The Prodigies War
chapter-1424

The palm-sized domino piece was inconspicuous and covered with dust.

But when it landed in Lin Xun’s hand, he felt as though a towering mountain was pressing down on him. Caught off guard, he swayed a little and had to quickly circulate his strength to hold the domino firm in his grip.

“Is this meant to scare away people?”

Lin Xun looked a little doubtful, but when he was about to release his spirit sense to investigate closer, Lone Man quickly stopped him. “If you don’t want to be scared to death, then you better not do that.”

Scared to death?

Lin Xun looked at it suspiciously, but the serious expression on Lone Man’s face deterred him from trying in the end.

Lone Man grinned, “Although it is meant to just scare people, it is still an invaluable treasure. You must look after it well.”

Lin Xun furrowed his brow. “Can this thing scare Saints then?”

Lone Man answered in a disdainful voice, “Saints are nothing. There’s no harm in telling you that the domino can sweep all under the Emperor Stage and scare them witless. After all, how would something of mine be ordinary?” His voice filled with indescribable pride.

Lin Xun played about with the domino in his hand when his eyes suddenly flashed and he stared at Lone Man. “How about I try it on you?”

Lone Man’s expression went stiff for a moment before he snapped, “It belongs to me, how would I be scared of my own thing? Kid, stop thinking of bad ideas. Remember, you can only use it once. Don’t bring it out unless it is a critical juncture of life and death.”

After saying that, he flicked his sleeve before Lin Xun could react.

The two vanished.

……

In the depths of the imperial palace hid a forbidden place.

A simple and old-fashioned hall towered, and in front of it stood a five-colored altar radiating a feeling of age, as if it had been standing since the start of time.

A horizontal plaque was hung in front of the great hall: Great Blood Kill Hall

Lin Xun recognized the hall right away; he had been there before!

Back when he first entered the Blood Kill Battlefield, Zhao Tailai had brought him here and sent him away with the help of an ancient teleportation array.

However, when he laid eyes on the Great Blood Kill Hall again and ancient teleportation array once again, many thoughts surged through his mind.

“Is this the doing of Mister Lu himself?” Lin Xun asked lightly.

Lone Man asked, “Who?”

“Lu Boya.”

“So, you already know?”

“The creation of the Blood Kill Camp is connected to Mister Lu. How would the Great Blood Kill Hall have nothing to do with him?”

Lin Xun said emotionally, “I reckoned that Mister Lu is very likely a quasi-emperor stage expert, and given his mastery in the art of runes, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to set up a teleportation array.”

Lone Man was silent for a moment before he said aloud, “More than ten years ago, great changes broke out across the world. The Blood Kill Battlefield has also completely changed. You will understand when you get there.”

He flicked his sleeve.

Buzz—

The ancient five-colored altar produced a strange glow and rumble, as if awakening from deep slumber.

Lin Xun was ready to move, but he was stopped by Lone Man. He stared at Lin Xun and his eyes gleamed, “You have the aura of another living being within you.”

Lin Xun froze. How could he tell?

“Little Silver, come out.”

With a swoosh, Little Silver flashed out.

Lone Man’s eyes shone with a splendid light. He fixed his eyes on Little Silver for a long while before he chuckled out loud, “Interesting, a God-Devourer Insect who has embarked on the Supreme Path and awakened his innate divine powers, becoming a true longevity stage insect king. It’s hard to find one even in ancient times…It seems like this little guy obtained quite a few opportunities and treasures during the great age.”

He saw right through Little Silver from one mere glance!

Lin Xun trembled inwardly. Is this old guy really an Emperor stage cultivator?

“You guys go.”

Lone Man withdrew his gaze and gestured with his hand, but he did not stop Little Silver from joining Lin Xun.

“Elder, farewell.”

Lin Xun took a deep breath and strode up the altar with Little Silver.

The next second, their figures vanished.

Lone Man silently watched them depart until the teleportation array returned to silence. He then let out a long sigh of relief and murmured, “Whether or not you become a Supreme Saint depends on whether you can seize the opportunity and break the forbidden curse of the Taboo Dao Tribulation…”

……

Blood Kill Battlefield.

The world was vast and boundless, with the landscape dominated by undulating hills and jagged mountain ranges. Rich purple aeth qi swirled and flowed in the air like a rolling sea of clouds

The scenery was as beautiful as a painting!

Every mountain was beautiful, extraordinary, lush and full of vitality.

Every river was veiled in spiritual mist. When the water rippled, it emitted a wondrous sheen like fish scales. Even the rocks, vegetation, and trees glowed like crystals.

The air was saturated with rich aeth qi.

On the top of a precipitous mountain peak, a tall and graceful figure stood among swirling wisps of purple qi, surveying all directions with an unerasable look of shock and bewilderment on his face.

The figure was precisely Lin Xun who had just arrived at the Blood Kill Battlefield.

But he suspected that he had come to the wrong place!

In his memory, Blood Kill Battlefield was gray and bleak and devoid of life. Not a blade of grass grew in the vast lands, and it was a scene of desolation everywhere.

The ground was strewn with rotten and mangled corpses, and the air was thick with the nauseating smell of blood and decay.

