"The Yaoguang Holy Land really does make one envious!"
"What a pity that a prodigy like this couldn't have appeared in our sect!"
"He doesn't even have a decent guardian. The Yaoguang Holy Land really is careless. Do they think that, as one of the overlords of the Eastern Wasteland's Southern Region, no one would dare offend them?"
Amid the ravaged mountains.
Several hazy figures whose faces could not be made out appeared ahead.
They were exceedingly cautious, deliberately concealing their identities with some secret art as they subtly blocked off every direction.
They cackled sinisterly, making no attempt to hide their chilling killing intent.
There were five of them in total.
The two leaders, a man and a woman, were unmistakably experts of the four extremes secret realm.
The other three were all in the dao palace realm, with cultivation ranging from the dao palace third heaven to the fifth heaven.
All exuded formidable auras. Like tigers eyeing their prey, they stared maliciously at Taiyi, who had not yet had time to alter his appearance and looked exactly like a ten-year-old boy, far too young. Killing intent radiated from them.
"Since you know I'm a disciple of the Yaoguang Holy Land... you still dare attack me?"
Taiyi looked at the hostile figures before him.
His gaze was cold, but he showed not the slightest nervousness as he spoke calmly.
He had always kept a low profile, so these people clearly could not have come specifically to kill him.
Most likely, they had been passing nearby and happened to encounter him just after he emerged from seclusion, before he could withdraw his holy light and use the Heaven-Stealing Sun-Swapping Art to change his face and physique.
The Primordial Origin Holy Light Technique he had displayed revealed that he was a disciple of the Yaoguang Holy Land. Seeing someone so young already at the dao palace third heaven, with no guardian by his side, they had harbored malicious intentions and sought to seize the chance to cut down a genius.
"Heh, why wouldn't we dare?"
"A dead genius is nothing!"
"As long as we do a clean job, no one will know once you're dead!"
"We have no hope of competing with this era's dazzling prodigies in our lifetime. Killing a genius like this will at least make up for a few regrets!"
"Hahaha, well said, senior brother!"
The cultivators cackled coldly.
They were not cultivators from the Eastern Wasteland.
They came from the distant Central Plains and were disciples of the Yin-Yang Sect, a renowned great sect with an ancient heritage.
They had only intended to scour the Eastern Wasteland's Southern Region for young children with exceptional talent. They had never expected to encounter a disciple of the Yaoguang Holy Land while passing through here.
He looked barely over ten, yet he had already cultivated to the dao palace third heaven. It was truly astonishing.
Even their Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Son and Holy Maiden probably had not been this extraordinary.
It filled them with both dread and envy.
"Want to kill me? You're not qualified!"
Taiyi's expression was icy.
The Primordial Origin Scripture circulated within him.
Divine power seethed throughout his body, and his radiance blazed to the utmost, even dyeing his hair golden.
Bzz... His boundlessly vigorous blood and vital energy surged into the heavens, vast as an ocean and roaring like a tide. He resembled a Sun God King descending into the world, a breathtaking sight.
The cultivators concealing their identities to ambush and kill him blanched.
The male four extremes expert leading them acted decisively. "Enough talk. Attack!"
Boom...
Divine radiance soared into the sky.
The five figures unleashed their magical artifacts one after another.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Two flying swords tore through the air first, shooting toward him to pierce him through.
Right behind them came a meteor hammer, a fan, and a small pagoda...
All hurtled toward him in a lethal barrage.
"You're courting death!" Taiyi's gaze turned frosty.
His entire body shone as he stepped forward, his blood and vital energy surging like a dragon as he bathed in sacred radiance.
Dazzling holy light engulfed the sky.
It struck the incoming magical artifacts.
And blasted every one of them away.
Boom! Boom!
In an instant.
Radiance blazed, and divine power seethed.
The void rumbled, and the earth caved in.
Taiyi stood immovable, holy light swirling around him, impervious to all arts.
Crack... crack... One magical artifact after another shattered.
Even the blood sword and small pagoda, which had the most formidable auras and seemed indestructible.
Were mercilessly hurled away.
Covered in alarming cracks.
"What?!" All five Yin-Yang Sect cultivators paled.
They were aghast, scarcely able to believe their eyes.
Boom...
"Aaargh..."
The holy light blazed dazzlingly, its momentum undiminished.
It could burn all things and purify everything, unstoppable.
The weakest cultivator screamed, unable even to dodge.
The searing, terrifying beams of holy light swept over him and annihilated him on the spot, reducing him to ash.
Two others were sent flying, coughing blood from the impact.
It was a horrifying sight.
"How is this possible?"
"Damn it... this one's too tough. Retreat!"
The two four extremes experts leading them blanched, unease rising within them.
They exchanged a glance. Unwilling to risk anything further, they turned and fled without hesitation.
Clearly, they had kicked an iron plate.
They had provoked someone terrifying.
With cultivation merely at the dao palace third heaven.
He could actually cross realms to fight, defying the gap to strike down experts of the four extremes secret realm.
"You're not getting away!"
Taiyi stepped forward.
Heaven and earth seemed to pulse with him.
As he unleashed the Sun God Movement Technique, he seemed to become a streak of light, moving with incredible speed.
In an instant, he appeared before a terrified dao palace fourth heaven cultivator who was trying to flee, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
Without mercy, he drove a blazing fist imprint straight forward.
"No..."
The man turned pale with terror.
Unwilling to sit and await death, he desperately unleashed a secret technique to block the blow.
A blazing Yin-Yang Barrier enveloped him.
But Taiyi's physical body was terrifying, and his Sun God Fist was incomparably overbearing. There was no way the man could withstand it.
Boom... The golden fist imprint descended like a blazing sun, unstoppable.
It crushed the barrier like dry wood and rotten timber, then slammed straight into his body.
"Aaargh..." A scream echoed out. The dao palace fourth heaven expert's fists were pulverized, his chest was mercilessly punched through, and his body exploded into a mist of blood.
The flesh and blood scattered across the sky were all purified by the endless holy light.
Not a speck could stain Taiyi.
In the void.
His young, heroic figure stood proudly.
One hundred and eight beams of holy light surrounded him, incomparably sacred.
Every strand of his hair shone. He resembled a Sun Deity descended into the mortal world, his majesty inviolable.
Whoosh...
The next instant.
Taiyi swept his hands through the air.
For the first time, he manifested the Nine Secrets: Dou, weaving endless holy light together.
It formed an enormous, dazzling sword of light, emanating a terrifying aura that made hearts pound with dread.
It seemed capable of cleaving heaven and earth apart and tearing through the void.
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