Chapter 2289 - 2248: Thousand-Mile Soul Search

Wang Xiaoqiang stood still, body condensed, a cold gleam in his eyes and a faint smile on his lips. Before those hundred-plus experts could dive down, his brow twitched, and seven strands of Divine Sense shot out, blasting toward the seven who had rushed down first. Those seven experts raised their own Divine Sense to block.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~

The powerful Divine Sense was formless yet seemed tangible, tearing through the air with fierce sonic booms.

But before the Divine Senses on both sides could collide, Wang Xiaoqiang's Divine Sense suddenly detonated with a bang, scattering into a rain of needles that poured down toward the seven experts' heads and faces.

Caught completely off guard, those seven were struck by Wang Xiaoqiang's Hundred Miles Killing Technique; their heads and faces were riddled with dozens of bloody pinholes, dense and shocking to behold. What was even more terrifying was their screams—shrill and miserable, like pigs being slaughtered.

The Hundred Miles Killing Technique didn't just pack a brutal punch and kill with a single strike; it also left those hit in agonizing torment. On top of that, Wang Xiaoqiang's Divine Sense carried an Aura of Sorrowful Death.

In the end, that Aura of Sorrowful Death exploded inside the seven experts' skulls with booming blasts, directly blowing their heads into bloody mist. The scene was savage, cowing all the gathered powers.

The experts charging from behind were shaken by the sight; their bodies involuntarily stalled for a moment. Clearly, none of them had expected Wang Xiaoqiang to actually possess the Hundred Miles Killing Technique.

The Hundred Miles Killing Technique had terrifying killing power, but against a hundred-plus experts its area of effect was still too small—it could only hit seven at a time. If all hundred-plus experts released their Divine Sense together, Divine Sense would fall like rain, and Wang Xiaoqiang would be unable to withstand it.

Among those hundred experts, some had already realized this. At that moment, a powerhouse at the Seventh Mold of the Immortal suddenly raised his arm and shouted a warning, "This brat may be strong, but he's just one man. Everyone attack together—release your Divine Sense all at once and shoot this little bastard into a sieve."

With that warning, before the words had even fully fallen, over a hundred people simultaneously arched their brows as their Divine Sense surged out. Nearly nine hundred strands of Divine Sense blasted forth like a sudden downpour, shooting toward Wang Xiaoqiang.

Wang Xiaoqiang still held his body motionless, making no move to dodge. As that Divine Sense rained down on him, he merely shook both arms; Blood Qi instantly erupted, forming a layer of Blood Crystal around his body. The Blood Crystal spun and turned into a Blood Qi Wheel Ring; the spinning Blood Qi Wheel Ring formed a dense Blood Qi defense.

The next instant…

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~~~

Those nearly nine hundred strands of Divine Sense slammed into Wang Xiaoqiang's head and face, his limbs, and the Blood Qi Wheel Ring.

With a series of booming explosions, Golden Light burst from Wang Xiaoqiang's head, neck, and limbs, blocking and knocking away strand after strand of Divine Sense. The Divine Sense that struck the Blood Qi Wheel Ring likewise failed to penetrate the Blood Qi, all of it being stopped cold.

"Huh? Wh-what's going on?"

"Why is this kid's Physical Body so damn strong?!"

"Too strong! Freakish."

The hundred Disciples of the Heavenly Cloud Sect cried out in shock one after another. Clearly, none of them had expected Wang Xiaoqiang's Physical Body to be this powerful, able to effortlessly block their Divine Sense.

Blocking the Divine Sense hitting his torso with Blood Qi was one thing, but his head, neck, and limbs had no visible defenses at all and yet were completely unharmed under that Divine Sense barrage, not even a scratch.

Just as the hundred-plus were shouting in disbelief, Wang Xiaoqiang's Willpower stirred, and thirty-seven Dead Spirit Puppets surged forward, charging at them in a killing rush.

Thirty-seven Dead Spirits might not be enough to annihilate over a hundred Immortal Molding Realm experts, but they still delivered a tremendous impact.

Moreover, Dead Spirits feared nothing, charging without regard for life or death and extremely hard to deal with. Once those hundred-plus Cloud Heaven Sect Disciples were entangled, breaking free became extremely difficult.

Seeing the Dead Spirit Puppet Team entangle the hundred-plus, Wang Xiaoqiang immediately unleashed the Hundred Miles Killing Technique to commence slaughter. After three rounds of attacks, twenty-one people were killed in a single strike.

At that point, the hundred-plus were down to fewer than ninety. These ninety, seeing Wang Xiaoqiang this terrifying and backed by a powerful Dead Spirit Puppet Team, realized that tonight not only would killing him and seizing the Golden Blood Boy be impossible—just escaping alive would be hard. They immediately abandoned any thought of the Golden Blood Boy, broke off the fight, and fled, each trying to save his own life.

