103: I'm about to break through to the Martial King realm!

Boom!!!

A pitch-black vortex over three zhang in diameter suddenly emerged in front of Lin Fan!

The center of the vortex seemed to connect to an endless abyss!

The Soul whip shadows, capable of wounding a Martial King's Divine Soul, and the vengeful Death Qi, capable of corroding a Martial King's Physical Body, were like snow meeting boiling oil the moment they touched the pitch-black vortex. They dissolved and collapsed frantically before being brutally dragged into the vortex by that terrifying devouring force and swallowed into Lin Fan's body!

“Ugh, ah!!!”

Lin Fan let out a muffled groan, his face instantly turning pale. A layer of greyish-dark Death Qi emerged on his body's surface, and even his eye sockets faintly glowed with an eerie blue!

Swallowing such a massive and pure amount of Soul attacks and Death Qi placed a huge burden on him, even with the Devouring Heaven Demonic Art!

But in the next moment!

The Devouring Heaven Demonic Art operated frantically!

The golden blood and Qi of the Heaven Opening Sacred Elephant Body erupted with a bang, working with the Cultivation Technique to forcibly suppress and refine the invading Soul power and Death Qi!

The greyish-dark Death Qi was dispelled, and the eerie blue in his eye sockets quickly receded!

In its place, deep within Lin Fan's pupils, a more condensed golden Divine Soul light flashed by, and his overall Aura faintly strengthened!

He... actually treated his enemy's killing move as a tonic and swallowed it whole!

He even digested it!

“Tastes decent,” Lin Fan licked the corner of his mouth. Although his face was still somewhat pale, his eyes were frighteningly bright. “It's just a bit tough on the teeth.”

“Is there any more?”

The Soulfire of the Whip Commander was no longer just filled with anger, but... fear!

What kind of monster is this?!

Swallowing Souls? Swallowing Death Qi?!

“You... you're not human... you're a devil!!!” It let out a terrified Soul shriek and actually took a step back!

“A devil?” Lin Fan grinned and snapped his faceplate shut again, his dark purple electronic eyes locking onto the opponent.

“Then you should see...”

“What a real devil looks like.”

As his voice fell.

Lin Fan's figure vanished!

Teleportation!

Activating his Space Affinity talent, combined with the spatial jump of the asura armor, his speed was nearly thirty percent faster than before!

The Whip Commander only felt a blur before its eyes, and that dark purple demon-god figure had already appeared above its head!

The asura purgatory halberd carried the judgment power of the Heaven-Opening Fist Intent, as well as... a newly integrated Demonic Technique Aura that devoured all things!

It slashed down with a boom!

“Nine Styles of the Martial God, Opening the Heavens—Devouring Heaven Revision!”

With one halberd strike, space cracked and all things were devoured!

The Whip Commander frantically swung its long whip to block, its Soulfire burning to the limit!

But... Rrrrip!!!

The long whip was severed by the halberd blade!

The halberd's light continued unabated, splitting this Blackbone Clan commander—along with its incredibly tough skeletal body—in two from head to toe!

At the point of the cut, no bone fragments flew out.

Because all the skeletal essence and Soulfire energy had been sucked dry by that terrifying devouring force the moment they touched the halberd blade!

Two pieces of dry, withered bone fell powerlessly to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The Soulfire was completely extinguished.

【Ding! Slain a Blackbone Clan Martial King Commander and devoured all its essence, prestige value +4000!】

【Current prestige value: 39,570 points!】

Almost simultaneously.

Two shrill Soul wails came from the other side.

Qiongqi bit through the Shield and Spear Commander's bone shield in one mouthful, its sharp claws tore open the commander's chest, pulled out that ball of deep blue Soulfire, and swallowed it!

As for the Archer Commander, its upper body was smashed by Qiongqi's bone wings, and its remaining Soulfire was sucked into Qiongqi's mouth with a "slurp" like jelly.

Two great commanders had fallen!

The three commanders' ambush was instead countered by Lin Fan and Qiongqi, and within ten minutes, all were killed!

Moreover, they were the kind that was devoured completely clean!

On the battlefield, the remaining Blackbone warriors' Soulfire trembled. Having lost their commanders' leadership and suppression, their meager intelligence was overwhelmed by fear, and they began to scatter and flee!

Lin Fan did not pursue them.

He stood in place, feeling the surging power within his body.

