A Druid Also Can Cultivate

Chapter 590 - 458: Nightmare-Level Battlefield (Part 2)

And this will be the Star Ocean World’s most nightmare-level battlefield.

Because the entire Demon Race World, the truly top-tier existences, are almost all gathered at the Void Refining Stage and Integration Stage levels.

Except for the Mahayana Stage experts unable to step into the Star Ocean World, the most powerful, ancient, and ferocious entities in the Demon Realm are almost all concentrated in these two levels.

King Level Void Refining Demon Race and Integration Stage Saint Demons!

Among these powerful beings, they are nightmares for human cultivators. For example, the Void Refining Stage Thousand-Eyed Giant Demon, if not for Baili Yun’s restraint, the entire Star Ocean World might not have anyone capable of successfully slaying it, even Qi Ping would find it exceedingly difficult.

Or like the mysterious Black Hole Demon God, apart from Qi Ping, other people’s attacks caused barely a ripple.

And these powerful representatives are merely a portion of the Demon Realm’s force.

Imagine the extent of terror the Void Refining level battlefield and the next level up, the Integration Stage battlefield, will reach...

At this level of battlefield, it’s absolutely not something a few talismans can overturn, let alone that there is no Grandmaster of this level of talisman in the Star Ocean World, and everyone only has some ancient relics as trump cards, which are merely a drop in the bucket for this battlefield.

And the Star Ocean World’s severe lack in top tier combat power and resources directly elevates the difficulty of this battlefield to nightmare-level, hell-level mode.

Currently on the Void Level combat power side, the Star Ocean World only has the Void Level lifeform Stone Spirit, Meng Tianqi who comprehends the Life and Death Law, the Wood Immortal Old Woman who just stepped into the Void Refining Stage, three Void Refining Stage Void Fish... Besides these, there’s only Ji Qingyue, ranked first in the Star Ocean World with her Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Body...

Whereas the Demon Realm’s accumulated Void Refining Stage Demon Race numbers far surpass the Star Ocean World.

In facing truly top-tier Void Refining Stage Demon Race, not even one-to-one battles can ensure victory for Star Ocean World’s Void Refining Cultivators, let alone one-to-many circumstances.

If not for Qi Ping and others forming arrays early on and utilizing the advantage of magical treasures to kill many Void Refining Demon Race, later Baili Yun forcibly breaking through to Integration, utilizing the Integration Stage Celestial Tribulation to kill many demons, the battlefield difficulty might have increased by another notch or two.

But despite this, reality remains cruel.

The Void Refining level battlefield had barely started when the Wood Immortal Old Woman and one of the Void Refining level Void Fish perished.

Originally, a Void Fish’s space talent and spatial divine techniques’ power make it impossible to be easily slain, but just after entering the battlefield, this Void Fish encountered a Demon Race full of blue threads.

Facing such a situation, the Void Fish immediately followed Qi Ping’s instruction to flee and seek out Stone Spirit or Meng Tianqi.

Although the Void Fish’s space talent is powerful, to form a strong combat force, five or six Void Fish need to unite, but there are only three Void Refining level Void Fish, insufficient to handle those terrifying Void Refining level Demon Race.

Demon Race that reaches this level have bloodlines that even if not matching, definitely don’t fall short of the Void Fish, some even greatly surpass it.

But unfortunately, just as this Void Fish attempted to flee, the Demon Race made of blue threads had its eyes shine brightly, and then blue, wriggling lines grew rapidly on the Void Fish...

Once that happened, the Void Fish almost instantly lost its ability to act, and in a short time, it was bound tightly by the wriggling blue lines.

At that moment, feeling its life quickly being consumed, the Void Fish resolutely began the sacrifice!

Instantly, the Void Fish was enveloped in a soft, white light, disappearing without a trace under the white glow.

The Void Fish resolute in initiating the sacrifice because if consumed completely, Qi Ping cannot resurrect his animal companion even as a Beast Guardian Envoy.

Under normal circumstances, when Qi Ping’s animal companion is killed, the Power of Sacrifice directly sacrifices the corpse, much like Qi Ping’s slain Golden Marrow Bees vanished wrapped in this power.

But now the Void Fish could feel its flesh, divine soul, and power being consumed by these wriggling blue lines, in just a moment, a quarter of its flesh and divine soul was gone.

In such circumstances, the Void Fish had no choice but to initiate a voluntary sacrifice, yet ultimately it only preserved a little over half of its body...

In the instant the Void Fish vanished under the Power of Sacrifice, the eerie blue-threaded Demon Race’s previously shining eyes dimmed, revealing a hint of puzzlement—this was the first time a small creature managed to escape its innate divine technique...

...

With the Void Fish’s demise, something also resonated within Qi Ping in the Nine Star Sea Realms.

"It’s only just beginning, a Void Refining level Void Fish succumbed just like that?" Qi Ping’s eyes filled with shock.

He knew all too well the Void Fish’s escape capabilities; even Meng Tianqi and Baili Yun at the Void Refining Stage Perfection would struggle to kill it when it decided to flee.

Yet such an escape-capable Void Fish just up and died, making Qi Ping realize something truly remarkable has appeared on the Void Refining level battlefield.

Thus, Qi Ping didn’t hesitate to employ Beast Guardian Envoy abilities to prepare to resurrect that Void Fish.

As a white light illuminated before Qi Ping, swiftly draining his Power of Divine Soul and spiritual power, a seemingly dreamy Void Fish began to gradually emerge before him.

Once this Void Fish was fully resurrected, Qi Ping furrowed his brow tightly.

"Same as before, resurrected animal companions have part of their life essence permanently lost, though over one or two times it can recover slowly over time, but if it’s too frequent, the path to advancement may be entirely severed..."

However, wasn’t this Void Fish in front of him exceedingly weak?

"Boss..."

Seeing its boss, the Void Fish almost cried out.

"Fubao, what happened?" Qi Ping asked, stroking its head.

Fubao was the name of the Void Fish before him. At Qi Ping’s realm, remembering each Void Fish’s name was hardly difficult.

"Boss... I just encountered a Demon Race composed of wriggling blue lines, just with a glance, my body sprouted wriggling blue lines..."

The Void Fish, recounting its tale, felt its body shiver, such eerie occurrences were frightening indeed.

During that time, it strained the space, constantly unleashing space storms, yet couldn’t shake off the effect of the blue threads, leading it to abruptly sacrifice itself rather than be entirely lost.

And upon hearing the Void Fish’s story, Qi Ping frowned even deeper.

"Seems something extraordinary arrived on the Void Refining level battlefield..."

Besides divulging this information and attack methods to those on the battlefield, there was little else he could do.

The appearance of such unimaginable eerie Demon Race species was expected, as almost every Demon Race hierarchy would hoard extremely terrifying creatures—this is a matter they must confront.

Now he hopes Meng Tianqi and Stone Spirit’s robust foundations can overcome this unsettling foe.

After the Void Fish’s demise, another Void Refining level Wood Immortal Old Woman quickly fell.

But unlike the Void Fish, her end was preordained.

Since she had just breached the Void Refining Stage recently, despite her formidable combat abilities, confronting equally fearsome Demon Race yielded no success.

Hence her primary aim upon entering was to establish a Void Refining level realm battlefield, dispersing some of the enemies for the others.

And she had long since: