Xuanming Comes Knocking

Nagesi has fallen into a state of mental discipline where killing is the path to supremacy.

Zhang Xuezhou also encountered a stroke of luck, gazing towards the Xuanming he had been searching for.

"I've been looking for you every day, every month, for a whole year!"

A giant tortoise figure emerged from the dark void, with golden light and fortune constantly Shengteng from its body.

Is time synchronized between your higher-dimensional world and ours?

Zhang Xuezhou looked somewhat embarrassed.

To avoid encountering Xuanming, he did not bring the Fortune Golden Turtle.

Zhang Xuezhou did not encounter Xuanming during the sacrificial ceremony for Li Yingbo.

He thought he had escaped Xuanming, but little did he expect that Xuanming would find an opportunity to come knocking on his door.

Don't try to be all chummy with me!

Was I sold out by the zodiac?

Xuanming had just uttered a rebuke when Zhang Xuezhou began searching for the reason why he had bumped into Xuanming.

He asked a question, and Xuanming responded with a cold snort, which allowed Zhang Xuezhou to quickly confirm.

"Huang Dao has no bottom line; why do you believe him?" Zhang Xuezhou said.

"Kid, stop talking nonsense. There are plenty of people in this world who can fool me, but you're not one of them," Xuanming said. "You kept saying you'd sacrifice Liaomeng's Principle to me, making me wait and wait until Liaomeng's messenger came knocking on my door. Only then did I find out you used me as a shield to steal Liaomeng's Principle. I've never suffered such a loss in my life!"

"I didn't take it, I swear!"

"Swearing is useless now. You smuggled what you shouldn't have taken and made me lose face. You deserve to be punished!"

Xuanming swayed its enormous body, golden light constantly flashing across it.

His head suddenly shrank, and a giant tortoise shell formed from golden light shot down from the darkness of the void.

"You want to break my Fortune Body?"

Zhang Xuezhou swayed his dragonfish body, looking with great interest at the giant golden tortoise that was swimming in the unknown darkness.

"It's just putting a lock on you!"

Xuanming did not lose his mind; instead, he created a clone similar to his own destiny, intending to use it to suppress Zhang Xuezhou.

Accompanied by a response, the giant tortoise in the distance transformed into a torrent of golden light and crashed down.

Zhang Xuezhou was all too familiar with this tactic. After all, he had tried to launch Fortune War many times, hoping to kill the King of Huainan and his men in one fell swoop, thus avoiding the pressure of the enemy's continuous recovery by taking advantage of their homeland.

But Zhang Xuezhou had only ever thought about it; he had never actually done it.

If he cannot kill his opponent in one blow, he is likely to fall into a passive position and be gradually devoured by the opponent.

Zhang Xuezhou never expected that Xuanming would be so bold as to push forward the things he himself hadn't dared to do.

He watched as the golden torrent, which had attempted to crush him with a single blow, swirled like a river of stars, instantly multiplying into thousands upon thousands. His true form quickly broke free of the lock and shifted its position.

Endless golden light swept down, causing large numbers of dragonfish to be destroyed and reborn repeatedly, going through a cycle of illusion and destruction.

"Huang Dao actually lied to me! He said you're not some emperor, you just got lucky and stumbled upon a stroke of good fortune in Fortune War. How can someone get away with something like that and possess such a low Fortune Technique of luck!"

With a single strike, countless illusory dragonfish images were shattered, making it even harder to lock onto Zhang Xuezhou. An angry roar came from the golden giant tortoise that Xuanming had transformed into.

The countless dragonfish swirling in the sky seem to create an endless spectacle.

Even without mentioning Zhang Xuezhou's counterattack, if Zhang Xuezhou had simply allowed himself to be killed without resistance, the situation would still have been difficult to manage.

Xuanming turned his body and spat out a mouthful of golden light, clearing away and shattering a group of dragonfish around him. He was quickly pushed back by the dragonfish.

"I told you you shouldn't have believed it!"

Zhang Xuezhou responded by shaking his dragon-fish body, but before Xuanming could land a hit on him using the response to pinpoint the location, he had already rushed to another area.

"He said you have no striking power whatsoever. Is that the truth?"

"It used to work, but today is different; believing it won't work!"

Xuanming roared, while Zhang Xuezhou responded calmly.

