Over the course of a few days, Lin Xiao completely refined the Myriad Condensation Stone. Within his hand’s sea, a surging, majestic force coalesced, and a terrifying aura emanated from his arm. This momentum was several times stronger than the aura from his body.
If the power contained in his arm were measured by cultivation levels, the petrifying force within it would likely have reached the seventh or eighth level of the Martial King realm. With the current might of his petrifying force, he could easily withstand a direct confrontation with an eighth-level Martial King.
During these few days, Gu Juejin, Ma Bi, Niubi, and Shura Butcher all achieved breakthroughs, each advancing to the fifth level of the Martial King realm.
All of them possessed the ability to fight across tiers, especially Gu Juejin and Shura Butcher, who could effortlessly hold their own against seventh-level Martial King powerhouses and even contend with eighth-level ones.
United, their group could dominate a major force in the Ultimate Battlefield.
For the next period, Gu Juejin, Shura Butcher, Ma Bi, and the others went out to train, while Lin Xiao remained in seclusion, cultivating.
This time, he focused on the Immortal Skeleton Technique, aiming to refine thirty skeletons. After more than a month, he successfully transformed all thirty skeletons into combat skeletons, each possessing the strength of Lin Xiao’s fifth-level Martial King power.
Given his ability to fight across tiers, this strength, in close combat, was enough to rival a seventh-level Martial King powerhouse.
In other words, Lin Xiao now commanded the equivalent of over thirty seventh-level Martial King powerhouses—a force so formidable it could scare off entire groups.
Seventh-level Martial Kings were a level of cultivation seen only among the Earth Star List members of Sheng City or You Tian Demon Palace, and even with breakthroughs in the battlefield, their numbers in the entire Xuanyu Battlefield could likely be counted.
Possessing over thirty skeletons with seventh-level Martial King strength was undeniably a powerful force.
Over this month, the Xuanyu Battlefield saw significant changes. Not only did the Molten Cave appear, but a Death Abyss and a Heaven-Earth Cold Ravine also emerged, each brimming with new opportunities.
During this time, the war between You Tian Demon Palace and Sheng City erupted, sparked by Lin Xiao’s slaughter of a group of You Tian Demon Palace disciples in front of the Molten Cave.
Afterwards, You Tian Demon Palace began uniting to eliminate Sheng City’s disciples, while Sheng City’s side also banded together to counter them.
Both sides offered incentives to recruit disciples from other forces, leading to increasingly heavy casualties.
Ma Bi, Niubi, Hu Yue, Gu Juejin, and Shura Butcher formed a team and joined the mutual encirclement battles, which provided significant training. Within a month, each of them advanced another level, reaching the sixth level of the Martial King realm.
On a few occasions, Lin Xiao joined them, hunting down over twenty leading powerhouses from You Tian Demon Palace. Afterwards, he went back into seclusion, spending half a month imprinting over twenty more skeletons.
After completing these twenty-plus skeletons, the bone patterns in Lin Xiao’s body unexpectedly increased by one. With three bone patterns fully mobilized, the evil force surged like an ocean, so powerful that even Lin Xiao wasn’t sure of its limits.
After enhancing his bone pattern power, Ziling gathered a large amount of auxiliary herbs for Red Fire Explosive Pills. The two refined pills again, producing a total of three hundred mid-tier fourth-grade explosive pills. Splitting them evenly, and adding the fifty each already had, they now each held two hundred explosive pills.
One explosive pill could kill a sixth-level Martial King powerhouse. Two hundred was a terrifying number—Lin Xiao was confident that, if fully deployed, they could obliterate any force that charged at them.
Through this frenzied pill-refining, his spiritual force had reached the brink of a breakthrough.
With one more opportunity or a slight trigger, he could advance another level. Of course, Ziling’s spiritual force was even closer to breaking through, on the verge of reaching high-tier fourth-grade spiritual force at any moment.
At this point, Lin Xiao possessed over fifty sixth-level Martial King skeletons, two hundred mid-tier fourth-grade explosive pills, three bone patterns, seventh-to-eighth-level Martial King petrifying force, and initial fourth-grade spiritual force.
In other words, aside from his yuan force cultivation, Lin Xiao was fully prepared to face the Ultimate Battlefield.
Of course, in his storage ring, there was also a peak Martial King Green Corpse Puppet, which was in an awkward state, having not yet successfully broken through.
Lin Xiao examined it and found that the green on its body was slowly turning cyan, now more than halfway transformed. With a bit more progress, it would fully become cyan, marking the moment it broke through to a higher realm of strength.
However, Lin Xiao was concerned that if the Green Corpse Puppet succeeded, it would reach Martial Venerable strength. In the Xuanyu Battlefield, Martial Venerable strength was forbidden by the space and would attract lightning punishment.
Yet, if he awakened it before the breakthrough, he would waste the Yin Cold Stone, and the next opportunity for a breakthrough would be uncertain.
Thus, this trump card was in an awkward position, not to be used unless absolutely necessary.
Over the next half month, Lin Xiao also seized an opportunity someone obtained from the Heaven-Earth Cold Ravine, leading to a breakthrough to the peak of the sixth-level Martial King realm. With just a slight trigger, he could advance further.
With his current strength, he had the initial ability to contend with ninth-level Martial King powerhouses. Even if he encountered one, he no longer needed to flee on sight.
Of course, against super geniuses at the ninth level of Martial King or peak Martial Kings who were half-step Martial Venerables, he was still somewhat lacking.
“Rumble!”
Just as Lin Xiao and his group gathered, a deafening roar shook the entire world. The sky darkened, and seven radiant stars converged in the heavens, emitting light that connected them.
Then, a dazzling, massive beam of light shot down from the sky, striking the earth, causing the ground to tremble violently.
Terrifying energy fluctuations erupted from the point of impact.
Soon after, a series of booming sounds followed. Within a thousand-mile radius illuminated by the divine-like beam, a thunderstorm tornado storm reaching the heavens arose, while a massive flame storm formed on the other side.
On another side, a blindingly bright, thread-like Extinguishing Heaven Light appeared, as if it could slice through the entire space, its radiance illuminating a thousand miles.
Within the thousand-mile radius of the seven-star beam, space itself shattered, and bursts of magma-like sparks shot out, as if piercing through space again, threatening to melt and penetrate all things.
Clearly, this was a void turbulence, the most terrifying kind of deadly environment.
Beyond that, in the void, dark vortexes, the opposite of the bright light, began forming everywhere, swallowing the surrounding forests, creating a deeply intimidating scene.
In short, within a thousand-mile radius ahead, all sorts of apocalyptic environments emerged. The Ultimate Battlefield had begun.
At this point, five months had passed since Lin Xiao and the others entered the Xuanyu Battlefield. The Ultimate Battlefield had opened nearly a month earlier than expected.
Standing high in the sky, Lin Xiao and his group gazed at the shocking scene in the distance, their hearts surging with excitement. From afar, they could faintly see treasure lights bursting out from those deadly environments, with beams of treasure light shooting into the sky.
The Ultimate Battlefield had truly begun.
“Charge into the Ultimate Battlefield!”
With Lin Xiao’s loud shout, the group surged forward, rushing toward the Xuanyu Battlefield.
A monumental opportunity and battle began at this moment.
