prynovel Chapter 81 : Chapter 81
Chapter 81 : Chapter 81
Chapter 81: Next Time, I’ll Blow This Mere Evil God Apart with One Punch!!
Su Qingwu’s voice came from inside the spacecraft.
“There is no need to worry for now.”
“Its speed is still far below mine. At the moment, it is probably still tens of thousands of light-years away.”
“It will take it at least several years to reach here.”
“And once a few years pass, we can simply run to the other side of the Milky Way again.”
“The longer we drag this out, the stronger we become. Perhaps one day Sister Ying will even break through.”
Xiao Xuan explained calmly.
“That is true. In any case, the spacecraft has a sufficient Life-Support System.”
“It can keep all of us alive indefinitely!”
“The only trouble is that Brother Xiao will have to keep carrying us around on the run.”
After hearing that, Gu Xuan nodded.
“It benefits me as well. The constant instant exhaustion and rapid replenishment of my soul is making my bottleneck more and more fragile. Perhaps one day my soul realm might actually break through.”
Xiao Xuan said with a smile.
But when Mu Xiying heard that, she fell silent.
What Xiao Xuan said did make sense, but it was only a temporary measure. The reason he could shake off the black fog for years at a time was mainly because he was devouring souls to do it.
Once all those souls were exhausted, the recovery speed of his Mental Power would become much, much slower!
At that point, Xiao Xuan would have no choice but to absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth without pause until the black fog finally caught up to him.
As for the breakthrough he had mentioned, if the realm above the Supreme Realm were really that easy to reach, she would already have done it long ago.
But for now, they had no other choice. They could only drag things out for one more day at a time.
Xiao Xuan brought all the spacecraft to a place beyond the reach of that so-called seal.
If they fled from here, one teleportation would cover more than a hundred light-years.
That would make escape a little faster.
At the same time, he also began cultivating in the starry sky.
He sought out large numbers of stars and plunged directly into them, frantically absorbing the energy they contained!
With his terrifying strength, one star after another was rapidly drained.
And the strength of his physical body also began growing quickly.
As for Mu Xiying, her method of cultivation also relied on stars, but instead she sought out the stars Xiao Xuan had already drained, the ones that had become black holes.
Although the fire-element energy within those black holes was weak, they contained an even more terrifying kind of power.
That power was the key to Mu Xiying’s cultivation.
Thirteen years later, the black fog found them again.
The moment he saw it, Xiao Xuan teleported directly to the spacecraft, then vanished together with it.
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But after arriving in a new place, Xiao Xuan did not hurry to leave again at once. Instead, he remained where he was and continued cultivating.
Only several days later, after the black fog caught up once more, did he leave.
However, so long as his strength did not break through, the speed of the black fog was still somewhat faster than the speed at which he could recover on his own.
So he still had to refine a portion of those souls.
But that was not too big a problem!
He began using his Thunderflame Power to torment those souls relentlessly.
Souls, during the process of being tortured, would frantically absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth around them, thereby increasing their own strength.
Though painful, ghost cultivators, demonic cultivators, and those who cultivated the soul path often used this very method to strengthen their souls.
That way, the number of souls did not change, but the upper limit of their soul power kept rising.
It could even surpass Xiao Xuan’s rate of consumption.
Although it was inhumane, and every day the starry sky rang with ghostly howls and shrieks,
Xiao Xuan did not care in the slightest.
And under that slow grind, year after year passed.
Very quickly, a full hundred years had passed since the black fog descended.
Yet when the hundred-year mark arrived, the thing Xiao Xuan, Mu Xiying, and the others had feared most still happened.
The speed of the black fog increased considerably!
A distance of a hundred light-years had originally taken it eight or nine days.
But after this increase, it could now reach them in only five days.
“When you mentioned this before, I already suspected that the black fog might become stronger after a hundred years!”
“I never expected it to come true. What exactly is going on?”
“If its speed rose by fifty percent, then its power has probably doubled as well, hasn’t it?”
After escaping once again, Xiao Xuan looked at Mu Xiying and spoke gravely.
“That was exactly how the Evil God was back then!”
“When it first descended, it was only a little stronger than I was!”
“But a hundred years later, its strength doubled, and I was no longer its opponent at all. That was when I was killed.”
“I never expected the black fog to be the same.”
“Could these two perhaps exist in some kind of symbiotic relationship?”
Mu Xiying was filled with doubt.
“I don’t know. And we also don’t know whether this was only its first rise in power, or its last.”
“If this is the last one, then we are still barely able to keep up with the current growth rate of the souls in the Myriad Souls Banner.”
“But if there is another increase, then things will get difficult.”
Xiao Xuan sounded helpless.
“We can only take it one step at a time. But at least it proves that your method is correct!”
“If there is another cycle like this, then we can still use the same method to stay alive a bit longer.”
Mu Xiying said seriously.
“If there is a next time, then I’ll smash that pathetic Evil God apart with one punch!”
After hearing Mu Xiying’s words, Xiao Xuan spoke with proud confidence.
Mu Xiying was stunned for a moment.
Then she remembered what Xiao Xuan had told her before.
The Xiao Xuan who had not yet come to the future had a talent that was still rising nonstop.
But after arriving in the future, the version of him that belonged to that world seemed to have stopped growing in talent.
Although she did not know why, one thing was certain. If what Xiao Xuan said was true,
then perhaps the next time he returned, his strength would already have broken through beyond the Supreme Realm.
But now was not the time to talk about that.
Xiao Xuan, Su Qingwu, and the others resumed their long journey of fleeing and cultivating.
And the years continued to pass one after another.
What let them breathe a little easier was that after that first hundred years, the black fog’s speed did not increase again.
But they were not allowed to relax for long.
Because three hundred years later, the speed of the black fog surged once more.
Which meant that the black fog truly was growing stronger all the time.
And once there was a second increase, then there might well be a third!
A fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, an eighth...No one knew where it would end.
In those few short centuries, although Mu Xiying’s strength had already returned to the level she had possessed in her previous life, at that time, she had only barely been able to fight the Evil God in its first stage.
If the Evil God descended now, it would already be in its third stage.
There was no way she could possibly be its match.
As for Xiao Xuan, although his physical body had risen to the Eighth Layer of the Supreme Realm, the increase in his combat power was still limited.
And in truth, he was still weaker than Mu Xiying.
After all, his talent was only Peak Gold.
Mu Xiying, meanwhile, not only had Peak Gold, but also the support of several Dark Gold traits.