Couldn't Ask for More

Amid the engulfing Divine Wind, waves of bloody, Baleful Intent surged around both of them.

This contest no longer had anything to do with their cultivation realms, but rested solely on their attainments in the Killing Dao.

By doing this, Yang Lingrui was effectively wagering his life, forcing this evil cultivator to remain here.

If he wished to avoid battle and flee, it would inevitably cloud his Dao Heart, greatly affecting his future cultivation.

But if he did not wish to suffer such consequences, only two paths lay before him: either forcefully kill Yang Lingrui and escape, or engage him in a Dao contest, seize the Dao successfully, and flee this place.

This evil cultivator was now already in the True Person realm, just one step away from the Three Realms of Enlightenment. Naturally, he would not allow such a trivial matter to leave a flaw in his Dao Heart.

Thus, the instant Yang Lingrui's wind formation took shape, he made his judgment in an exceedingly short span of time.

From his perspective, this fellow cultivator before him, whose combat prowess was far from ordinary, sought only to stall him here so that other reinforcements could arrive and besiege him.

For if he truly possessed the means to kill him, there had been no need for all that extra talk just now, nor any reason to create such a perilous situation of Dao contention.

One had to know that once a Dao contest was lost, the outcome would be a shattered Dao Heart and crippled cultivation, leaving one all but forever cut off from the Dao Path.

Therefore, judging from Yang Lingrui's motives, the evil cultivator concluded that he must possess some powerful life-saving treasure.

By acting this way, Yang Lingrui was seizing upon his eagerness to flee far away,