Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 165 - Ten Thousand Yakshas Rushing Forward
Liu Gaoyu felt somewhat uneasy. He pinched the bridge of his nose, wondering if it was caused by his recent actions.

After all, even the top-tier Liu family would find it somewhat difficult to strike down four first-class families in Yizhou.

But after thinking about it carefully, I didn't think it was a big problem. After all, it was just a problem with manpower. In terms of top combat power, the Liu family still had the advantage.

Upon thinking of this question, Liu Gaoyu's face immediately darkened. If it weren't for the sudden deaths of elders like Liu Chang'an and those Foundation Establishment geniuses, he wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure.

In the Liu family, Foundation Establishment cultivators under the age of thirty are considered geniuses, and one of them is highly regarded and can be considered a Nascent Soul seed.

But now all of that is gone, and the Liu family is bound to fall into a period of transition, and there are only two ways to get through this period.

First, cultivate another genius who surpasses even the most brilliant minds; second, strike down and eliminate all the geniuses from other forces within the state.

This is why the Liu family took action against those four top-tier families, because they posed the greatest threat.

Don't let me find out who the murderer is, or I'll make sure he suffers a fate worse than death!

Liu Gaoyu thought fiercely to himself.

Just then, his study door was suddenly opened.

Liu Gaoyu frowned, feeling somewhat displeased. Who dared to enter his room without knocking? He looked up and saw a handsome young man dressed in black.

Liu Gaoyu suddenly became wary: "Who are you?"

"My name is Lin Le. Does Patriarch Liu remember me?" Lin Le stopped and said slowly.

"Lin Le?" Liu Gaoyu frowned, feeling that he was somewhat familiar with the name.

Seeing this, Lin Le reminded him, "Anzhu County."

Anzhu County? Liu Gaoyu immediately remembered something: "It's you, the murderer who killed Zhixing, how dare you show your face in front of me!"

“I came because I felt I could kill you,” Lin Le said slowly.

"How dare you!" Liu Gaoyu sneered. "Show me what you're capable of. I want to see how you're going to kill me!"

Lin Le looked at him quietly without saying a word.

Liu Gaoyu's expression gradually turned grim, because since he secretly issued the warning, not a single elder had come forward to offer sacrifices.

"Are you waiting for your elders and retainers?" Lin Le asked leisurely. "I'm a little sorry, but I already took care of them before I came."

"You think I'll believe you just because you say so?" Liu Gaoyu snorted. "Prepare to die!"

As they were talking, Liu Gaoyu suddenly struck out with his palm, the energy of water and soil transforming into mountains and rivers, carrying an aura that could suppress all things, and crashed towards Lin Le.

Lin Le raised an eyebrow, and the phenomenon of a dragon playing with a pearl appeared, followed by a thunder dragon flying out.

Heavenly Punishment!
Boom! The small house exploded, and two figures leaped into the air.

Liu Gaoyu glanced at the Liu family mansion and immediately felt uneasy, because he felt that the mansion was too quiet and completely lacked its usual vitality.

Upon scanning with his divine sense, Liu Gaoyu's expression turned to astonishment.

They're all dead, from the elderly to toddlers, not a single person survived.

This must be an illusion, it must be an illusion!

Liu Gaoyu turned his head and looked at Lin Le with a fierce expression. As long as he killed him, this illusion would be broken!

"You find it unbelievable? You think it's impossible for me to kill so many people in such a short time?" Lin Le chuckled. "Actually, I also find it a bit unbelievable. I didn't expect that after the Soul Slaughtering Hall's Ten Thousand Strings, the power of the Divine Sense Secret Technique would increase many times over."

"With just a light flick, those below the Qi Refining stage died instantly. A few more flicks and those at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages were all dead."

"It just took a lot of energy; it took me most of my precious elixir to recover."

In the battle of Dongbo Lake, tens of thousands of aquatic creatures perished. Combined with his previous accumulation, the number of soul strings in Lin Le's sea of ​​consciousness successfully reached one hundred thousand, marking a qualitative change.

