Chapter 417: Chapter 415: Two Celestial Curtain Grandmasters Fall, the Western Territory Female Cultivator Spying, Lu Ye Rivals Earth Realm Grandmaster

Therefore, Lu Ye directly ordered He Ding to self-destruct.

Hearing Lu Ye’s indifferent words, He Ding, who was shouting about self-destruction and fighting Lu Ye to the death, was dumbfounded.

"Senior, you better think clearly! I am a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer! Once I self-destruct, everything within hundreds of meters will be reduced to ruins!"

Gritting his teeth, He Ding was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

Frowning slightly at He Ding, who was wasting his time, Lu Ye pointed his finger.

Instantly, the Yin Yang Pisces Diagram that terrified He Ding reappeared.

"I don’t believe... that even if I am prepared, you can still kill me with one finger!"

Shouting angrily, an earthen yellow glow burst around He Ding. He condensed his Grandmaster’s Source Qi into an earthen yellow shield to block in front of himself.

Facing He Ding’s actions, Lu Ye’s eyes remained as calm as an ancient well.

The Illusory Destruction Yin Yang Finger, which was just one step away from advancing to the Perfection Realm, followed the swimming Pisces Diagram, carrying the yin-yang qi of heaven and earth, and flew silently towards He Ding.

Subsequently, a scene of despair unfolded for He Ding.

His barrier, which had gathered most of his strength, directly showed a gap in front of the black and white finger seal.

Splat!

The same black and white Yin Yang Finger Seal pierced through his forehead, with blood gushing out from the wound.

Before his spiritual sense dispersed, He Ding had one last thought...

"If I had known, I would have self-destructed!"

Self-destruction might have given him a slight chance to injure that terrifying God of Slaughter on the other side.

Thud!

He Ding’s body fell, his face filled with deep regret and unwillingness.

Lu Ye took He Ding’s storage ring and let Bone-Dissolving Powder fall onto his corpse, handling the situation thoroughly.

Afterward, Lu Ye calmly glanced in a certain direction and did not linger there for long, disappearing in a flash.

It wasn’t until two or three minutes later that there were some movements in the previously silent surroundings.

From behind a bush, a female cultivator who had just advanced to Mortal Realm Grandmaster Third Layer rose, fearfully gazing in the direction Lu Ye had left.

The woman’s appearance was ordinary, with two noticeable scars on her face, but her ability to cultivate to Mortal Realm Grandmaster indicated decent aptitude.

Her name was Wu Jing, one of the only two female cultivators in the Western Territory to reach the level of Mortal Realm Grandmaster.

Originally, Wu Jing was at Grandmaster Second Layer. After entering the Secret Realm, she found a Tier Five Spirit Medicine by luck.

After refining it, she successfully entered Grandmaster Third Layer.

She intended to continue seeking opportunities, but just after arriving at this place, two figures swiftly approached her.

One seemed to deliberately conceal its aura, leaving Wu Jing unable to gauge its depth.

However, the other, in a frantic escape, revealed itself as a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer!

What kind of person could drive a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer to such panic?!

Shocked to the core, Wu Jing quickly found a place to hide, completely masking all of her presence.

Then, Wu Jing witnessed the most shocking scene of her life.

The fleeing Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer actually attempted to threaten the other by self-destructing for freedom...

Self-destruction is a last resort when there is no way out.

After all, once you self-destruct, no matter what happens to the other side, you’re definitely finished.

From this, it was clear that this Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer was driven to desperation!

And then, things took an even stranger turn.

The young man blocking the path... actually refused, allowing the other to self-destruct!

How confident must you be for that?

At that moment, if she had not feared being discovered and killed on the spot, Wu Jing would have bolted right then.

Standing in the bushes, Wu Jing whispered as she watched the "dust" blowing in the sky.

"Refused to be threatened by a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer’s self-destruction and killed him with a finger technique... could he be an Earth Realm Grandmaster, surpassing the Mortal Realm?!"

However, Earth Realm Grandmasters are supposedly unable to pass through the Teleportation Gate’s law of detection.

Wu Jing fell silent for a moment.

After taking one last look in the direction Lu Ye had gone, Wu Jing feared that he might return, and immediately slipped away from the bushes, disappearing from the area in a few leaps.

At the original location of the cave.

After Lu Ye and the other left, Xiao Qingyin indeed did not move or leave the place, standing amidst the ruins.

Looking at the corpse not far from her, Xiao Qingyin sighed.

He could slay a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer with one move, Lu Ye’s true strength...

Is surely comparable to that of a true Earth Realm Grandmaster!

Yet, Xiao Qingyin was unaware that Lu Ye’s lower grade divine technique was merely his first hidden card.

Beyond that, there were the Heaven-Slaying Three Techniques and the Four Divine Ancient Seals, along with the Divine Origin Invisible Sword Qi...

A few minutes later...

Xiao Qingyin saw Lu Ye, who had left earlier, returning.

He took out a small bottle, poured out the powder, and handled the body of Yang Yun, whom he hadn’t had time to deal with while chasing He Ding.

Approaching Xiao Qingyin, Lu Ye asked, "Are you hurt?"

Xiao Qingyin shook her head; when Yang Yun attacked, Lu Ye had immediately blocked it.

"You seem a bit weak," Lu Ye said as he glanced over Xiao Qingyin’s condition.

Xiao Qingyin: "..."

Could she say that it was because she increasingly saw the terrifying nature of Lu Ye, so...

She felt increasingly uneasy?

"It’s nothing." Xiao Qingyin shifted the topic: "That... the low-tier opportunity I mentioned to you earlier, will you still go with me..."

Given that this was someone capable of instantly killing a Grandmaster Ninth Layer, Xiao Qingyin couldn’t think of any reason he would be interested in such a low-tier opportunity.

"Sure, why not? Didn’t we agree on it before?" Lu Ye nodded, "If you have time now, you lead the way, and I’ll handle any dangers on the road."

"Ah? Oh... okay!" In a short instant, Xiao Qingyin responded with three interjections.

Seriously... he could rival an Earth Realm Grandmaster, and yet for opportunities only helpful to about a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Third Layer...

He’s still interested?

...

On the journey, they unsurprisingly encountered several waves of attacks from Secret Realm fierce beasts.

But no matter how powerful the beast, in Lu Ye’s hands, it was killed in one strike.

Skillfully extracting the crystal cores from their bodies, Lu Ye planned to use them for setting up arrays in a future secluded place.

The energy in fierce beast crystal cores is volatile and unsuitable for the Human Race to absorb, but they can substitute the role of Source Crystals elsewhere.

A while later, with Xiao Qingyin leading, they arrived at a Secret Realm Mountain Range.

As she led the way, Xiao Qingyin whispered, "Inside, there’s a Teleportation Array. Through it, we can reach a valley."

"In the valley, there are two medicine gardens... but, outside the valley, there seems to be something immensely terrifying!"