In just a few sentences, another swath of people beside him fell to the ground.
Ding Huan was too lazy to pay attention to the guy.
"Fellow Daoist, as long as you are willing to let us go, I, Lou Wushang, swear not to seek revenge, and all the resources collected on Jiuyuan Star will be given to you," Lou Wushang said as he cupped his fist, his tone sincere.
Ding Huan said coldly, "Are they that precious? Don’t you think if I killed you, the things would be mine anyway? Seeking revenge? You don’t need to swear; you won’t have the chance.
Today, I’m not only going to seek justice for the Triple Heaven Star Land but also for the innocent souls that died at the hands of your Jiuyuan Sect over the years."
"And may I ask, how should I address you, fellow Daoist?" Lou Wushang’s tone was even more sincere.
Ding Huan was taken aback—something was off.
Jiuyuan Star was currently enveloped in toxic rhythms, and with every passing breath, a heap of people were dying.
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By all logic, Lou Wushang should be desperate to propose all conditions and beg for his life.
And yet he was asking for his name?
Buying time?
With that thought, Ding Huan did not hesitate to grab Jia Baihe beside him and used the Extreme Shadow Jutsu to flee.
Almost at the very moment Ding Huan fled, the space where he and Jia Baihe had been standing suddenly compressed and then exploded with a thunderous blast.
The violent tearing force made Ding Huan certain that if he hadn’t left, he would have been pulverized.
"Ding..." Jia Baihe didn’t understand why Ding Huan suddenly grabbed her and retreated, but she could only utter one word before she was shocked silent by what had just happened to their standing spot.
The space in that area had been torn apart, showing the terror of that one strike.
"Immortal Bridge Realm?" Jia Baihe gasped in shock at the appearance of a grey-clothed man.
"Old Star Lord, save us..." Lou Wushang called out urgently.
The grey-clothed man lifted his hand and threw a punch toward Ding Huan.
"Ding Huan, dodge quickly! Don’t take it head-on; he’s from the Immortal Bridge Realm..." Jia Baihe screamed in terror.
The Immortal Bridge Realm was an ancient realm of the Triple Heaven Star Land, unknown to many cultivators of the current Triple Heaven.
The punch whirled up a starry sky killing screen, as if grabbing an entire planet and smashing it toward Ding Huan.
Anyone else in this moment only had one choice: to swiftly evade.
Especially someone only in the Star Bridge Realm like Ding Huan.
Contrary to everyone’s expectations, Ding Huan not only didn’t dodge but instead charged at the grey-clothed man, his Separation Spear also launching a world of slaughter.
All things in the universe seemed to gradually fall into annihilation, withering, and dissipating under this one spear...
One spear, one world; where the spear passed, all turned to dust!
The second spear of the Nine Divine Powers: Annihilation.
Boom! The world of slaughter brought by Ding Huan’s spear collided with the grey-clothed man’s fist-driven starry sky killing screen.
The cosmic space trembled at that moment, the killing Dao Rhythm booming on the distant Jiuyuan Star’s Protecting Array, causing it to shake violently.
"Pu!" Ding Huan spat out a blood arrow, his arm bones shattered inch by inch, and then he was sent flying.
Jia Baihe rushed over to help Ding Huan, as the Great Universe Technique Circulation revolved, Ding Huan already dashed out again from beside Jia Baihe, standing in front of the grey-clothed man.
He was very clear that he absolutely could not let this grey-clothed man have even a moment’s respite.
The grey-clothed man’s punch was meant only to push him back and then unseal Jiuyuan Star.
How could Ding Huan let the man succeed?
Previously ambushed by this person, if not for his quick reaction, he would have been reduced to shreds.
If he, Ding Huan, got tricked by the same person twice, he wouldn’t have made it this far.
"You are strong, but to kill you, I need less than ten breaths. Step aside, and I can spare your life today." The grey-clothed man, knowing Ding Huan had read his intentions, straightforwardly voiced them out.
