Chapter 160: Star Lord’s Divine Might
Wu Xian nodded with a tsk-tsk, his gaze involuntarily falling on those insectoid monsters cautiously approaching to probe.
“Is the divine power fragment present on every otherworld monster?”
He now really wanted to get a divine power fragment to see exactly what kind of thing it was.
“Of course not,” Xue Lingling shook her head and said, “Any otherworld monster containing a divine power fragment is at least a lord-level existence, and possesses self-awareness and extremely high wisdom.”
No sooner had the words fallen than Third Master Xue, rushing at the forefront, suddenly became vigilant: “Careful, a large monster is probing as it approaches!”
Everyone promptly became vigilant and responded, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Boom boom boom…
The ground began to tremble slightly, the commotion drawing ever closer.
Perhaps wary of the Sun Star Lord’s power, the opponent’s approaching footsteps seemed somewhat hesitant.
Unfortunately, while it hesitated, the Sun Star Lord had already locked onto this “delicacy” first.
The Sun Star Lord’s sharp gaze instantly locked onto the front, whooshing as it turned into a streak of crimson flowing light and sped over, stomping a kick in midair toward the insect carcass-strewn ground below.
Boom!
A crimson-golden rooster foot phantom slammed into the ground.
Then, amid everyone’s wide-eyed astonishment, the ground was forcibly blasted open into a gigantic deep pit, a massive centipede-like giant insect exposing a small section of its body, its ferocious and terrifying mouthparts sending chills down spines, with two rows of densely packed eyes on either side of the mouthparts.
In eyes showing slight wariness and fear, there seemed to be an irrepressible greed and desire.
Clearly a powerful monster possessing【divine power fragment】.
And according to Xue Lingling, any monster possessing【divine power fragment】 could devour painted spirits to strengthen itself.
Thus, in the true otherworld, scroll painted spirits and otherworld monsters were mutual prey.
The more excellent and powerful the painted spirit, the more “delicious” it was to otherworld monsters.
“Level 20 lord,” Third Master Xue immediately judged the opponent’s level, “Good thing the level isn’t too high.”
With that, a vicious burly man brimming with yin energy beside him charged forward—it was an eight-star gold scroll.
Xue Zhengheng, Xue Lingling, and other Xue Family elites also sprang into action.
At the same time, that level 20 insectoid monster had already burst out of the ground, swaying its insect-leg-covered body and boldly challenging the Sun Star Lord above.
The Sun Star Lord’s gaze was one of contempt as, amid a burst of yaoyang-like divine light, it transformed into its【pure yang true body】 true form.
A clear rooster crow echoed through heaven and earth, an invisible force rippling out, making the surrounding dim insectoid otherworld a bit brighter.
The entire insectoid otherworld seemed to grow “restless” under this【morning crowing】.
The Star Lord true form flapped its wings, delivering an aerial rooster claw stomp.
Boom!
The charging centipede insectoid monster smashed headfirst into the ground, its ferocious head stomped into the earth, its long body twisting and thrashing wildly, its densely packed insect legs inexplicably beginning to tremble.
With almost no hesitation, it turned and fled in panic, only to be surrounded by the Xue Family members, blocking its path.
The centipede insectoid monster let out an enraged shriek—it feared the big rooster behind it, not the Xue Family’s group of undead painted spirits.
With a fierce charge, it repelled several gold scroll painted spirits.
Unfortunately, before it could flee far, the pursuing Star Lord true form kicked it flat on the ground, its twisting body attempting a counterattack only to be battered senseless by the dazzling, gale-force wings.
Bang!
The next second, the Star Lord true form’s sharp beak pierced through the tough armor of its head, eliciting a pained shriek as the massive body writhed in agony.
The Xue Family members weren’t idle either, all manipulating their main force gold scrolls weren’t to launch a fierce siege.
But before they could even exert full force, the giant centipede insectoid monster was already bisected under the Star Lord true form’s stomping and tearing, thoroughly losing all breath amid its final death throes and convulsions.
“Whoa~ such generous experience points?”
