Chapter 512 - 511: Contending for Supremacy, Max Level Burn the Sky

Everything went as Li Jing expected.

With Sikong Lu, a super-strong figure acting as a "utility man", his hunting efficiency increased dramatically.

On one hand, Sikong Lu was particularly strong.

On the other hand, this woman was incredibly aggressive.

After Li Jing knocked down three large "experience zones", the remaining shadow demons were scattered among several small portals and cities.

Only a small part of them were at the level of the second and third tier forces.

The rest were mostly of the fourth and fifth tier, or even, non-influential forces.

To Sikong Lu who hails from the Star God Temple and whose strength is considered top-notch among the Venerable Realm, these forces were of no importance.

Not to mention the forces of the third tier and below, which are usually without a Venerable Realm powerhouse, even the forces of the second tier where usually at least one Venerable Realm powerhouse is stationed, are considered garbage in her eyes.

Upon arrival,

Sikong Lu, carrying a Taoist item, suppressed the entire portal by her presence alone, and then simply followed Li Jing’s instructions on who to attack.

Once discovered, the shadow demons, renowned for their strange strength, had no ability to resist in the face of a powerhouse like Sikong Lu.

Not to mention that there were no shadow demons left in the Venerable Realm.

Even if there were,

They would not be a match for Sikong Lu in a head-on confrontation.

However, to put it bluntly,

What made Sikong Lu most "useful" was her obedience and her supreme control of her own power.

She would incapacitate with one blow without killing, and even add a seal that the shadow demon could not leave its shell.

Li Jing admired this.

They say that it is easy to take advantage of somebody else’s effort.

Li Jing had the conditions for this, but he had never done so in the past.

Today he did for the first time.

All he had to do was use his ability to see the health bar and his Eye of True Vision to extensively search for shadow demons, then release Sikong Lu, and then stuff the incapacitated shadow demon into the Little Universe in just a few minutes.

Sikong Lu did not question him about where he sent the people to, she only focused on going around and "fighting" people.

In just half a day,

Li Jing, with the help of his "utility-person" Sikong Lu, swept all the places where shadow demons were hiding in the Cangming Realm and captured over fifty shadow demons of various levels from the tenth to the twelfth realm.

After having been on the move,

Having been to all the places he had "scouted" beforehand, Li Jing looked at Sikong Lu returning with a female cultivator, who was near death and had been replaced by a shadow demon, with a sense of dissatisfaction.

He took the female cultivator from Sikong Lu and stuffed her into the Little Universe, then Li Jing spoke up.

"This is the last place, thank you Sikong elder for your help."

Sikong Lu, at this moment, was somewhat exhausted.

Although she was a top-level Venerable Being.

Having rushed to so many places in one go, she had to maintain her peak state all the time and suppress an entire portal or city as soon as she met someone, while trying not to kill the target with her controlled force.

Both physically and mentally, her loss was not insignificant.

What’s important is that this task is not only exhausting,

Li Jing also had the control of the space rules, which was extremely convenient.

After one shot, he immediately changed places.

Arriving in a blink of an eye, Sikong Lu didn’t even have a chance to catch her breath.

During this period, it was even more strenuous than when she went all out to fight a top Venerable opponent.

Hearing that the matter was finally coming to an end, Sikong Lu showed a relieved expression and bowed her hands while panting.

"It’s just a piece of cake, not worth mentioning. Sikong asks for nothing else, but only hopes that the messenger will not forget the promise given to Sikong beforehand."

Hearing this, Li Jing nodded.

Whether the Star God Temple would be troubled by Xiang Dong for colluding with the shadow demons was something he was unsure about.

After all, he had only met Xiang Dong once and only roughly knew that this Emperor was decisive in killing, but he was not sure about his true temperament.

But to speak a few words for the Star God Temple is not a problem for him.

As the master of Chen Tang City, he naturally does not have the face to influence Xiang Dong’s will.

Perhaps if he clumsily tries to assist, those who originally did not pay attention to the Star God Temple might start to do so after he mentioned it.

But with the face of the Charming Spirit in the middle, the problem wouldn’t be too severe.

