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“Hoo~”

Seeing Li Daoxuan's Divine Soul completely dragged into the human emperor banner, this magical battle finally settled.

Lu Ming let out a turbid breath, his taut nerves suddenly relaxed, then he staggered a step and slumped onto the ground.

“It really wasn't easy!”

Feeling as if his body had been hollowed out, Lu Ming's lips still curved into an uncontrollable smile.

He had to admit, Li Daoxuan truly lived up to his name as a Great True Person of Golden Core Perfection.

Even with a Dao injury, he could still unleash such combat power. His Foundation was so profound, like an unkillable cockroach, he was truly too resilient!

“However, I was still one step ahead!”

Lu Ming smiled somewhat smugly. To defeat a Great True Person of Golden Core Perfection as a Middle Stage Golden Core, perhaps few in the Profound Spirit Domain throughout history have achieved this!

Although the methods were somewhat unfair, on the path of Cultivation, the victor is king, the loser is bandit. A win is a win.

Besides, Lu Ming had never had any so-called psychological burdens; he only cared about the outcome.

“It's time for the most enjoyable harvest.”

After a brief period of adjustment, once his churning Qi and almost dried-up magical power had somewhat calmed, Lu Ming propped himself up and stood.

Then he leisurely strolled to Li Daoxuan's still-warm corpse and examined it with great interest.

Although this corpse had lost its Divine Soul, it still shimmered with treasure light, and golden radiance seemed to flow beneath its skin.

After all, it was a dharma body of the Golden Core Perfection level, tempered by Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi a thousand times over. It could be called a supreme spiritual medicine and was an extremely high-grade Cultivation resource!

Lu Ming rubbed his hands together like a fly, his eyes shining.

“I need to send it to my main body quickly, while it's fresh!”

As for the Divine Soul, he didn't need to pay too much attention to it.

It wouldn't be easy for the human emperor banner to completely assimilate it into a Banner Spirit; it would take a considerable amount of time.

Lu Ming calculated in his mind, just about to pack up this war trophy and take it away.

Suddenly!

His dharma body trembled violently, and the consciousness projected there was instantly withdrawn, returning to his main body!

...At the same time.

In the depths of the Stone Forest in Jiling Wasteland.

Lu Ming's main body, sitting cross-legged in the malevolent wind, trembled all over, then abruptly opened his eyes!

Then, he met the gaze of a disheveled figure, whose Face was filled with bewilderment, standing incredibly close.

The two stared at each other, eyes wide, both utterly dumbfounded.

A deathly silence fell over the Stone Forest, with only the wailing of the surrounding earthly fiend astral wind, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, still whimpering.

Lu Ming: “???”

He was genuinely bewildered, his mind almost frozen, unable to react for a moment.

Lu Ming never imagined that in the depths of this desolate, Spirit Qi-deprived Jiling Wasteland, a person would actually fall from the sky!

Crucially, he knew this person!

This person was none other than the Heavenly Secret Master Zhuge Mingyi, who Yun Chenzi had casually thrown into the Void Realm Turbulence and should have been banished to some unknown corner!

But why was he here!?

Lu Ming, having recovered, quickly communicated with the Formation to check the historical records, and only then did he understand the whole story.

“So that's how it is!”

Just moments before, above this Stone Forest, the previously stable space suddenly rippled. Silver light inexplicably emerged from the Void Realm, and spatial cracks spread like a spiderweb.

Immediately after, with a sound like shattering glass, a hideous gap was torn open in the sky!

Then, a disheveled figure was “spat” out of that crack, falling straight down towards the Stone Forest below.

Due to the violent spatial disturbance, the defensive Formation set up here was severely interfered with.

Additionally, Zhuge Mingyi delivered a solid “flesh bomb impact,” forcefully blasting a hole in the Formation.

And when the Formation was violently intruded upon, the warning Restriction instantly woke Lu Ming, who had been immersed in his dharma body.

In fact, not only was Lu Ming bewildered, but Zhuge Mingyi was also completely confused.

Folks, who understands this feeling!

What does it feel like to “freefall” for half an hour in the chaotic and violent Void Realm Turbulence, where one can be torn to shreds in minutes!!

A dignified Late Stage Golden Core was as helpless as a Mortal.

If it weren't for his Golden Core physique, just the impact of falling from the spatial rift would have left him with broken bones and torn tendons, even if he didn't turn into a pulp of flesh.

No choice, that old fellow Yun Chenzi was too vicious!

That wisp of Dao charm, which protected him from being completely swallowed by the Void Realm Turbulence, while providing shelter, also firmly sealed his surging Golden Core magical power.

This was clearly meant to thoroughly disgust him and make him suffer a bit.

And evidently, Yun Chenzi succeeded.

Because Zhuge Mingyi, having recovered, had already noticed that the surrounding environment was amiss.

“Hmm? Why is there not a trace of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here?”

Looking around at the craggy Stone Forest and the bleak sky, Zhuge Mingyi frowned deeply.

Although his magical power was sealed, he was still a Late Stage Golden Core Cultivator, and his instinct to connect with Heaven and Earth had not completely vanished.

In an instant, he sensed the abnormality of this place.

Could it be that he had been teleported to some Mortal realm?

This thought flashed through Zhuge Mingyi's mind, and then he immediately rejected it.

“No... that's not right!”

Although the Mortal realms have sparse Spiritual Qi, it's not entirely absent.

Moreover, the decaying and desolate Qi permeating the air is not only unsuitable for Mortals to survive in, but even Cultivators would find it difficult to last long. Over time, their vitality would inevitably be eroded!

Then Zhuge Mingyi thought of something, and his expression became even uglier, as if he had swallowed a fly.

A long-dormant name suddenly leaped into his mind.

Jiling Wasteland!!

That's right, besides this accursed place, known as the “Cultivator Restricted Zone,” where else in the Profound Spirit Domain would there be a place where Spiritual Qi is extinct and vitality is cut off?

“Yun Chenzi! I'm not done with you!!!”

Zhuge Mingyi roared furiously in his heart, his teeth itching with hatred.

But he also knew that he could only rage ineffectually, completely helpless.

The fact that the other party didn't directly kill him was already giving the Zhuge Family immense Face.

If he continued to pester, he would be ungrateful.

Even if he brought this matter to the Family, probably no one would be willing to stand up for him and contend with Yun Chenzi, a Golden Core Perfection Peak, half-step Nascent Soul!