From breaking through to the low-stage Mystic Thearch to now, Ling Xiao had only spent about four years. This speed was definitely extremely fast.
Most of the super experts who had reached this stage would need to accumulate for decades or centuries before they had the chance to advance another stage. Even the most demonic existences would need at least ten years.
Ling Xiao's fortuitous encounters were truly beyond the heavens. With the help of the three Aberrations, it was as though he was cheating. His advancement speed was extremely fast.
He was not even forty years old yet, but he was already a mid-stage Mystic Thearch. If news of this got out, it would definitely shock the entire central region.
He was probably the first Mystic Thearch to be this young since ancient times.
In his sea of consciousness, the Connate Yin Wind Bead was finally comparable to the Demonic Demon Heavenly Fire Bead in terms of size. The power between the two should not be too different.
Back then, the Demonic Demon Heavenly Fire Bead had fused with a large amount of Fire Essence in the Tang Clan's Thunder Pool and the Medicine Sect. It had advanced significantly and was much stronger than the Connate Yin Wind Bead.
Previously, the Connate Yin Wind Bead had absorbed a large amount of deathly aura. Now, it had absorbed a large amount of corpse aura and that extreme Yin rhombus. It had finally caught up to the Demonic Demon Heavenly Fire Bead's grade.
Jiang Yi reckoned that the two beads were currently in a huge battle.
Naturally, Ling Xiao did not have the time to think about this problem. He was now enjoying the pleasure of advancement and walked towards Jiang Wang's corpse.
Ling Xiao realized that this corpse was extremely lifelike and did not look lifeless at all.
Ling Xiao knew that this Jiang Wang had long cultivated the Indestructible Golden Body Technique to the Phenomenal Stage. That was why he was able to maintain his current appearance. He was even more perfect than the two corpse generals that were protecting him.
"I didn't expect to be killed after cultivating to this level. Could there really be so many incredible people in the ancient times?" Ling Xiao asked in astonishment.
To be able to cultivate the Indestructible Golden Body Technique to the Phenomenal Stage, one would be impervious to swords, spears, water, and fire. Such a realm was comparable to a saint artifact. If one wanted to kill them, one's strength had to be above theirs.
One could not help but think about how powerful the enemy was.
Ling Xiao put away Jiang Wang's corpse, then dug out the cave and picked up the golden coffin.
Ling Xiao naturally did not want to leave the golden coffin for him to hang in the future. This golden coffin had quite a few formation runes engraved on it, it should be an ancient formation. If he took it back to give it to Xuan Yao for reference, maybe Xuan Yao would be able to create another formation. After all, this was a rank eight formation, it was very precious.
With the Corpse Sect completely destroyed, Ling Xiao did not dare to stay any longer and immediately left this place.
It didn't take long for the news of the Corpse Sect's destruction to reach the Black Demon Sect.
Moreover, there was another piece of news that the Proud Smiling Palace had paid a high price for Sha Tian's organization to deal with them.
The people of the Black Demon Sect became nervous.
Their strength was ranked ahead of the other forces. However, the eldest disciple of their Sovereign had led a large number of experts to destroy the Proud Smiling Palace a few years ago. But, the entire army had been annihilated. This had weakened their strength by a lot. Moreover, their Sovereign hadn't returned for a long time. So, they had lost their backbone, and some internal problems had arisen.
The Black Demon Sect restrained their actions against the Proud Smiling Palace after they heard these two pieces of news. They didn't dare to provoke the Proud Smiling Palace again. After all, the Black Demon Sect wouldn't be able to bear the consequences if the Proud Smiling Palace and Sha Tian's organization joined hands.
At the same time, the Black Demon Sect asked the Sovereign to come back urgently. They would start a war with the Proud Smiling Palace once their Sovereign returned.
After Ling Xiao left the Corpse Sect, he didn't immediately return to the Proud Smiling Palace. Instead, he went from the direction of the Corpse Sect to the other side of the Death Mountain Range. He wanted to find high level spirit beasts and kill them. He wanted to test how strong he really was.
He did this to consolidate his newly refined strength.
The first opponent he found was a rank seven middle-ranked yellow-furred bear.
This was a dreadful spirit beast. It was as tall as a mountain. Each of its punches and kicks could destroy a mountain, and crack the earth. Its body was incomparably formidable.
However, such a formidable spirit beast couldn't withstand ten moves of Ling Xiao's. It was bombarded to death.
The second opponent was also a rank seven middle-ranked spirit beast. It was a fierce tiger of the fire attribute. Its lethality was much more dreadful than that of the yellow-furred bear. However, it still couldn't pose a big threat to Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao warmed up, and went deeper into the mountain range.
The Death Mountain Range was a dreadful forbidden area. There were countless high-ranked spirit beasts in its depths. So, ordinary people couldn't get close to it.
Ling Xiao's whole body was stained with blood as he went deeper into the mountain range. He had beheaded many seventh-ranked spirit beasts. He had also harvested many high-ranked spirit herbs.
Shi Mu had finally found an opponent who could fight him to his heart's content after half a month.
"Human, leave quickly. Otherwise, this king will swallow you!" A lion-headed, tiger-bodied mutated spirit beast glared at him and shouted.
It was the descendant of the Golden Lion and the Heavenly Tiger. It possessed the powerful bloodline of the two spirit beasts. It had already reached the peak of rank seven.
Once a mutated spirit beast had mutated, it would basically possess some kind of unknown ability of Tenbin.
Not only did this liger beast possess the Golden Lion Race's terrifying lion roar, it also possessed the Heavenly Tiger Race's Heavenly Winged God Wings that could summon hurricanes. When it flew, its speed could be said to be invincible within the same rank.
