Chapter 165 Chapter 166 Narrow Victory
Lin Shiming's pupils shrank involuntarily when he saw this.
In numerous simulations in his mind, he had never anticipated that Lu Changming would possess such a terrifying magic artifact.
In a critical moment, Lin Shiming violently pulled out a Xue Sha Thunder.
He threw it toward Lu Changming.
The Xue Sha Thunder was his own, given to him by his seventh great uncle, and all were thrown onto the ten son canopy.
However, when the Xue Sha Thunder exploded, it was completely enveloped by the flaming wind and stardust. A muffled sound of thunder arose but ultimately faded into silence, and the bloody glow was also quiet.
The horrifying stardust and Lu Changming still violently shot towards him.
Unstoppable, and unavoidable!
The Red-haired Demon Monkey threw the Profound Spirit Mountain, and Lin Shiming threw out countless magic swords, controlling them to self-destruct.
But they still couldn't blast through the wind and stardust, and the gourd at this moment violently spewed out several streams of flame magic.
The Profound Spirit Mountain was also blasted away, and the Red-haired Demon Monkey's tail whipped fiercely, becoming engulfed in flames in an instant and transforming into a giant fire monkey.
Yet it was besieged by Lu Changming's supreme grade magic swords.
The supreme grade magic swords didn't slay the Red-haired Demon Monkey because in Lu Changming's eyes, the demon monkey was also something he had in the bag.
At such a close distance, Lin Shiming was simply unable to block it.
In desperation, Lin Shiming could only release all of his swallow spirit ants, a full eight hundred of them.
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Though these swallow spirit ants were still young, each possessed the strength of a Second Rank later stage Demonic Beast, and given the chance to mature and absorb enough spirit patterns and spiritual energy, advancing to the Third Rank was not out of the question.
As soon as the swallow spirit ants were released, they indeed headed toward the flaming wind and stardust. Seeing the stardust, they were not the least bit afraid but instead grew more excited, starting to devour the spirit light that covered the surface of the stardust.
Though the stardust was ferocious and seemed to form an unbroken chain, there were only about a thousand grains of stardust. Being bitten by eight hundred swallow spirit ants like this dimmed the starlight and greatly diminished the power of wind and fire.
Lu Changming was instantly enraged, and the supreme grade gourd spewed out a large amount of fire to burn the swallow spirit ants.
The Second Rank spirit ants were still too fragile, instantly burned to death in large numbers.
Lin Shiming then took out the remaining Tiangang Sword Formation and the Nine Heavens Profound Heavenly Sword Formation, releasing them violently toward the supreme grade gourd, the next moment, detonating them all at once.
The Tiangang Sword Formation was alright, but after the self-destruction of the swords from the Purple Wood Profound Heavenly Sword Formation, Lin Shiming was the first to spit out a mouthful of blood.
And at that time, the flaming wind and stardust were scattered, no longer able to form a fighting force.
Lu Changming's face looked extremely ugly at this moment; he had not expected that killing a Foundation Establishment early stage cultivator would have so many variables, but fortunately, he still had the supreme grade gourd itself, which was a supreme grade magic artifact that surged with countless flames.
Lin Shiming also fiercely released countless spirit roots, which were the Purple Gold Vines he had planted during battle, infused with spirit energy.
The Golden Spear Spirit Roots were completely destroyed by the flames, and the final wave of fire violently rushed onto Lin Shiming's body, blasting all of the Defense Talismans and Spirit Shields into fine pieces.
At the crucial moment, the Golden Luan Eagle blocked in front of Lin Shiming, shielding him from most of the flames.
Burned clean, but the aftermath still hammered Lin Shiming.
Lu Changming finally heaved a sigh of relief at this moment.
But before he could recover, the sound of a Spirit Drum suddenly erupted.
Violently jolting his mind.
It was the Shocking God Drum.
"Useless!" Lu Changming spoke contemptuously, and at his neck, a Spirit Talisman that defended against divine sense attacks also disintegrated into paper and vanished.
However, at that moment, a dazzling golden light erupted.
Out of nowhere, a huge golden sickle suddenly slammed down onto Lu Changming's forehead.
Lu Changming's face changed drastically. He tried to control the gourd magic artifact, but with insufficient True Yuan, he could only throw out several Spirit Talismans. But how could the Spirit Talismans stop the Golden Winged Mantis?
In an instant, he was cleaved in two, and the gourd fell to the ground.
Lin Shiming crawled out of the dirt hole, his body charred, enduring severe pain. First, he used the Heavenly Demon Bag to collect the two spirit zombies, then he gathered Lu Changming's Storage Bag and the dropped magic artifacts, and finally looked at the remaining eighty or so devouring ants with a pained expression.
