173: Heart-Piercing Tiger
His old man is in the Divine Power Realm, so this guy dares to be so arrogant?
Zhang Sheng sneered, "I am Lin Jin of the Swift Wind Mansion, a man who doesn't hide his name!"
"Fine, Lin Jin, right? This young master will remember you!" Tian Yang gritted his teeth and said.
At this moment, a guard beside Tian Yang quietly sent a transmission:
"Young Master, this kid was scared witless by the Mansion Master's title. Why not make him hand over his storage ring too? He might be hiding some private goods!"
"Makes sense! Handing over the beast cores so readily, there's definitely something fishy!" Tian Yang's mind turned, and his eyes suddenly became sinister.
"Lin Jin! I almost let you slip away! Hand over your storage ring for this young master to inspect!
If there are no other beast cores, it won't be too late to return it to you!"
Zhang Sheng was amused by this idiot and sneered, "Heh, lighting a lamp in a latrine—you're looking for shit (death)!"
With a single thought, hundreds of max-spec Moon Blades instantly erupted!
In the last instant before Tian Yang's consciousness dissipated, he only saw a flash of lethal silver cold light!
The Moon Slash Spell, tempered by the Metal Element Tribulation, had never disappointed Zhang Sheng with its max-spec Moon Blades!
The four True Embryo Realm guards reacted a fraction faster, their True Embryo phantoms instantly expanding!
Unfortunately, except for the guard who specialized in Earth Element and managed to hold on for a split second, the other three, along with Tian Yang, were instantly shredded by the Moon Blades!
What Zhang Sheng didn't notice was that at the moment of Tian Yang's death, a bead worn around his neck shattered silently—not hit by a Moon Blade, but disintegrating of its own accord.
The expensive second-grade supreme-grade spirit armor on his body was also as fragile as paper before the sharp Metal Qi contained in the Moon Blades!
At this moment, tens of millions of miles away, on the front lines of the War of Opening.
A middle-aged man in the middle of a fierce battle—Tiger—suddenly felt a sharp pang in his heart!
The wisp of protective Mental Energy left with his only son... had disappeared?!
He abruptly took out a gray bead from his storage ring and crushed it without hesitation!
A scene instantly unfolded: in the image, a man dressed in black profound robes proudly declared:
"I am Lin Jin, a man who doesn't hide his name!"
Immediately after, several cold blade lights flashed... "Lin Jin! You dare kill my son!!" Tiger's eyes nearly split from rage as his roar shook the sky, "I will tear you into ten thousand pieces!!"
A companion beside him shouted urgently: "Heart-Gouging Tiger! Stay steady! This Desolate Snake is no pushover, don't get distracted!"
"Heart-Gouging Tiger" was the fierce name Tiger had earned on the divine ability ranking, his "Black Tiger Heart-Gouging" Divine Ability having defeated countless enemies.
Currently, several of them were joining forces to surround and kill a powerful Divine Power Realm Desolate Snake!
"Sen! My son... has been killed!" Tiger's voice was filled with grief and indignation.
Sen patted his shoulder heavily: "Kill this beast first! I'll help you investigate afterward! Besides, I'll give you another twelve beauties! You're still young, no need to worry about having no successor!"
...Zhang Sheng quickly collected the storage rings of the group, and a few Fireball Techniques burned the remains to ashes.
Then he summoned a flying boat and steered it northward at high speed.
He couldn't wait to open Tian Yang's storage ring—
Whoa! Low Grade spirit crystals piled up like a mountain!
There was even a small pile of spirit crystals stored separately. Taking one out, it felt heavy in his hand, ten times the weight of an ordinary spirit crystal!
"Could it be..." Zhang Sheng's Divine Sense probed in, and his heart skipped a beat, "Medium Grade spirit crystals!"
Although he knew Medium Grade spirit crystals existed, this was the first time he had personally held one.
One Medium Grade spirit crystal could be exchanged for a hundred Low Grade ones! With a rough sweep of his Divine Sense, the total value of the crystals in Tian Yang's storage ring was equivalent to over a hundred million Low Grade ones!
