82: Combat power exceeding 10,000 feathers

Over the next ten days, Lin Yuan became like a precision killing machine, launching a high-efficiency hunting operation within the blood-colored Secret Realm. Utilizing his advantage in Divine Thought, he specifically sought out Soul Spirit groups commanded by Purple Soul Spirits. Every move was meticulously calculated to ensure maximum gain with minimum consumption.

On the third day, he discovered a massive Soul Spirit army led by three Purple Soul Spirits in a basin. This time, Lin Yuan did not directly use the highly taxing Devour of Time and Space. Instead, he attempted to integrate Space Law into his ordinary sword strikes. Standing on the rocky wall at the edge of the basin, he looked down at the dense swarm of Soul Spirits below, his mind rapidly calculating the optimal angle of attack.

“Space Folding Slash!”

The chaos heavenly extreme sword traced a profound trajectory. Wherever the sword light passed, space underwent a bizarre folding effect. Soul Spirits in the distance clearly saw the sword light still a hundred meters away, yet in the next instant, they found themselves sliced in half at the waist. This move consumed only one-third of the energy required for Devour of Time and Space, but it was more than enough to deal with ordinary Soul Spirits. Continuous shrieks of Soul Spirits immediately echoed throughout the basin as purple and blue Soul Power light spots rose like swarms of fireflies.

【Killed Rank 1 Purple Soul Spirit x3】

[Experience Points +30 Million]

[Obtained: Purple Soul Crystal x1]

【Killed Rank 1 Blue Soul Spirit x68】

[Experience Points +68 Million]

【Killed Rank 1 Green Soul Spirit x360】

[Experience Points +36 Million]

On the seventh day, Lin Yuan encountered a Soul Spirit legion of unprecedented scale—eight Purple Soul Spirits leading over five hundred Blue Soul Spirits and thousands of Green Soul Spirits. They were arranged in a tight battle formation, patrolling the ruins of an ancient battlefield. Lin Yuan lurked on a broken wall high within the ruins, observing the movement patterns of this legion.

“The coordination of three Laws...” he muttered to himself, his eyes flashing with excitement. This time, he attempted a completely new combat style: first using Time Law to slow the movements of the frontmost Soul Spirits, then using Devouring Law to form a black-hole-like vortex to absorb the Soul Spirits in the rear, and finally sealing off any escape routes with Space Law, supplemented by Soul Destruction Slash to increase the efficiency of the kills!

The coordination of the three Laws worked surprisingly well. When the last Purple Soul Spirit was ground to pieces by the sword light in despair, Lin Yuan's Rank had already risen to Level 20. The divine sense tree in his Sea of Consciousness grew wildly, and the prototype of a second Law Leaf began to condense on the new branches. As his combat power increased, Lin Yuan also accelerated his efficiency, continuously advancing deeper into the Secret Realm!

On the tenth day, just as Lin Yuan finished clearing the seventh wave of Soul Spirits in an ancient battlefield ruin, the System prompt sounded once again:

[Rank Up!]

[Current Rank: 30 (50 Million / 100 Million)]

[Divine Thought Intensity: 3,000 Yu (Level 30 divine sense tree)]

The divine sense tree in his Sea of Consciousness had grown to thirty million meters high, lush with foliage, its canopy almost bursting through the dome of his Sea of Consciousness. The few visible Law Leaves actually appeared tiny on such a massive divine sense tree, like a few tender buds on a towering giant tree.

Looking at the mountain of Blue and Purple Soul Crystals piled in his storage space, Lin Yuan chose to exchange them for Spiritual Qi fragments for the chaos heavenly extreme sword to devour. Under the System's conversion, the Soul Crystals turned into flowing light and merged into the sword body. The purple patterns on the blade became increasingly clear, eventually forming complete Law Runes.

【chaos heavenly extreme sword Devouring Complete】

[Current combat power Bonus: 2,200 Yu]

Lin Yuan inspected his status:

Base Divine Thought Intensity: 3,000 Yu

Devour of Time and Space Bonus: 3,000 × 3 = 9,000 Yu

chaos heavenly extreme sword Bonus: 2,200 Yu

Other Bonuses: 100 + 112.95 = 212.95 Yu

Strongest combat power: 11,412.95 Yu

Such strength was already enough to crush all Rank 1 Soul Spirits. Lin Yuan even began to consider whether to re-explore that mysterious cave containing the Rank 2 Red Soul Spirit. He clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body, a sense of unprecedented confidence rising in his chest.