The devouring ants that he had acquired with great difficulty were now reduced to just over eighty. Those ants relied on their numbers, and now he could only wait for the ants to mature before using Seduction Demon Pills to encourage them to breed again.
He then took out a handful of Green Lotus seeds, threw them into his mouth, summoned the Golden Winged Mantis, and leapt onto its back with a thud.
Immediately, the Red-haired Demon Monkey released flames, turning the entire earth into scorched earth, leaving no other traces of battle.
After doing all this, a monkey and a mantis dashed fiercely in the opposite direction.
Having run tens of thousands of miles, almost beyond the range of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's Divine Sense, Lin Shiming commanded the Golden Winged Mantis to burrow into the ground, and the Red-haired Demon Monkey was put into the Spirit Beast Bag.
After diving thousands of miles deep, he stopped to consume the Green Lotus seeds, barely stabilizing his injuries. But the terrifying internal injuries were still erupting. Had he not practiced the Mountain Ape Body Refining Technique, he would have almost certainly not survived the flames.
Even so, he was now not only depleted of True Yuan, but his body was also full of internal injuries. He was no match for even a Qi Cultivator at this point, let alone a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Without dwelling on it, Lin Shiming immediately started to recover and heal by holding Superior Grade Spirit Stones in his hands.
Finally, he retrieved the Qinglian Taoist Robe from the Golden Winged Mantis, enveloped his entire body in it, and began to seclude himself to heal his wounds.
What he didn't know was that, at the place where he had killed Lu Changming, a Foundation Establishment cultivator stood on the scorched ground, his face filled with anger and disbelief.
"Damn Demon Cultivator, to have such a Strange Fire of heaven and earth!"
"Lu Changming must have been killed!" The Foundation Establishment cultivator sighed, no longer searching, and looked behind him, where Ye Mingqiu and Lin Xianzhi stood, alongside Lin Gang.
However, Xu Daolai was not present.
At this moment, Lin Gang was trembling and suddenly knelt down, crying and begging the Foundation Establishment cultivator for mercy.
"Elder Chen, everything was forced upon me by Brother Xu. I had no idea about any of this!" Lin Gang kept saying.
But this so-called Elder Chen, the celestial hermit, turned his back and walked away.
He then reached out into the void, and Lin Gang was suddenly in Elder Chen's hand, as if grasping a chick.
"Whether you knew or not, I'll find out with one check. Did you really think that with the Sect's Jade Book, I couldn't probe your Divine Sense?" The celestial hermit said, and then took out a Purple Spirit Talisman, pressing it onto Lin Gang's forehead.
After that, all the images converged into a Yu Shu.
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The next moment, with a fierce press of his hand, Lin Gang exploded in the void, bursting into pieces, blood splattering everywhere.
"We have failed in our duty to guard the mountain. Please, Elder Chen, grant us atonement!" Almost simultaneously with the explosion, Lin Xianzhi and Ye Mingqiu, along with the few remaining cultivators, all knelt on the ground, their faces filled with panic.
"This incident is serious due to Xu Daolai and Lin Gang's failure to report. They privately kept a Superior Grade Spirit Stone vein, a crime most heinous!"
"Although you were unaware, losing the mine is also a grave offense. Everyone go back to Heavenly River State and join the front lines, keep fighting until you have killed ten cultivators of the same rank!"
"Yes, thank you Elder Chen for your forgiveness!" Lin Xianzhi and the others knocked their heads on the ground once again.
"Elder Chen, I have a favor to ask. I have a junior who was also among the first to discover the attack by the Heavenly Demon Sect's Demon Cultivator. I hope you can take this affection into consideration and help look for his whereabouts!"
"If he's been hurt, don't get your hopes up. There's no trace of any cultivator within ten thousand miles. Go back to Heavenly River State. I need to return to Yunling Mountain and mine the remaining Superior Grade Spirit Stones," said the celestial hermit, showing no concern for Lin Shiming, a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
Instead, he was pained over the Superior Grade Spirit Stones. A small Superior Grade Spirit Stone vein could have had a thousand Superior Grade Spirit Stones, but in the vein, there were now only a little over two hundred left. They had been ravaged by the Golden Corpse Child and Old Demon Chen, along with other junior Foundation Establishment cultivators, destroying most of it.
If he hadn't arrived in time, not even the remaining two hundred would be left.
"Furthermore, issue an announcement in Heavenly River State's front line: Capture Chen Yunli and the Golden Corpse Child—these two Demon Cultivators at all costs!"