Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1037 - 121: Temporary Lull

"Practicing martial arts without bone training is like being a worthless fool! Today, what I want to teach you is our sect's bone-refining cultivation technique! It will help you train your skills into your bones, laying a foundation for Nourishing Martial God, and eventually allow you to cultivate the Martial Arts True Intent!"

"If practicing muscles, skin, and membranes is to ensure that your physical essence is abundant enough to support your external spirit's essence qi, then bone training is to lay a solid structure for you!"

Hu Zongliang, a direct disciple of the Wuji Sky Sect, was tall and sturdy, standing eight feet high with a physique larger than most people, almost not resembling the Human Clan. He glared with bull-like eyes as big as bronze bells, roaring as if trying to engrave his teachings into the minds of those low-level disciples with such force.

The iron-blooded evil qi emanating from him made the low-level disciples tremble involuntarily.

This senior brother was undoubtedly a ruthless person. It was said that he had killed many people, even gone to battle, to temper his Martial Arts True Intent!

No one dared to act wildly in front of him.

Hu Zongliang was very satisfied with the respectful looks of these servant disciples. He demonstrated the beginner fist technique of the Wuji Sky Sect, the "Dachan Hammer" once again, and shouted, "Pair up and start sparring!"

"Yes!"

Just then, a yellow light suddenly flew from afar and landed on Hu Zongliang.

"What is this?" In an instant, Hu Zongliang felt the essence within him surging and his will boiling, with his long-submerged Martial Arts True Intent faintly showing signs of breakthrough.

"Is this the legendary opportunity? Great..."

Before he could rejoice, his consciousness completely disappeared.

There was no pain, no other sensations; the Heavenly Emperor's sword qi that followed directly killed him, turning even his bones into flying ashes.

Before that, five streams of spirit light surged out from his body, ignoring those cultivators, shooting straight into the distance.

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"Junior Master... don't..." A woman merely struggled symbolically. Her clothes were being peeled off one by one, and the one tearing them away had far superior cultivation. This series of intense actions did not leave any marks on her.

Bao Feichi, a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, particularly favored "juniors." A faint smile appeared on his face, "Little Yan'er, why are you afraid, your Junior Master Bao I..."

Before he finished speaking, a spirit light suddenly passed through the wall and landed on him.

"What is this?" Bao Feichi's first reaction was to circulate a cultivation technique to resist this unknown external force, but this force could erode his mana. This was no small matter, and Bao Feichi nearly screamed.

But he ultimately did not scream.

Just before the external force advanced further, a sword qi pierced through the layers of defenses in the Nascent Soul Stage cultivator's cave, extinguishing all of Bao Feichi's vitality in a single strike and destroying his foundation completely.

The woman stared dumbfoundedly at all this, finally trembling as she took off the storage bag from Bao Feichi and shakily fled.

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An elderly Nascent Soul cultivator was passing down his teachings and cultivation techniques to his disciple when suddenly, a spirit light flew from the heavens, infecting this Nascent Soul cultivator, followed by a sword light that annihilated the Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, leaving only a Foundation Establishment Peak disciple standing in shock.

A young-looking Golden Core Stage Great Perfection cultivator was sitting in front of a pill furnace nurturing elixirs. The ingredients for this furnace of elixirs had been painstakingly gathered over a long time, with much killing and plundering involved. He was relying on this batch of elixirs to help him break through to the Nascent Soul Stage. But unexpectedly, a spirit light and a sword qi descended from the sky, killing him. The residual sword qi even exploded the pill furnace, and the precious medicinal materials were instantly burned to dregs by the exposed furnace flames, scattering all around.

A newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator was fervently practicing swordplay. He was thinking that by entering the Nascent Soul Stage, he could recuperate on Spirit Phoenix Island for a century without facing the Modern Heretics in battle. While he was contemplating his hundred-year cultivation plan, a spirit light descended from the sky. Before he could react, he was obliterated by a sword qi.

The chase between the sword qi and spirit light continued unabated.

Youth, middle-aged, elderly...

Sword practitioners, alchemists, preachers, chess players, cultivators...

The spirit light seemed to descend indiscriminately, while that sword light remained ever-present.

The response of the Holy Emperor Venerable was swift. Within a few seconds, he discerned the peculiarity. The five streams of spirit light appearing within each cultivator were not all meaningful. Some of the spirit light was distinctly different from the others, seeming empty and weightless inside.

—In order to ensure a sufficient quantity of spirit light, Wang Qi did not include information in every stream. Some spirit lights were merely pure Heart Demon Curse Power. These Heart Demon Curse Powers could replicate successfully within a person in just a second, then seek the next target.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's sword light, however fast, could not stop these deceptively elusive things.

These spirit lights existed to attract firepower.

