Decaying World

Chapter 222, War Begins (Part 222)

"Hehe. Why aren't you staying at your Nine Dreams Sect? What are you doing here?" Han Sanmian laughed.

“This junior naturally has his own important matters to attend to. But for an important combatant like Elder Han to desert in the face of battle is not so normal,” Yun Xiazi said meaningfully.

“You youngsters, you learn a few new words and then use them everywhere. How do you know I’m not fighting against foreign enemies?” Han Sanmian said.

Yunxiazi's mind raced as she quickly considered the reason why the Elder Blood Ancestor had appeared in this place.

The area around them had long since moved away from the battlefield, and this elder of the Tai Su Yuan Pan was the kind of person who wouldn't act without a clear objective. Or rather, none of the elders would do anything pointless or useless.

Those who can cultivate to their level are all geniuses and shrewd individuals.

After all, the Blood Ancestor's Blood Heart does not increase strength; it can only gradually strengthen itself by devouring powerful individuals.

Wait, it'll devour you!?
Yunxiazi recalled the direction the other party had flown in, and it was the same direction as hers, from which Qingfengdao had left.

He had a vague idea in his mind.

“In that case, I will not disturb you any longer, Elder.” Yunxiazi dared not make a hasty judgment, so she concealed her aura and continued forward.

She wanted to see what this elder of the Tai Su Yuan Pan truly intended to do.
As soon as she moved, Han Sanmian in the sky continued to fly forward.

After traveling for several minutes, the two realized that they were heading in the same direction.

laugh!
Han Sanmian dodged an invisible force that shot from below.

"What is the meaning of this, young friend Yunxia?" He raised his eyebrows slightly. He had previously investigated and found out that Yunxia had joined Qingfeng Dao to learn martial arts, but he did not expect that Yunxia, ​​as a Supreme Elder, would actually be willing to take action against him for the sake of Qingfeng Dao.
'interesting.'

"Elder, what do you mean by this? Qingfeng Dao is where I am currently cultivating. Could it be that you intend to..." Yunxiazi stood on the ground, her right hand already gripping a long, dark gold sword covered with pictographic characters.

This is her signature sword, the Mingde Sword. It is also a top-tier divine weapon that she forged herself.

As the most skilled forger in the inner city of Mingji, she never skimped on the equipment she provided for herself.

During her previous sparring session with Lin Hui, she had been overconfident and hadn't brought her preferred weapon. The Golden Sparrow Blade and the Mingde Sword were always her most frequently used top-tier weapons. After all, it was just a sparring match, not a life-or-death battle.

But this time, after settling things in the Nine Dreams Sect, she rushed to Qingfeng Road immediately, worried that something might go wrong there.

Sure enough, a major incident occurred halfway there.
“I have long been observing the talent and strength of the Abbot of Qingfeng Temple, and he is a junior I have always admired. If you have any opinions, you can speak them directly. Why do you do this?”

Han Sanmian looked at Yun Xiazi with a gentle expression.

"Could it be that you have some misunderstanding about Han?"

"Misunderstanding?" Yun Xiazi's mind raced. With her experience, she naturally deduced that the other party was targeting Daoist Lin Hui.

The question now is, should she try to stop it?
If she tries to stop the Elder Blood Ancestor, she will inevitably have to reveal all her strength, and she may not even be able to stop him.

If he didn't stop him, he worried that Lin Hui would have a bad opinion of him afterwards.

Especially the seemingly mystical Zhengti Seal, in which the identification with Qingfeng Dao determines whether the seal is effective, which has a bit of an idealistic flavor.

'From the perspective of a Qingfeng Dao disciple, if I didn't have the identity of the Nine Dreams Sect, would I have intervened if I encountered the other party?' Yunxia asked herself this question.

The answer is self-evident.

hiss.
She slowly drew her sword, and her inner energy suddenly spread out, covering the surrounding area and turning the area within a radius of several hundred meters into a lake of inner energy.