"As expected of a young mansion master, with a Divine Power Realm old man, he's damn rich!" Zhang Sheng sighed inwardly.
Besides the spirit crystals, he searched carefully and found an Earth Rank embryo condensation method.
"With a father on the divine ability ranking, he can't even get a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique? The blockade of high-end resources by major powers is truly reaching an outrageous level!"
Zhang Sheng transferred the massive amount of spirit crystals and all the beast cores into his own storage ring. Other miscellaneous items, along with the second-grade supreme-grade spirit armor damaged by the Moon Blades—what a pity—
He stuffed them back into Tian Yang's storage ring and buried it deep inside a mountain below—just in case there was some tracking mark hidden inside!
After flying for a distance, Zhang Sheng decisively put away the flying boat, changed direction, and flew east with all his might.
Along the way, he continued to hunt stray Desolate Beasts. He used the Flight Technique instead of Mental Energy for propulsion and only used Moon Slash to kill enemies.
"Spell: Flight Technique · First Grade (Perfected State: 115.024%)"
"Spell: Moon Slash · Second Grade (Perfected State: 100.05%)"
Zhang Sheng looked forward to them evolving into the "True Intent Realm."
The progress of the Flight Technique was pleasing, but Moon Slash was frustratingly slow; it likely wouldn't break through in the short term.
"Perhaps... it's because Moon Slash is a second-grade Spell?" He pondered to himself... "Sen, is there someone named 'Lin Jin' in the Swift Wind Mansion?" Right after killing the Desolate Snake together, Tiger asked impatiently.
Sen frowned: "Heart-Gouging Tiger, the Swift Wind Mansion is just a New Prefecture that ascended ten years ago. It collapsed a few days ago, so it'll be troublesome to check."
"Dammit!" Tiger roared, then thought of a key point,
"No! That Lin Jin's strength far exceeds an ordinary True Embryo; he's definitely not a nobody!
Sen, help me check the list of all True Embryo Realm Cultivators before the Swift Wind Mansion collapsed! The person who killed my son used extremely sharp light-blade-type methods!"
He never even considered that someone could train a Metal-element spell to the Perfected State and instantly shatter a second-grade supreme-grade spirit armor!
"Don't worry, I, Sen, never go back on my word for what I've promised you!" Sen nodded in agreement. "The Swift Wind Mansion just scattered; those True Embryo Realm Cultivators shouldn't have run far yet."
A murderous light burst from Tiger's eyes: "You mean... rather kill by mistake than let them go?!"
The two of them pulled out communication jade slips at the same time.
Several True Embryo Realm experts, and even two Divine Power Realm powerhouses, began to converge toward Heavenly Injury City!
...Traveling east and continuously slaying Desolate Beasts, Zhang Sheng suddenly realized a problem.
Even True Embryo Realm Desolate Beasts couldn't last a single round against him.
In his storage ring, Desolate Beast corpses were piled like mountains, and he had accumulated hundreds of beast cores. With plenty of spirit crystals, he didn't plan to sell these resources for now, keeping them for future use.
"The current question is... how far is my strength from the Divine Power Realm? Can I deal with the weakest Divine Power Realm?" Zhang Sheng assessed silently.
Crossing Realms to kill a True Embryo from the Divine Breath Realm isn't too difficult for a Genius.
But a True Embryo Realm wanting to reverse-slay a Divine Power practitioner? It's as hard as reaching the heavens!
The Divine Power Realm is a qualitative change in the level of life! Strength, speed, and total spiritual power all undergo a fundamental leap.
The core of it is that unique 'Divine Ability'!
Once a Divine Ability is unleashed, no one below the Divine Power Realm can resist! The name of this Realm originates from this!
However,
Just as his Divine Sense sank into the omniscient jade slip to check the news.
The corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.
"I didn't expect that before even going to the front lines to participate in the War of Opening, I'd already made it onto the fledgling tiger ranking!"