Chapter 312: Half-step Immortal King? Too weak!

The starry sky was deathly silent.

Gu Yuan wore the Doomsday Dao Aura of the Twilight Immortal King, his hands tucked inside his wide sleeves, strolling leisurely toward the two black-robed figures.

"Both of you." Gu Yuan spoke.

His tone was drawn out, carrying a hint of laziness and lofty arrogance.

The gazes of the two black-robed figures were like substantive blades, scraping over Gu Yuan's body.

"You've overstepped, haven't you?" Gu Yuan stopped a hundred zhang away.

The black-robed figures fixed their eyes on the decaying, decrepit Doomsday Law emanating from Gu Yuan, a hint of doubt showing from beneath their hoods.

"Doomsday Law—are you the Twilight Immortal King?" the left black-robed figure said, his tone turning cold, without relaxing his guard.

Gu Yuan neither confirmed nor denied, merely letting out a light chuckle.

That laugh was mixed with undisguised mockery.

"Twilight Immortal King, the Lord sent you to the Myriad Medicine Great World to execute the Extinction Source Plan—why have you appeared in Trial Field 1044?" the right black-robed figure stepped forward, his palm already faintly gathering Law Power.

Gu Yuan seized the key information from the other's words.

The Lord, the Extinction Source Plan.

Sure enough, they are Extinction Source emissaries.

They belong to the same faction as the Faceless Immortal King and the Thousand-Mouthed Immortal King encountered earlier in the Myriad Medicine Great World.

These people are like locusts in the universe, specifically seeking out promising great worlds to harvest.

Gu Yuan met their gazes, his posture growing ever more relaxed.

"Something went wrong over in the Myriad Medicine Great World. That faceless good-for-nothing botched the job and kicked up a hornet's nest."

Gu Yuan casually spouted nonsense, dragging the Faceless Immortal King out as a scapegoat,

"I happened to come here to replenish some origin and heal my wounds. Do I even need to report this to you?"

The left black-robed figure let out a cold snort.

"Full of lies."

The black-robed figure raised his hand, pointing at Gu Yuan.

"That Twilight Immortal King's true form entered the Immortal King realm a hundred thousand years ago; your aura is at most a half-step Immortal King. Moreover, this Doomsday Dao aura resembles but is not the true thing—it lacks the genuine deathly aura of one who has truly experienced world destruction."

"Most importantly… the Twilight Immortal King is dead! Tell me, who exactly are you!"

He had been seen through.

Gu Yuan was not surprised.

Although the Myriad Dao Time-light Lamp could perfectly mimic aura, his own cultivation was only at the Ten Boundaries Virtual God Realm, relying on his inner world's support to possess combat power comparable to a half-step Immortal King.

Such a gap in actual strength is easily exposed in the eyes of peers of the same level.

Gu Yuan dispersed the disguise on his body's surface.

The Doomsday Dao aura receded like a tide, and a spotless white robe reappeared against the starry sky.

"Not bad eyesight." Gu Yuan patted nonexistent dust.

The two black-robed figures ceased talking.

Since they are not comrades, they are a variable that could ruin the trial field; killing intent instantly locked onto Gu Yuan.

The right black-robed figure made the first move. He raised his right hand, and a cluster of pure black flame ignited in his palm.

Extinction Source Black Flame.

This flame possesses no trace of heat; its medium is not matter, but space and the Grand Dao.

The black flame shot forth, swelling against the wind, transforming into a black fire dragon tens of thousands of zhang long, lunging straight at Gu Yuan's face.

Wherever the fire dragon passed, the starry sky was burned into an irreparable vacuum rift, even the most fundamental physical constants collapsing under this black flame.

Gu Yuan stood his ground, not retreating but advancing.

Within his dantian, the perfect great world supported by the World Tree operated at full speed.

Gu Yuan opened a corner of his inner world.

A World Tree phantom connecting heaven and earth shot up behind Gu Yuan; its iridescent, multicolored branches and leaves instantly obscured the starlight of this star region.

