Martial Ascent to Divinity

The late night in Shuizhou Demon City was ablaze with war.

The Seventh Division nearly deployed its entire army, charging at the sudden Demon forces.

The nearby Pioneer and Alien Race teams also joined this great battle.

The fight outside the Celestial Ladder was intense, and within it, the battle was just as relentless.

Zhou Leng proceeded cautiously, yet still encountered several tough opponents.

Three Humpbacked Demon Dogs attacked, and Zhou Leng fought and retreated, risking injury, he heavily wounded one, forcing them back.

A group of Prayers suddenly appeared, and Zhou Leng ran off without a thought to fight.

Occasionally encountering deceased humans, Zhou Leng placed their bodies in trees, marking them, then took the pills.

The farther he went, the heavier Zhou Leng's heart became.

He saw over twenty human bodies along the way, most wearing the school emblems of exam candidates.

Along the way, only retrieving pills from the dead, he gained nothing else, instead getting lightly injured, bandaging himself.

Not long after, with only half of his True Qi left, Zhou Leng swiftly climbed a dense tree, activated Inner Power, and restored his True Qi.

When his True Qi was full, Zhou Guang was about to leave when suddenly chaotic sounds reached his ears.

"You can't escape!" a bizarrely accented voice called out.

Zhou Leng looked in the direction of the voice.

Ahead, someone emitting a yellow glow, the light was about three meters high and a meter wide in diameter.

Inheritance Spiritual Light!

Zhou Leng looked closely, noticing the person wore the emblem of He Yin Martial Arts Academy.

One of the eighteen schools.

The person staggered, finally stopping by a tree a few meters away, leaning against it, looking at the pursuers.

Through the leaves, Zhou Leng looked to the other side.

Four foreign young students walked toward the person, smiling.

"I'll hand over the Inheritance Spiritual Light, and you let me live," he said.

"Of course, that's what we said from the start," the leading blond Caucasian replied with a smile.

Zhou Leng looked closely, and the person was wearing the badge of Hafu Martial Arts Academy.

At the end of the technological civilization, two major countries of the East and West emerged.

Entering the Martial Arts Era, the Dragon Country rose to the top, and Chinese became the universal language worldwide.

The Eagle Alliance split into North and South, severely weakened, with Pulin Martial Arts Academy, ranked first, globally third, just behind Yunhua and Jinjing.

Hafu Martial Arts Academy ranked third in the Eagle Alliance, globally nineteenth.

The He Yin Martial Arts Academy student reached into his pocket, took out a colorful stone, and tossed it to the Hafu students.

As the stone left his hand, the light on him vanished.

"Good!" The person picked up the stone, emitting the same yellow light, three meters high.

He placed the stone into an inner pocket.

The He Yin student sighed, sitting against the tree.

"You can die now!"

The four Hafu students suddenly attacked in unison, killing the He Yin student within a few moves.

Zhou Leng was too far away to intervene in time when he intended to stop them.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath, narrowing his eyes.

The four began to rummage through the victim's backpack.

"Haha, did this fool really think we'd spare him?" they spoke in Eagle language.

Eagle language is no longer a mandatory language in the Dragon Country, so Zhou Leng couldn't understand. He immediately used the Demonized Watch to translate, activating the Stealth Light mode to prevent others from seeing the light.

Zhou Leng listened while looking at the translation.

"Only these pills?"

"Not sure if he's lucky or unlucky."

"We are the lucky ones, just returning from the Steel Dwarf Tribe for training, and unexpectedly encountering a Celestial Ladder inheritance."

"This time the Celestial Ladder inheritance, we are determined to win!"

"The light of the Fishman Sect will surely shine upon the world!"

"This Inheritance Spiritual Light is indeed interesting, now that I have it, I can see a glowing arrow, it should point to the Inheritance Land. Let's go."

Zhou Leng quietly stayed atop the tree, waited until the four left, then jumped down, immediately sorting his backpack, discarding all non-essentials.

Then walked to where the student was, placing his body on a tree, marking it.

Zhou Leng followed the direction in which those people went.

