Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
In the Black Demonic Rat King’s cave, there were so many treasures that Qingfeng Li felt dizzy.
As many as they were, most of the treasures were useless to Qingfeng Li.
He had now reached the seventh level of the Spirit King Realm, so the ordinary spirit herbs, cultivation techniques, spiritual treasures were nothing to him. Only emperor-grade cultivation techniques or spiritual treasures would attract his interest.
Although the spirit medicines and vitality rocks were not high-rated, Black Puppy kept devouring them before refining them into its energy.
It devoured everything no matter its value and the Black Demonic Rat King twitched its mouth, feeling distressed by Black Puppy’s large appetite.
The Black Demonic Rat King had acquired the treasures at great costs, and now they were all taken by Black Puppy.
Qingfeng Li had no objection to it since Black Puppy had become his most helpful assistant and the puppy’s great power will help them deal with the dangers in Hell.
Suddenly, Qingfeng Li’s expression changed because he smelled a burning scent, which was being emitted from a fire-element spirit herb. The vital essence in the spirit herb was so powerful that it even filled the air.
Ignoring the surrounding low-grade spiritual treasures, Qingfeng Li strode to the very depths of the cave and found a red spirit herb named the Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit.
It was an emperor-grade spirit fruit with which a self-cultivator could make the breakthrough to the half-step Spirit Emperor Realm.
At a closer look of the Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit, a flash of regret appeared in Qingfeng Li’s eyes because there were some black molds on the fruit, signaling that the rotting process had begun.
The Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit had lost most of its fire style vital essence since it had begun to rot.
Despite the mold, if Qingfeng Li refined the fruit, he could still reach the ninth level of the Spirit King Realm, though not the half-step Spirit Emperor Realm.
Qingfeng Li turned to ask the Black Demonic Rat King,
I remember that the spirit plants and fruits in Hell are supposed to be black. How come the Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit is red?
The Black Demonic Rat King said,
It doesn’t come from Hell. I got it from an intruding self-cultivator after I killed him.
The corner of Qingfeng Li’s mouth twitched, and he suppressed a sudden urge to kill the Black Demonic Rat King with a palm strike. He knew that the conqueror of the first layer of Hell must have killed many human self-cultivators.
Black Demonic Rat King, I won’t look into the things you did before. But from now on, without my order, you can’t kill any human self-cultivators,
Qingfeng Li told the Black Demonic Rat King with a frown.
The Black Demonic Rat King nodded, understanding that it had to obey the orders from its boss.
Puppy, you two guard the opening of the cave while I refine Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit,
Qingfeng Li said to Black Puppy.
Then with the fruit in hand, Qingfeng Li found a remote corner and sat down cross-legged.
He circulated the Heavenly Immortal Chant and blue energy moved along the meridians from his Dantian to his belly, chest, head, neck, back, waist, and finally to his palms.
He held the Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit with a strange hand seal.
Hiss!
The large amounts of vital essence contained in the fruit were released by the Heavenly Immortal Chant. The vital essence entered his body through his palm and began to circulate in his meridians, skin, muscles, sinews, and bones.
The large amounts of vital essence contained in the Fire Emperor Spirit Fruit was much purer than ordinary vital essence, since it was condensed by absorbing the fire style essence of nature.
The fire style vital essence circulated in all parts of Qingfeng Li’s body and energized his skin and muscles. Finally, it entered his Dantian and condensed around the spirit nucleus.
After absorbing large amounts of fire style vital essence, his spirit nucleus transformed. On the surface of the spirt nucleus, the number of marks turned from seven to eight, then to nine.
Nine marks were the symbol of the breakthrough to the ninth level of the Spirit King Realm.
Qingfeng Li stood up, and his bones and muscles crackled with power.
He punched his right fist with a force of 900,000 kilograms.
The force of 900,000 kilograms punched a big fathomless hole in the ground. The whole cave shook under the force, and lots of rocks fell down from the ceiling.
Black Puppy and the Black Demonic Rat King at the entrance of the cave were stunned by the great force released from the inside of the cave.
The strength exceeded the limit of the Spirit King Realm and could rival a half-step spirt emperor fighter.
Black Puppy walked into the cave and asked Qingfeng Li,
You broke through to the half-step Spirit Emperor Realm?!
Shaking his head, Qingfeng Li explained,
I didn’t. I just broke through to the ninth level of Spirit King Realm.
Black Puppy shook its head in exasperation,
Although you are only at the ninth level of Spirit King Realm, your arm strength is as powerful as that of a half-step Spirit Emperor. You are too strong.
Powerful, indeed powerful,
the Black Demonic Rat King exclaimed.
It sensed that Qingfeng Li’s power was stronger than its own. If it had fought with Qingfeng Li now, he could have killed the Black Demonic Rat King with one fist strike.
Let’s go find the members of the Wolf Fang Team.
With a faint smile, Qingfeng Li led them out of the cave.
Of course, before he left the cave, Qingfeng Li collected some treasures and stored them in his interspatial ring. The treasures might not be useful to him, but he could use them to help Wolf Fang Team Members and Flower Fairy increase their strength.
Qingfeng Li, Black Puppy, and the Black Demonic Rat King came to the designated place but didn’t see any of the Wolf Fang Team members.
Puppy, I told the clan members to meet here after I found the Hell Flower. Why aren’t they here?
Qingfeng Li asked Black Puppy with a slight frown.
A flash of puzzlement appeared in Black Puppy’s eyes. It extended its nose and sniffed in the air, trying to find a clue.
After a moment, Black Puppy said,
Qingfeng Li, besides the scents of the Wolf Fang Team members and Flower Fairy, I smelled a presence of the Devilish Dao.
What?! You smelled the presence of the Devilish Dao?
Qingfeng Li’s expression changed with astonishment.
He remembered that he had killed Feng Mo, the young master of the Devil-Imperial Sect and thus made a deadly enemy with the leader of the Devil-Imperial Sect. Not long ago when the sect leader tried to kill Qingfeng Li, he had been stopped by Linger Yao.
