Chapter 555 - 554: Easy Annihilation, Achieving Return to Origin

This is a bit lethal, isn’t it?

Without Ling Ling, Li Jing is equivalent to losing a major crutch.

Of course.

Less is less.

He still had to fight as he ought to.

Gazing at the Deceiver who had already assimilated with the Void Worm Mother, Li Jing squinted his eyes.

Health Bar: 20962.

Essence Source: 39852310.

A value close to twenty-one thousand indicates that its realm is near the peak of Return to Origin realm.

However, Li Jing wasn’t bothered.

Let alone Return to Origin realm that is a whole realm higher than him as present, even the real Deceiver just barely surpasses Return to Origin stage.

The moment the health bar was revealed.

Even if it were a god, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill it.

On the other hand.

The essence value of nearly forty million above the head of the Deceiver made Li Jing extremely envious.

As he was sizing up the Deceiver, the latter was also watching him.

Usually in such situations.

The Deceiver, who plotted to control the entire Ancient Fairyland, wouldn’t care about an insignificant king in the middle stage.

After all, in ordinary times.

He could crush someone of this level with a single finger.

But who was Li Jing?

Even if he turned to ash, Deceiver wouldn’t forget him.

If this had happened earlier,

If he had found Li Jing alone, he would have made him beg for mercy.

However, at this moment, facing Li Jing, he felt a strong threat.

Before being swallowed by the Body of Void space, he had been hiding in the dark, observing people like Li Jing.

Somebody refined the Eternal Lotus into an eternal being and took the opportunity to become an emperor.

He was aware of all this.

And he gnashed his teeth in anger in the dark.

But he couldn’t understand.

Why a king in the middle stage could become so powerful after casting some kind of spell.

Logically speaking.

Even the most powerful and miraculous ancient immortal method couldn’t possibly exaggerate to this extent.

Even the most powerful ancient immortal method.

Needs a person to guide it.

Regardless of the realm, individual comprehension and proficiency directly influence the power that the ancient Immortal Method can ultimately exert.

However, the most lethal thing is.

Comprehending and mastering ancient Immortal Method at this level can’t be brought about by "practice makes perfect", it requires extremely rare insights and realizations for the upgrade.

The Deceiver didn’t know.

In front of him.

There was an ultimate cheat that can max out any skill as soon as they meet.

As they were staring at each other, Li Jing spoke.

"Won’t you try to convince me to spare you?"

"..."

The Deceiver.

He thought Li Jing would say something more, but he opened his mouth and said this!

TM...

Did he think he was stupid?

Last time he had full "intention" to negotiate, but ended up being deceived and robbed of a Divine Medicine.

This time, how could he be fooled again!?

The more the Deceiver thought about it, the more angry he became and couldn’t help but lose his temper.

"Enough with the nonsense, today, one of us is destined to die here!"

Enraged, the Deceiver scoffed.

"I must admit, your current state is terrifyingly powerful, but this power is ultimately not in line with your realm. Although I don’t know what price you paid for this, I expect you won’t be able to keep it up for long. And after my fusion with the Void Worm Mother, I..."

Before he could finish.

"Clang!"

"Roar!"

The sound of swords clashed and dragons roared.

Li Jing swung his hand and drew out his Flying Sword Blue Edge.

"Whoosh!"

A ferocious sword scar followed the trajectory of his draw and instantly swept past Deceiver’s head.

The sudden change stunned the Deceiver.

Seeing the large amount of hair falling from his female-shaped head, he subconsciously touched his head.

Upon touching it.

The center of the top his head was smooth.

He...

Was bald.

The Deceiver’s eyes were instantly bloodshot.

"Don’t people ever tell you that villains often die because they talk too much?"

Li Jing calmly spoke.

This sentence.

Of course, the Deceiver couldn’t understand.

In his time of existence, he’s older than anyone else in the present Immortal Realm.

Even in the Ancient Fairyland back then.

There were very few who could compare to him.

How could he possibly understand the "slang" of modern day Blue Star?

But he did understand one thing.

Li Jing was saying that he talked too much.

"You, deserve to die!"

Furious, the Deceiver shrieked and grabbed the remaining long hair from the top of his head and pulled it to both sides, turning himself into a baldie.

As he pulled his long hair, a large amount of blue blood sprayed from the sides of the Deceiver’s head.

Seeing this, Li Jing knit his eyebrows.

The Deceiver was obviously agitated in front of him, which was understandable.

But then the question arose.

What the hell was he up to?

Enraged, and now self-harming?

Just as he was confused.

"Squeak squeak squeak!" A series of chaotic shrieks rang out.

