“You’d never guess, I can lock you with the Wuxu Arrow at any moment. You have three breaths to take out the items and place them in your palm. I swear on my Great Dao, you won’t get a third chance,” Hui Zhi’s cold voice rang out.
Though he was speaking, the killing intent of Hui Zhi’s Wuxu Arrow grew increasingly intense, so searing that even Lan Xiaobu’s domain began to crack.
Lan Xiaobu calmly stared at Hui Zhi, “Do you think, if I could fall twice in the same place, I’d still be standing here?”
Hui Zhi’s eyelid twitched. Though he mocked Lan Xiaobu, if Lan Xiaobu were truly so limited, how could he have reached this point, even successfully cultivating his own Great Dao?
No, if Lan Xiaobu could evade this arrow, he would never say it outright. Those words were meant to make Hui Zhi wary, to distract him, and to find a flaw in the Wuxu Arrow to escape.
Hui Zhi wasted no more words. The killing intent of the Wuxu Arrow grew stronger, and the rules of the space began to crack under its force.
“Wait, I’ll give you the items…” Lan Xiaobu said, slowly opening his hand. Under the terrifying pressure of the Wuxu Arrow’s killing intent, he dared not make any move beyond what Hui Zhi allowed.
In his palm was a ring, unbarred by restrictions. Hui Zhi’s divine sense could clearly see everything inside with a single sweep. Both the Hongmeng Dao Seed and the Dao principles he cared about were sealed within the ring.
Hui Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. This was what he needed to step into the ninth step, and only by seeing it with his own eyes could he be at ease. Lan Xiaobu, under the threat of his Wuxu Arrow, had willingly handed over the items, clearly bluffing with his earlier words. The moment he saw the ring, Hui Zhi fired the Wuxu Arrow.
The items were under his divine sense, the space was under his Wuxu Arrow’s control, and Hui Zhi was absolutely certain that Lan Xiaobu couldn’t crush the ring under the Wuxu Arrow’s killing momentum. Let alone crush the ring, once the arrow was fired, Lan Xiaobu would struggle even to move.
But the next moment, Hui Zhi’s face changed.
Before the Wuxu Arrow was fired, everything was under his and the arrow’s control. But after it was shot, the space seemed no longer his to command.
All the Great Dao principles in the space became unrelated to him, and a terrifying binding charm of a killing trap swept over. Hui Zhi was horrified to find that his Wuxu Arrow’s momentum slowed, as if an invisible hand in this space was gradually grasping it. The Great Dao principles supporting the Wuxu Arrow could no longer hold in this space. Without the support of killing principles, the Wuxu Arrow’s intent weakened to its lowest point, losing all threat.
Damn it, he’d been tricked, this was the opponent’s killing trap array space, no, it should be called Lan Xiaobu’s killing trap boundary. In such a boundary, all Great Dao rules were derived from the opponent’s Dao. Every additional breath Hui Zhi lingered here increased his danger.
In another’s Great Dao rule world, how could it not be dangerous? If he had no escape means, he’d be doomed today.
Hui Zhi no longer dared to demand Lan Xiaobu’s items. He frantically reached for the Wuxu Arrow, intending to flee.
The Wuxu Arrow was his greatest asset, and he absolutely couldn’t let Lan Xiaobu take it.
But when he realised his hand seals and divine sense were as if bound by chains, he immediately understood that in the opponent’s boundary, trying to take the Wuxu Arrow was a pipe dream. Even if he cultivated the Great Dream Dao, he couldn’t dream such a thing.
Let alone take the Wuxu Arrow, he had a premonition that if he lingered here even one more breath, he’d never escape.
A terrifying killing intent surged toward him. Hui Zhi didn’t dare linger a moment longer. His Great Dream charm surged wildly, and at that moment, the surrounding space exploded. Ancient Dao charm auras spread out, followed by a spray of blood mist.
Hui Zhi felt a sharp pain in his arm, and then a spatial Dao charm imbued with the aura of creation swept him away, vanishing without a trace.
Lan Xiaobu held the Wuxu Arrow, still bearing Hui Zhi’s mark, and looked at the torn killing trap boundary, feeling helpless.
Hui Zhi had used a space-breaking talisman to tear through his boundary. Such a talisman likely wasn’t crafted but was akin to a creation-level treasure, yet Hui Zhi used it to escape.
