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Chapter 706 – Reaching Black Hole Revolving Core

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"Xingxuan, what is it?"

"Ah, nothing's wrong… " Qin Xingxuan quickly shook her head. But, this action of hers looked as if she wanted to hide something.

Lin Ming's mind stirred. He wanted to say something but eventually didn't.

Qin Xingxuan carefully took the jade box and placed it in her spatial ring. With these treasures, in addition to her current talent, it wouldn't be any problem at all for her to reach Life Destruction in the future.

Lin Ming said, "Xingxuan, it's getting late; I'll return to my room first."

"Mm, alright." Qin Xingxuan nodded and then escorted Lin Ming out.

A night passed without words. The next morning, Lin Ming took his parents and little sister along with Qin Xingxuan and Mu Qianyu to return to the Giant Leviathan's dimension. The 90-mile-long Giant Leviathan flew high in the sky, soaring towards the South Sea Demon Region.

Lin Ming's plan was to go to the South Sea Demon Region and dig up their medicine garden. The last time he went there he had simply plundered away all the medicinal herbs, but he hadn't taken away the spiritual earth. Lin Ming intended to go back and finish the job.

After the South Sea Demon Region had suffered such a catastrophe, they had already learned from their mistakes. They now had a formation of spread-out scouts, and when Lin Ming reached the 5000 mile border of the South Sea Demon Region, the scouts discovered him and relayed the news.

When Xuan Yuqie received this true essence sound transmission, her face turned green with hate. She had never thought that after a mere half a month Lin Ming would ride the Giant Leviathan back and attack the South Sea Demon Region again!

If this could be tolerated, what else couldn't be?

Bang!

The chair Xuan Yuqie was sitting on burst into pieces from her anger. She was so mad that she could feel her stomach twisting into queasy knots. But this time, besides escaping, there was nothing else she could do.

Grinding her shiny teeth together, Xuan Yuqie calmly issued an order. "All South Sea Demon Region martial artists heed my orders. Cease all training and immediately leave the three Demon Region islands. Gather at the Abyssal Islands 1600 miles away!"

"Ah?" The Elder in charge of relaying orders was stunned. He was about to ask what had happened when Xuan Yuqie angrily shouted, "What are you doing, hurry up!"

The Elder quickly relayed the orders, frightened.

After the only person left was Xuan Yuqie, she felt nauseous from the anger raging in her heart. "Lin Ming, you have gone too far! You and I are irreconcilable enemies!"

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By the time Lin Ming arrived in the South Sea Demon Region, all of the martial artists had already left. This somewhat surprised Lin Ming. He slowly ordered the Giant Leviathan to fly towards the South Sea Demon Region's medicine garden and discovered that there weren't many medicinal herbs left. It seemed that almost everything had already been carried off by the South Sea Demon Region martial artists in their hasty retreat.

Lin Ming faintly smiled, not caring much. He hadn't come for those trashy herbs to begin with. What he had come for was the spiritual earth.

The South Sea Demon Region's medicine garden was already larger than the one in Yin Yang Profound palace; it was a full two square miles. Lin Ming sent out 400 to 500 tentacles, digging out the entire garden by the roots, and then took away as much as the Giant Leviathan could.

1600 miles away on a deserted island, Xuan Yuqie was watching all of this take place through the phantom shadows of an array disc. Her lungs nearly exploded with rage on the spot. Before she left, she'd had everyone pack up all their belongings and everything else valuable. It was only the medicine garden's spiritual earth that she hadn't thought to bring away, as it was impossible to do so to begin with. Now, Lin Ming was even looting that!

He was simply a locust!

Wherever he went, everything was destroyed!

Her full milky white breasts fiercely heaved up and down. Xuan Yuqie roared, "Lin Ming, I hope you f*cking die!"

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Lin Ming commanded the Giant Leviathan to head tens of thousands of miles deep into the South Sea. There, the great beast began to slowly submerge downward. The Giant Leviathan was a Saint Beast of the vast sea to begin with; it could dive hundreds of thousands of feet deep.

At such depth, the water pressure was terrifying. Even a first stage Life Destruction powerhouse would be greatly weakened if they had to fight in such an environment.

However, the Giant Leviathan was able to regulate the pressure within and outside of its body, freely moving in the deep sea.

At this time, Lin Ming was sitting in the dimension between the Giant Leviathan's eyes, his eyes shut. In front of him were two high-grade earth-step Demon God Bones.

"Boy, are you planning to make a breakthrough in your boundary?" Demonshine's voice asked in Lin Ming's mind.

