Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Lin Zhao fought the Mo Lin Jiao for six days. Seeing that he could not win the battle, he prepared to retreat. However, the Mo Lin Jiao refused to give up and chased him for hundreds of miles.

Lin Zhao became ruthless, unleashing his full sword domain and condensing countless sword energies into a terrifying sword lotus, forcefully shattering the remaining scales on its body.

They were just one step away from killing him.

The Ink-Scaled Flood Dragon plunged into the deep sea, using the complex underwater currents to unleash its water-based magical abilities and escape quickly.

It can only be said that the Jiaolong monster is indeed powerful, with many innate supernatural abilities.

The armored dragon we encountered earlier had a domineering physical body.

This black-scaled dragon possesses soul defense techniques, making it extremely difficult to deal with.

The second time they encountered a giant, armored tortoise.

This tortoise possesses maxed-out defensive abilities, boasts a powerful physical defense, and seems to have virtually inexhaustible vitality.

Lin Zhao spent seven days forcibly destroying the tortoise shell layer using countless sword energies.

But in the blink of an eye, it can mobilize the power of the demon core to recover quickly, as if it were immortal.

Lin Zhao patiently spent a whole month trying to wear down his opponent, exhausting his spiritual energy several times, but still couldn't completely cripple him. He himself was half-dead from exhaustion.

Lin Zhao had no choice but to retreat again.

The third opponent was Thunder Eagle King.

Its speed was unparalleled among its peers, and its attacks were swift and fierce; it actually chose to fight Lin Zhao head-on.

It was rare to encounter an opponent who could fight him head-on with an offensive approach, and this battle was the most exhilarating one Lin Zhao had ever fought.

Above the vast ocean, cyan sword light and purple lightning were locked in a fierce battle.

Lin Zhao's every strike was imbued with terrifying sword energy capable of tearing through the sky. Thunder Eagle King, relying on his speed, constantly darted around, searching for openings.

One after another, purple lightning orbs containing destructive power were spewed out, their trajectories unpredictable, and some even split into smaller lightning beads, attacking from all directions.

Lin Zhao brought the power of the five magical treasures to their fullest potential.

He used his blue boots to perform various near-impossible evasive maneuvers amidst the barrage of lightning.

The spiritual light of Lingyuan Palace descended, directly catching the lightning ball that the person couldn't dodge in time. Although the palace trembled continuously, it was never broken.

The Divine Soul Sword Tower continuously emitted sword sounds, forcibly interrupting the opponent's offensive and prematurely detonating the incoming lightning ball.

For a moment, high in the sky,

A streak of cyan light and a purple shadow chased each other relentlessly.

Sword energy and lightning frequently exploded, their roars reverberating across the sea, and the raging energy below caused giant waves to surge.

Lin Zhao pursued the Thunder Eagle King for thousands of miles. The Thunder Eagle King gradually became exhausted and turned to plunge into a sea of ​​ghostly mist.

Lin Zhao stood outside the fog for a moment, then turned and left.

Ghostly mist is one of the most dangerous phenomena in the Endless Demon Sea. It is said that even many Nascent Soul True Monarchs have perished and disappeared after venturing into it.

This is just the lingering fog that hasn't dissipated yet, but it could also be dangerous.

Putting oneself in this kind of environment for the sake of a peak third-tier demon beast is not worth the loss.

It can only be said that the Thunder Eagle King is truly devoid of martial ethics.

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He hunted down peak-level demonic beasts three times, but returned empty-handed each time.

In retrospect, Lin Zhao came to the conclusion that with his current cultivation level at the early stage of Core Formation, hunting late-stage third-tier demonic beasts was the limit.

The peak third-tier demonic beast, in terms of both physical strength and spiritual defense, completely surpassed his current limits.

He might be able to forcibly kill a peak Core Formation cultivator using various methods.

However, to kill a peak third-tier monster, one needs to meet certain physical strength requirements.

Perhaps the Five Sacred Mountains clones could do that.

However, if the Azure Lotus clone does not use a fourth-tier magic weapon, it is currently still weaker than the Five Mountains clone.

The Azure Lotus clone wanted to kill a peak third-tier demonic beast, but it just so happened to encounter one whose abilities were countered by its own.

