Volume 13, Chapter 847 – Blood Tear, I’ve Finally Found You (Part 3)

To an ordinary person, this strike looked like it could destroy the heavens and shatter the earth… but in truth, Qi Huang was still holding back. With the current strength of her divine sense, if she unleashed her full power, she could easily obliterate an entire planet.

In the hundred-zhang-deep pit, the female monster was pinned to the ground by a brutal pressure emanating from divine sense. Her bloated body cracked open under the crushing force, and repulsive, filthy blood surged from the fractures in a frenzied rush.

Though she had no breath, the female monster felt as if she were suffocating. Her entire body felt submerged beneath ten thousand zhang of ocean, surrounded on all sides by an endless pressure. She couldn’t even move a finger.

Her divine sense strength has definitely reached the level of a Kinship-grade Immortal.

The female monster reached this conclusion without hesitation. Only an immortal one full realm higher than her could use divine sense alone to suppress her so completely.

In this moment, the female monster was consumed by regret. She regretted not having doused herself in Heaven-Deceiving Water earlier. But regret couldn’t solve anything now. She had to find a way to limit the enemy’s divine sense output.

ROAR!

A hoarse bellow burst from her throat. A terrifying killing intent exploded from her obese form, transforming into an army of tens of thousands, each soldier fully armed to the teeth, charging straight at Qi Huang. Warhorses screamed, chariots thundered, and the spectacle was earth-shattering. As one who inherited a portion of Lu Yao’s bloodline, her mastery over killing intent was by no means inferior to that of Cheng Hongling.

“Hmph, do you think that’s going to help?”

Qi Huang sneered, and immediately exiled her Essence Soul, Huang Jing.

Huang Jing had sharp intuition and sensibly fled far away, afraid of being affected by the killing intent.

Without her Essence Soul, all of Qi Huang’s emotions and desires separated from her body. Her mental state now was even more resolute than that of an old monk in a temple. So even as that terrifying killing intent crashed over her, she didn’t so much as furrow her brow.

‘This is impossible. Isn’t she just a doppelgänger? How can a doppelgänger have another doppelgänger?!’

The female monster was completely dumbfounded. No matter how foolish she might be, she still recognized the meaning behind the lotus imprint on Qi Huang’s brow.

“Die!”

Qi Huang let out a crisp shout. Her divine sense surged again and pressed down in a frenzy.

Splurt!

The female monster at the bottom of the pit couldn’t bear the world-destroying pressure. Her grotesque caterpillar-like body exploded like an overripe melon, bursting into chunks. Filthy blood gushed outward like a dam breach, corroding the ground it touched with a sizzle and filling the air with a nauseating stench.

As the blood drained, the female monster’s body withered rapidly, eventually flattened by divine sense like a soggy dog-skin plaster glued to the earth.

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Qi Huang’s rosy lips curled upward slightly as she turned to leave, yet just as she moved, the female monster’s remaining skin rose slowly from the ground.

“You filthy wench, how dare you wound me? Did this Demon Lord ever give you permission to leave?”

Her tone remained domineering. Her body, thin as a cicada’s wing, reflected like a mirror. A sliver of sunlight hit it and instantly bounced toward Qi Huang. But that reflection carried a blackish halo, clearly no simple light bounce.

Qi Huang reflexively looked toward the female monster. By the time she realized something was wrong, it was already too late. Light traveled too fast… far beyond her ability to dodge in her current state. Her eyes were struck without the slightest defense.

“Ugh………”

A searing pain shot through Qi Huang’s vision. She quickly shut her eyes, but it was already too late. The pain felt like a bone-burrowing parasite, piercing her very soul, completely shattering her concentration and rendering her unable to activate her divine sense.

“Hahaha… you filthy wench… can you still use your divine sense now?”

The female monster laughed maniacally, shifting her body slightly before swinging it down at Qi Huang. Her frame, thin as a cicada’s wing, gleamed with a metallic luster, appearing from afar like a massive, gleaming blade.

Qi Huang remained calm under pressure. She quickly pulled out a kinship-grade protective talisman from her bosom. A powerful divine sense shield instantly enveloped her.

BANG!

The female monster’s body crashed against the divine sense shield with a thunderclap. The shockwave blasted through the surrounding hundred-mile radius, wiping it clean once more.

“You little tramp! You actually wore the protective talisman on you instead of keeping it in your spatial ring. What damned luck!”

The female monster gnashed her teeth. She knew Qi Huang now couldn’t retrieve anything from her spatial ring without divine sense. If she hadn’t been wearing defensive gear, she’d already be dead.

“Live and learn. You think I’d put all my eggs in one basket?”

Qi Huang’s tear-streaked eyes gleamed. She’d long understood the vulnerability of divine sense and had made thorough preparations.

“What good will it do you? The burn from my reflected body can’t be healed anytime soon. You can’t use divine sense from the pain alone. Even if you have more doppelgängers, you can’t transfer the injury. You’re just waiting to die now!”

The female monster sounded utterly confident as her body rose once more, slashing toward Qi Huang’s divine sense shield.

“Heh… So what if the wound won’t heal soon? Pain can still be dulled.”

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Qi Huang endured the agony, pulled out a numbing pill, and swallowed it. The burning pain in her eyes did indeed begin to subside.

With a thought, Qi Huang exiled Huang Tian, transferring the eye injury with her.

She slowly opened her beautiful eyes and looked at the female monster. Countless strands of hair shot out like needles, tightly binding the cicada-thin body.

The female monster thrashed wildly but couldn’t break free. Her face twisted in hate.