Just as he was immersed in the pleasure of his exploding strength, an abnormal signal was suddenly captured at the edge of his Divine Thought. It felt like a drop of ice water falling into boiling oil, causing Lin Yuan to snap into alertness. He frowned and immediately focused his Divine Thought to investigate that direction.

About ten kilometers away, an entirely azure humanoid creature was approaching him at an astonishing speed. The creature had a humanoid silhouette, but its body was covered in a liquid-like blue aura, and its face had only a pair of eyes emitting a cold blue light. Most unsettlingly, with every step it took, the earth beneath its feet would condense into blue ice crystals, out of which blood-colored flowers would rapidly bloom and then instantly wither. This phenomenon of alternating life and death sent a chill down Lin Yuan's spine.

【Rank 2 Blue Soul Spirit】

[combat power: 5,000 Yu]

[Traits: Extreme Cold Domain, Soul Power Corrosion]

Lin Yuan's pupils constricted. A Rank 2 Soul Spirit! And it was humanoid! This was different from every Soul Spirit he had encountered before. The blue humanoid Soul Spirit seemed to have sensed Lin Yuan's investigation and suddenly accelerated. Each of its steps crossed hundreds of meters, and within a few breaths, it had come within a thousand meters of Lin Yuan.

Regarding this suddenly appearing humanoid Soul Spirit, Lin Yuan realized he might have stepped into the territory of a Rank 2 Soul Spirit. However, Lin Yuan did not retreat; at the very least, he could still easily kill this Rank 2 Blue Soul Spirit.

“Human... delicious...” A hoarse, cold voice rang directly in Lin Yuan's mind, carrying a bone-chilling coldness. That voice did not travel through the air but acted directly upon the Soul, causing Lin Yuan's divine sense tree to tremble slightly.

“Soul Destruction Slash!”

Lin Yuan pressed his fingers together, and the chaos heavenly extreme sword shot out in response, turning into a purple-gold stream of light that tore through the sky. The new blood-colored crystal ring on the sword blade suddenly lit up with a demonic light, as if countless tiny eyes had opened.

The powers of the three Laws intertwined and wound around the tip of the sword. Space, Time, and Devouring powers merged perfectly, forming a Sword Qi that could destroy anything in its path.

“Chiii—”

The Sword Qi accurately hit the chest of the blue humanoid Soul Spirit, making a sound like a hot iron entering water. Blue Thirteen let out a shrill, non-human scream as a bowl-sized hole was pierced through its chest.

Even more terrifyingly, the Soul body at the edges of the hole was being continuously eroded by the three Law powers—Space power tearing, Time power accelerating decay, and Devouring power consuming Soul Power. The wound expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The liquid blue light on its body fluctuated violently, like boiling mercury. The ice crystal Domain condensed beneath its feet shattered with a “crack,” and those blood-colored flowers that had just bloomed instantly withered into ash. The temperature within a hundred-meter radius rose sharply, and the frost on the crimson sand turned into wisps of white mist.

【Triggered Soul Devouring Effect】

[Target combat power decreased by 10%]

[Current combat power: 4,500 Yu]

As the System prompt rang in Lin Yuan's mind, his right hand formed a seal, and his second sword strike was already launched. This strike was even more fierce, the sword light splitting into nine paths, sealing off all of Blue Thirteen's evasion routes. Just as the sword light was about to hit, something unexpected by Lin Yuan happened—

“Lord, have mercy!”

Blue Thirteen suddenly fell to its knees, its two liquid arms hitting the scorching sand with a “thud,” and its forehead slammed down heavily. This movement worsened the injury on its chest, Soul Power flowing out like blood, but it did not dare to move an inch.

The nine paths of sword light came to a sudden halt just an inch above its head. The gale stirred by the Sword Qi directly leveled the several-meter-high sand dunes behind it, and the red sand filled the air, drifting like a mist of blood.