Chapter 565: Killing Move: Thousand Rays of Instant Shadow (Seeking monthly votes)

"Bang!!"

"Puff puff!!"

The military's heavy firepower frantically unleashed, countless low-level disaster beasts collapsed with a boom, leaving behind bursts of blood mist.

Jiang Tao watched this scene in shock; this was something that hadn't been possessed even in the disaster beast hunting competition.

"Kill!!"

Only to see Xue Zhou roar, rushing out first, and other high-realm martial artists also moved simultaneously.

"Taozi, let's go!"

Jiang Tao nodded, following others and running out frantically.

Hundreds of high-realm martial artists made their move first, and other martial artists also moved.

"Swish~ swish~"

All around were Seventh Realm martial artists, everyone's speed was very fast, and in a moment, they collided with the disaster beast tide.

Various Gang Qi erupted, saber Gang Qi, sword Gang Qi, spear Gang Qi shooting out.

Jiang Tao also learned from everyone, waving the battle saber in his hand, brown saber Gang Qi shooting out, killing several low-level disaster beasts!

After hunting for a while like this, Jiang Tao felt that there was actually no need to learn anything; just frantically hunting disaster beasts was enough.

"Roar~"

In an instant, high-level disaster beasts charged out, and high-realm martial artists began to search for their opponents.

Jiang Tao was also targeted by a Steel-Bone Giant Tiger, which pounced out suddenly, making him unable to react for a moment.

"Bang!"

Jiang Tao waved his battle saber, colliding with the Steel-Bone Giant Tiger; in the giant force, his body was blown away, smashing into the earth and kicking up bursts of dust.

His defensive power was astonishing, and the Steel-Bone Giant Tiger's attack didn't cause too much damage.

He stood up with a carp leap, and at the same time, he saw a giant claw that blotted out the sky tearing through the long sky.

"Puff~"

The next instant, a golden spear Gang Qi shot out, instantly piercing the Steel-Bone Giant Tiger's neck, fresh blood spurting wildly.

"Bang!"

The massive body collapsed to the ground with a boom; Jiang Tao looked at the fallen Steel-Bone Giant Tiger with lingering fear, his heart terrified.

The Level 7 disaster beast Steel-Bone Giant Tiger just died like that; he turned his head to look, and it was a tall man wearing black gold battle armor and dancing a black gold great spear.

It was Lin Qi; at this time, he was radiating golden light, sure enough, circling with astonishing baleful aura, like a demon god from hell!

"Taozi, on the battlefield, you must look in all directions and listen to all sides; don't be distracted!"

Listening to Lin Qi's words, Jiang Tao nodded and said:

"I understand!"

"Lin Lin Qi Ge, the title Jin Gang Spear Demon really suits you!"

The next instant, his expression changed drastically, and he roared loudly:

"Lin Lin Qi Ge, be careful!"

In Jiang Tao's line of sight, a massive monster suddenly darted out from behind Lin Qi; it was a purple hunting leopard disaster beast—Nether-Night Leopard.

The opponent's speed was too fast, suddenly launching an attack.

The opponent's sharp claws thrust out, fast as lightning, as if it could pierce Lin Qi's body in the blink of an eye.

But the moment it hit, Lin Qi's figure dissipated; this was just an afterimage.

"Swish!"

Lin Qi dodged the attack, turned and danced the great spear, transforming into black lightning and shooting out.

"World-Extinguishing Spear Canon" was unleashed, the golden domain expanded, like a circular domain with a diameter of 20 meters.

Wrapping the Nether-Night Leopard within it, the golden sharpness, like one sharp blade after another, cut on its body.

Although it couldn't break through its tough skin, it effectively limited its speed.

And Lin Qi himself shot out, transforming into golden light, like a golden silk thread, shooting out at over twice the speed of sound.

The spear tip also instantly pierced the Nether-Night Leopard's body, blasting out a huge hole.

Lin Qi

The scorched earth all around was also completely covered in scalding blood.

"Roar~"

"Bang!"

The Nether Night Leopard's massive body crashed to the ground, and its limbs soon stopped moving.

Lin Qi, however, turned his head and smiled: "Taozi, thanks for the reminder!"

Jiang Tao stared wide-eyed at the fallen Nether Night Leopard. An eighth-level disaster beast, just like that, died?

Killed in a single move.

Looking at Lin Qi now, he seemed exceptionally relaxed; he felt that Lin Qi didn't need his reminder at all.

He could only smile: "It's what I should do!"

Lin Qi nodded and said: "Then you continue to search for disaster beasts to hunt. It's best to hunt intermediate disaster beasts first, then start hunting seventh-level disaster beasts."

"Take it one step at a time!"

After speaking, he turned around and blasted a golden spear aura several meters long at the eighth-level disaster beast charging toward him.

