The Unparalleled Sword Emperor
Chapter 152 - 152 152 Draining the Spiritual Veins

152: Chapter 152: Draining the Spiritual Veins 152: Chapter 152: Draining the Spiritual Veins “Apologize to the Sword Alliance.” Lin Bai said coldly.

Lintian Feng’s tears flowed, “Respected grandparents, uncles and aunts, older brothers and sisters of the Sword Alliance, it’s my fault.

I have wronged you.

I, Lintian Feng, am not human.

I am a beast.

Please forgive me and spare my life.”

Wang Hao and the warriors of the Sword Alliance, who already loathed Lintian Feng, saw some of their anger subside as they saw him beaten to this state by Lin Bai.

“Brother Lin Bai, after he compensates with the spiritual stones, let’s call it even.” Wang Hao, feeling a little guilty, said to Lin Bai.

Wang Hao knew if Lin Bai were to act, Lintian Feng’s legs would not be spared.

“Where are the spiritual stones?” Lin Bai asked.

Lintian Feng responded, “I have over ten million spiritual stones in my storage bag.

That’s all I have.

If you let me go now, I’ll gather the remaining spiritual stones and deliver them to the Sword Alliance within a month.”

Lin Bai took Lintian Feng’s storage bag, opened it, and just as Lin Feng had said, it contained only over ten million spiritual stones.

After glancing at it nonchalantly, Lin Bai handed the storage bag to Wang Hao, then turned to the other Divine Alliance warriors.

“Hand over all your storage bags, then you can leave!”

“If you want my storage bag, here is your…” Suddenly, his bravado ebbed, replaced by an old song, a memory of our love…

Those Divine Alliance warriors, initially defiant, unwilling to give up their storage bags, changed their tune quickly after looking into Lin Bai’s cold, bloodthirsty gaze, and obediently handed over their storage bags.

“We have handed over our storage bags, can we leave now?”

The Divine Alliance warriors asked timidly.

Collecting all the storage bags, Lin Bai replied, “Take Lintian Feng and scram.

Lintian Feng, remember this, if I don’t see ten million spiritual stones in a month, watch out for your head.”

When Lin Bai finished speaking, the Divine Alliance warriors picked up the barely alive Lintian Feng and quickly left the cultivation room.

“There should be some spiritual stones in these storage bags, you guys take them and divide it among yourselves.” Lin Bai handed over the amassed twenty or so storage bags to Wang Hao.

“Thank you, Brother Lin Bai.” Wang Hao gratefully accepted.

“No problem.

I’m the one at fault.

Had it not been for me, the Sword Alliance wouldn’t have come into conflict with the Divine Alliance this quickly.” Lin Bai shook his head.

“But don’t worry, with me around, the Sword Alliance won’t be destroyed.”

“By the way, with all that has happened to the Sword Alliance, why hasn’t Li Qingxuan done anything?” Lin Bai asked curiously.

With the Sword Alliance being provoked by the Divine Alliance, Li Qingxuan, the Alliance Leader of the Sword Alliance, would be impossible not to know.

Why wasn’t Li Qingxuan seen in the cultivation room?

Did something happen to Li Qingxuan?

Lin Bai guessed that was the case.

“Our Alliance Leader is not in the Spirit Sword Sect, he has left for training.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been bullied by the Divine Alliance like this,” Wang Hao exclaimed angrily.

If Li Qingxuan was here, even if she was not a match for the Divine Alliance, she could have asked the Elder Pavilion for help.

After all, Li Qingxuan was the apprentice of Second Elder.

If the Elder Pavilion took action, the Divine Alliance would have to rein some of their unruly actions regardless of their strength.

“Alright, my cultivation room is ready.

I am going to start my practice.”

Lin Bai smiled faintly then left.

“Thank you, Brother Lin.

Do visit the Sword Alliance headquarters when you can,” Wang Hao said gratefully.

“If I have the time, I’ll definitely visit.”

Lin Bai walked towards Cultivation Room 79.

Just now, the elder had informed Lin Bai that Room 79 was vacant.

Walking into the Cultivation Room,

Lin Bai found it to be a simple fifteen-square-meter room,

just enough for one person to move around.