When Ling Xiao saw this mighty mutated spirit beast, he immediately had the intention to subdue it.
This was an extremely rare mutated spirit beast. It had an incomparably great potential for advancement in the future.
Normally, a human could only sign a master-servant contract with one spirit beast. If they wanted to sign another spirit beast, they would have to give up on the previous spirit beast.
Of course, Ling Xiao didn't intend to give up on the Golden Wolf King. Furthermore, he wasn't a tamed lion. If he wanted to subdue this liger beast, he would have to make it submit completely and make it follow him willingly.
The higher the spirit beast's rank, the more intelligent it was. It was undoubtedly extremely difficult to make them submit. After all, they also had a prideful side. If they were forced into a corner, they would rather self-destruct than submit.
"Should I call you Little Lion or Little Tiger? Just submit to this king!"
Ling Xiao grabbed a piece of spirit beast meat and took a big bite. Then, he looked at the Lion Tiger Beast with a smile on his face.
"Human, you must be tired of living. This king will swallow you alive!" The liger beast was furious at being looked down upon.
Roar!
A terrifying lion roar soared into the sky. The trees around it were all toppled. Countless sound waves shot towards Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao pursed his lips into a smile. At the same time, he opened his mouth and a dragon's roar rushed out.
Rumble rumble rumble!
Two terrifying sound waves collided, causing the trees and rocks in the vicinity to turn into dust.
Ling Xiao didn't dare to be careless. He took the initiative to attack first. His figure rushed forward and at the same time, he struck out with the Nine Suns Heaven Burning Fist. Waves of scorching and powerful fist energy tore through the sky and smashed towards the huge liger beast.
The liger beast was a peak seventh rank spirit beast. Its reaction speed was naturally not weak. With a flap of its tiger-patterned wings, it only left an afterimage in its original position. In the next moment, it appeared above Ling Xiao's head.
"Human, go to hell!" The liger beast opened its big mouth and pounced towards Ling Xiao.
Limitless Doppelganger!
Ling Xiao instantly split into 48 figures. The liger beast was immediately dazzled. It didn't know which one was Ling Xiao.
48 figures attacked at the same time. One after another, brilliant suns smashed down from the sky. The power was incomparably valiant, enough to destroy several mountains.
Bang bang!
Every fist move was enough to destroy mountains and sever rivers. Every ray of extreme Yang flames burned the sky and evaporated the sea.
The liger beast was caught off guard and was blasted head-on. Its huge body smashed down and flattened the mountain below. Countless trees and spirit herbs were destroyed in a day.
Ling Xiao prepared to attack again. However, the liger beast had already rushed up. Its speed was like lightning, so fast that people couldn't react in time.
Even if Ling Xiao's perception was astonishing, he still couldn't avoid it.
Bang!
Ling Xiao was directly sent flying by the liger beast. His chest felt an unbearable pain and he couldn't help but vomit a mouthful of blood.
The liger beast was already at the peak of the seventh rank and was also a mutated attack-type spirit beast. Its strength was definitely comparable to a human half-sage's attack. It was reasonable for Ling Xiao to suffer from internal injuries.
If it was an ordinary high-level Mystic Emperor, even if he didn't die from this collision, he would only be left with half a life.
The liger beast flew over again. Its pair of tiger-patterned wings stirred up turbulence in all directions.
This time, Ling Xiao was prepared. He didn't dodge, and each of his punches was accompanied by a blazing sun.
The liger beast also used an elemental attack. Rays of golden energy collided with Ling Xiao's Bright Sun Fists.
This part of the world shook. The low-level spirit beasts within a radius of tens of thousands of miles were so scared that they crawled on the ground. Many of them even fled far away. They didn't dare to rest nearby.
"Awesome! Come at me more fiercely!" Ling Xiao shouted with incomparable excitement.
"Damn human! You have angered this king. You will suffer. Stay here and be my human pet!"
The liger beast king didn't expect that this human, who seemed to have a weaker aura, could actually fight with it. It was extremely annoyed.
After it spat out an incomparably powerful golden light, it waved its tiger-patterned wings at the same time. Suddenly, a pair of transformed tiger-patterned wings wrapped around Ling Xiao.
This pair of materialized wings was like two canopy canopies that enveloped Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao was tired of dodging the golden light attack. When he was faced with the shroud of the transformed wings, he hurriedly threw a punch to break it.
However, the transformed wings were extremely flexible. They only protruded after being hit, but they didn't break.
The transformed wings directly wrapped around Ling Xiao. They immediately shrank and bound Ling Xiao's body, making it difficult for him to move.
This was the Heavenly Tiger Clan's Tenbin divine ability, "Binding"!
The more Ling Xiao struggled, the tighter the binding force became, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.
The liger beast didn't attack anymore. It actually stopped and laughed at Ling Xiao. "Haha, human, be my human pet. Otherwise, this king will swallow you alive!"
"Mutated spirit beasts are indeed extraordinary, but I like it," Ling Xiao muttered to himself. Then, he smiled faintly and said loudly, "You want me to be your human pet? A little lion like you isn't qualified!"
After he shouted, Ling Xiao's aura instantly soared. He fully unleashed his thirty-five times combat power. His entire appearance changed. Dragon horns, dragon scales … one after another appeared.
This transformation was slightly different from the previous one. The characteristics of Dragons were even more obvious.
Bang!
In the face of absolute power, anything could be turned into nothingness.
The transformed wings that bound Ling Xiao was directly shattered!