In the next instant, before the scarred cultivator leading them could even pull back the sneer on his face, his vision spun wildly.
A fist armed with a fist blade had already pierced through his protective spiritual light, brutally crushing his throat.
Crack.
The sound of bone shattering was exceptionally piercing in the narrow alley.
The scarred cultivator's eyes bulged. The sheer vitality of a Fifth Realm cultivator kept him from dying instantly, but his heart was already consumed by an endless, drowning terror.
The clown was me all along... How the hell is this a normal person?
This physical strength—even an Iron Body Arhat who dedicated their life to physical tempering couldn't possibly compare!
He wanted to open his mouth to scream a warning, but his throat was flooded with blood and froth. He could not utter a single syllable.
Su Yueli remained expressionless. With a swift twist of her fist blade, Xiaohei, the violent force completely shredded his life force.
“Boss!”
“Damn it! She's a tough one!”
The remaining two Fifth Realm cultivators were utterly terrified.
Instantly killing a Fifth Realm cultivator with a single punch without even summoning a magic treasure—this completely defied their understanding of reality.
Years of living on the edge kept them from running. They knew that turning their backs to a monster with this kind of speed would only lead to a swifter death.
The skinny cultivator roared, channeling his spiritual energy frantically into his short knife to slash out a blood-red blade glow several yards long.
The other cultivator summoned a white bone shield, desperately trying to block Su Yueli's sudden assault.
“Flashy but useless,” Su Yueli muttered calmly.
Facing the oncoming blood-red blade glow, she did not even bother to dodge.
Her left hand shot out like a steel claw, grabbing the fierce blade glow right out of the air.
Rip!
The sheer, tyrannical physical power of her Longevity Martial Path was put on full display.
The spell-imbued blade glow of a Fifth Realm cultivator's full-strength strike was torn to shreds by her bare hand, scattering into a shower of spiritual light.
The skinny cultivator's eyes nearly popped out of his skull. He stood frozen, as if struck by lightning.
The visual impact was incredibly elegant, yet unbelievably brutal.
Before he could recover from the shock, Su Yueli had already closed the distance, appearing right in front of him.
“You took a step back, and the more you thought about it, the angrier you got, right? Too bad you won't have the chance to step back again.”
Su Yueli's voice whispered in his ear.
A black light flashed from her fist blade, piercing straight through the skinny cultivator's chest and liquefying his heart.
Two seconds, two dead.
The last cultivator holding the white bone shield completely broke down.
The pride of a cultivator and the ferocity of a black market bandit vanished instantly. In the face of absolute violence, they dissolved into primal, raw terror.
He fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowing frantically. “Heroine, spare my life! Spare my life! This lowly one was blind to your greatness! I will give you everything I own! Please, I beg of you—”
Su Yueli had no interest in listening to his nonsense.
After all, villains died because they talked too much. The more words spoken, the higher the chance of a reversal. If you don't pull up weeds by the roots, they will only grow back when the spring breeze blows.
If this guy had some sort of transmission technique on him, every second wasted was just digging her own grave.
Swish.
A flash of black light swept across, and the head of the kneeling cultivator rolled onto the ground, his eyes wide with lingering regret and terror.
The entire encounter had ended in less than twenty breaths.
The alley returned to a dead silence, with only a faint scent of blood lingering in the air.
Su Yueli took a deep breath, calming the slightly turbulent blood qi in her body.
Without a moment's delay, she began searching the bodies with a heartbreaking level of efficiency.
She stripped them of their valuables.
She snatched the three storage bags. A quick scan revealed only about two hundred mid-grade spirit stones inside, with not a single pill or elixir to be found.
“Pah, poor bastards. No wonder they resorted to robbery,” Su Yueli cursed under her breath.
Then, with a flicker of her figure, she vanished into the shadows of the black market.
Half an hour later, Su Yueli found a forested mountain range and entered a secluded, barren cave within an unnamed peak.