Lin Ming had broken into Revolving Core when he had first entered the Eternal Demon Abyss. Now, over half a year had already passed. Lin Ming had gone to train for one month in the ancient tomb of the goddess inside the 1000 mile forbidden zone. He had reached the great success of the early Revolving Core realm. Afterward, he had formed his 12-winged Heavenly Demon Tattoo, and his cultivation had reached the peak of early Revolving Core. Now, with the support of these high-grade earth-step Demon God Bones, it wouldn't be any problem for him to breakthrough to the middle Revolving Core realm, thus why Demonshine had asked this question.

However, Lin Ming actually shook his head and said, "No, I plan on forming a Black Hole Revolving Core first, then I will consider making a breakthrough. Every day I don't form a Black Hole Revolving Core will be another day when I don't make a breakthrough."

The so-called Black Hole Revolving Core was when one's foundation reached the pinnacle. All of the true essence pellets and other energies within the dantian would completely condense onto the crystal core, without leaving anything aside. This would create perfect Revolving Core. This sort of Revolving Core was like a black hole; it was only an entry, and the attraction force was also much greater.

For a martial artist who reached Black Hole Revolving Core, not only was the overall true essence in their dantian far greater than normal, but the speed at which they absorbed heaven and earth origin energy was that much faster than other martial artists. There was simply no comparison between the two.

"Heh! Well said! If your foundation is not solid then you will easily encounter bottlenecks in your future cultivation. The most important thing to you is not to make a break through, but to build up your foundation! I estimate that Xuan Wuji still has several months before he can leave his seclusion. That should be enough for you to reach Black Hole Revolving Core,"Demonshine said, appreciatively.

These past years, although Demonshine had been unable to help too much in the material world, he had still been able to guide and direct Lin Ming so that he would take fewer detours on his martial arts path.

Lin Ming sat down cross-legged and took out a high-grade earth-step Demon God Bone. Then, he began to absorb the incomparably pure energy contained within it.

With the support of this energy, the scattered true essence crystals that freely floated in the gaseous energy around the Revolving Core began to slowly condense, falling onto the surface of the Revolving Core.

This was an extremely arduous and time-consuming process, because the true essence crystal pellets were like stars in the sky. Not only that, but once these crystal pellets fell onto the Revolving Core's surface they, could also fall off again, forcing Lin Ming to redo the process.

In order to overcome these difficulties, he had to continuously reinforce the compression process.

And in order to do all this, it required a massive amount of time and energy. If he didn't have these high-grade earth-step Demon God Bones supporting him, then Lin Ming might have needed one or two years to become successful.

Thus, no matter how much of a monstrous talent one was, it was impossible to continue without the support of resources. Like that, one would only waste their potential before completely vanishing.

Training was a boring and lonesome process. Day after day passed. Because Lin Ming entered the ethereal martial intent state, he was able to rid himself of outside distractions, and fully focus his thoughts on consolidating his foundation. Because he had taken some fasting pills before this, Lin Ming didn't even need to eat or drink. In fact, he didn't even need to move.

Ten days…

One month…

Two months…

Lin Ming seemed to have turned into a statue. If it weren't for the fact that there was no dust in the Giant Leviathan's dimension, he would have already become covered with a thick layer of it.

Finally, after two and a half months, the last several true essence crystals, underneath the energy compression of the Demon God Bone, had cleanly settled onto the Revolving Core.

In that instant, there was a sudden change!

The Revolving Core that was uniformly spinning suddenly seemed as if it couldn't withstand its own attractive force. It emitting crackling 'ka ka ka' sounds. Lin Ming's Revolving Core had begun to break!

However, these were not mere cracks, but rather the entire crystal core collapsing!

In the moment when the Revolving Core began to collapse, Lin Ming gave a stuffy cough and his body shook. He felt as if his heart had been grasped by a demonic claw, and it was being squeezed to a pulp!

Because he had lost control of all the energy within his body. It furiously and violently raced through his meridians as if it wanted to break out of his body. His hands, feet, muscles, everything seemed as if it would explode. In that instant, Lin Ming even thought he would die there.

"Lin Ming, don't worry! This is because your Revolving Core broke apart and temporarily lost its function. Once it reforms, you will be able to control your energy again." Demonshine's voice sounded out in Lin Ming's mind. After a martial artist reached the Houtian realm, true essence would fully fuse into their body. But, the area where true essence gathered and condensed, the dantian, would become a martial artist's greatest weakness. Once the dantian broke apart then a martial artist would immediately die.

