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The moment the Evil Moon Valley trio made their move, Liu Yan had already decided her course of action: Summon the Divine Spirit’s feather to guard Zhang Ruo Xi first, so that she could go all out.
Twiii…
A loud bird-like cry rang out and the three of them looked up and saw a strange-looking Firebird tens of metres in length, clad in red flames flying about.
The outer layer of this strange bird’s body was a flickering of lightning, indicating that two primary attributes were contained within it.
“She’s not human!” Zhou An shouted after noticing this fact.
When he saw Liu Yan in her original body, he finally understood why he felt there was something off about her. When he first saw Liu Yan, he felt that this woman was different from ordinary people, it seemed like she a little ethereal. Now that he saw her true form, he concluded that Liu Yan was a living spirit.
“She is an Artifact Spirit!” Hua Gu shouted. Fear from his eyes was quickly replaced with greed. He could not help but laugh loudly, “Hahahahaha! The Heavens have presented me with such a gift! This Old Master was worried about my Flame Club being unupgradable. Never would I have imagined that I would have the luck to encounter an Artifact Spirit here! “
As he spoke, he bellowed to the other two, “Junior Brother, Senior Brother, I only want this Artifact Spirit. After I get her, you can have the rest. Is that fine with you?”
After Zhou An and Xiong Ning heard this, they looked at each other and nodded, “We will abide by Senior’s decision!”
“Good!” Hua Gu nodded and eerily stared at Liu Yan. “Looking at your form and how you act, it seems that you already attained some level of consciousness. It’s not easy to cultivate to this point. Don’t worry. This old master is kind enough to let you live. So long as you enter my Flame Club obediently, I promise not to destroy your Divine Sense. How’s that?”
After he spoke, he summoned out a club artifact. This artifact had a rich aura to it. Filled with power. Obviously, it was a Dao Source High-Rank Grade artifact!
Such an artifact could be considered to be an extremely rare treasure. If an Artifact Spirit such as Liu Yan were to combine with it, and was refined by Hua Gu, the Flame Club might be promoted to an Emperor Artifact!
Furthermore, with an Emperor Artifact, Hua Gu, being in the Third-Order Dao Source Realm, had the opportunity to peek into the mysteries of the Emperor Realm!
Therefore, even knowing that the Sealed World Bead was worth a lot, he would be willing to give it up just to subdue Liu Yan. After all, one’s cultivation was the most fundamental when it came to one’s power.
After Hua Gu spoke, he was faced with Liu Yan’s pillar of fire!
The flames came down from the sky, as if they were going to melt the earth. They produced an enormous level of power.
The Evil Moon Valley trio hurriedly avoided it!
Hua Gu continued to persist and shouted, “You should not refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! If you had just accepted the deal, this Old Master would no longer act and it would be that thing against the two of them! But now that you have refused, do you think it can hold up against all three of us?”
He was naturally referring to the Luan Feng’s dark feather.
To him, Liu Yan using the most powerful artifact in her possession to protect Zhang Ruo Xi was the dumbest move she could make! After all, though she managed to protect Zhang Ruo Xi, she was no match against the three of them, especially with her artifact gone. Furthermore, once they are done with her, they would move on to Zhang Ruo Xi. For someone in the Saint King Realm, how could she possibly even resist them?
In his mind, the best option was to ignore Zhang Ruo Xi and leave her to die. Meanwhile, she would use that feather to attack the three of them.
Fuuu…
Another pillar of fire fell down from the sky.
“Playing with fire in front of this Old Master!” Hua Gu coldly snorted and threw the Flame Club, which spun around. The pillar of fire created by Liu Yan made contact with the club. Once they made contact, Hua Gu spoke, assured of his victory. “It seems that your consciousness is still lacking.”
Pfff!
Liu Yan opened her mouth and a ball of fire the size of a table came crashing down.
“I told you it’s futile!” Hua Gu shouted impatiently, and Flame Club made contact with the attack once again.
Hong Hong Hong…
A loud explosion rang out, and World Energy around them became chaotic.
“What!?” Hua Gu’s face suddenly changed. He hurriedly withdrew his Flame Club and tightly clenched it in his hand. When he looked down to check on it, he found that his Dao Source Grade High-Rank artifact was now wrapped with pulsating lightning arcs, causing his hand to feel numb.
