588: Chapter 589 Dao Fruit

To be honest, however, Lu Ming did not actually care that much about the cultivation and dao attainment in this world.

After all, this was merely a Reincarnation trial; no matter how high the Realm in the trial was, whether it could be brought back to the real world remained an unknown.

What he truly cared about were the things mastered by Soul-Devouring Demon Lord himself.

Divine Abilities, Spells, Law insights, and the Foundation accumulated over tens of thousands of years were the parts he lacked the most.

As a Late Stage Nascent Soul Great True Lord, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's array of methods and seasoned experience were currently beyond Lu Ming's reach.

And now, every time the other party executed a Divine Ability, activated a Spell, or even mobilized the profundity of a Law in the future, it would all be completely taken in by Lu Ming's eyes.

Then he would quietly record it, dissect and analyze it, and transform it for his own use.

Hm, just like a parasite clinging to Soul-Devouring Demon Lord, lying on the other party and silently absorbing nutrients.

The stronger Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was and the more methods he executed, the greater Lu Ming's harvest would be.

The other party was charging at the front and moving forward under a heavy burden, while he enjoyed quiet and peaceful years at the back.

Lu Ming even had a faint premonition that if things continued to develop at this rhythm, when the Reincarnation trial ended and the final judgment arrived, some extremely interesting things might happen.

Of course, these were all matters for the future at present.

At this moment, Lu Ming sat cross-legged in that gray Realm of consciousness, slowly closing his eyes.

His perception, like an invisible silk thread, extended outward, quietly connecting to the primary perspective.

" Actually, this is fine too; consider it watching a first-person movie. "

Lu Ming's lips curved into a slight arc as he muttered softly to himself.

" Work hard and strive to clear the level soon. "

" However, it might be a bit distressing... "

However, facts proved that the trajectory of this world was ten times more abstract than Lu Ming had anticipated.

In the following days, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord used his own personal experience to truly feel the "brainless" nature of this stitched-together world.

Starting from that night, after Soul-Devouring Demon Lord fled from the hospital into the night, he originally thought he could find a quiet place to peacefully Cultivate and steadily improve.

However, he quickly discovered that he was grossly mistaken.

Only a night later, the Su Family and the Chen Family simultaneously issued a sky-high bounty on the dark web of South Capital.

The high amount of the reward made the assassin organizations throughout the underground world boil with excitement.

A large number of dark web assassins swarmed out like sharks smelling blood, frantically searching for his whereabouts along various clues.

At the same time, because the commotion he caused in the hospital was simply too huge—floors collapsed, buildings were destroyed, and casualties were heavy—this matter had seriously violated the Laws of the Nine Provinces.

The official Cultivators of South Capital quickly intervened, sealing off major traffic arteries and activating the city-wide Qi monitoring Formation, attempting to encircle and capture him before he escaped the encirclement.

Having no other choice, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord could only flee all the way east, looking like a stray dog.

Fortunately, his Divine Abilities and Spells were refined to the pinnacle, and various concealment and Qi-suppression techniques came naturally to him.

First, he confused his own Qi fluctuations, and combined with various covert methods to eliminate Karma, he slipped out of the gaps in the official encirclement several times in a row.

Truly like a fish entering the vast sea, dodging quite a bit of trouble.

However, it was as if dictated by destiny.

Even though he was extremely careful and exceptionally low-profile, whenever he wanted to peaceably Cultivate and ignore worldly affairs, all kinds of trouble would always come knocking on his door.

Like a dog-skin plaster that could not be shaken off no matter what.

For instance, even though he clearly had nothing, wherever he went, he would be looked down upon by people, inexplicably offend others, and then harvest a whole bunch of eye-rolls and taunts.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord initially held the principle that more trouble is worse than less, and there was no need to get angry over a group of ants.

But when he found that such things emerged endlessly like dungeon respawns without stop, he finally lost his patience.

For example, this time, he happened to hear that an underground auction in South Capital was about to be held.

A batch of top-quality spiritual materials and rare ores would flow out at the meeting.

Although Soul-Devouring Demon Lord knew that he now had the backing of the System and had little demand for ordinary cultivation resources,

the Magic Treasures on his person were truly lacking; after all, he couldn't always fight enemies empty-handed.

Thus, he decided to refine a soul devouring banner for himself, just right to be used in conjunction with the slaughter System.

Hence, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord changed his appearance and sneaked into the auction venue with an unfamiliar face.