Since the invasion speed of the Heart Demon Great Curse was determined by the life state and resistance of the caster, each Heart Demon Great Curse invaded at different speeds for different people. The Holy Emperor Venerable, once a dominant figure in the Immortal Dao, took just over ten seconds to see through this.

Ten seconds was not even enough time to boast verbally, yet the Heart Demon Curse Light had already replicated five rounds, and Spirit Phoenix Island had already seen 25,000 infected.

"If that's the case, I'll abandon those deceptive targets and focus on attacking the meaningful ones!"

The Holy Emperor Venerable traced a wondrous pattern in the air with his right hand, circulating the sword qi of the circulation before dispersing it in all directions.

Then, those cultivators struck by the Heart Demon Curse Light carrying data were annihilated in an instant. Subsequently, more than half of them could not transmit their Spirit Sense.

But the remaining forty percent was once again split into five.

The Holy Emperor Venerable faced targets, instead, more than twice as many as before.

"Damn it!"

The Holy Emperor Venerable once again formed a spell with his hands. Nature's spiritual energy surged wildly and then transformed into ten thousand strands of sword qi.

Another ten thousand heads fell.

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Wang Qi's robes were fluttering fiercely from the gust created by the Holy Emperor Venerable's spell. He pressed down the pages in his hand with dissatisfaction and said, "Still haven't given up?"

"Probably soon." Zhen Chan speculated, "Cultivators' lifespan far exceeds mortals'. Without accounting for those who became cultivators two thousand years ago and are still alive now, if accumulated over generations, the low-level cultivators of Spirit Phoenix Island are only a few million. Killing tens of thousands every few seconds, even the Holy Emperor Venerable wouldn't be able to bear it."

Sure enough, as Zhen Chan said, the tide of blood soon stopped.

This round of changes lasted less than a minute.

In just that minute, more than a hundred thousand cultivators perished.

Blood flowed like rivers, cries of despair filled the land.

And until this event ended, the Ancient Method Practitioners hadn't reacted to what exactly had happened.

Now, only countless strands of golden spirit light interlaced, continuously spreading.

Zhen Chan shook his head, "Now data can be accepted. Now it's not surprising who gets hit by that golden light."

Wang Qi nodded and turned a page of the book in the strong wind, "Yes, unless the Holy Emperor Venerable really disregards his thousands of years of arrangements and kills all these low-level cultivators at once — especially when he clearly knows how to refine the Heart Demon Curse Power. Otherwise, I've surely won."

At this moment, Wang Qi suddenly sensed a fluctuation in the Virtual Divine Country. He looked up and saw another shocking scene.

The Holy Emperor Venerable's divine country emerged again.

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The Holy Emperor Venerable's face was extremely grim at this time.

"Damn, it's that evil demon again..." After extinguishing his inner fire of anger several times, he calmed down.

"I've killed enough already. Killing more will surely cause unrest among the people, leading to the collapse of Human Dao, which would backfire on my divine country."

"Two thousand years of hard work cannot be lost like this... I need strength now; I absolutely cannot give up easily!"

"Calm down... This mysterious spirit light and that mysterious evil demon's initially demonstrated power are very similar, definitely also belonging to that evil demon!"

"I've already grasped part of that evil demon's power; now is just the right time to start the refining process!"

Thinking this, he pulled the divine country down from the unknown.

Then, the divine country descended, evil retreated.

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Wang Qi watched as the Holy Emperor Venerable gradually refined the Heart Demon Curse Power.

Once the Divine Country Technique dissipated, he stood up. It was almost the moment the divine country's power dispersed that he reconnected to the Heart Demon Mysterious Net.

"Tsk tsk tsk, truly tragic." Wang Qi's consciousness extended along the Heart Demon Mysterious Net. Then he nodded, "Hmm, as expected, those who should die are almost all dead, and the remaining ones are relatively 'useful.'

Even the Holy Emperor Venerable hadn't realized that Wang Qi's Heart Demon Spirit Light was highly directional.

Its spread path seemed random but would be attracted mainly by those who had cultivated the Holy Emperor Venerable's transmitted cultivation techniques. Additionally, everyone swept by this Heart Demon Curse Light was at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The cultivators listed in the Criminal Law Department's wanted and execution orders mostly fall into this range.

This stage is also the one where paths become set. For Wang Qi, cultivators in this range neither have guiding significance nor provide experimental value.

"Almost all those who should die have perished. The remaining matters are largely on track now. Let's find a place to complete the next sub-project, and then wait to close the net." Wang Qi stretched lazily, then put away his book and casually patted the other magic artifact pouch beside his storage bag.

Inside are people, about forty to fifty.

All of them were supposed to have died in the previous "Luofu Xuanqing Palace Reincarnation Task."