"Pfft~"

The fifty-meter-long Earth-Splitting Dragon was pierced through the neck by the golden spear aura as if it were paper, blood spraying wildly before it crashed to the ground.

Jiang Tao watched this scene and asked Shen Heng beside him:

"Senior Shen Heng, was Lin Lin Qi Ge this powerful before?"

Shen Heng beside him also gasped, shaking his head with a bitter smile:

"Lin Lin Qi Ge was already strong enough before, but this time he's actually become even stronger!"

"I don't know where his limit actually is."

Thinking of this, Jiang Tao immediately clenched his fists.

"I have to become stronger too!"

Thinking of this, he turned around and began to search for disaster beasts to hunt.

He wanted to hunt more disaster beasts, earn more merit points, and become even more powerful.

……

On the other side, Lin Qi was frantically killing disaster beasts.

Any disaster beast that appeared in the vicinity, whether low-level, intermediate, or high-level, could not withstand a single strike from his spear.

Lin Qi was also killing like crazy, his killing efficiency further improved.

Strength, speed, stamina, defense, and reaction all improved in every aspect.

That is to say, he could kill disaster beasts faster, and his stamina had also become stronger.

He alone could previously be used as 10 eighth-realm martial artists; now he could double that, used as 20 eighth-realm martial artists.

However, besides hunting disaster beasts, he wanted even more to master the killing move of the "Golden Light Scroll."

This was a high-speed spear strike, a high-speed strike thrust out after the thirty-six golden light combos.

"It's a pity there are no ninth-level disaster beasts; otherwise, if I used a ninth-level disaster beast as a whetstone, the breakthrough would be even faster!"

Lin Qi felt secretly disappointed; ninth-level disaster beasts were still too few.

"Roar~"

Suddenly, Lin Qi sensed a trace of danger and looked toward the source of the danger.

That was a giant tiger with golden fur all over its body, its stature as towering as a mountain—the Jin Gang Tiger!

"Roar~"

The Jin Gang Tiger's eyes were like burning suns, its tiger might shaking the heavens, the sound of its roar setting off terrifying sound waves.

It had set its sights on Lin Qi, and not just it, but two other disaster beasts as well.

The Earth-Splitting Dragon, like a moving mountain range, and the Nether Night Leopard, with speed like a ghost.

Three eighth-level disaster beasts instantly surrounded Lin Qi.

Lin Qi felt the massive pressure and immediately revealed a smile, his eyes erupting with golden light:

"You'll do!"

"Roar~"

The Nether Night Leopard launched its attack first; its figure was agile, and its speed was the fastest.

Lin Qi did the same, instantly transforming into several afterimages, causing the Nether Night Leopard's attack to miss.

At the same time, the Jin Gang Tiger seized the opportunity, its sharp claws swiping through the air, tearing it apart, and slapping down in the gale as if blotting out the sky and sun.

Lin Qi did not dodge; terrifying power erupted, three types of abilities exploded simultaneously, the power of 【Golden Light】 pushed to the limit.

Condensing into Gangjin to reinforce his body, he charged out violently, intending to take it head-on.

Domain power flowed on the tip of the spear!

"Boom!"

His entire body shot out, like a beam of golden light, the golden thread piercing straight through the air.

"Pfft~"

Accompanied by the sound of the black gold great spear piercing into flesh, Lin Qi thrust out thirty-six spears in less than 0.1 seconds!

These thirty-six spears combined both power and speed!

The Jin Gang Tiger's giant claws, hard as steel, were instantly pierced, scalding blood spraying wildly.

"Roar~"

The Jin Gang Tiger let out a shrill scream, unable to help but retract its giant claws.

"Roar~"

At the same time, the massive Earth-Splitting Dragon let out a roar, and the moment Lin Qi landed, its tail, like a giant python, whipped over with a roar.

The tail was exceptionally agile, its speed incredibly fast, shooting out at over twice the speed of sound.

Seeing this, Lin Qi deployed his movement technique "Lei Jijiu Flashes" to dodge!

The next moment, another crisis struck; it was the Nether Night Leopard behind him launching an attack!

The attacks of these disaster beasts came one after another, the coverage of their attack range extremely wide.

An ordinary eighth-realm martial artist, facing the siege of three eighth-level disaster beasts, could only run away, otherwise, it was just waiting for death.

Two might be solvable, one could be killed solo.

But three eighth-level disaster beasts were impossible!

Three eighth-level disaster beasts, their innate hunting instincts, made them seize every opportunity to continuously launch attacks.

Almost not giving Lin Qi a single chance to catch his breath.

If it were an ordinary eighth-realm martial artist, facing the Earth-Splitting Dragon's tail strike, they were destined not to be able to withstand it.

Once hit, what awaited them were the sharp claws and fangs of the other disaster beasts!

