Chapter 311

Chapter 311: No More Chosen One in the Yang Family?

Bang!

　　The stretch of spacetime where Ye Tianming stood collapsed directly, turning into a spacetime abyss, and Ye Tianming was instantly and forcibly suppressed into the deepest part of that abyss.

　　Beneath the Myriad Beings Stele, a middle-aged man had appeared at some unknown moment. He wore a blue robe, his right hand clasped behind his back, and a terrifying aura of pressure continuously emanated from him.

　　Circle-Drawing Realm!

　　Almost simultaneously, the Sacrifice Clan’s clan-protecting grand formation suddenly transformed into wave after wave of terrifying force, surging toward the middle-aged man.

　　Those shockwaves contained world-destroying power, and wherever they passed, the spacetime in the area was shattered directly, a horrifying spacetime rift extending from deep underground all the way up into the heavens.

　　In the air, the middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his right hand with his palm facing downward, and within his palm, a strange golden talisman quietly condensed. The next moment, he slammed it down hard.

　　Boom!

　　That golden talisman suddenly transformed into a golden waterfall pouring clearly from his palm. The moment the two forces collided, they erupted into a world-destroying energy shockwave, and countless golden fragments scattered outward in all directions like fireworks, the entire divine battlefield beginning to fall apart.

　　The weaker cultivators in the area had already retreated long ago — the power unleashed by experts of this level was something even those in the Ancestor Realm could not withstand.

　　Under everyone’s gaze, the Sacrifice Clan’s clan-protecting pillar of light was shattered and extinguished directly.

　　But at that very moment, a dragon’s roar suddenly rang out across heaven and earth. Immediately after, a golden dragon shot into the sky and slammed hard into the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man’s expression remained blank as his body shuddered, and he threw a fierce punch straight at the golden dragon’s head.

　　Bang!

　　That punch landed directly on the golden dragon’s head, and a terrifying force erupted from his fist.

　　Boom!

　　The golden dragon shuddered violently, then exploded apart directly. Countless golden lights scattered and dissipated as cries of anguish rang out without end.

　　Seeing this, the expressions of Jidian and the Northern Zhao Emperor in the distance both darkened.

　　This middle-aged man was absolutely no ordinary Circle-Drawing Realm expert!

　　The middle-aged man gave his sleeve a light wave, and the scattered force fragments drifting through heaven and earth instantly turned to ash. He slowly turned his head and glanced at Jidian and the others.

　　It was undisguised contempt!

　　Hum!

　　At that moment, the sound of a sword’s cry suddenly rang out.

　　The middle-aged man’s brow furrowed. He looked down, and saw that Ye Tianming, who had been suppressed in the spacetime abyss, had suddenly burst out as a streak of sword light.

　　Within that sword strike, Ye Tianming had channeled an overwhelming power of the Order Dao!

　　The Order Dao!

　　And the might of that sword had already reached the Circle-Drawing Realm level — far surpassing that of an ordinary Circle-Drawing Realm expert!

　　Bang!

　　Under everyone’s gaze, that single sword strike from Ye Tianming sent the middle-aged man flying tens of thousands of zhang away. When the middle-aged man finally came to a stop, his physical body had cracked open directly, blood pouring out in torrents.

　　Severely wounded in a single strike!

　　High in the sky, Ye Tianming held the Tianming Sword, his eyes slowly closing as an endless power of order and faith surged from within him.

　　When the middle-aged man had struck earlier, he had not used the Order Dao, and so had been suppressed directly — mainly because he had not yet adapted to the Order Dao. But after he activated the Order Dao, his strength instantly reached the Circle-Drawing Realm.

　　A Circle-Drawing Realm sword cultivator!

　　Not far away, the middle-aged man looked at his own body, then slowly raised his head to look at Ye Tianming in the distance. In that moment, a trace of gravity appeared in his eyes.

　　At that point, Ye Tianming in the distance suddenly raised his head to look at him as well. The next moment, the middle-aged man’s pupils abruptly contracted — deep within his pupils, a streak of sword light was closing in on him at a terrifyingly fast speed.

　　The middle-aged man sensed the danger. He opened his palm, and a golden seal suddenly appeared in his hand. The next moment, wave after wave of golden light swept out from that golden seal continuously, rapidly condensing in the air and wrapping around the middle-aged man layer by layer, forming a protective barrier of light.

　　And at that moment, Ye Tianming’s sword arrived, slamming hard into those layers of golden light barriers.

　　Boom!

　　With a tremendous crash, the stretch of spacetime where the middle-aged man stood collapsed directly. At the same time, the golden light surrounding him began to shatter layer by layer, and countless golden fragments sprayed outward in all directions.

　　The middle-aged man was once again sent flying by that sword strike, and as he flew through the air, his physical body began to explode apart piece by piece.

　　Seeing this, everyone present was visibly shaken, their gazes all turning toward Ye Tianming.

　　At this moment, Ye Tianming’s entire body radiated an extremely terrifying power of order and faith, and moreover, that faith power continued to appear without end.

　　His faith power was different from the faith power Yang Jia was absorbing at this moment — his came from the willing belief of all living beings.

　　He did not continue pressing his attack on the middle-aged man. Instead, he raised his head to look at the Myriad Beings Stele. Under the control of the four Sacrifice Dao Masters in the void above, an endless stream of faith power from within the Guanxuan Universe continued to pour in without cease, surging toward the Myriad Beings Stele like ten thousand rivers flowing into the sea.

　　The Myriad Beings Stele was gradually taking shape.

