#867 - Before reaching the core area

Jun Wuxie left the Eternal Life Divine Hall, opened his eyes, and in just ten days, his realm had soared. The surge in strength filled him with surging excitement.

He stood up, stretched his arms, and relaxed his muscles and bones, feeling the vast divine power surging through every inch of his flesh.

Compared to the early stage of the Great Heavenly position ten days ago, it was like night and day. His strength had improved by several levels.

The river thousands of miles away had regained its calm at some point.

He leaped up, swift as the wind, and arrived in an instant.

Coming to the sky above the river again, the calm river water rolled up monstrous waves. A huge wave rose, and that strange woman appeared again.

Along with her appeared the alien beasts covered in tentacles, more numerous than last time, with more than a dozen.

He knew that the magic circle of this secret land had been monitoring him, knowing that he had broken through the realm, so it increased the number of alien beasts.

These alien beasts at the pinnacle of the Supreme Heavenly position had very high aptitude and growth intensity before their deaths, but after all, they had been dead for countless years. They only had the power they possessed before their deaths, but their combat awareness was far inferior. Their comprehensive strength was far from comparable to when they were alive.

Boom!

A monstrous wave struck, surging towards him. During this process, countless sword qi condensed in the giant wave, covering the sky and killing him.

At the same time, the tentacles of those alien beasts cracked the sky, whipping wildly, their bodies stirring up giant waves in the water, causing those giant waves to form high-speed rotating water columns, like tornadoes coming from all directions.

Jun Wuxie sacrificed the Primordial Sword Embryo, the River of Mortal Dust flowing beneath his feet, sword intent surging, like an emperor overlooking the human world. The sword embryo swept across, sword qi crisscrossing, brilliant and blazing, shattering those water columns and shaking away those tentacles.

Almost at the same time, he threw the sword embryo, using his martial intent to control the sword embryo, shuttling over the river, pulling up a long tail of light, intertwining and crisscrossing, slashing towards those alien beasts.

He himself then activated the Fighting Word Secret, amplifying his power tenfold, and punched forward to kill.

Dragon roars and tiger howls shook the mountains and rivers!

The True Dragon and the Fierce Tiger followed his fist and charged forward, destroying sword qi along the way, breaking through the surging waves, and killing the woman.

The woman flicked her long hair, three thousand white strands, piercing through the void, colliding with his fist imprint.

With a boom.

A section of the woman's white hair was broken, and the remaining strands immediately rushed forward again, wrapping around his fist, and with a sudden flick, trying to throw him out.

Sword intent erupted from Jun Wuxie's fist, countless Red Dust Sword Qi blooming, cutting off the woman's white hair.

His body also took the opportunity to rush in front of her, his sun-like fist heavily bombarding her body.

A defensive array pattern appeared on the part of the woman's body that was hit, but it only resisted slightly before being shattered. The divine power of the fist spurted out, piercing through her chest with a puff, almost shattering her entire body.

Buzz!

The surrounding space cracked, and countless tentacles lashed out.

Jun Wuxie stepped on the ultimate speed, dodging with extreme agility and speed, passing through the gaps between the countless tentacles, chasing after the woman's flying body, leaning in front of her, his palms and fingers dazzling with golden light, bombarding forward.

Boom!

The woman's cave was pierced, and the true qi inside poured out wildly. The light of the magic circle in her body was shaken out. Her body flew out in a parabola, and then fell straight down, floating on the surging river surface, motionless.

"Sword, come!"

After defeating the woman, Jun Wuxie stepped on the Word Secret, one step and one illusion, traveling over the river, avoiding most of the tentacle bombardment. He punched out at the unavoidable ones, shaking them open, and with a grab, he held the flying Primordial Sword Embryo in his hand.

At this time, he had approached a certain alien beast, and slashed down with a sword!

That sharp sword qi directly broke through the armor of the alien beast, splitting it in half, and rotten corpse fluid overflowed, polluting a large area of the river water.

Several huge water columns rotated and arrived. Jun Wuxie turned around, flicked his sleeves, and the energy of the universe surged, evolving into a huge vortex, devouring the sky and the earth, like a cosmic black hole, instantly incorporating those water columns into it, and shattering them on the spot.

