Chapter 461

In this battle between Li Yuan, Yu Ting, and Dao Ying, both sides felt the opponent was difficult to deal with, so they did not engage in a true life-and-death struggle to the limit, and the point ranking did not change.

Naturally, other demigod geniuses did not yet know about this battle.

This is also the norm for the Battle of the Ancestral World; when demigod experts of very similar strength duel, to prevent other experts from picking up cheap gains, most stop when it's appropriate.

Only when one has absolute certainty will they continue the intense battle and pursuit.

But the eleven Heavenly Gods above the Ancestral World saw this battle clearly.

"Fighting one against two, Xu Yuan was actually able to hold the upper hand!"

"That Yu Ting is fine, his point ranking is at least in the top ten, but Dao Ying is only ranked twenty-eighth, yet he has such strong strength?"

"Both of them are more powerful than Jing Kui and Demigod Lian Yun." These Heavenly Gods were all somewhat moved.

The strength Yu Ting revealed before was only comparable to Jing Kui, or even slightly weaker.

Dao Ying had only revealed strength at the 54th level before, comparable to Xia Ju, He Feng, and others.

And the result? When truly encountering a strong enemy like Li Yuan, he erupted with such terrifying strength?

These Heavenly Gods did not know that Yu Ting and Dao Ying only had such strength by erupting with Origin Divine Weapons.

It's just that the Heavenly Gods were only watching from afar and could not observe so clearly.

Although Origin Divine Weapons are powerful, from the outside, they are no different from ordinary divine artifacts.

"The truly powerful one is still Xu Yuan!"

Heavenly God Yue Xia sighed: "In terms of domain, speed, phantom body, attack, and many other aspects, every one is extremely strong... Judging from the final battle situation, he should have been using soul attacks to influence Dao Ying and Yu Ting the whole time."

"Comprehensive strength."

"In terms of revealed strength, Xu Yuan is definitely number one." Heavenly God Yue Xia looked at Heavenly God Tai You: "He should be a nine-star pulse demigod."

This remark caused many Heavenly Gods to look at the three Heavenly Gods of Juexing Ancient City.

If it were before, these Heavenly Gods could not judge because they could not observe Li Yuan's internal state carefully due to the distance.

But through this battle between Li Yuan, Dao Ying, and Yu Ting, they had already glimpsed some clues.

Without a strong foundation in star techniques, how could one have so many proficient means?

Like other demigod experts, even if their Law comprehension is extremely high, most are only proficient in one or two aspects.

"Xu Yuan just awakened one more ninth-tier star pulse." Heavenly God Tai You denied it directly.

Knowing the guesses of the other Heavenly Gods, he still would not admit it directly.

Awakened one more ninth-tier star pulse? Many Heavenly Gods looked at each other, and two words appeared in their hearts — Ghost believes!!

They were all convinced that there was a 99% probability that Xu Yuan was a nine-star pulse demigod.

"Demigod nine-star pulse?" A trace of jealousy flashed in Dong Jun's eyes.

Such a peerless monster.

Why wasn't he from his Dongyou Holy Land?

"Tai You, you don't have to deny it; even if this Xu Yuan isn't a nine-star pulse, the difference isn't much."

"A demigod nine-star pulse is rarer than a Holy Blood Heavenly Snake." Heavenly God Qing Hong smiled: "Tai You, Zhuang Hong, Jiang Yuan, congratulations first; in the future, Juexing Ancient City can add another Heavenly God."

In the history of this world, anyone who awakened a nine-star pulse eventually became a Heavenly God.

"I hope everyone will show mercy." Heavenly God Tai You stopped arguing; he knew that saying more was useless.

The Heavenly Gods were speechless.

"Even if it's a nine-star pulse, being able to do this is also very exaggerated." Heavenly God Bei Fu suddenly said: "I observe the mystery of this Xu Yuan's spear technique; I estimate it is still a bit short of the eighth-stage high-tier (Void God limit) level."

