His words made everyone present frown deeply. "Incomplete Intent Realm"—what did that mean?
Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor's pupils immediately constricted! This fellow actually saw through it, something even the old undying ones in his clan didn't know!
"Ah! It seems I was right. Huh?!?" As Wu Tianjun spoke, his gaze suddenly darted to one side, a flash of pleasant surprise in his eyes.
"Nonsense! Go to hell! Tai Cang Heavenly Art! Fist Wind!" Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor, slightly enraged, unleashed a killing technique.
"Ah! So you're resorting to killing intent!" Wu Tianjun said with a laugh. "Demon God Annihilation! Quake!" Immediately, a kind of Dao rhythm surged from Wu Tianjun's fist, continuously vibrating around it as he met Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor's punch.
"Boom!" Dust billowed in all directions. Wu Tianjun's clothes were disheveled, the sleeve of his right arm torn open, and a red bloodstain was still imprinted on his fist.
"The Tai Cang Heavenly Art is indeed terrifying!" Wu Tianjun said, frowning.
"Hmph!" Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor snorted coldly. Even though he had gained a slight upper hand, his sleeve had been blasted apart! "Let me show you the true Human God Seal!" He said coldly, then formed several hand seals.
"Hmph! Do you think I'm afraid of you! Demon God Seven Steps!" Wu Tianjun also snorted coldly. He took three consecutive steps, each one seemingly crushing the void, leaving the spectators wide-eyed and agape. With each step he took, they felt as if drums were exploding in their hearts!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!... Boom!" Wu Tianjun took his fourth step, stomping directly onto the Human God Seal! At this moment, he had only just managed to unleash the fourth step, the prerequisite being the use of his Demonic Veins to propel it.
"Bang!!!" After a massive explosion, Wu Tianjun used the recoil to fly far away, his loud laughter echoing back.
"Haha! Just you wait, Tai Cang Clan! This young master will be back!"
"Do you think you can leave?" Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor waved his hand, and a white spear appeared. "Flying Star!" He hurled the spear like an arrow towards Wu Tianjun, its spear intent surging, unexpectedly reaching the second stage of the Intent Realm!
"Haha! I'll be back!" Seeing the white spear hurtling towards him, Wu Tianjun laughed loudly, then ancient demonic energy erupted, forming a thirty-meter giant that punched the spear tip.
"Boom!" The white spear was repelled and flew back towards Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor, while Wu Tianjun had already vanished!
"Hmph! Next time we meet, I will surely take your life!" Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor snorted coldly.
"..." The spectators grew even more terrified. That mysterious masked expert was truly formidable! If he had summoned that black giant from the start, he probably wouldn't have been inferior to Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor at all!
"Could he be the one from a few days ago..." Someone immediately recalled the black giant of the Demon Clan who had saved the Xuanming Merchant Ship and ruined the plans of the Phoenix Saint and the Tai Cang Clan.
"..." Hearing this, Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor's killing intent grew even denser. So that fellow was the one who had ruined his clan's great undertaking. He quickly reined in his killing intent, looked at the grand hall before him, then scanned his surroundings and said coldly, "Anyone not from my Tai Cang Clan, get out immediately!"
"..." Even the few spatial geniuses among the surrounding crowd merely showed a flicker of anger before departing! They lacked the confidence to fight Tai Cang Heavenly Emperor. Perhaps if they joined forces, they wouldn't fear him, but this grand hall wasn't worth them abandoning their composure for.
More than three hundred *li* away from the grand hall, Wu Tianjun was flying rapidly.
"You didn't sense wrong, did you?" Wu Tianjun asked his Primordial Soul.
"Perhaps it's not wrong! Although it's just a fragment, it still possesses some life force. According to my inherited memories, this is undoubtedly the aura of the World Tree!" the Primordial Soul said, a little excited.
"Heh heh! If it really is the World Tree, then in the future, Saint Ancestor-level guardians for my Wu family will be as common as dogs!" he laughed.