　　The Tianming Sword in Ye Tianming’s hand trembled slightly as he was about to make his move — but at that very moment, the spacetime before him suddenly exploded apart, and immediately after, a massive black axe came cleaving through the void. That axe seemed to be forged from condensed ink, and from within it radiated a towering demonic energy!

　　Ye Tianming raised his hand and brought his sword down in a single strike.

　　Boom!

　　That massive axe was driven back directly by Ye Tianming’s sword strike. In the distance, a man clad in heavy armor slowly walked out. His armor was also jet-black as ink, covered densely with black runes that seemed alive, writhing faintly.

　　And as this person emerged, the stretch of spacetime around him began to turn pitch black, bit by bit.

　　An unknown domain suddenly spread across heaven and earth!

　　On the left side of his armor, two characters were inscribed: Guanxuan!

　　Clearly, this was a top-tier expert sent from headquarters.

　　The armored man raised his head to look at Ye Tianming. Without a word, his body shuddered and he transformed directly into a towering axe shadow, cleaving down toward Ye Tianming.

　　Ye Tianming simply raised his hand and struck with his sword.

　　Bang!

　　That massive axe was sent flying again.

　　The armored man reached out to catch the axe that had been knocked away, but the next moment, a streak of sword light had already come slashing hard toward his face.

　　The armored man made no move to dodge — he simply let Ye Tianming’s sword strike land on his chest.

　　Boom!

　　A burst of sword light erupted from the armored man’s body. However, the armor withstood Ye Tianming’s sword strike head-on. Not only that — the instant the sword struck it, an even more powerful force surged out from within the armor, instantly sending Ye Tianming flying.

　　After Ye Tianming came to a stop, an endless power of faith gathered around him. He raised his head to look at the armored man — on the armor, the Tianming Sword had left only a shallow sword mark.

　　Ye Tianming fell silent. He glanced at the faith power surrounding him. Although he had gained Circle-Drawing Realm combat power through this faith power, he could not yet wield it with full proficiency. If given more time to adapt, multiplying his combat power several times over would be effortless.

　　But he knew — for him, Ye Tianming, to survive this tribulation today, merely reaching the Circle-Drawing Realm was not enough!

　　He raised his head once more to look at the Myriad Beings Stele. Only by establishing and taking control of the Myriad Beings Stele could he find a sliver of hope for survival between the two top-tier powers of the Yang Family and the Divine Advent Land.

　　Just then, the armored man nearby suddenly looked toward Ye Tianming. Without any preamble, his body shuddered and he transformed directly into a towering axe shadow, cleaving down toward Ye Tianming.

　　Ye Tianming struck out with his sword once more.

　　Boom!

　　As a burst of sword light fell, that single strike drove the armored man back. But after forcing him back, Ye Tianming did not continue pressing the attack — because the man had that divine artifact on him, and he himself was still unfamiliar with the power of order. As a result, he had no way to slay the man in a short amount of time.

　　After driving the armored man back with one sword strike, Ye Tianming suddenly raised his head, and the next moment, he transformed directly into a streak of sword light and shot toward the Myriad Beings Stele.

　　As long as he could enter the Myriad Beings Stele, he could immediately turn the tide — because Yang Jia’s faith power could never compete with his.

　　This was also why Miss Ding and the others had been trying to stop him from approaching the Myriad Beings Stele!

　　In truth, if those four Sacrifice Dao Masters had not forcibly reversed and suppressed the not-yet-fully-formed Myriad Beings Stele, Yang Jia would not have been able to compete with him even without him entering the stele — after all, the Myriad Beings Stele had been established by him.

　　But the problem was that the four Sacrifice Dao Masters had directly suppressed the Myriad Beings Stele before it had fully condensed, and were forcibly drawing the faith power of all living beings for Yang Jia, attempting to pass off the fake as the real, and make Yang Jia the master of the Myriad Beings Stele!

　　But at that very moment, three terrifying auras of pressure suddenly descended from the sky, forcibly suppressing Ye Tianming back to where he stood.

　　Three white-haired elders!

　　Three more Sacrifice Dao Masters had arrived!

　　These three Sacrifice Dao Masters suddenly pointed their fingers together at Ye Tianming. In an instant, the stretch of spacetime where Ye Tianming stood collapsed directly, and Ye Tianming was forcibly suppressed into an abyssal spacetime. Within that abyssal spacetime, countless blood-red chains came flying in from all directions, forcibly binding every trace of order power radiating from Ye Tianming’s body!

　　And Ye Tianming himself was also bound tightly by the dense mass of blood-red chains!

　　Beyond that, the spacetime he was in was shrinking at a visible rate.

　　Layer upon layer of compression!

　　On the other side, upon seeing this, the Lord of Xutian’s expression grew grave once more. “This is the long-lost Divine Suppression Art, combined with… the Boundless Hell!”

　　In less than a few breaths of time, Ye Tianming was forcibly suppressed completely, and the order power surging from his body was suppressed directly as well.

　　He was utterly unable to move!

　　Miss Ding glanced at Ye Tianming, who had been suppressed into complete immobility. “To think you could conceive of a path of cultivating the Dao together with all living beings — one has to say, it truly is genius… But this faith power of all living beings belongs to my Yang Family. My Yang Family thanks you for this Myriad Beings Stele!”

　　With that, she walked slowly toward the Myriad Beings Stele that was on the verge of fully taking shape.

　　There were those who once said that the Yang Family would never again produce a person of heavenly destiny.

　　No matter!

　　The Yang Family would simply forge one themselves!