Scapegoat

The Heavenly Eye opened, determining life and death!

Liu Yue, who had fully opened his Heavenly Eye, held nothing back. His divine intent blossomed as immense soul power and the power of his own qi and blood surged into it madly.

The silver-white vertical pupil carried an extreme rationality and coldness as it met Foxwolf's eyes directly.

Soul-Fixing Arc Light...

In an instant, it invaded Foxwolf's soul, sealing his divine intent, soul, qi and blood, and physique!

The Heavenly Eye shattered the five senses and fixed the six consciousnesses!

"Shoot, quickly!" Liu Yue shouted in a low voice.

"That stinking fox broke through. I can only hold him for about three breaths."

"Three breaths are enough!" The Sun-Shooting Bow and Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow fell from Yi You's back. Drawing the bow and nocking the arrow, his divine intent locked onto Foxwolf in an instant.

"I've just comprehended an innate divine ability, so I'll use this mongrel stinking fox to christen it!"

"Divine Ability—Myriad Arrows Calamity!"

"Twang~"

The moment he released the string and the Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow flew forth, a point of sharp radiance shattered upon the arrow, instantly scattering into countless Sun-Shooting Divine Arrows.

Every manifested Sun-Shooting Divine Arrow was wreathed in the Yi Clan's Sun-Shooting Intent.

"Fire!" Yi You's roar echoed through the air.

A myriad arrows fired at once. Countless Sun-Shooting Divine Arrows tore through several hundred meters of empty air, seeming to rip apart space and time as they descended upon the sealed Foxwolf.

With his five senses and six consciousnesses sealed, Foxwolf could neither see nor sense the approaching danger.

But he was no fool. The instant Liu Yue's Heavenly Eye sealed him, he had activated the life-saving means bestowed upon him by his clan ancestor.

At this moment, he no longer cared about using his trump cards to kill Liu Yue or Yi You. He only wanted to rely on his ancestor's power to preserve his own life.

And thereby retain his qualification for this Starry Sky Trial.

A thread of mighty power far beyond the divine ability realm attempted to descend from across countless light-years of starry sky and break Liu Yue's Heavenly Eye seal.

Yet at the instant that power descended, it was obstructed by the rules of Trial Star.

Though it was delayed by less than a breath, it soon broke through Trial Star's rules and Liu Yue's Heavenly Eye seal as well.

The moment Foxwolf's five senses and six consciousnesses returned, he opened his eyes.

Yi You's innate divine ability, Myriad Arrows Calamity, split one arrow into thousands. An invisible aura of arrow calamity firmly imprisoned the space around Foxwolf.

In that instant, he could not move at all. He could only watch as the myriad arrows descended upon him.

No matter what trump cards he had, it was already too late to break free and forcibly use his life-saving trump card to escape.

"Yi You..." Foxwolf roared unwillingly and hatefully.

Vaguely, at the instant the myriad arrows tore apart his body, he saw a figure break through the surging black mist and charge out of the Withered Bone Demon Forest.

Boom boom boom boom...

When the myriad arrows fell, an entire stretch of land nearly a hundred meters across was utterly annihilated by Yi You's divine ability.

A speck of dim light drifted up from where the arrows had landed, streaking across the sky and vanishing into the starry sky.

Liu Yue's face went pale as he closed his Heavenly Eye. His entire body slumped, his qi, blood, and soul power exhausted. Leaning against a large tree, he was unable to move.

Fully unleashing the Heavenly Eye's power was still somewhat too much for a martial artist in the Fleshly Body Realm.

It was only because he had opened a divine aperture containing an innate divine ability, strengthening his soul and raising his divine intent by a level. Otherwise, that single move would have drained him completely.

Fortunately, the result was gratifying. They had taken down that mongrel, mangy fox.

Su Bo, who had broken through the black mist and emerged from the Withered Bone Demon Forest, paused and looked toward the place where Myriad Arrows Calamity had fallen. His eyes flickered.

Yi You's innate divine ability—Myriad Arrows Calamity. Liu Yue's Heavenly Eye.

