Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 958: Chapter 958: Linyin Hunting

Qi Yin Master understood the implication of Chen Jing’s words.

He feared being entangled by his fellow disciples from the Green Cloud Sect!

Now that he had become affluent, he no longer wished to be associated with the impoverished Green Cloud Sect, which was only natural.

”What a pity.”

Qi Yin Master sighed lightly and said:

”This child is actually very outstanding. If someone is willing to give him a hand, he can definitely establish himself in Taicang State.”

Recalling Jiang Fan’s feat of killing a Nascent Soul with Core Formation, he was still deeply shocked.

Taicang State hasn’t been without prodigies who killed Nascent Souls with Demon Cores.

But the last one was ten years ago.

That person is now a powerful figure with a Nine Aperture Nascent Soul in Taicang, currently seeking enlightenment to break through to Divinity Transformation.

”Outstanding?”

Chen Jing shook his head: ”What kind of outstanding talents can come from such a barren place on the continent?”

”Reaching the Ninth Layer of Core Formation Perfection is likely the end of his career.”

Qi Yin Master smiled but did not continue speaking.

It was evident that Chen Jing did not wish to interact with Jiang Fan.

Continuing the conversation would only displease him.

The battle in front of the White Horse Temple would soon spread, and then he would naturally realize how extraordinary his junior brother was.

Far stronger than he was back in the day!

On the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road.

Jiang Fan carried Concubine Yunxia with his Sword Control Technique, leaping into the air above the first step of the stone staircase.

Looking down, the ten-thousand-foot stone step was covered in countless engravings, exuding an ancient and desolate aura.

At this moment, a few disciples at the Seventh Level of Core Formation were paused on the stone steps, fiercely attacking the air.

”Jiang, the stone steps seem to trap people into an Illusion Realm,” Concubine Yunxia speculated.

Jiang Fan nodded.

For the environment around them was distorting.

They were clearly in the sky.

Yet the surroundings had turned into a brightly lit city under the night sky.

The people lingered at the night market, while the nobles on the upper floors sang and danced.

Peaceful and harmonious, it gave the impression of national prosperity and people’s safety.

At this moment, the night sky suddenly became resplendent.

Three meteors crashed into the ground, hitting the city and turning it into a sea of fire instantly.

More than half the people died on the spot.

Those who survived fled in terror and panic.

All the beauty abruptly ended at this moment.

Roar!

The more terrifying thing was.

Three hideous blood-red giant beasts emerged from the meteor craters.

They had arrived at this land alongside the meteors.

Once they climbed out, they attacked the creatures on the land.

Some were torn apart by a single claw, their intestines scattering all over the ground.

Others were thrown into a blood-red maw and chewed, accompanied by shrill screams.

In some cases, the half of the body protruding from the mouth emitted desperate and painful cries.

Strong individuals from the Human Clan drew their swords to rise and fight back, only to be easily pierced by the beasts and tossed into their mouths as food.

In an instant, this place turned into a living purgatory.

Concubine Yunxia’s face turned slightly pale: ”Is this an illusion... or did it really happen?”

Clang!

Jiang Fan had already drawn his sword, his eyes icy: ”Just kill them!”

Because he saw a girl in a red dress running out of a collapsing mansion.

Wearing a bridal gown embroidered with a Golden Silk Phoenix, she appeared strikingly out of place in the burning flames, amidst the city’s mountains of corpses.

A blood-red giant beast was eyeing her.

It raised its claw, slamming down hard, wanting to crush this red figure into pulp.

Puff!

With a flash of purple light, the blood-red giant beast’s claw was severed by a sword.

Before the beast could react, its huge head was already sliced off by a sword.

The girl bride looked up in astonishment and saw Jiang Fan and a woman as beautiful as a painting.

”Thank you... thank you,” the girl bride cried.

Jiang Fan quietly watched for a long while before softly saying: ”Hide away, and don’t die again.”

Then he turned, brandishing his sword and charging at the other two giant beasts.

Concubine Yunxia glanced at the girl bride, her heart aching slightly.

The spirit of Ling Shu in red makeup will forever be an unhealable scar for Jiang Fan.

The blood-red giant beasts weren’t very formidable.f(r)eew(e)bnovel.(c)o(m)

Fifth Level of Core Formation.

Killing them was easy.

When the third one was killed, the space in front of them distorted, and their vision was restored to the seemingly endless staircase.

