CHAPTER 1705: CHAPTER 1705: MANIFESTATION OUTSIDE THE BODY

"Juan, what do you intend to do?!"

Seeing Juan raise his hand and kill Ruby, who was protecting her, Karina Hanson’s face changed drastically as she shouted in near rage.

"What do I intend to do?"

Juan sneered, "Karina, I thought I treated you well before, but I didn’t expect you to be so ungrateful... I just asked you to tell me the origins of the person who killed my grandson, but you kept evading! Now, I’ve lost my patience... I’ll give you one last chance, tell me the origin of that person, or follow Ruby to the other side!"

As he spoke, Juan’s gaze towards Karina was filled with cold murderous intent.

"Ruby! Ruby!"

Karina squatted beside Ruby’s corpse, her eyes red, tears streaming down like a torrential rain.

Ruby, who had been by her side since childhood, was regarded as family in her heart.

And today, Ruby died right in front of her, and died protecting her!

Karina was filled with guilt.

Seeing Karina ignoring him, Juan’s sneer grew even colder, "Don’t think that not responding will buy you time... To tell you the truth, at this very moment, neither your father nor your Uncle Woodson will be able to come and save you, they’re busy discussing the marriage proposal from Sky-scraping Mansion with my people."

"They can’t come rescue you in a short time!"

As he continued, Juan’s tone became even icier, making people feel like they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Ruby..."

Staring blankly at Ruby’s body, Karina was somewhat lost.

Unknowingly, the words of her mysterious mentor echoed in her ears once more, "Julia, our ’Redford’ lineage practices cultivation by experiencing the mundane world, only by understanding life’s warmth and coldness, seeing through life and death, can we truly comprehend the mysteries of the Redford lineage’s heart method."

Following that, the words her mentor said before leaving also replayed in her ears, "If you encounter the Dragonsmith Clan, just channel your True Energy into this... As for what happens next, you need not worry."

At that time, her mentor was worried that when she went to Cloud Skies Continent, she might encounter the Dragonsmith Clan, so she was given an intricate small sword.

Since she didn’t encounter the Dragonsmith Clan last time she returned to Cloud Skies Continent, the intricate small sword was never used and eventually forgotten.

Even Karina didn’t know the origin of her mentor.

The only thing she knew was that her mentor claimed to be a successor of the ’Redford’ lineage and had imparted the heart method of the Redford lineage to her.

Initially, her mentor didn’t let her practice the heart method of the Redford lineage, saying the time wasn’t right, only allowing her to practice it formally on the day they left.

However, despite the profoundness of the Redford heart method, due to her short time practicing it, she hadn’t noticed anything special yet.

Before she knew it, an intricate small sword appeared in Karina’s hand.

"Hmm?"

Though Karina’s movement was subtle, Juan still noticed it, given that he was a Great Saint Realm powerhouse.

"What? Do you think you can take me on with that pinky-length sword?"

Juan scoffed.

After a moment, Karina channeled her True Energy into the intricate small sword in her hand.

At that instant, the intricate small sword shattered with a ’pop’, turning into countless fragments.

But that wasn’t the most important part.

The most crucial thing was that when the intricate small sword shattered, a phantom appeared beside Karina.

This was a human-shaped phantom, a closer look revealed it to be a woman, or more accurately, a ’beautiful woman’.

"Julia."

As soon as the beautiful woman appeared, she looked at Karina and smiled slightly, then noticed Ruby’s body on the ground and couldn’t help but frown slightly.

She clearly recognized Ruby as well.

"M-Mentor?"

As soon as she saw the phantom of the beautiful woman, Karina recognized her as her mentor. Stunned for a moment, it wasn’t until the woman called out to her that she snapped back to reality, looking at the phantom in front of her with astonishment.

At this moment, Karina was filled with confusion.

The technique to condense into a phantom could be done by Martial Artists and Taoist Cultivators at the peak of Transcending Mortal Realm, called ’Innate Phantom’.

Innate Phantoms can only be used to deceive people, having no other use.

However, there is usually a distance limitation for using Innate Phantom.

Yet now, she didn’t know where her mentor was, and the phantom appeared right in front of her, appearing through that intricate small sword.

"I know you have many questions, but this ’External Avatar’ technique of mine has limited time... I’ll deal with him first, then explain it to you."

The beautiful woman nodded slightly at Karina, then turned to face Juan.

Although she was unaware of what had just happened, she could see from the murderous intent in Juan’s eyes that he wanted to kill her disciple.

For a moment, a sharp gleam appeared in her eyes.

The ’Seven Terminating Sect’ had few disciples, which is why everyone in the sect highly valued their own, and she was no exception.

"An external avatar?"

Upon seeing the delicate little sword in Karina Hanson’s hand shatter and a shadow appear, Juan Hanson was already stunned.

