The Thunder Dragon plowed the earth, sweeping through all resistance.
The destruction wrought in that instant was even more terrifying than the previous two formation arrays. Especially the dreadful lightning it gave no time to react and killed in the blink of an eye.
At that moment, Blood Wolf felt his heart skip a beat.
If he had charged forward just now, he would likely be among the corpses littering the ground.
"Spiritual Pulse, activate!"
A shout echoed in Blood Wolf's heart, and immediately, a blood-colored spiritual light burst from his body. At the same time, his spiritual energy surged violently, even surpassing a threshold and breaking into the Divine Soul Realm.
"Wolf God Art—Howling Wolf Slash!"
Accompanied by a wolf-like howl, terrifying spiritual pressure enveloped Liu Bai. Then, a savage blade aura filled with killing intent swept toward Liu Bai's vital points like a violent storm.
Shua! Shua!
The surrounding ground was carved with deep gashes by the blade aura.
Several trees within range were also cleaved in two by the ferocious energy, the cross-sections smooth as mirrors.
Liu Bai felt the oppressive force of the violent spiritual energy pressing down on him, but rather than panic, his face revealed an odd excitement.
"Another Spiritual Pulse!"
And this one could actually boost Blood Wolf from the peak of the Spiritual Wheel Realm directly to the middle Phase of the Divine Soul Realm. His spiritual power had increased tenfold!
This absolutely wasn't something a Human pulse could accomplish. Could it be… an Earth Pulse?
How could that be possible?! Someone with an Earth Pulse would be considered a peerless prodigy in the entire Northern Spiritual Realm. How could such a person end up as a mere bandit…
But those thoughts didn't matter now. What Liu Bai really wanted to know was—if he killed someone possessing an Earth Pulse, how many Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points would he earn?
At this moment, in Liu Bai's pitch-black eyes, the reflection of countless blade shadows and Blood Wolf's savage expression could clearly be seen.
In the next instant, the Mountain God Art surged within his body, beginning from the spleen-acupoint Earth Element Spiritual Wheel, his three Spiritual Wheels began to rotate rapidly. Brown-yellow spiritual energy roared through his meridians like a raging river...
Simultaneously, in the depths of Liu Bai's body, mysterious points of light began to flicker, and his aura rapidly soared.
Although his Spiritual Pulse was seemingly a level lower than his opponent's, Liu Bai's base spiritual power already rivaled the Divine Soul Realm. With the addition of Grade two Human Pulse, his current aura faintly suppressed even Blood Wolf's.
As he clenched his fists, the earthen glow covering his body condensed. A hazy, brown mountain appeared, covering his form.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Blood Wolf's savage blade strikes all landed on that illusory mountain, producing sharp, metallic clashes and a shower of sparks—but the black mountain figure didn't budge in the slightest.
"What is that?!"
Blood Wolf's expression shifted as he stared at the mountain shrouding Liu Bai's body.
But then he gritted his teeth...
He refused to believe it. With his Grade three Earth Pulse giving him strength equivalent to the middle Phase of the Divine Soul Realm, could he really not suppress a mere boy at the peak of the Spiritual Wheel Realm?!
"Wolf God Art—Wolf Slayer Blade Technique!" Blood Wolf stepped forward, his blade style shifting, now carrying an overwhelming bloodthirsty aura. His dark red broadsword turned crimson, radiating a bloody glow as it slashed downward.
Liu Bai clenched his right fist. The Earth Element spiritual power surging from the Mountain God Art fully covered his arm like a gauntlet. With howling fist wind, his arm turned into his deadliest weapon and smashed forward.
The roaring fist wind stirred vast spiritual power and collided head-on with Blood Wolf's crimson broadsword.
Clang!
A powerful shockwave erupted, causing the ground beneath their feet to collapse by a layer.
"Kill!" Blood Wolf roared furiously, murderous intent erupting from his body. The broadsword in his hand moved like it weighed nothing, continuously slamming toward Liu Bai with bloody streaks.
Liu Bai met it with his iron fist. Relying on the Mountain God Art's weight and defensive properties, not only did he hold his own, he even managed to make Blood Wolf suffer minor losses at times.
There was no helping it. Blood Wolf's attacks were indeed fierce and feral, like a wolf pack locking onto its prey relentless, never letting go.
But he lacked Liu Bai's formidable defense and was even slightly inferior in raw power.
That was the benefit of cultivating a body-refining technique. Even a technique like Frost Skin Jade Bone Art, which wasn't designed for direct combat, still gave Liu Bai's body stamina and strength far beyond ordinary people.
Boom!
