Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Zhao Sheng, upon seeing this scene, instantly soared into the sky, reaching a height of hundreds of feet.

Amidst a cacophony of clashes, the ground erupted with vast swathes of gray-white stone light, the glow twisting and blurring, suddenly manifesting as a gray-white stone monster towering over twenty feet high.

The giant stone monster roared up to the heavens, explosively unleashing an incredibly strong aura, turning everything within a thousand feet into a realm of gray-white stone light.

Seeing this, Zhao Sheng's mouth twitched slightly.

It seemed his luck wasn't too good, encountering a Golden Core Realm stone monster as soon as he entered the Grotto Heaven.

After the stone monster's roar, the surrounding land erupted with one after another of gray-white stone monsters of various heights. These stone monsters, though peculiarly shaped, each possessed strength above the Foundation Establishment Realm, and their defenses clearly surpassed those of demon beasts at the same level.

A dozen or so united together would surely fluster an ordinary Golden Core Master.

Of course, these rough-skinned and thick-fleshed stone monsters were nothing but a joke in front of Zhao Sheng.

He didn't give them a second thought, merely pointing a single finger downward, and a lifelike five-clawed Fire Dragon instantly flew out from his sleeve, roaring as it plunged towards the crowd of stone monsters below.

The next moment, the Fire Dragon split into two, then into four, and then into eight... In an instant, sixteen five-clawed Fire Dragons dived into the mass of stone monsters, piercing through their chests like lightning and smashing them into countless fragments.

As stone monster after stone monster was reduced to fragments, the massive Golden Core stone monster roared repeatedly, its arms becoming a blur. The gray stone light around it swiftly condensed into countless gray-white stone spears, which then shot mercilessly towards Zhao Sheng in the sky.

However, Zhao Sheng neither dodged nor evaded, raising his hand calmly towards the ground below.

In the blink of an eye, the countless stone spears froze in mid-air, then were destroyed by some invisible force, crumbling into a shower of stone dust that fell down.

At the same time, the five-clawed Fire Dragons crashed into the massive stone monster, the next moment tearing a three-meter-wide hole through its chest, opening a passage from front to back through which one could see.

Flame-red lightning streaked around the stone monster's body, emitting a thunderous boom, and in just a few breaths, the twenty-foot-tall giant stone monster crumbled back into piles of rubble.

Zhao Sheng gestured, and the Fire Dragon Spear shot back from below, disappearing into his sleeve with a flash.

Meanwhile, dozens of gray-white stone cores flew up from the surrounding rubble, the largest being the size of a head, radiating a dazzling spirit light.

These stone cores were equivalent to demon beast internal cores, filled with rich Earth Element Spiritual Qi, making them precious spirit materials for Alchemy, Artifact Refining, and making stone puppets.

Especially the largest stone core, which could be used by a Puppet Master to refine a giant stone puppet comparable to a Golden Core.

Many predecessors have recorded that this Moonlight Cave Heaven is a Blessed Land rich in various spiritual resources, which now proves not to be mere empty words.

Just as he was storing the stone cores, he suddenly noticed a blurry outline appearing on the surface of the Jade Box in his hand.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered it to be a map of the surrounding terrain, covering about a hundred miles, with a yellow light point flashing at the map's edge.

Zhao Sheng immediately understood that the yellow light point represented another participant who had entered his map's range.

At that moment, the yellow light point began swiftly moving towards the map's center, where Zhao Sheng was located.

"Heh, heaven has a path you don't take, hell has no gate and yet you charge right in! You're out of luck."

Zhao Sheng laughed and shook his head, then ascended into the sky, flying over a thousand feet up, looking westward to see a tunneling light speeding towards him.

Zhao Sheng smiled slightly, since someone was looking for death, he might as well send him back to his grandmother's home.

"Hand over your life... Ah, spare me!"

The tunneling light flew in close in an instant, with a wild and unrestrained voice ringing out from it.

But before he could finish his words, the newcomer suddenly let out a scream of terror, frantically reversing the tunneling light and fleeing into the distance.

However, even though he recognized Zhao Sheng's identity, it was already too late.

The words for mercy had barely left his lips when a figure appeared out of nowhere behind him, a Divine Sense Sword, overwhelmingly powerful beyond belief, piercing into the Purple Mansion at his brow, effortlessly breaking through all spiritual defenses and directly suppressing his Divine Soul.

In an instant, his eyes went blank, his body froze on the spot, and his entire True Yuan went into disarray.

With a crack, his head exploded like a watermelon into pieces.

In that single exchange, a Great Perfected of the Golden Core Eighth Layer died at Zhao Sheng's hands, a death extremely pitiful.

Before long, the Qiankun Bag, along with all the spiritual artifacts and treasures on his body, were confiscated, and the corpse was casually discarded on the Gobi Desert.

Moments later, the Five Fortune Pearl on Zhao Sheng's right hand shone brighter than before.

It is worth mentioning that the area of the map on the Jade Box had nearly doubled.

...

A thousand miles away from Zhao Sheng's location, above a green pond with a diameter of over thirty feet, a starlight descended from the sky, landing on a large stone by the pond. The light converged, revealing a young man in a star-blue Magic Robe.

This person was Yu Shashi!

Not far away, a pale white leg was soaking at the pond's edge, half the pond dyed red with blood, with dozens of fabric scraps floating on the water.

The Moonlight Gathering had only just begun, and already someone had died unexpectedly, causing Yu Shashi's expression to turn a bit grim.

"Hmm..." Yu Shashi glanced at the map on the Jade Box, his gaze suddenly fixed, with a light exclamation exuding from his mouth before floating up over the green pond.

At this moment, with a swoosh, a slender black light shot out of the water without warning, its speed like lightning, thrusting towards Yu Shashi's chest.

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