Li Jing was momentarily stunned upon hearing the sound.

Void Dark Spirit!?

Before he could come to a conclusion, hundreds of varying length health bars emerged from the dense openings in the stomach of the Deceiver like a hive.

To the naked eye, they only appeared as distortions.

But in Li Jing’s eyes, which could see the health bar.

Those were hundreds of health bars of different lengths swarming out.

These health bars weren’t very long.

Most of them didn’t even show any Essence Source behind the health bar.

As they swarmed out, they didn’t come straight at Li Jing.

They were scrambling towards the deceiving heavens’ head where the deep blue blood cascaded, they growled as they swallowed the fallen blood.

In just an instant.

The falling blue blood was entirely siphoned away.

Next.

A peculiar scene occurred.

The absorbers’ health bar that was floating above their twisted heads quickly increased, their essence source shown lept from zero to some, constantly surging.

In a blink of an eye.

One by one, the health bars soared to about sixteen or seventeen thousand, reaching the level of the Twelfth Realm.

That wasn’t all.

Even the ones with the least essence source displayed managed to reach one million.

Those who received a lot of blue blood even reached several million.

Witnessing such a scene, Li Jing was utterly astounded.

The Deceiving Heavens seemed pretty pleased with his expression and gave a cold chuckle.

"You seem capable of detecting the invisible Void Dark Spirits with naked eyes, but now you should understand, even with multiple methods and the protection of The Spirit of Origin, you cannot rival me as I am now."

"..."

Li Jing fell into silence, he glanced at the Deceiving Heavens hesitantly, saying.

"Why don’t you... bleed some more feed them?"

Hearing this, the Deceiving Heavens were slightly stunned, then laughed scornfully.

"You seem to have misunderstood something. I don’t expect these Void Dark Spirits to kill you, I just want to drain your power."

"Is that so?"

Li Jing blinked, turned his wrist and countless power of thunder punishment surged into Flying Sword Blue Edge swallowing it. He then threw out the flying sword.

"Clang!"

The ringing tone of the sword resonated throughout the air.

The Flying Sword Blue Edge turned into a five-clawed thunder dragon composed entirely of black lightning, howling toward the sky under the envelopment of the massive amount of thunder punishment power.

"Roar!"

With the resounding dragon’s roar, the Flying Sword Blue Edge divided from one to two, and two to four, continuously splitting, blinking thousands of thunder dragons emerged in the sky.

Seeing this, Li Jing’s mouth twitched.

The Flying Sword Blue Edge here was putting up a fight with the "dragon".

Although he used a large amount of Thunder Punishment, essentially he was regularly using Ten Thousand Remnants Absolute Shadow.

The effect before his eyes.

The Flying Sword Blue Edge took the initiative to change its form.

But you can’t deny.

Thousands of black thunder dragons made up of Thunder Punishment power soaring in the sky. It looked cooler than simple sword shadows. Li Jing quite liked that.

On the other side.

The Deceiving Heavens looked at such an exaggerated scene with a disdainful sneer.

"Although I don’t know why you can control the thunder punishment rules that only the Heavenly Path holds, it’s impossible for you to kill the Void Dark Spirit with it. Instead of wasting your power, you might as well take out that half-step Taoist artifact pagoda of yours that can shatter the void....."

Before he finished speaking, Li Jing waved his hand.

"Roar!"

Dragon’s roar resonated throughout the sky.

The thousands of Thunder Dragons roared and crashed wildly.

The Deceiving Heavens looked at the crashing thunder dragons with a bit of cool contempt.

"Useless effort."

While he spoke.

A layer of void space emerged on his giant body surface.

At the same time.

The same emerged from the Void Dark Spirits surrounding him,

Just like that

The Deceiving Heavens and the Void Dark Spirits didn’t try to escape.

"Rumble!"

A thunderous sound.

Thousands of Thunder Dragons seemed to simultaneously crash into the locations of the Deceiving Heavens and Void Dark Spirits. This resulted in an immense thunderstorm, followed by a loud blast and a terrifying Heavenly Punishment large enough to destroy a whole continent from the skies that crashed into the center of the storm.

The Deceiving Heavens groaned.

The health bar above his head, which was showing nearly twenty-one thousand, had, by a turn of events, been reduced by over ten thousand.

Leaving only 8469.

At the same time, a prompt flashed in front of Li Jing’s eyes.

"Essence Source +696897523."

This message satisfied Li Jing to the core.

Nearly seven hundred million essence sources in one breath!

This is comparable to half of Celestial Burial Ground’s energy!

"Level up, 441. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +882, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 442. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +884, Skill Points +2."

"..."

"Level up, 452. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +904, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 453. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +906, Skill Points +2."

