Chapter 574: 573. Chapter 568: Clay Chickens and Tile Dogs

573. Chapter 568: Clay Chickens and Tile Dogs

"Master Ding?" The first to rush over was Gu Min, who stared in shock at Ding Huan, standing midair holding a long spear, and cried out.

Isn't Ding Huan only at the Immortal Emperor stage?

This killing aura is probably stronger than mine.

No, it's definitely stronger—I have a gut feeling I couldn't survive a single round against Ding Huan.

It's an instinct.

"Ding Huan, you seek death. As a Dao Master, you forcibly seized a student's Divine Path scroll. The Academy didn't punish you—it even cleared your name. Yet now you dare attack the Academy…"

Another, angrier voice rang out.

Immediately, Ding Huan saw a late-stage Immortal Emperor unleash a massive double-bladed axe and slash toward him.

At the same moment, over a dozen figures surged forward from all directions.

Ding Huan was slightly surprised—the Immortal Emperors rushing at him were mostly early-stage.

Ding Huan's Wheel of Reincarnation Spear swept through the air in an arc, and this casual motion seemed to draw in all the killing dao rhythms of Yongzhou Xiancheng.

Several lagging Immortal Emperors felt a bone-chilling cold sweep over them and instinctively slowed their pace.

This time Ding Huan saw more clearly: among those lagging were one late-stage Immortal Emperor and four mid-stage Immortal Emperors.

After sensing the killing aura from his spear, they didn't enter his domain—they stopped, and two even retreated a few steps.

The eleven Immortal Emperors who reached close range all activated their Immortal Emperor domains in unison with Yuan You.

All eleven were early-stage Immortal Emperors.

Combined with Yuan You, twelve Immortal Emperors surrounded him—yet only Yuan You was late-stage.

These supporting Immortal Emperors unhesitatingly unleashed their artifacts, joining Yuan You in blasting Ding Huan.

Whoever you are, if you dare touch the Dao Law Academy, the answer is one word: death.

Boom!

Immortal energy collided, and both sides' domains erupted into a storm of killing dao rhythms.

The terrifying dao rhythms spread outward, reducing every shop on the distant streets to dust.

What terrified all the Immortal Emperors was that their combined domains still couldn't pierce Ding Huan's Immortal Emperor domain.

The cold in space grew fiercer.

Dozens of phantom ice peaks, swept up by Ding Huan's Wheel of Reincarnation Spear, rained down like a thousand stars.

The Immortal Emperors' techniques clashed with Ding Huan's phantom ice peaks, fracturing space with fine, hairline cracks.

Anyone not an idiot could tell this was what happened when techniques collided and solidified the void.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

This was the first time Ding Huan fused Thousand Snowdrifts and Starfall techniques—he saw two early-stage Immortal Emperors still trying to hold back some power.

They hoped their teammates would help.

But those phantom ice peaks, laced with annihilating killing intent, effortlessly tore through their techniques and domains, reducing their flesh and blood to bloody pulp.

Their teammates might have saved them—but no one moved to help.

Ding Huan had intended to summon Mu Drum, but seeing how easily these two early-stage Immortal Emperors fell, he couldn't be bothered to summon it.

The Starry Domain strengthened two more tiers; Thousand Snowdrifts didn't weaken after the first clash—it summoned even more phantom killing snow peaks.

Distant onlookers could only see dao rhythms exploding everywhere, while phantom ice peaks surged like tidal waves toward the remaining Immortal Emperors.

Ding Huan noticed the several mid-stage Immortal Emperors and the one late-stage who had come to support him—not advancing, but quietly slipping away.

Ding Huan found it strange; though he hadn't fought those mid-stage Immortal Emperors, he could sense they were strong.

Compared to those mid-stage Immortal Emperors who left without fighting, these early-stage ones were clay chickens and tile dogs.

The strong ones left, leaving only trash to surround him? Do they think so little of Ding Huan?