Without going off-topic with Sikong Lu, Li Jing bowed his hand.

"Now that everything is done, I should also return to Donghua Immortal Palace to report. Sikong elder, we will meet again if fate allows."

Before his words fell, Sikong Lu suddenly spoke up.

"Wait!"

?

Li Jing.

"The messenger is not willing to give specifics, this makes Sikong feel very uneasy. Next, I want to go to the Immortal Music Palace to see the Domain Lord and ask for more details, and also apologize to the Palace Master of the Immortal Music Palace who almost got poisoned."

Sikong Lu said.

"This place is very far from the Immortal Music Palace, I wonder if the messenger can conveniently open a space rift for me?"

Upon hearing these words, Li Jing nodded, waved his hand and tore open a space rift that led directly to the Immortal Music Palace.

Originally in his calculations, there was a step where Li Lingyin would help to "take the blame".

The key was that he had been to dozens of forces, including two of the nine Great Immortal Gates of Cangming Realm. They would definitely ask for a detailed explanation.

What Li Jing told people along the way was,

If they have any problems, they should go find the Domain Lord. He was only responsible for cleaning up the shadow demons and didn’t care about anything else.

However, the person in front of him was not following the script, instead of going to the Immortal Music Palace, she had her eyes set on him for her to act as a "utility person".

In the next few days,

The Immortal Music Palace should be very lively.

Leaving these aside,

Seeing that Li Jing had opened a space rift for her, Sikong Lu smiled lightly and said,

"Thank you, messenger, for facilitating this."

With that, she stepped into the space rift.

Having sent off Sikong Lu, Li Jing let out a sigh of relief, moved his mind and entered into the Little Universe on the spot, arriving at a separate area marked as the boundary.

More than fifty shadow demons caught with Sikong Lu’s help were all imprisoned here along with their shadows.

Seeing the group of shadow demons, a glint flashed in Li Jing’s eyes, pulling his thoughts together.

"Boom!"

A thunderbolt that was incredibly thick, that even if in the Body of Thunder Punishment in All Worlds usual state could not possibly be driven, pierced the heavens and the earth.

The shadow demons that were captured successively saw Li Jing before they could even utter a word, they were swallowed by the giant thunderbolt on the spot and "peacefully" departed from life.

"Essence Source +36615025."

A prompt popped up in front of him, making Li Jing’s spirit soar.

The group of shadow demons that were caught successively were not as good as the three "experience zones".

But they had a large number of them.

This gulp of 36 million Essence Source, made his eleveth realm stable as can be, overflowing many levels!

"Level up, 268. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +536, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 269. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +538, Skill Points +2."

"..."

"Level up, 282. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +564, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 283. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +566, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 284. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +568, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 285. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +570, Skill Points +2."

A series of level-up prompts popped up, and Li Jing’s mouth curled up.

Immortal Realm deserved to be a "leveling treasure land". Just by cleaning up the Shadow Demons in the Cangming Realm, he leveled up a full fifty levels!

Without any sentimentality, Li Jing left the Little Universe with a thought.

The threshold for the Eleventh Realm is level 275.

He is already ten levels beyond, and the celestial tribulation is coming.

As the Creator, he can’t cross the tribulation in the Little Universe.

To be precise, the rules of celestial tribulation in the Little Universe won’t be triggered because of him.

If it can be triggered, Li Jing might truly feel relieved.

In the Little Universe.

Although the celestial tribulation is "running in the background", if Xia Ai is willing, he can "manually" intervene to adjust its intensity.

The strength of the celestial tribulation is directly linked to the gains after enduring the baptism.

With Xia Ai watching over.

Those who are crossing the tribulation in the Little Universe will not be killed if they can’t bear it, nor will they lose their cultivation of decades or even hundreds of thousands of years.

...

Back in the Immortal Realm.

Li Jing’s Eleven Realms aura immediately caused the heavens and the earth to change color, and heavy tribulation clouds quickly gathered.

Not lingering on the spot, he waved his hand to tear open space and stepped into it.

There is a not-so-big-not-so-small city near here.