As a result, while bidding for a piece of Mysterious Yin Soul Wood, someone maliciously drove up the price.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord couldn't be bothered to entangle himself too much with the other party and directly won that piece of soul wood at a price three times higher than the market rate.

As it turned out, it wouldn't have mattered if the other party couldn't outbid him, but they actually flew into a rage out of humiliation and held a grudge against him.

After the auction ended, that person brought a dozen or so Cultivators to block his mandatory exit route out of the city, and even threatened to teach him a lesson.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was not a soft-hearted person to begin with, coupled with the bellyful of fire he had recently accumulated, seeing this group of people pushing their luck further and even intending to seize other people's wealth by force,

immediately slapped out, smashing the leader's head into his chest cavity, and then turned on the one-key screen-clearing mode, directly sending those dozen or so people to accompany their master.

And the subsequent events went without saying.

Like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather, beating the small one brought out the big one, and after beating the big one to death, an old one came.

But the magical thing was that the strength of those who came to cause trouble would never exceed the limit by too much.

Every time, the strength of the newcomers was stuck right at the line where it would cost him some effort, but not so much that he couldn't handle it, coming to his door in turns like delivering dishes.

And as the slaughter System continuously absorbed these people's cultivation, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's cultivation expanded crazily like a snowball.

Send one for every one that comes, getting stronger the more he killed, and killing more the stronger he got.

Even killing to his heart's content, he even sought out several factions and families that had oppressed him.

And razed them to the ground overnight.

At this time, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If it weren't for this System, simply coping with these endless assassinations would be enough to leave him overwhelmed, let alone peaceably Cultivating.

However, as the matter grew larger and larger, it ultimately attracted the attention of a higher level.

Several Golden Core Families, whose Genius Disciples or clansmen were lost and whose Origin Qi was heavily injured by Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's tossing, began to jointly apply pressure.

Yielding to public opinion pressure, the Nine Provinces officials dispatched a Peak Golden Core powerhouse to personally participate in the pursuit.

That powerhouse, along with official elites, besieged Soul-Devouring Demon Lord for three days and three nights, ultimately blocking him in a desolate wilderness.

However, the result exceeded everyone's expectations. With Mid-stage Golden Core cultivation, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord forcefully counter-killed that Peak Golden Core powerhouse and completely devoured the other party's entire cultivation.

After this battle, the name of Qin Ming completely resounded across the Nine Provinces continent.

However, a person fears fame just as a pig fears being fat; after becoming completely famous, his situation not only didn't improve, but became even more difficult to move a single step.

Killing the Cultivators of the Nine Provinces officials meant completely offending the most massive faction in this world.

The officials no longer held back, directly activating the highest-level arrest warrant.

They laid down an inescapable net using methods combining technology and immortal cultivation.

They launched several specially made Heavenly Eye Spiritual Guard satellites, covering most of the Nine Provinces land in a way combining spirit patterns and electronic chips.

Those satellites could monitor large-scale Qi fluctuations and slaughter auras on the ground in real time.

Once an abnormality appeared, it would immediately lock onto the coordinates and synchronously transmit the information to the nearest official pursuit team.

Under such surveillance, it was already impossible for Soul-Devouring Demon Lord to act as casually as before.

His cultivation progress plummeted straight down, and every bit of cultivation he improved required risking being locked onto by the satellites, making him restrained like a trapped beast locked in a cage.

Driven to a dead end, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord did an extremely crazy thing.

Using the soul banner he refined, on an overseas isolated island called Sakura, before the officials could react, he refined all living beings on the island, stripping their souls and seizing their spirits, devouring their essence.

At that moment, the wails of tens of millions of living beings gathered into an invisible wave, breaking through the final barrier within Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's body and pushing him into the Realm of Golden Core Perfection.

He also thus successfully retrieved the Law of Reincarnation.

When that familiar power of the Law revived within his body, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's combat strength skyrocketed to an entirely new level.

And not long after his Breakthrough, the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of this Realm also came knocking, threatening to bring him, this Devil Head, to justice and execute him publicly according to Law.

However, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord, who had already retrieved a portion of his own power, was not afraid at all; the two of them unfolded a heaven-shaking battle above the Nine Heavens overseas.

In the end, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord actually accomplished an unprecedented feat across the entire Nine Provinces with the body of Golden Core Perfection,

unexpectedly succeeding in fighting to a draw with a Nascent Soul True Monarch using the body of a Golden Core!

And this battle result completely shocked the entire Nine Provinces.

When matters reached this step, hatred and pursuit actually became no longer important.

Clearly, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had already grown into a major force.