“Yes, the power of Lightning is no doubt powerful!” The greed and desire in Hua Gu’s eyes became more and more obvious. Such an Artifact Spirit could rarely be found even in a million years! It seemed that once he merged his weapon with Liu Yan, not only would he be able to upgrade it to be an Emperor Artifact, it would also obtain the power to use Lightning.
“Senior Brother, don’t bother talking to her. Since she doesn’t want to submit, we just have to force her to!” Zhou An dodged the attack again and spoke with impatience.
“Fine, but be careful. Don’t hurt her spirituality!” Hua Gu nodded and did not forget to give a warning.
Zhou An coldly snorted, “Junior Brother is not the best at controlling his strength. If my attacks really hurt her, it’s her own fault.”
Once he said his piece, Zhou An shook his wrist. In his hand, a long spear emerged and flashed forward, charging at Liu Yan.
The silent Xiong Ning also acted. He placed his hands together and stimulated his Source Qi which ferociously shot forth.
“Primordial Divine Spear!”
“Burning Sun’s Phantom Hand!”
The two Second-Order Dao Source Realm cultivators attacked with the power of World Principles. By utilizing the power of Heaven and Earth, the majestic and ferocious attack headed towards Liu Yan.
Liu Yan’s body swayed as she wrapped her body in a layer of fire, which acted as a barrier to resist the attacks from both sides.
Boom!
Liu Yan let out a pained cry. The flame barrier which surrounded her was instantly shattered. Although it managed to absorb most of the damage there was still the residual attack that slammed onto her body. It was powerful enough to cause her to shift and made her lose control of her current form.
After the barrier disappeared, Hua Gu’s figure mysteriously appeared close, in front of Liu Yan. His face solemn as he shouted, “Look into this Old Master’s eyes!”
With those words, a magical power blossomed from his eyes, turning into two vortexes that kept spinning, as if to pull Liu Yan’s Soul out from her body.
This was a Soul Secret Technique, which Hua Gu only made use of at the most opportune time. He timed it such that Liu Yan simply could not avoid it and was instantly struck.
Although Liu Yan had only recently advanced to the level of Dao Source Realm, her combat ability could be considered to be decent. However, she was outnumbered and each of them had a much higher cultivation than her. So, she was unable to deliver a decent fight when the three of them joined forces.
After being hit by the Soul Secret Technique, Liu Yan’s body was suddenly frozen in mid-air. Each flap of her wings slowed down. Her mind was in chaos, seemingly unable to resist.
Seeing this scene, Hua Gu was overjoyed, secretly feeling that things were going surprisingly well. He could already imagine the wondrous scene of subduing this Firebird Artifact Spirit, merging it into his Flame Club, and allowing his artifact to be promoted to an Emperor Artifact.
A beautiful picture of the future seemed to be unfolding in front of him.
“Senior Brother! Look out!” Zhou An suddenly shouted.
“What’s wrong?” Hua Gu was shocked, but soon, his eyes widened. He saw, within the Firebird’s pupils, that there was another type of flame that was burning. This flame was different, it seemed to be able to burn one’s Soul. As soon as someone made contact with it, it would cause his Knowledge Sea to tumble, and result in an unimaginable headache.
Sun’s True Fire!
Liu Yan had followed Yang Kai for so long, and even she was not clear on how much Sun’s True Fire she had devoured. Furthermore, her body had integrated with two kinds of precious and powerful flames. If not for consuming all of these, Liu Yan would never have been able to take on a solid form as an Artifact Spirit, much less obtain her level of sentience as an Artifact Spirit. So, it could be said that Liu Yan’s body was extremely complicated, housing many rare and valuable flames.
Hua Gu tried to use the Soul Secret Technique against Liu Yan again, but obviously, it did not work.
In a flash, Hua Gu cried out and retreated. He covered his head, and roared at Liu Yan. “Are you this unwilling to submit to this Old Master?”
He roared hysterically, “Since you won’t submit, this Old Master will destroy your consciousness!”
Once he completed his sentence, he clasped both his hands together and formed a seal. The Flame Club suddenly became bigger and burned even brighter. Up in the air, it started to tremble and shot towards Liu Yan like an arrow that left its string.
At the same time, Zhou An and Xiong Ning both attacked again.
