In the world of martial arts, there is a vast fantasy world.

Chapter 252 Sha Ting

Shen Xing is now in the late stage of the third realm and has two Heaven-grade martial arts intents. Even without wearing armor, not just any Spirit Realm cultivator has the right to provoke him.

"Gotcha."

With a sharp cry and a deafening slash, Shen Xing cleaved through a vast expanse of space nearly a thousand meters underground in the sand sea, striking the spiritual realm ahead but sparing its life.

The knife was held directly across his neck.

Even though there was no light under the sand, Shen Xing's eyes burned with a pale golden flame, allowing him to see everything clearly.

The person in front of me had his entire face covered by a special mask, even his eyes. When he lifted the mask, he revealed an extremely terrified face, looking like a dying henchman, without any trace of the demeanor of a strong person.

"Why are you targeting me?" Shen Xing asked slowly and deliberately.

"Yes, it's a Seeking Breath Insect." The man stared directly into Shen Xing's eyes, feeling as if his very soul was burning. The burning intensified with fear, making him want to scream, but he dared not refuse to answer.

"What is that?" Shen Xing asked.

"First, a kind of insect that can detect the presence of life and even distinguish realms." The man was almost going mad, wailing, "We had no idea we would encounter you! We just wanted to plunder some weaklings!"

"You're supposed to be a Spirit Realm cultivator, yet here in the Sand Court Domain, all you can do is be a bandit?" Shen Xing raised an eyebrow. "Don't panic, answer me calmly, and I'll look into the situation in the Sand Court Domain."

It seemed that his calm words gave this man hope for survival, and his tone gradually calmed down as he recounted the situation in Shatingyu in detail.

In this place, there are indeed quite a few robbers like him.

Not to mention spiritual realms, there are quite a few even in the mountains and seas.

Firstly, most of the abundant spiritual energy within the Sand Court Domain is located beneath the Sand Sea. Secondly, the resources in this place are indeed not abundant and are concentrated; most of the valuable resources are concentrated in the oasis and controlled by the Sand Court. Furthermore, if one stays in one place for a long time, the resources will often be exhausted in no time.

Therefore, the largest number of people wander around.

Thieves naturally became a very promising career.

"I see." Shen Xing said thoughtfully, having gained some understanding of the "human environment" of this Shating Domain.

Then, with a swift and decisive strike, he ended the man's life.

As the conversation progressed, he clearly sensed a hint of deception in the man, perhaps realizing that he was new to the place, knew nothing about it, and was quite naive.

However, Shen Xing may not really understand, but now that he has determined what kind of place this is, he has to "do as the Romans do".

"No wonder, both the Tianyuan Sect and the Great Shang Dynasty's records say this place is suitable for trials," Shen Xing pondered. "Human nature is indeed treacherous. But since we're already here, we can't waste any resources. We need to find an oasis to gather intelligence. Hmm?"

His gaze suddenly sharpened, for a powerful aura was rapidly approaching from his right.

At the moment of impact, a huge spike radiating a dark blue elemental energy stabbed fiercely at him from the sea of ​​sand.

It was a scorpion that was at least at the late stage of the Spirit Realm!

Shen Xing had realized that the sand in this place seemed to have the effect of isolating auras. Such a powerful demon beast could be sensed from hundreds of kilometers away if it were on the ground, but now it was only a few kilometers away. This was only because his soul and perception were extremely powerful.

"Beneath this sea of ​​sand, things are not peaceful either." Shen Xing moved his body at lightning speed, his whole being like a swimming dragon, constantly dodging.

In this environment, a monster of this strength could actually cause him some trouble.

Moreover, Shen Xing suddenly noticed the auras of several other different demonic beasts rushing towards him at high speed.

After glancing at the corpses in the spirit realm before him, he roughly understood the reason.

When Lingjing dies, a large amount of Yuan energy will dissipate, and coupled with his powerful blood and qi, it will indeed have an extremely strong attraction to the monsters in the desert.

However, this number is far too many.

Is it because of the existence of the desert that many powerful monsters were able to hide and were not wiped out by humans?

Shen Xing's figure flashed rapidly, his long sword flying. After killing several monsters in succession, he discovered that the number of monsters coming was increasing, and they were all at the fourth realm!

Clearly, if they really go on a killing spree here, the accumulated blood and energy will only increase.

Even if he is very strong, he will eventually be exhausted. Besides, he is only at the third realm.

They could only take everything from the spirit realm and break through upwards.

After a fierce battle, Shen Xing finally emerged from the sea of ​​sand, panting heavily. His internal energy was circulating rapidly, and the eight-patterned golden pill he had just swallowed was consumed by more than half in a short period of time.

"Efficiency has indeed improved." Shen Xing glanced at his arm, where there was still a wound, with poisonous Yuan energy spreading throughout it, hindering the recovery of the injury.

