Chapter 258: Grand Duke of Metal Virtue, Tai Bai Tai Hao Star Lord

Chapter 258: Grand Duke of Metal Virtue, Tai Bai Tai Hao Star Lord

Li Yaxian was deeply shaken.

Qi Yuan’s instant killing of Yang Kang had taken her completely by surprise.

She had never expected that Qi Yuan’s strength could be this formidable. Wasn’t he supposed to be a Nascent Soul cultivator?

Could it be that he had been hiding his true strength?

But at this moment, none of that mattered.

What mattered was that Qi Yuan had killed someone!

In the Seeking Dao Palace, he had killed one of their stewards!

This was a monumental event!

Even a Yin God wouldn’t dare to kill so casually in the Seeking Dao Palace.

Li Yaxian’s mind was in turmoil, filled with worry and fear.

The young woman in the yellow dress was equally stunned; the scene before her had far exceeded her expectations.

“Let’s run!” Li Yaxian’s mind was filled with only one thought—escape.

Even though she knew that escaping might be impossible.

But just as she had this thought, powerful auras began to emanate from all around them.

“Who dares to cause trouble in the Seeking Dao Palace!”

“Bold fiend! To kill someone in our Seeking Dao Palace is to court death!”

In an instant, more than ten powerful auras surged toward them, surrounding Qi Yuan, Li Yaxian, and the others.

Each of these individuals was a Purple Mansion cultivator, their auras overwhelmingly terrifying.

Surrounded by more than ten Purple Mansion cultivators, Li Yaxian’s face turned deathly pale. She had never been this close to death before.

The young woman in the yellow dress clenched her teeth, her face as white as a sheet.

But Qi Yuan remained calm, speaking nonchalantly, “I am a seeker of the Dao, having come here with devotion to challenge the Daoists of the Seeking Dao Palace. If I win, I ask that each of you grants me your cultivation techniques. If I lose, I will grant you all the opportunity to become gods.”

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The Purple Mansion cultivators were taken aback, struggling to process his words.

Li Yaxian and the young woman in the yellow dress were also stunned—Qi Yuan’s thought process was moving so quickly that they couldn’t keep up.

“Don’t change the subject! How do you explain killing Daoist Yang Kang?” an elderly cultivator demanded, glaring at Qi Yuan.

As time passed, more and more Purple Mansion cultivators gathered around, some watching from a distance.

“I came to see Elder Fu Lu, but this man asked me to sleep with him, so I killed him on the spot,” Qi Yuan said calmly.

He remained utterly unflustered, even when faced with so many powerful cultivators.

This left Li Yaxian feeling both admiration and helplessness toward him.

"Those are just your words!"

"Even if he insulted you, you should have let us judge him. What right did you have to kill him?"

"When you come to the Seeking Dao Palace, you must follow our rules!"

The Purple Mansion cultivators were furious.

After all, killing a steward within the Seeking Dao Palace was a direct affront to them.

"I’m not part of the Seeking Dao Palace. Why should I follow your rules?" Qi Yuan replied with a natural, matter-of-fact tone.

His words immediately sparked even greater anger among the Purple Mansion cultivators.

How could this man be so arrogant?

Did he not realize where he was? This was the Seeking Dao Palace!

How could he be so brazenly fearless?

But at that moment, a distant, ethereal voice echoed in everyone’s mind.

“Blood-Robed Sword God, as a Great Sovereign, why bother toying with these juniors?”

A figure clad in blood-red armor, tall and imposing, stepped forward.

His entire body was shrouded in this blood armor, exuding an aura of immense power.

Though he stood close, he seemed at once both near and far.

Seeing this figure, all the Purple Mansion cultivators present were visibly shaken.

The newcomer was none other than the true power behind the Seeking Dao Palace.

Great Sovereign Wu Jun!

Great Sovereign Wu Jun was a reclusive figure, rarely seen even by the Purple Mansion cultivators of the Seeking Dao Palace, with only a fraction of them having ever met him.

Today, he had appeared in person.

And what he said...

Blood-Robed Sword God...

Could it be...

All the Purple Mansion cultivators were astounded.

The person they had surrounded and intended to subdue was none other than the Blood-Robed Sword God!

They had nearly attacked a Great Sovereign!

Li Yaxian was stunned, looking at Qi Yuan in disbelief.

The young woman in the yellow dress covered her mouth, her eyes wide as she stared at Qi Yuan.

She could hardly believe it—the man standing before her was actually her idol, the Blood-Robed Sword God.

Qi Yuan met Great Sovereign Wu Jun’s gaze, his expression calm. "I wasn’t toying with them. They are all Purple Mansion cultivators, much older than me. They are my seniors. I came to the Seeking Dao Palace to challenge these senior Daoists. I meant what I said earlier. If they lose, they will give me their cultivation techniques. If they win, I will grant them the chance to become gods."

Qi Yuan’s words left the gathered Purple Mansion cultivators staring at each other in shock.

Who were they to be challenged by a Great Sovereign who had traveled all this way?

A Great Sovereign!

Even if all the Purple Mansion cultivators of the Seeking Dao Palace were to band together, they wouldn’t stand a chance against an Yin God Sovereign.

And in the entire Canglan Realm, no combination of Yin God Sovereigns could stand against a Great Sovereign.

A Great Sovereign challenging them... Should they feel honored, or was this just too absurd?

As for Yang Kang's death, no one was concerned about that anymore.

If someone had died at the hands of an Yin God Sovereign, that Sovereign might have to offer an apology, given the power of Great Sovereign Wu Jun.

