Demon Taming: Start by synthesizing a Lantern Ghost with Divine and Demonic Talents

Chapter 161 160: Beacon Fires and Smoke, A World of Slaughter

As the muddy monster rapidly climbed to the rooftop, it saw the idiot still foolishly enjoying the breeze and looking around.

It smiled smugly and pounced on it without thinking.

The silt and the cold wind grew, forming a large net that tightly enveloped Li Chunfeng.

It enjoys doing this, watching its enemies struggle in agony, trying to escape but powerless, and then gradually sinking into the evil god's resentment, eventually becoming a part of its body.

Just as it was basking in the joy of its first blood, a voice suddenly sounded from behind.

"So what are you?"

I turned around and found myself surrounded.

The enemy it was about to devour stood there unharmed, curiously observing it.

There was also a half-transformed mosquito, a sneaky lantern ghost, and a little Taoist boy with a demonic aura around.

Especially the creature it considered food, with its arrogant and indifferent gaze, looking at it as if it were a dead thing, instantly enraged it.

"I'm not a thing!"

"I am a demon!"

It unleashed an angry shockwave of psychic power, carrying boundless resentment, which swept towards Li Chunfeng.

A lamp of the heart suddenly illuminated the surroundings, dispelling the evil thoughts. Within the area illuminated by the light, it even emitted a "sizzling" sound, invisibly dissolving the evil resentment. Immediately afterward, it was met with an even more malevolent sword formation descending from the sky.

Upon entering, Li Chunfeng encountered such a bizarre and evil creature, causing him to frown deeply.

To deal with such a ferocious creature, the Lesser Heavenly Divine Fiend Sword Formation is naturally the most professional and suitable choice.

The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons are the embodiment of the most ferocious evil energy in the world, and they are not afraid of any filth.

During this time, Li Chunfeng followed Shen Que to learn swordsmanship, and whenever he had time, he would fight inside the sword tower.

The Sword Tower has a very special environment; once inside, you'll find countless immortal sword demons, skilled in all kinds of sword techniques. Fighting against such opponents is extremely beneficial for sword cultivators, leading to rapid improvement.

Especially in sword control, Li Chunfeng started from scratch and made great strides in improvement almost every day.

[Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Nourishing Mind Sword Technique: Level 1, Grade 7 (6114/7000)]

【Sword Heart Summoning and Sword Control Technique: Yellow Rank 10 (158/10000)】

[Minor Heavenly Divine Fiend Sword Formation: Profound Rank 4 (554/4000)]

The lamp also spat out a series of fireballs that crashed into it.

Mosquito Taoist opened his mouth and shot out a black light flash cannon.

Taiyi, despite his small stature, swung his claw out from mid-air, which transformed into a majestic and enormous divine dragon claw formed from azure lightning, fiercely grabbing the mud monster.

Each of these methods is a way to subdue evil spirits. This bunch of demons has met their match.

Struck by several attacks simultaneously, it exploded like gray smoke and vanished without a trace.

The lamp opened its mouth and inhaled deeply. After a while, it conjured an arm and touched its forehead in bewilderment.

Li Chunfeng asked in confusion, "You didn't get any?"

The lantern's head is held aloft by three points.

Just as Li Chunfeng was wondering if the monster was not quite dead yet, a dazzling rhomboid crystal quietly emerged from where the mud had disappeared. At the same time, some inexplicable and mysterious thoughts suddenly appeared deep within his soul.

He immediately became alert, his senses quickly sinking into his inner world, where he discovered a cloud of gray mist wriggling, seemingly trying to form a rune, but it appeared to be quite incomplete.

Detecting crystals with a 'mind's eye'.

[The evil god's fragmented thought has been purified; refining it can enhance divine soul pressure! Time to dissipate: sixty breaths!]

"So this is the rule of killing and plundering?"

Then the writhing gray mist in the small inner world must be the killing intent.

The countdown to its dissipation has begun.

That would be a waste.

Without hesitation, Li Chunfeng used his divine sense to roll the crystal over.

Refining.

After a while, he felt that his spiritual pressure had indeed increased slightly.

However, Li Chunfeng was already cultivating the Yangshen Great Art and had reached the first stage of Divine Embryo Refinement. His divine soul pressure was already extremely high, so this slight improvement was insignificant.

However, the strange appearance of this mud monster that claimed to be a demon made Li Chunfeng cautious.

After all, ordinary monsters don't have things like "evil god's thoughts" after they die.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the black rain was heavy, severely hindering the range of divine perception.

Li Chunfeng's daily divine sense perception, honed through the first stage of his divine embryonic cultivation, could already extend to a distance of 3,330 feet.

However, in this secret realm of slaughter, one could only perceive what lay thirty-three feet away.

Divine perception can only exert one percent of its power.

In this environment, the importance of intelligence becomes all the more apparent.

Let's figure out the situation in the vicinity first.

