Charging into the ranks of the Fla Demons, Liu Bai looked like a god of war. The supre spiritual weapon, the Purple Heaven Sword, also revealed its true edge. Wherever its blade passed, limbs were sent flying.
The Fla Demons, whose physical strength was renowned, proved utterly powerless before the Purple Heaven Sword filled with thunderous might.
The battle lasted for a full fifteen minutes. When Liu Bai returned, the four Fla Demons had been utterly reduced to fragnts. His body was covered with burns, but under a layer of soft white radiance, his wounds rapidly healed.
"Eh? You've got so pretty impressive recovery abilities. You're almost catching up to my Undying Fla," Jiuyou remarked in astonishnt.
She had witnessed the battle clearly. It could not be called life-threatening, but it had been perilously close.
These Fla Demons possessed imnse combat power. Under equal cultivation levels, a human cultivator would need both an extrely powerful spiritual weapon and sufficiently advanced attack techniques to defeat them.
Even then, their bodies were wrapped in searing flas, making close combat exceedingly difficult.
Unless one was like Liu Bai—charging straight in without caring about the damage from the flas.
Of course, Liu Bai only dared to do so because he trusted in his own defense and regenerative power to withstand the fire. If anyone else tried to imitate him, they would be burned to ashes before even getting close.
Glancing at his experience points, Liu Bai noted that slaying the Fla Demon leader had earned him five hundred thousand experience. These four ordinary Fla Demons possessed Spirit Disaster strength as well, granting triple experience rewards—two hundred and ten thousand each, totaling eight hundred and forty thousand.
Thus, Liu Bai's experience points instantly surpassed one million once again, soaring past one million four hundred thousand—enough for him to step into the Sovereign Realm.
Of course, there was still that one condition: to advance to the Sovereign Realm, one must first overco the Minor Three Disaster. Only then could experience be used to enhance cultivation. Simply put, the process could be expedited, but the body's transformation still had to proceed step by step.
"Ti to go."
He had stolen the sacred fla of their tribe and slain their priests. If he didn't leave now, when would he?
Jiuyou, however, smirked mischievously. "Now you're thinking about running? Do you even realize that all those patrol squads outside have already gathered together? You won't be able to hide this ti."
"Hmph. If I can't hide, then I'll just force my way through!" Liu Bai waved his hand boldly, his spirit brimming with confidence.
If not for fear of alerting the powerful Fla Demon experts, he would have already gone on a killing spree here—raking in another mountain of experience.
Unfortunately, the Fla Demons neither belonged to the Human nor the Beast race, so they yielded neither Spiritual Pulse points nor Beast Soul points—what a pity.
Still, Liu Bai wanted to leave quickly. He feared that others might covet the Divine Fla. If he got surrounded, it would spell disaster.
Suppressing the Divine Fla with the Innate Five-Spirit Disc, Liu Bai collected both into his Qi Sea space. Then his figure turned into a streak of rainbow light, dashing toward the outer layers of the subterranean world.
At that sa mont, when the Divine Fla erged, deep within the Fire God Sect, inside a great crimson hall shaped like a Golden Crow, a divine being shrouded in flas slowly opened his eyes.
A sharp gleam pierced through space as a golden bird flashed across his pupils. The surrounding fire contracted rapidly, revealing the figure wrapped within—it was the Supre Elder, Jin Chi.
"The Divine Fla was born ahead of ti? Impossible. Could it be the Fla Demons' doing?"
His sword-like brows furrowed, and his entire aura turned into that of a volcano on the verge of eruption.
He had discovered this Divine Fla three hundred years ago and had even made an agreent with the previous Sect Master of the Fire God Sect—he would guard the sect for five hundred years, and in return, the sect would ensure that no one laid a hand on the fla.
However, a century ago, a small tribe among the underground Fla Demon race discovered the Golden Sun Crow Altar and sensed the fla seed within. They began worshiping it daily, using their unique thods to nurture the fire.
