In the boundless darkness, a few bright jade flames were the only source of light. Amidst the light, the black-skinned Black Poison Corpse General retracted its bone whip in bewilderment. In front of it, a man and a dog were glaring at it.
The deadlock lasted for less than a breath of time. With an angry roar, the stupid dog took the lead to launch an attack.
Just now, because of its momentary absent-mindedness, it was almost cut in half by the bone whip. Wang Lu promptly used his Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi to save it … In that split second, the stupid dog had no time to react, let alone think. It only knew that at this time, the enemy was standing in front of it, and its master was guarding behind it with his sword. There was only one thing it could do.
Bite it to death.
A moment ago, the scene of the Black Poison Corpse General melting its own skin and dripping poison seemed to have been forgotten by the stupid dog. Once again, it rushed forward and fiercely bit the corpse general's arm. The muscles and bones that were as hard as steel were broken and melted by the dog's sharp teeth, which continued to deepen the corpse general's wound.
In just a few breaths of time, a thick arm was torn off. The process was unbelievably smooth.
Of course, this was not the corpse general deliberately going easy on him. In those few breaths of time, he actually used more than thirty different methods, trying to kill the mad dog that was biting his body. However, without exception, all of them were broken by the Non-Phase Sword Qi of the cultivators a few steps away.
Whether it was the colorless and odorless poison gas, the heavy and powerful bone whip, or the demonic technique that was stimulated by the power of death and primal chaos, all of them seemed to have hit an invisible but solid wall. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't hurt the opponent …
In this black tide, the corpse general had killed countless creatures. Occasionally, he was also repelled by creatures that were too powerful, but he had never encountered such a strange situation. His natural cunning made him want to retreat. However, at this time, the stupid dog intuitively felt the change in him and bit off his ankle! It threw him to the ground!
When it lowered its head, the corpse general saw a pair of red and crazy beast eyes.
It seemed to have no regard for its own life as it frantically tore at the Corpse General's body. Its two rows of sharp teeth could no longer withstand the excessive biting, and several of them broke. Blood flowed from its mouth, but how could a wild beast care about this?
All damage had been blocked by its master, so all it had to do was bite the Corpse General to death. However, its beastly instincts were roaring madly in its mind, urging it to kill its opponent in the shortest time possible, no matter the cost.
It was as if he was walking on a thin rope. Below the rope was a bottomless abyss, and on the other side was a glorious paradise. If he could take a step correctly, he would be able to reach the other side safely, but if he took a wrong step, he would be consigned to eternal damnation.
The stupid dog didn't know why it had this feeling, but compared to thinking, it had always trusted its intuition more … Therefore, under the protection of the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi, it went crazy unscrupulously. Surrounded by the flames, it set off a storm of flesh and blood.
The Black Poison Corpse General was finally dead.
As a Dead Spirit, it shouldn't have the concept of death. Living in the Black Tide, even if its body was destroyed, it could still reform in the Black Tide … unless it was killed by a living being.
And whether it was Wang Lu or the stupid dog, they were undoubtedly a standard living being. When the stupid dog finally bit the Corpse General's throat and tore off its head from its body, the Black Poison Corpse General, with infinite resentment, died.
The stupid dog's mouth was dripping with blood. The excessive crazy attack had brought it great damage, but at this time, it seemed to be unaware of it. After the red in its eyes dissipated a little, it turned its eyes back.
Wang Lu lightly lowered the Sword of Mount Kun, still smiling. However, from his lower lip to his throat, and from his throat to the front of his lapel, blood flowed out like a waterfall.
"Damn, if I was a bit slower, I would have lost my life."
Wang Lu said. His body staggered, almost losing his balance!
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For a long time, Wang Lu always thought that, as a professional adventurer, even if he didn't dare to say that his IQ was the highest in the world, it shouldn't be a problem for him to crush most of his peers. In the past few years, from the Immortal Gathering to the establishment of the Wisdom Sect after he left the mountain, all kinds of magnificent feats proved this point.
However, in this one year in the Savage Land, Wang Lu had to admit that he had made a stupid mistake.
His Master deceived him into coming to the Savage Land in order to let him cultivate the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi. In this one year, Wang Lu diligently cultivated in the Western Mountain. Whether it was his Qi Cultivating Stage, Sword Bone, Heart Sutra, or other related methods, he had made great progress. However, he couldn't cultivate the Non-Phase Sword Qi.
