Just Foundation Establishment, and already someone blind comes to court death?

Freshly Foundation Established, and Some Blind Fool Came to Court Death? Seven days later, in a dilapidated courtyard, Zhao Hao opened his eyes.

The sword wound on his left shoulder had long since scabbed over, but that deathly chill still coiled tight in his heart like a venomous snake.

For these seven days, he had been like a rat hiding in a gutter, even his breathing weighed with calculation.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Heavenly Sword Sect had not appeared again, as though after that one sword strike, he had completely lost Zhao Hao's trail.

As for the Extreme Yin Sect, their flying boat had been destroyed, the front line was in dire straits, and they had no time to look after anything else.

The brief, deathly stillness between the two powers was his only path to survival!

Qi Refining ninth layer, perfection—he was only one breath away from that threshold.

But that one breath could also be an accident enough to crush him to death.

He could not wait any longer!

Early the next morning, Zhao Hao changed into a set of shabby cloth clothes, blended into the line of mortals leaving the city, lowered his head, and soon vanished at the city gate.

After he had completely left all traces of human habitation behind, he plunged deep into the dense forest and sank underground without the slightest hesitation.

Earth Escape Art!

After traveling intermittently for several hundred li beneath the earth, Zhao Hao stopped beside a tiny vein of earthfire near the territory of the Extreme Yin Sect.

What he wanted was not that meager bit of spiritual energy, but the harshness and concealment of this environment.

Twenty zhang underground, a simple cave dwelling was quickly opened up.

A palm-sized azure array plate was activated, and a layer of light enveloped the four walls. This was the array plate he had conveniently taken from the Ten Thousand Corpse Mountain cave dwelling, and it could withstand a full-force strike from a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator.

But this still was not enough!

Zhao Hao took out Eighth Senior Sister Lin Yaoyao's Blood Vein Bone Armor from his storage bag.

[Main Item: Blood Vein Bone Armor (mid-grade magic artifact)]

With a thought, he locked onto the mountain of spirit stones piled inside his storage bag.

"Two hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones. Strengthen!"

[Strengthening success rate: 100%]

"Confirm!"

[Ding! Strengthening successful! Blood Vein Bone Armor (mid-grade magic artifact) has been upgraded to (high-grade magic artifact)!]

"Not enough!"

Zhao Hao clenched his teeth and invested spirit stones again.

"One thousand two hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones. Smash them in!"

[Strengthening success rate: 100%]

"Confirm!"

[Ding! Strengthening successful! Blood Vein Bone Armor (high-grade magic artifact) has been upgraded to (top-grade magic artifact)!]

A dim radiance flashed across the surface of the soft armor and vanished. That heavy, solid aura was as different from before as clouds from mud.

Zhao Hao put on this top-grade magic artifact that was enough to drive Qi Refining cultivators mad. The cold armor pressed against his skin, and the last trace of unease in his heart was forcibly suppressed.

After that, he called up the system and used the residual pill toxins in his body as waste material, strengthening them away and clearing them out.

After doing all this, he once again checked the area within ten li of the fire vein. Only after confirming there was not the slightest aura of any cultivator did he return to the underground cave dwelling.

Zhao Hao sat cross-legged.

Crash—!

He turned the entire storage bag upside down.

Low-grade spirit stones emitting a faint white glow poured out like a mountain flood, instantly submerging one corner of the small cave dwelling.

Nearly thirty thousand low-grade spirit stones!

Spiritual energy so dense it seemed to take physical form wrapped around his entire body.

Zhao Hao sat cross-legged in the center of the spirit-stone mountain. There was not the slightest excitement on his face, only the madness of someone who had staked his entire fortune just to gamble for a path to survival.

Foundation Establishment!

He spread his five fingers and clenched them fiercely toward the mountain of spirit stones before him!

"Come!"

A small patch of fully two thousand spirit stones was crushed into powder by him out of thin air. Berserk spiritual energy swarmed out, and the concentration of spiritual energy inside the cave dwelling soared once more!

