The Identity of a Regressor—Holding Onto It Is Deadly
The Identity of a Regressor—Holding Onto It Is Deadly
Although Emperor Yu felt that there was something a little odd about what Gu Changge had said,
he didn’t dwell on it. At this moment, most of his attention was fixed on Tuo Ba Xiaoyao, his face full of admiration.
Judging from the strength Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had just displayed, it was enough to rival many of the imperial family’s own disciples.
He had always been one who cherished talent, often bestowing treasures upon the many outstanding young prodigies of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.
Still, Emperor Yu was somewhat curious as to why Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had hidden himself away until now, keeping his brilliance concealed, never once revealing his formidable strength in all these years.
If someone claimed he had some unspeakable hardship, Emperor Yu would never believe it.
As the third son of the General Residence, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s status was illustrious and his position exalted—there was no need whatsoever for him to worry about anyone plotting against him.
Moreover, the greater the talent one displayed, the more resources and attention one would naturally receive.
Why would he go against such common sense?
“If not for Young Master Changge’s discerning eye, this Emperor would likely have been utterly astonished today,” Emperor Yu said, shaking his head in admiration.
Hearing this, Gu Changge smiled and withdrew his gaze, saying, “It was really only a matter of time. I imagine this Third Young Master of the Tuo Ba household is not one content to remain ordinary. A submerged dragon must eventually rise from the abyss.”
For him, now that Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s identity was confirmed, everything that followed would be easy to handle.
The master of the Sword of World Domination—or at least someone connected to it.
“Young Master Changge speaks truly.”
“Haha, once this Hunting Event concludes, this Emperor must properly reward that fellow Tuo Ba Xiaoyao!” Emperor Yu laughed heartily.
“That boy Xiaoyao actually hid it for so long—even I, his own father, was completely in the dark...”
Tuo Ba Yuntian felt both gratified and bitter.
But at last, he could set his mind at ease. With Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s strength, protecting his little sister shouldn’t be a problem.
Then his gaze turned cold, and he began sending voice transmissions to the servants behind him, ordering them to thoroughly investigate the origins of that Scarred Man.
In front of all the ministers of Great Yu, the man had humiliated him and nearly killed his daughter.
This utter disgrace—he would sooner or later make the Scarred Man and whoever stood behind him repay it in full.
Tuo Ba Yuntian was already convinced that the Scarred Man must have been sent by his enemies to infiltrate the Hunting Event.
And just as the many ministers were buzzing with discussion, shocked by the terrifying strength Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had displayed,
the scenes projected by the Colorful Exquisite Black-Yellow Treasure Tower were undergoing earth-shaking changes.
The battle between Tuo Ba Xiaoyao and the Scarred Man could be called the pinnacle clash of the younger generation. They fought until sky and earth went dark, until all eight directions trembled violently, until mountain ranges collapsed entirely and crumbled to ash.
Terrifying shockwaves swept across heaven and earth. It no longer resembled a simple exchange of blows, but a collision of every manner of technique.
The two had already exchanged several hundred moves, all kinds of divine abilities and sword techniques unfolding, each pushed to its absolute limit.
In that direction, saber light and Sword Qi interwove, manifesting across heaven and earth like a vast ocean, surging and roaring, enough to grind any living being that stepped into it into nothing.
It was a destructive aura—saber light splitting the sky, Sword Qi sweeping the earth—directly forming a zone of utter chaos.
The young prodigies who had heard the commotion and rushed over all watched from afar in shock, not daring to take a single step closer, as if that place had become a forbidden zone for the living.
Boom!
In the end, the Scarred Man was no match for Tuo Ba Xiaoyao. He fell into a disadvantage, blood coughed from the corner of his mouth, and he was sent flying backward, nearly cleaved in two by Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s sword.
But Tuo Ba Xiaoyao himself wasn’t faring well either. His face was pale, his palm covered in blood, the web between his thumb and forefinger split open from the shock.
The Scarred Man’s strength exceeded his imagination. In his estimation, within the entire Great Wilderness, aside from Yu Feiya and a few others, almost no one could match this man.
How could the background of such a figure possibly be simple?
“Let’s see how you fight me now! Die!”
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao quickly steadied his mind, his gaze turning cold as he swung his sword down once more, as if rotating an entire sea of mountains. Endless sword light erupted, blotting out the sky and sun, submerging everything.
