Chapter 1182: Chapter 1138: Unmoved and Unyielding
In Meng City, Yue Luo hovered in mid-air, watching Wu Shihuiâs retreating figure before turning around and flying towards the central martial arena of Meng City.
âElder Yue, with the patriarch going alone, is there going to be any danger? Shouldnât we provide some support?â Guan Yicheng flew forward, cupping his fists in respect.
âThe concerns that you can think of, do you think your patriarch hasnât considered them?â Yue Luo looked at Guan Yicheng, then glanced at the few other members of the Wu Meng Clan at the Open Heaven Realm, and began to laugh softly.
âElder Yue, what do you mean?â
Guan Yicheng and a few others were slightly stunned. Had their patriarch already arranged something?
âFollow me.â
...
As Yue Luo spoke, his figure had already flown to the central martial arena in Meng City; a ray of light flew from his sleeve, entering the arena.
The next moment, a magnificent radiance spread all over the martial arena. In the blink of an eye, the entire arena was enveloped by the huge formation.
The formations emanated an astonishing spatial fluctuation. Yue Luo formed hand seals, and rune after rune appeared in the air. The fluctuation of the formations gradually subsided, eventually becoming stable.
âTake your positions. When your patriarch lures the enemy here, we can encircle and kill them.â Several array tools flew out, landing in the hands of Guan Yicheng and the five at the Open Heaven Realm.
âSo Elder Yue and our patriarch already had a plan in place; we were simply short-sighted.â
It was only now that Guan Yicheng and the others came to a sudden realization. No wonder the patriarch left alone in pursuit. The thief thought he was diverting the tiger from the mountain, not knowing that on this side, they were actually laying a trap to catch a turtle in a jar.
When the time came, no matter what tricks the thief had, he would be caught off-guard, directly lured into Meng City. Even if he had the prowess of Three Heads and Six Arms, he would still find it difficult to escape death!
Thousands of miles away from Meng City, Wu Shihui, seeing no ambush around, snorted coldly; his whole aura unfolded, causing the heaven and earth within a thousand miles to pale in comparison.
A cultivator at the mid-stage of the Open Heaven Realm controlled a complete Main Rule in his body, along with other secondary rules. The transformation among the Earth, Water, Fire, Wind rules could make the power of the Open Heaven Realm even more boundless and peerless.
Wu Shihui had broken through to the middle stage of the Open Heaven Realm with the Earth Rules. Moreover, his mastery of the Water Rules was not any less profound; he had already comprehended three secondary Water Rules.
Once he mastered two more secondary Water Rules, and if he could successfully refine the five secondary Water Rules into the Main Rule, Wu Shihui would have a great chance of breaking through to the late stage of the Open Heaven Realm.
By that time, the strength of the entire Wu Meng Clan would expand again. The so-called Xuan Clan would not be a threat at all.
The other Seventh Rank Races only saw the Wu Meng Clan fleeing to the Black Stone Domain, and Wu Shihui was even injured. However, because he was constantly in a severely wounded state, he resonated with certain characteristics of the Water Rules.
This allowed Wu Shihui to rapidly improve his control over the Water Rules during this period.
Previously, when he obtained healing elixirs in the Yuan Clanâs ruins, his injuries healed; still, his comprehension speed did not diminish, and Wu Shihui seemed to have entered a peculiar state of cultivation.
Based on Wu Shihuiâs own estimation, perhaps in less than a hundred years, he would have the opportunity to master the remaining two secondary Water Rules, giving him hope of reaching the late stage of the Open Heaven Realm.
Just when everything was going extremely smoothly, Wu Ze, the descendant he valued the most, died without a trace, followed by the fall of three other Open Heaven Realm cultivators he had sent out.
Wu Shihui stared ahead at Chen Fei, his figure suddenly vanished, and when he reappeared, he was already in front of Chen Fei, the Thousand Layered Blade slashing down from above.
The Earth Rules encompassed all Eight Directions, solid and heavy, as if the entire space was about to solidify. Faced with Wu Shihuiâs blade, a cultivator with a slightly weaker cultivation realm would be crushed by the mere aura alone.
With his first move, Wu Shihui went all out and did not underestimate his opponent simply because he only showed the early stage of the Open Heaven Realm.
Chen Feiâs eyelids twitched slightly, his hands formed seals, and the Open Heaven Realm power within the Source Point Space driven by his physiqueâs Power and Space Rules. Innumerable palm imprints appeared behind Chen Fei, then all fell towards Wu Shihui.
Thousand Realm Seal!
âClang!â
The explosive sound shot up to the clouds. The ground below instantly cracked, countless immense rocks flew up, then completely disintegrated, turning into dust that filled the air.
With a pair of bare hands, directly parrying a mid-grade Open Heaven Profound Treasure, Chen Fei remained unmoved while, in contrast, Wu Shihui could not withstand the Tremendous Strength and involuntarily took a step back.
In terms of physique, the rule body infused with the dual primary Rules of Power and Space had reached the late-stage Open Heaven Realm standard. In pure offensive power, he was even stronger than the usual late-stage Open Heaven Realm physique.
If there was one area where Wu Shihui had an advantage over Chen Fei, it was probably in proficiency; this allowed Wu Shihui to mobilize more of the Heaven and Earth Power to resonate with the rules when he controlled the essence force.
Donât underestimate this, the higher the proficiency in martial arts, the more significant the enhancement of battle strength will be.
Chen Fei, all the way from the Body Tempering to the Open Heaven Realm, often crushed his opponents in terms of proficiency during battles.
Identifying their flaws and targeting their weaknesses, naturally, he was invincible.
Now facing a mid-stage Open Heaven Realm cultivator, Wu Shihui had the upper hand on this aspect.
