Chapter 35: Where to Escape?

Under Qu Yi’s pressure, Ji Qiong actually chose to flee, abandoning all his subordinates without regard for the loyalty these powerful warriors had shown him over millions of years.
The twenty-some powerful warriors of the Mu Feng Alliance stared in shock as Ji Qiong vanished into the starry sky, their faces filled with anger—some even trembling.
“Damn it, this Ji Qiong is truly despicable.”
“I’ve followed him for a million years, and yet he abandons me at such a time, treating me like trash. He’s truly heartless and cruel.”
“Ji Qiong, you bastard! I trusted you for a million years, yet you abandon us like this.”
“I don’t hate Ji Qiong; I hate myself. Why did I covet the Origin Spirit Body Mines? Why did I insist on joining the Mu Feng Alliance? It would have been better if I stayed in my own sect to cultivate.”
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At that moment, none of the twenty-some powerful warriors of the Mu Feng Alliance thought of fleeing. Instead, they vented their regret and continued to resent Ji Qiong.
Qu Yi wouldn’t give these warriors any chance. As Ji Qiong fled, he immediately took action, knocking out two more Mid-Level Heavenly Soul Immortals and capturing them inside the Dimensional Sphere once again.
The capture of one of the Mid-Level Heavenly Soul Immortals instantly woke up the other twenty warriors of the Mu Feng Alliance. They immediately put aside their anger toward Ji Qiong and scattered in all directions, trying to escape.
Seeing this, Qu Yi simply smiled. Suddenly, five people appeared beside him—Jin Zun, Mu Zun, Shui Zun, Huo Zun, and Tu Zun. As soon as they appeared, their appearances changed drastically, differing greatly from Qu Yi’s.
Jin Zun carried a Golden Patterned Sword and a Spirit-Sealing Golden Ball; Mu Zun held a Sharp Wire Wood; Shui Zun wielded a Flowing Cloud Sound Chain and a Sea-Turning Bowl; Huo Zun carried a Falling Fire Blade and a Fire-Dispelling Banner; Tu Zun held a Earth-Shattering Spear and a Desert Scroll. They appeared with great momentum and immediately launched fierce attacks on the warriors of the Mu Feng Alliance.
“Where to escape? Receive my Golden Light Pattern!” Jin Zun said coldly as he approached one of the Mid-Level Heavenly Soul Immortals.
He swung his Golden Patterned Sword, and instantly, golden light filled the sky and earth. These tangible beams of light formed dragon-scale-like patterns and covered the head of the Mid-Level Heavenly Soul Immortal.
Panicked, the warrior realized he couldn’t escape the pursuit of these golden patterns. He quickly created a Wood Element Spirit Body Shield around himself to defend against their attacks.

But this mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal warrior never expected that the destructive power of the golden light patterns would instantly break through his spiritual body shield, with the entire pattern enveloping his body as if a layer of dragon scales had been applied to it. In less than a breath’s time, the mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal warrior was knocked unconscious by the tightly wrapped golden light patterns. Qu Yi laughed heartily and flew over, immediately putting this warrior into the Dimensional Sphere. “Where can you run? See the power of my ‘One Wood, Thousand Threads’!” Mu Zun also showed no restraint, flashing over to a higher-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal warrior and waving the sharp-threaded wood in his hand. The sharp-threaded wood was a very rare divine tree from the Divine Realm; once mature, it would naturally produce threads that were extremely sharp and capable of cutting through anything. As Mu Zun swung the wood, countless green threads suddenly appeared in space, radiating out in an umbrella shape and blocking the higher-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal warrior’s escape route. Of course, surrounded by these threads, the warrior could not fly away and could only try to defend against their seemingly deadly attacks. So, he released his immortal essence, creating a wood-based spiritual body space around him, with thousands of such spiritual bodies ready to resist the threads’ attacks. The countless green threads struck the spiritual body space and immediately clashed with the wood-based spiritual bodies, resulting in a stunningly overwhelming battle. Whenever the threads touched the spiritual bodies, they would instantly destroy them, and soon all thousand spiritual bodies disappeared, along with the spiritual body space. The threads continued flying and reached the higher-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal warrior, easily passing through his body and piercing it. However, Mu Zun deliberately controlled them not to attack his head, so the warrior’s Soul Flower remained unharmed, and he did not die. Since the Soul Flower hadn’t perished, it meant the cultivator wasn’t dead—after all, the soul is the most fundamental aspect of a cultivator. Qu Yi laughed again and flew over, throwing the warrior’s head into the Dimensional Sphere before looking eagerly in other directions. “Where can you run? Now that I’ve gotten familiar with the Sea-Turning Bowl, just be a good subject for my experiments.” Shui Zun held the blue Sea-Turning Bowl in his hand, calling out in a melodious voice while already releasing water-based immortal essence.

