Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng still remained expressionless. His hands trembled continuously, and eight crystal-clear ice swords, each three feet long, abruptly took shape.

These ice swords circled around his body in one turn, soared into the sky, and then merged into a transparent Ice Giant Sword of great tenacity.

Without a word, Zhao Sheng pinched the sword formula. The giant ice sword suddenly shuddered and split into four rays of sword light that seemed both real and illusory. The sword light flew out in unison, directly confronting the golden sword rainbow, and tangled with it without showing any signs of weakening.

At that moment, Zhao Sheng looked up at Zhen Yue, his right hand touching his waist. With a flick of his hand, four Second Order True Talismans flew out together.

The next instant, four huge Thunder Balls, each as large as a ball, suddenly flew thirty to forty feet into the air. Then, converging towards the center, a massive Thunder Ball, teeming with Thunder Light and as big as a water jar, appeared above the courtyard.

Zhen Yue couldn't help but look up, her complexion turning deathly pale in astonishment, drained of all color.

Beneath the Thunder Ball, Zhao Sheng looked at Zhen Yue with an expressionless face, his gaze ice-cold as if he were looking at a dead person, and he uttered the word "Go".

In an instant, the Thunder Ball flickered and transformed into a beam of expansive azure light, thick as a water barrel, striking across the four corners, instantly splitting above Zhen Yue's head, giving her no chance to dodge.

Boom!

A vast expanse of thunder and lightning violently exploded, and the courtyard seemed to be submerged in a sea of thunder, filled with dazzling white light.

At that moment, a three-inch-long flying sword, surrounded by the brilliant Electric Light of thunder, pierced through Zhen Yue's neck.

Zhen Yue only had time to look down at the hole in her neck. Before she could even show regret, she turned to ash within the endless thunder.

In the meantime, the Insect Cloud was also shattered by this overwhelming attack, thousands of Gu Worms were struck by the lightning, turning into charred remains, and fell to the ground.

After confirming Zhen Yue's death, Zhao Sheng waved his hand to collect the Spirit Light Flying Sword, the Scroll, and the Storage Bag.

Then, without even glancing at the small Gu Cloud that was reassembling in the courtyard, he swiftly left the place.

Now, the foremost task in Zhao Sheng's mind was to refine the core of Bei Mansion as quickly as possible to take control, with everything else secondary.

...

The light screen surrounding the Sea Shell fluctuated suddenly, and Zhao Sheng emerged from within before swimming upward.

After ascending more than twenty yards, he looked down to his left, where only a glimmer of light was visible amid the darkness, Zhao Sheng stopped, swiftly carved out a stone cave in the trench wall, and then darted into it.

After sealing the entrance of the cave, he took out a Spiritual Pearl and gripped it in his hand, then suddenly hammered his left chest with his left hand.

With a retching sound, Zhao Sheng suddenly spat out a mouthful of essence blood onto the surface of the Spiritual Pearl.

The next second, the essence blood quickly merged with the Spiritual Power, turning into streams of blood-laced Spiritual Power. Under Zhao Sheng's spiritual power control, the blood-colored Spiritual Power transformed into blood runes, beginning to slowly seep into the Spiritual Pearl.

Every time a batch of Blood Talismans entered the Spiritual Pearl, Zhao Sheng would again expel a mouthful of essence blood, merging it with Spiritual Power to form new blood runes that continued to penetrate the interior of the Spiritual Pearl.

Refining the core of a cave mansion was not an easy task, especially since Zhao Sheng's cultivation level hadn't even reached Foundation Establishment, making it quite a stretch to refine it. Having no other methods at hand, he could only rely on time, determination, and self-harm to grind it down bit by bit.

Time slowly passed, and Zhao Sheng continued to cough up mouthfuls of essence blood.

As batch after batch of blood runes merged into the Spiritual Pearl, which gradually exhibited a faint red glow, Zhao Sheng's complexion grew increasingly pale.

Three days later, in the temporarily opened cave, the Spiritual Pearl was emitting a soft yet bright red glow, illuminating the cave as well as Zhao Sheng's pale and emaciated face. Enjoy new adventures from empire

"Take in!"

Following a hoarse voice resounding in the cave, the Spiritual Pearl naturally floated up and suddenly turned into a mass of blood light, vanishing with a flash into Zhao Sheng's Dantian.