"The Fishman Sect of the Demon Worship Sect..." A faint chill gleamed in Zhou Leng's eyes.

The Fishman Sect is the most notorious force of the Demon Worship Sect, known for wreaking havoc in secret for thousands of years, later aligning with Demons and Sea Sirens.

With a three-meter high glow, Zhou Leng didn't need to stay too close.

A minute, ten minutes...

Half an hour, an hour...

Along the way, the four Hafu students frequently encountered demons, possessing top-tier skills among the Top Ten Martial Arts, they won battles continuously.

But, the glow attracted too many demons, quickly, Zhou Leng noticed their blood stains on the ground.

At nightfall.

The glow began to move erratically in place.

Zhou Leng knew they had encountered demons, and slowly approached.

From afar, he saw over ten demons besieging them.

Among the four Hafu students, one with a broken arm sat on the ground, his face extremely pale from blood loss.

Zhou Leng slightly retreated, found a mask in his backpack, put it on, then wrapped a bandage over his forehead and hair, leaving only his eyes, removing any Ruda insignia or identification.

Ensuring he had nothing distinctive on him, he prepared.

The mastery of the Top Ten Martial Arts was indeed strong, finally, the four Hafu students defeated over a dozen demons.

The four were covered in wounds, applying iodine to bandage them while gasping heavily.

"Old rules, two of us will stand guard, while you two recuperate, then we switch."

Thus, two sat down to recuperate and manipulate Qi, while the other two stood up, taking positions in two directions.

The one with the Inheritance Spiritual Light was recuperating.

Suddenly, a shadow rushed out, stepping with the Speedy Lightweight Flying Crane Technique.

"No..."

Before the words fell, Zhou Leng already lunged in front of the two recuperating and manipulating Qi.

Two Dragons Emerging from the Sea, descended from above, struck the tops of both their heads.

Poof! Poof!

The two opened their eyes, their skulls shattered, blood splattering everywhere.

Zhou Leng reached into the leader's pocket, took out the Inheritance Spiritual Light, then grabbed the backpack behind him and ran, utilizing Qi.

The other two alert team members lunged forward, attacking with a palm and a punch.

Zhou Leng maneuvered his Stepping Technique, dodged the punch, took a hit on the shoulder, and fled.

The two cursed loudly.

"It's over, Spencer is dead, Trup's family will kill us."

"Mad Prince Aiden loves this brother the most, he'll get rid of us too..."

Ahead, Zhou Leng suddenly turned and rushed back swiftly.

Zhou Leng found that the palm strike on his shoulder was light, like a mosquito bite.

"Kill!"

The two shouted together, one charged at Zhou Leng, the other turned and fled.

"You..." The one charging at Zhou Leng turned his head suddenly, and when he turned back again, Zhou Leng struck his forehead with a palm.

Then, Zhou Leng caught up with the last person, and killed him with a palm strike.

Zhou Leng picked up the backpacks of the four.

He first opened the leader's backpack and found a black leather bag covered with blue patterns lying quietly inside.

The Magic Spirit Bag can shrink items and reduce their weight.

Zhou Leng opened the Magic Spirit Bag to see.

Ten Replenishing Essence Pills, countless Qi Nourishing Pills and Blood Replenishing Pills, but no ordinary Great Nourishing Pills or Marching Pills.

Plenty of Ten-Perfection Pills and Advanced Marching Pills.

An Essence Qi Pill, an Embracing Essence Pill, and a Body Nourishing Pill.

Ten-Perfection Pill, full name Ten-Perfection Great Replenishing Pill, superior to the Great Nourishing Pill, ten thousand each.

Balanced in function, a favorite among masters, its efficacy is many times that of the Great Nourishing Pill.

The Essence Qi Pill is equivalent to the Innate Realm's Qi Nourishing Pills and can supply a large amount of True Qi.

The Embracing Essence Pill can compress True Qi.

The Body Nourishing Pill is equivalent to the Innate Realm Replenishing Essence Pills, repairing damages, making the body flawless.

These three are all worth millions.

Zhou Leng took out a crystal box and looked closely.

Inside the crystal box, packed tightly were orange tiny grains, like rice, emitting a faint glow.

