Cultivation Kill

"Ow—"

Although Shen Zige extinguished the flames, the monkey demon still saw Shen Zige walking towards it. Its only remaining eye was flashing red, like a light in the darkness.

When enemies meet, the monkey demon leaps up and unleashes thunder. From a distance, he digs out a fist-sized rock from the tunnel wall and hurls it at Shen Zige!

call out--

A whooshing sound rang out, and stones came hurtling towards them like cannonballs.

Shen Zige sensed the danger with his divine sense and immediately ducked to avoid it. The rock flew over his head and hit him behind him, the strong wind blowing his hair. It was truly extremely dangerous!

Taking advantage of Shen Zige's moment of evasion, the monkey demon pounced and closed the distance between itself and Shen Zige to ten meters.

Five Elements Spell - Golden Light Shield!

Shen Zige quickly conjured a golden shield to block the way.

The monkey demon swung his right hand swiftly, shattering the golden light shield that Shen Zige had painstakingly conjured.

"Bah—"

Sparks flickered, and a piercing sound echoed throughout the dark tunnel.

In the flickering firelight, the mud and dust on both sides of the passageway were shaken off in a flurry.

The monkey demon, with its mid-stage Spirit Condensation realm strength, could easily shatter Shen Zige's magic!

Petrification spell, fire spell.

Shen Zige gathered her spiritual energy and quickly cast a spell, with two spells rushing towards the monkey demon almost simultaneously.

The petrification spell was aimed at the monkey demon's heart, while the fire spell was targeted at its single eye.

The monkey demon had no choice but to stop its attack and defend itself by swinging its arms.

Shen Zige's two spells shattered instantly, like eggs hitting a rock, as the monkey demon's hands met. Flames rained down, and many sparks landed on the monkey demon's fur, bursting into flames.

After the petrification spell shattered, some of it remained on the monkey demon's body, seeping into its skin. The monkey demon immediately felt its meridians blocked and its breathing difficult.

The monkey demon channeled its protective spiritual power, attempting to expel the petrification spell.

A flame expanded in the monkey demon's eyes. It turned out to be the second flame spell hidden after the first flame spell. Shen Zige used his divine sense to separate the spell and took advantage of the monkey demon's blind spot to launch a sneak attack!

The monkey demon hurriedly closed its eyes, and a fire spell struck its eyelids, causing a violent explosion!

The monkey demon roared and jumped back several steps.

Shen Zige then fired a series of ice arrows that struck the monkey demon's previous location, allowing it to narrowly avoid the attack; its instinct for danger enabled it to escape!

"More troublesome than I imagined."

Shen Zige continued to use the monkey demon to cover up the spell.

The monkey demon is a born demon with a strong body, but its spiritual sense is much weaker than that of human cultivators. With its eyes closed, it is almost as if it is blind. It can only rely on air currents and its sense of danger to avoid Shen Zige's spells.

The three flames twisted strangely in the air, dodging the monkey demon's waving hands, and struck the monkey demon's body in turn, instantly turning it into a fire monkey!

The monkey demon used all its spiritual power to resist the flames, but the seemingly terrifying flames only burned on the outside of its skin.

However, relying solely on spiritual energy for defense is not a long-term solution. After all, protecting one's entire body with spiritual energy consumes a tremendous amount of energy, at least ten times that of a fire spell. Moreover, the spiritual energy of a mid-stage Spirit Condensation cultivator is only slightly more than twice that of an early-stage Spirit Condensation cultivator. Therefore, it is certain that it cannot outlast Shen Zige!

However, although the monkey demon possessed intelligence, it was not very intelligent and did not understand mathematics or logic. It could not calculate the ratio of spiritual energy consumption between the two sides. It ran around blindly, but could not attack Shen Zige. Shen Zige would not easily let a blind monkey hit him.

Time passes slowly...

The monkey demon's spiritual power was finally exhausted. It stopped spinning around in place and opened its one closed eye to observe the direction of the tunnel, intending to break through and escape!

A water arrow, which had been waiting for a long time, pierced the monkey demon's eye in an instant.

The monkey demon had no spiritual power left to resist and could only turn its head away to dodge.

Unexpectedly, the ice arrow accelerated and veered in mid-air, striking the monkey demon directly in the eye!

In the chaos, the monkey demon covered its aching eye with its hand, and a sharp sword silently sliced ​​across its neck—

Even though the monkey demon had a thick neck, it couldn't withstand the sharpness of the magic weapon sword. A flash of cold light, and its entire head flew up and fell to the ground with a thud.

