Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

”Shadow Illusion Bat...”

Li Yun’s expression turned solemn, and his heart grew slightly heavy.

The Shadow Illusion Bat was a Rank 6 demonic beast. In terms of pure strength, it was not especially powerful, but its methods were extremely strange and evil, making it a troublesome demonic beast to deal with.

This kind of demonic beast was exceptionally skilled at using sonic attacks to disturb a cultivator’s mind. Furthermore, when a Shadow Illusion Bat died, its blood would splatter everywhere and immediately contaminate the cultivator who killed it.

Afterward, the blood would form a black mark. Once that mark appeared, all Shadow Illusion Bats within a hundred-meter radius would sense the summons and rush toward it.

Moreover, this black mark was extremely difficult to erase. Unless one reached the Earthly Core Realm or above and shattered it directly with overwhelming power, one could only wait for an entire day until the mark dissipated on its own.

However, Li Yun did not care too much about this.

The highest rank of an ordinary Shadow Illusion Bat was only high-grade Rank 6, which was equivalent to the 8th level of the Mortal Core Realm. No matter how many appeared, they would not pose a true threat to him.

As for a Shadow Illusion Bat King that reached peak Rank 6, its numbers were extremely rare. Generally speaking, encountering one would be very difficult.

Holding his sword in hand and with the Sword-Nurturing Gourd hanging from his waist, Li Yun chose one of the branching paths and continued forward.

Along the way, Shadow Illusion Bats kept following the black marks on his body, but without exception, every one of them was killed by him instead.

As he went deeper, the thick fog around him gradually became even denser. At first, he could still see several dozen meters ahead, but now his vision had been reduced to only ten meters.

Even when Li Yun used the Nine Tribulations Divine Eye, the situation did not improve much. At most, he could see around a hundred meters ahead.

Under these circumstances, Li Yun could not find the exit to the maze at all. He could only continue moving forward by relying on his intuition.

Aside from obstructing his vision, traces of blood mist had also begun to appear within the dense fog. This blood mist seemed to contain a primal urge for slaughter. Under its influence, the darkness in a person’s heart would be magnified without limit, making them unable to resist the desire to kill.

This was also one of the effects brought about by the Shadow Illusion Bats.

In places where Shadow Illusion Bats gathered, an extremely evil and bizarre blood mist would form. This blood mist could stir up the slaughtering desire hidden within a cultivator’s heart, causing them to gradually lose their sanity and become a puppet that only knew how to kill.

”Break.”

Li Yun swung his sword, and a vast wave of Sword Qi surged out like a tide, ruthlessly strangling everything in front of him. In an instant, several Shadow Illusion Bats ahead were shredded into pieces.

Blood splattered everywhere, and several drops immediately stained Li Yun’s body, forming even more strange black marks.

Li Yun had already become accustomed to this, so he did not bother paying attention to it. Suddenly, his gaze narrowed as he looked into the dense fog ahead.

Within the fog, a figure appeared faintly.

That figure seemed to sense Li Yun’s presence and suddenly rushed toward him. In the blink of an eye, it arrived ten meters in front of him.

It was none other than one of the two cultivators Li Yun had seen before entering this immortal cave.

However, at this moment, the cultivator’s eyes were blood-red, and his face was filled with madness and ferocity, as though he had been possessed. His entire body emitted an extremely intense killing intent.

”Jie jie!”

Seeing Li Yun, a terrifying light suddenly appeared in the cultivator’s blood-red eyes. With a sinister grin and a piercing, eerie laugh, he pounced toward Li Yun.

”Hmph.”

Seeing this, Li Yun snorted coldly and swung his sword without hesitation.

Clearly, the person in front of him had been affected by the blood mist and had already lost his sanity. He had turned into a combat weapon that only knew slaughter. Although he was not dead, there was no real difference, and perhaps his current state was even more painful than death.

For such a person, killing him could be considered a form of release.

”Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art.”

Facing this opponent, Li Yun immediately unleashed his strongest killing move.

Hundreds of strands of Slaughter Sword Qi erupted from his sword at the same time.

Every streak of Slaughter Sword Qi contained powerful might, enough to grind down mountain peaks or split waterfalls. When so many streaks shot forward together, their power multiplied several times and reached an astonishing level.

Chiss! Chiss! Chiss!

After becoming a combat weapon, the cultivator had no sanity left at all. Facing the vast storm of Slaughter Sword Qi, he did not retreat or dodge. Instead, he charged straight ahead.

In an instant, the endless Slaughter Sword Qi left countless sword wounds across his body. A deep sword wound appeared on his chest, slicing his body directly in half.

Squeak! Squeak!

Suddenly, from within the sliced-open chest, a claw stretched out.

The claw was pitch-black and covered in incredibly evil and bizarre patterns. Immediately afterward, a bat as black as ink flew out from the corpse’s chest, its wings spanning more than a meter.

An incredibly sharp cry erupted from the black bat’s mouth.

The sound resembled the howls of countless demons from the underworld, terrifying and eerie to the extreme. It was enough to make one’s scalp tingle.

”Shadow Illusion Bat King.”

Li Yun’s expression changed abruptly.

However, he did not retreat.

”Then it is time to use the full power of the Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art.”

As he spoke, he fully released his Slaughter Sword Intent at ninety percent source mastery.

The moment this happened, the entire cave began to tremble.

Li Yun raised his sword, and the full aura of his Slaughter Sword Intent gathered upon the blade. The very air around him trembled. The ground beneath his feet cracked apart as the slaughter intent condensed, gradually turning the sword in his hand into a blood-red blade.

”Ten Thousand Slaughters Return to One.”

With those words, Li Yun slashed forward.

Buzz!

A terrifying sword slash erupted from his sword.

The sword slash was majestic and powerful, carrying an overwhelming aura of slaughter. Before the Shadow Illusion Bat King could release its attack, the slash had already split its body in two.

What was even more terrifying was that the sword slash did not stop after killing the bat king. It continued forward, striking the far end of the cave, carving through a section of it before finally disappearing.

”Damn.”

Even Li Yun was shocked by the power of his own technique.

For a moment, he wondered if he had overdone it.

”This sword art is truly powerful.”

Li Yun muttered with a wry smile. ”I will have to be careful about where I use it in the future.”

Meanwhile, the blood-eyed young man and his two followers, who had just entered the immortal cave, felt their throats go dry when they sensed the terrifying sword intent spreading through the cave.

”What was that sword intent?”

One of them muttered, his face filled with horror. ”For a moment, I felt as if death itself had arrived in front of me. It was terrifying.”

”Wait a minute. Could that have been Li Yun?”

The other person spoke with a frightened expression.

”Impossible.”

The blood-eyed young man immediately denied the possibility. ”How could it be Li Yun? That sword intent was far too terrifying. I can only imagine that some remnant left behind by an Earthly Core Realm expert must have released that sword intent inside the immortal cave.”

The other two beside him nodded after hearing this.

Then, the three of them continued heading deeper into the cave.