Chapter 176: Forcing Back a King-Limit Expert

Lu Qingshan's divine power attack was incomparably fast; the moment it was detected by Bai Hongwang's small probe, it had already slammed directly into the cosmic vessel Bai Hongwang was riding.

Boom, boom, boom!

The E-grade cosmic vessel Bai Hongwang was riding instantly exploded, and then Bai Hongwang's figure appeared in the void — clearly, Lu Qingshan's casual strike was still not enough to tear apart his divine body.

"Enemy attack!"

Bai Hongwang, who had just been delighted over slaying a powerful Swallow Eagle Tribe warrior from the human faction, instantly became alert.

"This lightning-type immortal divine power aura…"

Bai Hongwang, who had originally only been somewhat on guard, suddenly froze completely upon sensing the divine power aura belonging to Lu Qingshan.

"It's that damned Spirit Sword King!"

At the same time, Bai Hongwang turned his head and quickly spotted a human figure clad in purple-gold battle armor rapidly charging toward him — it was Lu Qingshan.

Upon seeing Lu Qingshan's figure, Bai Hongwang immediately sent a distress signal to a fellow clansman active in this region, 'Cold Moon King'.

The reason he still came to this region to adventure after being resurrected by the clan's higher-ups was precisely because Cold Moon King, a fellow clansman active in this region, was on good terms with him.

Moreover, Cold Moon King was a King-limit expert who cultivated the origin law of space, and had long been able to perform teleportation — he could rush over to rescue him the moment he received the distress signal.

Under normal circumstances, even if Bai Hongwang encountered a King-limit expert, he could hold out until Cold Moon King arrived.

Unfortunately, the one he had encountered over three million years ago was Spirit Sword King Lu Qingshan. Back then, after Lu Qingshan's soul attack failed to kill him, he instantly ignited his immortal divine power, which allowed him to slay Bai Hongwang before Cold Moon King could arrive.

But what Bai Hongwang never expected was that, after being resurrected by the clan leader through the reversal of time and space and returning to the extraterritorial battlefield to adventure, he would once again encounter the very Spirit Sword King who had slain him back then.

Simultaneously with sending the distress signal, Bai Hongwang instantly ignited his own immortal divine power and then fled rapidly toward the distance.

Facing an expert like Spirit Sword King who specialized in soul attacks, once the opponent got close there was essentially no way to escape — unless one could remain completely unaffected by the opponent's soul attack.

But what Bai Hongwang had to do now was to exert every ounce of strength and hold out until the moment Cold Moon King arrived.

So even though he knew full well that fleeing was useless, he still fled desperately.

On the other side…

Seeing Bai Hongwang instantly ignite his immortal divine power and begin to flee, Lu Qingshan also instantly emanated a wisp of virtualized immortal divine power.

Hum!

The formless, intangible soul attack instantly spread toward the frantically fleeing Bai Hongwang, immediately penetrating his divine body and transforming within into illusory small swords, attempting to shatter his soul.

And within Bai Hongwang's body, a towering golden pagoda was guarding his soul.

But facing Lu Qingshan's terrifying soul attack, the once towering Rushan-like golden pagoda had now become on the verge of collapse.

Outside, the frantically fleeing Bai Hongwang's entire consciousness was beginning to grow hazy, and his fleeing speed was greatly affected.

Fortunately, his willpower was inherently quite strong, so in the end he still managed to block Lu Qingshan's soul attack.

"How has this Spirit Sword King's soul bombardment gotten stronger again?"

Having blocked Lu Qingshan's soul attack, Bai Hongwang's heart nevertheless sank into even greater despair.

One had to remember that when he had last encountered Lu Qingshan, although Lu Qingshan's soul attack was quite terrifying, once he ignited his immortal divine power, his soul defense surged, and the impact on him was no longer significant.

If Lu Qingshan had not likewise ignited his immortal divine power, he certainly would have been able to hold out until his fellow clansman Cold Moon King arrived.

But now, even though he had ignited his immortal divine power in advance, he was still greatly affected when facing Lu Qingshan's soul attack.

And while all sorts of thoughts flashed through Bai Hongwang's mind, Lu Qingshan not far away was also sighing inwardly: "After this second soul attack technique was elevated to the top-tier level, although its might has increased somewhat, its effect against King-level enemies is no longer that obvious!"

