944 Devil's Smile

Instead of going to the Buddha Thearch City, Jiang Yi went to a small town nearby. Before going into the city, he changed into an Elder by Mirage Divine Ability again. He got on a small Heaven Fate Ship once he was in the city and set off for another city. When he arrived, he changed his look again and continued to take the Heaven Fate Ship heading to another city.

In this way, he finally turned into a middle-aged brawny man after changing his appearance several times and passing a few cities. He got on the Tang Clan's Heaven Fate Ship and sailed to the northeast direction. His destination was the Wu Clan's four regions.

Wu Ni already left for the North Thearch City on a Heaven Fate Ship. He became more famous after this journey and became the no.1 Young Master on the continent, which meant that he would probably be named the Young Clan Head of the Wu Clan once he came back. All his missions were done, and he had enjoyed all the glory. Naturally, he would go back to continue with cultivation and thrive to stabilize his strength above the five stars.

"Flood Martial City!"

In the cabin of the Tang Clan's Heaven Fate Ship, Jiang Yi's hand landed heavily at a city on the map. Wu Ni would have to pass the Flood Martial City in order to get to the North Thearch City. One of Wu Ni's elder sisters lived in the Flood Martial City. He stayed in the Flood Martial City for three days last time.

Flood Martial City was at the border between the North Snow Region and the Buddha Region, and it was in the Wu Clan's territory. After they entered the North Snow Region, Wu Ni and his group would lower their vigilance; after all, they returned to their land. No one had the balls to murder the Wu Clan's no.1 Young Master in the Wu Clan's territory.

Jiang Yi set the location outside the Flood Martial City!

He had to save Su Ruoxue and take down both Wu Ni and Ji Tingyu—if not Ji Tingyu only. Then, he had the leverage to bargain with the Wu Clan and rescue Su Ruoxue.

It would take two months to get to the Flood Martial City. Jiang Yi had enough time to refine the Smelting Divine Furnace and study the astral winds. Once he mastered the astral winds and completely refined the Smelting Divine Furnace, he would probably reach the Flood Martial City. It was time to start.

The Heaven Fate Ship that he took was slightly faster than Wu Ni's. He also left three days earlier than Wu Ni. Therefore, by estimation, he should arrive at the Flood Martial City five days earlier than Wu Ni, which gave him plenty of time to set up.

"One hundred-fold secret cultivation room for one and a half months!"

After deciding the location, Jiang Yi put away the map and went out to the secret cultivation room. He presented the Tang Clan's command token, paid the celestial stones, and entered the secret cultivation room.

The restrictions in this secret chamber were very strong. People had no way to detect the situation here from outside. Even if some of his astral winds leaked, the restrictions would stop them. It was very safe.

After entering the secret cultivation room, he directly entered the state of the Union of Heaven and Man. While he was cultivating the essence force, he tried to comprehend the divine skills embedded in the Heaven Paintings.

That's right!

He realized a kind of divine skill in the Buddha Thearch's Heaven Painting but not a dao pattern. It was a special soul spirit attack. The reason that he felt slight regret in the Painting Cliffs was that he only got the basics of this divine skill. If he could spend a few more days inside, it was highly possible that he would manage to achieve phenomenal success. However, he was uncertain whether he could do that now.

The Buddha Thearch is even good at soul spirit attack?! The Heaven Painting portrays a battle scene. Normally, people will reckon it as an attack dao pattern. However, he congealed a kind of soul spirit attack inside. No wonder so many people couldn't find it. It is such a peculiar soul spirit attack; it attacks people unknowingly by laughter!

Jiang Yi's mind was still filled with a charming smile at Yi Piaopiao's lips. He tried his best to immerse himself in the smile. He thrived to comprehend this soul spirit attack while the image in his head was still clear.

The deeper he realized, the more he admired the Buddha Thearch and this soul spirit attack.

Smile!

It was a very common human expression and instinct. A baby knew how to smile once they were born. A smile could bring warmth to people around and cheer up oneself. People who loved to smile wouldn't have bad luck; people who smiled wouldn't age. Many things could be conveyed in a smile… such as kindness, affection, and happiness.

A smile could often lower the enemy's guards. Women's smile had the ability to kill. A smile could hurt people unknowingly. It was invincible to launch an attack via a smile.

Who could have thought that evil was hidden behind a smile? Who would have thought that, instead of kindness and warm, killing was the real intent?

"It should be called the Devil's Smile!"

Jiang Yi sighed softly. If he was able to attain phenomenal success in this Devil's Smile which would strengthen his soul spirit, he would be able to kill people inconspicuously. Average martial experts might not even know what killed them.

A soul spirit attack was a strange existence. It had two purposes. One was to destroy the opponent's soul spirit—shatter his soul spirit—thereby, killing him. The other was to confuse the enemy so that he was unable to defend or attack. Then, the enemy would be slaughtered easily.

The soul swords belonged to the former while Massacre Intent and Devil's Smile were the latter. Massacre Intent was extremely overbearing and crashed the opponent's soul spirit right away, preventing them from taking any further actions. The Devil's Smile worked in a strange way and attacked people silently.

"After 10 days—no matter whether I will make any progress, I am going to start refining the Smelting Divine Furnace!"

Jiang Yi made up his mind and devoted himself to comprehending the Devil's Smile. He let out traces of smile from time to time like a moron. Others would be frightened if they saw him.

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After ten days, Jiang Yi woke up, took out the Smelting Divine Furnace, and began refining it. It must require the power of the star sphere, but not much was needed. It just took some time to refine it.

He had already refined it for half a month, on top of another five days in the Buddha Thearch City. Right now, he only needed ten more days to complete the refinement. His heart was burning with excitement. He didn't know the power of the Smelting Divine Furnace after it was refined completely.

Ten days later…!

The Smelting Divine Furnace became extremely bright with runic patterns flowing on its surface. A horrible aura was released from the furnace, which was so powerful that even the restrictions couldn't stop it. Instantly, everyone in the Heaven Fate Ship was startled.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Countless men shot from the cabin, including many Tang Clan martial experts. Even two five-star martial artists who presided over the Heaven Fate Ship were alerted. The aura was too terrifying that shocked everybody.

However, the aura swiftly disappeared and was nowhere to be found. People only knew that it came from the secret cultivation room, but no one knew exactly what it was.

"What's that aura? It is at least at the level of the most powerful strike by a five-star martial expert!"

"Someone breaks through the level of five-star martial experts and comprehends the dao patterns above five stars?! However, why is there no power of the star sphere?"

"It's so scary. I thought someone launched an attack…"

Numerous people couldn't stop discussing and guessing on the outside. The leader of the Tang Clan martial experts walked towards the secret cultivation room, waved at the crowd by the doorstep, and said, "Everyone, calm down. I am the Tang Clan's consecrator. No one is attacking anyone. It is just that a martial expert accidentally leaked his aura. I am going to check on him."

"Damn…"

Jiang Yi, who was in the secret chamber, was startled as well. The aura was too horrible just now that even he hopped up out of fear.

He instantly put away the Smelting Divine Furnace and much information flashed in his head. He ran through all of them and trembled again. Eyes filled with disbelief, he murmured, "This thing is so powerful… did I really manage to trigger it just now?"

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