74: Chapter 74 I wasn't just fooling you, was I?

"Is this bastard camping me?"

Ye Xiu looked at the Deity Obsession not far away, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

He wanted to retreat back into the Nine Realms Tower.

But after taking a single step back, he immediately pulled his foot back.

If he were to re-enter the Nine Realms Tower now, what he would face would absolutely no longer be the [Shengui Realm].

It would be the Yuxu Flawless Great Perfection, the [Godly Azure Realm]!

This wasn't just a matter of winning one match. He would have to keep winning until he broke through to the [Tongtian Realm] to be able to come out alive again...

Just thinking about it felt ridiculous.

He was only at the first grade of the [Void Imperial Realm]. Even if the [Zhu Xian Style] and [Heavenly Emperor Fist] could allow him to fight a few matches, as the number of gatekeepers increased...

He would sooner or later encounter the imprints of supreme experts.

Retreating was a dead end.

This headless Deity Obsession before him hadn't killed him instantly, so there must still be a way to survive.

Drip...

The cold sweat on his forehead dripped onto the walkway.

The crisp sound felt as if it had struck his heart.

Watching the Deity Obsession that still hadn't made any move, Ye Xiu restrained all his aura, acting like an ordinary person, and began to walk forward slowly.

The path down the mountain was somewhat long.

The Deity Obsession was blocking the middle of the stairs outside the Nine Realms Tower. To get down the mountain, he would definitely have to brush past it.

Creak...

The heavy doors of the Nine Realms Tower slowly closed.

All of Ye Xiu's attention was focused on the Deity Obsession; he ignored the commotion behind him and continued walking forward with a calm expression.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

He could feign indifference on his face, but he couldn't hide the anxiety in his heart from himself.

As he took his steps, the distance between the two grew closer and closer.

Three meters... two meters... one meter... brushing past...

Nothing unusual happened.

Ye Xiu didn't dare stop his steps and continued walking forward.

He hadn't completely left the Deity Obsession's range yet; an unexpected change could happen at any moment.

A gentle breeze brushed his face. The path down the mountain was now right before his eyes.

He didn't dare turn back to see if the Deity Obsession was still in place. His feet subconsciously sped up a little.

Tap, tap, tap...

The path down the mountain grew closer, and just as Ye Xiu was about to leave the summit...

With a 'snap', his shoulder was pressed by an icy cold palm.

An indescribable sense of crisis instantly welled up in his heart.

A hoarse voice echoed across the summit from behind him.

"The aura... of [Martial]..."

With the utterance of those words, a terrifying pressure rushed towards him.

It made Ye Xiu dare not turn back easily, his mind racing to think of a countermeasure.

The Deity Obsession behind him had only emerged from its muddled state and regained a trace of humanity because of [Martial]'s words. It was clearly an expert from the same era as [Martial].

It had lived in the early Primordial era.

It wanted to rely on the River of Time to return to the Primordial era.

[Martial] had said back then that the Eastern Emperor was dead and told it not to harbor obsessions.

From this, it could be inferred that the one who killed the Deity Obsession behind him was likely that deceased Eastern Emperor.

And the reason [Martial] wanted to come down from the River of Time was mainly because the Deity Obsession had said the words 'The Tian Clan must be destroyed' at that time.

That Tian Clan must be their common enemy.

If not for the Human Emperor blocking it back then, [Martial] might have really been able to guide this Deity Obsession back.

Given the current situation, his only chance to survive was to borrow [Martial]'s name.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu spoke up: "The Tian Clan is too strong; [Martial] was defeated."

As the words fell, a terrifying aura rose up behind him. Although it wasn't directed at him, it still crushed Ye Xiu's bones, causing them to crack inch by inch.

Just as he was about to be crushed to death by the aura, a ray of rosy light suddenly rose from his Bloodline, illuminating the summit of the divine mountain.

Whoosh.

The terrifying aura behind him suddenly vanished.

The hoarse voice continued to sound: "Even... [Martial]... was defeated..."

Ye Xiu's Physical Body was recovering rapidly.

He didn't rush to answer, but after thinking for a moment, he replied: "Tian... is too strong."