Even deep within the black mist, he had sensed the terrifying, horrifyingly violent energy that had erupted in that instant.

Even if he had been the one receiving their combined peak strike, he would have needed to take it seriously.

"Who was it?" Su Bo asked curiously.

Given these two fellows' temperaments and the pride in their bones, coupled with one obtaining an innate divine ability and the other opening a divine aperture, greatly strengthening his soul—

Throughout Trial Star, unless someone else in another forbidden zone had encountered an equally heaven-defying opportunity—

There should have been no one who could stand against the two of them!

So who had been worth Liu Yue and Yi You joining forces to attack the moment they came out, launching a sudden killing blow?

Killing their opponent so thoroughly that not even a trace remained?

"That stinking fox!"

"That mangy fox!"

The two spoke at the same time.

Clearly, although they looked down on each other, they both looked down on that stinking, mangy fox.

Su Bo immediately understood. "A Heartmoon Fox Human Race member?"

"Did he provoke you two? You killed him the moment you met?" Su Bo teased, though he did not think there was anything wrong with it.

Who knew whether they had some grudge between them?

Besides, they had gotten along fairly well before. Even if the three of them had no grudge, if these two truly wanted to kill that Heartmoon Fox Human Race prodigy—

He would most likely have gone over to help finish the job.

Liu Yue exhaled a breath of stale air and eased the exhaustion in his body. "It wasn't the two of us who offended that stinking fox. He was offended by you!"

"The spot!" Yi You stood in place, maintaining his archery stance as he said coolly.

Yet the next second, he could no longer hold on. Gritting his teeth, he said word by word, "Old Su, help..."

"My body can't move."

Su Bo blanked for a moment, then raised his middle finger and said irritably, "You should've said so earlier. I thought you were holding that pose to show me how cool your divine ability was."

Casually hauling the fellow beneath a tree to sit down, Su Bo looked again at the shattered ground.

"So, he was waiting here for me to come out, to see who had taken his spot?"

"He even wanted to kill me?"

"Mm." After hesitating for a moment, Liu Yue nodded.

"Foxwolf is narrow-minded and notoriously vindictive. He might not be a match for you, Old Su, but the Heartmoon Fox clan stands behind him..." Yi You added at the right moment.

"So when we saw him, we took him out before you came out!"

"Though I don't know whether that brat saw you, Old Su..."

There was no helping it. Old Su did not come from one of those life planets of the Ancient Human Race.

There was no major force or powerful race behind him to protect him. Even though Old Su possessed dragon blood, they could not guarantee that the Human-Dragon Race would accept Su Bo.

Thus, when they saw the malice and killing intent Foxwolf revealed...

The two instantly understood each other's thoughts. They would not let Foxwolf activate his life-saving trump card. They would send him out of Trial Star with a single strike.

That way, he would not discover Su Bo's existence and bring him a life-or-death crisis.

As for the two of them, they had the Yi Clan and the Celestial Human Race protecting them. On top of that, they had now awakened innate divine abilities, and their status was no longer what it had been.

Even if the Heartmoon Fox Human Race wanted revenge, they would not dare make a move against them lightly.

Su Bo raised his brows, catching the key point. "He isn't dead?"

After taking a combined strike from Yi You and Liu Yue, a strike powered by a divine ability and a divine aperture, that fellow had actually survived?

Was he really that strong?

Hadn't they said that his strength was only about on par with theirs?

Seeming to see Su Bo's confusion, Liu Yue explained, "Foxwolf is indeed no good, but his talent is also truly exceptional."

"With his talent, the Heartmoon Fox Human Race would certainly bestow some means of dying in another's stead upon him."

"Killing him here won't truly kill him. It will only make him lose his chance to continue the trial."

"Is that so?" Su Bo fell silent.

That treatment really made him, a tiny martial artist from Sin Star, a little envious.

Why the hell didn't I have such awesome elders?

Hey, hey, hey, Principal Situ, I'm talking about you~