Chapter 1051: Slaughter
With a furious roar, the demon dragon returned to Lin Feng's body. The power of the void dissipated into nothingness, and the violent space gradually calmed down.
However, Qiu Yuexin was far from calm at this moment. A demon dragon? How could Lin Feng possess a demon dragon martial soul? And that bloodline power from earlier was absolutely the bloodline of a demon dragon—and extremely pure at that!
Even more shocking was that the demon dragon martial soul that had appeared had directly devoured both the other person's martial soul and the person himself. It could swallow martial souls!
Qiu Yuexin was speechless for a moment, but she quickly calmed her rippling emotions. Lin Feng had shocked her more than once or twice by now; she was even starting to get used to it.
"This demon dragon martial soul feels unusual to me. What type of demon dragon is it?" Qiu Yuexin asked, somewhat puzzled.
"My martial soul was originally the Nine Dragons Heaven Devourer, possessing devouring power. It wasn't a true demon dragon. Later, my body underwent refinement through dragon blood tempering, causing my martial soul to mutate and evolve into what it is now," Lin Feng replied, causing Qiu Yuexin's expression to stiffen. So that was it—Lin Feng had undergone a dragon blood baptism, which caused his martial soul to mutate.
"You... don't tell me you now have a shadow martial soul!" Qiu Yuexin looked at Lin Feng and asked weakly.
Lin Feng smiled faintly. With a thought, his body transformed into a shadow and vanished before Qiu Yuexin's eyes—formless and invisible, as if he had simply disappeared into thin air.
Qiu Yuexin opened her mouth. Sure enough, she had guessed this when she recalled the silver-winged martial soul Lin Feng had used that day. She hadn't expected that he could actually devour martial souls and make them his own. This was far too astonishing.
Suddenly, Qiu Yuexin felt her entire body stiffen, and then her face flushed crimson, extremely alluring.
"You bastard, if you don't let go, just try it," Qiu Yuexin said through gritted teeth. She had been grabbed around the waist from behind. Who else could it be but that bastard Lin Feng?
"I'm just testing, testing," Lin Feng said with a sheepish laugh. Then his figure reappeared in front of Qiu Yuexin. This shadow martial soul was truly strange and wonderful—getting close to beauties with no effort at all... No wonder those assassins were called Shadow Hunters. If their strength were a bit greater, combined with this terrifying shadow martial soul, their destructive power would be astonishing.
"Using me to test!" Qiu Yuexin gritted her teeth, staring at Lin Feng with a half-smile.
"A beauty like jade, I couldn't help myself," Lin Feng said with a foolish grin.
"Your courage is growing," Qiu Yuexin said, glaring at Lin Feng in disdain. She then asked, "The Nine Dragons Heaven Devourer has nine dragon bodies. Don't tell me you can devour nine types of martial souls, take them all for your own use, and merge them into yourself?"
Lin Feng pondered for a moment, then with a thought, a brilliant silver light shone, illuminating the darkness.
Shrugging his shoulders, Lin Feng smiled and said, "The silver-winged martial soul is still there. It seems to be as you said. If I use each demon dragon head to devour a martial soul separately, I can obtain nine different martial souls."
Qiu Yuexin's heart twitched upon hearing this. Nine martial souls? What kind of concept was that? It was far too terrifying.
People with dual martial souls were already extremely rare. After all, what powerful experts passed down was a single bloodline power, very pure, giving birth to one martial soul. Unless a mutation occurred to produce twin martial souls. Moreover, those who had two martial souls, both of which were extremely powerful, were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. In the Eight Wastelands Realm, she had only heard of a few freaks who possessed twin martial souls, and both were incredibly powerful. Their combat strength was terrifying!
And Lin Feng—if he could devour nine powerful martial souls and merge them all into his own body, what kind of terrifying thing would that be? Qiu Yuexin dared not even imagine it. It was too exciting.
Of course, the prerequisite was that Lin Feng's strength had to be sufficient to devour even more powerful martial soul forces.
"Lin Feng, quickly raise your cultivation level, and then devour Xuanyuan Potian's martial soul," Qiu Yuexin suddenly thought of something and said with a smile.
Lin Feng's eyes flickered. He hadn't yet seen what Xuanyuan Potian's martial soul was like. From Qiu Yuexin's tone, it seemed to be extremely powerful.
