Painting of the Nine Immortals

Translator: _Tat_ Editor: Rundi

Inside the eerie forest, Ling Xian's right foot was still on top of the cultivation leader. Similar to a God who is riding above all nine levels of Heaven, his cold eyes gawked down onto the mortal world.

This simultaneously pained the cultivation leader and made him feel extremely humiliated.

As an original leveled cultivator of the intermediate stage, as the number four most powerful member of the Shang Qing Sect, he has always bullied others. When have other people ever stepped down on him like this?

To him, this was extremely shameful and humiliating!

Especially after realizing that he had lost, he felt even more humiliated. However, he remained helpless.

Just like Ling Xian had said, the result was now clear. He, the strongest leader out of all four paths, had lost.

He had been defeated so cleanly, so undoubtedly!

This made him feel humiliated and very bitter. Originally, he was extremely confident. Especially after suppressing Ling Xian for so long, he was so confident that he could defeat Ling Xian.

But the result was that he couldn't even defend a single move of Ling Xian's and was so easily defeated.

The change in their status and their capabilities was enough to make him feel bitter.

"I have lost. I lost so thoroughly."

The cultivation leader smiled bitterly. Other than hatred in his eyes, there was only unwillingness.

"I told you in the beginning that if you want to suppress me, you need the skills." Ling Xian mocked, "Facts have proven that you don't have the skills."

Hearing this, the cultivation leader felt even more humiliated. He stared deadly into Ling Xian's eyes, almost puking fire out.

"Don't look at me with those eyes. I am simply repaying what you did to me."

Ling Xian's eyes turned cold. The foot that was on the Leader's chest strengthened, making the person puke out fresh blood.

"This is because you burned the bridge after crossing it. It's punishment for you not being able to keep a promise."

Then, his foot stomped down even harder, concaving the leader's chest and making his face turn even whiter.

"This is punishment for how you humiliated and cursed me back there."

Ling Xian was expressionless. Looking at the cultivation leader, who couldn't stop puking out blood, the anger he felt towards him disappeared.

"Ehem, ehem, yes, I deserve this."

The cultivation leader was full of regret and chuckled in pain, "The Shang Qing Sect for sure did burn the bridge after crossing it. We didn't abide by our promise. We are in the wrong."

"As long as you know."

Ling Xian coldly snickered, "If you complied with your promises, why would I be chased after every House in Yuezhou right now? So don't beg me. Even if you kneel, I cannot let you off."

"I understand. If I were you, I'd do the same."

The cultivation leader knew that he was no opponent of Ling Xian's right now. Therefore, he simply gave up on struggling and said, "However, I do have a question. I hope you can answer me."

"Speak," Ling Xian uttered out one word.

"The ability of your Immortal Bone is that it multiplies your battling strength by 10 folds?" The cultivation leader asked. His eyes carried some sort of aspiration.

"That's right. The name of this Immortal Bone is Battle. Once awakened, it can help increase my offensive abilities by 10 folds." Ling Xian softly smiled, very satisfied with the ability of this Immortal Bone.

He awakened two Immortal Bones in total and placed them in his left and right arm. The left arm is named Battle and it allows its owner to attack with 10 times their original strength!

Of course, not every strike can reach such intensity. It is also dependent on luck. If lucky, it can increase a strike by 10 fold. If unlucky, even after 100 strikes, that 10 fold strike may not appear.

This was something even him, the owner, cannot control. But other than this flaw, every single activation of the Immortal Bone drains much of Ling Xian's energy and blood. Basically, his enemy gets 100% of the damage while he gets 80%.

Despite these two flaws, the Immortal Bones' abilities are considered heaven-defying.

Ten times the actual power!

Even a normal strike can increase 10 times in power, which already makes the attacker insanely powerful. What happens when a technique's power is increased 10 times?

Using Ling Xian for example - he originally was no opponent of the cultivation leader. After all, the gap in their cultivation is far too big. However, after using the Battle Immortal Bone, the cultivation leader was exhausted and had no way of fighting back!

This alone was enough to prove just how heaven-defying the Battle Immortal Bone was.

"Ehem, ehem, 10 times the power… I am not ashamed I lost."

The cultivation leader's face was full of shock. Though he had guessed this would be the Immortal Bone's ability, after Ling Xian confirmed it, he remained insanely shocked!

Ten times the power. Though not every strike triggers that effect, it remained an insanely heaven-defying ability. Try to imagine, what if this ability kicks in when an unparalleled technique is used? How much damage would that result in?

Out of all the Immortal Bones that has been recorded down in history, this ability was considered extraordinary!

Therefore, why wouldn't the leader be astonished?

"You capabilities were great, to begin with, and was equivalent to the beginning stage of the original level. That plus the heaven-defying abilities of the Immortal Bone - I do not think I lost in vain."

The leader sighed a long sigh. The unwillingness to lose expression disappeared from his face. "If I am not wrong, you awakened two Immortal Bones. I wonder what is the ability of the other one?"

"I have no answer for you."

