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Yang Si remained expressionless, and the hand seals of the incantation on his hands changed again.

Xiao Zhenren's body flew uncontrollably toward Lin Zhao.

During the flight, his spiritual power began to spiral out of control. The golden core in his dantian expanded wildly, golden spiritual light burst out from his body, and his skin cracked inch by inch.

The power of a Golden Core cultivator's self-destruction is enough to level a mortal city.

He intended to use the self-destruction of Xiao Zhenren, a peak Core Formation cultivator, to destroy Lin Zhao's domain and severely damage his soul.

Lin Zhao neither dodged nor avoided.

The Five Emperor Seals flew out, their five-colored spiritual light circulating and drawing the spiritual power of the entire domain into the seals.

The explosion collided head-on with the already unrecognizable Xiao Zhenren. In the deafening roar, the spiritual light at the explosion's core illuminated the entire desert as if it were daytime.

The Five Emperors Seal shattered Master Xiao along with his golden core, which was about to erupt within him.

The massive spiritual energy storm swirled back, blasting a bottomless crater into the desert hundreds of feet below.

Just as the spiritual energy storm blotted out the sky, without any warning, a bone sword appeared out of thin air from a gap in the storm.

The bone sword was entirely grayish-white, with fine, blood-red runes engraved on its blade, and its tip pierced straight at Lin Zhao's brow.

Yang Si had been waiting for this moment. In the gap between Xiao Zhenren's self-destruction and Lin Zhao's all-out response, he used the spiritual energy storm as cover to launch a sneak attack with his bone sword.

However, Lin Zhao's control over the Law Domain far exceeded his expectations. A Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light blasted from his palm, and the five-colored divine light swept across, forcibly disintegrating the spiritual power of the five elements wherever it passed.

The bone sword instantly melted away in the divine light; the crimson runes on its blade turned to ashes before they could even take effect, and the bone sword vanished completely.

This is the domineering nature of the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light.

With the magic weapon destroyed, a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of Yang Si's mouth, and his figure swayed.

Xiao Zhenren's self-destruction and sneak attack on the bone sword were both easily neutralized by Lin Zhao, demonstrating a huge difference in strength.

But Yang Si was unwilling to admit defeat; he had already vaguely sensed something was amiss.

This situation today was probably orchestrated by Qingwu Zhenjun himself.

The arena battles, the competition for the title of sect leader, and Lin Zhao's strength—all of these elements, when connected,

All of this points to a fact he dares not think about: Qingwu Zhenjun has abandoned him.

But he had no way out; today he was determined to defeat fate.

He wanted to prove that Zhou Yichu was nothing but a weak and incompetent good-for-nothing, and that in this dog-eat-dog world of cultivation, holding onto Qingwu Prefecture was meaningless.

Only by becoming stronger by any means necessary can one survive.

He is the most outstanding disciple of True Lord Qingwu; only by choosing him can Qingwu Prefecture continue to exist.

Qingwu is not a region, but a lineage. Only by preserving this lineage can the Qingwu lineage endure.

This is his only chance to survive today.

Above the battlefield, a white cloud hung at the highest point.

Qingwu Zhenjun sat on the cloud, looking down expressionlessly.

Zhou Yichu and Li Peilan stood behind him, their expressions complicated.

Their gazes pierced through the clouds and landed on that stubborn figure.

Yang Si wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and stood up straight.

His eyes changed; they were no longer gloomy and calculating, but rather filled with an almost insane determination.

The Heavenly Treasure Jade Talisman suddenly accelerated its rotation above his head, and the white jade talisman shone with countless streams of light, one after another merging into his domain of power.

Runes spread and intertwined within the domain, eventually completely covering the entire domain.

His domain at this moment was entirely composed of runes, every inch of which was filled with flowing runes, each one absorbing and releasing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Rune Domain.

This is no longer an ordinary legal domain.

This is the product of Yang Si fusing his natal magic weapon with his magic domain.

The entire domain, spanning a hundred miles, was filled with runes like a sea.