"Die!" Liu Gaoyu slapped Lin Le with his palm, completely enraged by Lin Le.

"Die!" Lin Le uttered a single word.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, ten thousand soul strings were activated, with twenty-four golden core soul strings as the main strings, condensing into arrows that shot out.

One hundred thousand arrows were fired simultaneously, and after shooting out of Liu Gaoyu's sea of ​​consciousness, they instantly condensed into twenty-four giant soul arrows, which struck Liu Gaoyu's sea of ​​consciousness.

Liu Gaoyu, who was rushing towards him, suddenly widened his eyes as a tearing pain shot through his mind.

Liu Gaoyu suddenly fell.

He died. His soul was completely destroyed by Lin Le. Without a soul, how can his life exist?
Watching Liu Gaoyu fall, Lin Le thought to himself:
This place is still too small.

The further Lin Le progressed in his cultivation, the more he felt the enormous difference brought about by the accumulation of knowledge, like a snowball rolling downhill.

At the Qi Refining Realm, he could only cross two or three minor realms; at the Foundation Establishment Realm, he had no pressure to defeat the Golden Core Realm; and at the Golden Core Realm, he could even cross five minor realms to crush the Nine-Turn Golden Core Realm.

The reason for this gap is the foundation laid in the Qi Refining Realm. To this day, apart from Qing Li, Lin Le has never seen anyone in the Qi Refining Realm reach the pinnacle.

Each advancement in realm is an exponential increase; what was initially a difference of 1.01 and 1 has now become a difference of 1.3 and 1.

Not to mention that the gap between Lin Le and his enemies is not just 0.01, but 1, 2, or even 3.

'The Great Yan Kingdom is merely a small state among the vassal states; above it lie the Hundred Great Nations, imperial dynasties, and immortal dynasties ruled by true immortals.'

Lin Le looked up at the stars, thinking, "The road ahead is long and arduous."

After tossing down the embroidered ball, Lin Le said, "Clean up the battlefield."

"Yes." Guan Wenzhong and the other spirit generals accepted the order and led the Taoist soldiers to tidy up the Liu family mansion.

Lin Le entered the Liu family's spiritual vein, sat down cross-legged, and began to absorb the rich spiritual energy here by circulating his Daoist energy.

After daybreak, Lin Le put the supplies into the leopard skin bag.

Then a large seal appeared in his hand; it was the seal of the governor.

Strangely enough, this seal was not in the hands of Liu Gaoyu, the strongest member of the Liu family, but in the hands of a sixth-level Golden Core cultivator from the Liu family.

But this is normal; after all, officials have to do things, and some documents still require official seals. A prefecture has twelve counties, and each county has thirty-six districts. A single prefecture alone has a population of tens of millions, so you can imagine how much official work this would generate.

Unlike Lin Le, who only secluded himself for a day or two, other people's seclusion was different. The higher one's cultivation level, the longer the seclusion period. Especially after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, when there were no longer concerns about food and sleep, it was quite common for cultivators to seclude themselves for one or two years.

While cultivators can go into seclusion, official duties cannot; some tasks can cause major problems if handled overnight or even all day.

Therefore, to avoid the hassle of official duties, the official seal is usually held by the official's most trusted aide, who handles official business on his behalf.

This made things easier for Lin Le; otherwise, killing Liu Gaoyu would have caused even more trouble.

So what should we do next?
Lin Le stood on the horizon, looking down at the vast city below. He could kill tens of thousands of people in a single breath, but that didn't mean he could distinguish between those who could be killed and those who couldn't in the same instant.

The Liu family has deep roots in Yizhou, involving at least a million people. He can't possibly kill them all, can he?

As soon as this thought arose, Lin Le felt a roar in his mind:

"Kill! Kill! Kill! There is nothing that cannot be killed, no one that cannot be killed, let's carve out a sea of ​​blood and a floating pagoda!"

"roll!"

Lin Le frowned, and a single word, "Get out," struck like thunder, suppressing his killing intent.

'Troublesome stuff.'

