Chapter 26: One Hundred Million Spiritual Entities

Qu Yi was refining the essence of deities in the deepest part of the Sea Eye when he sensed the arrival of the members of the Eight Royal Clans. He had no choice but to abandon his task temporarily and immediately exit the Sea Eye.

The disciples at the Divine General stage of the Eight Royal Clans stared at Qu Yi with murderous intent, their hatred evident in their eyes.

“Qu Yi, you’ve finally come out. Today, the Eight Royal Clans will unite against you—there’s no way you can escape,” Yan Tiankuo shouted angrily.

Qiu Guanling, Wu Zhuangchen, Bai Feiyun, Sang Yunpeng, Tian Chaolin, Gongye Zhi, and Jin Ziping—these seven leaders had already drawn out their divine artifacts, all of which were at the Divine King level.

The Eight Royal Clans had existed since the birth of the divine realm, spanning an immeasurable amount of time. Naturally, the resources they had accumulated were unimaginable. As the most promising disciples in each clan who aimed to reach the Divine King realm, they usually took great care to equip themselves with Divine King-level artifacts when leaving their clans to carry out missions.

The sea beasts that had originally been fighting against the six members of the Qing Wu Gui faction fled in terror upon seeing the disciples of the Eight Royal Clans arrive. These sea beasts had reached the Divine General stage, meaning they possessed high intelligence. Upon seeing each of the Eight Royal Clans’ disciples wielding a Divine King-level artifact, they immediately understood that if they stayed, they would face death at the hands of the Eight Royal Clans.

Qu Yi merely smiled faintly, while his spiritual consciousness contacted Qing Wu Gui, Wu Yuan, the Four-armed Water Ape, the Nine-headed Imperial Snake, and the Earth-shaking Crab.

“You’re in the majority, so I’ll have to strike first,” Qu Yi said suddenly. In an instant, he disappeared and reappeared in front of a disciple of the Qiu clan at the Divine General stage.

Each of these eight clans’ disciples possessed a Divine King-level artifact and also wore a Divine King-level defensive armor. Qu Yi didn’t want them all to attack him at once. Although he could dodge their attacks, it would require great effort. Therefore, he decided to take action first.

As Qu Yi moved, Qing Wu Gui, Wu Yuan, the Thunder-eye Ice Crocodile, the Four-armed Water Ape, the Nine-headed Imperial Snake, and the Earth-shaking Crab also rushed forward, aiming straight at the Divine General-stage disciples of the eight clans.

“Qu Yi, you’re despicable!” The Qiu clan disciple cried in shock and immediately raised a defensive armor around his body.

The eight leaders flew into rage and shouted, “Attack! Kill Qu Yi!”

But Qu Yi merely sneered at the Qiu clan disciple and said, “Just because you have defensive armor does that mean you’re safe?”

With that, he pressed his palm against the defensive armor. Chaos energy surged from his body, piercing through the armor and entering the disciple’s body, sealing his internal world instantly.

“Ah… My inner world has been sealed!” cried that Qiu clan disciple in terror.
The disciples of the eight royal families were so frightened that their eyelids trembled; they couldn’t believe that, despite being at the same Divine Hero level, Qu Yi had the ability to seal this Qiu clan disciple’s inner world.
Before the eight leaders could summon top-grade innate spiritual treasures to attack him, Qu Yi sealed the Qiu clan disciple and immediately rushed to Yan Tiankuo’s side.
Qu Yi wasn’t afraid of a single top-grade innate spiritual treasure, but with eight of them attacking at once, he realized his only way to escape was to use the Power of the Universe—which meant revealing his most secret technique.
The Power of the Universe had now become Qu Yi’s strongest survival tool, one he preferred not to use unless absolutely necessary.
“Seeking death!” Yan Tiankuo understood Qu Yi’s intentions as soon as he saw him approaching.
As long as Qu Yi got entangled with him, Yan Tiankuo would be unable to coordinate with the other seven leaders to use the top-grade innate spiritual treasures, allowing Qu Yi to maneuver among them.
Yan Tiankuo thrust his Sky-Piercing Fire Wheel forward, sending it straight at Qu Yi’s body. The Virtual Heavenly Flame was unleashed, evaporating the entire seabed.
Qu Yi smiled faintly and swiftly moved to Qiu Guanling’s side, already holding a mid-grade innate spiritual treasure—the Star Sword.
“Give me your life,” Qu Yi said, extending his sword. A silver light streaked through the sky like a meteor, aiming straight at Qiu Guanling.
The seabed was filled with silver light, creating a vast empty area. Qiu Guanling, facing the attack of the Star Sword, immediately drew out a top-grade innate spiritual treasure—a scroll.
“Map of Mountains and Rivers, Seal of Mountains and Rivers,” Qiu Guanling said coldly.
The top-grade innate spiritual treasure in her hands quickly unfolded, revealing a magnificent and fantastical landscape of mountains and rivers. An identical scene appeared beneath the sea, and everyone in that scene was trapped.
This was the Map of Mountains and Rivers—a top-grade innate spiritual treasure that could alter space, seal it off, and also send a force directly into a cultivator’s soul space to attack the Soul Sphere.
Qu Yi swiftly swung his Star Sword, shattering the illusory landscape and restoring the original seabed scene.
“As expected, there’s no Soul Sphere in your soul space, Qu Yi. Yan Tiankuo wasn’t lying to us,” Qiu Guanling said. She had been prepared for Qu Yi to break the illusion she created, but she had always doubted Yan Tiankuo’s earlier words—now she was convinced.

