Chapter 216: 216. Chapter 213: The Killing Realm of Nine Daos

216. Chapter 213: The Killing Realm of Nine Daos

Ding Huan had even killed a Primordial Soul realm cultivator before. Now, the moment he saw Qi Yushan, he knew this guy was just an early True Pill cultivator.

Since this guy was early True Pill realm, he had nothing to fear.

When he killed Can Ping, he had only just stepped into the Nebula realm; Can Ping at that time was late True Pill.

When he killed Elder Gong Hua, he was at the peak of Nebula, equivalent to the peak of Foundation Establishment.

But what level was Elder Gong Hua? He was a Perfect True Pill, half-step Primordial Soul powerhouse.

Now Qi Yushan was only early True Pill—he truly had nothing to fear.

Thinking of how he had almost died at Qi Yushan's hands back then, Ding Huan wouldn't feel right inside unless he killed him.

After walking through several streets, Qi Yushan entered the Dao Spring Rest Inn.

Ding Huan did not go in. He planned to wait here for one shichen. If Qi Yushan didn't come out within one shichen, then he would check into this rest inn himself.

Ding Huan didn't have to wait a full shichen. In less than half an incense stick's time, Qi Yushan came out of the rest inn again, then hurried toward the outside of Yanyue City.

It looked like this guy had gone to the rest inn to grab something or meet someone. Now that Qi Yushan was heading outside Yanyue City, Ding Huan naturally followed without the slightest hesitation.

Although Ding Huan's cultivation wasn't as good as Qi Yushan's, his divine sense was far stronger than Qi Yushan's. Just like that, following behind Qi Yushan, Qi Yushan didn't notice in the slightest.

Half a day later, Qi Yushan entered a stretch of desolate mountain range and stopped at the foot of a slightly steep stone mountain.

Ding Huan didn't need to use his divine sense. Just one look and he knew there was a hidden restriction at the concealed spot at the foot of this stone mountain.

Inside the restriction was probably a cave dwelling.

Could this be the cave dwelling where Qi Yushan cultivated?

Qi Yushan couldn't be doing this badly, could he? This place really was a bit remote, and the spiritual energy here was scarce. What made him think of establishing a cave dwelling here for closed-door cultivation?

Ding Huan soon realized his guess was wrong. Qi Yushan didn't go trigger that restriction; instead, he took out several formation disks and set them up on the outer perimeter.

All these formation disks were Tier 2 and Tier 3 formation disks, and they were all trapping formations.

This time Ding Huan understood—this guy wanted to murder for treasure.

Some unlucky fellow must be in closed-door cultivation here, and Qi Yushan discovered it, so he went to Yanyue City to buy trapping formation disks.

Ding Huan couldn't help cursing in his heart. This Wang Ba really was a dog that couldn't stop eating shit.

The other party had already been reduced to cultivating in closed-door in a place with such scarce spiritual energy, yet this guy still wanted to kill and rob. One could see just how rotten his character was.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan also began setting up a trapping formation.

He also had a pile of formation disks on him, but he was himself a Tier 5 formation grandmaster; there was no need to use formation disks to deal with Qi Yushan.

Casually, he set up a Tier 4 trapping-killing formation.

The killing formation was incidental; the main concern was that Qi Yushan might have some means of escape.

"Boom!" The moment Ding Huan finished setting up the trapping-killing formation, Qi Yushan sent out a magic treasure and slammed it into the cave dwelling's concealment restriction.

"Crack!" The cave dwelling's restriction shattered, and a figure shot out.

The magic artifact in Qi Yushan's hand blasted toward that figure, blasting it into pieces.

Ding Huan snickered inside. This Qi Yushan wasn't much either; that figure was clearly a fake.

Sure enough, after Qi Yushan's magic treasure blasted out, another human figure rushed out of the cave dwelling.

"Thud!" Immediately after, this human figure crashed into the trapping formation Qi Yushan had set up, revealing its form.

Seeing the cultivator whose form was revealed, Ding Huan finally understood why Qi Yushan had chased all the way here and refused to let go.

It turned out to be Sang Sang Yuhe.

Among the several cultivators who had entered the Four Directions Star Land from the Dao Cultivation World, the one Ding Huan had the best impression of was this Sang Sang Yuhe before him.

Unfortunately, the cultivation method Sang Sang Yuhe practiced wasn't good. Although she had barely managed to step into the True Pill realm, her strength was far too inferior compared to Qi Yushan's.

"Qi Yushan, what do you mean? One, I haven't leaked any news about the Immortal Demon Pill; two, I haven't reported you to the Commerce Association. I've even hidden away in this place, yet you still won't let me go."

Sang Sang Yuhe's tone was extremely grief-stricken and indignant.

One could say that, in order to survive, she had endured to the absolute limit.

"Heh heh, in my Qi Yushan's eyes, only the dead are the safest. Just self-destruct; I'll give you an intact corpse."

While speaking, Qi Yushan gripped his Star Fire Halberd and walked over.

Despair appeared in Sang Sang Yuhe's eyes. She had been fleeing for several years, and during this time she hadn't been able to cultivate properly at all.

Qi Yushan was like a lingering ghost, following her the whole time.

"Oh? Senior Sang, why are you here too?"

Having taken off his mask, Ding Huan acted as if he'd discovered a new continent, his words carrying the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land.

"You're Ding Huan?"

Sang Sang Yuhe saw Ding Huan and was instantly stunned. Ding Huan was just an ordinary mortal.

Granted, he had cultivated for a few days, but to cultivators of the Dao Cultivation World, he was still a mortal.

How could a mortal leave the Mortal World and arrive at the Dao Cultivation World? Even arriving at the outskirts of Yanyue Sect?