He had already resolved to kill.
During his exchange with the Scarred Man, he had faintly guessed the other’s identity.
An assassin!
Other than an assassin, no one could possibly possess such terrifying killing techniques, trading wound for wound.
So even if he defeated the Scarred Man, he shouldn’t expect to pry anything out of his mouth.
“Hehe, kill me? You must be dreaming. You can’t even imagine what you’ll be facing in the future.”
“Just wait for your death. When that time comes, you’ll regret ever being born into this world.”
Hearing this, the Scarred Man burst into loud laughter, as if he had heard some hilarious joke, utterly contemptuous.
During his clash with Tuo Ba Xiaoyao, even the peerless Heaven Saber in his hand had developed cracks, unable to withstand the force of their collisions.
But more importantly, sealed within the Heaven Saber was that person’s killing intent, and it was already on the verge of breaking free, cracking the saber apart.
That was the Scarred Man’s greatest reliance!
And as his words fell, the Black Heaven Saber split apart with a crack, and an aura that swept across the heavens, made the stars tremble, and silenced all ages burst forth from within.
The expressions of the many young prodigies in the Great Wilderness changed drastically, their souls shuddering involuntarily.
The aura of slaughter filled heaven and earth. A terrifying Great Dao of Slaughter manifested, like a Yellow Springs flowing out of the Nine Nethers, with countless sages and immortals sinking within it, reduced to corpses.
It was an aura of destruction, representing bloodshed and carnage, enough to make one’s gallbladder split with terror.
“What is that?!”
Everyone in the outside world, including Emperor Yu and the others, all changed color in unison, utterly shocked.
Even across such a vast distance, that terrifying killing intent seemed to fill the very space around them, making them tremble uncontrollably, seized by a dread they could hardly suppress.
Boom!
Heaven and earth quaked violently, as if struck by a colossal wave. Calling it world-overturning would be no exaggeration. It was a terrifying energy like a boundless ocean, pitch-black as ink, like demonic clouds, directly collapsing the space within a radius of ten thousand miles.
At this moment, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s expression changed drastically, but he made no move.
He felt an extremely terrifying killing aura seeping into his very bones, his soul nearly frozen solid.
It was an extremely dreadful will, sealed within the Heaven Saber in the Scarred Man’s hand, now released—truly capable of destroying heaven and earth.
In a daze, he saw a blurry figure gazing at him from across a vast distance, saying softly, “I found you.”
In that instant, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s entire body went ice-cold, his soul trembling, nearly unable to move. Scenes from his previous life suddenly flooded his mind.
That person’s eyes were incomparably indifferent, devoid of the slightest emotion, yet they seemed able to pierce through all nothingness—with a single thought, rivers of blood could flow across the land and corpses pile into mountains.
It was more like a peerless Demon Lord descending upon the world, swallowing heaven and earth with his aura, standing atop the clouds, looking down upon the vast earth and its billions of living beings, killing intent pervading everything.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao couldn’t see that person, but he knew.
That had to be Gu Changge—the one renowned throughout the world, the one whom all the Supreme Dao Lineages and immortal forces dreaded beyond measure!
And also the great enemy who, in his previous life, had destroyed his family and left him dead and his Dao extinguished!
Other than Gu Changge, he couldn’t think of anyone who would target him like this.
At this moment, he couldn’t fathom when Gu Changge had noticed him, or why he was probing him.
But none of that mattered now. Tuo Ba Xiaoyao already understood clearly—once his identity as the master of the Sword of World Domination was exposed, Gu Changge would stop at nothing to kill him and seize the sword.
“Ahh...”
Facing this terrifying killing intent, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao roared in fury. Layers of golden light began rising around him, like a golden mist enveloping everything.
Within this golden mist, it was as if tens of thousands of divine swords were interweaving, constructing a supreme sword domain. The top of his skull became dazzlingly brilliant. A terrifying killing intent seemed about to pierce through it, but it was blocked by a supreme Sword Qi.
This was the Sword Domain of World Domination!
The Primordial Foetal Sword of World Domination he had refined revived on its own, sensing the life-and-death crisis, moving to block this killing calamity for him.
Unimaginably terrifying fluctuations erupted here, as if tens of millions of stars were exploding, radiance surging into the sky, suppressing all of heaven and earth.
Countless birds and beasts throughout the Great Wilderness were frightened into prostrating themselves on the ground, trembling, terrified to the extreme.
