A dazzling sword light pierced straight through the giant bear's body. Even at the moment of death, madness born from surviving disaster still lingered in its eyes.
This scene was not limited to this Nether Illusion Bear alone. Among all the spiritual beast experts covered by the grand array, every one below Third-Grade was instantly killed by a single strike of the array.
As for those like the Nether Illusion Bear who had reached the level of a Third-Grade Sovereign, they were slain by the overlapping assault of three arrays.
In this regard, these spiritual beast experts were not even comparable to Qin Bei and the other three great commanders of the Hundred Battle Domain.
The moment he saw his subordinates being enveloped by the opponent's arrays, the Golden Crystal King realized something was wrong. He was deeply shocked by Liu Bai's ability to instantly cast three Sixth-Rank arrays in succession.
With an angry roar, a gigantic spiritual beast suddenly appeared behind him. Its body resembled a massive terrain lizard completely covered in golden crystal. This was the true body of the Golden Crystal Beast King.
After summoning his true form, the Golden Crystal Beast King opened his enormous mouth. Golden light rapidly gathered within it before erupting violently into a colossal beam of light that shot straight toward the arrays.
Buzz!
At the instant the beam erupted, space within a thousand mile radius trembled violently. Wherever the beam passed, space itself was torn apart, leaving behind an enormous spatial crack.
Watching as the three arrays before him were consecutively pierced through by the golden beam, with the remaining shockwaves even shattering a distant mountain peak, Liu Bai clearly perceived the true strength of the Golden Crystal Beast King. He was a genuine Fifth-Grade Sovereign level beast king.
Unfortunately, his bloodline was not that of a divine beast. He could not rely on divine beast power like Jiu You to fight beyond his grade. This Golden Crystal Beast King was only slightly stronger than an ordinary human Fifth-Grade Sovereign. Even among the various kings of the Great Heavenlaw Domain, he would not rank within the top three.
"I have heard that the Golden Crystal Beast possesses astonishing defensive power and extremely strong resistance against spiritual energy attacks."
Liu Bai thought silently.
"In that case, I shall first test the might of this newly mastered array of mine."
As the thought crossed his mind, Liu Bai's hands rapidly formed seals as numerous spiritual seals spread outward. Within a few breaths, several thousand spiritual seals had already been embedded into the void. Then he took out a jade bottle and crushed it without hesitation.
A single drop of red gold blood appeared in the air. Immediately, the surrounding temperature rose noticeably, and even the air carried a faint scorched smell.
The Golden Crystal Beast King, who had just broken through the array and rescued his remaining subordinates, was furious. In such a short span of time, only three out of his original fifteen experts remained alive. Many of those killed by meteor strikes had not even left behind intact corpses.
Killing intent surged wildly in the Golden Crystal Beast King's heart. Just as he was about to strike Liu Bai in vengeance, he suddenly sensed a heart chilling aura spreading through the air.
"That is…"
"Divine beast essence blood?!"
His eyes locked tightly onto the red gold droplet floating before Liu Bai. The Golden Crystal Beast King almost could not restrain himself from lunging forward.
The reason he had never undergone spiritual transcendence into divinity was because he lacked confidence in successfully condensing a true divine beast body after surviving the lightning tribulation.
That process required the complete activation of one's own bloodline. If the activation failed, there would be no hope of further evolution for the rest of his life.
However, with the assistance of divine beast essence blood, not only could the time required to condense a divine beast body be greatly shortened, the success rate would also increase significantly. Even spiritual beasts with extremely thin bloodlines could successfully evolve if supplied with sufficient divine beast essence blood.
This alone showed just how precious divine beast essence blood truly was.
"Boy, hand over all the divine beast essence blood on your body. This king can choose to forget this matter entirely. I can even promise you one condition."
Liu Bai was momentarily surprised upon hearing this, but soon a smile appeared on his face.
"Oh? Will you truly keep your word?"
The Golden Crystal Beast King showed impatience. Ferocious light flickered within his eyes. If not for the fact that this Fourth Grade human boy possessed some formidable methods, making him uncertain of securing an instant victory, he would have already charged forward.
"Enough nonsense. Speak another word and do not blame this king for going back on his promise."
"In that case, fine. I will give you the essence blood. You had better keep your word."
As Liu Bai spoke, he directly controlled the drop of ancient Flame Dragon essence blood, sending it drifting toward the Golden Crystal Beast King.
This scene instead left the Golden Crystal Beast King momentarily stunned. The other party had actually agreed so readily and even handed over the divine beast essence blood just like that?
Was this human boy too naive? His behavior felt completely different from his earlier performance.
Although suspicion lingered in his heart, the divine beast essence blood flying toward him was undeniably real. A look of joy appeared on the Golden Crystal Beast King's face as he raised his massive palm to receive it.
