Planet Pulverizer: A Mortal's Ascent-Chapter 308: The Spoils

Buzz!

The ground shook as a visible shockwave exploded from the spot where Li Pin stood.

Li Pin held onto his sword with both hands, charging forward to close in on the Ghoul King. He pierced the greatsword into its chest, propelled by the electric currents.

At that moment, Li Pin felt an indescribable, terrifying power emanating from the Ghoul King. Although the Ghoul King's chains swipe had slightly slowed its aggressive momentum, Li Pin still felt a powerful counterforce after evading the chain strike and stabbing his sword into the creature.

Under the shock of this strength, Li Pin distinctly felt the bones in his wrists, fingers, and hands breaking from the reverberation.

He quickly redirected this force throughout his body, releasing it downward to the ground.

As the ground shook in response, every bone inside Li Pin's body creaked in protest, emitting groans of strain.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been spending time tempering his body with his magnetic field, any other Martial Saint in his shoes would have had every bone in their hand, wrist, and arm shattered by this backlash from the Ghoul King. They'd then be further pulverized by the remaining killing force, leaving them dead.

"Great Sun Infinite!"

Qi and blood blazed over Li Pin's body like flames. He ignored the pain from his shattered bones. As the Great Sun Infinite activated, his mental spirit and qi and blood seemed to be elevated to a brand new level.

Guided by this transcendent state, he released all his inner energy, like a moth drawn to the flame, recklessly burning itself just to shine at its brightest.

With this release of extreme energy, the greatsword embedded in the Ghoul King, almost piercing through its body, was fiercely lifted by Li Pin.

The majestic force surged through Li Pin's arms, causing his muscles to swell, while the intense friction between his cells generated countless electrical currents, propelling every muscle in his body beyond the imaginable limits of what the body could withstand!

If anyone had been observing Li Pin's bones with high-technological instruments at that moment, they would have clearly seen his dense bones cracking inch by inch, forming countless fractures.

Yet, it was as if an invisible force field protected his fractured bones, keeping them intact and preventing them from shattering.

Li Pin let out a long roar, "Hahaha!"

Blood-Seething Secret Art! Great Sun Infinite! Electric Propulsion!

Lifeform force field!

Eruption! Eruption!

He pushed every ounce of his strength to the extreme, channeling it through his sword-wielding hands, and upward... unleashing it all!

"Die!"

Under this incomprehensible power, the greatsword in Li Pin's hands sliced upward through the upper half of the Ghoul King's body like scissors through cloth, ripped apart!

Screech!

A great amount of green blood splattered into the air.

Li Pin moved forward with the sword slash that tore apart the Ghoul King's upper body. He stepped forward, his right foot precisely landing on the Ghoul King's left arm, which was holding the chain and attempting another strike. Using the momentum of its chain swing, he propelled himself up, leaping four or five meters into the air.

In that instant, he released his grip on the sword and hurled it downward.

As he leaped above the Ghoul King, the creature roared, lashing its chain toward him.

Li Pin's right foot stomped down on the sword he had hurled downward!

Boom!

Force eruption!

The greatsword, already falling, accelerated downward with explosive force. Like a tungsten rod shot from the heavens, with immense force and sharpness, it pierced through the Ghoul King's skull until it was embedded to the hilt.

Almost simultaneously, the Ghoul King's swinging chain struck the air above him, creating a series of explosions in the air currents, forming white waves that could be seen by the naked eye.

At that moment, Li Pin had already propelled himself to leap up again by stepping on the sword's hilt, narrowly evading the Ghoul King's chain that was swinging over.

The Force explosions generated by the whip of the chain left another bloody mark on his foot. However, it was nothing more than that.

Soaring into the air for the second time, Li Pin nearly touched the mine tunnel's ceiling as he flipped midair, landing steadily ten meters away.

Behind him, the Ghoul King, first split in half across its upper torso and then pierced through the skull by a forty-pound greatsword, finally fell with a thunderous crash.

Boom!

The corpse, weighing hundreds of kilograms, hit the ground, causing the entire mine tunnel to tremble slightly, raising a cloud of dust.

***

Watching from afar, Wen Xingchen, Xing Hui, and Yue Ying gaped, unable to process what they saw.

They were utterly speechless.

Despite their Martial Saint prowess, they were momentarily stunned, watching the Ghoul King—a creature that was as powerful as a Top-Tier Astral Cultivator—lying lifeless behind Li Pin.

The impact of what they had witnessed overwhelmed their minds, temporarily numbing their senses as a form of subconscious protection.

It took several seconds for them to regain their senses. Xing Hui, who had reached the level of an Extreme Martial Saint, was the first to do so. Looking at the enormous body that lay on the ground like a small mountain, he muttered unconsciously, "My god..."

A demonic creature that was on par with a Top-Tier Astral Cultivator had fallen! It had fallen to someone who wasn't even an Astral Cultivator, to boot!

Non-Astral Cultivators could reach a level where they could slay demonic creatures at the level of a Top-Tier demonic creature?!

His exclamation finally snapped Wen Xingchen and Yue Ying out of their stupor.

"This...this..."

