How long has it been? Five people dead without a single survivor, including two at Constellation Mid-Stage!

In Duan Xiuchen's perception, a Spirit Orb originally placed at his own camp was still moving, and it was getting faster!

"Brother Ye, I need to go back!" Duan Xiuchen said in a deep voice.

He must go back; only by returning personally can he stop Lu Ye and reclaim his Spirit Orb.

"I'll leave this side to you all."

Ye Chaoqun nodded: "No problem!" After a moment of hesitation, he raised his hand and tossed a Spirit Talisman to Duan Xiuchen: "Take this!"

Duan Xiuchen received it, glanced at it briefly, then showed a surprised expression: "You in the Western Region are truly generous, bringing this out? It isn't easy to refine this."

Ye Chaoqun laughed heartily: "Originally, it was meant for dealing with your Southern Region."

Duan Xiuchen naturally understood that the Western Region had prepared means to deal with the Southern Region, and they had their precautions too. He carefully stored away the Spirit Talisman and turned his head, rushing towards the Blood Sea: "Before leaving, I'll probe the reality!"

Since the appearance of this colossal Blood Orb, they've been outside bombing incessantly, clueless about the situation inside, and are wary of rashly discovering its secrets; now, intending to self-destruct, it's a good chance to gather intelligence.

Even if little is uncovered, infiltrating the Blood Orb allows easier use of destructive tactics to worsen the opponent's depletion.

Duan Xiuchen's figure vanished within the Blood Orb.

Moments later, his presence disappeared entirely, whereas the already reduced Blood Orb shrunk further—a testament to Duan Xiuchen's pre-death deeds.

Reborn on his camp platform, Duan Xiuchen immediately pursued the Spirit Orb's fluctuations; shortly, he saw five individuals afar, even further was the flying Spirit Orb, and the familiar silhouette behind, who else could it be but Lu Ye?

Moments later, Duan Xiuchen rendezvoused with his five comrades, asking sternly: "What's the situation?"

A Constellation Mid-Stage cultivator, face full of shame, answered: "The opponent's onslaught was too fierce, we were caught off guard and killed before getting close."

"Killed before getting close?" Duan Xiuchen frowned, "Isn't he a combat cultivator? How can he have such ferocious ranged assault?"

That Mid-Stage cultivator replied: "What he used wasn't a combat technique but flying swords; I suspect he's adept in both combat and sword cultivation!"

Because they assumed Lu Ye was a combat cultivator, they failed to guard themselves enough when pursuing; consequently, his swordlight wreaked havoc, killing them utterly—the sharpness of that swordlight was beyond imagination.

"Combat and sword dual cultivation!" Duan Xiuchen felt his eye twitch; what kind of peculiar path is this?

Strictly speaking, sword cultivation is a subset of combat cultivation, but sword cultivators have divorced from combat constraints to form their own style. Cultivators have limited energy, even if they dabble in other schools, deep achievement is rare, unless exceptionally gifted.

With Lu Ye only at Constellation Early Stage cultivation and the flying sword's ability to kill Mid-Stage cultivators, his sword cultivation depth is evident.

"I'll confront him; you all cover the formation, seize the chance to reclaim the Spirit Orb!" Duan Xiuchen ordered, then rushed ahead first.

Soon, indeed a swordlight came from the front; intending to test Lu Ye's skills, he didn't evade but for safety, patted a Golden Body Talisman on himself.

However, when the swordlight struck, he found the attack weak—never mind the Golden Body Talisman protecting him, he could have endured it bare.

Such attacks certainly couldn't easily kill their Constellation Mid-Stagers, even Early Stage ones can block them; despite realizing Lu Ye's tactics weren't strong, he stayed vigilant.

There's always more behind strange circumstances, he wouldn't assume Lu Ye's methods ended here.

Continual swordlight surged from ahead like a sword stream; Duan Xiuchen, akin to a fish swimming upstream, pushed through fiercely—repelling all incoming swordlight with skillful techniques.

Until suddenly a seemingly insignificant swordlight struck him.

The Golden Body Talisman's brilliance faded instantly, the violent force momentarily immobilizing him.

Duan Xiuchen had been cautious, sensing something amiss, he moved away quickly, breaking into cold sweat, understanding finally why their Constellation members were so vulnerable.

Lu Ye's swordlight attacks clearly varied—some mild, others sharp and violent; such a combination of reality and illusion was truly vexing, hard to defend against.

This time, the doppelganger lamented too, the sword gourd indeed lives up to supreme treasure's affiliated treasure; the stronger the treasures it devours, the greater the derived sword Qi's power.

Currently, the sword gourd stored numerous sword Qi, mostly derived from refining ordinary spirit and magic artifacts; such sword Qi functioned at lower four realms, but was limited against Constellation, at best causing annoyance and perplexity.

Yet, upon returning to the Taichu Realm, Lu Ye obtained numerous high-quality spirit treasures as spoils, these treasures being owned by top talents of each realm, their quality supporting Constellation use after advancement.

