Chapter 429: Cold Ice Divine Light

Hou Ziang definitely has an opportunity for resurrection through a substitute.

Therefore, Xu Jin needs to wait!

If he can completely annihilate the seventh-tier Hou Ziang of the Wood Spirit Palace here, it will save Xu Jin countless troubles.

Once Hou Ziang is dead, who would know that this Thunder-type Divine Dao True Meaning has fallen into Xu Jin's hands?

But if Hou Ziang does not die and brings this news back, once there is an opportunity, the Wood Spirit Palace Master will likely search for Xu Jin across the heavens and the earth, and will certainly try every means to kill Xu Jin to obtain the Divine Dao True Meaning.

As a top-tier peak eighth-tier powerhouse who might break through to the ninth tier at any time in the future, Xu Jin still needs to be extremely careful.

The Huang Long Sword flickered with brilliance; above his head, a cluster of five-colored thunder light, resembling a star, had already emerged.

In less than half a breath's time, a cluster of starlight emerged from high in the sky.

After using the substitute opportunity, Hou Ziang appeared once again.

When he appeared, he was still in his original position.

The moment he appeared, Hou Ziang activated his divine sense and instantly located Xu Jin's position.

Almost at the same time, the rumbling sound of thunder crashed down onto the top of Hou Ziang's head.

The Five Elements Divine Thunder struck down, directly blasting the newly appeared Hou Ziang from the sky.

It also destroyed all the protective starlight and the Thunder Shield that the early seventh-tier Hou Ziang had just activated with all his might.

Under the terrifying Five Elements Divine Thunder, Hou Ziang was blasted down from the horizon, his body charred black.

But it was only a blast-down; it did not kill him instantly.

The next instant, before the sound barrier boom could ring out again, wherever the golden light passed, the early seventh-tier Hou Ziang directly disintegrated into specks of starlight.

Second kill!

Xu Jin's gaze shifted slightly; the power of the Five Elements Divine Thunder was indeed very strong.

One strike could heavily injure the early seventh-tier Hou Ziang, who lacked the protection of Seven-Star Spirit Armor; although it didn't kill him instantly, it was already very strong.

It was worthy of being a high-tier special star technique brought by the eighth-tier-plus Lei Lei Yuanxing Pattern.

Of course, the role of the eighth-tier-plus Lei Lei Xiangxing Pattern also contributed significantly.

Xu Jin estimated that once his cultivation base improved by another two or three layers, his Five Elements Divine Thunder would have the ability to kill Hou Ziang in one strike.

And Hou Ziang was one of the world's top seventh-tier elites, with strength far exceeding that of ordinary seventh-tier elites.

After the second kill, Xu Jin stood guard in place once again, gathering his strength and waiting!

The Huang Long Sword flickered with a faint light, and the Five Elements Divine Thunder had already condensed, ready to strike and kill at any moment.

As long as Hou Ziang appeared again, Xu Jin had a one-hundred-percent certainty of killing him.

Because of the corpse-guarding, he couldn't even use his life-saving space emblem.

The shattered starlight re-gathered, and countless specks of starlight appeared before the Wood Spirit Palace disciple Hou Ziang.

After the substitute, should he choose to continue or leave?

After the first death, Hou Ziang had chosen to continue without hesitation.

That was because he had two substitute opportunities.

But he hadn't expected the second death to be faster and more direct than the first.

So what about this second time?

Should he continue?

In an instant, Hou Ziang's heart felt as if it were being tightly gripped by a pair of invisible hands, as if he couldn't even breathe.

Suffocation!

The suffocating fear brought by death!

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Hou Ziang's mind.

If he chose to continue, could he snatch back this Divine Dao True Meaning?

Or rather, could he survive?

As his thoughts raced, Hou Ziang reached a conclusion: No!

Moreover, he had been struck by that terrifying Five Elements Divine Thunder and was already heavily injured.

Even if he used the substitute to resurrect, the heavy injuries would remain, and his state would be even worse than after the first death.

The Seven-Star Spirit Armor was also shattered!

In his normal state, he would definitely die!

If he wanted to save his life, he had to use his life-saving treasures and strike first.

But the problem was, did he have the opportunity?

Whether it was the space displacement emblem or the killing weapon bestowed by his master that could heavily injure a seventh-tier expert, he could use either.

But was there an opportunity to use them?

In a flash, Hou Ziang recalled the process of being killed by Xu Jin for the second time.

It seemed he hadn't even had the opportunity to use his life-saving treasures.

