Chapter 389: You Have A Trump Card, I Have A Trump Card, Everyone Has Trump Cards!

If the fall of two successive Martial Extermination Realm experts didn’t cause the situation in the battlefield between the two worlds to change by much, the same couldn’t be said for Huang Yunxiang. The phenomenon that appeared in the skies when he fell alarmed the entire battlefield between the two worlds.

That was because of the strand of sword qi Shang Xia released right before Huang Yunxiang fell.

The sword qi he summoned earlier came from Kou Chongxue and with the appearance of a Martial Dipper Realm aura and the death of a Martial Extermination Realm cultivator, things couldn’t be more obvious.

“How is this possible?!” As an inner sect elder of the Changbai Holy Land, he left his blood imprint talisman with other members of the Changbai Holy Land in order to stay in contact with the others. The talisman allowed him to receive reports or messages from those who were holding onto it. The moment he died, his blood imprint talisman shattered.

Pan Yunbi, who was one of them who held onto his blood imprint talisman, felt it shatter the moment he died. A deep frown formed on her face and she found it hard to accept that he had died.

In contrast to her disbelief, Liu Qinglan caught on to the small shift in her emotions and started another round of frenzied attacks.

During their battle, Pan Yunbi had the upper hand due to her deep foundations as a member from a holy land. However, Liu Qinglan was no pushover. As an expert from the Tongyou Institution, she became stronger the more she fought. The situation was slowly turning around as Liu Qinglan adapted quickly to Pan Yunbi’s fighting style.

Liu Qinglan’s situation wasn’t unique though, the Martial Extermination Realm experts were starting to fall into a stalemate but they weren’t the only ones. The cultivators of the Azure Origin World and Azure Spiritual World who weren’t in the Martial Extermination Realm had also been forced into a deadlock. Everyone was approaching their limits.

Now that another Martial Extermination Realm expert fell, the situation in the battlefield between the two worlds started to tilt towards one side.

The members of the Tongyou Institution seemed to have received a huge boost after discovering the change. After all, the sword qi earlier came from Patriarch Kou! Many of them felt it before during the battle for the Tongyou Mysterious World, and now that it appeared again with the fall of a Martial Extermination Realm expert following soon after, it wasn’t hard to deduce that the one who died was someone from the Azure Spiritual World!

They slowly started to gain the upper hand due to the sudden change.

As the person who caused it, Shang Xia had no idea what was going on. After retrieving the extermination origins from the giant rat, and the Lightning Fire Jujubes, Shang Xia regained some confidence. It seemed as though it wasn’t a complete waste to use the sword qi Kou Chongxue stored in the gourd.

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The only thing Shang Xia could complain about was that he used nearly half his reserve of inner qi to summon the strand of sword qi. Looking for a secluded spot, Shang Xia chose to recover his lost inner qi before doing anything else.

Junior Brother Qi managed to escape once again, and there was no doubt he would bring another Martial Extermination Realm expert over. Since Shang Xia could pretty much guess what Junior Brother Qi was going to do, he wouldn’t remain in the area just to get caught off guard by another expert.

Running some distance away, Shang Xia found a spot to recover. By the time he was done, a period of time had already passed.

Slowly taking out the Spirit Extermination Gourd, Shang Xia examined the flickering strand of sword qi contained within. It looked extremely unstable and there was no way he could send out another attack like the one before. It barely maintained its functionality of absorbing extermination origins. Shang Xia had no idea when it would be able to recover.

After killing two Martial Extermination Realm experts on the side of the Azure Spiritual World, Shang Xia was afraid that there was a massive target drawn on his back. He even guessed that the moment he appeared, he would be hunted down by the opposing Martial Extermination Realm experts without a care of the consequences. If that were to happen, the Martial Extermination Realm experts of the Tongyou Institution wouldn’t be able to save him.

No matter how cocky he might be feeling after killing two Martial Extermination Realm experts, Shang Xia knew how strong he actually was. With the strand of sword qi given to him by Kou Chongxue in hibernation, he had lost his greatest trump card.

The last thing he dared to do at that moment was to rush straight to where most of the other cultivators were gathered. Making a smart decision, he chose to head to a location as secluded as possible. After all, his original objective to search for world origin in the battlefield between the two worlds and his actions would be of great help.

With the remnant sword qi in the Spirit Extermination Gourd, Shang Xia could collect any extermination origins he ran across. With the assistance of the Crimson Soul Tablet, he would also be able to locate world essence as long as he came close enough.

In a sense, extermination origins were comparable to world origin. One could say that world origin gave birth to extermination origins, but it would be more accurate to say that extermination origins were created from the heaven and earth qi that was born from world origin.

Now that he was free to move around as he wished, Shang Xia planned to use his Crimson Soul Tablet along with his divine sense to scan the area. He would hit the jackpot if he managed to find world origin, but he would also take out the gourd from time to time to feel for the presence of an extermination origin.