The darkness, desolation, blood, and feeling of depression...outlined Blood Kill Battlefield.

Most importantly, aeth power did not exist on Blood Kill Battlefield!

The army of cultivators from the empire that was stationed there had to restore and replenish their strength via aeth pills and aeth herbs.

But now…

Everything had changed!

Across heaven and earth, everything was thriving and aeth qi was abundant. The mountains and valleys were beautiful and spectacular, and the spiritual aura and vitality were roaring like torrents, spreading across the world.

It was no longer the same Blood Kill Battlefield as he remembered. It was more like a vast magical world, a paradise for celestial beings!

Brilliant divine light was condensed around every flower and grass. Although they were not aeth ingredients or aeth herbs, they were still different from ordinary plants or trees and could be regarded as aeth articles.

Lin Xun breathed in, inhaling the refreshing, concentrated, rich, and energetic aeth qi. He felt his heart being soothed and his mind relaxing.

“Ten years…everything has changed…

“The aeth qi here is so abundant and pure that even the upper nine realms of the Supreme Realm can’t compare!

“No! This aeth qi between heaven and earth, as well as the wisps of divinity power, has immense benefit to longevity stage cultivators.

“One day of training here is equivalent to one month of it in the outside world!”

After a long moment, Lin Xun gradually recovered from his initial astonishment and began to calmly perceive the changes across Blood Kill Battlefield.

The higher one’s level of cultivation, the higher one’s demand for cultivation resources.

A little fish would swim happily in a pond, but once it evolved into a giant dragon, could it still be contained there?

When the young Lin Xun trained in the empire, he was like a little fish growing up in a pond.

But now, he was already a Supreme King of the eighth longevity tribulation stage. If he was still training in the empire, then he would never be able to set foot into the Supreme Saint Stage in his life.

The reason for that was very simple: The resources in the empire could never meet his cultivation needs. Additionally, there was a lack of great dao opportunities which were required for cultivation!

The world and the empire might have undergone great changes following the great age, but if he wanted to seek the way of becoming a Supreme Saint, he could only do so in Blood Kill Battlefield.

“No wonder the emperor once said that an opportunity for becoming Supreme Saint existed in the lower world. Following the great changes in the world, the Blood Kill Battlefield has become completely different from before…”

Lin Xun inhaled deeply, accepting the reality in front of him.

Swoosh!

The next moment, he disappeared.

Two hours later.

On the bank of a mighty river, Lin Xun drifted down and landed, his eyes flashing with a hint of surprise.

Blood Kill Battlefield had changed. From what he remembered, he should have been able to find the entrance to Mulberry Woodland very quickly.

But he never imagined that the world here was completely unlike what he remembered. It seemed to have become countless times bigger!

“In the opposite direction of the setting sun, the land where the sun rises is the campsite of my empire.”

This was a sentence from the animal skin manual that Zhao Tailai had given him when he first came to Blood Kill Battlefield.

But does a camp of the empire still exist in Blood Kill Battlefield now?

Lin Xun pondered for a moment, looked at the sky, found his bearings and planned to set off again.

Huh?

His eyes narrowed. Through his spirit sense, he detected an extremely pure and amazing aura at the bottom of the river.

He dove into the river with a flash.

The river surged, and a fist-sized crystal lay quietly at the bottom of the river, producing a magnificent and illusory divine glow.

What is that?

Lin Xun stretched out his hand and grabbed the crystal. He studied it for a moment and then exclaimed out loud. The crystal was filled with an incredibly pure divinity aura, just like the rumored Divinity Primordial Crystal!

Divinity Primordial Crystals were an incredibly rare treasure that was almost extinct in the outside world. Generally, they were only born in the land of divine aeth veins.

The divinity power contained in them had an unimaginable effect on elevating one’s cultivation.

For example, ordinary blessed cultivation lands could not satisfy the cultivation needs of Saints, but this problem could easily be solved with a Divinity Primordial Crystal.

However, such treasures were of little use in the hands of a cultivator at the King Stage or below.

This was because the power imbued in a single Divinity Primordial Crystal was so tremendous that no ordinary cultivator would be able to withstand it, let alone refine it!

From what Lin Xun knew, such treasures were not found in the vast empire. Even in the Ancient Wasteland Domain, it was possessed by only the ancient orthodoxies.

“It seems this Blood Kill Battlefield can actually give birth to Divinity Primordial Crystals…”

Lin Xun thought to himself, “This means that, even for a Saint, this place is regarded as a blessed cultivation land!”

He put away the Divinity Primordial Crystal, flew up from the bottom of the river, and launched into action.

Along the way, under his careful exploration, he discovered some more Divinity Primordial Crystals from the mountains and rivers, all of varying sizes but each sparkling and full of divinity.

Moreover, in some mountainous areas that were concentrated with aeth qi, he also found and picked up some rare divine herbs and materials.

At this moment, Lin Xun could already conclude that, if the upper nine realms of the Supreme Realm were most suitable for king stage cultivators on the longevity path, then Blood Kill Battlefield could fully satisfy the cultivation needs of Saint Stage cultivators.