Chapter 606: Chapter 467: Hunter and Prey... The Roles Have Reversed! (Part 2)
"Life and Death Domain... Endless Grinding Disc!"
With Meng Tianqi’s intention, the power that had once required the sacrifice of his body and Divine Soul to unleash now erupted easily at his command, and its might seemed even stronger than before, with much-improved control.
However, the only drawback was the tremendous consumption. As soon as it was activated for a moment, Meng Tianqi’s spiritual power drained away as if a dam had burst. At this rate, one move might deplete more than half of his strength, and at the same time, his physical body would undergo immense, irreparable exhaustion.
This was clearly not a forbidden spell that a Void Refining Stage cultivator could handle.
"But it’s still good! The shackles of my physical body that once limited me are now completely removed. What’s before me now is a broad and open road!"
At this moment for Meng Tianqi, the Integration Stage was within reach!
But he didn’t do it. Instead, he re-summoned the Void Fish, preparing to sweep through the Void Refining Stage battlefield at the fastest speed.
Otherwise, once he successfully broke through to the Integration Stage, he would be transported to the Integration Stage battlefield by the realm battlefield, and by then, the Void Refining battlefield would be utterly defeated!
"Integration Stage battlefield... Star Emperor, old Qi... wait for me! I’m coming soon!"
Thinking of those Integration Stage Holy Demons he glimpsed before the realm battlefield opened, Meng Tianqi couldn’t help but shiver with fear...
That was definitely a power they could not match at this stage.
If Baili Yun had not achieved the True Demon Realm as a demon cultivator and only needed to preserve a trace of demon nature to be resurrected, they absolutely would not dare let Baili Yun step into the Integration Stage battlefield.
Because once stepped in, it would definitely be a result of dismemberment, a battlefield that nightmares and hell could not even describe, where miracles were impossible. With the Integration Stage Holy Demon, it was a battlefield they had already decided to temporarily abandon, preparing instead to launch wars using the Nine Star Sea Realms as a base...
Thinking of the horror of those Integration Stage Holy Demons made Meng Tianqi even more anxious... no time left, he must act swiftly and decisively!
Before, he had not had enough strength, but now that he had the chance, he couldn’t stand by idly.
For the Star Sea World to survive after exposing its world coordinates, it was imperative to ensure as many survived as possible... so Meng Tianqi was determined to sweep through the Void Refining battlefield at the fastest speed, while using the Life and Death Law to devour enough power to quickly break through to the Integration Stage.
Now, these Demon Races... were the best resource package for his Life and Death Law. The roles of hunter and prey... have reversed!
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In the case of Meng Tianqi’s rebirth and the astonishing transformation of his physical body, the Void Refining battlefield no longer held any suspense for him.
No Demon Race on the battlefield he was in could threaten him unless a number of King Level Demon Races surrounded him, but this was absolutely impossible; though this Demon Race contingent was extraordinary, they couldn’t possibly have so many King Level entities.
And so it was. After Meng Tianqi’s breakthrough, as soon as the Life and Death Wheel was unleashed, all the Demon Races he encountered were ground to dust by the Life and Death Grinding Disc and instantly transformed into Meng Tianqi’s strength.
This was indeed one of the cultivators’ advantages over the Demon Race.
Since within the Demon Race, there was no concept of cultivation aptitude; they relied solely on devouring and bloodline.
The Demon Race’s nests within the Demon Realm would birth innumerable Demon Race entities, which would then grow stronger through the frenetic consumption of their kin or everything invading worlds.
In the process of devouring, under the effect of the Demon Race bloodline, they would manifest different innate divine techniques and physical bodies based on the powers they consumed.
Some strong bodies and powers could be stabilized by the Demon Nest, and newly born Demon Race entities had a high chance of awakening such powerful strength, strength solidified after devouring countless races and carefully selecting from their essence.
Some powers, connected to what was consumed, had never appeared before. For instance, if the Demon Race devoured a world and race adept in harnessing the power of the sun, sun-related innate divine techniques might emerge.
