Witch Wind

Chapter 365 Black Abyss Market (Part 2)

Xing Tianli was quite startled by this age.

For ordinary creatures, ten thousand years is just one year.

Such miraculous blood essence, such a strange race, such a slow growth rate... doesn't that mean this child will need to grow for hundreds of thousands of years to have enough combat power?

Xing Tianli looked with a hint of pity in the direction the father and son had flown off to.

No wonder the father looked so bitter and resentful; they might be the last two people in their tribe.
He was holding that poison pill, was he going to die together with the enemy who wiped out his clan?

"Tsk," Xing Tianli shook his head, chanted a spell in a low voice, and used a secret technique in the direction the father and son had gone to activate the World Mother Tree sap that had just been injected into their bodies.

That father was already at the critical stage of the Great Luo realm. The power of the Mother Tree of Life erupted, which could quickly regenerate an arm for him and further stimulate his life essence, causing his cultivation to soar. The characteristic of this race is that the longer they live, the stronger their life energy becomes, and the higher their cultivation level and the greater their power.

The power of the Mother Tree of Life perfectly matches the characteristics of their race.

Xing Tianli was quite generous just now, giving them the sap of the Mother Tree of Life, enough to save this father a million years of life journey and allow his cultivation to directly break through to the peak of the Great Luo realm.

Similarly, this child can also save millions of years of time and possess the power of the Great Luo Realm.

Hopefully, after this father and son leave the Black Abyss and regain their senses, they won't cause any ridiculous drama of father and son not recognizing each other—cough, the innocent and lively little son suddenly turned into an eight-foot-tall man... that shock seems a bit too much, huh?

Don't ask, it's just the Black Abyss's magical methods.

Ha ha!

Xing Tianli clapped his hands and casually gave Xiao Jiaolv an order to quickly clone more bodies and allow more ghost slaves to take over—the life forms of this father and son were indeed extremely rare.

In the future, they may succeed in their revenge and quietly multiply their race in some corner of the boundless chaos.

Perhaps, their revenge failed, and they were dismembered by their enemies, or kept in captivity, their blood continuously drained from them.

But it doesn't matter. No matter what their future holds, their mythology will continue to unfold in this boundless starry sky. Xing Tianli has made up his mind that in the future, he can choose a beautiful planet and use the blood and essence of this father and son to naturally conceive some offspring for them.

Some are genuine descendants of this ethnic group.

I wonder, what if, many, many years later, this father and son suddenly encounter a group of descendants who are directly related to them by blood? Would they angrily accuse their father or son of having affairs outside?

Uh, don't ask, the answer is that Hei Yuan is taking the blame!
The Tower of Creation continued its journey, and no more lucky individuals who had left the Black Abyss were encountered along the way.

Ahead, a rather bright ball of light appeared, and the light from the Black Abyss Jade Slip pointed directly in that direction.

Xing Tianli breathed a sigh of relief; they had finally arrived.

It was a white bone pillar, ten thousand feet tall and tens of feet thick, smooth and flawless all over. It was round, straight, perfectly round from top to bottom, as smooth as a mirror, and could even reflect a person's image.

A pale red flame enveloped the entire skeleton, burning silently.

This enormous white skeleton is the greatest source of light in this boundless darkness.

Beneath these bones lay a withered yellow leaf, its shape somewhat resembling that of a ginkgo leaf. The slender petiole stretched for nearly a hundred miles, while the withered yellow leaf itself was several tens of miles in circumference.

The leaves are so large, yet very thin, only about the thickness of a normal leaf.

Such a thin leaf floated quietly beneath the white bone. The faint red light emitted by the bone illuminated the entire leaf, as well as the dozens of messy streets and haphazardly piled-up buildings above it.

Thatched huts, wooden houses, caves dug on small hills made of mud, tents made of three wooden poles covered with a layer of animal hide, and some people even set up four poles, covered with a few pieces of straw paper, and slept on the ground, clearly using them as their daily dwellings.

Dozens of streets were filled with such messy, scattered, and dilapidated goods.

There are very few two-story buildings, not large in area, but they stand out like cranes among chickens, quite conspicuous among the leaves over this area of ​​dozens of miles.

