What? You opened a resort on the battlefield of all races?

"You're actually a pretty nice person."

Hearing A Luo's forced explanation, Xu Tianlin grinned, revealing an exceptionally bright smile.

He spat out a sunflower seed shell with a "plop" sound and patted the crumbs off his palm.

"Alright, you stay here quietly for now."

Xu Tianlin straightened up, casually stuffed the remaining handful of melon seeds back into his pocket, glanced at the roaring battlefield outside the shop, and said indifferently.

"They're almost done fighting over there, don't disturb my watch."

He paused slightly, turned his face back, and smiled like an old man selling candied hawthorns.

"If you dare run around again, I'll break your legs!"

These words were spoken in the gentlest tone, but to Aro, they were like the coldest winds from the deepest abyss.

He shuddered, gripped the ground tightly with both hands, and nodded repeatedly.

He stood ramrod straight, like a sentry.

After "reassuring" Aro, Xu Tianlin turned around and turned his gaze to the battle not far away.

At this point, the battle between Li Junshan and Xiao Qiong was coming to an end.

The violent Yuan energy and the power of the Great Dao Laws collided wildly in the air.

At this moment, Li Junshan exuded a terrifying, suffocating pressure, and the power of the laws of the Dao Integration Realm wove a huge black net around him.

Faced with this absolute suppressive force belonging to the Dao Integration Realm, Xiao Qiong was firmly suppressed and at a disadvantage.

Covered in blood.

However, even in this dire situation, Xiao Qiong's clear and cold eyes showed no sign of backing down.

Behind him, three illusory avenues, each a hundred feet wide, were trembling and roaring wildly.

The crimson battle blade phantom formed by the Great Dao of Slaughter dimmed, and the other two Great Daos also emitted cracking sounds as if they were about to collapse under the heavy pressure of this Dao Integration Realm.

Strangely, as Li Junshan unleashed wave after wave of frenzied attacks with his laws, Xiao Qiong's three originally independent Great Daos, while shattering, began to show signs of a strange fusion.

That is... the trend towards aligning with the Dao!

"Hahahahaha..."

"I've tried so hard to achieve Dao Integration but failed, and you're going to advance to the Dao Integration Realm right in front of me?"

Li Junshan seemed to have gone mad.

He had reached a state of being that he himself could not attain, but his good brother was about to break through it after just one fight with him.

Is this what genius is?

The gap is so large that even if I resort to any means necessary, including cooperating with the Abyss Demons, I cannot bridge it.

"Heh. Hehehe..."

Li Junshan sneered.

Why should I?!

"God, this is unfair!!!"

"Die!"

Li Junshan roared hysterically, raising his hands high. The black water and dark light in the sky condensed again, ready to deliver a fatal blow to Xiao Qiong.

But just as he pushed the power of the laws within his body to its peak...

A sudden change has occurred!

Li Junshan's movements froze in mid-air without warning.

His eyes widened suddenly, and the surface of his eyeballs was instantly covered with dense blood vessels, almost bulging out of their sockets.

Immediately afterwards, his face turned deathly pale.

"puff--!"

A mouthful of blood suddenly gushed out of his mouth.

At the same time, the arrogant aura of the Dao Integration Realm emanating from him, like a balloon punctured by a needle, rapidly and frantically declined at a terrifying speed.

The realm has fallen!

"Click, click..."

A clear cracking sound rang out.

Behind him, the law formed from black waves and shadows suddenly cracked open with countless dense fissures.

Then, it exploded with a deafening roar!

That was the collapse of the Great Dao, and even more so, the backlash of power!

Li Junshan's Dao Integration Realm was not achieved through his own step-by-step comprehension of the world.

What belongs to others will always remain theirs.

The laws of water and darkness disintegrated with a deafening roar, transforming into fragments of the most fundamental Dao in the world, which slowly dissipated.

Li Junshan fell helplessly from the sky, crashing heavily into the muddy water.

His meridians were almost completely destroyed, his blood and qi were flowing in reverse, and he was so emaciated that he was no longer recognizable as a human.

Without uttering a single word, Xiao Qiong's eyes turned bloodshot, tears of blood streaming down her face, and the crimson battle blade in her hand burst forth with a thousand-foot-long light.

"kill!"

With a cold, low shout, the blood energy gathered into a terrifying giant blade a hundred feet in size, carrying the power to tear the sky apart, and slashed down towards Li Junshan, who was lying on the ground!