"Whoosh~"

Lin Qi transformed into lightning, facing the Nether Night Leopard's charge, and immediately deployed the "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon."

Amidst the siege of the three disaster beasts, a sense of crisis shrouded his heart, the talent deep within his bloodline emerged, making his blood boil.

His mind operated at high speed, his consciousness mobilizing his body's cells; billions of cells, over one-third, were all mobilized under his control.

Control, unification, operation, reaching the same frequency as the mobilization of Gangjin.

In an instant, Lin Qi's speed increased significantly.

Shooting out with lightning speed, aiming at the Nether Night Leopard's head, he thrust out thirty-six spears in succession!

The time was less than 0.1 seconds, each spear thrust out at extreme speed!

"Pfft, pfft!!"

The Nether Night Leopard's head was instantly pierced, its brain exploded, and blood splashed out.

"Whoosh~"

At the same time, Lin Qi mobilized his high-realm, highly compressed, and the moment he landed on the ground, he shot out again.

This time his speed reached an astonishing six times the speed of sound!

"Pfft~"

A golden thread visible to the naked eye could be seen cutting straight through the sky, piercing straight through the Earth-Splitting Dragon's abdomen, its penetrating power reaching the extreme.

Scalding blood sprayed out once again.

This was not over yet; Lin Qi's speed increased again, using the Earth-Splitting Dragon's head as a leverage point.

Transforming into golden lightning, he rushed toward the Jin Gang Tiger again.

"Roar~"

The Jin Gang Tiger could only roll its eyes; everything was too fast, it couldn't react at all.

It could only watch helplessly as Lin Qi transformed into golden light, tearing through the surrounding air and piercing straight through its body.

"Pfft~"

"Bang, bang, bang!!"

One second later, blood flowed like a river, the three behemoths crashed to the ground, splashing up large clouds of blood-colored dust!

"Bang!"

Lin Qi stepped on the head of the Jin Gang Tiger, looking at the corpses of the three eighth-level disaster beasts with a cold expression.

On the golden panel, several messages instantly popped up.

【While under the siege of eighth-level disaster beasts, you successfully mastered the killing move of the "Golden Light Scroll" in the "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon" — Instant Shen Shen Ying Qian Mang, Spear Technique +5%】

【While under the siege of eighth-level disaster beasts, your understanding of the movement technique "Lei Jijiu Flashes" has significantly increased, Movement Technique +7%】

【Spear Technique: Fifth Stage 34% → Fifth Stage 39%】

【Movement Technique: Fifth Stage 23% → Fifth Stage 30%】

……

Lin Qi nodded secretly; he had finally mastered the killing move of the "Golden Light Scroll."

The killing move — Instant Shen Shen Ying Qian Mang!

This killing move emphasizes extreme speed, pushing the characteristics of 【Golden Light】 to the limit.

After the thirty-six golden light combos, that is the fastest spear strike.

It can even condense spear aura, shooting out a thousand-meter-long golden ray.

Looking around, because his speed was too fast, the residual golden rays had not yet dissipated within the domain range.

Connecting together, they looked like hundreds of meters of golden threads.

And not far away, Xue Zhou also saw this scene, his eyes widening instantly.

"This... strength!"

Facing the siege of three eighth-level disaster beasts, even he would be unable to defeat them and could only find an opportunity to escape.

But now, what did he see? Lin Qi, alone, killed three eighth-level disaster beasts in a few seconds.

This was impossible for him to do.

Only a very small number of eighth-realm martial artists could do it.

Had Lin Qi's strength already reached this level?

Xue Zhou found it hard to believe that he had been surpassed by Lin Qi just like that.

He walked quickly to Lin Qi's side, looking at the fallen corpses, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Lin Qi, with this strength of yours, the selection quota will definitely include you!"

Lin Qi shook his head and smiled:

"My strength is still far from enough!"

"I need to become even stronger!"

After speaking, he turned around to hunt other high-level disaster beasts!

Xue Zhou watched Lin Qi's tall back, both surprised and happy; with a genius like Lin Qi in their Blue Star, the Fire Seed Trial had more hope.

At the same time, he also sighed that such a genius was truly terrifying; compared to him, he was far behind, no wonder he couldn't pass the test.

……

Large-scale disaster beast tides often do not last too long.

Today it ended even faster; starting at 8:00 AM, by 5:00 PM, it was basically over.

A large number of martial artists began to return to the base from the battlefield!

Jiang Tao walked on the road, exhausted; today was his first time stepping onto the battlefield, and he was physically and mentally drained.

"Here!"

Suddenly, a figure appeared beside him, wearing black gold battle armor, his whole body filled with a rich, baleful aura.

He took out a bottle of Life Water and handed it over.

Jiang Tao didn't hesitate; he knew that Lin Qi was now filthy rich.

