Volume 3 - Chapter 412: I'll Go in Your Place (Part 2)
“So soon? They’re sending out Su Muqing already? Could it be that aside from the Su family’s true phoenix, there’s no one else left who can threaten that demon?”
“Maybe they want Su Muqing to slay him outright—leave no room for surrender!”
Across the thirty-six thousand Immortal Cities, countless people were watching, their voices filled with both anticipation and dread. If Su Muqing were to fall as well… then what?
Inside the arena, Chi Xu narrowed his eyes as he examined the approaching Su Muqing.
He recognized her. She was one of their primary targets on this mission—a key individual who had to be eliminated.
As the Soulspan Mirror outside reflected upon her, Su Muqing’s soul lifespan was revealed—just over five hundred years.
Only half of Chi Xu’s own.
A vast gulf for cultivators at this level.
Seeing this, tension rippled through countless onlookers.
“So, you’ve finally decided to send out the real thing?”
Chi Xu grinned faintly, bloodlust flashing in his eyes. This wasn’t the same kind of killing intent he’d shown toward Jiang Xuming. No—this was a deep, devouring hunger.
If he could consume this top-tier human bloodline, he was sure he could break through, step out from among the elite, and truly become unmatched among his peers.
Su Muqing’s gaze was ice-cold, her eyes deep and silent. She didn’t speak a word. She simply flipped her palm, and a longsword sprang into her hand with a metallic hum.
With a thunderous crack that seemed to split the heavens, the battle began.
Boom!
Su Muqing erupted with full power. On her forehead, the Nine-Flower Nine-Sequences Immortal Seal blazed into view. An ancient temporal force surged forth, fused into the tip of her blade.
She poured her entire strength into this strike. Time compressed and froze—within the span of a single breath, her sword had slashed forward a thousand times over.
She reversed time, arriving at the exact instant when Chi Xu was least guarded.
The sword light slashed down—space-time disintegrated, and dimensional shearing shredded Chi Xu’s body into countless fragments, scattering them across layers of broken void.
In the blink of an eye, the once-invincible Chi Xu was slain again!
Countless spectators held their breath, stunned into silence.
But there was no cheer—only a heavy, nervous stillness.
Jiang Xuming had killed Chi Xu once too. But that victory had been short-lived. Would history repeat itself?
“Time Origin… seventh tier?!”
Outside the arena, the purple-robed man’s expression shifted. Beside him, the golden-eyed man and a coldly beautiful woman also showed signs of unease.
Though some top-tier cultivators could grasp the essence of time, and some among those with the Nine-Flower Nine-Sequences Immortal Seal had cultivated it as well—
The depth of mastery varied greatly. The further one went in cultivating time, the harder it became. Most only cultivated enough to form their Immortal Seal and stopped there.
Time was too mysterious, too ancient. Reaching even the sixth tier of the Time Origin could allow one to dominate most opponents at the same level.
No matter how great your arts, bloodlines, or immortal heritage—when time was reversed, when you were returned to infancy, could you still survive?
Chi Xu’s body shattered.
But Jiang Xuming’s sacrifice hadn’t been in vain. It allowed Su Muqing to uncover the secret of the Spiritblood Abominable Body.
She raised her hand—but instead of absorbing ambient immortal power with her All-Heavens Star Vein, she sealed it off completely, cutting off the arena from all external immortal energy.
She didn’t eject the energy out of the arena—doing so would limit her own strength too.
Instead, she sealed it into another timeline.
At the current moment—at the time of Chi Xu’s apparent death—the ten minutes before and after were devoid of all immortal energy.
Su Muqing had deduced this based on the fluctuations in Chi Xu’s time laws during his earlier display, estimating his Time Origin to be no more than fifth tier.
To be safe, she shifted the immortal energy to a point only accessible by those at the very peak of the sixth tier.
The arena fell utterly silent.
Su Muqing stood motionless, wreathed in divine radiance and immortal power. She was peerlessly beautiful and exuded an aura of dominance—as if the heavens had birthed a true phoenix, surveying all under the stars.
Time flowed slowly.
One minute. Three minutes. Chi Xu still hadn’t returned.
Joy and disbelief gradually broke out across countless faces.
That monstrous Chi Xu… had actually been slain by a single sword?
Even the demon prodigies on the enemy ship had turned pale, their gazes locking onto Su Muqing with growing fear and uncertainty.
If Chi Xu had fallen… then wouldn’t most of them fall as well?
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, Su Muqing’s expression changed.
A beam of light pierced into the arena—a ray from a distant star.
Her face fell.
Top-tier prodigies often had guardian stars, and this light beam meant one had activated.
Where the beam struck, a faint trace of immortal energy appeared in the void.
In just an instant, it began to condense—taking on the form of Chi Xu once more.
“Freeze!”
Su Muqing acted instantly. She froze time, reversing its flow, attempting to drag him back toward death.
But endless blood energy erupted from the forming outline of Chi Xu’s body, billowing into a blood sea that resisted the reversal of time.
His Blood Origin had just broken through—he’d reached the seventh tier, mid-level.
That vast sea of blood energy blocked the temporal reversal. The lines of time were buried within, impossible to pinpoint amid the crimson tides.
Drawing on the sea of blood, Chi Xu found where his immortal energy had been sealed. The moment he touched it, his true form reassembled—his power returning in full.
The cheers died in an instant.
Su Muqing’s face turned cold as frost. Even after all that, he hadn’t died?
She realized now—if she wanted to finish him, she would have to destroy that guardian star. And that would require even greater power.
“So close…”
Chi Xu’s face was dark, a chill running down his spine. He had almost failed to return.
If he hadn’t devoured Jiang Xuming earlier, triggering his Blood Origin breakthrough, he truly would’ve perished.
If this girl had been the one to fight in the first round, he might not have survived at all.
The thought left him shaken.
Then his eyes turned fierce.
“Die!”
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