Even the Colorful Exquisite Black-Yellow Treasure Tower could hardly project the scene at this moment, the image turning into a blur of chaos.
No one knew what ultimately happened there.
Even supreme experts like Emperor Yu, activating their Heavenly Eye divine abilities, could not peer into the scene within the Great Wilderness.
Only after a long while did the radiance there gradually fade, and silence returned.
But the surroundings were left in utter devastation—ravines and fissures everywhere, mountain ranges razed flat.
“What in the world was that just now?”
Many ministers still looked shaken, not yet recovered from the terrifying fluctuations of moments ago.
They also had no idea what means Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had used. It was obvious the Scarred Man’s origins were anything but ordinary—otherwise he couldn’t possibly have unleashed such a dreadful will.
It even made them suspect that the Killing Emperor of ancient times had reappeared in the world.
“That fellow Tuo Ba Xiaoyao actually possessed such means. Not simple at all...”
Emperor Yu’s gaze grew somewhat profound. That power just now had given even him a faint sense of palpitation.
Had Tuo Ba Xiaoyao hidden himself away all these years in order to conceal that terrifying power?
But with Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s father present, he couldn’t say much, merely making a mental note of it.
“What a pity,” Gu Changge said softly, shaking his head as he too withdrew his gaze.
“What are you pitying?” Jiang Chuchu, hearing his soft murmur, glanced at him and asked.
Gu Changge smiled. “Naturally, I’m pitying that the Scarred Man actually managed to escape.”
Jiang Chuchu looked into his eyes for a moment, then nodded. “It is indeed a pity. But I don’t think he can get far—the surroundings of this Great Wilderness are all crawling with people of the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty.”
“That man is certainly bold. But I imagine that since he dared to strike, he must have confidence in his escape,” Gu Changge said with a smile.
Hearing their conversation, Emperor Yu also snapped back to his senses and hurriedly ordered men to keep close watch on the surroundings, to prevent the Scarred Man and his people from escaping.
Tonight’s events had left him somewhat uneasy and worried.
Although Yu Feiya, Yu Lie, and the others carried life-saving treasures, if they encountered the kind of crisis Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had just faced, how would they resolve it?
Because of that earlier disturbance, the images projected by the Colorful Exquisite Black-Yellow Treasure Tower were also a blur, and he had no idea how Yu Lie and the others were faring now.
A commotion rippled through the place. After what had just happened, the many ministers also felt a sense of crisis, feeling that something major might occur at this Hunting Event.
At once, streaks of divine rainbow light shot through the sky toward the surroundings, and knights clad in golden armor tightened their patrols.
“The Sword of World Domination really is on him. But how did he know I would move against him?”
Gu Changge gazed at the depths of the Great Wilderness, now pitch-black and silent, somewhat lost in thought.
From the probe just now, he could already confirm that Tuo Ba Xiaoyao was the so-called master of the Sword of World Domination.
What surprised him somewhat, though, was that Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had apparently been guarding against him all along.
Could Tuo Ba Xiaoyao know that he had already obtained the other Tools of World Domination, and was that why he was so careful, hiding his talents and biding his time?
But thinking it through, that didn’t quite add up.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had been hiding like this since childhood—not just recently, playing the pig to eat the tiger.
“When he was still small, how could he have known that I would eventually move against him?”
Gu Changge’s brows furrowed slightly, and two possibilities came to mind.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao could foresee the future—or he was a regressor like Yue Mingkong, and thus knew what was going to happen.
If he truly could foresee the future, then Tuo Ba Xiaoyao shouldn’t need to be this cautious, treading carefully with every step, minimizing his presence.
Foreseeing the future meant strategizing with everything under control, calculating everything—so why would he live so stifled?
Therefore, in Gu Changge’s view, it was more likely that Tuo Ba Xiaoyao was a regressor, and in the world he had experienced, he had perhaps died by Gu Changge’s hand in the end—which was why he was so careful,
doing everything he could to avoid drawing Gu Changge’s attention.
“But no matter which possibility it is, it can’t change the fact that he’s the master of the Sword of World Domination.”
“A hot potato like the Sword of World Domination—holding onto it is deadly. Why can’t he learn to let it go? Even after living a second life, he’s still this foolish.”
Gu Changge smiled dismissively, not taking Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s identity as a regressor to heart at all.