When Jin Chi learned of this, he had considered exterminating them. But upon realizing that their ritualistic thods actually accelerated the fla's growth, he chose to make use of them instead.
He had already calculated the exact ti of the Divine Fla's ergence—it was supposed to be three years later. That was why he had been so relaxed.
Yet now, the Fla Demons had sohow triggered its birth three years early.
But so what? He had set up a warning array upon the altar. The mont the fla appeared, he would sense it. With the Fla Demons' ager strength, could they possibly seize the Divine Fla from him?
Jin Chi coldly snorted to himself, though a murderous intent toward the Fla Demons had already arisen in his heart.
His figure flickered, vanishing from the hall. Accompanied by a piercing cry of a Golden Crow, he shot out of the Fire God Sect's territory, flying toward the entrance of the subterranean world.
anwhile, Liu Bai finally broke through the Fla Demons' relentless pursuit and deliberately took a longer route toward the exit.
He did this precisely to avoid running into certain individuals who might be on their way. The precaution proved wise—for shortly after he escaped, a golden streak of light tore through the void and arrived at the Golden Crow Altar.
There, Jin Chi found only an empty altar and shattered Fla Demon corpses scattered about.
"Damn it, soone got here before ?!"
The sight filled him with fury and disbelief.
His earlier confidence stemd from the fact that this place lay within the Fire God Sect's heartland—no outsiders could possibly enter.
Though his agreent had been with the previous Sect Master and had nothing to do with the current one, the old master had ascended to the Upper Sect, not perished. No one dared violate their pact.
"But it seems now soone has grown ambitious…"
Jin Chi's gaunt face turned cold, his sharp eyes radiating killing intent.
Although the Fla Demon tribe was small, its chieftain possessed Sovereign-level strength. For soone to wipe them out so effortlessly and seize the Divine Fla, that person had to be at least a First Grade Sovereign.
Furthermore, the lingering thunderous aura here had not yet dissipated, aning the intruder specialized in lightning arts.
A Sovereign expert proficient in lightning—there were only a few such figures within the Fire God Sect…
In an instant, Jin Chi narrowed his list of suspects, none of which included Liu Bai.
When Liu Bai returned to the Fire God Sect, everything appeared the sa. The long queue of hopefuls seeking entry remained, though it was clearly a different group from yesterday.
As a proper Outer Sect disciple now, Liu Bai simply presented his token and passed through the gates with ease, drawing envious looks from those waiting in line.
That left Liu Bai sowhat speechless. An Outer Sect disciple—was that really worth envying?
If not for the Inner Sect trials being a month away, he wouldn't have bothered living among this bunch of self-satisfied fools.
"Next step—breaking through the Spiritual Energy Disaster…"
With a massive amount of experience stored up, his priority was naturally to raise his cultivation first. After all, strength was the foundation of everything, and also the key to Liu Bai unlocking more techniques.
"Tsk tsk, aren't you planning to first rge the Divine Fla with your spiritual energy? You know that would greatly help you when crossing the Spiritual Energy Disaster," Jiuyou said lazily, her human form reclining on the room's only chair. Her curvaceous figure exuded an unrestrained allure.
Liu Bai cast her a glance, then calmly looked away. "That's not a good idea. At least not while I'm still in the Fire God Sect. I don't want to expose the Divine Fla."
"Afraid that old crow will co after you?" Jiuyou teased with a knowing grin.
Liu Bai did not deny it. He nodded. "Correct. Whether or not this Divine Fla has any connection to Jin Chi, I have no desire to invite unnecessary trouble."
To put it plainly, he was here only for cultivation techniques and a Sovereign Celestial Body. Once he achieved his goal, he planned to leave quietly. There was no need to create complications before then.
"That's a pity. You should know that fusing a divine object provides imnse benefits. Your Five Elental Divine Lightning may be powerful, but in the end, it's still an external force. You won't always have the chance to use it freely."
Liu Bai naturally understood this well. In the original story, Mu Chen had been able to continue his rampage even after Jiuyou fell into slumber precisely because he had fused with a strand of her violet Undying Fla.
