Chapter 614 - 345: A Petty Trick, and You Dare Show Off Before an Expert

"What of this seal? Can it help with the battle beyond our world?"

The contingent from Qingcheng Mountain, led by Weichen and Master Weiyang, asked anxiously.

They were far more concerned with whether this seal could actually help Zhao Rui.

"As for whether it can help Emperor Zhao... I truly do not know. However, this seal is an incredibly vicious type of sealing and expelling talisman...?"

The Celestial Master frowned, his voice low and extremely serious.

"Sealing and expelling?"

"What is the meaning of that?"

"Is it meant to suppress the Kunlun Mountains?"

"But there’s no shortage of Spiritual Qi here. Ever since the return of Gui Xu, the entire world has been filled with it."

"Indeed."

A confused murmur rippled through the crowd.

"Everyone, do not interrupt the Celestial Master’s thoughts. Let him speak."

With a wave of his horsetail whisk, Sect Leader Weichen’s deep voice boomed, instantly silencing the clamor.

"I will try to be brief."

"This ’sealing and expelling’ isn’t about sealing Spiritual Qi. It’s about sealing the Divine Soul and expelling the true spirit. In other words, it prevents Divine Techniques and Daoist Techniques from manifesting in the world."

The moment the words left his lips, the Celestial Master’s face turned deathly pale and he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

It seemed that by revealing its secrets, he had somehow triggered the Talisman’s Sealing Power.

He was now severely wounded.

"Celestial Master!"

Everyone cried out in alarm and rushed forward to check his condition.

"It’s nothing. I’m fine. To have uncovered such a secret today is a great boon for all of you."

With that, the Celestial Master turned to his disciple. "Mu Ling, I’m afraid only you can break this Talisman. The revival of our Daoist Sect’s Divine Techniques rests on this very moment."

"Yes, Master."

True Man Mu Ling acknowledged with a low voice. In a flash, he was writing in midair, streams of True Qi flowing like ink from his fingertips to form characters in space.

As he wrote more and more, the words and characters gradually turned a brilliant gold, soon transforming into individual, tadpole-like runes that swam down into the sealing Talisman below.

Waves of spatial disturbance emanated from the sealed area below.

Then, endless divine runes began to pour forth from the whole of Kunlun Mountain, instantly blanketing the peak like an ocean current.

"Spirit is inherent to Heaven and Earth; Daoist Techniques are born from nature."

True Man Mu Ling spat out a mouthful of blood, his body aging at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, he had become a wizened old man.

「Meanwhile, in the depths of space.」

The two battling Zhao Rui suddenly looked horrified. Abandoning their fight, they tore open the void, attempting to flee toward Blue Star.

Zhao Rui didn’t know what had happened, but there was no way he would let them escape to Blue Star under these circumstances.

Once they reached Blue Star, his hands would be tied, putting him at a disadvantage.

He instantly unleashed his divine might, activating his Purple Mansion Primordial Venerable Body. A towering Dharma Aspect, as majestic as a great mountain, immediately filled the entire swath of space.

"Halt!"

With a great roar, Zhao Rui unleashed all of his Divine Power, his Domain Power blanketing that entire region of space.

In a single moment, he locked down all of space.

The spatial rift the two had just torn open was instantly erased by Zhao Rui.

A colossal hand reached into the void and dragged the two of them out.

’Trying to run? Did you ask me first?’

Zhao Rui scoffed, and his Divine Soul Transmission detonated in their minds like a clap of thunder, leaving them stunned, dizzy, and on the verge of collapsing.

"Dammit! To think this world has someone like him."

"If the seal is broken and the true divine essence is revived, this world will be reborn. When that happens, the Domain Lord... he won’t spare us."

After a quick, whispered exchange, one of them charged recklessly toward Zhao Rui, heedless of the consequences.

The Spiritual Qi around him roiled violently as his body began to swell—he was going to self-destruct in an attempt to take Zhao Rui with him.

The other man seized the opportunity to make a desperate dash for Blue Star.

’Such petty tricks. And you dare perform them before me?’

A cold sneer touched the corners of Zhao Rui’s lips.