572: Chapter 572 Entrapment, One Sword Cuts Through

The auction ended successfully, and the noise dissipated.

The door of the Heaven Grade Private Box No. 1 was gently pushed open.

Jiang Shuheng's steps were extremely light; he was the great building lord who called the shots in the Tianshu Star Sector.

Holding a dark-gold bearer immortal crystal card with both hands, he respectfully presented it to the table.

“Pre... Fellow Daoist.”

The angle of Jiang Shuheng's bent back was very deliberate, revealing his awe for the unknown powerhouse.

“After calculation and deducting the payment for the primordial immortal crystal fragment and the related processing fees, this is the remaining balance of forty-two billion immortal crystals. Please check it.”

Shen Yuanmo raised his hand and swept the immortal crystal card, along with the primordial immortal crystal fragment that drove the outside world crazy, into the Chaos Dao Palace.

Buying a primordial immortal crystal fragment for twenty billion and exchanging Medicinal Pills refined from several piles of discarded herbs for over sixty billion—this deal was extremely profitable.

Jiang Shuheng did not excuse himself; after a half-second pause...

...he lowered his voice and spoke another piece of news in a volume only the two of them could hear.

“Fellow Daoist, Envoy Mu of the Ancient God Abyss just sent a message to mobilize three high-grade warships outside the Tianshu Star Gate.”

“They are positioned directly across the exit of the Heaven Grade channel, blocking the only path out.”

The bidding commotion in the first-floor hall was known to everyone present.

Jiang Shuheng's reminder was a subtle way of offering a favor.

Shen Yuanmo dusted his sleeves, his tone flat.

“It doesn't matter; I was just looking for them.”

Jiang Shuheng was repeatedly startled; no matter how he heard it, those words didn't sound like someone going to drink tea and catch up.

Shen Yuanmo stood up and walked straight through the corridor of the private boxes.

The moment he stepped out of the area covered by the Star Plucking Tower's Formation, he no longer concealed his own aura.

That unique rhythmic Law of his.

That specific aura, which had once crossed hundreds of millions of miles in the northwest desolate star domain to slay an Immortal King's Divine Sense and level the Cloud Top Divine Hall, spread directly outward.

Outside the main entrance of the Star Plucking Tower.

Mu Taiyi had just properly put away an exquisite jade box.

The great void source breaking pill, obtained for sixty-two billion immortal crystals, was his greatest achievement on this trip.

As long as he safely delivered this pill back to the Ancient God Abyss, his status within the Ancient God Abyss would surely rise to another level.

Just as he was calculating how to report his great merit to the Immortal King Guyuan...

...a wisp of breeze brushed past from behind.

It was the spiritual wind stirred up by the giant Spirit Gathering Array that operated year-round in Tianshu Star City.

But the trace of Law fluctuations mixed in the wind made all the hair on Mu Taiyi's body stand on end.

There were no Five Elements attributes, no traces of Yin and Yang generating or overcoming each other.

Only overbearingness—an extreme overbearingness that assimilated all things and degraded all existing rules.

Mu Taiyi was too familiar with this aura.

The absolute kill order issued by the Immortal King Guyuan was branded with this very aura.

That madman who caused Chaos across boundaries and dared to provoke the majesty of an Immortal King.

“It's actually you.”

Mu Taiyi stopped in his tracks and clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles popping.

Finding it by chance after searching in vain; he had thought this madman had long ago fled to other Star Domains.

Who would have expected him to brazenly come to Tianshu Star City to attend an auction.

A stroke of luck like picking up such a massive merit for free wouldn't happen once in hundreds of millions of years.

He flipped his hand and took out a crimson transmission Jade Slip, imprinting a wisp of his Divine Sense into it.

“Immortal King above, your subordinate has locked onto the true form of the cross-domain madman. I will surely capture him alive and bring him back to the God Abyss for sentencing!”

The Jade Slip was crushed, turning into an unstoppable line of Karma that shuttled through the Void Realm and disappeared into the distance.

After finishing the transmission, Mu Taiyi turned to scan the four Perfected True Immortal guards beside him, suppressing his emotions as he gave orders.

“Lock onto that departing gray flying boat. Don't alert the enemy; wait until we are out of the Star Gate's Formation range to strike.”

The Chaos Dao Palace blended into the departing merchant caravan, slowly sailing out of the Tianshu Star Gate.