He had tested Ding Huan’s Gun Dao Divine Power just now and was clear that if he went to unseal Jiuyuan Star without dealing with Ding Huan, he could very well fall into Ding Huan’s trap.
And taking down Ding Huan might need dozens of breaths, by which time, even fewer people on Jiuyuan Star would survive.
Ding Huan chuckled coldly: "Your Mr. Huan is not easily scared."
Murderous intent gradually materialized in the eyes of the grey-clothed man as he raised his hand to grab an ancient-looking long saber.
Even without releasing the saber, the Domain around it already burst forth with frigid killing intent.
Even Jia Baihe, standing hundreds of yards away from Ding Huan and the grey-clothed man, felt a chill down her spine and couldn’t help but retreat.
Seeing Ding Huan clasp the long spear and stand unwaveringly in front of the grey-clothed man, Jia Baihe realized that she was far inferior to Ding Huan.
She was very clear that her presence would not be of any help right now.
Ding Huan’s strength was likely no weaker than those Earth Immortals who had been to her Ga Xing Mountain last time; her limited ability might interfere with Ding Huan if she intervened.
With years of experience in countless battles, Jia Baihe knew precisely what she should do.
She cautiously retreated, growing further and further away from Ding Huan.
The grey-clothed man’s long saber slashed out, leaving a black track in the starry space, from which erupted violent blade lights, tearing through the Void.
Ding Huan’s eyes narrowed, understanding that the opponent’s single slash had torn through the Void Boundary.
It seemed this person intended to kill him before rescuing others.
But Ding Huan was certain the man was dreaming.
Whether or not he could defeat him, Jiuyuan Star’s people would surely be poisoned clean, with no survivors.
What Ding Huan was considering was not letting this person save others; if he couldn’t kill this grey-clothed person today, he feared his efforts would fall short.
Because this grey-clothed person might rebuild Jiuyuan.
Although it was just a single slash, Ding Huan found himself completely bound within the opponent’s Domain, only able to feel the icy cold of the Void, helplessly watching the saber about to cleave into his forehead.
Far away, desolation surged in Jia Baihe’s heart; she wanted to help Ding Huan, but she couldn’t.
Ding Huan was strong enough, but his opponent was stronger, even unreasonably so.
Ding Huan took a deep breath, but instead, he closed his eyes, as the Great Universe Technique Domain furiously circulated, liberating his body that had been bound by that cold Sword Energy.
Ding Huan understood that his Great Dao was far stronger than the opponent’s, and it was also the profound foundation of his Great Universe Sea of Consciousness that allowed him to tear through the killing intent of the opponent’s Sword Energy.
The Separation Spear was conjured by Ding Huan in that instant, still summoning a world of slaughter, still the second spear of the Nine Divine Powers, Annihilation.
Although Ding Huan could use the Divine Will Ability, Yellow Blossom Kill, at any moment, he acted as if he had no idea he possessed such a Divine Skill, without the slightest intention of deploying it.
Boom!
The man in gray’s sword tore through Ding Huan’s domain with even greater ease.
Although Ding Huan’s Domain allowed him to free himself from the opponent’s killing intent and even summon the Separation Spear under the onslaught of the opponent’s Sword Energy, it still fell far short compared to the other’s sword.
The Separation Spear was repulsed, and although some of the chilling Sword Energy was suppressed, it still reached Ding Huan’s face.
A bloodlight split from Ding Huan’s forehead down to his chest with a "puh!"
Ding Huan’s body sprayed a mist of blood, the slash nearly cleaving him in two.
Ding Huan’s flesh stopped the spread of this lethal Sword Energy, seemingly sparing his life on the surface.
The man in gray cast a cold glance at Ding Huan, ignoring him and turning to assault Jiuyuan Star instead.
He knew Ding Huan was as good as dead.
How could his Shadow Blade Energy be so easily resisted?
On the surface, Ding Huan had blocked the sword, preventing it from slicing him in two.