In the beginning, Wang Lu thought that his level wasn't high enough. After all, in theory, this Non-Phase Sword Qi belonged to the advanced cultivation method of the Non-Phase Method, so it was understandable that its basic skill requirement was higher. No matter how fast his cultivation progress was, he was still a Qi Cultivating Stage cultivator, and he had only been cultivating in the Spirit Sword Mountain for more than five years...
However, a few days ago, when he fought with that stupid dog for the fragrant meat, he found out that things didn't seem to be what he thought. The reason why he couldn't cultivate the Non-Phase Sword Qi was perhaps because he had found the wrong method...
For a professional adventurer, the method was always more important than the effort. A year of diligent cultivation was not worth showing off, because even someone as stupid as Wen Bao could easily cultivate for a year. The difficult thing was to find the right method, so that he could get twice the result with half the effort. And this professional adventurer, who had always been good at this, this time, he had taken a stupid road.
Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi couldn't be cultivated or used by ordinary methods … Actually, he should've been aware of this a long time ago. From the name alone, he could see the clue. In the entire set of Non-Phase Method, all of them were simply prefixed with the word Non-Phase, so why did the word Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi have to be prefixed with the word Innate? Was it because it looked more powerful, more noble and elegant? With his Master's extremely bad character, it was absolutely impossible for her to be noble and elegant.
Now that he thought about it, this was the hint that his Master gave him two years ago. Innate, innate, what is innate? What else in a Qi Cultivating Stage cultivator could match the word innate?
Of course, it was innate lifespan … Three years ago, when this guy taught him the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, he probably thought about this day! For a cultivator who had yet to reach the high-level Qi Cultivating Stage, if he wanted to release the Sword Qi and maintain the powerful defensive power of the Non-Phase Sword Art, he could only do it by burning his lifespan and erupting a massive amount of magical power in a short period of time. The strength of the Non-Phase Method lay in its toughness and stability, but its explosive power was almost zero. Only the Heaven Burning Blood Technique could make up for this shortcoming. It was just that, he had always regarded this method as a special method for losers, and never associated it with the noble and elegant Non-Phase True Inheritance...
Therefore, the so-called Innate Formless Sword Qi was, in fact, the pre-version of the Formless Sword Qi. With the addition of the Innate prefix, not only did it not become stronger, it became weaker. However, if a Qi Cultivating Stage cultivator wanted to be able to release Sword Qi, this was the only way.
After finally realizing this, Wang Lu only used three days to perfect the practice of the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi. Now that he used it for the first time in the black tide, it really succeeded in one fell swoop.
From the beginning to the end, this was not a really difficult method. If he had realized earlier that he needed the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, Wang Lu should have succeeded in practicing it within a month. But now, it seemed like he had wasted a year of time. But then again, without this year's experiential learning, he wouldn't have met this stupid dog, and he wouldn't have been able to kill so many dead spirits in the black tide. And without this year's progress, he wouldn't have been able to throw the Sword Qi four or five meters away, and he wouldn't have had enough time to save the stupid dog. It was even more impossible for him to continuously release the Sword Qi three times to completely seal a low-level Xudan Stage Corpse General.
The stupid dog's unbridled output was based on the foundation of Wang Lu's life. Every time he released the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi, it meant that three to five days of his innate lifespan was burned and decomposed. And just now, although it was only a short period of ten breaths, Wang Lu had released the Innate Non-Phase Sword Qi more than a hundred times, which reduced his lifespan by more than a year.
For a person with more than a hundred years of innate lifespan, one year of lifespan seemed to be nothing. However, to burn all of this in ten breaths of time, the burden on the body was unusually heavy. If he was a few breaths slower, the result would be hard to say.
However, the outcome of the battle had already been decided, so there was no need to worry too much. Wang Lu took a few steps forward and walked toward the corpse. "Where's the good stuff?"
The stupid dog barked, sniffed, and then pulled out a scarlet, pulsating meatball from the corpse's chest. It then looked at that meatball with a reluctant look, jumped onto Wang Lu's shoulder, and then delivered the meatball to Wang Lu's mouth.
Even with the vast knowledge of Spirit Sword Sect's top student, he still couldn't recognize the origin of this meatball. However … wasn't the purpose of this hunt just for this peerless delicacy that made this stupid dog infatuated?
As soon as he bit the meatball, a stream of boiling liquid suddenly flowed into his throat. Wang Lu didn't even have the time to taste whether the taste was bitter or sweet, because that unusually high temperature had already burned his entire esophagus.
