Age of Evolution

Chapter 794: 797 Annihilation!

Chapter 794: Chapter 797 Annihilation!

Advancing spiritual power from the Dark Gold middle stage to the Diamond early stage is a qualitative leap.

If a martial artist’s star power is their primary combat power, then their spiritual power is the secondary combat power.

Even, if your spiritual power is strong enough, the opponent’s star power won’t stand a chance. A mental shock would be enough to end the fight.

Of course, some spiritual defense treasures can counteract mental shocks, which is why the role of spiritual power doesn’t seem that grand.

However, no everyday spiritual defense weapon could withstand the spiritual power of Lin Zhen at the Diamond level, unless it’s a spiritual defense treasure.

But where would one find a spiritual defense treasure?

At least so far, Lin Zhen hadn’t seen anyone possessing a spiritual defense treasure.

So anyone with spiritual power inferior to Lin Zhen virtually stands powerless before him.

Advancing to Diamond level spiritual power has significantly increased Lin Zhen’s strength.

After advancing, Lin Zhen didn’t rush to the prison immediately because he felt that he was about to have a small breakthrough, reaching World King Level 8.

After cultivating for about half a month in the Fire Palace, Lin Zhen finally broke through to Level Eight World King.

At Level Eight World King, his star power officially reached fifty million!

Now it has almost been three months since he left the Holy Land and it seemed unlikely that he would advance to Level Nine World King before he returns.

During these three months, Lin Zhen’s incarnation had comprehended the fourth diagram of Shadowless Step and nearly half of the fifth diagram.

Completing the fifth diagram, which contains a hundred footprints, in less than half a year would be impossible.

Leaving the Fire Palace, Lin Zhen headed to the underground prison.

Passing the winding stairs, the underground prison was located under the volcano behind the Fire Palace, nearly ten thousand meters underground.

The first person Lin Zhen wanted to see when he arrived at the jail was Nine Spirits.

Nine Spirits was tied up in a jail cell, not struggling but staying calm every day, because the more he struggled, the tighter the Beast Binding Soul Lock would be. Staying calm, on the other hand, wouldn’t cause him harm.

He was hoping that someone would come to rescue him, or perhaps one day Lin Zhen would be killed, and he might have a chance of being released. As a martial artist, he had enough time and patience to wait for that day to come.

Because he had noticed that Lin Zhen seemed not to want to kill them, which made him feel safe, he would eat, drink and zone out when bored. After all, warriors of the Three Flowers stage would not die if they weren’t killed.

However, the arrival of Lin Zhen disrupted all of this.

“Nine Spirits, there’s no way out for you now. Accept your fate!”

Without wasting any words, Lin Zhen directly launched a mental shock. A Diamond sparkle broke through the opponent’s Spiritual Condensation, and the Soul Lock rushed in!

Nine Spirits screamed in agony and tried to struggle to get rid of it, but by this time, how could Lin Zhen give him a chance to rebound? The Soul Lock force gradually increased, and under the pressure of the Beast Binding Soul Lock, Nine Spirits had no way to dodge.

In less than three minutes, the Soul Lock was completely applied.

The Beast Binding Soul Lock disappeared and transformed into a light ring, lingering on the exterior of Nine Spirits’ Spiritual Consciousness Sea.

A martial artist who is Soul Locked has one chance to break free – that is during the stage of realm breakthrough. This is exactly what the Beast Binding Soul Lock is for. Even if a Soul Locked person breaks through, they would still be under the control of their master. If the Soul Locked person tries to resist, their Spiritual Consciousness Sea would shatter, killing their Divine Infant, causing them to become an idiot.

Unless it’s someone like Lin Zhen, whose Divine Infant possesses weapons, they would be able to break free from the binding of the Beast Binding Soul Lock.

Unfortunately, Nine Spirits was not capable of this. After being controlled, he couldn’t even think of resistance, and he becomes Lin Zhen’s most loyal servant.

Having Nine Spirits as an assistant made Lin Zhen happy. Nine Spirits’ strength was no less than his own.

In fact, if the original body didn’t take the Divine Power Pills, it wouldn’t even stand a chance against Nine Spirits and others. These Holy Land Three Flowers at the peak stage had a combat power that could only be described as formidable.

If it were not for the near-death skill possessed by Lin Zhen, even his incarnation might find it challenging to defeat Nine Spirits. His Nine-Headed Bite was practically unresistible, but unfortunately, he met Lin Zhen, who was impervious to sword and spear, which led to his miserable fate.

“Nine Spirits vow to follow the master to death!” Nine Spirits expressed his loyalty to Lin Zhen.

“Alright, recover from your wounds first. You will be needed soon.”

Nine Spirits was injured during the fight with Lin Zhen and didn’t have a chance to recover. Now that he was one of his own, Lin Zhen gave him elixir to aid in his recovery quickly.

Nine Spirits accepted the elixir and followed Lin Zhen to the other cells.

Controlling Taishan and Dao Sha was easy. When they got to the room of Light Electric, Nine Spirits held Light Electric’s neck and directly ordered him: “Be good and don’t move. Let the master take control of you, and you will realize that this is for your own good.”

Lin Zhen smiled and used the same method to control Light Electric as well.

When it was Red Witch’s turn, she tried to seduce Lin Zhen, only to be beaten up by her defected companions and quickly quieted down. Lin Zhen easily took control of her as well.

