"Boom!"
At that moment, the sky filled with rosy light. The Innate Great Array shrouding the sea began to dissipate, revealing the island hidden within.
As the clouds and mist cleared, a corner of the island emerged. An ancient, mottled stone stele stood there in silence;
Dao patterns coiled across it. On the front of the stele, the words "Tang Valley" were unmistakably engraved.
The instant those words entered Donghua's eyes, he felt the Lesser Yang Law throughout his body stir faintly, resonating mysteriously with the Heavy Treasure within the island.
The instant the resonance arose, a divine sense had already spread over. In the blink of an eye, it caught Donghua's aura.
A streak of escaping light flashed past, and Purple Shrimp Ancestor landed steadily in front of Donghua.
He wore purple robes, his expression arrogant. His aura was cold and murderous, while black energy covered the space between his brows.
He coldly sized up Donghua and said in an unfriendly tone, "Fellow Daoist! You trespassed into the territory of the Cangming Shrimp Clan. What are you planning to do?"
Donghua's face showed not the slightest ripple. He merely swept the other man with a cold glance, utterly disdainful of his claim.
This place had previously been covered by the Innate Great Array and had not appeared in the Primordial Wilderness. It had clearly only just emerged. The so-called "Clan Land" claimed by Purple Shrimp Ancestor was completely baseless.
Besides, after observing quietly for a while just now, Donghua had already understood the situation.
This man had most likely been drawn here by the immense aura released when the Heavy Treasure emerged. He wanted to take advantage of the news not yet spreading and use the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal to intimidate the gathered cultivators through thunderous methods, monopolizing the Heavy Treasure.
Donghua could not be bothered to waste words with him and got straight to the point:
"This treasure is fated to be mine. Leave at once, and I may still spare your life."
Upon hearing this, Purple Shrimp Ancestor became angry instead of laughing.
"Hahahaha! Arrogant? When I, your Ancestor, participated in the Dragon-Han Calamity and fought on the battlefield of the three clans, you little brat had no idea where you were! How dare you spout such nonsense before your Ancestor!"
He had seen it clearly just now. The Lesser Yang Law revealed when Donghua resonated with the treasure was merely nascent and feeble. It was obvious that Donghua had only recently broken through to the Great Luo realm and had yet to stabilize his foundation!
This place was the East Sea, the source of all waters! And he cultivated the Corrosive Water Law. Here, he was like a dragon returning to the sea, possessing every geographical advantage!
Before the overwhelming waters here, Lesser Yang fire was no more than a firefly before the Bright Moon.
The advantage was mine!
Once this thought arose, Purple Shrimp Ancestor no longer hesitated. His killing intent blazed to its peak!
"This place will be where your Dao dissipates and your life ends!"
Before his words had even faded, a vicious glint shot from Purple Shrimp Ancestor's eyes. His raised right arm instantly expanded, transforming into a huge True Form Shrimp Pincer wrapped in the Corrosive Flow Law,
A streak of purple light suddenly shot through the air, clamping toward Donghua!
However, Donghua had long anticipated such a sneak attack. The Pure Yang Daoist Robe fluttered, effortlessly blocking the strike.
"State your name! Under my command, I do not kill nameless nobodies!"
Donghua ignored him and used a Supernatural Ability, causing his figure to vanish.
In the next instant, Purple Shrimp Ancestor suddenly felt heat behind him. A blazing Dao resonance capable of burning the Eight Desolations came through his body!
Greatly alarmed, he hurriedly expanded his right arm. It transformed back into his massive true-form claw, covered in heavy black armor. Without even looking, he fiercely smashed it backward, determined to blast the attacker into dust!
Yet the strike hit nothing!
The giant claw carried tremendous force, but only stirred the scorching air.
"Bang!"
Before he could react, a light sleeve had already followed like a shadow, seemingly crossing through space. Silently and soundlessly, it brushed toward his face.
The Pure Yang Immortal Light flowing across that sleeve rapidly enlarged within his pupils!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The cultivators watching from afar saw only two figures repeatedly collide in the sky at a speed impossible to make out with the naked eye.
Every clash distorted space. The escaping Dao resonances spread like ripples, scattering the sea of clouds and sending the waves surging backward wherever they passed.
Some cultivators with weaker cultivation merely looked at the center of the battle and felt their Nascent Souls ache, their Dao foundations becoming unstable.
"Fall back!"