Two figures clashed once more, carrying immense spiritual energy. The shockwave from their collision blasted the ground into the air, sending dirt and rocks flying in all directions.
At the center of the shockwave, Blood Wolf gripped his broadsword in both hands, slashing downward with a posture like cleaving a mountain in half.
Yet facing him, a slender hand covered in yellow-brown spiritual power intercepted the blood-colored blade barehanded. If one looked closely, between the edge of the blade and the palm, aside from the thick Earth Element spiritual energy, there was also a layer of smooth, jade-like spiritual membrane.
"Had enough yet…"
A calm, emotionless voice rang out. But to Blood Wolf, it struck like thunder in his ears, making his heart tremble.
"If you're done... then it's my turn now."
Shua!
In an instant, Liu Bai's figure turned into a streak of flame, leaving behind an afterimage as he appeared beside Blood Wolf.
His steps seemed slow and unhurried, like strolling through a courtyard, yet each step left behind a lingering afterimage that refused to dissipate.
His spiritual power surged violently. On his right hand, black spiritual energy rapidly gathered. Three black light seals emerged...
These three light seals were only about a foot wide, but their appearance released an oppressively domineering aura.
Boom!
With a calm expression, Liu Bai punched forward. The three black seals followed, leaving behind black trails and whistling through the air as they blasted toward Blood Wolf without hesitation.
"Ding. Congratulations, player has spent 1,500 experience points. Spirit-grade Low-level Movement Technique—Blaze Step has been upgraded to Perfect Level. Special Trait Acquired: Flame Phantom Body."
Just now, during the fierce exchange with Blood Wolf, Liu Bai realized his movement technique was slightly lagging. Though the Mountain God Art's traits and the powerful body-refining technique allowed him to withstand the opponent's storm-like attacks, Liu Bai wasn't the kind to just take a beating without retaliating. So he decisively upgraded his only movement technique—Blaze Step—to the highest level.
What he didn't expect was that, at the perfect stage, Flame Step would give birth to a new trait...
Flame Phantom Body likely an illusionary technique created by extreme speed, allowing Liu Bai to instantly shift between afterimages to confuse the enemy.
This kind of mid-battle upgrading, even compensating for weaknesses on the fly... it was just too unfair. So with a cheat-like opponent like this how was Blood Wolf supposed to win?!
At that moment, Blood Wolf naturally sensed how formidable those three Death Seals were. However, he had completely lost track of Liu Bai's true body and didn't know from which direction the attack would come. All he could do was instinctively raise his broadsword, as wide as a door, and hide his body behind the blade.
Liu Bai's eyelid twitched. "What the— did he just bring out a built-in giant shield?!"
Thud!
The three domineering Death Seals struck the broadsword head-on and exploded violently.
The terrifying impact cracked the thick blade all over, and Blood Wolf, who was hiding behind it, was knocked flying as though struck by a mountain. He slammed hard into a thick tree trunk. A sweetness surged up his throat, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.
"It's over."
Liu Bai's figure vanished like a ghost. When he reappeared, he was already beside Blood Wolf.
A flicker of black light flashed across Blood Wolf's throat. His body, which had just begun to rise, suddenly froze. A moment later, it collapsed to the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
Sheathing the pitch-black dagger in his hand, Liu Bai glanced at the corpse on the ground, now rapidly growing cold due to the loss of blood. He bent down and removed the Mustard Seed Bracelet from the man's wrist, then stepped over the body without a second glance. Under the vacant and frightened eyes of those who were still barely alive, he began delivering fatal blows one by one…
"So it really was an Earth Pulse. It actually gave me 100 Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points several times more than what I got from Blood Blade and Lu Ling."
As he looked at his status panel showing over 300 Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points, Liu Bai felt pleased. At the same time, he made a decision—to completely eliminate the remaining Blood Wolf Bandits. Once that was done, his Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points would be about where he needed them to be.
Half a month later.
It had been over a month since Liu Bai had left the Liu Clan. With only a few days left until the scheduled gathering, Liu Bai decided it was time to return home.
Slash!
The dagger in his hand slit the throat of the last Blood Wolf Bandit. Liu Bai looked at the weapon that had accompanied him for nearly half a year, then casually tossed it into a pool of blood.
"It was just a mundane item. After so much battle, it has served its purpose."
It had to be said, the Northern Spiritual Realm truly was a desolate place. Even elite bandit groups like the Blood Wolf Bandits couldn't rob anything valuable...
Inside Blood Wolf's Mustard Seed Bracelet, aside from a few usable spiritual materials, the rest was mostly spiritual coins and a few low-level spiritual arts.
