Myriad Daos of the Heaven

Chapter 402: Chapter 400: Terrifying Dao of Attack

The ancient Phoenix Tree was impossibly massive, its branches like roads hundreds of meters wide.

Two Nascent Soul Realm elders closed in for the kill.

Logically, the best course of action would have been for them to split up to pursue him.

But they didn’t. Instead, they both came after Jiang Jichen at the same time.

Jiang Jichen understood instantly.

It turned out both elders coveted the Supreme Treasure he possessed.

They both wanted to hunt him down and didn’t trust the other to go alone, fearing they would take the treasure for themselves.

’So, I’ve become prey for them both!’

"Boy, don’t waste your energy struggling. You can’t escape from the palm of our hands!"

The black-robed elder sneered. His figure flickered like lightning as he lunged at Jiang Jichen, bringing down the might of the heavens to suppress him.

Qingyi also attacked, thrusting out a palm. Spiritual Pattern Array Seals surged forth like a tidal wave, rolling onward to drown Jiang Jichen.

With the Ancient Holy Sword in hand, Jiang Jichen swept out with a Sword Technique—Starry Night!

He used the starlit Sword Shadows to parry the surrounding attacks.

At the same time, he pushed his Mountain River Shadow Stepping Technique to its limit, leaving three afterimages in his wake.

His true body was already hundreds of meters away.

He was fleeing for his life!

"Trying to escape? Wishful thinking!"

"It’s nothing but a pointless struggle!"

Qingyi and the black-robed elder spoke with disdain as they tailed Jiang Jichen in pursuit.

The speed of a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator was astonishing!

A single step was like reversing the world, Shrinking Inches with every stride.

They had truly grasped a sliver of the rules governing space.

Therefore, even though Jiang Jichen could execute the Mountain River Shadow Stepping Technique to create three shadows with a single step at his current Realm, he was still slower than them.

This was the uncrossable chasm created by the immense gap in their Realms.

The distance between them shrank, and several times, Jiang Jichen was nearly caught and killed.

But each time, he managed a narrow escape by using the intersecting branches of the Phoenix Tree.

For example, he would leap directly down onto another branch of the Phoenix Tree below.

Moreover, the Phoenix Tree was suffused with a dense aura of Phoenix Flame, and the temperature was extremely high.

As Jiang Jichen ventured deeper, the Phoenix Flame aura grew thicker and the temperature climbed higher.

Even the two Nascent Soul Realm elders had to activate their defenses to insulate themselves from the intense heat.

Jiang Jichen’s entire body was flushed red, but he was unharmed.

He was a Body Refiner with a powerful physique, and by circulating the Undying Scripture and the Source Character Qi Condensing Technique, he could negate much of the damage from the high temperature.

’We can’t let him go any deeper into the Phoenix Tree’s domain. We need to capture and kill him quickly!’

After chasing Jiang Jichen for some time, a sense of foreboding began to grow in the two Nascent Soul Realm elders’ hearts.

Their repeated kill-shots had all missed, coming to naught, while Jiang Jichen always managed a narrow escape.

They were starting to get frustrated.

They had assumed that hunting him down would be a simple and easy task.

But the outcome was far beyond their expectations.

Jiang Jichen was as slippery as an eel, a master of escape.

"Kill him!"

Their previous sense of calm confidence, of having everything under control, was gone.

The two Nascent Soul Realm elders began to unleash their strongest speed and Magic Techniques, launching a furious assault on Jiang Jichen.

A Black Bone Staff appeared in the black-robed elder’s hand, emitting a faint black halo. It expanded, trapping the thousand-meter area around Jiang Jichen within the black ring.

Then, the black halo contracted, like black ropes intent on binding Jiang Jichen!

A small cyan banner appeared in Qingyi’s palm. He tossed it forward, and in an instant, endless banner-shadows descended from the sky, forming a boundless flag formation to trap Jiang Jichen within.