The first wave of ice peaks was blocked by the domains and techniques of these dozen Immortal Emperors—but the second wave surged forward without pause.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Phantom ice peaks shattered, unleashing thousands of snow peaks.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Blood exploded as six Immortal Emperors had their dao rhythms and domains torn apart by Thousand Snowdrifts, their heads severed and snatched up by the Wheel of Reincarnation Spear.

Only four Immortal Emperors remained on the ground, pale-faced, staring at Ding Huan.

Ding Huan sneered: "Are all of you early-stage Immortal Emperors? No one of real caliber came?"

Ding Huan had indeed wanted to test his combat strength—but of these twelve Immortal Emperors, only the first was late-stage; the other eleven were all early-stage.

Some hadn't even stabilized their cultivation after ascending to Immortal Emperor, yet they came to die.

A few were strong—but they retreated halfway. What's their game?

If they went to summon others, fine—he'd stay here today. One comes, he kills one. A group comes, he kills a heap.

"You…" Yuan You stared at Ding Huan in terror.

How could he be this strong?

He's almost on par with Xie Kuangren. When did another such power emerge in the Dao Corridor besides Xie Kuangren?

Wait—wasn't the black-robed figure who seized the Tianxing Dao Law Academy recently…

Yuan You dared not continue the thought. If that black-robed figure was truly Ding Huan, then Ding Huan had dared seize Tianxing and Xixu Dao Law Academies—would he fear Yonghuang Divine Art Academy?

"Master Ding, we're from the Immortal Surveillance Office—we have nothing to do with Yonghuang Divine Art Academy," said one Immortal Emperor, pale-faced, his fighting spirit gone.

The key was their comrades had abandoned them—they knew they'd been sold out.

Ding Huan sighed inwardly.

There really are many Immortal Emperors here, and the celestial laws here are truly complete.

But the Immortal Emperors here are truly easy to bully, precisely because they've always lived in a soft, indulgent world.

This ties directly to the Ten Thousand Laws of the Dao Corridor.

In this place, you only need to focus on your cultivation. You don't have to worry about someone attacking you, because anyone who dares will be killed.

They cultivate, and nothing but cultivate—they've never endured any life-or-death trials. No wonder the Dung Beetle can easily take on a dozen at once.

But I suspect that when the Dung Beetle went to seize the Semi-Divine Vein, his cultivation was already at Immortal Emperor Sixth Layer or Seventh Layer.

"Oh, when my eight disciples were targeted, did your Immortal Surveillance Bureau have any part in it?" Ding Huan sneered.

"We…" The two Immortal Emperors had barely spoken two words when a powerful vortex slammed into their soul seas.

The next instant, they saw Ding Huan's Wheel of Reincarnation Spear hurtling toward them.

Two Immortal Emperors of early stage, yet unable to manifest even a complete divine art—they were slain by a single spear thrust.

More and more onlookers gathered, yet not a single one dared step forward to attack.

How much time had passed just now? Twelve Immortal Emperors, now only two remained.

Though eleven of those twelve were early-stage Immortal Emperors, they were still Immortal Emperors.

Some Immortal Emperors who had come to reinforce stood silently among the crowd.

Throughout the history of the Dao Corridor, no one had ever dared kill a member of the Immortal Surveillance Bureau.

Not only has someone killed one now, but he's been killing them continuously.

The Immortal Surveillance Bureau's strength reigns supreme across the entire Dao Corridor, and the reason is simple: Xie Kuangren is too powerful. This has caused every academy, every faction, to have their people embedded within the Immortal Surveillance Bureau.

Now that Xie Kuangren isn't showing up, and another warrior who kills Immortal Emperors like slaughtering chickens has appeared—who would dare step forward to die?

"Heh, I always knew this matter wasn't over. Now look—when you bullied his disciples, their teacher finally showed up."

"This is only the beginning. The families who harmed Ding Huan's disciples are probably trembling in fear right now."

…

The onlookers were whispering among themselves.

