"Pu Ji, you are no more than this. How about trying my move?" Sage Han Zhen, with eyes like a cold abyss, stared at Sage Pu Ji Zhen, a wild grin on his face. He gently pushed his hands forward, and the two crystal-clear ice lotuses in his grasp flew out, carrying boundless chilling energy, pressing down on Sage Pu Ji Zhen like two ice worlds.
Sage Pu Ji Zhen stood in the void, holding a three-foot-long green sword, his entire being permeated with sword intent. An invisible river of swords circled around him, its contained sharpness adding a touch of ferocity to this world of fire and ice.
"Go!"
With the green sword as the guide, endless sword dao rules surged out like a breached river, roaring as they collided with the two enormous ice lotuses.
"Huh?"
Seeing that even with the combined strength of his entire team, he couldn't suppress Sage Pu Ji Zhen, Sage Han Zhen was astonished. Pu Ji Zhen's strength had reached such a level.
"Scrape!"
Zhang Fan, who had been standing by the side, suddenly stepped forward. When he reappeared, he was already before Sage Han Zhen. A dazzling sword light flashed, and an aura of destruction enveloped Sage Han Zhen's team, causing all the cultivators in Sage Han Zhen's team to tremble and show expressions of terror!
"True Meaning of the Great Dao?"
How could they have imagined that this cultivator, who appeared to be only in the mid-Refinement Soul realm, was actually a monstrous talent who had comprehended the True Meaning of the Great Dao?
In that instant, the river of swords shattered the two ice lotuses and, pressing through layers of space, surged towards them.
"Let's go all out!"
Sage Han Zhen roared. His teammates clearly understood the crisis they were in and did not dare to hold back. They poured out their vital energy, pushing their combined formation to the extreme.
Facing the onslaught of Sage Pu Ji Zhen's sword river, Sage Han Zhen didn't even glance at it. He gathered his boundless power and condensed an extremely cold ice shield in front of him, hoping to block this sword strike imbued with the True Meaning of the Great Dao.
However, Zhang Fan's attack was too sudden, and its power exceeded Sage Han Zhen's expectations. Before his spell could be fully cast, Zhang Fan's sword had already descended.
"Boom!"
The combined formation was shattered by a single sword strike. Sage Han Zhen and his nine teammates were all sent flying, spitting blood. They all looked at Zhang Fan in terror before fleeing in all directions without looking back.
"Thunder Sword Domain!"
"Disintegration Domain!"
Zhang Fan simultaneously released his domain of the Great Dao and his physical domain, suppressing space. The fleeing cultivators of the Nine Abysses Starfield slowed drastically, enduring immense pressure.
Without Zhang Fan needing to give an order, Sage Pu Ji Zhen attacked Sage Han Zhen. His sharp offensive rained down, relentlessly suppressing him and leaving him no opportunity to escape.
The Blood Demon Flood Dragon, Southern Venerable, and the Pang brothers each pursued a Nascent Soul realm cultivator. With the suppression of their dual domains, they all held the upper hand.
As Zhang Fan took action, within a few breaths, several Nascent Soul realm cultivators were cut down by his sword, their primordial spirits completely annihilated, filling Sage Han Zhen with terror.
"Brother Pu Ji, spare my life! I am willing to offer treasures worth five hundred thousand military merits!" Sage Han Zhen tried to tempt him, desperately seeking a sliver of hope.
"Your life isn't even worth five hundred thousand military merits, so how can you offer them?" Sage Pu Ji Zhen sneered. His long sword unleashed thousands of sword shadows, scattering Sage Han Zhen's protective snow lotus and cleaving into him, sending blood splashing.
"Six-Star General!"
Sage Han Zhen gazed deeply at Sage Pu Ji Zhen, surprised that his strength had silently reached the level of a Six-Star General. Seeing Zhang Fan's figure weaving through the void in the distance, with no one able to block a single one of his sword strikes, Sage Han Zhen's heart suddenly filled with sorrow, knowing that he was likely doomed today.
Facing a cultivator who had comprehended the True Meaning of the Great Dao, his strength could not withstand more than a few strikes.
The fluctuations of the battle here continuously spread, gradually attracting other teams within the Fire Element World. However, when they arrived, they only saw a dense mist of blood and shattered magical treasures drifting in the void.
"Another team has fallen. This Fire Element World is becoming unsafe."
In just a few short days, two teams led by Five-Star Generals from the Nine Abysses Starfield had been destroyed. As the news spread, some teams led by Five-Star Generals gradually withdrew from the Fire Element World, deeming it temporarily unsuitable for their exploration.
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A massive war base floated outside the river of stars. In front of the river of stars, which resembled a cosmic sash, the war base was like a tiny boat, seemingly on the verge of being engulfed. However, to cultivators of the Transformation God realm, this war base was incredibly grand. Even if a hundred of them joined forces, they could not budge it in the slightest.
Streams of light zipped through the void. Many cultivators were resupplying at the war base from the river of stars, while some teams, having encountered strong enemies and lost many teammates, needed to return to the war base to regroup.
"Mu Shan, do you know what happened inside the Seven Stars Pagoda?"
Sage Qiong Yu flew out of the war base and found Sage Mu Shan, who was on patrol, his face tinged with excitement.
Sage Mu Shan shook his head slightly, a hint of confusion in his eyes, and asked, "The Seven Stars Pagoda is filled with cultivators below the Transformation God realm. What major event could have happened?"
"Ten Absolute Sage Zhen encountered a team from the Nine Abysses Starfield in the Fire Element World within the Seven Stars Pagoda while vying for a treasure. Guess the outcome?" Sage Qiong Yu asked. Without waiting for Sage Mu Shan to reply, he quickly continued, "Sage Nine Pupils, leading a team from the Nine Abysses Starfield, became entangled with Sage Ten Absolute Zhen. But they didn't know that he had already comprehended the True Meaning of the Great Dao..."
"True Meaning of the Great Dao?" Sage Mu Shan and the teammates behind him were filled with disbelief. "Sage Ten Absolute Zhen is only in the mid-Refinement Soul realm, and he has already comprehended the True Meaning of the Great Dao?"
Generally speaking, only when one reached the peak of the Refinement Soul realm, fully merging the physical body and primordial spirit, was it the easiest stage to comprehend the True Meaning of the Great Dao. Even so, countless cultivators at the peak of the Refinement Soul realm were stuck at this step, unable to advance.
"That's right," Sage Qiong Yu nodded and said, "Facing such an existence, Sage Nine Pupils' team, even with their combined formation, could not resist. Except for one cultivator in the Refinement Soul realm who escaped, all the other members perished under Sage Nine Pupils' sword."
"Moreover, after killing Sage Nine Pupils, Sage Ten Absolute Zhen encountered another team from the Nine Abysses Starfield, led by Sage Han Zhen, and they all ended up perishing."
After Sage Qiong Yu finished speaking, the void fell silent. It was a long while before Sage Mu Shan spoke, "How much time has passed? Hasn't Sage Ten Absolute Zhen already gathered enough military merits for retirement?"
Sage Qiong Yu, who was in charge of updating battlefield intelligence, made arrangements immediately after sharing this news with his friend, rapidly disseminating the information throughout the entire war base.
Simultaneously, at the Nine Abysses Starfield's war base, information about Zhang Fan was also spreading rapidly, drawing the attention of many powerful beings.
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