Nine people and nine mounts rushed across the stone bridge like the wind.
Suddenly, the situation changed.
A figure appeared out of thin air in the middle of the originally empty stone bridge. His back was facing Yang Dingtian and the others, blocking their path.
He really did appear out of thin air. There was definitely no one on the bridge before.
This person was dressed in a green robe and had a wooden stick in his hair. He looked simple and carefree.
The eight Heaven Dao Union's experts had a change in expression as they immediately surrounded Yang Dingtian. Subsequently, the leader of the Martial Ancestor class experts stepped forward and bowed, "Friend, please do us a favor and let us pass."
The person blocking their path did not turn around. Instead, he said indifferently, "Leave this person behind and you can leave. I won't kill you."
The Tiandō League expert's expression changed. He said coldly, "Who are you?
Are you determined to be our enemy today? "
"Enemy?
Just the few of you aren't worthy. "
The person blocking their path said indifferently. Then, he turned around. It was an ordinary face. Yang Dingtian had never seen this person before. Then, he pointed at Yang Dingtian, "Leave this person behind and you can leave."
"You want us to leave this person behind?
Kill us first. "The Tiandō League expert said coldly. Then, the eight of them drew their swords in unison.
The person blocking their path slowly drew a thin sword from his sleeve. He said, "Kill you?
Alright then. "
"Annihilation Sword Formation!"
The eight Tiandō League experts waved their swords in unison. Eight rays of light converged to form a dazzling blue ray. It was dazzling and shot towards the person blocking their path.
With the eight of them working together, their strength was even stronger than a Martial Ancestor Realm expert.
The power of this sword ray was unparalleled. It might not be able to topple mountains and overturn seas, but it would not be a problem to flatten a tall tower with dozens of floors.
Even if there were hundreds of people at Yang Dingtian's level, they would still be reduced to ashes by this sword ray.
The person blocking their path was not in a hurry. He gently drew a flower with his sword. Just when the others thought he was going to raise his sword to block, he held his sword behind his back.
Then, he lightly flicked his left hand at the incoming sword ray.
"Boom …" It was like a bomb that exploded silently.
An incomparably powerful energy suddenly rippled out.
In an instant, the dazzling and powerful Exterminating Sword Radiance was turned into nothing. The Sword Formation formed by eight experts was so powerful that the person blocking the way didn't even bother to use his weapon. He just flicked it away with a finger.
The eight experts of the Heavenly Dao Union were completely stupefied. They knew that this person was an expert when he had suddenly appeared in the middle of the stone bridge. However, they hadn't expected him to be so powerful. It wasn't that they couldn't catch up to him, but it wasn't that they couldn't catch up to him.
The leader of the Tiandō League, a Martial Arts Grandmaster, put away his sword and bowed. "Friend, no matter what business you have, please wait until we complete our mission and escort the target to Cloud Sky City. How about that?
If you can do me this favor, then the Tiandō League will owe you a favor. "
Originally, the identity of these people from the Heavenly Dao Union had to be kept a secret. However, now that they had encountered such a top-notch expert, they had to call out their names. Otherwise, if they were to kill someone, then it would very likely turn into a clash between two big forces.
"Tiandō League?"
The person blocking the way raised his eyebrows and looked at Yang Dingtian. "You actually found someone from the Tiandō League to be your bodyguard. You really know how to cause trouble for me?"
The leader of the Tiandō League said proudly, "Since you know about our Tiandō League, then please do us a favor."
"The Tiandō League is really scary." The person blocking the way waved his sword. "But I'll say it again. Either you hand over the target, or you die."
"Hand over the target?
Our Tiandō League can't afford to lose face like this. "The Tiandō League expert said coldly. Then, he raised his sword and prepared for battle.
"Alright, then I'll kill a few Tiandō League ants."
The person blocking the way swung his sword, and a powerful force enveloped the entire bridge. Suddenly, the sturdy stone bridge cracked.
"Wait!" Yang Dingtian couldn't bear to see the people from the Tiandō League die just like that. Thus, he walked over.
"Stop right there. Quickly retreat to the protective formation," the Tiandō League expert said.
Yang Dingtian looked at him and said, "Your protection has ended. You guys have done an excellent job. Please return to the organization and report back."
After saying that, Yang Dingtian got off his horse and walked toward the person blocking the way.
The Tiandō League expert hesitated for a moment, but he didn't stop Yang Dingtian from approaching the person blocking the way.
"Senior, I still wasn't able to escape from your evil clutches in the end." Yang Dingtian went forward and said helplessly.