Lin Ming was now almost in this situation.

Soon, Lin Ming couldn't even breath. His heart stopped beating and all the blood froze in him. Lin Ming was distressed to the extreme. However, he couldn't even make a painful expression, because he had lost control of the muscles in his face.

This state continued for a full 10 breaths' time. When his perception began to fade away, the shattered Revolving Core in his body suddenly burst out with a blazing black light. From its original walnut size, it shrunk to the size of a quail egg. The speed it was spinning at increased by several times, and it had turned from a dark gray to an absolute matte black.

After the new Revolving Core formed, the lost control flushed back into Lin Ming like a surging tide. The true essence within his meridians started circulating again and his blood flow returned to normal. His entire body trembled and he fell to the floor, panting and breathing in great gulps of air. That feeling was just like dying.

"Boy, you've really done it this time! When the Demon Emperor was still on this planet, even he hadn't reached this level!" Demonshine's tone was somewhat sour. He couldn't help but be a bit jealous of Lin Ming's talent and ridiculously solid foundation. In the future, Lin Ming's achievements would truly be limitless.

Lin Ming sat on the ground for a while as he caught his breath. As he examined his dantian, he found the new Revolving Core there. It was pitch black, without the slightest sheen to it, as if it were a portal that led to another time and space.

A Revolving Core was similar to a star. If the total mass was the same and the radius was smaller, then the gravitational force would be comparatively stronger.

Right now, Lin Ming's Revolving Core was able to attract surrounding heaven and earth origin energy several times faster than before. Lin Ming could faintly feel the origin energy within the Giant Leviathan constantly gathering around him. Even if Lin Ming didn't take the initiative to absorb it, this energy would still be swallowed up by the Black Hole Revolving Core, quietly settling on the surface and becoming a part of his cultivation.

This is the self-cultivation of the Black Hole Revolving Core?" Lin Ming was shocked. When a martial artist formed a Black Hole Revolving Core, because of its greater ability to attract energy, it could automatically train itself. Even in this aspect alone, it absolutely left all other ordinary Revolving Core martial artists in the dust!

Chapter 707 – Xuan Wuji Leaves Seclusion

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Lin Ming took a deep breath, overjoyed. Not only was the Black Hole Revolving Core able to autonomously cultivate, but it could also absorb heaven and earth origin energy at a pace far surpassing an ordinary Revolving Core martial artist. This alone would increase his endurance and recovery to another level. In addition, a Black Hole Revolving Core martial artist had a true essence several times thicker than normal. In front of a Black Hole Revolving Core martial artist, an ordinary person would not even have the chance to resist.

After reaching Black Hole Revolving Core, Lin Ming still wasn't satisfied. He took out two more Demon God Bones and prepared himself to break through to the middle Revolving Core stage.

Currently, Lin Ming had been stranded at the early Revolving Core realm for nearly an entire year. His foundation was already stable enough; he just needed to seclude himself again and attack the middle Revolving Core in order to succeed towards the next step.

But while Lin Ming was in closed-door seclusion, 300 miles north of the South Sea Demon Region, a sudden loud noise exploded from the depths of the sea, causing all the surrounding waters to tremble. A faint rumbling sound lingered in the air like an endless thunderclap!

Peng!

The seawater exploded and a blue geyser directly impacted into the heavens. In this terrifying spout of water, a black-robed, middle-aged man floated inside, his eyes seeming to sizzle with jet-black flames.

This person was Xuan Wuji.

Even though he had risked his life to make a breakthrough with great difficulty to the fourth stage of Life Destruction, Xuan Wuji's breakthrough wasn't perfect. After shattering his Revolving Core, there were many defects that existed after reforming it. These energy flaws would possibly be his mortal weakness when breaking through to the fifth stage of Life Destruction in the future!

And a considerable part of this was all thanks to Lin Ming. Because Lin Ming had recklessly rampaged through the South Sea Demon Region, it had affected his calm heart.

Crossing Life Destruction had always been extremely risky. Just the tiniest change in one's heart and mindset could create catastrophic consequences.

Fortunately,, Xuan Wuji had been prepared. If Lin Ming had angered him in a critical moment then he might have even died. Still, just these energy flaws in his Revolving Core would probably take a hundred years just to stabilize.

How could he not be furious about this?

Combined with the fact that Lin Ming had razed and pillaged the South Sea Demon Region, Xuan Wuji wished he could rip apart Lin Ming with his bare hands!

Xuan Wuji raised his hand and immediately sent out a sound transmitting talisman.

