Chapter 936: 567,000 Empty Stones! Slay the Beast!

On the seventh level of the Breakthrough Tower, on a cold, barren plain.

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

Immediately afterward, Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and the Chi Mang Liu Jin guardian controlled by Eva were all teleported here.

"We made it."

Xu Jingming exhaled softly, a look of delight on his face.

Just now, alone on his person, he had gathered over one hundred thousand empty stones.

If all the empty stones collected by everyone were added together, it would be an astonishing number!

Even Su Qingli's usually cold and pale face now bore a faint blush.

She had obtained many heavenly treasures, even facing off against ninth-rank Beast Kings in the wilderness on several occasions.

But stealing right under the nose of a ninth-rank peak beast, this was her first time.

This novel experience left her tense, yet also stirred a peculiar... thrill.

"Alright, let's tally our haul."

Xu Jingming waved his hand and spoke first: "Just now, I gathered 164,000 empty stones."

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

"I have the least—only 50,000."

"It's all because this Chi Mang Liu Jin guardian is too weak; otherwise, I could've taken more."

Eva grumbled discontentedly.

The Chi Mang Liu Jin guardian's combat power is seventh-rank peak, Class A.

Although stronger intelligent guardians exist, they are extremely rare.

"Not bad."

Xu Jingming smiled, "Xiao Lian has another 213,000 empty stones."

"That means together we've gathered 567,000 empty stones!"

"567,000? That much?"

Su Qingli was taken aback.

The entire area just now held only a million empty stones total.

Our raid cut Leo's harvest by more than half.

"By now, Leo must be furious, jumping up and down, right?"

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

"But Leo probably already knows who took his empty stones."

Su Qingli looked up at the sky.

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

The numbers representing her and Xu Jingming—345 and 344—had surged to third and fourth.

The number representing the plant life Tie Xian Lian—347—had risen to fifth.

Eva's number 346, having gathered few empty stones this time and originally ranked only 76th, rose only to 54th—not particularly noticeable.

Yet even so, as long as Leo isn't foolish, he can 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 means Tie Xian Lian's role is even greater than we thought. Later, most of our search for empty stones will still depend on it."

"We got lucky this time—Leo only had one ninth-rank lower-tier Law Saint with weak perception. Next time, it won't be so certain."

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

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

In this Breakthrough Tower, fewer than ten psychics could defeat them.

"By the way, Eva, where are we now? Close to the beast gathering spot you mentioned?"

Xu Jingming turned to Eva and asked.

The Space Beast Bone's maximum teleport distance is six hundred kilometers; just now, he chose the direction based on Eva's mention of southeast.

But he didn't know the exact location.

The Space Beast Bone could only roughly control the teleport direction, not make precise selections.

"Not far—in our northwest, about a hundred kilometers away."

Eva quickly replied after gathering the information and confirming the direction.

"Looks like our luck is still good."

Xu Jingming nodded, "Let's rest here. Once Xiao Lian joins us, we'll head out to kill the beasts."

Tie Xian Lian's bond with Xu Jingming is somewhat like Sakura's Sakuragi Rin, except the binding is weaker.

Even if Xu Jingming and Tie Xian Lian are thousands of kilometers apart, he can sense the general direction, though he cannot send telepathic messages.

The same applies to Tie Xian Lian.

So, after waiting one hour on the spot, Tie Xian Lian successfully arrived.

Whoosh—

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

Tie Xian Lian seemed to be showing off her achievements.

"Well done. This is your reward."

Xu Jingming took some Plant Holy Water from his spatial ring and poured it over the clematis vines.

Immediately, a wave of joyful spiritual force fluctuation came through.

Although Plant Holy Water's effectiveness on a ninth-tier plant life was greatly reduced, it could still help it grow rapidly.

Reuniting with the clematis, everyone's condition also recovered to its peak.

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

Just three minutes later, the two people, one plant, and one intelligent life had arrived at the destination.

"Roar~~~"

"Awooo~~"

"......"

What appeared before them was a stretch of endless ice caves.

The ice caves varied in size, and every single one was inhabited by fierce beasts.

Some had just one, others had a whole pack.

Under Xu Jingming's spiritual force sense, he could see their appearances very clearly.

But he didn't recognize a single one, because the fierce beast compendium on Blue Star had no records of these creatures at all.

"Yet again all unfamiliar fierce beasts — what kind of existence is this Broken Void Tower?"

Su Qingli sensed these fierce beasts as well and murmured her heartfelt lament.

Although Blue Star fierce beasts would occasionally produce entirely new breeds every so often,

one could still trace their original ancestors based on certain features.

But these fierce beasts were different — there was simply no way to find any Blue Star fierce beast characteristics on them.

"They're all ice-type fierce beasts. I've already recorded their appearance features and auras."

Yiwa spoke up. "Once we get back, we can compile them into a new fierce beast compendium."

Xu Jingming didn't pay much attention to that. He only knew one thing — he was about to go on a killing spree!

"Wan Leitianlao Yin!"

Without much hesitation, Xu Jingming opened with an SSS-rank combat technique!

Boom boom boom!!

Dark clouds filled the sky, with bolts of black lightning piercing through them.

The next moment,

countless black lightning bolts crashed down, and the entire region was suddenly blanketed in Lei Ting!

Originally, the casting range of his Wan Leitianlao Yin had already exceeded twenty kilometers.

After the Spirit Refining Art broke through to the sixth layer, his spiritual force surged, and along with it, the release range of Wan Leitianlao Yin had also ballooned to thirty kilometers!

The entire region ahead seemed to transform into a black Lei Hai, with endless Lei Ting running rampant.

The weaker fierce beasts were directly annihilated into slag by the lightning, while the stronger ones barely managed to leave behind a charred, intact corpse.

The strength of an eighth-tier lower position, paired with an SSS-rank Doushen Shenlei, had pushed the might of Wan Leitianlao Yin to an utterly terrifying level......