"Level up, 454. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +908, Skill Points +2."

Immediately following the essence source gaining prompt, fourteen level up messages popped out making Li Jing suddenly speechless.

In blink of an eye.

He reached level 454.

Isn’t he just one level short of 455?

The thunderstorm and the Heavenly Punishment.

Came quickly and gone too quickly.

The aftermath faded in a moment.

The giant figure of the Deceiving Heavens, now reduced to less than half, appeared with an unbelieving look on his face.

He didn’t understand.

Why could Li Jing’s attack directly damage the Void Dark Spirits and even hurt him?

The defense provided by the void appeared to be of no use.

With his abilities, he wouldn’t have been so miserable if he had been on guard.

At the very least.

He was a Deceiving Heavens before he merged with a Void Worm Mother.

Since he was Deceiving Heavens, why wouldn’t he have the power to deceive the heavens?

To deceive the heavens.

At the very least, one can deceive the Heavenly Path’s perception, evade or even resist Heavenly Punishment, otherwise, anyone would just get a taste of the "thrill of deceiving heavens" before dying on the spot.

But, because the Void Worm Mother’s abilities were too convenient, Deceiving Heavens completely let his guard down.

With no defense, the Heavenly Punishment hit directly.

The fact that he’s still alive could be considered a miracle.

To be precise.

It was because the Void Worm Mother’s body was robust enough.

If it had been his real body who had been hit without preparation, there would probably have been none left at this point.

Heavenly Punishment.

It is the most destructive force in the world.

The special thing about it is.

It can not only strike the appearance of individuals but also can directly strike the essence.

Simply put, it causes "real damage".

If you can avoid it.

Or if you have the ability to transfer damage or resist it.

Then of course that’s another story.

If it hits hard, no matter how strong you are, it’s impossible to be unharmed.

"Cough."

After he violently coughed up a large amount of blue blood, the Deceiving the Heavens looked at Li Jing incredulously.

"Why wasn’t your attack swallowed by the Void!?"

"Guess."

Li Jing grinned, raised his hand to grasp the Flying Sword Blue Edge, which had lost some of its dazzle, and inject it with the Power of Thunder Punishment.

The one who controlled the Thunder Punishment Rules was Li Jing himself.

The Taoist Items he owned had only adopted the elemental Power of Thunder Punishment from his Origin, thus gaining high resistance.

The previous offensive had provoked Heavenly Punishment, and the Flying Sword Blue Edge was struck like a lightning rod.

Even though it was a Taoist Artifact with resistance, it still suffered some damage.

However, once Li Jing infused it with the Power of Thunder Punishment, the power of the Qingfeng Sword ignited once more.

Seeing this, Deceiving the Heavens’s pupils shrank.

Although Li Jing hadn’t responded directly, he was very clear that the "Void Shelter," monstrous creatures usually relied upon, was useless against him.

If Li Jing were to attack once more, he would undoubtedly be done for...

Deceiving the Heavens wanted to escape.

But, severely injured as he was, how could he manage to escape?

He looked at Li Jing again.

Just now, that incomparable offensive was casual for him. He hadn’t even lost his breath, let alone the consumption he had expected.

Deceiving the Heavens’s face changed several times, then he spoke out.

"Spare me, I’m ready to give you anything you want."

As expected, he conceded. He quickly spoke again.

"I have assimilated with the Void Worm Mother and cannot be separated. I can assure you, I will go deep into the void and never return. In this life and the next, I will never set foot in the Ancient Fairyland or the Big World again."

Deceiving the Heavens surrendered so easily, which made Li Jing feel a little bored.

He had thought it would be a hard battle.

This is it?

He had not even used the Power of Taoist which he tried as much as possible not to touch.

Had he been too strong or was Deceiving the Heavens too weak?

But with a second thought, Li Jing understood.

Deceiving the Heavens had been completely restrained by him from the very start.

Ling Ling was not here.

Also, Xiaocai was in the Little Universe.

The use of Deceiving the Heavens’s greatest reliance, Sky-Burying Soil, was in vain.

Let alone the Void Worm Mother.

Even in front of the Flying Sword Blue Edge that had metamorphosed into a Taoist Artifact by grasping the rules of the Void, it was nothing.

Shaking his head, Li Jing spoke.

"You could be far more competent, but you’re just unlucky to face me."

"..."

Deceiving the Heavens.

Li Jing’s words. Low impact but highly insulting.

And he had to admit.

His words hit a sore spot.

We run into this jerk. Could his luck be any worse?

Since he obtained the Sky-Burying Soil and became Deceiving the Heavens, how many powerful Immortal Realm figures had he lured and killed in secret?

