Yet just as Shiwu was entangling the cultivators, an Immortal Realm cultivator hiding in the shadows suddenly made a vicious move!
Several barely perceptible glints of cold light shot forth in an instant!
There were no spatial ripples whatsoever, yet Xiao Chen's heart suddenly clenched.
Almost on pure instinct, he raised a hand to strike toward his own chest.
Yet with that very strike, a sharp pain flared across the back of his hand—it had been transfixed by a pale-yellow long needle.
Before he could even react, he whipped his head toward Cao Yan and the others!
Ye Feng, Cao Yan, and Gu Li had all stiffened, their eyes dull and lifeless.
An old man stood nearby, dressed in bizarre fashion, wearing numerous unknown bones around his neck. He was clad in garments sewn from sundry beast skins, crowned with feathers, and had eerie red and white markings painted across his face.
When the old man looked at Xiao Chen, he seemed slightly surprised, and his thin lips curled into a bizarre smile.
In the next moment...
The old man, Xiao Chen, and the other three vanished from the spot in an instant!
Xiao Chen only felt his vision go black before being dragged into an extremely bizarre, pitch-black space.
The place was thick with an inexplicable aura of death. Not a single sound stirred; dead silence reigned.
Without hesitation, Xiao Chen raised his spear and severed his own hand!
A muffled grunt escaped his lips. The hand fell to the ground and eerily melted into a pool of bloody water!
Xiao Chen stopped the bleeding, gripping his spear as he vigilantly surveyed his surroundings.
Buzz!
A ripple of spatial fluctuation surged. Ye Feng, Cao Yan, Gu Li, Tang Ru...
All four of them were tossed inside.
At this sight, Xiao Chen's face changed drastically!
With no time to think, he caught them with his primal energy. All four of their faces had turned black, toxins raging violently within their bodies.
Only Gu Li managed to barely retain consciousness.
Over his heart was an inscribed talisman that had been pierced straight through.
"Sixth Brother! How are you?!"
Gu Li was trembling violently, cold sweat drenching his brow as he rasped in a weak voice, "Just... what is going on... Where... is this?"
In the briefest words, Xiao Chen explained what had happened.
"Do you have any inscribed talismans to neutralize poison? Hurry and take them out, I'll apply them to you all!"
Gu Li lifted the hem of his robe; around his ankle was an armlet.
Mobilizing his remaining divine sense, he retrieved several inscribed talismans.
Xiao Chen quickly slapped the inscribed talismans onto their bodies. As the talismans ignited, the toxins inside them were finally suppressed.
Yet all of them sank into a bizarre, comatose state.
Leaving all the remaining talismans with Xiao Chen, Gu Li gripped his hand and warned in a strained voice, "Be... careful!"
Buzz!
A faint spatial fluctuation rippled through!
With a flick of his toe, the She Shen Spear leapt into Xiao Chen's grasp. He spun around and hurled it forward with explosive force!
Dong!
A dull sonic boom detonated as the She Shen Spear turned into a streak of red light, rocketing forth!
Bang!
The old man was violently blasted back hundreds of zhang, the section of white bone in his hand suddenly shattering to pieces!
The She Shen Spear flew back to his grasp. Holding the spear with one hand, Xiao Chen said chillingly, "Old bastard, who are you?"
The old man looked at Xiao Chen with some surprise, muttering in a raspy voice, "You actually escaped my Ancient-Extinguishing Divine Needle?"
"Heh, no matter..."
Before his words even finished, Xiao Chen shot forward in an instant!
His face ferocious, Xiao Chen blurred his spear into afterimages, thrusting viciously at the old man!
In an instant, the old man's expression twisted in shock, his dodges visibly stiff.
In merely a single clash, he was completely suppressed by Xiao Chen.
Yet as Gu Li lay on the ground, he sensed something was not quite right...
The old man's cultivation realm was clearly in the late Tribulation Transcendence realm.
Yet the strength he could muster and the toughness of his physical body were remarkably frail.
The old man dodged desperately, continuously tossing out assorted beast bones from his hands.
These bones morphed into ferocious bone beasts that lunged and snapped at Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen immediately felt the pressure mount; these bone beasts were massive in size and possessed astonishing brute strength.
Bang!
A bone claw swiped, blasting Xiao Chen backward through the air, leaving his ribs aching faintly.
Two bone beasts resembling leopards guarded the old man, while only one pursued Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen's eyes flickered, and he quickly realized: this old man possessed little martial prowess of his own, yet his methods were bizarre and insidious.
Gu Li's eyes flickered, his trembling fingers twitching slightly.
Suddenly!
Xiao Chen's figure abruptly materialized behind the old man!
Understanding instantly, Xiao Chen shifted the She Shen Spear into its Apocalypse Stance, radiating brilliant light.
The Great Sky Haze Flame erupted into a mad blaze at this moment. Under the interweaving of wind and fire laws, astral winds whipped up between heaven and earth, and the flames blazed with scorching heat.
Xiao Chen gripped the spear shaft with one hand and brought it crashing down toward the old man with the force of a sweeping staff!
"Die!"
The old man was shaken to his core, never expecting Xiao Chen could teleport directly behind him.
With no time to think, his body flashed as he lunged toward the space in front of the bone beasts.
The two leopard-shaped bone beasts whipped their heads around and pounced toward Xiao Chen.
With his long hair wildly dancing and his robes snapping in the wind, Xiao Chen brought his spear crashing down, carrying the unstoppable momentum of splitting mountains!
Spear radiance erupted, the bone beasts blew apart, and the spear smashed straight into the old man!
"Ahhh!"
Bang! Rrrrrumble!
A deafening roar erupted, and a battered figure shot out from the smoke, dust, and shattered bones.
Half of the old man's shoulder was a bloody mess, his entire right arm pulverized into minced flesh.
The old man glared venomously at Xiao Chen.
"Since you're so formidable, then this old man will send them all to their deaths!"
"If you don't want them dead... show me if you have what it takes to keep dragging them along to survive!"
"Hahahahaha! Let us see if you will die for them!"
Gu Li knitted his brows tightly, having no idea what the old man was babbling about.
Yet in the very next breath...
The world inverted, and the earth turned into a sea of fire.
The ground beneath them began to melt, the earth slanting as their bodies began sliding toward the molten lava.
More than that, the entire world underwent a drastic transformation.
A behemoth over ten zhang in size burst forth from the depths of the magma!
It was a hideous, three-headed split-mouthed hound.
Fiery red throughout, its gaping maws and fangs seemed terrifyingly real.
Then the ground undulated, rising into a mountain peak whose summit was lost to sight.
Sharp brambles spiraled upward, blanketing the mountain in the blink of an eye!
Seeing that the three-headed split-mouthed hound was about to tear into Gu Li and the others, Xiao Chen decisively abandoned his pursuit of the old man and shot toward them.
The vicious hound's middle head snapped viciously toward Gu Li and the others.
Just as the gaping maw was about to close upon them, Xiao Chen suddenly plummeted from midair.
He had no time to ponder it; even though his primal energy vanished in an instant, at the critical juncture he scrambled and rolled, hurling everyone several zhang away.
He planted a vicious kick onto the beast's snout, shooting backward.
Yet when Xiao Chen retreated beside Gu Li, he caught Gu Li pulling his gaze back.
With an ashen face, Xiao Chen said in a heavy voice, "Sixth Brother... I can't sense the primal energy in my body anymore, and just now, an air-restricting force appeared out of nowhere!"
"Is this place... a domain space, or an illusion?"
Gu Li pondered for a long time, then whispered weakly, "A domain!"
Chapter 1535