"Just in terms of Law comprehension, his gap with other top-tier demigods is too large." Heavenly God Bei Fu shook his head.

"How long has he been cultivating? A nine-star pulse demigod also needs enough time to grow to the limit." Heavenly God Qing Hong said.

"Even Heavenly God Guyun cultivated for hundreds of years before possessing True God strength."

"If one wants to exert strength from Law comprehension, one must also comprehend combat secret techniques." Heavenly God Qing Hong smiled: "When the top hundred on the point ranking were the same age as Xu Yuan, I'm afraid they hadn't even become demigods."

"It can only be said that Xu Yuan is a bit unlucky." Heavenly God Zhuang Hong said: "The Battle of the Ancestral World doesn't wait for anyone; it seems that it is difficult for Xu Yuan to take first place."

Some Heavenly Gods nodded involuntarily.

In history, such things often happen; the first place in the Battle of the Ancestral World is usually the strongest in strength, but not necessarily the highest in talent.

Time has astonishing magic.

Like the many Heavenly Gods present, they were all extremely dazzling in terms of talent, but most did not take first place in the Ancestral World when they were young.

"Zhuang Hong, don't sell cheap after getting the advantage." Heavenly God Mo Hai said in a low voice: "This Xu Yuan is already number one in terms of comprehensive strength."

"Even if those mysterious little guys like Ning Chi and Yue Dao are hiding their strength, I don't think they can be stronger than Xu Yuan."

"His hope of taking first place in the Ancestral World is very great."

Li Yuan did not know about the arguments of the Heavenly Gods; he was still fully devoted to combat tempering.

Time passed.

Under full sensing, every once in a while, Li Yuan would run into other demigods.

So much time had passed, and the demigods who could survive all had some means; quite a few were even teaming up in groups of several or dozens, but they were still swept away by Li Yuan.

Even if he occasionally ran into genius experts ranked in the top thousand of the Ancestral World list, they were not a match for Li Yuan in one round.

Li Yuan did not run into opponents as powerful and terrifying as Dao Ying and Yu Ting again.

This day.

"Hmm? Any movement?"

Li Yuan sensed the fluctuations of heaven and earth and approached quickly, seeing the battle scene in the distance at a glance.

It was actually Demigod Bai Feng fighting intensely with two other powerful demigods.

Those two strange demigods, one was a fiery red bird, and the other was a bald man.

That fiery red bird radiated endless flames, its offensive was violently incomparable, and the flames diffused into the void, forming astonishing domain power, causing the temperature between heaven and earth to be much higher.

The bald man was holding a heavy staff, and every strike that came was as if it would tear heaven and earth apart.

Demigod Bai Feng held two long swords, the sword light like flowing water, trying his best to block.

It was just that these two demigods were powerful and incomparable, and under the domain restraint, they made it impossible for him to escape.

"Bai Feng is actually at a disadvantage?" Li Yuan saw the situation clearly and sensed the aura fluctuations emitted by the three fighting: "It's the 'Fire Luan Divine Beast Clan' of the Heavenly Snake Ancient City; it should be 'Demigod Huo Xiu', ranked 138th on the point ranking."

There are not many Fire Luan Divine Beasts, and it is even rarer for their strength to reach the Void God mid-tier in the current generation.

Therefore, even without receiving the message, Li Yuan could judge their identity.

As for the bald man?

"'Demigod Ao Ming', ranked 68th? He hasn't even revealed his true form yet." Li Yuan thought to himself.

Demigod Ao Ming, the peerless genius of this generation of the Divine Dragon Clan second only to Demigod Ao Feng.

Most so-called divine beast bloodlines are only born with 'five-star pulses', and their Law comprehension can reach the Void God level after growing normally for hundreds of years... destined to become Void Gods.

But ordinary divine beasts cannot be compared with demigod geniuses ranked in the top ten thousand of the Battle of the Ancestral World.

These two divine beasts were both top-tier geniuses of their respective clans, and neither was inferior to Bai Feng, and joining forces was even more terrifying.

