Lan Xiaobu had disguised himself as an ordinary wandering cultivator, so Nuo Yisheng didn’t recognize him. However, when he saw someone daring to intervene in their battle, he sneered inwardly. This fool was courting death.
Nuo Yisheng was indeed a Quasi-Sage, but if anyone thought he was an easy target, they were sorely mistaken. He had never revealed his true strength, and below the level of a pseudo-Sage, he didn’t believe anyone could challenge him.
Lan Xiaobu could clearly see that Nuo Yisheng’s opponent, though also a Quasi-Sage, was being thoroughly suppressed. His injuries and the near-collapse of his Quasi-Sage domain indicated that he could be killed by Nuo Yisheng at any moment.
Lan Xiaobu believed that as soon as he joined the fight, Nuo Yisheng’s opponent would catch a breather and join forces with him to attack Nuo Yisheng. Even without an ally, Lan Xiaobu was confident he could handle Nuo Yisheng alone.
This was the first time Lan Xiaobu had wielded the Eternal Halberd since forging it. As his divine sense connected with the halberd, he felt as though he could command all the killing intent in the surrounding space. The sensation was exhilarating.
The Eternal Halberd was far more powerful than the Seven-Tone Halberd, allowing him to unleash 120% of his strength.
Just as the black halberd light began to form and Lan Xiaobu was about to fully enter the battle, Nuo Yisheng’s opponent suddenly broke free from Nuo Yisheng’s domain and fled in a streak of light.
“Damn it!” Lan Xiaobu nearly cursed out loud. That bastard had taken advantage of his intervention to escape, leaving him to face Nuo Yisheng alone. How shameless! He had come to help, and now he was abandoned.
Nuo Yisheng, seeing his opponent flee, didn’t give chase. Instead, he summoned a massive cauldron and hurled it at Lan Xiaobu.
It was a counterfeit Reincarnation Pot.
If Lan Xiaobu weren’t worried about Nuo Yisheng escaping, he would have summoned the real Reincarnation Pot to counter it. How dare this guy flaunt a fake in front of him!
The Eternal Halberd had already gathered immense killing intent. To Lan Xiaobu’s delight, he could effortlessly direct this killing intent toward Nuo Yisheng. The halberd’s killing domain merged seamlessly with his Unity God domain, growing stronger as more killing intent was drawn in.
“Chaos Iron Mother?” Nuo Yisheng sensed an aura of primordial creation and immediately realized what it was—Chaos Iron Mother, and it wasn’t fully refined.
Wait, not just Chaos Iron Mother… there was also Chaos Condensation Pearl…
Nuo Yisheng’s hands trembled with excitement. He had encountered such a fool! Using Chaos Iron Mother with its aura unshielded to forge a weapon, and even adding Chaos Condensation Pearl to it? This was a gift from heaven! He had been struggling to advance to the first-turn Sage stage, but with this treasure, his chances would increase manifold. In fact, it was almost guaranteed.
While most people in the Eternal Realm only learned about the nine-turn Sage stages after the realm’s rules became clearer, Nuo Yisheng knew that the nine turns were more of a conceptual framework. The strength of a nine-turn Sage wasn’t solely determined by their comprehension of the Dao or the rules of heaven and earth. The reason Nuo Yisheng hadn’t advanced to the first-turn Sage stage yet was that he aimed to become the strongest nine-turn Sage. The Chaos Iron Mother would undoubtedly help him achieve the first turn, and once he obtained the Reincarnation Pot, he could reach the second turn.
With the Chaos Iron Mother and the Reincarnation Pot, his second-turn Sagehood would be unmatched in the Eternal Realm.
It wasn’t that he was inherently stronger than others, but he knew more. And he knew more because he had a great master—Reincarnation Sage.
At this moment, even if someone told Nuo Yisheng to leave, he wouldn’t. His counterfeit Reincarnation Pot unleashed a vast, overwhelming killing intent, transforming the surrounding space into a realm of reincarnation. As the reincarnation Dao rhythms proliferated, the space quickly became a domain of reincarnation.
As the counterfeit Reincarnation Pot’s power surged, the momentum of the Eternal Halberd began to wane.
Lan Xiaobu’s Palace Tone Kill was still brewing, with endless black killing light forming but not yet solidifying into a full killing Dao rhythm. Suddenly, he felt an inescapable force binding him.
A distant voice called to him, urging him to enter the cycle of reincarnation, where everything he desired awaited.
The killing intent of the Palace Tone Kill began to fade, and the Dao tones of the Palace Tone Kill, not yet fully formed, started to dissipate.
Within the reincarnation space created by the counterfeit Reincarnation Pot, Lan Xiaobu’s eyes showed a trace of confusion. He seemed dazed, watching helplessly as the Reincarnation Pot tore through the killing intent of the Eternal Halberd and pressed down on him.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Violent Dao rhythms shattered the surrounding space. Lan Xiaobu’s Palace Tone Kill, which had initially held its own, was now reduced to fragments of Dao rhythm due to his own lapse in focus.
