Just like that, after Li Xiang used his communicator to give out his recent missions, he began his arduous journey of killing in the temple. Every battle had the risk of death.
In just a week, he had experienced thousands of battles. His blood stained the temple, and he had shattered several bronze statues. From them, he had obtained other types of cultivation systems and elementary particles. He had also been defeated by some bronze statues and had almost died on the spot.
The Black King had returned once. After witnessing such a shocking battle with his own eyes, he had remained silent. After observing for a while, he had left the temple again, leaving him to continue fighting alone.
He was very envious, but his strength did not allow him to fight these bronze statues like Li Xiang. He could only continue to improve and find an opportunity to break through Level-9.
Li Xiang used seven days and seven nights of bloody battles to finally gather nearly half of the universe's particles. The various cultivation systems were in a mess and did not match with each other. Some of them even clashed violently. It could be seen that the various worlds in the universe were contradictory to each other. They needed to use extremely powerful rules to contain them together and even combine them.
Most of these laws were in the hands of the Creator of the Universe. At the very least, only Eternal existences like Azathoth could come into contact with them. Thus, Li Xiang's plan to combine the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought to derive a stronger cultivation system was ruined.
He had no way to cultivate most of these systems. He could only absorb the elementary particles and perfect the Source Particle system, making it closer to the essence of the universe's particles. However, as long as it was not complete, its strength was limited. Every fusion only increased its strength by a little. For Li Xiang, it was not of much help.
It was unrealistic for him to rely on the Elementium Particles to increase his combat power enough to fight against a Level-10 opponent. He could still remember the Lord of Disaster he had caught a glimpse of. The Lord of Disaster had been graceful and elegant, giving him an indescribable sense of pressure and danger. If they really fought, he would most likely fall.
Perhaps only Bai Lili and Lancelot were qualified to fight him. However, there were still six such enemies. Each of them was amazing and had suppressed an era. They were all supreme geniuses.
Li Xiang had a vague feeling that the Lord of Disaster was not the strongest of them all. Taihao, the ancestor of Taiyin, had buried countless beings above Level-9. His combat ability was also shocking.
In the Divine Hall, everything quieted down. Li Xiang gasped for breath, then closed his eyes and began to review and rest.
As long as he didn't get close to the bronze sculptures, no matter how intense the battle was, they would immediately stop attacking and return to their original state.
These temple guardians were only preventing him from approaching the jars. Their purpose was unknown.
They didn't stop Black King from approaching before, which meant that the more powerful the creature was, the more they couldn't get close to these jars. Was it because they had the ability to release them?
Li Xiang didn't understand. He didn't think too much about it and focused all his attention on the battle replay disk.
If it weren't for the fact that only one Temple Guardian could be dispatched at a time, and that they would stop once they left the security zone, he might have really died here.
However, this kind of battle between life and death also allowed him to grow rapidly. Ever since he reached Level-9, he hadn't met a worthy opponent. This wasn't a good thing. When he was weak, he had broken through through countless bloody battles. If the enemy was too weak, the speed of his growth would be greatly reduced.
In these seven days of fierce battles, he was exhausted. His injuries were the most serious. Even his skull had been broken. A sharp claw had pierced through it and almost shattered. Fortunately, his powerful regenerative abilities allowed him to recover.
He had also gained a lot. Fighting with the former geniuses of various worlds, he had learned many secret techniques that he would never have been able to understand in the Seven Continents. Although he hadn't been able to touch the God's Domain during his battle with Bai Shili, he had learned some of Bai Shili's cultivation insights and experience.
How to integrate other things into one's body was the focus of Bai Shili's research.
Now, Li Xiang was applying what he had learned. He had integrated the other particles he had absorbed into the Source Particles. At the same time, he had also extracted the essence of the different systems and slowly integrated them into the player system. One day, he would be able to perfect it completely.
Dark golden light pulsed on the surface of his body like dragon scales. It was very bright and beautiful. It enveloped him and slowly spewed out bright vitality and aura.
Boom!
Like a phoenix spreading its wings, two rays of red light pierced out from both sides of his body. It was like a pair of wings of light, tearing the sky apart with terrifying power.
Streams of life essence fell from the sky and drowned Li Xiang. Soon, he stood in front of him, as good as new. There were no more injuries that had troubled him for a long time.
