Chapter 534 - 533: Continuous Leveling Up, Finally Seeing the Fire Phoenix

Upon seeing Li Jing unleashing such overwhelming evil spirits, terrifying innumerable strong remnant souls scattering away fearfully, Shi Zixuan and the others were collectively dumbstruck.

Is that even possible?

But upon further thought, the three seemed to realize.

It may be possible...

So...

Just how many creatures has Li Jing killed to have accumulated such tremendous evil spirits!?

Just by looking from afar, both Shi Zixuan and Xiang Dong had their hair standing from fear.

Evil spirits do not only aim at Alien Species.

They also affect humans.

However, Alien species are more sensitive and its impact is more intuitive.

Since ancient times, it has been said that evil spirits can suppress the yin evil.

This is not unfounded.

Even Shi Zixuan and Xiang Dong both felt their hair stand on its end, let alone Jin Ritian.

At this moment, he only felt a cold chill all over his body and instinctively wanted to get away.

Although he is a divine beast, the Great Sun Golden Crow, even divine beasts have both auspicious and fierce characters.

The Golden Crow belongs to the latter.

As a divine beast characterized by evil spirits, he is extremely sensitive to them.

More importantly...

The terrifying evil spirits on Li Jing could not have been obtained by killing ordinary creatures, or by carrying out a massacre in the human realm.

Evil spirits can be accumulated through killing.

However, including killing people, the accumulated evil spirits are very limited.

The only truly effective way to accumulate evil spirits is to kill a large number of fierce evils.

This covers a wide range.

Most Alien species, including monsters, can be considered as fierce evils.

Mostfully, the cultivation of most Alien species is directly related to evil spirits. The higher the cultivation, the more evil spirits they contain.

They cannot emit the evil spirits inside them.

The main use is to promote their growth, and when necessary, rely on internal evil spirits to stimulate their own instincts, triggering the unique fierceness and madness of beasts and Alien Species.

The amount of evil spirits in their bodies is an important standard for Alien species to judge the strength and danger of their opponents.

This standard is completely imprinted in their survival instincts.

When they encounter someone with much more evil spirits, they will feel frightened and choose to retreat.

It’s not that they easily submit.

But to avoid danger under the drive of survival instincts.

There is no need to say how dangerous Li Jing is as seen currently.

In terms of actual cultivation...

He might not be as accomplished as Jin Ritian.

However, the number of fierce evils he has killed, one doesn’t need to think to know it’s an enormous number!

For any Alien Species, retreating in front of such a dangerous person who kills Alien Species like mowing grass, is undeniably the most correct choice.

All Alien species, including beast cultivation, do not live in a relatively civilized human society. Having the instinct to live and grow is the foundation of their growth.

To take beasts as an example...

Before becoming successful cultivators, beasts that were already part of the food chain in nature are surrounded by natural predators. If they are not careful, they might lose their life and become someone else’s meal.

It makes sense that they can survive and achieve something in their cultivation path.

Setting that aside...

Inside the burial ground for Immortals...

After Li Jing managed to make countless remnant souls retreat by scary spirits and calling back the Unnamed Taoist Tool, he stood in mid-air.

His gaze swept around.

The numerous remnant souls disturbed by the evil spirits are like dancing demons, gathering in the burial ground for immortals into layers of dark clouds, trying to hide far away. Because they cannot leave the burial ground, they howl and scream.

Looking at this scene, Li Jing sighed lightly.

Though these remnant souls have lost their consciousness due to the long years of passing, each and every one of them knew resentment for dying.

Strong obsession.

This made the emotions of these remnant souls render others, making them able to feel their sorrow.

Apart from unwillingness, their resentment is also incredibly intense.

After all, they didn’t die a natural death, but were crushed into ruins.

"Dust to dust, soil to soil."

Uttering these, Li Jing murmured in response to their plight.

"I can’t take you with me. Even if I were to do so, you might only cause trouble. Today, I will help you relief yourselves, so that you might reincarnate and have a chance at a new life."

While speaking, Li Jing raised his hand.

"Zap."

A thin black arc of electricity appeared in his palm, shooting into the sky.

Then it exploded in midair.

Subsequently,

There was a sudden ’boom’ high in the sky, and dark clouds began to gather.

In an instant...

