"What?"
Venerable Yuming's voice cracked with shock.
Five distinct sword energies materialized around the blade in Han Jue's hand, gold, green, red, blue, and brown, each one corresponding to a different fundamental law within the spatial Origin Laws. Under Han Jue's precise control, aided by the amplification power of the Five Evolutions Wild Sword, these five energies gradually merged together into a single multicolored sword aura.
Its power climbed steadily, reaching terrifying heights!
"How is this possible!" Venerable Yuming gasped.
Even before Han Jue had fully condensed that sword energy, it already radiated an aura of inevitable death. In his perception, Han Jue was merely at the World Master level, how could someone at that cultivation realm possibly threaten a Universe Venerable's life?
Could a World Master truly kill a Universe Venerable?
Venerable Yuming refused to accept such a possibility, and he certainly had no intention of becoming the stepping stone for Han Jue's legend.
Having already burned nearly ten percent of his Divine Body without managing to defeat this monster, Venerable Yuming made his decision. He had to flee.
"Trying to escape?"
Han Jue's thoughts stirred, and his World Projection descended!
A projected world nearly one billion kilometers in diameter, combined with the suppressive effects of the Ten Directions Lotus Sea Domain, proved devastatingly effective even without the full power of the Star Stream Sea. Venerable Yuming found himself trapped, unable to teleport away!
"Die!"
Han Jue's eyes blazed with fanatical killing intent.
Boom!
The Five Evolutions Sword Aura slashed forward!
This secret technique drew upon the fundamental spatial laws as its foundation. By partially fusing the five lower-tier laws together and combining them with spatial manipulation, Han Jue had achieved power that defied common sense.
Through his comprehension of these five fundamental laws, he'd naturally grasped both spatial sealing and spatial strangulation, techniques normally exclusive to those who'd fully comprehended the spatial Origin Laws. He stood only one step away from skipping the Immortal level entirely and breaking through directly to Universe Venerable!
Life-or-death battles truly did stimulate explosive growth.
In his desperate struggle against Venerable Yuming, under the constant threat of annihilation and with fortune favoring him, Han Jue had successively created a Universe Overlord-level ultimate technique and developed the prototype of a Universe Master-level pinnacle technique!
"Star Sea King!" Venerable Yuming ground out through clenched teeth.
He couldn't dodge this sword energy at all!
This single attack possessed power comparable to a mid-level Universe Venerable, an impossible achievement for someone at World Master level, yet here it was, descending upon him with unstoppable momentum.
Han Jue had nearly exhausted all the Divine Power of his Star Stream Sea clone, pouring everything into this one devastating strike, hoping to severely injure or even kill Venerable Yuming!
Venerable Yuming no longer cared about conserving his Divine Body. He frantically burned his Divine Power, trying desperately to break free from the domain's constraints!
As a World Master, Han Jue couldn't fully unleash the complete power of a High Arcana treasure. The suppression had limits.
Just as Venerable Yuming was about to escape the domain's range, a golden leaf silently wrapped around his body and yanked him backward!
His Star-Eating Grass!
Whoosh!
Blue flames instantly erupted across the Star-Eating Grass, severely damaging its Divine Body. The plant lifeform immediately fell into a deep sleep to recover.
However, that single pull from the Star-Eating Grass had completely shattered Venerable Yuming's hopes of escape.
The Star-Eating Grass had completed its final mission!
Han Jue glanced at the Star-Eating Grass as it retreated into his internal world to hibernate, sighing softly. Then his gaze hardened as he looked back at Venerable Yuming.
The Five Evolutions Sword Aura descended!
Seeing that escape was impossible, Venerable Yuming shrank his Divine Body to its smallest size, hoping his armor-type High Arcana would be enough to withstand the attack.
But would it be effective?
Venerable Yuming lacked a palace-type High Arcana. Han Jue was simply fortunate in this regard, otherwise, this attack might truly have been blocked.
BOOM!
With a thunderous explosion, the million-kilometer-long multicolored sword aura pierced through Venerable Yuming's defenses. Even with top-tier armor that reduced the attack's power by ninety percent, it still inflicted devastating damage to his Divine Body!
