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Only a dazzling light, like the sun, streaked across the sky, piercing the dark mist formed by the gathering of the strange.

“Hiss hiss!”

“Roar roar, jie jie jie, hahahaha… Ah—”

When the Metal Manifestation Master descended, the entire group of strange entities erupted into a frenzy, due to the Metal Manifestation Master's own oppressive aura and the warning signs from their inherent luck.

If the strange entities could read faces, they would definitely say that the Metal Manifestation Master was a bringer of misfortune.

The Metal Manifestation Master had just rushed over from the Qilin battlefield, where he ended things with a single sword strike, changing the face of the land, and all the strange entities were completely annihilated.

Only bewildered cultivators were left, filled with amazement and speculation.

Arriving at the First Battlefield, the East Sea Battlefield, where the strange entities first descended, the cultivators had already launched their attacks after calming down.

Taking advantage of the strange entities' recovery phase, they tried their best to kill them.

In less than ten minutes, due to the cultivators' all-out attacks,

nearly three hundred Tier 1 strange entities had already been killed, showing that the cultivators were still very strong.

Such one-sided crushing was nothing more than this.

When the four Grand Masters arrived, the cultivator in charge of overall command breathed a sigh of relief, at least new strength had arrived.

But he was still very anxious, there were still so many Tier 2 and Tier 3 entities.

They couldn't deal with Tier 2 or Tier 3 entities.

Not to mention Tier 3, even Tier 2 entities wouldn't be affected by their attacks, unless they summoned the Void Blade to kill beyond their level.

But doing so would mean that the Tier 1 experts would temporarily lose all combat power and would need at least half a month to recover.

Killing beyond one's level was just that outrageous, the Void Blade really didn't show any mercy in its drain.

Unless absolutely necessary, Profound Transformation cultivators didn't dare to summon the Void.

Although there were nearly a thousand Transcendent cultivators on the entire East Sea Battlefield, and only a hundred Tier 2 strange entities, meaning that it could be done with the temporary sacrifice of a hundred people.

But what about the Tier 3 strange entities?

That was the real trouble; even if everyone present joined forces, they couldn't defeat a single Tier 3 entity, even with the premise of summoning the Void Blade.

Unless…

Unless a hundred people sacrificed their lives in a joint summoning, sacrificing a hundred people to kill a Tier 3 entity two levels above them.

Moreover, it hadn't been tested; it was just a theory that cultivators had deduced, and no one dared to say whether it could actually be achieved.

The ten Tier 3 strange entities were their biggest trouble.

Until the Metal Manifestation Master descended, cleaving through the sky, not only did the command headquarters of the East Sea Battlefield breathe a sigh of relief, but the four Grand Masters also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Huff!”

This was the common cry of many people, a feeling of physical and mental ease.

This time, the Metal Manifestation Master's descent was not like the previous two times; he didn't take action immediately.

He was an adventurous character, unlike the Xuan Huang Main Body.

This was the last place, and there was no need to worry about the other two locations, so naturally, the thinking was different.

With a wave of his hand, the Metal Manifestation Master unleashed two sword lights, not to kill the strange entities, but to divide the area into three major zones.

He separated the one thousand Tier 1 entities, the one hundred Tier 2 entities, and the ten Tier 3 entities.

Of course, the situation on the ground wasn't that accurate; after all, many Tier 1 entities had been killed by cultivators, and the strange entities had also devoured many of their own kind.

Less than five hundred Tier 1 entities remained, seventy-eight Tier 2 entities remained, but none of the Tier 3 entities were missing.

The two sword energies, like mountains, were like abysses spanning between the strange entities, completely isolating them.

Wanting to cross the sword light was equivalent to being attacked by the sword light.

With only instinct, they couldn't distinguish between good and bad; they would only instinctively avoid it, and they couldn't even imagine that this was the enemy's conspiracy, dividing them.

“Everyone, attack!”

The Metal Manifestation Master gave an order, telling the cultivators to take action; this was a very good experience.

“Understood!”

Including the four Grand Masters and Ji Zhongfu and other experts, they all took orders and joined the battle.

Even though this person wasn't a Xuan Master in the strict sense, there was no difference; news from the other two battlefields had arrived.

They already understood who this was; it was the Xuan Master's avatar.

Or rather, the Five Viscera Deity avatar.

Avatar and Divided Spirit were two different concepts; Avatar was a higher-level Divided Spirit.

Strictly speaking, Divided Spirit was still dominated by one Divine Soul, and it was a case of shared honor and shared loss; the death of a Divided Spirit might be better, at most seriously injuring the Main Body, but the death of the Main Body would also lead to the fall of the Divided Spirit.

Avatar was different; there was still a distinction between Avatar and Main Body, and the Main Body still controlled the essence. But the death of the Avatar wouldn't cause much trouble to the Main Body, because the Avatar had its own origin, and the essence of the source was controlled by the Main Body.

And when the Main Body died, a replacement would appear, and the Avatar would become the new Main Body, taking over all the Main Body's legacy.

This was the biggest difference.