The Fortune Dao Tree in his sea of consciousness spun wildly, and Lan Xiaobu shuddered, snapping back to reality. He had almost been drawn into the opponent’s reincarnation Dao rhythm. If not for the Fortune Dao Tree, he would have been finished.
That bastard! Though furious, Lan Xiaobu grew even more cautious. His eyes still showed confusion, but his Dao rhythms began to circulate rapidly, and terrifying cutting laws condensed in an instant.
Sensing the spatial cutting aura, Nuo Yisheng’s sneer faltered. How could such a terrifying tearing aura exist within his reincarnation Dao rhythm?
Before Nuo Yisheng could react, the Great Cutting Technique, formed from countless cutting laws, was unleashed.
Crack! A crisp sound echoed, and Nuo Yisheng’s expression changed. While others might take time to recognize the Great Cutting Technique, he knew immediately. If his reincarnation Dao had truly reached the level of freely constructing reincarnation channels, he wouldn’t fear the Great Cutting Technique. But his reincarnation Dao was still in its infancy, while his opponent’s Great Cutting Technique seemed fully formed…
The reincarnation channels and space constructed by Nuo Yisheng’s reincarnation Dao were severed by Lan Xiaobu’s Great Cutting Technique. In the next moment, the Palace Tone Kill erupted.
“One tone, the sorrow of parting; the palace music rises, the halberd sweeps across ninety thousand miles!”
The killing intent soared to the heavens, and Nuo Yisheng felt his blood boiling, as if the killing intent was overwhelming him.
Boom! The killing domain of the counterfeit Reincarnation Pot was shattered by the Eternal Halberd. Divine energy exploded in the void, and space trembled violently.
Nuo Yisheng’s expression changed, but he wasn’t ready to retreat just yet. Both the Great Cutting Technique and the Eternal Halberd were treasures that could change his life.
However, before he could counterattack, he felt a dozen terrifying needle-like strikes pierce his sea of consciousness.
A soul attack? Nuo Yisheng no longer dared to stay. Even if he wanted to kill his opponent, it didn’t have to be now.
Unfortunately, he was a step too late. The killing intent of the Palace Tone Kill reached its peak, and countless halberd lights tore down, completely shredding Nuo Yisheng’s Quasi-Sage domain.
The space was now entirely under the killing Dao rhythm of the Palace Tone Kill. Nuo Yisheng knew that if he didn’t leave now, he never would.
“Pfft!” A spray of blood erupted as his sea of consciousness was injured. Without hesitation, Nuo Yisheng tore through space and fled. His opponent was formidable, but he could only severely injure him, not completely trap him.
Almost simultaneously, Lan Xiaobu’s figure vanished from his original position. He threw a punch into the void.
When Lan Xiaobu’s punch landed, the space it struck was empty, but as the killing intent of the punch reached its peak, a figure suddenly appeared.
“Boom!” The figure seemed to have thrown itself into Lan Xiaobu’s punch, taking the full force of the blow.
Blood mist exploded as Nuo Yisheng, now missing half his body, was sent reeling. He hadn’t expected his opponent to be so cunning, predicting his escape route and striking preemptively. That punch felt like a collaborative effort between him and his opponent.
There was no time for anger. Nuo Yisheng could only think of fleeing again.
“Still trying to run? Don’t dream of it.” Seeing his punch land, Lan Xiaobu expanded his domain with all his might. At this point, he couldn’t let Nuo Yisheng escape.
Earlier, he had taken a gamble. Knowing he couldn’t keep Nuo Yisheng in a direct confrontation, he had predicted Nuo Yisheng’s escape route, teleported there, and thrown a punch.
The chances of success weren’t high. If Nuo Yisheng had fled in the opposite direction, his punch would have been wasted.
But luck was on his side. Nuo Yisheng had indeed walked right into his punch. Now, with his Dao rhythms scattered and his body in ruins, Nuo Yisheng had no hope of escaping his domain.
“Stop! I am Nuo Yisheng, a disciple of Reincarnation Sage. If you kill me, my master will—”
Before Nuo Yisheng could finish, a sharp pain pierced his brow as the Eternal Halberd drove through his forehead.
“Such a cliché line. How tiresome.” Lan Xiaobu’s voice and the aura of death arrived simultaneously. Nuo Yisheng’s consciousness was filled with terror, but this wasn’t the end. He felt his Dao rhythms being captured, and spatial laws began to infiltrate his sea of consciousness.
Was this person trying to open his inner world?
Nuo Yisheng was horrified. He couldn’t let his inner world be exposed. He desperately tried to self-destruct his remaining soul, but under the suppression of Lan Xiaobu’s domain, his consciousness gradually faded. His final thought was one of bitter irony—a cultivator of reincarnation, unable to reincarnate.
