Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 585 - 369 Golden Core Ninth Layer_2

Chapter 585 -369 Golden Core Ninth Layer_2

Zhao Sheng had secretly cultivated in this spiritual realm for many years; it was inevitable that he would be discovered by the ghostly creatures, especially since he had done so intentionally.

After a long time, a millennium-old ghost could no longer resist the allure of a fresh human soul and flashed into the stone wall.

At the same time, in the cave mansion deep within the stone wall, Zhao Sheng suddenly opened his eyes and looked outward. Twin beams of divine light shot out from his pupils, instantly illuminating the cave mansion with a bright glow.

Just at that moment, a lantern-sized pitch-black shadow drilled out of the stone wall and was immediately struck by the divine light, slicing the shadow into four segments on the spot.

Boom!

A flash of light gleamed from the lotus seal on Zhao Sheng’s brow, and a colossal Red Lotus, vivid as life, bloomed in the air, swiftly enveloping the pitch-black shadow within it.

Ah!

A piercing ghostly scream suddenly burst forth, sending a shockwave of astonishing spiritual energy straight into Zhao Sheng’s Soul Sea, transforming into a huge monster with a thousand heads and hands.

However, his expression did not change, as if he didn’t take this giant monster seriously at all.

The next instant, a nearly condensed five-colored giant hand materialized out of thin air and plunged into the body of the pitch-black shadow. With a gentle scoop, a baby fist-sized pitch-black Soul Core was extracted.

“Ah——”

The ghostly wail came to an abrupt halt, and the monstrous figure in the Soul Sea dissipated into nothingness. The lantern-sized ghostly body also exploded into a shower of black light, all of it cold and sinister ghostly qi.

The Karma Fire Red Lotus, stimulated by the ghostly qi, expanded violently like oil in a raging fire, burning more fiercely, consuming the ghostly qi in the cave.

With the Soul Core in its grasp, the five-colored giant hand flew back to Zhao Sheng’s side. Opening the palm, the Soul Core dropped from above, landing in Zhao Sheng’s hand and was then casually stored away in his chest.

This series of movements was fluid and practiced, with the sureness of a routine performed countless times over a decade.

Ten years is a long time, long enough for a middle-aged person to grow old.

Yet ten years is also fleeting, sometimes a single closed-door cultivation session would span several decades.

For Zhao Sheng, these past ten years had been the period of his greatest advancement in this lifetime.

In these years, he had broken through the barriers of the Golden Core Middle Stage and Late Stage with irresistible momentum. His cultivation advanced from the Golden Core Fourth Level and reached the verge of the Great Perfection Realm of the Ninth Layer.

Moreover, due to having ferried the souls of many old ghosts, the Karma Fire Red Lotus had already advanced to the twenty-fourth grade, beginning to show the rudiments of the Nascent Soul Domain.

As of today, Zhao Sheng had started planning how to break through the Nascent Soul Realm.

Hum!

The Formation in the cave mansion was suddenly triggered, emitting an ongoing hum as countless five-colored Array Patterns appeared on the floor and stone walls, one after another. Layers of red, white, blue, black, and yellow light barriers emerged in succession, enveloping Zhao Sheng’s entire body.

“Not good!” Zhao Sheng’s face changed drastically.

Before he could finish speaking, an overwhelming spiritual pressure had already descended. In the blink of an eye, the cave mansion’s stone walls were tainted with vast swathes of black and even the multiple Formation Barriers were eroded by the darkness, layer upon layer of them shattering in succession.

At the same time, a sinister and evil Divine Thought suddenly burst into Zhao Sheng’s mind: “Hehe! What a cunning boy, your tender and smooth skin looks quite delectable.”

Zhao Sheng felt his scalp tingle as, out of the blue, a Nascent Soul Ghost King had found him.

“Sigh, can’t use this place anymore.”

Suppressing his headache, Zhao Sheng sighed inwardly before his figure suddenly disappeared from the cave mansion.

“Roar! Damn it, where did the person go!”

Seeing the prey that had been right before its mouth disappear without a trace, the Nascent Soul Ghost King immediately flew into a rage and let out a fierce howl. The cave mansion shook violently, and all the Formation Barriers collapsed under a single roar.

In the next moment, a humanoid ghostly figure appeared in the cave mansion. Dark as a Black Hole, it absorbed all light the moment it materialized, and from within the darkness rose a tremendously strong Divine Thought, which scanned the surroundings over an area of dozens of miles in an instant.

However, it failed to find the slightest trace, as if the person had vanished into thin air.

The Nascent Soul Ghost King, unwilling to give up, prepared to unleash its Divine Thought at full strength, expanding its reach to hundreds of miles.

Little did it know that as soon as it had this thought, powerful presences began to emerge one after another from the surrounding darkness. One of these presences shone like a Great Sun—overbearing and brash.

“Wuu wuu!”

Upon sensing this presence, the Ghost King immediately felt an extreme fear and, forgetting about searching for the person, turned into an intangible shadow and fled the cave mansion, hiding among the group of ghosts.

In a simple stone room over forty miles away from the cave mansion, Zhao Sheng also sensed the astonishing momentum rising from the Abyss below and a powerful Divine Thought swept through the area. It raced past his location, not even attempting to conceal its existence.

Above him, in the Wanhua Cave Mansion, all the Cultivators were also alarmed by this Divine Thought, turning pale with fright.

The owner of this Divine Thought was someone no one dared to provoke; even the elderly gatekeeper would often avoid it at all costs.

The Demon Octopus King!

A Tenth Rank Demon Emperor with Divinity Transformation Battle Power whose flesh was close to the state of “Undying and Immortal.” As long as it did not leave the Sea Eye, there was hardly anyone in this world who could kill it.

If not for the current Sect leader of the Heavenly Dao Sect wielding a Church Suppressing Taoist Artifact and having compelled, a hundred years ago, the Demon Octopus King to sign a soul contract that restrained it from killing at will,

perhaps the Earth Core Sea Eye would have already become the lair of the Thousand Clawed Ghost Worm.

“Let’s go!”

With a thought, Zhao Sheng’s form suddenly became void.

In an instant, he appeared in the Cultivation Room on the Floating Island’s cave mansion.

Moments later, the door of the stone room was opened, and Zhao Sheng walked out.

He looked up to see a Jade Talisman circling non-stop in mid-air, scattering specks of clear light.

With a wave of his hand, the Jade Talisman fell into his grasp. As his Divine Sense probed into it, Zhao Sheng’s eyes suddenly revealed a delighted expression: