Chapter 1502 No longer having to worry about New Year’s gifts for the disciples

　　Song Shuhang said, “Eh? He actually didn’t turn into a big tree?”

　　Normally, wasn’t it supposed to turn the other party into a big tree, have it bear fruit, and then let a seed come out from the fruit, which should contain the loot stolen by Song Shuhang’s talent?

　　With the other party having turned into a statue, how was he supposed to get his loot?

　　Don’t tell me that this stone statue is pregnant, and is going to have a baby!

　　“Petrification technique? Break!” The Sixth Stage celestial frantically urged its celestial race’s techniques, trying to get rid of the ‘petrification’ property on itself.

　　However, the state of his body and one brought about by the ‘petrification technique’ weren’t of the same principles at all.

　　The more he urged his cultivation technique, the faster his body turned into a statue.

　　After a while, he had completely turned into a stone sculpture.

　　He stretched his hands forward, his face became filled with horror as he saw his belly rise up high.

　　As a statue, he floated in the air, completely motionless.

　　The Fifth Stage celestials at the side fell into a daze.

　　At this time, an experienced Fifth Stage celestial shouted, “Stop being in a daze, we must shoot and kill Profound Sage Tyrannical Song’s son. According to my experience, this kind of curse-like petrification technique can be dealt with by killing the caster.”

　　The pot-bellied Fifth Stage celestial then returned to launching a flurry of crazy attacks on Song Shuhang.

　　At this time, Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword suddenly said, “Shuhang, stop playing around. Grab that petrified statue, it is undergoing some interesting changes. Don’t let them escape.” Song Shuhang asked, “Interesting changes? Are there any treasures coming out?” After that, he bent over and picked up the Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword from the virtuous lamia.

　　The virtuous lamia cooperated, loosening the hand she was using to hold Scarlet Heaven Sword.

　　Song Shuhang asked, “Should I use you, Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword?”

　　Scarlet Heaven Sword chuckled. “If you were to use me to perform the Heaven Burning Flaming Saber Technique, the weakest attack would already have power at the Eighth Stage. With one stab, these guys would all turn into ashes, including that statue. Therefore, don’t even think about it.”

　　“So I should only use sabers and spears to fight with them?” After saying that, Song Shuhang activated the spatial techniques of the [Ancient Witch’s Blessing) magical treasure on his left hand.

　　In the next moment, Song Shuhang disappeared from his position.

　　When he reappeared, he was already among the celestials.

　　Song Shuhang softly shouted, “Clone!”

　　Song Shuhang Two stepped out from behind him. He wore Swordsman Wooden Ox’s gloves of passion on both hands, and held the invisible saber insect. The Black Iron Godly Armor appeared and covered Song Shuhang Two’s body.

　　Immediately afterward, the clone activated its saber intent armor.

　　The Tyrant King Expert’s shield of the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure also floated around him, turning him into a battle fortress. Even if he were to simply stand still right where he was, it would be difficult for the celestials to break through his defenses. Song Shuhang said, “Fairy Waiting for a Promise, let’s make this a quick fight.” At the same time, he stretched out his hand, and summoned the Divine Lobster’s chariot for the virtuous lamia to drive. Fairy @#%x climbed up from the ground, holding the Black Panther Commander’s flag of the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure, and using it as a spear while driving the Divine Lobster’s chariot and speeding into the group of celestials.

　　The chariot’s charge, combined with the virtuous lamia’s spear techniques, was like a tiger that had entered a flock of sheep-and it was a group of pregnant sheep that couldn’t run at that.

　　At the same time, Song Shuhang stretched out his hand. The Shadow Serpent King’s thorn, Great Master Scholarly Donkey’s horsetail whisk, Great Giant Deer Daoist’s strong bow, Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox’s crossbow, Mangling Wolftooth arrow, Tyrant Cuttlefish’s twin blades, Holy Master Ape’s sword, and Dolphin’s giant sound cannon of the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Combined Magical Treasure appeared one after another, floating around his body.

　　Tyrant Wild Boar’s ram descended from the air, and rushed through the celestials.

　　Song Shuhang pushed his three body tempering exercises to full power.

　　A large group of Holy Apes, each holding a Scholarly Scripture, appeared behind Song Shuhang, and began to cheer for their master.

　　Each Holy Ape could provide Song Shuhang the power of a Holy Ape Dragon Elephant.

　　The pregnant celestials could only scurry around chaotically.

　　A celestial screamed, “Impossible, an ordinary Fifth Stage cultivator can’t be this powerful.”

　　How was this a Fifth Stage cultivator? This was clearly an ancient T-Rex that had iron muscles and steel tendons, impenetrable by blade or spear.

　　The celestials could only abandon their bows and arrows, and instead use close combat techniques to fight Song Shuhang. However, since they were all pregnant right now, close combat didn’t seem like it would go great for them.

　　“Rip!”

　　The virtuous lamia relied on the powerful charge of the Divine Lobster’s chariot, waved the flag in her hand, and pierced a celestial’s throat.

　　Fresh blood gushed out like a fountain.

　　This celestial became the first to die in this battle.

　　At the moment he died, there was a bloody tentacle that extended out of the statue which the Sixth Stage celestial had transformed into piercing into the body of the dead celestial. The corpse of the celestial was instantly drained before it shattered, and turned into crystal clear fragments that looked like glass shards.

　　As this took place, the blood-colored tentacle on the statue sprouted leaves as if it were a branch, and fruit began to grow from it.

　　Song Shuhang’s clone waved the invisible saber insect, and resisted the offensive of the other party with the thick defense on his body. After he got closer to the other party, he instantly struck out with the saber insect.

　　This was a way of fighting that made others feel the greatest despair.

