When facing the legendary main character, villains in popular novels circulating throughout the world would always send opponents who just happened to be slightly stronger than the main character, but not by too much.
And these opponents would keep giving valuable experience to the protagonist, all the way until the protagonist grew into an unstoppable force, then obediently raise their hands in surrender.
Starry Ocean Pavilion had been in Star Realm for tens of thousands of years. Let alone knowing about such stories—they had even killed countless people resembling these main characters.
Therefore, the woman in gold believed that they would never make such a mistake. If they attacked, they’d make sure to kill Gu Nan in one blow!
They had been lurking here in waiting ever since they received news from the Sixth Region and guessed that Gu Nan might visit the Central Region soon.
‘Now we’ve finally caught our prey… But, what do their expressions mean?!’ The woman in gold couldn’t help feeling chills when she saw her two companions’ expressions.
She thought the three of them were lions chasing after a rabbit, but nobody expected that this rabbit could bite back.
"Look out!" The voices of her two companions finally came, followed immediately by their assistance, but it seemed a little late.
Her waist gradually started to feel an icy chill, and she felt as if there was a poisonous snake coiled around her body, slowly crawling up along her body.
Naturally, this was just her hallucination, because Gu Nan's sword merely brushed past her body lightly. The chilly feeling didn’t remain for long and went straight for the man in blue beside her.
Gu Nan's grasp of the situation had always been top-notch. He was the kind of person who could make the most correct judgment in any battle.
So in the face of the three-person ambush, he instantly determined who was truly the biggest threat to him.
"Not good, his target is me!" The man in blue was busy trying to help his companion, but he didn't expect Gu Nan to suddenly change target and come at himself.
He waved his hands and laid out a layer of azure illusions in front of him. At the same time, his body suddenly retreated explosively, trying to escape.
However, the Gu Nan who finally revealed himself didn't give the other party a chance to survive at all. Under the power of law nullification, he almost instantly broke through the azure illusions and threw a punch right into the enemy’s face.
The man in blue was clearly different from the Duanmu family's father-and-daughter pair. Rather than taking the Shinto route and possessing an unparalleled physical body, this cultivator’s strongest point was his laws.
But it was a pity that none of his laws had any effect in front of Gu Nan's law nullification attribute.
The moment Gu Nan's fist smashed into his face, his face sank inwards at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the scene seemed to freeze at this instant.
"No!"
With his one remaining eye, the man in blue could see his two companions shouting from behind Gu Nan.
It was a pity that sound couldn’t be transmitted in space. No one could even think of sending telepathic messages at such a critical moment, so their final shouts were doomed to be inaudible to him.
Bang!
Gu Nan punched out again, hitting the other side of the blue-robed man's face and directly blowing his brains out.
No matter how much vitality a Void Cutter cultivator had, it was still impossible for him to survive in this situation, because even Gu Nan's strength itself had started to possess the unique characteristics of “law nullification.” Thus, the blue-robed man’s soul also exploded and scattered into nothingness with this punch.
The power of the law nullification crystal was unparalleled, but Gu Nan would’ve taken this route even without its existence.
In his original plan, his second or third law slot would be used to construct either a law that would turn his body into a law or simply construct the law nullification attribute.
Both of the above routes had the same goal, which was to help Gu Nan break through his opponent’s laws, restrict his opponent from escaping, and win through sheer physical strength.
When one’s power reaches a certain extent, even their physical body is enough to affect laws.
The blue-robed man was killed directly by Gu Nan in merely one exchange, but the entire process of Gu Nan stepping foot into the Central Region, getting ambushed, then countering and killing one ambusher actually happened in the blink of an eye.
It happened so fast that the remaining two couldn't react in time.
When they next saw the scene, Gu Nan had already turned his head toward them with a cold smile. Only then did they discover that Gu Nan wasn’t unscathed; his injuries were shockingly severe.
His heart, throat, and right face all had a huge bloody hole, which was clearly the result of the earlier sneak attack by the three of them.
In fact, anyone would feel that the three’s preparations were foolproof.
Their plan was extremely secretive, and no one was aware of their ambush. Moreover, they especially picked the instant when Gu Nan was traveling through space to attack, since he was the most unguarded at that time.
The three of them immediately launched all-out attacks as soon as Gu Nan appeared. No matter which angle they looked at this from, there was no reason Gu Nan should survive.
One should know that these three still dared to ambush Gu Nan even after knowing full well that Duanmu Sen and the others had died at Gu Nan's hands. This was enough to prove their strength!
If fighting one-on-one, none of them were weaker than Duanmu Sen.
And once the three of them joined hands, they could complement each other using their strongest skills, which would increase their total combat prowess far beyond that of any individual person!
However, no one expected that Gu Nan would actually survive full-powered attacks from the three of them and would still have the spare energy to immediately counterattack and kill one of them…
The next moment, Gu Nan's figure instantly disappeared, and the remaining man and woman suddenly became extremely vigilant, standing back to back and looking around warily.
However, even after the two of them waited for a long time, Gu Nan still didn’t appear again. Instead, a faint sigh rang out from the bottom of their hearts.
"To remain calm in the face of death and exhibit such decisiveness… He’s indeed extraordinary." A middle-aged man slowly walked out of the void with some regret on his face. "As expected of the person who could make the Buddha of Ten Thousand Samsara return without accomplishing her goal."
His hand was still glowing faintly, as if he had attacked just now.
When the man and woman saw the middle-aged man appear, they quickly went forward to salute and greeted, "We pay our respects to Pavilion Lord Jiu."
Starry Ocean Pavilion only had three Pavilion Lords, and members of the Pavilion also addressed the three Pavilion Lords differently.
This Pavilion Lord Jiu’s real name was Yue Jiu, but both inside and outside Starry Ocean Pavilion, he was called "Pavilion Lord Jiu" instead of "Pavilion Lord Yue.”
"Pavilion Lord Jiu, can Little Huo still be saved?" The woman in gold didn’t have the heart to worry about etiquette and asked directly. Little Huo was naturally the man in blue.
However, Yue Jiu gave a small sigh and replied, "I was a step too late."
He was indeed a step too late, or else even if he couldn't save the man in blue, he still could’ve killed Gu Nan—after all, injuries were still injuries. No matter how fast Gu Nan’s regeneration speed was, those injuries would certainly affect his combat effectiveness.
Hearing Yue Jiu's answer, the woman in gold couldn't help tearing up.
The three of them had traveled through the starry sea unhindered for hundreds of years, but they didn't expect that because of today's carelessness…
"Lord Jiu, do you know where Gu Nan ran off to?!” The man in purple on the other side forcibly suppressed the grief in his heart and asked with reddened eyes.
"Why? You don’t think enough people have died yet?" Yue Jiu scolded lightly, his cold expression shutting the two up.
After a moment's silence, he spoke again, "You two can return to the Pavilion first. Someone else will naturally take care of Gu Nan."
"Yes, Pavilion Lord…" The man and woman could only agree helplessly, but when they simultaneously turned around and exchanged glances, they both saw the unwillingness and hatred in each other’s eyes.
However, what they didn't see was that Yue Jiu's lips also curved up slightly after they turned around.
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