Chapter 651: The Old Den

After the strange events following the beheading of the King of the Eight Desolates, Envoy Ju Zhang, Xu Jin only pondered for a moment before making a decision.

Simple.

Once the battle ended in a while, he would personally make a trip to the Eight Desolates Royal Court to investigate the situation, and everything would become clear.

In any case, the Nine-Star Spirit Treasure, Golden Snake Boom, and the Eight Desolates Golden Seal, which contained the authority over the heavens and earth of the Eight Desolates Continent, were already in Xu Jin's hands.

The meat was already rotting in the pot; Xu Jin was not afraid in the slightest.

The next instant, Xu Jin channeled the one and a half percent of the authority over the heavens and earth he controlled. The moment he activated the Mingji Star Pattern, his divine sense instantly soared infinitely, and he activated the Eye of Oversight.

In an instant, the fluctuations of Qi within a radius of nine thousand li all fell into Xu Jin's view.

In just a flash, Xu Jin found two other Ninth-Tier auras.

Xu Jin was activating the Eye of Oversight at this moment specifically to search for the location of the Baidou Sect Leader.

This person was someone who had to be dealt with in this battle.

Given this person's cunning and deep scheming, if he were missed this time, it would be quite difficult to find him again.

What was even more critical was that with his strength, if he were to hide in the Lingji Small World, coupled with the threat of the True God of Stars and Battles, things would become troublesome.

Looking at the trajectories of these two, they were still flying rapidly toward his current position, and the distance was not far—less than a thousand li.

With a thought, Xu Jin recalled the little white tiger that was currently chasing down the remnants of the enemy.

Half a breath later, a flash of snowy-white brilliance passed by, and the little white tiger returned. Almost simultaneously, Xu Jin prepared to launch a spatial shift to behead the Baidou Sect Leader, Sima Qu.

But just as Xu Jin was about to activate the spatial directional shift star technique—

The auras of the Baidou Sect Leader and the other Ninth-Tier expert flickered and fluctuated simultaneously.

With another flicker, they had already appeared eight hundred li away.

Spatial shift.

Another flicker.

After flickering four times in succession, they had rapidly shifted over three thousand li, and the distance between them and Xu Jin exceeded four thousand li.

Needless to say, the Baidou Sect Leader had used a spatial directional shift emblem to retreat rapidly in an emergency.

One could only say that the Baidou Sect Leader was truly an old fox.

His sense of smell was too keen.

It had only been five or six breaths since Xu Jin beheaded the King of the Eight Desolates, Envoy Ju Zhang, and this fellow had already sensed the danger and retreated rapidly at the first opportunity.

If this had been anyone else, they really would have let him escape.

But clearly, even for the Baidou Sect Leader, the number of spatial directional shift emblems he possessed was limited.

After shifting away four times in succession, his method of retreat changed to high-speed flight.

However, at the Baidou Sect Leader's level, his flight speed was also extremely fast; let alone Eighth-Tier experts, even ordinary Ninth-Tier experts would find it extremely difficult to catch up.

But for Xu Jin, it was only two steps away.

With one step taken, Xu Jin, bolstered by the manifestation of the authority over the heavens and earth, had already appeared three thousand li away. With another step, Xu Jin appeared five hundred li ahead of the route the Baidou Sect Leader and the others were flying along.

The Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower left his body, and the Ninth-Tier stealth star technique was instantly activated. Then, Xu Jin channeled the Eye of Oversight to glance at the direction in which the Baidou Sect Leader and his companion were retreating, and he quietly waited in stealth.

The Baidou Sect Leader was very cautious, but before discovering anything abnormal, he was still retreating in a straight line.

Five hundred li; it should take fifteen to twenty breaths to arrive.

Suddenly, a faint sense of wickedness rose in the heart of Xu Jin, who was hidden within a dark cloud.

Was it too shameless for him to be hiding in ambush on their only path forward like this?

Of course, that was just a fleeting thought of Xu Jin's.

On a battlefield where life and death were decided at every turn, talking about justice and evil was simply foolish.

Ten breaths later, the hidden Xu Jin had already seen the two streaks of starlight flying rapidly through the void.

One was Ninth-Tier mid-stage, and one was Ninth-Tier early-stage.

It was precisely the Baidou Sect Leader, Sima Qu, and another Ninth-Tier alien under his command.

Closer, even closer!

The next instant, the rapidly flying Baidou Sect Leader's expression shifted violently, and a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes; he sensed something abnormal.

At the same time, the sound of rolling thunder had already rung out, and the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower also let out a 'whoosh' and smashed directly toward that Ninth-Tier early-stage expert!

Boom!

The moment the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal flew up, the five-colored Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash had already smashed onto the top of the Baidou Sect Leader's head.

The starlight exploded like fireworks.

