[Activate talent: I Want It All?]
After Su Ming used the talent I Want It All, he obtained every reward from this simulation.
In an instant, his cultivation broke through to Late Deity Transformation. The Bizarre Insects inside his body surged out again, only to be suppressed by him with a casual backhand.
Su Ming felt no joy at all from breaking through to Deity Transformation.
The most important thing right now was to go to the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm and confirm whether Lin Zhantian had brought Lin Qi's corpse there.
Su Ming went into Ye Chuxue's room next door.
"Chuxue, go to Heaven's Revelation Academy in the Qin Kingdom, then..."
Su Ming told Ye Chuxue to find Fang Jingchun in the Qin Kingdom and tell him that, no matter what, he had to go to the Lin Residence, kill Lin Zhantian, and destroy Lin Qi's corpse.
After giving Ye Chuxue the message, he did not even give her a chance to ask why. He turned around and directly used the Great Void Technique to fly toward the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm.
At Late Deity Transformation, with Su Ming using the Great Void Technique at full power, he arrived above the Heavenly Abyss in a single day.
He first set up a sword formation around the Heavenly Abyss with the Taixu Sword at its core, then turned around and leaped into the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm.
After entering the secret realm, Su Ming immediately closed his eyes and sensed the spiritual energy within it.
A moment later, he slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath. The spiritual energy inside the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm had not yet been polluted.
But for safety's sake, Su Ming still flew all over the secret realm to inspect it, just in case Lin Zhantian had only recently arrived.
Su Ming flew for a long time, and during that time he encountered several human cultivators from Qingzhou, the highest among them only at the Nascent Soul stage.
What surprised him, however, was that he did not run into Wan Yemo this time. Had he met him, this place would have become his burial ground.
After quite a while, just as Su Ming was beginning to think Lin Zhantian had not yet entered the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm, he suddenly saw two figures beneath a waterfall.
Suspended in midair, Su Ming stared fixedly at those two figures, the look in his eyes shifting from astonishment to fury.
"Lin Zhantian!"
Su Ming roared at Lin Zhantian beneath the waterfall, drew the Taixu Sword, and dived straight down.
Hearing the voice, Lin Zhantian turned around and saw Su Ming, with Late Deity Transformation cultivation erupting from him, charging over with sword aura.
A trace of confusion flashed through Lin Zhantian's pupils, only to be replaced by terror.
He could not understand how, after only a few short days apart, Su Ming had gone from Nascent Soul Great Perfection to Late Deity Transformation.
If Su Ming had only broken through to Initial Deity Transformation, one might still say that he had accumulated enough for a long time and had just happened to break through in the past few days.
But the reality before him was that Su Ming had not only broken through to Deity Transformation, he had reached Late Deity Transformation.
Such a terrifying cultivation speed—
Lin Zhantian had never even dreamed of talent this monstrous.
As Su Ming's attack drew closer and closer, Lin Zhantian had no time to dodge and could only counter with all his strength.
Bang!
As expected, Lin Zhantian's body was blasted backward. He crashed into the waterfall, and blood dyed the pool beneath it crimson.
Su Ming flashed in front of Lin Zhantian with the Great Void Technique and planted a foot on his chest.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
"If I die by your hand, I will not complain. But before I die, let me understand one thing clearly. Why are you so obsessed with chasing after Qi'er?"
"We are both human. We should be fighting the Bizarre Insects together. Qi'er's talent is extremely high. In the future, he was bound to become a great help to the human race. Why did you have to kill him?"
After hearing Lin Zhantian say all that, Su Ming was so enraged that he burst out laughing.
"Hahahaha! A help to the human race? The hope of the human race?"
"Lin Zhantian, Lin Zhantian, have you forgotten what I told you a few days ago? Have you?"
At those words, Lin Zhantian endured the pain wracking his body and recalled what Su Ming had said back then.
"My son is a disaster? How could my son possibly be a disaster?"
"If you wanted to kill Qi'er, you did not have to make up such an excuse."
At this point, Su Ming could no longer endure Lin Zhantian's stupidity. He directly broke all four of his limbs and crippled his cultivation.
"I will not let you die for now. I want you to see with your own eyes just how great and irreversible a loss your actions have brought upon the human race."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ming took away Lin Qi's corpse right in front of Lin Zhantian's furious gaze.
"Wait here. After I finish dealing with Lin Qi's corpse, I will come back for you."
With a cold look, Su Ming glanced at Lin Zhantian, who lay on the ground unable to move, then left the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm.
He did not dare destroy Lin Qi's corpse directly within the secret realm, fearing it might leave behind some unknown danger.
After going to an uninhabited place and dealing with Lin Qi, Su Ming returned to the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm once more.
This time, however, he happened to run into Ye Chuxue and Fang Jingchun, who had just arrived.
"Little Junior Brother, Lin Zhantian is not at the Lin Residence!"
Although Fang Jingchun did not know why Su Ming was so determined to kill Lin Zhantian and destroy Lin Qi's corpse, his careful mind told him that there had to be a serious problem here.
Su Ming nodded and let out a sigh.
"Too late. Lin Zhantian entered the secret realm before we did."
He then began explaining the entire sequence of events to the two of them.
When Fang Jingchun heard that Lin Qi's corpse could pollute the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm, he immediately understood the seriousness of the matter.
Once the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm was polluted, both Qingzhou and Youzhou would lose their future, and the human race would never be able to resist the Bizarre Insects.
Yet after entering the secret realm, Fang Jingchun did not sense any change in the spiritual energy.
"Little Junior Brother, are you sure the secret realm has been polluted? Why does the spiritual energy feel unchanged to me?"
Su Ming also desperately wished he could deny the truth that the secret realm had been polluted.
He knew the reason the spiritual energy still seemed normal was only because too little time had passed.
So little that they simply could not detect the subtle changes yet.
"Senior Brother, I also hope it has not been polluted... In one week, you will know whether it is true or false."
Fang Jingchun fell silent.
He knew that if Su Ming spoke so firmly, then this matter was almost certainly real.
The three of you said nothing along the way until you arrived beside Lin Zhantian.
"Lin Zhantian, were you not unwilling to believe that your son had a problem?"
"Then let us stay here and watch carefully."
"Let us witness together the fall of the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm."
By the end, Su Ming's tone had turned so cold that even Ye Chuxue, who possessed the Taiyin Body, felt a chill.
Lying on the ground, Lin Zhantian's eyes were filled with hatred. Even in death, he refused to believe that his son, who possessed an excellent spiritual root, could be a calamity.
Seven days later.
Fang Jingchun, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, then closed them again to carefully sense something.
Little by little, his expression grew increasingly grave.
"Little Junior Brother, you were right. The spiritual energy in the secret realm has been polluted."
Fang Jingchun opened his eyes and let out a long breath of stale air.
At first, he had not really believed Su Ming's words. But today, he had finally sensed within the spiritual energy that aura loved by the Bizarre Insects.
For now, however, the degree of pollution was still very low. Only Fang Jingchun and Su Ming could detect it, while Ye Chuxue and Lin Zhantian still sensed nothing at all.
"Hmph! Polluted? You found two people to put on an act with you, and you think that is enough to make me believe your lies?"
Su Ming could not even be bothered to explain. He simply kicked Lin Zhantian and broke his jaw.
"Shut up! Stay where you are!"
Another seven days passed.
By now, the pollution in the spiritual energy had grown much more severe, and even Ye Chuxue and Lin Zhantian, despite the latter no longer having any cultivation, could sense it.
"Impossible! How could this be possible?"
With his broken jaw, Lin Zhantian only managed to stammer out that one sentence.
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