Shen Zige sheathed her sword, stepped over the monkey demon's corpse, and walked towards the end of the passageway.

He was not proud of defeating the monkey demon. So what if the monkey demon was of a higher level than him? It was just a lowly demon beast!

The fire spell illuminates.

At the end of the passageway was a fence, inside which grew many exotic flowers and plants that Shen Zige did not recognize.

"Night Whisper Flower".

Shen Zige recognized one of the flowers; it was the Night Whisper Flower, which was located at the end of another passage.

The Night Whisper Flower they obtained last time was purple in the firelight, but this time it was black!

"The Thousand-Year Night Whisper Flower!"

Shen Zige now has some understanding of the Night Whisper Flower. Generally, the Night Whisper Flower blooms once every hundred years and is purple; if no one picks it, it will turn black after blooming ten times. Black represents night, and this is the true Night Whisper Flower!

The storage ring cannot preserve living things, otherwise Shen Zige could have put them in along with the soil. Unfortunately, he could only do something wasteful now, pulling out all the flowers and plants inside the fence and throwing them into the storage ring.

"Finished picking."

Shen Zige returned along the way, and once he found a quiet place, he took the Black Night Whisper Flower. He estimated that his divine sense would reach the level of mastery, so that his secret technique *Spiritual Power Burning* would be greatly amplified. Shen Zige estimated that it would be about five times stronger, meaning that the spells he used under the effect of Spiritual Power Burning would be five times more powerful than those used in the early stage of Spirit Condensation!

Previously, when he fought against Shi Yuan, his spiritual energy burning could only reach a little over twice the normal level.

Shi Yuan had also been to the Star Realm Company's reading room and could see the book on the secret technique of burning spiritual energy, so why didn't he use it? Because his divine sense hadn't exceeded his realm by much, so the amplification efficiency was too low. Using it would only improve him a little bit at most, and using it for too long could easily burn his meridians and acupoints!

In the West Wind Valley, Shen Zige casually found an open space to sit down and closed her eyes to cultivate.

He thought of the story of Journey to the West, where the monsters would not eat Tang Sanzang immediately after capturing him, but would choose a good place and day, and wash him clean before eating him. Then Sun Wukong would rescue him. So he could not make such a mistake!

After a week of cultivation, Shen Zige recovered and then took the Black Night Whisper Flower without hesitation.

The medicine took effect, and a powerful aura rushed into his mind. He felt as if he were floating among the clouds. He knew that this was just a virtual spiritual body constructed in his consciousness, existing only in his mental space. Soon, his spiritual body began to rotate and emitted a powerful suction force, absorbing the clouds around him. The clouds became violent, forming a tornado centered on his spiritual body!

a long time--

Shen Zige's mental space storm stopped, and his spiritual body shone brightly in the middle, as if it were gilded.

His Ten Thousand Thoughts Technique has finally progressed from the initial understanding of mind control to mastery!

This is a method of cultivating divine thoughts that Shen Ziming had Zheyun Intelligent Software calculate. Zheyun's one-minute processing speed is comparable to an ordinary person's calculations over billions of years. In other words, even if someone had billions of years, they still couldn't create the Myriad Thoughts Technique!

After mastering mind control, he could already fly on a sword. He wondered how many cultivators in this world could fly on a sword at the Spirit Condensation stage? Shen Zige thought there weren't many, since even Shi Yuan hadn't been able to do it.

It was as if he and Shi Yuan had parted ways on a fork in the road; Shi Yuan worked hard to make money, while he put aside his desire to make money and began to focus on his spiritual practice.

Shi Yuan's methods of making money are not exactly honorable; perhaps in this strange new world, one cannot make money honestly.

After a few attempts and a few falls, Shen Zige mastered the skill of flying on a sword and began to fly upwards.

Seventeen-year-old Shen Zige, having reached the first level of Spirit Condensation, stands proudly amidst the clouds!

He soared through the sky, filled with joy; anyone would be incredibly excited on their first flight!

In the Arena City, he flew into the city on his sword and arrived at the teleportation array. The city guards assumed he was a Foundation Establishment expert, and no one dared to stop him.

"Go to Arena 99."

Shen Zige tossed the spirit stone to a Spirit Condensation stage staff member of the Star Realm Company next to the teleportation array.

"Senior, walk slowly!"

The two staff members dared not use their divine sense to investigate Shen Zige, and said respectfully.