Each leaf bore the birth-and-death cycle of a miniature world.

Chaotic currents poured forth along the World Tree's vast roots, like a heavenly river of nine heavens.

The fire dragon formed from the Extinction Source Black Flame slammed head-on into the chaotic currents.

There was no stalemate of equal force, nor a heaven-shaking energy explosion.

The Extinction Source Black Flame, touted as able to devour all Dao, withered the instant it contacted the World Tree's chaotic origin.

Like a drop of ink falling into a vast ocean, unable to raise even a ripple.

The World Tree's roots probed out of the void, ruthlessly piercing into the black flame's interior.

Reverse devouring.

The black-robed figures' prideful killing move became excellent fertilizer for the World Tree's evolution of the inner world.

That destructive power capable of burning through cosmic barriers was forcibly dismantled and absorbed by the World Tree's creative law, transformed into the purest nourishment.

"Impossible!" the right black-robed figure exclaimed.

Even a true Immortal King would have to retreat three leagues from his Extinction Source Black Flame.

This white-clad youth before them, who hasn't even reached the Immortal King realm, actually used some unfathomable method to consume the black flame as a tonic?

Gu Yuan flicked his sleeve.

"Is that all your Lord taught you, this petty trick?"

Gu Yuan raised his right hand, fingers splayed.

The creative law of his inner world launched a dimensionality-reduction strike against this starry sky of the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm.

The surrounding tens of thousands of miles of space was forcibly taken over by Gu Yuan.

Two half‑step Immortal King‑rank extinction‑source envoys were horrified to discover that the flow of magical energy within their bodies had fallen into an extremely sluggish state.

The surrounding laws no longer responded to their summons.

They became prisoners beneath this starry sky.

Gu Yuan formed a fist in the air.

"Next, it's my turn to ask a question."

The black‑robed man on the left reacted instantly. He knew they had hit a dead end today, and without hesitation he bit his own tongue, spitting out a mouthful of black blood that contained the primal source.

The black blood transformed in the starry sky into a rustic black shield, its surface engraved with countless faces writhing in pain.

"Go!" the black‑robed man on the left shouted.

The two bodies recoiled violently, attempting to tear through Gu Yuan's spatial seal and flee back into the depths of the universe.

"Since you're already here, what's the hurry?"

Gu Yuan took a step forward. The ground shrank to an inch.

He outright ignored that strange black shield, and his body materialized out of thin air on the retreat path of the two black‑robed men.

Gu Yuan held out his fingers like a sword.

The ageless immortal body, unyielding through ten thousand eons, combined with the domineering power of the inner world, transformed into a blade of sword qi that spanned the starry sky.

The sword qi had no flashy effects. It was simply swift. Simply sharp.

The black shield the left black‑robed man conjured could not even sustain half a breath, and was split in two by the sword qi.

The faces on the shield's surface let out a mournful scream, turning into flying ash.

The sword qi, undiminished, directly sliced off the right arm of the left black‑robed man.

The dark red blood sprayed into the vacuum, instantly frozen by extreme cold into ice crystals.

"Ah—" the left black‑robed man let out a muffled groan.

The black‑robed man on the right, seeing this, drew a white‑bone long spear from his storage space.

The spear tip, wrapped in dense death aura, thrust straight into Gu Yuan's heart.

Gu Yuan had no desire to dodge.

He extended his left hand, his index and middle fingers precisely pinching the spear tip of the white‑bone spear.

The death aura surged along the spear shaft toward Gu Yuan's arm, attempting to corrode his flesh.

Within Gu Yuan, the medicinal doctrine left by the Ten Thousand Elixir Divine Lord automatically activated.

The immortal body erupted with a massive force of life and creation, forcibly purifying those death auras.

"Too weak."

This is nowhere near the combat power of a half‑step Immortal King.

At best, it's only a mid‑stage true immortal.