Chapter 324

Chapter 324: Just How Strong Is the Plain Skirt?

The sudden turn of events shocked everyone present.

　　Including Ye Tianming.

　　He looked toward the depths of the cosmos in disbelief.

　　The master of Guanxuan Sword had come?

　　Yet he saw no sign of the Guanxuan Sword Master.

　　Soon, he realized that this Guanxuan Sword Master had not appeared in person, but had simply struck from across countless star domains and spacetime.

　　Clearly, it was because the white-robed man had spoken out of turn and given offense.

　　Ye Tianming shook his head with a smile.

　　He had to admit, you really can’t just say whatever you want — sometimes, a single sentence carries the weight of cause and effect.

　　Not far away, when the white-robed man was pinned in place by a single sword strike, his eyes went wide with utter disbelief. He clearly hadn’t expected to be nailed down like this without even catching a glimpse of the other person.

　　He tried to resist, but to his horror he found he couldn’t resist in the slightest. That streak of sword light held him fast. He was like an ant — no, in that moment he felt that even an ant was too grand a comparison for what he was before that streak of sword light.

　　Sensing death approaching, the white-robed man hastily announced his identity. “I am the young heir of the Yuan family of Kaiming Xingyuan, I……”

　　Before he could finish.

　　Boom!

　　In a distant galaxy.

　　A streak of sword light fell straight down.

　　Crash!

　　An ancient family clan of a billion years suddenly exploded apart. Every powerful member of the entire clan was cut down on the spot. Not only that, the clan’s karmic lineage was severed in an instant, utterly and completely destroyed.

　　In that moment, every powerful figure from every clan in that galaxy was seized with terror, all of them gazing toward the direction of that ancient clan.

　　In the starry sky, the white-robed man seemed to sense something. His pupils suddenly contracted, and he cried out in horror, “You — you wiped out my Yuan family. How is that possible, how could you……”

　　The moment those words left his mouth, the faces of those standing beside the white-robed man changed drastically. They backed away one after another, putting distance between themselves and him.

　　The great beast, which had been so arrogant before, now had all that bluster completely gone. Its tail was tucked between its legs, it lay flat on the ground, eyes shut tight, playing dead.

　　When Ye Tianming heard the white-robed man’s words, he was also momentarily stunned.

　　An entire clan, just like that?

　　In his impression, the Guanxuan Sword Master should be a scholarly type — easygoing in temperament, like his teacher Mu Guanchen.

　　But right now

　　He had to admit, this was a bit beyond what he had expected.

　　He looked up toward the depths of the star river, but found nothing.

　　At that moment, Xiaohun suddenly called out excitedly, “Little Master Guan, it’s me, it’s Xiaohun! Can you give us some equipment? And money too, even just a little money would be fine…….”

　　Ye Tianming: “…….”

　　Not far away, the white-robed man looked as though he wanted to say something more, but suddenly the sword light inside his body shuddered violently. The next moment, the white-robed man turned directly to ash, and as he did, a bright little flame appeared in the space around them.

　　At the same time, a breath of orderly sword dao spread throughout heaven and earth.

　　Ye Tianming reached out and gently touched that breath of orderly sword dao. Gradually, his expression grew more and more solemn. This orderly sword dao was terrifyingly powerful, and moreover, within this sword dao, beyond the order itself, there were other sword dao auras as well.

　　Just then, Ye Tianming suddenly felt as though someone had glanced at him. Following his instincts, he looked out into the deep void, but found nothing.

　　The entire star river returned to calm.

　　Inside Ye Tianming, Xiaohun was trembling with excitement, because at some unknown point, a storage ring had appeared out of thin air on the tip of its sword.

　　It was given!

　　It was really given!

　　Aside from Yang Jia, the two previous masters before that were ones Xiaohun had followed from the bottom of its heart, and both had treated it extremely, extremely well. Naturally it had deep feelings for them.

　　Sensing Xiaohun’s emotions, Ye Tianming smiled. He naturally understood Xiaohun’s excitement. On the contrary, if Xiaohun had no regard for its former masters, that would be when he’d need to be on guard.

　　As if thinking of something, Ye Tianming looked up at the great beast before him. At this moment, the people on the beast still had no color in their faces — that instant earlier had scared them completely numb.

　　Just then, Ye Tianming suddenly said, “Leave your storage rings, and you can go.”

　　Hearing his words, those people felt not anger but relief. They handed their storage rings to Ye Tianming one by one, then turned and ran.

　　Without Ye Tianming’s word, they truly hadn’t dared to run, because the one who had struck from the shadows just now was far too terrifying.

　　After collecting everyone’s storage rings, Ye Tianming looked at the spot before him, where a small flame floated — no bigger than a pinky finger — left behind when the white-robed man had perished earlier.

　　Ye Tianming looked at that little flame with some curiosity, and soon he sensed a special kind of power within it.

　　The power of faith!

　　Incense offerings!

　　Ye Tianming suddenly recalled what the woman with the severed foot had said earlier, and fell into thought.

　　The little flame did not disappear, but soon scattered outward in all directions.

　　Ye Tianming withdrew his gaze and looked at the great beast before him. The beast had not run, because it had no storage ring.

　　Ye Tianming looked the beast over, then said, “What’s your name?”

