Chapter 704 - 411: Fierce Might of the Golden Core

After a brief moment of shock, Kong Yue quickly came to his senses.

He hadn’t actually fled for dozens of miles. Instead, his consciousness had created a false perception.

For his senses to be this outrageously mistaken, he must have been heavily poisoned!

’What kind of terrifying poison must this be, for me to have fallen for it without even realizing it...’

But Kong Yue had no time to dwell on it. The rapidly spreading "black curtain" seized the chance to envelop him.

The world before Kong Yue’s eyes suddenly went dark.

"AH—!"

Knowing it was over, he let out a great roar and unleashed all the power he could currently muster.

Unfortunately, Kong Yue had just commanded tens of thousands of Black Death Cockroaches. After they all died abruptly, he had inevitably suffered a backlash from his Skill. This desperate burst of power seemed incapable of making any waves...

The next moment, though he could no longer see, a figure radiating a searing aura appeared with incredible, lightning-like speed.

In a panic, Kong Yue blasted several Skills at the figure, but that searing aura was already everywhere in the pitch-black space.

It was as if Zou Feng had split into thousands of copies, surrounding him completely.

Ten thousand strikes in a flash—Fiendish King’s Flash Prison Kill!

The black curtain came quickly, and it went just as fast.

To the onlookers, the space where he stood had suddenly gone dark, and Kong Yue’s roar had been cut short.

In the middle of the black curtain, a burning Lotus suddenly appeared.

Then, with the Lotus as its origin point, the black curtain rapidly dissipated.

When the area became visible again, only Zou Feng remained, floating in the air.

Judge Kong Yue had vanished from the world, as if he had been completely devoured by the "black curtain."

They were both in the Golden Core Realm, and Zou Feng had only just broken through, yet he had been instantly killed in a single move.

Never mind the other Tribulation Cultivators nearby; even Ye Chenhua and Jiang Wanzhao hadn’t quite understood what they had just seen.

’How could he just "turn off the lights" and make a Judge from the Yama Underworld disappear!?’

’That was a Judge from the Yama Underworld, a name fearsome enough to stop babies from crying at night—not some random nobody!’

’What the hell? Is this really a technique someone who just broke through to the Golden Core Realm can use?’

Ye Chenhua had thought he was already overestimating how powerful of a patron Zou Feng would become, but now it seemed he had still underestimated him by a wide margin.

It was safe to say that as long as nothing unexpected happened to Zou Feng, the position of Direct Disciple was guaranteed.

In the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect, there were several hundred True Disciples, but only a dozen or so Direct Disciples.

Every one of them was an elusive, mysterious figure—a monster who defied all common sense.

The once-furious battle came to a standstill, all because Zou Feng had successfully achieved Core Formation and instantly killed Kong Yue.

But the first to react were the Tribulation Cultivators, their faces a mask of utter dread.

Without a moment’s hesitation, they cast aside all other thoughts—rescuing the "Great Sedan Chair," continuing the siege on the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect’s True Disciples, everything.

The only question now was, how many of them could escape with their lives?

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The air tore with the sound of their flight as all the Tribulation Cultivators, with a tacit understanding, scattered in different directions.

Zou Feng, however, felt he wasn’t finished yet and locked onto one of the fleeing Judges.

"Brother Ye, Senior Sister Jiang, leave the one to the east to me! You two go after the Judge to the west..."

After shouting to Jiang Wanzhao and Ye Chenhua from a distance, Zou Feng was already in pursuit of the Judge fleeing to the east.

’These are all valuable resources, practically served up on a platter. How can I just let them go?’

’I just finished the Refinement of the poison from tens of thousands of Black Death Cockroaches, and I’m bursting with energy.’

’Not to mention, after the Refinement of a Poison Cultivator like Kong Yue, I’m in better shape than ever.’

And thanks to the "gifts" from Kong Yue and the "Great Sedan Chair," the Cultivation progress of my Soul-Seizing Blood Eyes had skyrocketed.

"Soul-Seizing Blood Eyes (Perfection), Progress: 76%"

Previously, this Skill’s Cultivation progress was only a few percent. Now, it had jumped by more than seventy points.

Zou Feng couldn’t even begin to guess what kind of absurd destructive power his eye technique could unleash now...

Of course, the Soul-Seizing Blood Eyes wasn’t the only thing that had been greatly enhanced by his breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm.

His Tribulation-Indestructible Body had reached the Unity of Heaven and Man Realm.

"Evil Qi Guiding Art (Limit-Breaking), Progress: 8%"

"Silent Extinction Poison Flame (Limit-Breaking), Progress: 5%"

"Quantitative Tribulation Killing Needle (Limit-Breaking), Progress: 1%"

These three Skills, which focused on cultivating Evil Qi, were among the first he had practiced after joining the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect. All of them had broken through from the Perfection level to the Limit-Breaking Realm.

It was precisely because of the advancement of these Evil Qi-based Skills that Zou Feng was able to unleash the "black curtain"—a technique with power far exceeding his previous capabilities, one that could even poison a Golden Core Realm Cultivator.

Furthermore, the Fiendish King’s Flash Prison Kill was an enhanced version that the Fiendish King’s Prison-Suppressing Kill had naturally evolved into after his power surged.

Additionally, thanks to his breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, the Heart Skill, Abyssal Vortex Prison-Suppressing Force, had also undergone a qualitative transformation.

"Abyssal Vortex Prison-Suppressing Force (Limit-Breaking), Progress: 4%"

In short, after breaking through to the Golden Core Realm, Zou Feng felt the path ahead had become clear. The Unity of Heaven and Man Realm, which had been extremely difficult for his Cultivation Skills to reach, and the Limit-Breaking Realm for his other Skills, were no longer obstacles.

To put it bluntly, his previous inability to break through wasn’t just due to the harsh cultivation requirements and the scarcity of resources; it was mainly because his Realm had been too low.

For example, under normal circumstances, a Skill reaching the Limit-Breaking Realm was simply not something a Dao Foundation Realm Cultivator could achieve.

But now that he had successfully reached the Golden Core, his future Cultivation would indeed be a smooth road.

Zou Feng had already decided he would take full advantage of this Tribulation Cultivator invasion to "feast" and upgrade every Skill he could.