Chapter 455 - 424: Great Victory, Opportunity for Enlightenment
The assassination attempt.
Not only had it failed to kill Su Ye, but she had also lost a Ghost Infant.
It was a case of adding insult to injury.
She would absolutely not make another move in the battles to come. In fact, Yingshi’s true body might have already fled far, far away from Yu Lan Island by now!
Therefore.
If he didn’t leave now, he, Xuetu, would have to fight one-on-two!
The mere thought of that scenario made Xuetu’s scalp tingle. He had no intention of lingering on the battlefield!
OMMM.
He formed a hand seal and cast a spell.
The crimson silk ribbon coiled around him and transformed into a streak of blood-red light, fleeing into the distance!
"Whew..."
Watching Xuetu retreat, Lin Yinxiu also breathed a sigh of relief.
In the Spiritual Mechanism Immortal Dao, realm was paramount, and Xuetu was a minor realm higher than her.
Even though the power of her Spiritual Treasure, the Purple Thunder Bracelet, had soared after the completion of the Shenxiao Thunder Pool, dealing with Xuetu was still quite a struggle.
It was good enough that the enemy had been forced to retreat.
Besides.
A glint appeared in Lin Yinxiu’s beautiful eyes.
Even after more than a month of intense battle, there were still millions of insectoid beasts on the Yu Lan Island battlefield, not to mention over ten Flesh Nests that had taken root here!
With Xuetu gone, all of his assets were now forfeit!
Even a Blood Path Golden Core cultivator couldn’t create something from nothing. Losing this batch of assets would weaken this wave of the Candle Python Cave’s offensive by at least twenty percent!
Not to mention, they had also slain Lie Lin in this battle, taking down a Tier 4 enemy!
’A great victory!’
’Daoist Yehai is as reliable as they say!’
Lin Yinxiu’s spirits soared, and a faint, excited blush appeared on her normally cool, beautiful face.
Even with her temperament, she couldn’t help but revel in the joy of this fruitful victory!
And all of this.
Was entirely thanks to Su Ye!
This Daoist Yehai had, by himself, slain Lie Lin, forced Xuetu to retreat, and intimidated Yingshi. He had faced three Golden Core-level combatants one after another, single-handedly securing their victory!
The greatest contributor to this victory!
"Daoist Yehai..."
With reverence in her eyes, Lin Yinxiu sent a sound transmission to Su Ye, about to say something more.
But at that exact moment, Su Ye’s figure flickered. He transformed into a streak of Ice Silver Escape Light and unleashed his Golden Core Realm, beginning to slaughter the insectoid beasts on the battlefield en masse!
SCHWIIING!
The ice-silver color flashed past!
In just a few breaths, he had flown out of the range of Lin Yinxiu’s sound transmission.
Huh?
Her smile froze, looking a little strained.
Su Ye’s expression was impassive as his Divine Sense flared, slaughtering the insectoid beasts.
’Don’t get chummy with me, I’m grinding EXP!’
...
Then, Su Ye tirelessly began to clean up the battlefield.
He was slaughtering the millions of biomechanical insectoid beasts on the Yu Lan Island battlefield.
The work was easy.
All he had to do was activate his Golden Core Realm and fly around randomly.
With Su Ye’s cultivation base, his Golden Core Realm was so intensely cold that any insectoid beast below Tier 2 died instantly upon contact.
Tier 2 insectoid beasts could only last for a few minutes, and only Tier 3 insectoid beasts could struggle to move and preserve themselves.
But.
How could they escape Su Ye’s incredibly sharp Divine Sense?
’A Tier 3 insectoid beast?’
BZZZT!
His Divine Sense stirred, crossing hundreds of miles in an instant!
A gigantic insectoid beast, as large as a mountain and clad in armor, resembling a chimera of a mammoth and a Unicorn Ant, let out a mournful cry and collapsed to its knees.
Its eyeballs shattered, and white cerebral fluid gushed out!
A Divine Sense suppression kill! He had reached across hundreds of miles to scramble the beast’s brain, killing it instantly!
Meanwhile.
At the edge of the battlefield.
The Gangfeng Layer churned as air currents seemed to breathe in and out!
A colossal, pitch-black Floating Battleship, like a giant floating island, cast its shadow below!
The Ghostly Flood Dragon had arrived!
During the previous battle, Su Ye had used the Netherworld Skill to Shadow Flash directly to the location, so the Ghostly Flood Dragon had not yet arrived.
—In terms of speed, both Su Ye and the Ghostly Flood Dragon had their own strengths and weaknesses.
Su Ye’s short-range teleportation using the Netherworld Skill was faster than the Ghostly Flood Dragon, but for long-distance travel, such as crossing sea regions, the Ghostly Flood Dragon was faster and more stable!
"Jiaojiao, kill all these insectoid beasts!"
"Do it however you want."
Su Ye sent the message.
"Understood!"
"Time for a massacre!"
Jiaojiao’s eyes were gleaming, her face filled with excitement.
She loved killing more than anything, but Su Ye usually kept her in check, not allowing her to act wantonly.
Now that the restriction was lifted, she was naturally thrilled!
"So many living souls!"
Jiaojiao’s starry eyes twinkled, her expression alight with an unusual glow.