Holy sh * t, is this magma!?
Since he started cultivating Non-Phase Sword Bone, Wang Lu's body had long been tempered to be incomparably tough. Moreover, he cultivated both internally and externally. Even if it was boiling hot oil, he could still drink it like herbal tea. However, at this time, this liquid actually burned his esophagus, and at the same time, the pain quickly spread to his stomach, and then to his whole body.
However, after that, in the midst of the pain, a surge of vitality exploded from his stomach … Wang Lu was stunned for a moment, and then he finally understood what exactly was contained in this meatball.
It was the purest life source energy — vitality, moreover, it was innate lifespan!
In the Nine Regions, spiritual objects that could prolong life were not uncommon, but spiritual objects that could increase innate lifespan could be described as priceless.
For a time, Wang Lu didn't even have the time to analyze why this savage dead spirit would have such a pure life source energy. He only felt that the energy that poured into his body was like a torrential river. Ten years, twenty years … Unknowingly, it had actually become more than a hundred years!
Wang Lu's original innate lifespan was about a hundred years, but at this time, it had doubled. Regarding lifespan itself, Wang Lu didn't care about it. He was only seventeen years old, and as a human, he hadn't even reached his peak, so he didn't need to consider the problem of prolonging his lifespan. However, the doubling of innate lifespan meant the sublimation of life.
Innate lifespan of more than two hundred years was a privilege that only Foundation Establishment Cultivators could have. However, Wang Lu had now sublimated his life to the level of Foundation Establishment Cultivator in advance.
As the top student of Spirit Sword Sect, he was very clear that this at least meant that in the future, there would be no bottleneck. For other cultivators, even if they had the same Heavenly Spirit Root, there was no absolute bottleneck in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and without the help of external objects, they would still need to accumulate their cultivation base to break through the bottleneck. However, in the future, as long as Wang Lu practiced step by step, the Foundation Establishment Stage would be a matter of course. Even unknowingly, there was a high possibility that he would succeed.
As for the other benefits, they were countless. This Black Poison Corpse General was indeed worthy to be the grand prize of this Savage Dead Spirit Journey. According to the chaotic law of this place, under normal circumstances, he didn't know how many Corpse Generals he had to kill in order to get such a top-quality item! The value of this meatball that contained a hundred years of lifespan was probably not inferior to the sword embryo that Zhu Shiyao had obtained from killing the Corpse King. It was truly a top-grade item … Fortunately, this stupid dog's sense of smell was sharp enough to actually be able to find the Black Poison Corpse General in the boundless black tide using a method that transcended karma.
A moment later, when Wang Lu opened his eyes, he saw the stupid dog swallowing the skin of the meatball along with the remaining juice inside. Its face showed that it still wanted to eat more.
After a fierce battle, the man and the dog shared the loot almost three-seventy. As the owner and the combat commander, Wang Lu took the biggest portion, and the stupid dog also unceremoniously swallowed the smaller portion, feeling extremely satisfied.
However, this time, the stupid dog was a bit more astute. After eating the delicious food, it vigilantly looked around and muttered in confusion.
Killing the Corpse General was certainly worthy of celebration, but what about after that? The two of them were still in the black tide, surrounded by countless dead spirits. Because of the death of the Black Poison Corpse General, they were doubly angry … There was still one day before the black tide would recede, but the Bright Jade Flame burning all around them was already on the verge of collapse. If these flames were in the cave, they could last for several hours, but under the direct pressure of the black tide, they would be extinguished in at most the time it took to drink a cup of tea. The man and the dog had tried their best to end the battle as quickly as possible, but time was running out.
Moreover, Wang Lu had just thrown everything he had, and there was no Bright Jade left in his hands. It seemed that there was no hope of breaking out of the encirclement.
"Woof?" Feeling the rapid weakening of the Bright Jade Flame, the stupid dog began to feel nervous.
"Oh, don't panic. At this time, all we need to do is ask for help from the audience."
As Wang Lu spoke, he took out the last trump card of this Savage Dead Spirit Journey from his mustard seed bag — the Lingjian School's Talisman of Communication.
No matter where the user was, even in the abyss of the demon world, as long as the talisman was lit, it could send a message back to the mountain. Three years ago, before the sect's training, he had used the sect's points to exchange for one, and it just so happened that he needed to use it at this time.
"Master, my cultivation is done, come and pick me up."
After a moment, his master's voice sounded, "I don't have time right now, wait for two days."
"…"
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