Chapter 387: The Fight Back
A moment later, Enlightened Master Ma's body reverted back to its monster form of a gigantic sea horse, as he fell from the sky and slammed into the ground.
Then, a fat rat crawled up from underground, skillfully scavenged all the valuable objects from the giant carcass, and then dived back into the earth.
Just as Enlightened Master Ma met his demise, an oppressive divine revelation that only Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters could have, instantly covered the entire island. Its sudden appearance overwhelmed the humans and monsters, causing them all to pause in the middle of their battles.
Hu Lili and Chen Lian were overjoyed as they recognized the divine revelation. They swiftly took the opportunity to attack their opponents who had been overwhelmed by the divine revelation.
However, the monster Enlightened Master broke Hu Lili's lightning array formation, weakening her nascent formation chassis and leaving her almost defenseless. Just as he was about to deliver the final killing blow, his eyes suddenly widened and his pupils dilated.
Hu Lili heaved a long sigh of relief while the ghastly specter of a sword flashed away from the monster cultivator's side. Then, Hu Lili turned around and focused on the human Enlightened Master that was trapped in her array formation.
On the other side, Zheng Jie was battling with a monster Enlightened Master with the Amethyst Bees. Although the Amethyst Bees had formed a Dao army formation, entangling the monster Enlightened Master, they couldn't do much damage.
Instead, the monster Enlightened Master would always kill a few Amethyst Bees with every attack. So far, more than a hundred bees had died.
Although Zheng Jie knew that Lu Ping had carefully raised these bees and treasured them, this wasn't the time to hold back; sacrifices had to be made for the island's security.
Lu Ping's helpless mourn sounded behind her, "Oh my, no, please, recall them now, my bees... no..."
At some point in time, the monster Enlightened Master had already been beheaded by Lu Ping. Zheng Jie felt relieved, laughed awkwardly while she kept the Amethyst Bees back in the spirit pet pouch.
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What did it feel like to chew more than you could eat? 24062
What did it feel like to die of overeating?
The thought of dying after taking too much had never crossed Lu Ping's mind, until three years ago. For every day during those three years, he really thought that he was going to die because of taking too much.
Back when Lu Ping found the Mystical Heavy Water in Chong Xuan's Dojo, the black ball of water was difficult to move even with his newly advanced Core Forging Realm cultivation.
This perfectly displayed a Mystical Heavy Water's property - its density!
When Lu Ping chose to fuse with the Mystical Heavy Water as his last resort, he was immersed in the feeling of being fed to death for three whole years.
As each drop of Mystical Heavy Water was fused, Lu Ping felt like he had been fed with a bucket of iron water. He constantly had to cultivate the [North Ocean Wave Listening Scripture] to its fullest just so that he could refine the drop of Mystical Heavy Water, before then continuing to fuse the next drop.
The spirituality in the Mystical Heavy Water was absorbed by the Golden Core, while the immense spiritual energy was refined into his own true energy. At the same time, part of his divine revelation was also being absorbed by the Golden Core, enhancing it while also preparing for the emergence of an Avatar from his Golden Core in the future.
However, the Mystical Heavy Water was a Heaven-class low-grade wonder water. If not for its extremely high density that slowed down a cultivators' cultivation, it could even be ranked as a Heaven-class mid-grade wonder water.
Usually, cultivators would use Heaven-class wonder items for their Late Core Forging Realm breakthrough, but in this case, Lu Ping used it in his Mid Core Forging Realm breakthrough. Hence, it wasn't surprising that he struggled greatly.
Fortunately, Lu Ping's cultivation base had been extensively consolidated, with the mysterious and extremely powerful [North Ocean Wave Listening Scripture] also focusing on purity and quantity. After all, both the [Sea Coast Wave Listening Scripture] and the [Flying Spirit Ocean Treading Scripture] were extremely powerful cultivation methods in their own right, let alone when they were combined together in the [North Ocean Wave Listening Scripture].
Lu Ping barely held himself together for three whole years; he didn't even dare move an inch as he was afraid that a small movement could disrupt the balance in his body and cause the Mystical Heavy Water to wreak havoc to his cultivation base.