Moreover, in terms of essence force and soul, Chen Fei was far weaker than Wu Shihui, after all, there was a difference of an entire realm between them. This made for a significant gap in accumulated strength, including missing a transformation due to the mid-stage Open Heaven Realm barrier.
But Chen Fei possessed a foundation that was far too profound, especially the main Power and Space Rules, along with the four secondary rules of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind. The combined power of these, in this direct confrontation, led to a clear outcome.
No matter if your realm is higher, your martial arts mastery stronger, your essence force and soul a level above, in the end, you still fell into a disadvantage.
Chen Fei had anticipated this, but Wu Shihui had never even considered it.
Wu Shihui knew that the strength of the person before him must be extraordinary, or else he wouldnât dare to attempt to use the Stratagem of Sowing Discord, not to mention the fleeting presence of an Open Heaven Realmâs external incarnation within Meng City, all of which indicated this.
Even when he struck with that blade just now, Wu Shihui was still slightly wary of the Open Heaven Realm incarnation, to prevent any possibility of a sneak attack.
Instead of the Open Heaven Realm incarnation appearing, it was Wu Shihui who was pushed back in the face-off. That last strike was without any held back strength.
And in this moment, as Chen Feiâs presence fully unfolded, Wu Shihui discovered that the Open Heaven Realm individual before him was indeed from the human race!
In the Return to Nothing Realm, to judge a cultivatorâs race, appearance is a characteristic, but appearances can change, so it can only serve as an auxiliary criterion.
What really counts is the aura displayed by the cultivator which contains the characteristics of their race, and it is almost impossible to change.
The deaths of Ji Tong and the other two were previously suspected to be related to the human race because Han Yun City of the human race happened to be nearby, and the humanâs Rule Integration Realm was unscathed, thus casting suspicion on them.
But deep down, the Wu Meng Clan did not really think it was related to the human race; they even felt that the human race was just lucky to not have been involved.
As for why the Gong Clan and Hill Clan were still dispatched to capture people from Han Yun City, it had somewhat to do with venting their frustration.
The Wu Meng Clan had lost a peak Rule Integration Realm individual and three Open Heaven Realm figures, while the human race remained unscathedâa situation they refused to accept, insisting on capturing some to interrogate.
This was rude and overbearing, but this attitude had always been the Wu Meng Clanâs stance towards all races in the Black Stone Domain.
Until this moment, upon realizing that the Open Heaven Realm figure before him was truly a human, a burst of unprovoked fury ignited from within Wu Shihuiâs heart.
The feeling was like that of a servant race, which he deemed as his property, suddenly rebelling and even inflicting injury upon him. This incensed Wu Shihui far more than any external Open Heaven Realm individuals who had killed Ji Tong and the others.
âAll of you from the human race must die!â Wu Shihui bellowed, and from within his sleeve, a formation disc suddenly shattered. In the next moment, a formation manifested overhead, enveloping a hundred miles in an instant.
Simultaneously, from the central martial arena of Meng City, a beam of light shot into the sky, intertwining with the formation Wu Shihui had activated miles away.
âActivate!â Yue Luo bellowed, and the formationâs eye in the Universal Array seemingly turned into a black hole, from which an overwhelming suction emerged.
The other five Open Heaven Realm figures of the Wu Meng Clan immediately poured their essence force into it. With this aid, the power of the Universal Array was stimulated to its utmost.
The Universal Array, in principle somewhat akin to a teleportation formation but far more overbearing, had the capability to forcibly extract other beings from different areas into the array.
Today, with the combined power of one Open Heaven Realm Middle Stage and five Open Heaven Realm Early Stage individuals, anyone within a million miles whose cultivation did not surpass the Open Heaven Realm Late Stage would be powerless to resist this force.
The older the martial arts world, the more cautious the people within it become.
This caution could be seen as prudence, or a reluctance to take risks recklessly.
As an elder of the Wu Meng Clan, Wu Shihui, without absolute certainty, was not willing to risk an encounter alone. Even if he felt that the other five Open Heaven Realm Early Stage members of his clan could be of no help, he would still allow Yue Luo, a Mid-stage Open Heaven Realm, to accompany him.
Yet Wu Shihui left the city alone in the end, intent on lowering his opponentâs guard so that at the critical moment, he could pull the opponent into Meng City.
In Meng City, enveloped by a Seventh-Tier Formation, the enemy would be surrounded and killed by two Mid-stage Open Heaven Realms and five Early-stage Open Heaven Realms, with no chance of escape.
Miles away, Wu Shihui eyed Chen Fei with a murderous gaze, his mind gradually recalling information about this human.
In the Open Heaven Realm, as long as one wished to recall something they had seen or heard, it could easily be brought back to mind.
A mere human in the Rule Integration Realm would naturally not attract Wu Shihuiâs attention, but during the last incident at the Ye Clan ruins, Chen Fei had used the âcreate soldiers from beansâ technique to help the human race fight off the Soul-devouring Worms, catching Wu Shihuiâs eye.
The other Open Heaven Realm figures from the Wu Meng Clan, seeing Wu Shihuiâs interest, presented the data on Chen Fei; hence Wu Shihui took a few glances at it.
Having only advanced to the early stages of the Rule Integration Realm a few years ago, Chen Fei was now an early stage Open Heaven Realm and had even gained the upper hand in a direct confrontation with him.
A gleam flashed in Wu Shihuiâs eyes; regardless of the reason, once inside Meng City, all of Chen Feiâs secrets would belong to him, Wu Shihui.
âZee!â The mighty force of the Universal Array acted upon Chen Fei, attempting to drag him into Meng City. The usually resilient space at this moment showed countless fractures, all torn apart by the power of the Universal Array.
Wu Shihui watched Chen Fei, waiting for him to be pulled away, yet several breaths later, Chen Fei remained immovable.
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