"If I want to slay a true King-peak expert through soul attack, I probably still need to continue elevating my comprehension of laws, or push my soul attack secret art to the peak level!"

"Enough, there's no point thinking about all this now — let's just deal with this Bai Hongwang first!"

Thinking of this…

Boom!

Lu Qingshan likewise ignited his own immortal divine power, then once again emanated virtualized immortal divine power that seeped into Bai Hongwang, whose speed had already been greatly affected.

And just then, Lu Qingshan suddenly sensed a rather peculiar spatial fluctuation.

"Teleportation?"

Lu Qingshan's mind stirred, and he quickly turned his head to look in another direction.

Sure enough, another King-level immortal of the Wei Yi Tribe had already appeared there!

"A King-limit expert of the Meng Yao Zu faction — Cold Moon King?"

The moment he saw the opponent, Lu Qingshan quickly identified him through the vast amount of information he had previously looked up.

And the moment Cold Moon King appeared, he immediately sent a voice transmission to Lu Qingshan: "Spirit Sword King, please spare that Bai Hongwang's life!"

In truth, if it were an ordinary expert who cultivated the origin law of time, even a King-limit like Cold Moon King who could teleport would be confident he could rely on himself to successfully rescue Bai Hongwang.

But a soul master who specialized in soul attacks was different!

Especially now that Lu Qingshan had already ignited his immortal divine power — slaying Bai Hongwang through soul attack would only take an instant — so it was very difficult for him to teleport to Bai Hongwang's side and save him.

After all, teleportation also required a certain amount of time, especially within a small-scale region, where executing movement techniques was even more flexible than employing teleportation.

Meanwhile, Lu Qingshan, upon receiving Cold Moon King's voice transmission, was utterly unmoved.

"Perish!"

Lu Qingshan's mind stirred, and the virtualized immortal divine power that had already condensed into illusory small swords within Bai Hongwang's body instantly gathered together, then directly formed a giant sword phantom inside Bai Hongwang's body.

On the other side, Bai Hongwang's heart also leapt with joy upon seeing Cold Moon King appear.

But just then, the virtualized immortal divine power Lu Qingshan had seeped into his body had already gathered into a giant sword phantom.

"Not good!"

Sensing the situation within his body, Bai Hongwang's face changed drastically — because he had once perished to this very soul attack from Lu Qingshan.

"Does this Spirit Sword King hold some grudge against me? Why won't he let me go?"

In that instant, the powerful experts of the human race that Bai Hongwang had slain in the past quickly flashed through his mind.

But among those human experts he had slain, the most recent one was over ten million years ago, and that one was merely a high-ranking army commander — there was absolutely no way he could be connected to a powerhouse like Spirit Sword King!

"Block it! I must block it!"

At this moment, Bai Hongwang's will was roaring, and the towering golden pagoda within his body also radiated boundless light.

"Slash!"

Lu Qingshan's mind stirred, and the terrifying colossal sword phantom slashed down directly, instantly destroying every soul defense within Bai Hongwang's body, then directly shredding the soul origin within every fraction of his divine power, making it impossible for the other party to even maintain a shred of clarity to self-detonate his divine body!

Hum!

Lu Qingshan's divine power spread out, instantly taking control of Bai Hongwang's divine body that had completely lost its life aura, then transforming into a streak of flowing light flying toward himself.

This was the experience he had accumulated from wandering the Extraterritorial Battlefield for many years!

Never mind whether reinforcements would come — only when the spoils were in one's own hands did they truly belong to oneself!

He had already burned immortal divine power for this battle. Although the consumption of immortal divine power meant nothing to him, whose Endless Divine Sea avatar had been expanding all along, no one was willing to do a losing business.

"Got it!"

After Bai Hongwang's divine body drew close, Lu Qingshan waved his hand and quickly stored it into a separate world ring.

"Lingjian Wang, you're far too arrogant!" An angry roar transmitted directly into Lu Qingshan's mind with an explosive ring.

Lu Qingshan, who had already stopped burning immortal divine power because the battle was over, now turned his head to look at the not-so-distant Hanyue Wang: "Hanyue Wang, has your brain broken? I've already burned immortal divine power — would I let go just because you begged for mercy?"

"If you want to save someone, you should first see whether you have the strength for it!"

