As a Great Divine Art, the Wood Scripture possessed extremely powerful effects. Not only could it utilize the vast ocean of spiritual energy it plundered to launch attacks, it could also rapidly replenish the user's own spiritual energy.
As for how much spiritual energy could be seized, it mainly depended on the surrounding environment and the range the caster was capable of controlling.
Liu Bai's chosen route this time had not been selected at random. Just as he had said earlier, he had carefully chosen a location for his opponent—a place of beautiful mountains and clear waters. And such places often possessed extremely dense forests.
Naturally, while spiritual energy was abundant, all the surrounding vegetation suffered disaster.
Centered on Liu Bai's position, patches of withering yellow rapidly appeared, then spread outward at an unbelievable speed. In the end, within the area previously covered by the green ripples, all trees suddenly exploded amidst the withering, turning into fine powder that scattered into the air.
In just a short time, the verdant mountains and forest sea were reduced to barren land. On the ground, a thick layer of wood powder remained.
Everyone stared at this scene in horror. What kind of method was this, to be so domineering to such an extent?!
At this moment, Liu Bai—having received a massive replenishment of wood spiritual energy—had already recovered. Although his face was still pale, it no longer affected his ability to continue fighting.
Five thousand spiritual seals rapidly danced through the air. In the next instant, they all surged into the void…
Soon, the void trembled as black spiritual energy overflowed from nothingness, like pitch-black ink spreading through the air, gradually outlining the embryonic forms of four jet-black lotus flowers.
"The Demon Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array, complete form!"
The fully formed four-lotus Demon Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array was a genuine Earth-grade Mid-level grand array, powerful enough to suppress a Fifth-Grade Sovereign. This was Liu Bai's only means of threatening the black-robed Elder Mu.
The four black lotus flowers appeared to possess no obvious spiritual energy fluctuations, yet upon their petals were countless ancient and obscure runes. As the runes faintly flickered, they emitted a heart-palpitating aura.
"What level of spiritual array is this?!"
Elder Mu, who was being relentlessly assaulted by Jiuyou and unable to break free, stared at the four black lotus flowers floating around Liu Bai. A terrifying sense of death washed over him.
This brat had actually set up another array—one far stronger than the Starlight Seven Slaughter Array from before!
"How can a First-Grade Sovereign who doesn't even possess a Sovereign Celestial Body wield such a powerful array?!"
"Impossible!"
Elder Mu's face turned ashen as he roared in fury. Everything that had happened today had completely exceeded his expectations. Not only had that brainless young sect master of his been slaughtered right before his eyes, but now something even more unbelievable had occurred—he himself was now facing imminent death.
"I don't believe you're an Earth-grade Spiritual Array Grandmaster! This kind of flashy nonsense won't scare me!" Elder Mu shouted harshly, his expression twisting grotesquely.
Seeing this, Liu Bai could not help but shake his head.
The other party was not truly foolish—he could clearly sense the array's power.
But when an answer exceeds one's understanding, the mind instinctively rejects it, forcibly filtering out what it refuses to believe, then desperately denying it…
This was human instinct. It had nothing to do with intelligence.
Liu Bai said nothing further. With a trace of exhaustion, he slowly extended a slender finger and gently pointed through the air.
In the sky, the four silently floating black lotus flowers slowly bloomed at Liu Bai's gesture. Ink-black light spread outward, silent yet radiating a terrifying fluctuation.
In the next moment, the fully bloomed black lotuses locked onto the massive black Sovereign Celestial Body. Dark light condensed within their cores, and with a sudden tremor, four pitch-black beams shot out soundlessly.
The black beams streaked through the void without any dramatic commotion. Yet wherever they passed, even space itself was torn open, leaving behind four dark rifts that lingered for a long time.
"Netherworld Blood Shield!"
Every hair on Elder Mu's body stood on end. He hastily formed seals with both hands, unleashing all the spiritual energy within him without reservation.
On the surface of his black Sovereign Celestial Body, dark runes flickered as his own essence blood ignited. In front of him, a massive blood-colored shield rapidly condensed.
Whoosh!
The four black beams arrived soundlessly and slammed heavily into the blood shield.
Sizzle!