"Oh? You're going to attack me?" Han Sanmian raised an eyebrow in surprise. He couldn't imagine what Qingfeng Dao Lin Hui had given Yun Xiazi that would make her willing to take such a huge risk and draw her sword against an elder of the Tai Su Yuan Pan like him?
"I'm not here to take action, but simply to ask Elder Han to stay here for a while. I have long admired Elder Han, and I would like to take this opportunity to learn more from you." Yun Xiazi made her decision, and a calm smile immediately appeared on her face.

"Interesting." Han Sanmian raised his right hand. "Very well, it's been so many years since a rising star has dared to challenge us."

hum!
A vast expanse of pure white internal energy light emanated from him, forming a huge jade disc in mid-air, reflecting the internal energy lake on the ground below.

"Then you'd better be careful. Since you dare to challenge me, you must have the corresponding confidence." Yunxiazi raised the Mingde Sword and held it horizontally in front of her.

“Then let’s give it a try.” Han Sanmian smiled and raised his right hand as well.

In an instant, a bright white light flashed in both of their eyes.

'Timely Sensations, Myriad Aspects of Life!' x2.

The two of them were actually using the same divine technique.

Two immense and terrifying mental forces materialized instantly, forming two vast temporal domains covering an area of ​​several kilometers in radius.

At the same instant, the two disappeared from the spot.

At that moment, the two time-sensing domains collided violently with each other.

An invisible force is rapidly compressing, offsetting, and neutralizing in mid-air.

Soon, Yunxiazi's sense of time domain began to falter. Compared to the elders, the gap in her accumulated mental power was still too great. She was at a disadvantage from the very first clash.

But she didn't care. From the beginning, the Time Sensing Domain was only used to temporarily counter the opponent's Time Sensing Domain.

Her goal was never to rely on the time domain to defeat her opponents.

Within the time domain.

Everything around was colorful, without any specific material outlines, only countless colorful flames burning like fire.

They are everywhere in the surrounding void, in all four directions.

There was no fog, no earth, and no sky.

Yunxiazi and Han Sanmian were in this space where colorful flames were burning.

Without exchanging a single word, the two charged toward each other immediately.

'My time domain can only last for a minute and a half at most; the battle must be decided within that time!' Yun Xiazi mentally estimated the rate at which her time domain would collapse. Her expression remained unchanged as she wielded the Mingde Sword, which whipped up gusts of wind as she lunged towards Han Sanmian opposite her.

She used the Gale Sword Technique, which she had just learned, immediately upon entering the Time Domain.

"Want a quick victory?" Han Sanmian saw through her thoughts, smiled, and lightly tapped his temple. "Then let's give it a try, Mingji!"

With a tearing sound, his entire body rapidly expanded and grew larger, from 1.89 meters tall to over 4 meters tall in the blink of an eye.

His entire body was covered in dark blue scales that grew rapidly. A twisted muscular outline resembling a crown appeared on his head. Three heads and six arms took shape on his body. His six hands were either making hand seals, clenching fists, or standing upright. At the same time, he used three sets of martial arts. The illusory power and the transformed true power mixed together and instantly created three white-gold energy walls like ocean waves, which pressed down on Yunxiazi.

"Mingji!" Yunxiazi no longer hesitated, and also touched his temple, entering the ultimate martial state of three heads and six arms!
The massive amount of internal energy transformed into true power, which, along with the illusory force, formed a whirlwind behind her. Following the Whirlwind Sword Technique, it rapidly accelerated and rushed towards the opposite side.

Boom!!
The two collided violently in mid-air.

The next instant, Yunxiazi was struck as if by lightning, and was sent flying backward, tumbling hundreds of meters in mid-air before finally regaining her balance.

"That's impressive!" She floated in mid-air, wiping the blood from her mouth and nose with one hand, staring at the other person.