The person blocking the way was obviously the Temple of Ten Thousand Blood's Temple Master, Dugu Xiao. However, his appearance had changed completely.
However, Yang Dingtian was still able to recognize him from his eyes and his mocking and arrogant manner.
It was no wonder that no one was chasing after Yang Dingtian when he left the Temple of Ten Thousand Blood on his Golden Gryphon. Dugu Xiao didn't think much of his escape. Originally, he could have captured Yang Dingtian at any time.
However, he didn't make a move at the River of Ecstasy. He didn't make a move at the Temple of Blood's territory. He didn't make a move at the Land of Chaos.
It was only when he was about to step foot on Cloud Heaven City's soil that he suddenly appeared.
That's right. This was his style of doing things.
He would let you go to heaven first and then throw you down to hell.
Yang Dingtian looked at the demonic face and the mocking gaze. He couldn't help but say, "Temple Master Dugu, if I didn't guess wrongly, you gave me two choices.
Back then, when you gave me two choices, you knew that I wouldn't fight with the Mystic Martial Master and would choose to escape. "
"That's right," Dugu Xiao said, "As for the first choice, the second choice would be the same. You would choose to escape.
To talk about honor with a person like me who speaks without thinking, it isn't noble but foolish.
You aren't so pedantic that you can't be saved. "
Yang Dingtian said, "You knew that I was going to escape, so you took the opportunity to let me go. You waited until I was about to reach home before stopping me to make me despair.
That's right. This is your style of doing things. However, isn't the price too high? You sacrificed more than ten loyal Bat Blood Guards just to torture and toy with me? "
"Who asked you to win against me before? The feeling of meeting a worthy opponent is very satisfying. Of course, I had to have fun."
Dugu Xiao said, "I expected that you would want to escape, but I really wanted to know. How did you escape from more than ten Bat Blood Guards?
What I didn't expect was that you did it so effortlessly. You used the Fire Demon Violent Lion to smash my Bat Blood Guards into meat paste.
My guess was right. When you left the Ten Thousand Blood Pool, the reason why you weren't killed by the Fire Demon Violent Lion wasn't because of the Ten Thousand Blood Token, but because of other reasons.
What was the reason that the Fire Demon Violent Lion didn't kill you and was even a little afraid of you? "
Yang Dingtian's mind immediately thought of that teardrop ornament.
"Say it, otherwise I will cripple your Profound Veins and explode your Qi Sea." Dugu Xiao said, "To you, this should be something more terrifying than death."
Yang Dingtian's body trembled. That's right. To Yang Dingtian, this was more painful than death.
Furthermore, Dugu Xiao was a demon and would definitely do what he said.
The Fire Demon Violent Lion was a powerful Grandmaster level demonic beast, but after seeing the teardrop ornament, it was scared out of its wits.
It was certain that this teardrop ornament would definitely be a huge shock to the Temple of Ten Thousand Blood's Master, Dugu Xiao.
As long as Yang Dingtian took it out, he would definitely be safe and sound. He had this confidence and feeling.
Yang Dingtian spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he had nothing to say.
"So you're not going to say it?" Dugu Xiao asked.
Yang Dingtian nodded.
Dugu Xiao immediately raised his palm and placed it on Yang Dingtian's shoulder. He only needed one-tenth, one-hundredth of his Profound Qi to release it slightly.
Yang Dingtian's Qi Sea would explode and his Profound Veins would be destroyed. He would become a complete cripple. Whatever mission, whatever dream, everything would be gone.
This might be Yang Dingtian's most dangerous moment, so his body was trembling.
"I thought you wouldn't be afraid." Dugu Xiao said.
"Of course I will be afraid." Yang Dingtian said, "It's just that I won't let my fear defeat my courage."
Dugu Xiao sneered and said, "So you're not going to say it?"
Yang Dingtian nodded. His attitude might be casual, but his heart was extremely determined.
"Alright, if you don't want to say it, then so be it. Everyone has the right to keep secrets." Dugu Xiao said and immediately removed his palm from Yang Dingtian's shoulder.
This, this meant that he wasn't going to destroy Yang Dingtian?
Instantly, Yang Dingtian was slightly stunned.
What was going on with this great demon?
What kind of show was he putting on now?
Earlier on, if he didn't say it, he was going to completely destroy Yang Dingtian's duel. It was completely non-negotiable.
Now, he was letting him off so easily?
What was this great demon trying to do?
Immediately after, Dugu Xiao said, "Oh right, when you were cultivating in the Blood Pool, you met Dugu Fengwu, right?"