The perfected Mysterious Yin Qi Absorption Art erupted without reservation!

This was not absorption at all. It was devouring!

"Ugh!"

Zhao Hao's body shuddered violently. His meridians were instantly stretched until they bulged, and the perfected Mysterious Yin Qi Absorption Art circulated at full capacity, letting out a groan under the unbearable burden.

His entire body seemed like an out-of-control furnace, frantically forcing the surging spiritual energy into refinement. Tearing, swelling pain came from every inch of his meridians.

Zhao Hao's face was twisted and savage. Not only did he not slow down, he drove the cultivation method even more madly!

No breaking, no standing anew! Today, he would use these thirty thousand spirit stones to crush this damned bottleneck, together with all the stifled frustration and fear of the past!

"Refine for me!"

Within his dantian, the gaseous spiritual power was compressed to the limit and began spinning wildly at a terrifying speed!

Gas into liquid!

The most crucial step, and also the most perilous!

Yet at the very center of the spiritual energy vortex in his dantian, countless illusions began to breed.

Eighth Senior Sister Lin Yaoyao's ghastly pale bone blade, carrying bone-piercing yin energy, seemed to stab toward the back of his heart once more!

That female cultivator of the Heavenly Sword Sect whose heart he had pierced with the Evil Light Art—her venomous curse before death poured into his ears like demonic music, shrill and bone-cutting!

Scene after scene, voice after voice, transformed into heart demons, intent on tearing his will to shreds.

Zhao Hao's spiritual sense condensed above his dantian, coldly watching it all.

"A bunch of dead people, a pile of defeated foes trampled beneath my feet, and you dare block my path?"

His spiritual sense let out a soundless roar. It was no longer a disguise, but the bellow of a beast driven into a desperate corner, a furious roar from the deepest reaches of his soul.

"Now, become nourishment for my path!"

"All of you, get down there and be buried with them!"

His spiritual sense shuddered, and all the illusions, all the venomous hatred, shattered with a boom, completely crushed and devoured by the spinning spiritual energy vortex!

With the obstruction gone, the compression process instantly accelerated!

From within his dantian came brittle cracking sounds of something unable to bear the burden.

One drop!

At the very center of the vortex, a drop of liquid spiritual power heavier than mercury, giving off a faint black glow, quietly took form.

It was done!

The instant that drop of liquid spiritual power appeared, all the gaseous spiritual power in his dantian found an outlet and surged toward that drop of liquid like it had gone mad!

One drop, two drops... a hundred drops!

Time slowly flowed by. In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

The liquid spiritual power within his dantian grew more and more abundant, gathering into a small lake.

Inside the cave abode, that little mountain of spirit stones turned gray and lifeless at a speed visible to the naked eye, crumbling into flying ash.

Ten thousand low-grade spirit stones were consumed in an instant.

The spiritual power in Zhao Hao's dantian finally completed its transformation from gaseous to liquid! A black lake of spiritual power flowed quietly, and the strength contained within was more than ten times greater than before!

[Realm: Foundation Establishment Early Stage (1/100)]

Foundation Establishment was done!

Zhao Hao suddenly opened his eyes. Two beams of sharp light shot explosively from them, actually blasting two finger-sized deep holes into the stone wall in front of him!

He stood up and casually clenched his fist. The air gave an explosive boom, as if it could not bear the pressure.

His divine sense spread outward. Within a radius of one li, every stir of wind and grass, every crawling insect, was under his control!

This was a strength he had never possessed before.

However, before he could even experience this power—

Buzz—!!!

At the entrance of the cave abode, the defensive array disk he had personally set up let out a piercing, deafening hum without the slightest warning!

The half-transparent light screen flashed wildly, ripples spreading ring after ring, as if it might shatter at any moment!

Someone was attacking his array!

The joy on Zhao Hao's face froze in an instant, replaced by a forest-cold chill.

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