Human Nature: Bai Su Defects and Ascends!

Because this cultivator's action was no different from unlocking the shackles of desire in everyone's hearts! One breath, two breaths... That aura of ascension grew ever stronger, then vanished after reaching its peak. As this aura vanished, one ascension aura after another surged across the Six Domains! Beneath the tragic sight of the Six Domains drowned in rampaging chaos, heavenly glow filled the sky. Golden pillars of light and reception pathways descended across every one of the Six Domains. Shattering the nine heavens, ascending in broad daylight! A sight unseen for ten thousand years was now unfolding across every corner of heaven and earth. In an instant, Li Guanqi's heart sank to the bottom. The worst-case scenario had come to pass after all. The cultivators in the outer world had been waiting all along. Once Su Xuan ascended, everyone sensed that the Human-Immortal Realm Barrier had shattered. Their perception of the Immortal Realm had become incomparably clear, as though they could commune with heaven and earth at any moment to ascend. Until just now, someone had finally been unable to hold back. Or perhaps someone had forced another to ascend. Regardless... someone had successfully ascended... Meanwhile, the cultivators of the Seventh Domain were still locked in a bloody battle, suffering catastrophic casualties. Against the incomparably formidable cultivators from the Immortal Realm, their chances of survival were thirty percent at most. Now, the Seventh Domain cultivators were banding together in clusters, but that merely delayed their deaths. If someone were to ascend to the Immortal Realm at a time like this, the Immortal Realm faction naturally wouldn't stop them. Tu Yuan naturally sensed what was happening outside as well. "Heh, Li Guanqi, do you see?" "This is human nature!" "Selfishness is, and always will be, the basest thing in humanity." Li Guanqi had no rebuttal. He could only place his hopes on slaying Tu Yuan. Only by then slaughtering the rest of the Immortal Realm intruders could he break through the current predicament. As for Ye Feng and the others, he had already sensed something amiss—concealed in some domain within the shadowy depths of space. However, none of their life-bound jade slips showed any change, save for Xiao Chen's, which had developed several hairline cracks. The situation was dire. Yet an event Li Guanqi never anticipated occurred. A tiger's roar resounded as Bai Su knocked back the enemy before him with a single punch—he was actually trying to ascend! A golden pillar of light plunged from the heavens, instantly piercing the Seventh Domain's realm barrier. The already fragmented domain space teetered on the verge of collapse beneath the impact. Li Guanqi's eyes went wide with rage, and he roared, "Bai Su, how dare you?!" Bai Su sneered, his gaze vicious as he murmured coldly, "I've lingered in the Spirit Realm for six thousand seven hundred years. Now that I can finally ascend, why wouldn't I dare?" "What does it matter to me if the Human Spirit Realm is wiped out?" "I, Bai Su, cultivate only to seek longevity and ascension. Now that ascension is within reach, why shouldn't I leave?" Yet before his words could finish, an enraged dragon's roar rang out. Wen Guyan, clad in green robes, had an azure dragon roaring across his shoulders, his eyes brimming with chilling killing intent. The sword in his hand unleashed three azure sword lights in a furious sweep. The terrifying sword lights, cloaked in profound and mysterious power of laws, slammed violently into the pillar of light! *Boom! Boom! Boom!* The pillar trembled, hairline cracks actually spidering across it. Bai Su clenched both fists, his tiger eyes glaring fixedly at the man outside the pillar. "Heh, Wen Guyan, you still can't cut off my path to ascension after all! Hahahahaha!" "Useless trash!" "So what if you served as Su Xuan's lackey for thousands of years?" "When he left, didn't he only take Ling Tianchen with him and leave you behind?!" Wen Guyan pointed at Bai Su in fury and barked, "Shut your mouth!" "You miserable dog!" "Back then, when you were expelled from your sect, if the Realm Lord hadn't shown mercy, you'd be a crippled nobody today!" "Never mind being ungrateful for past kindness—under these circumstances, you actually dare desert, you actually dare ascend?!" "What face do you have to ascend?!" Bai Su's expression shifted repeatedly. Though he offered no rebuttal to that, he merely sneered, "So what? What wrong is there in only wanting to ascend to the Immortal Realm?" "If you really want to kill me, come find me in the Immortal Realm." As he spoke, the fluctuations around the man grew increasingly violent, the reception heavenly tribulation rumbling with thunder. Yet the power of this tribulation posed no threat whatsoever to Bai Su. Letting the lightning