The Devouring Heaven Demonic Art had refined parts of the three commanders' essence (most of which was snatched by Qiongqi...), allowing his cultivation to solidify even further on the foundation of Peak Martial Ancestor Great Perfection, even faintly touching that Martial King barrier!

More importantly, his resistance to and understanding of the Law of Death and Soul power had increased by a large margin!

“I'm only one opportunity away... from Martial King.”

Lin Fan clenched his fist, his gaze sharp.

He looked toward the towering altar in the city where a massive eerie blue Soulfire burned.

“Soulfire Altar... the energy gathered there should be enough for me...”

“To Breakthrough, right?”

He waved his hand, dismissing the personal guards' defensive Formation.

“Enter the city. Target: Soulfire Altar.”

“Kill anyone who blocks the way.”

“Yes!!!” The five hundred personal guards roared in unison, their Aura like a rainbow!

They had personally witnessed Lin Fan's demon-god-like combat power; at this moment, their loyalty and adoration had reached the Peak!

This team was like an unsheathed blade, following closely behind Lin Fan as they boldly charged toward the altar burning with eerie blue flames in the center of Broken Bone City!

They were invincible!

【Ding! Quickly breached the West Gate, killed three commanders, and awed the entire army, prestige value +5000!】

【Current prestige value: 44,570 points!】

...Soulfire Altar.

When Lin Fan led his unit to arrive first, the other three routes of the Blood-Clad Guard hadn't even finished clearing the enemies in their respective directions.

The altar was thirty zhang high, built entirely of a pitch-black "Soul Stone," its surface carved with countless twisted runes.

At the top of the altar, a ball of eerie blue Soulfire over three zhang in diameter burned fiercely, emitting cold and powerful Soul fluctuations that faintly drew in the Death Qi of the entire Broken Bone City.

Below the altar, the last few hundred Blackbone Clan elites were gathered, along with... an elderly Blackbone Clan member wearing tattered black robes, with a hunched figure, holding a bone staff, and possessing pale purple Soulfire!

Its Aura had impressively reached... the Peak of Mid Martial King!

It had even faintly touched the threshold of Late Martial King!

“Humans... you dare... desecrate my clan's Holy Land...”

The black-robed elder raised its head, its pale purple Soulfire locking onto Lin Fan as it slammed its bone staff onto the ground!

Boom!!!

The Death Qi of the entire altar area converged frantically, forming a massive greyish-white Domain that enveloped Lin Fan and his guards!

Within the Domain, gravity increased drastically, Death Qi eroded everything, and countless vengeful Soul phantoms shrieked, frantically battering everyone's Divine Soul!

“It's the Blackbone Clan High Priest!” The Bloodblade Thousand-man Commander, who had arrived from behind, changed expression. “It's burning its Soulfire and using the power of the altar; the Domain's power is already close to Late Martial King! Commander Lin, retreat quickly and wait for us to regroup...”

Before he could finish his sentence.

In the center of the Domain, that dark purple demon-god figure slowly raised its head.

Under the asura faceplate, those electronic eyes calmly watched the Soulfire atop the altar and the High Priest.

Then, Lin Fan said something that stunned everyone:

“This fire...”

“Looks quite warm.”

“Let me warm my hands.”

Having said that, under the horrified gazes of Bloodblade and the others.

Lin Fan actually took the initiative... to dispel the asura armor around him!

With his Physical Body of flesh and blood, he exposed himself to the terrifying Death Qi Domain that could even erode a Mid Martial King!

At the same time, his hands formed an ancient and eerie seal.

Around his body, pitch-black Devilish Qi erupted with a bang!

The Devouring Heaven Demonic Art was operating at full power!

“Demonic Art Devouring the Heavens...”

Lin Fan looked up at the massive eerie blue Soulfire at the top of the altar, a flash of madness in his eyes.

“For me...”

“Devour it!!!”

BOOM!!!!

A terrifying vortex ten times larger than before, pitch-black like an abyss as if it could swallow the entire world, exploded outward with Lin Fan as the center!

The vortex spun frantically, erupting with an irresistible devouring force, its target aimed directly at... the eerie blue Soulfire atop the Soulfire Altar, which had burned for countless years and condensed the Death Qi and Soul essence of the entire Broken Bone City and the surrounding hundred miles!!!

【Ding! Attempting to devour the altar's Soulfire, utterly insane, prestige value +6000!】

【Current prestige value: 50,570 points!】