All Wretches
"While I was alive, Dongfang Shuo treated me like a laborer; even after I died, he used my death to break the deadlock. So, I did all the hard work and risked my life, and I was just completely superfluous?"
Li Shaojun is caught between life and death, which is a very unique perspective.
He can see his surroundings and can also perceive sounds within a certain range.
The matter is not over yet, but it is moving in the direction of resolving the problem.
Shen Daoren feigned cooperation but actually seized the mechanical puppet, directly disabling 'Yao's' martial prowess. Shen Daoren had also witnessed Zhang Xuezhou's inferior individual strength.
'Yao' met a terrible end, but 'Yao' still had a chance to escape and survive.
As for Zhang Xuezhou, he was at a level where he was useful but lacked threat, leading both Yao and Shen Daoren to believe that they could control him.
There were three parties involved. Both Yao and Shen Daoren believed they had once been in control of the situation, but Li Shaojun vaguely felt that Zhang Xuezhou was the one who truly controlled it.
"Why is this happening? I'm clearly smarter than him, and he doesn't have any fighting skills!"
Li Shaojun was completely baffled.
The matter had reached a critical juncture, but with his death, things took a turn, and the three parties were able to cooperate peacefully.
This situation almost made him question the meaning of life.
"What tricks is that bastard up to this time?"
Yao vomited repeatedly, expelling most of the Soul-Guiding Powder and Soul-Stealing Powder that had been injected into his body. Shen Daoren disassembled the head of the mechanical wooden figure and kept chanting incantations, while Zhang Xuezhou performed an extremely strange sacrificial dance.
Each of the three parties made their own moves. Li Shaojun even understood Shen Daoren's actions, but he couldn't understand Zhang Xuezhou's behavior.
Only when Zhang Xuezhou stopped moving did Li Shaojun see the golden light float by and transform into the shape of a dragon.
But after making this move, Zhang Xuezhou simply ended the matter without causing any harm to himself.
"Could it be that 'Bai' taught him some special techniques?"
"Dragons that are treated differently are the most despicable!"
Li Shaojun thought for a moment, then cursed.
He observed the situation on the field and pondered the opportunity that would allow him to survive.
The three parties' actions didn't last long. By the time the rumbling sounds outside, like the end of the world, subsided, Zhang Xuezhou had already begun to unleash the Supreme Purity True Technique on Gongsun Hong's physical body.
The wound from being pinned down by the Green Bamboo Sword began to heal and scab over quickly, but Zhang Xuezhou was not completely healed and remained in a semi-injured state.
"There's definitely something fishy about this Jiuyu Law Treasure, but unfortunately I was caught in a hallucination at the time, fighting with that wooden puppet mechanism, and didn't figure out what was going on!"
Li Shaojun pondered for more than ten seconds before Zhang Xuezhou hoisted him onto his shoulder.
The time to use 'Jiuyu' to travel has come again.
Compared to the previous solo traversal by 'Yao', this traversal was clearly more difficult, no longer something 'Yao' could accomplish with a quick flick of his wrist.
What appeared in 'Jiuyu' was no longer 129,600 images, but a large number of black spots that were difficult to see clearly, some of which were blue spots.
"What is it?" Shen Daoren asked.
"These black areas are impassable, and these blue areas belong to the ocean; there is no land there," 'Yao' said painfully. "If you can accept the ocean as your landing point, we can cross it now!"
"What is this red area?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"Flame!" 'Radiance' replied.
"Are we free to choose the area we go to?" Shen Daoren asked.
"Can!"
Yao nodded, indicating that Shen Daoren could go to whichever area Jiu Yu had targeted.
"Then I'll go to this red area!"
Shen Daoren pointed, and Yao glanced at him with slight surprise before urging Zhang Xuezhou.
"Since you've chosen the ocean as your destination, I'll go wherever you go," Zhang Xuezhou said.
When choosing a destination, Shen Daoren clearly didn't trust Yao; he had a backup plan and was willing to take a gamble.
As for Zhang Xuezhou, he had little choice; choosing which ocean region to go to had no special significance for him.
If Yao causes trouble in Jiuyu, he can only try to find an opportunity to retaliate by getting close to him.
Everyone made their own choices, and the purple mist in 'Jiuyu' became more and more obvious, with a red and a blue appearing and growing larger.
"They're gone!"
The purple mist above 'Jiuyu' eventually split into two equal areas, one red and one blue. 'Yao' called out to the crowd and then maintained a posture as if about to leap out.
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
The headless Shen Daoren's mechanical countdown caused everyone to step forward in unison.
When the timer ended, everyone had already jumped towards 'Jiuyu'.
A myriad of dazzling, bizarre colors suddenly assaulted them, as if they were in some special passage. After leaping out, everyone felt their eyes were dazzled.
"Not being with that 'Yao' is the right choice!"
Shen Daoren was extremely satisfied with traveling alone, as this would minimize the impact on him.
The location of the exit is not important; what matters is that he can leave the main hall of Zixiao Palace.
"Evil creature!"
"Evil creature!"
"Evil creature!"
"They're all wicked!"
Shen Daoren was terrified when four reprimanding voices rang out.
"Master Hongjun, you have clearly already gone to the Outer Heavens, you cannot still be here!"
The time spent traversing space is so short that one cannot perceive the passage of time; a single step is all it takes to reach one's destination.
The time required for spatial travel can be very long, long enough for someone to be frozen in a specific space and time for their entire life, forever unable to reach their destination.
Shen Daoren felt as if he had been deflected as he moved forward, crashing headlong into an unknown and unnamed depth, where he also encountered the very thing he feared.
He was once considered a remarkable prodigy who stirred up a storm, but the opponent's student intervened and directly determined the outcome, ultimately sealing his fate in the North Sea for a thousand years.
He wanted to live but couldn't, he wanted to die but couldn't, and could only suffer in the deep sea.
This nearly drove Shen Daoren mad.
He also felt an extreme fear of certain people.
Upon suddenly hearing the other party repeatedly scolding him as a "wicked child," Shen Daoren was nearly scared out of his wits.
When a figure in white robes and a white beard appeared before him, Shen Daoren began a frantic struggle to escape.
His three souls switched back and forth between the time dimension and the space dimension. When his vision returned, the main hall of Zixiao Palace came into view again.
A wooden head rolled over from the ground, and Shen Daoren quickly crawled inside.
Only after his three souls and seven spirits returned to their places did Shen Daoren breathe a sigh of relief.
"Hongjun Daoist resides in the Outer Heavens. He cannot possibly project his Technique Method power into the Three Realms; he can only wreak havoc in the void. He can't touch me now!"
'Jiuyu' still shimmered with light.
Shen Daoren could even see three extremely tiny figures within the blue area.
He looked at the three of them, and then thought about Yao's identity. He wondered how Hongjun Daoist would intercept them.
You need to be treated fairly!
Master Shen muttered it to himself.
As soon as he finished speaking, a charred half-wooden figure, which he had been moving through in the red area of 'Jiuyu', came back out.
"Yao didn't lie to me after all?"
Looking at the charred body of the wooden figure, Shen Daoxin felt as if his heart was being torn apart.
He quickly attached the wooden head to the charred body, unsure whether he should crawl back into Jiuyu and follow the direction Yao and the others had traveled.