Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

It has been four days. It should be about time after waiting for a few more days. By then, those surviving martial artists will have even more of those medals on them!

Jiang Yi had just completed his cultivation and was laying down in a stone cave while chewing on some rations. This stone cave wasn’t excavated by him; he found it in an obscure tunnel of a giant stone peak. The tunnel extended several hundred kilometers underground, where those passers-by wouldn’t be able to detect even with the medal. Unless it was someone who wanted to hide just like him and coincidentally found this stone cave.

“Ke-Ke. Zhangsun Wuji, Xia Tian, and Shui Qianrou are probably looking all over the world for me, right? Let them continue to search for a while!”

When he recalled about that Spirit Vulture three days ago, Jiang Yi was even more certain that he had to hide for a period of time. If he was to venture out now, it would be too dangerous. It was still manageable if he met one or two Soul Travel Realm experts, but if there were seven or eight individuals shooting their essence force at the same time—even if he was a deity, he would still have to fall.

Before he entered the Kingdom War, he had already disregarded life and death, but no one truly wanted to die. For the first rank, he was willing to risk it and disregard his life or death. It would be best if he was able to walk out of the Crystal Stone Plains alive with the no.1 rank. After all, if he was to die, Jiang Xiaonu would be asleep for the rest of her life.

“Devil Sky Silk!”

After finishing his ration, he began to refine the Devil Sky Silk again. During this period of time, he already formed a habit of cultivating the Wind Shadow Sword and refining the Devil Sky Silk… even though he didn’t know if he would be able to wield this Devil Sky Silk or if would he be able to achieve Phenomenal stage for the Wind Shadow Sword.

Taking out the Devil Sky Silk, Jiang Yi released his essence force and began to refine it, only to helplessly open his eyes after two hours. The Devil Sky Silk still didn’t have any hints of reaction. Jiang Yi was looking at this white silk with confusion while muttering with some concern, “How is this Devil Sky Silk going to be refined? Qian Wanguan mentioned that experts, who cultivate the soul spirit, could effortlessly refine this heaven artifact—even saint artifacts are a piece of cake. If I could obtain a secret art that cultivates the soul spirit, my soul spirit would become stronger; and I might be able to refine this Devil Sky Spirit instantly…”

Jiang Yi was indulging in his wild imagination. As he was pondering, his eyes suddenly brightened up and exclaimed, “That’s right! I do not know if my soul spirit is weak or strong, but those soul spirit attacks were ineffective against me, right?! The Fire Spirit Pearl would transfer energy to protect my soul spirit every time. Could I activate this energy to refine the Devil Sky Silk?

“I’ll give it a try!”

Jiang Yi felt that it was possible; hence, he immersed his mind into the Fire Spirit Pearl to search for that unknown energy that automatically protected the owner. After searching for a long period of time—apart from the thirty over Fire Spirit Rocks, miscellaneous items, and the Earth Fire, he couldn’t find anything else.

“Earth Fire!”

Jiang Yi bellowed and controlled a small amount of Earth Fire to emerge. The Fire Spirit Pearl immediately transferred energy to protect the owner. Jiang Yi focused his thoughts onto that energy and tried to control it.

“Eh? There is something promising!”

That trace of unknown energy, which originally formed a shield to protect the owner, waited for the Fire Spirit Pearl to absorb the Earth Fire before it began to automatically enter the Fire Spirit Pearl. Right now, Jiang Yi used his thoughts to control it; and it now stopped within Jiang Yi’s body.

“What is this energy?”

Jiang Yi was astonished by this lump of invisible energy in his body. He gradually controlled this energy to move towards his palm, wrapping it over the Devil Sky Silk.

Something happened that made Jiang Yi wild with joy. The energy actually split off a small portion and instantly entered the Devil Sky Silk. Right now, Jiang Yi’s soul spirit and the Devil Sky Silk had this sudden connection.

“Is it refined? Is it refined so easily?”

Jiang Yi blinked his eyes in disbelief. When Jiang Yi was in a daze, he lost control of that unknown lump of energy, causing it to quickly vanish from his body and enter the Fire Spirit Pearl.

“Devil Sky Silk, go!”

Jiang Yi didn’t bother about that unknown energy right now; he immediately used his thoughts to control that Devil Sky Silk to fly forward. As expected, the Devil Sky Silk let out a flash of light and shot out, penetrating into the stone walls.

“Return!”

