As they reached a hundred li away, another deadly zone appeared before Lin Xiao and the others.
Unlike other massive phenomena, this zone was a Heaven-Extinguishing Ray, thin as a thread, connecting heaven and earth, impossibly small.
Yet, this slender ray contained terrifying energy, as if it could slice through the entire space. The ray’s dazzling light was so intense that it nearly blinded anyone who approached.
Around the Heaven-Extinguishing Ray, some thirty to forty people had gathered.
“Chi!” As Lin Xiao drew near, the previously stationary ray suddenly moved, darting at high speed towards a spot dozens of zhang to his side.
“Ah! Ah! Ah!”
Screams rang out as a dozen people in the ray’s path were sliced apart. Those cut by the ray appeared unharmed at first, then their bodies split in two, blood gushing out.
Most screams came as they saw the ray approaching; once it passed, they had no chance to cry out, their bodies instantly severed.
Some were luckier, losing only limbs and barely surviving.
But they were left drenched in blood.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As the ray moved a short distance, a pile of items erupted from the void it passed through, shooting in all directions. The crowd rushed to grab them.
Ziling and Hu Yue moved, each targeting an item.
Lin Xiao’s gaze locked onto a rusty broken sword shooting out, which almost no one bothered to chase.
At that moment, the Junzang key on Lin Xiao’s body lit up, his heart surging with excitement. He charged towards the broken sword, his strongest spiritual power surging to seize it.
“Chi!”
His spiritual power latched onto the sword, pulling it towards him. Lin Xiao grabbed its hilt.
Clutching the broken sword tightly, his body trembled with excitement: “Yaoguang, Broken Sword!”
This was the sword Emperor Yaoguang used to cleave the Silver Mirror Spirit Gate. Half a zhang long, it broke an inch when it struck the gate.
Back in Junzang, his supposed Yaoguang lineage senior brother, a twenty-year-old peak Martial Monarch prodigy, had told him that when the Junzang key glowed, it meant the Yaoguang Broken Sword had appeared.
This was undoubtedly the Yaoguang Broken Sword. Though broken, Lin Xiao believed it was extraordinary.
After all, this was Emperor Yaoguang’s sword, which had ultimately shattered the awe-inspiring Silver Mirror Spirit Gate.
Using this broken sword with the Yaoguang Sword Technique would surely yield immense benefits.
But why had the Yaoguang Broken Sword appeared here?
Regardless, holding it, Lin Xiao’s heart surged. In true value, all the treasures here combined might not match this sword.
“Eh, is that guy an idiot? Picking up a rusty sword and grinning like a fool.”
“Heh, he thinks everything that shoots out is a treasure.”
“If the Mysterious Domain battlefield was full of people like him, we wouldn’t have to work so hard.”
Seeing Lin Xiao’s excitement, the crowd sneered with disdain, which he ignored.
“Chi! Chi!”
At that moment, thousands of zhang ahead, pill-like objects rose from the ground, floating dozens of zhang above it.
“Let’s go!” Lin Xiao stowed the Yaoguang Broken Sword, glanced at Hu Yue and Ziling, who had grabbed treasures, and rushed thousands of zhang forward.
Hu Yue and Ziling’s eyes lit up, following closely.
Up close, they saw a dozen pills floating in the void above a hundred-zhang patch of ground, eerily suspended.
Before Lin Xiao’s group could act, a dozen closer people rushed in.
But then, a bizarre scene unfolded.
Some raised their weapons, slashing their own necks or limbs. Others attacked randomly, some darted chaotically, and others were smashed into the ground.
“Ah!” “Ah!” “Ah!” …
Screams echoed, and those about to rush in halted at the perimeter.
“That’s a Spiritual Flow Drift!” Lin Xiao exclaimed.
A Spiritual Flow Drift wasn’t exactly a deadly zone. It occurred when spiritual energy converged or was manipulated, causing it to flow chaotically in a space. Anyone entering would be uncontrollably affected, moving without order.
He hadn’t expected such a phenomenon here.
“Those are Pure Spirit Pills!” Seeing the pills within the Spiritual Flow Drift, Lin Xiao rejoiced, exclaiming.
Pure Spirit Pills, like Martial King Elemental Pills, contained vast spiritual energy, cleansing the mind and aiding spiritual power breakthroughs.
These pills seemed high-grade. One could even help him break through a spiritual power level.
Hearing Lin Xiao, Ziling’s eyes brightened.
“Try controlling with spiritual power!” Lin Xiao sent a surge of spiritual power into the Spiritual Flow Drift, but the chaotic currents were too strong, repelling his power and preventing him from reaching the pills.
Ziling also sent out invisible spiritual power.
The pills within the drift began moving chaotically.
After a while, two pills drifted to the drift’s edge. Seizing the moment, Lin Xiao and Ziling each controlled one, pulling them out of the drift towards their hands.
Each grabbed a Pure Spirit Pill. Grasping it, Lin Xiao discerned its grade: fourth-grade high-level, indeed high enough for a breakthrough.
The surrounding crowd cast envious and greedy glances at them.
“Since you two are spiritual controllers, why not control all the pills inside?” a youth with cold eyes said, others staring at Lin Xiao and Ziling.
Seeing their greedy gazes, Lin Xiao smiled, saying, “Of course, no problem.”
The crowd was stunned. Was this youth so agreeable?
Unbeknownst to them, Lin Xiao intended to control the pills—but not for them.
“Chi!”
At that moment, a Heaven-Extinguishing Ray sped towards them, cutting into the Spiritual Flow Drift.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Pure Spirit Pills in the drift exploded in all directions, all destroyed, releasing vast spiritual fluctuations. The terrifying spiritual energy within the drift transformed into spiritual seals, blasting outward.
