Hei Suo felt that leaving the disposal of Ling Xiao to Jin Ming should be foolproof.
He pondered but still felt that there shouldn’t be an unforeseen event. Perhaps, that kid liked Dai Yuling, so he had impulsively issued a death challenge.
It was normal for youngsters to make such mistakes.
A sneer involuntarily appeared on Hei Suo’s face. Impulse was a devil. Now was too late for regrets.
He had already arranged many guards on the mountain’s paths. If Ling Xiao planned to escape in the dark, he would immediately know of it.
He couldn’t personally make a move inside the sect, but outside… Like that, he would be even more certain.
……
One day was neither too short nor too long.
Ling Xiao could do many things in one day.
Within this one day, his cultivation continued to improve, and he had already reached the level of 10% Half Great Masters.
He hadn’t intentionally focused on cultivation. Now, his body still had the remnants of the Transcendent Body Mold Pill, which had not been thoroughly absorbed. Therefore, even if he only slept every day, his cultivation would still rapidly improve.
He didn’t even stop doing the task given to him by Venerable Yuan because there was no need.
With his current strength, it shouldn’t be a big problem to kill those four.
Perhaps Jin Ming could give him some trouble, but the other three didn’t even enter his eyes.
He took this chance to make his Martial Soul Clone forge thirty-six Big Dipper Flying Swords.
Although this name sounded amazing, they were only excellent-grade flying swords.
To get the required materials, he had sold ten Top Grade True Essence Pills.
From here on, his Cool Breeze Sword was formally retired.
After forging the thirty-six Big Dipper Flying Swords, <Bronze Sweep Sword Controlling Technique> had become his most lethal martial technique.
Not only was it sudden, but it was also terrifying.
It naturally could be regarded as a trump card.
Beside these, his Heavenly Dragon True Essence had also become purer, and the true essence condensed by <Snow Lotus True Solution> could be directly converted into Heavenly Dragon True Essence.
Like this, he no longer needed to worry about cultivating gold-grade internal core laws.
His Heavenly Dragon True Essence was already equivalent to rare-gold-grade true essence.
In other words, his Heavenly Dragon True Essence was two levels stronger than his previous true essence.
Such powerful true essence was more than enough to deal with outer disciples.
This didn’t even mention his Fierce Beast and Thunderbolt True Essence, which were from Transcendent Realm powerhouses.
If those true essences were classified according to the levels of internal core laws, they should be equivalent to true essence condensed by superior-gold-grade internal core laws.
Moreover, his hidden trumps were not limited to this.
In terms of martial souls, he also had an absolute advantage. If he were not afraid of being too high-profile, he could use three martial souls at once.
At present, his martial souls had also improved, although the progress was not obvious.
It seemed that after martial souls became intact martial souls, their improvement would substantially slow down.
Each martial artist had different methods to resolve this problem.
However, Ling Xiao felt that the most suitable method was to snatch other people’s martial souls and devour them.
Dawn.
It was already the day of the death challenge.
Ling Xiao retracted his two clones and walked out of his cave dwelling.
Outside were Yang Danlin, Lan Yu’er, and even Dai Yuling, who had dragged over her sick body.
Zhao Zhi and Zhao Ci had also come, but they had different mentalities.
Zhao Zhi thought that Ling Xiao was someone who was worth making friends with while Zhao Ci was here out of pure compassion.
Apart from them, there were also many Outer Sect experts.
These people were all top-thirty disciples.
Their works were all relatively easy, so there wouldn’t be an issue for them to watch the excitement.
“Oh, he came out! I thought that this kid would flee the sect.”
“So what if he came out? He is still going to die. Let’s go to Desperate Tower! We shouldn’t miss today’s matches… or match”
These people left behind afterimages and rushed towards Desperate Tower.
A lot of people had already gathered.
Naturally, most of them were outer disciples, but there were also a few inner disciples who had come to watch.
The cultivation bases of these inner disciples were relatively low, below Rank Three Transcendent Realm. Therefore, they paid more attention to the Outer Sect’s quasi-inner disciples because they were very likely to become their competitors.
“Why hasn’t he come yet? Did that Ling Xiao run away?”
“Heh heh heh, as I see it, he must have escaped. Four death challenges in one day! Moreover, all his opponents are Half Great Masters. Even Rank One Transcendent Realm martial artists wouldn’t dare to try this.”
“Yes, that kid’s brain must have fried, so he made such a decision and now regrets it.”
“Ling Xiao came!”
While these people were talking, Ling Xiao arrived.
Behind him were Yang Danlin, Lan Yu’er, Dai Yuling, Zhao Zhi, Zhao Ci, and a few outer disciples who had good relationships with him.
“Why is Hall Master Old Yang here?”
“Moreover, Senior Sister Lan!”
“You all don’t know this, but Hall Master Old Yang has already begun to nurture this Ling Xiao as his successor.”
“There is also some gossip that Senior Sister Lan is interested in this kid.”
“Don’t speak nonsense! Senior Sister has always been an aloof person. She didn’t even care about the rank one Senior Brother of the Inner Sect. Why would she start liking that kid?”
Although they said this, the attitudes of Ling Xiao and Lan Yu’er had always been somewhat ambiguous.
Ling Xiao looked at the onlookers around Desperate Tower.
The number of people had already reached over one thousand, and 90% were outer disciples.
Don’t these people have to work?
They truly had free time.
Ling Xiao didn’t know that the Outer Sect had directly given a holiday to all the outer disciples because this death challenge was too shocking. Unless they were in secluded cultivation, everyone had come to watch the excitement. Therefore, this many people were natural.
“Ling Xiao, it’s good that you are here. I was afraid that you wouldn’t come and that I wouldn’t be able to take revenge.”
Yang Cheng had come here before dawn due to his excitement, wanting to kill King Xiao with his own hands.
Ling Xiao merely glanced at him before eyeing Jin Ming, Tuoba Shan, and Gong Yangnu.
In terms of aura, Jin Ming was obviously stronger than the other outer disciples.
His aura was similar to a Transcendent Realm expert’s.
“I heard that Jin Ming defeated yet another Rank One Transcendent Realm martial artist half a month ago. This fellow’s defense is too terrifying.”
“ I heard that an Inner Elder wanted to make an exception and let him enter the Inner Sect. However, he didn’t seem to be in a hurry. I wonder what he wants to do.”
“What do you know? The resources for the Outer Sect’s top-three exceed the resources for the bottom-ranked inner disciples. It’s better to be a chicken’s head than a phoenix’s tail.”
Jin Ming was stronger than half a month ago.
Ling Xiao felt his blood seething with excitement.
Only this kind of evenly-matched battle could make him this excited.
As for the other three, he didn’t pay them any attention.