Around this leaf, a lot of random things were floating.

There is a flagship with technological capabilities.

There are magical dragons.

There are flying islands in the fantasy/martial arts genre.

There are also some strange and bizarre things that you don't even know what they are... For example, a giant soft-shelled turtle that is over a hundred feet long, fresh, lively, and exceptionally fierce, is stretching its long neck and sneakily gnawing on a silver leaf that extends from a floating palace next to it.

Several young boys rushed out of the palace, wielding sticks and smashing them wildly at the head of the giant turtle.

On the back of the giant turtle, two men in black flew into a rage, brandishing their gleaming swords and charging toward the children... But the children roared and suddenly transformed into alien gods with jackal heads and human bodies, standing three zhang tall and clad in black and gold armor.

The two men in black let out a strange cry and had just knelt down to beg for mercy when the Jackal God grinned savagely. He swung his club, smashing their swords to pieces and exploding their heads with a single blow. He easily killed the greedy giant turtle, took out his strange curved knife, and cut the giant turtle into large chunks of fresh meat in front of everyone, then happily carried it back to the palace.

Those two men in black were none other than the peak of the Great Luo realm.

That giant soft-shelled turtle was also at the late-stage Great Luo realm.

As for those few Jackal Outer Gods... Xing Tianli couldn't see through their cultivation levels, only knowing that they were very strong, extremely strong, terrifyingly strong, and should have an overwhelming advantage over him.

Quasi-saint?

Xing Tianli was a little confused.

Quasi-Saints—those are beings who bear the title of 'Saint,' truly terrifying figures who have transcended the mortal realm. And here, five, six, seven, or eight of them have suddenly appeared? And judging from their appearance, they seem to be attendants or servants?

Xing Tianli took a deep look at the palace.

The high, withered-yellow walls, built of massive stones about ten feet long and wide, form clean and crisp courtyard walls. At the four corners of the palace walls stand oddly shaped obelisks, each about a hundred feet tall. The pale yellow spires are gilded, and each of the four spires is engraved with a different rune: one heavy, one light, one agile, and one lively.

The runes were unfamiliar, but their meaning was immediately apparent – ​​the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind.

At the very center of each of the four runes is a strange eye-shaped mark. The deep black-blue eye is embedded in the center of the four runes of earth, water, fire and wind, as if it were a living thing, looking down on all living beings.

This palace, covering more than a thousand acres, is surrounded by high walls. On the top of some of the walls, green branches extend out, covered with fresh and vibrant green leaves. This was the trigger that caused the tragedy just now.

In the very center, a pyramid can be faintly seen!

Ok.

pyramid?
Xing Tianli looked down at the Tongtian Creation Tower, which was also shaped like a pyramid, pondered for a while, then waved his sleeve and put the Tongtian Creation Tower away, releasing a flying boat of the Heavenly Immortal level to carry everyone.

It's best not to have any karmic entanglement with the people in that palace.

The power of those jackal-headed outer gods is truly terrifying. If they see the shape of the Tower of Creation and insist on coming over to claim it as their treasure, Xing Tianli will be in deep trouble.

lucky.

In the Black Abyss, even the power of immortal souls is not very effective; naked eyesight becomes the primary means of observing the outside world. Just now, Xing Tianli was still quite a distance from that palace, and the physical bodies of those outer gods did not seem to be very strong. Their naked eyesight was only ordinary, and they had not yet detected the existence of the Tower of Creation.

The celestial flying boat slowly made its way towards the giant ginkgo leaf. On the various warships, magical artifacts, and mounts scattered around the leaf, all sorts of strange creatures gradually noticed the approaching Xing Tianli and his group. Some watched from afar, some gestured in their direction, and even more outrageous, several creatures covered in pustules, extremely ugly and resembling skinned hyenas, rode mounts that looked just like skinned old ducks, flapping their wings and flying towards them.

These guys, emanating a suffocating stench, shouted loudly at Xing Tianli and his group.