Wu Xian exclaimed inwardly in shock—just after promoting to four-and-a-half star, the Sun Star Lord was on the verge of advancing to five-star from this single otherworld large monster.
In contrast, the Xue Family members were still immersed in deep shock.
A four-and-a-half star gold scroll utterly dominating a level 20 lord insectoid monster—was there a more outrageous, more shocking sight?
Keep in mind, lord-level corresponded to【jade axis】 scrolls; their gold scrolls only had the level advantage to contend head-on.
But Wu Xian’s【Sun Star Lord】 was merely four-and-a-half star, with absolutely no level advantage.
Even for a specialized attack-type scroll, this was too outrageous, wasn’t it?
“Hiss~ why do I feel like Little Wu’s gold scroll has an insect special attack multiplier of up to seven?” Xue Zhengheng gaped in astonishment.
“Is it really just an upper form of the guardian chicken king?” Xue Lingling’s eyes flickered.
Meanwhile, the Star Lord true form had casually “dissected” a nail-sized, gleaming irregular gold crystal from the centipede insectoid monster’s skull.
“This is that divine power fragment?”
Wu Xian picked up the divine power fragment, curiously examining and feeling it.
Why did it feel like a demon core or monster crystal nucleus?
While containing immense power internally, it even had a law power structure similar to divine diagram law network.
Good stuff, absolutely good stuff!
“That’s right,” Xue Lingling nodded and said, “This thing is top-tier material whether used to condense divine diagrams or make pigments, and it can even be used to cultivate spiritual power. Many military powerhouses like using divine power fragments for absorption and cultivation to strengthen their own power.”
Wu Xian understood: “For making jade scrolls and black scrolls later, does it require this thing?”
“Of course, but the law power veins need to be similar,” Xue Lingling replied without thinking, “Additionally, the real difficulty with jade scrolls lies more in the scroll painting concept.”
In short, the true challenge of jade scrolls was conceiving a scroll painting concept with jade scroll potential.
“Then, couldn’t we reverse-engineer conceptions from the law network structure in the divine power fragment?”
Xue Lingling nodded: “Many excellent scroll painting concepts today come from that.”
Wu Xian suddenly understood, raising his hand to hand the divine power fragment to Xue Lingling.
“What? Keep it for yourself.” Xue Lingling felt an inexplicable warmth in her heart and shook her head with a smile: “My Xue Family doesn’t lack this one divine power fragment from you.”
“Aren’t these things in short supply?” Wu Xian asked puzzled.
“We have enough for now.”
“Alright.” Wu Xian chuckled helplessly, silently pocketing the divine power fragment and, while at it, also collecting that lord-level corpse.
Afterward, under Third Master Xue’s lead, the group continued deeper into the insectoid otherworld, searching for Xue Zhengying’s whereabouts.
“It’s nearby.” Third Master Xue spoke solemnly.
Hearing this, Wu Xian immediately released the day and night patrol gods, dispersing them into a vast swarm of wandering souls to search all around.
Moments later, they didn’t find Xue Zhengying, but discovered quite a few powerful spirit tamer teams and scroll painter teams nearby, some wearing various club team uniforms.
Notably, the lead scroll painter of one group seemed to be wearing divine beast dojo attire.
The entire team’s combat power was also quite formidable.
Additionally, in the northwest direction, they spotted an unexpected figure: “Uh, why is the mayor here too.”
“Chen Shilong?” Xue Lingling frowned in surprise.
“Yeah, about seven or eight li northwest, good grief, two nine-star gold scrolls—does our Mayor have such strong strength?”
Third Master Xue said: “After all, he’s the mayor of a city; without strength, he couldn’t reach that position.”
Right then, Wu Xian finally spotted a eerie figure through the day and night patrol gods’ perspective: a deathly pallid young man under thirty, eyes lifeless, like a walking corpse.
His facial features somewhat resembled Xue Zhengheng and Xue Lingling’s, clearly Xue Zhengying.
After learning Xue Zhengying’s position, everyone immediately moved to approach.