Ling Xian said coldly and his expression turned dark, "I have answered your question. It's time to send you on your way."

Immediately, the cultivation leader's body began to quiver. But quickly, he calmed down and stared at the handsome young man before him, "I am advising you to give up the Soaring Key right now. Doing so will help you avoid many troubles and only doing so will give you the possibility of surviving this."

"You sure have a lot of useless sh*t to say."

Ling Xian glared at him. With his intelligence, how could he not have thought of that? But, so what he gives up the Key?

These days, he has killed way too many people from various forces. He has made enemies against way too many people. Even if he gives up the key, those forces will not just let him go.

Even if for some miraculous reason, the forces let him go, what about the Shang Qing Sect? First, he stole fortunes from them, then, he humiliated them. They would never let all of those things pass them by.

Therefore, the result of giving up the key or not was the same. He might as well keep the key just in case the key actually does what it claims to do.

"I have said everything I wanted to say. Make your move." The cultivation leader slowly closed his eyes. Other than sorrow on his face, there was hatred.

Not even in his dreams did he think that someone he thought was an ant would end up defeating him. He truly did not think he would die under the palm of a completion leveled cultivator.

"Don't worry. You won't be alone there. Many people from the Shang Qing Sect will keep you company."

Ling Xian spoke slowly. Zi Yao howled and under the night light, it shot out a bright ray of light.

Then, the light ray disappeared and a bloody mark appeared on the Cultivation Leader's throat.

Dead.

The number four of the Shang Qing Sect, the prominent powerhouse from Yuezhou, died just like that.

His death once again added color to Ling Xian's impressive battling history. It also represented how he, as a foundational leveled cultivator, defied nature and killed an original leveled cultivator!

If this news got passed around, the entire Yuezhou would shake in awe!

As a completion leveled cultivator, he killed powerhouses from the original level. And there were two of them. How unbelievable was this?

This was heaven-defying!

"Phew, finally, the curtains have closed on this battle."

Now that the cultivation leader was lifeless, Ling Xian sighed in relief. Then, he puked out a mouthful of fresh blood and his face turned pale white.

Even his body trembled a little bit.

Before the Immortal Bone awakened, he was suppressed by the cultivation leader and was heavily injured. Then, he used the Battle Immortal Bone and drained much of his energy and blood.

Naturally, he was in a weakened state.

"Ehem, ehem… this victory did not come easy."

Ling Xian was coughing up much blood and his white robe had been dyed red. Just how ruthless was this battle? Even for someone as powerful as him, he had to pay a large price.

However, his weak and near death condition was not necessarily pitiful, but instead, glorious. Anyone who sees him like this wouldn't laugh at him, they would look at him with respect.

Because he had done something heaven-defying again. This time, he surpassed two levels of cultivation!

In the history of time, how many people can achieve this? Without exceptions, those who can achieve this are true geniuses!

"Fortunately my bet against myself was favorable. Under the nourishment of the Holy Spirit Water, the Immortal Bones awakened and saved my life."

Ling Xian silently celebrated and smiled. "I am also lucky that the Immortal Bone I had was the Battle one that can increase my abilities by 10 folds. Or else there would be no way I could win against that man."

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered the possessed Ling Tian Xiang and couldn't help but to silence himself.

He had gotten two drops of the Holy Spirit Water at the City of Flowers. One drop he had used on his Zi Yao. The other, he just used to awaken the Immortal Bone.

In other words, he had no way of awaking Ling Tian Xiang now. But after thinking for a while, he no longer felt bad. If he died, what was the use of the Holy Spirit Water?

"I will have to think of another way to help her. But right now, it is not even for certain if I can survive."

Chuckling bitterly, Ling Xian shook his head and no longer thought about this annoying question. Thinking right now was a waste anyway. Now that things have reached this point, he had to see things through.

Then, he took a spiritual Dan to help heal his wounds. He raised his right hand and gathered all the storage pouches from the corpses.

Of course, this included the cultivation leader's pouch.

However, Ling Xian did not open his right away. He looked through the completion leveled cultivators' first.

He roughly scanned them and found only spiritual stones and weapons in there. There was nothing that surprised him.

Ling Xian wasn't disappointed at this. He saw the cultivation leader's pouch as the most important one anyway.

After all, that person was a powerhouse at the intermediate stage of the original level. His position was also very high up in the Shang Qing Sect. He must have a lot of goodies.

"I had two goals for entering the Shang Qing Sect. The first one was the Soaring Key, the second was their inheritance. I have gotten the former, but I couldn't get the latter because of a lack of contribution points."

Ling Xian's eyes flickered with anticipation. "I hope this person's storage pouch can surprise me a little."

Then, he flapped around his sleeve and disbanded all the arrays set on the pouch. Then, he investigated it with his Qi.

Spiritual stones, weapons, and Dans were all ignored by him. His Qi was stuck on a jade scroll.

This item was entirely made out of green jade and on it, were at least 10 defensive arrays. Even at first glance, it was obvious that extraordinary things were recorded on it.

This brightened Ling Xian's eyes and his anticipation grew heavier.

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