At the moment of impact, there was no thunderous explosion. However, Elder Mu's pupils shrank violently as he watched his seemingly formidable blood shield fail to block even a fraction of the attack.
It was as though ice had met magma—it melted and was pierced straight through.
Staring at the four bizarre black beams that effortlessly penetrated his strongest defense, Elder Mu's face filled with terror. Before he could react, the chilling black beams tore through space and, under his horrified gaze, slammed directly into the enormous body of his Sovereign Celestial Body.
The black beams sank into the Celestial Body. From the points of impact, dark patterns spread at an astonishing speed, quickly engulfing the entire massive body.
At that moment, Elder Mu felt his Sovereign Celestial Body completely sever its connection with him. The vast spiritual energy within it rapidly collapsed without a controller.
With his Sovereign Celestial Body destroyed, although the backlash was not as devastating as what had happened to Young Master Kidney Deficiency, Elder Mu still spat out a mouthful of reversed blood. His spiritual energy fluctuations instantly plummeted to an extremely weakened state.
In the sky, Jiuyou naturally would not miss such an opportunity. A massive claw descended from the clouds, targeting Elder Mu's true body.
At the same time, Liu Bai changed his hand seals. The four black lotuses rotated once more, their cores locking onto the target as pitch-black light erupted again.
"No—don't kill me…"
Before Elder Mu could even finish begging, the two devastating attacks had already landed upon him.
Without any suspense, this Fifth-Grade Sovereign completely perished under the joint assault of two juniors.
Looking at the empty ground below—not even scraps remaining—Liu Bai felt a slight sense of regret.
"How is it? You won, yet you're still unhappy?" Jiuyou appeared behind him and could not help but ask.
"That's not it. It's just… maybe we went a little too far. Even the space ring didn't survive. The collection of a Fifth-Grade Sovereign just vanished like that—what a waste…"
Jiuyou: "…"
"If you don't want people catching up and killing you, hurry up and move. Stop thinking about useless things!"
Watching Jiuyou turn and leave, Liu Bai shrugged and quickly followed.
[Ding! Successfully killed a Second-Grade Early-stage Sovereign across levels. Triple experience reward granted.
Experience gained: 700,000.
Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points: 200.]
[Ding! Successfully killed a Fifth-Grade Early-stage Sovereign across levels. Fivefold experience reward granted.
Experience gained: 3,000,000.
Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points: 100.]
Two enemies, a total of 3.7 million experience—the gains were truly enormous.
Moreover, both of them possessed Earth Pulse, further increasing Liu Bai's Spiritual Pulse Awakening Points. However, advancing from Four-grade Earth Pulse to Fifth-Grade Heaven Pulse required a full ten thousand awakening points, so awakening was still a long way off.
That said, the Spiritual Pulse had already sunk into the deepest layers of this body. They would only truly be useful upon reaching the Heavenly Sovereign realm, so Liu Bai had plenty of time to improve them.
"Looks like hunting outside really is the fastest way to gain experience…"
Of course, the most crucial factor was Jiuyou's presence. Only because of her did Liu Bai have the opportunity to kill a Fifth Grade Sovereign. Otherwise, if he had encountered such a situation on his own, he would have been chased like a stray dog—forget about counter-killing, escaping alive would have already been difficult.
Don't think that having a cheat meant leveling up would be easy. Think back to the hardship of grinding levels alone in online games back in the day—had you already forgotten?
In a place like the Great Thousand World, which was countless times more dangerous than a game, trying to rely solely on grinding monsters alone would only result in dying faster than the monsters themselves!
There was no such thing as restarting after death here!
Spending three hundred thousand experience points, Liu Bai upgraded the Starlight Seven Slaughter Array to the Great Mastery stage. This resulted in noticeable improvements in both formation speed and array power. Moreover, due to Liu Bai's current attainment in the Dao of Arrays, the spiritual energy consumption required to set up the Starlight Seven Slaughter Array was reduced by ten percent.
At present, Liu Bai had only just stepped into the Sovereign Realm, so his primary opponents were still low-grade Sovereigns. Under such circumstances, a Human-grade High-level array like the Starlight Seven Slaughter Array was already more than sufficient.
Although he could now set up a perfect-grade Demon Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array, the issue of spiritual energy consumption remained severe. He couldn't possibly rely on the Wood Scripture to replenish his spiritual energy every time, could he?