Unfortunately, the region he was in was too secluded. Any extermination origins he would be able to locate would probably be in the bodies of rank four spiritual beasts, and he wasn’t crazy enough to take one on yet.

After noticing how strong the giant rat was, Shang Xia knew that even with the rank four Lightning Fire Jujubes, he wouldn’t be able to do much to rank four spiritual beasts.

Those fruits might not be weak, but in the face of a Martial Extermination Realm expert, Shang Xia wouldn’t be heavily injuring them unless he caught them off guard! The moment they were prepared for it, the power released by the rank four Lightning Fire Jujube would be equivalent to an attack from a cultivator at the same level. Defending themselves wouldn’t be much of a problem.

That was the reason behind Shang Xia’s cautious attitude even though he was traversing through the secluded regions of the battlefield between the two worlds. The moment he discovered anything off, he would choose to make a long detour. Better safe than sorry anyway.

His caution paid off multiple times. Twice, strange beasts who hid well to carry out an ambush on Shang Xia had to emerge from their hiding spots the moment he chose to take another path. Unfortunately for them, Shang Xia didn’t enter their attack range and with his battle experience, he eventually managed to make a narrow escape.

As he continued on his adventure, he discovered that the towering mountains and ridges that surrounded him slowly started to disappear. Unknowingly, a massive marsh that had never been recorded in the reports of the institution appeared before his eyes.

When he was still hesitating about whether he should enter the marsh, a strange whistle filled the battlefield between the two worlds.

He was no stranger to the whistling. He knew that the sound signaled the appearance of a divine weapon! Moreover, he was familiar with the disturbance when the Lingxuan Space Shattering Claw or the Hidden Frost Sword appeared. The sound this time was clearly different, and that meant that a new divine weapon had appeared on the battlefield!

When the Tongyou Institution forcefully opened the spatial tunnel to the battlefield between the two worlds, the Azure Spiritual World had been waiting for them. Since they knew how strong the experts of the institution were, it went without saying that the Lingxuan Space Shattering Claw had already been lying in wait in the hands of an expert of the Azure Spiritual World. Who would have thought that they would send a second divine weapon into the battlefield between the two worlds?

Things weren’t looking too good for the Tongyou Institution. After all, Kou Chongxue was still holding on to his Hidden Frost Sword as he held the fort back at the Beyond Heavens Pavilion. The appearance of a second divine weapon would definitely tilt the favor of the battle back to the Azure Spiritual World.

The advantage they obtained after Huang Yunxiang died was wiped away in an instant!

Since the disturbance caused by the arrival of the second divine weapon was huge, Shang Xia could tell its general direction with his divine sense.

A thunderous roar swept through the skies at that moment. “Shang Lubing, go to hell!”

The skies darkened slightly as the roar caused the heavens to tremble.

Shang Xia’s expression changed drastically. The aura coming from the divine weapon didn’t lose out in the slightest when compared to Kou Chongxue’s sword qi.

Soon after, the space above the battlefield between the two worlds was torn to shreds with the appearance of a frightening amount of silver threads. They shot in the same direction, in a certain region of space in the battlefield between the two worlds.

Shang Xia felt his heart leaping into his throat when he heard the roar and witnessed the terrifying attack that was descending.

Staring at the silver threads that filled the skies, Shang Xia felt that the divine weapon resembled a horsetail whisk. As for the person wielding the weapon… It was obvious that anyone who could bring out the power of a divine weapon, albeit slightly, was an expert at the Martial Extermination Realm expert.

Since their target was Shang Lubing, Shang Xia was truly afraid for the man. After all, Shang Lubing wasn’t Ji Wenlong or Shang Bo! He might not be able to take the attack and live!

Just as the strike was about to land, a cold snort rang through the battlefield between the two worlds and it was akin to a deafening thunderclap in the ears of everyone present.

Raising his head in fright, Shang Xia witnessed a scene that wasn’t something he would see every day.

A massive hand that seemed to surpass his knowledge of objects that could be condensed from heaven and earth qi tore through the void and grabbed at the whisk.

That wasn’t all. The space around the hand revealed countless cracks as something wanted to continue emerging from the broken space above.

As the upper body of the creature was about to fully emerge from the broken space, a terrifying fluctuation filled the battlefield between the two worlds.

Even without reaching the Martial Extermination Realm, Shang Xia could feel that the space around him became a lot thinner than before. The culprit that caused it was clearly the giant who was tearing its way into the battlefield.

With the giant hand holding firmly onto the whisk, the facial features of the man himself started to become clear. The moment it did, Shang Xia’s jaws dropped in shock.

“Ji Wenlong! You… You actually entered the Martial Dipper Realm!” The Martial Extermination Realm expert who was yelling about killing Shang Lubing a moment ago roared in fright. From his tone, it wasn’t hard to imagine how frightened he was.