Zhao Sheng slowly ended his cultivation, standing up from the ground with an unmistakable excitement in his eyes.

After a while, he left the cave and stealthily approached the outer area of Bei Mansion below.

The enormously large Sea Shell was still radiating dazzling white light. However, outside the light screen connected by five stone pillars, three tattered corpses were floating conspicuously.

The corpses were densely covered with oddly shaped marine worms, which were slowly gnawing away at the flesh and blood of the corpses.

Upon seeing this scene, Zhao Sheng's expression became slightly grave.

Someone being able to find this place actually didn't surprise him.

What he worried about the most was that Bei Mansion had already been occupied by someone or a certain power.

After contemplating for a moment, Zhao Sheng concealed his aura, pinching an Invisibility Talisman and a Concentrating God Talisman in his right hand, and made his way forward with a swaying motion, quietly entering the light curtain.

Stepping through the light curtain, before Zhao Sheng's feet touched the ground, his figure had already disappeared.

Listening to the sounds of combat coming from Bei Mansion, interspersed with the clash of Magic Artifacts and the booming of Spells, Zhao Sheng saw at a glance that inside this mini Grotto Heaven were more than a dozen Cultivators engaged in a fight to the death.

At this moment,

Zhao Sheng's heart tightened, and he quickly looked over.

He saw that on one side, each person was clad in red robes, wielding large swords that glowed with red light; as they chanted spells, streams of red Sword Light mixed with Fireballs were relentlessly blasted towards the opposing group.

The other side seemed to have a slightly larger number of people, but they were dressed in a disarray, with odd and varied weapons, none alike.

Among the fighting crowd, two people were engaged in the most fierce battle, one was a red-clothed, burly man with a face full of horizontal flesh, controlling a fiery red Flying Knife. With each flash of the Flying Knife, streaks of blood-red Sword Light shot out. The other was an old crone whose weapon was a pair of mandarin duck axes. The axes crossed and struck rapidly, creating swathes of duck-shaped lights that easily shattered the incoming Sword Light, evenly matching the burly man in combat.

Observing secretly for a while, Zhao Sheng relaxed.

These Cultivators were all in the Qi Refining Realm, with the two strongest only at Qi Refining Perfection, and most of the objects in their hands were common high-grade Magical Artifacts, with crude methods of fighting, not catching his eye.

It seemed that they were all just Loose Cultivators, not worth considering.

After watching for two more quarters, confirming that neither side had someone who was disguising their power,

To avoid further complications with delays, Zhao Sheng decided to take action.

He stealthily approached the two battling groups, slowly placing his hands on the Storage Bag. In a flash, he had a crude talisman plate in his hands, which was divided into three layers, each layer holding more than twenty stacks of Water Arrow Talismans.

"Go"

As the talisman plate's spirit light gradually grew stronger, Zhao Sheng uttered a soft command, and then all the Water Arrow Talismans turned to flying ash simultaneously.

The next second, thousands of three-foot-long, child's arm-thick, incredibly sharp Water Arrows, condensed out of thin air above Bei Mansion and crashed down explosively with a speed faster than the ear could hear thunder.

In an instant, it had started raining Water Arrows from the sky!

Ahhhhhhh!

Suddenly, a wave of screams erupted from within Bei Mansion.

Moments later, Zhao Sheng flashed out from the light curtain and swam to the side, looking at the huge Sea Shell. He patted his abdomen, and the Town Suppressing Spirit Pearl emerged from within his body, suspended in front of him.

Zhao Sheng muttered incantations, his hands successively casting a series of spells. The blood light on the Town Suppressing Spirit Pearl surged, and a beam of white light shot out from the pearl, splitting into five and connecting to five stone pillars.

The stone pillars then streamed wave-like lights, which quickly spread throughout the entire Sea Shell.

As the sound of the ocean waves grew from faint to strong, the Sea Shell gradually shrank in size.

Fifteen Zhang,

Ten Zhang,

Three Zhang

...

Finally, an inch-long pristine and jade-like Exquisite Sea Shell fell into Zhao Sheng's hands, which he quickly tucked into his chest.

Pop!

A mass of dense bubbles surged in the sea trench, and like a swordfish, Zhao Sheng shot rapidly upwards.

A quarter of an hour later, he surfaced, checked his bearings, and didn't return to Beilu Island but instead swam directly towards a route leading to the Inner Star Sea.