K-CHAK.
Instantly.
Innumerable bone-like structures surged across the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s hull, and thousands of massive cannons rose up like a forest!
"Fire!"
SNAP!
She gave a cool snap of her fingers!
BOOM! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Countless Blood Flame Bombs screamed through the air, forming a barrage that blotted out the sky!
With Jiaojiao joining the fray, wasn’t the slaughter several times more efficient?
The slaughter was as smooth as flowing water.
In just six short hours.
Su Ye swept through the entire Yu Lan Island battlefield!
He and Jiaojiao had slaughtered every last one of the millions of insectoid beasts on the battlefield!
"Haaa..."
Amidst the world of ice and snow.
Snowflakes drifted down.
Su Ye’s black robes fluttered in the wind, his hands clasped behind his back.
He stood atop a mountain of ice, a mountain composed entirely of the flesh and blood of insectoid beasts. The ferocious monsters were frozen solid, preserved in their final moments of life!
His expression showed a hint of fatigue, but more than that, a feeling of utter exhilaration!
Overwhelming force, an unparalleled harvest of lives!
With his power alone, he had crushed a host of millions!
Shattering the enemy’s sharpest point, turning the tide at the moment of greatest peril!
’This kind of pure violence is truly...’
’Exhilarating!’
Su Ye grinned.
The battle on Yu Lan Island had given him a much deeper understanding of his own power!
’With my current combat power, if I’m commanding the Ghostly Flood Dragon, could I perhaps even fight against the Golden Core Perfection stage Old Demon Chiyou?’
Su Ye pondered.
But then.
He dismissed the thought.
It was true that a Golden Core cultivation base allowed one to run rampant in the Outer Sea.
But the cause of this war was unclear, and it involved the machinations of the Central Sea Region... The figure behind the Candle Python Cave was still unknown.
However, Su Ye had recently gotten a clear understanding of the background of the Wanlong Commerce Association within the Flame Alliance!
The True Treasure Pavilion, one of the nine great sects of the Inner Sea!
A Nascent Soul-level power!
Such a great power had been fighting for years, with the Flame Alliance at a complete disadvantage. It was one thing for the Nascent Soul experts not to act—they were major figures who guarded their own territories and couldn’t be deployed lightly.
But they hadn’t even sent a single Golden Core cultivator?
This situation.
Was inevitably suspicious.
’Are they holding back for some reason, or...are they being held down?’
Su Ye didn’t know the answer, but he believed in being prepared for danger even in times of peace. He decided to lie low for a while and not be too conspicuous.
After killing the three Golden Core-level combatants—Yinshan, Chu Wunian, and Lie Lin—he should take a break for a while.
Otherwise, given Xuetu’s Escape Technique, if Su Ye had been determined to hunt him down, there was a ninety percent chance that the Blood Path Golden Core cultivator would have fallen here today!
’Better not to kill him for now.’
’At least...’
’Not before I reach the Mid-stage Golden Core realm.’
A glint flashed in Su Ye’s eyes.
"Panel."
A pale blue panel materialized before his eyes.
[Class: Pastor of the Sea LV 13 (2,126/130,000)]
[Class Attribute Bonus: Damage +71 | Protection +51 | Evasion +39 | Mystic +39]
Pastor of the Sea LV 13!
This campaign had started at Black Wind Canyon and ended on Yu Lan Island.
Su Ye had slain one Tier 4 dragon-man, dozens of Tier 3 creatures, thousands of Tier 2 insectoid beasts, and as for Tier 1 insectoid beasts, they were simply innumerable!
Such a terrifying kill count had caused his Pastor of the Sea class level to jump twice in a short period, from LV 11 to LV 13!
His Mystic attribute had also reached +39!
This increase brought about a wondrous change in Su Ye’s mind and spirit!
Su Ye gently pressed the spot between his eyebrows. He released his Divine Sense, sweeping it across the hundreds of miles of the Yu Lan Island battlefield. After the demise of millions of living beings, a strange, inexplicable aura had emerged.
This aura was elusive, drifting between heaven and earth.
To others, observing it would be like trying to scoop the moon from a well or see flowers in a fog—impossible to grasp its true meaning.
But.
Under the enhancement of his Nine-Method Golden Core and his Mystic attribute, Su Ye seemed to have grasped a wisp of its true essence?!
’Life and death?’
Black and white light swirled in his eyes as he stood rooted to the spot.
In the distance.
Lin Yinxiu flew over, just about to send a sound transmission.
Suddenly, she froze, a look of astonishment on her face.
’Is this... Enlightenment Method?’
A flash of envy, and even a hint of jealousy, passed through her eyes.
They were both Golden Core cultivators, but she had been stuck in the initial stage for over 140 years. She had spent years living on cliffs, watching thunderstorms, and trying to comprehend the nature of heaven and earth...
Only then had she been able to barely touch the threshold of ’Law’.
And yet...
Her expression was complex as she sighed softly.
"Perhaps this is the genius of a Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect?"
"My own path to the Dao, achieved with a single divine seed, is nothing in comparison..."
Lin Yinxiu shook her head.
She landed on the ground and simultaneously raised a security perimeter.
She was acting as Su Ye’s guardian, protecting him from external disturbances.