In the next instant, the essence blood suddenly accelerated, arriving directly above the Golden Crystal Beast King's head before instantly merged the void.
The Golden Crystal Beast King was horrified. He immediately realized that he had been deceived.
"You brat, you are courting death!"
In a fit of rage, the Golden Crystal Beast King let out a heaven shaking roar. His mountain sized true body lifted a claw and slammed it down toward Liu Bai.
Even before the attack landed, Liu Bai felt as though an entire sky was crashing down upon him. Terrifying wind pressure forced the ground beneath his feet down by several meters, leaving behind a thousand meter wide claw imprint.
"Hmph!"
Liu Bai let out a cold laugh. His hands formed seals instantly as he roared within his heart.
"Heavenly Dragon Breath Array activate!"
Accompanied by a earth shattering dragon roar, a flame dragon thousands of zhang in length coiled across the skies above the entire Golden Crystal Mountain Range.
The previously enormous true body of the Golden Crystal Beast King now appeared small in comparison before this flame Heavenly Dragon.
Terrifying dragon might pressed down upon heaven and earth. All spiritual beasts within a thousand mile radius lay prostrate on the ground, trembling in fear.
"A dragon? How is this possible…"
As the target of the array, the pressure the Golden Crystal Beast King felt was ten times, even a hundred times greater than that of the surroundings.
The innate dragon might of the dragon race exerted fatal suppression upon him. Even his attacks dissipated completely. He could only barely maintain his dignity as a beast king, avoiding kneeling like the other spiritual beast experts.
Seeing this, a faint smile curved at the corner of Liu Bai's lips.
He had not expected this array to have such astonishing effectiveness against spiritual beasts.
Of course, this was entirely due to the effect of that single drop of ancient Flame Dragon essence blood.
The essence blood had activated a trace of Heavenly Dragon divine resonance hidden within the array, granting it the terrifying ability to suppress all beasts.
Liu Bai felt deeply moved. It was merely a trace of Heavenly Dragon resonance concealed within the array, yet it already possessed such frightening power. If a true Heavenly Dragon were to descend, what kind of scene would that be? Forget the Northern Realm. Even the entire Northern Region or even the entire Skylaw Continent would likely be shaken.
"Heavenly Dragon Breath!"
As Liu Bai's cold voice rang out, the colossal Heavenly Dragon coiled in the sky opened its massive jaws and unleashed a violent stream of flame dragon breath directly toward the Golden Crystal Beast King's position.
Facing a life and death crisis, the Golden Crystal Beast King forcibly broke free from the suppression of dragon might. Brilliant golden light erupted across his body. The chunks of golden crystal stone covering him seemed to detach as they gathered above his head, forming a massive golden shield.
"Golden Crystal Shield, block it for me!!!"
Amid his furious roar, the enormous body of the Golden Crystal Beast King was completely engulfed by raging flames.
Even the three remaining Third-Grade Sovereign level spiritual beasts that had just been rescued were not spared. They were instantly swallowed by the overwhelming dragon breath.
Almost instantly, three system notification sounds rang out beside Liu Bai's ears, signaling the deaths of those three individuals.
The Golden Crystal Beast King's defense was indeed formidable. Even under such terrifying dragon breath, he managed to endure for nearly half a minute before the final system notification sounded.
[Ding. You have killed a Fifth-Grade Sovereign Golden Crystal Beast King. Experience reward doubled. One million five hundred thousand experience points obtained. Five hundred and fifty Beast Soul Points.]
As his strength increased, the experience gained from defeating enemies beyond his level had dropped considerably. This time, it was only one million five hundred thousand. Moreover, the dozen or so Second-Grade and Third-Grade Sovereign level spiritual beast experts he had killed earlier had only provided just over one million experience points in total. After killing so many enemies this time, the final experience gain was actually inferior to what he had obtained from killing a single Qin Tiangang back then.
That said, the Beast Soul Points were an enormous harvest. A Second Grade Sovereign provided a minimum of two hundred Beast Soul Points and no more than three hundred. A Third Grade Sovereign provided at least three hundred and no more than four hundred.
Adding in the five hundred and fifty Beast Soul Points from the Golden Crystal Beast King, the pattern immediately became clear.
After glancing at his attribute panel, Liu Bai saw that his experience points had once again surpassed three million. However, he was still roughly two million short of breaking through to Fifth-Grade Sovereign, so he set that aside for now.
What mattered most were the Beast Soul Points. They had surged directly to four thousand one hundred, which delighted Liu Bai greatly.
