Below Mount Bur.
"Luo Fu" stared intently at Ye Ming, his eyes a mixture of emotions, his spectral form behind him enlarged several times, the terrifying pressure sweeping through the heavens and earth like a storm, leaving the entire world in turmoil.
Yet, despite this, they had not yet directly engaged.
"Mortal! I have noted that you ruined my plan. The next time we meet, I will ensure your utter annihilation!"
A peculiar black aura emanated from 'Luo Fu', like冥火 (ming huo), cold as an icy current.
However, judging from his words, he did not intend to prolong the confrontation with Ye Ming and seemed to be preparing to slip away.
"What? Trying to run?"
Upon hearing this, the wicked smile on Ye Ming's face widened. "Since you've shown yourself, you're not leaving!"
Boom!
As he spoke, Ye Ming waved his hand, and a terrifying pressure surged from within him like a tide. In an instant, the black aura that had enveloped the world dispersed, and golden sunlight pierced through the clouds, once again bathing the earth.
This display of power directly forced 'Luo Fu' back nearly a hundred meters. He looked at Ye Ming with a mixture of horror and disbelief.
"You... You're actually Xiantian!"
Xiantian realm!
This was the strength Ye Ming was currently displaying.
'Luo Fu' never dreamed that as soon as he escaped from the otherworldly realm, he would encounter a Xiantian powerhouse.
And one so young at that.
"Therefore, stay!"
Ye Ming completely ignored the shocked expression on his opponent's face, maintaining the pressure that held him in check.
Despite 'Luo Fu's' current shock and fear, Ye Ming could clearly sense that his opponent's true cultivation had also reached the Xiantian realm.
Furthermore, he was at the peak of the Xiantian realm.
"Your Excellency! Can we each take a step back, and mind our own business?"
Recognizing Ye Ming's true strength, 'Luo Fu' shed all his previous arrogance and disdain, replaced by an unprecedented solemnity.
"Mind our own business! Heh!"
Ye Ming took a step forward, his aura becoming even more sharp, his actions clearly stating his choice. "I'm afraid you are not qualified to make choices in front of me!"
A mere Xiantian realm cultivator, even at the peak, was nothing in Ye Ming's eyes.
Especially considering it was a Xiantian realm peak cultivator with only a wisp of a remnant soul.
Ye Ming had nothing to hold back.
Of course!
The ultimate reason Ye Ming would not let him go, in the end, could be attributed to four words.
Remnant of Shiyuan!
Anyone associated with this identity, Ye Ming would not let go. Because those individuals were the root cause of all the Shiyuan turmoil.
"Your Excellency! Don't force me!"
'Luo Fu's' face darkened completely, and he said coldly, "You are a Xiantian realm powerhouse, and indeed very strong. However, if you truly push me to a corner, I will definitely find a way to drag you down with me."
"I can tell you, my cultivation has already reached the Xiantian realm peak."
Speaking of which, 'Luo Fu' regained some of his former arrogance and chuckled. "I presume you don't want to engage in a fight to the death with me, right!"
In 'Luo Fu's' view, once he revealed his true cultivation level, Ye Ming would surely not act rashly.
After all, no one would willingly offend a peak Xiantian realm powerhouse.
However, his calculations were clearly mistaken.
"Xiantian realm peak! Is that very strong?"
Ye Ming looked at him with a hint of mockery, shaking his head and laughing. "Even if you are truly a peak Xiantian realm powerhouse, so what. Not to mention, you are currently injured in soul, and I fear you cannot even exert the full power of the Xiantian realm."
"So, stop trying to scare me!"
These words made 'Luo Fu's' expression even more unsightly.
The reason he had absorbed so much soul power from the populace before was to repair his soul injury and thus recover.
But now, the opponent had clearly seen through everything.
"Damn it!"
'Luo Fu's' heart sank to the extreme, his mind racing to find a way to escape.
Unfortunately, Ye Ming did not seem to intend to give him such an opportunity.
"Since you remnants of Shiyuan dare to show yourselves, you must have been prepared to be eradicated. If that is the case..."
Ye Ming raised his hand, and the space around his palm began to distort, silver-white spatial energy gathering in his palm, eventually compressed into a small cube.
Yet, such a tiny cube caused every hair on 'Luo Fu's' body, hundreds of meters away, to stand on end. His primal sense of danger made him immediately realize how terrifying the power gathered in Ye Ming's palm was.
"Spatial Compression?"
He trembled, his eyes wide.
Spatial Compression!
Those who could perform such a feat were all beings with terrifying attainments in the way of space.
It was important to know that the way of space itself was an extremely complex great dao. From ancient times to the present, the number of cultivators who could touch upon it was one in ten thousand.
And those who could touch it mostly only reached the introductory stage. To advance further required not only immense talent but also reliance on ephemeral opportunities.
Therefore, in the past hundred thousand years of the otherworldly realm, the number of people who could truly master the way of space never exceeded ten.
And now, such a person stood before 'Luo Fu'.
How could he remain calm?
"Escape!"
This was the only thought in 'Luo Fu's' mind.
Fighting him to the death had never been an option he considered.
However, 'Luo Fu' knew all too well how difficult it was to escape from a cultivator who had mastered the way of space.
Whoosh!
But there was no time for 'Luo Fu' to ponder a countermeasure, for Ye Ming's attack had already been launched.
His vision was filled by a small, silver-white cube. The tiny object, as if teleporting, had bizarrely appeared before him.
Following closely was the cold aura of death.
He knew that once the small cube touched the body he had just occupied, it would instantly turn to dust. And his soul, hidden within this body, would be completely exposed.
"Ah! Soul Escape!"
Just as the silver-white cube was about to touch Luo Fu's body, 'Luo Fu' let out a roar. Then, a black aura instantly enveloped Luo Fu's body, transforming into a mass of black mist that violently retreated.
Its speed far surpassed human visual perception. In less than a second, it had fled thousands of miles away.
"To use one's soul power to escape, you are certainly willing to pay a high price."
"But can you escape?"
Ye Ming squinted, then his body transformed into a streak of white light. With a flash, he also disappeared from his original position.