With a wave of his hand, a divine force enveloped Qi Yuan.

In an instant, both Qi Yuan and Great Sovereign Wu Jun vanished, entering a virtual realm.

In the Canglan Realm, any battle involving Yin Gods would automatically be transferred to the virtual realm.

Back at the Seeking Dao Palace, the Purple Mansion cultivators breathed a sigh of relief as Qi Yuan left.

"The Blood-Robed Sword God is audacious to challenge Great Sovereign Wu Jun!"

"Where does he get his confidence?"

"In the Moon Watching Continent, the Blood-Robed Sword God may be powerful, but in the Canglan Realm, he’s nothing!"

Creatures that devour a world’s Heavenly Dao gain power within that world, but when they travel to other worlds, they are suppressed by that world’s Heavenly Dao, unable to exert their full strength.

They can only exert the strength of a weak Great Sovereign—this is common knowledge.

Information about the Blood-Robed Sword God and his connection to the Moon Watching Continent had initially been kept secret, but eventually, the truth had leaked out.

The Purple Mansion cultivators of the Seeking Dao Palace were generally aware of the Blood-Robed Sword God’s background.

Not far away, the young woman in the yellow dress blinked. "Grandmother, is he really the Blood-Robed Sword God?"

Li Yaxian took a deep breath at her granddaughter's question. "He must be."

She couldn’t believe that the lazy man who had sunbathed with her on the flying ship, complaining about being poor, was actually a Great Sovereign.

The young woman in the yellow dress felt even more conflicted.

She had actually tried to play matchmaker between the Blood-Robed Sword God and her grandmother!

And she had even thought that the Blood-Robed Sword God wasn’t good enough for her grandmother.

Luckily, she hadn’t said anything about it; otherwise, if the Blood-Robed Sword God found out...

"Do you think the Blood-Robed Sword God will win?" the young woman in the yellow dress asked Li Yaxian.

The Blood-Robed Sword God was her idol, and she even knew him personally. On their journey, she had often joked around with him and occasionally made fun of him. Now that she thought about it, it felt like a dream.

So, she hoped that the Blood-Robed Sword God would win.

"It's going to be difficult," Li Yaxian replied.

At this moment, in the virtual realm, there was nothing but empty space.

Qi Yuan and Great Sovereign Wu Jun hovered in the air, facing each other.

The battle had been arranged hastily, so there were no spectators.

Even if other Yin Gods knew about the battle, they wouldn’t know where it was taking place.

Great Sovereign Wu Jun looked at Qi Yuan, his body radiating a terrifying aura.

Upon entering the virtual realm, he no longer restrained his power.

A terrifying aura swept through the space, as if it could tear it apart.

He looked at Qi Yuan, his fighting spirit soaring. "Let me see where your confidence comes from!"

He couldn’t understand why the Blood-Robed Sword God dared to challenge him!

The gap between Yin Gods and Great Sovereigns is vast.

Clearly, the Blood-Robed Sword God’s battle record involved killing a few Yin God Sovereigns.

In the Canglan Realm, where he was suppressed by the Heaven's Way, his strength was more than enough to overwhelm an Yin God Sovereign, but against a Great Sovereign, he was just asking for death.

"When I became a Golden Core cultivator, I dared to challenge Yin Gods.

Now, having formed my Nascent Soul, why shouldn’t I dare to challenge a Great Sovereign?"

"Madness! Playing tricks!" Great Sovereign Wu Jun shouted.

With his shout, a powerful divine domain was unleashed.

Battles between Great Sovereigns are simple: it’s all about the collision of divine domains.

Great Sovereign Wu Jun unleashed his divine domain, clearly intending to end the fight quickly.

"My divine domain is called 'Breaking Gold!'"

In Great Sovereign Wu Jun's divine domain, the strongest power was that of metal, representing the ultimate offense.

As the divine domain unfolded, Qi Yuan saw endless metal energy forming countless swords, spears, and artifacts, all attacking him.

Faced with this assault, Qi Yuan chuckled softly, "Your divine domain... is still too small."

The divine domain before him seemed tiny to Qi Yuan, with not much metal energy present.

"Hmph!" Great Sovereign Wu Jun snorted coldly.

His divine domain was not small, and its energy level was high, ranking him among the stronger Great Sovereigns.

Great Sovereign Wu Jun said coldly, "Let me see how large your divine domain is!"

The metal energy surged forward like a storm of blades.

Qi Yuan remained calm, his voice solemn.

"Radiant and mighty, the Nascent Soul emerges from the divine treasury, heed my command, brilliance of Metal Virtue!"

Qi Yuan chanted softly.

With his voice, a Nascent Soul appeared, radiating an ancient, vast aura.

The space seemed to freeze at that moment.

An old, ethereal voice echoed as if it had traversed the river of time.

“Grand Duke of Metal Virtue, Tai Bai Tai Hao Star Lord, at your command!”

As the voice resonated, Great Sovereign Wu Jun's expression turned to shock.

What had he just seen?

His lips trembled involuntarily, his body shook uncontrollably, and his once-proud divine domain wavered, on the brink of collapse.

It was clearly a Nascent Soul, yet he saw it as if a divine domain as vast as a star had unfolded before him.

That star seemed even larger than the Canglan Realm.

A divine domain, bigger than the Canglan Realm itself!

Was this even a divine domain?

How could there be such a divine domain!

He trembled, his body quivering, utterly bewildered.

The infinite metal energy, so pure and potent, seemed as though even a wisp could shatter his divine domain.

How could he possibly fight against this?