Unfortunately, things like that were completely worthless to Liu Bai, the Young Master of the Liu Domain. He could easily mobilize resources several times greater than what the bracelet held. So naturally, he had no interest in any of it.
"In a land where the environment is this poor, even being a bandit just makes you a poor thief!"
After seeing that his Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points had reached exactly 500, Liu Bai's mood finally lifted.
The only regret was that Blood Slaughter had managed to escape. In fact, from beginning to end, Liu Bai hadn't even seen that guy's shadow.
To that, Liu Bai could only say, "He really ran fast."
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Player: Liu Bai
Cultivation Level: Peak Phase of Spiritual Wheel Realm
Class: Spiritual Array Master (Rank 2)
Spiritual Pules: Grade 3 Earth Pulse (0/1000)
Constitution: Spirit-Skin and Jade-Bone
Techniques:
Blazing Sun Art (Sixth Layer 125 /3600)
Hundred Scrolls of the Dao of Arrays: Volume I (Initiated · Heart Array - Low Tier 0/1200)
Low-level Body-Forging Deity Technique: Frostskin Jadebone Codex (Minor Mastery 5/6000)
Mountain God Art (Third Layer 0 /9000)
Skills:
Common-grade High-level [Wind-Piercing Finger] (Greater Mastery)
Common-grade High-level [Senluo Death Seal] (Greater Mastery)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Starshatter Fist]-Shatter (Perfect)
Spirit-grade Low-level [Blaze Step]-Flame Phantom Body (Perfect)
Spirit-grade High-level [Great Sun Burning Sea Palm] (Minor Mastery 0/1200)
Spirit-Grade High-Rank [Mountain-Shaking Divine Fist ](Minor Completion 0/1200)
Arrays:
Flame Serpent Spirit-Breaking Array (Greater Mastery)
Rain Spiritual Array(Greater Mastery)
Consciousness mesmerizing Spiritual Array (Greater Mastery)
Wolf-Spirit Slaying Array(Minor Mastery 25/300)
Nine Heavens Thunder Spiritual Array( Minor Mastery 104/150)
Five Wheels Heaven-Splitting Array(Minor Mastery 0/1500)
Experience Points: 38100
Beast Soul Points: 68
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During the battles, Liu Bai had been constantly using his experience points to enhance his various spiritual arts. For example, his movement technique Blaze Step and the attack technique Shattering Star Fist had both been upgraded to their highest realm Perfect.
Both techniques, unsurprisingly, developed their own unique traits.Blaze Step birthed the Flame Phantom Body, and Shattering Star Fist awakened Shatter.
These were the core features of their respective spirit arts, traits that only manifested upon complete mastery. It was like the concept of "returning to simplicity" that Liu Bai had read about in martial arts novels from his previous life.
Now that he had plenty of experience points, and since he hadn't yet found a suitable beast soul essence in the Northern Spiritual Realm, Liu Bai wasn't in a rush to break through to the Divine Soul Realm. He decided to wait until he reached the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy before considering it.
After all, in the original novel, Mu Chen and his companions encountered creatures like the Magma Flame Dragon Lizard and Frost Spirit Flood Serpent in the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
Liu Bai wasn't greedy. He only wanted a single Heavenly Beast-level beast soul essence. If he had to, he could just let the system slowly upgrade it…
No big deal.
With that thought in mind, it took Liu Bai another seven or eight days to return to Liu City.
But something puzzled him upon entering the city, everyone looked at him with sheer terror. Even the Liu City guards who recognized his identity wore expressions of fear and trepidation. Liu Bai remained confused until he arrived at the Liu Clan residence.
The confusion cleared only when he met his father, Liu Qingtian.
"Bai'er, what happened to you? Why are you exuding such a terrifying murderous aura?" Liu Qingtian asked, visibly shocked.
"Huh…? Dad, what are you talking about? Murderous aura?" Liu Bai looked at his hands in confusion. He didn't feel anything unusual.
But in the eyes of others, Liu Bai was now enveloped in an icy killing intent. Even cultivators at the Spiritual Wheel Realm felt dread when they got close to him.
No wonder the people in the city didn't dare approach him. They kept their distance, trembling in fear, as if they'd seen a ruthless demon lord who killed without blinking.
Well… strictly speaking, Liu Bai really had become someone who killed without hesitation.
Just to accumulate Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points, he had killed hundreds of people in less than a month and a half.
Unlike powerful cultivators who destroy mountains and rivers in battle, most of Liu Bai's kills were up close and personal with his own blade. As a result, the stench of blood clung to him.
With so much blood on his hands, it was only natural that he had developed a desensitized indifference. Even the slightest subconscious display of this aura was enough to terrify those with weaker wills
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