73: Chapter 73 Be careful in your next life, don't mess with cheaters.

Heavenly Snake Treasure Orb!

"Good stuff..."

Lin Fan activated his Bright Heart Dharma Eye, seeing through the true nature of the orb at a glance.

"Refined from an eighth-rank fierce beast crystal core, it contains vast amounts of earth vein energy. And..."

Lin Fan took a deep breath, an expression of wild joy appearing on his face.

"After countless years of nurturing and tempering by this great array, this earth vein energy has already transformed into... Innate Five Elements Qi!!"

Innate Five Elements Qi!

This was the very key item he had learned about after discussing the Dao with Master Han Fei, which was needed to open up that legendary "Chaos Star Energy Sea"!

"Searching high and low, only to find it without any effort!"

Without any hesitation, Lin Fan jumped straight into the pit and sat cross-legged.

"The Ninth Prince is still eating dust behind me, and no one will disturb me outside."

"If I don't break through now, when will I?!"

Lin Fan immediately began to circulate the "Chaos Star Energy Sea Scripture".

Boom!

The five Divine Vaults already opened within his body were now greedily devouring the Innate Five Elements Qi cascading down from the orb.

"Hum—!"

The originally fixed Divine Vault space began to expand wildly under the nourishment of this innate energy.

The five distinct elemental forces, guided by Lin Fan, surged and roared through his meridians, finally converging in his Dantian.

"Open for me!!"

Lin Fan let out a low shout in his heart.

He had originally thought the barrier to breaking through to the Heavenly Origin Realm would be as solid as a rock, as this was a major hurdle in martial arts cultivation.

But he had clearly underestimated his own foundation, and he had also underestimated the overbearing nature of this Innate Five Elements Qi.

"Crack!"

There was no resistance.

That barrier of the Dantian that had trapped countless martial artists was fragile and vulnerable under the impact of the five elemental forces, shattering instantly.

Rumble—!

The Dantian opened wide, and elemental energy poured in.

Lin Fan looked within himself and saw that his originally chaotic Dantian was now expanding outward at a staggering speed.

Ten zhang... that was the standard for a low-grade energy sea.

Thirty zhang... mid-grade achieved.

One hundred zhang... high-grade attained!

But this was merely the beginning.

Under the crazy augmentation of the Innate Five Elements Qi, the edges of the energy sea lost their restraints and soared all the way up.

Five hundred zhang! One thousand zhang! Five thousand zhang!

Finally.

This ocean of elemental energy settled at exactly ten thousand zhang in size!

A ten-thousand-zhang energy sea!

That was no longer a sea; it was practically a small world! Five-colored elemental energy surged within it, and phantoms of stars floated above. This was the "Chaos Star Energy Sea" that Lin Fan had deduced!

"Supreme grade... no, this has already transcended the concept of grades."

Lin Fan opened his eyes and felt the terrifying elemental energy within him, as vast as an abyss, but the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"It's strong, alright, but the fuel consumption is way too high, isn't it?"

He circulated his cultivation technique slightly and discovered that the resources required to fill this ten-thousand-zhang energy sea were an astronomical figure.

If he were cultivating normally, he probably wouldn't have enough even if he spent his entire life's earnings.

Just then.

"Boom!!"

The bronze doors of the great hall were violently blasted open.

A golden figure rushed in, carrying monstrous rage—it was the Heavenly Snake Ninth Prince.

"Lin Fan!! That is mine!!"

As soon as the Ninth Prince entered, he saw Lin Fan playing with the Heavenly Snake Treasure Orb, which had already dimmed significantly, and his eyes immediately turned red.

That was the hope for his Heavenly Snake Clan's revival; how could this lowly human have gotten to it first?

"Attack! Kill him for me! Tear him into ten thousand pieces!!"

The Ninth Prince roared.

"Swish, swish, swish!"

Behind him, five Heavenly Snake Clan guards clad in black armor sprang into action.

These five were all the Ninth Prince's loyal death soldiers, and as their auras erupted, they were all without exception experts at the early stage of the Heavenly Origin Realm!

"Die!!"

The five Heavenly Origin Realm experts joined forces, their blades and swords sealing off all of Lin Fan's retreat paths.

"Noisy."

