I Can Extract Divine Power

Chapter 372 - 157: Entering the Netherworld, Confronting Wang Tianxing

Upon hearing this, Li Yun suddenly had a question. "All your plans are aimed at Shen Bai. But the higher-ups’ orders were for all the inner examination participants to be killed. You’ve defied their decision."

Wang Tianxing shook his head. "You’re wrong. Not only have I not defied the academy’s mission, I intend to exceed it. You should know that the Netherworld is a desolate realm, said to have been formed from the deaths of countless abominations."

"Once you enter, no one can escape unless they possess heaven-defying luck."

"I stumbled into it by accident once and only managed to escape through sheer luck."

The Netherworld was a peculiar place. According to rumors in the Jianghu, it was a space gradually carved out by the deaths of abominations.

Initially, the Netherworld was small, but it gradually expanded as more and more abominations died.

To this day, no one had figured out what purpose the Netherworld served.

Moreover, abominations could also be born in that desolate world, though the process was very slow.

The mission from his superiors was for Wang Tianxing to find a way, by any means necessary, to eliminate the inner examination participants.

After accepting the mission, Wang Tianxing had thought of the Netherworld.

The academy had assigned him too few men, making it impossible to eliminate them with brute force. After all, the Yunxi State Observatory was no pushover. That was why Wang Tianxing had devised this scheme.

If he could drag everyone into the Netherworld and trap them there to die a slow death, the mission would be complete.

Li Yun’s eyes widened. "You said you’re going to exceed the mission. How?"

Wang Tianxing pulled a Brocade Bag from his robes and dangled it in front of Li Yun. "This Brocade Bag is not just a bag; it can be anything. It’s one of my research breakthroughs. It can conceal resentful energy."

"During this time, I’ve secretly distributed them, in various forms, to every commoner in Yunxi State. And I have the inner examination to thank for it. It drew away so many members of the Observatory and the Government Office. Otherwise, I never could have pulled this off."

Li Yun was so stunned he even forgot his physical pain. "I understand... You plan to pull every commoner into the Netherworld, turning it into a prison and transforming all of Yunxi State into a land of the dead."

"A brilliant plan indeed. You don’t even have to lift a finger yourself. Truly worthy of your title as the academy’s genius."

Wang Tianxing smiled faintly. "Why now, of all times, do you no longer seem afraid to die?"

Just then, another wave of pain washed over Li Yun, forcing him to curl up even tighter.

Seeing this, Wang Tianxing shook his head. "You’re wrong about that. I’m going into the Netherworld too."

Li Yun froze, not understanding what Wang Tianxing meant. "Are you insane? Once you go in, you won’t be able to get out either."

’Whether he was afraid of death was no longer important to Li Yun now.’

’Of course he was afraid to die, but there was no escape now.’

’He knew Wang Tianxing had him completely in his clutches. So, he might as well understand everything before he died.’

’Like the other Demonic Forces, the people from the academy were self-aware enough to know they would one day meet their end at the Yellow Springs. They were all mentally prepared for it.’

The crazed look returned to Wang Tianxing’s face. "The Netherworld is too mysterious! Only there will I have more subjects to study. Even if it’s difficult for a single new abomination to be born there, the ones already inside will be enough for my research."

"As for whether or not I can get out, that’s not a concern. In my opinion, the people at the academy lack any spirit of adventure. If I can research what I want in there, what does it matter if I die?"

"Besides, I’ll have so much company."

Li Yun gritted his teeth. "Even if you get in, how long can you keep researching? You won’t survive long without food or water."

"Who said there’s no food and water?" Wang Tianxing sneered. "Aren’t there all those commoners?"

Li Yun froze instantly. "You intend to... devour people?"

Wang Tianxing smiled without a word, but his silence was an answer in itself. "Alright, you know how things will end. It’s time for you to die."

A stream of Qi flowed from Wang Tianxing’s finger into Li Yun’s chest, instantly shattering his heart.

"I’ll be waiting for you below," Li Yun said. "And Shen Bai... he’s not someone you can handle. You’re going to lose, and it will be a miserable defeat."

As the intense pain surged, his consciousness began to fade.

A few breaths later, Li Yun collapsed to the ground, showing no signs of life.

Wang Tianxing looked at Li Yun’s corpse and flicked a finger.

Blood immediately gushed from the wound in Li Yun’s chest. Under Wang Tianxing’s Manipulation, it gathered into a ball the size of a fist.

This ball of blood was the heart’s blood that Wang Tianxing had harvested, the most precious thing Li Yun possessed.

The heart’s blood of a Cultivator was an extremely valuable item anywhere.

"Tomorrow is the final trial of the inner examination. Let it be a funeral for them all." Wang Tianxing took out a wooden box and placed the heart’s blood inside.

The crazed light in his eyes intensified.

Then, he left the area and vanished.

...

「Cyan Spirit Mountain, Inner Examination Land」

After Shen Bai returned to his quarters, he resumed grinding the Skill Level of his Life and Death Storage Skill.

He had been grinding his Water Control Technique before, intending to raise it to its second qualitative transformation, but that required a full 10,000 points of Skill Level.

He hadn’t made much progress yet.

Besides, raising the Skill Level grew progressively more difficult as its Level increased.