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Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Strength
Great Sun Brilliance.
Gu Jinlai’s visualization of the Grand Sun continuously emitted dazzling, intense light that incinerated any Demon Spirits that surged forth, reducing them to ashes.
His Great Sun was many times more formidable than those of other Heavenly Masters practicing the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method.
This was evident from the speed at which he extracted spirit essence.
The powerful Great Sun core greatly increased the strength of his Great Sun Eternal Radiance Secret Technique.
According to the scriptures of the Heavenly Master, small Demon Spirits typically needed to be exposed to the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Secret Technique for ten to twenty seconds before they were incinerated.
But for him...
At most three to four seconds of exposure to the light, and a Demon Spirit would be annihilated directly.
This was also why he could refine dozens of Demon Spirits in such a short time.
...
"Too many."
Gu Jinlai’s expression was grave.
The light of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance continuously shone on this gap in the Demon Realm, which was over ten meters in diameter but less than two meters wide.
He had investigated the Red Blood Sect.
The Red Blood Sect had collaborated with Devils for four years, during which time the gap in the Demon Realm had opened three times.
This could be judged from the caliber of the Devils.
Three times, accumulating only a hundred and forty Devils.
From this, one could deduce that the number of Demon Spirits each time was between sixty and eighty.
But now...
He had already refined over fifty Demon Spirits, yet the spatial ripples emitting from the gap in the Demon Realm showed no signs of weakening; on the contrary, they were still intensifying.
In contrast, his spirit essence was already significantly depleted.
If this continued...
He would have to consume Qingguang to recover his spirit essence.
"No, to be safe, I should recover my spirit essence now."
Gu Jinlai divided part of his divine sense to focus on his spirit world.
In an instant, Qingguang flowed into his consciousness, and immediately, a sense of clarity and ethereality surged. 𝚗ov𝚙𝚞𝚋.c𝚘m
Fluctuations of spirit essence surged in his soul, and before long, it had fully recovered.
"Finally, I have a bit of confidence."
Gu Jinlai took a brief breath.
He turned his attention back to the gap in the Demon Realm.
The number of Demon Spirits inside showed no sign of decreasing.
"I might have overlooked a critical issue. Although there are only over a hundred and forty Devils in the cave, who can guarantee these emerging Demon Spirits would all settle around Qiushan Mountain? Qiushan doesn’t have enough Fierce Beasts for them to merge with. Their correct strategy would be to move away from Qiushan and look for suitable targets to transform into Devils."
Gu Jinlai realized this.
Even if hundreds of Demon Spirits surged out of the gap in the Demon Realm at once, Qiushan couldn’t sustain them.
Even the one hundred and forty Devils could survive only with the trade between the Red Blood Sect and Lingxiao City; otherwise, half of them would be starving afterwards.
If the Devils attacked surrounding cities, it would bring Star Guard and Demon Hunters to the attack, thus exposing this recently derived rift.
The rift in the Demon Realm was both a danger and an opportunity for a Heavenly Master.
The key was the strength of the one who encountered it.
"The strength of a Heavenly Master, eh?"
Gu Jinlai’s eyes were filled with fighting spirit, "Let’s see what my limits are."
The radiance of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance continued to shine.
Demon Spirits, one after another, charged out of the rift in the Demon Realm to be incinerated by the fierce, bright light, extracting pure spirit essence.
Gu Jinlai then channeled this spirit essence into several Gatlings of "Thunder God" beside him.
With the infusion of spirit essence, these "Thunder God" Gatlings, originally only equivalent to molds, all entered a "Transformation" state, constantly changing in structure and composition.
Regions that were difficult to refine manually became regular and smooth.
By the time Gu Jinlai had slain sixty Demon Spirits, three Gatlings of "Thunder God" had entered the Transformation state.
Once the number of slain Demon Spirits exceeded eighty, more than half of these molds had transformed.
When the rift in the Demon Realm finally expanded to its extreme, ten Gatlings were completely filled with spirit essence.
"Gunpowder! Bring all the gunpowder!"
Gu Jinlai shouted.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, the gap in the Demon Realm, stretched to its limits, vibrated intensely, the ripples compressing the air and spreading outwards in circles, distorting the hundred-meter cave.
Gu Jinlai, who was closer, distinctly felt a sense of temporal and spatial dislocation.
It seemed...
Following this sensation, he could follow the spatial ripples and enter the Demon Realm!?
Before he could recover from this odd sense of dislocation, a creature six meters long, resembling a luminous lizard, struggled out of the gap in the Demon Realm.
"Spirit!"
A wave of frenzy diffused.
The creature soared towards Gu Jinlai to attack.
Even though Gu Jinlai’s Great Sun Eternal Radiance Secret Technique was activated immediately, it still couldn’t completely incinerate his massive "body."
This was...
"A medium-sized Demon Spirit that only a Great Heavenly Master could slay!"
Gu Jinlai’s face changed, and he burst backward with a surge of power, rapidly retreating.
But this retreat meant that he cleared the way for the Great Sun Eternal Radiance that was blocking the gap in the Demon Realm. Suddenly, several Demon Spirits surged out simultaneously, two of them heading straight for the cave exit at full speed.
