Chapter 225: Each Showing Their Divine Abilities

"That alchemist?"

Upon hearing this, the female cultivator of artifacts looked at Lin Jing and was momentarily stunned.

She could not see anything special about Lin Jing.

If she had to say something, it was that his cultivation base was the lowest among them.

"Judging by your attire, you must be a pill attendant from the Heaven-Reaching Tower in Qingzhou, right?"

"Don't tell me that alchemist is an alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower..."

"No," Xia Yan shook his head.

"Then that's terrible," the female artifact cultivator said. "Even if he were an alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, he likely wouldn't be a match for that yellow-haired one. This group of alchemists... if they had outstanding combat power themselves, they wouldn't need to cultivate pill attendants like you."

"I come from Wu Di City... so I know that yellow-haired one is likely Lei Zhen of the Lei clan, one of the eight great martial arts families of Wu Di City. He possesses the innate dual spirit body of lightning and fire. Among the prodigies of Wu Di City, his potential is absolutely in the first tier."

Xia Yan felt a jolt in his heart.

Wu Di City!

Wu Di City did not belong to the Ancient Kingdom, nor did it belong to Qingzhou. If one were to say Qingzhou was the holy land of alchemy, then Wu Di City was the holy city of artifact refining, representing the highest level of artifact refining on the entire continent.

And within Wu Di City, there were eight cultivation families that primarily practiced martial arts—a combination of martial, military, and immortal techniques. Furthermore, every family had a Void Profound expert presiding over it, wielding a quasi-immortal artifact.

As for the master of Wu Di City, he could even control the only immortal artifact on the continent.

One person and one weapon had kept the Ancient Kingdom from incorporating Wu Di City into its territory to this day.

It could be said that every power region on the continent today that was not Ancient Kingdom territory had a supreme expert presiding over it.

If this golden-haired youth was truly a prodigy of the eight great martial arts families, then indeed, even if a core alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower came, it would be of no use.

"Tch... you understand now, right?" The female artifact cultivator sighed. She was actually born into one of the eight families, but unfortunately, she was just a concubine's daughter from another branch and could not compare to a Lei clan prodigy like Lei Zhen.

She had thought entering the cave heaven would be the beginning of her rise, but who knew she would encounter this monster from the Lei clan.

"But I still believe... that alchemist will win," Xia Yan said slowly.

Thinking back to his father Xia Jie's funeral, even Venerable Ling Quan, with his Deity Transformation cultivation, could not see that his father had possessed him in the form of a remnant flame soul.

But... this wandering alchemist had done it. Not only did he see through it at a glance, but he also easily discerned why his father had turned into a remnant soul.

This level of insight made Xia Yan firmly believe that this alchemist... was absolutely a monster.

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The ten-second selection time was too short.

From the moment they saw the magic treasure information, ten seconds passed rapidly, leaving no time for each cultivator to weigh the pros and cons.

Xia Yan, the pill attendant from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, knowing Lin Jing's unfathomable depth, immediately chose to give up.

The female artifact cultivator also recognized the golden-haired youth and made a decisive choice to give up.

As for the remaining people, it wasn't that they had 100% confidence in defeating others; it was purely because the selection time was too short, and unable to bear giving up the supreme treasures they saw, they made their choices passively.

Once he reacted, he had already become one of the contestants.

They hadn't even had time to carefully judge the background of each opponent.

The youth dressed as a boatman took a deep breath, but since things had reached this point, he was determined to obtain the final reward at any cost.

"What a pity. If the three of you could have given up like those two, how good that would have been," the golden-haired youth in ornate robes said, lightning flickering in his eyes as he observed the other three.

"You wish," the girl in the green dress curled her lip. Although she looked a bit nervous, her momentum did not fall behind in the slightest.

Lin Jing was the most inconspicuous among the four; he was the only one at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, while the other three were all at the Great Circle of Foundation Establishment.

He was expressionless, looking at the other three as if looking at dead people. Although they had no grudges, there was no right or wrong in the struggle for the cave heaven. Since they were all considering their own interests, they could only decide who would live and who would die.

Regardless, he wouldn't be able to stay in Tianqing City for much longer.

At this moment, the four were in a chaotic battle. No one was willing to be the first to attack a certain side and let a third party benefit; instead, they all displayed their divine abilities to strengthen themselves.

