Martial God: Grinding from Mortal Flesh to Immortality

Lu Sheng looked at the scene before him with a complex expression.

In the cave, Ling'Er created the "Fake Pill Secret Technique," and the energy waves of the Insect Immortal began to spread from her body.

With the "Fake Pill Secret Technique," Ling'Er infiltrated the sect forces on the Celestial Profound Star, just like Lu Sheng had tasked the members of the Immortal Slaying Alliance in the past.

She began to slowly make contact with the core circle of the Insect Immortal.

Eventually... Ling'Er found the Black Box left behind by the Celestial Profound Research Room in the Penglai Immortal Sect.

This discovery made Ling'Er ecstatic.

"Outer Realm Demons... really do exist!"

That day, Ling'Er hugged the Black Box and cried, as if venting the pain of these times.

It was the excitement of seeing the light in endless darkness.

But when Ling'Er tried to use the Black Box to contact the Outer Realm Demons that Master Miesheng had mentioned, she found...

No matter how she sent signals through the Black Box, those so-called Outer Realm Demons did not respond at all.

It was as if... they did not exist.

In the end, Ling'Er held the Black Box that carried so many of her hopes and sat there for several days.

When Lu Sheng saw this, he felt a bit sympathetic.

During that time, the Human Federation had just suffered a devastating defeat in the war with the Void Insect Race and had no ability to reclaim the Celestial Profound Star.

Not to mention the Hive Consciousness controlling the Three Thousand Worlds; even if the Human Federation discovered the signal from the Black Box, they were powerless.

The last hope shattered...

Plunging Ling'Er into utter despair.

She cried daily, bitterly begging, praying.

At that time... she desperately hoped for the Outer Realm Demons to descend upon the Celestial Profound Star, to save her, to save the Demon Cultivators of this world.

But in the end...

None!

Not a single figure appeared before her to shield her from the storm!

In despair, Ling'Er completely hid herself, surviving like a walking corpse in this world, unable to see any hope.

Yet even so, perhaps due to the tricks of fate, Ling'Er's existence was discovered by Master Shangshan.

It was not so much discovered by Master Shangshan but rather the Hive Consciousness that controlled Master Shangshan found Ling'Er.

To gain freedom and to break through to Tier Seven, Master Shangshan made a deal with the Hive Consciousness, capturing Ling'Er and offering her to the Hive Consciousness.

Master Shangshan eventually succeeded in gaining freedom, and soon after, he successfully overcame the three great tribulations, stepping into Tier Seven.

It was then that the Hive Consciousness realized that to cultivate a Tier Seven power within the Void Insect Race, the Void Insect Race needed independent consciousness. Once they became puppets, they would never become a complete Tier Seven power, but only puppets with Tier Seven strength, limited in many ways.

Originally, Ling'Er, sacrificed to the Hive Consciousness by Master Shangshan, was supposed to become a host for the Void Insect Race. But this realization made the Hive Consciousness awaken.

Ling'Er's special constitution, in the eyes of the Hive Consciousness, was the best breeding ground for cultivating the Insect Race.

But to cultivate an even stronger Void Insect Race, the Hive Consciousness made a deal with Ling'Er!

To become a member of the Void Insect Race.

To survive, or perhaps due to the endless darkness she could no longer endure, Ling'Er agreed to the Hive Consciousness's deal.

In the millennia that followed, Ling'Er completely became a member of the Void Insect Race; even she started to believe she herself was a Void Insect Race.

She had already considered herself a true Void Insect Race.

With her exceptional talent and special constitution, after making the deal with the Hive Consciousness, Ling'Er advanced rapidly with the abundant resources provided by the Hive Consciousness.

Ultimately...

She cultivated to the peak of Tier Nine.

Just as Ling'Er was about to break through to the Galactic Life Form level, becoming the second Galactic Life Form of the Void Insect Race.

The experiences she had on the Celestial Profound Star transformed into her Heart Demon.

Becoming the most difficult hurdle for Ling'Er to cross in her quest to become a Galactic Life Form.

If she couldn't overcome the Heart Demon, she would never step into the Galactic Life Form, which troubled both Ling'Er and the Hive Consciousness greatly.

At that moment, the Galactic Life Form of the Blood Bone Race sought out Emperor Bai to devise a plan against Ling'Er.

Yet this plan was detected by the Hive Consciousness.

In the end, the Hive Consciousness decided to go along with the plan, intending to use Ling'Er's breakthrough to Galactic Life Form as an opportunity to trap and eliminate the Tier Six powerhouses of those flesh-and-blood races.

No one knew that during this process, Lu Sheng's accidental intervention led him to experience Ling'Er's true encounters on the Celestial Profound Star.

And Ling'Er used Lu Sheng's presence to completely dissolve her Heart Demon.

The scene ended here abruptly.

Lu Sheng's consciousness gradually returned to reality.

Lu Sheng stared blankly at the purple insect web mark on the back of his hand, inner storms raging.

"So... without the obstruction of the Heart Demon, now Ling'Er..."

Lu Sheng suddenly turned his head towards the direction of the Three Thousand Worlds.