pertwk Chapter 16 The Art of Slaughter, A Mind as Clear as a Mirror
Chapter 16 The Art of Slaughter, A Mind as Clear as a Mirror
"This feeling is amazing."
Only now did Zhao Tianpeng understand what it meant to be exceptionally talented and what it meant to have unparalleled talent. Compared to his previous self, his current talent and ability could be described as utterly superior.
After a moment of contemplation, he looked towards the Sea of Bitterness, where he found a fragment of divine purple gold that he had separated from it. He hammered it with his mind and refined it into a bell the size of a finger. He then removed the string from the relic bracelet he had brought from the Great Thunderclap Temple, strung the bell on it, and put it on the little girl's wrist.
"This is a treasure I crafted. It can record everything you've experienced, and even if you've forgotten it, you can retrieve your memories from it."
"Really?"
The little girl looked at the bell on her wrist with surprise, then hugged Zhao Tianpeng's leg and said, "Thank you, big brother."
Zhao Tianpeng rubbed her head, looked around, and had no intention of leaving. He planned to first cultivate a killing technique to protect himself before heading to the Northern Region.
"Most of the killing methods of the Ghost Path require talented people to cultivate them."
"The materials I have are nothing more than the vertebrae of the Crocodile Ancestor and the carcass of the Gold-Eating Beast."
"With my current cultivation level, it would be difficult to preserve any of the Gold-Eating Beast's combat power when refining it, so it would be unwise to use it now."
Zhao Tianpeng focused his gaze on the spine of the Crocodile Ancestor.
"If you were to forge a technique from bones..."
The White Bone Path has many methods, and Zhao Tianpeng found the fastest and most powerful one among the innate ghost characters: the White Bone Relic.
He took out the remains of the Crocodile Ancestor and summoned five-colored flames to envelop the first vertebra. Soon, that golden vertebra melted into a golden liquid. Zhao Tianpeng put away the remaining vertebrae, released the seal with both hands, opened his mouth and inhaled the golden liquid, swallowing streams of innate white bone essence. His own innate qi and the innate white bone essence fused together to form ancient runes, eventually forming a white bone relic the size of a basket.
With a thought, Zhao Tianpeng summoned the White Bone Relic, which appeared like a dazzling white sun. Strands of white bone energy descended around him, forming bone lotuses that completely isolated the flames in the area. As the five-colored flames burned one bone lotus, a new one would take its place. The relic was covered with a surging, eerie white demonic light, and wherever it passed, even the temperature of the fire domain where he was located dropped slightly.
This is the ultimate killing technique he cultivated using a section of the Crocodile Ancestor's spine, the White Bone Relic. Once activated, it can destroy the innate White Bone Qi, making it incomparably fierce.
Zhao Tianpeng swallowed the white bone relic before leading the little girl out of the fire domain.
As he stepped out of the fiery domain, he discovered that there were people guarding the area. Upon seeing them emerge, those positioned in all directions turned to look at them, their faces immediately lighting up with joy: "A young man with a little girl of three or four years old—it's them!"
"Boy, the treasure you took from the inn isn't something you can control. Hand it over!"
A middle-aged man with explosive muscles stood up and shouted, striding forward. The divine power source in his sea of suffering boiled, and he unleashed a divine light that transformed into a large, earth-yellow hand that grabbed at Zhao Tianpeng and Xiao Nannan. Judging from his momentum, he had no intention of holding back.
"Treasures belong to those of virtue!"
"You'd better hand over the treasure!"
"You thief, you stole my sect's treasure from the inn! Give me back my treasure!"
The others also stepped forward, their eyes gleaming with greed. Their divine power surged, and they unleashed a series of profound spells, some striking with colorful light, others transforming into giant hands to seize, and still others activating weapons such as treasure lamps and bronze furnaces. For a moment, the divine light was dazzling, illuminating the entire sky.
The little girl was so frightened by the noise that her face turned pale, and she gripped Zhao Tianpeng's clothes tightly with both hands.