The Dead Spirit Puppets chased after them in pursuit, while Wang Xiaoqiang remained motionless, using the Hundred Miles Killing Technique to carry out the extermination.

Hundred Miles Killing—within a range of one hundred miles, a single strike to take a life. So before those hundred-plus managed to flee beyond a hundred miles, they were all still within Wang Xiaoqiang's killing range—and each strike meant instant death.

To avoid total annihilation, the hundred-plus scattered their strength and fled in different directions. In the end, only after sacrificing another forty-plus lives did they finally manage to escape beyond the hundred-mile boundary, each thinking they'd gotten away, flying off in lucky retreat.

But Wang Xiaoqiang wasn't about to let them go. He ordered the Dead Spirit Puppets to split up and continue the pursuit, while he himself still stood motionless, using the Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique to execute them. Wang Xiaoqiang didn't know they were Disciples of the Tenth-Level Sect Cloud Heaven Sect; he only knew that these people would remain his enemies in the future. If he didn't kill them now, they would become a lingering threat.

Besides, although he had already advanced to the Mold Stage of the Immortal, he still needed to condense his Divine Sense, because at the end of the Mold Stage of the Immortal lies the existence of Divine Thought.

By then, Divine Sense Becomes a River, Divine Sense as a River, Divine Sense Phantom Lake, Divine Sense Transformation… all would require far more Divine Sense Condensation.

And condensing Divine Sense demanded vast amounts of Cultivation Resources. The best resources for condensing Divine Sense were the Divine Soul and Divine Spirit of Cultivators at the Heavenly Human Realm or above.

Starting from the Spirit Realm of Heavenly Beings, the higher the Cultivation Realm, the higher the quality of their Soul and Spirit, the greater the energy they could be refined into, and the stronger the Divine Sense that could be condensed.

For example, the Divine Soul and Divine Spirit of the Heavenly Soul Realm were stronger than the Divine Spirit of the Spirit Realm of Heavenly Beings; the Divine Soul and Divine Spirit of the Decline Realm of Heavenly Beings were stronger than those of the Heavenly Soul Realm; and the Divine Soul and Divine Spirit of the Mold Stage of the Immortal were stronger than those of the Decline Realm of Heavenly Beings.

Right now, there were still dozens of Mold Stage Immortals' Divine Souls and Divine Spirits he hadn't obtained—how could Wang Xiaoqiang possibly let that go?

The Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique was ten times harder to cultivate than the Hundred Miles Killing Technique, but once mastered, its power was ten times greater than Hunded Miles Killing.

Its strength wasn't just in raw power, but also in speed and distance—true long-range killing.

Hundred Miles Killing could only radiate power within a hundred miles; Thousand-Mile Soul Search radiated power over a thousand miles.

Within a thousand miles, with one thought sent out, in an instant it arrived—snatching the enemy's Soul and Spirit and instantly turning them into walking corpses.

His mental method circulated; with a twitch of his brow, Wang Xiaoqiang sent out seven strands of Divine Sense at once. Moving faster than light, in a single instant they spanned a thousand miles, one strike to seize the soul, ripping seven fleeing enemies' Divine Souls and Divine Spirits out, leaving them as seven walking corpses.

The Thousand-Mile Killing Technique wasn't just fast and deadly in its long-range strikes; its power was immense, swift as a shooting star, silent and without sound, without light or color. While the seven fugitives noticed nothing, it approached like a ghost and drilled into their skulls, snatching their Soul and Spirit and turning them into walking corpses one after another.

Under the Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique, not a single one of those forty-plus fleeing enemies got away. Within a thousand miles, all had their Soul and Spirit seized and were turned into walking corpses. Wang Xiaoqiang not only harvested their Soul and Spirit, he also had the Patterned Beast devour their bodies, letting it feast.

The Patterned Beast's appetite was huge but still limited. In the end, after swallowing the bodies of ten people, it burped contentedly and returned, leaving over thirty walking corpses behind, their eyes hollow, dazed and lost, wandering aimlessly.

Cloud Heaven Sect—Cloud Heaven Immortal, a Divine Thought existence, was currently using Divine Sense to probe his hundred-plus Disciples. He hadn't known, but once he probed, he was shocked.

Upon sensing this situation and seeing those thirty-plus walking corpses, he instantly jumped in fright, muttering, "Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique… that brat actually mastered the Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique…"

The Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique was extremely difficult to cultivate. Cloud Heaven Immortal had tried several times and never succeeded. Although he now had Divine Sense Becomes a River and had achieved Divine Thought, he still longed to master the Thousand-Mile Soul Search Technique, because it was indeed an exceptionally powerful and formidable Spell Technique—capable of killing across realms and slaughtering from afar.

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