In fact, the Shadow Blade Energy was fully absorbed by Ding Huan’s body. In a short while, his body would shatter like porcelain.
He had no time to continue killing Ding Huan; he must open Jiuyuan Star or all its inhabitants would be slaughtered.
Jia Baihe covered her mouth, clearly understanding what that strike meant.
Ding Huan was definitely the most talented and capable cultivator she had ever seen, yet he was about to fall here.
And it wasn’t even for himself.
Jia Baihe decided to take Ding Huan’s corpse away.
At that moment, something unbelievable happened to both Jia Baihe and the man in gray.
Ding Huan actually summoned the Separation Spear again, the lance transforming into a barrage, cold and different from the chilling energy, and bombarded the man in gray.
Compared to his previous attack, this spear seemed much slower.
How could this be?
Was this guy unkillable?
The man in gray dared not continue to breach Jiuyuan Star’s Protecting Array and turned around, his long sword sweeping up again.
He might have disregarded Ding Huan, but that did not mean he was willing to expose his back to him.
This time, the long sword conjured an array of Blade Mountains, whose momentum seemed to carry the deathly essence of this part of the universe, intent on crushing Ding Huan right here.
He understood now that as long as Ding Huan was not completely dead, he could not think about saving anyone.
In that case, just die.
At this moment, Ding Huan’s Separation Spear no longer summoned the gun light and screen, but endless, chilling killing Dao Rhythm.
These killing Dao Rhythms turned into a sphere of icy deathly gun screen.
At first, it was just a sphere of icy deathly gun screen, but as the Dao Rhythms in Ding Huan’s Separation Spear grew stronger, that sphere split into two...
Then two split into four, four into eight...
In less than a breath’s time, within a thousand zhang around the vast universe, it seemed as if the entire space was engulfed in the icy killing gun screens conjured by Ding Huan’s spear.
The man in gray’s eyes erupted with unprecedented killing intent.
Now, in his eyes, if Ding Huan was not killed, he would be a perpetual threat to Jiuyuan.
As the infinite sphere of gun screens came at him, his Blade Mountains also crazily multiplied, even faster than Ding Huan’s icy killing gun screens.
At that moment, he felt a vortex of killing power plunge down into his Divine Power Domain.
His Blade Mountains, which had been gathering crazily, suddenly paused, while Ding Huan’s gun screen became denser.
And there was a growing trend to tear his Protective Domain.
This was bad, he thought, having been complacent and actually ambushed by Ding Huan’s Divine Will Ability.
The man in gray burned his Essence Blood, and the vortex of killing power that had burst into his Divine Power Domain instantly dissipated.
"You think you can play tricks in front of me, Louxi River?" the man in gray sneered, his Blade Mountains becoming even deadlier as he admitted to underestimating Ding Huan time after time.
"Boom!" a muffled drum sound exploded in the starry sky!
Louxi River’s eyes widened. What did he see?
A ten-zhang high Iron Drum erect in the void of space.
Boom, boom, boom!
Louxi River’s Sea of Consciousness was also hit by the deep drum sound.
The Blade Mountains he had just gathered were on the brink of collapsing in an instant.
That drum sound seemed to stir the battle horns amidst a battlefield fraught with slaughter,
As the drum echoes burst in the Sea of Consciousness, the drum’s relentless pounding seemed to amplify Ding Huan’s unstoppable killing spear intent.
Spear intent, drum sound, intertwined!
A thousand drums from the mind give rise, the lance shatters ten thousand souls.
The drum sound, continuous, striking the deepest chords of the soul.
Boom!
Louxi River couldn’t bear it any longer and spat out a Blood Arrow.
Louxi River realized that the opponent was using the Magical Treasure, the Iron Drum, to attack his Divine Soul, and at the same time, the Divine Will was gathering the drum sound to assault his Sea of Consciousness.
(Today’s update ends here, friends, good night! Asking for end-of-month ticket support!)