“Let me think for a moment,” Lin Xiao replied. “I will first refine combat skeletons nearby and wait for the Azure Emperor. With such a massive disturbance, if he has emerged from closed door cultivation, he should come.”
“If the Azure Emperor does not appear, he likely will not emerge in the short term. We should first go to the Martial Emperor families to seek Emperor Source Liquid, to prevent them from attacking us.”
“Agreed!” Hu Yue nodded. Such a massive disturbance nearby would certainly attract attention.
The people of Azure Emperor Mountain would also have noticed the anomaly here. Once the news spread back, if the Azure Emperor had emerged from seclusion, he would definitely come.
If the Azure Emperor did not appear, they could not forcibly confront Azure Emperor Mountain.
After all, he had personally taken them away and hidden them to prevent Asura Butcher and Nan Muling from coming to harm.
And when a Martial Emperor entered closed door cultivation, it might last for a very long time, especially given the severe injuries the Azure Emperor had sustained.
During this period, they could not simply wait idly.
It was an opportune time to search for Emperor Source Liquid. In any case, the Martial Emperor families did not know that they were the ones who had killed Mu Pingsheng and the others.
If a Martial Emperor from the Mu family came searching, and they happened to be heading towards the Martial Emperor families, they could avoid confrontation.
Moreover, the Mu family would have lost some of their strength.
Accordingly, Lin Xiao travelled tens of thousands of miles away to a place unaffected by their earlier battle and concealed himself.
He first took out Mu Pingsheng skeletal frame to refine a combat skeleton.
With Lin Xiao current strength, it took only a short while to successfully refine a combat skeleton with quasi emperor combat power.
Of course, it was the stronger type of quasi emperor combat power, roughly equivalent to Mu Pingsheng own strength.
After all, Lin Xiao had imprinted the strongest power the skeletal frame could withstand.
Afterwards, Lin Xiao ordered this combat skeleton to lie down near those ruins.
Once it sensed a Martial Emperor aura passing by, it would wait until the aura had moved away, then secretly circle back to report.
Having done this, Lin Xiao directly handed the wind robed elder storage ring to Hu Yue, allowing her to select pills and black spirit stones suitable for refinement.
Hu Yue selected some pills and began to consume and refine them.
As for the black spirit stones, unless they were in massive quantities, they would likely not be needed.
Hu Yue did not enter complete closed door cultivation, instead refining while simultaneously monitoring the surrounding situation.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiao took out the wind robed elder skeletal frame and began refining a Martial Emperor level combat skeleton.
Although his Yuan Force was slightly weaker than the Emperor Treasury attack the wind robed elder had unleashed.
Once fully imprinted into the skeletal frame, they would effectively gain an additional Martial Emperor expert.
Even if they could not defeat or match a first level Martial Emperor like the wind robed elder, they could certainly delay him without issue.
Against a weaker Martial Emperor, they might even hold out for considerably longer.
Refining combat skeletons was now quite familiar to Lin Xiao.
However, refining a Martial Emperor level combat skeleton still presented considerable difficulty.
As he refined, Lin Xiao immersed himself in cultivating the Undying Skeleton Art, imprinting skeleton bone patterns while cultivating.
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While Lin Xiao was refining the Martial Emperor combat skeleton, in the Central Plains Continent.
In a certain location in the Southeastern Region, within a hidden underground cave dwelling, a body buried beneath the cave floor, resembling earth, suddenly opened its eyes as if sensing something.
A terrifying aura spread from that body, emanating from beneath the cave dwelling throughout the entire structure, then seeping towards other locations.
Simultaneously, the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower admitted them.
On the first level of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower, a hoarse and ancient voice faintly transmitted towards the tower entrance periphery: “A venerable expert of the eternal ages has emerged. Allow him to enter the second level.”
At this moment, outside the entrance of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower.
Within a region of ten thousand miles filled with surging yin energy and rolling black qi, a black robed humanoid form created from a hundred mile long tongue suddenly narrowed its eyes, then gazed upon all the writhing tongues within the black qi shrouded area, as if issuing a command.
One by one, the tongues gathered and flew towards the entrance of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower.
Finally, that black robed figure gathered the black qi spanning ten thousand miles and swept directly into the first level entrance.
At this moment, at the border between Yang Province and Yan Province, at the two realm junction atop the Kunxu Mountain Range.
A finger shot forth at an incomparably swift speed from the junction of the two realms, heading straight towards the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower.
The speed of that finger was beyond anyone ability to perceive.
However, the region it passed through, spanning tens of thousands of miles in width, was bathed in divine light, and an aura that made heaven and earth tremble faintly permeated the area.
Fortunately, as the finger shot forth, it did not release any terrifying pressure.
Otherwise, those beneath its path would likely have been crushed to death on the spot by that pressure.
From the moment the finger shot forth from the junction until it reached the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower area, it seemed to require no time at all. That finger soon arrived above the tower, hovering in the void above the first level entrance.
At that moment, that finger began to grow thicker, expanding from the size of an ordinary person finger to the girth of a full grown adult. Brilliant divine light illuminated countless miles, releasing a fearsome aura, while boundless terrifying pressure surged down towards the tower entrance.
A surge of vast and ancient sound faintly emanated from that finger: “Return my divine body!”
As soon as the words finished, the entire finger suddenly descended from the sky with overwhelming force, plunging straight down.
“Hiss! Hiss!”
That finger plunged into the first level entrance of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower, and the terrifying aura and pressure instantly vanished from the tower periphery.
That terrifying pressure instantly filled the entire first level entrance of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower.
Within the first level of the tower, except for certain areas, everything was illuminated by that divine light.
Those writhing tongues far from the entrance began to tremble.
“Hiss!”
However, that finger seemed to have no intention of attacking those tongues on the first level.
The second level entrance was forced open by that terrifying pressure, and the finger plunged directly into the second level.
Those vegetation lifeforms resembling scissors on the second level seemed to have received orders as well, having long since moved away from the entrance.
Nevertheless, they still trembled in fear from that finger terrifying aura.
The third level entrance was also forced open by the terrifying pressure, and the finger continued plunging into the third level.
The same scene unfolded on the third level, with all the anomalies moving away from the entrance.
Then, that finger continued plunging downwards, entering the fourth level, then the fifth.
At this moment, within the sixth level, a faint sound emanated from that heaven piercing bronze pillar: “Those fellows actually placed him on the sixth level…”
“No matter. The seventh level is quite lively now, so let him go there.”
As the voice faded, that finger had already plunged into the sixth level.
The sixth level remained utterly still. That finger plunged directly to the bottom of the sixth level, and the terrifying pressure forced the seventh level entrance open.
That finger plunged directly into the seventh level of the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”…
After the finger entered the seventh level, an earth shattering battle erupted. The bottom of the sixth level trembled faintly from the vibrations, while tremendous commotion exploded within the seventh level.
Near the Celestial Pivot Demon Suppressing Tower, the ground spanning tens of thousands of miles trembled faintly as well, as if a massive earthquake had occurred, continuing to shake for an extended period.