Vol 6 Chapter 32: The Mandate of Heaven Changes Hands
"Hahahaha, so what if it is?"
"Earth truly lives up to being the Ancient Immortal Realm. Even ordinary mortals can provide extraordinary power enhancement through sacrifice."
"Rest assured, your homeland is also my homeland. I only secretly arranged blood sacrifice arrays in other countries to prepare for competing for Heaven's Mandate. What a pity... why resist? These one billion people will die because of you now."
The elder in Tang clothing laughed hoarsely, but at that moment, a squirrel somehow appeared standing on Lin Jing's head.
"If this is your trump card, then it's rather disappointing," Lin Jing spoke.
The Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse's Glazed Immortal Eye gazed toward Earth. Wherever its vision reached, the massive arrays spread across various regions with Blood Resonance Stones as array cores suddenly went silent.
Accompanied by streams of light, the core materials of the blood sacrifice arrays instantly vanished. In their place, new items synthesized primarily from Blood Resonance Stones with supplementary nearby materials dropped isolated onto the ground.
"Squeak... (Having broad vision is really convenient)," the Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse rubbed its eyes while observing Earth from the star realm.
"This... impossible—" Sensing numerous blood sacrifice arrays being destroyed simultaneously, the elder in Tang clothing stared dumbfounded, unable to comprehend how Lin Jing had accomplished this.His arrays were too low-level. Had they been constructed from immortal artifacts, the Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse wouldn't have broken them so easily.
Bizarre. Utterly bizarre.
Seeing that Zhu Yan, the first Mandated One, had already escaped into the array Lin Jing arranged, the elder in Tang clothing knew he couldn't advance further even if he still wanted the Heaven's Mandate.
He took a deep breath. "As expected of someone daring to oppose all realms. I won't take this Heaven's Mandate anymore!"
"We'll... meet again if fate allows!" He directly traversed through void space, not heading toward Earth but straight into the depths of the star realm, seemingly wanting to avoid further entanglement with Lin Jing.
However, Lin Jing wouldn't let such an unstable factor escape. The next instant, his black-clothed incarnation appeared radiating icy killing intent, holding a lower-grade immortal artifact sword.
The Ice Soul Gu had already merged with the incarnation at this moment, joining with his demon bloodline to execute the complete Heavenly Demon Sword Technique for the first time in ages.
BOOM!!!
A dark blue sword light edged with crimson intent directly swept from Earth's side toward the fleeing elder's direction. Looking back at the sword light that billowed forth then suddenly vanished, the elder sensed immense danger and accelerated, but the next moment, the sword light tore through void space and materialized behind him.
CRACK.
The jade Buddha the elder carried emanated protective light, but when the sword light descended, it still sent him flying, dazing his consciousness.
"Bad! This guy intends to exterminate me completely!" Before the elder could recover, another Celestial Beast transformed into a flaming pegasus from the distant direction, arriving at astonishing speed that surpassed the sword light, making the elder gulp nervously.
The Dragon Carp, having arrived in speed form, examined the elder with its gaze and directly summoned the immortal artifact Lin Jing had given it—a lower-grade immortal cauldron. These were all ransoms from the Origin Realm times.
The massive cauldron enveloped the elder, quickly igniting with blazing immortal fire. "Refine both me and my immortal artifact," Lin Jing instructed the Dragon Carp, clearly not planning to let this elder leave alive. He intended to use immortal destruction to gradually wear down the opponent's protective immortal artifact.
BANG!!
But the next moment, an explosion occurred inside the cauldron, cracking the immortal cauldron slightly. The Dragon Carp, which had been preparing to conclude this battle, widened its eyes in shock, looking heartbroken at its immortal artifact while unable to prevent spitting out blood.
Curses! That damned old man!
No one expected the elder in Tang clothing to be so decisive, nor that his jade Buddha had a self-destruct function. He directly detonated the jade Buddha, and under the immortal artifact's self-destruction, the elder dissipated into nothingness without even ash remaining. However, Lin Jing felt things weren't that simple.
