The sunlight danced and burned before Wu Shiqin and Ai Changyuan, overwhelming their pupils, unused to the sunlight after many days. Wu Shiqin closed her eyes, desperately holding back the tears at the corners of her eyes. At that moment, she sensed a familiar power.

The mana within Ai Changyuan's body continuously unlocked. More and more mana broke free, transforming into gravity magic power. The mana around him surged, using the artificial golden core as a hub to create a new mana system. All existing system blockages became ineffective. It was like an external defense line suddenly attacked from the inside, unable to hold even for a moment. As the mana surged, the internal and external cycles changed drastically, causing a sudden imbalance in the spiritual power of heaven and earth and triggering small thunderbolts with flashes of electric light.

For any cultivator, the threat of a small thunderbolt is the same, and for Modern Cultivators, there generally isn't a reason they can't survive it. For someone like Ai Changyuan, who far surpassed his peers, it was even less of a concern. He seemed to plan on handling the small thunderbolt with just one hand. His right hand remained pressed against Wu Shiqin's back, a stream of mana surged forward, unraveling various blockages.

However, the force of the small thunderbolt didn't strike Ai Changyuan as he had anticipated. Wu Shiqin had absorbed it in advance. She altered the electrical conductivity of her body, changed the resistance of different body parts, and raised the electric potential of some organs, directing the force of the small thunderbolt to the remaining blockages. This was a situation unmatched by any kind of mana blockage— who could have expected someone would transcend tribulation under blockage? The thunder of spiritual power cleansed Wu Shiqin's body with absolute speed.

Ai Changyuan saved the mana he would have used to counter the small thunderbolt. He released Wu Shiqin, focusing all his strength on weaving the Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction.

This time, he held nothing back, using the secret version from the Immortal Alliance. He borrowed wide-ranging gravity. At that moment, a small tide even occurred on Dragon Six Island, with spacetime denting around him, light bending, and the colors of heaven and earth changing.

"Now, go," Ai Changyuan once again unlocked the Cave Heaven Ruler, changing the curvature of spacetime and pushing Wu Shiqin to a distance. In a flash, Wu Shiqin appeared above the sea surface. Immediately after, electric light surged around her body, transforming her into an electric arc shooting towards Dragon Five Island.

Ai Changyuan's laws mostly limited the "range of effect." No matter how thin Wu Shiqin was, she would still occupy space. Just protecting her and maintaining the Cave Heaven Ruler would at minimum require five times the consumption. In this situation, it was right for her to seek escape alone.

As for whether she could escape, that depended on whether Ai Changyuan could intercept or defeat Heavenly Master Wang.

"Tsk tsk, time to settle accounts," Ai Changyuan said, wiping his face with his sleeve before pressing his hands downward.

On the eighth level, the wailing of all cultivators immediately escalated.

"Ah! Ah! Ah! My mana! My mana!" "No! Please no!" "Young Master Ai! Spare our lives, ahhhh!"

Mana, unlike magic artifacts or other possessions, forms the foundation of the Immortal Dao and the root of longevity. For cultivators, their foundation is akin to their very life.

Magic artifacts might be refined, bought, or stolen again, but lost mana could potentially mean the end of one's path to immortality.

And Ai Changyuan was taking their lives!

Those Ancient Method Practitioners who had once attacked Ai Changyuan sobbed hardest, not caring whether Ai Changyuan heard or saw them as they kowtowed there.

Nie Tianren stood dumbfounded.

One Foundation Establishment Cultivator had shattered his Dao Heart and left him physically devastated. The other had destroyed his last resort.

This sense of frustration kept him from noticing the chill in his body intensifying. By the time he realized, at least one-tenth of his mana had already transformed into a blue mist and escaped his body. It wasn't just him; the mana in the bodies of the Nascent Soul Cultivators he suppressed was also rapidly disappearing as Heart Demon Curse Power.

At this moment, the desperation of the Ancient Method Practitioners on the eighth level reached its peak, complementing the fatal demon spell.

Seeing his subordinates being thoroughly corrupted by the vicious curse without resistance, Nie Tianren turned pale. It turned out he had never escaped the palm of his opponent. He thought that coming here, another Divine Separation Cultivator temporarily intimidated the rogue Foundation Establishment outsider, and at most, the outsider could only activate spells remotely. But in reality, everything was under that heterodox's control...

"Good to know, hehehehehehe..."

A terrifyingly shrill laugh resounded just above Nie Tianren. The Divine Separation Cultivator looked up only to discover the creature calling itself the Yellow Robed King right above his head. Below the yellow hood, the white soft mask split open, revealing a mouth full of tentacles. It let out a mocking bark, seemingly laughing at Nie Tianren

"I can't accept this..." At the end of his life, tears finally flowed from Nie Tianren's eyes, "I can't accept this..."

...