No one was his match.

But Li Jing had The Spirit of Origin.

And he had not one, but two!

But that was nothing.

Assimilating with the Void Worm Mother, he was no longer human. He had a "Void Shelter" which is stronger than the Sky-Burying Soil, which could easily put him in an invincible position against an ordinary opponent.

But who would have thought that Li Jing could ignore the Void!

This... TM...

How unlucky could he be despite his bad luck for the past eight lifetimes?

From beginning to end, he had been completely suppressed by Li Jing.

Obviously, with his current ability, it would not be difficult to destroy the prosperous Immortal Realm and even stand firmly as a dominant force in the Upper Three Realms. But now, he was completely defeated.

As Deceiving the Heavens became more irritated, he didn’t dare to get angry.

At this moment, Li Jing spoke.

"I could spare you."

Hearing this, Deceiving the Heavens’s spirit was uplifted.

But immediately he recalled his previous experience of being cheated and robbed, so he looked at Li Jing incredulously and asked,

"Are you serious?"

"Believe it or not, I don’t care."

Li Jing shrugged and pointed his sword at him.

"And you better understand one thing. You are not in control now, unlike before."

"..."

Deceiving the Heavens fell silent, then he spoke out.

"So, what’s the price?"

"I’m not interested in the common goods you possess."

Li Jing spoke indifferently. Then he stated his demand.

"Like those Void Dark Spirits just now, summon another batch. As many as possible, and feed them well. Don’t waste all that blood you’ve vomited up."

"..."

Deceiving the Heavens.

Li Jing’s request confused him.

He had been lurking in the Ancient Fairyland for so many years. Although he hadn’t been able to do anything to Xiaocai, he had collected endless treasures.

Li Jing bluntly said he didn’t care about the treasures he had collected, but wanted him to "give birth" to another batch of Void Dark Spirits.

This...

What does he mean?

Was he addicted to killing Void Dark Spirits?

While bewildered, Deceiving the Heavens hesitated to say,

"I... can’t spawn more Void Dark Spirits right now."

?

Li Jing frowned.

Seeing Li Jing’s expression, Deceiving the Heavens showed a strong desire to survive and quickly explained,

"The Void Worm Mother exhausted too much nutrients to forcefully complete the metamorphosis when faced with danger. Originally, she planned to absorb and use me as nutrient, but I ended up assimilating her. That’s why this body is extremely weak right now. The previous batch was the limit of what I can achieve for now. Unless you find some sufficiently powerful creatures or Taoist Items to feed..."

Before he could finish, Li Jing threw out the Flying Sword Blue Edge with a slash of his hand.

"whoosh!"

In an instant.

The Flying Sword Blue Edge was nailed into Deceiving the Heavens’s forehead, releasing the Power of Thunder Punishment.

"Boom!"

There was a loud noise.

Heavenly Punishment was triggered.

An incredibly fine Heavenly Punishment tore through the sky, hitting the Flying Sword Blue Edge emitting the Power of Thunder Punishment and entering Deceiving the Heavens’s body through the sword.

"Essence Source +39852310."

"Level raised, 455. Strength Of Thunder Punishment +910, Skill Points +2."

Two consecutive prompts popped up, indicating that Li Jing had stepped on the threshold of the Return to Origin Realm and also announced the "peaceful death" of Deceiving the Heavens.

After easily killing Deceiving the Heavens, Li Jing looked up.

As he predicted.

With the status bar functioning, once he reached the required level, he would be able to easily step into the Return to Origin Realm.

Now.

He could already clearly sense that the Heavenly Tribulation was about to arrive.

But something differed from the past.

The heavenly tribulation that he was unable to suppress whatsoever before seemed as if it had been obstructed, unable to descend.

This led directly to his inability to truly achieve the Return to Origin Realm.

Heavenly Tribulation.

It was not just a baptism.

It was also a symbol of the elevation of the power within one’s body.

Only when the Heavenly Tribulation arrived, would the power in his body rise to the standard of a major realm upgrade.

This had nothing to do with accepting baptism.

It was only related to the level of power.

So.

What was the situation?

Li Jing frowned and retracted his gaze, then called up the panel.

Controller: Li Jing

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

Heavenly and Earthly Essence Source: 1342210/53338667

Level: 455 (Return to Origin) / Next stage level ???

Skill Points: 340

Strength Of Thunder Punishment: 207480

The status bar showed that he was indeed at the Return to Origin Realm, but this could not change the fact that he could only be considered a pseudo Return to Origin at this moment.

The next stage’s level threshold was not displayed and was marked by three question marks.

But that was a minor issue.

