After half a night of turmoil, Qin Shilei's blessed land finally became vibrant.
Next, the three women also successively used the items rewarded by the system.
An Qian not only seized the opportunity to advance to Gold Five Stars, but also comprehended a ultimate move of Phoenix Flame. All sorts of Phoenix-related combat skills and abilities also increased in power, and the cooldown for Nirvana was reduced to one month.
Although Zhang Xiaoli did not advance, her abilities also greatly increased, and the World Tree phantom within her body doubled in size.
Kong Qingshu comprehended an ultimate move of Wind Style.
Zhang Xiaoli asked, "Brother Qin, my prestige ranks thirteenth, and my cultivation speed has increased by fifty percent. What about you and An Qian?"
Qin Shilei took out a crystal core and tried to absorb it.
He found that a crystal core that could originally provide twenty experience points now provided forty experience points.
After inquiring with the system, he learned that the energy of a crystal core was far more than twenty experience points. With the system's buffs, the conversion efficiency was greatly improved, hence the doubling of experience.
Qin Shilei was about to answer that it was onefold.
"No, it should be twofold. The speed at which I absorb a crystal core has also greatly increased."
After saying that, he sat cross-legged on the ground and tried to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy from the outside world immediately rushed into his body and was quickly converted into Yuan Qi that he could command at will.
The speed of cultivation improvement was even twice as fast as when he absorbed crystal sources.
The system buffs, the bonus from the monstrous attribute, and the abundant spiritual energy in this blessed land had caused this result.
In the near future, once the spiritual energy of the blessed land was fifty or a hundred times that of the outside world, wouldn't his cultivation grow like a rocket?
Thinking of this, Qin Shilei's confidence in the future increased.
To make the spiritual energy of the blessed land more concentrated, he decided not to fuse with other secret realm spaces for the time being, lest it dilute the spiritual energy here.
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The next morning.
After breakfast, Qin Shilei rode Xiao Qiang towards Changzhou City.
He planned to go to Changzhou City to find a disciple of the Demonic Sect, then infiltrate their secret realm space to meet the Demonic Sect Leader.
As he flew into Changzhou City, more than a dozen figures suddenly flew up from below.
Qin Shilei stopped in mid-air and scanned them carefully. He found that each of them possessed Platinum realm cultivation.
Those figures soon stopped about ten meters in front of Qin Shilei.
A middle-aged man in black battle armor, with long hair and a stern face, flew to the very front.
He cupped his fists and saluted, "Are you Your Highness Qin An Wang? I am Huangfu Feng, the leader of the Demonic Sect."
Qin Shilei also returned the salute with cupped fists, "It is indeed I, Qin. I am truly humbled by your grand reception, Sect Leader Huangfu."
Huangfu Feng said lightly, "A mere dozen people are probably beneath the notice of Brother Qin. I came out proactively just to discuss cooperation with King Qin An. Are you interested?"
Qin Shilei smiled faintly, "Yesterday, your Demonic Sect did not have such an attitude. Someone even said they would turn my King Qin An's Mansion into ashes. What? You want to negotiate peace after being defeated?"
A burly man with thick eyebrows immediately stepped forward and said sternly, "Qin, don't think that our Demonic Sect is truly afraid of you..."
"Retreat!"
Huangfu Feng stopped his subordinate's words.
Then, his expression turned grim, and he said coldly, "King Qin An, do you mean to exterminate our Demonic Sect?"
Qin Shilei smiled, "What kind of cooperation did Sect Leader Huangfu mention?"
In fact, Qin Shilei's hatred for the Demonic Sect had lessened considerably with the deaths of Elder Zhang and others. If the other party genuinely sought peace, cooperation was not impossible.
Huangfu Feng extended his hand downwards and said, "Please, King Qin An, come to the mansion to talk."
Qin Shilei nodded and followed them into the City Lord's Mansion.
After they were seated as guests and host, Huangfu Feng did not mention cooperation. Instead, he asked, "King Qin An, do you know about the world on the other side of the spatial rift?"
Qin Shilei looked at him and replied truthfully, "I have entered the Insect Realm several times. Opposite the spatial rift near your Changzhou City are two peak Platinum level insects. And Platinum is by no means the strongest in the Insect Realm. As far as I know, the worlds connected by the spatial rifts in our country are at least three. The Demon Lord of the Abyss World, Andre, will definitely invade our Blue Star in three years. Andre's strength is at least Diamond realm or even higher Master realm. Whether they are insects or demons, they all consider all living beings on our Blue Star as food. You should not think that you can survive by defecting to them."
The Demonic Sect members' faces turned extremely grim. They had been sealed in the spatial secret realm for too long. Now that they had finally returned to the Blue Star and were preparing to make a grand appearance, letting the world feel the might of the Demonic Sect, they had not expected the Blue Star to face a great tribulation that would almost lead to its demise. Would they have to retreat to the spatial secret realm to live out their days in hiding?
With a creak, an old man with white hair trembled as he walked in. A powerful pressure instantly enveloped Qin Shilei. His pair of icy black eyes stared fixedly at Qin Shilei, "Young friend, is what you said true?"
"Absolutely true." Qin Shilei said calmly, "Have you activated the system? From the system's prompts, you can infer that there are countless strong individuals in other worlds."
As he spoke, he carefully observed the old man opposite him. Diamond Three Stars! This old man was probably the Demonic Sect's greatest trump card. However, the old man was like a relic with one foot in the grave, appearing as if he could die at any moment. It was precisely because the old man's life force was about to wane that Huangfu Feng offered to cooperate instead of directly and forcefully killing Qin Shilei.
The old man carefully observed Qin Shilei's expression and found no signs of lying. He sighed, "It seems this is truly a great tribulation that all of us humans cannot escape. I wonder if our spatial secret realm can evade the search of alien powerhouses?"
He paused and then smiled at Qin Shilei, "It seems young friend is very confident in your strength. Aren't you afraid that I will instantly kill you with a single move?"
Qin Shilei smiled with confidence, "When I was at Gold Five Stars, I could easily kill Platinum level aliens. Now that I have advanced to Platinum, I believe dealing with an old man at Diamond Three Stars should not be difficult."
The old man's face turned cold, and at the same time, a killing intent shot towards Qin Shilei like a tangible entity.
Qin Shilei remained unfazed, and then an even more potent killing intent emanated from him. The many Demonic Sect experts in the hall felt as if they had instantly arrived in hell, and a sea of corpses and blood appeared before their eyes.
"Hmph, when it comes to killing intent, I've never been afraid of anyone." Qin Shilei thought to himself. Indeed, the number of aliens he had killed was in the millions. Although he had not specifically cultivated a killing intent technique, in terms of sheer volume, his killing intent was far more concentrated than that of all the Demonic Sect members present.
The old man's aura surged momentarily and then quickly subsided. He took a breath, closed his eyes, and said, "You two discuss cooperation."