This single strike caused nearly twenty percent damage to Venerable Yuming's Divine Body!
In other words, Han Jue could kill him with just five such strikes!
Terror flooded through Venerable Yuming.
At this moment, his Divine Body had already suffered nearly forty percent damage total, reducing his strength to less than one-tenth of his peak power!
Han Jue didn't disappoint him.
Raising the Five Evolutions Wild Sword high, he unleashed another strike!
Five Evolutions Sword Aura!
BOOM!
This strike caused another twenty percent damage to his Divine Body!
Venerable Yuming teetered on the edge of forced hibernation!
Just as Han Jue caught his breath and prepared to continue his assault, an urgent voice resounded throughout the surrounding space.
"Stop!"
Han Jue ignored the sudden interruption and continued his attack!
Swish!
Swish!
With the final sword aura falling, Venerable Yuming perished!
Han Jue calmly collected the treasures left behind by the fallen Venerable, then looked toward a grand palace flying in from the distance.
The massive structure was surrounded by flames, clusters of black, white, purple, red, green, blue... flames of every color, each the size of a star, swirling around the palace in a mesmerizing display. From a distance, it was impossible to discern any details, space-time around the palace had been warped, forming its own separate dimension.
The Sky Wolf Palace!
A High Arcana palace treasure owned by the Sky Wolf Lord, one of the Universe Masters who ruled the Monster Race!
A figure emerged from the Sky Wolf Palace, a being over ten kilometers tall, its fur wreathed in flames, its body as black as ink. This was none other than the leader of the Sky Wolf Clan, one of the Monster Race's imperial bloodlines: the Sky Wolf Lord!
"Human!" The Sky Wolf Lord glared at Han Jue with venomous resentment burning in his eyes. A Universe Master, unable to prevent a mere human from killing one of his subordinates? The humiliation was unbearable.
"Wait... you're a World Master?" The Sky Wolf Lord suddenly realized the discrepancy and exclaimed in astonishment.
The Ten Directions Lotus Sea could conceal Han Jue's aura, but it couldn't hide his true cultivation level from a Universe Master's perception.
"You're a World Master! A World Master who can kill a Universe Venerable?" Disbelief flooded the Sky Wolf Lord's features.
Even with the power amplification from a High Arcana treasure, Venerable Yuming wasn't weak among initial-level Universe Venerables. Combined with the naturally powerful Divine Body of the Monster Race, if equipped with a melee-type High Arcana weapon, he would've been comparable to a mid-level Universe Venerable!
Moreover, if the Sky Wolf Lord wasn't mistaken, this human had just used a Universe Master-level pinnacle secret technique! Even if it was still immature and incomplete, it was still a Universe Master-level technique.
Such a genius couldn't be allowed to return to the Human Race alive!
However, the Sky Wolf Lord wasn't skilled in soul enslavement techniques.
The body Han Jue had manifested on the extraterritorial battlefield was clearly a clone. Even if killed, its value wouldn't be significant, at most, he could obtain the High Arcana treasures on its body.
Perhaps he could suppress and capture this clone to bring back for others to enslave its soul?
The Sky Wolf Lord thought to himself, considering his options.
He looked down at Han Jue, his aura pressing down like a mountain. However, he couldn't completely crush Han Jue. The Ten Directions Lotus Sea helped offset some of the Sky Wolf Lord's oppressive power, creating a protective buffer.
Han Jue quietly crushed the Lord of Ice Peak's emergency token. Simultaneously, his true body in Primal Chaos City rushed to the City Lord's Mansion to seek the Primal Primal Chaos City Lord's assistance.
Han Jue wanted to protect these two High Arcana treasures!
"Don't worry, I'll be there soon." This was the Lord of Ice Peak's reply.
"Junior Brother said he would take action, so I don't need to intervene. The Sky Wolf Lord only runs rampant in the Original Universe because of his Sky Wolf Palace. Junior Brother's Iceberg Palace is far superior to his Sky Wolf Palace, so there's no need to worry." This was the Primal Primal Chaos City Lord's reply.
After sending the messages, Han Jue looked at the Sky Wolf Lord, his eyes filled with cold determination.