Liu Yan’s eyes finally showed a hint of panic. Her body swerved around as countless lightning strikes and fireballs flew out, with some mixed in blue ice flames, trying to resist this onslaught.
She managed to block off Zhou An and Xiong Ning’s attack, but the Flame Club still shot straight at Liu Yan with hardly any decrease in strength.
At this rate, the Flame Club was bound to go through Liu Yan’s body and inflict heavy damage to her.
“You asked for it!” After all, only an Artifact Spirit with its own consciousness that was obedient had its uses. Meanwhile, a chaotic and ignorant Artifact Spirit that resisted at every turn, would only hurt him. Since the other party was unwilling to give in, he was left with no choice but to kill her.
But at that moment, an unusual fluctuation could be felt. A brave and heroic figure mysteriously appeared in front of Liu Yan. He stretched out a hand, lightly slapped forward and whispered, “Exile!”
A Void Crack opened up, and something like a black hole took shape.
And… the Flame Club headed into the black hole…
“No!” Hua Gu’s face changed dramatically as he gathered up his Source Qi in a panic. He only had one thing on his mind, which is to recall his artifact before the black hole closed up.
Seeing the black hole quickly closing up, Hua Gu’s forehead was drenched with cold sweat.
Although he had never seen such a Secret Technique before, he knew that if he did not recall in time, his artifact would be lost forever.
“Who!?” Zhou An could not help but shout with a ruthless expression.
Xiong Ning also narrowed his eyes and looked ahead.
In the sky, a young man stood quietly in front of the Firebird, his gaze coldly sweeping them. He was fuming with rage.
Yang Kai is naturally in a horrendous mood. Originally, he checked around the canyon in advance and found no signs of Monster Beasts around, so he felt that the bottom of this canyon was safe. Therefore, he decided to leave Zhang Ruo Xi and Liu Yan here, even placing the Sealed World Bead and other important treasures here as well.
But, never would he have thought that after just a short time, trouble would arise, causing him to have to rush back.
Yang Kai is naturally in a horrendous mood.
“But, never would he have thought that after just a short time, trouble would arise, causing him to have to rush back.”
I thought that the second he decided to leave them. Honestly what the hell was he thinking. Also pretty risky move from him if he wasn’t aware that Liu Yan’s power skyrocketed. I am not really complaining tho, I am guessing this is just a setup for something else the author wants to get going.
The reason why this story has turned to complete garbage is the ever-fluctuating state of Yang Kai’s IQ. You leave probably the most important emperor artifact in the ENTIRE star boundary in the hands of a dao source realm ally, while you go off exploring? ESPECIALLY in a place crawling with powerful foes literally searching every nook and cranny looking for opportunity? Abysmal storytelling
Just so you know only people with balls of steel or someone who cultivate the Dao of space will dare to enter that place, those evil sect idiots did so only because of the energy fluctuations ( which YK should have considered, It’s not really something for which you need high IQ )
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But, never would he have thought that after just a short time, Patreon would arise, causing everyone to rush back.
It’s fun seeing these, Keep it up! xD
Thank you
People are still asking questions that have been answered many times already.
Yk is not using his flame qi because he prefers using space attacks. This also helps him become better at using space force.
Yk is not using his demon transformation because its gone. It fused with yang qi in his body to make his flame qi.
Yk is not using his demon eye to absorb souls because that eye which he got in TX realm is not strong enough to go against DS realm people. Reread the ch when YY took care of the DS realm person in YK’s star field.
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Should it not upgrade with the user? And he used the demon eye for soul attack when he came here in the first guild. He also used it to defend vs the invading emperor while in home universe…
The demon golden blood is still viable and strong…
My feelings are similar. Instead of upgrading his original tech and skills, he just picks up new ones. Like getting the devour emperor tech to upgrade the Golden eye. They should be compatible. The lotus got upgraded, the bugs got upgraded.. the original golden skeleton got upgraded… the OP skills got forgotten.
He should get big info in other specialities by devouring some cultivators. He got it in the past..
You’ll exec see it very soon. Haven’t you noticed they’ve not mentioned the Flame Wolf and Monster Insect Queen? He’s going to use the insect Queen I think one more time and they’ll just forget about it. No explanation, nothing!
The problem is that he never actually says that he prefers anything over the old skills. He just stops using them. They feel forgotten.