　　The beast said nothing, still lying flat with its eyes shut tight, tail tucked in.

　　Ye Tianming was about to ask something more, when suddenly his eyes went wide and he froze on the spot.

　　What had he seen?

　　Holy shit!

　　This great beast had literally pissed itself in fear!

　　What the hell?

　　Holy shit!

　　Weren’t you so fierce just a moment ago?

　　You actually pissed yourself?

　　Ye Tianming was dumbfounded. This creature — a total bully that was terrified the moment it met something stronger.

　　Ye Tianming thought for a moment, then said, “Follow me, and I’ll keep you alive.”

　　Hearing his words, the great beast suddenly lifted its head and looked at him. Its gaze no longer held any ferocity — only a clear, guileless… dopey kind of clarity.

　　Ye Tianming said, “Really.”

　　The beast nodded vigorously.

　　Ye Tianming took out the storage ring that Tower Ancestor had given him and smiled. “Get in!”

　　The great beast didn’t hesitate at all and ran straight into the storage ring.

　　The moment it entered, the beast’s eyes went wide, filled with utter disbelief.

　　Its eyes said two words: what the hell?

　　And after the shock, it became even more frightened.

　　It suddenly realized that the person before it seemed to be no simple figure. So it found a pit and buried itself in it.

　　Better to lay low for a while.

　　Seeing the beast’s behavior, Ye Tianming shook his head with a smile and continued walking forward. But after two steps, he seemed to think of something, and his expression suddenly changed.

　　The spacetime inside the storage ring — it was still ten years inside for every one day outside!

　　What did that mean?

　　Ye Tianming glanced around. It meant that…… the great dao contained within the spacetime of the storage ring still suppressed the true dao of this universe.

　　Still suppressing it!

　　Ye Tianming’s expression gradually grew solemn.

　　The white-skirted…… sister.

　　Just how strong was she?

　　Ye Tianming slowly closed his eyes. Before this, he had always been somewhat unwilling to think about this…… sister. Of course, now he held no resentment. After all, this white-skirted sister had not only given him life, but had helped him so many times, and had even personally taken Zhan Taizhan away.

　　She had shown great kindness to him, Ye Tianming!

　　He simply had complicated feelings toward this white-skirted sister, and for a time he didn’t know how to face her in a normal way.

　　Setting aside those complicated emotions, he began to carefully analyze this white-skirted woman’s strength.

　　After thinking it over for a while, he arrived at one conclusion: he had no idea.

　　Truly impossible to know!

　　A Huaquan realm powerhouse would kneel the moment she said so.

　　And furthermore, even after leaving that universe and arriving out here, the special spacetime she had left behind could still suppress the great dao and laws of the universe beyond that universe.

　　Most terrifying of all, that special spacetime had been left behind many, many years ago!

　　How could you even begin to assess that?

　　Impossible to assess!

　　Ye Tianming shook his head and stopped dwelling on it, continuing forward.

　　For him right now, the most important thing was to get a clear picture of this universe, then find a way to strengthen his mortal body.

　　As he walked, he took out the storage rings left behind by those people earlier, but soon felt a bit awkward — he couldn’t open them.

　　Every single storage ring contained a special great dao formation array.

　　He couldn’t open them!

　　He tried using his own power.

　　Still no good!

　　Completely useless!

　　Ye Tianming’s expression darkened. His power was useless in this universe?

　　He tried using his sword dao power, and found it was equally useless.

　　Without any hesitation, Ye Tianming turned and walked back the way he came.

　　He was curious about the outside world, but he had no desire to die.

　　Go back and train more, then come out again.

　　After all, judging from the attitude of those people earlier, this universe was very unfriendly toward the beings from inside the official residence’s universe.

　　However, after a few steps, he suddenly stopped. He looked at those storage rings again, thought briefly, then directly invoked the Law of All Beings.

　　Boom!

　　The moment the Law of All Beings was invoked, every formation array inside the storage rings was instantly destroyed.

　　It worked?

　　Ye Tianming was stunned. What stunned him was not just that the formation arrays had been broken by the Law of All Beings, but that he discovered his Law of All Beings had not been suppressed by the great dao laws of this universe.

　　Why hadn’t it been suppressed?

　　Ye Tianming was puzzled. Could it be that his teacher’s law was even stronger than the great dao laws of this universe?

　　The Law of All Beings he had developed later was built upon the foundation of his teacher Mu Guanchen’s first law. Although he had also created new laws of his own, he knew that without that first law, none of his subsequent laws would exist.

　　Under normal circumstances, the Law of All Beings should be unusable in this world, but now

　　Without dwelling on it further, he turned and walked deeper down that great road. Since he had at least some means of protecting himself, he could go and explore.

　　Ye Tianming followed that great road forward. He walked for an unknown length of time, and soon an ancient city appeared at the end of the road. When he saw that city, something caught his eye and his expression immediately changed.

　　At the end of the stellar road, an ancient city stood tall, spanning the star river like a colossal beast. The walls of this city were built entirely from massive fragments of stars, dazzling beyond measure.

　　The reason Ye Tianming was shocked was not only because of the city’s grandeur and magnificence, but because this ancient city before him had been cleaved clean in two from the very center by a sword. That sword scar, nearly a hundred zhang wide, was a sight that struck the eye and shook the heart.