"All these cultivators have gathered near Lingtian City. Looks like a major battle is about to break out here!"
Lin Changâsheng watched Zhuo Yijian and the others head off into the distance, thinking to himself.
Still, Lin Changâsheng wasnât afraid at all anymore. As long as he didnât run into Celestial Concealment, the more Golden Core Cultivators showed up, the happier heâd be.
He could collect their corpses and refine them into Golden Corpses, which would dramatically boost his cultivation.
He counted, and now there were six or seven Golden Core Cultivatorsâ corpses in his storage bagâincluding some at the Golden Core Late Stage.
Once he found time to refine them into Golden Corpses, maybe fusing them together could even produce higher-level puppets.
Besides, looting and killing for treasure was way better than scouring the land for rare Spirit Treasures.
"First, Iâll find an inn to stay in. If a fight really breaks out, Iâll fish in troubled waters and score some gains for myself."
Lin Changâsheng already had a plan in mind.
"Daoist friend, could I borrow some silver?"
He looked ahead, and saw Cao De running over in a fluster, clutching his pants.
He sensed the magical power fluctuations within Lin Changâsheng as well.
Clearly, he was a cultivatorâand cultivators usually had a healthy stash of silver.
Lin Changâsheng did have some, but he had zero interest in giving any to Cao De.
If he gave him the silver, wouldnât he just be funding his visits to see some woman?
With a flicker, Lin Changâsheng vanished from the spot.
Honestly, he couldnât approve of this guyâs interests.
Itâs one thing to be into unmarried girlsâthatâs normal enough.
But Cao De was into married women, and seemed to take great delight in being discovered by their men and running for his life.
A Tier One Cultivator playing it this dirty.
Lin Changâsheng had never seen the like before.
"Huh? Why does that aura feel so familiar?"
Cao De felt a strangely familiar magical power from Lin Changâsheng, and was baffled for a moment.
But he didnât have time to dwell on itâthere was already a man chasing after him, knife in hand.
So he just yanked up his pants and bolted off again.
Yuelai Inn.
Lin Changâsheng got himself a room and settled in right away.
"Did you hear? Lin Changâsheng from the Void Divine Hall killed Prince Beimu and pissed off the Celestial Concealment Divine Master big time. Even if Lin Changâsheng makes it to the Ends of the Earth, Iâm afraid he wonât escape death!"
"I wouldnât be so sure. When Lin Changâsheng got the eight strands of Heaven and Earth Qi last time, didnât he survive just fine?"
"The kidâs life is crazy toughâso many people hunting him and not a single trace! Itâs like he vanished into thin air!"
"A Golden Core at just over twenty? Thatâs insane! If he gets a bit more time to cultivate, his future will be limitless!"
...
Lin Changâsheng had barely taken a step into the inn when he overheard the crowd loudly debatingâand nearly every topic was about him.
Thank heavens for his Bone Transformation Technique, which could disguise his appearance.
Otherwise, he wouldâve been recognized the moment he walked in.
After returning to his own room,
Lin Changâsheng locked the door and started going through the storage bags heâd claimed from killing Mo Li and Du Yue.
Their bags sure had some treasures in them.
80,000 Spirit Stones, three stalks of Reishi over 500 years old, an 800-year-old Snow Lotus, along with some rare Demon Beast materials and lots of elixirs.
The only pity was, aside from all that, each only had two Immortal Techniques, one Fist Treasure Manual, and one Spear Treasure Manual.
The Fist Treasure Manual was called Dragon Roar World Destruction Fistâhe found it in Mo Liâs storage bag.
The Spear Treasure Manual was the Nine Heavens Flame Spear Technique, taken from Du Yueâs storage bag.
But Lin Changâsheng wasnât big on spearmanship, and none of his own secret techniques would even mesh with it, so he just set it aside.
He planned to check out the Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Fist later and learn it to entry level first.
In a guaranteed-victory scenario, Lin Changâsheng always preferred close-quarters combat with his own body.
This Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist fit him perfectly, so he started studying it at once.
[Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist: Entry Level!]
Half an hour later, Lin Changâsheng finally got the basic moves of Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist down.
[Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist detected. Spend 2500 Spirit Stones to simplify?]
The system panel popped up with a prompt.
Lin Changâsheng hit "yes" without hesitation.
[Great Dao is Simple: Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist simplification beginning... Simplifying... SimplifiedâDragon Roar World Destruction Fist == Swinging Fist to Beat Dragon!]
"Swinging Fist to Beat Dragon?"
Lin Changâsheng muttered to himself.
Like heâd really go off chasing dragons just to punch them?
Heâd have to improvise a little.
He pulled pen and ink from his bag, drew a dragon on paper,
and started punching it.
Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist Experience Points +1!
Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist Experience Points +1!
...
This method really never failedâthe experience points for Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist soared like crazy.
With his Golden Core Late Stage physique powering the punches,
he could take on any cultivator below Nascent Soul and stay undefeated.
Time ticked by, and soon it was well after midnight.
[Dragon Roar World Destruction Fist: Perfection!]
After pounding away, Lin Changâsheng finally mastered the fist techniqueâjust as a tsunami of information surged into his mind.
Ssssh Sssshâ
"Someone there?"
Lin Changâsheng heard hurried footsteps outside the windowâhe sensed someone was targeting him already.
Actually, heâd noticed people watching him in secret since he entered Lingtian City.
He didnât expect them to pick late night as the time to strike.
Too badâthey picked the wrong target. Messing with him was as good as suicide.
Whoosh! Whoosh!â
Suddenly, three black silver needles shot through the window at lightning speed.
All aimed for Lin Changâshengâs throat and heartâdeadly points.
"Break!"
ROARâ
Lin Changâsheng channeled his magical power and threw a punch.
A dragonâs roar exploded from his fist, forceful and fierce.
The black silver needles were instantly blasted away.
"Shit! This kidâs suppressed his cultivation. Retreatânow!"
The man lying in wait outside the door realized things had gone south in an instant.
Theyâd figured Lin Changâsheng was only at Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer, but after that punch? He was at least at Foundation Establishment Peak.
No way could they take on someone at that level.
"Trying to run?"
Lin Changâsheng kicked off and used the Endless Step technique, bursting right after them.
The five men in the street didnât even get the chance to escapeâthe slowest was smashed to a blood mist by Lin Changâshengâs fist on the spot.
"What a domineering fist technique!"
Lin Changâsheng couldnât help but admire it.
"Go!"
The remaining four knew it was going badâthey waved their sleeves and summoned a dozen Copper Corpses, trying to trap Lin Changâsheng and buy time to run.
"Corpse King Sect, huh?"
Seeing them bring out Corpse Puppets, Lin Changâsheng frowned.
It wasnât that he couldnât handle themâhe was just surprised that Demon Slaughter Islandâs Corpse King Sect had penetrated so deep into the heartland of the Southern Domain Cultivation Realm.
This wasnât the border anymore.
This was under Liuyun Immortal Sectâs own nose.
And Liuyun Immortal Sect sat right in the heart of the Southern Domain cultivation world.
Years ago, the Righteous and Demon Dao had vowed the Demon Dao would only operate within ten thousand miles of the Southern Domainâs border.
But now theyâd pushed all the way in deep.
Just showed how audacious the Demon Dao had gotten!
"These Copper Corpses shouldnât be wasted!"
Lin Changâsheng didnât bother smashing up the Copper Bodies and instead focused on taking out the four Corpse King Sect cultivators.
The four of them were just at the Foundation Establishment Stageâto Lin Changâsheng now, killing them was like squashing ants.
In just three breaths, Lin Changâsheng wiped out three of them, leaving only the last one badly wounded on the ground.
"You bastard, donât think youâll get out of Lingtian City alive! Elder Lu will avenge us!"
The last Corpse King Sect disciple still tried to threaten him with his dying breath.
"The Elder Lu youâre talking aboutâis that Lu Yunchang?"
Lin Changâsheng said coldly.
He remembered not long ago, when heâd seized Jade Spirit Marrow, heâd killed Lu Chang of Corpse King Sectâbut then was hunted by Lu Yunchang, the Corpse King Sectâs Golden Core Peak expert.
Back then, he himself was only at Foundation Establishment Stage and even then they couldnât do anything to him.
But now heâd entered the Golden Core Stage. If Lu Yunchang dared show up, Lin Changâsheng wouldnât mind killing the so-called number one Golden Core of the Corpse King Sect too.
"So youâve heard Elder Luâs name? Let me go, or when he gets here, youâre dead for sure!"
The Corpse King Sect disciple saw that Lin Changâsheng recognized the name and even smiled smugly.
"If he dares come, Iâll cut him down too!"
Lin Changâsheng finished speaking and slammed a palm down on the manâs head, killing him instantly.
He drew the five menâs souls into his Myriad Soul Banner, and wasnât about to let the Copper Corpses go either.
Without anyone to command them, the Copper Bodies collapsed like empty shells.
The Copper Corpses themselves werenât much use to Lin Changâsheng,
but he could feed them into the panel, let the Golden Corpses absorb them for experienceâa nice little bonus.
"Youâve got balls, boyâkilling men of my Corpse King Sect!"
Just as Lin Changâsheng killed the four, a thunderous shout rang out from the sky.