Chapter 189: As If I Would Fall For That
Ye Guan’s words pounded against the hearts of many people.
A Dao Domain! Lu Tian’s supporters were ecstatic to see him activate a Dao Domain. Lu Tian was an Ultimate Secret Tribulation Realm cultivator, but he also had a domain.
However, Ye Guan snapped them back to reality. Ye Guan was right. The Sky-Splitting Tiger and the Vermillion Bird wouldn’t have perished if Lu Tian hadn’t decided to hide his true prowess.
His Dao Domain could have suppressed Ye Guan’s swords.
The onlookers were furious upon realizing what Lu Tian had done.
Lu Tian glared at Ye Guan, but he had no idea what to say. He truly had no intentions of sacrificing the Sky-Splitting Tiger and the Vermillion Bird. He had simply underestimated Ye Guan’s strength.
Ye Guan became extremely powerful after establishing a contract with Ao Qianqian, and the Critical Method increased his strength to truly terrifying levels. Lu Tian knew that he made a mistake.
Nonetheless, he remained silent.
He knew that any explanations were worthless at this point.
Lu Tian glared at Ye Guan and asked, “Ye Guan, are you going to use such petty methods in our fight?”
Ye Guan opened his palm, and the ten Zhuxie Flying Blades flew into his hands. Staring at Lu Tian, he laughed, “Didn’t you say that there can only be one of us in this world? I’m standing here today, and I’m begging you to kill me.
Lu Tian smirked and roared, “As you wish!”
He stomped, and the Life or Death Stage shook violently as if a mountain had just crashed into the stage. He opened his palm, revealing a divine seal.
Meanwhile, Ye Guan’s swords made a beeline for him once more. He was not foolish enough to let Lu Tian cast a spell.
The ten swords went in for the kill, harnessing the Critical Method’s prowess!
The Divine Xuanwu above Lu Tian’s head roared angrily. It pushed its palms forward and created a golden tortoise shell to protect Lu Tian.
Boom!
The ten flying swords struck the golden tortoise shell, creating a crack in it.
Swoosh!
However, another flying sword struck it afterward, cracking it open.
Lu Tians’s voice boomed throughout the stage.
“Earth Lock!” he roared.
The ground beneath Ye Guan trembled violently, and an overwhelming Great Earth Force swept toward Ye Guan. However, that wasn’t all. The spacetime around Ye Guan constricted, making him feel as if he were in a cage.
Ye Guan frowned and was about to make a move when Lu Tian roared, “Sky Prison!”
Boom!
Space above Ye Guan’s head ripped apart, and a frightening aura descended from the heavens. At the same time, the looming Great Earth Force petrified the spacetime around Ye Guan.
However, Lu Tian wasn’t done just yet. He took another step forward and flipped his right palm.
Kaboom!
Great Dao abruptly manifested around Ye Guan.
Dao Domain, Sky Prison, and Earth Lock! Lu Tian cast three spells at once to suppress Ye Guan, and he wasn’t about to let go of such an opportunity.
“Come, Dao Blade!” he shouted.
Crackle!
A massive three-hundred-meter-long rift in space manifested in front of Ye Guan, and a massive blade emerged from it. It made a beeline for Ye Guan, and it destroyed every inch of spacetime in its path.
The blade carried with it an energy so powerful that even the distant spacetime was being distorted by its presence alone.
The onlookers were stunned.
“That’s a Grand Divine Spell!” Someone exclaimed, “It’s definitely a Simplicity-rank spell, at the very least. I even think that it’s a True-rank spell!”
True-rank spells were incredibly rare, and only a few top aristocratic families and great clans had them. Of course, the Guanxuan Academy had True-rank spells in its repository.
However, the crux of the matter here was that learning such a high-rank spell wasn’t that easy, as True-rank spells required a high enough comprehension to even begin to understand the complexities of such a spell.
The blade was like a fiery inferno that brought with it the end of the world. Everyone felt as if the world was about to collapse as the blade swung down.
Ye Guan stared calmly at the blade.
Ao Qianqian suddenly appeared next to him and said, “I’ll handle it!”
She decisively jumped to meet the Dao Blade in mid-air.
The Dao Blade was terrifying, but there was a high chance that she would survive taking the brunt of such an attack.
However, Ye Guan was different; they had established a contract, so Ye Guan had become even stronger, but he was still a human being in the end.
Meanwhile, Ao Qianqian was an Ancient Heavenly Dragon known for their superior defenses. If her defenses were shattered while she was inside of him, the impact would force her out. By then, Ye Guan would have to take the brunt of the attack.
And that was exactly why she decided to take it for Ye Guan.
However, Ye Guan yanked her back and said, “You have already done me a huge favor by helping me. How can I ask you to give up your life for me?”
Ao Qianqian quietly stared at the smiling Ye Guan. In the end, she smiled and went back inside of Ye Guan.
Ye Guan opened his palm, eliciting a loud, buzzing sword hum.
A Zhuxie Flying Blade appeared, and he unleashed the Critical Method by willing it to thrust toward the oncoming Dao Blade.
However, Ye Guan’s Critical Method used not just ten but fifteen swords made out of sword energy. Ye Guan was now capable of wielding fifteen swords at once, but it would have been impossible at the moment if it hadn’t been for Ao Qianqian.
Boom!
The spacetime ahead of Ye Guan crumbled, and his restraints vanished.