Innate phantom, an ability mastered by peak innate martial artists and Taoist cultivators. However, once they break through to the ’Transcending Mortal Realm’ and their internal strength transforms, it can no longer be displayed.

Therefore, he didn’t consider it an innate phantom.

Now, hearing the beautiful lady refer to it as an ’external avatar’, Juan Hanson found the term somewhat familiar, and upon careful thought, he finally remembered.

Taoist cultivators whose cultivation surpasses the ’Great Saint Realm’ can master the divine ability of ’external avatar’.

This divine ability is not very useful in actual combat. Its greatest use is sealing it within a specially made ’amulet’ so that others can channel power into it and release the ’external avatar’ contained within.

At that level, if a Taoist cultivator has disciples or descendants, they often give them their amulet with the sealed external avatar as a means of protection.

Upon realizing this, Juan Hanson’s face changed dramatically, and he looked at the shadow of the beautiful lady in front of him with astonishment, "You... you’re a Taoist cultivator who has surpassed the ’Great Saint Realm’?"

He never imagined that Karina Hanson had such a master.

My God!

A Taoist cultivator beyond the Great Saint Realm could kill him with ease, couldn’t they?

"You seem to know quite a bit to recognize the ’external avatar’."

The beautiful lady sneered.

Suddenly, something seemed to come to Juan Hanson’s mind, and his face gradually calmed, then he fiercely said, "Hmph! So what if you are a Taoist cultivator above the ’Great Saint Realm’? Since you’ve left an external avatar for Karina Hanson, your true body probably can’t return here quickly... Could an insignificant external avatar hope to stop me, Juan Hanson?"

As he finished speaking, a mocking smile appeared on Juan Hanson’s face.

For Taoist cultivators who have surpassed the ’Great Saint Realm’, an ’external avatar’ is useless in actual combat because it is too weak.

The power manifested by a Taoist cultivator’s ’external avatar’ is often two to three major realms lower than their true body.

For example, a Taoist cultivator at the ’Human Saint Realm’ above the ’Great Saint Realm’, their external avatar, at best, would only reach the ’Middle Saint Realm’, or as weak as the ’Little Saint Realm’.

Only Taoist cultivators above the ’Earth Saint Realm’ could have an external avatar with ’Great Saint Realm’ strength.

As a late-stage Great Saint Realm martial artist, unless faced with a strong Taoist cultivator at the ’Heavenly Saint Realm’, no one else could possibly use an external avatar to threaten him.

And there are no ’Heavenly Saint Realm’ Taoist cultivators in the Martial Dao Sacred Land Lower Domain.

Even the strongest among the strongest quasi-third-rate powers in the Martial Dao Sacred Land Lower Domain are only at the ’Earth Saint Realm’ level.

Above the Great Saint Realm is the ’Human Saint Realm’.

Above the Human Saint Realm is the ’Earth Saint Realm’.

Above the Earth Saint Realm is the ’Heavenly Saint Realm’.

Powerful beings at the Heavenly Saint Realm level only exist in the Upper Domain of the Martial Dao Sacred Land, while the Lower Domain has none, at least Juan Hanson has never heard of any Heavenly Saint Realm expert in the Lower Domain.

"Frog in a well!"

Hearing the disdain in Juan Hanson’s words, the beautiful lady coldly laughed.

Then, without any visible action, the space centered around Juan Hanson suddenly quivered, as if it were being compressed.

And at that moment, Juan Hanson, who had previously exuded cold mockery and disdain, suddenly had his pupils contract, while his face transformed into one of disbelief and despair.

At this moment, Juan Hanson found himself completely immobilized, the space around his body seemingly locked, unable to even mobilize his internal True Origin.

It was only then that Juan Hanson realized how terrifying the beautiful lady in front of him was; just an ’external avatar’ left him utterly helpless.

"Spare me, ma’am! Spare me, ma’am!"

At the brink of life and death, all of Juan Hanson’s arrogance vanished, replaced by sheer terror.

As a late-stage Great Saint Realm martial artist, only he knew the hardships he endured along the way.

In this moment of life and death, scenes from his past flashed through his mind.

It was precisely because of this that he was so frightened.

If he died, everything would be gone—his cultivation, his consciousness, all would cease to exist.

Thus, at this time, pride no longer mattered to him, his mind was solely focused on surviving.

However, was survival really up to him at this point?

"Hmph!"

With a cold snort, the beautiful lady’s delicate hand suddenly clenched into a fist.

In an instant, the space around Juan Hanson trembled violently, like a massive stone being dropped into a calm lake, creating ripples and waves.

As the ripples in the space expanded, Juan Hanson’s body, in the midst of despair, was twisted and fragmented in tune with the rippling waves, ultimately dissipating into nothingness.

Except for a single storage ring, not even a speck was left behind.

Ssss!

Witnessing this scene, even Karina Hanson couldn’t help but gasp, and looking back at the beautiful lady, she felt that her master had suddenly become somewhat ’unfamiliar’.