Chapter 1093: Murderous Intent

"I refuse to believe that a mere Dao Profound Triple can defy heaven! Sky-Slaying Sword Art!"

Guo Xu finally erupted, utterly unable to accept the reality before him.

Thus, he unleashed his strongest sword strike.

Just then, a figure suddenly burst into his Divine King Domain and struck his longsword with a palm.

"Whine..."

The longsword flew from his hand, arcing through the air before embedding itself in the ground.

"Forget it. You can't beat him. Even if you did, it would be an unworthy victory." The voice of the Divine Hound King rang in Guo Xu's ear.

Guo Xu fell to his knees with a thud, his face filled with bewilderment and helplessness.

His junior brothers had long since ceased their clamor, now exchanging glances, unsure how to console their senior brother.

Years ago, Ji Qingyun had surpassed their senior brother across the board because of his heaven-defying alchemy.

But now, Ji Qingyun's martial arts were equally terrifying—how could they bear this?

"Let's go."

The Divine Hound King did not bother to comfort Guo Xu; he merely said this lightly and turned to leave.

Ye Yuan sheathed the Evil-Slaying Divine Sword and followed the Divine Hound King deeper into the first layer.

...

Several hours after Ye Yuan's group departed, a ripple spread across the space of the Blood Rain Wasteland.

Three black-clad figures emerged directly from the void!

"This Spirit Rhinoceros Mirror of Destruction is truly formidable. With a coordinate lock, it can freely traverse space! The Blood Rain Wasteland is a forbidden area of the Holy City, never visited by outsiders," said one black-clad man.

The man held a precious mirror—it was none other than the Spirit Rhinoceros Mirror of Destruction that had escaped through the void in the Bright Sun and Moon Realm!

"With the Lord God's spell, traversing space is nothing. Soon, the entire Divine Realm will be ours!" said another.

"This time, the Lord God has spared no expense, even bringing out a heaven-defying divine artifact like the Mountains and Rivers Map. We must not make any mistakes!" said the third.

"Rest assured. With our strength and the three divine artifacts, Ye Yuan stands no chance!" said the first black-clad man.

"Indeed. This Mountains and Rivers Map is no counterfeit like that woman's from Bright Moon City. It is immensely powerful and can shield the workings of fate. Once Ye Yuan is trapped inside, with our combined strength, can we not kill him? Heh, the Son of Fate cut down early—let's see how humanity can withstand our demon army this time!" said the second man.

"Still, we must not be careless. That Ye Yuan is extremely monstrous. The Lord God's plans have been thwarted by him several times. If not for him, the Lord God would already be sweeping through the Divine Realm unstoppably! And you must remember, back then Ye Yuan's cultivation was negligible. Now he is a Dao Profound Triple martial artist who has also comprehended the Divine King Domain. Killing him will not be easy! Do not forget the Lord God's instructions before we set out!" the third man said gravely.

At these words, the other two stiffened with caution.

"Enough, no more idle talk! We must enter the third layer ahead of time and set an ambush for him. Only when he enters the Mountains and Rivers Map will we have a chance to kill him! If we fail, we might as well die here!"

With that, the first black-clad man activated the Spirit Rhinoceros Mirror of Destruction again, and the three vanished on the spot.

Little did Ye Yuan know that a deadly trap was already waiting for him deep in the Blood Rain Wasteland!

...

As they walked, Ye Yuan suddenly frowned and stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked the Divine Hound King.

"Zhao Lingdong, don't you feel a slight disturbance where we entered?" Ye Yuan asked, frowning.

Zhao Lingdong was the Divine Hound King's real name. Few dared to address him directly by it now.

Just now, he had sensed a faint spatial fluctuation, fleeting and gone. And it came from the direction of their entry point.

Though the fluctuation was minuscule, Ye Yuan had long entered a state of unity between heaven and man, making him extremely sensitive to his surroundings.

The Divine Hound King shook his head. "No. Could you be imagining things? We're a hundred thousand miles from the entrance, and you can still sense a disturbance there? Besides, the Blood Rain Wasteland lies within spatial rifts; a slight fluctuation is normal. Moreover, if anything were truly amiss, Aotian's keen senses would have detected it."

"What fluctuation? You're overthinking it. No outsider has ever set foot in the Blood Rain Wasteland. Besides us, who else could come in? You're making a fuss over nothing!" Guo Xu snorted coldly.

Though he had recovered from the shock, Guo Xu now found Ye Yuan irritating at every turn.

He knew he was jealous of Ye Yuan.

But he simply couldn't control this emotion.

Ye Yuan ignored him and shook his head. "Maybe I'm being too sensitive. Let's keep moving."

With that, Ye Yuan took the lead and left.

Watching Ye Yuan, the Divine Hound King's eyes flashed with a glint of sharpness.

He hadn't expected Ye Yuan's perception to be so keen!

The spatial coordinates of the Blood Rain Wasteland had been given to the black-clad men by none other than the Divine Hound King, Zhao Lingdong.

For years, the Divine Hound King had been lying low in the Holy City.

Like Ji Canglan, he was a member of the demon race!

The mysterious Lord God had been laying his plans for a long time. How could he not plant spies in a place as important as the Holy City?

In the entire Holy City, besides the three giants, Zhao Lingdong also knew that Ye Yuan was the Son of Fate.

He had passed the news of Ye Yuan's impending entry into the Blood Rain Wasteland to the Lord God, who immediately decided to ambush Ye Yuan!

This time, the three black-clad men sent by the Lord God were all at the Saint King level.

The strength of a Saint King was comparable to a human Void Profound expert.

Any one of the three was no weaker than Zhao Lingdong!

In other words, including Aotian the Divine Hound, there were a total of five Void Profound-level experts lying in wait for Ye Yuan!

But Zhao Lingdong hadn't expected that his companions had barely infiltrated the Blood Rain Wasteland before Ye Yuan detected them!

The first layer posed little danger to their group.

Along the way, they had swept through a hundred thousand miles almost unopposed.

The perception range of a Dao Profound expert was at most ten thousand miles.

Yet Ye Yuan's perception was ten times that of an ordinary Dao Profound expert—utterly monstrous!

Moreover, Zhao Lingdong knew that the spatial fluctuation caused by the Spirit Rhinoceros Mirror of Destruction was extremely subtle; even within twenty thousand miles, an ordinary martial artist might not detect it.

Yet they had failed to escape Ye Yuan's notice.

Though it was only the faintest trace, Ye Yuan had indeed sensed it.

Guo Xu and the others might think Ye Yuan was making a fuss, but Zhao Lingdong knew otherwise.