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Chapter 454 The Web of the Abyss
Chapter 454 The Web of the Abyss
After dealing with Bai Yi, Zhi Ling was slightly out of breath and turned her gaze to Chen Beiwu.
"While the Dao of Space is powerful, it is not without its flaws."
Chen Beiwu strode towards Zhiling and asked, "What mistakes do you think occurred in this duel?"
The little guy pondered for a moment and then gave his answer.
"Eek!" (You underestimated your opponent!)
Instead of using a feint to attract Bai Yi's attention, it would be better to use all its strength from the beginning and activate the Qiankun Xuantong technique to suppress him.
"Anything else?" Chen Beiwu continued.
"Eek."
Zhiling shook her head, indicating that she couldn't think of any other problem besides underestimating her opponent.
"First of all, you relied too much on the Purple Luo Heavenly Barrier, believing that this profound ability could isolate all divine sense probing and magical attacks. You did not use the Void-Stepping Robe Escape Profound Ability to teleport beforehand, otherwise you would not have been injured at all."
"Secondly, you did not grasp the rhythm of the battle, that is, the changes in the offensive and defensive postures, but simply relied on Xuan Tong to launch a strong attack."
This fighting style can overwhelm opponents who are inferior to you in strength and bloodline, but if you encounter an opponent whose cultivation level far surpasses yours, you will be defeated very quickly.
"The third and most fundamental point is your mindset."
At this point, Chen Beiwu paused slightly, then concluded, "You don't see this as a life-or-death struggle, but rather as a game, right?"
Upon hearing this, Zhiling nodded slightly without refuting.
These are harsh truths, but they do reflect the problems that exist within the company.
"The next opponent is Liu Yuanming."
Chen Beiwu asked solemnly, "Zhiling, if I continue to let you take action, are you confident that you can severely injure or even kill her with a single blow?"
"Eek."
Zhiling nodded without hesitation, indicating that she could give it a try.
Archives room.
Liu Yuanming had just finished verifying the information on one jade slip and confirmed that the fake account was completely undetectable. He then habitually reached for another jade slip.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, the Golden Yuan Pagoda, a magical artifact that Liu Yuanming carried with him, trembled and spewed out a layer of golden mist that enveloped his entire body.
boom!
The golden mist twisted and collapsed, revealing a pinkish fleshy pad to Liu Yuanming.
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Liu Yuanming felt a chill in his heart. Without the slightest hesitation, he exerted force with his feet, causing the ground to collapse and sand and gravel to fly everywhere.
Immediately, he clenched his right palm into a fist, veins bulging, and the incredibly violent Golden Core within his body erupted, transforming into a dense golden light that dyed his right palm pure gold. He then threw a punch to meet the attacking beast claw.
"Clang!"
The sound of metal clashing against stone rang out. Liu Yuanming's finger bones shattered, his body shuddered violently, and he used his escape technique to retreat wildly, trying to channel all the void power that was eroding his right arm into the ground.
"Eek?" (They're still alive?)
Zhiling was greatly surprised.
To avoid revealing its aura, it concealed its presence to the extreme during this surprise attack, but Liu Yuanming still managed to react.
"monster!"
While Zhiling was astonished, Liu Yuanming had no intention of continuing the fight. He threw the Golden Yuan Pagoda with his left finger and then flung out two third-tier treasure talismans. Immediately, his body flashed with golden light and he transformed into a golden rainbow, fleeing in the opposite direction.
Fighting is out of the question!
With just one direct, head-on blow, the bones in his right arm were shattered, rendering it completely useless.
If it weren't for the golden silk armor he was wearing that could deflect some of the void power, his right arm would have been completely annihilated, affecting his entire body. Becoming a one-armed cultivator would have been the least of his injuries.
"Eek?" (Trying to escape?)
Upon seeing this, Zhiling's eyes flickered slightly, a smile appearing in them.
There's a sentence on the official website of the Immortal Alliance that perfectly describes the advantages of the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox clan.
Running away is useless. The only way to escape the clutches of the Seven-Tailed Purple Fox Clan is to fight them head-on!
To put it bluntly, if Liu Yuanming chooses to fight head-on, Zhiling will need to put in more effort to kill him; conversely, simply running away will only make him die faster.
"call out!"
With a flick of her fox tail, Zhi Ling darted across the realms and instantly appeared to Liu Yuanming's right front, striking down with a claw.
This seemingly straight-down attack with the Great Claw was actually a feint, shifting its position once more to precisely strike Liu Yuanming's waist, intending to tear him in two.
Upon discovering that his escape route was blocked, Liu Yuanming's face hardened. Instead of retreating, he advanced, ignoring the approaching giant claw. He brought his five fingers together to form a palm blade and stabbed towards Zhiling's chest.
Are you willing to risk your life, trading injury for injury?
Noticing this, Zhiling's fox tail swayed, her figure flashed continuously, and she quietly landed behind Liu Yuanming's left, then extended a claw.
boom!!!