Strictly speaking, Avatar was another life.

Divided Soul couldn't do this; it was a more advanced puppet.

Another difference was that the personality and so on of the Divided Spirit were almost exactly the same as the Main Body.

And the personality and so on of the Avatar were very different from the Main Body.

This difference was the most wonderful thing.

An identical Divided Spirit was useless, but an Avatar with different thoughts and personalities was a great divine power.

As mentioned earlier, change was the Dao.

It was useless to print out something from the same mold; different thoughts and personalities were great divine powers.

This was the first time they knew about Xuan Master's Avatar, but they all had extraordinary knowledge and knew that Avatar was stronger than Divided Spirit, not the Divided Spirit of the 《Divided Spirit Technique》.

It was a higher-level advancement, another Xuan Master with completely different personalities and thoughts.

It was like meeting for the first time.

Meeting another Xuan Master for the first time, they didn't dare to be careless, hoping to leave a good impression.

It was a very strange style; it was a Xuan Master, but not really a Xuan Master.

It could only be said that those who understood, understood.

This had become the battlefield of Transcendent cultivators; those who weren't Transcendent couldn't participate and instead became onlookers.

A group of people gathered together to watch the great battle of the Transcendent experts.

Everyone was very excited; this kind of scene was rare.

The one with the biggest headache among them was Ji Zhongfu; his battlefield was the Tier 2 battlefield.

But he was the only one, and in the Tier 2 strange entity zone drawn by the sword energy, there were nearly eighty Tier 2 strange entities, which gave him a big headache.

He gritted his teeth and entered it; the sword light didn't attack him, apparently recognizing people.

Stepping into the Tier 2 battlefield, the strange entities became even more frantic.

Driven by the Xuan Huang's oppressive aura and the warning signs of luck, they frantically devoured each other, wanting to build a stronger self and then escape.

This gave Ji Zhongfu the opportunity to sneak attack.

The Tier 2 strange entities were random; some were in the early stage, some were in the middle stage, some were in the late stage, and some had even devoured one of their own kind, reaching the limit of Tier 2.

Even more exaggerated was that some had devoured enough and had already given birth to a shallow layer of strange domain; this was advancing towards Tier 3.

Ji Zhongfu walked on thin ice; he was only in the early stage of Tier 2.

He set his sights on a Tier 2 entity whose aura was similar to his own, felt that he could deal with it, and began to attack.

It was a strange entity with a jar as its main body; the mouth of the jar emitted a rich black gas that could corrupt the heart, capture the soul, and also spray out black gas to dissolve people's flesh and bones.

Ji Zhongfu held a bamboo staff, a middle-grade magical artifact that was originally his weapon. After arriving at Qingyun Mountain, he refined it again using Qingyun Mountain's various psychic energies and sacrificial techniques.

It was incredibly powerful.

With a wave of the staff, a phantom image of the Tongtian Jianmu tree appeared, like a giant green umbrella, enveloping the black mud jar.

The black mud jar struggled violently, pulled by the roots formed by the Jianmu phantom.

Then, like a form of devouring, it dissolved against dissolution, devoured against devouring.

The black mud jar also possessed these abilities. Coincidentally, the magic Ji Zhongfu created himself was based on the Qi Refining technique, "Jianmu Returning to Truth."

The outline was the cycle of Yin and Yang. Although he couldn't fully achieve it yet, he could achieve the conversion and complementation of Yin and Yang.

It could also devour and dissolve all external objects to strengthen itself under the rotation of the Yin-Yang fish.

Without a single mistake, a first, a hair, an inner, a capacity, a presence, a glance!

It's been said many times that the Xuanhuang Great World's three great techniques are not moderate, upright, or peaceful. Placed in a prosperous world, they would seem very demonic.

The three great techniques all have very strong devouring, refining, and dissolving abilities.

In short, it's like killing you, then eating you, and I become stronger.

It can be called the representative of the cannibalistic stream.

Therefore, with such a Dao Lord present, his disciples, influenced by what they see and hear, also mostly use spells that devour all things, dissolve all things, and refine all things.

There's no way around this. In such a cruel and twisted world, you can't grow without doing this.

The spiritual energy is poisonous, the will of heaven is twisted, and the rules are fragmented. It can be said to be an extremely harsh environment. It's impossible to grow without doing this.

However, although it's like a demon, there are no demonic side effects.

Don't forget what the origin of the three great techniques is.

It's creation, it's Guixu (the primordial void), it's reincarnation.

These three are all origins, beginnings, and supreme essences.

Ordinary demonic techniques only devour and eat, not understanding digestion or how to resolve side effects.

Look at these three: creation, Guixu, and reincarnation. Which one doesn't completely and smoothly eat everything clean without any aftereffects?

Creation and reincarnation are inherently a kind of evolution of the great cycle of heaven and earth, even a kind of evolution of the cycle of Dao and Dharma. Strictly speaking, they are not tangible, but a kind of intangible concept.

Guixu is also like this. Everything in the concept returns to Guixu. No matter if you are delicious or unpalatable, even if you are poisonous, what does it matter? Everything returns to Guixu.