Hearing Lu Qingshan's words, fury only rose further in Hanyue Wang's heart.

That's right!

The rule of the Extraterritorial Battlefield was the strong preying on the weak; Bai Hongwang's strength was inferior to this Lingjian Wang, so his death couldn't be blamed on anyone.

But in Hanyue Wang's eyes, he had already rushed over, and even personally opened his mouth to plead for mercy — shouldn't this Lingjian Wang grant him that face?

After all, in his view, although Lingjian Wang's strength rivaled the limit of Fengwang, he had never displayed special abilities like time pause, time acceleration, or time deceleration, which showed that his comprehension of laws was probably rather ordinary.

If the two of them really went all out, his strength would surely be a notch superior.

"Lingjian Wang, you're far too overconfident!"

Hanyue Wang transmitted a roar, fury rising in the compound eyes on his forehead!

"Hahaha!"

Lu Qingshan immediately burst into laughter: "Hanyue Wang, whether I'm overconfident or not depends on whether you have the strength to back it up!"

The moment his words fell, Lu Qingshan immediately transformed into a streak of flowing light and charged toward Hanyue Wang.

One must know that on this Extraterritorial Battlefield, even among those at the limit of Fengwang, there were great differences in strength.

If it were a terrifying powerhouse without a soul like Shi Jia Wang, the current Lu Qingshan would naturally keep as far away as possible.

But this Hanyue Wang was not only inferior in strength to that Shi Jia Wang, he also possessed a soul.

Even if he was rather adept at soul defense, once Lu Qingshan unleashed soul attacks, he would inevitably be affected to some degree — at that point, who could gain the upper hand in battle was uncertain!

So for Lu Qingshan, this Hanyue Wang was a free whetstone delivered right to his doorstep, and naturally he had to fight the other party to hone himself.

"Damn it!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan actually charge toward him, fury surged even higher in Hanyue Wang's heart.

Whoosh!

A battle blade radiating a ghostly light instantly appeared in his hand, then with a single flap of the wings on his back, he instantly transformed into a bizarre streak of flowing light and charged toward Lu Qingshan.

Swoosh!

After closing in on Lu Qingshan, the battle blade radiating ghostly light in Hanyue Wang's hand directly carried overwhelming might as it slashed toward Lu Qingshan.

"Well met!"

Lu Qingshan's mind stirred, and he instantly deployed his sword art, which had long since reached the top-tier level.

In an instant, blade light was fierce and biting, sword radiance crossed the sky.

In the span of a short moment, Lu Qingshan had already exchanged over a hundred rounds with Hanyue Wang of the Tailed Race group.

"Hahaha, Hanyue Wang, your tricks are nothing special!" Lu Qingshan immediately transmitted to provoke Hanyue Wang, wanting to force him to bring out even stronger techniques to apply greater pressure on himself.

"This Lingjian Wang's methods are indeed formidable!"

Seeing his attacks easily blocked, Hanyue Wang was quite astonished in his heart: "Truly worthy of a powerhouse from a peak race — even with somewhat weaker law comprehension, he can still erupt with such terrifying strength! And this Lingjian Wang's most skilled soul attack methods haven't even been used yet!"

"However, even relying on these methods, you have no qualification to act arrogant before me!"

Hanyue Wang's mind stirred, and a large number of white threads instantly shot out from his hand, appearing somewhat similar to the silk of spider-type demon races, but in fact vastly different.

Streak after streak of threads cut across the long sky, even slicing open the cosmic space, leaving visible fissures.

The threads burst forth at extreme speed, instantly filling the surrounding void, then coiling toward Lu Qingshan from every direction — clearly intending to bind him first.

Seeing this, Lu Qingshan quickly employed movement techniques to dodge, while also swinging the longsword in his hand to sever the threads binding toward him.

But no matter how Lu Qingshan dodged, those white threads could pursue and intercept him, constantly compressing the space in which he could maneuver;

And although Lu Qingshan could use sword arts to sever those threads, the threads that regenerated were far more numerous than those he cut!

"Hmph!"

Seeing Lu Qingshan's room to maneuver constantly compressed, a smile couldn't help but appear on Hanyue Wang's face: "Ever since I stepped into the Immortal realm, what I've valued most is my race's innate secret art — I've even created battle secret arts to coordinate with the innate secret art, greatly amplifying its might!"

