416: Deep rules

Originally, Xiao Shi's seven clones, who cultivated other era systems, were independent life forms just like his main body. Once they died, it would be a true death, irreversible.

But under the undying and unkillable nature of Xiao Shi's Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao,

these seven clones also gained the same characteristics as his main body.

As long as they didn't die from old age,

they could be resurrected through the Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, Xiao Shi directly chose to send these clones to face the three Demigod Heavenly Kings.

Even if all these clones died,

he could revive them all through the Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao.

Meanwhile, the main body clone Xiao Shi sent out at this time was the normal clone that had always been formed by the martial emperors cloak.

Even without the Behind-the-Scenes Heavenly Dao, it could reform after thirty days.

Previously, Xiao Shi hadn't rushed to send this strongest clone to the domains of the three Demigod Heavenly Kings.

He had been waiting!

He waited for other clones to probe which of the three Demigod Heavenly Kings was easier to deal with, and then send this clone to that opponent's domain.

After all, as the strongest clone,

it had to maximize its value.

Now, it seemed,

Demigod Xing Kui was relatively easier to deal with.

Xiao Shi felt that with the strength of his strongest clone, he might be able to make Demigod Xing Kui use more rules, which would allow him to comprehend more.

At the same time, he also wanted to know,

with the strength of this clone, how much power could he force Demigod Xing Kui to use?

Excluding items,

the combat power of this clone was basically consistent with Xiao Shi's main body.

To some extent,

it was equivalent to Xiao Shi, with his current strength, facing a Demigod Heavenly King!

...Purple Peak Territory.

Swish!

Xiao Shi's clone appeared out of thin air.

It immediately pulled another clone.

"Hurry and go!"

It looked as if it had come to rescue this clone.

However, before it could escape,

the next second,

Demigod Xing Kui's figure appeared directly above the Purple Peak Territory, looking down coldly at the two Xiao Shi clones below.

"Today, none of you will escape!"

Although Demigod Xing Kui still hadn't figured out the true intentions of these Dao Lords from the Fifth Domain this time,

he thought it couldn't be wrong for him to personally eliminate these Dao Lords from the Fifth Domain.

Suddenly,

as the starry sky above emerged,

Demigod Xing Kui, suspended high in the sky like the ruler of this world, raised his hand and pointed at Xiao Shi's two clones from afar.

Endless starlight immediately condensed into a long starlight dragon.

It let out a huge roar,

traversing the void at an astonishing speed, charging and attacking the two Xiao Shi clones in the distance.

Before this,

Xiao Shi's other clones had all been shattered and collapsed under this move of Old Ancestor Xing Kui, completely unable to resist.

Not a single clone could withstand Old Ancestor Xing Kui's attack.

However, at this moment, facing the starlight dragon unleashed by Old Ancestor Xing Kui,

Xiao Shi's clone's eyes surged with an incredibly strong fighting spirit.

Buzz!

In an instant,

black threads suddenly covered and wrapped around its skin, one after another.

These black threads permeated the clone's entire body.

And the moment these black threads appeared,

Demigod Xing Kui in the distance felt a portion of his killing intent drain away, and as it drained, it was continuously absorbed by the black threads on Xiao Shi's body.

This reduction in killing intent directly caused Demigod Xing Kui to feel a reluctance to kill Xiao Shi.

However, with his Demigod cultivation, he immediately suppressed the loss of his killing intent, preventing all of it from completely draining away.

Demigod Xing Kui's eyes narrowed slightly.

"This is... the Dao of Slaughter?"

Although Xiao Shi failed to absorb all of Demigod Xing Kui's killing intent,

he wasn't surprised.

He knew he couldn't easily absorb all of the opponent's killing intent like he did with those Half-Step Dao Lords back then.

Now, with the activation of the Dao of Slaughter,

streams of black evil spirits simultaneously surged out from Xiao Shi's body.

They swirled around his body, moving freely and emitting hoarse, unpleasant screeches.

This dyed Xiao Shi's skin pitch black, and his entire face looked like it was wearing a demonic mask, with greatly altered features, filled with an eerie aura, as if the evil within his personality had been completely unleashed.

Furthermore, a massive Crimson Tiger head materialized in front of Xiao Shi.

This Crimson Tiger head was now also tinged with the black threads from Xiao Shi's body.

As a result, with numerous black threads covering it,

it transformed into a pitch-black tiger head.

