Roar!
The Black-Barbed Wolf let out a furious roar. The black barbs covering its body shot out like a dense torrential rain, and its massive frame pounced toward Su Yueli, bringing with it a gust of foul, bloody wind.
A full-strength pounce from a Fifth Realm demon beast was enough to tear apart mundane, refined steel.
Su Yueli narrowed her eyes slightly. The Ji Dao blood qi within her body did not fluctuate in the slightest. At this moment, she simply wanted to test her strength using nothing but the raw physical power of her peak Eleventh Realm body.
As the giant wolf's fangs lunged right before her eyes, Su Yueli shifted her step, twisted her waist, and threw a punch.
There was no fancy magical light or spiritual glow, only raw, physical brute force pushed to its absolute limit.
Boom!
A thunderous bang erupted across the black soil.
The seemingly ferocious Fifth Realm giant wolf let out a tragic shriek as its skull, the hardest part of its entire body, was smashed to pieces under her fist, exploding in a mess of red and white.
The massive wolf corpse instantly lost all signs of life, collapsing limply into the muddy water.
A one-punch instant kill.
After the Black-Barbed Wolf died, its robust demon beast essence blood and the remnants of its green-glowing demon soul began to instinctively dissipate into the air.
Su Yueli immediately sat down cross-legged and circulated her martial arts technique, preparing to devour the flesh and blood essence within the corpse to nourish her blood qi, which was currently stuck at a bottleneck.
Almost at the exact same time, the fist blade Xiaohei hidden on her knuckles began to vibrate violently.
The weapon spirit was incredibly excited, sending a wave of greedy desire into Su Yueli's mind, desperate to drain the demon beast's blood completely through its wound.
“Don't worry, there's enough for everyone,” Su Yueli thought to herself.
With a casual wave of her hand, she also released the palm-sized, somewhat malnourished-looking, and cute Martial Soul she had just condensed in the cave yesterday. She intended to let the little guy out to get some fresh air and a bit of nourishment.
However, what happened next left Su Yueli completely dazed.
As soon as the palm-sized, blurry phantom appeared in midair and caught the scent of the lingering demon soul in the air, its originally dim and lifeless eyes instantly lit up with a greedy green glow.
Buzz!
The tiny thing expanded rapidly in the wind, transforming from a little speck into a massive, illusory mouth the size of a millstone in the blink of an eye.
A hilarious and bizarre tug-of-war erupted instantly.
This seemingly fragile, short-lived Martial Soul, which looked like it could be blown away by the wind at any moment, suddenly opened its massive mouth and transformed into an incredibly overbearing, gluttonous black hole.
Swoosh!
A violent, terrifying suction force surged from the little thing's mouth.
Without even chewing, it swallowed the struggling, roaring Fifth Realm demon soul of the Black-Barbed Wolf in a single gulp.
If that were all, it would have been fine, but the little thing's appetite was shockingly massive. Unsated after devouring the demon soul, its suction force climbed even further, targeting the wolf corpse on the ground.
It actually wanted to snatch and swallow the demon beast's essence blood that Xiaohei was frantically absorbing, along with the flesh and blood essence Su Yueli was about to refine!
Food grabbing! This was pure, blatant food grabbing!
Su Yueli's mind instantly exploded into chaos.
In Su Yueli's sea of consciousness, the weapon spirit of the fist blade, Xiaohei, began cursing wildly on the spot, complaining and protesting with utmost grievance: “Master! This newborn baldy has no sense of ethics! How can a son snatch his father's livelihood?! It's even stealing the blood right out of my mouth!”
Su Yueli's own mind nearly short-circuited.
She had lived for nearly two hundred years and had seen all kinds of backstabbing within immortal sects and geniuses fighting over treasures.
But having a Martial Soul she birthed herself frantically compete for food with both its master and the master's natal weapon in broad daylight was a historic first.
Other people's Law of Heaven and Earth manifestations were solid backings for their masters, so why did she end up with an ancestral lord of her own?
Furthermore... she remembered that the Law of Heaven and Earth was just something akin to a spell. How could it possess independent consciousness like her Martial Soul?
Could it have mutated?
