The second devil's eyes flashed red, and without a word, it charged forward. The Divergent was also valiant. Not only did it not dodge, but it also sent out its divine sense to meet the attack head-on.
The two fused together. Wang Lin immediately sensed the changes through the divine sense he left in the second devil. This was a dangerous situation, and only one of the two could exist. Either the second devil would be devoured, or the Divergent would be fused.
Soon, Wang Lin let out a smile. As a fragrant soul, the devil he made already had a trace of the characteristics of a wandering soul. How could this foreign creature compare to it?
The two divine senses fused and devoured each other. Gradually, the second devil appeared, and the Divergent's divine sense dimmed. Finally, it was completely fused with the second devil, becoming a part of its body.
The moment the fusion was successful, a group of small beasts flew to the side of the second devil and surrounded it, once again forming a hurricane.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. The reason the divine senses of these small beasts could perfectly fuse together was because there was a dominant divine sense inside. This divine sense could even devour and fuse with the small beasts; it had a lot to do with this.
At this moment, the second devil let out a few roars and was about to pounce on the next Divergent. Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and he let out a light snort. Suddenly, the second devil's momentum slowed, and the hurricane stopped spinning, turning back into the small beasts.
Wang Lin could clearly see that the second devil, surrounded by the small beasts, had a pained expression on its face. It looked at Wang Lin with deep fear.
Wang Lin sent out a divine sense, and the second devil immediately let out a roar. The surrounding small beasts surrounded Wang Lin. Wang Lin's expression was the same as usual, and his eyes were as calm as water. He didn't show any signs of abnormality towards the small beasts flapping their wings.
After the small beasts flew closer, they didn't attack. Instead, they lifted his body and turned it into a hurricane.
The devil, Xu Liguo, wanted to follow, but the moment he hit the hurricane, he was thrown back. He let out angry roars and felt wronged in his heart. Finally, Wang Lin reached out his hand and Xu Liguo entered the hurricane.
Inside the hurricane, Wang Lin didn't need to fly. He was standing on the small beasts, and he was surrounded by the powerful divine senses of the small beasts. It was very difficult for others to detect him with their divine senses.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he gave the second devil an order. The hurricane immediately flew toward Hunchback Meng.
The other tornadoes slowly followed. Just like this, more than a dozen tornadoes flew by and soon arrived at the group of tornadoes that shocked Wang Lin.
At the moment they closed in, a powerful divine sense swept toward them. Wang Lin immediately became alert. That divine sense didn't stop and swept past them.
That divine sense clearly didn't observe carefully. It only took a glance and didn't find anything abnormal.
Perhaps from its point of view, it was impossible for this tornado to change. Wang Lin was inside the tornado as he stared at the wind king in the distance and sneered in his heart. Needless to say, that divine sense came from one of the mutated creatures in the tornado.
He now had some understanding of these creatures. Inside each hurricane, there was a relatively powerful creature. They were the ones that allowed the small beasts' divine senses to gather and give orders.
This was like the difference between a soldier and a general. A normal small beast was a soldier, and a powerful creature was a general.
As for the hurricane that reached the sky, it was the king!
After getting close, he looked through the tornadoes and saw a black tower piercing through the clouds. Hunchback Meng was clearly inside the tower.
Wang Lin wasn't in a rush. The reason he let the second devil bring him here was because he knew that this method could allow him to get close without anyone noticing. As a result, he acted according to the situation. He didn't expect to kill Hunchback Meng, but to take some treasures from him. If he handled it well, it was still possible.
The divine sense left inside the second devil was different from the one inside Xu Liguo. Xu Liguo had gone through a long period of evolution, and his divine sense had subtly controlled him. If Wang Lin wanted to, he didn't even need his Ji Realm Divine Sense to destroy him. However, he normally wouldn't use the divine sense inside the second devil's body to attack. He would save it as a last resort.
Normally, he would use his Ji Realm Divine Sense as a threat and subtly control. After all, Xu Liguo had recovered a bit of his memory, so he was clearly different from a normal wandering soul.
But the second devil was different. Although Wang Lin's divine sense imprint wasn't deep, he was able to forcefully take over the second devil's body. He didn't allow the second devil to resist at all.
The reason he didn't let the second devil absorb more of the leaders of the other hurricanes was because if the second devil devoured too many, it would weaken the divine sense imprint Wang Lin left inside the second devil's body. If that happened, there would be a backlash. With Wang Lin's shrewdness, he wouldn't let that happen.
Even someone as tenacious as Xu Liguo was beaten by Wang Lin. There was no need to mention the second devil refined from a beast soul.
