Chapter 528 - 238: This Way, Human Commander—I Know a Path to the Armored Race

Trial Realm, South.

At the edge of a mountain range stretching for thousands of miles, not too far or close from Zhen Nan City, now lay in ruins.

Mountain?

There were no mountains left.

Thousands of Armored Race Cultivators battled fiercely with Lu Wenwu, and the terrifying aftermath had completely leveled the surroundings.

Within a radius of dozens of miles, there was no trace of green left, only yellow-gray soil burned and littered with shimmering fragments.

This was a unique sight formed by the crystallization of sand and stone melted by fire, shattered by the aftermath.

Faced with Lu Wenwu, even the naturally combative Armored Race were terrified now.

One War Shadow after another was blasted to pieces, one Nascent Soul Great Cultivator after another was forcibly extracted and devoured.

In the eyes of the Armored Race now, Lu Wenwu was a devil wearing human skin.

Even the most ferocious Demon Gods paled in comparison to his terror.

To defeat a thousand-man team single-handedly, such power was terrifying beyond measure.

After casually blasting a massive seal the size of a hill, Lu Wenwu flickered through space and gripped the neck of the last Armored Race Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Within five minutes, over a thousand were slaughtered.

At this moment, Lu Wenwu was completely drenched in a reddish-brown hue.

Large swaths of sticky blood clung to him, solidifying under the heat into scabs, layering and crisscrossing into an armor-like thickness.

As his muscles flexed and pulled, flakes of blood crumbled and fell away.

"Armored Race, not bad."

Lu Wenwu licked his lips, revealing a devilish smile.

"Your Nascent Souls have an interesting texture, crisp and springy, like biting into a big piece of roasted pork neck. I quite like it."

At this, Lu Wenwu’s expression looked slightly troubled.

"It’s just a pity that acquiring them requires a bit of effort."

To some extent, cultivators’ Golden Cores are like the red perch offerings in ancient Huaxia, dying once caught.

Like the cultivators’ Golden Cores.

Once a cultivator dies, their core must be immediately extracted, sealed, or stored in some special way.

Otherwise, in just a matter of seconds, the spiritual power within the core will quickly dissipate, ultimately disintegrating into a dense cloud of Spiritual Qi.

This phenomenon is also known as "entering Nirvana" or "Transformation Dao" after a cultivator’s normal death, where their cultivation, sourced from the world, returns to it after refinement, completing a cycle of life and death.

Nascent Soul cultivators are more complex; it’s not just about being quick, but about extracting them alive.

For a Golden Core Cultivator to form a Nascent Soul, they must refine their Three Souls and Seven Spirits into the core, resonating with their cultivation.

Ultimately, their soul transforms, the core shattering to birth a Nascent Soul, a new embodiment of their cultivation.

In other words, a Nascent Soul is the embodiment of a cultivator’s soul.

It’s also a means for the cultivator to initially realize out-of-body soul experiences, linking to the world.

Thus, to completely destroy a Nascent Soul Cultivator, one must also destroy their Nascent Soul.

To preserve a Nascent Soul intact, it must be captured before it can flee and its consciousness erased before sealing.

Calling it alive extraction isn’t wrong.

Otherwise, if a Nascent Soul is heavily damaged, its Transformation Dao speed can even surpass that of a Golden Core.

If the killed still have the will to fight, they can self-detonate their Nascent Soul during Transformation Dao, creating a sudden spiritual power explosion to unsuspectingly ambush their opponent.

This was Lu Wenwu’s takeaway from the previous battle, "An Introductory Look into Armored Race Cultivator Cultivation Crystal Extraction Experience."

Both Nascent Souls and Golden Cores should be similar among normal Human Race Cultivators.

Due to the harvesting difficulty surpassing red perch, Lu Wenwu didn’t gain a full stock of Golden Cores and Nascent Souls from the last battle.

Lu Wenwu engaged in battle while devouring the salvaged Nascent Souls, reaping considerable gains.

Meanwhile, the valiant Canglang Demon King and Fierce Tiger Demon King, like excavators, madly dug through the fallen Armored Race Cultivators to seal continuously.

Devouring a Golden Core barely increased [Body] attributes, by just decimal points.

Adding together the free attribute points from Evil Slayer, and growth from devoured Nascent Souls and Golden Cores, Lu Wenwu’s [Body] attribute soared by 214.16 points this time!

Experiencing a massive surge!

Nearly breaking through the nine-thousand mark!

And the trial points Lu Wenwu currently possesses...

A whopping twelve thousand seven hundred!

It’s been less than half an hour since his entry!

"You... you demon... demon..."

The Red Armored Man struggled desperately under Lu Wenwu’s iron grip but couldn’t budge the vice-like hand.

Even separated by a layer of Life Armor, the despair and fear in his eyes were palpable, exuding a chilling aura of overwhelming emotional collapse even from afar.

"Thank you for your recognition, I will continue to strive."

Standing on the blood-soaked ground, Lu Wenwu flashed his signature cheerful smile.

"But I’m curious about something, every one of you Armored Race seems extremely fierce, isn’t there anyone soft? Even if I wanted to spare them, they keep charging forward like they want a piece of me..."