Inside the Spirit Land, six figures were fighting each other, but the fiercest battle was undoubtedly between Lu Ye and the burly man.
The sturdy man was a Fifth Order Cloud River Realm Body Cultivator. Back then, he had broken through to the Cloud River Realm with more than three hundred apertures, so his strength was not just a little bit stronger than the cultivator surnamed Sun. Even after being ambushed by Lu Ye and having one of his arms chopped off, he still had the strength to resist.
Despite his injuries, he summoned a large shield Spirit Artifact and held it with his remaining hand, constantly blocking Lu Ye's sabre and counterattacking from time to time.
When the sabre and shield collided, a huge force collided, causing Spirit Qi to surge and blood to boil.
Seeing that ordinary slashes had no effect on this man, Lu Ye did not intend to delay any longer.
With a slash, the two deadlocked figures suddenly separated. Lu Ye took two steps back and held his sabre horizontally in front of him, assuming a fighting stance as his Blood Qi began to gather towards his right arm.
Seeing this scene, the burly man suddenly felt a sense of danger and hurriedly rushed forward, his towering body and large shield slamming towards Lu Ye.
Lu Ye leaped high into the air, his saber-wielding right arm swelling to twice its original size. Like an eagle swooping down, his saber chopped down.
A flash!
His right arm, which had already gathered his Blood Qi, evaporated into a layer of blood-red mist.
Consecutive slashes!
When the first slash fell, the burly man's eyes instantly widened as a violent force came from above and slashed his shield Spirit Artifact. Even though he was a Body Cultivator, he was still cut down by this slash.
Before he could adjust his body, Lu Ye's second slash had fallen.
The burly man directly knelt on the ground, the shield in his hand involuntarily smashing into the ground, creating spiderweb-like cracks.
When the third slash fell, the Spirit Artifact shield flashed brightly.
When the fourth slash fell, the dazzling light suddenly dimmed.
The fifth slash, accompanied by a crashing sound, shattered the Mid-Rank Spirit Artifact shield with eighteen Spirit Arrays. The sharp and heavy blade cut through the shield at the same time, cutting through the burly man's left shoulder and coming out from his lower right waist.
His thick blood, Qi, and protective spiritual energy couldn't block this violent slash at all. Like cutting tofu, this slash directly cut the muscular man in half diagonally.
The burly man's eyes were filled with shock and disbelief as he stared fixedly at the youth in front of him. His lips wriggled as if he wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
Lu Ye maintained the posture of the last strike. His right arm was trembling violently, and the pain of his flesh being torn apart came.
When he was in the Spirit Stream Realm, Yang Kai was only able to send out three slashes while in his Flash state, but now that he was in the Fifth Order Cloud River Realm, he could send out five slashes, and this was not his limit. If necessary, he could send out one more.
However, every time he used this saber technique, the aftereffects were not small. Therefore, Lu Ye generally did not use it unless it was absolutely necessary.
Three breaths later, Lu Ye stood up and lifted his eyes to look at the other two battlefields. One of them caused him to be stunned. Hu Po was currently facing Ruan Qingzhu, and he was roaring at her with his mouth wide open. Ruan Qingzhu was bleeding from her seven orifices, and her face was pale. She seemed to be severely injured.
Did Yiyi make a move? However, Lu Ye did not feel the fluctuations of a technique, and Yiyi did not show any signs of appearing.
It was impossible for Hu Po alone to beat a Fourth Order Cloud River Realm cultivator into such a state.
[What's going on?] He could not figure it out.
However, he did not have the time to think about it. In the other battlefield, Shen Xiao Mao was struggling to resist Junior Brother Cheng. There were faint traces of blood on her body, and that was the result of her bandaged wound splitting open.
Originally, Junior Brother Cheng had the upper hand, but the death of the burly man and Ruan Qingzhu's defeat made him panic. Seeing Lu Ye looking at him, Junior Brother Cheng did not dare to stay any longer. He immediately feinted and forced Shen Xiao Mao to retreat. His figure was about to soar into the sky.
However, it was still too late. The weapon box at Lu Ye's waist buzzed, and nine Spirit Artifacts shot out, sealing the space that Junior Brother Cheng could escape. Lu Ye himself rushed forward with his saber.
Junior Brother Cheng's strength was not very good to begin with. He was about the same as the cultivator surnamed Sun that Lu Ye had killed before. Against the heavily injured Shen Xiao Mao, he was still able to hold his own. Now that Lu Ye was added to the mix, how could he be a match?
Even escaping became an extravagant hope.
A moment later, the screaming Junior Brother Cheng also fell into a pool of blood. His body twitched a few times, and he stopped breathing.
Only then did Lu Ye turn around and walk towards Ruan Qingzhu.
Seeing him walk over, Ruan Qingzhu, who was leaning against a courtyard wall, was very flustered. She instinctively wanted to escape, but her injuries seemed to be not light. After struggling for a while, she could not get up at all.
Shen Xiao Mao, who was covered in blood, also followed. The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, looked down at the Fellow Daoist who was their ally a few days ago.
Ruan Qingzhu still looked pitiful. She looked at Shen Xiao Mao with tears in her eyes and said softly, "Sister …"
"Don't call me that. You don't deserve it." Shen Xiao Mao's eyes were cold. Three days ago, if she did not have some ability, she would have been killed by those people. At this moment, how could she have any sympathy?
