441: Chapter 441 I'll just kill you first

Off the stage, Ye Tian watched every move Yin Wujiang made, his brain working at high speed.

He was analyzing and deducing.

The core of this Yin Wujiang's Cultivation Technique was absorption, forming a weakening force field similar to a Domain.

To break him, one must either use absolute power to crush him, instantly shattering the force field's defense.

Or... use some kind of power he could not absorb, or one that could suppress his Death Qi.

Li Xuanxiao's sword essence was extremely pure and sharp, but it still fell within the category of the power of life, so it was absorbed and suppressed.

Then what power could suppress Death Qi?

Extremely Yang and rigid thunder?

Pure and vigorous life essence?

Or... something of a higher level, such as Chaos?

Ye Tian's Chaos True Essence possessed both life and death, perhaps it could resist or even counter it?

But he was not certain; the opponent's cultivation was clearly higher than Li Xuanxiao's, likely already at the Huahai Realm fifth level or even higher.

If he went up, what were his odds of winning?

Just as Ye Tian was deep in thought, the situation on the stage changed.

Yin Wujiang seemed to have had enough fun; a dark green palm print weirdly passed through Li Xuanxiao's sword net and struck his shoulder.

"Bang!"

Li Xuanxiao let out a muffled groan and flew backward. After landing, he stumbled a few steps and only managed to steady himself by leaning on his sword.

The clothes on his shoulder were torn, revealing a pitch-black handprint. The flesh under the skin seemed to be slightly withering, entwined with Death Qi.

"You lost."

Yin Wujiang withdrew his palm, his gaze beneath the hat brim seemingly mocking.

Li Xuanxiao's expression was cold. He tried to dispel the Death Qi on his shoulder but found that the Death Qi was extremely troublesome, constantly eroding his vitality.

He took a deep look at Yin Wujiang, said nothing more, turned around, and walked off the stage step by step.

His back remained straight, but everyone could see that he had been defeated.

"Whoa!"

The crowd off the stage was instantly in an uproar!

Li Xuanxiao, who was first in points and matchlessly strong, had actually lost!

He had lost to this unknown Yin Wujiang!

"Li Xuanxiao failed to defend the stage! Yin Wujiang's challenge was successful, he is now temporarily ranked first!"

The attendant announced loudly, his voice tinged with a trace of disbelief.

Yin Wujiang stood in the center of the stage, becoming the new stage holder.

He turned his head, his eerie green gaze beneath the hat brim slowly sweeping over the other Prodigies in the top ten off the stage, lingering slightly on Ye Tian: "Who's next? Or, you can all come up together to save some time."

Arrogant! Insolent!

The crowd off the stage was shocked and angry.

But even Li Xuanxiao had lost, so who would dare to go up easily?

"Damn it! I can't stand this Yin-Yang person! I'll come and face you!"

With a roar, Xiahou Ba could no longer restrain himself, shouldered his giant axe, and rushed onto the stage.

"Brother Xiahou, be careful!" Qin Pojun called out a warning, but it was already too late.

"A kid from the Xiahou family?"

Yin Wujiang seemed to smile: "Your strength should be decent, and your vitality must be vigorous... just right."

Xiahou Ba didn't care about all that. He roared, activated his Tyrant Blood Battle Technique, and his whole body's blood Qi steamed. His muscles bulged, and he swung the giant axe down fiercely with the force to split a mountain!

The momentum was astonishing, several times fiercer than Tie Yan's before!

Seeing this, Yin Wujiang smiled disdainfully. He still raised his palm and made a gripping motion toward the giant axe.

Sure enough, the eerie scene repeated itself.

The giant axe's speed plummeted as it approached Yin Wujiang, and the violent blood-colored True Essence on the axe was rapidly absorbed by the dark green Death Qi.

The giant axe finally landed lightly about a foot above Yin Wujiang's palm and could not advance any further.

"What?!"

Xiahou Ba widened his eyes, desperately activating his True Essence, but felt his power being rapidly sucked away by the opponent.

"Not bad blood Qi."

Yin Wujiang smiled, flicked his other finger, and a wisp of dark green Death Qi shot toward Xiahou Ba's chest.

Xiahou Ba wanted to dodge, but his movement was half a beat too slow.

"Pfft!"

The Death Qi entered his chest.

Xiahou Ba trembled all over, his face instantly turning three shades paler. His vigorous blood Qi visibly withered by a chunk. He staggered back seven or eight steps, sat down on the ground, and the giant axe clattered to the floor.

"You... you sucked my Yang Qi?!"

Xiahou Ba was shocked and angry, feeling his whole body go cold and most of his strength drained away.

"I'm just borrowing some vitality to use."

Yin Wujiang withdrew his hand, appearing somewhat satisfied.

"Xiahou Ba's challenge failed!" the attendant immediately announced.

"I'll come!"

Seeing his friend injured, Qin Pojun's gaze turned cold. He picked up his spear and leaped onto the stage.

He didn't say any nonsense and thrust his spear forward.

However, the result was no different.