As the terrifying flames carried by the dragon breath gradually extinguished, the massive Heavenly Dragon in the sky also dissipated into the air. When Liu Bai looked ahead again, he discovered that the towering mountain was gone. In its place lay a vast crimson lava lake.
The corner of Liu Bai's mouth twitched. Although he had been mentally prepared, the power of the enhanced Heavenly Dragon Breath Formation still left him shaken.
Let alone a Fifth-Grade Sovereign Golden Crystal Beast King. Even a Sixth-Grade Sovereign spiritual beast would not be able to withstand it. The array's level alone made this self evident.
After scanning the surroundings, Liu Bai finally discovered a massive golden crystal within the lava lake.
This was the only proof the Golden Crystal Beast King had left behind in the Great Thousand World. It was a high quality material for artifact forging and also one of Liu Bai's primary objectives for this trip.
With this golden crystal, Liu Bai could finally put his plan to forge armor for himself on the agenda.
"Not bad, not bad. This trip was truly rewarding."
After confirming that there was nothing else of value nearby, space around Liu Bai rippled like water. In the next instant, his entire body merged into space and vanished.
Back when he was a Third-Grade Sovereign, Liu Bai had already been able to use the power of the Five Elements to crudely manipulate space for short distance movement. Now that he had advanced to Fourth-Grade Sovereign, his control over space had increased dramatically, allowing him to perform basic spatial traversal.
With the assistance of his Five Elements power, Liu Bai's grasp of space was no weaker than that of a typical Fifth-Grade Sovereign expert. As a result, his combat methods would become even more unpredictable from this point onward.
Since he planned to continue strengthening his Innate Five Spirit Disk and then familiarize himself with artifact forging, Liu Bai needed to find a safe place to settle down.
Using spatial traversal, he quickly located a remote mountain forest devoid of human presence. After setting up an Earth-Grade low level Skeleton Illusion Array around the area as protection, he directly entered the mountain's interior and excavated a massive chamber to serve as his secluded cultivation space for this period.
Once again, he summoned the Innate Five Spirit Disk from the Sovereign Sea space.
Gazing at the Innate Five Spirits circulating with different spiritual lights, Liu Bai noted that aside from the Four Winged Flying Flood Dragon, which was a Heaven Grade high level Spiritual beast, and the newly advanced Ancient Golden Ni, which was a Super Heaven Beast, the remaining Ancient Golden Crow, Black Water Mystic Serpent, and Azure Spirit Bird were all Heaven Grade mid level.
The system had also provided several evolutionary options for them.
For example, the Azure Spirit Bird could evolve into the Azure Luan, a Super Heaven Beast ranked tenth on the Earth Ranking. It represented the wood attribute and also possessed the ability to control wind.
The Black Water Mystic Serpent could evolve into the Nether Sea Mystic Serpent, a Super Heaven Beast ranked sixteenth on the Earth Ranking.
The Ancient Golden Crow was more troublesome. Because Liu Bai had helped it fuse with the Haotian True Flame, its best evolutionary path was now toward the bloodline of the Sun Golden Crow.
However, as the Sun Golden Crow was itself a top tier divine beast and had gone extinct quite early, it had not left behind a direct bloodline lineage. As a result, Liu Bai now had two choices.
The first was to wait until he accumulated enough Beast Soul Points and directly evolve the Ancient Golden Crow into a Sun Golden Crow. This was the simplest option, but it required an extremely long wait. The leap from a Heaven Beast directly to a top tier divine beast was simply too vast, and the Beast Soul Points required would be an astronomical number that Liu Bai found difficult to gather.
The second option was to follow the Great Sun Golden Crow evolutionary path and advance it into the Super Heaven Beast Scarlet Feather Golden Crow.
After a brief hesitation, Liu Bai chose the second option. As part of the Innate Five Spirits, absolute balance was not required, but if one innate spirit became too weak, it would directly affect the upper limit of the Innate Five Spirit Disk.
Evolving from Heaven Grade mid level to Super Heaven Beast required eight hundred Beast Soul Points each. Three of them consumed a total of two thousand four hundred points. As for the Four Winged Flying Flood Dragon, there was no choice. Having the most evolution stages already, Liu Bai also wanted to improve it further, but its only remaining path led to the dragon race.
Even the weakest dragon race member was still a lower divine beast. Therefore, Liu Bai could only give up on enhancing it for now and wait until he accumulated enough Beast Soul Points to evolve it directly into a divine beast in the future.
As the two thousand four hundred Beast Soul Points were spent, the three beast spirits on the Innate Five Spirit Disk let out thunderous roars.
However, with Liu Bai deliberately controlling the process and a array isolating the outside world, the disturbance was not too great.
Even so, the stone walls inside the mountain trembled violently. The vibrations passed through the mountain and spread outward into the distance.
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