On Hell Paradise Island, about 500 meters from the dock, halfway up a mountain, stands a watchtower nearly 50 meters high, which also functions as a lighthouse.
Although radar is of little use on this island, on clear days, the watchtower can even see the sea 80 kilometers away.
The watchman clearly saw the Kuite shelling the Oriental Princess and then being counter-killed by her through the telescope.
Even at the dock, some people heard the shelling from the sea and saw the raging fires and thick smoke burning on the Kuite.
The news quickly reached Lange, who was somewhat furious!
He had already ordered all the boats on the island destroyed, and the Kuite was almost the only link to the outside world. Now that this ship was gone, it meant all of them were trapped on the island!
After all, while the island had some supplies, the vast majority of them needed to be transported from the outside. Once the island's supplies ran out, these people would be left to fend for themselves.
"Relay my orders, the entire island is under martial law! Open the gun emplacements!" Lange frantically issued the command.
A few minutes later, the camouflage on the gun emplacements at the dock was removed, revealing the massive gun barrels pointed at the only waterway leading to the island.
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In the Spiritual Realm, next to the Myriad Laws Pavilion, there is a building that is actually an annex to the Myriad Laws Pavilion, called the Training Ground.
The existence of this building is of great significance, because whether it's martial arts or spells, it's not enough to just learn them; one must master them and use them flexibly.
Many things require repeated practical application to gradually accumulate mastery.
Furthermore, some cultivation techniques have flaws that can only be effectively avoided through actual combat.
The purpose of the Training Ground is precisely this: to provide a place for practical combat.
For example, some powerful techniques, after use, can drain almost all the internal energy, leaving the user in a weakened state.
Or, using these techniques can cause severe damage to the body, leading to serious sequelae.
However, by using the Training Ground, these concerns are eliminated.
Theoretically, as long as you can endure the pain caused by the backlash of these techniques, you can use them as many times as you wish.
Moreover, in this Training Ground, users can either use the opponents and combat scenarios provided by the Training Ground or preset their own combat scenarios and opponents.
At this moment, Ling Tian is in the Training Ground, and facing him is the demon god Ooyorimaru, whom he had recently defeated!
However, this Ooyorimaru seems to be tougher and more powerful than his true form!
This is the imaginary enemy Ling Tian envisioned, strengthened on the basis of Ooyorimaru's original form.
Ling Tian, holding the Oni-kiri longsword, quietly observed his opponent. The imagined "Ooyorimaru" held a giant sword in its three hands and lunged at Ling Tian with a spin!
If Ling Tian were to be struck by this great sword, although he wouldn't die, he would still suffer the full pain of his body being torn apart, making him wish for death but unable to find it.
Facing the rapidly approaching Ooyorimaru, Ling Tian did not dodge. He gripped the Oni-kiri longsword and poured almost all his internal energy into it!
In an instant, the originally jet-black longsword turned fiery red, like a heated iron bar!
Attached to the blade was immense, scorching energy.
When he was still more than five meters away from Ooyorimaru, Ling Tian swung the longsword in his hand. A massive beam of red light shot out from the Oni-kiri.
This red blade energy flew at an extremely high speed. Despite Ooyorimaru's desperate attempts to block it with its three longswords, it was useless. The red blade energy struck Ooyorimaru.
Ooyorimaru's body immediately burst into flames. The part of its body that was struck developed a red fissure, from which flames seemed to emerge.
Almost instantly, Ooyorimaru was engulfed in crimson flames. After a few seconds, Ooyorimaru was reduced to ashes.
At this moment, Ling Tian suddenly felt extremely weak, almost unable to hold the longsword in his hand. He immediately plunged the Oni-kiri into the ground, supporting himself to prevent himself from falling.
Ling Tian was very satisfied. He had completely mastered this move, and the terrifying technique was named "Sky Burning Annihilation Slash"!
Ling Tian withdrew from the Training Ground. The internal energy consumed by using that move instantly returned to his body.
Ling Tian stopped cultivating, primarily because he received a message from the Ice Soul Giant Bear.
It turned out that outside, in the lava cave beneath the volcano, the Ice Soul Giant Bear had absorbed most of the ten-thousand-year ice souls.
Ling Tian then exited the Spiritual Realm. The scene before him surprised him. The ten-thousand-year ice souls, which had a volume of over a hundred cubic meters, now only had a few cubic meters left, and the Ice Soul Giant Bear was still greedily absorbing them.
A few meters away from these ten-thousand-year ice souls were lava flows. Ling Tian could feel that the originally very cold lava cave had now become extremely hot!
The disappearance of a large amount of ten-thousand-year ice souls meant that the lava had nothing to cool it down, and it was becoming restless.
Ling Tian immediately stopped the Ice Soul Giant Bear. Xiong Er was still unhappy, but Ling Tian couldn't let it continue absorbing. Once the remaining ten-thousand-year ice souls were all absorbed, the lava on the island would likely go out of control, and the Forbidden Zone and the volcanic area would expand.
However, looking at the remaining ten-thousand-year ice souls, they probably wouldn't last much longer.
Ling Tian didn't need these things to last long; he just needed them to last until he dealt with the imposter Mario Kuite.
Looking at Xiong Er, who was very displeased and even sulking, Ling Tian found it somewhat amusing. Although Xiong Er had now become a very powerful Ice Soul Giant Bear, its soul was actually that of a young bear.
So, Ling Tian took the Ice Soul Giant Bear into the Spiritual Realm.
Ling Tian did not have the Ice Soul Giant Bear enter the Spirit Beast Altar to slumber. Instead, he brought it into a newly unlocked building within the Spiritual Realm.
This building, somewhat like the Spirit Beast Altar, was about 30 meters in diameter, with Bagua patterns. In the center of the building was a large cauldron about three meters high. The cauldron was golden and radiant, as if made of pure gold, with three large characters written in ancient script: Treasure Gathering Basin!