That strange law was still in effect. Their language was unfamiliar, but Xing Tianli and his group could hear what they were saying: "Hey, where are you from? What are you doing in the Black Abyss? We have firsthand information on all the big shots in the Black Abyss. We can trade it to you for 100 million cubic meters of innate energy. We'll sell it to you cheaply."

One hundred million cubic meters, primordial energy?
These were the words of a few ugly fellows, which were directly translated into a chilling feeling that Xing Tianli could understand.

One cubic meter is a volume. The innate energy is the purest and most flawless primordial energy transformed by Xing Tianli, containing a strong Daoist charm—the Daoist charm it contains is the kind of innate Dao.

Such as the innate fire element, the innate water element, and so on.

Xing Tianli sneered.

In those former settlements of "impoverished families," what he traded was merely acquired spiritual energy containing acquired Dao principles, not primordial Qi containing innate Dao principles.
Do you know the price ratio between innate and acquired factors?
It's more than one to ten thousand!
The innate path is no small matter. Unless one has an extremely powerful backer or profound good fortune, ordinary cultivators and ordinary beings can only come into contact with the acquired path and cultivate acquired techniques...

To be honest, the value of innate Daoist essence and the use of innate Qi is—to become a saint!
Once you reach the pinnacle of the Great Luo realm, if you want to become a Quasi-Saint, Half-Saint, or even strive for the Saintly position, acquired spiritual energy and acquired laws are completely useless!

One hundred million cubic meters of innate energy in exchange for a little bit of character information?

Xing Tianli remained silent and continued to steer the flying boat forward.

Seeing this, the few vile fellows grew even bolder. Extremely arrogant, they rode their mounts, which were covered in pus and constantly spitting out fluid, rapidly approaching the airship: "We can talk it over, we can talk it over. If a hundred million isn't enough, we can accept a few thousand less... This is your first time in the Black Abyss, so you must be careful and don't be fooled or deceived!"

Black Hyena leaped out, wielding a spiked club, and swung it fiercely at the group of guys; "You blind fools, daring to provoke the True Lord, get the hell out of here!"

'choke!'

Black Hyena's all-out attack was easily blocked by the leader with a single finger. Sparks flew as several fangs were knocked out of the celestial artifact-level spiked club. Black Hyena's arms trembled, his whole body shook, and he staggered back two steps before plopping down on the flying boat, causing it to shake violently.

Several ugly fellows suddenly brightened up.

They exclaimed with delight, "Hey? A mere Celestial Immortal? Oh my, the price has gone up, gone up! Ten billion cubic meters of innate energy, ten billion... If you don't have it, grab it, grab it, take it to the Black Abyss Market, you can sell it for a good price."

Their viscous gazes, filled with deep malice, scrutinized the three girls behind Xing Tianli from head to toe: "These three girls can fetch a good price... Many men from various races like these delicate, tender girls!"

Zhong Nu slowly took two steps forward and stood next to Xing Tianli.

With a 'hum,' the bronze bell around her neck emitted concentric circles of black ripples radiating a strong aura of bad luck, which churned and surged towards the group of men. Within those black ripples, countless twisted, venomous curse runes swirled and danced, like a swarm of wasps.

In an instant, chaos reigned all around, and a distorted feeling that made people uneasy, twisted and tumbled their souls, and caused them immense discomfort swept through the surrounding area.

The ugly fellows, as if they had seen a ghost, let out a strange cry in unison, and turned their mounts around and left.

Is it too late?

The black ripples moved with lightning speed, sweeping across their bodies in an instant. These black light patterns were like living things; upon touching these guys' bodies, they 'whooshed' in, carrying countless curse runes, and fiercely burrowed into their bodies.

“The cursed path… this evil thing… this path that harms others without benefiting oneself… you crazy woman… ugly woman…” Several ugly creatures screamed hysterically, desperately driving their mounts to flee towards their lair.

Their nest was a large, haphazardly constructed hut made of wooden planks, and inside were more than a thousand other ugly creatures like themselves.

Their own people also witnessed what was happening here.

As these guys fled in a sorry state, with only a hundred miles or so left to their lair, a particularly old-looking creature covered in spurting pus suddenly screamed from within the lair.