As soon as he appeared, he was blasted into a heavy injury by a single strike, and the thunder light directly paralyzed his whole body, causing him to lose the ability to move quickly.

In fact, even if he had the ability to move quickly, it would have been too late.

That guy's consecutive kills were too fast!

In an instant, Hou Ziang hesitated between his master's scolding and disappointment and his own death.

If he chose to return directly, his master would be very disappointed in him, might even scold him, and call him a coward.

But conversely, he would die!

If he died, everything would be gone.

Just as he was hesitating, starlight flickered before Hou Ziang's eyes, and information appeared.

【The selection time has been exceeded; you will be sent out of the Seven Kills Secret Realm directly. You have been eliminated.】

Seeing this starlight information appear before his eyes, Hou Ziang actually breathed a sigh of relief.

No need to struggle anymore.

Someone had made the choice for him.

In fact, this was also his own choice.

Inside the Seven Kills Secret Realm, Xu Jin waited in place for three breaths, but Hou Ziang's figure did not appear again.

This made Xu Jin quite surprised.

The disciple of the Wood Spirit Palace Master wasn't up to the task; he was inferior to the disciple of the Grand Void Gate Master.

He didn't even dare to fight for his life.

He just shrank back directly.

Xu Jin also felt some regret; he had been a bit too impatient just now.

Impatient to quickly snatch other Divine Dao True Meanings, he had been too ruthless against Hou Ziang.

So ruthless that Hou Ziang himself felt there was no chance, and thus wouldn't use his second substitute opportunity to return.

If he had acted a bit more mediocre, letting this guy see an opportunity, perhaps there would have been a possibility of luring him to his death.

At this point, it was already too late.

But he could execute similar tactics later.

Of course, from Xu Jin's perspective, the psychological manipulation the Grand Void Gate Master used on his disciple was powerful enough.

The Wood Spirit Palace Master was a bit inferior in this regard.

But for their disciples, it might not be a bad thing!

Yet for Xu Jin, it was slightly troublesome.

It seemed that the fact that he had obtained the Thunder-type Divine Dao True Meaning could no longer be hidden!

However, Xu Jin was not afraid.

He now had the strength to deal with seventh-tier elites like Hou Ziang.

Once his strength improved further, he would be able to save his life in front of eighth-tier experts.

If the Thunder-type Divine Dao True Meaning could allow him to advance further in Thunder-type star techniques, that would be even better.

The next instant, Xu Jin suddenly stepped on the stars and rose, activating the Law Stars on the Arena Platform while rushing toward the nearest Divine Dao True Meaning.

The second Divine Dao True Meaning Xu Jin most wanted to obtain was the Earth-type, but the Earth-type Divine Dao True Meaning was a bit further away from Xu Jin; at this very moment, the one closest to Xu Jin was the Fire-type Divine Dao True Meaning.

That was also fine.

After obtaining the Fire-type Divine Dao True Meaning, whether for his own use or to give to the Grand Master, it would be very good.

With a sharp flap of his lightning wings and a flicker of thunder, Xu Jin charged toward the direction where the Divine Dao intent of the fire element was located.

It was not far; he arrived in about a quarter of an hour.

From afar, Xu Jin saw starlight shining in that direction, the star power as brilliant as fireworks.

It was someone locked in a great battle.

It seemed someone had already arrived, though he did not know if anyone had obtained the Divine Dao intent of the fire element.

Two breaths later, Xu Jin's gaze suddenly sharpened.

At the site of the battle, there was no longer any sign of the Seven Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's phantom.

Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie and the Academy Head Dong Zhao were fighting against Watching Zhang Lin of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace! What surprised Xu Jin even more was that Watching Zhang Lin was actually holding the upper hand.

Song Shoujie and Academy Head Dong Zhao were not only being suppressed, but both were also quite heavily injured.

Dong Zhao's aura was fluctuating, while Song Shoujie was charred black all over, his aura weak and unstable; he had even lost an arm, having just reattached his severed limb using star power—if he used a mid-tier star healing technique, the arm could be reconnected.

If it dragged on too long, he would be left disabled.

Logically, Academy Head Dong Zhao possessed the combat strength to challenge a seventh-tier expert while being at a lower realm, and Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie's strength was also extraordinary; even if they were slightly weaker than Watching Zhang Lin, they shouldn't have been beaten to this state.

At this very moment, Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie had already been frozen to the ground, and Dong Zhao was in no better shape.

It wouldn't be long before Watching Zhang Lin killed them both!

Almost at the same instant, all three of them saw Xu Jin's arrival.

Dong Zhao felt a surge of joy.

Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie felt a moment of joy, but then a bitter smile appeared on his face—he wouldn't be of much use!

Seeing Xu Jin, Watching Zhang Lin laughed loudly, "You've come at the right time; I'll just kill you all together!"

At the same time, the Star Tower above Watching Zhang Lin's head emitted endless cold light, and spear after spear of ice bombarded Song Shoujie and Dong Zhao as if they were inexhaustible.

Even if blocked, the ice spears would shatter into ice, instantly causing Watching Zhang Lin's ice domain to grow even stronger.

The larger the ice domain, the stronger Watching Zhang Lin's combat power became.

Within the Heavenly Yang Star Palace, Watching Zhang Lin belonged to the type of fighter who grew stronger the longer he fought.

The longer the time dragged on, the more advantageous it was for him!

Song Shoujie's injuries were even heavier than Xu Jin had imagined; after blocking just two spears, he vomited blood wildly, and Dong Zhao was also in extreme distress, with endless frost energy attacking from all directions, causing Dong Zhao's condition to worsen by the second!

This bizarre scene made Xu Jin afraid to be too reckless!

Being able to jointly injure Song Shoujie and Dong Zhao to this extent meant that Watching Zhang Lin possessed a super-powerful killing move.

If Xu Jin rushed in rashly, he might be taken advantage of.

The next instant, as Xu Jin's lightning wings vibrated, he moved at high speed, and bolt after bolt of Bing Fire Divine Thunder bombarded Watching Zhang Lin.

In an instant, the pressure on Song Shoujie and Dong Zhao plummeted!

Even as a top-tier genius of the Heavenly Yang Star Palace, Watching Zhang Lin had to handle Xu Jin's Bing Fire Divine Thunder with caution.

At the same time, Xu Jin quickly communicated with Academy Head Dong Zhao; he had to first probe Watching Zhang Lin's true strength.

"Marquis Luoshui specializes in the wind element and is extremely fast; he was the first to find the Seven Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's phantom here and attacked with all his might. To seize the time, he used a tactic of trading injuries for injuries.

In the shortest possible time, he paid a heavy price to finish off the Seven Kill Tianyang Zhenjun's phantom, but just as he did, Watching Zhang Lin arrived.

Watching Zhang Lin took the opportunity to heavily injure the already wounded Marquis Luoshui.

I arrived just in time, and originally, by joining forces with the Marquis, we could still suppress Watching Zhang Lin.

Unexpectedly, this wretch threw out a Ten Thousand Refinement Cold Star Bead, once again heavily injuring me and the Marquis.

I highly suspect that this wretch's Ten Thousand Refinement Cold Star Bead has the blessing of the Heavenly Yang Tianyang Xingjun.

You be careful."

The Ten Thousand Refinement Cold Star Bead is a special type of ice star art.

It is created by accumulating ice energy over a long period, refining and storing it, and then keeping it in a Sumeru space to be used as a life-saving measure at critical moments.

Usually, only ice energy and thunder energy can be refined and stored using this special method.

It takes a very long time.

At the same time, there is an upper limit.

The upper limit for a seventh-tier early-stage cultivator is seventh-tier.

In reality, it is essentially refining a one-time-use star core.

It is extremely time-consuming and laborious.

When unleashed, it can erupt with a full-force strike equivalent to a seventh-tier early-stage expert.

Normally, it would be impossible to heavily injure both Marquis Luoshui and Dong Zhao simultaneously.

That is why Dong Zhao said it had the blessing of the Heavenly Yang Tianyang Xingjun.

Almost at the same time, the voice transmission of Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie rang out in Xu Jin's mind.

【Qi Qi Tian Sheng, I observe that your speed is quite fast; you must immediately take the fire-element Divine Dao intent from Dong Zhao's hands, and Dong Zhao and I will do our utmost to hold Watching Zhang Lin back for you.

While you flee, wrap and refine the fire-element Divine Dao intent preliminarily, and after storing it in your Sumeru space, commit suicide to return, and bring the fire-element Divine Dao intent to the Grand Master at the first opportunity!

Dong Zhao and I both have opportunities to substitute death, so you don't need to worry.】

Almost at the same moment the transmission entered his brain, Dong Zhao looked at Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie with an expression of utter astonishment; clearly, Song Shoujie had also issued this order to Dong Zhao.

Xu Jin was somewhat stunned.

His poor impression of Song Shoujie changed slightly.

This person's grasp of the big picture at this moment was different, which made him somewhat admirable.

He was single-mindedly focused on bringing the fire-element Divine Dao intent to the Grand Master!

