First Battle with the Asura Race

Don't be fooled by how weak this Asura seemed. That was only because he had used an explosive secret technique during his battle with Lin Xuan and was now in a weakened state. The Blood Red Whirlwind before them had most likely been created by this Asura Race member burning his own essence blood.

"There's no need for you to act. Just watch from the side. He's only at the early Taiyi Realm—it's not like we've never fought one before!" Hearing that his nephew wanted to go up, Lin Haifeng naturally did not dare agree. If the Clan Leader found out, wouldn't he skin him alive?

As the Demon Extermination Cannon finished charging, a pillar of energy formed from lightning shot straight toward the Asura's heart!

Boom! The immense energy crashed into the Blood Red Whirlwind. As the two forces canceled each other out, the Demon Extermination Cannon's power was rapidly diminished, while the whirlwind showed signs of growing stronger and stronger!

"This...!"

The Demon Extermination Cannon had not caused the enemy even the slightest injury. Lin Haifeng was utterly stunned!

"Haha! Foolish fool, do you think the Blood Colored Storm of us Asuras can be broken so easily?!"

"Die! Asura's Wrath!" The Blood Red Whirlwind gradually transformed into a Tornado that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, charging straight at the Flying Boat!

Feeling the storm's suction force, every Lin Clan member aboard the Flying Boat went pale.

Even more terrifyingly, Wind Blades formed within the Tornado and swept toward them!

"Quick! Activate the Defense Shield! Why is this damned Asura Race so hard to deal with?!" Lin Haifeng cursed under his breath!

Hearing his second uncle's voice, Lin Xuan could not help shaking his head with a smile. He did not know whether the family had sent Second Uncle and the others to protect him, or whether he was supposed to protect them!

After Second Uncle had once used this Demon Extermination Cannon to kill a Taiyi Realm Demon Race member, he had assumed that every Taiyi Realm opponent could be defeated.

One had to know that the Taiyi Realm was not as simple as the Golden Immortal Realm! Taiyi Realm cultivators had cultivated all three laws into Dao Fruits. The Great Dao had three thousand paths, and not a single law could be underestimated!

They had only happened to kill one before, and it had merely been restrained by the Demon Extermination Cannon. On top of that, the Demon Race member had underestimated them, so there was nothing strange about its death!

Besides, this Demon Extermination Cannon had originally been an experimental product developed by the Artifact Refining Academy. Otherwise, would it have been sold so cheaply?

It was a weapon capable of killing Taiyi Realm cultivators! How could people possibly obtain it so easily? Even this experimental product had only been sold out of respect for the Lin Family's Clan Leader being among the first batch of Human Race members back then. After all, those twelve hundred innate Human Race members had now all become Taiyi Realm cultivators and been entrusted with important duties by the Clan Leader!

Second Uncle's path had been too smooth these past years. Did he think the Martial Arts Academy's teachings were so simple? Over the years, Lin Xuan had gone through countless battles in Secret Realms—the Human Race's collective term for Small Worlds—before standing out from among tens of thousands of Human Race prodigies!

After the Flying Boat endured the first wave of Wind Blades, Lin Xuan gripped his longsword and shot fiercely into the sky. Boundless mana surged forth, gradually condensing a massive sword phantom in the heavens!

One Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate!

The giant sword slashed down at the Blood Tornado. With a crack, a shattering sound rang out. The Blood Tornado abruptly stalled, and the giant sword cleaved downward in an instant. The storm gradually came to a halt, revealing that the tall Asura had lost one head from his shoulders, leaving only two heads roaring!

Red blood flowed down from his shoulders, yet it formed a suit of blood-red armor over the Asura's body.

"Ah!"

After being injured, Ye Sha's aura instead surged explosively, his Cultivation Level directly approaching the peak of the Taiyi Realm!

God Burial Blood Sea!

A Blood River washed forth from the void. Scarlet blood gradually gathered around Ye Sha, forming a blood-colored lake around him.

Ye Sha's severed head slowly condensed anew!

Wherever the bloody water spread, the earth was completely corroded away. The surrounding flowers, grass, and trees all withered, while countless Blood Tentacles condensed and reached for the Flying Boat in the sky!

"Damn! Is he really this hard to deal with?" Lin Xuan grumbled as he watched Ye Sha recover his strength once more.

"Second Uncle, take the Immortal Apricot Tree aboard first. I'll have some fun with him." Looking at the Immortal Apricot Tree that was about to be washed over by blood, Lin Xuan spoke to Lin Haifeng.

With that, he put away his longsword and smiled faintly. It seemed that unless he got serious, he truly would not be able to do anything to him.

"Come on, Earth Explosion Star!"

Countless earth-element laws gathered in Lin Xuan's hand. With a light downward press, the center of the Blood River below suddenly exploded!

