# Chapter 3031: Qing Pingzi Appears Again
"What kind of power is this? The Way of Space alone cannot affect a Great God." Li Xiao Great God was terrified in his heart.
Zhang Ruochen formed a sword seal with his fingers, his arm drawing a circle as the six divine swords rotated accordingly. From his sleeve, an endless stream of swords flew out, forming a mighty sword river that struck fiercely against Li Xiao Great God's body.
"Boom!"
In an instant, Li Xiao Great God's skeletal body exploded, transforming into a vast ocean of black divine qi.
The divine body had shattered, but the divine sea remained indestructible.
Li Xiao Great God attempted to reconstitute his divine body several times, but each time he was overwhelmed by hundreds of millions of swords, reduced back to divine bone powder.
"Zhang Ruochen, don't blame me for self-detonating my divine source and taking you down with me!" From within the black divine qi ocean, Li Xiao Great God's divine thought voice rang out.
Zhang Ruochen controlled the hundreds of millions of swords, saying, "Cultivation is not easy. Are you willing to part with it?"
"If you spare my life, from now on, we shall be friends, not foes." Li Xiao Great God finally relented, though unwilling, he had no choice.
Zhang Ruochen said, "You are too weak. I have no interest in sparing your life. I want to slay you to tell that Hall Master of the Darkness Temple that offending me, Zhang Ruochen, comes at a price."
Li Xiao Great God's fury stirred up a powerful storm even in the Void World.
Feeling the Void constantly eroding his divine sea, and knowing that Yu Shi was now struggling to save himself and couldn't possibly come to rescue him, only one path remained.
"Then let us destroy each other. I will eliminate this great enemy for the Darkness!"
Li Xiao Great God channeled the divine qi in his divine sea, gathering it toward his divine source.
Zhang Ruochen had been waiting for him to self-detonate his divine source. Though somewhat risky, the moment of self-detonation would also expose the divine source itself.
"I see it!"
Zhang Ruochen's Truth Divine Eye spotted the flickering point of light within the boundless divine sea. Reaching out his palm, he plucked it from across the void.
Li Xiao Great God's unwilling voice came from within the divine source: "Zhang Ruochen, by opposing the Darkness, you will one day be consumed by it!"
Zhang Ruochen held the divine source in his hand, saying calmly, "It seems a Great God is not so difficult to kill after all. Now I will slowly refine your divine soul and spiritual will."
He sealed the divine source and put it away.
"Shua shua!"
The hundreds of millions of swords flew back into his sleeve.
With Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation, he could easily hide a universe in his sleeve and store a world within his robe.
The vast ocean of dark divine qi and divine bone powder in the Void World recondensed into Li Xiao Great God's hundred-zhang-tall skeletal body. Within the body, his spiritual will remained unextinguished, and his divine soul thoughts continued cursing Zhang Ruochen.
The vast majority of a Great God's spiritual will and divine soul thoughts resided within the divine source.
But a considerable amount still remained integrated into the body.
If Zhang Ruochen simply let Li Xiao Great God leave like this, even without his divine source, after recuperating for a time, he could still possess at least the combat power of a mid-level god.
With Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation, completely refining Li Xiao Great God's spiritual will and divine soul thoughts would take a very long time.
This was why Great Gods were so difficult to kill!
Fortunately, they were in the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain, within the Void World. If they were outside, by the time Zhang Ruochen finished refining Li Xiao Great God, the Hall Master of the Darkness Temple would have already found him.
Zhang Ruochen also suppressed Li Xiao Great God's divine body, erased all traces of himself in the Void World, then tore through space and returned to the Real World.
The moment he returned to the Real World, Zhang Ruochen sensed something was wrong.
It was too quiet.
He couldn't sense the aura of the Ancestral Realm Realm Lord.
On alert, Zhang Ruochen extended his spiritual power to probe further distances, but even the auras of Xiao Hei, Xue Tu, and the Darkness Temple gods had vanished.