Yang Dingtian nodded.
"And she was completely naked?" Dugu Xiao asked again.
Yang Dingtian nodded.
"However, you didn't take the opportunity to sully her, right?" Dugu Xiao said, "I took her pulse, and she is still pure and flawless."
Yang Dingtian instantly let out a long breath of relief and said, "Many thanks to Senior for clearing my name."
"Don't be in a hurry to thank me."
Dugu Xiao said, "I told Dugu Fengwu this. I said, Feng 'er, don't be upset. Even though Yang Dingtian, this bastard, took the opportunity to sully you, you will always be pure in Father's heart.
Feng 'er expressed that she was very angry and wanted to immediately rush out from the bed to tear you into pieces.
However, she was disturbed by you when she was cultivating, and her mystic meridians were damaged and needed to be nursed back to health.
She will probably recover in a few months to half a year. The first day after she comes out of seclusion, she will leave the Temple of Blood to kill you. Therefore, you have to be careful then. "
"Ah …" Yang Dingtian instantly widened his eyes and glared at Dugu Xiao. "You … How can you say that to her?"
"We are evenly matched, but you are a small character, and I can't kill you or keep an eye on you all the time.
However, you have defeated me before, so I can't let you be comfortable. Therefore, I found an even more difficult opponent for you. "
Dugu Xiao said, "Of course, Dugu Fengwu's innate talent is too high, and she is a little too arrogant. It is inevitable that she considers everyone else beneath her. I need to find an opponent for her.
Dongfang Bingling is too far away, and since you are here, I can make use of this opportunity. "
Yang Dingtian instantly gnashed his teeth with hatred. This great demon, you are going to torture me to the point where I wish I was dead.
Yang Dingtian shuddered at the thought of facing a woman who was obsessed with hatred and had heaven-defying martial arts.
How was Dugu Fengwu's cultivation?
How was her heart?
Yang Dingtian was the clearest. She could kill people like killing chickens.
Following which, Dugu Xiao laughed and said, "Alright, you are on your own now. I am going to take my leave."
"You, you are going to leave just like that?"
Yang Dingtian was astonished. This great demon had tortured Yang Dingtian countless times. This time, she had obstructed him on the way back to Cloud Heaven City, causing his heart to fall into a bottomless abyss. Yang Dingtian had already prepared himself for the most painful things, but he didn't expect the other party to let him off so easily.
Dugu Xiao really turned and left, heading towards the northeast direction of the Temple of Blood.
Halfway through, he turned back and said to Yang Dingtian, "Your breakthrough in the Blood Pool is truly astonishing. If I didn't remember wrongly, the highest breakthrough in the Blood Pool in history was only two grades. However, you broke through four grades. It is truly astonishing.
Therefore, when I saw you again in Dugu Aoshuang's bridal chamber, I was so shocked that I was speechless. "
"Senior is overpraising me," Yang Dingtian replied.
"However, if you were to duel with Qin Shaobai with your current cultivation, you would still die. You are definitely not a match for him."
Dugu Xiao said, "This is a little fox and a little venomous snake. He is better at hiding his strength than you can imagine. He is even stronger than you can imagine.
I have calculated that if you were to duel with him, you would only be able to withstand four moves at most. After that, you would instantly collapse and die. "
Yang Dingtian's face twitched. He wanted to say something ruthless, but it was obvious that Dugu Xiao wasn't someone who spoke without thinking.
However, he still believed that there was a way.
"I have a cultivation technique that can allow you to turn defeat into victory."
Dugu Xiao said, "This cultivation technique is called the Evil Soul Art. That's right. Just from the name, you can tell that it is very evil. It can allow you to turn defeat into victory."
Evil Soul Art!
Instantly, Yang Dingtian's entire body shivered!
That's right. This was one of the most evil cultivation techniques in the world.
Furthermore, there was a story behind this cultivation technique.
Two hundred years ago, the Wooden Sword Castle's Young Master Li Tianxiao and the Northwest Qin Clan's Third Young Master had a trial by duel because of a bloody case.
Li Tianxiao was a romantic and did not put much effort into cultivating martial arts. Therefore, his cultivation was ten levels lower than the Qin Clan's Third Young Master.
Everyone thought that Li Tianxiao would definitely die in this trial by duel!
However, when the duel happened, the result blinded everyone's eyes.
Li Tianxiao won and he even instantly killed the Qin Clan's Third Young Master.
Everyone was completely shocked. They couldn't believe their eyes.