strike him, he absorbed the worldly power within it, undergoing an initial baptism of the Immortal Realm as the power inside his body underwent a dramatic transformation. The man looked up at the sky filled with golden radiance, his body trembling slightly with excitement. Waiting bitterly for thousands of years, finally able to ascend. This feeling was not something just anyone could comprehend. Yet Wen Guyan, his face dark, stood outside the pillar of light and glared death at Bai Su! "Today, this path of longevity of yours... I'm cutting it down for good!" With those words, Wen Guyan's aura instantly surged to its zenith. His terrifying pressure was not in the least inferior to that of a cultivator newly stepped into the Ascension realm. Compounded by Wen Guyan's frightening power of laws, sword light surged restlessly across his blade. As terrifying might detonated outward, Wen Guyan struck at the ascension pillar before him like a madman. *Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!* The explosive strikes fell as dense as rain. Emerald sword rays shot in all directions, the power of laws sweeping through the surroundings. More and more cracks appeared, alarming Bai Su. Yet the power of the Immortal Realm continuously repaired the fractures, which put him slightly at ease. With a wry smile, he wondered what he was even worried about. If the reception power of the Immortal Realm could be severed by a mere Tribulation Transcendence realm cultivator, it would be nothing short of a fantasy. Even if cracks formed, so what? "Don't waste your energy. I know what I'm doing isn't noble, but if a man doesn't look out for himself, heaven and earth will destroy him." "I'm only looking out a bit more for my own sake." Standing within the light pillar, Bai Su let the lightning batter his body. He looked mockingly at Wen Guyan outside. Wen Guyan said nothing. The webbing of his hands tore open, blood streaming down. Yet he continued swinging his blade frantically—each strike faster than the last, each strike fiercer than the last! It was as though he sought to vent all the fury and killing intent churning in his heart. Bai Su could not be allowed to ascend... If Bai Su ascended, the Seventh Domain would crumble from within today. If even one of the Four Kings abandoned the Human Spirit Realm, what point was there in the rest holding out? Once someone breached the baseline, everyone would have an excuse. If spoken of in the future, people would merely shake their heads and sigh: "Back then, Tiger King Bai Su was the first to ascend. Lacking combat power, we had no choice but to ascend or wait for death." Excuses of that sort. Wen Guyan refused to let the Human Spirit Realm be ruined by Bai Su's hands. He had already sensed many eyes unconsciously drifting toward Bai Su. Perhaps they had also sensed the aura from the outside world. Yet if someone truly ascended to the Immortal Realm right before their eyes, no one would be able to resist the temptation... Bai Su could ascend, but absolutely not now!! Bai Su mocked, "Don't waste your breath. With your cultivation level, you can never break open the ascension passage." When those words fell, Wen Guyan's gaze remained freezing cold, showing not the slightest ripple at his taunts. "Is that so?" "The fact that I can't break the ascension passage is what you're relying on?" "Are you so certain... that I! Cannot! Kill! You?!" His right hand slashed his sword with all his might! *Boom! Boom!* The cobweb of cracks on the light pillar suddenly shattered into a hole the size of a water bucket! With a ferocious expression, Wen Guyan thrust an arm straight for Bai Su's throat! A chilling voice laden with killing intent resonated slowly in his ear! "I told you... if you dared ascend amidst the chaos, I would kill you!" Terror flashed through Bai Su's eyes. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that Wen Guyan would forcibly shatter the ascension passage and reach in! *Boom!* In an instant, Bai Su unleashed all his power, condensing it into his fist intent, and punched toward Wen Guyan's solar plexus. Wen Guyan neither dodged nor retreated. With a twist of his wrist, an arm flew into the air! His longsword stabbed violently toward Bai Su's eye socket! Yet Bai Su was no mediocre fighter either; riding the momentum, he slammed a fist onto Wen Guyan's shoulder. *Shhhk!* The sword carved a wound across Bai Su's face, blinding one of his eyes. Under the wood laws, that eye instantly turned to pus, and the wound withered and shriveled. Yet Wen Guyan was also struck by that punch, his scapula shattering as his body was hurled out of the passage. *Buzz!* A mighty reception power surged. Clutching his streaming, bloody eye, Bai Su looked down at Wen Guyan. With venomous hatred in his eyes, he snorted coldly and flew toward the firmament. "I'll be waiting for you in the Immortal Realm!!"