Heavenly Leak Ascends to Minor Accomplishment, Demons Launch Surprise Attack!

Heaven Leak Divine Ability, advancing from Initial Success to Minor Success?

Seeing this message, Lu Ming finally understood why he had that strange feeling.

He immediately opened his Divine Ability Panel to check.

[Acupoint Divine Ability]: Heaven Leak (Minor Success), Point-Kill (Initial Success), Flick Finger (Initial Success).

"Indeed! The stage after Heaven Leak is no longer Initial Success, but Minor Success!"

Lu Ming's eyes lit up, and with a thought, he activated the Heaven Leak Divine Ability.

His vision instantly changed—wind became gray dashed lines, and numerous black leak points appeared in his sight, on the Stone Tablet, on cracked floor tiles, on the aging courtyard walls, and so on.

"Oh? There's a change indeed!"

Lu Ming's gaze flickered as he noticed his field of vision had suddenly extended.

Previously, within this courtyard, all he could see were the clear breeze and the black leak points inside it.

But now, his sight actually "pierced through" the courtyard wall, allowing him to see the wind and black leak points beyond!

"The bluestone road outside the wall, the small holes in the roadside trees, and a cluster of constantly moving black leak points... oh, that's the direction of the Martial Arts Arena."

Lu Ming looked around in excitement.

Wherever his gaze fell, whether living or non-living, anything with black leak points—flaws—would appear before his eyes.

Moreover, because he possessed the Point-Kill Divine Ability, he could sense the aura emanating from those black leak points.

Thus, he could almost rely on this to recognize who someone was through their black leak points!

Even if obstacles like courtyard walls stood in the way, they were no hindrance—his gaze would pierce right through them.

This range was... one hundred zhang!

That is, over three hundred meters!

This range was ten times that of the Earth Splitting Divine Ability, the Mountain-Pushing Divine Ability, and the Flick Finger Divine Ability.

"So strong!" Lu Ming's heart surged with ecstasy.

With this divine ability, he would essentially have x-ray vision from now on, no longer fearing ambushes.

Of course, there was a small regret—it only worked when his gaze actually saw something. If he closed his eyes or looked where his sight couldn't reach, it was ineffective.

But that was a minor flaw. The Minor Success level of the Heaven Leak Divine Ability having such an effect already filled him with pleasant surprise.

"Who would have thought that after a divine ability breaks through its stage, its effect would be so greatly elevated!"

Lu Ming's thoughts raced. It seemed he needed to advance his divine abilities as much as possible.

However, he only knew one way to advance them: frequent use, making perfect through practice.

The reason Heaven Leak Divine Ability was the first to reach Minor Success was that he constantly stepped on black leak points on the road during his daily walks.

And he often used the Heaven Leak Divine Ability to observe the black leak points around him.

More crucially, using this divine ability didn't consume physical stamina.

But divine abilities like Earth Splitting consumed a great deal of stamina with each use, affecting cultivation, so they couldn't be used frequently.

Such divine abilities were destined to advance slowly.

"Hm? What's going on!"

As Lu Ming pondered, he continued using the Heaven Leak Divine Ability, curiously looking around.

Suddenly, he saw a terrifyingly immense aura underground, a hundred meters away, surging rapidly toward the surface.

Just looking at that aura made his heart tremble with fear.

A distance of a hundred meters, yet it made his body stiffen under immense pressure.

The outermost edge of the Iron Stake Area was roughly this distance.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming's expression changed.

That meant the aura of that thing was more than ten times stronger than the corpse of the Iron-Scaled Python Demon.

"Demon!"

Lu Ming's pupils contracted sharply as he guessed the identity of that thing in his mind.

What other powerful being would be underground, if not a demon?

But hadn't it been said that the demon attacked the Military Service Bureau squad, and Wei Jinlin went to reinforce them? How could it appear here?

Could it be... a feint to the east while striking the west?

Were demons truly this intelligent?!

For a moment, Lu Ming dared not move a muscle, his mind racing with thoughts.

As he considered countermeasures, his gaze locked tightly on that direction. At the spot where the demon surged up, there were two auras.

One of them had a familiar presence, as if it were an acquaintance.

The other was very unfamiliar, yet its aura was powerful. It seemed to be the first to detect the demon's arrival, suddenly pressing tightly against that acquaintance.

Boom!!

He clearly heard a loud crash from a hundred meters away—the sound of a demon breaking through the earth.

The unfamiliar aura abruptly retreated. At that moment, the familiar aura rapidly weakened. By the time it collided with the demon, it had already lost all life force, no different from a dead thing.

"Beast!"

Just then, a furious shout rang out from above. A terrifying aura shot down from the sky at breakneck speed.

Lu Ming looked up—Wei Jinlin had returned.

Wei Jinlin descended from the heavens, his aura overwhelming. Seeing this, Lu Ming felt both shock and joy.

Wei Jinlin's aura at this moment was actually slightly stronger than the demon's! This meant Wei Jinlin was more powerful than the demon!

That being the case, the demon would have no chance to strike again. He was safe.

Rumble~

Through the vision of the Heaven Leak Divine Ability, he saw the demon's aura rapidly retreating downward, unwilling to contend with Wei Jinlin.

Lu Ming let out a long breath. His body relaxed, and cold sweat poured down his back.

So this was what a true demon's aura felt like. Compared to it, the Iron-Scaled Python Demon's corpse was nothing—a minor sorcerer next to a great one.

Still, one thing struck him as odd. Though Wei Jinlin's aura was stronger than the demon's, it lacked that crushing pressure. Instead, it was rather restrained.

Was it because human martial artists naturally kept their auras contained while demons let theirs run wild? Or was there another reason?

Lu Ming had no time to dwell on it now. Seeing Wei Jinlin back, he quickly strode out of the courtyard to rejoin the others.

He didn't want the demon to return and catch him alone.

At this moment, outside the Grand Martial Arts Arena, before a collapsed small courtyard, many disciples had gathered, led by Wei Jinlin and Xu Shou.

Thinking of that familiar aura, Lu Ming squeezed into the inner circle. The moment he looked, his expression shifted.

Half a body lay on the ground, withered and dry, as if all its blood had been drained. It was nothing but skin and bones, yet there was no trace of blood on the ground.

Lu Ming stared at the bizarre corpse. From the barely recognizable face, he identified who it was.

This person was none other than the Zhao Family genius, Zhao Zhiqiu!

"It's Zhao Zhiqiu! It's actually Zhao Zhiqiu!"

"His luck was terrible—he ran into the demon."

"If he'd stayed in the Grand Martial Arts Arena, he'd be fine. But he had to go out with someone."

"Who knew the demon would feint east and strike west? Too cunning."

The surrounding Military Service Bureau disciples murmured among themselves, most feeling a sense of sorrow for the fallen. The fox mourns the hare's death.

The demon was too ferocious and arrogant. Next time, it might be their turn.

Lu Ming's face darkened. He hadn't expected it to be Zhao Zhiqiu.

The young master of the Zhao Family, a martial arts genius ranked in the top five of the local Military Service Bureau, someone he'd just been chatting and laughing with. They'd even made a deal—the man had casually tossed out two hundred taels, leaving a good impression.

And now, in the blink of an eye, he was a dried-up corpse, dead before his time.

Lu Ming's gaze swept the crowd. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, locking onto one person.

That person's aura was the unfamiliar one he'd sensed earlier—the one that had clung to Zhao Zhiqiu right before the demon arrived.

"This person is..."