612: Kill with one sword

Looking at the planet that had originally served as a giant altar, now reduced to space debris like meteorites, Xiao Jin instantly understood the purpose of those rookies intercepting him.

"Cannon fodder to buy time?"

Xiao Jin couldn't help but frown slightly, then immediately sneered, "Hmph, do they really think this will stop me?"

A sharp gleam shot from his eyes, and an immensely powerful force of Space Laws instantly spread out, enveloping all the fragments of the planet.

Relying on his powerful Mental Energy, he forcibly reconstructed the appearance of the altar in his mind, and then began to aggregate those fragments piece by piece, as if assembling a large, scattered jigsaw puzzle.

As time passed, finally, the last piece of the puzzle was placed in its designated spot, and a battered, crack-filled planet appeared before him. The entire planet was carved from a strange stone, with runes engraved on the exterior. Although it wasn't perfectly assembled, it should be enough to activate the Formation. However, while activating the Formation, he also had to control the force of the Space Laws to maintain the current state of the planet.

It sounded simple, but operating it was harder than ascending to heaven. He divided his attention, pouring his Mental Energy into the shattered planet.

Suddenly, a burst of bright light erupted from the planet. The entire stone planet instantly turned into translucent crystal, and then, like a mirror, images appeared on it.

"Master... it's me... Xiao Jin..."

Xiao Jin tried hard to speak, but a voice came from the other side: "Is that you, Xiao Jin? Why is the signal on your end so bad? There's so much static I can't hear clearly, and the image is all broken up..."

Xiao Jin couldn't help but smile bitterly; he didn't want it to be this way either, but he had fallen into the enemy's trap.

However, he had managed to make contact after all. Even though the other party might not hear him clearly, he still had to try his best to inform the New Saint about the Pseudo-Saint Legion's plans in detail.

Xiao Jin gathered his thoughts and immediately said: "We have discovered a major secret. The Pseudo-Saint Legion intends to use the New Universe as a springboard to launch a sneak attack on the Original Universe from here..."

He tried his best to pick the key points, raising his volume to transmit his words, but unexpectedly, the other side still couldn't hear him clearly.

"Hello, Xiao Jin, what did you say? What about the Pseudo-Saint Legion? I'm guarding here, they can't cause any major trouble. By the way, how is Tang Sanzang doing? Has he made contact with Ge Gang yet?"

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"I'm saying, the Pseudo-Saint Legion has other plans. They might not attack from the Original Universe anymore, they will..."

Xiao Jin was halfway through his sentence when a sudden warning sign arose in his heart. He turned around abruptly, only to see a cyan light sweeping horizontally in this direction.

The light didn't look big at first, but very quickly, as the cyan light approached, it suddenly became longer than the diameter of the sun, slashing across Xiao Jin's body at the waist.

Xiao Jin's pupils shrank suddenly, because he was all too familiar with this cyan light, and it was moving way too fast...

"Qing... Qingping Sword... It's you!"

Swish! Boom!

Xiao Jin's body was instantly severed at the waist, the cut as smooth as a mirror. Given his body's durability, it was unbelievable that he couldn't block this sword light at all!

The giant planet collapsed again without control, scattering everywhere, and their communication came to an abrupt end.

"The dignified... Saint Hongjun, would actually... resort to a sneak attack?"

Golden blood gushed from Xiao Jin's huge mouth and nose. His severed body showed absolutely no signs of struggling because the power contained within the sword light had completely suppressed his body.

"As the first intelligent lifeform crafted by Tang Ao, to be struck by the Qingping Sword and not die, you are truly one of a kind!"

A phantom figure wearing cyan robes appeared before Xiao Jin and said with a faint smile, "You should be proud!"

Swish! A dozen cyan rays of light suddenly flashed. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Jin's body was decomposed into countless chunks of flesh. Immediately after, a black vortex appeared in the Void Realm, sucking all these golden chunks of flesh into it, and the cyan figure also disappeared without a trace in that instant.

"So that's how it is..."

In the Original Universe, the New Saint, facing the Void Realm ahead, said with a serious expression, "Well played, Hongjun, to actually dare to use such methods to sneak attack my friend... It seems I was too merciful to you back then; I should have killed you on the spot!"

"Hehe, you can't kill me, you will never be able to kill me, just as you couldn't save your servant Xiao Jin!"

In the Void Realm, a ghost-like face appeared before Tang Ku.

"Hehe, stop flattering yourself. If it weren't for Xiao Jin struggling to control that altar planet just to communicate with me, you would never have been able to kill him!"

The New Saint sneered disdainfully, "Rest assured, if you ever truly manage to escape, I will personally tear you into ten thousand pieces!"

"If you can do it, just try. I'm not fear-mongering; I will return very soon, bringing the Pseudo-Saint Legion to completely destroy the entire Original Universe. You can just wait to be slaughtered then, to avoid suffering more!"

The ghostly phantom slowly disappeared. The New Saint finally breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately after, his expression darkened even more.

"This guy has regained his composure and has become completely indifferent to my sarcasm and mockery... This kind of Hongjun is the most terrifying; it's possible he really is going to return..."

The New Saint said in a deep voice.

"So what if he returns!"

A guy wearing Daoist robes, holding a wine gourd, was leaning crookedly against a nearby meteorite, drinking. "Once order emerges, he won't even have a chance to turn things around! As for the Pseudo-Saint Legion... Hehe, do you really think we are all pushovers?"

"It's not that simple!"

The New Saint said, "Their strategy is simple, but very effective. Even if my power is strong, I cannot be in two places at once. If I were to send a Clone to another world, I would only be on the receiving end of a beating over there because the Laws between the two Universes actually have certain differences, and I wouldn't be able to exert my full strength there... Hehe, as expected of the rational Hongjun; he is truly very, very difficult to deal with!"

"That's why you need to increase your efforts in training Tang Sanzang!"

The Daoist said helplessly, "By the way, are you really not going to care about whether Xiao Jin lives or dies?"

The New Saint curled his lips and suddenly smiled, "You are underestimating the first lifeform born in my Sea of Consciousness Universe..."

As soon as he finished speaking, at the place where Xiao Jin had disappeared in the New Universe, a speck of golden light suddenly transformed into a golden egg, floating in the Universe, beginning to absorb a large amount of radiation, until a crack appeared on its surface.