Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 8 Five-Colored Aura

After leaving Tianxingzong Market for some distance, three figures suddenly appeared behind Chen Liang and quickly caught up with him, surrounding him.

Chen Liang stopped in his tracks, and the flying sword artifact beneath his feet fell into his hand.

Surrounding Chen Liang were three Foundation Establishment cultivators. One of them was a wiry middle-aged man with mid-Foundation Establishment cultivation, and the other was a somewhat lewd-looking fat man with peak early-Foundation Establishment cultivation.

The last person was a young man with a gloomy face, who was at the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

After leaving the shop directly operated by the Tianxing Sect, Chen Liang brushed past that gloomy man.

It was at that time that Chen Liang was infected by a mysterious aura emanating from that gloomy man, which led the gloomy man to use his spirit pet to track him down. This is also a common tracking method used by cultivators who have undergone tribulation.

Logically speaking, an ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator would have been terrified by now if surrounded by this group.

But Chen Liang had already noticed their presence, so he was now watching the three of them with a calm and collected expression.

Seeing this, the somewhat sleazy-looking fat man said with displeasure, "Kid! Are you scared out of your wits?! We're robbing you, hand over your storage bag now, or..."

The wiry middle-aged man who was leading the group suddenly spoke with a serious expression: "Old Meng, be careful, this guy is tough."

Upon hearing this, the sleazy fat man and the gloomy man involuntarily took a step back.

But it was no use. Suddenly, Xiao Wu burst out of the spirit beast pouch at Chen Liang's waist and attacked the gloomy man directly.

Chen Liang also unleashed his silver flying sword, attacking the lewd fat man.

The first to achieve this was Xiao Wu. Its blue feathers shimmered, and it even emitted a blue spiritual light from its mouth.

Although the gloomy man raised a blue spiritual energy shield in time, Xiao Wu's blue spiritual light just happened to counter his wood-attribute shield and even his wood-attribute spiritual energy.

After the azure spiritual light washed over him, the gloomy man's shield was broken, and his spiritual energy was in disarray, making it difficult for him to even maintain the most basic flight ability of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Xiao Wu pressed his advantage, and with the help of spiritual power, one of his claws crushed the head of the gloomy man.

On the other side, the lewd fat man used a painted fan with explicit images of court ladies as a magical artifact to try and block Chen Liang's attack.

However, Chen Liang's silver flying sword, enhanced by its dark spiritual power, easily knocked the painted fan artifact away.

The lewd fat man was horrified at the sight, but it was too late to raise his spiritual energy shield. He was pierced through the chest by Chen Liang's silver flying sword and died on the spot.

Seeing this, the wiry middle-aged man who had just thrown a flying knife at Chen Liang felt a chill run down his spine.

The next moment, the wiry middle-aged man saw Chen Liang unleash a golden beam of light with his backhand. After the golden light swept over, his throwing knife magic weapon seemed to lose all its magic and fell straight to the ground.

Moreover, the golden light flew towards the wiry middle-aged man, startling this composed man. However, he still managed to raise a metal-elemental spiritual energy shield in time.

Just as the wiry middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, the golden light pierced through his spiritual energy shield and struck him.

The moment the golden light enveloped him, the wiry middle-aged man, whose spiritual energy had been in disarray, finally understood why the gloomy man had died so quickly.

Before the wiry middle-aged man could think further, Chen Liang's silver flying sword made a turn in the air and killed him on the spot.

Thus, all three Tribulation cultivators perished, and their entire fortunes fell into Chen Liang's hands.

Moreover, after collecting the storage bag, Chen Liang took out a soul-gathering bowl to collect the remnant souls of the three people, and then used a fireball spell to incinerate their corpses.

After seven days, the remnant soul and true spirit in the Soul Gathering Bowl will dissipate on their own, and the remaining chaotic soul will be of great use to Chen Liang.

After tidying everything up, Chen Liang turned and left on his flying sword. Little Wu, who had just instantly killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator, landed on his shoulder and affectionately nuzzled Chen Liang's cheek.

The cyan spiritual light that Xiao Wu just used was its innate divine ability, or rather, only a part of it.

Xiao Wu was originally a rare peacock that had reverted to its ancestral form, possessing a high purity of peacock bloodline. When it first met Chen Liang, its innate divine ability—the Five Elements Body—had already transformed into five-colored spiritual light, with a thin layer of five-colored spiritual light protecting its body.

In addition, Chen Liang often fed Xiao Wu with his own primordial spiritual power, which made Xiao Wu's ancestral reversion level advance by leaps and bounds. This is also the reason why Xiao Wu became attached to Chen Liang in the first place.

When Xiao Wu advanced to a level two demon beast in Huangfeng Valley, its innate divine power finally transformed into five-colored spiritual light, completely surpassing ordinary peacock demon beasts.

The Five-Colored Spiritual Light is a peerless divine power—a derivative divine power of the Five-Colored Divine Light, which already possesses some of the power of the Five-Colored Divine Light to overcome all five elements in the world.

Putting aside everything else, even though Xiao Wu, who possesses this innate divine ability, has only just advanced to the second level of demon beast, he can already walk sideways among demon beasts below the fifth level and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Of course, while it's called a supernatural power, it's not fully developed yet; it can only be considered a pseudo-supernatural power. This is also the norm for other demonic beasts when developing innate supernatural powers. Otherwise, once a true supernatural power is unleashed, how could cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage withstand it?

On the other hand, after Xiao Wu's innate supernatural power transformed into five-colored spiritual light, Chen Liang became extremely curious and eager for this great supernatural power.

Therefore, Chen Liang often had Xiao Wu unleash the Five-Colored Spiritual Light, and used his own mutated divine sense to explore its mysteries. Fortunately, if the Five-Colored Spiritual Light was not completely depleted after being emitted, it could be retracted into the body, so this practice did not put any burden on Xiao Wu.

With the help of the terrifying insight of the mutated divine sense, Chen Liang was finally able to cultivate this incomplete version of the Five-Colored Spiritual Light shortly after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

With the Five-Colored Spiritual Light, a trump card capable of sweeping away opponents of the same level or even those of higher levels, Chen Liang, who used to avoid Tribulation Cultivators, dared to act boldly this time, allowing the group of Tribulation Cultivators to pursue him.

In addition, Chen Liang carefully tallied up his gains this time.

The storage bags of those three cultivators contained nearly a thousand spirit stones, and their magical artifacts were worth more than two thousand five hundred spirit stones.

First, top-tier magical artifacts are divided into three types. One type is the ordinary top-tier magical artifact, which is worth between three hundred and five hundred spirit stones.

Furthermore, there are rare and top-tier magical artifacts, valued between five hundred and eight hundred spirit stones.

Finally, there are top-grade magic artifacts, valued between eight hundred and one thousand spirit stones.

The magical artifacts held by the three cultivators were all top-grade treasures. In addition, the wielder also had a top-grade skull-shaped magical artifact that he hadn't yet brought out. Therefore, the value of the magical artifacts they acquired this time was already equivalent to the proceeds from Chen Liang's auction of the thousand-year-old spiritual medicine.

"Murderers and arsonists wear golden belts," as the saying goes, truly living up to its name.

However, to Chen Liang's surprise, he encountered a second group of cultivators today. Although this group wasn't after him, it was still quite a coincidence.

Moreover, they were on Chen Liang's only route, so Chen Liang concealed his presence and quietly approached them.