Just now, Qiu Guanling also explored Qu Yi’s soul space using the soul power in Shanhe Jintu, but indeed failed to find Qu Yi’s soul pearl. Wu Zhuangchen, Bai Feiyun, Sang Yunpeng, Tian Chaolin, Gongye Zhi, and Jin Ziping also took out their top-grade innate spiritual treasures at that moment, and their eyes sparkled with surprise upon hearing Qiu Guanling’s words. It is common knowledge that a divine realm cultivator’s soul space must contain a soul pearl. Only when a cultivator reaches the level of Divine King and their soul pearl merges to form a soul infant will it disappear. Undoubtedly, these eight royal clans’ Divine Marshal-level cultivators couldn’t understand how Qu Yi could cultivate without even having a soul pearl. Qu Yi smiled faintly, lunged at Qiu Guanling again, and said coldly, “Do you think you’re safe just because you have a top-grade innate spiritual treasure? Since you like to enter others’ soul spaces so much, then offer up your soul.” With that, Qu Yi struck Qiu Guanling’s chest with a palm. Qiu Guanling was fast, but still not as fast as Qu Yi. He could only summon a Divine King-level defensive armor that covered his entire body with crystal-yellow dragon scales, looking mighty and domineering. Boom… A muffled sound rang out, spreading everywhere. It was as if the seabed had been pierced, creating a circular passage a hundred meters wide, which took a long time for the seawater to fill back in. “The number of spiritual entities in your body has already reached 100 million!” Qiu Guanling was thrown to the seabed, spitting out a mouthful of blood as he cried in panic. Indeed, in that single palm strike, Qu Yi had mobilized 100 million golden, wooden, water, and fire spiritual entities, possessing immense power capable of shattering stars. If it weren’t for Qiu Guanling’s defensive armor, he would have been killed on the spot. 100 million integrated spiritual entities—this was the limit of how many such entities a Divine Marshal-level cultivator’s internal world could hold. Among the Divine Marshal-level cultivators in the divine realm, only the top ten on the heavenly ranking could reach this number. These ten were also the ones with the greatest potential to reach the Divine King level. Now, Qu Yi had already reached this number, which naturally shocked the disciples of the eight royal clans. If they knew that the 100 million spiritual entities Qu Yi had shown was not even his true strength, they would likely be even more frustrated and go completely insane, desperate to surround and kill Qu Yi to prevent him from breaking through to the Divine King level. Currently, the number of the two types of integrated spiritual entities in Qu Yi’s body had reached 150 million, and this was even without fully refining the divine essence. If the divine essence were fully refined, the number of these two types of integrated spiritual entities in Qu Yi’s body could easily reach 500 million.

Five hundred million!
“That’s right, it’s exactly one hundred million. Now, you proud sons of the eight great royal families, just endure my attacks obediently.” Qu Yi sneered, flashing again before lunging at Qiu Guanling.
“Why always me…?”
Qiu Guanling was furious. This was too much bullying. Qu Yi had met them for the first time—why not fight against his enemy Yan Tiankuo instead of constantly attacking her?
Qu Yi’s speed was too fast. None of the disciples from the eight great royal families could sense his presence with their mental powers. Thus, even though they possessed powerful innate spiritual treasures and numerous god-king level artifacts, they couldn’t lock onto him, let alone use spells to stop him, let alone harm him.
Suddenly, Qu Yi appeared in front of Qiu Guanling and swung another palm strike.
Thud…
A heavy sound of internal injury echoed. Qiu Guanling’s protective armor remained intact, but she was stunned unconscious—clearly, her body had been damaged by one hundred million spiritual entities, leaving her unable to activate her divine energy.
“Leader,” the other nine disciples at the divine general level among the royal families saw this and immediately stopped attacking Qing Wu Gui, Wu Yuan, and Si Shou. They grabbed their god-king level artifacts and swung them at once.
Nine void cracks appeared underwater, all targeting Qu Yi to prevent him from continuing to attack Qiu Guanling.
Qu Yi laughed heartily and flew away.
The nine disciples rushed to Qiu Guanling’s side, watching cautiously around them. They couldn’t allow Qu Yi to attack her again, nor could they trust that the other seven clans wouldn’t suddenly strike. After all, the eight clans were temporarily united in pursuing Qu Yi, but throughout the long history of the divine realm, they had always been in competition. Thus, the Qiu clan disciples wouldn’t trust the other seven clans. They would wait until Qiu Guanling regained her strength to defend herself before feeling safe.
Qu Yi flew over to Yan Tiankuo.
“Yan Tiankuo, since you already know you can’t defeat me, yet you still try to team up with the other seven clans—how impatient of you.” Qu Yi smiled faintly and pushed forward with a palm strike.
Another hundred million golden, wooden, water, fire spiritual entities formed a powerful palm strike, hitting Yan Tiankuo’s chest. A muffled sound resonated underwater.
Yan Tiankuo hadn’t expected Qu Yi’s speed to be so extreme—faster even than their first battle. He realized that Qu Yi had deliberately hidden his strength and avoided killing everyone from the Yan clan during their first encounter. But now it was too late. Both sides were now on a path of death.

Yan Tiankuo’s body was also thrown to the seabed, where a huge crack appeared, forming a trench.