The sudden, majestic voice forced the three evil Venerables, who were charging with all their might at the Lin family's ancestor, to stop in their tracks.
They all turned their gazes toward the source of the sound, only to see a small flying vessel. Atop the vessel stood a youth clad in a black robe, holding a sword.
At this moment, the youth looked like a ferocious beast, his eyes filled with absolute excitement and passion as he stared at them.
“And here I thought some grand figure had arrived! It turns out to be nothing more than a boastful Qi Condensation Stage ant. Die!”
The three evil Venerables, who had instantly discerned that Ye Lin only had a Ninth Layer Qi Condensation Stage cultivation, looked incredibly grim. How could they have been intimidated by the words of a mere Qi Condensation Stage brat just now?
“Boom!”
The evil Venerable with wings on his back and claws for hands suddenly let out an angry roar. He clawed through the air, aiming directly at Ye Lin in the sky.
Facing this claw attack, and to prevent the flying vessel beneath his feet from being destroyed, Ye Lin immediately activated the Black Tortoise Black Dragon Seal on his body.
“Hum!”
In an instant, an invisible light barrier enveloped a ten-zhang radius around him.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The moment the barrier settled, Ye Lin raised his left hand, instantly activating the Divine Eye Heaven-Seizing Hand!
“Utterly ridiculous!” Seeing Ye Lin copy his gesture and claw toward the sky, the winged evil Venerable scoffed in anger.
However, his laughter was cut short in the next instant. A massive hand of void grabbed him and dragged him rapidly into the air.
“Boom! Boom!”
Two deafening explosions echoed in quick succession. One was from the winged evil Venerable's attack crashing against the Black Tortoise Black Dragon Seal, while the other was from the void hand dragging the winged evil Venerable.
“How is this possible? A spatial technique... You aren't in the Qi Condensation Stage... You're a Nascent Soul True Monarch?”
Finding himself dragged into the air without any ability to resist, the winged evil Venerable was utterly dumbfounded.
He could not fathom how someone could be so underhanded. A Nascent Soul True Monarch disguising himself as a weakling to play the pig to eat the tiger—this was simply unsportsmanlike!
Furthermore, the high-level members of their evil spirit race had clearly reached an agreement with the human powerhouses.
The entire Tianyuan Dynasty had been traded to the evil spirit race as food, and human experts at the Nascent Soul Stage and above were not allowed to interfere.
So what was with a Nascent Soul True Monarch suddenly popping up here?
“It seems Ziqing and the others in Zhenhai City also died by your hand?” Suddenly connecting this to the incident that occurred in Zhenhai City over a shichen ago, the evil Venerable came to a sudden realization, his face turning ashen.
“So you really are the three missing evil Venerables from Zhenhai City? That saves me the trouble of hunting you down one by one.”
Hearing that the evil Venerable before him was indeed one of the three evil spirits who had mysteriously vanished from Zhenhai City, Ye Lin did not feel much joy. On the contrary, he felt a slight pang of regret, as if he had missed out on a good deal.
After all, he had been hoping that the three evil Venerables attacking Lingyun City were not the same three from Zhenhai City. If they weren't, he could have returned to Zhenhai City after his breakthrough to slay another three Venerables for fun.
But now, that beautiful hope had been shattered. To heal this psychological trauma, he would probably have to slay dozens of Nascent Soul Stage True Monarch evil spirits in the future to barely make up for it.
“Slap!”
Not one to let negative emotions fester, an displeased Ye Lin backhanded the winged evil Venerable with two resounding slaps just to cheer himself up.
The winged evil Venerable: “...”
Son of a bitch, this human True Monarch is taking things too far!
Just as the winged evil Venerable was wallowing in grievance and despair, Ye Lin raised the Sword of Original Sin.
Meanwhile, upon seeing this sudden turn of events, the red-haired female evil Venerable in the distance gritted her teeth and immediately sent a voice transmission to the black-robed man with the vertical pupil beside her.
“These cunning humans have violated the treaty! Quickly report this to our evil spirit race's Lord of Destiny!”
