Blood-Stained Shang Continent

At the same time, Shang Continent.

Lu Qingman still had not recovered from the auction just now. Among everyone present, only she knew how unbelievable it had been.

Everything that had happened at the auction was exactly the same as what Bai Ye had described beforehand.

Even every word spoken by the seller from the Wu Family of the Spirit Slaying Sea had been anticipated in Bai Ye's prior instructions.

She simply stood beside Ling Xi and her master, staring wide-eyed as she watched the entire process unfold.

This was simply too unbelievable...

Could someone really predict everything happening now from thousands of miles away, from a time long past?

But why were neither Ling Xi nor her master surprised by this at all? They even carried themselves with a calmness as though it were only natural.

As if this were the most ordinary thing in the world.

Lu Qingman felt rather foolish, like everyone else understood while she alone was confused. It seemed she was the only one who found this abnormal, as though she were the only person in the world who could not make sense of it.

What was happening to the Great Thousand World? How could it produce such a monstrous genius?

"We part ways here."

Standing before the auction house, Ling Xi and Yi Qingluan spoke.

"I'll take the East Gate. You take the West Gate."

"Do you really not need me to go to Ice Spirit Continent with you?"

Yi Qingluan asked. Although she did not know why Bai Ye was going to Ice Spirit Continent, she had a feeling that her young master was doing something dangerous.

"He didn't say so, which means there is no need."

Ling Xi replied calmly.

Yi Qingluan froze slightly before smiling freely.

That was right. Bai Ye had not mentioned it, which meant she was not needed there.

"Then I wish you a safe journey."

"You too."

After saying those words, the two did not waste another breath. They turned at the same time and headed off in opposite directions.

Watching their movements, the group that had long been waiting nearby revealed dark looks in their eyes.

"The two of them have split up."

"Who has the item?"

"Not sure. Didn't see it."

"Then split up and chase them. Whoever catches them gets it!"

"Fine."

The chaotic murmurs abruptly fell silent after a few seconds. Then dozens of Flowing Lights scattered through the sky, pursuing Ling Xi and Yi Qingluan in their respective directions.

At the East Gate of Commerce City, Ling Xi sped forward at full speed. Countless spirit arrays flashed rapidly as her figure shifted unpredictably.

Yet just as she stepped out of the East Gate, a frigid sword light suddenly slashed down at her.

The sword light cleaved through her body, but she shattered into fragments and vanished from where she stood.

"Afterimage!"

Someone shouted from midair.

The next second, Ling Xi appeared behind him, gripping a sharp sword that had emerged from a spirit array. She swung it fiercely.

A head flew from the man's body.

As she watched the blood spray forth, Ling Xi's gaze remained indifferent and her expression icy, without the slightest reaction.

At the very moment she severed his head, two figures appeared behind her simultaneously, one to the left and one to the right, sealing off every possible route of retreat.

Ling Xi was utterly unafraid. She drew a circle in the air with each hand.

Two spirit arrays formed in an instant, blocking the killer moves of the two men's pincer attack.

The next moment, blazing flames ignited beneath Ling Xi's feet.

Boom!

A pillar of fire swallowed Ling Xi and the two men alike. When the flames dispersed, only two charred corpses remained in the air. Ling Xi was nowhere to be seen.

When Ling Xi appeared again, more than a dozen people had already blocked her path, while the pursuers behind her had caught up as well.

"Hand over the Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid, and we'll let you leave."

The Black-Clothed Man who appeared to be their leader spoke.

He evidently held considerable authority among them. Once he spoke, no one disputed him.

Ling Xi did not even glance at him. Spirit arrays appeared out of thin air one after another.

Seeing her attitude, the Black-Clothed Men stopped trying to persuade her. They snorted coldly and attacked together.

Ling Xi's figure flickered and vanished, leaving behind only a spirit array where she had stood.

"She is skilled at spatial spirit arrays. Spread out!"

The man from earlier commanded the others.

Everyone scattered at once.

Immediately afterward, the spirit array Ling Xi had left behind exploded violently. A savage giant beast crawled out of the array and roared in every direction.

"Roar—"

Everyone present seemed to hear that deafening roar resound directly within their hearts, and their movements stalled.

"Guard your minds!"

The man's voice rang out, jolting everyone awake. But at that moment, Ling Xi's spirit arrays had already filled the sky above them.

Countless flaming raindrops fell as everyone circulated their spiritual energy to resist them.