"If the battle continues, Bai Feng is afraid he will be forced to teleport away." Li Yuan thought to himself.

Whoosh!

Li Yuan was like a gust of wind, whistling as he approached.

Although he had no good feelings for Demigod Bai Feng, the previous struggle between the two was 'internal strife in Juexing Ancient City'.

Now encountering an external enemy, they should naturally unite.

In fact, walking all the way here, Li Yuan had already saved some Divine Fire Hall members... quite a few demigods even wanted to travel with Li Yuan, but were rejected directly by him.

Teammates without Void God limit strength were all burdens to Li Yuan.

The three powerful demigods had already fought to a critical moment.

"I encountered Lian Yun before and had already teleported once." Demigod Bai Feng gritted his teeth: "I have been very careful, yet I encountered such a great disaster again."

Because he was forced to teleport once, Demigod Bai Feng's ranking was now only 162nd.

If he teleported again, not only would he lose an opportunity, but I'm afraid his ranking would fall out of the top three hundred.

Therefore, Demigod Bai Feng was still struggling, hoping to find a way to survive.

"Huo Xiu, restrain him with your domain, be patient." Demigod Ao Ming, the bald man, transmitted: "I will come to restrain him head-on and force him to teleport away."

"Okay." Demigod Huo Xiu nodded.

The two had absolute confidence, and they believed that in such a short time, the probability of other powerful demigods passing by was very, very low.

Just at this moment —

"Two friends, you've been here for so long, do you still want to hide?" A cold voice transmitted through spatial fluctuations.

The person had not arrived, but the voice had.

Until this moment, the void trembled, and a black-clothed youth holding a long spear slashed across the long sky and came.

The speed was frighteningly fast.

"Hmm?"

Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming turned to look at the same time, and seeing the black-clothed youth, their expressions changed: "Xu Yuan? Xu Yuan ranked fifth?"

Li Yuan did not change his face at all.

Therefore, they recognized him at a glance.

"Xu Yuan?" Demigod Bai Feng was somewhat shocked and somewhat ashamed; he had made things difficult for Xu Yuan before.

"Xu Yuan."

"Be careful, the head-on combat strength of these two is not inferior to mine." Demigod Bai Feng transmitted quickly.

He knew Li Yuan was ranked extremely high, but he didn't know how strong Li Yuan's head-on combat strength was now.

Fast speed and strong soul attacks do not mean physical attacks are strong.

"Run!"

"Go." Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming looked at each other and retreated violently.

In the information they knew before, Li Yuan was good at soul attacks, but being able to rush into the top ten of the point ranking made them unable to figure him out.

Naturally, they were unwilling to take more risks.

"Want to leave?"

Li Yuan stepped through the void and blocked their path, followed by the eruption of the Heaven and Earth River domain.

Strands of earthy-yellow airflow swept out.

Under the suppression of the Heaven and Earth River domain, Demigod Huo Xiu's flame domain instantly collapsed, and the power of the flames and the Fire Law were all annihilated.

Even Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming were directly suppressed, and their speed plummeted.

"What?"

"Such a powerful domain?" Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming were shocked and nervous to the extreme.

In their expectations, Li Yuan's physical attacks would not be as weak as the information suggested, but they did not expect them to be this strong.

"Just in terms of domain, this Xu Yuan is the strongest demigod I have ever seen." Demigod Huo Xiu gritted her teeth.

She had always boasted of being good at domains, and in the Heavenly Snake Ancient City, she was in the top ten of the demigod list.

But in front of Li Yuan's Heaven and Earth River domain, the domain star technique she cultivated was like a joke.

"Xu Yuan." Demigod Bai Feng in the distance stared with wide eyes, about to fly forward.

"No need to come over." Li Yuan's voice sounded in his mind: "You will interfere with my battle."

Demigod Bai Feng felt aggrieved, but had to admit that what Li Yuan said was the truth.