If Li Jing were to cross the tribulation here, he feared that many people would die from being indiscriminately bombarded by the celestial tribulation.

Li Jing did not want to harm the innocent.

The cultivators living in the nearby city would not stand by and watch him cross the tribulation in a populated area, which would affect them and lead to catastrophic casualties.

Apart from these.

Li Jing tore through space and chose to come to a desolate, uninhabited Earth Realm between Chen Tang City and Phoenix Sun County.

After the Shadow Demon incident, he had been to most parts of the Cangming Realm.

But overall, he was just "stepping on points".

He rarely hangs around outside the city, and even if he does, he will be near places where people are.

The path from Chen Tang City to Phoenix Sun County was the only one that Li Jing had formally walked with the Star Picking Elder.

The rules of space allow him to travel through space at will.

But the premise is that he has been to those places.

When choosing a place to cross the tribulation temporarily, he could only choose a rather vacant and uninhabited Earth Realm between Chen Tang City and Phoenix Sun County.

Perhaps it was because Li Jing had exceeded the threshold of the Eleventh Realm by a full ten levels, the celestial tribulation brewing above his head this time was incredibly fast.

As soon as he arrived.

Before Li Jing could stand still, there was a thunderous boom in the sky.

At the tenth realm, he had seen the Annihilation Divine Thunder descend with a thunderous momentum, smashing directly onto his forehead and sending up a wisp of blue smoke.

The celestial tribulation of the Eleventh Realm is different after all.

It’s still the Annihilation Divine Thunder.

After all, the power Li Jing encountered when he was in the tenth realm has increased by more than just a notch.

Of course.

This first thunder was just to make Li Jing, who was unprepared, stagger a bit.

His physical body and Primordial Spirit were extraordinary in the first place.

Step by step to reach the Eleventh Realm.

No matter in which aspect, Li Jing has exceeded the normal standard.

Even to the extent that one might say he has reached a level that can only be achieved in the next major realm, and that is almost to the extreme.

Strictly speaking, Li Jing, who is already in the Eleventh Realm, but still needs to endure the baptism of the celestial tribulation, has had a double cross-border upgrade of his physical body and Primordial Spirit with the major realm upgrade.

He hasn’t yet completed the baptism of the celestial tribulation.

The two aspects of the upgrade have not matured a bit, but with his level, it is already beyond the comparison of ordinary Twelfth Realms.

With the rules of Thunder Punishment.

The Eleventh Realm heavenly punishment came down, it really was like a tickle.

Looking up, Li Jing sat cross-legged and calmly crossed the tribulation, and took the opportunity to add a point to the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning.

He’d leveled up fifty levels in one breath, just enough for a hundred Skill Points.

Why not max out Sky Burning?

Upon maxing out the Forbidden Skill Sky Burning on the spot, Li Jing trembled and gained sudden enlightenment.

Sky Burning.

It is a widescale indiscriminate Forbidden Skill.

Also, it burns even the caster himself, prioritizing...

Exactly speaking.

Forbidden Skill Sky Burning itself detonates the Phoenix Heavenly Fire with the caster himself as the base point, instead of being widereaching like the Thunder Punishment from all Worlds that Li Jing had nailed hundred times before.

The initial outbreak of Forbidden Skill Sky Burning is naturally the most powerful.

Even at that time, it can be said to be a single-target Forbidden Skill.

But the first to bear it...

The caster himself.

Meaning...

If one’s own body is not strong enough, and there are no other assets to resist the burning of Phoenix Heavenly Fire, the caster is likely to burn himself to death before burning others.

This Forbidden Skill, is kind of outrageous.

Ask yourself, how many casters of Forbidden Skill can bear it themselves?

You need to know.

Forbidden Skill itself is a kind of capital for casters to cross realms to oppose the enemy, an ultimate means.

It is referred to as the ultimate means for crossing realms to face the enemy, yet it requires the caster himself to bear it first, and only after bearing it can he deal with others.

This...

Really is messing.

If the caster can bear it, the enemy he faces most likely can’t bear it either.

But when Li Jing reflected, he understood it again.

The Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning is essentially a divine capability inherited in the Phoenix Tribe’s bloodline.

As divine beasts, the Blue Phoenix and Fire Phoenix are all experts in playing with fire, aren’t they?

And their bodies are exceptionally tough.

Surviving the Phoenix Heavenly Fire exploding from within their bodies is not challenging for them.

Besides, it is well-known that beings like the Phoenix can be reborn from the ashes.

Setting aside the fact that the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning prioritizes self-immolation.

Phoenix Heavenly Fire has the characteristic of burning everything. At its full level, the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning can even follow the rules that were manipulated, burning the rules themselves, causing them to temporarily fail.

Note this.

It causes the rules themselves to fail.

It’s not about burning the force that humans use to manipulate the rules.

This shit...

I have to say it’s a bit invincible.

The Ninth Realm, which has just come into contact with the power of the rules, is acceptable.

Above this level.

Unless they bully the weak, everyone above the Tenth Realm plays not with ordinary magic skills but with rules.

When the rules fail, what’s the point of playing?

Having felt the enlightenment in his heart, Li Jing frowned deeply.

He had fully leveled up the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning.

But it seemed that he hadn’t mastered the rule of Heavenly Fire that the Blue Phoenix mentioned.

The Blue Phoenix did mention then that it was possible to comprehend the rule, but it wasn’t definite.

If it were usual, Li Jing would have left it up to fate.

The understanding of rules depends on one’s luck.

Even if you study a rule extensively, if you don’t have the luck, you might not comprehend it.

The problem is, realizing that the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning would self-immolate first, possessing the rule of Heavenly Fire for Li Jing is a necessary condition.

His body is strong.

But it’s unlikely to surpass divine beasts like the Blue Phoenix and Fire Phoenix, who specialize in fire manipulation.

Without mastering the rule of Heavenly Fire, how dare he rashly use the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning?

The key is that he fully leveled up Sky Burning...

With such power, it’s likely to burn himself alive before it even unleashes.

This...

I must admit it’s a bit awkward.

Being stiff, Li Jing suddenly remembered that he had only mastered the rule of Thunder Punishment after fully unleashing World Thunder Punishment. Perhaps he would gain control over the rule of Heavenly Fire by fully unleashing Sky Burning?

Upon this thought, Li Jing immediately came up with a plan.

First, cross the tribulation.

After crossing the tribulation, go inside the Little Universe to test it.

Outside, he absolutely would not dare to try it.

If he really burned himself beyond recognition, he probably wouldn’t even have time to shed a tear.

...

Time always quietly slips away when people aren’t paying attention.

In a blink.

An entire month had passed.

Li Jing’s Eleventh Realm heavenly tribulation finally came to an end.

After he absorbed the last weakening heavenly tribulation, the tribulation clouds that had been lingering in the high sky for a month gradually dispersed.

Having finally survived the heavenly tribulation, Li Jing sighed in relief.

For a whole month, he could do nothing and go nowhere. To be honest, it was quite a hassle.

Luckily, it’s all over now.

Having felt the terrifying power within him that had inflated countless times, and the significant increase of his physical body and Primordial Spirit, Li Jing smiled and left the spot immediately, tearing open space and returning to Chen Tang City.

The moment he left, dozens of glimmers arrived.

Where Li Jing crossed the tribulation was a deserted area with no one around.

However, over the course of a month, people had discovered that someone was crossing the tribulation here, and they just dared not approach rashly.

Although the Eleventh Realm isn’t considered a high level in the Immortal Realm.

But Li Jing’s heavenly tribulation is not weaker than the Twelfth Realm.

And fact is.

Ordinary Twelfth Realm cultivators who are Entering the Holy Realm might not necessarily be able to handle such a heavenly tribulation.

There aren’t many Venerables in the Chen Tang City area.

Without reaching the Venerable realm, who would dare to run over here to "watch" Li Jing cross the tribulation for fun?

Now that the tribulation had ended, that was another story.

Strictly speaking, Li Jing’s heavenly tribulation was very puzzling, its grandiose manner and immense power were not on the level of the Eleventh Realm.

