Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 584 - 369: Golden Core Ninth Layer

Chapter 584 -369: Golden Core Ninth Layer

Thunderous roars!

Over the vast and boundless sea, a hundred-zhang-wide arc of Red Gold tunneling light, like a meteor, blazingly streaked across the sea’s surface, creating giant waves in its wake.

“Demon Star, you are too bullying! My Mystic Sky Sect has many Nascent Soul Ancestors. If you kill me, the Ancestors will certainly not let you go,”

bellowed True Master Jin Hua from within the Red Gold tunneling light, his golden robe and face gleaming as if cast from gold, and he was beside himself with rage.

At this moment, far behind him on the sea’s surface, a starlight was relentlessly pursuing. It seemed unhurried, yet it closed in steadily, bringing an overwhelming sense of oppression.

Now and then, a Sword Light of the stars would instantaneously fly from behind and slash down on the Red Gold tunneling light. With each strike, the tunneling light would violently tremble and significantly shrink in size.

This ball of Red Gold tunneling light was the result of True Master Jin Hua’s Golden Core Divine Power. Although it was repeatedly hit by the Geng Gold Sword Pill, it showed no signs of shattering.

Despite this, True Master Jin Hua still had a complexion as dark as iron, his heart filled with both shock and anger.

Behind the starlight, the expressionless Zhao Sheng ignored the threats from True Master Jin Hua. With continuous flicks of his sword finger, Geng Metal Sword Pills shot out one after another, transforming into “meteors” that struck the tunneling light up ahead.

Seeing the Demon Star giving no response, with his intent to kill evidently set,

True Master Jin Hua, who ranked the twenty-first on the Wanted Gold List and had reached the Seventh Level of Golden Core, felt a surge of fury in his eyes that blazed with ferocity.

“Very well! Since you insist on being thoroughly ruthless, I will give you a good fight. Kill!”

A heaven-shaking battle cry erupted, blasting the nearby sea into a thick mist, spreading over ten miles and momentarily obstructing the line of sight.

True Master Jin Hua clasped his hands in incantation; the golden light around his body surged as the Void trembled incessantly, conjuring a massive phantom of a Red Gold Roc with wings stretching towards the sky. Countless feathers, sharp as Golden Essence Long Swords, flickered with an unrivaled keen golden gleam.

The Red Gold Roc flapped its wings, and instantly, resounding sounds filled heaven and earth. Countless light rays of Red Gold, like a storm, burst forth out of nowhere. Then, with one turn of light, they condensed into innumerable, dense Golden Essence Flying Knives, each over a zhang long, covering a hundred zhang in the Void.

“Go!” True Master Jin Hua pointed his finger.

The sky full of golden knives shot out, their surfaces covered in densely-packed Golden Light Runes that interconnected to form arrays. They flashed through the mist and storm, slicing down in a torrent.

Clang clang clang!

The knives rang out like thunder, echoing for a hundred miles.

Thousands of Golden Essence Long Knives all struck the ball of azure starlight.

True Master Jin Hua was overjoyed at the sight.

However, the next second, his smile froze on his face.

The starlight, like a snuffed candle, flickered out of existence in an instant.

“Ah, Mystic Sky Roc King, protect my truth—”

True Master Jin Hua’s face drastically changed as he bellowed, but before he could finish, he felt a bone-chilling murderous intent hit him from behind his head.

Hum!

A hum of Sword Intent surged into his Soul Sea, and in a blink of an eye, a heaven-piercing giant sword descended from the sky, forcefully cleaving into the Sea of the Soul, directly striking the Divine Soul.

How formidable was Zhao Sheng’s Godslaying Sword Intent, refined over seven lifetimes of cultivation!

Striking true, True Master Jin Hua was immediately plunged into darkness, his Divine Soul in excruciating pain, riddled with cracks. His mind went completely blank.

“Die!”

At that moment, Zhao Sheng suddenly appeared not far in front of True Master Jin Hua and uttered a low shout, swiftly pointing a finger.

The Geng Metal Sword Pill shot out immediately, like a meteor tearing through the void, and in an instant, it pierced through True Master Jin Hua’s abdominal Dantian, breaking the Golden Core into countless flecks of golden light.

Woo!

In the sky above the sea, a golden column of Spiritual Energy a thousand zhang tall and a hundred zhang wide coalesced. The Red Gold Roc gave a despairing screech before shattering into vast specks of gold, merging into the Spiritual Energy column.

Zhao Sheng stood upon the Void, gazing at the Spiritual Energy column, a trace of regret flickering across his eyes.

Since ancient times, few have possessed Golden Cores, and True Golden Cores were even rarer, one in a hundred.

If True Master Jin Hua hadn’t been marked for death by the doorkeeper, Zhao Sheng wouldn’t have traveled thousands of miles to kill him.

Imagine that, the Mystic Sky Sect isn’t one to provoke; as the dominant power in the East He Continent and second only to the Heavenly Dao Sect, it’s one of the top forces with a plethora of experts. In the sect, the number of Nascent Souls totals more than several tens.

“Except…”

Zhao Sheng sighed silently, and with a thought, True Master Jin Hua’s corpse flew up from below, then was stored by him inside the Corpse Ghost Bag.

Hum!

A sword rainbow soared into the sky and, in a flash, shot up into the high Cloud Sea, disappearing without a trace.

…

As tides ebb and flow, time flies like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

This day, beneath the spiraling vortex of a sea eye a hundred miles deep, specks of colorful spirit light silently drifted towards one side of the stone wall.

Here, in the dark where the spirit light couldn’t reach, in the thickness of the perennial darkness, pairs of “eyes” blinked intently, fixated on that stone wall with a deep greedy longing in their gaze.

Ghostly entities, mostly shapeless and incorporeal, thus can endure the immense sea pressure far better than cultivators.

In the Wuzhou Sea, among the countless ghostly creatures, a very few “lucky ones” survived the relentless killings and arrived at this deep “Ghostly Land,” a haven for ghostly creatures.

As time went by, although the vast majority still met their doom, turned to ash, either casually obliterated by Nascent Soul giant demons meditating here or preyed upon by strong kin, the sheer number of ghostly creatures meant that, as long as they could withstand the surge of Earth’s Core energy and evade numerous tribulations, eventually strong Ghost Kings would emerge from this Ghostly Land.

In the past millennium, at least nearly thirty Nascent Soul Ghost Kings have emerged from the Earth Core Sea Eye, attesting to the special benefits this environment has for ghostly creatures.