wilderness State, and the Wilderness State's total points have skyrocketed, breaking through the 10,000-point mark in the blink of an eye.
……
On the high platform of the Forbidden Garden outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, the image in the Spiritual Mirror was frozen on the scene of corpses strewn across the battlefield in the dense forest.
The officials in charge of supervising the exam all stood up from their seats, staring wide-eyed at the image in the water mirror, speechless for a long time.
"Ten breaths... Within ten breaths, he slew two late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and more than a dozen early- to mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators..."
"What grade of magic weapon is that black banner? A Nascent Soul Grand Perfection level magic weapon? No, even a Nascent Soul Grand Perfection level magic weapon couldn't possibly have such power. Four Nascent Soul Grand Perfection level Soul Generals—this has already exceeded the scope of a magic weapon; this is clearly a Soul Dao divine power!"
"This person is definitely not a Core Formation cultivator. To be able to annihilate the allied forces of two states single-handedly, such strength is at least at the late Nascent Soul stage, or even possibly a Soul Dao Grandmaster at the Great Perfection of Nascent Soul."
"When did such a jinx emerge in the desolate state? I've never heard of the name Chen Mu before. Could it be that some reclusive old monster has changed his identity to participate in the national competition?"
"No matter who he is, this national competition is likely to change everything."
……
On the main seat of the high platform, Qin Taiyue slowly opened his eyes.
He looked at the gray-blue figure standing with his hands behind his back amidst the pile of corpses in the water mirror, and for the first time, a noticeable change in expression appeared on his usually calm face.
It wasn't shock, nor anger, but a profound and chilling scrutiny.
In the water mirror image, the numbers on the leaderboard were refreshed once again.
Huangzhou climbed from the bottom of the list and quickly entered the top ten.
Leizhou and Yunzhou have completely disappeared from the rankings!
All candidates in both states were eliminated, and their points were reduced to zero!
……
The battlefield was cleaned up, and night had fallen.
Chen Fan sat cross-legged on a blue stone, holding a mid-grade spirit stone in each hand and slowly absorbing its spiritual energy.
Activating the Soul Sea and Soul Fusion abilities in succession greatly depleted his spiritual sense, and the spiritual power in his dantian was almost entirely gone.
He took out a jade bottle from his storage bag, poured out a five-ringed Rejuvenation Pill, and swallowed it. The medicinal power dissipated, and a warm current flowed into his dantian along his meridians, and his depleted spiritual energy began to slowly recover.
Han Yueshan and Qin Dao stood guard on either side of the bluestone, while Jin Jian Zhenren, Yao Daoren, Tie Zhenshan, Sha Wanli, Lei Yin Shangren, and Ling Xuzi spontaneously dispersed around the area, forming a simple protective formation to shield Chen Fan in the center.
The people from Liangzhou sat on another open space about ten feet away.
Seeing the tense atmosphere in the desolate state, Ma Chengkong felt embarrassed. He wanted to go over but was afraid of making a fool of himself. He wanted to leave but dared not. So he could only sit and meditate obediently with the four Nascent Soul cultivators from Liangzhou.
He finally understood that in this Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, following Huangzhou might not be safe, but leaving Huangzhou would definitely not be safe.
Chen Mu's black banner could even swallow the Red Old Monster, so following someone like him, he at least wouldn't have to worry about being swallowed up by other states.
Silent all night.
The next morning, as the first rays of sunlight pierced through the dense forest, Chen Fan slowly opened his eyes.
After a night of recuperation, his spiritual power had returned to its peak, and his divine sense had recovered to 90%.
To his surprise, the nascent soul within his dantian had become even more solid, and the threshold between the late-stage nascent soul and the Great Perfection stage was showing signs of loosening.
The series of fierce battles, especially the extreme exploitation of divine consciousness when activating the Soul Fusion Technique, actually accelerated the growth of the Nascent Soul.
With a slight smile, Chen Fan stood up and brushed away the fragments of spirit stones he had used up on the ground. Then, he took out a row of storage bags from his sleeve!
Those were spoils of war looted from cultivators in Yunzhou and Leizhou yesterday.
A dozen or so storage bags were lined up in a row. Chen Fan probed them with his divine sense and counted them one by one.
The total number of spirit stones is 320,000 mid-grade spirit stones and seven top-grade spirit stones.
There are nine Nascent Soul level magic treasures, including four flying swords, three defensive magic treasures, and two auxiliary magic treasures, ranging in quality from the early to mid-Nascent Soul stage.
There are more than ten jade slips containing cultivation techniques and secret arts from various sects in Yunzhou and Leizhou. Although most of them are ordinary items, one of the jade slips contains a complete fragment of the Blood River Sect's "Blood Scripture," which is priceless to blood cultivators.
Dozens of bottles of elixirs, hundreds of talismans, and various monster materials piled up like mountains.