"Aargh!!!"
The edge of the dagger gleamed with an eerie dark-green sheen, slick with lethal poison.
In an instant, Ye Feng went limp. The primal energy within him withered at terrifying speed, entirely beyond his command!!
Beneath the black hood, the assassin's eyes were clear and bright as the autumn moon.
The pitch-black dagger sliced through Ye Feng's palm!
Spinning into a blur in the woman’s grip, the dagger reversed, thrusting straight toward Ye Feng's throat!!
"Ye Feng, watch out!!!"
Meng Wanshu moved to rush to his aid, but two cultivators flanked her from left and right, forcing her back over a hundred zhang.
By now, Ye Feng’s vision blurred. The dagger seemed to split into ghostly afterimages, making its trajectory impossible to discern.
His ears could register no sound as his five senses rapidly faded.
At that hairsbreadth moment, a streak of cold light arrived in an instant!!!!
*Clang!!!*
The sword tip struck the dagger with pinpoint precision.
Terrifying force sent the dagger flying, and sword light split the black-robed assassin's entire arm down the middle!!
Fast—this sword light was unbelievably fast.
So fast that the assassin couldn't even react, realizing what had happened only when the blade swept horizontally toward her head.
The strike had cleaved through the space directly between her and Ye Feng.
The woman's body dissolved into a plume of black smoke, vanishing from the spot and retreating several hundred zhang in a flash!!
Through his haze, Ye Feng caught sight of a familiar face.
Immediately after, a jade-like hand caught him around the waist.
Flickering through the air, she evaded the convergence of dozens of surrounding sword rays.
Frost-faced and blazingly fast, Li Qingchan unleashed slash after slash.
Her sword light completely sealed off every retreat route available to the female assassin!!
Forced to show herself, the female assassin beckoned with one hand, recalling the dagger to her grip.
In an instant, an unending clash of steel rang out.
Holding Ye Feng with one arm, Li Qingchan channeled primal energy into him to force out the poison, all while swinging her sword one-handed.
Her strikes were blindingly fast and ruthless!!
A dazzling flurry of sword light descended upon the assassin like a torrential gale.
Black robes tore, and bursts of bloody mist erupted from the assassin’s body.
Li Qingchan’s brow furrowed, her voice laden with murderous chill as she spoke.
"Vile bitch! How dare you hurt him!!!"
Her sword light cut keen as a razor, saturating the void with oppressive pressure.
The woman tried to flee, but Li Qingchan gave her no room to breathe.
Wound by wound, the woman's injuries grew increasingly severe.
Gathering sword momentum, Li Qingchan let the peak Sword Soul realm sword intent explode from her blade.
The dagger thrust straight toward Li Qingchan's eyes, but she neither ducked nor dodged, not even blinking.
Azure water laws enveloped the edge, sweeping like a celestial river beneath the fleeting light of dusk!!
*Slash!!!*
A head rolled free!
The dagger had stopped a mere finger's breadth from Li Qingchan's eyes!!!
Foul-smelling, pitch-black blood oozed from Ye Feng's wound.
Li Qingchan’s chest heaved violently, her body marked with numerous wounds large and small.
She ripped the storage ring from the corpse's finger, forced it open, and retrieved an antidote, tossing it back down her own throat.
Then she turned, pried open Ye Feng's mouth, and passed the antidote—liquefied into spirit nectar—into his mouth with her lips.
In the distance, fighting through the blood-soaked battlefield, Xiao Chen shuddered at the sight.
He sent a hurried voice transmission to Cao Yan.
"Tsk, tsk... Second Sister-in-law is ferocious!! Looks like Second Brother’s going to have his hands full from now on."
A massive fist astral blast sent the cultivator before him hurtling away. Cao Yan shattered the void beneath his feet and shot forward like a cannonball!
With a single punch, he smashed a woman's head to mush, splattering himself in red and white.
Standing bare-chested in midair, Cao Yan glanced into the distance and said in a deep voice, "The guardian of the Celestial Spirit Realm—what did you expect? Peak mid Tribulation Transcendence realm, on the verge of breaking through to the late stage."