At the same time, a massive spirit array appeared beneath the group. The instant they mobilized their spiritual energy, they discovered chains sealing in around them.

"Get lost!"

Seeing the people around him scorched by the fire rain while their spiritual energy was sealed, the Black-Clothed Man roared as spiritual energy erupted from his entire body.

He was shockingly a Seventh Grade Supreme.

The chains shattered in an instant, and his Spiritual Energy Barrier blocked the fire rain.

At that moment, Ling Xi's figure was exposed before everyone. They immediately mobilized their spiritual energy, and patches of Supreme Sea emerged in the air. The moment they attacked, they unleashed killer moves.

Countless Flowing Lights shot toward Ling Xi.

Ling Xi's expression did not change in the slightest. She tightened her grip around the Engraving Knife in her hand and rapidly drew spirit arrays one after another.

Ferocious beasts crawled out from those spirit arrays.

The beasts charged forward without fear of death, directly blocking every killer move.

Then she swept her hand, and a waterfall instantly appeared, plunging down from the heavens and pouring over everyone below.

The waters of a great river descended from the heavens!

Incline Sea Waterfall Killing Array.

The strongest large-scale killing spirit array Ling Xi could currently deploy.

The waterfall descending from the sky was like a colossal serpent about to devour the world. Opening its bloody maw, it surged fiercely toward the crowd below.

Crash!

The entire space was submerged beneath the monstrous waves. Everyone within the waves desperately unleashed the defensive divine arts they excelled in most, resisting the waves' erosion.

But the next second, they discovered that the white-clad girl who had been standing in the air had vanished.

Before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, someone sharply noticed immense pressure rising from every direction.

All the Black-Clothed Men immediately looked around.

Only then did they realize that countless identical figures had surrounded them at the edges of the space they occupied. At the same time, every figure made the same motion.

Spirit arrays radiating sharp, fierce auras appeared simultaneously in each figure's hands.

Then...

Boom!

Countless pure-white pillars of spiritual energy from all directions instantly shattered everyone's defenses. The killing moves filled with destructive force struck every person. In that instant, countless people fell from the sky, blood splashing across the scene as their auras immediately withered.

Only a few figures stubbornly remained in the air. Yet the spiritual energy surging across their bodies was not for a counterattack, but to flee the battlefield at the next instant.

This Spirit Array Grandmaster's combat strength was completely unreasonable.

Run. They had to run.

Escaping was their only chance to live.

Ling Xi coldly watched them without hesitation. Her body vanished from where she stood as she continued rushing onward.

Seeing this, those grievously wounded and dying on the ground, as well as those who had survived in the air, were all slightly stunned. Could she be softhearted?

Had they been spared?

But before that thought could last even a second, an incomparably sharp aura appeared above their heads.

Everyone looked up to see a Sword Spirit with a profound aura gripping an extremely ancient divine sword, slashing fiercely down at them all.

Ancient Sword Slaying Array!

The ultimate slaughter.

Dark sword light swallowed everyone below. The surrounding space was forcibly torn apart by the razor-sharp sword intent, and countless people in Commerce City turned their gazes in that direction.

The sword light persisted for more than ten seconds before vanishing into the dark air.

One figure after another flew over from Commerce City and descended where the sword light had appeared.

Seeing the scene below, everyone froze in place, an involuntary chill rising in their hearts.

Below them, dozens of Supreme experts had died horribly. That sword light had directly shattered their bodies, crushed their Divine Souls, and extinguished every possibility of these people starting over.

Even those who had approached were injured in spirit by the lingering sword intent.

What a powerful sword strike—and what a ruthless one.

Everyone turned their eyes toward the white figure rapidly fleeing into the distance, thinking of the girl who had seized all three drops of Spirit Slaying Azure Water Liquid at the auction.

She possessed a precious treasure, was young, and stood alone.

She was the perfect target for treasure hunters.

There were still quite a few people who had arranged to block her way ahead. They had originally believed the young girl would likely be surrounded and killed on Shang Continent this time. But judging by the current situation...

"Tonight, she will probably carve out a bloody path."

Someone said with a hint of emotion.

A bloody path paved with the corpses of Supremes.

Ling Xi had no interest whatsoever in what these people were thinking. The only thing on her mind was how to reach Ice Spirit Continent.

Five days—two full days had already passed.

Three days remained. She had to arrive on time.

Ice Spirit Continent. Bing Jue and Bing Yu stared gravely at the Cat Mask Man who had suddenly appeared. Spiritual energy surged around their bodies as they stood ready to strike.

