Ye Kong stared at the small cluster of ashes under his feet, this was the last proof that Marven had once existed in this world.

In simple terms, it is probably "indigestible waste residue", and as for the other parts that can be "digested", they have all been converted into growth fuel for Ye Kong.

Before this battle, Ye Kong's cultivation realm was only the sixth layer of the fetal realm, but after completely "decomposing" Ma Wencai, his current strength had reached the seventh layer of the fetal realm, and he was only three steps away from the condensing fetal realm.

Strictly speaking, when each realm reaches the height of the ninth layer, it can actually directly step into the next realm, and it does not necessarily require the realm to cultivate to the Great Perfection.

However, for those monks who are aspiring to pursue a higher realm, or even to attain true immortality, every cultivation to the realm of perfection is an inevitable result. Because only in this way will their foundation be solid enough that they will have greater potential to continue to climb the peak.

Ye Kong shook his head and retracted his scattered attention.

Losing the target and Ye Kong's control, the gray mist surrounding Ye Kong was like a well-behaved pet, just wrapped around Ye Kong's side, looking harmless to humans and animals.

But the people who have witnessed the power of the gray mist will not really think that this gray mist is a good thing. 、

After Ye Kong regained his identity as a ghost cultivator this time and had a certain amount of control over this gray mist, he also roughly knew what this thing was.

Annihilation.

That's what it's called.

said that it had a spirit, but it had no self-consciousness at all, and could only be manipulated within a certain range by Ye Kong's divine thoughts; If it is said to be spiritless, it will passively protect Ye Kong, who is a ghost cultivator.

However, although this gray mist is not easy to control, its existence has really brought great benefits to Ye Kong.

Any creature that is entangled in annihilation will be directly decomposed and digested, and then become an important nutrient for Ye Kong cultivation to improve. And in the process of this transformation, the lost part is actually very small, with Ye Kong's sensitivity to the value, he estimates that in the process of energy conversion, only about one and a half will be lost, and the other eight and a half will be retained - of course, not all of these eight and a half will be converted into Ye Kong's nutrients, but some of them will be swallowed by the gray mist itself, and the rest will be Ye Kong's.

It's kind of like a parasitic relationship, or a companion relationship.

At the same time as Ye Kong's cultivation is improved, this gray mist will also be strengthened to a certain extent.

And with the improvement of Ye Kong's cultivation realm, the enemies he encounters in the future are bound to be stronger, and when the time comes, this gray mist will be able to absorb the nutrients that he devours, and it will inevitably be stronger.

It's a growth process that benefits both parties.

With a slight swing of his right hand, the gray mist that originally surrounded Ye Kong's side instantly retracted into Ye Kong's body and disappeared. But Ye Kong knew that if someone really dared to take advantage of this to sneak attack him, then the gray mist hidden in his body would definitely give the sneak attacker a big surprise.

After sorting out these things a little, Ye Kong finally had free time to look up at the middle-aged man from the Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion.

When he was still condensing his body before, he had already heard the conversation between the other party and Ma Wencai, so he was no stranger to his identity.

Among the five holy places of sword cultivation, except for the Burial Sword Pavilion and the Broken Sword Tower, the other three holy places all have the style of cultivating sword attendants.

The so-called sword attendants refer to the servants who serve the sword cultivator - just like Ye Kong's current relationship with the gray mist, the sword attendant will always receive various tips and guidance from the sword cultivator, and the cultivation of sword skills will naturally improve by leaps and bounds, and at the cost of completing various errands and other chores for the sword cultivator who is the master. Although there is no formal master-apprenticeship between the two, the bond between them is no worse than that of master and apprentice, and it can even be said to be more severe.

In the monastic world, although there are not many apprentices who deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors, there will always be some apprentices who betray the master for personal gain.