For a moment, Su Yueli couldn't wrap her head around it, but she still snapped, “Behave yourself!”
Her expression tightened, and her Ji Dao will transformed into a heavy hammer, forcefully locking down the flesh and blood essence she was currently refining.
Feeling the master's wrath, the Martial Soul phantom seemed to shrink its neck, no longer daring to touch Su Yueli's share of the cake. However, it immediately turned around and began locked in a fierce, chaotic brawl with the fist blade Xiaohei in midair.
Xiaohei clamped down tightly on the wound, maximizing its suction force, while the Martial Soul phantom transformed into a miniature black hole in the sky, aggressively pulling at the wolf corpse on the ground.
For a moment, a divine weapon and a Martial Soul engaged in a fierce, chaotic battle on the wasteland, fighting over the last few remaining drops of the Fifth Realm wolf's blood.
...
A dozen seconds later, the massive wolf corpse was completely reduced to a pile of dried-up bones and shredded meat.
This three-way food-grabbing tug-of-war finally came to an end.
The final result was that the cute Martial Soul, which had been born less than a day ago, took the lion's share.
Smacking its lips as if still craving more, it floated in midair and let out a very loud, resounding burp.
Su Yueli focused her gaze and saw that after devouring a massive amount of demon soul and essence blood, the little thing's originally dim, translucent, and weak body had actually solidified ever so slightly, and its size even seemed to have grown a bit larger.
Looking at this freak floating around in the air with an incredibly innocent expression, Su Yueli was left speechless for a moment.
But soon, a deep, sharp gleam flashed in the depths of her eyes.
She suddenly realized that this Martial Soul she had condensed was not weak at all.
Since there were absolutely no cultivation techniques for a Martial Soul in this world, it was an entirely unprecedented, brand-new anomaly.
It was purely a growth-type devouring black hole!
It didn't need to painfully sit in meditation to comprehend the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like cultivators. It only needed to constantly consume the remnant souls and essence blood of demon beasts to grow wildly, and then feed back that energy to her as its host!
“So that's how it is.” The eyes beneath Su Yueli's mask gradually lit up.
The Myriad Bones Wasteland was said to contain countless high-level demon beasts, with even Eighth Realm old monsters residing in its core region.
In the eyes of ordinary cultivators, this place was a perilous, deadly secret realm.
But in her eyes, and in the eyes of this Martial Soul that seemed to be the reincarnation of a starved ghost, this place was simply a top-tier, massive all-you-can-eat flesh buffet!
...
Meanwhile, at the entrance area of the Myriad Bones Wasteland secret realm.
Step.
A loose cultivator pulled his foot back, his forehead drenched in cold sweat.
Just a moment ago, a bolt of golden lightning had suddenly exploded on the ground a mere half-foot in front of him.
The lightning made no sound as it struck, yet it instantly melted a solid chunk of dark iron ore into nothingness.
“Get back! Everyone get the hell back!” The loose cultivator swallowed hard and growled in a low voice to his companions behind him, his face deathly pale.
“The ancient formations in this godforsaken place are completely broken, and spiritual energy restrictions are scattered everywhere. Keep your divine sense radar on maximum, and stop for two steps after every three you take! If any of you are tired of living and want to reincarnate early, don't drag me down with you!”
In this area, similar scenes were playing out everywhere.
Whether they were fierce loose cultivators who usually dominated their respective regions or sect disciples who prided themselves on their solid foundations, all of them were having an incredibly miserable time.
To them, this place was not some land of opportunity overflowing with treasures, but rather a giant minefield where a single careless step would lead straight to the crematorium.
Everyone kept their divine sense as taut as a bowstring that could snap at any moment. They carefully detected the faint spiritual energy fluctuations in the air while crawling across the wasteland like snails.
However...
Whoosh—
A dark shadow was rampaging wildly through the jagged rocks.
The speed was so fast it left afterimages, yet it didn't make a single sound upon landing.
Beneath her black robe, Su Yueli casually brushed the dirt off her hands out of sheer boredom.
She walked the path of pure physical longevity martial arts. She did not cultivate the immortal path, nor did she need to comprehend heavenly tribulations.
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