Immediately, the Sea-Reversing Bowl soared into the air, rapidly expanding as its opening hung upside down. It soon emitted the sound of waves crashing, with countless streams of blue seawater pouring down from the sky, as if all the moisture in the starry sky had gathered within it, falling endlessly.

The Water Lord’s target were two mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortals, who seemed to be on good terms and were fleeing together. Unbeknownst to them, the vast expanse of seawater stretching for thousands of miles enveloped them completely. Naturally, these two mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortals had no choice but to create spiritual body spaces to resist this seemingly endless seawater.

The seawater was indeed endless and grew more intense, increasing its force of impact with each passing moment. The two mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortals struggled to hold on, but due to their limited immortal energy, they soon collapsed from the force of the seawater and lost consciousness.

The Water Lord promptly retracted the Sea-Reversing Bowl. Qu Yi flew over with a laugh, waved his right hand, and a strand of Wood Element immortal energy transformed into two green ropes, pulling the two mid-tier Heavenly Soul Immortals inside the Inch-World Sphere.

“Where can you run? Taste the power of my Fire-Dispelling Banner! Don’t worry, I won’t burn you to a crisp,” the Fire Lord said excitedly as he flashed beside a high-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal, shouting arrogantly, as if he were looking at a duck.

As he spoke, the Fire Lord raised his Fire-Dispelling Banner. With the activation of his immortal energy, the banner grew thousands of feet tall, unfurling in the wind with intense flames.

The moment the banner moved, it seemed to absorb all the Fire Element energy in the universe. Instantly, countless flames appeared throughout the space—all of them were Ashen Heaven Flames. Moreover, within this world of flames, there were many Fire Element spiritual beings roaring wildly, looking extremely ferocious.

The high-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal, seeing these Ashen Heaven Flames raining down, was terrified beyond measure and forgot to use his energy to resist.

Even high-tier Heavenly Soul Immortals could only generate a limited amount of Ashen Heaven Flames. Yet the amount released by the Fire-Dispelling Banner at once was equivalent to that of ten such immortals. Thus, upon seeing so many flames approaching, his first reaction was that he couldn’t resist and would be completely burned to ashes, leaving him in a state of shock.

Qu Yi laughed loudly as he flew over, grabbed the high-tier Heavenly Soul Immortal by the neck with his left hand, and swatted with his right hand. With a snap, he woke the immortal up.

“Don’t… don’t burn me to death!” the powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal cried in terror, his eyes still filled with confusion, clearly still trapped in the fear from earlier.
Qu Yi shook his head and immediately put this powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal into the Dimensional Ball.
“Where can you escape? Stay here and enjoy the painting in my hands,” the Earth Sovereign refused to yield at all. While the other four sovereigns used their treasures to attack, he also flew over to another powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal.
Soon, the Earth Sovereign took out the Desert Scroll and infused it with his Earthly Immortal Energy. The scroll unfolded to reveal a very primitive desert scene, exuding an ancient aura that filled people with a sense of reverence and pressure.
As the scroll expanded, it quickly grew infinitely larger, turning the entire ground into a desert landscape. Countless sands seemed to come to life, transforming into various Earthly spiritual entities—sand people, sand beasts, sand trees—which then launched waves of attacks against the powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal.
It turned out that the Desert Scroll was actually a illusion attack, creating countless fake Earthly spiritual entities within the illusion, causing the trapped cultivator to continuously drain his energy until he was exhausted.
The powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal was indeed confused by the illusions, thinking that the onslaught of these entities was about to attack his body. He immediately activated his Immortal Energy, forming protective spiritual barriers around himself to defend against the attacks.
It wasn’t long before the Upper Heaven Soul Immortal ran out of his Immortal Energy and collapsed weakly.
The Earth Sovereign happily put away the Desert Scroll.
Qu Yi flew over with a smile, grabbed the powerful Upper Heaven Soul Immortal, nodded to the Earth Sovereign, and then threw him into the Dimensional Ball.
While the five sovereigns attacked those five Heaven Soul Immortals from the Mu Feng Alliance, the other Heaven Soul Immortals seized this brief opportunity to vanish into the starry sky and scatter in all directions.
Although Qu Yi wanted to capture all the Heaven Soul Immortals, his own cultivation level was limited, and he didn’t have the power to stop them all. He could only allow those over a dozen Heaven Soul Immortals to escape.
The Gold Sovereign, Wood Sovereign, Water Sovereign, Fire Sovereign, and Earth Sovereign put away their divine artifacts and flew over to Qu Yi, full of pride.
“This divine artifact is truly useful. Compared to the immortal artifacts we used before, its attacking power is simply amazing.”
“From now on, let us five handle all battles. With this divine artifact in our hands, who in these three realms can withstand our attacks?”