Under the direct attack of the rune domain, Lin Zhao's Five Prisons Domain encountered resistance for the first time—the power of the five elements clashed with the power of the runes.

The two domains collided head-on in the desert sky, scattering fragments of spiritual light everywhere, like two invisible giant cities colliding with each other.

This is not the end.

Yang Si formed hand seals, and all the runes within the hundred-mile-long domain lit up simultaneously.

Countless runes, imbued with immense spiritual power, converged towards the center, intertwining with each other.

It eventually condensed into a white jade spirit dragon that was a hundred feet long.

This guy actually used rune domains to simulate an existence similar to the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon.

Although the Heavenly Treasure Dragon doesn't possess the power to control the five elements and command the ten directions like the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon, it can still barely draw upon the spiritual energy of various elements from the outside world—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The five types of spiritual energy were forcibly drawn to the dragon by the power of the runes on its body, forming a layer of five-colored spiritual light around the dragon's body.

With Yang Si's peak Core Formation cultivation and the support of the Hundred-Mile Law Domain, he was able to fight Lin Zhao to a standstill for a time.

The Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon and the Heavenly Treasure Talisman Dragon were locked in a fierce battle in the air, their claws clashing against each other and their tails sweeping each other. Each collision unleashed a shockwave interwoven with five colors and white light.

The battle between the two hundred-foot-long dragons shattered the sky—the clouds were torn to shreds, the sand dunes were flattened by the shockwave, and the rocks on the ground were crushed into dust by the spiritual power.

Zhou Yichu exclaimed in surprise from the highest cloud layer: "Senior Brother actually succeeded in fusing Master's Heavenly Treasure Secret Technique with his natal magic weapon!"

Li Peilan tugged at his sleeve, and he realized what was happening and shut his mouth.

Qingwu Zhenjun showed no reaction and continued to look down.

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Lin Zhao had a strange expression on her face.

Although he knew that there were countless extraordinary skills and secret techniques in the cultivation world, he never expected that one day someone would replicate his supernatural abilities in front of him.

This Heavenly Treasure Dragon Talisman probably only has one-tenth of the power of the Five Prisons World-Suppressing Heavenly Dragon.

But the principle is the same—Yang Si used his natal magic weapon, the Heavenly Treasure Jade Talisman, to compress the rune domain into shape, simulating the battle form of the spirit dragon.

This method is somewhat similar to the Four Elements Sword Dragon and Four Elements Yinglong that Lin Zhao created in his early years.

To be more precise, it's similar to the Crimson Sun Dragon he once created for Ye Xiaoxiao, only many times more powerful.

Lin Zhao was reborn in the Five Prisons, and Yang Si was also drawn to the corresponding Five Elements attributes.

Although the power that Fu Long mobilized was far less than the power of the Five Prisons, it was still enough to barely withstand the attacks of the Five Prisons' rotation, so that he was not completely powerless to fight back.

Lin Zhao had a subtle feeling that this was just a simulation.

There are countless talented and extraordinary people in the cultivation world. Could it be that one day someone will be able to perfectly replicate his supernatural powers or magical treasures?

At this moment, Master Wei Yuan seemed to have sensed an opportunity.

He took out a long, cyan sword with a slender blade and wind patterns flowing on its edge.

He channeled his spiritual power and unleashed a slash that transformed into a hundred-foot-long azure blade of light, wrapped in whistling wind blades, slashing towards Lin Zhao from the side.

Lin Zhao didn't even bother to give him a glance.

He countered with a Return to the Void Devouring Heaven Technique.

Suddenly, a phantom image of the Returning Void Furnace appeared within the domain of True Person Wei Yuan.

The moment the furnace phantom appeared, Wei Yuan's domain suddenly darkened, and the furnace phantom collapsed inward, transforming into a spinning, pitch-black vortex.

The vortex was only a few feet in size, but the moment it appeared, all the spiritual energy in Wei Yuan's domain flowed towards it.