74: Chapter 73 A Changed Fate!!

Sun Po was in no rush to leap into this bottomless abyss.

Without intelligence, doing so was no different from seeking death.

He knew full well that his current invincibility in the Duel Secret Realm was merely thanks to the almost endless disaster aura in this bizarre environment.

If he jumped straight into this bottomless abyss? Setting aside whether he would be killed by the fall,

even if he survived the drop, things likely wouldn't end well for him.

After all, these [Mutated Deep Ones] were still continuously crawling out of the abyss.

By now, Sun Po was completely certain: these [Mutated Deep Ones] were fleeing.

As they crawled out from the pitch-black abyss, they were dripping with blood,

and although their wounds healed rapidly, they still looked utterly miserable.

This indicated that something terrifying was likely hidden beneath the abyss.

Besides, this was, after all, Li Tang Wanbang University's Duel Secret Realm, and Li Tiance was certainly far more familiar with this place than he was.

He could wait until Li Tiance returned at three quarters past noon, gather some information, and then explore further.

As for right now?

Watching the [Mutated Deep Ones] continually crawling out of the abyss, Sun Po curled his lips,

and the familiar blue blade light rose once more in the secret realm:

"[Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros Horn Slash]!!"

...

Meanwhile, in an antique courtyard mansion.

A young man draped in red and purple sat by the pond, lazily casting fish bait.

A skinny young Black man lay silently on the ground, bearing the young man's weight.

If Sun Po were here, he would recognize him.

This was the very same young man Sun Po had seen at the docks when he first arrived in Jinyang City, leading a few Kunlun Slaves.

Suddenly, the young man stood up abruptly.

Stumbling, the skinny Black man leaned to one side, knocking over the fish basket beside them.

Instantly, water splashed across the ground, and fish flopped wildly by the pond, sending up splashes of water.

Terrified, the skinny Black man collapsed to the ground, trembling uncontrollably, babbling incomprehensible words.

The young man gently patted the emaciated Black man's shoulder to calm him down, smiling with an unbothered expression:

Leaning against the veranda and supporting himself on his right hand, he quietly looked out over the water and asked,

"Mr. Black, the entire Li family knows that I am cruel by nature and love to torture and kill your kin.

Yet you still dared to align with my Prince Qi's Mansion? Shouldn't the Eastern Palace or Prince Qin's Mansion be far better choices than my place?"

Unsurprisingly, this young man was the third son of the Li Family—Prince Qi, Li Yuanji!!

Behind Li Yuanji, a tall, slender Black man with golden pupils wearing a fine black suit replied with an equally gentle smile:

"The ultimate truth is always contained within error, and all answers can only reveal themselves in chaos.

What I see is that only Your Highness Prince Qi possesses the destiny to embrace that ultimate truth. You are the chosen origin, and the fated end."

Li Yuanji lowered his head, his hands trembling as he rested them on the skinny Black man's shoulders, as if struggling to endure something.

Suddenly, he exerted force with both hands and yanked violently upward,

tearing the skinny young Black man's skin clean off in a bloody mess.

The skinny young Black man didn't even understand what had happened,

but suddenly saw his own body transformed into a gory mush and opened his mouth to scream in agony.

After all, when a person is flayed, they don't die instantly.

But the young Black man felt his body weakening at an incredible speed, lacking even the strength to utter a sound.

Within just a few seconds, the young Black man died without a sound.

Even his flesh, blood, and bones quickly transformed into a surge of bloody mist that seeped into the skin pouch.

Holding the human skin—as thin as a cicada's wing and resembling black pearls under the sun—Li Yuanji's expression gradually turned cold.

Then, he tossed the human skin straight into the pond and said,

"Mr. Black, although I don't know where your real body is, if you spew any more incomprehensible bullshit,

I swear I will strip off your skin and throw it into a cesspool to soak completely!!"

Mr. Black blinked his golden eyes, looking pleasantly surprised:

"Is that so? Thank you, Prince Qi. What a delightful, delightfully filthy blessing!"

Suddenly, Mr. Black uttered a soft exclamation of surprise:

"Hmm? The established thread of fate has broken? How can this be?"

...

Meanwhile, at the main gate of Li Tang University.

The battle was drawing to a close, and everyone had gained a clear understanding of how terrifying Li Tiance was at full combat power.

Even Liu Jianren and Xu Xiu had to admit it.

Li Tiance possessed power far exceeding all of theirs; perhaps Sun Po had a slight chance of exchanging blows with him.

As for the rest, including Guan Zhen who also possessed a Domain, they likely couldn't last even a single round against him.

Ever since Li Tiance expanded his [Xuanwu Gate] secret realm, the rebelling foreign teachers had lost any possibility of victory.

Even with the Domain skill already revealed—duplicating one's own card while restricting enemies within the Domain to using only a single card.

Even if there were eight hundred rebelling foreign teachers inside the [Xuanwu Gate] Domain, their card count would only equal Li Tiance's alone.

What's more, the card Li Tiance duplicated was the [true name card] named [Yuchi Yigde].

Even in a duel, aside from the Western [Black Dragon] and the [Behemoth] barely being able to contend with seventy or eighty [Yuchi Yigde]s,

the other foreign teachers could at most contend with a dozen or so, and some could at best hold out against two or three.

Mind you, as foreign teachers of Li Tang Wanbang University, their Card Maker ranks were at least High-tier Card Maker, and each possessed at least one orange card.

Yet even so, the rebellion of over a hundred foreign teachers couldn't break through Li Tiance's [Xuanwu Gate].

Coupled with the assistance from Liu Jianren, Xu Xiu, Bai Yu, and the others,

in the end, Li Tiance shot an arrow that pierced through the grindstone-sized head of the [Behemoth].

Meanwhile, Liu Jianren's [Red Flood Dragon] tightly coiled around the dying Western [Black Dragon], strangling it to death.

With that, the rebelling foreign teacher forces at the main school gate were entirely wiped out.

Li Tiance stowed his golden bow and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Yuan Tiangang asked with a smile:

"These foreign teachers were already walking corpses, leaving behind only cards and empty shells with less than a tenth of their skill intact.

You could have handled them yourself, so why bother calling these outsiders and handing out benefits for nothing?"

Li Tiance's eyes shone brightly as he said:

"If you want to win over geniuses, you always have to invest some capital first."

Suddenly, Li Tiance's expression changed drastically.

Seeing this, Yuan Tiangang asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Tiance looked in the direction of the Duel Secret Realm and said:

"The established fate point has disappeared. My target is gone."

...

Meanwhile, Sun Po had swung his blade to the point of numbness.

He felt that the blade in his hand shouldn't be called [moon-gazing rhinoceros horn blade], but rather the Rhinoceros Horn Sword.

And these [Mutated Deep Ones] shouldn't be called [Mutated Deep Ones], but rather Albinauric Runes.

Isn't this literally an otherworldly version of Mohg's Palace?

However, just as Sun Po was swinging his blade to the point of shoulder strain, dismantling materials until his hands cramped, his heart brimming with the joy of harvest,

suddenly, a terrifying aura emanated from beneath the abyss.

...