Feeling the devastating force cutting through the air with a sharp sound, Li Junshan was unable to move.

He watched the descending crimson light curtain, a bitter smile of relief tugging at the corner of his mouth, and slowly closed his eyes.

To die by this blade is a clean death.

However, the expected excruciating pain did not occur.

"Wait a moment!"

A powerful shout suddenly rang out from the other side of the battlefield without warning.

That was Wei Peng's voice.

"Boom—!"

The hundred-foot-long blood-red blade stopped abruptly just inches from Li Junshan's face.

Xiao Qiong gripped the knife hilt tightly with both hands, her muscles tense, and the veins on her arms bulging.

He turned his head and looked at Wei Peng, who was walking quickly towards him, with a mixture of doubt and indifference.

Wei Peng trudged through the muddy ground and walked up to Li Junshan in a few steps.

The high-ranking official from Haichuan Prefecture reached into his pocket and pulled out a roll of names.

"This is what you secretly had the Underworld Guards deliver a few days ago, isn't it?"

Wei Peng's voice was deep, carrying an indescribable complex emotion.

Li Junshan slowly opened his eyes, looked at the familiar list, his eyes twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything.

"This is the list of all martial artists in Haichuan Prefecture who consumed the Moon Shadow Flying Fish."

"And advised other provinces to be wary of such foreign tribes."

Wei Peng looked at him and sighed heavily.

He tucked the list back into his arms, his gaze fixed on his former colleague on the ground with a complex expression.

"Li Junshan, it seems you're not completely rotten yet. At least at the most crucial moment, you still managed to uphold the last shred of humanity and didn't completely sell out the human race to the abyss."

"Given this list, I can decide today to spare your life."

"Come back with us, have your cultivation destroyed, and spend the rest of your life in the dark prison."

"Ha, hahahaha..."

Li Junshan suddenly laughed.

After a long while, the laughter subsided.

He looked up, his gaze sweeping over Xiao Qiong, Wei Peng, Xu Tianlin who was watching the show from afar, and A Luo who stood not far from Xu Tianlin, too afraid to move.

"You don't understand..."

Li Junshan's voice was hoarse.

"You all don't understand!!"

He suddenly roared hysterically.

"How could you possibly understand the feelings of a cultivation failure?"

"I will fight against Heaven, I will fight against fate! Even if it means resorting to despicable means, even if it means bearing eternal infamy!"

Silence. No one answered.

Li Junshan calmed down a bit and gave a bitter smile.

"I also want to see the scenery beyond the Dao Integration Realm!"

"Now I have lost, the Great Dao has crumbled, and my defeat is not unjust."

After saying that, Li Junshan suddenly turned his head and looked at Xiao Qiong, who was holding a blood-stained knife and had a cold expression.

His eyes suddenly became exceptionally calm at that moment.

"To die at your hands is probably the best ending for me."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Junshan gritted his teeth, leaped forward, and crashed headlong into the hundred-foot-long blood-red blade hanging in front of him!

"Pfft!"

The incredibly sharp Blade of Slaughter pierced through his chest in an instant.

Blood gushed out from the tip of the blade, and Li Junshan's body hung limply on the sword.

However, in the last second before his life completely faded, he mustered his last strength and swung his right hand.

The shattered fragments of the Great Dao that were originally frantically dissipating within his body and about to completely disappear into the world were transformed into a shooting star with this wave of his hand, slamming into Xiao Qiong's chest.

"Brother...I'm sorry..."

A faint murmur dissipated in the wind.

Li Junshan tilted his head to the side, the light in his eyes went out completely, and his hands fell to his sides.

Li Junshan is dead.

"Boom—!"

Almost the instant that fragment of the shattered Great Dao merged into Xiao Qiong's body, Xiao Qiong was struck as if by lightning.

Although those primordial powers were broken, they were the purest insights into the laws of heaven and earth.

This force acted like a powerful catalyst, instantly igniting the three Great Daos within Xiao Qiong's body that were already at a critical point.

The three illusory Great Daos behind Xiao Qiong shone brightly at this moment, and then began to merge wildly, transforming into a huge, blood-red pillar of law light that reached the heavens and the earth, shooting straight into the sky and instantly tearing the dark clouds in the sky to shreds!

The three paths are combined into one.

Xiao Qiong has officially broken through and entered the Dao Integration Realm!