This battle made Li Tianxiao famous under the heavens.
After that, Li Tianxiao's cultivation improved by leaps and bounds. He went from an unremarkable hedonistic young master to an expert that shocked the world.
How did he suddenly become so powerful and terrifying, instantly killing an opponent that was ten levels higher than him?
The reason was the Evil Soul Art!
Evil ways of the Supreme Treasure Manual, the Evil Soul Art!
It could be said that as long as one grasped the Evil Soul Art, a weak person would be able to instantly kill an opponent that was ten times stronger than him as long as he had enough Puppet Battle Souls.
The Evil Soul Art was split into the Soul Assimilating Art and the Soul Burst Art!
The Soul Assimilating Art was to extract an expert's spirit and refine it into a powerful Puppet Battle Soul.
After refining it, it would be stored in a special Soul Tool.
The Soul Burst Art was to wait until the most dangerous moment of the battle and use the Puppet Battle Soul in one's own Profound Qi to attack. In an instant, the power was boundless and it could instantly kill the opponent.
This sounded similar to refining a Martial Spirit.
However, it was completely different. Refining a Martial Spirit was to use a powerful Demonic Beast's Battle Soul to refine it for one's own use. Furthermore, this Battle Soul was permanent.
As for the Evil Soul Art, it was to use an evil technique or medicine to control an expert before using the Soul Assimilating Art to extract his spirit from his body.
From then on, that person would become a walking corpse.
Furthermore, every Puppet Battle Soul that was extracted could only be used once.
In other words, every time the Evil Soul Art attacked once.
This meant that an expert's spirit had been extracted and he had become a walking corpse.
Hence, this was the most terrifying waste. It was so evil that it made one's hair stand on end. Of course, it was also so powerful that it made one's hair stand on end.
Among the evil techniques ranked by the Tiandō League, the Evil Soul Art was one of the best.
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"As long as you learn this technique, you can kill Qin Shaobai, save Ximen Yanyan, and save Cloud Heaven City." Dugu Xiao said, "How about it?
Beg me, beg me and I'll teach you. "
"Sorry, I'm not interested in this at all." Yang Dingtian said coldly and turned to leave.
Yang Dingtian absolutely hated this kind of evil technique. This technique was even more evil and cruel than the Yin Yang Devour Xuan Technique.
Once one was infected with this kind of evil technique, half of one's cultivation would be destroyed. In this world, any shortcut had a price.
Yang Dingtian even rejected something as good as the Yin Yang Devour Xuan Technique, let alone this evil Evil Soul Art.
"This technique is coveted by countless people. You don't want it?" Dugu Xiao said, "However, I won't give it to others.
If you don't want it, I'll force it to you. "
After saying that, Yang Dingtian's body flew backward and was directly sucked in front of Dugu Xiao.
Then, Dugu Xiao pressed his palm on Yang Dingtian's head and silently chanted a mysterious evil chant.
"Boom …" Suddenly, Yang Dingtian's brain seemed to be forcefully opened. An incomparably powerful energy drilled into his brain and into his body.
The Evil Soul Art's technique route, profound qi circulation method, and the cultivation chant.
Every word, every picture, every scene, was forcefully poured into Yang Dingtian's brain.
"Ah, ah … don't, don't …" Yang Dingtian screamed fiercely and struggled desperately.
But it was completely useless. Under Dugu Xiao's palm, this evil technique continuously forced its way into Yang Dingtian's body. Every word seemed to be engraved in his brain, incomparably clear and incomparably deep.
Yang Dingtian used all of his energy, all of his will, all of his spirit to resist, repel, and fight!
Suddenly, the two energies and wills crazily fought in Yang Dingtian's mind. In an instant, Yang Dingtian's face was twisted in incomparable pain. Blood flowed from his seven orifices and tendons popped up. It was as if his body was going to explode and die at any time.
However, Yang Dingtian tried his best but still couldn't resist Dugu Xiao's evil technique completely planted in the depths of Yang Dingtian's mind.
Countless energy and countless information fiercely drilled into the depths of Yang Dingtian's mind.
After a full ten minutes, Dugu Xiao's palm loosened and Yang Dingtian immediately fell to the ground.
The entire contents of the Evil Soul Art, the deepest principles, and even Dugu Xiao's unique understanding of the Evil Soul Art were all deeply engraved in the depths of Yang Dingtian's mind. They could never be erased.
This Evil Soul Art was even more profound and powerful than the one Li Tianxiao grasped in the past!
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Note: The second five thousand words have been delivered. There will be a third.
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