Among these spoils, apart from leaving a piece of black sand and a short mace for reforging the Boulder Mountain Saber, Lu Ye put all the rest into the sword gourd.

The sword energy transformed from these spirit treasures had much greater power.

You must know, even the most supreme grade spirit treasure could only be transformed into 9th Dao Sword Qi by the sword gourd, equivalent to the sword energy erupting the entire lifespan and power of a spirit treasure at once, how could it not be strong?

And this was just with spirit treasures, if the sword gourd devours higher quality treasures, who knows what kind of power it would have.

It can be said, with a sword gourd and some foundation of a sword cultivator, anyone can become an unparalleled sword cultivator of slaughter, while Lu Ye just happens to have a good foundation in sword cultivation!

The sword gourd's strength is obvious, but its drawbacks should not be ignored. It consumes a lot during fights, and the sword energy it expels cannot be recalled, which is different from the orthodox sword cultivator techniques, so if the family is not wealthy enough, a fight may end in bankruptcy.

Duan Xiuchen, realizing Lu Ye was troublesome, made a swift decision and transmitted audio to all directions. The two Constellation Mid-Stage immediately rushed to help from left and right, joining forces and quickly approaching Lu Ye's direction.

Earlier, these two Constellation Mid-Stage mainly suffered losses due to lack of preparation, who would have expected a combat cultivator to suddenly unleash a flying sword? That's why they were killed with one stroke.

Now, with preparation and someone to share the pressure, it wouldn't be that easy for Lu Ye to kill them again.

In no time, several figures were entangled in a fierce battle.

The remaining two Constellation Early Stage did not join the battlefield but took advantage of the doppelganger being occupied, starting to send the Spirit Orb back to their camp.

Seeing this, the doppelganger had no plan to continue entangling.

The doppelganger's role here was to divide the enemy, forcing the Southern Region troops to return for support through raiding the camp. Now five from the Southern Region were back, including the only Late Stage and two Mid-Stage, the goal was achieved.

If the fight continued, not to mention whether there was danger for the doppelganger, just the sword energy consumption would be a loss, and if accidentally killed, that would be really troublesome.

Lu Ye couldn't be certain what consequences there would be if the doppelganger was killed in the Black Abyss, the only certainty he had was that if his original body died here, he could be reborn at the camp.

With a move of mind, fixing the posture, suddenly disappearing.

Duan Xiuchen and those two Constellation Mid-Stage were desperately suppressing the doppelganger, effective in their efforts, he listened to Ye Chaoqun's previous advice, not intending to kill Lu Ye to avoid him returning to the East Camp, just to entangle.

But unexpectedly, the enemy in front of him suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"Where is the person?" Duan Xiuchen looked bewildered, spreading Mental Consciousness, but there was no trace of Lu Ye, as if he had vanished into thin air.

Meanwhile, in the Bizarre Fog space where the Sun Blaze were located, the twenty-eighth light representing the doppelganger could be clearly seen rapidly leaping towards the East Camp!

Since the purpose of dividing the enemy had been achieved, the doppelganger didn't need to stay there anymore.

The original body's spirit force was greatly consumed on that side, the doppelganger needed to hurry back to merge with the original body, replenishing its spirit force to cope with the possible intensive battle to come.

At this time, in the East Camp, everyone was ready for the final battle.

The Western Region people along with the remaining four Constellation Early Stage from the Southern Region, a total of thirteen people, were still relentlessly attacking the Blood Orb.

Until a certain moment, a sharp aura suddenly approached rapidly from behind, like a sword emerging into the sky, even across a great distance, Ye Chaoqun and others had their spines chilled.

Upon focusing and looking back, immediately a sword light came into view, through the sword light's cover, Ye Chaoqun saw the figure hidden within, immediately surprised: "Lu Ye?"

This guy... wasn't he raiding the camp over at the Southern Region? How come he returned, and came back so quickly.

What on earth was Duan Xiuchen doing, clearly having been told to keep this person entangled!

No time for further contemplation, almost as Ye Chaoqun saw the doppelganger, the overwhelming sword light was already pouring out, like a river counter-flow, an ocean tumbling.

The thirteen Constellation withdrew their means to defend quickly.

However, Ye Chaoqun soon realized something was amiss because this sword light seemed terrifying, yet it had little killing power.

Not only did he notice, others noticed this too, instantly the tense mood relaxed, yet at this moment, a scream suddenly rang out, Ye Chaoqun caught in his peripheral vision a Constellation Mid-Stage among his ranks was slain on the spot.

Two more screams followed, but they were from two Constellation Early Stage!

"Be careful, these sword energies have differing powers!" Ye Chaoqun was sharp-minded, immediately reacting to what had happened, the next instant, his expression became serious because his senses detected many auras rapidly approaching from behind.

Nine from the East Camp, came out in full force all at once, choosing the timing when the sword light rampaged, leaving South and West forces flustered in responding.