The demon transformation was improved into his blood and bones. I understood it to be a permanent improvement. Almost like he is always in demon transformation.
Yang Kai stopped absorbing souls since a little before he killed his first Origin King. The star master that chased him though space for a long time. It is never mentioned why. He just stops doing it and has never done it since despite that it would have helped him tremendously.
And what about the 9 holy land skills? He actually did say that they improve with his cultivation, but they never get mentioned again after he starts with the 5 sword qi. He wouldn’t have needed to demand to take Hua Qing Si’s soul imprint. He could have just taken it with the holy land ability that takes soul imprints.
Ultimately my problem is that all of these abilities are super cool, but get neglected and forgotten after YK picks up the new hotness. I wanna see YK improve his old stuff and incorporate it into his new stuff. Making his own legacy of abilities instead of adopting others’. At the very least make abandoning his obsolete powers a conscious decision, so that we can be satisfied with them being dropped
Firstly, makes no sense to continue to use old abilities when the new ones outclass the old. Pretty simple concept, dont know what the issue is there. Secondly, its pretty obvious the author is winging it at this point, with more concern with reaching the end than actually worrying continuity. So if you are still reading, just give up expecting a good story in these side/level-up missions and just wait for the main storyline to be progressed. the overall story is still interesting,
It’s not said that the old abilities are inferior. In fact YK specifically says that the further utility of all abilities can be useful if cared for and explored.
Secondly the author is not just concerned with reaching the end, considering it’s still ongoing and approaching 6000 chapters while we are still on the 2100s.
Thirdly I am expecting a good story, because I’ve been receiving a good story so far. This has been a great fun ride and I don’t plan on ever stopping.
Lastly it’s not the fact that old abilities are left behind. It’s that we are not given a reason for YK doing so. In fact it goes so much further than that, because cool amazing abilities are just never even mentioned. No reference. No explanation. Nothing. It’s frustrating when the story shows a situation that could be helped by (or even completely resolved by) an old ability that YK should still have access to. Getting newer and stronger and cooler powers is so awesome. I just wish the old cool awesome got it’s proper due sometimes.
This isn’t a “Author sucks and does a sucky job” kind of discussion. It’s a “Oh man. Remember that cool thing YK used to do? That was awesome. Why doesn’t he ever do it anymore? I wish the author addressed it” kind of discussion. At least, for me it is, anyway.
“I wish the author addressed it” . . . “it” being major points of his MAIN CHARACTER. If you are confused about even the main character, just imagine what people, myself included, think about how the author ford the side characters as well and simply leaves things by the wayside without mention and just continues with the story. Its okay for you to be enjoying the story and the author to be doing a sucky job with the [not so] minor details. Both can exist at once
The fact that he drops old abilities without mentioning them isn’t a character flaw. It’s a decision by the author. Even if it was just part of who the character is, who decides that? The author does. I and others wish the author did things a little differently. It seems like it would make for a better story if he did. I doubt anyone would argue that it would make the story worse to take just a little time to give proper respect to old abilities that saved his bacon numerous times.
Leaving behind old characters in the same way is another thing I wish he didn’t do. Again it feels like a disservice to those characters.
It’s just wishful thinking, though. This is the author’s decision. I can be not ok with it and still enjoy the story. You’re right, there.
Again, I completely agree with everything you just said in your comments. Good to know I am not the only one that feels this way.
And yet, for spoiler reasons we won’t come across for another 2000 chapters, the DEOA explanation is nonsense. Why would such a highly-prized and exclusive ocular technique have such a bizarre drawback/limitation? It remains Momo’s greatest oversight as an author, even more than some arcs I’m not going to name & some plot threads/character arcs that went nowhere.
For the eye…. It was too op and the author made it weaker/forgot about it. Author forgot that his enemies should drop origin crystals that should help his lotus. And the eye should be very op. Kinda spoiler but that eye is like a secret technique of a VERY powerful person. So it shouldn’t be rendered useless. The author just forgot. Sorry for spoiling
I had an idea about the lack of origin crystals. What if source qi changed it so that they were unattainable? Not cannon, but it could make sense
Thanks for the ch.
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter.
If I remember correctly, the artifact was actually a pot, not a club. I mean, it was never used in the way a club would be used.