The Dao Cultivation World's restrictions on entry from the Mortal World were extremely harsh. She couldn't understand why Ding Huan had appeared here.

She was startled by Ding Huan's sudden appearance and, for a moment, forgot her own predicament.

"You?" Qi Yushan was also quite startled, then burst into wild laughter and reached out to grab at Ding Huan.

Back then, to kill Ding Huan, he had chased him through several market towns.

Hearing Qi Yushan's words and actions, Sang Sang Yuhe finally came to her senses.

No matter how Ding Huan had gotten here, since he had come, he was just like her—waiting for Qi Yushan to kill him.

Qi Yushan clearly wasn't on guard at all. As Qi Yushan grabbed toward him, a long spear suddenly appeared in Ding Huan's hand.

This was the first time Ding Huan had faced a True Pill cultivator head-on. Not only did he have not the slightest fear, he was instead brimming with fighting spirit.

The moment the long spear was grasped in his hand, intense killing-intent auras filled the space all around Ding Huan.

Ding Huan swept his spear in a circle, instantly drawing all the killing intent toward him.

Before Qi Yushan could draw near Ding Huan, he was stunned by this violent killing intent; Ding Huan had not yet unleashed his spear, yet Qi Yushan felt the suffocating pressure of death.

How is this possible?

Qi Yushan frantically tried to retreat, but the moment he took a single step back, he realized he had made a foolish decision.

At that moment, Ding Huan thrust his spear forward; the overwhelming killing intent surged with it, as if the ocean had been torn open, crashing down in furious waves.

Trapped beneath this peak of surging killing intent, Qi Yushan was enveloped only by death.

"No!" Qi Yushan roared, burning his entire essence and blood—now he looked like a man of blood.

To his shock, Qi Yushan discovered he had broken free from Ding Huan's spear, escaping the terrifying surge of killing intent.

How could he dare continue attacking Ding Huan and Sang Sang Yuhe? The moment Ding Huan unleashed his spear, his courage had shattered.

Now that he had broken free from Ding Huan's spear, he fled without regard for his life.

Yet Ding Huan stood as if his meridians had been sealed—he held his spear tightly, his eyes filled with a burning glow.

Just now, he had casually unleashed that spear strike, yet it had drawn in the entire sky's killing aura, locking the spatial killing intent, and that spatial killing intent moved with the spear's murderous will.

This was precisely the second spear technique of the Nine Divine Arts.

Without even realizing it, he had casually unleashed this divine art—so naturally, so effortlessly.

With this one spear strike, he had drawn forth a killing realm; where the spear passed, everything within collapsed, reduced to dust.

One spear, one world—perhaps this is what it means?

Where the spear passes, ten thousand dusts vanish.

But this spear strike must have had a flaw—otherwise, how had Qi Yushan escaped this killing realm?

Yes, when the spear was unleashed, a gap appeared in the killing space.

Filling that gap in the killing space was simple: when the killing realm formed, transform it into a trapping and killing formation.

Others couldn't do it—he could. Because he was a Level Five Array Master, able to effortlessly condense his spiritual sense into a trapping-killing array formation…

As Ding Huan thought of this, his heart stirred—could this be the embryonic form of array patterns?

The more he thought, the more certain he became: in the future, once he touched spatial laws, he could use today's insight to draw true spatial array patterns.

Sang Sang Yuhe, watching from the side, was utterly frozen.

Had she seen things incorrectly?

Wasn't Ding Huan just an ordinary mortal?

How could an ordinary mortal nearly kill Qi Yushan, a True Pill realm cultivator, with a single spear strike?

Bad—Qi Yushan is trying to escape.

"Boom!" Qi Yushan's fleeing figure seemed to collide with an invisible barrier, then was flung back, crashing into the cave dwelling he had just shattered.

Truly, heaven's retribution never spares anyone.

Not long ago, he had done this very thing to Sang Sang Yuhe—she too had been thrown back by his trapping array.

How little time had passed, and now he himself tasted the bitter experience of being thrown back by a trapping array.

Is there a trapping array here?

Qi Yushan immediately realized he was trapped in a high-level trapping array; he saw Ding Huan seemed lost in some kind of insight.

He knew this was his only chance to escape—Ding Huan's previous spear strike had terrified him; he dared not approach to attack.

Boom! Qi Yushan's Starfire Halberd slammed into Ding Huan's trapping array.

Too bad—Ding Huan's array was a Level Four trapping array; no matter how powerful Qi Yushan's halberd strike, it only shook Ding Huan's array slightly, utterly unable to tear it open.

Even though Qi Yushan had become a bloodied mess, he still struck the array without regard for his life—he would not let this single chance to escape slip away.

Sang Sang Yuhe snapped out of her shock and cried urgently:

"Ding Dao friend, Qi Yushan is trying to escape!"

She knew she was no match for Qi Yushan; over these past years, her strength had regressed, not improved—even if Qi Yushan had just burned his essence and his power was greatly diminished, she still could not match him.

"Ha!" Ding Huan laughed loudly, raising his spear:

"This is my second spear—Killing Realm."

Seeing Ding Huan awaken from his insight, Qi Yushan trembled—he knew he could not escape:

"Ding Huan Dao friend, there is no grudge between us. Moreover, you are the one I brought to the Third Layer Star Fall Continent. To kill me now is to forget your debt of gratitude."

"Oh, forgetting your debt of gratitude? Then what did you mean by chasing me to Jiu Cha Market, then chasing me to Changqiu City? What did you mean by planting dozens of spiritual sense marks on me?"

Ding Huan sneered.

Qi Yushan's lips trembled:

"How did you know?"