"You're both from the Mingji realm, no wonder you're an elder. It seems that all the powerful geniuses you've devoured over the past seven or eight hundred years have transformed into this ultimate martial form, forged through countless trials and tribulations?"

"True power is inexhaustible. The only thing we can do is expand the quality of our minds and improve the strength of our bodies. That's all," Han Sanmian said.

"Do you still want to fight? As the Supreme Elder of the Nine Dreams Sect, you shouldn't be my opponent."

"Who says my opponent has to be someone?" Yunxiazi straightened up.

"Interesting. Looks like you still have a trump card." Han Sanmian didn't care about the other party's sarcasm. "But what do you plan to use to break through my ultimate martial form, which I've been forging for hundreds of years?"

"I don't know if it will work, but I won't be satisfied if I don't try," Yunxiazi said, raising the Mingde Sword.

"Watch out, Elder Han. I won't hold back anymore."

"Hold back? Are all the younger generation this arrogant these days?" Han Sanmian chuckled.

But the next moment, he looked at Yunxiazi's final martial form opposite him, which had expanded and grown taller from its original height of over three meters.

A series of fierce gusts of wind swirled around the other side at high speed, as if it were the natural eye of a hurricane.

"Huh? What's this...?"

Han Sanmian's six eyes widened instantly.

next moment.

A light appeared in his vision.

A pure white, slender, and sharp sword light!

"wind!!"

Only then did Yunxiazi's loud and furious roar reach their ears.

laugh!
A crack suddenly appeared in Han Sanmian's chest.

"Kill!! Hahahaha!!" Yunxiazi, with three heads and six arms, laughed wildly as she brandished her longsword, slashing around Han Sanmian at super-fast speed with the help of the gale!
"A very powerful secret technique that instantly boosts such power... Is it the Life-Burning Secret Technique?" Black bloody gashes kept breaking open around Han Sanmian's body.

But he didn't care at all and even had the leisure to comment on the other party's moves.

puff!

The next second, the Mingde sword pierced his chest from behind, right where his heart was.

But Han Sanmian remained unmoved, only looking at Yun Xiazi who was so close to him.

Aren't you going to answer me?

"What does Elder Han want to hear? End-of-life care?" Yun Xiazi gripped a sword with all six hands and suddenly slashed Han Sanmian's wound to the left, creating a huge gash half a meter long.

Fresh blood gushed out suddenly, but it only sprayed out less than half a meter before flowing back into Han Sanmian's mouth and nose as if it were alive.

Only then did Yunxiazi notice that there was not a single internal organ visible inside the wound she had cut open.

Moreover, her Mingde sword, which is nearly two meters long, was able to pierce Han Sanmian without the tip being visible from behind!
It was as if the place she stabbed was a black hole!
"Young friend Yunxia, ​​hasn't anyone told you not to get too close to a Blood Ancestor?"

At this moment, Han Sanmian had all six hands gripping Yunxiazi.

The two massive forces began to clash.

He wanted to tear it to shreds.

With the blessing of the True Body Seal, Yunxiazi's power was amplified by half, and in this direct confrontation, they were actually locked in a stalemate for a while.

But soon, cracks began to appear all over Yunxiazi's body in her final martial state.

Under the confrontation of immense power, the true energy within her body couldn't withstand it first.

"It seems I'm going to win," Han Sanmian said with a smile.

He gripped Yunxiazi tightly, a glint of hunger flashing in his eyes as he looked at the cracks in the true energy on the other's body.

"Never mind, it's good to have some dessert before the main course." He raised Yunxiazi and held it above himself.

Who do you want to eat?

Suddenly a voice rang out from behind him.

Han Sanmian looked surprised and was about to turn around to look.

puff! !
The next instant, all six of his arms fell off silently.

Bloodstains also appeared on the necks of the three heads.

Behind him, a woman in a white dress with a white veil covering her face stood in a corner of the Time Domain, looking up at Han Sanmian and Yun Xiazi in mid-air.

It was Han Xiaoyue!
(End of this chapter)