The sudden arrival of the old man brought an upward sweep of his sword.
Flames filled the sky. The old man tore straight through Li Guanqi's domain and threw himself between him and Song Yuan!
Boom!
A shockwave erupted from between the two combatants, sending terrifying ripples spreading in every direction.
Li Guanqi stood ten zhang away, Red Lotus in hand, narrowing his eyes at the newcomer.
He actually sensed a faint prickle of danger from this person.
Through the abilities of his Spirit-Devouring Dao Body, he detected a severe dissonance between the man's appearance and his aura.
It seemed this body was merely a disguise as well...
His eyes narrowed slightly, and he spoke in a calm, measured voice.
"And who might you be?"
The old man did not answer. He simply began to straighten his hunched back.
At the same time, the loose skin on his face ignited like glowing charcoal, burning away to reveal an extraordinarily handsome face.
He possessed sharp, chiseled features, sword-like brows, starry eyes, and fair skin—a youth of striking good looks.
Crimson hair cascaded behind him. When he looked back at Song Yuan, his gaze was frigid with killing intent.
Parting his lips, the youth barked in a chilling voice, "Useless trash."
"Scram and handle the other matters. Leave this place to me."
Song Yuan lowered his head, his face pale as cold sweat dripped from his brow.
Hearing the youth's dismissal was like receiving an imperial pardon, and he vanished in an instant!
Li Guanqi roared, "Second Brother, take him out!"
Ye Feng was currently locked in battle.
The instant Li Guanqi's shout reached him, he thrust his left hand straight into an incoming blade without the slightest hesitation!
The enemy's sword pierced clean through his palm, only to be firmly locked in place by bone and flesh.
With a savage snarl, Ye Feng violently swung his own longsword, cleaving the foe before him in two.
Turning around, Ye Feng dissolved into a streak of golden light and materialized directly in front of Song Yuan.
His blood qi surged like a raging tide, and his golden hair danced wildly in the wind. He narrowed his eyes at the man before him, radiating an aura of lethal danger.
Song Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He narrowed his eyes at Ye Feng, his brow furrowing tightly.
"Since when did the Human Spirit Realm have so many powerhouses?"
He let out a sneer.
"Does that fellow really think just anyone can stop me?"
Ye Feng licked his lips, muttering with eyes burning with battle lust, "Whether I can stop you or not, you'll know once we try."
Without another word, the two men blurred and clashed violently.
Song Yuan's strength was truly formidable. Even after descending, he displayed the overwhelming power of the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
The suppression he exerted over Ye Feng was immense—the suppression of the power of laws was a fundamental disparity in essence and tier.
Yet the long period Ye Feng had spent fighting to the death inside the Nirvana Pagoda had not been in vain.
Relying almost entirely on his extraordinary individual prowess, he forcefully bridged the gap in their cultivation realms!
In other words, the current Ye Feng had likewise touched the barrier of laws, making him fully qualified to stand among the Eight Generals.
Noticing this, Li Guanqi narrowed his eyes and sent Pengluo over to aid Ye Feng without making a sound.
Because of the contractual bond between him and Pengluo, Li Guanqi decided to use his Spirit-Devouring Dao Body's ability to help Ye Feng break through to the half-step Tribulation Transcendence realm right here and now!
The moment Pengluo clamped onto Ye Feng's head, Ye Feng instantly grasped Li Guanqi's intention.
Grinning, a ferocious, torrential pressure erupted from him!
Pengluo dissolved into a streak of light and merged into Ye Feng's body.
Divine patterns abruptly bloomed across Ye Feng's glabella.
His golden hair whipped frantically in the wind as dozens of purple gold crystals shattered around him.
The instant Ye Feng realized what Li Guanqi was doing, he chose to break through on this perilous battlefield without a second thought!
This was absolute trust.
Immediately after, channeling the resonance of his contract with Pengluo, Li Guanqi enveloped Ye Feng in the force of his harmony with heaven and earth!
For the first time, Ye Feng perceived heaven and earth with utter clarity.
The resulting surge of immense power blasted Song Yuan back hundreds of zhang.
Raging shockwaves of Geng metal qi rippled outward in every direction.
Song Yuan stared in disbelief at the divine patterns on Ye Feng's brow, murmuring in shock, "How could a Divine-Patterned Sky Radish possibly exist in the Human Spirit Realm?!"
Yet almost immediately, the shock in his eyes was replaced by a burning greed.
A Divine-Patterned Sky Radish...
Even in the Immortal Realm, that was an exceedingly rare combat-support spirit pet!
Having one was essentially equivalent to having one's combat strength amplified by thirty percent out of thin air.
Boom!
While keeping part of his consciousness immersed in cultivation, Ye Feng remained on high alert, watching Song Yuan closely.
A golden ring suddenly appeared on Song Yuan's finger.
It gleamed with an uncanny light, though the aura vanished in a mere flash.
Once the glow faded, the ring looked no different from an ordinary storage ring, revealing nothing unusual.
Without any warning, their clash erupted once again.
Across the Fourth Domain battlefield, thunderous rumbles echoed endlessly. Relying on Gu Li's abilities and Yu Shan's tactical analysis, the elusive Immortal Burial Realm cultivators moved like ghosts, relentlessly cornering and slaughtering the invaders from the Immortal Realm.
Even so, faced with such staggering numbers of Immortal Realm cultivators, the fighters of the Seventh Domain began to suffer casualties.
Gu Li simply did not have enough inscribed talismans to distribute a second batch to everyone.
Yet the brutal slaughter all around seemed to have nothing to do with the two standing apart.
The youth had not even moved to stop Pengluo when Li Guanqi sent the creature away.
He appeared to be only twenty-seven or twenty-eight, though his true dao age was several decades greater than Li Guanqi's.
Still, being under a hundred years old and already at the eighth-fold True Immortal realm made him an undeniable darling of heaven even within the Immortal Realm.
The mission he bore for this descent was far from simple...
The youth looked at Li Guanqi with keen interest, crimson flames swirling around him.
Li Guanqi could sense that the power of those flames was immense!
Their sheer might was even greater than that wielded by possessors of a heavenly flame.
Yet the foundational tier of the fire was relatively low; it seemed to be... a beast flame?
The youth studied Li Guanqi amusedly and spoke in a mocking tone.
"What is your name?"
Li Guanqi replied evenly, "Heh, at least you have the sense to ask who killed you."
"Though... I have no interest in telling you who I am."
At those words, the red-haired youth burst into laughter.
"Interesting, interesting!"
"I am Chi Hua of the Sun God Sect."
With that, he glanced back at Ye Feng and sneered.
"There's a heavenly flame inside him, isn't there?"
Closing his eyes to sense it, Chi Hua murmured, "Truly unbelievable."
"Between the six of you, you actually possess three heavenly flames from the Spirit Realm."
The corners of Chi Hua's lips curved upward, a dangerous chill flickering in his eyes.
"Heheh, once I slaughter you all, every one of those flames will belong to me!"
Thud!
Before he could even finish speaking, Chi Hua's body was sent hurtling back hundreds of zhang like an artillery shell!
Li Guanqi stood calmly where Chi Hua had been an instant earlier, murmuring softly, "You talk too much."
Chapter 1295