Clang!

Bai Pu quickly unsheathed his great sword, channeling the Sandfall Fighting Qi onto its blade, and deflected backwards.

Amidst the deafening roar, Bai Pu’s figure gracefully landed on the ground.

The Youyan Guest sneered: "I thought you were some kind of immortal, turns out you’re just an ordinary mortal!"

As he spoke, a powerful aura burst forth from the Youyan Guest, causing the air to twist slightly, as if numerous phantom broken blades were slowly rotating.

Domain Skill, Breaking Blade Force!

[You have been affected by Youyan Guest’s domain skill: Breaking Blade Force, weapon attack power reduced by (50) points, losing (10) points of professional energy per second. When your professional energy is depleted, it switches to losing (100) points of life value per second.]

"The lord of the Celestial Hero World, is this what your domain is like?"

Bai Pu felt the surrounding air becoming viscous, like an invisible millstone grinding, not only affecting the power of his attack but also wearing down his Fighting Qi energy.

Fortunately, Bai Pu had cultivated the advanced Fighting Qi Cultivation Method, with a priority level of +1, neutralizing the True Qi oppression of the Youyan Guest as a lord, reducing his energy loss to 10 points per second.

If Bai Pu hadn’t advanced and was one priority level weaker, the loss of professional energy per second would have been significantly higher.

Youyan Guest, leveraging the pressure of Breaking Blade Force, stepped forward, the Supreme Profound Sword splitting into three exquisite sword paths, aimed respectively at the upper, middle, and lower palaces of Bai Pu.

Bai Pu swung the great sword in a circle, using the advantage of the weapon’s width to block all three swords.

With a light clash, Youyan Guest’s black sword collided with the great sword, causing the lord’s whole body to tremble, his vital energy and blood surging.

He couldn’t help being startled in his heart, secretly thinking that this young man in white had a formidable foundation, his inner power was pure, he was indeed a formidable opponent.

"I can’t believe I didn’t knock him flying?"

Bai Pu was also somewhat puzzled; his power value, even when restricted in the mid-level Spirit Realm, was close to 120 points.

Considering other power judgment bonuses, the total judgment value was close to 180 points, comparable to a human-shaped fierce beast.

Youyan Guest only had 85 points of power; even with power judgment bonuses, there was at least a forty or fifty-point power gap with Bai Pu. Such a large disparity, and yet he wasn’t knocked flying, was really strange.

Realizing the gap between their "external skills," Youyan Guest immediately activated his body technique, splitting into numerous inky black shadows, the sword tip darting from all directions, aiming at Bai Pu.

Youyan Guest’s speed was comparable to the Celestial Wolf, so fast that it was difficult for Bai Pu’s naked eye to catch.

However, Bai Pu’s response was simple.

He activated the Sandfall Domain, a dark yellow sandstorm raging in the arena!

The Youyan Guest’s shadow clones forcibly merged into one.

His body technique "Light Splitting Shadow," which had defeated countless heroes, was based on combining explosive speed with True Qi vibrations to leave phantoms on the enemy’s retinas, leaving the enemy at a loss for what to do.

But under the restriction of Bai Pu’s "Sandfall Domain," the Youyan Guest’s "Light Splitting Shadow" couldn’t be activated!

Within the Sandfall Domain, sprint-type skills with priority less than 9 points are restricted and cannot be used.

Only a priority of 10 points could break through the constraints of the Sandfall Domain!

[Your domain skill: Sandfall Domain and Youyan Guest’s domain skill: Breaking Blade Force are undergoing priority confrontation.]

[The priority of the Sandfall Domain is 9 points, and the priority of Breaking Blade Force is 9 points.]

[The result of the confrontation is as follows: Within the overlapping range of the domains, the effect of the Sandfall Domain is reduced by 25% (triple judgment), and the effect of Breaking Blade Force is reduced by 50%.]

Under the mighty sandstorm phantom impact, Youyan Guest’s Breaking Blade Force and the phantom of broken blades scattered.

Although Youyan Guest couldn’t see these Spirit Realm Will prompts, he clearly felt that his force field formed by the combination of True Qi external release was almost crushed by the opponent’s stronger and more vigorous momentum.

Reflecting on the mind level, Youyan Guest for the first time birthed a self-doubt of "Can I really win this?"

Bai Pu quickly gave Youyan Guest the answer through action.

The great sword rose, stirring up a glow of dark yellow sword qi.

Youyan Guest dared not take it head-on, only able to operate his mystical arts skill—the Supreme Profound Sword Technique, the black sword carrying a spiral rotational force, repeatedly striking the wide surface of the great sword.

Layer upon layer of force dissipation, using soft to overcome hard, withstanding this blow from Bai Pu.

"Good sword technique." Bai Pu now understood why the opponent, despite being far weaker in power, could directly withstand his slash. He said in a loud voice, "Try taking another slash from me!"

The great sword slashed again, this time infused with the Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts.

Struggling with the speed restriction, Youyan Guest could only fight Bai Pu head-on. Despite his best efforts to use soft strength to dissolve Bai Pu’s fierce power, after the Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts reached master level, its power was indeed too strong, beyond the limits of what the Supreme Profound Sword Technique could dissolve.

Clang!

With a clean sound, Youyan Guest’s tiger’s mouth bled fresh blood, and his whole body was sent flying.

It wasn’t entirely being slashed away; half was Youyan Guest intentionally borrowing the force to leap back, to avoid Bai Pu launching a series of chain attacks.

This borrowing force dodge technique was also a unique combat style of martial artists in the Celestial Hero World.

Martial artists in the Celestial Hero World generally have low life values, even the strong with the World Waymark’s blessing don’t have much extra life value.

They excel in using agile body techniques and exquisite techniques to dodge or deflect attacks. Even if they are unfortunately hit by the opponent, they can quickly gather protective True Qi to reduce the damage from the attack.

Their protective True Qi is more robust and durable than ordinary professional energy, with faster recovery efficiency.

Often, two martial arts masters fight intensely day and night, exhausting their inner power, with not a single obvious injury on their bodies.

In his initial stage, Bai Pu relied on adaptive evolution to tank damage and launch counter-attacks, and in the Celestial Hero World, this made him an outright outlier, generally referred to as a "death warrior."

"Your Highness, go quickly! Youyan Guest elder, hold on, we’ll go to the front courtyard hall to call people—"

Misheng and Ye Zi, seeing the situation unfavorable, wanted to escort Zhao Gou to escape.

Bai Pu shook his head slightly: "I originally wanted to have a fair fight with you, but your subordinates got smart, so I can only disregard justice."

As he spoke, Bai Pu suddenly raised his hand.

Three dark yellow lassos flew out, snaring Zhao Gou and his two companions in mid-air and dragging them before him.

Bai Pu lifted the great sword, and while Zhao Gou was still in a dazed state, struck down with the sword.

"You really are here to assassinate Prince Kang!"

The Youyan Guest rushed over; he couldn’t just stand by and watch Zhao Gou be killed.

Anxious to save the person, Youyan Guest inevitably lost his composure, Bai Pu’s vertical sword strike, wrapped in Mountain Shattering Mystical Arts, shattered Youyan Guest’s protective True Qi, causing blood to trickle from the corner of his mouth.

The Youyan Guest wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, coldly saying: "Bai Yujing, with your martial arts, you cannot be an unknown figure! Seeing that you are also a Han, do you know what you are doing? Killing Prince Kang will only make the Golden Dogs clap in delight!"