”Jiang, don’t be sad, what just happened wasn’t real,”

Concubine Yunxia gently comforted him.

Suddenly, she seemed to notice something and looked behind Jiang Fan, speaking in a serious tone:

”Jiang, look behind you.”

Jiang Fan turned his head and his expression changed slightly.

Unexpectedly, a blood-red light pillar about an inch long had appeared behind him at some point.

Jiang Fan’s silhouette flickered as he tried to shake it off, but he found that the blood-red light pillar followed closely behind him, as if it were attached to his body.

”What is this?” Jiang Fan’s expression became complicated.

Concubine Yunxia looked at her own empty back and said: ”It should be related to Jiang having killed the three blood-red giant beasts.”

”Oh, there are words on the light pillar,”

She keenly noticed that the pillar was covered in dense writing.

Looking closely, it turned out to be written in the language of the Demon Race.

”Linglang Hunting Ground, Hunter number 888, prey count: three.”

”So the so-called Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road is actually a hunt?”

”Then what we saw earlier wasn’t an Illusion Realm, but a mysterious space, and everything happening inside was real?”

Concubine Yunxia recalled the tragic sights of those people, remembering the tearful thanks of the girl bride.

Her heart was shaken!

Jiang Fan clenched his fists, grateful.

Grateful that he didn’t treat it as an illusion and saved that girl.

Let the world be spared another bride vanishing tragically.

”Continue!” Jiang Fan leapt onto the second step.

If this ancient road is indeed a hunt, and the worldly wonders at the top are the rewards, then the final decision must be based on the number of prey captured, right?

Thinking of this, his eyes were filled with a sharp glint.

As they stepped forward, the illusion resurfaced.

This time, it was a battlefield, where a group of valiant warriors from the Demon Race launched an attack against six blood-red giant beasts.

The blood-red giant beasts, similar to the ones on the First Layer, were savage reptiles that could stand upright.

But they were more formidable than those from the First Layer, with five at the Fifth Level of Core Formation and one reaching the Sixth Level.

On their first strike, they inflicted massive casualties on the Demon Race warriors.

Realizing they were facing fellow Demon Race members, Concubine Yunxia raised her hand, ready to step in.

Jiang Fan, however, stopped her.

”You don’t need to act.”

He performed a Sword Control Technique, instantly piercing through the heads of the six blood lizards.

The light pillar behind him, originally an inch long, now grew to three inches, and the number on it changed to nine.

Jiang Fan looked at Concubine Yunxia’s empty back and said:

”No pie falls from the sky for free, a mysterious fog delivering a hunt to Taicang State is not to be ignored.”

Concubine Yunxia understood Jiang Fan’s intention.

Among the two of them, it’s best for one to remain outside the hunt.

Any unforeseen changes, and she can lend a hand without getting caught up together.

Thus, the two continued their slaughter forward.

With Jiang Fan’s strength, they advanced like a hot knife through butter.

Several days later.

As the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road continued for ten days, prodigies had gradually reached over nine thousand levels.

Some impatient strong figures from the Divine Sect gathered one after another.

Qi Yin Master hurriedly greeted a middle-aged man with faint purple light surrounding his eyes and clad in luxurious attire as soon as he saw him.

”Greetings, Pavilion Master.”

The newcomer was precisely the Tianya Sea Pavilion Master, a Great Cultivator at the Seven Orifice Nascent Soul stage.

The Tianya Sea Pavilion Master surveyed the surroundings, his eyes flickering with a sharp gleam: ”Which other leaders from the great sects have arrived?”

Qi Yin Master heartfully replied: ”Reporting to the Pavilion Master, among the Three Divine Sects and Seven Great Sects, only the Fire Worship Sect and White Horse Temple masters haven’t come, all other Divine Sect masters have arrived.”

Divine Sects refer to the top forces in Taicang State.

To be precise, it should be the Three Divine Sects and Seven Great Sects.

The standard for being named a Great Sect is having an Unrivaled Great Master of the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer sitting in the sect.

While a Divine Sect is a great power with a presence of the Divinity Transformation Realm.

The Tianya Sea Pavilion could only be considered one of the Seven Great Sects.

The Pavilion Master of the Sea Pavilion chuckled lightly: ”Very proactive, aren’t they?”

”And no wonder, Venerate Xinnie from Heavenly State has stated that he would be waiting at the end of the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road.”

”The first to reach the end will be accepted as a disciple.”

”Who wouldn’t be tempted?”