Dense clouds covered the entire burial ground for immortals.

"Boom!"

The thunder exploded.

Numerous bright and dazzling golden thunder lights cut through the world.

Control of the Thunder Punishment Rules.

Transforming Yang Thunder.

For Li Jing, who already had the peak cultivation of the late Eleventh Realm, his control and understanding of the Thunder Punishment Rules had reached a very mature level.

To simply manipulate the Thunder Punishment Rules, he no longer needed to purposely construct a Thunder Skill.

Merely acting through rules was less powerful.

However, to deal with these remnant souls, it was more than enough.

Everyone.

All these remnant souls were left by the strong.

If one were to attempt to confront it directly, it might not end well, even for Emperor-level beings like Xiang Dong.

But after all, a remnant soul is a remnant soul, inherently belonging to the Yin substances.

The intense Yang Thunder is their biggest nemesis.

At this moment, the Heavenly Punishment that could destroy everything in the world is, on the contrary, not useful.

After all, the Heavenly Punishment controlled by Li Jing is limited by his cultivation level and cannot reach the degree that can truly destroy everything, even evaporate remnant souls.

An uncountable number of Yang Thunder descended upon the world.

Just like a lightning storm, it swept across the entire Immortal Burying Land in a blink of an eye.

For a moment, the entire Immortal Burying Land was filled with various ghostly wails and wolf howls.

Although Yang Thunder is the nemesis of all Yin substances including remnant souls, the remnant souls here are extraordinarily strong and not ordinary.

When the Thunder strikes, it usually does not kill them.

They need to be struck several times.

Shouldn’t there be howls for a few times then?

In order to properly "salvage" the souls here, Li Jing is also manipulating the Yang Thunder which descends like a storm, continuously "cleansing" this place as though he was borrowing the rule of Thunder Punishment.

Outside the Immortal Burying Land.

Everyone, including Blue Phoenix, was watching him control the Yang Thunder like a world-ending demon king; their eyes were twitching with shock.

Just him alone had turned the Immortal Burying Land, where Xiang Dong and Jin Ritian were seriously injured, into a mess. Unparalleled powerful souls were continuously perishing under Yang Thunder.

No matter how you look at it.

Li Jing indeed took advantage this time.

Firstly, his ability to manipulate the rules related to Thunder and control Yang Thunder.

Secondly, the intense evil aura flooding around him forces these remnant souls to desperately want to stay away from him, not daring to attack at all.

Faced with an uncountable number of Yang Thunders.

They want to escape, but they can’t leave the Immortal Burying Land.

The only thing they can do.

Is to wail as they’re continuously struck, gradually weakening until they finally dissipate in the world.

This...

Truthfully, it’s a bit too bullying to the souls!

Cleansing with Yang Thunder.

With the continuous demise of remnant souls, the overwhelming amount of Essence Source acquisition prompts kept popping up in front of Li Jing.

Every single one started at one million.

Some were even in really good states, reaching tens of millions.

Only a moment has passed.

Li Jing has successfully crossed the threshold of entering the saint stage at the twelfth realm, while also continuously making breakthroughs.

This exhilaration, is indescribable.

As Li Jing’s level crosses the threshold, the atmosphere in the world becomes incredibly oppressive.

???

Blue Phoenix and the others all collectively raised their heads.

Because Li Jing is controlling the Thunder.

Thick and heavy clouds gather in the sky, making it impossible to see anything clearly with the naked eye.

However, they could easily sense that it seemed like they were being targeted by an extremely strong and terrifying Heavenly Might.

"Is Li Jing... about to overcome a tribulation due to an epiphany?"

Shi Zixuan exclaimed in surprise, turning her head to look at Blue Phoenix, who knew more about a certain person.

Blue Phoenix opened her mouth silently, hesitant to affirm her guess.

Xiang Dong next to her was also stupefied.

Others may not know.

But the two of them were clear.

Li Jing had just entered the Eleventh Realm not long ago, and now he’s about to overcome a tribulation?

If we mentioned the word ’Epiphany’.

This "power" is a bit too strong.

Normally speaking, even if one has achieved some great breakthrough from an epiphany, they’d only cross a Small Realm.

Crossing a Large Realm, that’s simply unheard of!

Yet the two of them could not find any other reasonable explanation.

The two of them were unaware that Li Jing "had a cheat".