If it weren’t for the Beast Binding Soul Lock, controlling these five people would not be an easy task. But with this tool at hand, even more could be easily controlled.

Having subdued five peak Three Flowers realm Holy Land Warriors, Lin Zhen finally managed a sigh of relief.

There was no doubting the combat prowess of these five, all having been in the Three Flowers stage for years. There was a chance they could provide him with a significant surprise and breakthrough anytime.

After letting the five rest for five days to fully recover, Lin Zhen issued an order to them.

They were to go to Da Qin Empire and wipe out all the assets that Qian Tong had there. Should anyone resist, they were to be killed without mercy!

The assets in the Qin Kingdom could provide Qian Tong with a continuous flow of money. Lin Zhen did not want to let him keep accumulating wealth. In the Original World, wealth equals power, so cutting off his financial sources would undoubtedly be a decisive blow.

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A significant event occurred in Qin.

The five that initially sought to besiege Lin Zhen had attacked the National Master’s Mansion!

Many guests of the National Master and Qian Tong resided there, including Holy Land Warriors at the Three Flowers Stage. But against the assault of the Nine Spirits and the others, they stood no chance.

Putting the other four’s performance aside, Nine Spirits alone was more than enough to handle it.

In the sky manifested the image of a giant nine-headed lion with its nine massive mouths opening, engaging in an endless devouring.

Unlike Lin Zhen’s Black Hole Beast which swallowed whole, Nine Spirits’ nine heads bit and chewed around. Smaller targets were swallowed in one gulp, and larger targets were surrounded and attacked by multiple heads. Mostly, the destruction of the National Master’s Mansion could be attributed to Nine Spirits.

In mid-air, creating thunderstorms at will, Nine Spirits vented the ill feelings they had for Lin Zhen. The guests of Qian Tong were scattering about in disarray.

As for the other four warriors, their powers were nearly on par with Nine Spirits – potentially just slightly weaker. They charged through the chaos, leaving bodies all over the place.

After wiping out everyone in the mansion, they went on to dismantle the businesses which were under Qian Tong’s name. Every shop, medicine store, and alchemy room owned by Qian Tong were razed to the ground, reduced to ruins.

Some people had tried to stop them during the massacre, but ordinary people couldn’t hold back the Holy Land Three Flowers. All those who dared to stand in their way were killed.

People requested the royal family to send troops, but the response from the Emperor of the Qin Kingdom was that this was a dispute among Holy Land Warriors; the royal family had no authority to interfere.

Everyone knew who the Nine Spirits and the others represented. Qian Tong had sought trouble with Lin Zhen several times, and it was only reasonable for Lin Zhen to strike back.

To make a move against Lin Zhen, neither ordinary martial artists nor the royal family were qualified. There was a clear distinction between Holy Land Warriors and non-Holy Land Warriors.

Although Qian Tong was the National Master, his more crucial identity lay in being a Holy Land Warrior from Freedom City’s Holy Land.

Without royal intervention, the people of Qin were unable to rescue Qian Tong’s industries and could only watch the Nine Spirits and the others raze them to the ground.

After the killings and the lootings, none of Qian Tong’s household – disciples, servants, and families – were left. Their chance of revenge in the short run had been obliterated.

Faced with such a brutal act, Qin’s people were terrified.

They hated Lin Zhen, but their fear of him gradually grew stronger.

This guy was like a cockroach that refused to die. The more you hit him, the stronger he got. They couldn’t stop him when he marched into the Holy Land, nor could they hold back his ascension to become the Fire Kirin Clan leader. Qian Tong, as the National Master, was a mighty figure with his small army of elite households. But Lin Zhen had annihilated all of them.

With the Nine Spirits and the other four under his command, Lin Zhen didn’t even need to get his hands dirty. No one could cause trouble for him now, as he sat ruling over the Fire Kirin Clan.

Incidentally, an anti-Lin organization, that had spoken ill of Lin Zhen the most while hiding in Qin, was located by one of Lin Zhen’s subordinates.

Disrespecting Holy Land Warriors carried its repercussions. But most Holy Land Warriors maintained an aloof demeanor, preferring not to stoop to the level of non-Holy Land Warriors.

However, Lin Zhen was different. The people of Qin didn’t make a good impression on him, thus he ordered this operation specially.

The group was a band of mercenaries. Some even had prior encounters with Lin Zhen’s subordinate before. They were traced to the Dimensional Universe and were killed to the last man!

When they saw the line of severed heads flying across the sky, the voices on the Qin forum slandering Lin Zhen diminished for the first time.

The truth about the incident regarding the Divine Punishment Star wasn’t Lin Zhen’s fault. Since they were enemies, a fight was inevitable. The people of Qin were just having a hard time accepting it.

The deeper reason was that Lin Zhen, this bastard, was incredibly petty, even picking on the netizens who denounced him.

With the Dimensional Universe in effect, people could vent freely, but if the powerful sought to track you down, you could easily be found by tracing back from within the Dimensional Universe. It was like the universe’s real-name registration system.

Second and third!

In the following two months, nothing else was done by the crew except going around finding those who had been the loudest in condemning Lin Zhen. When they found them, they killed without question!

Swift justice!

Three months later, the voices cursing Lin Zhen within Qin finally died down.

A Holy Land Warrior, a seventh-grade alchemist, the leader of the Fire Kirin Clan – who dared to insult him!