In these three years, Lu Ping fused a total of 1296 drops of Mystical Heavy Water, finally absorbing sufficient spirituality in his Golden Core for the breakthrough, causing his cultivation to advance to the Mid Core Forging Realm instantly.
His heartspace expanded and a fourth Jiao appeared on the surface of his Golden Core. The Jiaos on the Golden Core also changed in appearance as they now had the antler's horns!
Lu Ping also felt an unknown change to his divine revelation. Not only had it become even more overwhelming and domineering, its range had expanded greatly, almost to that of a Late Core Forging Realm's divine revelation.
The feeling of overeating finally faded, but before he could feel relieved, a strong sense of hunger took over him.
After advancing to the Mid Core Forging Realm, the capacity of his Golden Core and cultivation base was expanded enormously. Additionally, the Mystical Heavy Water also increased the density of his true energy, causing his true energy to shrink in volume yet increase in strength.
As a result, the volume of true energy he now had was far from what he could accommodate, making his body growl in hunger as it asked for more energy to fill the void.
However, Lu Ping's divine revelation saw the situation on the island, causing him to quickly formulate a plan in his mind.
The fastest way to replenish his true energy was to naturally absorb the spiritual energy from the surroundings. However, this would create a breakthrough phenomenon that would attract a lot of attention and alert the monsters about his advancement.
Furthermore, given his abnormally thick and dense cultivation base, the heavenly phenomena would be as grand as a Late Core Forging Realm breakthrough. This would potentially scare the monsters and cause them to promptly retreat from the island. Although this would prevent further damage done to the island, the monsters would also be able to safely retreat.
Lu Ping didn't want to let the monsters get away so easily without a scratch!
Lu Ping squinted his eyes that were filled with murderous intent, and pressed his hands on the floor. The spiritual energy from the two mini spirit veins quietly flowed into his body and were refined into his true energy.
Although this was slower than attracting all the spiritual energy from the surroundings, it was quieter and almost undetectable. Fortunately, Hu Lili was well prepared, not only had she set up the island's defenses correctly, she had also allocated two mini spirit veins for his cultivation.
Otherwise, Lu Ping wouldn't have enough time and spiritual energy to replenish his true energy without making a scene.
After he replenished most of his true energy, the island also reached its most critical point. Hence, Lu Ping decisively stopped replenishing his true energy to the brim and quickly came out to salvage the situation.
What was it like to fuse with a Heaven-class wonder item in a Mid Core Forging Realm breakthrough?
In Lu Ping's case, his true energy alone was able to support the island protective formation's operation while it was under the attacks of several Enlightened Masters, with ease. In comparison, Luan Yu was only able to last for a few moments and suffered heavy wounds right after.
Lu Ping only used one of the two spirit veins to support the protective formation because he was setting up a trap for the monsters, and also because the other one had now been exhausted after he used most of its spiritual energy to replenish his true energy.
After leaving the cave-dwelling, Lu Ping went straight to Enlightened Master Ma because he was the only monster Enlightened Master left unchecked on the island.
Since Lu Ping had advanced to Mid Core Forging Realm, he was eager to test his strength. The instant he saw Enlightened Master Ma with his [Tri-Pristine True Vision], he realized that Enlightened Master Ma was a monster sea horse in the Fifth Layer Core Forging Realm.
Hence, Lu Ping thought that Enlightened Master Ma would be a good subject to discover the limits of his newfound strength. Who would have thought that Lu Ping had become so unimaginably strong that he instantly killed Enlightened Master Ma with a single strike of a great sword divine ability using his Golden Scale Sword.
Even Lu Ping was shocked!
Naturally, Lu Ping had the element of surprise and the advantage of striking first. Ultimately, Enlightened Master Ma hadn't anticipated that he would encounter another human Enlightened Master so quickly on the island. Even so, it would still take a strength greater than an ordinary Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master to kill Enlightened Master Ma like how Lu Ping had just done.
After killing the monster Enlightened Masters battling Hu Lili and Zheng Jie, the situation on Huang Li Island started to take a turn.