Chapter 305

Chapter 305: Chief Executive Officer!

Evil intent!

　　Though separated by countless spacetime star domains, everyone could still feel that terrifying evil intent.

　　Endless and boundless.

　　Evil taken to its absolute extreme.

　　This was the deepest impression everyone had of this evil intent — it transcended any understanding of “evil” they had ever known, as if it were a force from the deepest, most primordial depths of the universe, filled with destruction and despair.

　　Ye Tianming’s expression was grave in a way it had never been before. He himself carried the bloodline of the evil dao, but clearly, compared to the evil emanating from the woman before him, his own evil dao bloodline was… no, there was simply no comparison to be made.

　　Moreover, within this surge of evil intent, he sensed not just one kind of evil, but countless different strands of evil intent converging into one.

　　Terrifying!

　　What terrified him most was that he noticed the woman in the blood robe was completely unaffected by any of this evil intent — her gaze remained clear and lucid throughout.

　　That was the most terrifying part of all.

　　To carry within oneself every evil in the world, yet keep one’s heart perfectly clear.

　　How was that even possible?

　　Ye Tianming stared intently at the woman in the blood robe.

　　Across from the blood-robed woman, Qu Cang, upon seeing that evil intent, had a rare flicker of solemnity cross his eyes — though no fear. He extended his withered hand and touched the churning evil intent, which instantly began to seep into him, threatening to devour him entirely.

　　But just then, Qu Cang lightly tapped a single finger.

　　Drip!

　　A crisp sound of a water droplet suddenly rang out across the field.

　　Immediately after, the spacetime at the point where Qu Cang’s finger landed began to ripple, like the surface of a calm lake disturbed by a thrown pebble, sending out layer upon layer of gentle waves.

　　As spacetime rippled, a mysterious pattern of the Great Dao spread outward — intricate and profound, radiating a faint dao radiance — and it directly forced that overwhelming tide of evil intent back, step by step.

　　”Dao patterns!”

　　Up in the void, Ji Yuan was utterly stunned.

　　Not only him — several of the circle-realm powerhouses present also wore expressions of extreme gravity.

　　Ye Tianming looked toward Ji Yuan, who said nothing, but instead raised his head to look up. There, within the Great Dao realm, the Great Dao Stele began to tremble faintly. Mysterious forces converged together, forming intricate patterns, which then shattered the void and plunged directly into Qu Cang’s body!

　　Ji Yuan’s voice resonated within Ye Tianming’s sea of consciousness: “These dao patterns are the very ones inscribed on the Great Dao Stele. Once one’s own Great Dao reaches a certain level, they can merge with those patterns and borrow the power of the dao patterns on the Great Dao Stele…”

　　Ye Tianming asked curiously, “How much can be borrowed?”

　　Ji Yuan said, “It depends on your own strength…”

　　Then, glancing toward Qu Cang, he said quietly, “Judging by the power he’s drawing, he’s borrowed about 1%.”

　　1%!

　　Ye Tianming was stunned.

　　Dao patterns!

　　Within Qu Cang’s body, terrifying waves of Great Dao power surged forth continuously. As they emerged, they instantly formed faint-colored Great Dao patterns, and with the appearance of these patterns, the evil intent filling heaven and earth began to be forced back, step by step.

　　The blood-robed woman glanced at those dao patterns, then lightly extended a finger and tapped once. The evil intent that had been pushed back suddenly boiled up, and in the next instant, it lunged directly at those Great Dao patterns.

　　A head-on clash!

　　Seeing this, Qu Cang narrowed his eyes slightly. He raised his left hand upward, and in the next moment, the spacetime above his head cracked open directly, as endless Great Dao patterns poured out and surged toward the blood-robed woman like a violent storm.

　　Rumble!

　　A deafening roar reverberated throughout the ten thousand realms of the universe.

　　The stretch of extra-dao spacetime where they stood was completely ignited in that moment. Boundless energy erupted in an instant, like a planet that had slumbered for billions of years suddenly awakening and unleashing world-destroying power. That stretch of extra-dao spacetime simply could not withstand such terrifying force, and it shattered apart in an instant.

　　In the moment of shattering, countless dazzling rays of light burst forth from the cracks in spacetime, like tens of thousands of lightning bolts weaving into a net. Within these rays of light were contained endless evil dao power and Great Dao pattern power, colliding and intertwining with each other in midair, forming a breathtaking spectacle.

　　A clash of Great Daos!

　　The power of the two was truly terrifying. The stretch of extra-dao spacetime where they stood could no longer bear it at all, and their respective powers began to spread and expand outward in all directions, devouring everything in their path.

　　Witnessing this, everyone present held their breath.

　　The power of these two was truly terrifying — even the faintest residual shockwave would be more than enough to effortlessly erase countless ancestor-realm powerhouses.

　　In this moment, the ancestor realm truly amounted to nothing more than ants.

　　Some ancestor-realm cultivators fell into despair.

　　They had once harbored ambitions of going further, but after witnessing the battle between these two, they truly despaired.

　　This was a height they could never reach in their entire lives.

　　Yet other ancestor-realm powerhouses had eyes filled with unwavering resolve and fervent excitement. The battle unfolding before them had undoubtedly shown them a whole new horizon of hope.

　　What they had once pursued now felt more certain than ever.

　　Ye Tianming’s gaze also burned with intensity. This was the circle realm — both individuals before him had undoubtedly pushed their own Great Daos to the absolute limit.