But if a sword squire betrays his sword master, then what awaits him is the joint crusade of all sword cultivators in the entire cultivation world. Therefore, since the beginning of the Third Age, there have been no more than ten cases of betrayal by swordsmen in the entire monastic world, and the final fate of almost every betrayer in these ten cases has ended in death, with almost no exceptions.

Therefore, the identity of a swordsman is not a contract that can be made casually.

Of course, if a swordsman finds a sword master who has potential, is promising, or good enough, then it is naturally a blessing.

At least for this middle-aged man, before Guanhai's brain was kicked by a donkey and he ran to learn the Demon Star Sword Monarch's "Heavenly Demon Sword Chess", he was still very enviable.

There is no other reason, the Celestial Star Sword. Zhang Guanhai was one of the most outstanding disciples of the Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion of this generation, and was even once known as the leader of the new generation of the Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion, and was almost one of the recognized geniuses of all sword cultivators in the entire cultivation world. Even, the older generation of characters in the Five Holy Lands of Sword Cultivation generally believed that Zhang Guanhai would inevitably shine at the new Kyushu Festival twenty years later.

Of course, this view lasted until Zhang Guanhai's brain was kicked by a donkey.

The Demon Star Sword Monarch is a demon among the demons and monsters, and he is a genius figure of the extraterritorial Heavenly Demon Clan thousands of years ago, and the "Heavenly Demon Sword and Chess" has been powerful in the Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion for thousands of years, until Gu Changhe was born. And the battle when Gu Changhe became one of the six great sword immortals was also famous because he killed the Demon Star Sword Monarch, and then became the spiritual belief and spiritual symbol of the entire Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion.

Since then, "Heavenly Demon Sword Chess" has been collected by the Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion, and Gu Changhe has also explicitly forbidden anyone to go over this sword book.

After all, this is the sword technique of the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon Clan, how can a normal human being be able to cultivate it?

Therefore, Zhang Guanhai didn't listen to the advice and had to learn this swordsmanship, in the eyes of everyone, he was kicked in the brain by a donkey. Although after learning this sword technique, Zhang Guanhai's swordsmanship has indeed become more sophisticated, and he is expected to become the second "mobile sword array" in the entire Heaven and Earth Sword Pavilion, but whether it is mental or otherwise, Zhang Guanhai has been very seriously poisoned and mentally polluted, and it is almost only a matter of time before he degenerates into a demon.

But even so, Zhang Guanhai still has a lot of friends with deep backgrounds and strong strength around him.

For example, the little princess of the Ji family, the Haoqi Sword of the Xuanzhou Book Sword Gate. Qingshan, the evil son of Xuanzhou Fuhumen. Blue Seven. Each of these three has the cultivation of the Condensation Realm, and they are not only the leaders of their respective families and sects, but they are even the most popular candidates for the next Kyushu Festival. Even if Guanhai really fell into the devil's way, it didn't necessarily mean that anyone would dare to say a word for the heavens.

Moreover, others may only faintly speculate that this Guanhai prince may have some connection with the Mourning Dao Sect.

But Ye Kong is very clear that the prince of Guanhai and the Mourning Dao Sect are killed. The lazy man does have a close personal relationship. Once the prince of Guanhai fell into the Demon Dao, it was between the two words whether the other Demon Dao factions dared to take him in, but the words of the Mourning Dao Sect would definitely not refuse, after all, he was a friend of one of the four murderers.

Even Ye Kong felt a little tricky.

But that's just the trick.

The prince of Guanhai is only a slightly tricky problem for Ye Kong, not to mention that he is just a swordsman.

Anyone who hurt Qingyi, or who dared to fight Qingyi's idea, Ye Kong did not intend to let it go.

Seeing Ye Kong's gaze looking at him becoming colder and colder, the middle-aged man only felt like falling into an abyss, and his whole body became stiff.

"Senior ......" No one wants to die, even middle-aged men.

It's just that Ye Kong didn't pay attention to his attempt to beg for mercy at all.