That Nascent Soul True Monarch who had previously declared he would bring him to justice and execute him immediately changed his attitude.

Without caring about any True Monarch dignity, he lowered his stature, came forward personally, and invited him to join the officials with the highest courtesy of Nine Provinces.

He also promised to wash away all his crimes and confer a high position upon him.

Since he couldn't be beaten, let him join and become one of their own.

After weighing the pros and cons, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord agreed and successfully joined the Nine Provinces officials.

In the following days, he displayed his skills under the official identity, climbing all the way in Cultivation.

The officials provided him with massive amounts of cultivation resources.

More importantly, he could use his official authority to requisition those heinous criminals sentenced to death as cultivation resources for his own Cultivation.

Some subordinates, wanting to curry favor with him and knowing this hobby of his, even actively scoured various talents for him.

Under this continuous supply, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's cultivation Advanced by leaps and bounds, and soon he broke through to the Realm of the Nascent Soul.

As his cultivation improved, his official authority also grew higher and higher.

However, during this process, he naturally touched the interest cakes of quite a few people, attracting a lot of targeting.

However, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was a master of a Grotto-heaven in his past life after all, and understood all kinds of power struggles and calculations by heart.

Although the process was still somewhat tortuous, the result was good; he thus promoted all the way from a local deacon to a core Elder of the highest council of Nine Provinces.

Eventually, when his cultivation broke through to the Late Stage Nascent Soul, he was already standing at the Peak of this world.

Overlooking the bustling city and tens of thousands of Cultivators beneath his feet, like a true Dominator of Nine Provinces.

However, at this moment, the anticipated prompt for the end of the trial still did not appear.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord didn't pay too much attention to it at first, thinking that the end of the trial might have a certain settlement time,

but this wait lasted for more than a dozen years, several decades, yet there was still no result.

At this time, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord began to grow somewhat anxious, trying countless methods one after another, yet it was as if he was permanently trapped within this Reincarnation world, forever unable to break through that last invisible ceiling.

His anxiety also grew day by day; ultimately, that string within him that had been suppressed for too long finally snapped completely.

He decided to destroy the world.

For no other reason, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord thought that perhaps his cultivation was still not high enough to trigger the endgame of the trial.

Perhaps he had to reach the Soul Transformation level to break out of the game.

Therefore, he no longer restrained himself, intending to turn the entire world into his hunting ground to help him break through the shackles and achieve Soul Transformation Ascension!

And this move naturally caused the expressions of other Nascent Soul True Monarchs to change, and they successively came to stop him.

Times have changed; the Golden Core Stage Soul-Devouring Demon Lord could already fight them to a draw, and his current cultivation far exceeded other Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

No matter how many came, he slaughtered them all.

As one Nascent Soul after another fell, the entire world fell into desperate wails.

But at this step, Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had no intention of stopping at all.

The quality of Soul Transformation numbers could no longer be filled by a few Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

So when the soul devouring banner unfolded in mid-air and spanned across the horizon,

all things in Nine Provinces withered, mountains and rivers shattered, and the once bustling land turned into scorched earth and ruins.

The flesh, blood, and souls of hundreds of millions of living beings turned into nutrients, which were crazily devoured by Soul-Devouring Demon Lord.

His cultivation skyrocketed like riding a rocket amidst this nearly crazy plundering.

Late Stage Nascent Soul, Nascent Soul Great Perfection, ultimately arriving at that final critical point.

The outline of the Soul Transformation gate slowly manifested before him.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord trembled all over with excitement.

He could perceive that that door was close at hand, as if it only took a step to step into it and enter an entirely new world.

Therefore, he intended to use the Law of Reincarnation as the Foundation to begin charging the path of Soul Transformation.

The path of the Nascent Soul is to nurture Dao flowers with Laws.

While the Dao of Soul Transformation is to have the Dao flowers form fruits, named [Dao Fruit].

He intended to condense a "Reincarnation Dao Fruit" with the Law of Reincarnation he comprehended throughout his life, using this as an opportunity to break open that door.

However, at this step, he was dumbfounded.

The Dao Fruit actually could not be condensed.

No matter how he activated the Law of Reincarnation and how he watered it with his mind and soul, the embryonic form of that Dao Fruit always drifted unsteadily in the Void Realm like a tree without roots, forever unable to truly condense and take form.

Soul-Devouring Demon Lord tried countless times, falling short of success at the very last moment every single time, as if some mysterious power in the dark was rejecting his touch.

However, the doubt did not last for very long before he understood the reason behind everything.

But the result made it hard for him to accept.