345: Killing someone means destroying their spirit.

But to this, he only found it very laughable.

Not only was Zhuge Mingyi laughable, but he himself was also extremely laughable.

The so-called guidance of heavenly secrets was nothing more than a carefully designed trap, and Duan Tianxiong was merely a scapegoat pushed forward.

And he, Li Daoxuan, a dignified Great True Person of Golden Core Perfection, had actually been played for a fool, not only nearly forming a death feud with the Qingming Immortal Sect but also losing sixty years of cultivation because of it!

What enraged him even more was that the culprit before him actually dared to appear so brazenly in front of him!

"Good, very good!"

Li Daoxuan stopped laughing, his voice bone-chillingly cold, the killing intent in his eyes almost solidifying into substance.

"I am quite curious, who gave you the courage to let a mere Mid-stage Golden Core like you dare to block my path?"

Zhuge Mingyi fooled him, Yun Chenzi oppressed him, and now even this mere Mid-stage Golden Core ant dared to jump out and get involved!

One after another, did they all take Li Daoxuan for a soft persimmon that could be squeezed at will?!

"Do you think that because I am injured, there is an opportunity to take advantage of?"

Li Daoxuan's gaze turned cold, and the mana around him began to surge; although it was somewhat unstable, the might of his Golden Core Perfection still weighed down as heavily as a mountain.

"Give it a try then!"

Lu Ming shrugged and spread his hands, looking completely indifferent.

"Anyway, if I can't win, I can still run. As for you, Senior Li..." He paused deliberately, his gaze scanning Li Daoxuan, his tone carrying undisguised mockery: "Your cultivation has been so severely damaged, I imagine your legs aren't very nimble anymore, are they?"

These words seemed ordinary, but every word was like a pearl, ruthlessly tearing open Li Daoxuan's most unspeakable scar.

Others might not understand, but he understood perfectly; this person was mocking his 'hundred-meter flash' incident!

In an instant, Li Daoxuan's blood surged, his old face flushing bright red before turning ashen, the veins on his forehead throbbing.

"You... you were at the scene!" His voice trembled slightly from extreme anger.

Ridiculous! Absurd! How arrogant!

This fellow had actually been hiding in the shadows watching the show while they were completely unaware.

At the thought of himself and the others being played like monkeys, Li Daoxuan felt a surge of blood rush to his head, shaking with rage.

He had dominated the Profound Spirit Domain for hundreds of years; when had he ever suffered such a great humiliation?

To be so provoked by a Mid-stage Golden Core junior!

"Good! Good! Good!"

Li Daoxuan said 'good' three times, each word squeezed through his teeth, carrying a monstrous killing intent.

"Since you are bent on seeking death, I will fulfill your wish today! If I do not extract your soul and refine your spirit, lighting you as a sky lantern, it will be hard to dispel the hatred in my heart!"

He had been suppressing a belly full of fire today with nowhere to vent; now, with old and new grudges surging in his heart, Li Daoxuan could no longer suppress his fury.

Before his voice had even faded, Li Daoxuan said not another word of nonsense and struck out boldly!

"Die!"

A low growl full of killing intent rang out as Li Daoxuan pressed his hands into the Void Realm, pointing directly at the desolate valley below!

In an instant, the entire world seemed to sink suddenly!

The towering cliffs on both sides of the desolate valley groaned under the strain, and countless boulders tumbled down with a crash.

The ground also seemed like a turning earth dragon; within several miles, the hills and rocks rose up with a roar, all seized by an invisible, majestic force and soaring into the air.

Finally, it condensed and collapsed in front of Li Daoxuan into a Wutu Fist made purely of sand, stone, and giant rocks. Then, without the slightest hesitation, carrying a power that could crush everything, it smashed toward Lu Ming with overwhelming force!

The air was compressed until it exploded with noise, and the light distorted and dimmed as if this strike intended to completely shatter the space where Lu Ming stood!

Facing Li Daoxuan's violent, earth-shattering strike, the playful smile on Lu Ming's face instantly vanished.

He could joke with his mouth, but in his heart, he did not dare to be the least bit negligent.

A lion uses its full strength even when hunting a rabbit, let alone when the opponent, no matter how weak, was once a Great True Person of Golden Core Perfection who dominated a region!

If he truly treated the other as someone who could be handled at will, he would be the one to suffer, and he would pay a painful price for it.

"Break!"

He held his fingers like a sword, and a point of dark light, thick as ink and emitting a pungent, bloody aura, suddenly condensed at his fingertip—the Blood Fiend Primordial Breaking Finger!

This finger technique specifically breaks mana and is best at piercing a surface from a single point.

"Swish!"

The dark light shot out like lightning, accurately piercing toward the Wutu Giant Fist that was falling like a meteor.

However, although Li Daoxuan's cultivation was damaged, his exquisite control over Spells had become instinctive.

With a slight shift in his gaze, the seemingly unified Wutu Giant Fist actually decomposed on its own in the blink of an eye, turning into countless grains of sand and stone that shimmered with a cold, metallic luster.

Wherever the Blood Fiend Primordial Breaking Finger passed, these grains of sand and stone actively dispersed as if they were alive, forming a brief vacuum channel that allowed the finger's force to pass through without shaking them in the slightest.

Immediately after, the sand and stone, like a world-ending meteor shower, came flooding toward Lu Ming from all directions—above, below, left, and right—in an overwhelming manner!

"You want to compete in numbers?"

Lu Ming's expression remained unchanged; instead, his eyes were filled with calm.

He flicked his large sleeve suddenly, as if opening a floodgate!

"Shualala—"

Countless Talismans shimmering with various spiritual lights surged from his sleeve like a burst torrent of spiritual charms!

The rank of these Talismans had surprisingly all reached the third rank, and their number was likely no less than several hundred!

Since having the Wonderful Brush Scholar, Lu Ming rarely drew Talismans personally anymore; he outsourced them all.

So, using them now, he didn't feel it was wasteful at all, focusing on a pay-to-win style of combat and fire coverage!

And the effect was also astonishing; under Lu Ming's intentional control, these Talismans were not disorganized but began to arrange and combine according to a certain mysterious trajectory the moment they flew out.

In an instant, a brilliant Talisman array was laid out in mid-air.

The gold, green, black, red, and yellow Talismans represented the Five Elements respectively, their auras connected and their talismanic patterns reflecting each other.

The gold Talismans turned into sword shadows, the green Talismans grew vines, the black Talismans surged with waves, the red Talismans burned with fierce fire, and the yellow Talismans condensed into mountains.

The power of the Five Elements flowed rapidly within the Talisman array, cycling through creation and destruction, and a fluctuation far more terrifying than the Blood Fiend Primordial Breaking Finger emanated from it.

Finally, all the spiritual light from the Talismans converged in the center of the array, unexpectedly evolving into a slowly rotating phantom of a Five Elements Wheel, emitting a suppressing and grinding force that could not be underestimated.

This was the "Minor Five Elements Rotation Talisman Array!"

Seeing this crude but extremely familiar "Five Elements Rotation Diagram," Li Daoxuan's heart felt as if it were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand, and his face twitched violently!

It seemed that not long ago, he had seen this scene.

Although this [Minor Five Elements Rotation Talisman Array] was far inferior to Yun Chenzi's [Five Elements Dao Diagram] in terms of both status and power, not even reaching a thousandth of it...

...it was like a harsh slap to his face, stirring up those humiliating and painful memories!

In an instant, rage filled his heart, and Li Daoxuan's eyes turned red!