What if the conditions didn't allow it?
Moreover, setting up the complete version of the Demon Lotus Slaughtering Spirit Array took far too much time. Unless someone like Jiuyou was present to stall the enemy—as in today's battle—the array was still impractical for direct combat.
Liu Bai had a fair understanding of the Skylaw Continent and knew just how chaotic this place truly was.
Fortunately, their destination was merely an overlooked peripheral region of the Northern Region, one of the five major regions of the Skylaw Continent. Its geographical status was similar to the Northern Spiritual Realm on the Hundred Spirits Continent, making it an excellent leveling area after leaving the "novice zone."
More importantly, this region did not lack high-level grinding locations. As long as the Great Heavenlaw Domain developed as it did in the original story and if that little girl Mandala proved dependable—Liu Bai would at least have a backing force.
Although Mandala was currently only a Lesser Earth Sovereign, and due to the curse could not act frequently, making her less reliable than the already-recovered Northern Sea Dragon, Liu Bai still ultimately chose to come to the Great Heavenlaw Domain instead of the Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy.
One very important reason was the continental tier.
The Northern Heaven Continent, where Northern Heaven Spiritual Academy was located, was simply too small. A single Sovereign could dominate the entire place. After breaking through to the Sovereign Realm, Liu Bai would find almost no suitable places to grind.
Another equally important reason was that Liu Bai had relocated the Liu Clan to the Northern Heaven Continent.
Unlike other protagonists who debuted with a clan-annihilation halo—losing parents, relatives, and friends—Liu Bai had people he cared about.
With attachments came restraint.
Fortunately, the Great Thousand World was vast enough. By traveling to the Skylaw Continent, even if Liu Bai temporarily lost control and slaughtered indiscriminately, no one would realistically trace it all the way back to his home to threaten his family.
This was the true reason Liu Bai was willing to travel so far with Jiuyou.
Of course, the unique environment of the Skylaw Continent itself was also something Liu Bai greatly appreciated.
As one of the few super continents in the Great Thousand World, it remained in a constant state of rivalry among numerous powers. Endless wars raged between factions—countless forces were swallowed daily, yet just as many rose like bamboo shoots after the rain.
It was precisely within this chaos that Liu Bai found fertile ground for growth—something regions like the Five Elements Continent or the Pagoda Continent, where a single hegemon ruled all, could never compare to.
Although the Merchant Continent possessed teleportation arrays directly leading to the Skylaw Continent, reaching the Northern Boundary and entering the Great Heavenlaw Domain was still far from easy. The two of them had to undergo more than ten consecutive teleportations before finally stepping into the territory controlled by the Great Heavenlaw Domain.
Fortunately, the remaining journey only required that initial cross-continent teleportation. Otherwise, no matter how much Sovereign Spiritual Liquid Liu Bai possessed, it still wouldn't have been enough.
"I originally thought I'd make a small fortune, but who knew that just riding teleportation arrays would burn through all the Sovereign Spiritual Liquid we seized from that Young Master Kidney Deficiency…"
Whenever he thought about this, Liu Bai felt slightly depressed.
"Be content already… That guy splurged like a lunatic at the auction, bought so many things, and still had several thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid left. I seriously suspect there was something wrong with him—why would anyone carry that much Sovereign Spiritual Liquid around?"
Storing Sovereign Spiritual Liquid was no simple matter. Ordinary spatial rings couldn't prevent its spiritual energy from dissipating, so special storage methods were required.
Not everyone could be like Liu Bai, who happened to possess an imitation Spiritual Condensing Bowl.
Under normal circumstances, unless there was a special reason or some strange obsession—people wouldn't carry large amounts of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid with them. Lone cultivators without powerful backing were the exception, as they carried their entire net worth at all times.
For Liu Bai to obtain over ten thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid from that Young Master Kidney Deficiency was already extremely fortunate.
Under Jiuyou's familiar guidance, the two continued flying for another two days before truly entering the core territory of the Great Heavenlaw Domain.
Then Liu Bai finally saw the floating landmass known as "Great Heavenlaw Domain."
Well… calling it a floating island wasn't quite accurate. The "island" suspended in the sky was simply far too massive—even calling it a small continent wouldn't be an exaggeration.
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