Huang Dao was right. His ability to Fortune War was limited, and his defeat of Huang Dao was somewhat lucky. In the eyes of top-level Fortune Technique experts, he was practically useless.

But the coincidence is that he was performing a sacrificial ceremony today.

This didn't even require Zhang Xuezhou to use the defeated's resources to target them.

Xuanming's current situation is somewhat similar to that of Huang Daoxian, who was inside the body of a hyena. He was replaced when he sacrificed to Nagesi, and he himself was sacrificed using the array flag.

Xuanming may seem reckless at the moment, but after he rushes into the ritual, the bloodletting-like ritual will cause his body to become weaker and weaker.

Even without Zhang Xuezhou taking action, Xuanming would still be depleted of his Fortune Body, making it difficult to recover.

Do you know Houtu?

Do you know how to release the Wind and Thunder Blade from its restraints?

Have you ever heard of the name Hongjun?

How should the origin of the world be refined?

Seemingly determined not to be deceived by words, or perhaps lacking in wisdom, the golden giant tortoise only asked a few questions before engaging in Fortune War and relentless fighting, without answering any of Zhang Xuezhou's questions.

"What a pity!"

From the earth-shattering blow to the large-scale killing of the dragonfish, then to the complete eradication, then to the constant waving of its limbs and rampages, and finally to the point where it could only kill the dragonfish by biting, the golden tortoise of fortune that Xuanming had deployed was collapsing at an extremely rapid pace, almost at a speed visible to Zhang Xuezhou.

Normally, when a cultivator's life force is Wuyou by a sacrifice, the collapse of that Fortune Body will plunge the person into a period of low fortune, followed by a series of misfortunes until death. This is the ultimate effect of a sacrifice.

"The reason why Grien did not suffer a backlash is probably due to the lack of Fortune Body. After the sacrificial ceremony collapsed, it was quickly replenished, so it did not need to regenerate a Fortune Body, thus allowing it to continue to be harvested like leeks!"

Zhang Xuezhou even had ample time to refer to Xuanming's state during the repositioning and comparison with Grien and others.

"Thank you for the concession!"

The trapped beast eventually became a dead beast. The golden giant tortoise's body disintegrated into specks of golden light, and Xuanming's heart-wrenching wail echoed through the dark void.

"Impossible!"

The golden light of fortune dissipated, the dragonfish remained a dragonfish, but the golden giant tortoise had vanished.

The colossal tortoise-like form of Xuanming wandered in the distant, dark void, finding it hard to believe the result of being crushed.

"You ran into a wall because you're not as skilled as others!"

Meng Zhang's voice chimed in briefly, then quickly faded away, as if he had no desire to get involved in the matter at all.

"I've invested four Qi Luck Beads and constructed a Qi Body in my own form. Logically, I should be able to dominate all directions, and since my Qi Body is surrounded by Xuan Qi, it should be indestructible!"

"What a pity!"

Xuanming roared, unable to understand why he had lost, and Zhang Xuezhou also felt a pang of regret.

The situation of Xuanming being trapped is one possibility. As long as Xuanming can recover his losses, Zhang Xuezhou can ask him for answers and also stop the sacrificial process.

However, the situation is different when Xuanming is no longer restrained after his body is destroyed. Zhang Xuezhou cannot tell him the reason for his defeat, so as not to be implicated in the future.

Given Xuanming's current behavior, the opponent has most likely lost control in the higher-dimensional world and can only wait for the dust to settle before making contact again. It is highly probable that they are completely unaware of the battle situation.

"It's just four Luck Beads. If you can offer me something in return, I can sacrifice four Luck Beads to make up for the loss!"

Zhang Xuezhou swayed his dragon-fish body and looked at Xuanming, whose figure was getting farther and farther away in the distance. He took the initiative to make peace and try his best to avoid future entanglements.

"You and Huang Dao conspired against me, and I can't do anything to you. Huang Dao is no match for you, so I will definitely retaliate. Moreover, I can tell you that the source of Huang Dao's fortune is hidden in a treasure. As long as you break that treasure, you will obtain the fortune that Huang Dao has accumulated over the years!"

Xuanming clearly wanted Zhang Xuezhou and Huang Daoxian to fight each other.

Having suffered a loss with him, Xuanming didn't hesitate to sell Huang Daoxian out again.

Seeing a jade ruler faintly emerging on the Xuanming tortoise shell, Zhang Xuezhou remembered a treasure that had been sealed away.