Upon entering the room, the rich spiritual aura of the stone chamber almost suffocated him!

“Such abundant spiritual essence, it’s indeed the Spirit Sword Sect’s key cultivation resource!”

Lin Bai exclaimed, then sat down cross-legged, began circulating the Great Five Elements Skill and started his cultivation.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Bai, using spiritual energy, cultivated the first half of the Great Five Elements Skill to peak condition.

“The first part of the Great Five Elements Skill has been successfully cultivated, next, I just need spiritual objects to condense a spirit vortex.”

“Ah, this spiritual object…

is hard to find…”

“Never mind, let’s make a breakthrough instead.”

“Devouring Sword Spirit!”

Lin Bai promptly summoned his Devouring Sword Spirit.

A tremendous suction force emitted from the Devouring Sword Spirit, forcefully shaking the spiritual vein beneath the cultivation room.

In an instant, the spiritual energy within more than a hundred cultivation rooms began to thin.

A massive amount of spiritual energy converged in Cultivation Room 79, which Lin Bai occupied, forming a phase of spiritual stone vortex, which was swiftly swallowed by the Devouring Sword Spirit.

The spiritual energy flooded into his body, converting it into True Qi which filled Lin Bai.

Seven days later, Lin Bai opened his eyes, a gleam flashed across his eyes, his face filled with delight as he exclaimed.

“Peak of the Third Level of the Earth Martial Realm!”

By the time Lin Bai broke through to the Third Level of the Earth Martial Realm, almost seven days had passed.

Boom!

Just as Lin Bai’s breakthrough was still a cause for celebration, shouts of anger came from the square outside the cultivation room.

“What’s wrong with the cultivation room?

Mad, I was in the middle of a breakthrough, all of a sudden, the spiritual energy thinned, causing my breakthrough to fail.”

“What’s going on?”

“That’s not right, the spiritual energy is disappearing from the cultivation room.”

“My God, did something happen to the spiritual vein?”

Many warriors expressed their surprise.

Beneath the cultivation room was originally a massive spiritual vein that provided spiritual energy for the cultivation room, but Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Spirit had just sucked up one third of the spiritual energy in the vein.

This damage caused the vein itself to go into auto-protect mode, no longer releasing spiritual energy.

“What’s going on?”

Lin Bai was also deeply curious, he noticed that the spiritual energy was rapidly weakening.

“What’s happening?” The elder of the cultivation room hurriedly came out, his face filled with urgency.

He quickly inspected the spiritual vein, and found that it seemed to have fallen into a slumber like state, showing no signs of activity at all.

Hundreds of warriors stood in the square outside the cultivation room, looking at each other in confusion, not knowing what had happened.

At this moment, two figures quickly arrived in the square.

It was none other than the Grand Elder and Second Elder.

The Second Elder coldly said, “The spiritual vein is damaged and has gone into self-protection mode.”

“How could two thirds of the spiritual energy in the spiritual vein be suddenly depleted!” The Grand Elder also exclaimed in surprise, “Could it be that a master of the Divine Elixir Realm is using our Spirit Sword Sect’s spiritual vein for cultivation?”

Then, the Second Elder gave an order to the elder of the cultivation room.

The elder of the cultivation room then said, “Attention disciples, due to a malfunction in the cultivation room, it is temporarily closed.

Warriors who have paid their spiritual stones but haven’t consumed their time, can use their identity tokens to collect back their spiritual stones from me.”

“Elder, when can the cultivation room reopen?” A warrior asked.

“The reopening time is uncertain, wait for the announcement,” the elder replied.

Many warriors nodded in disappointment.

Without the cultivation room, the cultivation speed of the warriors of the Spirit Sword Sect would be greatly reduced.

As Lin Bai moved through the crowd to reclaim his spiritual stones, he mumbled with an embarrassed smile, “It couldn’t have been the Devouring Sword Spirit absorbing too much energy earlier and damaging the spiritual vein.”

The spiritual vein of the Spirit Sword Sect was of a low grade and not very active, thus it could easily be damaged.

In just half a month, the Devouring Sword Spirit had sucked up two-thirds of the spiritual energy in the vein.

The vein was so scared that it entered into a state of self-protection to prevent being completely drained by the Devouring Sword Spirit!