A Crimson Tiger roar, seemingly capable of shaking the soul, erupted from the Crimson Tiger head's mouth, causing the surrounding space to ripple like waves.

At the same time, wherever the sound waves passed,

numerous strange phenomena arose out of thin air.

These phenomena, originally belonging to a dream, were now fully manifested.

Boom!!

In an instant,

the combined power of the Four Branches, unleashed by Xiao Shi through the Dao of Slaughter, fiercely collided with Demigod Xing Kui's starlight dragon.

This was also the first time Xiao Shi had fully unleashed the Dao of Slaughter since he took control of it.

When he killed those Half-Step Dao Lords previously, he hadn't used his full power. He had only just begun to use the Dao of Slaughter when those Half-Step Dao Lords had already died tragically.

He didn't even have a chance to apply the Dao of Slaughter to his own powerful techniques and killer moves.

If the Dao of Slaughter was merely activated without powerful techniques and killer moves to complement it, its true power could not be fully unleashed.

Immediately,

the heavens and earth trembled, and the clouds shattered!

After the Dao of Slaughter was applied to the Crimson Tiger head, the entire Crimson Tiger head clearly became more ferocious and brutal than before, permeated with terrifying killing intent.

Amidst the roar, it directly collided fiercely with the Star Dragon, letting out an earth-shshattering boom that echoed throughout the entire Purple Peak Territory!

The sound was so loud that even the other two territories relatively close to the Purple Peak Territory could hear it.

Even with Demigod Xing Kui's protection,

many martial artists in the Purple Peak Territory were deafened, their minds buzzing incessantly, and quite a few even spat out blood on the spot from being unable to withstand it.

The Star Dragon let out a mournful roar; powerful as it was, it now felt vibrations throughout its body and signs that it was about to collapse.

Meanwhile, the Crimson Tiger head unleashed by Xiao Shi had already shattered and exploded, and Xiao Shi's body, too, was repeatedly forced back by the impact of their collision.

However, he merely had blood at the corner of his mouth.

He himself did not suffer any serious injuries.

This scene made even Demigod Xing Kui widen his eyes and exclaim in shock.

"Impossible!!"

No Dao Lord had ever survived his attack.

Even those Dao Lords who previously wielded ancient, high-grade The Mortal Dao,

would have undoubtedly died facing his attack!

But now, this Dao Lord, who wielded the Dao of Slaughter, had actually withstood his attack head-on, and only suffered very minor injuries!

This left Demigod Xing Kui's heart incredibly shocked.

Although a Dao Lord from the Fifth Domain had previously withstood his Star Spear head-on, that Dao Lord had also suffered extremely severe injuries while doing so.

But now this Dao Lord was only lightly injured... "Who exactly are these guys!!"

Demigod Xing Kui had never seen a Dao Lord of such strength in his entire life.

His entire understanding of Dao Lords was completely overturned.

And the stronger these Dao Lords from the Fifth Domain were,

the deeper his doubts became.

Logically speaking,

with the power of these Dao Lords, how could the ruler of the Fifth Domain bear to send them to their deaths?

Any normal person

would surely use these Dao Lords as an important foundation for their own forces.

Yet now, the ruler of the Fifth Domain was sending them to trade their lives?

This made Demigod Xing Kui feel increasingly uneasy.

However, Xiao Shi clearly wouldn't give him time to think at this moment.

"A Demigod is nothing more than this."

He deliberately mocked him to provoke Demigod Xing Kui.

He wasn't worried about the consequences of angering this Demigod.

He was only afraid that the other party would notice something amiss and refuse to fight further.

After all, all his actions this time were aimed at fighting these Demigods.

For this, he didn't hesitate to pretend to be here to seize territory.

He knew very well,

if he immediately challenged a Demigod upon arrival, these Demigods would certainly detect something unusual.

No Dao Lord in the world would think of challenging a Demigod.

It was obvious that there was a problem.

Although his series of actions had now also made the three Demigod Heavenly Kings realize something was amiss,

at least for a while, they wouldn't associate it with him wanting to access the rules of heaven and earth through fighting them.

Of course,

Xiao Shi also knew that this matter would not be hidden from the three Demigod Heavenly Kings for too long.

With their wisdom, they would surely guess some things very soon.

There was only one chance!

Once this chance was missed, it would certainly no longer be easy to fight the three Demigods with Dao Lord clones to comprehend the rules of heaven and earth.

Therefore, when he felt that Demigod Xing Kui was already making some connections,

he immediately spoke mockingly.