With these three great techniques as a guarantee, this is why Xuanhuang, including his disciples, has a somewhat demonic, devouring style.

It can only be said that it's caused by a specific environment and specific things.

If there were a perfect environment, Xuanhuang could create Dao techniques of pure tranquility and non-action, simply exhaling the old and inhaling the new.

Heaven and earth have spiritual intent, spiritual intent manifests purple energy, swallowing and spitting out spiritual energy to suppress purple energy, taking heaven and earth as the law, learning from heaven and earth, living in seclusion, and cultivating with a calm mind and spirit. How good would that be?

But isn't that what's missing?

Moreover, even the strange luck being refined is afraid of him. Isn't this a way of using evil to suppress evil?

The contest between Ji Zhongfu and the black mud jar was simply a competition of who could devour whom. It was that simple and direct, without any demeanor of a high-ranking person.

In the end, Ji Zhongfu was the better fighter. In addition, the black mud jar had just recovered, so it was naturally much weaker.

Thus, after being unable to hold on, Ji Zhongfu packed it up and took it away.

Although he was a little tired, he was very happy inside.

Not only did he win against a second-order strange being, but he also made a fortune. This second-order strange being was a treasure trove.

It was also an item-type strange being. Whether he sold it or refined it himself, it would be a significant opportunity for him.

Unfortunately, extreme joy breeds sorrow.

"Bang!"

Just then, a late-stage second-order strange being, instinctively avoiding being devoured by a stronger strange being, entered this area.

After discovering Ji Zhongfu, this broken sword strange being flashed a red light and slashed at Ji Zhongfu.

Ji Zhongfu's hair stood on end, at a moment of life-and-death crisis.

And it also carried a significant locking ability.

Originally, the locking ability, "must hit when slashed," was a very bizarre ability, but in this world, it was becoming commonplace.

The strange beings formed by the rules, with the rules as the essence, almost everyone, whether human or ghost, had this ability. It was outrageous.

It also reflected that this place was indeed very cruel.

Ji Zhongfu didn't even have time to summon the Void Blade. At this moment, his powerful willpower was the only key to resolving this "must hit when slashed."

He hadn't slacked off in tempering his willpower.

He mobilized all of his will to impact, and finally dodged this slash.

But the price was that one of his legs was cut off, and his four limbs directly became three.

"Mystic Master, save me!"

Ji Zhongfu rolled on the ground like a gourd. He didn't care about his demeanor anymore. Being able to dodge the previous slash had already exhausted all of his abilities.

And he still lost a leg.

"Waste!"

The Metal Element Master had been paying attention to this battlefield, especially this second-order battlefield.

There was no need to look at the first-order battlefield. With so many extraordinary cultivators present, there was no need to be afraid.

Moreover, the four great sect leaders were at the late stage of the first order, and there were also twenty or thirty experts at the mid-stage of the first order, plus nearly a thousand at the early stage of the Mystic Transformation realm. There was no way they could fail.

Even if there were a few strange beings who devoured their own kind and reached the peak of the first order, they could handle them.

There were plenty of methods for cultivators to deal with first-order strange beings.

The second order was different, because there was only Ji Zhongfu, and he couldn't achieve the effect of gathering into a forest. Therefore, there were almost no methods to deal with the second order.

The reason was very simple: how could you research methods to deal with this level if you hadn't reached that level?

"Whoosh!"

Ji Zhongfu, who was rolling on the ground like a gourd, was directly thrown out by the Metal Element Master.

"Bang!"

Ji Zhongfu hadn't recovered when he was smashed again. He fixed his eyes and saw that it was one of his thighs.

"Hiss!"

"How terrifying!"

The onlookers were greatly shocked. This was Ji Zhongfu, the number one expert.

He was actually thrown out so miserably and had one of his thighs cut off.

"The higher the level, the greater the gap between the early, middle, and late stages. When entering the realm, it's still possible to challenge those of a higher level. For example, a powerful early-stage cultivator can defeat a mid-stage cultivator, and a powerful mid-stage cultivator can defeat a late-stage cultivator, but..."

Seeing that everyone was shocked.

A cultivator who obviously knew more explained: "But, after the extraordinary Mystic Transformation, have you heard of anyone challenging those of a higher level? Have you seen an early-stage Mystic Transformation cultivator defeat a mid-stage Mystic Transformation cultivator? It's impossible. It depends on how much you comprehend the mysteries, not just on strength."

He continued: "And Senior Ji Zhongfu is fighting across levels at the second-order Mystic Transformation realm. Don't just see how miserable he is. I'm telling you, Senior Ji Zhongfu being able to save his life is already very strong, already a miracle. Moreover, these are strange beings, not fragile spirit masters, it's different."

"Yes, I've also heard of it."

"That's right, the clan elders said so."

"..."

The crowd was enlightened by what they said. Some of those who came from small places and didn't have clan or sect elders felt that they had broadened their horizons.

It turned out that wars at higher levels were so exaggerated.

It was impossible to challenge those of a higher level at all.

(End of this chapter)