Ruan Qingzhu smiled. "Okay, then I won't call you sister. This time, we miscalculated, but so what? We have signed the Divine Contract. You can't hurt me or kill me. Aren't you going to let me go?"
Shen Xiao Mao gritted her teeth, her face full of unwillingness.
Lu Ye lowered his head and checked his battlefield mark. A message came. It was from Yi Yi, who was hiding in the dark.
After reading the message, Lu Ye understood why Ruan Qingzhu was like this.
This woman was suffering from a backlash from the Divine Contract!
In the Divine Contract that the three of them signed, there was indeed a clause that forbade them from hurting each other. Hu Po was Lu Ye's pet, so this clause was naturally applicable. So when Hu Po jumped out to stop Ruan Qingzhu and Ruan Qingzhu attacked him, she immediately suffered a backlash from the Divine Contract.
This backlash seemed to be very serious. Otherwise, a Fourth-Order Cloud River Realm cultivator would not be unable to even run away.
With Hu Po's strength, how could he beat Ruan Qingzhu to such a state? It turned out that it was a backlash from the Divine Contract …
Looking at it this way, it was a wise decision to let Hu Po fight Ruan Qingzhu.
But what Lu Ye did not understand was why Hu Po did not suffer a backlash …
The Divine Contract's restrictions should be two-way. Ruan Qingzhu attacked him and suffered a backlash, so should Hu Po. But now, it seemed that only Ruan Qingzhu suffered a backlash.
Lu Ye sent a message to Yi Yi and after receiving a reply, he raised his brow.
"If the two of you have nothing else to say, then I'll take my leave!" Ruan Qingzhu looked fearless and was about to stand up. Although the backlash was severe, she had recovered some strength after gasping for breath for such a long time.
Lu Ye stepped forward and unsheathed his Mountain Ascending Saber, a fiery red light flashing.
"No!" Shen Xiao Mao shouted.
She had been in the Cloud River Battlefield for much longer than Lu Ye and was well aware of the horror of a backlash from the Divine Contract. It could be said that after signing the Divine Contract, the three of them could no longer hurt each other.
However, Lu Ye's saber was so fast that by the time she shouted those words, Lu Ye had already shaken off the blood on his saber and sheathed it.
In front of him, Ruan Qingzhu's eyes filled with horror. Her body, which had just stood up, stiffened. She stretched out her hands to cover her neck, blood flowing from between her fingers.
She looked at Lu Ye in disbelief. She really did not expect that under the Divine Contract's restrictions, Ye Liu would dare to attack her so decisively!
Indeed, he would die under this saber, but would Sixth Leaf survive?
"I … I will wait for you … on the road to the Yellow Springs!" After Ruan Qingzhu finished speaking, she fell straight down, her head separated from her body.
Shen Xiao Mao still looked at Lu Ye in horror, afraid that something bad would happen to Lu Ye. But after waiting for a long time, Lu Ye did not show any signs of a backlash.
This stunned Shen Xiao Mao. She hesitated and said, "You … you're fine?"
It did not make sense. She was the one who laid out the terms on the Divine Contract. The people who signed the Divine Contract could not hurt each other. Ye Liu killed Ruan Qingzhu like this. How could he not be affected by the Divine Contract's backlash?
But in fact, the young man standing beside her was indeed safe and sound.
Lu Ye only dared to slash out with his saber after asking Yiyi.
Yiyi had been hiding in the dark, so she saw everything clearly. In the confrontation between Hu Po and Ruan Qingzhu, only the latter was affected by the backlash. Hu Po was completely fine.
Since Hu Po would not be affected by the backlash when he attacked Ruan Qingzhu, Lu Ye felt that his master should not be affected by the backlash either.
As for why … Lu Ye did not know. He only vaguely felt that it had something to do with the Divine Blessing.
No matter what, Ruan Qingzhu had already done something that destroyed the common interests of the three people. Although she did not make a move against Shen Little Cat and Lu Ye from the beginning to the end, those three people were her fellow disciples. She had entered this spiritual land with evil intentions.
She was not benevolent, so she could not blame others for being unjust.
If it was anyone else, they might not be able to do anything to Ruan Qingzhu and could only let her go. But Lu Ye was someone who had received the Divine Blessing. In front of the fair and just Divine Blessing, he would more or less have some special treatment.
"Ye Liu, are you really okay?" Shen Xiao Mao was still confirming Lu Ye's condition.
"I'm tired!" Lu Ye said as he walked to the side and found a stone to sit down, putting the Mountain Blade aside.
Although today's battle did not last long, using the Continuous Slash Sword Technique in the state of One Flash at the end had taken a lot of toll on him. His right arm was swollen at the moment and would need two or three days to recover.
This could be considered Lu Ye's first real battle since entering the Cloud River Battlefield. Thinking back to the confrontation with the enemy, he suddenly realized that with his current foundation and strength, he could kill any ordinary Fourth or Fifth Order cultivator.
If anyone underestimated him because of his Second Order Cloud River Realm cultivation, they would definitely suffer a loss.
He had long heard that the gap in strength between the Cloud River Realm was huge. Now it seemed that it was true.
In the battle with the burly man, he did not need to use his trump card. He only wanted to end the battle quickly to avoid any complications.
"Ye Liu, if you feel uncomfortable anywhere, don't hide it from me. You must tell me." Shen Xiao Mao was worried and reminded him again.
Lu Ye glanced at her, "Take care of yourself first."
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