“The true self, it’s not satisfying enough. Go quickly and find the locations of the other eight powerful Heavenly Soul Immortals from the Eight Alliances. Let’s rush over and fight again.”
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The five beings, having fought so brilliantly just now and filled with fighting desire, came to Qu Yi’s side and began to show off.
Qu Yi shook his head and smiled, saying, “Alright. The next battle will give you all a great chance to prove yourselves. Now, let’s enter the Dimensional Sphere and properly train these eight captured Heavenly Soul Immortals.”
Qu Yi himself had captured three of them, while the five others had each knocked out one, all of whom were taken into the Dimensional Sphere by Qu Yi.
With these eight Heavenly Soul Immortals, Qu Yi believed the energy from Wu Yuan to awaken the rules of Mu Xing would be more than enough. Therefore, he wanted to enter the Dimensional Sphere right away and let Wu Yuan start devouring these eight Heavenly Soul Immortals.
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“Qu Yi, you really caught some Heavenly Soul Immortals! Ugh, Qu Yi, you’re such a good person!” Wu Yuan shouted excitedly on the grass, his eyes fixed on the eight Heavenly Soul Immortals ahead.
Inside the Dimensional Sphere, Qu Yi’s will was absolute. These eight Heavenly Soul Immortals had regained their full strength, but none of them had any ability to deal with Qu Yi; they all glared at him with hatred in their eyes.
“Qu Yi, what do you want? Why did you capture us?”
“Qu Yi, I’m willing to submit to you as long as you spare my life.”
“Qu Yi, I know the secret of a treasure. Please spare me, and I’ll tell you the secret.”
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Although they hated Qu Yi, these eight Heavenly Soul Immortals now fully understood that he intended to kill them, so they couldn’t help but beg for mercy.
Qu Yi shook his head and then smiled at Wu Yuan, saying, “Wu Yuan, take your time eating these eight delicacies. Oh, let me remind you—start with those at the middle level of Heavenly Soul Immortal strength. I’m afraid your stomach won’t handle it.”
Ah……
Upon hearing Qu Yi’s words, the faces of the eight Heavenly Soul Immortals turned pale instantly. They stared in terror at Wu Yuan, unable to comprehend how such a seemingly weak young man could devour an Heavenly Soul Immortal. Could it be by eating them bit by bit raw?
Filled with extreme fear, the eight Heavenly Soul Immortals showed pitiful expressions, constantly begging Qu Yi to spare them.
Qu Yi didn’t bother to pay attention and simply vanished in a flash.
Wu Yuan cheered happily, then reverted to his beast form, looking down triumphantly at the eight Heavenly Soul Immortals beneath him.

At this moment, the eight Heavenly Soul Immortals finally realized that Wuyuan was actually a monstrous beast. With its body as huge as a thousand meters, swallowing them posed no difficulty at all for it.
“No…”
All eight Heavenly Soul Immortals let out agonizing screams that shattered hearts.
Unfazed by their screams, Wuyuan selected one of the mid-ranked Heavenly Soul Immortals, dropped its dragon head sharply, and swallowed that immortal alive.
It would devour them one by one.