In their view.

Only an epiphany could allow Li Jing, who had just entered the Eleventh Realm not long ago, to reach the threshold of the Twelfth Realm in a blink.

Jin Ritian stood aside, feeling somewhat numb.

To him.

Li Jing crossing a tribulation due to an epiphany was nothing.

After all, a certain someone was just barely a saint.

A single stroke of good luck leading to a massive epiphany, it won’t be as easy the second time.

To actually complete the journey from saint-hood to the Venerable Realm, even if one has extraordinary talent, it would take at least several hundreds to thousands of years.

What Jin Ritian found unbearable was.

Following the "salvation" of countless remnant souls, the "purity" of Li Jing’s already intense evil aura explosively increased, and one could barely see his figure buried deep in the thick red fog.

Due to his survival instinct, Jin Ritian couldn’t help but want to turn around and leave, never to see a certain person again.

Even though he knew that Li Jing wouldn’t harm him.

Even if he wanted to harm him, he is temporarily not capable of doing so.

Jin Ritian was not like these remnant souls who had fuzzy consciousness, who only acted on instinct despite possessing terrifying power.

The problem was that facing Li Jing’s intense evil aura that sent chills down his spine, Jin Ritian simply couldn’t calm his "agitated" heart down, with a sense of unease coming from his instincts that was so intense, it couldn’t be suppressed.

This feeling.

Truthfully, it’s really frustrating...

After taking a deep breath, Jin Ritian silently released his own domain, letting the power of his independent world strengthen him.

With the enhancement of his independent world, he felt significantly better.

Synchronously, people including Blue Phoenix also released their own domains without any hesitation.

As a divine beast, Blue Phoenix, was said to be an auspicious beast.

Regarding the evil aura.

She was not that sensitive, and she even had the capability to suppress the outward influence of the evil aura.

Shi Zixuan and Xiang Tian, being relatively "dull" humans, weren’t very sensitive to their surroundings.

But someone’s tribulation inevitably approached.

Seeing Li Jing like this.

It seemed like he had no strength to hold it back.

By activating his own realm, he could prevent the tribulation from reaching him.

This.

Was the "privilege" of the Emperor level.

The power of an isolated world could make them completely independent of the corresponding space, unaffected by any external factors.

If there were other Venerables present, they would have to consider resisting or leaving at this point.

A tribulation wouldn’t lessen its power because the cultivator facing it had a lower cultivation level.

When encountering affected people, the Will of Heaven would "humanely" adjust the tribulation to match the appropriate realm confidence level.

The Venerables had to face something above their realm.

Who could withstand this?

Even if they could resist it, there would be no benefits after the fact.

The tribulation chooses its person.

If it’s not your tribulation, it falling on you won’t bring you any benefits.

It could be that Li Jing’s "Yang Thunderstorm" was still washing madly throughout the Burial Immortal Land, leading to his continuous upgrading, and as a result, his tribulation brewed up very quickly.

It was only a brief moment.

The atmosphere between heaven and earth became extremely oppressive due to the heavy impending dread of the tribulation.

Following the extreme repression, a "rumble" echoed from the high sky.

A Five-Color Divine Thunder tore the sky and earth, announcing the beginning of the tribulation, and it struck someone’s head directly.

Under the wooden gaze of the Blue Phoenix and others.

Li Jing remained unmoved, a wisp of blue smoke rising from his forehead.

This tribulation struck...

And it was no different from it not striking at all!

The person didn’t even use any resisting measures, and was fully focused on manipulating Yang Thunderstorm to wash the ground in every way.

This is...

Too abnormal!

Looking at this scene, the four of them were exploding with envy.

All four had seen Li Jing take action full of buffs, and knew he had mastered the thunder punishment rules that should only be manipulated by the will of Heaven, unprecedentedly powerful.

Now, he showed them what "unharmed tribulation crossing" really meant.

Ordinary thunder-related rules.

Maybe could ease some of the pressure of crossing the tribulation, but certainly not to this ridiculous degree.

In the end.

The tribulation is a form of Heavenly punishment.

But this Heavenly punishment served more of a tempering function for cultivators, rather than destruction.

As the four stood there numb-faced.

A sudden "boom" echoed from above.

A massive array of Five-Color Divine Thunders descended upon the world.

