Chapter 58: Rampant Demon Calamity, Urgent Task!
"Ding, congratulations to the host for leveling up to the second heaven of the Void Core Realm. You have obtained a ninth-grade divine ability, the Grand Artifact Refining Art!"
In an instant, a notification flashed past his ears.
Fierce spiritual energy flowed wildly within his meridians, and an incomparably powerful aura swept out in all directions.
The next moment, a refining character rune the size of a baby's palm fell from the void. The ancient refining character rune was enveloped in crimson flames, with a soaring heatwave that caused visible water vapor to rise from the ground within several meters, the earth cracking at a visible speed.
The refining character rune flashed and vanished, merging into Lin Xu's sea of consciousness, resonating with the runes condensed from his other divine abilities.
The function of the Grand Artifact Refining Art was, in essence, a ball of spiritual fire that could devour other flames to increase its own power.
Its first function was to serve as a pill fire to refine magical artifacts, and its second was to serve as a means of attack.
However, the power of the Grand Artifact Refining Art was not limited to this. In his past life, he had figured out several other methods.
This Grand Artifact Refining Art could not only refine magical artifacts, it could even refine the physical body!
"Temper!"
Lin Xu's consciousness connected to the Grand Artifact Refining Art in his sea of consciousness. With a single thought, his own body was enveloped in a ball of crimson flames.
He felt not the slightest bit of scorching heat, but rather a sense of warmth.
A moment later.
The flames summoned by the Grand Artifact Refining Art extinguished. The physical body, tempered by the Grand Artifact Refining Art, if one could see through to his bones, would clearly reveal one exquisite artifact-refining rune after another.
If Lin Xu's physical body could previously withstand a third-grade magical artifact, it could now withstand a fourth-grade lower-tier artifact.
"Whew!"
After a long time, Lin Xu finally let out a long breath of turbid air.
When Lin Xu stood up, his limbs emitted crisp sounds from his bones. If one observed carefully, his height had increased by an inch, and his faintly visible figure had also become somewhat more powerful.
Lin Xu glanced at the collapsed courtyard walls around him, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.
He thought that since he had drawn the Grand Artifact Refining Art this time, the next time he built a house, he would just refine it into a magical artifact. That way, it wouldn't be as if he were demolishing his home every time he broke through.
Lin Xu looked toward the spiritual field in the distance. When his gaze fell upon Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu's small body trembled violently, and she swallowed with a solemn expression.
Just now, when the Grand Artifact Refining Art appeared on Lin Xu's body, that scorching aura of destruction made her extremely wary.
She could clearly feel that if she were touched by that flame, it would cause fatal harm to her main body.
"Xiao Yu, come over and deal with these collapsed walls. Pull them underground!"
Lin Xu called out to Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu thought about how she still had the label of that old woman Fang Qing on her. This big liar probably wouldn't do anything to her, so she didn't need to be so flustered.
"Coming, I'm coming!" Xiao Yu's small, bare feet took a single step, and it was as if she rode a gust of wind to Lin Xu's side.
With a wave of her small hand, half-meter-thick vines broke through the ground beneath the collapsed walls, tightly wrapping the rubble and pulling it underground.
"Hmm, somewhat useful!"
Lin Xu nodded in satisfaction.
Just as Lin Xu was about to rebuild the courtyard walls.
A stream of azure light flew over from the horizon, like a brilliant meteor, and landed before Lin Xu with a spiritual nature.
It was a decree!
At first glance, it was a rectangular jade slip, imprinted with a golden character for 'decree'.
Lin Xu's consciousness probed into it.
A line of spiritual characters appeared in his mind.
Urgent Task: Outside of Panlong City, a large spatial demon cave has appeared, with the possibility of forming a demon tide. Go quickly to find the spatial node and eliminate the spatial demon cave!
"A large spatial demon cave!"
Lin Xu's eyes widened in shock. This decree should have been sent to all thirty-six core peaks.
A spatial demon cave was something the demon race created using space-time sand as a base, supplemented by powerful artifact refining methods, to forge something similar to a large-scale teleportation array.
The grade of a demon cave was determined by the level of demons it could transport.
A spatial demon cave capable of bringing forth demons of the Harmony Dao Realm could be called a large spatial demon cave.
"Xiao Yu, we have a mission. You're bored anyway, come with me to kill some demons!"
Lin Xu put away the jade slip decree and said to Xiao Yu at his side.
"Demons!"
A hint of paleness appeared on Xiao Yu's pretty face.
"I've read about it in the old woman's library. Some powerful demons can even devour beast cores!"
Xiao Yu said with a slightly fearful tone.
"You can eat them too. You're a tree demon of over ten thousand years, how can you be so timid!"
A hint of helplessness flashed in Lin Xu's eyes.
"If you can kill a hundred demons above the Nascent Soul Realm, I can give you a drop of divine beast essence blood from your demon race!"
Then, as if coaxing a child, Lin Xu's mind moved, and he extracted a drop of Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood from his gourd.
Shua!
It was that alluring aura!
Xiao Yu's eyes instantly widened. The alluring scent she had sensed before was this thing. She had initially thought it was just the essence blood of a high-grade beast, but she never expected it to be from a divine beast!
A divine beast was an existence that surpassed the Tribulation Transcending Realm.
Xiao Yu's heart grew hot, and she immediately opened her pink, cherry-like small mouth, wanting to swallow it in one gulp.
But Lin Xu was quick-eyed and put the Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood away.
"If you want to eat it, come with me!"
Lin Xu looked down at Xiao Yu, who had a pair of large eyes.
"Mm!"
Xiao Yu nodded heavily. She was certain that if she could swallow this drop of divine beast essence blood, she could break through to the third heaven of the Void Refining Realm within a month, and it would also be greatly beneficial to her future cultivation.
Afterward, Lin Xu's mind moved, summoning the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels and enlarging them to three zhang in length.
The two figures, one large and one small, stood on them and then flew off in the direction of Panlong City.
Panlong City was one hundred thousand li north of the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
In the game of his past life, there had been no signs of a large spatial demon cave near Panlong City. Considering Lin Xu's various actions against the demon race spies, and especially how he had dealt with the spy personally dispatched by that old fellow from the Heavenly Demon Palace, that old fellow would surely be furious. There was a ninety percent chance that this large spatial demon cave was Yu Zhenlong's doing.
As Lin Xu flew out from the thirty-six core peaks, he passed through the area of the inner disciples. On every cultivation peak, the number of disciples had been reduced by more than half. Moreover, many disciples who had just returned from outside the Holy Land were mostly carrying injuries.
"That old fellow really wants to stir up conflict between the human and demon races!"
Lin Xu's heart sank, and the speed at which he controlled the Sun and Moon Golden Wheels increased by a fraction.
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