The bottom of the Blood River had suddenly erupted. Countless stone pillars slowly rose from below before exploding violently, blasting Ye Sha's condensed Blood River apart and scattering it across the sky.

Countless drops of blood rain fell, and Ye Sha's ultimate move was broken just like that.

Before Ye Sha could react, Lin Xuan silently chanted an incantation. A phantom of a Ten-Thousand-Zhang Mountain smashed toward Ye Sha with the force of thunder!

As the mountain descended, its illusory form gradually solidified!

He should be dead this time, right? After a moment, seeing no movement from the mountain, Lin Xuan finally relaxed.

Turning back toward his second uncle and the others, he saw that the Immortal Apricot Tree had already been taken aboard the Flying Boat.

"Little Xuan, you're truly amazing! You're much more useful than that lousy cannon."

Seeing Lin Xuan deal with the enemy, Lin Haifeng could not help praising him.

"Alright, Second Uncle. There are too many eyes here. We should hurry back to the clan."

"Alright, alright. We'll listen to you."

The Flying Boat accelerated and instantly vanished from the area.

Not long afterward, several figures descended here.

"Great King, it looks like a great battle took place here. Judging from the traces, one side seems to have been the recently rising Asura Race. As for the other side, I can't tell," said a Demon Race member with a human body and a snake tail.

"Hmph! If I'm not mistaken, it was the Human Race!" The Black Giant Tiger said furiously.

"The Human Race!"

Several lesser demons immediately cried out.

"What are you shouting for?!" the Tiger King rebuked his subordinates.

"What does it matter if they're Human Race? Just don't let me catch you in my hands again!"

The Tiger King said viciously.

Several little demons exchanged glances, then lowered their heads in silence.

As the Human Race began exploring the Primordial World, conflicts with the local races naturally arose.

These Humans, driven half-mad from being pent up for years, were fighting almost every moment. Wherever they passed, they swept every treasure clean, even slaughtering demons for their cores—there was no evil they would not commit.

Of course, that was from the Demon Race's perspective.

From the Human Race's perspective, they had merely come out to hunt for treasure. Yet these Fierce Beasts and demons charged at them, shouting for blood at the slightest disagreement! Naturally, they had to fight it out!

As for Demon Cores, there was nothing to say about that. The Alchemy Academy and Artifact Refining Academy had developed many uses for inner cores, and countless factions were buying them up in bulk. It was not only Humans selling them—other demon races were even selling them to Humans!

As far as the Human Race was concerned, those who specifically hunted demons for cores were practically negligible, unless they were the sort who could barely get by and desperately needed money. The bulk of the trade came from other races who specifically went to the Human Race to sell them!

Of course, it was not that the Human Race did not want to do this, but the Clan Leader had spoken: slaughtering demons for cores went against the harmony of Heaven. The Human Race should do less of it! They could just buy them directly!

This was where Jiang He's Saintly Mother Heart flared up. After all, he had done no small amount of such things himself back then. The key was that other Humans did not have Red Dust Pearls to absorb Sha Qi. If they killed too many, the entire Human Race might be disliked by all living beings of the Primordial World! The history education from his previous life had taught him to do fewer things that provoked public outrage!

Luo Shui City

Within the Martial Arts Academy, Lin Xuan turned in the Immortal Apricot Tree and uploaded footage of his battle with the Asura Race, recorded by the ring he carried with him! After all, proper communication devices came with other functions, such as taking photos and recording videos!

He received the academy's reward. Of the Immortal Apricot Tree's fruit, ten were given to him, along with one hundred thousand Red Dust Points and one million Spirit Stones! He could also take up the post of Yajiang in any of the Four Great Legions!

He was over the moon! Not only had he received one hundred thousand Red Dust Points, he could also serve as a Yajiang in one of the Four Great Legions. The other Spirit Stones and immortal fruits held little appeal for him! After all, he did not lack Spirit Stones, and the academy's research had found that immortal fruits could awaken Wind and Lightning Power—while also making one incomparably ugly!

To him, that was utterly useless. After all, every Human randomly awakened one law at birth, and could slowly learn other laws at the academy. Some freakishly lucky ones could even inherit the innate Human Race's five-element laws—it was not impossible.

For the Human Race, this stuff was only useful for alchemy!

Red Dust Points, however, were different. Within the Red Dust Pearl, he could freely learn all manner of high-level divine abilities and techniques, and could even apply to cultivate in a Secret Realm.

This stuff was not difficult to obtain; it was just spent far too quickly! Take his Myriad Sword Art and One Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate, for example—each cost fifty thousand points. More advanced divine abilities, such as Dharma Appearance Heaven and Earth and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations, started at one million!

As long as one uploaded previously unrecorded information for the Human Race, they could receive it—anything would do! Even if one discovered two male demon beasts clapping for love, they could still get one hundred points!

The Red Dust Pearl's principle was simple: it welcomed all comers, so long as the information was not identical!