“You freak! You’ve got another doppelgänger!”

“I told you: your death tribulation is today. No one can change that.”

Qi Huang’s will moved. Her hair strands began slicing inward.

Swish swish swish…

In the blink of an eye, the female monster’s body was sliced into thousands of pieces by the Boundless Demonic Hair, including the head.

“I told you already: a centipede doesn’t die even when cut to pieces! You can’t kill me, you filthy wench!”

One of the fragments, where her mouth had been, still spoke. She manipulated thousands of pieces, all facing Qi Huang, preparing to repeat her earlier trick.

Qi Huang closed her eyes and began scanning the fragments with divine sense. Before long, she located the source of the female monster’s power within one fragment: a blackened chunk of heart.

“Hm?”

Qi Huang’s brows lifted slightly. This piece looked exactly like the two heart fragments she had entrusted to Cheng Hongling.

“Could those two heart fragments I found before also have belonged to Lu Yao?”

Qi Huang guessed as much but didn’t dwell on it. The enemy still needed to be eliminated.

“A centipede doesn’t die easily, but what happens when it loses its source of power?”

She sneered. A few strands of hair shot forth, piercing through the fragment and yanking the heart out.

“NOOO!”

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The female monster let out a hysterical shriek. Without the power source, the thousands of body fragments slowly drifted to the ground.

“Finally dead for good… What a tough one!”

Qi Huang sighed and looked down at the heart fragment in her hand. Unlike the two she previously obtained, this one wasn’t dried up. It was full and pulsing with a thick Yin aura.

She thought for a moment, then stored it in her spatial ring. She couldn’t destroy it. If it fell into another fiend’s hands, it could birth a new threat to her.

Qi Huang scanned the battlefield. Everywhere she looked was devastation, covered in death’s grayish-black hues. Only the area around the crater was filled with pink mist… remnants of the monster’s Assimilation Qi. The amount present far surpassed what was currently in Qi Huang’s body.

Naturally, she wouldn’t let such a feast go to waste. Retracting her two doppelgängers into her sea of consciousness, she flew over and began absorbing it. The Assimilation Qi surged rapidly through her body… not gathering at her lower dantian like True Qi, but rather condensing below that at her Guanyuan acupoint.

Qi Huang had already stored a significant amount of Assimilation Qi in her Guanyuan acupoint, enough to reach the Unity Realm. As she continued absorbing, the Unity Realm’s Qi core shattered into a human-shaped Qi avatar, marking her breakthrough into the Incarnation Realm.

To Qi Huang, the Incarnation Realm was now pitifully weak. Thankfully, she didn’t need Assimilation Qi for battle just yet.

Once she finished absorbing the energy, Qi Huang vanished like a ghost. When she reappeared, she was already a thousand miles away in a dense forest.

Behind her, over a hundred thousand strands of black hair all shot outward, surging like a dark flood in every direction. Their targets: the countless Ghost Tomatoes covering Wuwu Planet.

“The demon is gone. Time to reap the rewards of victory.”

Qi Huang took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged, savoring the satisfaction of her power increase.

Time passed slowly. As the Ghost Tomatoes rapidly dwindled across Wuwu Planet, Qi Huang’s divine sense grew stronger, kinship-grade stage four… five… six…

A full day passed. By the time she exterminated every last Ghost Tomato, her divine sense had broken through to monarch-grade.

What did that mean?

In the immortal world, strength was divided into six grades: Heaven, Earth, Monarch, Kinship, Master, and Human. Since Heaven and Earth-grade immortals were exceedingly rare, monarch-grade already meant one was a major power. Many sect leaders and elders of small and medium sects were only at that level.

In simple terms, Qi Huang’s current strength placed her solidly in the middle tiers of the immortal world, no longer weak enough to be kicked around like a stray dog.

She knew full well the dangers of the immortal world. She couldn’t stay long. But before leaving, she had to claim all teleportation gates on Wuwu Planet for herself. There were two benefits: first, it would make future interstellar travel easier. Second, it would strip these fiends of long-range mobility, preventing them from spreading their curse to other worlds.

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Qi Huang could have killed every evil spirit on this planet to eliminate future threats, but she didn’t. Because evil spirits stood in opposition to the Heavenly Dao, and in a sense, that made them her allies. If she could avoid killing them, she would.

She spent another day collecting every teleportation gate on Wuwu Planet, and then retraced her steps through the same portal she came from.

Half a month later, Qi Huang finally returned to Kaiyuan Planet.

“Finally back!”

She exhaled deeply and immediately contacted Cheng Hongling.

“You’re okay, right? Not hurt?”

Cheng Hongling’s first concern wasn’t the mission, it was Qi Huang’s health.

“I’m fine. Just a measly master-grade fiend. I handled it easily.”

Qi Huang replied casually. Though in hindsight, if she hadn’t prepared thoroughly, she might’ve fallen. After all, she was still a crippled immortal.

“That’s good! That’s really good!”

Cheng Hongling breathed a long sigh of relief.

“What’s the situation here on Kaiyuan Planet? That Zhong Zhen hasn’t shown up, right?”

Qi Huang asked, concerned.

“No. I’ve already wiped out the top two perilous zones on Kaiyuan Planet. The remaining evil spirits are living in constant fear, with nowhere to run. Now it’s your turn.”

Cheng Hongling explained the situation.

“No problem. Leave the rest to me.”

Qi Huang confidently promised. She swept the planet with her divine sense, then flew toward one of the largest perilous zones.

What she was about to do next was to become the “savior” of every evil spirit on Kaiyuan Planet.