Hunchback Meng's face was as gloomy as water as he bitterly looked at the tornadoes outside. After staring at the sky reaching tornado for a while, his eyes revealed a look of dread. The divine sense inside the sky reaching tornado was almost as powerful as all the other tornadoes combined. Even the Heaven's Crippling poison was forcibly broken by the divine sense and sent far away.
During this period of time, he had used up all the spirit beasts in his storage pouch. Every time he replaced them with spirit beasts, he would throw out a spell from the tower. Although he could destroy a large group of small beasts, it would only take a short while for more tornadoes to fly over from afar.
It was impossible to kill them all!
If he was a bit careless, he would be hit by the divine sense of these countless small spirit beasts. Even if he was a Soul Formation cultivator, he would still be seriously injured, if not dead.
This injury would not be a light one, but a serious injury that would cause his cultivation level to drop greatly!
As for magic treasures, he had used a lot of them. Although they were effective, the result was the same.
At that moment, he was already at the end of his rope. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of charging out, and he had even put it into action. At that time, he had used more than ten Spirit Beasts as substitutes to directly charge out. However, just as he was about to charge out of the encirclement, the sky-piercing hurricane gave him a vicious blow. As a result, all his efforts were in vain. Not only did he fail to charge out, but he was also severely injured.
"Does the heavens want me to die?
The Old Man hid his cultivation from the heavens and finally reached the mid stage of Soul Formation. I thought I could use this place to obtain a Soul Transformation pill and reach the Soul Transformation stage, but unfortunately … "
Hunchback Meng bitterly thought about it. He couldn't help but think about the group of people that came here 1,000 years ago. In the end, aside from the four of them, everyone else died.
Among those people, there were some whose cultivation was higher than theirs, but in the end, they still couldn't avoid death. The four of them only managed to survive because of luck and coincidence.
After 1,000 years of preparation, he had gone from the late stage of Nascent Soul to the mid stage of Soul Formation. The reason he was able to progress so fast was because he ate the Giant Demon Clan's treasure, the Ancestral Demon's heart!
This was also why he was wanted by the Giant Demon Clan and was being hunted down!
Hunchback Meng revealed an unwilling expression. He clenched his teeth and looked at the toad on the ground. The Blazing Heaven toad had accompanied him for thousands of years and never left him. He watched it go from a low quality spirit beast to a high quality spirit beast. It was now a pseudo Desolate rank spirit beast. If it had another few thousand years, with the help of some spirit herbs, it could become a Desolate rank spirit beast!
However, Hunchback Meng revealed a determined expression. He touched the toad and whispered, "If teleportation could be used in this damn place, it wouldn't be so troublesome.
Blazing Heaven, this time it's all up to you! "
With that, his right hand reached out and entered the toad's mouth. The toad revealed a painful expression and its body trembled, but it didn't resist at all. It only calmly looked at its master.
Hunchback Meng closed his eyes, but soon opened them. His eyes revealed a ruthless expression and he said, "Blazing Heaven, I'm sorry!"
With that, he grabbed the toad with his right hand and pulled it back. There was an extra item in his hand. It was a black origin core the size of a fist. It was emitting bursts of powerful spiritual energy.
The Blazing Heaven toad's body tilted and weakly fell to the ground. It let out a weak sound and the bumps on its back began to rupture. Stinky, black liquid flowed out and quickly covered its body.
Even the gurgling sounds seemed weak and feeble at this moment.
After grabbing the toad's origin core, Hunchback Meng threw it into his mouth without a word. His body immediately twitched and black gas appeared on his face. Shortly after, he let out a few roars and the bumps on his face all exploded. The poisonous liquid splashed all over the walls of the tower, giving off black smoke.
There are many types of spirit beast cores. Only spirit beasts that have a real core appear inside their body.
Some spirit beasts have cores inside their bodies, but they are only fake cores. They are only temporarily formed by the spiritual energy inside their body to store spiritual energy.
A real core is very effective. It is the foundation of all of the spirit beasts' abilities.
After reaching the low quality spirit rank, the core will turn into an Earth Core similar to a cultivator's Core Formation. However, it is still different from a real Core Formation cultivator.
After reaching the mid quality spirit rank, the Earth Core will turn into a Heaven Core.
After reaching the high quality spirit rank, the Heaven Core will turn into an origin core. At this moment, it is only one step away from becoming a desolate beast's origin soul!
Only after reaching the desolate beast realm can the core turn into an origin soul. From then on, it will become an extremely powerful wild beast.
The black gas on Hunchback Meng's face became even stronger. He lied down on the ground and grabbed the toad. After grabbing it, he let out a roar and pressed it on his forehead.
More and more liquid came out of the bumps on the toad's back. This liquid went through the bumps on Hunchback Meng's face and entered his body. Eventually, the toad turned into black liquid and was absorbed by Hunchback Meng.
