161: conflict

These people seemed numerous, but compared to the vast Cultivation World, they were very few, not even one in a hundred million.

This was actually quite normal.

After all, according to Tang Fu’s account, not all Cultivation Planets were powerful; many planets only had Nascent Soul Cultivators or even Golden Core Cultivators at their highest level.

At the same time, not all planets were suitable for Cultivation.

This led to not many forces being qualified to come to Tianyuan.

Not to mention, even if one could come to Tianyuan, they still had to pass the Black Mist hurdle.

After all, the terror of this Black Mist was such that even Tang Fu, a Golden Core Peak Cultivator, couldn't endure it for long, let alone now that the Secret Realm and Tianyuan had merged, with Nether Qi and Black Mist intertwined.

Now, without holding a heavy treasure, even a Nascent Soul Cultivator would probably not last long.

Of course, there was another reason for such a sparse number of people.

This place was Tianyuan, the boundary between life and death, connected to the Nine Nether, not a place one could just come to.

Once the number of people became too large and attracted the attention of the Abyss, there would truly be no chance of even entering Reincarnation.

Besides this, there were other reasons, which will not be elaborated on here…

“Brother Li, should we go over?” Deng Qi asked from the side, seeing people appearing one after another.

Li Xiangyun scanned his surroundings, then nodded and said, “Let’s go!”

There was no point in continuing to watch now; with the current scale of Cultivators, no matter how strong the Bone-Eating Chi was, it definitely couldn’t be stopped.

On the contrary, continuing to watch the tigers fight from the mountain would easily make them targets.

As for the enmity between Tang Fu and Zhao Tian and others, under these circumstances, Zhao Tian and the others should not dare to act rashly.

On the battlefield, Zhao Tian’s face turned green watching this scene, gritting his teeth in anger.

Although he knew there were people hiding around, watching the tigers fight from the mountain, he hadn’t expected there to be so many!

The most crucial thing was that so many people only appeared when he was about to give up.

With the addition of numerous Cultivators, the powerful Bone-Eating Chi finally fell to the ground powerlessly, its soul entering the Nine Nether, after an unwilling roar.

“Tang Fu, you’re not dead!” In the crowd, Tang Li, who noticed Li Xiangyun and the two others, covered her mouth and let out a gasp of surprise.

Hearing this, Zhao Tian also looked at Li Xiangyun and the two others, a dangerous aura in his eyes.

Especially through the glow of the nether soul guiding lamp, he also discovered that Li Xiangyun and the two others were the first light that appeared.

This ignited his killing intent, and he transferred all his resentment towards everyone onto Li Xiangyun and his companions.

“Hmph, Tang Li. Even if you die, I won’t.”

“Colluding with outsiders to harm me, when I return to Xuanwu Star, I will definitely expose your evil deeds to the Old Ancestor.”

Hearing this, Tang Li’s face instantly turned ugly, and a hint of fear emerged in her eyes.

Thus, flustered, she quickly looked towards Zhao Tian.

Zhao Tian snorted coldly, a disdainful smile curling at the corner of his mouth, then he said sinisterly, “Go back? You’ll have to be able to go back first!”

In fact, Tang Li initially did not want to harm Tang Fu; it was Zhao Tian who coveted the Tang family’s “Heavenly Observation Compass,” and so he incited Tang Li to harm Tang Fu and contend for the position of Clan Chief.

Therefore, if Tang Fu returned to Xuanwu Star, he, as the mastermind, would also not have a good end.

This commotion was quickly noticed by the surrounding Cultivators, and many turned their heads, showing curiosity and scrutiny.

“You can try!” In response to Zhao Tian’s threat, Li Xiangyun stepped forward directly, fulfilling his responsibility as the leader.

“Just you!” Zhao Tian sized up Li Xiangyun, seeing that he was merely a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator, and immediately said with disdain.

Tang Li even mocked from the side, “Tang Fu, you’ve really gone downhill.”

“Now you actually rely on a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator to protect you!?”

In response, before Li Xiangyun could speak, someone rushed out from the crowd and shouted, “Kid, how dare you speak to Brother Zhao like that, I think you’re looking for death!”

With that, he threw a punch at him.

In the blink of an eye, it reached three inches before his brow.

“Looking for death!?”

However, Li Xiangyun did not move his feet an inch, only slowly raising his eyes.

In an instant, deep within his pupils, black and white sword shadows seemed to intertwine and swirl, with the vigorous vitality of life and the Kill of death wildly circulating within them, condensing into an invisible yet extremely sharp Sword Intent.

This gaze seemed to encompass the creation and destruction of heaven and earth, the Reincarnation of Yin and Yang.

The man’s fist froze in mid-air, the ferocity on his face solidifying into extreme terror.

He didn’t even let out a scream; the vitality and True Qi within his body were annihilated inch by inch under that invisible Sword Intent, like a candle flame swept by a strong wind, extinguished instantly.

“Thud.”

Accompanied by a dull sound, this Golden Core Peak man fell straight to the ground, his eyes wide open, already dead, with no trace of life left in his body, as if he had never lived since birth.

Then, Li Xiangyun slowly withdrew his gaze, the Yin-Yang Life-Death Sword Intent in his eyes quietly receding, as if that earth-shattering gaze had never appeared.

He didn’t even look at the corpse on the ground, merely scanning the dumbfounded crowd around him, leaving only a deathly silence in the air.

“Interesting!”

This scene successfully attracted the attention of certain individuals, including the leaders of various Star Domains.

To instantly kill a Golden Core Peak Cultivator so easily with the body of a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator—this level of strength, even they could not achieve it back then.

This made them involuntarily curious about Li Xiangyun’s identity, as with their discernment, they couldn’t tell which Star Domain Li Xiangyun came from.

“Wang Meng.” Just then, someone in the crowd shouted in grief, then rushed towards him again.

“Again!?” Li Xiangyun raised an eyebrow, but this time it was an Early Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator, which was a bit troublesome. But only just so.

Before he finished speaking, a figure had already swept before him like a streak of light.

“White Tiger Tramples Mountain!”

The man struck fiercely, both fists simultaneously.

In an instant, a white tiger phantom appeared, its maw wide open, fangs bared, charging fiercely towards Li Xiangyun with the terrifying might of shattering mountains and cracking stones.

Where the fist wind passed, the air was torn into visible ripples, the ground cracked with spiderweb-like patterns, and even the light seemed distorted by this vast fist might, as if only this wildly powerful white tiger remained between heaven and earth.

Li Xiangyun’s eyes narrowed, and the Nine Nether Sword Qi within him burst forth suddenly.

He did not block with his sword horizontally, but rather flicked his wrist lightly, the long sword humming, and Sword Qi as black as ink spewed from the tip of the sword.

The Sword Qi was bone-chillingly cold, as if it surged from the Hell of ancient frozen ice; wherever it passed, the air instantly condensed into frost, and even the scorching, fierce Qi emanating from the white tiger phantom was frozen a few degrees.

The Nine Nether Sword Qi did not directly clash with the white tiger’s fist, but rather, like a black swimming Dragon, it snaked and weaved through the gaps in the fist’s momentum, carrying a dead stillness that devoured all vitality, directly piercing towards the white tiger phantom’s glabella.