Lin Le looked into the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness, where a blue-faced, fanged yaksha was roaring.

That was a product born after 100,000 soul strings, called the Soul-Slaying Yaksha, which is equivalent to a split soul. When released, it can fight for its master.

But Lin Le thought this thing was very troublesome, as it kept clamoring to kill people in his head every day.

If it weren't formed from divine consciousness, and destroying it would severely damage that consciousness, Lin Le would have destroyed it long ago.

'We need to find a way to reform the Soul-Slaying Temple.'

If it weren't for the Golden Light Divine Mantra suppressing it, Lin Le strongly suspected that this thing would backfire on cultivators.

Looking down at the city, Lin Le finally decided to fight his way down.

Do as much as you can, as long as you have a clear conscience.

……

Outside Anrui City, Chi Lingzi sat quietly on a rock, holding a Xuanjing crystal in his hand, which was the Li Huo Xuanjing he had brought from the Lei Nu Jiang Cave.

Just then, a young Taoist priest rushed over and said, "Master, we have news about the person who killed our eldest brother!"

"Where?" Chi Lingzi suddenly opened his eyes, a faint flame flickering in his pupils.

The Taoist priest replied, "In the city of the prefecture!"

Whoosh! Flames erupted, and Chi Lingzi vanished instantly.

Seeing Chi Lingzi suddenly disappear, the Taoist was startled, then shouted, "Master, wait for me!"

Boom! A loud sound came from a distance in the sky.

Chi Lingzi coldly stared at Hong Lingzi before him: "Hong Lingzi, why are you blocking my way!"

“Liu Gaoyu is dead. He killed him.” Hong Lingzi sighed as he looked at Chi Lingzi, who was radiating murderous intent.

Chi Lingzi, brimming with murderous intent, showed no restraint whatsoever: "That's Liu Gaoyu, a piece of trash! I will kill him!"

"Let's go together with the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Upper Sect. That Demon Lord is beyond our ability to defeat!" Hong Lingzi earnestly advised.

Chi Lingzi ignored him completely: "Get out of the way!"

Hong Lingzi's expression was resolute: "No, I can't let you go to your death!"

"Get lost!" A fire dragon roared out from beside Chi Lingzi and charged towards Hong Lingzi.

Hong Lingzi tensed all his muscles and threw a punch.

boom!
A dark figure crashed to the ground; it was Hong Lingzi.

He stood up, his body charred black, and looked up. Chi Lingzi was nowhere to be seen, only the gradually dissipating fiery clouds remained.

Despite the pain, Hong Lingzi took out a jade talisman and said, "Master, Chi Lingzi has gone to the prefectural city!"

On the jade talisman's side, Jing Lingzi frowned: "What's going on?"

Just then, a young Taoist boy came over with a jade piece in his hand.

Jing Lingzi scanned with her divine sense, her expression changed drastically. Liu Gaoyu was actually dead. He was a ninth-level Golden Core cultivator, and he was even protected by imperial aura.

Hong Lingzi briefly recounted the events: "Master, hurry and save Senior Brother Chi Lingzi. Senior Brother is no match for that Demon Lord."

"I understand." Jing Lingzi's expression was uncertain, but it eventually turned into indifference. "Hong Lingzi, come back."

"What about Senior Brother Chi Lingzi?" Hong Lingzi's voice was tinged with sadness; he already understood what Jing Lingzi meant.

"Let him be," Jing Lingzi said calmly.

He had no intention of rescuing Chi Lingzi, because Lin Le's ability to kill Liu Gaoyu meant that ordinary Nine-Turn Golden Core cultivators were no match for him.

Even if he went there, he would only be serving food to that demon lord.

“But…” Hong Lingzi wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Jing Lingzi.

Jing Lingzi said, "Come back as soon as possible. We cannot afford to lose even a single bit of strength now."

"Okay," Hong Lingzi replied, looking somewhat lost and dejected.

On the other side, Jing Lingzi moved the jade talisman aside, turned around and said, "Activate the mountain-protecting formation. No one is allowed to enter or leave in the near future!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)