Suddenly, a dangerous aura that made Zhang Ruochen's hair stand on end erupted, sending chills down his spine.
Without a second thought, Zhang Ruochen immediately took out the Divine King Talisman, activated it, and transformed it into a golden, radiant shield above his head.
"Boom!"
A thousand-mile-long flaming sword light descended from above, striking the Divine King Talisman and sending Zhang Ruochen flying hundreds of miles away.
In an instant, yang energy filled heaven and earth, and the temperature of the cold, dark world rose sharply, hotter than boiling water.
"This is the Pure Yang Divine Sword!"
Zhang Ruochen had never seen the Pure Yang Divine Sword, but the thought involuntarily arose in his mind.
The opponent's cultivation was too high. Even with Yu Divine King's Divine King Talisman, he couldn't hold out for long. Zhang Ruochen directly burned his lifespan, stepping into the Divine Spirit Step at maximum speed, fleeing into the darkness.
He had just dealt with a Great God, and now he had fallen into such a miserable situation.
Zhang Ruochen looked back and saw, in the depths of the universe, an ancient bronze divine ship, massive in size, with nine iron-cloth divine sails hanging from it, its momentum fierce.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen couldn't even think about whether Xiao Hei, Xue Tu, and the Ancestral Realm Realm Lord had managed to escape. The opponent's sword strike just now was clearly meant to take his life.
Zhang Ruochen knew that Feng Yunba, the Fourth Master of the Wind Clan, was the wielder of the Pure Yang Divine Sword. His nature was like fire, and he hated evil as if it were his enemy.
Ten thousand years ago, at the Truth Divine Temple, he had thought highly of Huang Tian. Although there was a considerable gap in their age and cultivation, because both had trained under the Truth Divine Temple Lord, they addressed each other as senior and junior brother and had a deep friendship.
Huang Tian's betrayal had pained and angered Feng Yunba, who swore to slay him with the Pure Yang Divine Sword.
In Feng Yunba's eyes, Zhang Ruochen was a second Huang Tian—someone who had ascended the Truth Divine Mountain, received the great fortune bestowed by the Truth Divine Temple, yet betrayed the Truth Divine Temple and the Heavenly Court, killing countless Heavenly Court cultivators on the Heaven Hunting Battlefield.
Such a traitor, such an unrighteous villain, deserved death ten thousand times over.
"He actually has a Divine King Talisman. Let's see how many more strikes it can block. Full speed ahead, pursue him!"
Feng Yunba stood like a mountain, his gaze cold. A sword light flew from his left eye, trailing a thousand-mile-long sword radiance.
Killing just a Zhang Ruochen didn't warrant activating the true form of the Pure Yang Divine Sword.
A pupil sword formed from pure yang sword qi would be enough to slay him.
Back then, Ming Jian Shen had stood motionless, using two pupil swords condensed from his gaze to break Zhang Ruochen's strongest "Love Sword" among his seven soul swords, nearly killing Zhang Ruochen.
Standing at the heights of Feng Yunba and Ming Jian Shen, they encountered few opponents below the Infinite Realm. They could refine their gaze to be as sharp as a divine sword.
"Fourth Master, what should we do with them?" a Wind Clan god asked.
Xiao Hei, Xue Tu, the Ancestral Realm Realm Lord, and two Darkness Temple true gods were suppressed within five divine wind cages, all bearing wounds.
Xiao Hei showed no fear, saying, "My master's master is the Tai Shang of the Kunlun Realm. Who dares touch a single hair of mine?"
The Ancestral Realm Realm Lord said, "The Yecha Clan has no enmity with the Wind Clan and rarely participates in the wars between the Heavenly Court and Hell. If I die at the hands of the Wind Clan, it might force the Yecha Clan and even the Hundred Clans Royal City to join the war."
