Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 464 - 279: Agony

Lu Jingfeng gathered the Core Formation Realm powerhouses from various families and led everyone toward the looming thousand-meter-tall tree within the black mist. They were going to cut off the source of the black mist.

Meanwhile, after informing Yu Xiaoman, Fei Feng flew out from the necklace and entered the black mist in her spirit form.

To safeguard Yu Xiaoman, Fei Feng left a split of her spirit within the Soul Nourishing Wood necklace.

Lu Jingfeng knew that venturing out of the city was extremely dangerous and that he might not return; hence, he had temporarily handed over many of Beifeng City's affairs to the Deputy City Lord.

The candidates sent by the other families were also mostly elderly Core Formation Realm powerhouses. It was difficult for them to advance further, and at such times, it was a rare opportunity for them to make contributions to their families.

However, not all family elders shared this awareness, ready to sacrifice themselves to preserve future generations.

Constrained by Lu Jingfeng's forced conscription, they had no choice but to join this perilous team.

As soon as Lu Jingfeng and the others entered the black mist, they were attacked. The intensity of the attack was not high and could not stop their advance.

As they delved deeper, gradually, the people on the city walls lost sight of them, and they did not notice Fei Feng existing in spirit form.

Lu Yu stood at the edge of the city wall, raising a hand to shoot a beam of icy blue light. The Spiritual Power beam swept across the sky, turning large swathes of fire infants into ice lumps that fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

A group of fire infants in the form of youths saw Lu Yu's fierce attack and gathered together, rushing towards him, forming a massive flaming cloud.

A Martial Cultivator in the Qi Cultivation stage falling into the fire cloud formed by the group of fire infants would likely be burned to ashes in no time.

Due to the influence of the Ancient Fire Spirit God, the strength of both the fire spirits and fire infants had increased significantly.

The fire spirits in their flame form had power close to the Qi Cultivation stage, and the fire infants were at the higher stage of Qi Cultivation. Most of the fire infants in youth form had strength approaching the Gathering Qi Realm.

A cloud formed by dozens of fire infants with strength close to the Gathering Qi Realm was something that even a true Gathering Qi Realm Martial Cultivator dare not confront.

Without even a glance, Lu Yu casually unleashed an expanse of coldness from his palm, freezing the fiery cloud into an icy cloud, which then melted into a rain cloud under the heat.

The rain cloud barely touched the ground before being evaporated by the heat from the Ancient Fire Spirit God.

Lu Yu's ice Spiritual Power was exceptionally sharp against the fire infants, easily eradicating large numbers of them, yet it failed to inflict any harm on the Ancient Fire Spirit God.

Due to the Ancient Fire Spirit God, the range of his attacks was significantly reduced. Beyond a certain extent, his ice Spiritual Power would be nullified by the overwhelming fire Spiritual Power emanating from the Ancient Fire Spirit God.

"What realm are you in now?" Ouyang Lie couldn't help but ask in shock as he saw Lu Yu effortlessly wipe out the large group of fire infants.

His cultivation speed couldn't match that of top geniuses, but it was definitely not slow. In just half a year, he had broken through from the Qi Cultivation stage to the Gathering Qi Realm and reached the sixth level of the Gathering Qi Realm.

Yet, even so, he was helpless against the large number of fire spirits. The sheer numbers created a qualitative change, and with his sixth-level Gathering Qi Realm strength, even though he could easily smash a fire infant with a punch, he could not destroy the fire cloud formed by dozens of fire infants.

Lu Yu casually replied, "Take a guess."

Ouyang Lie speculated, "Ninth level of the Gathering Qi Realm? Or the peak of the Gathering Qi Realm?"

A whooshing sound filled the sky as a massive rain of fire descended; every raindrop was a fire spirit. The fiery rain fell toward Beifeng City, but was blocked by the protective array above the city.

Although the attacking power of each fire spirit was negligible, the thousands of fire spirits battering the protective array had a significant impact on the array.

Even if a single fire spirit's attack power was only one, a thousand fire spirits would equate to one thousand attack power, and the sky filling with fiery rain could easily be tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands.

The crowd was quick to eliminate the fire spirits dropping from the fire cloud above the Ancient Fire Spirit God. Martial Cultivators in the Gathering Qi Realm launched ranged attacks, while soldiers in the Qi Cultivation stage utilized city defense equipment for long-range assaults on the fire spirits.

Everyone exerted all their efforts to eradicate the fire spirits falling from the sky, reducing the damage they inflicted on the protective array.

Lu Yu soared into the air, conjuring an ice vortex in his palm, and hurled it into the sky above. The ice vortex, under Lu Yu's control, expanded continuously.

The vortex generated airflow that swept up the surrounding fire spirits, drawing them into the vortex. Fire spirits entering the vortex rapidly extinguished in the icy swirl, transforming into fire crystal stones that fell downwards.

The ice vortex grew larger in size, its reach extending wider, and its gravitational pull strengthening, even drawing in some of the falling fire rain toward it due to its influence.

Lu Yu's internal Spiritual Power was depleting rapidly. After the ice vortex expanded to a hundred meters, the Spiritual Qi he drew from the heavens and earth was insufficient to sustain the vortex's consumption. The Spiritual Qi from the eye of the sea surged into his Dantian, maintaining the vortex's continued expansion.

Ouyang Lie watched in shock as the massive ice vortex occupied most of his field of vision, his expression stunned, "This... surely isn't something the Gathering Qi Realm can achieve... Could it be the Qi Sea Realm...?"

"Even the Qi Sea Realm doesn't possess such vast Spiritual Power," assured a Qi Sea Realm disciple from the Divine Weapon Pavilion standing beside him, gazing at the colossal ice vortex in the sky.