Chapter 936: 567,000 Void Stones! Annihilating the Beasts!

On the seventh level of the Breakthrough Tower, in a cold, barren wasteland.

The space rippled like a calm lake into which a single drop of water had fallen.

Immediately afterward, Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and the Crimson Radiance Gold Guardian controlled by Eva were all teleported here.

“We made it.”

Xu Jingming exhaled softly, a smile of relief on his face.

Just now, alone on his person, he had gathered over a hundred thousand Void Stones.

If all their collections were added together, it would be an astonishing number!

Even Su Qingli’s usually pale, delicate face now bore a faint blush.

She had acquired many celestial treasures, even facing off against ninth-rank Beast Emperors in the wilderness on several occasions.

But stealing right under the nose of a ninth-rank peak cultivator? This was her first time.

This novel experience left her tense, yet also strangely... exhilarated.

“Alright, let’s tally our gains.”

Xu Jingming waved his hand and spoke first: “Just now, I collected 164,000 Void Stones.”

“I have 140,000,” Su Qingli replied, taking a deep breath to calm her emotions.

“I have the least—only 50,000.”

“It’s all because this Crimson Radiance Gold Guardian is too weak. Otherwise, I could’ve taken more.”

Eva grumbled discontentedly.

The Crimson Radiance Gold Guardian’s combat power was seventh-rank peak, Class A.

Although stronger intelligent guardians existed, they were exceedingly rare.

“Not bad.”

Xu Jingming smiled. “Xiao Lian has another 213,000 Void Stones.”

“That means, altogether, we’ve gathered 567,000 Void Stones!”

“567,000? That much?”

Su Qingli was taken aback.

The entire area they’d just raided had only held a million Void Stones total.

Their raid had cut Leo’s harvest by more than half.

“By now, Leo must be furious, right?”

The thought of a ninth-rank peak cultivator being robbed by them made Su Qingli smile inwardly.

“But Leo probably already knows who took his Void Stones.”

Su Qingli looked up at the sky.

On the sky’s leaderboard, Leo still held first place.

Her own number, 345, and Xu Jingming’s 344 had surged to third and fourth.

The plant life, Ironvine, numbered 347, now ranked fifth.

Eva’s number, 346, had risen only slightly—from 76th to 54th—due to the modest haul and its low starting rank, making it unremarkable.

Yet even so, if Leo wasn’t stupid, he’d see the connection between these numbers.

“Don’t worry. He only knows the numbers, not who they correspond to.”

Xu Jingming smiled. “As long as we don’t reveal the numbers, no one will know it’s us.”

“True.”

Su Qingli nodded slightly, a stunning smile appearing on her pale face:

“But this proves Ironvine’s value is even greater than we thought. For the rest of our search, we’ll rely mostly on it.”

“We got lucky this time—Leo only had one ninth-rank lower-tier Law Saint with weak perception. Next time, it might not be so easy.”

“But with our current team, we can crush most psychics.”

Including Xu Jingming himself, they now had three S-class ninth-rank combatants.

In the Breakthrough Tower, fewer than ten psychics could match them.

“By the way, Eva, where are we now? How close are we to the beast gathering spot you mentioned?”

Xu Jingming turned to Eva.

The Space Beast Bone’s maximum teleport distance was six hundred kilometers; he’d chosen the direction she’d indicated—southeast.

But he didn’t know the exact location.

The Space Beast Bone could only roughly control direction, not precise targeting.

“Not far. About a hundred kilometers northwest of us.”

Eva swiftly replied after gathering and confirming the coordinates.

“Looks like our luck’s holding.”

Xu Jingming nodded. “Rest here for now. Once Xiao Lian joins us, we head out to kill the beasts.”

Ironvine’s bond with Xu Jingming was somewhat like Sakura Nation’s Sakura Rin, though less binding.

Even if separated by thousands of kilometers, he could still sense its general direction—though he couldn’t send telepathic messages.

The same applied to Ironvine.

So, after waiting an hour on the spot, Ironvine successfully arrived.

Whooshhh~~~

Countless emerald vines swayed, each adorned with a glowing space ring.

Ironvine seemed to be showing off its haul.

“Well done. Here’s your reward.”

Xu Jingming took out some Plant Holy Water from his space ring and poured it over Ironvine’s vines.

Instantly, a wave of joyful psychic energy surged forth.

Though Plant Holy Water’s effect on ninth-rank plant life was greatly diminished, it still aided rapid growth.

With Ironvine’s arrival, everyone’s condition returned to peak.

Xu Jingming then set out with Su Qingli toward the beast gathering point.

Just three minutes later, the two humans, one plant, and one intelligent lifeform arrived at their destination.

“Roar~~~”

“Howl~~~”

“......”

Before them stretched an endless expanse of ice caves.

The caves varied in size, each housing one or more beasts.

Some held single beasts, others entire packs.

Under Xu Jingming’s psychic sensing, their appearances were clearly visible.

Yet he recognized none—Earth’s beast compendium contained no record of these creatures.

“All unfamiliar beasts again. What kind of place is this Breakthrough Tower?”

Su Qingli, too, sensed the beasts’ presence, murmuring softly.

Though Earth’s beasts occasionally produced new species, their ancestral traits could still be traced.

But these beasts were different—no trace of Earth’s beast characteristics could be found in them.

“All are ice-element beasts. I’ve recorded their appearances and energy signatures.”

Eva spoke up. “Once we return, we can compile them into a new beast compendium.”

Xu Jingming didn’t care much—he only knew he was about to slaughter them all!

“Lei Tianlao Yin!”

Without hesitation, Xu Jingming unleashed an SSS-rank combat technique!

Without hesitation, Xu Jingming launched a SSS-rank combat technique!

The sky darkened with storm clouds, streaked with bolts of black lightning.

The next instant,

Countless black lightning bolts crashed down, filling the entire region with thunder.

His original Lei Tianlao Yin had a casting range exceeding twenty kilometers.

After breaking through the sixth level of the Shen Shen Art, his spiritual force surged—and with it, the range of Lei Tianlao Yin expanded to thirty kilometers!

Before them, the land became a sea of black lightning, endless thunder raging without restraint.

Weaker beasts were instantly vaporized into ash; stronger ones barely survived as charred, blackened corpses.

Ninth-rank lower-tier power, combined with the SSS-rank Chaos Divine Thunder, had amplified Lei Tianlao Yin’s power to an utterly terrifying level...

The power of an eighth-rank lower-tier cultivator, combined with the SSS-class Chaotic Divine Thunder, amplified the might of the Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison to an utterly terrifying level...