Unlike him now, although he had subsidies, he really didn't dare to drink Life Water casually.

"Gulp~"

He drank the Life Water in one gulp, feeling his exhausted body begin to improve.

Lin Qi asked: "How do you feel?"

Jiang Tao's eyes revealed excitement: "Lin Lin Qi Ge, coming to the battlefield was the right choice!"

"Although tired, I feel a huge improvement!"

"And I can earn merit points!"

"If I stay for a while longer, I feel I can quickly complete blood replacement!"

Lin Qi nodded: "Then you have to work hard!"

Jiang Tao clenched his fists: "I will, I must get that quota."

After the two separated, they each entered their own martial arts rooms.

Lin Qi took off his battle armor, thinking of Jiang Tao; the current Jiang Tao had astonishing talent and impressive strength.

Among the seventh realm, he could be considered upper-middle tier.

Half a month was still too short; at most, he would be at the upper-tier level.

After all, Jiang Tao was not him; he had defeated Gu Cheng, who was at the upper-tier level, as soon as he arrived.

Give him another half month, and obtaining the trial quota would naturally be a sure thing.

So when necessary, he also had to help Jiang Tao.

After all, he had many merit points, so redeeming a little help for Jiang Tao in advance was fine.

……

A few minutes later, Lin Qi, having finished washing up, sat cross-legged in the martial arts room and took a metal box out of his space bracelet to open it.

Inside were three secret manuals; he took out the thick golden secret manual — "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon."

Now that he had mastered the killing move of the "Golden Light Scroll," he could temporarily put it aside.

This did not mean it was already perfect; as his spear technique realm improved, the combo count could continue to increase.

However, if he wanted his spear technique to continue improving, he had to start learning the other scrolls.

He fell into deep thought, not knowing whether to study the "Golden Sharp Scroll" or the "Jin Gang Scroll."

One focused on the destructive power of moves, the other focused on the defense of moves.

It made him somewhat difficult to choose.

If the opponents in the Fire Seed Trial were too strong, if he had defensive moves, perhaps he would have a chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

But if he practiced the "Golden Sharp Scroll" to significantly increase the power of his moves, perhaps he could defeat his opponents head-on.

After Lin Qi pondered, he had a choice, which was to have them all.

It was better to just practice them simultaneously.

This way he would have both defense and attack.

When the time came, he would choose which one to focus on practicing.

Thinking of this, he opened the "World-Extinguishing Spear Canon" and began to browse through it.

A moment later, he couldn't help but sigh:

"Powerful, too exquisite, a completely different way of exerting force from the 'Golden Light Scroll'!"

"As long as I practice it, my spear technique will be able to improve significantly!"

……

Time passed slowly, and the air of the entire Blue Star became increasingly restless.

The selection for the Fire Seed Trial was getting closer and closer, and many high-realm martial artists in the Xia Nation all wanted to obtain a quota.

So they were the most desperate, wishing they could spend 24 hours a day in cultivation.

Time unknowingly arrived at July 7th.

Imperial Capital, Red Dome Martial Arts Mansion Headquarters, Starry Sky Inspection Team's spaceship.

Inside the spaceship, in a spacious living room.

Tu Lan, wearing a blue robe, tall and slender with exquisite features, lay on a smart chair.

Behind her, a smart lifeform was giving her a massage, and a large number of things were placed on the table: pearl milk tea, coffee, cola, burgers, fried chicken, hot pot, barbecue...

She saw the milk tea float up, land in her hand, and she drank it in large gulps.

"Not bad, these things on Blue Star also have a unique flavor; many are things that cannot be tasted on other planets."

"Being an inspection envoy has this one benefit: you can go to various civilizations to taste local specialties."

"And these specialties of Blue Star are exceptionally good!"

"Little Orange, if I remember correctly, the selection on Blue Star is also about to begin?"

"Blood replacement, aperture training, space-traversing realm, selecting ten geniuses from each of the three realms to prepare for the Fire Seed Trial."

The next second, an orange-colored smart lifeform that looked like a cat appeared beside Tu Lan.

It shook its head: "Master, I still prefer the name Siyuan."

"The selection on Blue Star will officially begin tomorrow!"

"Moreover, I don't think there's any need to go over and watch."

"The potential of Blue Star civilization is too low!"

"This planet has mostly oceans, and the strongest person actually practices fire-attribute techniques; it's simply a mess and doesn't fit the characteristics of a civilization at all."

Tu Lan shook her head and smiled after hearing this:

"From now on, I'll call you Little Orange!"

"I'll go take a look at tomorrow's selection as well."

"My potential is currently limited; it's been hundreds of years, and I still haven't been able to break through the three cosmic realms."

"I'm also tired of playing in the virtual universe; it's just right to see the struggle and hope of a civilization!"

……

(End of chapter)