Purple Shrimp Ancestor pushed the Corrosive Water Law to its limits. Dim Mysterious Light tried to envelop and corrode Donghua.
Unfortunately, Donghua's Pure Yang Law naturally countered his law. Moreover, Donghua's comprehension of laws surpassed his. Wherever Donghua passed, the Mysterious Light melted away like snow and ice.
Purple Shrimp Ancestor could only rely on the incredibly hard shell he had trained through taking beatings during the Dragon-Han Calamity to struggle on.
Seeing his law easily countered by the other man and his own body covered in wounds, the arrogant, ferocious expression on Purple Shrimp Ancestor's face quickly vanished. He forced out an extremely ugly smile, one that even carried a hint of ingratiation, and his tone became more "courteous" than ever:
"Fellow... fellow Daoist... please wait!"
As he spoke, he rapidly retreated, widening the distance between himself and Donghua to what he considered a safe range.
"Fellow Daoist's cultivation is profound, and your methods are extraordinary! Ancestor... no, I am thoroughly convinced!"
He cupped his hands and lowered his posture as much as possible. "We are both Great Luo Golden Immortals, and cultivation is no easy matter. There is no need for us to fight to the death over nothing more than a treasure..."
His eyes flickered. He quickly glanced at the island that was about to reveal its full appearance. A flash of pain crossed his face, and he immediately said decisively:
"I am willing to yield this treasure to you, Fellow Daoist! I was blind just now and offended you. I ask that you be magnanimous! Why don't we end things here, turn hostility into friendship, and let bygones be bygones?"
As he spoke, the Innate Great Array completely dissipated, and the island was fully revealed.
"Now that the treasure has emerged, you can die."
"Fellow Daoist, are you truly determined to fight to the death? Is this grudge worth pursuing to the bitter end?" Purple Shrimp Ancestor roared toward the sky in fury.
Donghua remained calm and said indifferently, "Since we have formed a cause and effect, I naturally must sever the karma and protect my Dao. How could I leave behind future trouble?"
Upon hearing this, a cold light surged in Purple Shrimp Ancestor's eyes, and his fury boiled over.
"Courting death! Witness my Supernatural Ability—Myriad Transformations Corrosive Flow."
"Boom—!"
Centered on him, thick purple-black poisonous mist erupted with a roar, blotting out the sky and the sun! This was no ordinary Poisonous Miasma, but an innate Supernatural Ability containing the Corrosive Flow Law.
Wherever the poisonous mist reached, the vast blue sea below instantly became a black dead zone, all life extinguished.
Several cultivators who had retreated too slowly were brushed by the edge of the poisonous mist. The protective immortal light around their bodies silently burned away like thin paper. Before they could even scream, their flesh turned into pus and blood, while their Nascent Souls were corroded and dissolved, leaving both body and spirit annihilated!
Facing the destruction-laden poisonous tide sweeping toward him, Donghua finally got serious.
He did not retreat. Instead, he stepped forward and said loudly:
"Firefly light dares to compete with the Bright Moon?"
"Eternal Radiance."
Before his voice had faded, resplendent Pure Yang Immortal Light, like the great sun descending from the sky, fully unfolded from within Donghua's body!
"Zzzzt—!!!"
The purest Pure Yang Immortal Light collided head-on with the most sinister corrosive-flow poisonous mist!
There was no earth-shaking explosion, only violent annihilation on the level of laws.
The Myriad Transformations Corrosive Flow, which could corrode all things, dissolved at unprecedented speed the instant it touched the Pure Yang Immortal Light, like snow and ice thrown into a furnace, evaporating into wisps of empty smoke!
Beneath Pure Yang, all laws were false! Let the corrosive flow transform in myriad ways—I would shatter it with sheer force!
The ferocious smile on Purple Shrimp Ancestor's face froze completely, transforming into boundless terror.
His strongest Supernatural Ability had actually been destroyed by the other man in such an overwhelmingly crushing manner!
"No... this is impossible..."
Donghua no longer gave him any opportunity.
A Pure Yang finger force condensed to the extreme, seemingly containing the first ray of light that split open the heavens and earth. It pierced through layer upon layer of poisonous mist, ignored the distance of space, and struck Purple Shrimp Ancestor between the brows.
The Pure Yang Dao laws instantly burned away all his vitality and Nascent Soul.
Purple Shrimp Ancestor's body stiffened. The light in his eyes completely dimmed, leaving only a fragment of true spirit carrying endless regret as it tried to flee.
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