At the same time, he stepped forward, the River of Mortal Dust flowing, submerging an alien beast.

The waves evolved into ten thousand feet of mortal dust, binding it, and the sword qi crisscrossed and arrived, piercing through the alien beast's body. The sword embryo in his hand instantly swung dozens of swords, strangling it into pieces.

In a flash of lightning, he turned around with his sword to block, parrying the attacking tentacles, drawing a blazing sword light, almost cutting off those tentacles.

The runes of the Word Secret bloomed beneath his feet, his body like a stream of light, the space in front of him twisting and folding layer by layer, making his movement trajectory unpredictable, avoiding the attacks from the sky, leaning in front of a certain alien beast, and beheading it under his sword.

His realm had broken through to the Great Perfection of the Supreme Heavenly position, he was already completely different from the past, much stronger than before, shuttling between alien beasts, seemingly strolling in a garden. The Primordial Sword Embryo swung, the Red Dust Sword Intent vast, and the sword qi crisscrossed in all directions.

Those alien beasts were constantly being beheaded.

In just a quarter of an hour, the river with monstrous waves slowly calmed down.

A large number of rotten corpse fragments floated on the river surface, polluting the river water beyond recognition.

At this moment, he saw a faint light shining on the forehead of the floating female corpse in those rotten stones.

Immediately afterwards, a little bit of soul light overflowed, condensing into an extremely faint shadow on the river surface.

"Thank you, I can finally be free. Don't go to the core area..."

The woman's soul light emitted a weak figure, and then began to fade.

Jun Wuxie was shocked. The woman still had a trace of weak soul light remaining!

He rushed up, wanting to help her reunite her soul light, and said: "What exactly is in the core area?"

"Conspiracy... it's a conspiracy..."

He ultimately failed. The woman's soul light was too weak and dissipated, leaving only that weak voice floating in the air.

Conspiracy?

Of course, he had already realized that this might be a conspiracy, but he was completely confused about what kind of conspiracy it was.

"Unfortunately, your soul light is too weak, otherwise I could temporarily help you condense your soul light, giving you a chance to tell the secrets you know..."

Jun Wuxie sighed. If he could figure out the truth before going to the core area, he could also prepare accordingly.

"Seeing you struggling with your soul light for so many long years, I will bury you."

Jun Wuxie had a sense of compassion. This must be a strong person who fell in the doomsday.

He didn't know how she managed to maintain a trace of her soul light without extinguishing it.

In this secret land, magic circles are everywhere, and she can still do this. It is already very remarkable. Unfortunately, she will eventually not escape eternal silence. This may be her destiny.

Wrapping the woman's body to the shore, Jun Wuxie carved a tomb in a mountain, sealed her inside, and laid down a rune seal, then left.

According to the map given by Qingyue, this place is estimated to be tens of thousands of miles away from the magic circle area on the edge of the core area. On the way, he has to pass through many high mountains and deep valleys, and also has to enter the sea.

Because the core area is located in the center of an ocean, where there is a huge island.

"Why do I feel more and more wrong?"

If these corpses are the ancestors and strong people who sacrificed in the doomsday torrent, then they should have been corroded by the ultimate darkness.

Even if the invading dark creatures did not all carry the ultimate dark curse, at least some people would be infected and become ultimate dark monsters, covered in red hair.

According to Qingyue, everyone buried in this secret land is a semi-holy powerhouse who sacrificed in the doomsday torrent.

But there is no dark energy fluctuation in this secret land, and there is no trace of the ultimate dark aura.

Those dead semi-saints can still be condensed into Dao fruits by the magic circle!

Does this mean that the person who laid down the magic circle back then had the ability to purify the ultimate darkness?

"If this is the case, then why did that person collect the ancient blood information of the world? Which force does he belong to?"

Jun Wuxie's doubts are growing more and more.

He continued to move forward, and saw many large tombs along the way.

He prepared to enter the tomb chamber again to see if there were any higher quality Dao fruits.

As a result, as soon as he approached those large tombs, array patterns evolved and suppressed him from the sky.

He tried to resist it. Although the power of these array patterns was strong, they no longer posed a threat to him now and could be resisted head-on.

Before and after, he entered and exited many tomb chambers, but the Dao fruits he obtained were not satisfactory.

