As someone else entered, all the demonic creatures stopped, and one of them spoke up.

"I didn't expect another one to come and die. Haha, what luck we have today. They didn't expect that among us, there would be an Earth Demon King!"

"Human boy, your blood and energy are quite rich. I like it very much. Just today, I evolved into an Earth Demon. Your flesh will help stabilize my Earth Demon realm."

The strongest Earth Demon spoke.

Chen Xuan finally understood that this demon must have evolved into an Earth Demon today and killed all the disciples.

"If you want to taste my flesh, you'll have to ask my blade if it agrees."

Taking the initiative, Chen Xuan rushed towards the nearest demonic creature, unleashing the Nine Phantom Transformations to the extreme. With a sound, a demon's head flew up, blood spraying from its neck.

All the demonic creatures attacked together. The intelligence of the Earth Demons was not lower than that of humans. They could also perform martial techniques. One demonic creature even displayed a profound-level martial technique. It seemed that over the years, the Earth Demons had also learned human martial arts. These demonic creatures were all of mediocre quality, posing no challenge to Chen Xuan.

"Wind Slash!"

Chen Xuan roared, executing the first move of the Seven Kills Blade.

"Poof poof poof!"

Three more demonic creatures had their heads chopped off.

Suddenly, Chen Xuan felt a chill at the back of his head. He dodged the attack, only to find that the Earth Demon had launched a sneak attack on him.

"You'll be the first Earth Demon I kill as I step into the Spiritual Martial Realm!"

Before finishing his words, Chen Xuan engaged in battle with the Earth Demon, wielding his Seven Kills Blade.

The surrounding trees broke one after another, some hit by Chen Xuan's blade aura, some by the Earth Demon's fists. This Earth Demon's strength was even higher than Wu Yuan, the head of the Wu family in Hongling Town. However, Chen Xuan's strength had also increased by more than twice in the past month or so. Killing him would still require some effort.

"Consider this a practice for my blade skills!"

The second move of the Seven Kills Blade, "Slash through the Wind," hadn't reached perfection yet. Today, he would use it for practicing his void slashing. The whole forest was filled with blade shadows. The remaining demonic creatures outside the battle couldn't intervene. All they saw was punches and blades clashing in the center of the battlefield.

"Boom!"

The Earth Demon's fist struck a tree trunk as thick as a washbasin, and it broke.

"Kid, I admit your strength is formidable, but you can't make up for the gap in realms."

"Let's see whose luck runs out."

Chen Xuan intensified his attack on the Earth Demon, and his void slashing became smoother.

"It's time to end this."

Chen Xuan had fought the Earth Demon for nearly thirty moves, and he had grasped most of its martial techniques.

"Let you taste what it's like to have your head chopped off."

A blood light shot up into the sky as the Earth Demon's head flew high. Seeing that the Earth Demon was killed, the other demonic creatures fled in all directions.

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"It's too late to run now. Stay here!"

A ten-meter-long blade aura swept across.

"Poof poof poof..."

One after another, figures fell, and all the demonic creatures' heads rolled.

Having killed all the Earth Demons, Chen Xuan immediately cleaned up the battlefield, searching through the bodies of forty to fifty disciples. Although they were dead, he didn't care. It just so happened that he needed a large number of Elemental Spirit Pills now. Chen Xuan took off each person's storage ring. Since these people were dead, the soul imprints in their rings disappeared directly.

It wasn't too difficult to pour out everything from the disciples' rings. It made a clattering sound as everything fell to the ground. There were also many demonic creature heads. Altogether, there were over two hundred. They were probably the demonic creatures they had come to kill. This worked out well for him. He'd earn more task points this way. Once he returned, if he couldn't handle it himself, he'd go to the Profound Yellow Tower to cultivate.

He put the heads of the demonic creatures in a separate storage ring, then proceeded to clean up the rest. Half an hour later, Chen Xuan had cleared everything.

Two thousand Elemental Spirit Pills, three Earth-tier cultivation methods, ten Earth-tier martial techniques, and even a damaged Earth-tier fist technique. Just when I've mastered only the Seven Kills Blade, I'll practice this fist technique first.

There were also some Yellow-tier items that Chen Xuan didn't bother recording. He threw them into his ring to bring back to the family later. There were also many refining materials, almost all of which were the ones Chen Xuan needed.

It seemed that these disciples were also collecting materials to refine spiritual tools. This was a big haul. Chen Xuan had planned to do more tasks himself to exchange for refining materials, but he didn't expect these people to have them all. It's possible that these people had reached the Spiritual Martial Realm and were preparing to refine spiritual tools themselves. Once I reach the Spiritual Martial Realm, I can refine spiritual tools too.

After dealing with everything, Chen Xuan dug a big pit and buried all the disciples. Although they were strangers, they were still fellow disciples. It's a small gesture of goodwill.

"Li Lao, can I absorb the aura of the Earth Demons?" Chen Xuan asked.

"You can try. The aura of the Earth Demons is much purer than that of humans."

