"Senior Qin!"

Jiang Miaoyin exclaimed and, without a second thought, followed Chu Xiu into the space portal.

Zhao Jie widened his eyes, both touched and ashamed, while the Murder Ghost revealed an expression of wild joy, as if the prey had finally stepped into the trap he had set!

"Hahaha, you’ve got guts!"

"Then let me show you the civilization I’ve carefully cultivated!"

With these words, towers rose behind him, each emitting a crimson light that gathered at the zenith, forming an invisible domain!

Under the bath of this light, the wounds on the Murder Ghost’s body rapidly healed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

He had delayed healing his wounds on purpose, clearly to lure Chu Xiu to strike!

However, Chu Xiu’s eyes only flashed coldly, and he swung Chiwen again without hesitation!

Since he could seriously injure the Murder Ghost once, he could kill him again!

"Die!"

With the dual boost of Divine-Demonic Power and Artifact Origin, three streams of Sword Qi surged violently towards the Murder Ghost!

"Boom!"

The surging energy rose like giant waves in the sky, and the Murder Ghost’s entire world trembled due to this massive energy fluctuation!

Yet, facing Chu Xiu’s full-on attack, the Murder Ghost just laughed again, and suddenly, a dozen spatial rifts appeared in front of him, cutting through Chu Xiu’s Sword Qi like indestructible blades!

When the structure of the Sword Qi was destroyed, the energy dispersed. Although the total amount of energy remained unchanged, it couldn’t converge. The terrifying energy stream engulfed the Murder Ghost, but when calm was restored, only wisps of white smoke appeared on the Murder Ghost’s skin!

This made Chu Xiu’s expression tighten!

Last time, against his heavy sword, the Murder Ghost used all his means and only barely escaped through a space portal.

But this time, he withstood it almost unscathed!

"Is this the power of the Master of Civilization?"

Chu Xiu squinted his eyes. Although he also had his own civilization, it was far from developed, and he hadn’t spent time researching it, so his understanding of the Power of Civilization was quite limited.

However, after a brief confrontation, he did grasp something.

Within this civilization’s range, a special domain akin to the Sinful Fire Purgatory had formed.

Its effect, from what could be seen now, was to considerably enhance the Master of the Domain’s "control" within the domain.

This control includes the perception of everything within the domain and the precision in mobilizing energy.

Cutting the Sword Qi of Chu Xiu isn’t an easy task. First, Chu Xiu’s Sword Qi was condensed to an incredible degree, and typically only demigod-level attacks could shake it. Second, the speed of his Sword Qi is extremely fast, also at a demigod level! Ordinary Heroic Spirits simply couldn’t react to it!

Let alone precisely judging the structure of the Sword Qi; releasing a skill before being hit by it would be difficult!

Otherwise, what had the Murder Ghost been doing before?

But now, under the domain’s effect, he could use spatial fissures to precisely cut Chu Xiu’s Sword Qi, indicating that his talent had greatly improved in terms of Power, release speed, and accuracy!

"No wonder Zhao Jie was determined to stop me from entering; this Civilization Domain indeed greatly suits the Murder Ghost."

If it were someone else, it might not be as troublesome, but the Murder Ghost’s spatial cutting talent maximized the domain’s power!

However, Chu Xiu still showed no fear on his face.

He just noticed that even with such amplifications, the Murder Ghost only barely blocked his attack.

Therefore, he just needed to close the distance and further shorten his response time to break through the spatial rifts defense!

Moreover, in close combat, with Chu Xiu’s terrifying constitution, even without activating Sword Qi, a random strike from him might not be sustainable for the Murder Ghost!

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon Body of the Ninth Heaven gave him the power to temporarily contend with a demigod! Even with numerous Outer Realm Demonic Blessings, the Murder Ghost, who had just entered as a Heroic Spirit, was far from comparable!

With a flash of his figure, Chu Xiu’s Divine-Demonic Power surged within him, turning into a stream of light that sped towards the Murder Ghost! Space Slashes formed around him, but Chu Xiu’s reaction speed and agility crushed the Murder Ghost. He continuously shifted his position at wide angles in the air, dodging all the slashes like an agile spirit bird!

In the blink of an eye, he was already close to the Murder Ghost!

Yet at this moment, the Murder Ghost revealed a strange smile, and suddenly a glaive, engraved with patterns of exotic beasts, appeared in his hands!

In the next instant, the crimson light on his body surged enormously, as if he had been strengthened several times in a moment, and the glaive in his hands stabbed towards Chu Xiu at an unimaginably fast speed!

The speed was so fast that even Chu Xiu widened his eyes immediately!

"Boom!!!"

The Shield formed by the Imperial Five Dragon Crown was instantly breached, and taking advantage of the moment this piece of Mythical Equipment delayed, Chu Xiu turned the sword’s edge, striking at the glaive with Chiwen!

"Boom!"

A huge airwave exploded in mid-air, and the air within a kilometer radius was instantly cleared by the shockwave generated from the collision!

Chu Xiu felt a massive shock in his hands, and the whole person flew back upside down under the recoil, crashing heavily into the ground a thousand meters below!

The Murder Ghost, however, remained calmly standing in place.

This time the battle was again a direct confrontation, yet the result was entirely different from before!