　　The extreme evil dao power and Great Dao pattern power collided furiously. Each collision sent out wave after wave of terrifying Great Dao shockwaves that spread outward in all directions, layer upon layer, obliterating and annihilating everything in their path.

　　The evil dao power was immense, like a rampaging beast madly devouring everything in the field, but the Great Dao patterns were inexhaustible — wherever the evil dao power destroyed one section, another immediately filled in behind it, endlessly resisting the evil dao power.

　　Not only that, but it was growing stronger and stronger.

　　Ye Tianming slowly raised his head toward the Great Dao realm. The Great Dao Stele stood deep within it, like a lighthouse.

　　The ultimate destination of every Great Dao in this world was this Great Dao Stele!

　　And Ye Tianming noticed that only a single pattern on the Great Dao Stele was flickering — the very pattern that Qu Cang was borrowing.

　　Yet patterns of this kind on the Great Dao Stele were densely packed, and the ones at the very top were rendered in purple-gold.

　　If Qu Cang were to mobilize all the patterns on the Great Dao Stele…

　　It was simply unimaginable.

　　The battle within the extra-dao spacetime was now at a stalemate. Both sides were growing stronger by the moment. The blood-robed woman’s power was somewhat greater, yet she could not completely destroy Qu Cang’s Great Dao patterns.

　　Boom!

　　With a deafening crash, both figures within the extra-dao spacetime were simultaneously blasted back. After Qu Cang came to a stop, a fierce and vicious light flashed through his eyes. He knew that dragging this out would work against him, because he simply could not borrow the power of the Great Dao Stele’s patterns for too long.

　　He had to end this quickly!

　　Qu Cang deliberated inwardly, then suddenly extended his right hand and clenched it hard.

　　Boom!

　　In an instant, the Great Dao patterns throughout heaven and earth suddenly converged like a tide into a single point. They intertwined and coiled in midair, ultimately forming a terrifying vortex of patterns. Deep within the vortex, wave after wave of fearsome Great Dao pattern power stacked and fused together madly.

　　At this moment, the Great Dao might radiating from within this stretch of extra-dao spacetime had already surpassed the comprehension of everyone present.

　　Qu Cang suddenly roared, “Obliterate.”

　　With that, he pointed a single finger toward the blood-robed woman in the distance.

　　Boom!

　　Throughout heaven and earth, that terrifying vortex suddenly transformed into a beam of light that shot forth, heading straight for the blood-robed woman in the distance. The terrifying power radiating from within the vortex forcibly shattered all the surrounding evil dao power in its path.

　　Seeing the vortex bearing down on her, the blood-robed woman remained perfectly calm. She opened her palm, and a stream of vivid red blood, as if alive, suddenly surged forth from her palm and flowed through the air, flickering with an eerie radiance.

　　In the next instant, as the blood-robed woman gently closed her jade hand, that stream of blood condensed directly into a razor-sharp blood blade. The blade was crimson from end to end, radiating a heart-chilling aura of terror, as if it could tear apart everything in the world.

　　Without a single word, the blood-robed woman gripped the blood blade and slashed forward with full force.

　　Slash!

　　A ten-thousand-zhang blood radiance burst forth from the blood blade, carrying with it endless killing intent and a breath of destruction as it slammed hard into the vortex that was rushing toward her.

　　The blood radiance and the vortex met in midair, instantly erupting into a series of deafening roars. In an instant, the terrifying vortex before her was stopped dead in its tracks by that ten-thousand-zhang blood radiance. At the same time, a bizarre scene unfolded.

　　Under the stunned gazes of everyone present, the blood-robed woman’s figure suddenly became ethereal and indistinct. In the next moment, time within that stretch of extra-dao spacetime came to an absolute standstill — and in that instant, every single Great Dao pattern was frozen in place.

　　Qu Cang seemed to sense something. His pupils contracted sharply, and for the first time, a look of shock and horror appeared in his eyes. He had just begun to resist when he suddenly and strangely found that the blood-robed woman had vanished entirely — only for her to reappear out of thin air in her original spot in the very next moment.

　　Before Qu Cang could even react, his throat suddenly split open. A stream of blood burst forth, and at the same time, boundless evil dao power had already entered his body, madly destroying every trace of vitality within him.

　　Everyone was dumbfounded.

　　How had she killed him?

　　Ji Yuan and the others were also stunned — they hadn’t been able to tell how it was done either.

　　Everyone stood frozen like statues.

　　The blood-robed woman stood there holding the blood blade, her expression calm, a faint flame flickering in her eyes.

　　Ye Tianming stared fixedly at the blood-robed woman.

　　In that instant just now, the time of the extra-dao spacetime had been suppressed!

　　Time suppression!

　　In that moment, another Great Dao had appeared on the blood-robed woman — and the aura of that Great Dao was very, very similar to the aura of the special spacetime Great Dao within his storage ring!

　　And at this moment, Ye Tianming also recognized the flame flickering in the blood-robed woman’s eyes. It was… Tianxing Fire.

　　The Tianxing Civilization!

　　Just then, the girl surnamed Ding beside Ye Tianming suddenly laughed, “Sister Yinian is really something else!”

　　Yinian!

　　Guozi!

　　The former Chief Executive of the Tianxing Civilization!

　　Yinian slowly turned her head toward Ye Tianming, and broke into a smile, “Little one, hello. My name is Yinian, and I come from the Tianxing Civilization.”

　　No malice — only goodwill.

　　Seeing Yinian treat Ye Tianming with such warmth, the girl surnamed Ding’s delicate brows immediately furrowed.