Chapter 4644
Qiu Tu glanced coldly at the youngest sister’s brother and nodded. “Fine, but don’t show any mercy. In the face of利益, family means nothing. If I find out you dared to let them go, I’ll tear you to pieces.”
“Don’t worry, Mr. Qiu. Since I’ve pledged loyalty to you, I won’t have second thoughts,” the youngest sister’s brother replied flatteringly.
Satisfied, Qiu Tu waved his hand dismissively, allowing him to take Xiong Kuo and the others away under guard.
Meanwhile, inside the treasure gourd, Kai found himself surrounded by a dark, void-like space.
Unfazed, Kai calmly activated his Sky Eyes and surveyed his surroundings with curiosity. “So, this really is a so-called treasure gourd…”
“Treasure gourd? Nonsense!” the Red Cloud Demon Lord scoffed. “This is just an ordinary gourd inscribed with formations. It’s neither a treasure nor a spiritual artifact!”
He sneered, clearly annoyed. “That fool dared to call this thing a Heaven-Swallowing Gourd? What a joke! If this is a Heaven-Swallowing Gourd, then what does that make my Swallowing Beast?”
The Red Cloud Demon Lord’s irritation was evident. He couldn’t stand anyone else using the title “Heaven-Swallowing”—in his eyes, only his Swallowing Beast was worthy of such a name.
Kai chuckled. “Why are you so worked up? I know this gourd was created by combining formation engravings with traces of space-time essence.”
“That’s the only reason I was sucked in. But the space origin within this gourd is pitifully weak, and the formation master who carved it was nothing special.”
“If they had truly turned this gourd into a self-contained world, I might be impressed. But this chaotic void? It’s only enough to scare children.”
Kai’s tone was light and mocking.
True cultivators proficient in the origins of time and space could create entire worlds—lush with mountains, rivers, and life.
The scale of that world depended entirely on the cultivator’s strength.
But this empty, chaotic space was far from that. It wasn’t a world at all.
Such methods might work against cultivators who haven’t comprehended the origins of space or time.
However, against Kai—who had mastered divine patterns and grasped the origin of time—this childish trick was completely ineffective.
Though the small gourd was inscribed with hundreds of magic arrays, their power was insignificant. Kai could easily dismantle them.
Swish!
Suddenly, the surrounding void trembled, and countless sharp wind blades shot toward Kai from all directions.
“So, there’s a wind array engraved here too…”
Kai frowned slightly before activating his Indestructible Golden Body.
Golden light enveloped him, and when the wind blades struck, they shattered instantly, as if they were nothing more than a gentle breeze brushing against him.
“Wait… these wind blades aren’t coming from the array?”
Kai sensed the lingering spiritual energy in the air, and his frown deepened.
At first, he assumed the wind blades were products of the gourd’s wind array. Yet, despite their failure to harm him, the aura released upon their destruction felt… off. There was something unnervingly strange about it.
The broken wind blades dispersed into aura, then quickly reformed and launched another attack.
More disturbingly, these wind blades didn’t strike randomly—they constantly adjusted, seeking out Kai’s vulnerabilities.
In other words, these wind blades seemed to possess a form of intelligence rather than being mere lifeless attacks.
Activating his Tianming Eye, Kai traced the source of these wind blades back to a formation. Within it, he detected a core source of power.
It became clear that the formation’s creator had embedded their wind origin within it, granting the wind blades a semblance of spirituality.