The sudden surprise attack directly shattered the Baidou Sect Leader's protective starlight, but the high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor on his body blocked the remaining force.

Because it was a sneak attack, this first strike of thunder light did not channel his natal star.

It was merely the Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash bolstered by the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal and the Arena of Stars and Battles, plus his natal star.

But even so, it still directly smashed the Baidou Sect Leader down from high in the sky, his entire body emitting wisps of blue smoke.

"It's you!"

The instant he fell, the Baidou Sect Leader also discovered Xu Jin and recognized him. The moment his eyes widened, the Star and Battle Divine Seal suddenly appeared.

But the movements of Xu Jin's hands were not slow in the slightest.

His Dao Embryo had long since communicated with his natal Linghuang Star Realm. The moment the starlight swayed down and landed directly into the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal—which was also the moment the Baidou Sect Leader had slightly recovered from the sneak attack—another Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash smashed down toward the Baidou Sect Leader's head.

This Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash, however, was fully infused with the starlight channeled down from the Thunder Palace.

Xu Jin had been constantly performing the Killing Star Art in the team preparing for battle, and he had obtained another two percent of the authority over the heavens and earth of his natal star, bringing the total authority he controlled to twelve percent.

Within the Thunder Palace of his natal star, the Linghuang Star Realm, three percent of the authority over the heavens and earth had already been refined.

Bolstered by three percent of the thunder-type origin star power of the Great World, and magnified by the thunder-type law star of the Arena of Stars and Battles, the power of this Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash of Xu Jin's had more than doubled!

As the thunder light arrived at his head, the Baidou Sect Leader finally sensed the terrifying power contained within this strike of thunder light.

This strike of thunder light was more than twice as terrifying as the first.

The look of terror in his eyes turned into a look of determination in an instant. He abandoned active defense, and the starlight of the Star and Battle True God Seal that had just soared into the sky plunged straight into the firmament.

Boom!

As the thunder light fell, the protective starlight the Baidou Sect Leader had just re-erected shattered once more, and along with it, his high-grade Seven-Star Spirit Armor shattered as well.

As the thunder light flickered, the Seven-Star Spirit Armor disintegrated into ash in an instant.

Disintegrating into ash along with it was the Baidou Sect Leader's physical body.

It directly emitted a large amount of blue smoke and turned into charred remains.

But at the same instant, the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo soared into the sky, carrying his nearly shattered Zhai Xing Lou.

That strike of thunder light just now had not only destroyed his physical body but had also smashed his Zhai Xing Lou to the point of near-collapse.

"Still want to escape?" Xu Jin sneered. The Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal flickered, and the thunder light smashed once again toward the Baidou Sect Leader's soaring Dao Embryo.

Just as the lightning was about to strike the Dao Embryo, a vast amount of starlight from the firmament was channeled down by the Star Battle Divine Seal, instantly enveloping the Dao Embryo of the Baidou Divine Sect leader.

Boom!

Amidst the sizzling thunder light, the starlight channeled down from the sky was like a falling galaxy, continuous and unending.

It was constantly smashed away and constantly replenished, protecting the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo tightly.

Xu Jin frowned.

He had channeled the power of the True God of Stars and Battles again?

And the power of the True God of Stars and Battles he channeled was clearly much more powerful and much more flexible and convenient than the Blood God power channeled by the Blood God Sect.

As for the other Ninth-Tier early-stage expert, Xu Jin did not even glance at him.

The moment the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower suppressed him, his fate was already sealed.

His physical body had already turned to mud, and his primordial spirit was also trapped within the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower.

There was no suspense whatsoever.

The trouble now was the Baidou Sect Leader.

Did he have to ask his Grand-Uncle-Master to take action?

Xu Jin felt slightly embarrassed; he had troubled his Grand-Uncle-Master, True Person Youyu, too much recently, and during his last breakthrough, he had even caused True Person Youyu to be injured.

Xu Jin wanted to try to see if he could solve it himself.

The next instant, the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal retracted its thunder light and instantly began to accumulate thunder power.

In an instant, rolling thunder clouds gathered from all directions, thunder light flashed wildly, and the thunder clouds were constantly gathering and piling up.

This was the ultimate move of the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal; it needed a little time.

At the same instant, the Yellow Dragon Sword appeared. With one step taken, all the Star Palaces on his natal star simultaneously flickered with starlight, and a large amount of starlight swayed down, merging like a galaxy into Xu Jin's sword light. At the same time, his high-grade Seven-Kill Sword Heart was also pushed to the limit.

The Killing Sha Sha Xing Jian was slashed out in one stroke.

But just at this moment of transition, the Baidou Sect Leader's Star and Battle Divine Seal suddenly erupted with thousands of streaks of starlight. Borrowing the divine power of the True God of Stars and Battles channeled from the firmament, the Star and Battle Divine Seal directly carried the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo and charged into the firmament.