And actively launched an attack on Demigod Xing Kui!

Whoosh!

As Xiao Shi raised his hand,

items of weaponry immediately flew out from his body.

Some were battle swords shimmering with golden light, appearing noble and extraordinary.

Others were massive blood axes, surging with blood-red light and filled with a rich, bloody aura.

There were also dark golden long sabers,

and ice-blue long spears emanating a chilling aura... A total of six weapons, all sweeping out together.

The most terrifying thing was that these six weapons were all Saint Grade Saint Weapons!

Each Saint Weapon exuded a powerful and terrifying aura.

These were precisely the powerful Saint Weapons Xiao Shi had forged through the Saint Weapon Forging Furnace.

"It's just a pity that I don't have Dao Lord Level treasures yet, so I can't forge Dao Lord Level Dao Weapons..."

Xiao Shi felt a bit regretful about this.

However, even without Dao Weapons now,

with these six Saint Weapons, he could unleash an even more powerful attack than before.

As these six Saint Weapons appeared,

a massive, pitch-black, deep vortex suddenly formed above Xiao Shi's head. The black clouds within the entire vortex continuously churned, accompanied by flashes of lightning, creating a terrifying spectacle.

Like a heavenly punishment!

And these six Saint Weapons all shot out, rushing towards the vortex above, converging and gathering into the vortex.

Each time a Saint Weapon surged into the vortex,

the entire vortex would expand by a circle.

And after all six Saint Weapons had surged into the vortex,

the entire vortex had already reached an astonishing scale, covering more than half of the sky.

"This is..."

Even Demigod Xing Kui's expression changed after seeing this scene.

At this moment, Xiao Shi's body exuded a sharp and terrifying aura. His gaze directly locked onto Demigod Xing Kui in the distance.

He softly uttered in his heart,

"Thousand Weapon Dao Slash!"

Now that he had become a Dao Lord,

he was already able to unleash the complete Thousand Weapon Dao Slash!

It was no longer the incomplete Thousand Weapon Dao Slash from before.

Boom boom, rumbling!

The vortex above immediately vibrated violently.

And a huge sound, transmitted from within the vortex, caused the heavens and earth to shake wildly.

In an instant,

a scene, both real and illusory, appeared before Demigod Xing Kui's eyes.

A dense mass of weapons emerged in the entire sky. These weapons, suspended high in the air, were like countless eyes, staring intently at Demigod Xing Kui.

The next second,

all these weapons launched a slash towards Demigod Xing Kui.

But this wasn't an ordinary slash.

It was an extremely profound slash.

And the moment these weapons launched their slashes,

all the slashes converged into one, forming a terrifying, earth-shattering single slash!

"A single slash actually contains two different Daos..."

"Interesting..."

Demigod Xing Kui's eyes narrowed slightly.

He was actually stirred by the powerful slash unleashed by Xiao Shi, igniting a fighting spirit within him.

Under normal circumstances, with his strength and cultivation, he would never feel a fighting spirit towards a mere Dao Lord.

Only when facing a strong opponent of equal realm and cultivation would his fighting spirit be aroused.

"I want to see just how far you, a mere Dao Lord, can go!"

Demigod Xing Kui snorted coldly.

The entire starry sky vibrated with a roar.

In the blink of an eye, this starry sky, conjured by Demigod Xing Kui, descended directly from the heavens!

Like the sky collapsing!

As the starry sky fell, from a distance, it resembled a giant compass, pressing down directly on Xiao Shi.

Xiao Shi could clearly feel that

Demigod Xing Kui was clearly getting serious.

The sheer oppressive force of this falling starry sky made his entire body tremble, his body cracking as if about to collapse.

This was an astonishing power that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth.

Another clone beside Xiao Shi could no longer withstand it and directly collapsed and exploded.

At the same time,

Xiao Shi's main body, located in his own domain, suddenly brightened its eyes at this moment.

He sensed a deeper level of the rules of heaven and earth!

This filled his heart with excitement.

He thought that sending his strongest clone to face Demigod Xing Kui was indeed the wisest decision.

Even if the clone was defeated and killed now,

his goal had already been achieved!

He had successfully come into contact with the deep-level rules of heaven and earth.

Immediately, his main body quickly immersed itself in comprehending the deep-level rules of heaven and earth.

Meanwhile, the Thousand Weapon Dao Slash unleashed by the clone, at this moment, also fiercely collided with the starry sky falling from Demigod Xing Kui's side, accompanied by an earth-shattering roar.