Hearing this, the black-robed man immediately prepared to activate a secret technique to send the message back to the evil spirit race through the vertical pupil between his brows.
But right at that moment, something that left him dumbfounded happened—his dear partner, the red-haired woman, abandoned him and fled without the slightest hesitation.
“Chiyue, you heartless, backstabbing snake! You're running away without even taking me with you?!”
Realizing what was happening, the black-robed man no longer cared about transmitting the message. He immediately burned his Golden Core and fled into the distance as fast as his legs could carry him.
Seeing this, the winged evil Venerable in the sky had a sudden flash of inspiration, believing he could still save his miserable life.
“True Monarch, please don't kill me! I have a way to find those two, and I can tell you all of the evil spirit race's secrets...”
“Pfft!”
He thought he could survive by surrendering, but he had vastly underestimated Ye Lin's desire for his life.
Before he could even finish his sentence, Ye Lin severed his head with a single sword strike, shattering the Golden Core inside his body as well.
“Wh... Why?” The winged evil Venerable's eyes bulged, unable to comprehend why he still had to die even after offering to surrender.
“Hehehe, because your death benefits me far more. As for your two companions, neither of them will escape.”
Staring at the lifeless, wide-eyed head of the evil spirit Venerable in his hand, Ye Lin whispered like a demon.
Now, the pre-requisite tasks for his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage were finally complete!
[Ding! You have slain a sin-ridden Golden Core Stage evil spirit. You have obtained 1,700 years of other-race lifespan. Your Luck Value has increased by 130 points. You have picked up the Earth-grade talent: 'Blood Curse'.]
[The Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda has automatically harvested the physical body to extract blood qi. The Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart has extracted the divine soul for refinement. You have accumulated one portion of the Power of Sin and one portion of the Power of Heaven's Punishment...]
Just as the evil Venerable was slain, the game notifications listing various rewards chimed in Ye Lin's ears.
However, he was in no hurry to check them, as there were still two evil spirit Venerables waiting for his “favor.”
“Divine Eye Heaven-Seizing Hand!”
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Lin stood atop the flying vessel and directly activated his spatial divine ability.
“No!”
Having already fled tens of thousands of meters away, the red-haired woman could not help but scream in terror the moment she was seized by the divine ability.
But Ye Lin had no intention of wasting words on her. With a casual sweep of his sword, he severed the red-haired woman's head and shattered her Golden Core with another strike.
Without stopping, he reached out his hand and activated the divine ability once more, easily dragging back the black-robed Venerable with the vertical pupil between his brows.
“I'll take you down with me!” Seeing his path of survival completely cut off, the black-robed Venerable did not hesitate to ignite his Golden Core to detonate himself the moment Ye Lin raised his sword to strike.
“Rumble!”
Although Ye Lin severed the black-robed Venerable's head and soul at the very first instant, he still failed to stop the self-detonation of the Golden Core.
In a mere fraction of a second, the sky within a radius of several hundred zhang around Ye Lin was blown open with cracks.
However, with the Black Tortoise Black Dragon Seal active, the self-detonation failed to harm him in the slightest.
[Ding! You have slain two heinous Golden Core Stage evil spirits. You have obtained 4,300 years of other-race lifespan. Your Luck Value has increased by 331 points.]
[You have picked up the Earth-grade talent: 'Crimson Flame Transformation'. You have picked up the Earth-grade talent: 'Spirit Eye'. You have accumulated two portions of the Power of Sin and two portions of the Power of Heaven's Punishment.]
[The Desolate Ancient Dao Pagoda has automatically harvested the physical bodies of the evil spirits to extract blood qi. The Soaring Fairy Visualization Chart is currently extracting the evil Venerables' souls for refinement...]
With Chiyue and the vertical-pupil evil Venerable dead, the pleasant game notifications chimed in Ye Lin's ears once again.
In addition, the evil spirits he had slain along the way were all recorded by his Demon Suppressing Division token. By now, the demon-slaying points stored within the token had already reached over a hundred thousand.
“Not bad, not bad. It is time to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
After casually sweeping away the three evil Venerables' storage rings and glancing at his spoils, Ye Lin could not wait to make his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
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