Yin Wujiang's Nether Death Domain's absorption effect on True Essence was too overbearing. Once Qin Pojun's Spear Intent entered the force field's range, it rapidly decayed.

Although he managed to hold out longer relying on his exquisite spear technique and iron-blooded will, even piercing Yin Wujiang's sleeve with one strike, his own True Essence and vitality were constantly being eroded and consumed.

In the end, he was struck on the arm by a palm wind of Death Qi from Yin Wujiang. His spear technique became slightly disordered, and he was immediately kicked in the chest, flying off the stage and bleeding from the corner of his mouth.

"Qin Pojun's challenge failed!"

In a short time, three top Prodigies, Li Xuanxiao, Xiahou Ba, and Qin Pojun, were defeated one after another!

And all of them lost in a somewhat suffocating manner, with a feeling of having power but nowhere to use it.

Yin Wujiang's bizarre absorption Cultivation Technique was simply shameless.

The area off the stage was completely quiet.

This Yin Wujiang was too strong.

On the high platform, Elders from various factions had solemn expressions, exchanging opinions in low voices.

Prince Rong tapped his fingers lightly on the armrest, his gaze profound.

Yin Wujiang stood on the stage, slowly turning his head again, his gaze sweeping over the remaining few of the top ten.

It paused on Ye Tian for a moment, then moved away, finally landing on the position formerly held by Qin Pojun, who was temporarily ranked second in points, which was now empty.

His voice carried a sense of amusement: "The aura of the ruins core... I have sensed it. Holder, come up yourself. Or, should I wait until I have sucked all of you so-called Prodigies dry, and then find you?"

Upon hearing this, everyone was confused.

ruins core? What was that?

But Ye Tian and Li Xuanxiao's hearts were greatly shaken!

This guy was here for the ruins core Legacy!

He could sense the aura of the mark?

Ye Tian's eyes were solemn.

The Chaos mark in his body seemed to be faintly heating up as well.

The opponent could indeed sense it!

Li Xuanxiao was off the stage, using his cultivation to force out the Death Qi while coldly looking at Yin Wujiang on the stage, and then glanced at Ye Tian in the direction of the Liuli Xuan Sect.

At this moment, he also confirmed that Ye Tian indeed possessed a ruins core Legacy, and, I fear, it was different from the one he had obtained.

This Yin Wujiang had come for this.

"No one admitting it?"

Yin Wujiang seemed to be getting impatient: "Then..."

"I'll come."

A calm voice rang out.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a figure in green clothes from the Liuli Xuan Sect area stepping out from the crowd and walking toward the stage step by step.

His face was still a bit pale, but his eyes were calm.

It was none other than Ye Tian.

"Junior Brother Ye!" Shui Qingdie couldn't help but whisper, her beautiful eyes filled with worry.

"Ye Tian, your injuries..." Elder Qinglan also frowned.

"Elder, rest assured, this Disciple knows what he is doing."

Ye Tian nodded to Elder Qinglan, cast a reassuring look at Shui Qingdie, and continued walking toward the stage.

The crowd off the stage immediately began to discuss in hushed tones.

"It's Ye Tian! That dark horse from the Liuli Xuan Sect!"

"He's quite heavily injured, right? Can he do it?"

"Li Xuanxiao, Qin Pojun, and Xiahou Ba have all lost; isn't he just throwing himself away by going up?"

"But someone has to go up..."

Amidst the complex gazes of the crowd, Ye Tian walked onto the stage and stood still several feet opposite Yin Wujiang.

Yin Wujiang's eerie green gaze beneath the hat brim seemed to brighten. He locked onto Ye Tian tightly, as if he had seen some delicious prey, his voice tinged with excitement: "The scent on you... is the strongest. It's you. Hand over the ruins core mark, and I can let you suffer less."

Ye Tian ignored his threat and spoke: "Your Cultivation Technique, which absorbs vitality and True Essence, has its core in that layer of the Death Domain force field."

"The force field is not invincible; it has limits and frequency fluctuations."

"Just now, for Li Xuanxiao's last sword strike, you used a bone shield to defend, which shows that the intensity of that strike approached or reached the limit of what your force field can absorb instantly."

"Qin Pojun's Spear Intent carries the Death Qi of battlefield slaughter; when you absorbed it, there was a slight hesitation."

"Xiahou Ba's blood Qi is extremely Yang and vigorous; you seemed very satisfied after absorbing it..."

He stated his observations in one breath.

The crowd off the stage was stunned.

What is he doing? Analyzing the opponent's weaknesses on the spot?

Yin Wujiang also seemed to be stunned for a moment, then chuckled: "Interesting little guy. The analysis is not bad. But so what? You know, and what can you do? Your cultivation is not even as good as the sword-wielding kid from before. Your vitality also seems to have been severely damaged and is not vigorous. What are you going to use to break my Death Domain?"

Ye Tian slowly drew sword, and Chaos True Essence flowed over the sword body.

He looked up at Yin Wujiang and said something that surprised everyone: "I don't need to break your Death Domain. I just need to, before you suck me dry... just chop you to death first."