These were the life particles he had obtained from a bronze statue that had been defeated. They had extremely terrifying regenerative abilities. Together with the powerful blood energy of the Blood Qi Particles, the combination of the two perfected a physical body that was almost beyond that of a Cosmic Beast.
At this time, Li Xiang's physical strength had increased by another level. He could already challenge the top Cosmic Beasts.
After using the Mythical Form of a Polar night player, he could even go one step further and look down on all races.
Li Xiang looked at the remaining three bronze statues. His expression was uncertain. Finally, he took a step forward and walked toward one of them.
These three bronze statues were the three strongest of all the temple guardians. Each of them was extremely close to Level-10 and almost immortal. The three of them had their own characteristics. They were good at attacking, defending, and spells. They were all-encompassing and very powerful.
This time, Li Xiang chose the Temple Guardian that was good at attacking. As soon as he walked into the warning zone, it suddenly rose into the air and turned into a hundred-meter-tall giant. Its eyes were burning with a dark purple spirit, and it held a huge broadsword in its hand. Each of its attacks had the power to destroy the heavens and earth.
Its attack has exceeded the limit of Level-9 and above. How terrifying. Li Xiang muttered to himself. If he hadn't perfected his body, he wouldn't have dared to challenge the Guardian of the Temple. It was the Guardian of the Temple that had left an indelible scar on his skull.
The sword scar went down from his forehead to his right eye and was covered by his long black hair.
The dazzling battle did not last long. It was a violent exchange of attacks. Victory and defeat were quickly decided.
Li Xiang held the Paradise of Annihilation in his left hand and the Eternal Purgatory in his right. These two disaster weapons were extremely extraordinary. The former evolved from the Darkness Origin. Now, the four forms had merged into one, becoming the Polar night form. The body of the spear was pure black and dotted with star-like light spots. It was like a dazzling galaxy.
The latter was the supreme weapon that Li Xiang had created. It seemed to have come from the endless purgatory. It burned with a blazing light and nurtured supreme power. Every time it killed an enemy, it would absorb its life essence and power to strengthen itself. Its power was now comparable to the Paradise of Annihilation.
With one spear and one sword, coupled with his domain and Polar night player form, every strike was enough to kill an ordinary Level-9.
Half of the giant's body was blasted apart by the spear. Blood rained down. It struggled violently and spasmed continuously. Its huge body could not withstand Li Xiang's attacks. It turned into light spots and finally dissipated in the temple.
In this battle, he also suffered heavy internal injuries. The attack of the super giant was also extremely violent. Even his strengthened body almost couldn't withstand it. Fortunately, the recovery secret technique that was formed by the fusion of blood energy particles and life particles didn't disappoint Li Xiang. At the last moment, it allowed him to withstand the backlash and turn defeat into victory.
Defeating this bronze statue meant that he had officially surpassed the peak of Level-9.
In just a week, his strength had increased so much. As expected of the geniuses of the various worlds of the past.
The cultivation systems they left behind were all supreme treasures that had gone through countless years of accumulation, the essence of an entire world. Those worlds had already been destroyed by the Lord of Disaster and turned to dust, so the fact that their cultivation systems were still preserved could be considered a happy ending.
The number of bronze statues in the temple was decreasing. The remaining lingering spirits were also disappearing.
They were unwilling to give up, and all of them fell in the final battle at the hands of the Lord of Disaster. They could only watch as their world was destroyed, their remaining consciousness turning into the guardians of the Sanctuary, all for the sake of waiting for someone to inherit their will and preserve their cultivation system, so that one day, their world could be revived once more.
Originally, if one wanted to obtain the history and cultivation systems of a destroyed world, they could only devour the remaining World Core. However, the world was destroyed. The World Core was probably long lost or stolen. It was difficult to find.
These temple guardians did not hesitate to give up going to the Eternal Land and rebirth their souls. They wanted to preserve the remnants of their worlds in this form, waiting for someone to take them. It was clear how deep their obsession with the final battle was.
The destruction of the bronze statues meant that their last traces in the universe had disappeared. They were completely dead and could not be reborn. This tragic decision was moving.
"I'm afraid it would be difficult to find a second temple similar to this in the entire universe. I wonder if the Lord of Disaster ever thought that the opponent he killed would have such great determination. Sigh, speaking of which, wasn't he also a pitiful person who was eliminated by history?" Li Xiang sighed. These temple guardians probably did not know that the Lord of Disaster who killed them was also a victim of the final catastrophe of the era.