"I remember that with the Blood Immortal Body, as long as a single drop of blood remains in existence, the original can regenerate from that drop after death."
"Although the revived body would suffer severe vitality damage and drastically fallen cultivation, there's still... hope for survival."
"It seems he already hid blood as a contingency plan." Lin Jing looked toward Earth again and chuckled. Did he think he could escape like this?
"Ice Soul Gu."
"Go cut open a mosquito beast's stomach and retrieve some of its incarnation blood. Use that incarnation blood to track the target." Receiving Lin Jing's mission again, Gu Grandma didn't dare be negligent. It directly spat webbing, sliced open the nearest mosquito beast's stomach, and extracted a drop of blood that hadn't been digested yet.
The Ice Soul Gu possessed the ability to curse and kill enemies through bloodlines. This ability happened to be perfectly usable now. Using the incarnation blood, it directly cast a gu curse. Before long, it detected several places on Earth containing blood that shared the same origin as the incarnation blood.
"Poison them all," Lin Jing ordered. In several locations on Earth, blood droplets hidden in concealed places madly pulsated as if boiling. Piercing screams emerged from within the blood pearls.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh...."
"Lin Jing, I'll become a ghost and—"
Before the consciousness within these blood droplets could finish speaking, they all transformed into pools of purple contaminated poisonous blood, losing all vitality as they dropped to the ground.
Lin Jing then had the Star Longevity Crane perform divination to confirm the elder's complete death before turning his attention back to Zhu Yan within the array.
Zhu Yan smiled bitterly. "Brother Lin, does this count as... being the shortest-lived Mandated One?"
Lin Jing smiled slightly. "Brother Zhu, let me handle this Heavenly Demon Sect."
"Fine, whatever." Zhu Yan sighed. Having briefly held the Heaven's Mandate, he felt somewhat satisfied. After speaking, he gave up resistance, dispersed all his spiritual power, presenting himself completely open for the taking.
"Heaven's Mandate... Extraction Technique." Lin Jing extended his large hand and directly extracted it.
The Heaven's Mandate represented the will of Heaven's Dao, the laws of nature. Therefore, the Emperor's attendant had said that the Heaven's Mandate required at least Nascent Soul Transformation stage to fuse, because a Nascent Soul cultivator's primordial spirit would form the miniature Heaven's Dao shape within the Void Mystical Domain later. Simultaneously, the natural world power mastered by Nascent Soul cultivators could be precisely enhanced by the Heaven's Mandate.
This was why Zhu Yan's mastery of heavenly thunder power had transformed.
But unlike Zhu Yan, Lin Jing didn't cultivate natural forces like wind, rain, thunder, or lightning—he cultivated the power of life and death.
As the Heaven's Mandate was extracted, Zhu Yan showed pained expression but still kept his promise, offering no resistance and causing Lin Jing no trouble whatsoever.
During the process of pulling out the Heaven's Mandate and integrating it into himself, Lin Jing gradually obtained all the benefits Zhu Yan had previously gained.
However, what most surprised Lin Jing, making him suddenly look up with astonishing brilliance flashing in his eyes, was... as the Heaven's Mandate changed owners, his life and death power didn't actually evolve. Instead, the Origin Sources within his primordial spirit underwent transformation!
The Origin Sources hanging within his Void Mystical Domain, which nurtured Immortal Power, directly fused with the Heaven's Mandate. Immediately, Lin Jing incredibly felt his physical body transforming... as if undergoing some kind of baptism.
Before long, Lin Jing became fully bathed in immortal radiance, like an immortal descended to earth, with Immortal Power swirling between every piece of flesh and blood.
Lin Jing understood. "The Immortal Body—the True Immortal physique obtained only after transcending tribulation, ascending, and breaking through to True Immortal stage while undergoing Immortal Realm energy baptism—I actually obtained it during the Void Mystical stage. My physical strength seems..." Lin Jing smiled. Only at this moment did he finally feel confident in opposing Demon Emperor Tianchou.