The Deity Obsession was silently silent for a long time.

Finally, it left behind one sentence: "The Tian... Clan... must be destroyed."

Subsequently, the mist shrouding the divine mountain quickly disappeared.

The Deity Obsession turned into a streak of light, breaking through the clouds and heading straight into the Grandmist universe.

It was gone. It had left this Main World.

In Ye Xiu's pupils, a silver-white light flickered. His vision was pushed to its limit.

He could only see the back of the Deity Obsession as it disappeared into the endless void.

"Where did it go?"

Ye Xiu frowned deeply. Then, he shook his head slightly, not overthinking it too much.

He shouldn't be considered to have conned it this time, right...

He looked up, greeting the sunlight shining on the earth, took a look at the dark red earth after the mist had dispersed, and sighed in his heart.

Even though this Deity Obsession was unconscious, it still gave rise to much ominousness.

Fortunately, it was gone now.

This place was no longer a forbidden zone for living beings; in the future, he wouldn't need to consider too much if he wanted to come to the Nine Realms Tower.

Feeling the injuries on his body, although his broken body was self-repairing, the speed was still too slow.

No longer focusing on the changes in the divine mountain area, Ye Xiu sat cross-legged directly on the summit, absorbing Spiritual Qi, and began to repair his severely damaged body.

As the [Heavenly Emperor Sutra] circulated, Spiritual Qi rioted. All Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius was rapidly absorbed.

Ye Xiu's injuries were repairing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Besides strengthening the Physical Body, the [Heavenly Emperor Sutra] also achieved the ultimate in terms of improving cultivation, repairing injuries, and breaking Bloodline shackles.

It was more than a dimension stronger than the [Primordial Martial Arts General Outline] from his Bloodline Awakening.

There was absolutely no comparison.

Perhaps the final Cultivation Technique of the Taichu Martial Venerable could compare. But a Cultivation Technique of that level shouldn't be preserved in the Bloodline.

Three minutes later. All injuries were completely repaired.

Ye Xiu then slowly stood up and flew towards the direction of Tianfu City.

A streak of light streaked across the sky. With the strengthening of his Physical Body, his speed had also increased significantly.

The distance of millions of miles. It only took him half an hour to return to the border area of Tianfu City.

...

Xingluo Mountain. Xing Mu still hadn't returned.

There were still five months left until the invitation from the Nine Heavens Taoist Sect.

Ye Xiu sat directly cross-legged in the Spirit Gathering Array and began to Cultivate in seclusion. His current Realm was only at the first grade of the [Void Imperial Realm], although his strength was terrifyingly strong.

After using the [God-Slaying Style] blade aura, his attack intensity reached a magnitude of ten million.

Such an attack, as long as he didn't encounter rules that were too unsolvable, was basically a one-hit kill.

If combined with the [Martial Domain], he was invincible among those of the same Realm.

With the assistance of the [Heavenly Emperor Sutra], Ye Xiu's cultivation speed was extremely fast. In the Spirit Gathering Array, he was proceeding with an absorption speed almost like a whale swallowing water.

This Spirit Gathering Array, built with countless resources, couldn't quite handle Ye Xiu's absorption speed.

The hundred-mile border war zone. Spiritual Qi was rioting, all frantically surging towards Xingluo Mountain.

Councilor Li Shan shook his head helplessly and began to prepare to improve the quality of the Spirit Gathering Array for Ye Xiu; otherwise, the other soldiers in this border war zone wouldn't be able to Cultivate at all.

Cultivation knows no time. When Ye Xiu broke through to the second grade of the [Void Imperial Realm], it was already three months later.

His strength increased tremendously. His Physical Body strength directly doubled, reaching a staggering 4 million.

The power of rules also increased significantly. The range of the [Martial Domain] had reached two thousand meters, and its lockdown power was becoming even stronger.

If one were to make a comparison, the million-strength of an ordinary divine body was indeed a bit lackluster compared to the rules.

Even with the amplification of martial techniques, an attack intensity of a few million could only bully Cultivators with weak rules.

If he encountered strong experts, the Physical Body strength of a divine body was too weak for opponents of the same level.

What was strong about them was their own Bloodline rules.