The channels outside the Star Gate crisscrossed.

The flying boat did not enter the wide main channel leading to other large, prosperous star sectors, but instead made a sharp turn.

It plunged straight into a vast area of unexplored unmanned star sea on the star map.

This place was often swept by Void Realm undercurrents and the Laws were extremely chaotic; it had always been the favorite natural burial ground for interstellar bandits and outlaws.

The ship spirit made an announcement in Shen Yuanmo's Sea of Consciousness.

“My Lord, thirty-eight thousand miles behind us, warships belonging to the Ancient God Abyss's fleet are closing the distance.”

Shen Yuanmo stood before the control console and replied with only two words: “Let them.”

The distance between the two sides grew shorter and shorter.

After the flying boat completely left the limit of the Tianshu Star City's Formation monitoring range...

...Mu Taiyi no longer hid his tracks.

The three warships moved in a triangular Formation to surround them at full speed.

These warships, crafted from rare Immortal Gold, were each equipped with high-grade arrays capable of easily piercing through celestial bodies.

“Deploy the Ancient Abyss Heaven Locking Formation!”

Mu Taiyi's voice spread in all directions through the warship's voice-amplification Formation.

Five Perfected True Immortals appeared simultaneously in the Void Realm.

They occupied the five positions of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth respectively, forming hand seals and launching hundreds of dark-gold rule runes.

The entire unmanned star sea with its chaotic Laws was forcibly stripped of its spatial fluidity at this moment.

The Void Realm within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles turned into a solid block of iron.

Dark-gold rule chains wove into a net, tightly pinning the lonely gray flying boat in the center.

This Ancient Abyss Heaven Locking Formation was enough to trap any Half-Step Immortal King existence.

Mu Taiyi stepped through the air and stopped ten zhang in front of the flying boat.

He looked down, scrutinizing this prey with nowhere to run.

“Daring to provoke the Ancient God Abyss—today I shall take your head back to the Abyss to report!”

Mu Taiyi sneered repeatedly, his voice penetrating the ship's defenses into the interior.

“Withdraw the Formation yourself and crawl out to be bound, and I will leave your corpse intact.”

These heroic words echoed in the empty and silent star sea.

The hatch of the gray boat slid open silently.

Shen Yuanmo stepped into the Void Realm.

He didn't look at the massive Formation net blotting out the sky overhead, nor did he pay attention to the four guards standing ready around him.

His gaze only fell on the inner side of Mu Taiyi's chest, where the great void source breaking pill just purchased at the auction was kept.

“Thank you for bringing the pill back to me.”

Shen Yuanmo spoke plainly, without any awareness of being surrounded, sounding instead like he was stating a matter-of-fact triviality.

Mu Taiyi was stunned, his train of thought lagging for half a beat.

Bring back the pill?

What did that mean?

That great void source breaking pill was something he spent sixty-two billion to bid for.

How did it become 'brought back' in this person's mouth?

Shen Yuanmo raised his right hand.

The great evolution immortal slaying sword fell into his palm; there were no complicated opening stances, no sky-filling magnificent Immortal Essence clashes.

First Grade Immortal Dao Profundity, Chaos Return to Origin.

A chaos dao fetus dharma idol tens of thousands of zhang tall rose directly behind Shen Yuanmo.

Those dark-gold chains of the Ancient Abyss Heaven Locking Formation, claimed to be indestructible, the moment they touched the Chaos aura...

...were like snow meeting a blazing sun; without even room to struggle, they directly turned into pure primordial Spiritual Qi and dissipated.

The proud encirclement array was forcibly burst open.

The five people suffered Formation backlash simultaneously, all vomiting blood.

“Take one strike of my Dao Slash.”

Shen Yuanmo's wrist turned, and the sword edge swept through the Void Realm.

The crack leading to nothingness on the great evolution immortal slaying sword fully opened.

Dao Slash.

The sword light had no color and no shape.

It ignored the obstruction of space, bypassed the Magic Treasures of the Perfected True Immortals, and slashed directly at the five of them.

The suppressive power of Chaos Return to Origin was displayed to the fullest in this single strike.

Mu Taiyi wanted to retreat but found himself locked dead; the path of retreat behind him had been assimilated into an uncrossable barrier.

Five Perfected True Immortals just watched helplessly as that indescribable sword mark split down upon them.