Though he hadn’t kept Hui Zhi, Lan Xiaobu hadn’t lost out. First, he’d forced Hui Zhi to use up a creation-level talisman, and he doubted Hui Zhi had another.
Second, he’d secured the Wuxu Arrow, a devastating weapon. As long as it remained in Hui Zhi’s hands, Lan Xiaobu would never feel at ease. Now, with the arrow in his possession, once he refined it, Hui Zhi’s Wuxu Bow would be mere decoration.
Third, though not a grand achievement, he’d taken one of Hui Zhi’s arms. In total, he’d taken both of Hui Zhi’s arms. Having lost both, Hui Zhi wouldn’t have a chance to reach the ninth step of the Great Dao for a long time.
Lan Xiaobu tossed the Wuxu Arrow into his ring and picked up another ring.
This was likely the chaos world ring he’d given to Hui Zhi. After Hui Zhi took it, he must have casually put it on his finger, not expecting Lan Xiaobu to destroy his arm and take it back. Though he’d only put a few divine spirit veins in it, the chaos world itself was a treasure.
Pity, if it had been the other arm, he might have gotten Hui Zhi’s Wuxu Bow too.
But this was fine. Hui Zhi had schemed for so long, only to lose both arms and the Wuxu Arrow without gaining anything, he might just faint from rage.
Lan Xiaobu stepped out of the killing trap array and returned to the entrance of the Seven Mu Heaven in the Great Universe.
There was no need to station anyone here, but he needed to re-establish the boundary and reseal the entrance’s array.
Even if someone came, they couldn’t open the protective array and enter the Great Universe quickly. And if anyone dared attack this entrance, he’d know immediately.
Half a month later, Lan Xiaobu left the Seven Mu Heaven entrance. Hui Zhi, severely wounded, hadn’t returned, and Lan Xiaobu had no interest in waiting further. With Hui Zhi’s strength, there was no point in pursuing him, as he’d surely be untraceable.
Returning to the Seven Cosmos Heaven world, Lan Xiaobu didn’t seek out the Tianmeng Clan cultivators. His priority was to refine the Wuxu Arrow. Even without the Wuxu Bow, he could craft a bow himself, at least as a trump card.
With Lan Xiaobu’s current strength, it took only three days to fully refine the Wuxu Arrow. He sensed its overwhelmingly powerful killing aura and was secretly shocked. When the Wuxu Arrow first locked onto his life force, if Hui Zhi hadn’t wanted his items and left a sliver of a gap in the killing intent, he likely couldn’t have escaped.
This arrow was born for slaughter. His escape was nothing but sheer luck.
Though he lacked a bow, the Wuxu Arrow in his hand was still a post-chaos supreme treasure. A life-locking attack treasure like this was coveted by all cultivators. If he used the Wuxu Arrow to lock onto someone he wanted to kill, even if they held something he needed, he wouldn’t give them a chance to escape.
Stowing the Wuxu Arrow, Lan Xiaobu casually picked up the chaos ring. Having passed through Hui Zhi’s hands, he worried it might have been marked.
But then he was astonished to find this wasn’t the chaos ring he’d given Hui Zhi. It had complete restrictions. The ring he’d given Hui Zhi had none, and Hui Zhi wouldn’t bother placing restrictions on a ring with just a few divine spirit veins.
This discovery thrilled Lan Xiaobu, and he immediately began refining the ring’s restrictions. He knew how wealthy Hui Zhi was, even possessing a creation-level talisman. If this ring held another creation escape talisman, it’d be like gaining an extra life.
In just a few breaths, Lan Xiaobu opened the ring. It was indeed another chaos world ring, making him marvel. Was Hui Zhi born with the universe’s chaos? How else could he have so many chaos treasures?
The ring didn’t contain much: some talismans, decently high-grade but not impressive to Lan Xiaobu, along with a few Dao pills and Dao fruits, also sparse. Clearly, this ring only held Hui Zhi’s daily essentials. Though its contents were far more valuable than his few divine spirit veins, Lan Xiaobu didn’t care much.
However, a directional teleportation talisman caught his repeated attention. It allowed instant teleportation, containing a unique spatial teleportation principle.
Could this be the secret behind the Tianmeng Clan’s ability to move instantly between worlds? If they had many such talismans, could they teleport across worlds at will?
This thought was quickly dismissed by Lan Xiaobu as unlikely. Even with the Cosmic Tree’s cooperation, the Tianmeng Clan couldn’t be that wealthy.