This made many people think there was a top-tier practitioner Entering the Holy Realm or even a bottom-tier Venerable advancing in his cultivation.

No matter which possibility, after the person finished crossing the tribulation, wouldn’t they have to run over to make friends and take the chance to have a lick?

Chen Tang City is, after all, located in a relatively remote area.

Phoenix Sun County is indeed a big city, but it’s essentially a remote "suburb" of the Cangming Realm.

Areas home to top-tier forces like the Nine Great Immortal Gates, the Immortal Music Palace, and Star God Temple, where powerful individuals are everywhere, are the true "urban areas".

Let alone Venerables, only reaching the Holy Realm in nearby Earth Realm is already a top-tier powerful being who can swagger all around.

Li Jing left directly, naturally considering these factors.

The people who came to try to make connections were stood up and immediately felt unhappy.

They had been squatting for a long time to see the end of Li Jing’s tribulation, but when they arrived, they didn’t even see a hair of his. This person just left as he said he would?

...

Chen Tang City.

Li Jing appeared by tearing through the space, and after briefly sensing.

He found that aside from the Ancient God’s Descendants in the Zhenyuan Tower, even Longxu and the old Star-Picking Man weren’t here.

Blue Phoenix, who had come over more than a month ago, and Zhong Jian who he’d summoned to report to Chen Tang City weren’t here either.

With a slight frown, Li Jing glanced in the direction of Phoenix Sun County.

Let’s put aside Blue Phoenix and Zhong Jian for now.

We’ll also leave out the old Star-Picking Man.

Longxu was released by him to look after Chen Tang City.

He wouldn’t stroll around arbitrarily.

If he isn’t here at this moment, he was probably called over by Yulian and Ji Qing to help with the renovations in the Cangming Entertainment City in Phoenix Sun County.

Foreseeing this situation, Li Jing gave a bitter smile.

Yulian and Ji Qing were truly at ease!

Chen Tang City was still their home base after all.

With a group of Ancient God’s Descendants, who were in the Eighth Realm and had collectively transformed into legal lolis, guarding it, who would dare to steal their stuff in Chen Tang City?

Then again, considering that no one had ever breached the Seven-Star Formation set up around Chen Tang City so far and there were also the traps set up by the Charming Spirit as the ultimate measure, Li Jing didn’t think there was much to worry about.

Strictly speaking,

Even if someone came to steal, there wasn’t much to take away.

The only thing of value here might be the Zhenyuan Tower.

But it wasn’t something that could be stolen easily; one needed to have the capability to "conquer" the Zhenyuan Spirit Weapon.

The quality of the Zhenyuan Tower did decline due to the Taoist Origin Fruit Tree, that was true.

However, in terms of the Spirit Weapon’s capabilities, the Zhenyuan Spirit Weapon was still at the Taoist Items level.

Spirit Weapons.

Even the top Venerable wouldn’t dare to forcibly "conquer" them, they could only try to win them over gently.

Setting aside these things,

Realizing that Longxu and others who should have been in Chen Tang City had all run off to Phoenix Sun County, Li Jing wasn’t in a hurry to go and check it out. Instead, he chose to enter the Little Universe Realm with a thought.

A month ago he was considering testing the waters with the Forbidden Skill of Sky Burning to see if he could control the Power of Rules pertaining to Heavenly Fire.

Now he definitely had to schedule it.

To avoid causing too much impact, Li Jing came directly to a relatively desolate part of the Earth Realm in the boundary of the Little Universe Realm, then closed his eyes and immersed his mind.

Burn the Sky wasn’t a standard Forbidden Skill.

Instead, it was the bloodline divine ability of the Phoenix Tribe.

Its essence wasn’t composed of Spell Formulas, so naturally, there was no construction of Spell Formulas involved.

Immersing his mind, Li Jing managed to force a small amount of Chaos Power to emerge from within his body and become the medium for connecting heaven and earth.

The process went smoothly.

After all, the Little Universe Realm was not the outside world.

In here, connecting with heaven and earth was as simple as eating for him.

