79: Divine Sense Tree Upgrade

Second stop: Ruins of the Broken Temple.

Amidst the broken walls and ruins, the battle was fierce! Four thousand white Soul Spirits were not fighting chaotically, but were arranged in strict formations under the cold command of two blue commanders!

They advanced and retreated in an orderly fashion. As their Soul Power surged, they faintly formed a combined attack posture, with beams of pale light weaving into a net, their power far exceeding that of scattered soldiers!

"Heh, interesting, you even know how to train troops?" A cold, mocking smile curled the corners of Lin Yuan's mouth.

The chaos heavenly extreme sword chimed in response, and a nine-colored divine light suddenly erupted!

This time, he fiercely injected his comprehension of the Space Law into his sword move— "Space Shatter!"

The sword light swept across, and wherever it passed, things were not merely twisted, but—completely disintegrated!

Space was like a fragile glass mirror, emitting a heart-stopping "crack" sound as spiderweb-like pitch-black cracks instantly spread!

The entire ancient temple, along with the army of Soul Spirits arrayed within it, seemed to be gripped and ground by an invisible giant hand!

Rumble—! The ruins collapsed! The Soul Spirits were silently annihilated!

The two blue commanders only had time to show expressions of terror before being torn into the most primitive Soul Power dust within the shattered spatial turbulence!

[Killed Rank 1 white Soul Spirits x4000]

[Experience Points + 40 million]

[Killed Rank 1 green Soul Spirits x60]

[Experience Points + 6 million]

[Killed Rank 1 blue Soul Spirits x2]

[Experience Points + 2 million]

[Rank Up!]

[Current Rank: 2 (26 million / 100 million)]

[Divine Thought intensity: 200 Yu (Rank 2 divine sense tree)]

The moment he leveled up, Lin Yuan's Sea of Consciousness shook violently! That towering divine sense tree suddenly shot upwards, reaching 2000 kilometers!

Its branches and leaves grew wildly, blocking out the sky and sun. The patterns of Time, Space, and Devouring Law flowing on every leaf became incredibly clear and solid!

The three rays of Law light converged and collided at the treetop, erupting with even more tyrannical pressure!

"Power... is boiling!" Feeling the brand new power surging within his body, the Battle Intent in Lin Yuan's eyes burned like fire, blazing intensely!

Third stop: Soul-Splitting Canyon.

The terrain was treacherous, and three armies of Soul Spirits were in the midst of a chaotic battle! Over seven thousand Soul Spirits were divided into three factions, clashing fiercely in the narrow valley passages and on the jagged rock walls.

What was even more striking was that the blue commanders leading them not only knew how to form formations but even utilized the terrain to set ambushes, divide, and outflank, demonstrating extremely skillful tactical application!

"Their intelligence has reached this level?" Lin Yuan's pupils in the shadows constricted slightly, then he turned into a bolt of lightning, "No time to play military strategy with you!"

"Devour of Time and Space!"

Driven by his upgraded Divine Thought, the power of the three-colored wheel skyrocketed! An invisible prison of time and space instantly enveloped the entire canyon! Time stagnated, space twisted!

Whether it was the charging white tide, the cunning green elites, or the blue commanders planning strategies, all were frozen, then silently disintegrated and vanished into nothingness within the twisted force field!

[Killed Rank 1 white Soul Spirits x7000]

[Experience Points + 70 million]

[Killed Rank 1 green Soul Spirits x110]

[Experience Points + 11 million]

[Killed Rank 1 blue Soul Spirits x3]

[Experience Points + 3 million]

[Rank Up!]

[Current Rank: 3 (10 million / 100 million)]

[Divine Thought intensity: 300 Yu]

The pleasure of leveling up twice in a row had not yet subsided— Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A sudden change occurred! The earth shook crazily as if a giant beast were turning over! Five incomparably thick purple beams of light, emitting terrifying pressure, rose from the ground from five completely different positions like spears of heavenly punishment, piercing straight into the sky!

As soon as the beams of light appeared, they formed a perfect encircling and strangling posture, contracting and squeezing toward Lin Yuan's location at an astonishing speed!

Hum—! The air instantly became as thick as glue, and the heavy pressure made breathing stifled! A purple halo spread out, carrying a coldness and greed that made one's Soul tremble!

[Rank 1 Purple Soul Spirit x5]

[combat power: 1000 Yu / each]

[Commanding blue Soul Spirits x200+]

"I've been set up?!" A warning alarm blared in Lin Yuan's heart! His 300 Yu Divine Thought instantly spread out, and the scan results made him gasp!

This was by no means a coincidence! The five Purple Soul Spirits were echoing each other, coordinating exquisitely, and had clearly set up an inescapable net! Behind each Purple Soul Spirit followed more than forty blue commanders with cold gazes! And under each blue commander, they were commanding hundreds of murderous green Soul Spirits!

An unprecedentedly large, strictly ranked, and well-trained army of Soul Spirits was rolling in from all directions like a black tide of death! The horizon at the edge of his vision had been completely submerged by the ghostly light of the Soul Spirits!

Five purple shadows hung in mid-air, their hideous forms all different:

One had hideous bone spurs on its back, fangs exposed, shaped like an abyss demon!

One had three heads and six arms, holding illusory weapons, with Evil Qi soaring to the sky, like an Asura descending into the world!