This post-apocalyptic urban environment is perfect for street fighting and surprise attacks; powerful enemies may be lurking among the skyscrapers.

Moreover, this trip is Taiyi's first real battle since birth.

Although the inheritance of true dragon bloodline will inevitably include the inheritance of combat knowledge, combining knowledge with practice and unleashing one's own strength is still an essential course for Yu Sheng.

Li Chunfeng immediately took his three demonic pets, took a step, and disappeared into the void.

Then it began to appear frequently in various corners of the city's outskirts, walking through the void, leaving behind a cluster of lantern ghost clones wherever it went.

After all 108,000 lantern ghost clones were dispersed...

Li Chunfeng activated a method that was used extremely infrequently.

"Beacon fires and smoke signals!"

This exceptionally difficult spell to upgrade finally revealed its power at this moment.

Using the breath of the soul as fuel and the heart's lamp as a guide, the beacon fire is lit, transforming into invisible plumes of smoke that soar straight into the sky.

This kind of "smoke of war" cannot be captured without a special spiritual perspective.

Only those skilled in eye techniques could possibly discover such strange changes.

But in Li Chunfeng's eyes, it was crystal clear.

I saw.

Clusters of lantern ghosts, like beacon towers forming the Great Wall, are connected by 'beacon fires and smoke signals'.

Suddenly.

On the outskirts of the entire Killing City, invisible flames burned high, completely imprinting the environment of the area into his perception.

Li Chunfeng immediately merged with the lamp.

An endless stream of information was gathered.

It's like streams of data being transmitted from all corners of the world into the central server.

The sheer volume of data was so immense that even with Li Chunfeng's divine soul strength at the Divine Embryo Realm, he was somewhat stunned by the impact.

It felt like being hit on the back of the head with a blunt object.

After he gradually adapted to this new perspective, he discarded the messy and unimportant information, separated the information he didn't care about, and focused on filtering out the information of the Abyss Tribulation contestants. The massive flow of information data gradually became more organized.

"Perception blocked?"

"Hehe, I have the signal fires!"

He hadn't needed this move before because his spiritual perception was sufficient.

There is no need to establish such a massive information reconnaissance network.

But in such an environment where perception is obstructed, the smoke and fire of war are simply perfect for a killing spree.

"When everyone else has become 'blind' and is fighting in a fog, I am the only one who has the overall situation under control and is fighting with the map open. My advantage is not just a little bit."

Thanks to the information network powered by the flames of war, even in the event of danger, one could escape at any time.

"A prodigy of the demon race." Li Chunfeng vanished from his spot in an instant, leaving behind a demon huddled in an abandoned building. The demon had a single horn on his forehead and strange patterns on his face. He was watching the torrential black rain outside the window with a wary expression, unaware that danger was quietly approaching.

A third-tier aura, belonging to the Unicorn Clan.

After obtaining the basic information, Li Chunfeng immediately took action.

The mosquito quietly pounced first and took a bite.

The unicorn demon was also a shrewd one. When it realized that something was wrong with it, its powerful demonic aura suddenly erupted. Just as it was about to crush the Mosquito Daoist in its palm, Taiyi's Azure Thunder Dragon Claw struck first. Li Chunfeng also made a move from the void, like an assassin, silently slashing out a Shattering Void Blade.

The unicorn race is not considered a formidable opponent.

He already had overwhelming strength, and he was also the one who had planned the attack but was caught off guard, so he died peacefully.

Li Chunfeng's killing intent increased once again.

A cluster of blood-red crystals appeared on the corpse of the unicorn demon.

[Unicorn Blood Crystal, purified; refining it can enhance blood and qi! Dissipation time: 90 breaths!]

Different loot items have appeared.

Li Chunfeng refined it, but his face suddenly turned red.

He immediately activated the Night God Breathing Technique, circulating his qi and blood to refine his internal organs and cleanse his marrow.

After a while, he gathered all the blood and qi in his body. He felt that his blood and qi had expanded by a good half percent. The effect of just this one blood crystal was equivalent to a top-grade third-level blood and qi pill.

Moreover, it was directly refined without any other side effects.

There are still pill toxins and impurities in the Qi and Blood Pill. The effect of the blood crystal left by this demon prodigy is far stronger than that of a third-tier Qi and Blood Pill.

of course.

Li Chunfeng's improvement was so great because his martial arts body refinement was far inferior to his spiritual refinement.

The power of [Evil God's Divided Thoughts] is also considerable, but the improvement it received is far inferior to that of [Unicorn Blood Crystal].

When one's Qi and blood are abundant, the progress of refining internal organs will be greatly reduced.

Perhaps this calamity will become my greatest blessing.

"The search for power in killing seems to be an eternal human delusion!"

Just as they finished digesting the blood crystal, another urgent message arrived from the beacon fires.

At the other end of the city, seven survivors of different races seemed to have formed an alliance and were launching a siege against a metal scorpion demon.

"They found the Ten-Man Token so quickly?"