Especially after completely invading a world and thoroughly consuming its spirituality, it was likely that new Demon Race species and terrifying new innate divine techniques would be born from the Demon Nest.
Yet due to this way of growth and strengthening, the Demon Race rarely exhibited the major distinctions in realm and law comprehension seen among humans.
For instance, Meng Tianqi, who employed laws that resonated with an Integration Stage, even though he was still in the Void Refining realm!
When faced with enemies that surpassed limits like this, the Demon Race would be at a significant disadvantage in realm battlefields, unless such a terrifying existence, whose divine techniques rivaled those of the Integration Stage, also emerged on the battlefield. However, this was very unlikely, much less so compared to the probability of transcending limits within human cultivators.
Even if it did occur, it was most likely to appear in the Integration Stage Holy Demon battlefield, where the Integration and Mahayana Stages were the terrifying strengths of the Demon Race, hosting entities that instilled fear across the heavens. Many powerful Void Refining Stage Demon Race entities existed, but they were far from being representative of the Demon Race.
Because the Immortal Cultivation Realm’s terrifying existences were possibilities born from countless years of accumulated civilization and knowledge, combined with special innate talents. This was the unique advantage of Immortal Cultivation Realm civilization, where generation after generation uplifted extreme existences.
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In two other realm battlefields, after the Stone Spirit slew the Black Hole Demon God, the subsequent battles bore no suspense; the Stone Spirit rapidly eradicated numerous Demon Races, and with the Demon Races’ demise, world nodes tied to the Demon Realm gradually emerged.
Once reaching this point, the outcome had already been decided, and the Demon Realm’s world node was soon destroyed by the Stone Spirit.
One Void Refining battlefield finally achieved complete victory!
However, on Ji Qingyue’s battlefield, she again encountered trouble.
After hiding away to cultivate and thoroughly recover from her injuries, Ji Qingyue began her path of slaughter, shrouded in the Ten Thousand Laws Flow domain.
Initially, she could have concealed herself until the realm battlefield ended, using the stealth path bolstered by the Ten Thousand Laws Flow, but she chose not to.
If it were just about survival, she had long lived enough. Twice, she nearly lost control of her power and went berserk because of thoughts of death.
In her youth as a low-level cultivator, she sought to ascend, but after truly gaining longevity, she realized that without a strong Dao Heart to support her, she’d eventually collapse into madness, a fate seen often in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
Only by truly experiencing it can one understand how dull longevity can be, and sometimes, death seems like a relief.
Only with a sufficiently strong Dao Heart, enough dedication to the Immortal Dao, can a cultivator continue forward, constantly breaking past limits.
Ji Qingyue had once been the most talented Void Refining Cultivator on the Star Sea Continent, but her Dao Heart’s stability was almost the weakest. This issue had troubled her for an untold number of years.
But now she was different. She possessed a sufficiently strong obsession, a clear enough goal, and that was now her foundation for fearlessly progressing down the cultivation path.
And surviving just for the sake of surviving... truly held no meaning for her.
"Sweeping across the entire Void Refining realm battlefield is merely my first step back to the Star Sea World. If I can’t even accomplish this, then there’s no point in thinking about what comes after..."
"The Star Sea World also granted me the rare, powerful physique—the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Body, and let me linger in the Void Refining Stage for countless years of confusion, perhaps all leading up to this day..."
"It’s time to return to the world..."
Ji Qingyue suddenly gained an insight. Perhaps this was her first step towards understanding harmony, not recklessly surging forward without a powerful physique... physiques have limits, only a strong True Spirit can steer this great ship of a body through the tempestuous waves...
It was for this reason, even having discovered the path to Integration, Ji Qingyue still chose to risk fighting.
At first, her slaughter proceeded smoothly, using the nearly flaw-free traits of the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Body to bulldoze all the Demon Races she encountered, until... she met an eerie Demon Race composed of blue lines... an unprecedented terror and deadly crisis suddenly arose in Ji Qingyue’s heart!
