Chapter 743: Retreat

Kou Chongxue actually shattered a spatial tunnel with 2 strikes!

Even though they saw what Kou Chongxue could do when he unleashed his first ever attack and took the lives of several powerful experts, they didn’t think the man would be so powerful. Whatever he was displaying refreshed their understanding of his strength! He struck fear in the hearts of those from the Spirit Abundance World!

One had to say that whatever it was they were feeling, they were undeniably in a state of disbelief when his second sword light shattered the spatial tunnel.

𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The true experts quickly understood what happened earlier. They woke up from the shock they felt from Kou Chongxue’s sword light and realized what happened. They knew that the power contained in the strike wasn’t what shattered the spatial tunnel. Instead, the special properties the sword light possessed did all the work.

With the successful promotion of the Xiangyang Holy Land to the Xiangyang Elysium, Liu Jingsheng also stepped into the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm. The 4 supreme existences had been trying to fix the glass barrier the best they could to seal off any way for the experts of the Spirit Abundance World to leave.

The moment the existences in the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm on the other side discovered that their invasion failed, they started to pour their power into maintaining the spatial tunnels. With 2 spatial tunnels shattered, they knew that they couldn’t afford to lose more.

That was why the final 2 spatial tunnels became the location where the existences of the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm on both sides made their final exchanges.

Kou Chongxue wasn’t the only one who knew what was happening. A good portion of experts on both sides could tell what was going on. Of course, being able to tell that there was a high-level exchange going on there didn’t mean that they had the qualifications to take part in it.

Who would have thought that Kou Chongxue would take advantage of the situation where the supreme existences on the other side were locked in combat with those on his side to launch his attack. Both sides were grinding away at each other’s strength and had no spare effort to care about him. His strikes landed perfectly on the spatial tunnel, unobstructed by any sort of Sixth Order strength.

That was the intricacy behind his move. He could see the exchange between the experts in the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm and understand what was going on.

Discovering the gap between the exchange, Kou Chongxue sent his sword light over and shattered the spatial tunnel. That was what the other experts in the Martial Dipper Realm marveled at.

Losing another spatial tunnel was completely outside the expectations of the Sixth Order experts of the Spirit Abundance World. What was more, it was destroyed by a mere swordsman in the Martial Dipper Realm!

His actions completely disrupted whatever semblance of a plan the Spirit Abundance World had left. In fact, those who had a plan for a proper retreat were thrown into complete chaos.

The 8 experts who were holding the line against the assault of the experts of the Azure Worlds were holding on, but it was a matter of time before they would be overwhelmed.

If everything went smoothly and both spatial tunnels operated perfectly, they would be able to make a proper withdrawal. Unfortunately, with one of the spatial tunnels destroyed, the efficiency dropped by half and before the experts of the Spirit Abundance World could leave, those holding the defensive line would have been crushed.

To the experts of the Spirit Abundance World, all of them were supposed to be able to leave to fight another day. Now that there was only 1 spatial tunnel left, there was bound to be some who would be left behind. No one was willing to give up their lives like that!

The inner conflict that someone was trying to stir earlier finally broke out. The experts of the Spirit Abundance World started to rush to be part of the next group to leave.

Now that there were bound to be some who were left behind, they felt that those who were heavily injured or had no future were more suitable to hold the experts of the Azure Worlds back. Those who were in better condition should be prioritized to return to the Spirit Abundance World as they would be able to recover in the future…

Logically, that was supposed to happen. However, bickering soon turned to screaming and eventually, everyone started to shove their way towards the spatial tunnel. An inevitable clash between cultivators of the Spirit Abundance World broke out.

Since I can’t leave, we’ll all just die here together! Who the hell cares if you get to leave too? That was the mindset many of them had.

The experts of the Azure Worlds couldn’t be more happy that an internal conflict had broken out among their enemies. In contrast, the 8 experts of the Spirit Abundance World who were holding everyone back couldn’t feel more disgusted.

We’re risking our future and cultivation base to hold experts more than 3 times our numbers back so that we can buy you more time to leave. Instead of escaping, all of you started fighting over who gets to leave…

The 8 of them even thought of abandoning the rest to make their escape the moment it happened. However, their sense of reason soon took over. Gritting their teeth, they continued to hold the line. Their morale obviously took a huge hit as they reached a decision to leave the moment they hit their personal limits. They wouldn’t care about those idiots who would be left behind after that as they had done what they were supposed to do to the best of their abilities.

The critical moment of the battle came a lot earlier than they had expected.

Since there was only a single spatial tunnel left, the 4 supreme existences in the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm from the new world used everything they had to seal off the final gap in the glass barrier.

At that point, anyone could tell that the supreme experts of the Spirit Abundance World were reaching their limits. They couldn’t maintain the spatial barrier any longer. Since they didn’t personally appear to take part in the battle, they could only watch on as the gap started to close around their spatial barrier.

At the very last second before the spatial tunnel was disconnected, the 8 experts who were holding the experts of the Azure Worlds back were covered by a strange energy. When the energy fully enveloped them, they started to shift away from the sealed space contained in the glass barrier.

Everyone from the Azure Worlds guessed that they were relying on some sort of special method to leave, seeing as how they had stayed till the end. They unleashed everything they had at the last second when the spatial tunnel was about to be severed to prevent the group of 8 from leaving.

Unfortunately, the energy around the 8 was extremely strange. It possessed extremely special properties and would be enough to keep them alive if used properly. But among them, there was someone whose cultivation regressed to the third element of the Martial Dipper Realm. He was slightly slower than the rest when activating the layer of strange energy and suffered heavy injuries as a result. He was unable to maintain the layer of strange energy around him and was forced to stay behind.

The others started to fade out of existence. Everyone could still see their figures flying through the air, but the attacks that were supposed to land on them simply sailed past them. The 2 experts who were holding Kou Chongxue back did the same and they were drawn away by the strange power.

Noticing the strange energy enveloping them and they were about to leave the confines of the sealed space, 4 pillars of light appeared from above the glass barrier and slammed into 4 of those who were leaving. 1 of them was the fifth element Martial Dipper Realm expert who was fighting Kou Chongxue.

There was no question about it. The supreme existences in the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm on their side made their move.

Clearly, the strange energy around those cultivators was also a method used by existences in the Sixth Order of the Primary Realm. That was why no one could harm them after it appeared.

At the end of the day, they could only hold 4 of them back. The other 6 were dragged away by the strange energy that surrounded them.

With the glass barrier completely sealed and the spatial tunnel destroyed, those 4 weren’t the only ones forced to stay behind. There were 5 other Martial Dipper Realm experts filled with despair as they were trapped in the sealed space with no hopes of retreat.