Chapter 590

The offspring synthesized through Immortal King-level divine abilities from the genes of two top-tier monsters—no matter which one it was, their natural talent was extraordinary.

However, because it was mass-produced and the monsters did not expend their core essence or crystals, although these offspring had excellent talent, they were not necessarily top-tier.

But when it comes to bearing offspring, the randomness of genetic mutation is precisely the "possibility" that the monsters are gambling on.

Spirit King.

Undoubtedly the one among the many offspring of the Underworld Lady with the most drastic genetic mutation; although it wasn't apparent initially, as it grew, its talent became increasingly revealed, even capable of combining the ordinary spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the lower realm with starlight energy, compressing and refining it to a level approaching immortal power.

This made many human seekers of the Dao feel inferior, sighing at its aptitude, which was not inferior to a top-tier immortal body.

And it was even more fortunate to have obtained a rare beast divine ability.

The Demon Emperor did not know the name of this divine ability, only that it was far more powerful than her own rare beast divine ability; it could create five red and five black spheres to orbit around its body.

When a red sphere collided with a black sphere, it would erupt with terrifying power, destroying all magic treasures and divine abilities.

The Demon Emperor had never seen such an overbearing attack; back then, she had used all her strength and only forced the opponent to use eight stone beads.

Yet the opponent still had two left unused.

The Demon Emperor made a preliminary judgment: the collision force of two stone beads was enough to easily kill an ordinary seeker of the Dao, four beads could contend with an immortal-bodied seeker of the Dao, six beads would make even an immortal beast regret its actions, and eight... combined with the opponent's top-tier aptitude... even she, a monster of immortal-level bloodline holding an immortal artifact, was no match.

As for ten, the Demon Emperor dared not imagine how powerful that would be, but she still believed that Lin Jing could deal with this arrogant brat.

To witness this scene, the Demon Emperor came out of seclusion after a long time to attend the Spirit King's ascension ceremony! Although she had been defeated by the Spirit King and felt a bit embarrassed, she wanted to see Lin Jing teach this disrespectful stone man a lesson.

However, what the Demon Emperor did not expect was that Lin Jing just let the Ice Soul Gu go to meet the opponent alone...

Western Desert.

Spirit King Palace.

As the ascension date announced by the Spirit King approached, more and more great powers of the Dao arrived in the Western Desert, but they did not approach the Spirit King Palace where the Spirit King was stationed, only watching from afar.

After all, things like heavenly tribulations easily invite trouble.

The ascension tribulation is considered the most difficult heavenly tribulation in the lower realm. In this day and age where ascension is impossible, it can actually be undergone or skipped; after all, even if one passes it, no ascension path will appear.

However, some powerhouses, in order to verify whether their Dao is strong and whether they have the ability to ascend, still choose to challenge it. Some die and their Dao vanishes, while others make their own Dao more refined, becoming leaders among ordinary seekers of the Dao.

The Demon Emperor had passed the ascension tribulation a long time ago. The Spirit King could even defeat the Demon Emperor, so no one thought it couldn't pass an ordinary ascension tribulation, but...

The situation on the Tianyuan Continent is relatively special because the Xiangong rewrote the rules. The monster race not only faces the heavenly tribulation earlier, but the intensity is also significantly increased compared to humans and demon beasts. Therefore, the ascension tribulation the Spirit King is about to encounter may be the most ferocious heavenly tribulation in the history of the Tianyuan Continent.

And this is exactly what the Spirit King wants, intending to use this heavenly tribulation strengthened by the ancient Xiangong to display its power.

"Let me see just how strong the heavenly tribulation of this realm can be..." the Spirit King murmured.

Although many seekers of the Dao were only watching the ascension ceremony from afar, beneath the Spirit King's throne, there was singing and dancing; a large number of human and demon dancers danced around the Spirit King Palace, as if celebrating this great moment.

Everyone knows that the Spirit King does not like being a human's pet beast.

