1093: Chapter 1092 Dao Traces Soar

At the very instant Luo Xiu's sword pierced the giant turtle and his old strength was spent, a scarlet thin line, moving at extreme speed and carrying a thick scent of blood, silently attacked his temple from an angle!

It was another Early Stage Tier 5 Shadow-Kill Heroic Spirit that had been roaming the outskirts, waiting for its opportunity!

It had seized this split second when Luo Xiu was exhausted and catching his breath!

However, it was as if Luo Xiu had eyes in the back of his head.

With a sudden twist of his wrist, he manipulated the god-demon greatsword 'edge-less' still embedded in the giant turtle's body!

A strange spiral vibrating force traveled through the sword blade into the giant turtle's remains, detonating its energy which had not yet fully dissipated!

"Boom!"

The giant turtle's remains turned into a small-scale storm of earth and stone energy, temporarily obscuring vision and interfering with the Shadow-Kill Heroic Spirit's lock-on.

Simultaneously, Luo Xiu turned his left fist into a palm and, without even looking, struck backhanded toward the direction the scarlet thin line was coming from!

The edge of his palm was covered in condensed God-Demon Flame, like a red-hot branding iron.

"Pa!"

A soft sound echoed.

That scarlet thin line, fast as a phantom, was accurately struck by this palm, revealing the blurred and distorted true body of the Shadow-Kill Heroic Spirit.

It let out a sharp hiss, its body trembling violently as it tried to escape into the shadows, but the God-Demon Flame had already spread over it like maggots on a bone!

"Ah—!"

The Shadow-Kill Heroic Spirit only had time to let out a short, miserable scream before it was refined into a wisp of green smoke within the dark gold flames, leaving behind only a small, translucent shadow crystal core.

Another Early Stage Tier 5 killed!

From the moment Luo Xiu boldly charged into the fray until now, only three short exchanges had passed!

Three Early Stage Tier 5s and one Middle Stage Tier 5—four powerful Tier 5 Battlefield Heroic Spirits had been slain on the spot by his thunderous, ruthless, and decisive methods!

Between heaven and earth, aside from the hissing aftermath of energy annihilation, there was a dead silence.

The remaining Tier 5 Heroic Spirits, including the two strongest—the Golden Armored Axe King and the Platinum Giant Bird—all froze in mid-air, their golden pupils filled with boundless horror!

This being, clad in dark gold armor, wielding the edge-less heavy sword, and with fists burning with divine flames, was simply not something they could withstand!

His fighting style was crude, direct, and efficient, yet it was also so precise that it drove them to despair!

The joy and greed on the Spirit Emperor's face also froze for a moment, turning into an unprecedented solemnity.

It seemed it had still somewhat underestimated the terror of this 'treasure body'.

The god-demon greatsword 'edge-less' returned to its position, its tip pointing diagonally toward the ground. On its dull blade, dark gold patterns flowed slowly; having just devoured the spirits and Laws of four powerful Heroic Spirits, it appeared increasingly heavy and reserved.

Luo Xiu stood tall in mid-air. Although the light of the armor of gods and demons around him was still slightly dim and the cracks on his left shoulder were still slowly repairing,

the invisible Evil Qi and prestige brought by slaying the Four Kings in succession—especially the forceful killing of a Middle Stage Tier 5—made him look like a primordial God of War stepping out from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, making it impossible for anyone to look at him directly.

Without the slightest pause, he raised his left hand slightly. A flash of dark gold light appeared in his palm, generating a powerful suction force.

The four crystal cores floating in the air—the Shura Blood Crystal, the purple lightning crystal, the earthy yellow turtle shell crystal core, and the translucent shadow crystal core—instantly flew into his palm as if pulled by an invisible force.

This time, Luo Xiu did not refine them slowly as he had before.

Time was of the essence!

He suddenly clenched his palm!

"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The four crystal cores, containing the majority of the essence and Law insights of the Fifth-Rank Heroic Spirit Kings, were directly crushed by the terrifying force in his palm!

A stream of pure and violent energy erupted instantly, mixed with four distinct yet equally powerful Law fragments. Like wild horses breaking free from their reins, they were about to scatter and backlash!

But within Luo Xiu's body, that dark gold God-Demon Origin suddenly erupted!

A devouring force originating from Chaos and standing above all methods boomed from Luo Xiu's Dantian, traveling through his Meridians to reach his palm!

"Devour!"

With a low shout, those four violent and miscellaneous energy torrents were like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, forcibly pulled into Luo Xiu's body by this peerlessly powerful devouring force!

The God-Demon Flame circulated frantically within his Meridians, burning like the most efficient furnace to rapidly purify and refine the incoming energy!

The slaughter Sword Intent of the Shura, the explosive lightning of the thunderbird, the heavy earthen defense of the giant turtle, the treacherous stealth of the shadow-kill...

The various Law fragments were ruthlessly stripped and decomposed by the God-Demon Flame, leaving only the purest Origin energy and those Law imprints that could be compatible with and absorbed by Luo Xiu's own Great Dao.

Boom—!!!

The aura around Luo Xiu's body was like a calm lake surface into which a giant stone had been thrown, suddenly fluctuating and climbing violently!

The depletion caused by the continuous high-intensity combat, the use of great Divine Abilities, and the repair of the armor of gods and demons was restored at an astonishing speed under the replenishment of these four massive and pure energy sources!

His aura became vast and profound once more, appearing even heavier than it had at the start of the battle!

However, this was far from over!

Although the Laws of these Heroic Spirits mostly originated from the slaughter and obsession of this ancient battlefield and were not entirely consistent with Luo Xiu's Dao—some were even polar opposites—

in the face of the God-Demon Flame's almost 'overbearing' tempering and the 'all-encompassing' nature of the God-Demon Great Dao, any Law, as long as it contained traces of the 'Dao', had something that could be absorbed.

"Chichi chi..."

On the surface of Luo Xiu's body, the dark gold patterns of the armor of gods and demons seemed to become brighter and more complex.

Deep within his body, new, subtle traces of the 'Dao' were faintly being generated and interwoven.

dao marks!

Those were the internal manifestations of a cultivator's deepened understanding of the Laws of Heaven and Earth, the cornerstones for constructing one's own Great Dao!

For every additional dao mark, there would be a corresponding increase in the control over power, the understanding of the Great Dao, and the might of Divine Abilities!

Ordinary Tier 5 Powerhouses often required years of accumulation, bitter cultivation, and enlightenment just to condense a single dao mark.

For those with profound cultivation, adding even one was extremely difficult, taking as little as a few years or as long as a century!

But at this moment—

One, two, three... ten... fifty... one hundred...

The number of dao marks within Luo Xiu's body was increasing frantically at a jaw-dropping speed!

In just two or three breaths, they had increased by over a thousand!

Furthermore, while the speed of this increase had slowed down, it was still continuing!

The Law fragments and energy contained within the crystal cores of the four Tier 5 Heroic Spirits—especially since one was Middle Stage—were a massive supplement for Luo Xiu!

Not only did they replenish his consumption, but they also pushed forward the advancement of his own Great Dao!

This scene completely plunged the remaining Tier 5 Heroic Spirits, including the Golden Armored Axe King and the Platinum Giant Bird, into a boundless silence!

Their power had actually turned around to become the nourishment for their enemy's growth?!

And the Spirit Emperor, who had been watching coldly with a vast aura, finally could no longer maintain its composure on its dark gold crystal face!