Xue Tu, seeing that the other two had their backing, regretted deeply. If he had known, he wouldn't have jumped out for a few divine sources. Now what should he do?
He couldn't very well bring up the Death God Venerable, could he?
That would probably get him killed faster.
Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. At times like this, he had to stay quiet, best if treated like air. As long as he could keep his life, who knew if there wouldn't be a turn of events later?
One of the Darkness Temple true gods was defiant, saying, "Our Darkness Temple has left spatial markers all along the way. Lord Shuang Cheng Mo will catch up soon. Then we'll see whether the Pure Yang Divine Sword is stronger or the Darkness Divine Sword is mightier."
"Bang!"
Feng Yunba fixed his gaze on him, gathering divine qi and sword qi in his eyes. A sword light flew out, shattering that Darkness Temple true god into a cloud of black mist.
The true god did not die, recondensing his divine body, but was extremely weakened and dared not speak again.
"Keep them alive and imprison them."
Though Feng Yunba was fierce in temperament and decisive in killing, he was not impulsive or foolish. Since the Darkness Temple, Yecha Clan, and Undying Blood Clan all had strong cultivators entering the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain, keeping them alive would allow him to cast a long line and catch big fish.
Zhang Ruochen fled at top speed. After the Divine King Talisman in his hand blocked more than a dozen strikes from Feng Yunba, a crack finally appeared.
But no matter what, he couldn't shake off that bronze divine ship.
"This Feng Yunba is too strong. Even escaping from him is as hard as reaching the heavens. The Divine King Talisman can block at most six or seven more strikes."
Zhang Ruochen tried to flee into the Void World, but Feng Yunba forcibly forced him out.
Against such a powerful opponent, even releasing his soul swords would be useless against him.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen sensed something, a look of joy appearing on his face as he charged forward at even greater speed.
"Heaven never seals off all roads!"
Ahead, in the dark void, appeared a chaotic zone.
This place was densely packed with spatial fragments, where reality and nothingness coexisted. Its range was extremely vast, with no visible boundary to the chaotic zone, like the primordial chaotic cosmic sea at the dawn of heaven and earth.
"Pursue him inside." Feng Yunba gave the order.
The Xu Feng Divine Ship could ignore shattered space.
"Boom!"
From deep within the chaotic zone, two bright sword lights suddenly rose, two completely different sword qi colliding with each other, as if two sword path gods were fighting.
By the time the Xu Feng Divine Ship arrived, they saw a Daoist riding a yellow ox, holding a war sword flashing with cyan light, angrily shouting: "Zhang Ruochen, you traitor, where do you think you're running?"
The Daoist, his face full of killing intent, charged into the Void World in pursuit.
Feng Xuan, the Seventh Master of the Wind Clan standing on the ship, showed a delighted expression, saying: "It's Qing Pingzi of the Kunlun Realm!"
"Shua!"
Feng Xuan flew out of the divine ship, closely following Zhang Ruochen, who had transformed into Qing Pingzi, as they pursued into the Void World.
Half a moment later, the two returned.
At Feng Xuan's invitation, Zhang Ruochen led the yellow ox and boarded the Xu Feng Divine Ship.
Zhang Ruochen's gaze was cold, his killing intent not yet dissipated, and he said angrily: "Damn it, that traitor must have a secret treasure on him. He got away!"
Feng Xuan, however, appeared quite composed, smiling: "There are so many people in this world who want to kill Zhang Ruochen, yet he always manages to escape. It can't be mere luck, can it? Why has Daoist come to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain?"
Zhang Ruochen was silent for a moment, then put away the Qing Ping Sword, saying vaguely: "I heard that various forces are searching for the Sword Realm, so I came to take a look."
Feng Xuan knew the other was holding something back, but understood in his heart. After all, one of the main reasons so many sword cultivators had rushed to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain was the emergence of the Qing Ping Sword.
It was perfectly natural for Qing Pingzi to appear here!
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