Chapter 746 - 317: Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, Andenuk’s Favor Points

Chapter 746: Chapter 317: Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, Andenuk’s Favor Points

But he never expected that after killing Andenuk, he would gain so many Favor Points and successfully achieve Foundation Establishment in one go, becoming a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment powerhouse.

A month had now passed. Li Qiushui was surely growing impatient. Chu Lingguang also worried that further delays would only bring more trouble, fearing that the people from the Cyan Cloud Sect might have a fortuitous encounter in the Immortal King’s Tomb, which would prevent him from avenging Guo Wei.

And so, the three of them shot up into the sky.

They flew toward the coast.

They had finally left the military camp.

The Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator in Turkic territory, who had been monitoring every move within the Great Yuan military camp and seemed to have locked onto Chu Lingguang’s aura, sensed it the moment Chu Lingguang left.

He stroked a skull with a shattered forehead and said, "Andenuk, your master is going to kill Chu Lingguang now and avenge you."

The skull with the shattered forehead was none other than Andenuk’s.

Andenuk had been pierced through the forehead by Chu Lingguang’s Flying Sword. His forehead was shattered and his body was trampled by the army, but fortunately, as a cultivator at the eleventh layer of Qi Refining, his physical defenses were astonishing, and his corpse did not decompose.

Thus, his master had twisted off his head, personally stripping the skin and flesh, reducing it to its current state.

A flame now flickered in the fractured part of the skull.

An oil lamp had been placed inside the cranium.

While Chu Lingguang had spent the past month in seclusion trying to break through to the next realm, the middle-aged man had not been idle. He had refined Andenuk’s head into a Magical Artifact.

He planned to use this Magical Artifact to kill Chu Lingguang, allowing Andenuk to personally avenge himself.

With that, the middle-aged man took to the sky on his sword.

He flew toward the Great Yuan coast.

Chu Lingguang and his two companions traveled by Sword Flight.

Neither Li Qiushui nor Xuanyuan Jinkang knew they were being tailed by a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator. Chu Lingguang, however, had sensed it but remained impassive, acting as if he hadn’t noticed a thing.

The trio flew toward the coast, chatting and laughing all the way.

Their completely relaxed demeanor was why Andenuk’s master never would have guessed that Chu Lingguang had already detected him.

Within the Great Yuan Territory, killing a twelfth-layer Qi Refining cultivator—and a meritorious one at that—was risky. Worried that delays would bring complications, the man decided not to wait for Chu Lingguang’s group to reach the coast. As soon as the trio was far from the military camp and flying over the Hundred Thousand Mountains, the middle-aged man holding Andenuk’s skull rushed forward to intercept them.

"Who goes there?"

Li Qiushui cried out in alarm.

As the middle-aged man’s aura bore down on them, she instantly sensed danger.

Xuanyuan Jinkang stared intently. Seeing a middle-aged man carrying a skull, he couldn’t help but blurt out, "The Heavenly King of Brain Carrying."

The moment the words were out, Xuanyuan Jinkang regretted it. He felt the man’s gaze lock onto him and had no idea why he’d said those five words; they had just slipped out.

"A Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator!"

Although Li Qiushui couldn’t discern the man’s true power, she could sense his approximate realm from the fluctuations of his aura.

Anyone who could tail them so silently had to be in the Foundation Establishment Realm at the very least.

"I’m here for Chu Lingguang. This doesn’t concern you,"

Xue Bin said.

As an Elder of the Demon Sect, Xue Bin was well aware of Li Qiushui’s considerable status within the Profound Celestial Sect. Moreover, she possessed a Tri-Element Spiritual Root; even Andenuk, wielding the Heavenly Mirror, had failed to gain an easy advantage over her.

He didn’t want an irreconcilable conflict with the Profound Celestial Sect.

He only wanted to kill Chu Lingguang and avenge Andenuk.

"You’re Andenuk’s master!"

Chu Lingguang said with a smile.

"You recognize me?"

Xue Bin asked, puzzled.

"Who else but his master would be watching me so intently? I was in secluded cultivation at the camp for over a month, and you never relaxed your watch for a single moment. Who else could it be?"

"You must be the real owner of the Heavenly Mirror,"

Chu Lingguang stated calmly.

"You knew I was here?"

Xue Bin was completely taken aback.

"Even if you did, you won’t escape my grasp today. Now, die!"

Xue Bin had no intention of wasting any more words with Chu Lingguang.

"Just think about it for a second," Xuanyuan Jinkang interjected hastily. "Since Chu Lingguang was able to detect you and knew you were watching him, would he have dared to come out here if he wasn’t absolutely confident?"