"If this Lingjian Wang doesn't burn immortal divine power, he definitely won't be able to break free!"

On the other side, after being continuously wrapped and bound by those white threads, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "The Tailed Race group truly lives up to its reputation as a powerful race — its methods are indeed extraordinary. If I don't burn immortal divine power, I really might not break out!"

At this thought, Lu Qingshan once again burned his immortal divine power.

Swoosh!

After burning immortal divine power, Lu Qingshan's strength instantly multiplied hundreds and thousands of times; with sword light sweeping in all directions, he instantly broke through the encirclement of those endless white threads.

And Hanyue Wang, upon seeing Lu Qingshan break through the white threads' encirclement, hesitated for a moment, unsure whether to continue fighting Lu Qingshan.

After all, Lu Qingshan had already burned immortal divine power, and the two were not far apart in strength — if he wanted to continue fighting, he would inevitably have to burn immortal divine power as well.

But just then……

"Hanyue Wang, your strength is indeed formidable, but take one strike from me as well!"

Lu Qingshan let out a fierce shout, then once again unleashed his top-tier soul attack secret art, *Soul-Slaying Sword*!

Hum!

The formless, intangible soul attack instantly shot toward Cold Moon King not far away!

The soul attack was incomparably fast; Cold Moon King had no way to dodge and could only choose to take the blow head-on.

But the moment Lu Qingshan's virtualized immortal divine power seeped into Cold Moon King's body, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

"Not good!"

"Break open for me!"

After sensing the terrifying might of Lu Qingshan's soul attack, Cold Moon King's entire will was roaring madly.

Boom!

Only when Cold Moon King burned his own immortal divine power did he completely block Lu Qingshan's soul attack.

"Too terrifying, truly too terrifying!"

At this moment, Cold Moon King's heart was already utterly shocked: "The might of this Spirit Sword King's soul attack is probably far more terrifying than the Demon Soul King I encountered before!"

Although he was a King-Sealing Limit expert, what he cultivated was a body-type amplification secret art, so in terms of soul defense, there was actually not much difference from an ordinary King-Sealing Peak expert.

Whoosh!

While unleashing the soul attack, Lu Qingshan, who had burned his immortal divine power, once again transformed into a streak of light and charged toward Cold Moon King.

"This Spirit Sword King's soul attack is this terrifying, and his physical attack is also very powerful!"

"Even if I burn my immortal divine power, I probably won't gain any advantage!"

Numerous thoughts flashed through Cold Moon King's mind: "Moreover, this Spirit Sword King is an expert of the human race; he might very well invite other experts from the same camp over, and when that time comes, I'll be the unlucky one!"

At this thought, although Cold Moon King was quite unwilling in his heart, he could only choose to leave.

Swish!

He only needed a thought, and before Lu Qingshan had even charged up to him, he teleported, vanishing into thin air on the spot!

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Cold Moon King forced back by him, a smile couldn't help but appear on Lu Qingshan's face.

One must know that Cold Moon King was a genuine King-Sealing Limit expert, and he still had quite a reputation on this second extraterritorial battlefield.

But now, he had voluntarily retreated from the battle against him, and that was without Lu Qingshan borrowing treasures like the Venerable Huoshen Source Crystal or special potions!

"Beyond doubt, my current strength can already be considered quite good even among King-Sealing Limit experts!"

"Especially when facing King-Sealing immortals who possess souls, my advantage will be even greater!"

Lu Qingshan waved his hand to take out a spaceship, then began to leave the battlefield, and afterward sat in the ship's control room pondering the shortcomings of the battle just now: "It's just a pity my comprehension of laws is still lacking a bit; if my law comprehension could reach the level of the twentieth level of the Tongtian Bridge, I probably would have been able to kill a King-Sealing Limit expert like Cold Moon King!"

"However, most King-Sealing Peak experts who cultivate space origin laws can teleport; among those King-Sealing immortals who once killed me, there were also several who could teleport!"

"If I want to deal with them in the future, I'll have to think of some countermeasures! Either find a teammate who can cast space lockdown, or, like Luo Feng in the original work, find a special treasure that can cast space lockdown!"

And just as Lu Qingshan was pondering these questions, he suddenly received a message sent by his third son, Lu Hongwen.

(End of this chapter)