"I don't want to kill you." Li Yuan smiled: "Admit defeat voluntarily and activate the teleportation."

"But if you want to fight, then life and death will be unpredictable."

This had almost become Li Yuan's catchphrase; he would give every hostile demigod one chance.

Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming's eyes twitched as they heard this.

Too condescending.

Boom! Boom!

Demigod Huo Xiu and Demigod Ao Ming were also decisive people; they transformed into two streams of light and fled separately.

With their strength at the 54th level, the Heaven and Earth River domain could only suppress them.

They thought very clearly: "You Xu Yuan are powerful, but can you chase down both of us at the same time?"

Li Yuan shook his head.

Swish! Taking a step, Li Yuan's figure blurred, and he had already rushed to kill Demigod Huo Xiu.

"Damn it!"

"Coming for me?" Demigod Huo Xiu gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with madness, and her huge flame body suddenly looked up and roared wildly.

"Ang~"

A terrifying sharp whistle resonated through the long sky, followed by long shuttles covering the sky and killing their way over.

A full thirty-six long shuttles intertwined, like a large net, completely enveloping Li Yuan.

"Divine artifact set? So many divine artifacts, even if they aren't Origin Divine Weapons." Li Yuan nodded secretly: "But if they are combat secret techniques that fit Demigod Huo Xiu, the power is not bad."

"Whoosh!"

Li Yuan did not avoid it at all, twisted the long spear in his hand, and smashed it over fiercely.

Those thirty-six flame long shuttles had monstrous momentum.

But in front of Li Yuan's long spear, they were as fragile as a castle made of building blocks.

"Bang!"

A spear sweep, and the thirty-six flame long shuttles exploded, collapsing completely.

The simplest move, yet it contained the most terrifying power.

"What?"

"This set of magic treasures of mine cost a huge price, and I asked the ancestor to refine it specially; combined with myself, the ancestor said it is definitely more suitable for me than 99% of top-grade Void Divine Artifacts." Demigod Huo Xiu was incredulous: "Even the first demigod of Juexing Ancient City, Jing Kui, couldn't smash it with one strike."

"What kind of strength is this Xu Yuan?"

Such a set of divine artifact magic treasures is worth ten thousand divine crystals, but for Demigod Huo Xiu, ten thousand divine crystals couldn't buy it.

Suitable weapons are hard to come by.

"Still not admitting defeat?" Li Yuan looked at Demigod Huo Xiu again: "Then, don't blame me if you die."

Boom!

The silver long spear thrust out again; this spear was fast to the extreme, and the momentum was even more terrifying, with the void rippling like flowing water.

"Not good." Demigod Huo Xiu felt fear in her heart and directly activated the boundary order on her wrist.

Survival is paramount.

Hum~ Demigod Huo Xiu disappeared from where she stood.

"One left."

Li Yuan's gaze fell on the bald man fleeing crazily; Demigod Ao Ming had already rushed out of his domain range.

"Huo Xiu admitted defeat just like that?" Demigod Ao Ming's heart trembled: "Not good, Xu Yuan is coming."

In his expectations, if Li Yuan wanted to defeat Demigod Huo Xiu, he should have at least escaped several thousand kilometers.

But now, he had escaped less than three hundred kilometers.

"Chih!" Demigod Ao Ming subconsciously activated the boundary order directly; he only felt the space in front of him faintly distort, a light flashed, and he had already left this area.

Teleportation successful?

But the next instant.

"Hum~" Silently, Demigod Ao Ming's consciousness was annihilated.

He was dead!

"This? What's going on? Why didn't Ao Ming fight back at all, letting Xu Yuan's divine spear smash his head?" Demigod Bai Feng stared at this scene, dumbfounded.

In his line of sight, the moment Demigod Huo Xiu fled for her life, Demigod Ao Ming's eyes became dim, as if he had completely sunk, and he stopped directly in the void.

Then, Li Yuan rushed over, and a long spear silently slashed across, like a strand of silk, directly piercing Demigod Ao Ming's head.