He was clearly only a Second Grade Supreme, yet both of them felt immense pressure from him.

Especially after their brief exchange just now, they felt that when facing the two of them, this man seemed completely at ease.

Was it an illusion? A bluff?

Or was he truly this powerful?

But regardless of which it was, one thing was certain.

"Attack together."

Bing Jue and Bing Yu said in unison.

The next second, Bing Yu's figure transformed into ice crystals and vanished from where she stood. Bing Jue pressed his palms together, and the Ice Crystal Sparkling Sky Body rose behind him once more.

Looking at the place where Bing Yu had disappeared, Bai Ye fell silent.

He recognized the movement divine art Bing Yu had used, and it was very familiar to him.

Ice Void Art.

However, compared to his incomplete version of the Ice Void Art, Bing Yu's Ice Void Art was complete.

In other words, she was faster than him.

However...

Bai Ye stomped fiercely, instantly extinguishing a sharp blade light with that single step.

Bing Yu's figure flashed into view in the void.

Silver light flickered in Bai Ye's eyes as his body turned into several afterimages, attacking the location where Bing Yu stood.

What did speed matter? No matter how fast she was, she could not outrun time.

His eyes had already seen where she would appear.

Facing Bai Ye's sudden attack, Bing Yu did not panic in the slightest. She activated the Ice Void Art a second time.

Bai Ye lashed out with a sweeping kick, striking at the empty air beside him.

Bing Yu's figure appeared at that exact spot. It looked as though she had actively crashed into Bai Ye's sweeping kick.

Bing Yu's body flickered, and the sweeping kick passed through her without any sense of impact.

The next second, countless Bing Yu clones appeared in the sky. Each held a short blade as they surrounded Bai Ye and attacked.

Ice clones?

Bai Ye's Silver Eyes swept across them, and the clones filling the sky instantly disappeared from his vision, leaving only a single solitary figure.

Bai Ye thrust out a finger, immense spiritual energy gathering upon it.

The next moment, his finger pierced Bing Yu's chest. Her pupils contracted slightly as a massive, agile figure condensed behind her.

It wore a veil, and behind that veil were spider legs forged from ice.

Ranked fifty-third among the Ninety-Nine Supreme Dharma Bodies, the Ice Prison Demon Spider Body.

At the moment the Supreme Dharma Body appeared, crimson pupil light suddenly erupted from Bing Yu's eyes. The light shone upon Bai Ye, and his movements instantly froze.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

At some unknown moment, strands of spider silk had wrapped around his limbs.

At the same time, that infuriating ice crystal greatsword appeared once again, carrying immense pressure as it smashed fiercely toward Bai Ye's body.

"Heh."

Bai Ye sneered, and Cold energy erupted from within him.

A full ten degrees.

Whoosh—

In the air, short blades of ice formed instantly. Bai Ye twisted his body, and the blades immediately turned into a whirlwind, surrounding him and severing the spider silk around his limbs.

Then Bai Ye clenched his outstretched hand, and the ice blades filling the sky condensed into a massive heavy sword in his grasp.

Bai Ye gripped the hilt with both hands.

He swung it with all his strength.

"Whoosh—"

The massive sword tore through the air and collided directly with the enormous crystal sword.

The two clashed for less than a second.

Cracks appeared across the crystal greatsword.

The cracks spread faster and faster.

Crack.

In an instant.

That Supreme divine ability was violently shattered by the icy greatsword.

Bing Jue's face darkened.

Spiritual energy erupted from his entire body once more, and dazzling patterns emerged across his Ice Crystal Sparkling Sky Body.

Blinding light burst from the ice crystals.

In an instant, ice crystals filled the sky.

Supreme divine ability, Ice Crystal Frost Falling Sky.

"Die!"

Bing Jue's eyes brimmed with Killing Intent as the ice crystals pouring through the sky cascaded toward Bai Ye.

Beneath Ice Lake, the white cat rested with its eyes closed, digesting the remnant soul of that Nether Eye Dark Pattern Cat.

The next second, ripples stirred across the water. The white cat instantly opened its pair of sapphire-blue, glass-like pupils and looked straight ahead.

A figure slowly approached from there.

Blue hair and blue eyes—it was an Ice Spirit Clan member she knew well.

The cat vaguely remembered this person. It had heard Bing Ke and the others mention him before. His name seemed to be...

"Bing Can."