"Puji, you're nothing special. How about trying this move of mine?" Immortal Sui Han's eyes were like a deep, cold pool as he stared at Immortal Puji, a wild grin on his face. He gently pushed his hands forward, and the two crystal-clear snow lotuses in his hands flew out, exuding an endless chill. They descended upon Immortal Puji like two ice and snow worlds.
Immortal Puji stood in the void, wielding a three-foot green sword. Sword intent permeated his entire being, and an invisible river of swords coiled around him. The sharpness contained within it infused this world of fire and ice with a surge of ferocity.
"Go!"
With the green sword as the guide, boundless sword dao rules roared out like a dam bursting. They collided with the two massive snow lotuses.
"Hm?"
Seeing that the combined strength of his entire team had failed to suppress Immortal Puji, Immortal Sui Han was astonished. Immortal Puji's strength had reached such a level.
"Swish!"
Zhang Fan, who had been standing by the side, suddenly stepped forward. When he reappeared, he was already before Immortal Sui Han. A dazzling sword light flashed, and a great dao intent filled with destruction enveloped Immortal Sui Han's team, causing all the cultivators in the team to tremble and their faces to show panic!
"Great Dao True Intent?"
How could they have imagined that this cultivator, who seemed to be only in the middle stage of the Spirit Refining realm, was actually a monstrous talent who had comprehended the Great Dao True Intent?
In that instant, the river of swords shattered the two snow lotuses and, pressing through layers of space, surged towards them.
"We'll fight with all we have!"
Immortal Sui Han roared. His teammates clearly understood the crisis they were in. None dared to hold back, pouring out their magical power to push their combined attack formation to its absolute limit.
Facing the impact of Immortal Puji's sword river, Immortal Sui Han didn't even glance at it. He gathered immense power and condensed an extremely cold ice shield before him, hoping only to block this sword strike imbued with Great Dao True Intent.
However, Zhang Fan's attack was too sudden, and its power exceeded Immortal Sui Han's expectations. Before his magic could be fully unleashed, Zhang Fan's sword descended.
"Boom!"
The combined attack formation was severed by a single sword. Immortal Sui Han and his nine teammates were all sent flying, spitting blood. They all looked at Zhang Fan with terror in their eyes and fled in all directions without looking back.
"Thunder Sword Domain!"
"Disintegration Domain!"
Zhang Fan simultaneously released his Great Dao Domain and physical body domain, suppressing space. The fleeing cultivators of the Nine Abyss Star Domain's speed drastically reduced, bearing immense pressure.
There was no need for Zhang Fan to give an order. Immortal Puji had already attacked Immortal Sui Han. His fierce assault covered the sky, relentlessly suppressing him and giving him no chance to escape.
The Blood Demon Flood Dragon, Southern Venerable, and the Pang brothers also caught up with a Nascent Soul realm cultivator each. With the pressure of their dual domains, they all gained the upper hand.
With Zhang Fan's intervention, in mere moments, several Nascent Soul realm cultivators were cut down by Zhang Fan, their primordial spirits completely annihilated, filling Immortal Sui Han with extreme terror.
"Brother Puji, spare my life! I am willing to offer treasures worth five hundred thousand military merits!" Immortal Sui Han tried to entice, desperately seeking a sliver of hope.
"Your life isn't worth five hundred thousand military merits, so how can you offer it!" Immortal Puji sneered. The long sword in his hand seemed to unleash thousands of sword shadows, shattering Immortal Sui Han's protective snow lotuses. With a single slash, he struck Immortal Sui Han's body, sending blood splattering.
"Six-star General!"
Immortal Sui Han gazed deeply at Immortal Puji, never expecting his strength to have quietly reached the level of a Six-star General. He watched Zhang Fan's figure shuttle through the void, no one able to block a single sword of his. A sense of despair welled up in Immortal Sui Han's heart, knowing that escape was now impossible.
Facing a cultivator who had comprehended the Great Dao True Intent, he knew his strength could not withstand more than a few sword strikes.
The fluctuations of the battle here continued to spread, gradually attracting other teams within the Fire Element World. However, when they arrived, they only saw a dense mist of blood lingering in the void and shattered magical artifacts.
"Another team has perished. This Fire Element World is no longer safe."
In just a few days, two teams led by Five-star Generals from the Nine Abyss Star Domain had been wiped out. As the news spread, some teams led by Five-star Generals began to leave the Fire Element World. For them, this world was temporarily unsuitable for their ventures.
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A massive war base floated outside the river of stars. In front of the river of stars, resembling a cosmic sash, the war base seemed like a small boat, liable to be submerged at any moment. However, for cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, this war base was incredibly grand. Even if a hundred of them combined their strength, they could not budge it in the slightest.
Streams of light shuttled through the void. Many cultivators replenished their supplies 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.
"Mushan, do you know what happened in the Seven Star Tower?"
Immortal Qiong Yu flew out of the war base and found Immortal Mushan, who was on patrol, his face tinged with excitement as he asked.
Immortal Mushan shook his head with a hint of confusion and asked, "The Seven Star Tower is a place for cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. What major event could have happened?"
"Immortal Shi Jue encountered a team from the Nine Abyss Star Domain in the Fire Element World of the Seven Star Tower while vying for a treasure. Guess the outcome?" Immortal Qiong Yu asked, but before Immortal Mushan could reply, he quickly continued, "Immortal Jiu Tong of the Nine Abyss Star Domain led his team and clashed with Immortal Shi Jue. Little did they know that he had already comprehended the Great Dao True Intent..."
"Great Dao True Intent?" Immortal Mushan and his teammates behind him looked on with disbelief. "Immortal Shi Jue is only in the middle stage of the Spirit Refining realm. He has already comprehended the Great Dao True Intent?"
Generally speaking, only after reaching the peak of the Spirit Refining realm and fully integrating the physical body with the primordial spirit was it easiest to comprehend the Great Dao True Intent. Even so, countless peak Spirit Refining realm cultivators were stuck at this stage and could not take the next step.
"Indeed." Immortal Qiong Yu nodded and said, "Facing such an existence, Jiu Tong's team, even with their combined attack formation, could not resist. Except for one Spirit Refining realm cultivator who escaped, all other cultivators perished under Jiu Tong's sword."
"Furthermore, after killing Jiu Tong, Immortal Shi Jue encountered another team from the Nine Abyss Star Domain, led by Immortal Sui Han, and they too all perished."
After Immortal Qiong Yu finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the void. It was a long while before Immortal Mushan spoke, "How much time has passed? Hasn't that Immortal Shi Jue already accumulated enough military merits to retire?"
Immortal Qiong Yu, who was in charge of updating battlefield intelligence, made arrangements immediately after informing his friend of this news. He rapidly spread this information throughout the entire war base.
At the same time, in the war base of the Nine Abyss Star Domain, information about Zhang Fan was also rapidly circulating, attracting the attention of many powerful beings.
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