Death!

"Is it a soul attack?" Demigod Bai Feng was secretly startled: "Demigod Ao Ming didn't wake up until he was near death?"

Demigod Bai Feng felt his heart tremble at Li Yuan's means.

He had already realized that after not seeing him for many years, Li Yuan's physical means had not only reached an unimaginable level, but his soul attacks had also become more bizarre and terrifying.

In the void.

Hum~ Centered on Li Yuan, a radius of several hundred kilometers was enveloped by invisible soul power.

"Got caught so easily?" Li Yuan couldn't help but be stunned.

When he was fighting Demigod Huo Xiu just now, he had used soul attacks to envelop Demigod Ao Ming.

He thought the other party could block it, but as a result, he sank directly.

Even when encountering Li Yuan's physical attacks, he didn't wake up until he was completely annihilated.

"It seems."

"I was misled by Dao Ying and Yu Ting, somewhat underestimating the power of my soul attacks." Li Yuan thought thoughtfully: "Although I haven't cultivated the True God-level soul secret technique, triggering a trace of the 'Dream World Stone' power has indeed caused my soul attack power to erupt."

"These peerless demigods are not stronger in soul defense than the Void God limit experts I encountered before."

"Once erupted, even the 'Demigod Holy Son' of the Heavenly Snake Ancient City has no power to resist."

It's not that his soul attack is not strong enough.

"It's that Dao Ying and Yu Ting's soul defense is too strong, even stronger than I imagined." Li Yuan thought thoughtfully: "Even True God experts, if they are not good at the soul path, I'm afraid they couldn't directly kill them with soul attacks."

"How did they do it?" Many doubts flashed through Li Yuan's mind.

Like Li Yuan himself, even though he has been constantly tempering for these years and studying soul mysteries deeper through "Six Realms of Mind Illusion," his soul has always remained at the Void God level... wanting to cultivate into a True God-level soul secret technique is also extremely difficult.

If the soul is not strong enough, one cannot truly drive the Dao treasure Dream World Stone.

Similarly.

For a demigod, even with soul defense divine artifacts guarding, unless the soul will reaches the True God level, the soul defense should have a limit.

"Could it be."

"Those newly emerged demigod geniuses also have Dao treasures similar to the Dream World Stone like me?" Li Yuan thought to himself, but felt it was not very realistic: "Or did they all cultivate special secret techniques?"

"Or soul-type Origin Divine Weapons?" Li Yuan could not distinguish which situation it was.

Whoosh~

Li Yuan waved his hand to collect the many treasures left by Demigod Ao Ming, feeling the message transmitted by the purple light on his wrist: "Oh? The points are quite a lot, actually pushing me to fourth place."

Killing an opponent can acquire all points!

However, the higher the ranking, the more astonishing the point gap... Li Yuan also didn't know how many points the top three had.

"Take it slow."

"There are still three months." Li Yuan looked at Demigod Bai Feng again and transmitted: "Bai Feng, be careful yourself, I'm leaving first."

Whoosh!

Li Yuan had already quietly gone far away, leaving behind the somewhat lonely Bai Feng.

"More than six years ago."

"Xu Yuan's soul attack could only influence me, and one attack would make me wake up." Demigod Bai Feng sighed: "At that time, his physical attacks were weaker, and he was defeated by Yan Dong in a few moves... Now his soul attack is much more terrifying, and his physical attacks are even more capable of defeating Demigod Huo Xiu, who is not inferior to me, in two moves..."

"His strength."

"Should have surpassed Jing Kui."

"This progress speed? Simply unimaginable." Demigod Bai Feng sighed, and he was also full of gratitude that Li Yuan came to save him regardless of previous suspicions.

Above the Ancestral World.

"This kid, he could have completely not killed Ao Ming." Heavenly God Mo Hai frowned slightly.

"Mo Hai, Xu Yuan was very merciful, he gave him a chance to live." Heavenly God Jiang Yuan glanced at him: "If you want to blame someone, blame Ao Ming for not grasping it himself."