The universal currency of the Steel Dwarves, Orange Gold.

He found a bag, poured out the Orange Gold, and threw away the crystal box to prevent magic marks.

Inside the Magic Spirit Bag, there were also plenty of camping equipment, such as a solar stove, battery stove, kerosene stove, tent sleeping bags, etc.

Zhou Leng reached out and pinched a black card, covered with snowflakes.

The snowflakes seemingly floated.

"Seems like something from the Ice Snow Divine Sect. However, the Ice Snow Divine Sect rarely operates on Blue Star, mostly active in other worlds."

Zhou Leng threw it aside.

Finally, looking at the Magic Spirit Bag, it was the most precious of all items.

And unsurprisingly, it must have a magic mark.

Although it could be erased by leaving the Celestial Ladder,

carrying it around for the next few days posed significant risk.

After careful consideration, Zhou Leng reluctantly discarded it.

Then, he dug out a separate box from deep inside the backpack, containing many disposable syringes.

The syringes swirled with various colors of potions.

Stimulants.

Dragon Country has a National Divine Technique, Medicinal Supplement.

Eagle Alliance has a National Divine Technique, Mastery of Stimulants.

They can gain a powerful boost for a short time through stimulants, making them extremely difficult to deal with when prepared.

Zhou Leng stomped on it, crushing it.

Without Mastery of Stimulants as a National Divine Technique, whoever uses it dies.

Zhou Leng rummaged through the backpacks of the other three.

Far inferior to Spencer's, merely three Replenishing Essence Pills, but a vast number of Qi Nourishing Pills, Blood Replenishing Pills, and Great Nourishing Pills.

Finally, Zhou Leng recalled the conversation between the last two.

"Trup's family, could they be one of the Eagle Alliance's major financial groups..."

Zhou Leng searched the Demonized Watch's database and quickly found the information.

Family from the Technological Era had someone serve as Grand Commander... vigorously developed during the transition of Technology and Martial Arts Era... one of Eagle Alliance's Top Ten financial groups... Spencer-Trup...

The Trup family is indeed one of the Eagle Alliance's Top Ten financial groups, but Spencer was not part of the main line. His father's cousin was the Patriarch Trup.

Zhou Leng placed the corpses and belongings of the four together, then gathered hay and dry wood, stacked them together, threw in batteries, poured out oil from the kerosene stove, and ignited it all.

With a glance at the roaring flames, Zhou Leng left without looking back.

In Zhou Leng's eyes, the Inheritance Spiritual Light manifested more like an arrow of light.

Zhou Leng first took a detour running, then headed towards the direction pointed by the arrow.

With the Spiritual Light upon him, the number of demons he encountered suddenly increased.

Ignoring the slow ones, hardly fighting the fast ones.

Yet, the situation differed from before.

Earlier, he was reluctant to consume Qi Nourishing Pills to replenish True Qi. Now, while running, he continually stuffed Qi Nourishing Pills, Blood Replenishing Pills, Ten-Perfection Pills, and Advanced Marching Pills into his mouth.

Even indulged in a Replenishing Essence Pill usually saved for critical times.

With pills enhancing him, True Qi flowed endlessly, vitality lasted surely, Zhou Leng rapidly outran all demons.

From afar, someone observed the swiftly moving light, calculated briefly, gently shook their head, abandoning the attempt to snatch the Spiritual Light.

Zhou Leng ran along the path, and soon, a larger light appeared ahead.

Approaching it, a five-meter-high giant book stood tall in front.

Radiating a yellow glow, surrounded by a yellow aperture with a radius of about one kilometer.

Outside the aperture, hordes of demons roared as they charged forward.

There were at least hundreds.

From the edge of the aperture, a person shouted: "Friend, throw the Inheritance Spiritual Light over here, and I'll ensure your safety."

Zhou Leng listened indifferently, swiftly dodged the demons, and dashed toward the aperture.

Inside the aperture, several masked squads charged at Zhou Leng.

Zhou Leng shouted loudly: "Anyone who dares snatch my Spiritual Light, it won't end until death!"