Lu Tian’s Dao Domain cracked with just a sword thrust from Ye Guan.
Ye Guan was no longer restrained.
He opened his palm and summoned twelve flying swords to execute the Critical Method. He summoned not ten or fifteen but twelve. It was all because he only had twelve real swords.
Boom!
A loud explosion occurred as the twelve swords and the Dao Blade collided in mid-air. The shockwave from the blast radiated outward at breakneck speeds, and a dazzling sword light flashed. The Dao Blade trembled violently before exploding.
The shockwaves ripped through the air like a hurricane, destroying everything in a hundred-and-fifty radius around Ye Guan.
The Life and Death Stage even cracked.
Swoosh!
A sword flew out from the cloud of dust. It pierced every inch of spacetime that stood in its way.
The Divine Xuanwu’s eyes narrowed. It was afraid of Ye Guan’s sword, as Ye Guan was strong enough to shatter its defenses. Unfortunately, the Divine Xuanwu didn’t really have any choice but to protect Lu Tian.
“I’ll handle it!” roared Lu Tian.
He stepped forward and pointed. A blood-red rune flew out from the tip of his finger.
The rune collided with Ye Guan’s sword, and the collision sent Lu Tian and the Divine Xuanwu flying at least fifty meters away.
The two had just stabilized themselves when the space in front of them was torn open. Ye Guan’s figure emerged from the rift with multiple swords orbiting him. He was about to execute the Critical Method once more but with fifteen swords!
Lu Tian put his palms together and chanted in an inscrutable language.
A Great Dao mirror manifested beneath his feet quickly.
Boom!
Ye Guan’s sword struck the Great Dao mirror, and the cataclysmic force left nothing but destruction in its wake. Spacetime was annihilated, leaving nothing but a greedy hole of darkness.
However, spacetime quickly recovered.
Ye Guan’s eyes flashed sinisterly as he swung his sword lightly.
Kaboom!
A sword light flew out and struck the Great Dao mirror, shattering it to smithereens.
Meanwhile, Lu Tian was sent flying from the backlash. He clenched his right fist, and multiple rifts in space manifested overhead. Light-red lighting emerged from the rifts and converged in one place.
Soon, a massive light-red bolt of lightning was formed, and it shot out silently toward Ye Guan, leaving behind the sound that it had produced in its wake.
However, Ye Guan remained as calm as a placid lake in the face of such a devastating attack. He waved his sleeve, and a dazzling sword light shredded the oncoming lightning bolt.
Swoosh!
Ye Guan abruptly vanished. Lu Tian’s pupils constricted. He activated his Dao Domain and frantically ran away.
Clang!
Ye Guan’s sword struck Lu Tian’s Dao Domain, causing it to tremble violently before crumbling into pieces moments later.
Lu Tian flew at least a hundred meters away.
Lu Tian’s supporters were starting to get worried. It seemed that they were finally starting to realize that the invincible Chosen One was being overpowered by Ye Guan.
Ye Guan was simply too powerful.
A disciple of an aristocratic clan muttered, “Ye Guan is so strong...”
The others were silent, but a man glared at him and said, “Strong? He’s just wielding Ao Qianqian’s power. Do you really think that he can do what he’s doing by himself?”
The disciple’s voice deepened, and he pointed out. “But Lu Tian was under the protection of three divine demonic beasts…”
The man yelled, “What are you talking about?! Lu Tian is the Chosen One, and he has the Great Dao Destiny from Destiny herself. Why are you speaking up for Ye Guan? Are you trying to betray the Guanxuan Universe?”
The poor disciple could only stare incredulously at the man.
Meanwhile, Ye Guan didn’t give Lu Tian any room to breathe.
He would constantly vanish and reappear. He had gotten so fast that most of the onlookers couldn’t track him anymore; they could only hear the grotesque noise of spacetime being ripped apart as Ye Guan disappeared and reappeared.
Lu Tian urgently shouted, “Merge with me!”
The Divine Xuanwu turned into a beam of light that entered Lu Tian’s glabella.
Shwing!
A golden tortoise armor enveloped Lu Tian.
Ye Guan’s sword finally arrived in front of Lu Tian.
Shwik!
The sword struck Lu Tian’s golden armor, and it cracked after just one attack.
However, Lu Tian was smiling at Ye Guan as he pointed out. “You fell for it!”
Rip!
A rift in space abruptly appeared behind Ye Guan, and a bloody hand reached out.
Cao Bai’s expression darkened. “One of the three vicious demonic beasts, the Vicious Lion!”
The sword in Ye Guan’s hand disappeared. He turned around and punched.
World Devastation Art!
He was currently one with Ao Qianqian, and her power allowed his World Devastation Art to become five times stronger than usual.
Kaboom!
A loud explosion echoed, and the vicious demonic beast was sent flying at least a hundred meters away.
Ye Guan opened his palm and created a sword made out of sword energy. He turned around and thrust his sword forward.
Critical Method!
Boom!
Lu Tian flew a few hundred meters away, and his golden armor was finally destroyed.
The onlookers were beyond stupefied.
Ye Guan stared at Lu Tian and sneered, “As if I would fall for that, dumbass!”
Meanwhile, someone’s trembling voice echoed from the crowd. “W-w-was that a martial stance? Wait… is he a Martial God as well despite being such a powerful swordsman?”
A deafening silence enveloped the crowd.
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