　　At this moment, a new tentacle stretched out from the statue, and went and pierced this Fifth Stage celestial’s body.

　　In the blink of an eye, the Fifth Stage celestial was completely drained dry before shattering.

　　After having extracted the energy from the second celestial, the stone statue seemed to have entered a berserk state.

　　In an instant, dozens of bloody tentacles stretched out, madly piercing each Fifth Stage celestial.

　　As long as there was a wound on their body, the tentacles would directly enter them through it.

　　“Aaah-” Anguished cries rang out from the celestials.

　　Song Shuhang frowned slightly, and he retreated

　　His clone similarly moved back.

　　Only the virtuous lamia, who didn’t care about the blood-colored tentacles at all, continued to drive the chariot and kill whomever she ran into.

　　She no longer personally killed the celestials, and used the Black Panther Commander’s flag to swipe around instead, relying on her superb spear techniques to leave wounds on the body of the celestials.

　　As long as there was a wound on the body of a celestial, the blood-colored tentacles that extended from the statue wouldn’t let that celestial off.

　　And, as if it could distinguish between ally and foe, the blood-colored tentacles actively avoided the virtuous lamia.

　　Its targets were only the celestials.

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　　Song Shuhang asked, “Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword, is this the interesting change you were referring to?” Scarlet Heaven Sword replied, “It’s a little different from what I thought.”

　　Song Shuhang asked, “What are these tentacles?”

　　Scarlet Heaven Sword chuckled, and said, “Ancient divine witch blood, this is the source of power for a witch.”

　　Before the ancient era, the inheritance of the ancient witches was very prosperous.

　　Due to the changes in the world, coupled with the severance of blood, the legacy of the ancient witches was now running low. The cultivation of witches was several times slower and several times more difficult than cultivation.

　　The ancient witches cultivated neither golden cores nor nascent souls. They cultivated their blood and their flesh. As such, for an ancient witch, blood was of great importance.

　　Song Shuhang asked, “This was what my [Impregnating Gaze + Embryonic Gaze) combo plundered?”

　　Scarlet Heaven Sword said, “That’s right. Originally, this ‘ancient divine witch blood’ had been under layer upon layer of seals, and was collected by this Sixth Stage celestial. But because of your abilities, this ancient divine witch blood was able to break out of the seals. The ancient witches master strange witchcraft; with it, they can still leave a curse on their body and blood even after dying. This ancient witch had been beheaded by the celestials, and what he left in his own ancient divine witch blood should be a curse against celestials.”

　　While he was speaking, the blood-colored tentacles that stretched out from the statue had finished piercing all the celestials.

　　All of the celestials had now shattered into pieces.

　　The things left behind by these celestials were all picked up by Song Shuhang’s clone. Each of the 50 Fifth Stage celestials had a set comprising some spirit stones, medicines, and even a piece of equipment similar to the ‘size-reducing purse’.

　　The said equipment looked like a bottle, and it could shrink items and store them within it.

　　Each bottle contained a large pile of spirit stones, pills, bows and arrows, and javelins. This team of celestials should have only just come out to hunt, and had yet to actually harvest any trophies. There wasn’t a single golden core present in their small bottles.

　　The only two golden cores they had were the two that had been hanging on the neck of the Sixth Stage celestial-Shuhang would remember to take them with him when the time came. Song Shuhang stored away the spirit stones and the 50 small bottles. In the world of cultivation, spatial storage treasures were very valuable, and many Fifth Stage practitioners might not even have a single one of such magical treasures.

　　Therefore, most practitioners could only settle for something inferior, and use magical treasures like the size-reducing purse. This kind of magical treasure was also expensive.

　　The 50 small bottles were quite valuable.

　　For this year’s New Year, I won’t have to worry about having to look for gifts for my disciples anymore, Song Shuhang thought to himself.

　　When New Year came, he could simply give each of his disciples a small bottle. If Loli Shi, Loli Zhu, and Little Guoguo also came to pay their New Year’s greetings, he could also give one to each of them After all, he did just get an entire 50 of them.

　　He currently had the Inner World + magical bracelet, and even had a precious rabbit-shaped “size-reducing purse’. This kind of bottle-shaped magical treasure was mostly useless for him.

　　“Eh? Is there nobody piloting this flying magical treasure? Could it be unmanned?” At this moment, Song Shuhang’s clone was staring at the aircraft.

　　He felt this aircraft looked very cool.

　　It wasn’t worse than the popular immortal boats of the world of cultivation.

　　Song Shuhang had wanted a personal immortal boat for a long time now, and this aircraft could come in handy after some modifications. Song Shuhang speculated, “Could it be that the one that had been piloting it has joined the battle, and has already died?” With a wave of his hand, he transferred this ‘flying magical treasure’ directly into the Inner World.

　　The Inner World was so big, so he didn’t need to worry about casually putting good things like these into it.

　　After cleaning up the battlefield, Song Shuhang, his clone, the virtuous lamia, and Senior Scarlet Heaven Sword surrounded the stone statue and observed it.

　　After the stone statue absorbed the energy of the 50 celestials, there were now 50 clusters of leaves with growing fruits.

　　It honestly looked quite artistic.

　　It was only the expression on this Sixth Stage celestial which was one full of terror while being petrified that affected the sense of beauty.

　　Scarlet Heaven Sword said, “It’s done, this should be the result.”

　　As soon as its voice fell, all of the branches began to merge together.

　　The branches tangled with one another, and finally merged into a huge flower.

　　The flower bloomed in an instant, and just as quickly decayed.

　　After the flower fell, a crystal seed was left behind.

　　There was a drop of golden blood in this seed.

　　This was the mutated ‘ancient divine witch blood’—the result of having absorbed the power of 50 celestials.