A vegetation mark appeared on the girl in the green dress's forehead, her hair dancing. As her cultivation technique circulated, her cultivation fluctuations began to rise, vaguely possessing the might of a Golden Core. However, observing closely, it didn't seem to be Golden Core fluctuations, but rather a fake core temporarily condensed through a technique!

She didn't seem worried about interference from others, having other trump cards, and the others had no intention of interfering, all busy with their own affairs.

The youth dressed as a boatman pinched a seal with one hand. With him as the center, the surrounding water spiritual energy frantically surged into his skin. During this process, his skin gradually changed from white to light green, and the color continued to deepen... his expression also became increasingly ferocious and joyful.

As for the golden-haired youth, he extended his palm, and a ball of golden lightning and red flame in his palm fused together. The violent power condensed into a small sphere. As time passed, the power of this lightning-fire spell continued to increase, soon growing from the size of a fist to the size of a human head, with no sign of stopping.

The momentum of the few was rising at a terrifying speed. Seeing this stalemate in the chaotic battle, the female artifact cultivator outside the main hall spoke slowly.

"The magic power intensity of that girl in the green dress is already approaching the Golden Core stage..."

"And that boatman... he is not a pure-blooded human; he has Sea Clan bloodline... his pure physical strength is already comparable to a Golden Core body cultivator..."

Xia Yan nodded heavily, his expression serious. "That woman is practicing the Tai Xuan Sutra, a top-tier Qingzhou cultivation technique, containing the Fake Core Technique, Phantom Infant Technique, God-Descending Technique, and Void-Refining Technique... at the Foundation Establishment stage, one can display the power of Core Formation through the nature of the technique. Upon reaching Golden Core, one can temporarily condense a Phantom Infant. Upon reaching Nascent Soul, one can imitate the Deity Transformation artistic conception... It is a powerful technique that allows one to always exert strength far beyond their basic realm. She is a true disciple of the Tai Xuan Sect in Qingzhou!"

"The Sea Clan... the strongest warrior clan under the ancient Dragon Palace... The Sea Clan can only exert their full abilities in the sea, but the quality of spiritual energy in this cave heaven is far stronger than that of the Tianyuan Continent. The water spiritual energy contained within can perfectly activate his Sea Clan warrior bloodline!!" Xia Yan only felt that they were worthy of being chosen by the cave heaven; they were far stronger than those family disciples in Tianqing City.

"However, their efforts are all in vain. The 'Lightning-Fire Bead' condensed by Lei Zhen fuses the two most violent forces together and has even blown up a real Golden Core! The only flaw of this Lightning-Fire Bead is that it is difficult to condense and takes too long, but as long as he is given time to condense it large enough, blowing up a Golden Core is easy. These people gave him the opportunity to condense it, so at least one of them is going to suffer..." As the female artifact cultivator spoke, she and Xia Yan discovered that while the other three were working hard to condense their killing moves, only Lin Jing...

Was being too simple, just holding two bottles of pills and eating them frantically.

One bottle was a Yuan-Replenishing Pill to replenish true essence.

The other bottle, Xia Yan recognized, was a Taotie Pill.

Before entering the cave heaven, Lin Jing had been refining pills and consumed quite a bit, so he was not in his peak state, with less than half his magic power left, and he still had to work hard to maintain his illusion, so replenishing some true essence immediately was also a choice.

He was unhurried because he had already reached a conclusion: the three people had average strength, not even comparable to prodigies like Chen Fan and Yan Xiangbei whom he had defeated over a decade ago. They were at the level of the top ten on the Prodigy List, and they weren't old, around thirty. It could be said to be very unfortunate for this group of naive geniuses to encounter an old monster like Lin Jing, who was much older. ===== CHAPTER 226 =====

He was unhurried, for he had already reached a conclusion: the three of them had average strength, not even comparable to the heaven-defying geniuses like Chen Fan and Yan Xiangbei whom he had defeated over a dozen years ago. They were at most at the level of the top ten on the Heaven-Defying Ranking, and they weren't old either, only around thirty. It could be said that it was extremely unfortunate for this group of naive geniuses to encounter an old monster like Lin Jing, who was much older than them.