At this point.

Even without the status bar, Li Jing could estimate that the next threshold was level 520.

Of course.

Assuming there was a higher realm.

However, he was slightly uncertain now.

Was it affected by his current pseudo-Return to Origin status, or were there no realms higher than the Return to Origin Realm?

From his initial encounter with the Heavens Deceiver, he learned that there were higher realms above the Return to Origin Realm.

But who knew if the guy was bluffing?

As reality proved.

The Heavens Deceiver was just at the pinnacle of the Return to Origin Realm, barely at the threshold of breaking through.

Shaking his head darkly, Li Jing deactivated his Body of Thunder Punishment in All Worlds state and withdrew the Flying Sword Blue Edge that had been floating by his side, staring closely at a pile of black mud that resembled a small hill not far away.

The Soil of Heavenly Burial.

The only thing left by the Heavens Deceiver.

The gigantic body of the Void Worm Mother left nothing behind under the bombardment of Heavenly Punishment.

It was only left because the Void Worm Mother had ingested the Heavens Deceiver and couldn’t digest the Soil of Heavenly Burial, and the Heavenly Punishment failed to destroy it.

Upon confirming the presence of the Soil of Heavenly Burial, Li Jing let out a sigh of relief.

What a shame about the Void Worm Mother’s "experience package"...

If it weren’t for the fact that leaving it alive would require effort to nurture it, and there was no guarantee of how far it could grow after it recovered, he would quite regret having to kill it.

Just think about it!

The Void Worm Mother’s next "offspring" could give him a total of 700 million essence source!

If he raised it.

Would he be able to level up just by lying down in the future?

With a pang of regret, Li Jing summoned Xiaocai.

He might be able to collect the Soil of Heavenly Burial.

But he didn’t dare to attempt rashly, letting Xiaocai do it was a safer option.

Xiaocai hadn’t been in the Little Universe for long since she had been sent in previously.

Being suddenly brought out, she glanced around in confusion, but was then immediately attracted by the tons of Soil of Heavenly Burial.

With Li Jing’s prompting, she didn’t care whether the Heavens Deceiver had been killed or what state the Void Worm Mother was in, she transformed into a busy bee and started working around the piles of Soil of Heavenly Burial.

...

While Xiaocai was busy, Li Jing was also not idle.

He had achieved the Return to Origin Realm.

But the Heavenly Tribulation was stuck.

There has to be a reason for it.

He couldn’t say for sure what factors were causing it.

Perhaps finding the proper way to break through the Return to Origin Realm could provide some insights.

At once, he began to destroy the already recovered nearby continents, and started searching for the various things he had seen before.

Since he had seen those things before when he came here earlier, there were already some impressions in his mind.

It didn’t take him long to find numerous fragments.

Indeed.

Trash.

Everything that managed to survive under the apocalypse brought about by the Charming Spirit and remained buried under the ground for countless years was a piece of decayed item, and appeared completely different than its original state.

They are not ordinary.

That was for certain.

But to excavate their real value, they would likely have to be taken back to the Immortal Realm for "professional" restoration.

It couldn’t be helped.

These items had not only lost their original outward appearance, they had also decayed deeply on the inside, making it impossible to enter them with his mind to see if there were any records inside.

What he was certain of was.

None of these items were useful artifacts.

Li Jing had tried to register them in the status bar, but none of them triggered any response.

His Eye of True Vision also only managed to obtain some information about unique materials.

While he was busy, Li Jing turned his head upon sensing something.

At the same moment.

A rift in space appeared by his side, with Charming Spirit and Ling Ling stepping out from it.

Meeting face to face, Li Jing smiled

"Has everything been taken care of?"

Charming Spirit nodded and then glanced at the Soil of Heavenly Burial not far away which Xiao Cai had already cleared quite a bit of, then turned back to look at him.

"It looks like things have been going quite smoothly for you as well?"

"Quite well,"

Li Jing smiled.

Just as he was about to say something else, Ling Ling spoke up.

"I’ll go help Xiaocai while you two talk."

Having said that, she excitedly flew off, but then stopped and turned back,

"Oh, by the way, Li Jing, I found something good."

?

Li Jing.

Before he could ask, Ling Ling waved her hand and pulled out a gorgeous-looking woman, "thump," dropping her in front of him.

???

Li Jing.

Ling Ling suddenly pulling out a person, what else could it do but baffle him?

He instinctively lowered his gaze to look at her, and was taken aback.

To ensure he wouldn’t overlook or misread the items he was searching for, his Eye of True Vision had always been activated.

At this moment, as his gaze fell onto the woman, he received a feedback very easily.

Human Taoist Saint.