Just as he spoke, Tang Ru’s warning rang in his ear.
Shifting his footing, Cao Yan lunged forward by a zhang.
That single zhang allowed him to evade several attacks striking from the shadows.
The battle raged on; no one had a moment to breathe.
Kong Ming gripped his longsword, his sword intent soaring into the heavens!
One of his arms had been snapped clean in two, pale bone piercing through the skin as the limb dangled limply.
He could feel the primal energy within him draining dry; even shattering purple gold crystals could not keep pace with his rate of consumption.
The medicinal power of ingested pills congested in his body, leaving him no time to refine it.
Gritting his teeth until one shattered, he swallowed a Violent Spirit Pill in an instant!!
Bloodshot eyes blazing, Kong Ming unleashed rapid Instant Slashes with his sword!!
Besieged by immortals on all sides, his heart held no fear of death.
He whipped his limp left arm upward and bit down hard!!
With a violent wrench of his head, he ripped the flesh clean off his broken left arm, exposing stark white bone.
Stepping forward on his right foot, he twisted his body with all his might and stabbed forward with the bare bone of his left arm!!!!
*Squelch!!*
The bone pierced straight through a cultivator’s neck. Though the man hacked his sword into Kong Ming's body, Kong Ming didn't flinch.
With a ferocious snarl, Kong Ming swung his sword and chopped the man into minced meat.
A kick sent him flying backward. His chest caved in, broken ribs punctured his lungs, and mouthfuls of blood surged from his lips.
Shot backward, his eyes were clotted with blood from the slaughter.
Half-kneeling in midair, his consciousness was growing hazy.
He looked down at the sword in his hand, then suddenly straightened his back.
Throwing his head back with pride, he whispered softly, "Spirit Fish Bone Sword has followed me... living! up! to! its! name!!!"
Two figures wielding longswords bore down on him in a pincer cross!
Several attacks blasted in from the distance to stop them, but to no avail.
Knowing his death was certain, Kong Ming threw his head back and laughed toward the heavens.
His dantian swelled violently. Looking toward Tang Ru rushing out of the void in the distance, a faint smile curved his lips.
"Erect... a tombstone for me!"
A head flew high into the air. Kong Ming... was beheaded.
Yet a single breath before the blade severed him, his warped, swelling dantian detonated.
*Boom!!!*
A violent explosion rang out, shaking heaven and earth, instantly shattering the void for a thousand zhang around.
Horrific shockwaves rippled outward like waves.
The two Immortal Realm cultivators had no time to evade; their primordial spirits were annihilated alongside their bodies in the self-detonation.
*Rumble!!! Rrrrrumble!!!!*
Tang Ru stood frozen in place, eyes blank. Even with his guidance from the sidelines, it had all been useless; he had changed nothing.
If Kong Ming hadn't gifted him that pill to repay a kindness back then, would he, Tang Ru, have barely managed to reach the Mahayana realm by now?
A tide of desolate sorrow flooded Tang Ru's heart.
Veins of red climbed through his eyes as Tang Ru stood with a savage, twisted expression.
In an instant, an immense Yin-Yang Bagua Formation slowly took form between heaven and earth!
Waves of karmic power that struck terror into the immortals rippled out!!!
In that very moment, streaks of white appeared among Tang Ru's hair.
Fine wrinkles crept across the corners of his eyes, his face ghastly pale, his eyes wide with fury.
Cao Yan felt a jolt in his chest. Turning toward Tang Ru, he roared in fury, "Fifth Brother Tang!!! Have you lost your mind?! Do you have any idea what you're doing?!!"
Among the Eight Generals, Yu Shan’s expression changed drastically.
"Tang Ru!! Are you courting death?!!"
With those words, dozens of spirit lights surged from Yu Shan's body, flying toward Tang Ru.
Yet before they could reach him, the immortal cultivators shattered the beams, scattering their rich vitality across heaven and earth.
Chapter 1531