Gui Tianzong and Gui Jiuyan had set this trap to kill Gao Xian.
As Gao Xian approached, the two eighth-rank powerhouses both felt tremendous pressure.
Divine Lord of Army-Breaking, an eighth-rank supreme—this title was no empty boast! Gao Xian had forged it by killing seven eighth-rank powerhouses!
Gui Jiuyan had personally witnessed Gao Xian blast Sky Wolf to death and seen his peerless divine might. That battle had shaken him deeply as well.
From then on, Gao Xian had become a poisoned thorn in Gui Jiuyan's heart, one he always longed to pull out as swiftly as possible!
Seeing Gao Xian again after nearly a century, Gui Jiuyan realized that he had developed a deep fear of him. Even merely gazing at the Divine Lord of Army-Breaking from afar made him instinctively want to retreat and avoid him.
As an eighth-rank powerhouse who had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, for him to feel such an intense negative emotion as fear showed just how profound an imprint Gao Xian had left in his heart during that battle.
Gui Jiuyan excelled at manipulating the emotions of living beings, and he immediately noticed something was wrong with himself. Using the Nine Nightmares Soul-Slaying Art, he severed his fear, then used that intense emotion as fuel to instead enhance the art's power.
In an instant, Gui Jiuyan regained his composure. The mana within him roiled, and his divine consciousness became extraordinarily powerful, yet his nine jade-green eyes instead turned dim and profound.
The nine somber jade-green eyes glimmered with faint, elusive light, forming a circular halo. It was the Supreme Origin Light.
Entering this state signified that Gui Jiuyan had complete control over his own emotions, his Yang Spirit, and his mana.
Gui Tianzong had never seen Gao Xian before. Upon seeing