However, it's nothing serious.

Although this level of demonic beast energy is poisonous, it is far inferior to the energy of the Heavenly Grade Myriad Dragons Technique.

However, Shen Xing finally reached his limit.

Surrounded by more than a dozen demonic beasts from the Spirit Realm, and with the sand sea affecting his divine sense, even he was injured.

Fortunately, the efficiency of my practice has indeed changed, and that is the greatest satisfaction!

"Oasis." Shen Xing found a map on the spirit's body. The map clearly marked their current location, so they wouldn't get lost even in the vast desert.

He quickly found an oasis, abandoned his original direction, and rushed toward the oasis.

However, after only crossing a distance of about ten miles, several more sand bandits from the Spirit Realm came looking for them.

"That's really true." Shen Xing didn't hold back and went all out from the start, killing one and chasing another, causing all the sand bandits to flee in all directions.

Finally, when they finally saw the oasis, Shen Xing, who had been quite dashing, was now disheveled, his breathing was unsteady, and even the longsword in his hand, which was engraved with many runes and could be considered a third-grade spiritual weapon, was bent.

This was because he encountered twelve groups of sand bandits along the way!

That's right, twelve batches!

On one occasion, two groups of sand bandits came at the same time and launched their attacks simultaneously with remarkable coordination. Among them was a late-stage fourth-realm expert, which was an extremely rare and fierce battle for Shen Xing.

Of course, he ultimately won.

Relying on his perfectly powerful movement technique, he fought and retreated, finally driving the sand bandits to their breaking point after killing three Spirit Realm experts.

He roughly understood the reason—a lone person at the third realm walking in this desert would be the perfect target for plunder.

He looks like someone who is alone.

Clearly, those so-called "breath-seeking insects" can only determine location and realm, but cannot determine specific strength.

However, looking at the tall city wall in front of him and the large number of ordinary and simple sand houses built on both sides of the city gate, Shen Xing also felt a rare sense of novelty.

"The oases throughout the region are monopolized by the Sand Court. Ordinary martial artists are only allowed to live outside the city, exchanging a large amount of water and food for a small amount of food at a high price." As Shen Xing walked along, he felt the faint, malicious gazes coming from those simple sand houses, some of which were even from the Spirit Realm.

Even spirits can't enter the city?

"You!" A martial artist with only the innate strength stood in front of the gate, glanced at Shen Xing with a sidelong look, took out a twisted worm and pointed it at Shen Xing. Then, after looking at the color on the worm, he said disdainfully, "Third realm. To enter the city, you need one high-grade third-rank pill, or ten medium-grade third-rank pills, or thirty low-grade third-rank pills."

"Just to enter the city, you need so many pills?" Shen Xing was genuinely surprised.

But these words made the previously lazy gatekeeper of the Innate Sect stand up straight, look Shen Xing up and down with a playful look in his eyes.

"From outside?"

"Not bad," Shen Xing said with a faint smile. "Here in your land, would someone at the Second Realm dare to be so disrespectful to someone at the Third Realm?"

"Heh, let me tell you, let alone the Third Realm, even the Spirit Realm will have to submit to me." This Innate Realm cultivator tugged at his tattered spirit armor. "Because I'm from Sha Ting! Now, if you want to go in, you'll have to hand over sixty low-grade Third Realm pills!"

His gaze towards Shen Xing was now filled with undisguised greed.

An outsider like this, daring to come to Shating, must have brought plenty of elixirs.

Otherwise, without the ability to find resources in the vast desert, it would have been impossible to make it this far alive.

A perfect, fat sheep!

However, Shen Xing's expression remained calm, even somewhat curious: "Sha Ting is indeed powerful, but if I kill you here, whether I can escape or not, you will already be dead."

Swah——

The man retreated more than twenty meters at once, seemingly quite wary, but when he looked at Shen Xing, he sneered.

He simply waved the jade token in his hand.

Within a short time, figures dressed in tattered spirit armor appeared at the entrance.

The leader of the group was none other than a spiritual realm.

Stretching lazily, he looked lazy and arrogant.

"Captain," Na Xiantian said obsequiously, squeezing forward and pointing at Shen Xing, "this is the one who threatened to kill me. Everyone heard it."

"That's right, we all heard it." A number of martial artists suddenly appeared around them, including three or four Spirit Realm cultivators.

"That kid did say that."

"My lord, why don't we take action and capture it for you?"

"Those who offended Sha Ting, all those involved must be apprehended!"

"A stranger who's courting death isn't worth the adults coming all this way for."

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These martial artists were exceptionally obsequious, even those at the Spirit Realm, which only served to highlight the identity of the person before them.

Or perhaps, it highlights Shatin's status.

(End of this chapter)