The Killing Sha Sha Xing Jian at this moment just barely slashed onto the galaxy-like starlight hanging down from the firmament.

The starlight was slashed to pieces, but the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo also turned into a speck of starlight and disappeared into the distance, its speed reaching the extreme.

In just a flash, it disappeared at the edge of Xu Jin's vision.

This move, Xu Jin had witnessed before when he was fighting the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo in the Wuchen Star Domain.

The Star and Battle Divine Seal carried his Dao Embryo across the starry sky, its speed extremely fast.

It had appeared again now.

Xu Jin was stunned.

He had used the Nine Heavens Thunder Duke Seal to gather thunder power and had also used his strongest Killing Sha Sha Xing Jian, intending to clash head-on with the power of the True God of Stars and Battles channeled by the Baidou Sect Leader and decide life and death on the spot.

He had not expected the Baidou Sect Leader to feint a move and directly use the power of the True God of Stars and Battles to retreat and flee far away.

Xu Jin wanted to fight a war of attrition, but he wanted to fight a guerrilla war.

This old fox was truly decisive enough.

The next instant, Xu Jin retracted the Heaven and Earth Cloud Tower into his body and simultaneously imprisoned the primordial spirit of that Ninth-Tier early-stage expert, only then activating the Eye of Oversight.

He quickly discovered the location of the Baidou Sect Leader's Dao Embryo.

One had to say, this fellow's speed was truly fast enough.

In a mere two breaths, he had appeared two thousand li away; it was no longer slower than an ordinary spatial star technique.

With one step taken, Xu Jin happened to appear once again one hundred li ahead of the Baidou Sect Leader.

The highly vigilant Baidou Sect Leader, the moment he sensed something abnormal, saw the Star and Battle Divine Seal beneath his feet explode with brilliance, as if starlight were flickering, directly sending his Dao Embryo hundreds of li away. Xu Jin's Five Elements Galloping Thunder Slash missed, and as the Baidou Sect Leader retreated far away again, his aura became hidden in an instant.

He had directly used a stealth star technique.

Xu Jin sneered; this stealth star technique might be able to deceive others, but it could not deceive his Eye of Oversight.

The moment he activated the Eye of Oversight to pinpoint the location and aura of the fleeing Baidou Sect Leader, Xu Jin was already planning how to deal with him.

But regardless, there was only one goal: he absolutely could not let the Baidou Sect Leader escape back to the Bai Hu Star City, where there was a statue of the True God of Stars and Battles, and perhaps even a star gate returning to the Lingji Small World. If he let him escape there, that would be the real trouble.

Just at the same instant, starlight flickered on the Mandarin Duck Seal; it was a star-light message sent by his teacher, Qi Shanye.

【Jin'er, the Sect Leader, Sima Qu, just issued an order to us, ordering us to lead the elite army of the Blood God Sect to attack the human army that has invaded the Eight Desolates Continent at all costs.

At the same time, he ordered Mo Ji and me to take the Blood God Sect's most elite Blood God Guards into the sky, head to the location he specified, and form the Blood Blade Array to snipe at the powerhouses!

Is everything alright on your side?

It wouldn't be that the high-level battle was lost, would it?】

Seeing this message from Qi Shanye, Xu Jin sighed inwardly for his teacher.

This teacher of his had only just joined the old Palace Master's command on the surface, and now he was being treated as an abandoned pawn again!

Although he felt extremely reluctant, he still sent a message: 【Teacher, the King of the Eight Desolates, Envoy Ju Zhang, has already been beheaded by me, Xuan Hu is also dead, the Baidou Sect Leader Sima Qu's physical body has been beheaded, and his Dao Embryo has fled back alone. Currently, I am in pursuit!】

In the Blood God Guard camp, Qi Shanye, who had broken through to the Eighth Tier not long ago, saw this star-light message, and a smile that was uglier than crying instantly appeared on his weathered face.

The next instant, Mo Ji, who had also seen this star-light message, had an expression that became both conflicted and pained!

Returning to the command of the Star Palace Master, their feelings were still very complex.

They were even finding excuses for the Baidou Sect Leader's previous behavior.

After all, according to what Sima Qu said, Qi Shanye's family was still living well in the Lingji Small World.

Qi Shanye was a person who remembered kindness very well.

But now, in the blink of an eye, they had become that abandoned pawn again!

It was as if the events of twenty-two years ago had cycled around once more.

But this time, they were already different!

At the same instant, Xu Jin suddenly reacted.

Why did he have to block the Baidou Sect Leader from returning to the Bai Hu Star City?

At this speed of escape, even if he blocked him, it would be the most difficult thing to do.

However, he had a better choice!

Waiting at his old den was much better than eating dust behind the Baidou Sect Leader's butt.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 652 =====