Despite having little Chaos Power left within his body, and having to squeeze it out like squeezing a toothpaste, the vigorous response he received from the power of heaven and earth was incredibly warm, even the little annoyance was attracted to join in.

"Master, what’s this connecting with heaven and earth for? Is there anything Xia A can help with?"

The sweet voice rang in his ears.

It was Xia Ai communicating with Li Jing through the omnipresent will in the Little Universe Realm.

Hearing her words, Li Jing responded in silence.

"Go play on your own, don’t make trouble."

Under the warm response of the power of heaven and earth, the power he channeled from them was so overwhelming.

At the moment, a large part of the sky had turned red, as if it was going to melt.

An incredibly terrifying heat was quietly brewing within Li Jing’s body, getting stronger and stronger at an astonishing speed.

Blood, seemed to be boiling.

Muscles, were constantly melting under the high temperature.

Even every cell within him was blowing up like popcorn, one after another.

If this were the outside, Li Jing would definitely not be able to withstand it.

He wouldn’t be in danger inside the Little Universe Realm, but the process was truly torturous!

If Xia Ai intervened again...

Xia Ai, who was rebuked by Li Jing as if she was having a period, uttered an unwilling "oh" in response. Her curiosity piqued by Li Jing’s strange behaviour, her will quietly left.

Perhaps it was because a sufficient amount of the power of heaven and earth had been activated, the brewing of the Forbidden Skill, Burn the Sky inside Li Jing was very fast.

After just three to five breaths, it had reached a level where it could be released.

Its power...

was extremely horrifying.

Li Jing didn’t know what the result would be after it was released, but at this moment, his body no longer had a single intact organ, a complete blood vessel, a complete muscle fiber...

Everything had been melted by the extreme heat.

If it weren’t for being in the Little Universe Realm, he would probably be screwed already.

Damn!

Why hasn’t the prompt appeared yet?

Li Jing frowned.

Could it be that he actually had to really release the Forbidden Skill, Burn the Sky?

If it did go off, probably everything in the vicinity would be instantly evaporated.

Trees and vegetation were something to be taken lightly, the native living beings were not something that could be rebuilt at will, they could only proliferate naturally.

Just as he was thinking about whether to give up temporarily, a prompt quietly popped up in front of him.

"Rule Control, Heavenly Fire."

The prompt arrived as expected, and Li Jing’s eyes brightened up.

No, wait.

He didn’t have eyes anymore.

His eyeballs had been melted by the high temperature, and his pupils were filled with a red, molten liquid that looked like magma.

With the appearance of the Rule of Heavenly Fire, the state of Li Jing’s body, which had almost been burned to a crisp, rapidly recovered.

Under the influence of the Rule of Heavenly Fire, the Phoenix Heavenly Fire no longer harmed him, but the extreme heat within his body made him irritable.

Taking a deep breath, Li Jing dispersed the Burn the Sky that had already formed in his body.

The extreme heat gradually subsided.

His emotions also stabilized as a result.

Controller: Li Jing

Rule Control: Thunder Punishment, Space, Shadow, Heavenly Fire

Heavenly and Earthly Essence: 34062/2608440

Level: 285 (Asking Heaven) / Next Stage Level 330

Skill Points: 0

Strength Of Thunder Punishment: 81510

Lifebound Magic Instrument: Linglong (Level 10 Immortal Item 99%), Qingfeng (Level10 Immortal Item 99%), Smoke Eye (Level10 Immortal Item 99%), Unnamed, Snow Sound

Equipment: None

Passive Skills: Little Universe, Reverse Space

Active Skills: Zhou Tian Talisman

Limit Breakthrough (passive): Divine Might, Moon Shadow

Limit Breakthrough (active): Spirit God’s Whisper, Heaven’s Creation Skill, Eye of True Vision

Forbidden Skills: Body of Thunder Punishment in All Worlds, Burn the Sky

Second Breakthrough: Heaven and Earth Return to Heart, Wind Thunder Domain, Eternal Singing

After pulling out the panel and taking a look, Li Jing, drenched in sweat, collapsed onto the ground. He casually took out a bottle of Spirit Spring Water and gulped it down.

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