The fox claws ripped through the sky, tearing through space in an eerie silence.
Realizing there was no time to dodge the attack, Liu Yuanming had no choice but to open his mouth and spew out a golden light.
The beast he contracted was not a third-tier treasure beast, but a Golden Thread Gu, also known as the Golden Sword Insect, which he obtained through a chance encounter in the outer realms.
This insect is about half an inch long and as thin as a hair. Its entire body is bright golden. It can attach to the upper palate and gums of a cultivator, making it difficult to be detected by divine sense. It can also continuously absorb the host's metallic true qi to become stronger.
Liu Yuanming was able to survive many battles thanks to the Golden Thread Gu's innate treasure technique, the Hidden Heaven Golden Sword.
As the name suggests, the longer a cultivator nurtures the Golden Thread Gu, the longer they accumulate power, the more formidable the Hidden Heaven Golden Sword becomes, even surpassing the full-force attack of a Nascent Soul True Monarch.
Relying on this trump card, Liu Yuanming even killed a Nascent Soul True Monarch from beyond the realm during the war between the two worlds.
It should be understood that even though that Nascent Soul True Monarch was a newly promoted True Monarch who had not yet passed the embryonic breathing stage, he was still a terrifying existence that countless Golden Core True Monarchs of the Immortal Alliance dared not face directly.
This shows just how powerful the Golden Thread Gu is!
"Die!" Liu Yuanming's eyes were icy cold.
He had nurtured this sword for four hundred years, enough to kill any demon general of the third realm, including this strange demon beast of unknown origin that had forced him into a desperate situation!
A flash of sword light appeared, silently descending and instantly arriving in front of Zhiling.
Never engage in a head-on confrontation, or you'll be cut in two!
Zhiling's pupils contracted, her spiritual senses frantically issuing a warning.
"call out!"
"call out!"
"call out!"
Zhiling activated the Void-Stepping Fur Escape Technique, constantly shifting her position.
In an instant, the archives room was filled with Zhiling's figure.
"You couldn't dodge it?"
Zhiling felt a chill run down her spine.
Intuition told it that it had been locked onto by this sword light, and no matter where it used its Xuan Tong teleportation, it would be caught up by this golden light and pierced through the hole. With this thought, Zhi Ling's pride was completely ignited.
Can't avoid it? Then don't try to avoid it!
The seven fox tails behind Zhiling no longer swayed gracefully, but instantly tightened, spewing out purple light and forming a vast and strange phenomenon of seven purple stars burning wildly.
Beiwu is watching, and it absolutely cannot lose!
In the instant her fighting spirit surged, Zhiling's eyes glazed over, and her left pupil, Zijing, suddenly lit up.
The next instant, Zhiling discovered that the world before her eyes had suddenly changed. The void that filled the heavens and earth had become incredibly active spirits. With just a thought, she could gather them all together and use them for her own purposes.
"call."
Without thinking, Zhiling instinctively opened her mouth and spat out a purple light.
"Are you really not going to make a move?"
A moment ago, Jin Dan, Tie Dan, and Xue Le all looked at Chen Beiwu.
No matter how gifted Zhiling is, she is only a third-realm demon general with 799 years of cultivation. She is still two minor realms away from the Golden Core Perfection stage, which is equivalent to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.
Facing such a powerful killing move suddenly, one would likely suffer considerable injury.
Of course, this does not mean that Zhiling is not strong; quite the opposite.
In a one-on-one fight, even Tie Dan and Xue Le, who only possess over seven hundred years of cultivation, would be severely injured if they took this sword head-on. Only Jin Dan was confident that he could keep his injuries to a minor degree.
"No need. Zhiling's talent is far greater than you imagine. It's just that she's usually lazy and hasn't been able to unleash that talent."
Chen Beiwu said from the bottom of his heart.
Rumble!
As expected, as soon as Chen Beiwu finished speaking, the purple light that Zhiling exhaled drew upon the power of the void, transforming into an absolute black dot that was constantly rotating and shrinking, blocking his way.
laugh! ! !
Without any surprises, the black dot rapidly expanded, forming a miniature black hole that unleashed a terrifying aura that could annihilate everything.
"puff!"
As his fellow practitioner fell, Liu Yuanming suffered a backlash, experiencing excruciating brain pain, spitting out blood, and his eyes filled with horror.
Vanished?
What kind of mystical power is this? The golden thread gu he summoned instantly perished and vanished upon touching that black hole, without even causing a ripple.
Damn it, what kind of being did he offend that would send such a ferocious demon general to assassinate him!
Fortunately, the next second, the strange demon's body went limp and it collapsed to the ground, as if it had exhausted its magical power.
Upon seeing this, Liu Yuanming relaxed and smiled.
Haha, as expected, he is blessed with good fortune, and he always manages to escape danger every time he encounters a life-threatening crisis!
"Eek."
Zhiling shook her head and forced herself to sit up.
It unleashed its newly awakened profound power with all its might, nearly draining all the magical energy from its body.