The reason he no longer wanted to fight the Grand Firmament Heavenly Emperor was because his Primordial Soul had sensed the aura of the World Tree! Although that guy was powerful, Wu Tianjun wasn't afraid in the slightest!
"Let's go there! I sense spatial-temporal power there! Two birds with one stone!" the Primordial Soul continued.
"Hmm!" Wu Tianjun didn't think much of it and headed straight in the direction his Primordial Soul indicated, directly towards the center of this inner world.
After flying for over three days, Wu Tianjun arrived at a mountain valley. Along the way, he felt the void become increasingly solid. To even fly, he needed to be at the third layer of the Divine Realm just to counteract the earth's gravitational pull. This startled him slightly and led him to speculate! He feared that in the Primordial Era, one couldn't fly without reaching the Divine Lord Realm. To tear open space, one would at least need to be at the Saint Ancestor Realm, or even reach the Void Realm, to be capable of it!
"This is the place! The pressure is truly terrifying!" Wu Tianjun stopped at the entrance of the mountain valley. His Primordial Soul sensed the World Tree fragment within this valley! As he stood near the valley, the pressure grew even stronger, as if trying to force him to prostrate himself on the ground. Even with his Divine Lord-level physical body, he felt uncomfortable. He feared that anyone below the fourth layer of the Divine Realm wouldn't even be able to move here.
"Could this be the center of the world? Such powerful oppressive might and spatial-temporal energy!" Wu Tianjun said, a little excited. This place might be his biggest gain! He hadn't met anyone on the way here, so perhaps no one else had arrived yet! "Let's go inside and see!" he muttered.
"..." The moment he stepped into the mountain valley, the pressure immediately increased by no less than tenfold. Wu Tianjun immediately hunched over. "Terrifying!" After walking less than ten steps, he felt as if his entire body was weighed down, making movement incredibly difficult. His back was already drenched in sweat!
"Thump!" He still walked, his steps incredibly slow and heavy.
"Strange! Normally, if this person had died, this minor world should be masterless! Could it be that this intense pressure is due to something that person left behind before dying, or..." The Primordial Soul paused mid-sentence.
"Huh! A remnant soul! Just like that old demon! They have some method to leave behind remnant souls that have persisted from the Primordial Era until now, undying!" Wu Tianjun said without thinking.
"I think the likelihood of a remnant soul is higher! The oppressive pressure here is incredibly strong! Could that guy be trying to reincarnate?" Mo Ying said coldly.
"We can't be sure about this! If this person truly wants to reincarnate, there's no one in the current era who would be his opponent!" Wu Tianjun said gravely.
"Hmph! I think even if he reincarnates, he'll surely be limited like the cultivators of this era, unable to reach the Void Realm! If something happens, let those old monsters deal with it!" Mo Ying said.
"Hmph! No need to worry about him. We just need to get the World Tree fragment. If that guy shows up, we'll make him suffer! Which way?" he asked Yuanhun. He wielded two types of Divine Flames that could incinerate anything. If that guy's remnant soul, currently in a Divine Soul state, were to encounter him, it would only suffer. What's more, he also possessed the power of Reincarnation. Although his body could not yet withstand its full might, he could still inflict heavy damage upon him! After all, unless it was a matter of life and death, he did not want to use the power of Reincarnation!
"Over there! I don't sense any remnant soul fluctuations here!" Yuanhun said solemnly.
"..." Wu Tianjun once again began to take heavy steps toward the aura of the World Tree fragment. After walking for more than half a day, he finally arrived at a medicinal field! More precisely, it had once been a medicinal field. Now, only a branch less than a meter long was stuck into the earth, alongside a small black tree of unknown origin that was nearly three meters tall!
"A World Tree fragment!" Wu Tianjun exclaimed in pleasant surprise. Currently, he only needed the world power within the World Tree. If he could nurture this branch to grow, he could have a true World Tree in the future! This was an entity from the same era as the Primordial Beings, an incredibly formidable existence with countless wondrous uses!