The majority of the group consisted of insightful individuals. Regardless of whether they came from the same place before, finding the Ten-Person Token in the Killing Realm and quickly reaching an agreement to form an alliance was a skill in itself. In such a perilous place, the advantage of having more people immediately became apparent.

The metal scorpion demon (tier 3) on the other side is practically a firepower turret.

It can unleash a barrage of annihilation beams, resembling a surreal robot; a single volley is equivalent to a bombardment of hundreds of beam cannons. Its defensive capabilities are also extremely strong, capable of intermittently unleashing a gravity blast and even short-range flight.

Its strength is extremely formidable.

His killing intent was clearly not weak either.

However, it was also repeatedly defeated by the collective attack of the squad.

They fought fiercely, but failed to notice that many shadowy figures had appeared nearby.

Just as the battle was about to be decided, a fireball suddenly crashed down.

"Let the slaughter begin!"

As long as you maintain a good viewpoint, you won't become too big a target and get focused on by others.

The team was terrified and was about to retaliate when they discovered that the sky was completely covered by these shadowy lantern ghosts. As soul fireballs rained down from the sky, the area below was plunged into a nightmare.

"Huh, one got away."

Li Chunfeng landed on the ground and looked at the swirling soil mark left behind. "It was actually an earth-遁术 (earth-遁术 is a type of magic that allows one to burrow underground)."

All the members of the killing squad were left behind, but surprisingly, the metal scorpion demon that was surrounded managed to escape. It seems that this metal scorpion demon, in its previous battle with that squad, had been hoping to turn the tables and hadn't used its full strength.

Li Chunfeng could catch up with any other escape method, but he could escape underground, and spatial escape methods were not very effective.

He was destined to live.

Li Chunfeng reached out and picked up seven killing and plundering crystals, as well as seven storage treasures, which contained quite a few treasures.

Among them are two divine thought crystals, three blood crystals, and two profound-level magic seeds.

The two magic seeds were useless to him and could not be preserved. He could only regretfully let them dissipate. The thought crystal and blood crystal were both refined.

Three hours later, the entire southern district was completely engulfed in chaos and misery.

Within Li Chunfeng's inner world, a gray rune was gradually taking shape. His divine soul pressure and the thickness of his blood and qi both showed varying degrees of increase.

Only three hours have passed, and hundreds of contestants undergoing tribulations have already lost their lives at his hands.

If they fight all-out, how far can they grow in six days?
Even Li Chunfeng himself dared not imagine it.

However, he doubted that all the survivors in the Killing Realm might not be able to survive until six days later.

"No matter what the rules are in the Killing Realm, or how the One behind it controls everything, all I need to do is become stronger."

Li Chunfeng also didn't forget that in the city center, there were still abyssal monsters yet to emerge.

Before the final battle, strengthening our capabilities is the most important thing.

Wherever the lantern ghost goes, only death remains.

While Li Chunfeng was wreaking havoc, the other beings participating in the Abyss Tribulation had already sensed the danger in the Southern District and began to avoid it without prior agreement.

And then he forced a Voidling, a black-skinned man skilled in void escape techniques, to abandon his teammates and flee into the void.

Li Chunfeng's killing intent rune has finally taken shape.

A profound and mysterious feeling lingered in my heart, shaking my soul.

[Killing Intent: Low-grade Yellow Rank (1%)]

Characteristic: The more kills one makes, the stronger one's killing intent becomes.

After Li Chunfeng tested it out, a massive six-armed phantom suddenly materialized behind him. Each arm of this phantom held a different divine weapon, exuding power and intimidation.

He could feel that once he activated his killing intent, his soul and thoughts would be stained with a layer of gray, and his spirit would begin to be affected by the killing.

While divine thoughts imbued with killing intent certainly amplify their power, they also harm both the attacker and the attacker.

"A pie falling from the sky is never as delicious as it seems."

Fortunately, he was able to easily suppress Huang Jie's killing intent.

But in today's cultivation environment, who can refrain from killing?

The stronger the killing intent, the more intense the killing mood.

If he can no longer suppress his murderous intent, he might become a madman who only knows how to kill, which might be the kind of amusement the gods behind him want to see.

This act, imbued with the essence of slaughter, also brought considerable trouble to Li Chunfeng.

【Om! 】

A loud bang was heard from the sky.

At this moment, all the contestants undergoing tribulations in the Killing Realm looked up at the sky in unison.

[Kill Rankings Now Open!]

[First: 103, Human Race, Three Realms Abyss City]

[Killing those on the leaderboard will directly plunder their Killing Intent!]

On the massive list, there was only one lonely name hanging high in the sky.

Li Chunfeng remained stunned for a long time.

If that were all, it would be fine.

However, under the rules of the Killing Secret Realm, he was transformed into a dark red light bulb, a dark red pillar of light with an ominous aura, ten feet high, which could be seen from a great distance.

He knew that the real test had begun!

(End of this chapter)