Even more extreme, one was wrapped in eerie airflow chains as black as ink, and at the other end of the chains, it was tightly binding dozens of blue commanders with numb eyes who had been completely enslaved!

Deep within their cold pupils, without exception, flickered greedy and crazy purple Soul fires!

"Human... de... vour..." A hoarse, overlapping voice filled with endless desire sounded directly in the depths of Lin Yuan's Soul like a bone-scraping steel knife!

"Want to eat me?" Lin Yuan laughed in extreme anger. The chaos heavenly extreme sword in his hand felt the unprecedented pressure of a strong enemy; far from being afraid, it erupted with a clanging sword chime of maniacal excitement! "Then let's see whose teeth break first!"

"Devour of Time and Space—Full Power!"

1912.95 Yu of combat power was poured in without reservation! The three-colored wheel between his brows spun crazily at an unprecedented speed! This time, the power of time and space was no longer twisting, but folding! Compressing!

The space to Lin Yuan's right was fiercely gripped and crushed by an invisible giant hand! The army of Soul Spirits in that area, whether green, blue, or even the closest Purple Soul Spirit, didn't even have time to react before they were ground into the finest Soul Power dust in this extreme spatial collapse!

[Killed Rank 1 green Soul Spirits x300]

[Experience Points + 30 million]

[Killed Rank 1 blue Soul Spirits x30]

[Experience Points + 30 million]

[Killed Rank 1 Purple Soul Spirit x1]

[Experience Points + 10 million]

[Current Experience: 80 million / 100 million]

One strike achieved success, annihilating countless enemies! But Lin Yuan's face turned slightly pale. Continuously unleashing his strongest killing move, especially the Devour of Time and Space which had doubled in power after the upgrade, caused a terrifying consumption of the divine sense tree's Law power! A slight sense of emptiness came from his Sea of Consciousness.

"The consumption is too great! I must develop more efficient killing methods!" The thought flashed by like lightning.

Seeing the remaining four Purple Soul Spirits roaring in anger, commanding an even more violent tide of Soul Spirits to surge toward him, Lin Yuan's eyes sharpened. Without hesitation, he crushed the item that had just dropped from the killed Purple Soul Spirit—a Random Teleportation Talisman!

Swish! Blinding white light instantly enveloped his entire body, and spatial fluctuations rippled violently! Before the countless Soul Spirits could roar in anger and lock on with their purple Soul fires, Lin Yuan's figure had already vanished into thin air!

Fourth stop: Breath-Concealing Mist Valley.

The white light dissipated, and Lin Yuan appeared in a quiet valley. This place was surprisingly not covered by the scarlet Blood Moon; instead, thin grayish-white mist drifted about, not only isolating detection but also perfectly concealing his aura.

"Hoo..." Lin Yuan let out a long breath, and his tensed nerves relaxed slightly. After scanning the surroundings with his Divine Thought to confirm it was safe, he sat cross-legged on a large rock covered in slippery moss and began to count his thrilling gains for the day:

Killed 1 Purple Soul Spirit + 36 blue Soul Spirits: Dropped 1 blue soul crystal + 12 blue soul crystals.

Consumed: Random Teleportation Talisman x1.

"Drop rate... about thirty percent." Lin Yuan weighed the thumb-sized Soul crystal in his hand, inside which liquid purple flames seemed to flow.

The energy fluctuations emitted by the crystal caused the surrounding mist to twist slightly. He rubbed the smooth crystal surface, and a thoughtful light flashed in his eyes: "Could that 30 points of Luck obtained from the Extreme Realm Baptism... actually influence this drop rate?"

Nine Nether Emperor had just gone through a fierce battle, paying the price of a minor injury to arduously take down a medium-sized nest possessing two Purple Soul Spirits and fifty blue Soul Spirits.

Looking at the five blue soul crystals he had obtained with great effort, this usually cold Prodigy couldn't help but show a trace of a tired yet satisfied smile on his face: "Five! Haha, this harvest is not bad!"

If he were to know of the terrifying drop rate where Lin Yuan had killed thirty-six blue Soul Spirits and obtained twelve blue soul crystals, I fear this smile would instantly freeze on his face, then turn into a monstrous fire of jealousy—a three-fold difference!

This Heaven-Defying Luck was perhaps exactly that ethereal yet truly existing 30 points of Luck, playing a role in the dark.

The mist in the valley was dense. Before Lin Yuan, twelve deep blue soul crystals, like stars surrounding the moon, circled the treasure in the center that contained inner brilliance and flowed with purple flames.

His mind settled, and he communicated with the System: "Open the Soul crystal store!"

A blood-colored light screen with dark gold runes flowing on its edges, emitting an ancient and vast aura, unfolded before his eyes. In the center of the light screen, phantoms of various items were displayed, and the words "Rank 1 Soul Crystal Exchange Zone" in ancient seal script hung high above it.

Lin Yuan's gaze was like lightning; he did not hesitate at all. His mind locked onto the target, confirm!

Hum! Eleven blue soul crystals and that precious purple Soul crystal instantly turned into a dozen streams of light, submerging into the blood-colored light screen!

[Exchange Successful!]

[Obtained: Low Grade Spiritual Artifact fragment x2]

[Obtained: Medium Grade Spiritual Artifact fragment x1]

[Obtained: High Grade Spiritual Artifact fragment x1]

[chaos heavenly extreme sword—Beginning Devour!]