"You're right. My current combat power could indeed use another boost. But the Divine Fla can wait—I have a better alternative," Liu Bai said with a faint smile.
"Alternative? What alternative?" Jiuyou asked, puzzled.
At first, she did not think much of it, but then she caught the mischievous gleam in Liu Bai's eyes as he stared at her and imdiately realized his intent.
"Well, well! You dare set your sights on ?"
"Hehe, don't put it like that. We've risked our lives together, haven't we? I just need a tiny wisp of your Undying Fla. It won't affect you at all."
Liu Bai wasn't wrong.
At this stage, fusing with a fla was different from rging with the Sovereign Celestial Body or integrating spiritual essence. What he sought was to borrow a trace of the fla's power for combat, not to permanently alter his own spiritual energy's attributes.
Attempting a full fusion now would only end with him burned alive by the Undying Fla.
Jiuyou snorted twice, clearly uncomfortable under Liu Bai's grinning gaze. She suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
"Alright, alright, I'll agree," she said at last.
As she spoke, a wisp of deep violet fla rose from her fingertip and drifted toward Liu Bai.
Though it seed small, Liu Bai imdiately sensed extre danger—as if it could incinerate him completely the instant it erupted.
That sense was not wrong. This seemingly minuscule wisp of fla originated from a Fourth Grade Sovereign and was a top-tier Undying Fla. Even a Sovereign would suffer heavily upon contact, let alone soone still at the Human-Body Disaster Realm.
Taking a deep breath, Liu Bai drew the wisp into his body.
No terrifying reaction followed.
The fla remained under Jiuyou's control for now, so as long as she willed it, it would not harm him. This spared Liu Bai a great deal of pain.
After all, in the original story, Mu Chen had obtained a wisp of Undying Fla from a slumbering Jiuyou and was forced to fuse it on his own. One wrong move and he would have been burned to death.
Liu Bai couldn't help thinking that Mu Chen had survived back then purely thanks to his protagonist's luck.
With the fla now inside him, Liu Bai began to circulate his spiritual energy, attempting to envelop and fuse with the wisp.
This was the only thod for rging with a divine object. If the divine object resisted too strongly, it could lead to irreversible backlash or even death.
Yet even so, countless cultivators were willing to risk their lives for the chance to obtain such power.
Liu Bai's five-colored spiritual energy surged mightily, its Five Elental Radiance dazzling and vast. But in front of the Undying Fla, it suddenly seed far less imposing.
The mont the five-colored energy touched the violet fla, it began to evaporate rapidly under the intense heat. The rainbow light filling his inner world diminished visibly by the second.
The process lasted for fifteen minutes.
When Liu Bai felt his spiritual energy starting to deplete, he frowned slightly, then imdiately poured in three hundred and fifty thousand experience points.
Boom!
Violent spiritual power erupted from his body. If not for a sudden surge of light forming a protective barrier around the room, the entire courtyard would have been obliterated by the outburst.
Even so, the chamber trembled violently, startling the nearby Outer Sect disciples out of their ditation.
"What's going on? Did soone just break through again? That shockwave's insane!"
Though many had seen others break through before, never had anyone caused such a massive disturbance.
After all, most Outer Sect disciples were only at the Three Heaven Realm, and their breakthroughs could not even shake the protective formations of the compound.
Of course, a few older disciples who had been around longer seed to realize sothing.
"Hey, isn't the Five Sect Grand Tournant in three months? That guy's probably one of those aiming for the Upper Sect."
"Figures. Only soone like that would already have such strength yet still join one of the Lower Five Sects as an Outer Sect disciple."
Most of them could only grumble enviously. The gap between them and such geniuses was simply too vast for them to even hope for contact.
Still, quite a few disciples cursed quietly under their breath.
"Damn it, those freaks again. Looks like we're dood in next month's Inner Sect assessnt. I spent half a year preparing for that chance!"
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