A moment later, Xuan Yuqie's reply returning.

She was both happy and afraid that Xuan Wuji had come out of seclusion.

She was happy that the South Sea Demon Region finally had its supporting pillar revealed. She feared, though, that Xuan Wuji would not be happy with her performance these days. She had lost the Giant Leviathan and allowed Lin Ming to completely bully the sect to near oblivion. She feared that Xuan Wuji would blame her for all this.

Xuan Yuqie completely listed out what Lin Ming had done these past several months without missing a single matter.

After Xuan Wuji listened to this, he viciously grinned. "You transferred all that garbage from Divine Phoenix Island into the Giant Leviathan and then hid deep in the South Sea? Do you think that just because you are hiding in the Giant Leviathan, you have absolute safety? Do you think that I can't find you in the deep sea?"

Xuan Wuji suddenly gripped his fists, his knuckles crackling. "Lin Ming, I will have you pay for everything you've done!"

Woosh!

A black ray of light cut through the skies. Xuan Wuji flew at full speed not towards the South Sea Demon Region, but towards the deep sea waters!

After flying for a moment, he then shot into the sea. What Xuan Wuji was looking for were…the various clans of the deep sea!

When the South Sea war started, Xuan Wuji had obtained a great deal of help from the deep sea clans. In truth, he didn't even need them to deal with Divine Phoenix Island in order to conquer the South Sea. But he became allies with them in order to deal with those other powers of the southern Sky Spill Continent, such as Great Zen Temple. However, he never imagined that he would actually have to borrow their power to face Lin Ming.

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Another half month passed. Lin Ming had remained in seclusion for over four months now, and his 21st birthday had quietly passed.

Half of the second high-grade, earth-step Demon God Bone was already absorbed by Lin Ming. The energy within his dantian constantly concentrated into his Revolving Core, and he became increasingly close to breaking through to the middle Revolving Core realm

But at this moment, Lin Ming suddenly felt the stone bed underneath him shake, the entire dimension trembling.

"Mm? What's going on?"

Lin Ming was startled. Demonshine's voice instantly resounded in his mind.

"Xuan Wuji is outside. Looks like he's brought a great number of helpers; it's quite lively outside."

Lin Ming frowned. This Xuan Wuji couldn't have come earlier or later, but had chosen instead to come at this exact time.

If he gave up his breakthrough here, he would have wasted all his efforts of this past month.

Bang!

The Giant Leviathan shook. Lin Ming's expression changed. How could Xuan Wuji's attack be this strong!?

Demonshine said, "Xuan Wuji figured out some defensive weaknesses of the Giant Leviathan from the Demon Emperor's letter. He's not as stupid as the Xing couple, trying to attack the Giant Leviathan's mouth. Now, Xuan Wuji is attacking an area a mile down from the Giant Leviathan's mouth where there are a pair of gray spots. These are the Giant Leviathan's auditory and perception organs, and are also used in maintaining balance; they are very sensitive. You can classify them as the Giant Leviathan's 'ears'. Once this area is attacked then the Giant Leviathan will shake."

As Demonshine spoke, his thoughts stirred and a screen appeared in front of Lin Ming. On this screen were seven humanoid forms. The one in the lead was Xuan Wuji. He wore a dark gray robe, and he had a strangely shaped black horn in his hands. This horn seemed as if it were crafted from some deep sea beast.

Near Xuan Wuji, Lin Ming could also make out the Black Flood Dragon Clan Patriarch he had se seen at the Demon God Imperial Palace, as well as Xuan Yuqie, and the silver-masked Demon Region Eastern Faction Sovereign.

These four weren't surprising. But what drew Lin Ming's attention were three other monkey-like creatures that stood near Xuan Wuji. They were as tall as Giant Demons and their entire body was covered with golden fur. They had deep blue eyes that emitted a faint light.

Was surprised Lin Ming was that, within these three monkey creatures, one of them had a cultivation at the third stage of Life Destruction, and the other two were at the second stage of Life Destruction.

Lin Ming's pupils shrank. If he weren't wrong, then these monkey-like creatures were Turquoise-Eyed Apes, one of the various deep sea clans!

The endless sea around the Sky Spill Continent was vast and limitless. The races of the deep sea surpassed the Sky Spill Continent in both variety and quantity. They also had their Emperor-level powerhouses, perhaps in even greater numbers than the Sky Spill Continent.

However, the deep sea clans were not adapted to living on land. Thus, they were able to safely coexist in peace. It was unknown just why they chose to join forces with Xuan Wuji at this time.