To be honest, this plan had a very high success rate!

There was a very high possibility of bringing the fire-element Divine Dao intent back.

It was just that Xu Jin had some doubts—was it difficult to preliminarily wrap and refine the Divine Dao intent?

He seemed to have only spent a few breaths of time on it earlier.

Suddenly, Xu Jin realized.

What was related to the Divine Dao intent should be the Lei Yuan star pattern and the Lei Xiang star pattern.

His Lei Yuan and Lei Xiang star patterns were both eighth-tier supreme, the very best.

Naturally, it was fast.

Dong Zhao's Fire Source star pattern—he wondered if he had comprehended it to seventh-tier low grade?

Naturally, it would be slow.

Xu Jin did not give a reply, but Dong Zhao, having heard Song Shoujie's order, had already decided to execute it!

Because Song Shoujie's order was the most reliable method.

There was a greater than ninety percent probability that they could bring this fire-element Divine Dao intent to the Grand Master!

In that case, their mission would be accomplished!

Therefore, the moment he heard Song Shoujie's order, Dong Zhao braved Watching Zhang Lin's frost attack and flew toward Xu Jin.

The heavily injured Song Shoujie also began to restrain Watching Zhang Lin with all his might, regardless of the cost!

What kind of person was Watching Zhang Lin? With just a single glance, he roughly understood the strategy of Dong Zhao and the others!

With a cold sneer and a wave of his hand, a terrifying frost giant rose from the ice domain on the ground and then hammered heavily toward Song Shoujie.

More than ten streaks of ice star light also rose from the ice domain and instantly pounced toward Dong Zhao.

Dong Zhao dodged left and right, but under repeated bombardment, he was still dragged back to the ground by three streaks of ice star light, falling back into the ice domain.

At the same instant, streaks of ice divine light, like lightning, bombarded Xu Jin.

Watching Zhang Lin had already used his full strength.

Xu Jin's Five Elements Lei Guang was already prepared to be unleashed, and his thoughts were also on the Huang Long Sword.

But just as he was about to act, he changed his mind!

In the current situation, firstly, Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie was present, so he dared not easily use his Huang Long Sword.

Secondly, in the current situation, if he killed Watching Zhang Lin, would this wretch Watching Zhang Lin continue to participate in the battle after being reborn?

Nine times out of ten, he would not!

After all, as long as he participated in the battle again after being reborn through a substitute death, he would be facing three against one.

The probability of winning would be extremely low.

He wasn't stupid; he likely wouldn't do something as suicidal as that!

And Xu Jin extremely did not want this wretch Watching Zhang Lin to return alive.

He even less wanted to be targeted or even ambushed daily by this shameless fellow, the Heavenly Yang Tianyang Xingjun, in the future!

Suddenly, Xu Jin's heart stirred, and he had an idea—to execute Marquis Luoshui Song Shoujie's tactic!

The next instant, Xu Jin directly used the Fish Screen Golden Bell to withstand Watching Zhang Lin's ice divine light and rushed in front of Dong Zhao.

Without the slightest hesitation, Dong Zhao handed the fire-element Divine Dao intent, which he had been restraining with star power, directly to Xu Jin.

"You go quickly, we will stop him!"

Xu Jin, having received the fire-element Divine Dao intent, flapped his lightning wings and instantly transformed into lightning, fleeing away.

Watching Zhang Lin was extremely anxious.

While rushing toward Xu Jin, he bombarded Xu Jin wildly with ice divine light.

Originally, Xu Jin could have fled far away in an instant to avoid the ice divine light.

But as his thoughts stirred, Xu Jin slowed by a fraction, actively taking a hit of the ice divine light; as he stumbled, although his figure flew out, the ice divine light rapidly spread and covered his body like a maggot on a tarsal bone, and for a short time, he was actually unable to eliminate it, and his speed also slowed down!

Dong Zhao and Song Shoujie were shocked.

The two of them erupted with all their might, wanting to stop Watching Zhang Lin!

But the two were currently trapped by the ice domain on the ground; as Watching Zhang Lin flew high, the entire ice domain on the ground instantly transformed into two huge ice giants, trapping the two of them tightly.

It was Watching Zhang Lin who had directly unleashed the power of the ice domain he had continuously accumulated and condensed during his previous battle in one go, trapping the two of them, and then pursued Xu Jin with all his might!

Xu Jin, braving the erosion of the ice divine light, looked at Watching Zhang Lin who was catching up and couldn't help but sneer.

He was only afraid that he wouldn't pursue!

(End of chapter)