Lin Xing City.
Outside the city.
A desolate suburb.
On the barren land outside the city, a peerless beauty of a girl was meditating within a powerful spirit gathering formation, absorbing the spiritual energy from her surroundings.
With the help of the powerful spiritual energy vortex of the spirit gathering formation, the aura of the peerless beauty grew increasingly terrifying.
After a while, an even more violent aura erupted from the girl.
Thick dark clouds appeared in the sky, and the power of thunder gathered above.
"This little girl has finally broken through…" Jiang Li’s eyes were filled with joy.
Li Qin's cultivation level was already at the limit of Saint Ninth Heaven. These past few days, while they were in Lin Xing City, Jiang Li had generously provided Li Qin with all sorts of rare treasures.
At this moment, Li Qin had finally broken through the bottleneck of Saint Ninth Heaven.
She had reached the Saint King realm.
"Rumble!!!"
A moment later, the power of thunder in the sky had successfully condensed and struck towards Li Qin.
Li Qin slowly opened her eyes, her gaze fixed on the thunderous power in the sky, without the slightest hint of fear.
"Swish swish swish!!!"
Li Qin mobilized all the power within her body.
Her spiritual power was also pushed to its limit.
Brilliant spiritual light, majestic spiritual power…
Under Li Qin's control, it surged towards the sky.
Resisting the heavenly tribulation in the sky.
Jiang Li watched the peerless beauty in the sky, his eyes showing little worry.
According to Li Qin's life script, this heavenly tribulation would not cause her any harm.
Instead, it would greatly expand her foundation and elevate her potential to a higher level.
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Not far from Jiang Li and the others, in the sky.
A group of cultivators wearing black and white striped robes were flying rapidly in the direction of Jiang Li.
Leading them was a white-haired elder, his aura incredibly powerful.
A faint stream of light surged around the elder, giving him an extremely mysterious appearance.
"That Jiang Li is outside Lin Xing City, and with him is the Saintess of the Tai Qing Holy Land!" said a cultivator beside the elder in a deep voice.
"That's right, Eighth Elder, we have already investigated and confirmed that they left Lin Xing City this morning, and there are no other elders or disciples from the Shi Mo Sect or Tai Qing Holy Land accompanying them!" another cultivator added.
The white-haired elder’s eyes glinted with a cold killing intent upon hearing this.
"Good, this time we must take Jiang Li's life and extract his Saint Blood to present to the Honored Master. We will have achieved great merit!" The white-haired elder’s eyes flashed with fervor as he seemed to recall something.
Following this, the group continued to speed forward.
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On the other side.
Li Qin had successfully passed her tribulation and had completely become a Saint King level cultivator.
After her Thousand Spirit Saint Body broke through to the Saint King realm, its terrifying might began to manifest.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was like obedient sprites in Li Qin's hands, at her command.
Coupled with Li Qin's powerful affinity for spiritual energy and her keen perception of auras, her formations were greatly enhanced.
She could casually set up Saint-grade formations.
Combined with her spiritual power, even a high-level Saint King would not gain much advantage against her.
"Jiang Li, I've also broken through. From now on, I can protect you too!" Li Qin came to Jiang Li's side and playfully clenched her fist.
Jiang Li smiled slightly and ruffled Li Qin's hair.
"Since you've broken through, let's return to Lin Xing City!" Jiang Li continued.
Li Qin nodded. They had come to the outskirts precisely to undergo their tribulation and break through.
Now that they had successfully passed their tribulation, it was naturally time to return.
After leaving Lin Xing City, they encountered several ambushes.
All of them were easily resolved by the two.
Clearly, someone had been targeting them.
Now that their breakthrough plan was complete, it was naturally time to go back.
Following this, the two tidied up everything around them and flew towards Lin Xing City.
"Jiang Li, it seems like a lot of people are approaching from the front!" Li Qin said as they were rapidly flying towards Lin Xing City.
Jiang Li narrowed his eyes. He also felt a large mass of powerful auras approaching from a distance.
Moreover, their strength seemed quite formidable.
Jiang Li could vaguely sense that some of the people among them possessed strength far exceeding that of the Outer Hall Deacon of the Samsara Hall they had encountered before.
"Let's hide first!" Li Qin said to Jiang Li.
After speaking, Li Qin set up a powerful concealment formation, and the two hid in the center of the formation.
Not a trace of their aura leaked out.
*This little girl’s formations are quite formidable, they can even evade my senses.* Jiang Li thought inwardly, looking at the small concealment formation around them.
Originally, Jiang Li had planned to quickly escape with Li Qin. However, with this concealment formation, it would be good to investigate the origins of these people from here.
Following this, the two carefully remained hidden within the concealment formation.
"Why is no one here? Where are they?" a heavy voice boomed.
A white-haired elder, accompanied by a large group of cultivators in black and white striped robes.
Jiang Li looked at the sudden appearance of the group and slowly activated his life script system.
[Name]: Zhou Lie Wu
[Cultivation Level]: Supreme Realm Fifth Heaven.
[Physique]: Water Spirit King Body.
[Destiny]: Potential Emperor (Purple), Astonishing Fortune (Purple), Dominates an Area (Purple).
[Life Script]: A supporting character in "Chaos Great Emperor," Eighth Elder of the Zhou family from the Overlord Body lineage. Possessing extraordinary strength and talent, he is sinister, cunning, and unpredictable.
[Affection]: -80
[Recent Turn of Events]: Nine days later, obtain a 300,000-year-old spiritual medicine at Heavenly Origin Domain 436.746.
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Eighteen days later, obtain Saint-grade pills at Lin Xing City 745.669.
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Eighty-eight days later, obtain the Blood of the Anti-Immortal gifted by Honored Master Hei Mu at the Northern Plains 567.263.
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*An elder from the Overlord Body lineage.* Jiang Li’s eyes narrowed.
*Good thing I didn't act rashly.*
*A cultivator at the fifth heaven of the Supreme Realm. Without using my trump cards, I don’t have a guaranteed victory against him right now.*
*I didn't expect someone from the Overlord Body lineage to think so highly of me, sending a great cultivator at the fifth heaven of the Supreme Realm to deal with me.*
*Blood of the Anti-Immortal, Honored Master Hei Mu…*
*It seems that Honored Master Hei Mu should be a prominent figure in the Anti-Immortal Sect.*
"Riiip!!!"
Just as Jiang Li was thinking, a violent tearing sound suddenly rang out.
Zhou Lie Wu waved his right hand, directly tearing apart the body of a cultivator to his right, spraying blood and flesh everywhere.
"Where are they? I asked you where they are. You all assured me they were here, are you playing tricks on me?" Zhou Lie Wu's voice was incredibly grim, resonating through the sky.
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