One of them, the weakest, fell upon Li Jing’s head.

The rest rained down on the resilient remnant souls in the Burial Immortal Land, managing to withstand the Yang Thunderstorm and struggling for survival.

!!!

Li Jing, who was focusing on the "clean-up".

He had anticipated the related situation in advance.

The Heavenly tribulation would not distinguish between the living and the dead.

As long as there was cultivation strength in the body, it would have to be struck.

In reality.

Dead objects also had to cross tribulations as part of their cultivation progress, the difficulty even higher than that of living objects.

As he was crossing the tribulation in the Burial Immortal Land, it was inevitable for the remnant souls to be struck.

Firstly warned by a Five-Color Divine Thunder perfectly combined from five types of Divine Thunders.

When these Five-Color Divine Thunders came down in pieces, the remnant souls truly evaporated on the spot without letting out even a single groan, joyfully passing away.

At this blow, how could Li Jing hold it in?

The damn tribulation was snatching his monsters!

Without thinking much, Li Jing hurriedly concentrated the power of Yang Thunderstorm to focus on the remnant souls that had not been affected and hadn’t been struck yet.

Complaining was useless in this situation.

Even a little salvage was a gain.

If he missed this opportunity, there wouldn’t be another one!

At the same time.

With the Heavenly tribulation arriving, the restless remnant souls in the Burial Immortal Land became even more agitated.

Even the remnant souls that were sleeping "deadly" deep underground were collectively awoken due to being targeted by the Heavenly prestige and came howling from beneath the surface.

At a glance, Li Jing could tell that this situation was intense.

The rampant souls were numerous.

The group awoken by him using the Taoist tool breaking the sky was nothing compared to that.

Crucially, not only were the quantities of those woken by the heavenly tribulation large, but the quality was also outrageous.

Looking at their health bars.

Quite a few remnants were actually above the Venerable status.

Among them, only a few were exotic beasts born in this shattered world, with the vast majority clearly coming from the outside world.

Presumably, in the Immortal Realm, there were people who succeeded in breaking through to above the Venerable level after entering this Broken World.

Because reaching Venerable level and above wasn’t the limit here, they weren’t able to proceed to the Upper Three Realms and so succumbed to poison.

Li Jing could see this clearly.

So could the Blue Phoenix and others naturally.

Confirming that people had broken through to above the Venerable level in the Broken World, and that there weren’t a few of them, Shi Zixuan and the other two were gleaming.

How did they break through?

Did the puppet master of this Broken World purposely "fatten" them, or did they find their path here?

Everyone was concerned.

The clear and resounding cry of the phoenix echoed across the heavens and the earth.

A sudden, surprising cry of the phoenix.

Including Li Jing, everyone felt a jolt of spirit and turned their heads to look to the east together.

Following that.

A gargantuan phoenix, a remnant soul aflame and ascending to the heavens, entered the sight of everyone.

"Fire Phoenix!"

The Blue Phoenix showed signs of excitement, with one step transforming into a streak of light that shot straight into the burial place of the immortals.

Seeing this, Shi Zixuan and the others hurried to follow.

Although at this moment the burial ground is riddled with Li Jing’s Yang thunder and also rampaged by the heavenly tribulation, chaos reigned supreme, but the remnant souls, which were only left with primal instincts, did not feel fear from this.

Now, they are fleeing and causing chaos.

Only because they dare not approach Li Jing, whose surrounding demonic aura is overly dense, and without a clear target, they can only take the path of flight.

With a definite target, the situation changes.

After all, the remnant souls in the burial ground are all dazed with limited cognition, their drive to attack is much higher than their desire to survive.

Essentially, they don’t kill for the sake of it.

Their true purpose is to fight for a flesh and blood vessel to reincarnate and seize its life.

At that moment.

As soon as the Blue Phoenix entered the burial ground of immortals, the chaotic remnant souls suddenly found a target, and they surged over in groups.

Blue Phoenix has already proclaimed herself the Empress.

In front of the Fire Phoenix, how could she retreat in face of this small difficulty?

"Leave!"

A petite shout.

The Blue Phoenix shook her body to reveal her true form and cried out to the sky. The violent Phoenix Heavenly Fire emerged around her, instantly turning the half-clouded sky into a fiery red.