And there, the people such as Gu Junlei and Chi Feng, who had just received the message, were transporting a large amount of gunpowder.
"Not good!"
Gu Jinlai’s expression changed drastically.
The power of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance surged violently, and a brilliant intense light instantly expanded to catch up with two Demon Spirits, swiftly burning them away.
Even so, this fierce Spirit Light was still unable to annihilate the lizard-like Demon Spirit.
"Spiritual Leader!"
This lizard Demon Spirit emitted vague waves of consciousness and fearlessly charged towards Gu Jinlai’s body.
There was no collision.
There was no roar.
As the body of the Demon Spirit swept past Gu Jinlai, he distinctly felt as if something was being drawn out of him.
That was...
Spirituality!
Or rather...
Soul!
The Demon Spirit was extracting his soul.
At that moment, the power of the Great Sun in his spiritual world blazed ferociously, radiating a brilliance so intense that both Gu Chifeng and Gu Junlei could clearly see it.
Under this bright radiance, the medium-sized Demon Spirit seemed to scream in agony, escaping at an incredibly fast speed.
Gu Jinlai himself felt an extreme weakness.
This kind of weakness, compared to when he forcibly condensed his True Spirit and used the True Spirit Possession with the Short Range Defense Cannon, was no less intense.
"All things have spirits, and Demon Spirits exist by devouring the spirituality of sentient beings! If it were not for people being the Spiritual Leaders of all creatures, and if I had not condensed my Spiritual Sense, making my spirituality much stronger than ordinary people, just like that, my spirituality would have been completely devoured, and I would have ended up like losing my soul, entering death," he reasoned.
Gu Jinlai’s expression was resolute.
Within his spiritual world, two beams of Qingguang simultaneously infused into his consciousness.
At the same time, the round of Great Sun, which he had visualized almost materializing in the physical world, surged with energy, and countless fierce, brilliant lights converged to the extreme, forming like a gigantic column of light, instantly catching up with the lizard Demon Spirit that was about to escape Shandong.
Eternal Heavenly Curse!
Gu Chifeng and Gu Junlei, who had just arrived at this spacious cave, hadn’t had the chance to see clearly what was happening inside when their "vision" seemed to be completely filled with a dazzling, brilliant light.
Instinctively feeling a great danger, they leaped away in fright.
But by the time they regained their senses, they felt as if they saw nothing.
For a moment, the two men looked at each other in confusion.
"Patriarch?"
"Put down the gunpowder, retreat immediately, and do not allow anyone to enter the cave," Gu Jinlai said urgently.
The crack in the Demon Realm had already expanded enough that another medium-sized Demon Spirit rushed out from inside.
This time, Gu Jinlai could not afford to think about the loss of his spirituality,
as the Great Sun rolled, and intense energy reactions seemed to be occurring inside it. These energies, drawn and gathered by some force, formed a new Eternal Heavenly Curse, mercilessly bombarding the medium-sized Demon Spirit that rushed out of the Demon Realm rift.
Gu Chifeng and Gu Junlei couldn’t see these scenes, but they could see ripples in that area of space where pale lights flickered and vanished.
Clearly, a fierce battle was erupting there.
A war between the Heavenly Master and the Demon Spirits.
Without wasting a moment, the two quickly put down the gunpowder and exited the cave.
"Sizzle!"
Pale light splashed.
The third Demon Spirit, struggling out from the spatial rift, was obliterated by Gu Jinlai using an attack much like a laser cannon from the Eternal Heavenly Curse.
Compared to the Great Sun Eternal Radiance, although this secret technique was astonishingly powerful, the consumption was equally tremendous, only after three attacks, he felt a sense of depletion in his spirituality.
"I refuse to believe that this rift can continue to expand. If there were dozens of medium-sized Demon Spirits rushing out from inside, with their efficiency in evolving into Great Demons, the area around Lingxiao City would have already been ravaged," said Gu Jinlai, his expression firm. New Qingguang again infused.
"Sizzle!"
The recovered spirituality transformed into another new Eternal Heavenly Curse, bombing yet another medium-sized Demon Spirit.
Much spirituality dissipated, creating specks of pale light.
But Gu Jinlai could no longer afford to condense, extract, and refine it.
He no longer had any items left for Co-spirit.
Treasure Armor, War Sword, Gatling, gunpowder, he had already "overused" them all.
Moreover, with medium and small-sized Demon Spirits rampaging, he dared not let Gu Chifeng and others easily step back into the cave.
Suddenly,
as the sixth medium-sized Demon Spirit was about to struggle out from the Demon Realm rift, the ripples emanating from the Demon Realm Gap visibly weakened.
Unlike the gradual and sequential growth which took several days, the weakening happened unbelievably fast.
Even before that medium-sized Demon Spirit could struggle out completely, it was severed by the contracting force of the Demon Realm Gap.
Then, in less than ten breaths, the Demon Realm Gap almost completely disappeared.
Half an hour later, even the spatial ripples had totally vanished.
The speed was astonishingly fast.
"Is it over?"
Gu Jinlai shook his head in disbelief.
He had been prepared for a desperate struggle.
But then...
Qingguang was not fully used up, and the enemies were already gone?
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