You either need to team up with others, otherwise the probability of a successful hunt is too low.

Of course, using the Starry Sky Rift Sword would be a different story.

However, Lin Zhao did not want to use a fourth-tier magic weapon lightly.

He wants to improve his strength further, either by breaking through to the mid-stage of Core Formation or by cultivating several powerful sword techniques.

There are many sword techniques in the sect, but they all require Cloud Sea Jade Tokens to exchange for.

Lin Zhao's main body doesn't even have enough cultivation resources, let alone spare the energy to support the Azure Lotus clone.

The Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws is quite open to exchanging things—cultivation techniques, secret arts, sword skills, as long as you have merit points, you can exchange for anything.

Blood crystals and demon cores are hard currency.

This is also why Lin Zhao has been focusing all his efforts on hunting demons this year.

Over the past year, Lin Zhao has traversed tens of thousands of miles of sea, and countless demonic beasts have perished under his sword.

They killed over a hundred third-tier demonic beasts, including fifteen late-stage third-tier demonic beasts.

They obtained more than two thousand second-tier demon cores and over one hundred third-tier demon cores.

The demonic beast's body was too enormous, and its flesh and blood were inconvenient to carry, so he used a secret method to condense it all into blood crystals.

After a final count, the number of blood crystals exceeded 100,000.

He also made a name for himself in the endless sea of ​​demons.

Known as the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal

He didn't come up with this name himself; it was spread by the nearby demon-hunting teams.

Many cultivators had witnessed his attack from afar. A streak of azure light stretched across a hundred miles, and the surging beast tide collided with the sword light, like angry waves crashing against solid rocks, and was crushed.

Some observant people have done a simple tally of Lin Zhao's achievements. He killed over a hundred third-tier demonic beasts on his own in one year, a truly astonishing feat.

As his reputation gradually spread, he gained considerable influence among the Core Formation cultivators.

The news traveled back to the islands, and several months later, Lin Zhao successfully made it onto the leaderboard of the Myriad Laws Alliance.

The Alliance of All Laws has set up two lists to fight against monsters and to inspire people.

The Prodigy Ranking lists seventy-two young cultivators under the age of one hundred, valuing their age and potential.

Once they make it onto the list of prodigies, these prodigies will receive a lot of investment from cultivators.

The Ranking of Heroes consists of thirty-six individuals, judged not by their actual abilities but solely by the major achievements they have made within the last century.

People who are capable of great things are usually quite capable.

With the Nascent Soul True Monarchs absent, those on the Wind and Cloud Ranking are the most influential group.

Lin Zhao spent more than a year and achieved the incredible feat of hunting down over a hundred third-tier demonic beasts single-handedly, which propelled him into the 29th place on the popularity rankings.

Those who aren't ranked very high, but are in the top ten, have either personally killed a peak Core Formation stage demon beast or done something even more outrageous.

In other words, Lin Zhao concealed his cultivation level with the Spirit Sealing Seal, making it impossible for outsiders to fathom his true strength.

No one dared to think that he was only at the early stage of Core Formation. Early stage of Core Formation?

What a joke.

A cultivator in the early stage of Core Formation can kill over a hundred third-tier demonic beasts, including fifteen that are comparable to those in the late stage of Core Formation.

To be able to do something like this in the early stages of Core Formation is simply too abnormal.

Most people speculated that the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal was at least at the late Core Formation stage, or even at the peak of Core Formation.

No one knew that he was only in the early stage of Core Formation, and that he was actually less than a hundred years old, yet he could still be listed on the Prodigy Ranking.

If they found out, the entire Endless Demon Sea would probably be shaken.

This is no longer within the realm of prodigies; this is within the realm of a secret holy son, a legendary existence that is rarely seen in the endless demon sea for thousands of years.

Various factions secretly investigated their origins, but to no avail.

The high-ranking members of the Myriad Laws Alliance secretly deduced that the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal was probably not a local cultivator, but rather came from one of the seven hegemonic sects, with the Wuji Sword Sect, renowned for its swordsmanship, being the most suspicious.

Lin Zhao had anticipated this; using multiple aliases was precisely to conceal her identity.