At that moment, a terrifying pressure flashed and vanished inside the cave.
Even Xiaohei, who was usually so full of itself and incredibly talkative, uncharacteristically shut its mouth at this moment, shrinking back into the depths of its vessel in extreme wariness.
“Not bad. The little guy has finally grown into a fine young man.”
Su Yueli looked at the majestic Martial Soul floating behind her, clad in a set of dark armor, and curled her lips in great satisfaction.
“This armor looks top-tier. Taking it out as a bodyguard in the future will definitely make a great show.”
Before she could carefully study the newly evolved abilities of her Martial Soul, the feedback energy from it arrived right on schedule.
Boom!
A stream of pure flesh-and-blood essence, following the contract between the Martial Soul and her main body, transformed into a surging river that poured into Su Yueli's body.
This force was so immense that it washed through Su Yueli's body, causing all her bones to crackle and pop.
She closed her eyes and examined her internal state.
At this moment, her bottleneck—which had been stuck at the peak of the Eleventh Realm of pure physical martial arts with no movement for a very long time—actually began to crack under the impact of this terrifying feedback force.
Dense fissures rapidly spread across the surface of the barrier.
“Exhilarating!”
Su Yueli opened her eyes and exhaled slowly, a dark gleam flashing across her pupils.
Feeling the tempestuous power churning inside her, she clenched her fists. “At this rate, if I get a few more high-level beasts, I should be able to break through...”
However, Su Yueli had no idea what a massive storm her unchecked, frantic harvesting in the outer region over the past five days had caused in the outside world.
At the boundary between the outer and middle regions of the Myriad Bones Wasteland.
Several battle-hardened cultivators wearing the Great Wei Dynasty's custom blood-colored armor were half-kneeling on the ground, their faces ashen as they stared at the tracking compasses in their hands.
In the Great Wei Dynasty's plans, the Fifth Realm and Sixth Realm demon beasts raised in this outer region were meant to be fodder used to wear down the strength of other sect disciples and loose cultivators.
But now, the red dots on the compasses that originally crowded the screen to represent the life signs of demon beasts were completely extinguished.
“Commander, this isn't right.”
A cultivator swallowed a mouthful of dry dust, his voice trembling slightly. “Within a radius of several hundred miles, all demon beasts above the Sixth Realm have mysteriously vanished. There are no fluctuations of immortal magic left from combat, nor any traces of large-scale forest destruction. It's as if... they were wiped out of existence by something.”
The blood-armored commander leading the group had a face so dark it could drip water. He stared at the faint traces of pure physical pressure left in a deep pit on the ground and snorted coldly.
“This is not an immortal path method. It is either an expert who walks an extreme physical path, or some high-level entity hiding its aura, clearing the field in advance.”
The blood-armored commander slowly stood up, staring in the direction Su Yueli had departed. “No matter who it is, anyone who dares disrupt Great Wei's deployment must die. Pass down the order. Notify our people over there to seal off this direction.”
“I'd like to see just what kind of deity is playing tricks right under my nose!”
At this moment, Su Yueli had just walked out of the cave. She patted the dust off her clothes and looked up toward the inner region deeper in the secret realm, which faintly exuded even more powerful demonic qi and spiritual pressure.
...
Half an hour later.
In the middle layer of the Myriad Bones Wasteland, within a dense forest of jagged rocks.
A mountain-sized Seventh Realm late stage demon beast, a Blood-Burst Savage Bear, was crouching on the ground. Its crimson beastial pupils were filled with fury as it roared continuously at the empty air.
A nauseating, bloody wind blew in her face.
Su Yueli's figure flashed past. At the exact instant the bear's massive paw was about to strike her, she shifted her steps and twisted her waist. Xiaohei, resting between her fingers, instantly drew a cold black gleam.
Boom!
A pure, despair-inducing physical strength poured out.
The Blood-Burst Savage Bear's thick armor, which was enough to withstand the slashes of Sixth Realm flying swords, was as fragile as tofu before Su Yueli's current peak Eleventh Realm heavy punch.
With a single punch, she blasted right through the bear's iron-like bones, instantly pulverizing its massive heart into mush.
The giant beast crashed to the ground, splashing mud everywhere.
The dense, almost tangible Seventh Realm late stage flesh-and-blood essence and the remaining roaring demon soul began to instinctively dissipate.
Buzz—
Between her fingers, Xiaohei's weapon spirit vibrated frantically with excitement, seemingly shouting: Quick! Blood! Master, quickly let me suck all its bone marrow dry! It's so nourishing!
Deep within her dantian, the mutated Martial Soul that had just transformed to the size of an ordinary human and was clad in dark armor also flared with green light in its eyes. The gluttonous black hole behind it flickered once more, poised to forcefully intervene and snatch the food just like before.
“Quiet down, both of you.”
Su Yueli snorted coldly. Her Ji Dao will transformed into an invisible heavy hammer, ruthlessly striking down on the heads of the weapon and the soul.
“This main course tonight is not for you. I am going to break through.”
Sensing their master's unyielding, non-negotiable will, Xiaohei let out a very aggrieved whimper and obediently shrank back.
The green light in the eyes of the Martial Soul, which had just formed solid armor, also dimmed slightly. It stomped its feet in dissatisfaction inside her dantian, but in the end, it could only shrink back into the darkness to chew on air like a child who didn't get any candy.
Su Yueli took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged on the spot, and set her martial arts cultivation technique into motion.
Rumble!
The Seventh Realm late stage flesh-and-blood essence, like a vast river bursting its banks, poured wildly into her limbs and bones.
The final barrier, which had been stuck at the peak Eleventh Realm Delusion Breaker and was already covered in dense cracks, began to collapse and shatter into pieces under the final impact of this brutal force.
After an unknown amount of time, a dull, thunderous roar, akin to the creation of the world, echoed within Su Yueli's body.
The invisible shackles that had hindered her for countless days were completely broken.
The Twelfth Realm of pure physical martial arts!
Su Yueli clenched her hands into fists, feeling extremely excited.
It wasn't easy, but I finally broke the barrier...
“Today, I shall name this the Heaven-Shaking Realm!”
At this instant, no auspicious clouds descended from the sky, nor were there any phenomena of immortal music chiming in unison that usually accompanied a cultivator's breakthrough.
All there was was the sudden solidification of the void within a hundred-mile radius.
A red-and-black blood qi storm, composed purely of physical mass and terrifying gravitational pull, erupted with Su Yueli at its center, sweeping across the entire wasteland.
Wherever the storm passed, there was not a single fluctuation of spiritual energy, yet the thousand-pound boulders that had stood for countless years were instantly crushed into fine powder.
...
“What... what on earth is this commotion?!”
Throughout the Myriad Bones Wasteland, the faces of countless cultivators searching for opportunities changed drastically. Under this sudden physical pressure, they felt an immense weight pressing down on them!
“It's incredibly heavy... There isn't a single fluctuation of spiritual energy or spells, so why are my divine sense and Dao Heart warning me of danger?”
“It feels as if the entire sky has collapsed onto my back! My spiritual meridians are about to be crushed by this force! Just which great expert is breaking through here?!”
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