The two elders were determined to trap and kill Jiang Jichen at all costs, no longer holding back and finally deploying their Ultimate Killing Artifacts.

A sense of unease had taken root in their hearts; they feared that if this continued, something unexpected might happen.

Now, caught within the ultimate killing formation of two Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators, Jiang Jichen was finally in grave danger.

Jiang Jichen knew that if he were trapped, death was certain!

They were now at the base of one of the Phoenix Tree’s branches. After fleeing at top speed for so long, Jiang Jichen had finally reached the main trunk of the Phoenix Tree.

From a distance, the Phoenix Tree’s trunk looked like a massive mountain, dotted with caves that spewed flames.

A cold glint flashed in Jiang Jichen’s eyes!

He unleashed One Corner of the Sky Killing Array, trying to blast an opening in the sealed space.

Not only that, but Jiang Jichen’s Holy Sword condensed its strongest Sword Aura and stabbed toward a single point in the void.

Although his opponents’ killing formation was powerful, he possessed a Seven-Colored Divine Soul, which allowed him to perceive the formation’s weak points.

Then, Jiang Jichen attacked that weak point with everything he had.

SWOOSH!

The Sword Light tore through the air, carrying boundless Killing Intent.

Both the Holy Sword’s Sword Aura and the Killing Intent were manifestations of the strongest Attack Killing Dao.

The Sword Aura was sharp enough to pierce all things; the Killing Intent was formless, capable of turning all things to ash.

The combined might of both attacks struck the killing formation’s weakest point simultaneously.

BOOM!

The two Nascent Soul Early Stage Realm elders shuddered, and their expressions changed.

"Not good!"

"That kid actually managed to tear an opening in our ultimate killing formation! This is..."

The two elders exclaimed in shock.

At the same time, the Black Bone Staff and the Cyan Wood Banner returned to their hands.

But it was clear that both now had a tiny crack.

They had been forcibly created by Jiang Jichen’s strongest, incomparably sharp attack.

"Damn it, my Spirit-Binding Black Bone Staff is cracked! Jiang Jichen, I’ll kill you right now!"

"My Cyan Wood Array Banner has a hole in it too! Jiang Jichen, killing you a thousand times over wouldn’t be enough to quell my hatred!"

The two roared in anger and lunged at Jiang Jichen simultaneously.

But despite their words, they had become extremely wary of Jiang Jichen’s Dao of Attack.

If his Realm were even a little bit higher, they would likely be the ones in trouble.

Therefore, the two elders attacked even more recklessly, determined to eliminate Jiang Jichen and prevent any future trouble.

Jiang Jichen had used his strongest Dao of Attack to break out of the ultimate formation.

But it had not been easy; he was covered in blood, with terrifying wounds on his body.

Facing the deadly attacks from behind, Jiang Jichen charged forward without a backward glance.

He dove straight into the nearest tree-cave.

It was still spewing flames.

"Damn it, that kid is entering the Phoenix Bathing Fire Land!"

"He’s seeking his own death!"

The two elders’ attacks missed, and they could only watch as Jiang Jichen’s figure vanished into the flame-spewing cave.

"What do we do now?"

Qingyi asked.

"Let’s go in. After charging straight in like that, he must have been incinerated into ash by the Phoenix Flame. We’ll go in and collect the items on his body."

The black-robed elder replied.

They were certain that Jiang Jichen was already dead.

A mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator would never dare to set foot in a Phoenix’s bathing fire land.

Even for people like them, with their strongest defenses active, they couldn’t last more than one hundred breaths inside.

The two elders activated their strongest defenses and entered through the same cave Jiang Jichen had just charged into.

They only wanted to collect the Supreme Treasure from Jiang Jichen’s body and leave immediately.

BOOM!

However, the moment the two elders rushed into the cave, they were suddenly ambushed from the side by a ferocious figure emanating baleful energy, Demonic Qi, and Killing Intent.

"It’s Jiang Jichen! How is he not dead?"

The two were aghast and couldn’t believe their eyes.