Anyone who isn't Bai Chi understands exactly what happened: the Yonghuang Divine Art Academy coveted the promotion slots won by the eight competing disciples.

Then they fabricated a false case.

This false case wasn't particularly unusual, since few would dare challenge the Yonghuang Divine Art Academy over it.

Even if someone did try to argue, could they out-debate the Yonghuang Divine Art Academy?

The academy's dean, Yuan You, is himself an honorary supervisor of the Immortal Surveillance Bureau.

What could you possibly use to fight against the Yonghuang Divine Art Academy?

Now, someone has stepped forward—not to argue with words, but to act directly, decisively, and without hesitation.

"Master Ding, you must at least listen to reason—this matter was the academy helping you…"

Before the early-stage Immortal Emperor of the academy could finish speaking, a spear-light surged from afar and slammed toward him.

He clearly saw the spear's trajectory, yet beneath Ding Huan's domain, he had no ability to escape its killing intent.

Worse still, he saw that Yuan You hadn't even considered offering him any aid.

"Puff!" Blood exploded—he turned into a mist of crimson.

As he died, he regretted it deeply—regretted serving beside a trash like Yuan You.

Ding Huan swept his hand, and eleven rings were seized.

The battlefield, once thick with killing aura and swirling Dao patterns, now held only Yuan You alone.

Yuan You hadn't been wounded yet, but even fools knew his injury was merely a matter of time.

Yet Yuan You said not a single word, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Master Ding, please hear me out," Gu Min, who had remained silent until now, stepped forward, bowed to Ding Huan, and spoke with sincerity.

Ding Huan said coolly: "You saved two of my disciples?"

"Yes, I've already sent someone to bring them here," Gu Min said immediately.

Yuan You wanted to flee right now—he didn't care about face at all.

But he couldn't accept defeat—he was still waiting.

If his expected ally didn't arrive in a little more time, he would use a forbidden technique and escape.

Once the Immortal Surveillance Bureau's protectors Ji Yi and Quan Er arrived with a group of late-stage and peak-stage Immortal Emperors, he refused to believe that a dozen late-stage Immortal Emperors combined couldn't kill Ding Huan.

Just as he thought Ding Huan wouldn't attack him for now, a mental vortex slammed into the depths of his soul sea.

Ding Huan was ambushing him!

He had barely reacted when Ding Huan's spear was already at his brow.

This isn't right…

After Ding Huan killed the two early-stage Immortal Emperors, Yuan You had begun holding back his strength.

Later, Ding Huan's methods were too overwhelming—he killed the rest of the Immortal Emperors in mere moments.

But whether they were from the Yonghuang Divine Art Academy or the Immortal Surveillance Bureau, they were all early-stage Immortal Emperors.

The combat power of early-stage Immortal Emperors was simply too weak.

Yuan You didn't intervene to save them because he knew even if he did, early-stage Immortal Emperors couldn't help him at all.

Now, even under Ding Huan's domain, he still had a sixty percent chance of escaping after triggering a forbidden technique.

He believed Ji Yi and Quan Er of the Immortal Surveillance Bureau would surely come.

Once Ji Yi and Quan Er arrived, no matter how strong Ding Huan was, he'd be brought down.

Though waiting, he remained ever vigilant against Ding Huan—if Ding Huan moved, he'd flee with a forbidden technique.

But now, after Ding Huan launched his ambush, Yuan You realized in horror that the spatial distance between himself and Ding Huan had vanished.

The moment Ding Huan summoned his spear, it was already at his brow.

How is this possible?

Puff!

The Wheel of Rebirth Spear tore through his third eye; his Primordial Spirit had just surged out when it was seized by Ding Huan's Soul-Binding Immortal Array.

Spatial laws?

Yuan You's Primordial Spirit began to tremble.

If Ding Huan controlled the Spatial Laws, even Ji Yi and Quan Er could at most severely wound him—capturing him outright was nearly impossible.