Lin Fan sat where he was, not even budging an inch.

He just lazily lifted his eyelids and then threw a punch with nonchalant ease.

Fierce Tiger Fist.

This was the most basic fist technique in the army, but in the hands of Lin Fan, who now possessed a ten-thousand-zhang energy sea, it turned the ordinary into the miraculous.

"Roar—!!"

A deafening tiger roar sounded within the hall, accompanied by the faint sound of thunder.

The vast five-elemental energy transformed into a hundred-zhang-large, colorful tiger fist imprint, roaring outward with an overbearing power that crushed everything in its path.

"Not good!!"

The expressions of the five guards changed drastically as they felt a suffocating aura of death rushing towards them.

They wanted to retreat, but discovered that the surrounding space had been locked down by this punch.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There was no suspense.

The five early-stage Heavenly Origin Realm experts were fragile and weak before this tiger-head fist imprint.

They didn't even have time to scream before they were directly blasted into mists of blood!

One punch, five kills!

"What?!"

The Ninth Prince, who was just about to watch the show, saw the ferocity on his face freeze, turning into endless terror.

One-punch kill of five Heavenly Origin Realm experts?

The hell, this is someone who just broke through? This is simply a fierce beast in human skin!

"Run!!"

The Ninth Prince reacted extremely quickly, pulling a strangely shaped purple token from his bosom without any hesitation.

"Crack!"

The token was crushed.

A mysterious spatial formation pattern appeared, enveloping the Ninth Prince.

This was the "Great Teleportation Token" used by the Heavenly Snake royal family for self-preservation; once activated, it would only take one second to teleport hundreds of miles away, ignoring terrain!

"Lin Fan! You just wait! This Prince will definitely return!!"

Looking at the Ninth Prince, whose body was gradually becoming intangible, Lin Fan stared at him.

"Want to run? Did you ask me first?"

Lin Fan slowly stood up and tapped his foot lightly on the ground.

"Hum—!"

With him as the center, an invisible Eight Trigrams formation plate spread out, covering the entire hall.

"Instant Shadow Space Step"—Central Palace, Fix!

Lin Fan watched the Ninth Prince, who was about to teleport away, parted his lips slightly, and spat out three words:

"Disorder, Gold, Mallet."

Boom!

A strange fluctuation descended.

In that instant, the flow of time in the area where the Ninth Prince was located slowed down, or even... paused!

The teleportation light, which would have normally taken only one second to complete, was now frozen in mid-air.

The Ninth Prince's terrified, twisted face was also frozen there, and even the fluttering of his eyelashes became incredibly slow.

And from Lin Fan's perspective, the opponent was like a stationary target.

"Fancy but useless."

Lin Fan took a step forward.

"Eight Gates Transport!"

Swish!

His figure disappeared, and the next moment, he appeared out of thin air right beside the Ninth Prince.

Lin Fan reached out, passed through the layer of solidified teleportation light, and grabbed the Ninth Prince by his slender neck.

"Get... over here, you!"

Lin Fan exerted force with his arm, forcibly dragging the Ninth Prince out of the teleportation formation!

"Snap!!"

As the Ninth Prince left the range of the formation, the effect of "Disorder Gold Mallet" dissipated.

The light of the teleportation formation flickered once, then lost its target and slowly dissipated.

"Cough, cough... you... how is it possible..."

The Ninth Prince felt the iron-clamp-like hand on his neck, and the terror in his eyes had turned into despair.

His Great Teleportation Token, which he was so proud of, had actually been interrupted?

What kind of demonic art was that?!

"Watch yourself in your next life, don't mess with a cheater."

Lin Fan looked at the unwillingness in the Ninth Prince's eyes, said nothing more, and applied slight pressure with his palm.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound.

This high and mighty Ninth Prince of the Heavenly Snake Clan tilted his head, breathing his last.

The five-elemental energy within Lin Fan's body surged in, destroying his heart meridians and vitality.

"This corpse is not bad; the bloodline purity is quite high."

Lin Fan casually tossed the Ninth Prince's corpse into his space ring, "Just right to take back for practicing the 'Dragon Blood Hegemon Body Art'."

After finishing all this, Lin Fan, as if he had just casually swatted a fly, began to skillfully loot the body.