Chapter 429: Chapter 220: Great Dao Contest—Who Stands Atop the Peak? Divine Soul Evolves, Dao Turns to Void (Part 2)

To deal with this old cunning fox, since it’s time to beat the dog that’s fallen into the water, kill him, catching him off guard.

Sharpening the knife, eradication from the roots.

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For cultivators, time is a relative concept.

Especially for high-tier great cultivators, often a single meditation session can mean several months have passed.

So, a short year and two months of time.

For Zheng Yi, it’s a blink of an eye, let alone for Venerable Blood Mist, who also hardly felt the passage of time.

He meditates quietly, the blood mist completely covering his body, amidst the heavy shadows and darkness, it feels as if endless gods and demons are swaying behind him.

Venerable Blood Mist closes his eyelids, like a stubborn rock that withstands the wind and rain without moving an inch.

In fact, the entire exit of the small space has been shrouded by his divine thought, not even half a fly could fly in, nor half a mosquito could fly out.

But on this day, Venerable Blood Mist’s eyelids slightly trembled, sensing a peculiar fluctuation that suddenly spread in the silent space.

Swoosh!

A beam of light flickered, Zheng Yi’s figure appeared once more on the upper floor of the pavilion, and a wave of energy rippled through the calm space.

"Although I don’t know what method you’ve used in this year, managing to hide right under my nose, disappearing without a trace!"

"But a little mouse is still a little mouse, eventually, it can’t always hide in the dark gutters, sooner or later it must come out of the stinky sewers to catch a breath..."

Under the endless pressure, the sky filled with a heavy blood mist, as if dyeing the heaven and earth of the small space a blood red.

The voice of Venerable Blood Mist suddenly sounded, transforming into a gigantic blood-colored hand, descending from the sky to grab him fiercely, and said with a sneer.

"You just didn’t know, when the little mouse couldn’t help coming out for a breath, that’s the moment when it’s grabbed and squeezed into mincemeat!"

The swirling blood mist turned into a terrifying shock wave, the gigantic blood-colored hand covered front and back, left and right, encompassing above, middle, and below, as if covering the heaven and earth, the five gigantic blood-colored fingers like towering pillars, reaching out towards the just-revealed Zheng Yi.

The dense blood mist around quickly spread again, in an instant, completely wrapping the space where Zheng Yi was.

Those blood-colored threads, which make one’s scalp tingle, like agile serpents, all poked their heads out, stabbing straight towards his body.

At this moment, there were pursuers behind him and fierce wolves ahead.

Zheng Yi had just revealed himself and was already without a way to escape.

It must be said, Venerable Blood Mist is indeed a cunning hero like an old sly fox, acting decisively and ruthlessly.

Just like the most experienced hunter, appearing calm without making a move, but once moving, it’s with the momentum of wind and thunder, leaving not a shred of life, cutting off Zheng Yi’s path in one fell swoop.

He was not clear about how Zheng Yi left the sealed space, disappearing under his nose, but he understood one thing.

A person cannot disappear without reason, just using some method he was not aware of.

As long as he waited patiently, Zheng Yi would eventually appear again.

He waited an entire year, the developments not exceeding his expectations, that mysterious Chen Long, finally appeared once more.

Venerable Blood Mist, who had already laid out a trap, was waiting for this opportunity.

He was also wary of Zheng Yi’s methods, fearing that this slippery little mouse would escape once more, making it difficult to find him again.

"Still using the old trick?! I don’t know whether to call you Chou Ox or Venerable Blood Mist, but one thing is for sure, old guy, your methods are outdated."

Watching the blood mist spreading around like it had life, with blood threads exuding suffocating auras surging within, stabbing straight towards his body with terrifying energy.

And behind him, the gigantic blood-colored hand that reversed heaven and earth darkened the sky, as if one palm could crush him to dust.

This method, Zheng Yi had seen it more than once.

The overwhelming force, yet lacking a bit of finesse.

Not to mention, this move was already outdated for him.

With Zheng Yi’s teasing, his pupils emitted two strands of golden light.

In the space of the divine soul, the golden divine soul puppet, which looked like a matchstick, moved slightly, its eyes growing brighter.

In an instant, everything around seemed to hear Zheng Yi’s command, completely coming to a halt.

Whether it was the spreading blood mist, the terrible blood threads within, the surging shock wave, or the gigantic blood-colored hand about to reach him.

These powers were completely frozen by some invisible terrifying power, locked in the air, motionless as if paused there.

A sentence, like words and laws following, a small piece of heaven and earth around was directly influenced to a standstill by his personal will!

Of course, this was not truly words and laws follow, holding heavenly mandate, that was too far away for him.

This was a kind of absolute dominance relying on the divine soul puppet, forming a powerful spiritual domain.

Within the domain’s range, everything would be influenced to some extent by his spirit, affecting the real world with intangible spirit, this is the essence of spiritual will at the Core Formation Stage.

"What happened?!"

At this moment, even the well-informed Venerable Blood Mist was somewhat stunned, unclear about what exactly had happened.

Why the carefully prepared trap did not take effect, instead, it was restrained by some mysterious power, bound, frozen, making everything bizarrely stop there.

This scene, to be honest, scared him.

Even with Venerable Blood Mist’s mind tempered over hundreds of years, at this moment a slight tremor appeared, the door of an unshakeable heart showing a slight crack, even hinting at an immense horror and fear leaking out.

He wasn’t unclear, but simply hadn’t imagined the situation unfolding this way.

After all, the matters Zheng Yi had experienced were extraordinary in themselves, within reasonable bounds.

A mere middle-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, after disappearing for a year, his spiritual will transformed, and in his mind evolved a divine soul space and a divine soul puppet.

This naturally does not compare to the shock of reaching the Core Formation level.

But it was nonetheless a miraculous evolution of the divine soul.

"Annihilate!"

Zheng Yi looked at the surrounding halted space, flipped his right hand down, pressed his wrist, then opened his mouth again.

His eyes, at this moment, glowed with dazzling gold light.

In an instant, a more terrifying invisible spiritual energy suddenly descended.

The pressure of the divine soul suddenly increased, like Mount Tai pressing down, exploding with a loud crash.

Whether it was the spreading blood mist, the terrifying blood threads surging, or the gigantic all-reaching blood-colored hand rushing for his life behind him, they seemed unable to bear the divine soul energy suddenly descending, breaking and scattering into dust, turning into a sky full of blood-colored airflow, disappearing without a trace.

"What?! That’s impossible?!"

In the blink of an eye, not only had the carefully prepared trap collapsed.

But it also directly struck at Venerable Blood Mist’s Dao Heart.

Causing his pupils to dilate, finally revealing a trace of shock and panic.

Even with Venerable Blood Mist’s hundreds of years of cultivation and insight, he could not believe in any way that in just a year’s time, a person could have undergone such earth-shattering changes.

Easily destroying the means he painstakingly prepared.

This kind of ability made him have ominous associations, and that mysterious invisible divine soul ripple further reminded Venerable Blood Mist of some taboo power.

This was what he had pursued and strived for his entire life.

But now it seemed to appear on someone else’s body.

The feeling it gave was like a once trembling little kitty, in an instant, transformed into a ferocious tiger descending the mountain, a flood dragon entering the sea, becoming a fearsome creature capable of devouring heaven and earth.

The huge contrast almost made one collapse.

The process was extremely brief, even Venerable Blood Mist didn’t have time to think carefully, the surrounding array powers were already destroyed.