Ming Yue the Immortal exclaimed in astonishment, “Astonishing, Zhou Bai–he can already enter and exit the void with his physical body? Very good, very good! Once he wins this iteration of the Daluo Heaven Debate, I will personally teach him the Immortal Technique.”

Ming Yue the Immortal gazed into Zhou Bai’s eyes as if looking at an extraordinary treasure, his eyes filled with tender affection.

At his side, Tianyang Zi smiled slightly, “At that time, I will also teach him. His future achievements may surpass ours.”

Zhou Bai’s performance of entering and exiting the void truly stunned countless spectators. It wasn’t just mortals, even gods and immortals revealed expressions of surprise because of his crossing of the Heavenly Punishment Sword scars.

As for the stands and every corner of the five major cities, lively discussions erupted vehemently, all revolving around Zhou Bai’s performance.

Meanwhile, inside Donghua City, everyone’s hearts were lifted with tension when Zhou Bai was confronting the Heavenly Punishment Sword scars. Zhou Bai represented the city of Donghua, and its future.

Jing Xiu, Xia Li, Lin Muqing, and the others were staring fixedly at the projection, too tense to utter a single word. All their emotions were tied to every single move on the battlefield.

It wasn’t until Zhou Bai collided with the sword scars, disappeared, and then reappeared, that he truly alarmed everyone, throwing their hearts into their throats and then calming them down.

Accompanied by innumerable people inside and outside the arena who were stretched to their utmost focus, clouds gathered above the battlefield into a massive vortex with lightning that seemed to dance and roar within it.

The fortune of the human race was undergoing its most intense change in decades.

At the same time, within the space-time of Daluo Heaven, Jue Ji watched as Zhou Bai emerged from the void, his mind still enveloped in shock.

The void was known to be the realm of the Heavenly Dao. Since the distortion of the Heavenly Dao, the void had become the most dangerous place in the world–a place where even the entrance of consciousness could greatly increase the likelihood of anomalies, let alone the physical body.

The Chaos Heavenly Punishment Sword that Jue Ji cultivated was a swordsmanship that required communication with the void, the risks of which he was acutely aware.

Indeed, most of the Twilight Taoist Skills were dangerous because they involved harnessing the power of the void to enhance their own Taoist power.

Jue Ji knew Zhou Bai might have mastered one or two of the top five Taoist skills from Dao School, but that had only involved consciousness communicating with the void. The idea of also entering it physically was beyond his imagination.

Across the entire world, he had only heard of the Sect Hierarch of the Sky Flipping Sect achieving this, known as “Returner from the Void,” yet he had not expected that today, right in front of him, Zhou Bai would demonstrate the ability to physically travel in and out of the void.

Zhou Bai, smiling, looked at Jue Ji and also glanced at the star marks on his own divine diagram.

That was the star mark of the Foolish Chart, No Thought – Void Resistance: enhancing resistance to the void, allowing long-term activity within it while providing strong resistance to the twisting of the Heavenly Dao and maintaining a normal state.

This star mark, greatly enhanced by the transformations of Taoism, now allowed Zhou Bai’s physical body to enter the void and achieve tremendous survivability. Coupled with Zhou Bai’s experiences of repeatedly connecting with and communicating with the void, this gave him the ability to cross the Heavenly Punishment Sword scars.

During the recent entanglement with the sword scars, Zhou Bai confirmed this and then decisively initiated his attack.

Placing his hand on Jue Ji’s shoulder, Zhou Bai smiled and said, “Is it my turn to attack now?”

Jue Ji was about to react, but before his consciousness could fluctuate, Zhou Bai’s right hand flashed, and a tremendous force exploded on Jue Ji’s face. His whole body tumbled and flew outwards.

Ah!

Sword light burst forth, wildly slashing in all directions, attempting to block Zhou Bai, who was in pursuit.

But Zhou Bai swung his right hand, sweeping away the sword light in front of him as if he were dusting, took a step forward, and appeared beside Jue Ji, tearing through the air with another punch, carrying bursts of sonic booms, and slamming harshly onto Jue Ji’s head.

Boom! Jue Ji fell like a meteorite, his head hitting the ground first with a thud, followed by his torso and limbs colliding with the earth. The sword light on his body flickered uncertainly, as if it could go out at any moment.

“This Zhou Bai… he’s truly formidable.” Xiang Haocu couldn’t help but exclaim once more, not knowing how many times he had done so already. Yet, Zhou Bai’s every performance exceeded his expectations, forcing out the exclamation, “He can even enter the void with his physical body… What a pity, what a pity, that such a talent is born a pure-blooded human.”

Beside him, Zhao Yue said, “Jue Ji has abundant combat experience, and a heart of sword tempered thousands of times, incredibly resilient. Even now, he hasn’t given up but is looking for an opportunity. If it were me, I probably would have lost my will and accepted defeat the moment Zhou Bai broke through the Heavenly Punishment Sword Mark.”

Zhou Bai crossed his arms in the sky, looking down at Jue Ji, whom he had knocked to the ground, and shook his head dissatisfied, “Too weak, this is too boring, I’ll fight you with just one foot next.”

Facing the relaxed Zhou Bai in the sky, a strong sense of unwillingness surged in Jue Ji’s eyes.

‘Why!’

‘Why has the human race won, yet ended up with this result?’

‘Why did Ye Bingqiu, who has been kind all her life, never killed even a single demon and adopted so many children… end up with this fate?’

‘Why! Why after finally seeing her again, do I have to part from her now?’

With a long roar, Jue Ji sprang up. As the sword Qi soared into the sky, a red and a white light entwined fiercely together, seemingly forming a beam of light targeting Zhou Bai.

Since the Heavenly Punishment Sword Marks were ineffective, Jue Ji exerted all his power in the Eighth Realm’s Heavenly Origin Falling Star Sword and the Ninth Realm’s Absolute Silence Sword to perform his strongest swordsmanship.

Jue Ji’s self-created Sword Style–Heavenly Slash!

Jijian Pavilion is considered the strongest sword cultivator sect in the world. Since its establishment, it has collected innumerable sword techniques and produced countless Sword Dao masters.

As a Ninth Realm Flying Sword crafted by Jijian Pavilion, Jue Ji observed various sword technique manuscripts and witnessed fights of numerous Sword Dao masters.

This allowed him to learn hundreds of powerful sword techniques from Jijian Pavilion, which he repeatedly refined and fused into one, calling it the Heavenly Slash.

This technique incorporated his lifetime understanding of swordsmanship, and also his centuries of anger, unwillingness, and resentment.

He was angry about the human race’s plight, unwilling to accept his own fate, and resented the outcome for Ye Bingqiu.

Resenting the heavens for being unjust and the earth for being unfair, he drew his sword to strike at the heavens–an attack that encompassed all of Jue Ji’s spirit.

“The world is unjust, and humans are merely carried forward by the times. Even with immense power, mortals ultimately remain mortals, never having a choice,” Jue Ji watched Zhou Bai, his face filled with unwillingness, and shouted, “Zhou Bai! Let’s settle life or death with this move, ‘Heavenly Slash Sword Style’.”