"Those stray dogs by the roadside, they really are..."
"So enthusiastic!"
Zhao Tianpeng, his face illuminated by the dazzling divine light, sighed speechlessly. His blood and qi erupted, and the blazing blood and qi swept out. Those divine power hands were broken into pieces, and all kinds of profound techniques and divine light were extinguished by the blood and qi like blown-out candles. The weapons that were launched with divine power were blasted away and fell to the ground.
"What?"
"impossible!"
"How could a person's Qi and blood be so strong!"
The person who made the move was horrified when he saw this scene. Could this be the kind of vital energy a human being possesses?
However, the next moment, a surge of powerful energy swept across, blasting everyone away. They felt as if they had been hit by a mountain, spitting out a mouthful of blood mist. When they landed, the cultivators below the Divine Bridge died on the spot, while several cultivators on the other side of the Divine Bridge collapsed to the ground, staring in horror at the young man standing there. What the hell was this thing? How could someone crush them to death with just their energy?
Equally horrified was Duan De, who was observing from the shadows: "Incredible Heavenly Venerable!"
"This energy and vitality is even more outrageous than that of demonic beasts; even the legendary dragon cubs are no more powerful than this!"
"He dares to wander around without even reaching the Four Extremes; something's not right. He must have a protector!"
Duan De looked around warily, but couldn't see anything. This only made him uneasy. It was good that he couldn't see anything. Someone with this kind of talent must have a powerful protector, maybe even a great figure secretly protecting him.
The more Duan De thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He quietly disappeared from the spot. He went around archaeological tombs and even went to explore the tombs of the holy land families. The reason he has survived until now without being killed is because of his ability to run away at the first sign of trouble.
Zhao Tianpeng's mind was completely clear, like a bright mirror polished from divine purple gold, reflecting the distant Daoist charm. He was very familiar with that Daoist charm; it was the charm of the Reincarnation Seal and the Tribulation Crossing Heavenly Technique.
"It's Duan De."
"That wicked Taoist priest is here too."
He watched as Duan De's Daoist aura disappeared. He was very satisfied with the exquisite seven-aperture heart refined by the Divine Mark Purple Gold. It not only improved his talent and ability, but also put his mind in a state of spiritual clarity and divine perfection. His mind could capture the Daoist runes between heaven and earth, just like the Divine Mark Purple Gold, and could also reflect the Daoist aura of the four directions. Therefore, Duan De, who was hiding in the dark, was completely visible to him.
"It's like a pillow coming to someone who's just dozing off."
"I originally planned to use the quasi-emperor forbidden artifact to erase the murderous aura on the corpses of those Undying Emperor's subordinates, but I didn't expect Duan De to deliver himself to my door."
"Once we get our hands on the Devouring Demon Cover, it will be easier to use an imperial weapon to suppress the killing intent, and we can also save on the consumption of forbidden artifacts several times."
"But catching the slippery Duan De won't be easy."
"Even though he has severed his cultivation and Emperor-level physical body, he still has the cultivation of the initial stage of the Four Extremes and a lot of treasures. It will be difficult to capture him before he runs away."
Zhao Tianpeng pondered for a moment. Duan De was too slippery. If he wasn't captured immediately, he would definitely escape quickly with his running skills. To catch Duan De, he had to trap him first and not give him a chance to escape.
"There may be many traps that could entice Duan De to enter willingly, but the most effective one is a large tomb that can be used for archaeological research!"
Zhao Tianpeng decided to design a large tomb specifically for Duan De!
Before that, he went forward and killed several cultivators from the other side of the Divine Bridge who were still barely clinging to life. With a wave of his hand, beams of soul light flew out from the corpses of these cultivators and landed in his hand. He imprisoned these soul lights in the Taiyin Mingyue for later use. As for sending them into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, they were not qualified yet. He also did not waste the corpses. He found a magic artifact on the ground and sealed the corpses inside as a reserve of talent.
"Let me see which layout is suitable as a large tomb."