Chapter 9

**Clang! Clang! Clang!** ……

The heavy impact sounds almost merged into one. Even though the city wall built on the mountain was resilient, it could not withstand the battering ram's collisions. Moreover, the half-orc warriors were massive and possessed extraordinary strength, far surpassing the power of the battering ram by several times.

"What should I do? Should I exchange for missiles?"

Watching the critical situation at the foot of the mountain, Ling Daotian was in a cold sweat, his mind racing with anxiety. However, no matter how hard he searched his mind, he could not come up with a solution.

At the moment, he had less than two thousand soul points. With the system's exchange method, even if he could exchange for a missile launcher, he would not have enough soul points left to exchange for the missiles.

Over the past two days, he had summarized the items the system could exchange. Ordinary steel weapons generally required one soul point to exchange, while slightly more technologically advanced weapons like semi-automatic and automatic rifles required almost double the soul points. As for weapons like ballistic missiles, the soul points required were almost astronomical, and without thousands of soul points, it was not even worth thinking about. More importantly, the soul points required to exchange for matching missiles were almost on par with the weapons themselves.

"Think, there must be a way! If technological weapons won't work, maybe magical artifacts?"

Ling Daotian had some guesses about the reason for the sharp increase in the cost of exchanging technological weapons, but now was not the time to confirm them. Among the attacking monsters, the weakest were the buffalo toads, but even they were not to be underestimated.

With ten points of attack, especially their poison attacks, even he dared not let the venom touch him. If he were to be surrounded by the elite half-orc warriors, the side effects of even a small amount of poison could be fatal. The elite half-orc warriors had an attack power of thirty points, comparable to his current physical strength, while the giant tigers had an attack power of thirty-nine points. In battle, such attacks could shatter his bones, which were as strong as fine steel, in just three to five strikes.

Magical artifacts!

Magical artifacts!

In the system, ordinary, lowest-level magical artifacts generally required over a hundred soul points, and slightly more powerful ones required thousands. As for those dream-level bloodlines and divine artifacts, they required at least tens of thousands of soul points. With his current soul points, it was like a dream to exchange for a magical artifact that could help in the current battle.

Just as Ling Daotian was anxiously thinking of a solution, the situation on the battlefield changed. After half an hour of bombardment, a section of the city wall, about three kilometers long and over ten meters high, finally collapsed. A massive cloud of dust rose, instantly enveloping the entire battlefield. The golden eagles flying near the city wall were covered in dust, emitting sharp cries.

"Quack! Roar! Hiss!" The sudden change startled the monsters below the city wall, causing them to emit shrill roars.

"Good opportunity!"

Ling Daotian, who was about ten miles away from the battlefield, saw the sudden change and felt a surge of excitement. A smile appeared on his clear, handsome face, though the dust soon obscured his view.

"Unending cups of wine, endless farewell songs, ... Endless hero's blood, endless enemies' heads."

With a long, melodic chant, Ling Daotian's hundred-refined steel spear trembled, and he flew through the air toward the suddenly chaotic battlefield.

The dust obscured the monsters' vision but not Ling Daotian's. At the Lesser Succession stage of the Grand Yin Demon Scripture, his divine sense could cover a radius of nearly a hundred meters. With the enemy in the dark and he in the clear, if he couldn't seize this opportunity, he would be truly foolish.

The dust and sand filled the air, making the path unclear, but Ling Daotian felt an intense excitement. His clear, fair face remained spotless, and his bright eyes, now filled with a red glow of killing intent, showed a change he himself might not have noticed. In the short two days since his arrival, he had become accustomed to and even enjoyed this level of slaughter. The cultivation of the Grand Yin Demon Scripture not only brought changes in strength but also subtle changes in his character, which was the reason why the scripture was considered demonic.

In three breaths, he crossed a kilometer of space. Thirty-six drops of deep blue, infinitely mysterious water droplets led the charge, instantly killing thirty-six toads on the ground.

True Water of the First Day, a single drop could turn into a river. Although it was only at the initial stage, with an attack power of about a hundred points, it was far beyond what the toads, which were only level twelve or thirteen, could withstand. Moreover, the toads had the weakest defense among monsters of the same level.

**Boom! Boom! Boom!** ...

The thirty-six toads were instantly killed, and then a surging heat wave surged through his body. The flood of energy made Ling Daotian tremble violently. The Grand Yin True Liquid, which circulated through his body like mercury or lead, rapidly refined and absorbed the energy, refining it even faster.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"

Shaken almost to the point of fainting by the flood, Ling Daotian forced himself to stay focused, his voice ringing out. His speed did not slow but increased. In his left hand, the Six Pulse Sword Technique, and in his right, the Lone Star Spear, he enveloped a dozen colorful giant tigers in a dense aura of sword and spear energy.

**Puff! Puff! Puff!** ...

The Six Pulse Sword Technique, already incredibly powerful, became even more lethal with the enhancement of the Grand Yin True Liquid, like dozens of blue laser guns, piercing through the tigers' defenses and their entire bodies.

The hundred-refined steel spear was even more formidable. Under the influence of the Soul Devouring Blood Blade, red spear energy swept through the tigers like a plow, easily killing them. Some tigers didn't even sense the danger before they were instantly killed.

"Wanting to cry at the sound of ghosts, I weep while the wolves laugh. Tears for the heroic, swords drawn from their sheaths."

The resounding killing sound was the strongest voice of Ling Daotian, who was almost bursting with energy. The colorful giant tigers, which were level seventeen or eighteen, provided a significant boost when killed. All their mental and vital energies were absorbed by him without a single point lost.

If it weren't for the Grand Yin Demon Scripture, which was a holy scripture of the demonic path, capable of devouring vital energies like a black hole, and the fact that these energies strengthened his physical body and bones, he would have burst.

However, he was also struggling to hold on.

"No, I need to find a way. Otherwise, at this rate of slaughter, in a few more breaths, I'll be the one who gets killed. Damn, this Pure Yang Nine-Grade Magical Artifact is so powerful. Just with the first layer of the seal, it can slaughter tigers like chickens. If it were fully refined to the seventy-second layer, it would be truly heaven-defying!"

The power of the Soul Devouring Blood Dagger left Ling Daotian in awe. He used the Six Pulse Sword Technique to encircle six tigers and slaughtered them with laser-like sword energy for three breaths, but it took hundreds of sword strikes to kill them. In contrast, the Soul Devouring Blood Dagger, with just the activation of the blood blade energy, could instantly kill a tiger. The difference was obvious.

"In about two minutes, the dust will probably settle. When the visibility improves, I'll be in big trouble."

Ling Daotian knew that the current chaos, where no one could see clearly, was what allowed him to slaughter the monsters like chickens. If the dust settled and the visibility improved, he would be the one slaughtered.

Thinking of being surrounded and tortured by hundreds of tigers, pythons, and half-orc warriors, Ling Daotian shuddered and shook his head, his hands moving continuously as he tried to find a solution to his current predicament.

"Damn, if I could exchange for Superman's bloodline or Saiyan blood, it would be perfect. Unfortunately, it costs a hundred thousand soul points, which is really a damn rip-off!"