Although the level of these Dao fruits was higher than what he had obtained before, mostly in the middle and late stages of the Supreme Heavenly position, their overall quality was not as good as what he had refined before.

That is to say, the owners of these Dao fruits before their deaths had less aptitude and growth intensity than the owners of the Dao fruits he had obtained before, so they had no effect on him.

But he didn't dislike them and collected all these Dao fruits.

Although they had no effect on him, this kind of good thing is a world-class resource for semi-saints and can be taken out for others to use.

The imperial dynasty has a shallow foundation and no heritage. It must improve its strength and increase the number of Supreme Heavenly position experts in order to resist the doomsday torrent in the future.

"The closer to the core area, the more semi-saints are buried, and the density of large tombs is also increasing. However, the people who buried these semi-saints back then did so according to their realm. After all, once people are dead, it is difficult to determine their aptitude and growth intensity."

Jun Wuxie moved forward all the way, entering all the tomb chambers of the large tombs along the way.

In some of these tomb chambers, he did not obtain Heavenly position Dao fruits. In those stone coffins, there was nothing but rotten remains.

This meant that strong people had come to this area in the past and taken away the Dao fruits inside.

Every time he entered a tomb chamber, he would evolve runes in advance to protect his bloodline runes.

The magic circle seemed to know that it could not collect his bloodline information, so it simply fell silent, making those stone coffins not open automatically, but were forcibly opened by him using brute force in conjunction with runes.

However, every time he went to the tomb chamber, he would use his Rune Dao Eye Technique to record the magic arrays within, planning to slowly study them when he had time in the future.

This method of using deceased powerhouses to condense Dao Fruits was extraordinary. Such a special technique, if learned and thoroughly researched, would definitely be of great use in the future, capable of continuously cultivating powerhouses.

He just didn't know how long the timeline for condensing Dao Fruits was.

Time passed day by day.

During this process, he tried to contact Ji Yinlan and the others using the Rune Communication Device, but as he had predicted, he was unsuccessful.

Here, any means of communication were shielded by the magic arrays.

Several days later, he was very close to the core area. According to the map, he estimated that there were only tens of thousands of miles left.

As he delved deeper into this area, he began to acquire Dao Fruits of the Extreme Celestial Peak and Great Perfection levels. However, even until he truly reached the ocean where the core area was located, he still hadn't seen any Dao Fruits of the Extreme Celestial Pinnacle level.

"In that case, the Dao Fruits of the Extreme Celestial Pinnacle level should all be in the core area, on that island…"

Jun Wuxie gazed at the sea. In the vast sea, at the end of the horizon, he could vaguely see an island, but it was too far away, very hazy, and he couldn't see it clearly.

Tens of thousands of miles away, due to the mist surrounding the sea surface, coupled with the curvature, even with the Primordial True Eye, he couldn't see clearly.

He sank his mind into the Eternal Divine Palace and looked at the Celestial Dao Fruits he had obtained in recent days, and couldn't help but be surprised.

He hadn't paid attention when he acquired them, but now that he looked, he realized that he had unknowingly obtained thousands of Celestial Dao Fruits.

Although these Celestial Dao Fruits were not of the Extreme Celestial Pinnacle level, they were still very good. After returning, the strength of the Immortal Slaying Dynasty would be greatly improved in a very short period of time.

"If I can obtain a large number of Extreme Celestial Pinnacle Dao Fruits in the core area, then my Immortal Slaying Dynasty will truly leap forward. At that time, even if Lingfei and I don't take action, without relying on the Qiankun Battle Armor, I'm afraid we can directly contend against the forces of several veins of the Starry Sky Ancient Road headquarters…"

Thinking this way, Jun Wuxie couldn't help but start to look forward to it, filled with extremely strong anticipation.

However, he was not in a hurry to cross the sea.

The sea in front of him looked too strange, without the slightest ripple, like a dead sea, and the seawater was actually black, so black that it was frightening.

He couldn't sense the slightest aura of danger, but the more it was like this, the more cautious he became.

This place was already close to the core area, how could it really be calm and without the slightest danger?

A few days ago, he encountered an ambush. Over these days, he had also encountered multiple ambushes along the way. This place should be even more dangerous.