Chen Xuan gathered all the demonic creatures together, inserting his hands into their bodies, and activated the Swallowing Heaven Technique. A violent aura flowed into Chen Xuan's body from his hands.

"What violent aura. Assimilate!"

Chen Xuan quickly activated the Swallowing Heaven Technique, and strands of aura entered his dantian. The bodies of all the Earth Demons gradually withered, turning into dried corpses. Even their blood essence was absorbed by Chen Xuan.

What's going on? Chen Xuan immediately stopped. Previously, when absorbing the inner cores of demon beasts, he only absorbed their aura. How come now I absorbed even their blood essence? I feel like my strength has increased significantly, and my dantian is starting to saturate. I'm almost reaching the Spiritual Martial Realm.

"Li Lao, can you check if there's a problem with my cultivation?" Chen Xuan was very worried because many cultivators deviated from the path of cultivation, ultimately leading to madness or wasting their cultivation. Some even experienced self-explosion.

"Your cultivation hasn't gone wrong. It seems that the Swallowing Heaven Technique is undergoing changes. Now, not only can it absorb others' aura, but it can even absorb their blood essence. Aura is one aspect, but the most precious thing in a person's body is their blood essence. This is cultivated bit by bit throughout their lives. When a person dies, the aura in their dantian will slowly dissipate, or the dantian will slowly solidify. However, practitioners who reach the Spiritual Martial Realm generally don't decay after death. Even experts of the Earthly Spirit Realm may have their bones preserved for thousands of years after death because their blood essence has been nurturing their bodies. Only when the blood essence is completely exhausted will the body decay. I didn't expect that you can now even absorb blood essence. This is the essence of their lifelong cultivation. By absorbing it all, haven't you felt that your strength has increased twofold compared to before?" Chen Xuan also felt that his current strength was more than doubled compared to when he first entered the jungle. Now, when encountering a Earth Demon, he believed he could defeat it with a single blow.

"You haven't reached the Spiritual Martial Realm yet. When you do, it should be the time for the Swallowing Heaven Technique to evolve," speculated Lao Li.

"Lao Li, can the blood of this Earth Demon be used as material for refining artifacts? Didn't you need the blood of a Heaven Demon last time?" Chen Xuan asked.

"It can. The Heaven Demons are currently beyond your ability to subdue, so this one is just right. Once you break through to the Spiritual Martial Realm, find a Heaven Demon as a spiritual weapon, and you can start refining artifacts," Lao Li replied, taking out a bottle filled with the blood of the Earth Demon.

With the battle over and his strength greatly increased, Chen Xuan decided to spend some more time training in the Demon Battlefield. Hopefully, he could break through to the Spiritual Martial Realm.

Chen Xuan took out the incomplete fist technique from his ring. On the cover were three large characters: "Crimson Flame Fist." Opening it, he found only three moves, and they were not very coherent. It seemed that this technique was looted from somewhere. Although it was an incomplete Earth-grade martial art, it had greater destructive power than Profound-grade martial arts.

The first move, "Crimson Flame Sky," the second move, "Crimson Flame Dragon Fire," and the third move, "Crimson Flame Thousand Miles." Several pages were missing from the book. This martial art should have five moves, so I'll start by practicing these three.

Leaving the area, Chen Xuan headed deeper into the forest. As soon as he left, three figures appeared behind him.

"Big brother, this guy went in that direction. What should we do? Should we follow him? We've come all the way here; we must kill this guy. I didn't expect this guy's lightness skill to be so good. We've only caught up to him now."

"Let's keep chasing."

The three of them ran into the forest. Fortunately, they didn't catch up to Chen Xuan. If they had seen the number of demons Chen Xuan had just killed, they would have turned and fled long ago.

Chen Xuan ran all the way until he reached a stream. Some demons were also stopping here to drink water, all of them weak ones. Surprisingly, there were demons even in the Demon Battlefield. It was getting dark. I need to find a place to spend the night, thought Chen Xuan.

After fetching some clean water, Chen Xuan continued on his way.

Finally finding a suitable place, Chen Xuan decided to spend the night there. He found an abandoned cave, cleaned it up again, and lit a fire inside. He had killed a small demon on the road earlier, so he decided to roast it for dinner.

Once again, he took out the Crimson Flame Fist manual. After practicing Heavenly-level martial arts, practicing Earth-grade martial arts again was too simple for Chen Xuan. In one night, he had mastered the Crimson Flame Fist to the point of perfection. Even in the entire Tianling Continent, no one would believe it.

In just one night, he successfully practiced the Earth-grade martial arts. Although it was incomplete, it was still an Earth-grade martial art. Its complexity was ten times that of Profound-grade martial arts. All of this was thanks to Chen Xuan's current soul power.

Lao Li told him that his current soul power could rival that of a True Martial Realm practitioner. After absorbing the blood essence of the Earth Demon, Chen Xuan's soul projection reached a distance of 1,500 meters. Without a profound soul power, how could he remember those intricate moves? This was also why Chen Xuan was able to master the three moves in one night. Normally, it would take several years for an ordinary practitioner to reach the point of perfection.