'So he has various deep sea clans helping him; no wonder Xuan Wuji can find me in the incomparably vast sea. With the countless marine life in the deep sea clans helping to search, it would be easy to find a creature that is several dozen miles long.'

This thought flashed through Lin Ming's mind when the Giant Leviathan shook again! Although the Giant Leviathan had amazing defensive power, it still wasn't able to withstand a barrage of attacks from so many people attacking its weaknesses. At the ears of the Giant Leviathan, rivers of blood streamed out, already dying the entire sea around it a vivid red.

"Demonshine, won't the Giant Leviathan retaliate unless it's being controlled by someone?"

Demonshine said, "Of course. This big fellow is a bit slow but it won't just sit here and allow itself to be attacked. But did you see that black horn in Xuan Wuji's hand? That device can be used to control the Giant Leviathan's movements. When Xuan Wuji had captured the Giant Leviathan in the Demon God Imperial Palace, he had also relied on this black horn to do so. As long as it is blown, the Giant Leviathan will remain motionless.

As Demonshine spoke, Lin Ming recalled the black horn in Xuan Wuji's hands. So, it seemed that the horn was used to command the Giant Leviathan…

"Lin Ming, I have a way to leave a soul mark in the Giant Leviathan's spiritual sea and control it for a brief period. But this will consume a massive amount of soul force. Not just that but…the Giant Leviathan is only good at destroying sects and engaging in large-scale battles. It does not excel at fighting high-stage Life Destruction powerhouses, especially in small numbers. If I control it in battle, then there still isn't anything I can do against Xuan Wuji.

"I know." Lin Ming's mind raced. When he had used the Giant Leviathan to face the Xing couple, he had an ultimate advantage because he was able to use the entire Yin Yang Profound Palace as a hostage. But, the Giant Leviathan wasn't able to deal with Xing couple by itself. It was only when Lin Ming threatened to raze the entire Yin Yang Profound Palace and massacre all of their disciples that the couple restrained from doing anything.

However, Xuan Wuji's South Sea Demon Region had already been ruined by Lin Ming; he no longer feared such a deed.

Even if Xuan Wuji constantly attacked the Giant Leviathan, there wasn't anything that Lin Ming could do. The Giant Leviathan's attacks were too inflexible and singular in their means. Not just that, but they also took a long time to set up. It simply wouldn't be able to strike Xuan Wuji.

"We'll fight and retreat towards the deep sea at the same time. If we can go deep enough then Xuan Wuji's combat strength will be greatly affected by the pressure there." Lin Mind could only tolerate this threat. While the Giant Leviathan had its strengths, it also had its weaknesses.

"I fear it won't be as easy as you think it is. The deep sea clans are experts at fighting deep sea battles. They might have shared some secret skills with Xuan Wuji and Xuan Yuqie to withstand the deep sea pressure. Today, since we're going to suffer regardless, we may as well counterattack first."

As Demonshine spoke, he drew out of Lin Ming's spiritual sea, turning into a little pug. In the next moment he drilled through a space barrier and vanished without trace.

After another half an incense stick of time, the Giant Leviathan finally began moving. Over a 1000 tentacles shot out, counterattacking Xuan Wuji and the others. However, these were all second-stage Life Destruction powerhouses or stronger; how could they possibly fear these tentacles? They simply drew back farther. As for Xuan Wuji and that third-stage Life Destruction Turquoise-Eyed Ape, they were able to avoid the attack of the tentacles while constantly sending out beams of energy, not stopping their attacks on the Giant Leviathan's weak points.

Although a steel needle couldn't kill a whale, attacking a whale's eyes and ears over and over again would cause no small amount of damage. Not to mention, Xuan Wuji's attacks were at a much higher level than a steel needle; they could at least be classified as a dagger. The force of his techniques were several times more powerful than the Xing couple's combined attack.

"These damn brats!"

Demonshine angrily huffed out. He controlled the Giant Leviathan and retreated deep into the South Sea.

Xuan Wuji and the others closely followed like annoying flies.

At this time, within the Giant Leviathan's dimension, Mu Qianyu and the others also realized what was happening outside. They discovered that Xuan Wuji had come out of seclusion and was chasing them down to kill them. The disciples of Divine Phoenix Island became somewhat nervous.

Especially when the Giant Leviathan trembled every once in a while. This caused their hearts to jump into their throats, a uneasy feeling pooling in their stomachs.

Could the Giant Leviathan really withstand the fourth-stage Life Destruction Xuan Wuji?