174: Another promotion to the King level?

In the middle of the night, Lin Chuan was about to sleep when he was suddenly disturbed by a faint, indistinct summons.

"Damn it, who is so inconsiderate this late at night?"

Lin Chuan cursed. It certainly wouldn't be the Xuanming Guards, which left only a few possibilities.

He sank into his consciousness to check, and sure enough, it was the bone blade belonging to the Demon God Cult.

Lin Chuan hadn't had time to deal with it before, but now was the perfect time to see what kind of tricks they were up to... Inside the underground palace, candles burned all around, releasing an unknown, eerie fragrance.

The bone blade was placed upon the altar, four eye sockets wide open in rage, and the fifth one looked ready to open soon.

He hadn't expected that these eyes were not just decoration; they provided Lin Chuan with a 360-degree, all-encompassing view.

Around the altar, dozens of Men in Black were prostrate. There were also several large iron cages confining Yao Beasts.

At the very front was the Black-Clothed Chief Priest.

The Chief Priest was bound all over, struggling constantly.

"The hour has arrived. Begin."

At this moment, a refined man in a red robe walked out from the shadows.

Setting aside the current scene, he looked quite respectable and righteous.

"Lord Bishop, I haven't killed Lin Chuan yet, I cannot die!"

The Black-Clothed Chief Priest roared.

"This Seat gave you a chance, but you proved useless..."

The Red-robed Bishop said indifferently.

Then, a group of cultists holding sharp blades stepped forward and slit the throats of the Men in Black who were prostrate on the ground.

They allowed the fresh blood to flow along the grooves surrounding the altar, spreading outward.

However, they temporarily did not lay hands on the Black-Clothed Chief Priest, as if the main course was being saved for last.

"As long as you give me a chance to advance to the King rank, I can definitely kill him."

The Chief Priest said frantically.

"King rank... Heh heh, the King rank will come, you'll see it soon." The Red-robed Bishop spoke meaningfully, then continued, "However, This Seat is very curious, why are you so determined to kill Lin Chuan? What exactly did he do to you?"

Lin Chuan also wanted to ask: *What the heck? Did I dig up your ancestral grave or something?*

All he did was snatch some Spirit Stones, crystal cores, and demon god pills... That small amount of resources wasn't even enough for Old Hei to have a single meal now.

However, what Lin Chuan didn't know was that if he hadn't raided the treasury first, delaying the Chief Priest's time, and even hitting him with a single [Soul Spike], the Chief Priest definitely wouldn't be so miserable now. At the very least, he wouldn't have easily lost two of his contracted beasts while escaping.

Everything was a chain reaction.

The Chief Priest remained silent. His mind had long since collapsed, and his only remaining belief was to kill Lin Chuan.

Perhaps, the moment he saw on the screen that Lin Chuan was not dead but thriving, he had already died, leaving behind only a walking corpse.

"Forget it. Your current state makes you the perfect tonic. If you had actually succeeded, your Soul would have been less flavorful."

Saying this, the Red-robed Bishop waved his hand, directly tossing the Chief Priest onto the altar.

"blade spirit, the sacrifice has been offered. Begin feeding!"

Immediately after, the bone blade shot straight up and plunged directly into the Chief Priest's heart.

"Holy crap!"

Lin Chuan was startled by the sight. He hadn't given the bone blade any instructions; everything was its instinct.

This was the first time he had witnessed a genuine contracted beast devouring its master.

Subsequently, the Chief Priest's body gradually withered as it was consumed by the bone blade.

As the Chief Priest lay dying, he looked at the five eyes on the bone blade and smiled eerily, as if seeing Lin Chuan behind the bone blade's eyes.

"Damn, that's truly perverse!"

This evil scene immediately gave Lin Chuan goosebumps.

The bone blade, having just devoured its master, clearly wouldn't be buried with him. Blood Qi permeated the air, and the fresh blood flowing from dozens of corpses covered the entire altar. Clusters of bloody mist were absorbed into the bone blade's body.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Above ground, thunder rolled, yet it had no effect on the underground palace whatsoever.

"Holy crap, another advancement to the King rank?"

Lin Chuan was stunned; he was growing numb to this happening repeatedly.

Are King rank advancements this frequent? Why does he always run into this kind of thing?

However, on second thought, the bone blade was currently his Soul slave. If the bone blade advanced to the King rank, wouldn't he gain another King rank trump card?

Awesome!

Lin Chuan felt extremely fortunate that the Gray Snake had advanced first. Otherwise, after the bone blade advanced to the King rank, the soul seed would become ineffective, and he wouldn't be able to find it anywhere.

This thing was the Demon God Cult's exclusive contracted beast; he didn't know what its attributes were.

While thinking, he controlled his Clone to transmit out of the Secret Realm.

Naturally, he couldn't miss out on such a good item.

What's more, this thing originally belonged to Lin Chuan.

Don't believe it? If he called out, it would answer!

After sensing the location, he had White Moon teleport the Clone over.

These minor villains always chose locations that were more remote than the last... "It's done!"

The Red-robed Bishop couldn't help but say excitedly.

Originally, this blade spirit would have needed at least two or three more years, but he hadn't expected the Black-Clothed Chief Priest, that oddball, to deliver himself right to their doorstep—it was simply providence!

On the altar, the King rank Devouring bone blade spirit emitted bursts of bloody light, ready for a killing spree at any moment.

However, even after advancing to the King rank, it didn't seem to show any tendency to transform into human form. It still maintained the shape of a bone blade, only its killing Qi was stronger.

The five crimson eyes continuously scanned the entire area. Aside from the Red-robed Bishop, no one dared to meet its gaze.

"Congratulations, blade spirit."

Following this, the Red-robed Bishop opened the Yao Beast cages and tossed all the Yao Beasts inside toward it.

"Please enjoy."

The Yao Beasts in the air were sliced into a shower of blood by a flash of Saber Qi before they even hit the ground. The blade spirit, bathing in the blood, appeared even more sinister.

"Now that you're full, it's time for you to go on your way!"

The Red-robed Bishop said with a light chuckle.

"Huh?"

Lin Chuan was startled. What kind of development was this?

After all the effort to cultivate a King rank creature, it seemed he was going to slaughter it immediately?

Why slaughter it?

This bone blade didn't even have much meat on it.

Lin Chuan's Clone had already arrived above the ground of the underground palace at this moment.

Multitasking, he observed the Red-robed Bishop's every move.

He saw that another bone blade suddenly appeared in front of the Red-robed Bishop.

And it was longer, larger, and more sinister... The moment the two bone blades met, invisible Saber Qi sliced the ground, making a grating sound.

Both sides couldn't control their inner desire to devour the other and hacked at each other.

"Damn it, you idiot! Hurry up and run for your life..."

Lin Chuan cursed loudly within the blade spirit's consciousness, telling it to flee immediately.

The opponent is twice your size, and you still want to clash head-on... Just as the two King rank bone blades were about to collide, the newly advanced bone blade made a sharp ninety-degree turn and burst through the earth toward the surface of the underground palace.

Red-robed Bishop: "???"

The cultists: ???

What the hell is going on? We were ready for the show, and the main act ran away?

"Bishop, don't just stare! Hurry and chase it!"

A cultist kindly reminded him.

Bishop: ... Why does that sound so strange? Shouldn't I be the one saying that?