Chapter 115: Want to Play with This Empress?

Seeing Lu Jin charge toward the two elders, the female Elder could not help but shout a warning. Her voice was thick with urgency and concern.

For some reason, she felt a suffocating sense of danger radiating from this young disciple.

“Work together!”

The hearts of the two elders were also hammering in their chests. A 3rd Transformation of the Purple Mansion Realm expert had been killed by him in an instant. Since neither of them had even reached the 3rd Transformation, wouldn’t they be even more vulnerable?

As the two of them launched a joint counterattack, the female Elder also rushed forward. The three of them struck as one.

“Kid, stop!”

At the same time, the oldest Elder had been relentlessly pursuing Lu Jin. At this moment, it was effectively four people joining forces.

The sight caused a flicker of emotion in all four of their hearts. They had never imagined that dealing with a new disciple would require such a massive commotion.

Puchi! Puchi!

However…

What they expected even less was that Lu Jin would annihilate the two 2nd Transformation of the Purple Mansion Realm experts in the blink of an eye.

Even though the two of them had deployed powerful defensive energies, Lu Jin’s Trident moved as if it were carving through melons and vegetables. Even when it struck their defenses, it did not slow down for a second. It tore straight through and ended them.

“Ah? How is this possible…”

The female Elder’s scalp went numb from the shock. She was so stunned that her counterattack actually faltered.

Puchi!

The very next second after her movements stopped, that Trident, which killed as easily as slicing vegetables, pierced directly through her Dantian.

The shaft of the trident vibrated, shaking her physical body into a mist of blood. Every drop was instantly swallowed by the Heaven Burial Coffin.

“Uh…”

Only one Elder remained. He was the first to have launched an attack on Lu Jin. He had originally thought he could easily take the boy down, but he never expected that under his very nose, and in the gaps of his own frenzied assault, Lu Jin would manage to kill all the other elders.

He had never seen such a monster.

In this instant, even his scalp felt tight with dread.

“You are not a disciple who sincerely entered the Holy Land! Who are you?”

He could feel that Lu Jin’s combat strength far surpassed his own. If Lu Jin wanted to kill him, he wouldn’t have the slightest room to resist.

“You don’t need to know.”

Lu Jin gave him no opening. The Trident surged forward once more, erupting with a terrifying destructive power. In his panic, the Elder managed to send out a transmission talisman.

“Die!”

Seeing him send the talisman, Lu Jin’s eyes filled with deep killing intent. The Trident accelerated with violent force, killing him instantly.

At this point, five elders and one disciple had all been wiped out by his hand.

“It seems the 3rd Transformation of the Purple Mansion Realm is already too weak for me…”

Lu Jin himself hadn’t expected that dealing with these people would be so easy.

However, he did not dawdle. Now that the Elder had sent out a transmission talisman, people would surely arrive here immediately. He threw all the corpses into the Heaven Burial Coffin and even swept the bloody mist from the air until not a trace remained.

Having finished this, he walked out through the massive gateway.

He returned to the corridor where the disciples were being tested.

At this time, the disciples in the corridor were all immersed in a deep state of comprehension. No one even noticed that he had returned.

He looked toward the depths of the corridor. Yan Mo and Tang Liu were also locked in that state.

They were allowed to meditate here for two days, and the only disciple who had led them here was now dead. Effectively, he had silently killed several of their elders. Even though a transmission had been sent, Lu Jin wasn’t overly worried.

Even if they knew he was the killer, who would believe it?

A new disciple with a cultivation only at the Jindan Realm, how could he kill five Purple Mansion Realm elders?

Perhaps it might be discovered eventually, but at least for now, he was safe.

After pondering for a while, Lu Jin simply sat down cross-legged on the spot. However, he did not attempt to comprehend the techniques on the walls. Instead, he sank his consciousness into the mental wheel space.

Within the phantom of the Ancestor that had emerged from the Scarlet Moon Curse earlier, there had been a trace of demonic Qi.

That demonic Qi had ultimately been swallowed by the Demonic Spirit within the wheel space.

He wanted to investigate.

This Demonic Spirit could swallow demonic Qi to restore itself to its peak state. Of course, since Lu Jin was keeping it here like livestock, he naturally wouldn’t allow it to actually reach its peak.

He just wanted to raise the chicken to eat the eggs.

When his spiritual force transformed into a figure and entered this space, he discovered that the Demonic Spirit had already finished devouring that trace of demonic Qi. The aura on the Demonic Spirit was indeed a level stronger than before.

Rumble!

But as soon as his spiritual force entered the space, the massive mental wheel began to rotate again!

The entire space was occupied by the giant wheel. It seemed as though everything within it was about to be crushed.

Feeling the terrifying power of the wheel again, the Demonic Spirit did not hesitate for a second and immediately began to flee.

“It’s useless. You couldn’t escape when you were at your strongest, so you certainly won’t escape now that you’ve only recovered a little strength.”

Lu Jin laughed. Before his voice could even fade, the Demonic Spirit was crushed once more. A stream of pure spiritual essence seeped out, becoming a source of power for his own spiritual force.

“Withdraw!”

The Demonic Spirit could not be destroyed, or he would lose the chance to raise the chicken for its eggs in the future.

“With my current spiritual energy strength, I should be able to challenge the 4th Transformation of the Purple Mansion Realm. But what level has my spiritual force reached?”

He was unclear about the exact realm of his own spiritual force.

After all, there was only one alchemist in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, Ji Yaoyue, and her strength was simply not enough to use as a benchmark. She could only be considered the most basic type of alchemist.

“Want to test your spiritual force?”

Right then, Empress Qinglian’s voice rang out abruptly. Lu Jin looked surprised.

“Empress, I don’t want to test it.”

Who knew what kind of bad idea she had cooked up now?

“You have to test it even if you don’t want to. To know oneself and one’s enemy is the way to win a hundred battles. If you don’t even understand yourself, how do you expect to survive out there?”

Lu Jin remained silent.

Empress Qinglian continued:

“Since digesting the Soul-Breaking Delusion Fruit, This Seat hasn’t had a chance to release any spiritual force. Why don’t you play with me for a bit?”

“Empress, I am unworthy. I don’t have the courage to compete with you!” Lu Jin replied.

“Tch! You’ve already been on top of this Empress more times than you can count, yet you still speak such cowardly words!”

Lu Jin was completely speechless.

Was that even the same thing?

“Come. If you can satisfy this Empress, I will help you activate the Emperor Tyrant Glazed Bone!”

Lu Jin’s expression shifted instantly upon hearing that.

“The Emperor Tyrant Glazed Bone? Empress, do you mean it?”

“My word is absolute!”

“Fine! Let’s do it!”

Buzz!

Before Lu Jin’s voice had even finished echoing, Empress Qinglian’s shadow drifted out.

However, this shadow was not her true body, but a spiritual body formed from highly condensed spiritual force.

Yet, that spiritual body contained a terrifying fluctuation that made Lu Jin’s heart tremble.

“Empress, please show some mercy!”

“I will. Don’t worry.”

As Empress Qinglian spoke, the spiritual body lunged directly toward Lu Jin. Like a swimming serpent, it coiled around him, binding him tight…

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Footnotes:

TN1: Raising a chicken to eat the eggs (养鸡吃鸡蛋): A metaphor for Lu Jin’s strategy of keeping the Demonic Spirit alive to periodically ”harvest” its spiritual essence rather than killing it for a one-time gain.

TN2: ”On top of this Empress” (上了本帝): A double entendre. While it can imply sexual intimacy, in this context, it refers to Lu Jin physically carrying or sitting upon the coffin that contains the Empress’s body.