Cui Dongshan remained seated on the shoulder of his Dao Manifestation as he sighed, "That's quite sneaky of you, but unfortunately, you're no match for me when it comes to playing tricks and hatching schemes."0

One of the sagely Confucian projections clapped its hands together to destroy the yin soul that was fleeing in that direction, and it disintegrated into spiritual energy that acted as some form of reciprocation for Eastern Splendor Mountain.0

As for the yang soul avatar, it was struck down into a lake in the academy by another Dao Manifestation, following which the Dao Manifestation stomped a foot down into the lake, sending massive waves sweeping over its surface in all directions, while the avatar was stomped to bits.0

With his yin soul and yang soul avatar destroyed, and his bonded flying sword trapped in Shi Rou's abdomen, the Nascent Tier swordsman had been backed into a corner, and he decided to detonate his own golden core to destroy the entire courtyard.0

However, right at this moment, his entire body abruptly stiffened.0

Cui Dongshan's immortal flying sword, Golden Autumn, had pierced into the Nascent Tier swordsman's golden core, shattering it into pieces.1

Immediately thereafter, countless strange black and golden characters began spreading over his body, and these characters were slightly different in coloration from the golden characters formed by the righteous energy in Mao Xiaodong's small world.0

Cui Dongshan strode over to the Nascent Tier swordsman, then wiped a hand over his face to remove a premium Mohist facade that had soaked in blood. After that, he used the tip of his finger to tear away the swordsman's actual face, and he shook it around a few times to remove the blood and flesh clinging to it before stowing it up his sleeve. 0

He then raised his head to look back at the swordsman's horrific, skinned face, and he smiled as he said, "I have to thank you for contributing to my collection."4

The swordsman was no longer able to speak. Not only was all of the skin on his body riddled with cracks like a piece of broken porcelain, even his eyeballs were riddled with crack, but he was still glowering intently at Cui Dongshan with immense resentment...3