To him, Xue Bin was unfathomably powerful, someone who could crush him with a single finger. Xuanyuan Jinkang’s mind was racing faster than ever before.

"This..."

Xue Bin froze.

What Xuanyuan Jinkang said made sense.

"We three have important matters to attend to. So how about this: let’s call it a day. We won’t make things difficult for you. This is Great Yuan territory, after all. You should leave now. We’ll even do it for Andenuk’s sake,"

Xuanyuan Jinkang quickly added.

"You’re courting death!"

Hearing this, Xue Bin instantly realized Xuanyuan Jinkang was making a fool of him.

He raised his hand and shot a Palm Force attack through the air at Xuanyuan Jinkang. Xuanyuan Jinkang felt as if he were locked in place, utterly unable to dodge the strike.

It was like he’d forgotten how to even move.

He felt completely paralyzed.

But just then, a force yanked him aside as a powerful surge of Gold Spiritual Power erupted from beside him, meeting Xue Bin’s Palm Force head-on.

The one who had acted was none other than Chu Lingguang.

"This..."

All three were stunned.

Chu Lingguang’s palm strike had effortlessly neutralized Xue Bin’s Palm Force.

Xuanyuan Jinkang and Li Qiushui stared at Chu Lingguang in disbelief. That single move made them realize Chu Lingguang had broken through and become a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.

Xuanyuan Jinkang’s face lit up with joy.

He slapped his chest and said, "I knew you had it under control! You wouldn’t have been so reckless otherwise."

He couldn’t believe he had actually guessed right.

Li Qiushui, however, just stared blankly at Chu Lingguang. To have blocked Xue Bin’s attack so effortlessly meant that his Foundation Establishment was no ordinary Human Dao Foundation Establishment. It might even surpass Immortal Dao Foundation Establishment and be at the level of Divine Dao Foundation Establishment.

’Otherwise,’ she thought, ’how could he have been so bold as to lead us away right after his breakthrough, completely unafraid of Xue Bin catching up?’

"You... you broke through?"

"No wonder you’re acting so arrogant!"

"I can’t let you live any longer."

Xue Bin was both taken by surprise and had a moment of sudden realization.

He quickly hurled the skull in his hand toward Chu Lingguang.

The skull morphed into a gigantic human face.

It was the face of Andenuk.

"Chu Lingguang, give me back my life!"

Andenuk’s voice boomed from the terrifying face.

"A Soul Lamp!"

Li Qiushui shrieked.

The Soul Lamp was a type of Magical Artifact favored by Evil Cultivators. They were refined from a dead person’s soul and bones, capable of channeling dark elemental power to create terrifying destructive force.

As the three of them watched,

Andenuk’s face opened its cavernous, bloody maw. His head swelled to the size of a mountain, large enough to swallow all three of them whole.

Terrified, Xuanyuan Jinkang turned to flee.

BOOM!

But Chu Lingguang stood his ground, unafraid.

The Spiritual Power from his Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment was of the purest, most unyielding yang energy.

It was the perfect counter for this type of dark elemental power.

BANG!

Chu Lingguang’s Spiritual Power surged into Andenuk’s spectral form, and the face’s expression twisted in agony.

With a loud CRACK,

the skull shattered.

The Soul Lamp was extinguished.

The candle flame within winked out of existence.

"Master, you..."

As the Soul Lamp shattered, Andenuk’s furious roar echoed out.

With a mere eleventh-layer Qi Refining cultivation, there was no way he could have survived having his head pierced by Chu Lingguang’s sword. His soul had only been kept from dissipating by a special technique Xue Bin had used, but this process subjected him to excruciating torment. He would have preferred to have his soul simply scatter to the winds.

Now, with the Soul Lamp shattered by Chu Lingguang’s pure yang Spiritual Power, his soul was finally dissipating. He felt only a sense of release. He was even grateful to Chu Lingguang.

A line of text had appeared before Chu Lingguang’s eyes.

"Assisted Little Prince Andenuk in finding release. Received 137,791 Favor Points."

"This..."

Chu Lingguang was stunned. This was completely unexpected. He had never imagined that after killing Andenuk and receiving millions of Favor Points from the Great Yuan, he would now gain over a hundred thousand more from Andenuk himself after destroying his master’s Soul Lamp.

This was a pleasant surprise. It was like getting to fleece the sheep a second time, even after it was dead.

One could only wonder what Andenuk would think if he knew he could provide such feedback after death!