"What is Xuanyuan Potian's martial soul?" Lin Feng asked.
"The unique martial soul of the Xuanyuan bloodline—the Xuanyuan martial soul. It can change in countless ways and is very powerful. Moreover, the power of his martial soul itself is formidable. If you can devour it and add it to yourself, you'll surely become even stronger," Qiu Yuexin said slowly. "But first, you need to raise your strength. That way, you can devour even more monstrous martial souls for your own use."
Lin Feng nodded. That was true, but raising his strength was not something that could be done overnight. He was more eager than anyone to become powerful. He hadn't forgotten that he still hadn't obtained the pill that could allow Meng Qing to transform back into a human. This was also a major reason he desperately wanted to become a disciple of the Martial Emperor this time. If he ranked high, he might have a chance to meet the Martial Emperor, Stone Emperor, and Yu Emperor. They would surely know where to get that kind of pill, or at least point him in the right direction.
Besides, Mu Chen, Hou Qinglin, and the others were also well-traveled and knowledgeable. They might know as well.
"Let's continue. We need to get out of here as quickly as possible," Lin Feng said slowly. Qiu Yuexin nodded slightly. In this trial, if more than eighty-one people could make it out, then the Martial Emperor's disciples would likely be the first eighty-one to return to the Heavenly Terrace. Naturally, they should race against time.
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In the dim space, silent and soundless, a beautiful figure sat cross-legged, seemingly cultivating. Her flowing white robes spread across the ground, extremely beautiful, making one want to get close.
At this moment, not far away, a figure stared coldly at that beautiful silhouette, a lecherous glint flashing in his eyes. To sit so calmly and cultivate in a place of slaughter—wasn't that just asking for death?
"And she's so beautiful, tsk tsk," the figure thought, his evil intentions rising. He completely concealed his aura and quietly approached the white-clad figure. As his steps drew nearer, the beautiful figure still showed no reaction, making the greed and wickedness in his eyes grow even stronger. In this land of sin, any evil deed was permissible.
"What luck!" The moment he got close to the beautiful figure, he lunged forward instantly. But almost at the same time, a dazzling white light bloomed right beside him. An extremely dangerous aura surged, causing his expression to change drastically. But by then, it was too late to dodge. The brilliant light flashed and vanished. He only felt a sharp pain in his throat, and then he couldn't make a sound as he collapsed limply.
Only then did he realize—it wasn't his luck. It was a death trap, a hunter's death trap.
"Sha...dow...hunter!" An extremely hoarse, weak voice escaped his lips, his final words. Even in death, he believed he had fallen at the hands of a Shadow Hunter.
The white-clad figure stood up, nodded slightly toward the darkness, and then drifted away. This beautiful figure was naturally Qiu Yuexin. Her face had once again returned to its cold, icy demeanor. They didn't deliberately hunt others, but they certainly wouldn't let those who tried to hunt them go.
In this land of slaughter, there were far too many people trying to hunt them. Slaughter played out in different locations across the trial ground, every scene so similar. Everyone wanted to hunt others, but without exception, they were all counter-hunted. Either Lin Feng's sword sealed their throat in one strike, or Lin Feng used his demon-sealing power to instantly seal them, and then Qiu Yuexin finished them off.
In just one day, Lin Feng had hunted thirty-five people, and Qiu Yuexin had hunted fifty-two. All of them were people who had tried to kill them. The trial ground was a true land of slaughter.
And this slaughter would never stop, playing out endlessly in this space. For survival, for powerful strength, they would stop at nothing!
Some speculated about why so many Martial Emperors had joined forces in the past to create this sinful space of slaughter. Some believed that slaughter and life-and-death trials could make a person tough and cold the fastest, strengthening their martial will. Others thought that those Martial Emperors, on their path to becoming emperors, had stained their hands with countless bones. They understood that to become a top-tier expert, one had to trample over the corpses of countless others.
Perhaps all these reasons existed!
In the blink of an eye, another half day passed. Lin Feng had hunted all forty of his targets, while Qiu Yuexin had hunted sixty-nine. She was just one short of being able to leave this trial ground. They no longer wished to stay in this cold-blooded world!
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