Chapter 1264: Grand Starry Sky Hand Seal (1/2)

On the surface of the Realm of Maelstrom, people from various sects cheered in high spirits.

“Nie Tian!”

“It’s Nie Tian!”

Dong Li took a deep breath, and a black aura slowly rose from her curvaceous body.

Jing Feiyang, Qu Mingde, Quan Zixuan, and other Saint domain experts also exclaimed cheerfully, “Nie Tian is back!”

Even though they were aware that there was an unbridgeable gap between Nie Tian’s cultivation base and that of Duan Hongwen from the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect, they felt that as long as he showed up, this crisis with the three domains would soon be solved!

This blind belief they had in him was the result of the numerous battles they had fought alongside him.

Every time they had found themselves in a desperate situation, Nie Tian had stepped up and turned it around.

As time passed, they had gradually developed a blind confidence in him, just as Dong Li had.

Monk Goldbone from the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect’s face split into a nasty grin. “Nie Tian, the seventh Son of the Stars? So what? Given your poor cultivation base, I can’t believe you actually dared to come back.”

“Shut up!” Duan Hongwen snapped at him.

Monk Goldbone was confused.

He suddenly noticed Duan Hongwen’s surprisingly grim face.

Then, he subconsciously turned to look at the chubby man beside Nie Tian.

That was when he realized that the man’s cultivation base seemed to be unfathomable. Even given his horizons and cultivation base, he couldn’t determine his cultivation base right away.

“Fat and practices star power... Don’t tell me...” Monk Goldbone’s expression suddenly flickered with fear as he scrambled towards the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect’s ancient starship, shaking as he did. “I can’t believe it’s him! Shouldn’t he be trapped in the Domain of Frigid Depths by Grand Monarch Ice Bones?”

Not many had the chance to meet important figures like Chu Rui. Duan Hongwen was the only one on the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect’s side who recognized him at first sight.

Even Monk Goldbone, who had spent most of his time in remote domains and only entered the late Saint domain recently, hadn’t had a chance to meet Chu Rui in person until now.

However, he had heard others talk about the appearance and physique of Vice Sectmaster Chu Rui of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace.

Meng Li from the Divine Seal Sect, whose face was still pale from his previous injuries, shouted furiously upon seeing Monk Goldbone’s attempt to escape, “Nie Tian! It was him, Monk Goldbone, who first arrived in the Realm of Maelstrom and killed our people! Even I was seriously wounded by him, and haven’t recovered yet.”

Chu Rui curled his lips, his pupils, which seemed to include the entire starry river, fixing on Monk Goldbone. “Monk Goldbone, is it?”

Seeing this, Monk Goldbone couldn’t help but shudder in fear.

WHOOSH!

A glorious nebula quietly came to form in the depths of Chu Rui’s left pupil.

Chu Rui had his eyes fixed on the fleeing Monk Goldbone.

Monk Goldbone’s eyes instantly turned golden. Nebulae that were identical to that in Chu Rui’s pupil seemed to be forcibly branded in the depths of his pupils.

He held his head with both hands and let out agonized shrieks as he instantly started to bleed from his nostrils and ears.

Tiny bits of dazzling starlight could be seen in his blood. As his blood rolled down, the droplets cut his skin open like sharp blades.

BOOM!

Even the golden light shields he hastily formed couldn’t stop those sparkling bits of starlight, as they exploded and dissipated upon contact with them.

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

Monk Goldbone’s sea of awareness was like a golden sea.

At this moment, it was enveloped in a glorious nebula that rumbled with the profound laws of stars. Countless Starchains that carried the profound mysteries of realms forming and perishing were now restraining and cutting at the golden sea.

Monk Goldbone’s true soul was bound by numerous Starchains. Every time a beam of starlight flashed past, it trembled, as if it were struck by lightning.

His true soul gradually shrank, and was eventually reduced to ashes.

His golden sea of awareness also vaporized like water after repeated slaps from the Starchains. His soul will, memories, life experiences, and all sorts of imprints were erased along with it.

PUFF!

Monk Goldbone coughed up a mouthful of blood and dropped to the ground before he could reach the starship from the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect, and didn’t rise again.

Many from the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect rushed to his side, shouting his name, “Monk Goldbone!”

However, he didn’t give any response.

Chu Rui shook his head lazily and commented, “Pathetic. He’s not even as strong as Nie Tian’s subordinate Master Blood Spirit, yet he dared to commit crimes in the Domain of Heaven Python simply by relying on the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect’s name.”

According to his assessment, Monk Goldbone was weaker than Master Blood Spirit, much less Yin Xingtian, a patriarch who had lived close to thirty thousand years.

As a middle God domain expert, if he was bent on annihilating a late Saint domain cultivator like Monk Goldbone, his opponent wouldn’t even be able to secure a wisp of their soul.

Monk Goldbone’s miserable death was followed by a cheerful clamor.

“Monk Goldbone died just like that?”

“Who is that?”

“That’s Vice Sectmaster Chu Rui of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace!”

“It’s Vice Sectmaster Chu! The Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace hasn’t abandoned us! He’s a middle God domain expert for god’s sake!”

This whole time, Duan Hongwen, the vice sectmaster of the Remote Beginning Heavenly Sect, simply stood there and watched Chu Rui vaporize Monk Goldbone’s sea of awareness and annihilate his true soul with profound soul magics.