More than a thousand ugly creatures attacked simultaneously, and sticky, bloody beams of light shot from their fingertips, instantly piercing through the bodies of these unfortunate fellows and blasting them and their mounts to smithereens.

The sounds of "poof" and "poof" were incessant as these guys were shattered. Their body fragments collapsed into large swaths of pus, bubbling, emitting smoke, and emitting an unbearable stench. The pus, containing various plagues and toxins, spread wildly through the void...

The strange laws of this dark void were activated.

These lifeless fragments of flesh and blood existed for only a breath before vanishing into thin air, leaving not a trace behind.

Inside that nest, the extremely old man pointed at Xing Tianli and jumped around wildly: "Bastards, you killed the noble people of Sulu... You are doomed... The great Sulu clan and you evil, cruel, and brutal murderers are mortal enemies... We will fight to the death!"

Xing Tianli looked at these guys with utter dismay.

Didn't you guys stir up trouble?

Furthermore, they've fallen into the abyss, and they still call themselves noble? They still have the energy to say such fierce things; it's truly absurd!

Raising his right hand and pointing a middle finger sharply, Xing Tianli said coldly, "Want revenge? Come on, I'm waiting for you!"

The Sulu clan was shouting loudly, but after yelling for a long time, they all looked at Zhong Nu beside Xing Tian Li with awe. As a result, their curses became louder and more unpleasant, but no one rushed up to fight Xing Tian Li to the death.

The airship slowly approached the ginkgo leaf.

With a "poof," the Black Abyss Jade Slip that had been floating and pointing the way in front of Xing Tianli exploded. Fragments sprayed out, quickly turning into wisps of light and disappearing without a trace.

There was no fluctuation of magical power, no leakage of energy, yet it shattered so easily.

It's as easy as a naughty child casually making a ball of sand, playing with it in his hand for a few moments, getting bored, and then tossing it to the ground, where it crumbles into the other grains of sand.

Disappeared so cheaply, so casually.

Xing Tianli watched the wisps of light rapidly dissipate, feeling a chill run down his spine. The Black Abyss Jade Slip, which he couldn't harm even with conventional attacks and all his might when he was at the Taiyi Realm, had been so easily 'abandoned'.

Xing Tianli was certain that if he were to use the Black Abyss Jade Slip as a defensive magic weapon, its sturdiness would be no more than that of an ordinary Great Luo Immortal Treasure. Judging from the scene of the Black Abyss Jade Slip shattering, it was very likely just a temporary tool that the Heavenly Diviner had casually kneaded, and not a proper treasure at all.

The tool, which was casually kneaded, has such power.

What does the Celestial Calculator look like in his true form?
What earth-shattering power does He possess?

What frustrated Xing Tianli even more was that, with his blood boiling, he recklessly went to find the Black Abyss and the Heavenly Calculator. He had already come this far, and there was no turning back.

If one turns back, one's resolve to follow the Dao will crumble.

There is no doubt about it.

Taking a deep breath, Xing Tianli led his group onto the thin layer of ginkgo leaves.

After putting away their flying boat, Xing Tianli and the others walked several dozen steps along a street—which was actually just a leaf vein several meters wide on the page—when they heard a faint weeping sound coming from the roadside. Out of nowhere, a simple grave appeared by the roadside, and a ghostly figure dressed in a red robe with gold patterns, thick-soled official boots, and messy hair with seven or eight gold hairpins stuck in it, sitting in front of the grave and wailing loudly.

Xing Tianli frowned and gave a wink to Liu Jing and the other two women.

The four of them, along with Zhong Nu, all shut their mouths and walked forward without uttering a sound. Xing Tianli and the three women, Liu Jing, were proficient in various witchcrafts and knew all sorts of unorthodox techniques. They could ignore the figure that suddenly appeared by the roadside and be fine.

Zhong Nu, on the other hand, was indifferent and didn't care whether the figure lived or died.

Black Mane stared wide-eyed and asked in a muffled voice, "Hey girl, why are you crying?"

Xing Tianli took a deep, deep, deep breath and stopped in his tracks with no choice—how did this guy manage to survive in that 'down-and-out' neighborhood for so many years?
(End of this chapter)