I saw that Ye Kong's right hand suddenly pointed, and a gray mist suddenly emerged from Ye Kong's right hand, and then it shot towards the middle-aged man like a javelin.

In the face of this gray mist, the middle-aged man seemed to have completely lost all courage and ability to act, even if he knew that as long as he tilted his head slightly, he would be able to avoid the direct shooting of this gray fog without any level. But for some reason, when he saw this gray mist shooting towards him, no matter how unwilling his heart was, he still didn't dare to have the slightest deviation, as if his mind had been completely deprived, and he couldn't struggle at all.

"Master! Wait a minute! Just as the javelin formed by the gray mist was about to pierce the middle-aged man's head, Qingyi on the side suddenly spoke.

The gray javelin stopped suddenly, and a light wind blew through the middle-aged man's eyebrows, startling the middle-aged man's cold sweat - the gray tip of the spear and the middle-aged man's eyebrows were probably only a hair's back.

There was blood, running down the bridge of the middle-aged man's nose.

"Huh?" Ye Kong looked at Qingyi with some puzzlement, not understanding why Qingyi wanted to stop him.

"In vain, I want to avenge myself!" Qingyi gritted his teeth, and finally said with a resolute face, "I told him before that I would definitely kill him." Therefore, I hope that the master can give the apprentice a chance to take revenge on himself. ”

Qingyi knew that his request was very capricious.

Because, this will completely expose the existence of Ye Kong and Yi Ran, after all, she is not a person who doesn't know anything now, and naturally knows the taboo of corpse cultivation and ghost cultivation. However, she still wants to be able to take revenge herself.

"Absolutely." Unexpectedly, Ye Kong did not hesitate at all, but simply nodded in agreement.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, Qingyi's request is very capricious.

But for Ye Kong, he was very pleased that Qingyi could make such a request.

A monk, even if he is walking against the sky, if he does not have the courage to fight and struggle, then what kind of monk should he be?

Qingyi's ability to make such a request was also the beginning of her confidence, which showed that she had truly considered herself a monk and not the beggar she used to be.

Ye Kong glanced at Qingyi with relief, and then turned his head to look at the middle-aged man, and said, "You injured my apprentice's meridians with sword qi before, so I will hurt your meridians with yin qi now, so it can be regarded as flattening, are you convinced?" ”

"Yes." The middle-aged man had no choice at all, so he could only nod his head in response.

"Anyway, it's useless if you don't accept it."

Ye Kong didn't bother to answer to the other party at all, and with a wave of his right hand, the gray mist javelin suddenly turned into a gray whip and was directly whipped on the middle-aged man's body. And a cold evil aura was also accompanied by the whip dropping, directly transmitted among the middle-aged man's internal organs.

A mouthful of blood spurted out of the middle-aged man's mouth, but before the blood could hit the ground, it had already frozen into ice in mid-air.

By the time it hit the ground, it had turned into a cloud of ice chips.

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly in his heart, the other party's whip was much more powerful than the sword qi he had just hit in Qing Yi's body. There was no need to ask Dan Shi to check, he also knew that he would not want to be promoted to break through the realm in the next ten years.

But this whip also made it clear to the middle-aged man that this ghost cultivator had extremely high confidence in his apprentice: he delayed his promotion to the realm by ten years with one whip, but at the same time, he was also announcing to him that after ten years, his apprentice would stand on the same realm cultivation as him.

From the fourth layer of the Xuan Realm to the Great Perfection of the Circle Realm, it was only ten years!

If it were someone else, the middle-aged man would definitely scoff at it, but seeing Qingyi's demonic talent, and even the possibility of being an old monster who was reborn, the middle-aged man only felt that he wanted to cry without tears. He swore that he would never look down on any child again in his life from today onwards, and who knows if you would provoke some three-headed and six-armed monster with this slap.

Like the combination of the three people in front of him, it is obviously a combination of a group of monsters.