The hump on Hunchback Meng's back suddenly swelled up and countless bumps appeared. These bumps quickly covered his entire back. The current Hunchback Meng looked very similar to the toad from before.
Hunchback Meng's eyes were slightly closed. The black gas on his face slowly gathered between his eyebrows and formed a vortex. Then he suddenly opened his eyes. His pupils turned into triangles and revealed a ruthless gaze.
Hunchback Meng clenched his fist and black lightning appeared on his fist. He took a deep breath and muttered to himself in a hoarse voice, "This Shang Ji Demonic Technique is really amazing. With the help of the high quality spirit rank Defying Heaven Toad, I can reach the peak of the Soul Formation stage in a short period of time. This time I will definitely be able to break through!
Unfortunately, the price is too high. If not for the fact that I have no other choice … Alas! "
With that, he slowly walked out of the black tower. The moment he appeared, the divine sense lightning descended. Hunchback Meng's face revealed a ferocious expression and he spat out a green mist. The moment the divine sense lightning entered the green mist, it immediately slowed down. Using this opportunity, Hunchback Meng jumped into a tornado.
The tornado suddenly stopped spinning and the small creatures inside scattered. However, they didn't get far before exploding one by one. Blood rained down from the sky.
Hunchback Meng's eyes revealed a ruthless gaze as he charged toward the next tornado.
But shortly after, the hundreds of millions of divine senses fused together to form a long spear. It silently appeared in the sky and shot out with the power to shatter the void.
This long spear left a series of afterimages in the sky. One moment it was still in the sky, the next moment it arrived in front of Hunchback Meng.
Along the way, the restrictions of the earth element land were activated, creating a thunderous rumble.
The tornado Wang Lin was in was far away, so it wasn't affected much. He stared at Hunchback Meng's ghost-like appearance. His eyes lit up, and when he saw the bag of holding on Hunchback Meng's waist, he became a bit more interested.
Hunchback Meng only took one look at the long spear formed by the divine sense. His hand quickly formed a seal and he chanted a few complex words. Then he opened his mouth and a small cauldron covered in dense green gas flew out.
The moment the cauldron appeared, dense green gas came out. At the same time, the long spear landed on the small cauldron.
Where the two collided, a deafening explosion suddenly rang out. A ring-shaped shockwave that was more than a hundred feet thick immediately spread out in all directions. Even the hurricanes could not help but fly back. Some of them could not dodge in time and were directly smashed by the shockwave. All of the little beasts within them were immediately turned to dust.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He backed up a bit along with the other tornadoes, but his gaze was still on Hunchback Meng. He didn't even blink.
At this moment, the small green cauldron in the air let out a cracking sound as it broke into two pieces and fell from the sky. However, the spear that struck it began to turn green. In the blink of an eye, the entire spear turned green. The spear suddenly trembled and turned back into strands of divine sense that scattered in all directions.
It was at this moment that a strange scene occurred. After the divine sense spread out, each one of them gained a bit of green light. However, the green light quickly spread out, and in the space of a few breaths, all of the divine sense that had formed the long spear had turned green.
The moment the green cauldron shattered, Hunchback Meng's body weakened and he coughed out several mouthfuls of blood. That green cauldron was his life treasure. With his temporary late stage Soul Formation cultivation, it withstood hundreds of millions of divine sense attacks before finally breaking in half.
Hunchback Meng didn't have time to feel heartache. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the green divine sense attacks and began to laugh like crazy. "If I don't pay a price, how could my life treasure be so easily damaged? Even if it breaks, I'll drag all of you down with me.
Explode!
Explode!
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Any divine sense that was touched by the green light immediately exploded. Once the divine sense exploded, it turned into spiritual energy and scattered in all directions. Once the divine sense was destroyed, the body would also die.
As the divine senses exploded one by one, more than half of the tornadoes disappeared. All of the tornadoes stopped spinning and all of the small creatures inside fell to the ground.
Hunchback Meng's right hand reached out and put the two halves of the green cauldron into his bag of holding. Without a word, he took this opportunity to charge into the distance. The direction he came from happened to be where Wang Lin was.
At this moment, the king of the tornadoes let out a violent roar. The entire tornadoes suddenly stopped spinning, revealing a 30-foot-tall flying beast!
This beast was much larger than its peers, but in Wang Lin's eyes, it was far smaller than the desolate dragon inside the tunnel.
The beast roared angrily and leaped out. Its long and sharp mouth emitted ripples as it roared. Wherever the ripples passed, cracks would appear in the space of the Earth Elemental Land. From this, one could see how powerful it was.
At the same time, the tornadoes that hadn't dissipated all charged toward Hunchback Meng. The tornadoes he charged into desperately tried to stop him. Divine senses, sound waves, and other attacks were dazzling, but they couldn't stop Hunchback Meng even half a step. All of the tornadoes that tried to stop him were destroyed by one hit.