Jiang Yi quickly shouted out and used his thoughts to control that Devil Sky Silk to return. This Devil Sky Silk was too fast, and he was afraid it might continue flying forward, never to return.

Great item!

After the Devil Sky Silk flew back, Jiang Yi reached out to grab it and had a gasp of surprise. This Devil Sky Silk was extremely resilient, so much that Liu Lao and Ji Lao’s essence force release wasn’t able to damage it. Even a Soul Travel Realm expert had to wait for death if they were restrained by the Devil Sky Silk.

“Go!”

Jiang Yi used his thoughts to control this Devil Sky Silk and flew it around his body, making it feel just like an apparition drifting around. The Devil Sky Silk’s speed was definitely much faster than the Silver-Moon Demon Wolf, probably at the same speed of a peak-stage Soul Travel Realm expert.

Mmm… if this Kingdom War doesn’t have any soul spirit experts, I will not need to fear any Soul Travel Realm experts as long as I have this Devil Sky Silk. If it is a solo fight, I can effortlessly kill them!

Jiang Yi was delighted. With the combination of the Devil Sky Silk, Earth Fire, and Fire Spirit Rocks, he became an absolute killing machine. He would first use the Devil Sky Silk to restrain the enemy before releasing the Earth Fire to incinerate them. The strongest combatant in the Kingdom War should only be at the third or fourth Soul Travel Realm; once they were engulfed by the Earth Fire, there was only death waiting for them!

Of course… if he was to meet a soul spirit expert and had the Devil Sky Silk instantly refined by the enemy, Jiang Yi could only admit that he was unfortunate.

“Tsk-Tsk!”

Jiang Yi controlled the Devil Sky Silk to fly it around and kept it after playing for quite a bit of time. He was in awe of this unknown energy and knew that it was an incredible thing. Not only could it repel fire, but it could also automatically protect the soul spirit. Now, it even helped Jiang Yi refine the Devil Sky Silk. It was no wonder that the Heaven Monarch of Ten-Thousand Dragons kept this Fire Spirit Pearl on his body even till his death.

“Wind Shadow Sword!”

Jiang Yi sat for a moment before he began cultivating the Wind Shadow Sword. This cave wasn’t huge; hence, he didn’t dare to execute at full force. He could only circulate a small amount of essence force, afraid that this stone cave might collapse from the sword forces.

“Boom-Boom-Boom!”

Before he even executed the Wind Shadow Sword, the surface of the ground had a slight tremble. Jiang Yi’s eyes immediately turned icy cold, and he bounced up. He took out the medal to sense the surroundings but couldn’t detect anyone within the 300-meter radius.

“Boom-Boom-Boom!”

The surface of the ground began to tremble again. Jiang Yi was silently apprehensive because there was definitely a fight between experts on the surface above. Moreover, they were currently releasing formidable attacks; otherwise, it would be impossible for the trembles to travel over several hundred kilometers.

Go up and take a look?

Jiang Yi’s eyes were flickering with hesitation. Such a huge rumble meant that someone was using heaven artifacts or a group of Soul Travel Realm experts was blasting with their essence force.

If by any chance those were Zhangsun Wuji and Xia Tian, he would be walking right into a trap if he went to the surface.

“Boom-boom!”

It was yet another tremble, which caused the mud on the ceiling of the cave to flake off. Jiang Yi clenched his teeth and moved swiftly towards the surface using the tunnel. If this subterranean cave was to collapse, he would be buried alive. He might not be afraid of being crushed to death, but with such a large scale battle in the nearby vicinity, he wouldn’t be at ease if he didn’t scout it out.

As Jiang Yi slinked, he constantly took out the medal to sense his surroundings. When he was about 300 kilometers away from the surface, he could finally detect plenty of medals above the surface. Among those medals, there were more than twenty black medals with nearly a thousand red medals.

“More than twenty Soul Travel Realm experts? More than a thousand Purple Mansion Realm martial artists? Those people shouldn’t be Zhangsun Wuji, Xia Tian, or Shui Qianrou groups.”

Jiang Yi’s mind shook up. He remembered clearly that there were three individuals who each brought at least 30 Soul Travel Realm experts. There were only about twenty Soul Travel Realm experts in total; it meant that it wasn’t them.

“Let’s go!”

Jiang Yi accelerated his speed. This was a chaotic fight between two armies; it would be good if he had the opportunity to profit from others’ conflict.