Even though the contracts signed by monsters in the Source Realm are all equal contracts, it still displeases the Spirit King.

Because after arriving in Tianyuan, the Spirit King discovered that the prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain. Even though it is an equal contract, everyone still treats monsters as "pet beasts," as appendages to beast tamers; monsters simply cannot shake off the "pet beast" label.

It cannot accept the world's view.

Therefore, it dissolved the contract.

It also does not like those monsters that maintain contracts with humans, so all monsters that defect to it must be independent individuals.

Perhaps to wash away the pet beast label it once had, it recruited many humans and demon races, making them submit to it.

Boom!!!

Under the gaze of various powerhouses, the Spirit King, attempting to ascend, quickly summoned the immortal ascension tribulation, and the floating Spirit King also showed the Tianyuan Continent its invincible capital!

One, two, three... twelve mysterious black beads, six red and six black, made the watching great powers take a deep breath.

"Two more!" The Buddha was shocked inside; one must know that when the Spirit King defeated the Lord of the Demon Court, who had ascended to an immortal beast and held an immortal artifact, it only used eight.

How could this Spirit King's strength increase so quickly!

This Western Desert... it seems the Buddhist sect cannot take it back.

"Twelve..." The Demon Emperor's mouth also twitched. After being defeated, she went into seclusion and practiced hard, and was now confident in breaking eight, or even attempting to contend with ten, but how could the opponent's progress speed be as outrageous as Lin Jing's?

The Second Generation Ancient Emperor, the Martial Emperor, the Master of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and other veteran seekers of the Dao also shook their heads.

Xu Qingyao, Gu Xinghe, Wang Che, Feng Ning, and other new-generation seekers of the Dao also sighed inwardly. Except for Lin Jing, they were originally the most dazzling existences on the Tianyuan Continent, but alas, among the monsters that arrived in Tianyuan, such a monster was born.

Could this Spirit King be the Son of Destiny of the monster race?

"This ascension tribulation will probably be blasted away in an instant..." Besides this, there were old antiques like Granny Yinshan who had been at the peak of the Void Profound stage a thousand years ago, and some had also successfully sought the Dao.

The eyes of all seekers of the Dao on the Tianyuan Continent were focused here, and the eyes of the monster seekers of the Dao were even more fanatical, looking at the Spirit King, feeling that perhaps the Spirit King's aptitude was not inferior to that one in the Source Realm...

Able to lead the monster race of the Source Realm to a more glorious state... If possible, monsters naturally still hope that a member of their own race leads them, rather than a human.

But the next instant.

In the ascension tribulation clouds, a terrifying figure suddenly condensed. The dark clouds still covered the sky and sun, but in the flashing thunder clouds, the shadows of eight giant legs seemed to appear, which was extremely strange.

"This is?" Everyone seemed to have never seen such tribulation clouds. Although they had heard that in ancient times, occasionally immortals from the upper realm would project themselves to personally test the ascender, such things would no longer happen now.

"Hmm?" The Spirit King also discovered that there was something wrong with the heavenly tribulation.

But before it could think more, a bolt of lightning had already fallen!

Boom!

Like sword energy, the terrifying dark red crescent lightning struck directly with destructive force. Seeing this heavenly tribulation, the Spirit King was deeply shocked, because the essence of this heavenly tribulation's power was consistent with its own divine ability.

It was all Nirvana Power, combined from pure death power and destruction power.

And this Nirvana Power was far, far stronger than the one it had mastered, with terrifying might.

It was using the sword-shaped thunder as a carrier, striking towards it!

"Ascension tribulation?" The Spirit King, who hadn't taken any ascension tribulation seriously, suddenly changed its expression.

"Nirvana Power..." The Gu Grandma who struck the lightning snorted coldly. She had previously thought the opponent had mastered something very powerful, but it turned out to be just the Nirvana divine ability. After Lin Jing read the Demon Emperor's memories, he recognized it: Nirvana Power is the combination of death and destruction. The Ice Soul Gu originally didn't know it, but it didn't take long to learn.