Just then, Zhiling felt a warmth in her body and smelled a familiar scent.
It skillfully raised its head and found itself already in Chen Beiwu's arms.
"Eek."
Zhiling turned her head away, feeling somewhat ashamed.
It failed to defeat a mere Golden Core cultivator.
"You're already very strong. I didn't have your talent back then," Chen Beiwu said sincerely.
The golden egg standing nearby: "???"
If he remembered correctly, Bei Wu's cultivation level was only at the late Golden Core stage back then, but he could easily suppress a Golden Core Perfection cultivator by activating the Primordial Five Tribulations Seal. How could his talent be worse than Zhi Ling's!
"If we don't take into account your three meridians' blessing, in terms of talent alone, I am indeed inferior to Zhiling." Chen Beiwu glanced at the golden egg and corrected her.
"Chen—Chen, the garrison commander?"
When Chen Beiwu appeared, Liu Yuanming was stunned, and a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"What is this?" he asked cautiously.
"Playing dumb won't work. Your secret deal with the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom has been exposed. So, are you going to surrender or die by my hand?" Chen Beiwu said bluntly.
Liu Yuanming smiled and said in a show of bravado, "Governor, you must have misunderstood something. The trade with the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom was not initiated by me, but rather by orders from above."
"If you, Lord Garrison Commander, feel this is inappropriate, Bai Yi, Chang Ming, and I can forgo all of it and give you 30% of the profits. As for the remaining 70% of the profits, it is already fixed and I have no authority to change it."
"Bribing your superiors is a serious crime. It seems you're not planning to leave here alive."
Chen Beiwu shook his head, showing no interest in continuing the conversation, and slowly raised his right hand.
Liu Yuanming did not resist, and gave a bitter laugh: "Lord Garrison Commander, I have no choice."
"A peerless genius like you only needs to mention what cultivation resources you require, and the sect's experts will naturally prepare them. There's no need for you to get involved in shady business. But I can't do that."
"If I don't pledge allegiance to those above me, how many years would it take me to obtain even a single pill of the Tongshen Guiying Pill? Five hundred years? A thousand years?"
"None of those," Liu Yuanming said. "For a Golden Core cultivator, the greatest despair is having no hope."
"If the Immortal Alliance is willing to increase the garrison's salary, serving for eight hundred years can be exchanged for a Nascent Soul Core Pill. How could I possibly betray my original intentions and make such deals with the Qingqiu Demon Kingdom!"
"If that's all you have to say, then die."
Chen Beiwu flipped his hand and slowly pressed down, and Liu Yuanming's bones immediately cracked.
"Chen Beiwu, you think you're so great? You're so high and mighty, only daring to pick on the weak! Which of the ten Immortal Alliance cultivators stationed in the middle layer of the Abyss hasn't seen that they've made deals with the three great demon kingdoms? You dare to investigate me? You dare to investigate all the guardians of the Abyss?" Liu Yuanming roared.
Without the protection of someone above him, how could he dare to engage in such a business if he wanted to raise a bandit to maintain his own status?
Chen Beiwu paused, looked up at Liu Yuanming, and said indifferently, "These high-sounding words are useless. Although you hide it very well, my intuition is always very accurate. I can sense that you have malice towards me. Otherwise, I would not have wasted my cultivation time to attack you."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yuanming fell silent.
So that's how it is. He didn't lose unjustly!
The higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the better they can conceal their thoughts and emotions. With the addition of concealing magic treasures, cultivation techniques, and companion beasts, even a Nascent Soul True Monarch cannot detect the thoughts of a Golden Core True Person without their knowledge.
It turns out that there are people in this world who possess such irrational intuition.
What a monster!
No wonder Chen Beiwu was able to rise from a poor, impoverished family and surpass many second-generation immortals to become a rising star in the Jade Purity Immortal Sect.
"You're right. Someone wants to drag you down and make you commit a serious crime. Bai Yi, Chang Ming, and I are just pawns pushed out," Liu Yuanming said calmly.
"That's normal. Only mediocre people aren't envied," Chen Beiwu said dismissively.
Where there are interests, there will be conflict.
Perhaps in the eyes of many second-generation members of the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, he was just a peasant from a poor place.
But so what?
No matter how much those scoundrels curse him behind his back, they must still address him respectfully as Chief Chen when they meet him in public, treating him with courtesy.
"Aren't you curious about who's behind this?" Liu Yuanming wanted to discuss terms with Chen Beiwu.
Chen Beiwu looked at Liu Yuanming with interest: "There are very few forces that dare to target me. They are either the Tianyuan Xiao family or the True Monarch forces listed in the Jade Purity Golden Book. In any case, they are all rats in the gutter who dare not leave any traces in their actions."
"You don't have a single piece of evidence; you're just making guesses. What makes you think you can negotiate with me?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Yuanming closed his eyes and did not speak further.
He accepted his defeat.
However, if Chen Beiwu is young and reckless and dares to break through the invisible net that covers the entire Abyss, he will definitely be targeted by that force.