She sat down cross-legged and pondered for a moment.
“The Myriad Bones Wasteland...”
That was the name of the secret realm where a peak Twelfth Realm cultivator had supposedly passed away.
A Twelfth Realm grand cultivator from centuries ago would have been considered a supreme titan in this world. There were bound to be countless treasures left behind, but none of that had much to do with her.
A cultivator's inheritance usually required a matching Bone Talent and cultivation technique. As a ground-bound chicken walking the martial path, trying to use a cultivator's inheritance would be like trying to wipe her ass with sandpaper—utterly useless and painful.
Su Yueli was incredibly clear-headed. Those loose cultivators were fanatically eager to try their luck inside only because they had no other choice.
But she was different. Her purpose for entering was extremely clear and simple.
Slay demon beasts, eat their meat.
The old shopkeeper had mentioned that most of the demon beasts in the outer perimeter of the secret realm were around the Seventh Realm, while the core region might even hold Eighth Realm monsters.
The outermost edges probably only had Fifth and Sixth Realm beasts, which would practically be an all-you-can-eat buffet for her current self.
As long as she could devour enough demon beast flesh and blood, her Longevity Martial Path would receive unimaginable nourishment.
“But before that, I need to solve my current bottleneck.”
Su Yueli scanned her own body internally.
With her current strength, defeating Fifth and Sixth Realm cultivators was as easy as slicing vegetables. However, if she encountered a Seventh Realm expert—or those battle-hardened, blood-soaked cultivators from the borders of the Great Wei Dynasty—it would likely be an uphill battle.
Not to mention the Eighth or Ninth Realm demon beasts that might lurk within the secret realm.
“My realm is still too low. I must try to break through to the Twelfth Realm of the martial path right here.”
This Twelfth Realm was a boundary defined by her own martial arts system. Once successful, her physical strength would undergo a qualitative leap.
Su Yueli's gaze hardened. She retrieved the Mountain-Suppressing Blood Pill from her storage bag and swallowed it.
In this dog-eat-dog cultivation world, only strength was the ultimate guarantee of longevity.
She closed her eyes. Inside the cave, a terrifying storm of blood qi, tightly suppressed within her body, began to slowly brew.
The unnamed peak's cave was cold and damp.
Su Yueli sat cross-legged on a stone platform. The moment she swallowed the Mountain-Suppressing Blood Pill, which was refined from the essence blood of a Ninth Realm demon beast, a violent surge of energy exploded furiously within her abdomen.
The flesh and blood essence of a Ninth Realm demon beast was simply too potent. The surging heat, akin to a volcanic eruption, rushed frantically through her meridians and into her limbs.
Su Yueli's face remained calm. At this moment, the incredibly tough body of a Ji Dao martial artist displayed its terrifying capacity to absorb energy.
She pushed the Delusion Breaker Rank blood qi within her body to its absolute limit, trapping the rampaging demon beast essence and forcing it to be suppressed and absorbed.
Buzz!
Fueled by this abundant source of energy, her Eleventh Realm Delusion Breaker blood qi grew as thick and heavy as viscous mercury, emitting low, rumbling thunders as it surged through her veins.
Controlling this vast, ocean-like force, Su Yueli condensed it into a heaven-piercing spear and slammed it ruthlessly against the invisible mist that had blocked her path for so long.
It was the gateway to the Twelfth Realm of the martial path.
Boom!
A dull, massive boom echoed from within her body, shaking the cave enough to send loose pebbles clattering down.
Once, twice, thrice...
After more than a dozen frantic collisions, the mist shook violently and even cracked slightly, but it ultimately merged back together stubbornly.
The road ahead was too heavy and profound, with absolutely no prior experience to draw from. To break through by force, the medicinal power of a single pill was clearly lacking that most crucial catalyst of life and death.
Su Yueli slowly opened her eyes and exhaled a breath of turbid air tinged with faint dark red.
She had failed to break through...
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