The two tried to say something to express the intense emotions from witnessing such a monumental scene with their own eyes.

But they struggled to speak and couldn't form a coherent sentence.

Several seconds later, Yue Ying, who was less familiar with the rumors of the Ghoul King, finally spoke, trembling. "A human...a mere mortal body... is actually this strong?!"

Wen Xingchen chose to stay silent, his gaze firmly fixed on Li Pin.

Recalling the unparalleled strength Li Pin had displayed while slaying the Ghoul King, Wen Xinchen felt as though he was looking at a deity!

A god, perhaps unknown even to itself, that had brought to him, and to all of them, a faint glimmer of hope.

***

Li Pin stood in place, feeling the countless injuries across his body, from torn muscles, ruptured tendons, and fractured bones. "Really..."

There was hardly a place that didn't hurt. Yet the pain was far from being unbearable. Rather, it felt oddly familiar, and comforting.

Because he knew that, after this round of pain, he would have unlocked a new limit.

Though it wasn't a breakthrough in realms, breaking through a limit meant he would now enter a period of rapid growth. Such growth signified evolution in life itself.

He had taken yet another small step on the path of life evolution.

"Excellent."

Li Pin activated his recovery trait, and the primordial qi he had stored began to work its way through his wounds.

While healing his injuries and restoring his qi and blood, it fueled the energy necessary to activate the recovery trait.

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After a while, he turned to the Ghoul King's massive body.

"A gap of qi and blood of 107 points and 500 points makes a huge difference."

Getting hit would mean death, and even grazing contact would mean injury.

It wasn't an empty phrase.

He hadn't even been directly hit by the Ghoul King's attacks, yet the chain alone had created enough air pressure to leave dozens of bloody marks on him, like the shockwave from a nearby bomb.

If he had been struck by that chain, his fragile body would've been obliterated on the spot.

Even with the addition of his Blood-Seething Secret Art and the mental spirit increment to his Spirit Force, his effective attribute strength only reached 204 points. The difference was still too big.

"It's still a bit strenuous," Li Pin concluded.

He wasn't even a High-Class Martial God yet. At most, he could only showcase his strength in the domain of High-Class Astral Cultivators. Trying to fight a Top-Tier Astral Cultivator remained challenging.

Although this Ghoul King had a qi and blood level of 500 points, equivalent to the limit of a Top-Tier Astral Cultivator, it was a mutation with the significant disadvantage of being slow.

While its speed was slow relative to a Top-Tier Astral Cultivator, human Top-Tier Astral Cultivators had access to astral equipment. If that Top-Tier Astral Cultivator had access to top-tier astral equipment, even if he had only recently broken through with a qi and blood level of around 400 points, he would still have a chance to kill this Ghoul King.

"It's time to quickly advance to a High-Tier Martial God and refine my Lifeform Force Field into a personal Celestial Magnetic Field," Li Pin said.

In truth, he had come to the Black Gold Mine with the intention of searching for some Adamantium and Mithril ores to sell and exchange for cultivation resources.

Adamantium was a primary material for crafting high-grade astral equipment.

Mithril could also be used to forge several types of genuine astral equipment.

Extracting even a small amount of Adamantium or Mithril requires a considerable amount of ores. However, when refined, Adamantium could sell for billions, and Mithril could sell at a price starting from tens of millions.

Unfortunately, he had searched this area for almost an entire day, covering a distance that would take others half a month. Yet, he hadn't seen a single black iron ore, let alone Adamantium or Mithril ores.

As he pondered, he approached the Ghoul King and pulled out the greatsword.

The sword wasn't astral equipment or any kind of spirit weapon; simply breaking through the Ghoul King's flesh and skin had exceeded its limit.

As Li Pin drew the sword, it immediately shattered into pieces.

"..."

Li Pin was speechless.

He turned to Wen Xingchen and the others behind him, "Does anyone have any spare weapons?"

Wen Xingchen, Xing Hui, and Yue Ying, each filled with reverence, shivered slightly upon hearing Li Pin's words.

"Yes, yes, I do."

"Use mine."

"Martial God Li, this is my sword...please see if it suits you."

The three stepped forward one by one, offering their weapons.

Li Pin took a look and selected a suitable war saber for checking the corpse. He then sensed the residual astral energy within the body.

Before long, Li Pin had extracted an Astral Crystal from the Ghoul King.

"A high-grade Astral Crystal!"

Wen Xingchen, Xing Hui, and Yue Ying held their breaths.

Though they looked on enviously, there was no sign of greed in their eyes.

"At last, I've found an Astral Crystal," Li Pin commented.

The only disappointment was that it wasn't the ultimate Astral Crystal for forging top-tier astral equipment.

If it were an ultimate Astral Crystal, it could sell for tens of billions without issue.

For now, this high-grade Astral Crystal was worth only a tenth of that.

Li Pin continued his search. Before long... he had gathered all the spoils.

One high-grade Astral Crystal, the metal chain used as a weapon by the Ghoul King that radiated a soul presence, and a transparent crystal entirely distinct from the Astral Crystal.

Aside from the high-grade Astral Crystal, he could tell that the other two items were extraordinary, but he had no idea what their specific uses were.