Seven streaks of crimson-black Sword Qi brushed past Ai Changyuan. This was the meeting gift from the Divine Separation Stage Cultivator. Each streak of World-Purifying Heart-Breaking Sword Qi contained a mysterious power: tranquility, despair, and a proximity to deathlike stillness. It represented the fundamental True Intent of Hongyuan Divine Power, and it was a rare, Mysterious Force. Those struck were likely to have their Divine Souls dyed with a power almost akin to the Heart Demon Curse. They would plunge into despair, severing their life-force subconsciously, destroying their Life Fire. Even if they were fortunate enough not to die, their Dao Heart would likely be shattered, brainwashed into becoming Hongyuan Believers.

But, Ai Changyuan, being a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, scarcely had the chance to experience such a shock targeting the spirit. His physical body was simply too frail. Even the material damage accompanying World-Purifying Heart-Breaking Sword Qi was enough to take his life. Especially since he transformed his Mana into Gravity Magic Power, his physical strength had diminished, and though he could easily block mundane swords and clubs, the residual waves of the Heartless Sword Qi were enough to tear him apart.

However, no matter how disparate the attack, it had to hit its target to be effective.

"Eleven seconds, slower than I imagined," Ai Changyuan barely finished speaking when that Divine Separation Stage Cultivator shot another round of World-Purifying Heart-Breaking Sword Qi in response to his voice. Yet, for some reason, all seven streaks missed. The Sword Qi tore through the atmosphere, the white Qi shockwave it raised was enough to shatter rocks. Within these bizarre Sword Qi, three streaks fell into the sea, like three white lines stretching straight toward the horizon. The upper and lower quantities cut into the ground, slightly shaking the island. A piece of rocky cliff near the sea crumbled, and thousands of tons of boulders were scrapped into fragments as easily as lard and dumped into the sea, raising a white wall of water tens of meters high.

Still, it did not hit.

"Eyes and ears can't be trusted?"

Hongyuan Heavenly Master frowned, his Spiritual Sense swept out only to discover that the positions detected by Spiritual Sense and vision were consistent. Ai Changyuan, realizing the unabashed probing of the other, loudly taunted, "This isn't some kind of illusion technique! You know, unless an Immortal has their Spiritual Sense undergo a transformation at its limit, Spiritual Sense is merely a special kind of Spirit Wave, closer to electromagnetic waves. It is also material and still limited by the laws of material motion..."

Multiple Gravity Lenses and spatial distortions. These were arrangements Ai Changyuan had swiftly made after pushing away Wu Shiqin. The former caused a subtle deflection between Ai Changyuan's silhouette and his actual location, while the latter altered the propagation pattern of sounds.

Space dictates how matter moves.

The Gravity Lenses Ai Changyuan casually set up bought him more time, though it was only a few seconds. At the moment, Ai Changyuan was simultaneously harvesting the Mana of over two hundred people. Even an additional second multiplied his acquired strength considerably.

"You will never be able to hit me!"

Right after shouting this, Ai Changyuan immediately unfolded the Cave Heaven Ruler. This technique was merely a higher-tier blind. In reality, the island's space was only so large, not enough for fabricating "distance" from nothing. Since Heavenly Master Wang held an absolute advantage in terms of Mana, he needed just to use a wide-range Spell to end Ai Changyuan's life.

When relative time and space within the Heavenly Phenomenon Measuring Stick commenced, Ai Changyuan began his counterattack.

Vast amounts of Mana were gathering around Ai Changyuan. If judged only by strength, the Spiritual Power Ai Changyuan possessed was just enough to lift up a hundred or so pounds of seawater—less than the physical strength of a Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivator.

However, this was because he stored his Mana in the form of Gravity, the weakest of the four fundamental forces.

If this Mana were expressed in the most conventional Electromagnetic Force, it could even lift a slice of the sea!

Gravity and Electromagnetic Force differ by thirty-eight orders of magnitude in absolute strength.

This was the cost of Ai Changyuan expressing part of his Mana as Gravity. His usual attack power became incredibly weak, even lower than when he was in his Qi Cultivation phase.

But in exchange, he gained strength in time and space — power!

"I've never felt the world like this before..." Ai Changyuan murmured softly. His nerves seemed connected to invisible strings of Gravity. He felt the planet beneath his feet, the nearest satellites, the mighty force of the sun, the intriguing disturbances of nearby planets. These massive bodies had their orbits, their power. The Gravity was like threads stretching and pulling everything. Under that intriguing pull, time and space were changing in ways he had never experienced before.

Wanxiang Heavenly Attraction borrowed not just the force from the land beneath. The sky, too, was the source of his Divine Power.

With external forces obtained, new laws were formed. Ai Changyuan used this Mana to trade time and space's might with celestial bodies.

It was as if he had fallen to the bottom of space, dust and gravel all trickling toward him, accumulating into small mounds beneath his feet. At this moment, Ai Changyuan became the direction of Gravity.

Ai Changyuan's hand, dragging several strands of Gravity, connected to Hongyuan Heavenly Master's heart, "Speaking of which, attacks at light speed... I do have a few tricks up my sleeve." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to recommend tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)