Some weaker remnant souls were evaporated on the spot.

But many more, fearlessly pounced towards her.

Luckily, Xiang Dong and the others have arrived at that time. The three of them jointly chose to use magic skills which are more effective and convenient against the remnant souls, successfully aiding the Blue Phoenix to escape.

Then, Jin Ritian also revealed his true Golden Crow form, giving a long cry and releasing a sea of Great Sun Demon Fires, causing a multitude of remnant souls to crumble.

The Great Day Demon Fire, has a pure Yang characteristic.

When dealing with remnant souls, it actually is more effective than Yang thunder.

But Jin Ritian is not a certain someone and doesn’t have a vast demonic aura for protection.

The more he performs, the more he attracts the attention of the remnant souls.

At this point.

He had just burned a huge group of remnant souls, suddenly more remnant souls flocked and attacked him.

Faced with this situation, Jin Ritian flapped his wings and ascended straight to the sky.

"Don’t worry about me, keep going."

"Thanks, take care!"

The Blue Phoenix proudly responded.

Jin Ritian’s departure draws a large portion of the "firepower".

Without delay, the Blue Phoenix flapped her wings lightly, creating a shower of Phoenix Heavenly Fire that burned numerous remnant souls on the ground below into a frantic screeching. After that, she turned her gaze to Xiang Dong and Shi Zixuan.

"Both of you, come onto my back, this will make it easier to manage."

On hearing this, both of them nodded, perched on the back of the Blue Phoenix and executed their own techniques.

The trio together carved a path out instantly.

On the other side.

The Fire Phoenix has also been attracted.

However, she didn’t join the other remnant souls in coming over, instead flapping her wings in the high sky, gazing at the scene below with a touch of confusion.

Seeing this, the Blue Phoenix suddenly lost control of her emotions.

It was clear.

Because of her appearance, the confused mind of the Fire Phoenix had regained some clarity.

Subconsciously.

The Blue Phoenix wanted to stand firm by the side of the Fire Phoenix without hesitation.

At this moment.

Li Jing’s voice echoed in her ear..

"Stay calm, we are already here, don’t let all our efforts go to waste because of a hasty action. Remember you are not alone, don’t disregard the safety of others."

Hearing this, the Blue Phoenix felt her heart stir, she suppressed her impulsivity, turned her head and glanced at Li Jing.

In sight.

It was Li Jing, who was undergoing the wash of heavenly calamity. He took out his bracelet again and retracted his released demonic aura.

With the retraction of the demonic aura,

Li Jing instantly seemed like he had lost his talisman.

The remnant souls, which had originally dared not approach him, suddenly targeted him and swallowed him up in the blink of an eye.

The remnant souls may be dazed, but they’re not stupid.

They go for the easier pickings, they understand this principle.

Among the several present life forms, undoubtedly, Li Jing is the weakest.

Seeing Li Jing being swallowed by the tidal wave of remnant souls, the Blue Phoenix’s body, which was just about to advance, froze. She turned her head around to rush towards him.

Just at this moment.

The sky was filled with a "boom," as a heavenly tribulation fell which not only gave Li Jing its baptism but also wiped out legions of remnant souls.

Li Jing looked up, his voice transmitted over.

"Don’t worry about me, I won’t be in trouble. The awakened remnant souls are getting more and stronger, this place might soon be destroyed by heavenly calamity. With such commotion we might attract the attention of some Deceivers, quickly awaken the Fire Phoenix so we can leave."

This had touched the Blue Phoenix.

Li Jing had already sacrificed so much for her.

Not only did he cater to her every need, but at this moment he disregarded his own safety and relinquished his protection of demonic aura, to take the "firepower" for her.

Watching Li Jing withstanding the express train of heavenly calamity, ignoring the ferocious remnant souls, who abandon themselves to despair and refuse to retreat, whose powerful body was being scratched and marked by the sharp claws of the remnant souls, his clothes being torn to shreds within moments, his hands forming seals in rapid succession, interweaving skills, the Blue Phoenix quickly calmed her mind, and turned her head to look towards the Fire Phoenix.

Li Jing offered no resistance, relying on his physical body to resist while also preparing his skills.

Without a doubt, he wanted to attract more of the "firepower" for her.

If he was willing to sacrifice so much, how could she disappoint him!?