Death power is mastered by its death avatar.

And destruction power is contained within the sword Dao seed gifted by the Heavenly Hatred Demon Emperor.

The so-called Heavenly Hatred Sword Dao is the combination of demonic energy, destruction power, and the Heaven-Extinguishing Xia Jian Yi. The Heavenly Hatred Demon Emperor's demonic bloodline, the destruction power cultivated by destroying countless cultivation worlds, and even the "Heaven" of the Heavenly Demon Realm—that is, the tasks and orders of the Demon Race in the Immortal World—he couldn't be bothered with. The Heaven-Extinguishing Xia Jian Yi, which was accustomed to acting alone and even dared to point its sword at the demonic heaven, is the entirety of the Heavenly Hatred Demon Emperor's sword Dao.

And the Ice Soul Gu, which had been studying the Heavenly Hatred Demon Emperor's sword Dao, naturally inherited the destruction power, so it was not strange that it had explored Nirvana Power.

Although the Nirvana Power it explored might not be as perfect or overbearing as the divine ability the opponent inherited from the Demon Star, Nirvana Power was simply not its killing move.

The Ice Soul Gu held the "Immortal Mirror." This mid-grade immortal artifact is rare in the lower realm. This sword-shaped Nirvana thunder tribulation that struck down had already had its power multiplied several times through this mid-grade immortal artifact that "absorbs spells and strengthens rebounds," and it was already extraordinary.

"This thing is much easier to use than a sword."

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.

The powerhouses who were waiting for the Spirit King to break the heavenly tribulation were shocked to find that under this sword-Dao thunder tribulation, which was like heavenly punishment, the stone beads that the Spirit King had sacrificed with a solemn face... were directly pierced by the heavenly tribulation and shattered rapidly. Immediately after, the heavenly tribulation sword energy was like a hot knife through butter, and under the Spirit King's shocked gaze, it directly pierced through its body, leaving a large hole in its stone body.

The Spirit King stood blankly on the spot, feeling the loss of power, looking at the firmament in disbelief.

Until the thunder clouds dissipated and the Ice Soul Gu's massive body, which had been residing in the ascension tribulation, appeared. Seeing this giant ice spider covered in thunder patterns, many powerhouses were shocked.

"A Gu, it's actually a Gu insect."

"Ice Soul Gu, that's an Ice Soul Gu! But..."

The seekers of the Dao were in an uproar. After being stunned, Feng Ning and the others suddenly smiled knowingly.

"That guy is back." The Second Generation Ancient Emperor took a deep breath. When did he come back!

Seeing the Ice Soul Gu, the Spirit King finally reacted, feeling incredulous.

This is... that one's pet beast.

Was the heavenly tribulation just now sent down by the other party?

But why, just a pet beast, can it mobilize such terrifying power... It doesn't understand! Then what is it?

Next, the appearance of a figure verified the guesses of the great powers. Lin Jing had appeared on the palace hall at some point and sat down unceremoniously on the throne that originally belonged to the Spirit King.

"What's wrong?" Seeing the dancers who had stopped, Lin Jing said, "Continue the music, continue the dance."

"Don't mind me."

"I just came to see who it is that wants to defy the rules I set and tries to covet the starry sky..."

Boom.

Lin Jing's words echoed in its mind. The Spirit King met Lin Jing's gaze and instantly felt a pressure several times more terrifying than the tribulation thunder just now. Its originally invincible mind directly developed huge cracks, as if it saw a giant hand stretching out from the firmament and slowly placing itself on its head.

Bearing unimaginable injuries, it struggled to kneel down halfway...

"Greetings, Ancestor..." it said hoarsely. After hundreds of years of being peerless, at this moment, it directly submitted under Lin Jing's pressure.