"Scram! Brat, don't disturb my cultivation," Michael indifferently glanced at Ethan.Ethan was not bothered at all. He casually approached with a smile. "Greetings, Senior Michael."The brat seems quite respectful. Michael's expression softened slightly, but then immediately changed. How does this brat know my name?Michael was very clear that he kept a low profile in County of Summons River, quite mysterious. Many may know his name, but few have seen him before."Who are you?"Ethan licked his lips and smiled. "Junior has come to pay respects to you, sir.""Pay respects to me?" Michael was taken aback.Suddenly, a pitch-black saber glow as if emerging from the depths of hell streaked across the night sky. Its speed was so swift even the naked eye could not capture it."Hm? Such fast speed!" Michael's eyelid twitched as he quickly closed his eyes and sensed with his Spiritual Awareness.Spiritual Awareness was like a mystical eye, allowing one to perceive what naked eyes could not. F
"Remember my name, Michael... One Blade," Ethan said indifferently. Gripping Moon-Slashing Saber, he summoned his Force and flung it with all his might!Whoosh!Moon-Slashing Saber transformed into a bolt of black lightning, slicing through the night sky and precisely piercing Michael's chest.Boom!"Ah..." Michael let out a wretched cry as he was struck, plummeting from the air like a shot goose and crashing through the roof of a nearby house, sending tiles flying in all directions.In an instant, two youths in white sleeping robes burst out from the house, their faces paling at the sight of Ethan descending like a god of death. They dared not make another sound.Ethan glanced at them coolly before striding forward to retrieve Michael's corpse, then departed into the night.On the outskirts of Summons River County, Ethan emotionlessly lopped off Michael's head. Reaching down, he removed the interspatial ring from the corpse.This was the first job Ethan had taken in several months, a
Ethan roughly assessed that absorbing the essence blood of a beginning Meridian Training realm cultivator did increase his own cultivation, but only by a minuscule amount!It was roughly equivalent to the progress from consuming ten spirit stones through normal means.Ethan estimated needing at least a thousand low-grade spirit stones to open his fourth meridian channel. Yet draining this novice cultivator provided just a tiny fraction of that...It was rather lackluster.However, considering the speed of advancement through siphoning vitality, Ethan accepted it.Discounting the time needed to distill and refine, it only took two breaths.How long would normal cultivation with spirit stones take in comparison? This method enhanced his strength by at least a thousandfold!A thousand times faster! Shockingly monstrous figures. It meant that with enough powerful specimens to harvest from, an army of blood demons could be assembled in no time at all!Just imagine - thousands of blood demo
Celestial Heart City, Sword Tower (33rd Floor), Western RealmsIn an elegant chamber, the Sect Master of the Swords Sect, Son of Heaven, was focused on writing calligraphy. This was one of Son of Heaven's hobbies, as well as a cultivation method. With his profound cultivation level, ordinary spiritual stones were useless. Instead, he sought to gain insight into the Heavenly Dao through calligraphy.Suddenly, the air in the chamber stirred subtly, like ripples from a pebble dropped into still waters. Only someone of Son of Heaven's cultivation could sense this fluctuation.Son of Heaven's brows furrowed. He knew what this fluctuation signified - a major event had occurred in the Western Realms, requiring urgent news to be relayed. The entire Sword Tower was protected by powerful formations. Only extremely important matters could cause fluctuations to reach the 33rd floor.With a wave of his hand, Son of Heaven summoned a mirror wall out of thin air.The surface of the mirror wall rippl
The dignified middle-aged man coaxed like luring a child, "It is rumored to be the Azure Dragon.""Azure Dragon?" Dylan Foster stroked his chin, hesitating for a long while before saying, "Dylan is willing to go."...In a guest house in Summons River County."Jasmine, I have to go to Mistshire for a while," Ethan said gravely.He hadn't wanted to say anything but was worried Jasmine would be concerned, so he came to bid her farewell.Ever since visiting the ancestral home, Jasmine had become even more taciturn, seldom speaking during her days cultivating alone at the guest house or taking on some tasks at the tavern. More often, she would go to the Wilderness Mountains, hoping to encounter her sister's return.Unfortunately, Amelia never came back.Jasmine bit her lip and said hesitantly, "Let me go with you. It's too dangerous to seek the Azure Dragon's ruins alone."Ethan shook his head. "It's better you don't. There will be too many experts there. If your identity as a blue blood
Ethan didn't dare act rashly. While there was no limit to entering the fog gate, with the highest restriction being below Ascending to the Peak Realm, Ethan observed for a while yet didn't see a single cultivator below Bone Sacrifice Realm go in. All those entering rushed in from the peak overhead.On the peak were mostly cultivators at Meridian Training Realm or higher, including some at Bone Sacrifice Realm. Ethan even spotted a few terrifyingly powerful youths that made his heart palpitate just from a glance. Though unable to sense with his Spiritual Awareness, Ethan was certain they must be peak Bone Sacrifice Realm cultivators, perhaps even at Ascending to the Peak Realm!The lure of Dragon King's Blood was astounding. It seemed half the Bone Sacrifice Realm and above cultivators in the Western Realms had come, with strong experts from other domains also continuously arriving after hearing the news.Whoosh—As Bone Sacrifice experts periodically flew in through the fog gate, the
Ethan slowed his pace once more, maintaining a hundred yards of distance as he cautiously explored ahead.The crimson corridor was littered with the occasional skeleton, clearly adventurers who had perished while exploring the Misty Forest.These skeletons seemed somewhat different - some were just ordinary white bones, worn down and decaying. But others had bones so pure white they seemed to emit a faint glow.Ethan tapped one with his Moon-Slashing Saber, the clear clinking sound echoing as even a full force slash left no mark on the pristine bones.This was the difference between a Bone Sacrifice cultivator and those below the Bone Sacrifice Realm. The bones of a Bone Sacrifice cultivator emanated a soft glow, undecayed even after thousands of years. Carved and polished, they could be forged into fine weapons.Ethan kicked aside a skeleton blocking his path with a shuffle. As he did, his gaze fell upon an obsidian shard the size of a palm, revealed from where the skeleton had lain.
"Ah..." The young Swords Sect cultivator let out an anguished cry, his eyes filled with extreme terror as his mouth trembled uncontrollably.In an instant, the youth's flesh rapidly aged. The moisture in his skin vanished swiftly, his hair turned gray then fell out. In just ten breaths, a living Bone Sacrifice expert was reduced to bare bones.He was no different from the countless corpses that had lain on the tunnel floor for who knows how many millennia, except that his bones had not crumbled to dust like other cultivators who had encountered the Fountain of Time. Ethan's expression was impassive as he stepped forward and claimed the Swords Sect cultivator's interspatial ring.Rings of the same grade cannot store each other. For example, a spiritual weapon grade interspatial ring cannot hold another ring of the same level. However, other artifacts like weapons and armor can pass freely. Legend says some Divine Stage rings can even hold living people, with space inside vast enough