However, with every hit, the black vortex between Hunchback Meng's eyebrows became a bit dimmer. He complained in his heart. He knew that his cultivation increase was about to end. If he stopped for even a moment, he would be hit by the sound waves from the beast king, so he sped up even more and charged forward.
Wang Lin's eyes were sharp. At the moment the beast king sent out the sound waves, he saw a flash of golden light on its head and half a golden finger bone was revealed.
He didn't have time to think about it, because Hunchback Meng had already arrived. Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he sneered. He slapped his bag of holding and the dragon tendon appeared in his hand. He waved his right hand and the dragon tendon twisted together. Several branches also twisted together to form a thick tendon!
At the moment Hunchback Meng arrived, the gust of wind he was in quickly moved to the side. Among the tornadoes that were trying to stop him, the one he was in was very inconspicuous.
At the moment Hunchback Meng moved past the tornado, the dragon tendon was thrown out by Wang Lin. Just as he knocked away the gust of wind, he noticed the fluctuation of spiritual energy around him. However, the area was filled with spiritual energy from all the divine senses his life treasure had just destroyed, so the fluctuation was hidden. If one didn't look carefully, it would be very difficult to notice.
At this moment, Hunchback Meng was anxious to escape. Although he noticed it, he didn't care. He didn't even think that there were other human cultivators here besides him.
However, the moment his right leg suddenly felt a strong force pulling it, his expression finally changed greatly. He didn't need to look down. With his experience, he immediately knew that this was a magical treasure made from beast tendons, and the only person who could use a magical treasure here was obviously not one of those small beasts. There was only one possibility, and that was a human cultivator!
If it was in the past, Hunchback Meng wouldn't have cared about this kind of beast tendon magic treasure. Not only would he be able to shatter it with his spiritual energy, he could also use it to poison the person using it.
But now, there were so many tornadoes blocking his way. Divine senses, sound waves, and other attacks came one after another. He was already tired of dealing with them, so he could only rely on a mouthful of spiritual energy to charge forward. The destruction of his life treasure made his mind tremble. If it wasn't for the fact that he had fused with the Heaven Defying Toad, he would have already died.
At this critical moment, the dragon tendon, which he usually didn't care about, was like a divine talisman that was about to kill him. Although the dragon tendon shattered inch by inch when he crashed into it, the momentum of his charge was involuntarily slowed down a little!
It was just a split second, but the consequence was that the sound wave that was chasing after him suddenly appeared behind him. The attacks of the surrounding hurricanes instantly became even more intense.
A straw can't kill a camel, but it can be the key that breaks the camel's back.
As of this moment, the Dragon Tendon's function was that straw!
The moment he was hit by the sound wave, Hunchback Meng coughed out blood and was sent flying forward. Just at this moment, a tornado passed by him. An arm came out of the tornado and grabbed the bag of holding on his waist. Then the arm passed by.
At this moment, Hunchback Meng could vaguely see Wang Lin's sneer through the tornado. He was so angry that he coughed out another mouthful of blood. The moment the blood appeared, it gave off a dizzying aura and chased after the tornado that Wang Lin was in.
After Wang Lin grabbed the bag of holding, he controlled the second devil to quickly fly toward the vortex. That was the entrance to the second trial.
As for the blood, it was blocked by the small beasts flying around the tornado. However, the poison in the blood was no joke. Wang Lin has always been cautious, so the moment the tornado was hit, he jumped out of the tornado. The two devils followed closely behind him.
The moment Wang Lin landed on the ground, he used the earth escape technique and quickly ran forward.
As for the tornado, it was soaked in blood and all of the small beasts inside died.
Although all of this sounds slow, it actually happened very fast. In the blink of an eye, the bag of holding on Hunchback Meng's waist disappeared.
Hunchback Meng's body was hit by the sound waves and his flesh and bones were separated. The many lumps on his back all exploded and the smelly, black liquid flew everywhere. Any small beast that touched the liquid immediately twitched and died.
He saw the blood attack being blocked and Wang Lin escaping with his bag of holding. Right now, he wasn't feeling heartache for losing his bag of holding, but he was filled with hatred toward Wang Lin. If it wasn't for Wang Lin, he would have already broken out of the tornado and entered the second trial.
However, all of this changed because of Wang Lin's appearance. With Hunchback Meng's mind, he naturally knew that he was just opening up a path for Wang Lin. He was also helping Wang Lin stall all of the tornadoes. Otherwise, with Wang Lin's Core Formation cultivation, how could he safely pass the first trial?
Seeing that Wang Lin insisted on writing 9000 words despite his illness and didn't break his promise last month, Hunchback Meng decided to give him a monthly ticket...