Once I've found him, things will be much easier. Without hesitation, Joe Di stepped outside the City Lord's Mansion and threw a punch.
Crack! With a single punch, Joe Di shattered the mansion's protective barrier into fragments. Several cultivators in the distance witnessed his actions and hurriedly fled.
The City Lord's Mansion was the territory of the Nie Clan. Anyone causing trouble here risked death if caught in the crossfire.
Miles Nie, who was cultivating fiercely, suddenly stood up and rushed out, shouting sternly, "Who are you to dare intrude upon the Nie Clan's residence?"
Joe Di sized up Miles Nie before saying, "Didn't your father tell you? I'm Joe Di."
"It's you?" Miles Nie finally realized that the person before him was Joe Di, the one who killed Jack Nie.
Recalling that Joe Di was able to kill Jack Nie, who was already half a step into the Dao Integration Realm, Miles Nie was shocked. He immediately tried to activate his escape talisman, but soon discovered that the space around him was completely sealed by Joe Di's domain. His talisman was useless against this confinement.
Clearly, his guess was correct—his strength was nowhere near Joe Di's level.
"Daoist Joe, whatever grievances you had with Jack Nie have nothing to do with me. Though we are brothers, there is no bond between us. If you kill me, my father will not let this go. Even if the void is vast, my father will find you," Miles Nie said, his heart growing cold. He couldn't fathom how Joe Di had arrived at Alliance Star without him being notified.
By rights, the people of Celestial Beyond stationed outside Alliance Star should have alerted him to Joe Di's arrival, rousing him from seclusion.
As for what he had just said, it was merely self-consolation. Joe Di had already killed Jack Nie—would he hesitate to kill Miles Nie just because he feared Long Nie?
Joe Di said calmly, "I killed Jack Nie because you took my friend, Cassie Key. Tell me, where is Cassie Key?"
"She's fine, she's fine..." Miles Nie regretted deeply upon hearing it was about Cassie Key. He had captured her for her top-tier body refinement technique.
No matter how he tortured her, he couldn't obtain Cassie Key's technique. He never got the complete method, and now Cassie Key's friend had come for him—how frustrating. Wasn't his father supposed to have severely injured Joe Di and forced him to escape with a talisman? How did Joe Di end up on Alliance Star?
"Where is she?" Joe Di's expression darkened, his killing intent pressing in on Miles Nie.
Under the crushing pressure of Joe Di's domain, Miles Nie nearly spat blood. Instinctively, he tried to retreat, but the space was completely under Joe Di's control—he couldn't even move back.
"She's at Wild Rift River..." After uttering these words, Miles Nie could no longer endure the pressure and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Wild Rift River?" Joe Di frowned. He had never heard of such a place.
Miles Nie hurriedly explained, "Wild Rift River is a terrifying place for body refinement. I wanted Cassie Key's technique, so I put her there."
He didn't dare mention that any ordinary cultivator entering Wild Rift River would be doomed to certain death.
"How did you find out?" Joe Di's voice grew colder.
Miles Nie quickly pulled out a Memory Orb and handed it to Joe Di. "This is it..."
Joe Di's divine sense swept over the Memory Orb, and his fury erupted.
That bastard Miles Nie, in order to obtain Cassie Key's true cultivation method, had placed her atop the spatially warped Wild Rift River. The sound of the river crashing against Cassie Key's body was terrifying, and the water was clearly lethal. Worse, Cassie Key's body was constantly torn open with fresh wounds, proving that Wild Rift River was a place of chaotic spatial surges.
The only reason Cassie Key was still holding on was her extraordinary body refinement technique.
Joe Di could clearly sense Cassie Key's meridian circulation and the flow of energy through her body.
No wonder Miles Nie wanted Cassie Key's body refinement technique; with this approach, sooner or later he could uncover all her cultivation secrets.
"Where is Wild Rift River located?" Joe Di's voice became calm again.
Cassie Key's skin had turned a gray-brown hue. No matter how powerful her body refinement technique was, the repeated spatial tearing would eventually lead to a miserable death. Moreover, the river water was horrifically corrosive.
Joe Di already regarded Miles Nie as a dead man.
"It's a void rift. Once you enter, you'll be dropped straight into Wild Rift River." Miles Nie trembled as he handed a Direction Stone to Joe Di.
Joe Di snatched the Direction Stone and swept it with his divine sense, snorting coldly. "If you enter the void rift and land in Wild Rift River, you might still have a chance to escape. But you, pig, locked Cassie Key with a restriction, forcing her to continually refine her body in Wild Rift River. Tell me, where is the key to unlock her restriction?"
"It's in this Memory Orb..." Miles Nie's voice was panicked. He desperately hoped that while he stalled Joe Di, his people would alert his father to come deal with Joe Di.
Joe Di was about to become an eighth-tier Array Emperor; his understanding of arrays far surpassed Miles Nie's. As soon as Miles Nie spoke, Joe Di knew he was telling the truth. With a squeeze, the Memory Orb vanished into nothingness.
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Billions of miles away, above Wild Rift River, Cassie Key was living a fate worse than death, endlessly circulating her body refinement technique. She knew her captors' intent, but if she stopped cultivating, she would die miserably, with no chance of reincarnation.
She had tried countless times to escape Wild Rift River, but the restriction held her fast. Apart from cultivating her body refinement technique, she could do nothing else.
Cassie Key had become numb. She didn't know how much longer she could hold on, when suddenly, her entire body felt lighter. In that moment, it was as if all the restrictions binding her vanished without a trace.
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Whatever the reason, Cassie Key didn't want to miss this opportunity. She frantically rushed out of Wild Rift River and collapsed on the riverbank.