Chapter 791: Don’t Be Afraid, I Don’t Consider You an Opponent

The moment Ye Tianling entered the purple mist, he brought out Yanyan’s body.

Sure enough, at that very moment, a full five Divine Thoughts manifested killing intent and attacked Ye Tianling.

Ye Tianling neither dodged nor evaded, allowing the attacks to land on Yanyan’s body.

"WENG—"

The white gauze skirt on Yanyan’s body rippled with a faint halo of light, blocking all five attacks.

Ye Tianling’s hand shot out like lightning, manifesting his own killing intent. With a single thought, the body he occupied unleashed the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Dao.

This time, Yanyan did not activate any Bloodline Power. In the instant Ye Tianling’s will took form, a unique Yin Spirit Law entered his comprehension.

At that moment, Ye Tianling felt as though he had comprehended a mysterious Yin Spirit Law. It empowered his body, mind, and disposition, like a kind of Spiritual blessing.

"SWOOSH—"

From within the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Dao, a Slaughter Technique called the Yin Spirit Life and Death Sword instantly manifested. A single beam of slaughterous light transformed into a full sixteen phantoms of Yin Spirits, erupting fiercely from his will.

"PFFT PFFT PFFT—"

It wasn’t just the five Divine Thoughts that had attacked; eleven more, hidden in various locations nearby, were also instantly pierced and destroyed by the Yin Spirit Life and Death Sword.

The manifestation of that killing intent caused the void to erupt with sixteen consecutive flashes of purplish-red, bloody light.

Immediately after, the remnants of the Divine Thoughts tried to gather, but they failed to reform. Instead, they exploded in an instant and were annihilated once more.

Ultimately, in that single strike, the Divine Thoughts underwent Transformation Dao, utterly obliterated.

Ye Tianling hadn’t activated the Devouring Law, yet Yanyan’s body naturally formed a vortex like a black hole, enveloping the area.

The Divine Energy left behind by the dead Divine Thoughts all flowed over. After being swallowed by the black hole, it transformed into pure Origin Energy and flowed deep into the space between Yanyan’s brows.

Yanyan’s condition seemed to improve ever so slightly.

With this change, Ye Tianling realized that although this stretch of void was perilous, no more Yin Spirits attacked.

Ye Tianling passed through the area and, to his surprise, arrived directly at the Purgatory Fire Sea region.

Returning here, Ye Tianling was at a loss for words.

At this time, not far away and outside the mist, Ji Yun had already killed all the other prodigies and was quietly waiting for the time to be up.

There were about a thousand breaths left until the end of the assessment.

Ye Tianling grew thoughtful. He then searched the area for a while but couldn’t find an altar.

However, through Inference, Ye Tianling discovered that there was indeed an altar in the Hell Abyss where Ji Yun was located. But that area was also covered by a blood mist and was not connected to his current location.

With no other choice, Ye Tianling could only leave the mist, return to his own body, and then head to the Purgatory Fire Sea region.

The moment Ye Tianling appeared, Ji Yun immediately spotted him.

Ji Yun’s expression turned foul, his handsome, fair face immediately darkening.

"Look, Fellow Daoist Tianling, you’re not even a marked participant in this assessment, so why do you insist on hounding me? I do have some Dao Rhyme Fragments left, but I really can’t give them to you, and you can’t absorb them anyway... Just consider this Ji Yun’s surrender, alright? I admit defeat. Can you please just give me a break?"

An incredibly resentful look appeared on Ji Yun’s face, making him look like a spurned maiden, seduced and then cruelly abandoned.

Hearing this, Ye Tianling couldn’t help but laugh in surprise.

"I’m just passing by, don’t be scared. I don’t even consider you an opponent anymore."

Ye Tianling cringed. With a flicker of his body, he had already passed through Ji Yun’s area and arrived at the churning mist above the Purgatory Fire Sea.

Ji Yun was stunned. That speed...

He hadn’t even had time to react before Ye Tianling had reached the sea of clouds. He was simply shocked numb.

’Such speed, such power, such an aura... How in the world does this kid cultivate?’

Thinking of the special Power of Laws he himself had comprehended... Ji Yun felt the urge to die.

He had thought that by reaching the Great Perfection stage of the Sword Tribulation Fifth Refining Realm, he could close the gap in Battle Power with Ye Tianling.

But after seeing Ye Tianling’s current Body Technique and realizing he couldn’t even catch his shadow, his mind went completely blank.

’If Ye Tianling were to fight him with that Body Technique, could he even put up a fight?’

’I’m truly falling further and further behind him. The gap between us is only growing! What in the world is happening?’

’What is the fundamental difference between us? Why is it that even after I advanced to the Great Perfection Realm, pushed every step of my transformation to its absolute limit, and fused the Cultivation Resources of two Worlds, I’m still not his match? And not only that, but the gap is this terrifying?!’

Ji Yun was on the verge of going mad, his thoughts racing frantically as if he were possessed by a Demon.

In the span of a few breaths, he had already torn out a large handful of his own hair.

Seeing him like this, Ye Tianling was speechless, but at the same time, he felt a strange sense of schadenfreude.

The feeling was actually quite pleasant—just like the sense of disparity he felt when facing the Celestial Tribulation Emperor Spirit.

’First, you have to break through the Nine Forbidden in Battle Power, then condense one hundred thousand drops of Ancient Essence Blood and achieve the Unity of Spirit and Body... I already know all this, but am I going to tell you? Of course not. You can take your time figuring it out, little guy.’

As Ye Tianling thought this, he looked at Ji Yun with a hint of sympathy and said with a smile, "Stop thinking about it. Wait until the Heaven and Earth Supreme Dao and the Cosmic Void are in complete alignment, until the Buried Soul Star Domain returns and the final transformation of the Cosmos is complete. By then, you’ll probably have your answer."

Ye Tianling offered this hint.

He thought to himself, ’Even if you pull out all your hair and go bald, you’ll never figure out the reason.’

Ji Yun sobered up a little, his scalp a bloody mess.

He sighed and said, "Thank you for the reminder. If you want to leave, you can do so after a thousand breaths have passed. The mist is full of Divine Thoughts born from slaughterous evil creatures and Yin Spirit Resentment. If they kill you, your soul will be scattered and you’ll be completely annihilated."

Ji Yun had clearly figured out Ye Tianling’s intentions and offered a warning of his own.

"Oh? Did you not notice where I just came from? Besides, if I stay here, will you even be able to leave?"

Ye Tianling gave Ji Yun a faint, knowing smile.

Ji Yun froze. Ye Tianling had already entered the mist and vanished from sight.

’Could it be that he isn’t even afraid of the Divine Thoughts? He’s not an idiot, and it looked like he came out of the mist just now... Incredible.’

Ji Yun reflected with a sigh, then once again began to seriously ponder the details of combat with Ye Tianling, hoping to discover the reason for the gap in their Battle Power.

As he thought, he instinctively started pulling out his hair again.

...

Upon entering the misty region again, Ye Tianling did not immediately bring out Yanyan’s body. Instead, he activated his Soul Talent to its absolute limit.

Sure enough, this time, Divine Thoughts took the initiative to attack, and the terrifying killing intent came from a full twelve different sources.