"Could that be a Cang Tree?!" Yuanhun said, somewhat uncertainly. The Cang Tree had only one rather simple function, yet it was enough to make countless powerful cultivators dream of possessing it. It contained nothing but pure energy. The energy within a mature Cang Tree was equivalent to the entire energy of a ninth-step Saint Ancestor-level super expert! That was not even mentioning Cang Trees that had reached the end of their lifespan; the energy they accumulated was no less than that of a Void Realm grand expert! Cang Trees rarely developed sentience, even after living for countless years, so they merely served as a source of energy for cultivators. Of course, Cang Trees were also extremely rare. Even in the Primordial Era, there were very few, and they grew in places where few dared to venture, making them incredibly scarce. Yet, here was a young Cang Tree!
"That is likely correct," Mo Ying said coldly. This aura was also part of his inheritance.
"Ha! That guy is truly clever. Hiding the World Tree fragment to quickly reach the Saint Ancestor realm upon remolding his body, and hiding the Cang Tree to provide energy and accelerate his cultivation speed. Since he once surpassed the Saint Ancestor realm, creating a new world wouldn't be too difficult for him! Truly a master of calculations!" Yuanhun said with a chuckle. That guy's remnant soul, left behind from the Primordial Era, truly knew how to scheme!
"Heh heh! Isn't this just paving the way for me! Ah! Formations!" Wu Tianjun also said, his pupils immediately contracting. Formations! That medicinal garden was protected by a series of linked formations. After the erosion of time, only a trapping formation and a killing formation remained.
"Huh! It seems that guy's remnant soul hasn't awakened yet!" the Primordial Soul speculated. Otherwise, their entry into this minor world would definitely not have been peaceful.
"Mhm! I'm afraid if we disturb the medicinal garden's formations, that guy will immediately awaken! This is his inner world; we might not be able to do anything to him!" the Demonic Infant said.
"Ah! A quick study of this formation! One strike to break it, then once we've claimed what's ours, we leave immediately!" Wu Tianjun quickly decided. If this formation were at its peak, even his already heaven-defying Heaven-Piercing Eye wouldn't be able to break it. But it was already greatly weakened, perhaps not even three-tenths of its full power!
"Very well!" The Demonic Infant and the Primordial Soul had no objections. Wu Tianjun immediately sat down in front of the medicinal garden, completely oblivious to his surroundings.
Over a million miles away from this place, a sky-engulfing demonic aura was constantly clashing with a cloud of death qi. Hundreds of miles away, many people were spectating, and they were even more terrified by the distance between themselves and the combatants.
"Boom!" With an explosive sound, two figures separated. One was enveloped in black qi, the other's death qi soared to the heavens, as if wanting to split heaven and earth in two!
"Mo Haixuan! That fellow has already left, yet you still want to press on! Hmph! Don't blame me for being impolite!" the figure within the death qi said coldly.
"Ha! Taicang Heavenly Emperor! Your Taicang Clan has done many despicable things; don't think no one knows! My Primordial Demonic Clan doesn't have many clansmen. If anything happens to that fellow, you can expect my Primordial Demonic Clan's revenge! Heh heh! Today, I want to see how you'll stop me." The figure within the black qi sneered. The world might fear the Taicang Clan, but their Primordial Demonic Clan had never feared any force!
"Hmph! Since that's the case, let me see what new tricks you've gained in the thirty-plus years since we last met!" Taicang Heavenly Emperor snorted coldly. He had known since his battle with that mysterious Primordial Demonic Clan member that a fight with this fellow here was unavoidable.
"Haha! You and I have been fighting for over a hundred years! Let's see what you've got!" Mo Haixuan laughed loudly. They were the peak Heavenly Talents representing the contemporary Demonic Clan and Human Clan, having fought no less than ten times, yet never achieving a decisive victory. Though they were enemies, they couldn't help but respect each other. At least while the various clans were still in a state of peace, they hadn't fought to the death. But if given the chance, they would absolutely push the other to their demise!
"Boom!" They clashed again, fighting ferociously. The people around them had no intention of trying to understand the surrounding situation; they only wanted to see what level these two monstrous prodigies would fight to!