"How brazen!" Red Ghost stared at Yang Kai, dumbfounded, filled with a kind of grudging admiration. If he were in Yang Kai's shoes, he absolutely wouldn't have the composure to stay so nonchalant — not only was Yang Kai making no effort to break through the encirclement and flee, he was actually mocking his enemies. Did he want to die that badly?
Xu Changfeng spoke calmly: "Sealing off heaven and earth doesn't necessarily require some earth-shattering grand array. You think just because you possess spatial divine abilities, you can rest easy? Young man, this world is vast — there will always be things you don't know about."
Yang Kai narrowed his eyes. "Holy Lord Xu's words sound rather interesting. Can I take that to mean you've already sealed off this stretch of heaven and earth?"
Xu Changfeng smiled faintly. "Why don't you try it and find out?"
Yang Kai nodded and actually gave it a try. As his Laws of Space surged, he was startled to discover that the surrounding heavens and earth had become an impenetrable cage. His Laws of Space could still be mobilized, but Teleportation was no longer possible.
His expression betrayed nothing, but inwardly he felt a flicker of alarm. He glanced left and right, studying his surroundings.
He hadn't detected the slightest trace of an array formation deployed here. So how exactly had the surrounding space been sealed, rendering his Teleportation useless? Could it be that the opposing side also had someone who had mastered the Laws of Space? Only someone equally versed in the Laws of Space could have sealed off this area without anyone noticing. But that seemed unlikely — gaining initial entry into the Laws of Space was already incredibly difficult, and cultivating them further was harder still. Just consider the caliber of someone like Sheng Yuzhu? That was a being who had contended with Wu Kuang for the title of Great Emperor. Trapped in the Void Rifts for tens of thousands of years, he had painstakingly studied the power of space and had only just scratched the surface. If the Yellow Spring Sect or the Sacred Land of Fantian truly had someone who had mastered the Laws of Space, such a person would be far from obscure — they would have long since risen to fame.
Unable to figure it out, Yang Kai simply stopped trying. After all, he had never intended to rely on Teleportation to break through the siege in the first place.
"You're on the verge of death. Is there anything else you'd like to say?" Fu Bo stared coldly at Yang Kai, the killing intent in his eyes nearly condensing into something solid. Unlike the Sacred Land of Fantian, whose grudge with Yang Kai stemmed from the deaths of two Holy Sons at his hands in the Shattered Star Sea, Fu Bo's enmity ran deeper. The Yellow Spring Sect had also lost people to Yang Kai, but that wasn't the true reason Fu Bo wanted him dead. The greatest cause was what had happened in the Great Desolation Star Domain.
The Yellow Spring Sect of the Great Desolation Star Domain was the origin of the Yellow Spring Sect in the Star Realm. It was precisely because experts from the Great Desolation Star Domain's Yellow Spring Sect had crossed over to the Star Realm, achieved cultivation success, and established a Yellow Spring Sect here as well — the two branches were inextricably linked. And not long ago, Yang Kai had uprooted the Great Desolation Star Domain's Yellow Spring Sect entirely, destroying its ancestral foundation and slaughtering nearly all of its disciples. When Fu Bo had heard the news, he had nearly choked with rage.
On top of that, there were the old debts of Yin Lesheng and Elder Hua Feichen, whom Yang Kai had killed in the past. New hatreds and old grievances surged together, impossible to untangle.
Even if Yang Kai truly had some connection to the Sacred Spirits of the Ancient Land, so what? In the past, Fu Bo could swallow his anger for the sake of Luan Feng, hiding that resentment deep within and letting it go unspoken. But after the debacle in the Great Desolation Star Domain, Fu Bo could no longer endure it. He was determined to cut Yang Kai down and exact his vengeance.
As he had said — this was a matter of the Human Race. He was wary of Luan Feng, certainly, but if the Sacred Spirits of the Ancient Land and the Demon Beast Race truly insisted on meddling in human affairs, there would be no shortage of those willing to put them in their place.
"Who dies and who lives isn't determined yet, Sect Master Fu. Aren't you being a bit too optimistic?" Yang Kai gave him a sidelong glance, then turned to Qi Hai and shook his head in disappointment. "And what about you? You think that if you help them scheme to kill me, you can seize the Phoenix True Fire and save your wife?"
Qi Hai's face twisted into a vicious mask. "She's dead. You're the one who killed her. Killing you today is the only way to quell the hatred in my heart!"
Hearing this, Fu Bo burst into hearty laughter. "Well said, my good disciple!"
Yang Kai raised an eyebrow in surprise. "So you've already taken him as a disciple of the Yellow Spring Sect. No wonder you've advanced to Emperor Venerable. But Qi Hai — you're wrong."
Qi Hai clenched his fists, grinding his teeth. "How am I wrong?"
Yang Kai said softly: "Your wife's death has nothing to do with me. She died because she placed her trust in the wrong person."
"Bullshit!" Qi Hai flew into a fury, his face twisting with both anguish and savagery. "Back then, you had the power to save her life, yet you turned a deaf ear and let her suffer endless torment and misery before she finally perished. Every last bit of it is your fault!"
Yang Kai let out a derisive snort. "By your logic, anyone in this world who had the ability to cure your wife's poison is your enemy — because they had the power to help but didn't. Qi Hai, are you out of your mind?"
Qi Hai said coldly: "Whether others had the ability, I don't know. All I know is that you did."
Yang Kai shook his head and sighed. "And for that, you hold a grudge against me. Your wife truly chose the wrong man. Even if she were still alive today, I wouldn't save her. She'd be better off dead sooner rather than later — no need to go on suffering alongside a spineless coward like you."
"Shut your mouth!" Qi Hai's face twisted grotesquely, as though Yang Kai had struck a raw nerve.