He had tried his best to resist, but in the end, he was still drowned by the torrent and became part of the catastrophe.
So what if he was the protagonist of the era? He was still powerless in the face of the final judgment.
The more Li Xiang came into contact with such matters, the more powerless Li Xiang felt. He finally understood Bai Lili's pain. She had decided to create a new world because she felt that the seven continents did not have the power to resist the final catastrophe.
Indeed, from the signs that had been revealed, the protagonists of the Return of the Dead were much more powerful than Li Xiang had expected. If the Lord of Disaster alone had such a glorious battle record, the three most powerful of the temple guardians were not much weaker than himself when they were alive. The cultivation system of the world they lived in was even more complete than the Players' system and had existed for much longer. It was likely that the world they lived in had more champions than the Seven Continents, but they still could not stop the Lord of Disaster's conquest.
They had even been annihilated in the dust of history before the final catastrophe!
However, the seven continents of today were different from the seven continents Bai Lili knew. Under his efforts, all the superpowers had finally joined forces to resist the catastrophe. They did not differentiate between each other. Even the personified Lord of Disaster had joined in.
Li Xiang let the Level-9 players hunt down the remaining rulers in the galaxy and help them eliminate the rejection reaction, killing two birds with one stone. When the Lord of Disaster returned, he did not have to worry about too many rulers mutating.
From the current situation, the Black King, the Shield King, the Night King, the Moon King, and Fei Yujing had the highest chance of breaking through to Level-9 within a year. When that happened, the seven continents' combat power would increase by another level. It was not completely hopeless.
He walked out of the light screen, his injuries healed, and headed for the bronze statue that specialized in defense.
Fighting against this Guardian of the Temple was not that stressful, but its terrifying defense was extremely troublesome. Li Xiang's previous strongest attack could not even penetrate its Guardian Shield, so there was nothing he could do.
Li Xiang had once thought that he would need to be at least Level-10 to defeat this temple guardian. Now that he had defeated the one that specialized in offense and absorbed its cultivation system and elementary particles, Li Xiang's attack power had greatly increased. He finally had confidence.
Li Xiang was also very curious as to whether the strongest shield or the strongest spear was stronger.
Ka-cha!
Silver-white lightning streaked across the sky, huge and boundless. A blinding light appeared in the dark temple. The unbreakable shield of light could not hold on in the end and was broken through by the Paradise of Annihilation. The bronze statue collapsed, turning into countless specks of light that scattered into Li Xiang's body.
It really is a cultivation system and elementary particles that specialize in defense. It seems that the cultivation system derived from each world has a lot to do with the elementary particles it possesses. The Origin Form Particles do not have any advantages over them, but they are abnormally stable, like the core of the universe's particles. Li Xiang muttered to himself, absorbing the knowledge while thinking.
The more he absorbed, the more he understood.
The universe's particles evolved into tens of thousands of particles and became the basic rules of countless worlds. The Origin Form Particles were its basic core and existed as elementary particles in the human world. From there, the player system was derived. The player system seemed to be the core foundation of all cultivation and could continue to expand and change on this foundation.
This was also why Bai Lili and the others could constantly absorb other forces into their bodies. The player system was the most basic system and could continue to grow.
On the other hand, the other cultivation systems were very complete, but they could not absorb other forces. Their repulsive force was too strong and could only maintain themselves.
Therefore, in terms of top combat power, players were the weakest. Compared to these bronze statues, even if the strongest of the seven continents leveled up, it would be difficult for them to win one-on-one. However, the former had already been fixed and could not go any further, but the players still had a lot of room for improvement.
Even people like Bai Shili who only pursued purity could reach Level 10.
This was because the player system was the core.
This also proved that the human world was different. It was noticed by Yug Sothoth, had two personified personalities of the Sanyuan Pillar Gods, and was the legendary "door" that opened the location of the Creator of the universe. It was also the place where the final catastrophe would descend.
Li Xiang learned from the temple guardians that their world did not go through the final catastrophe. Even if it was very powerful, it was only destroyed by a protagonist.
Only the human world was different. It would be returned by seven dead people at the same time!
Li Xiang got up and walked towards the last temple guardian.
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