"Hmph." Heavenly God Mo Hai snorted coldly and said no more.

Heavenly God Mo Hai did not know... the reason Li Yuan chose to be ruthless to Demigod Ao Ming was also due to some remarks by Liu Bing before.

At that time, Liu Bing was gnashing her teeth with hatred for Ao Ming and Ao Feng, obviously having suffered losses at their hands.

"Ao Ming was eliminated from the Ancestral World?"

"Or did he fall?" The change in the Ancestral World list immediately attracted the attention of many interested people.

"Ao Ming's ranking never dropped sharply before, indicating he had never activated teleportation... Now that his points are cleared, it can only mean — he is dead." Many demigods judged.

Demigod Ao Ming was dead.

"The murderer should be Xu Yuan! The moment Ao Ming died, he rushed from fifth to fourth on the total list; it is highly probable that it was him."

"Xu Yuan killed Ao Ming?" None of these powerful demigods were fools; through the simple changes in the Ancestral World list, they inferred the approximate battle result.

In a mountain range.

"Xu Yuan!"

"Xu Yuan, ah ah ah! Damn Xu Yuan!" A huge black dragon erupted with hysterical low roars, his huge dragon eyes scarlet, and his heart filled with endless anger.

He was the first demigod of the Divine Dragon Clan of this generation — Ao Feng.

"My brother." Demigod Ao Feng roared, the killing intent emitted almost condensing into substance: "I will definitely avenge you, I will definitely kill Xu Yuan."

He and Ao Ming grew up together since childhood; although they were not blood brothers, they were like brothers.

In the last three months of the first stage of the Battle of the Ancestral World, in order to compete for point rankings, all demigods fought more and more crazily.

Some super geniuses who had been hiding their strength were constantly popping up.

But among the many demigods, the name Xu Yuan was definitely the most dazzling one.

He was no longer focused on cultivation like in the first half of the year, but truly revealed the terrifying strength recognized by all Heavenly Gods as 'promising first place'.

Three days after killing Ao Ming.

Li Yuan encountered a joint attack by three demigod experts ranked 89th, 111th, and 206th.

As a result, the three demigods, one died and two fled.

...... Seven days after killing Ao Ming.

Li Yuan encountered a hundred-person demigod team, among which more than ten were powerful demigods ranked in the top 1000; in this battle, sixty-four demigod experts died in battle.

After this battle, Li Yuan surpassed Jing Kui and became third on the point ranking.

...... Eighteen days after killing Ao Ming.

Li Yuan encountered the peerless demigod Kuang Fu ranked 'thirteenth', which was also a strange genius who had never appeared in the information.

He also erupted with Void God limit strength, not inferior to Dao Ying at all.

But he was alone; after the two sides fought fiercely for over a thousand moves, the battlefield lasted for over ten thousand kilometers, and he was defeated by Li Yuan and forced to use the boundary order to teleport.

...... Twenty-nine days after killing Ao Ming.

Li Yuan encountered 'Yun in the Painting' ranked tenth, who was a beautiful girl, beautiful beyond words.

Her strength was also terrifying.

But the result was the same; after a fierce battle, she was defeated by Li Yuan and forced to teleport away.

In this battle, Li Yuan surpassed Liu Bing and became second on the point ranking.

Forty-eight days after defeating Ao Ming.

Li Yuan encountered the first expert of the Divine Dragon Clan 'Ao Feng', who was also the first demigod of the Heavenly Snake Ancient City.

Enemies meet, eyes are extra red.

But the final battle result was that Demigod Ao Feng was miserably defeated; facing Li Yuan's soul attack... he resisted extremely difficultly.

His strength was greatly affected, so after only ten or so moves, Ao Feng was defeated.

It can even be said that if he hadn't escaped quickly, I'm afraid he would have been defeated and died.

Li Yuan also completely surpassed Demigod Ning Chi through this battle, ranking first on the point ranking!

(End of chapter)