The playful smile on Dao Yi's face vanished completely.
He no longer deliberately suppressed his law power.
Strange runes began to circulate within his eyes.
Under the operation of his laws, he began to simulate every movement and trajectory of Fang Xuan's actions.
At the same time, he made a hollow grasping motion with his right hand, condensing a cold-light jade sword in his palm.
"To force me to take you seriously, you should be proud of yourself."
"But, that is as far as it goes."
As his voice fell, his figure moved again.
Fang Xuan swung his sword to strike, but Dao Yi's jade sword blocked the black sword's path half a breath in advance.
Fang Xuan dodged to the side, but the sword qi had already sealed off the best angle of escape.
Fang Xuan attempted to trade injury for injury, using his left arm to take a hit in exchange for an opportunity to close in.
But Dao Yi's jade sword acted as if it had foresight, slashing into his chest ahead of time.
Squelch!
A deep, bone-deep wound appeared, and blood instantly stained his already tattered clothes.
Intense pain surged, and Fang Xuan let out a muffled groan, his movements inevitably showing a slight lag.
"A mere Transformation Realm cultivator dares to dream of slaying a god?" Dao Yi sneered, killing intent fully revealed in his eyes.
He clenched his left hand into a fist, a trace of law power condensing on its surface. Seizing the moment Fang Xuan was slowed by the injury, he slammed a punch into his chest.
Boom!
It was like a meteorite striking the earth.
Fang Xuan was sent flying like a kite with a broken string, violently smashed into the depths of the giant rock below by the force of that punch.
Dust and rubble shot into the air, forming an even deeper crater.
Dao Yi was relentless. Raising his jade sword high, he prepared to deliver a finishing strike of sword qi to end it completely.
Ning Xian, who had been forcibly suppressing her injuries, ignored the piercing pain of her shattered left arm meridians and forced her sword intent to slash toward Dao Yi.
Dao Yi appeared forced to retract his move, his figure shifting to narrowly avoid Ning Xian's strike.
However, there was no surprise or anger on his face; instead, he began to sneer.
He had already simulated this; he had been waiting for her to intervene.
While dodging the dark-red sword intent, his left hand—which had been held in reserve—pointed toward Ning Xian's position from afar.
"Heaven and Earth — Sealing Extinction!"
Ning Xian was unable to dodge in time and could only barely mobilize her remaining spatial power to lay down layer upon layer of spatial barriers in front of her.
Pfft!
The invisible law power pierced through the hastily erected spatial barriers with irresistible force.
"Ugh...!"
Ning Xian spat out a mouthful of blood. A gruesome wound almost tore through her back, and her white bones were faintly visible.
......
The dust was blown away by a violent surge of qi.
Fang Xuan's figure slowly emerged from the haze.
The wound on his chest remained gruesome, with blood gurgling out and staining half his body, yet the hand holding his sword remained steady as a rock.
He exhaled a cold breath mixed with blood foam. His feet suddenly exerted force, causing the rocks beneath him to shatter as he shot forward like an arrow from a bow.
He charged toward Dao Yi with his sword once again.
"Utterly obstinate," Dao Yi scoffed, his laws of heavenly mechanism operating again to simulate Fang Xuan's attack.
"Only attacking and not defending—utterly foolish!"
He easily saw through Fang Xuan's desperate fighting style this time, realizing the youth intended to trade injury for injury, or even life for injury.
"Then let us see whether the body of a Transformation Realm ant like you collapses first, or the body of a lingering immortal like me can no longer hold out! Hahahaha!"
Dao Yi laughed loudly, actually ceasing to fully dodge. He only avoided vital points as his jade sword, also carrying sharp killing intent, thrust toward Fang Xuan's heart.
Stab!
Fang Xuan did not dodge or avoid it, letting the jade sword pierce into his left chest. Meanwhile, the black sword Yunchang in his hand, carrying a decisive and domineering sword intent, slashed heavily toward Dao Yi's face.
Dao Yi tilted his head slightly. The blade of the black sword grazed past his face, taking a large chunk of flesh with it. Blood instantly gushed out, making half of his face look hideous and terrifying.
"You...!"
A fierce light erupted in Dao Yi's eyes.
Meanwhile, Fang Xuan was struck by the impact of the jade sword piercing his left chest, combined with a furious palm strike from Dao Yi, and was once again slammed violently into the steep mountain wall behind him.
Dao Yi followed closely. Looking at Fang Xuan, who was pinned to the mountain wall with a jade sword through his chest, a cruel smile appeared on his face.
"Now, you should finally be dead, shouldn't you?"
He reached out his hand, which was covered in his own blood, to pull out the sword and completely crush Fang Xuan's heart in the process.
"Junior Brother..."
In the distance, Ning Xian knelt on one knee. Seeing the figure pierced by the long sword on the mountain wall, she felt as if the world before her had been completely stained blood-red.
Two lines of blood-tears fell uncontrollably from her crimson eyes.
"Ah—!!!"
The skin and flesh of her right hand, which she used to manifest her sword intent, began to crumble and annihilate piece by piece starting from her fingertips.
A spatial sword intent, more solid than any before, locked onto Dao Yi.
Dao Yi immediately sensed this heart-pounding aura of destruction, and his expression changed slightly.
He decided instantly to let go of the jade sword and retreat to avoid this life-risking blow first.
But the moment he let go, a hand covered in blood suddenly reached out from the side, deathly gripping his throat.
Dao Yi was forced to meet Fang Xuan's slowly lifting face.
There was actually... a trace of a smile on his face!
It was a smile that was nearly insane and bone-chilling!
Furthermore, Dao Yi discovered with horror that Fang Xuan's aura, instead of continuing to decline, was actually surging at a terrifying speed!
"You... you aren't dead?! How is that possible?!"
Dao Yi cried out in shock, attempting to break free, only to find that the other's hand possessed incredible strength that he could not escape in the short term!
"Let go!!"
Startled and enraged, the spiritual power within Dao Yi's body exploded frantically in an attempt to blast Fang Xuan away.
At the same time, the jade sword stabbed into Fang Xuan's body also erupted with fierce sword qi.
Half of Fang Xuan's body was nearly shredded by the sword qi, and blood sprayed wildly, but the hands gripping Dao Yi's neck and wrist remained motionless!
Only the insane smile on his face became increasingly clear.
Seeing that Ning Xian's killing move was already nearing, true fear finally appeared in Dao Yi's eyes.
He felt the aura of death.
"You forced my hand!"
He gritted his teeth and let out a low growl, then released the seal on his own cultivation realm.
A terrifying aura, far surpassing the Tribulation Crossing stage, suddenly erupted from his body.
The complete pressure of a Fourth Realm True Immortal was revealed without reservation.
"Dao Yi, have you gone mad?!" In the distance, the Ancient Vine Lord, who had been watching from the sidelines, stared with eyes wide in disbelief.
Even further away, the Scarlet Serpent Immortal and the Six-Armed Demonic Venerable had already transformed into two streaks of light the moment Dao Yi's aura began to turn strange, fleeing frantically toward the horizon without looking back!
Their speed was more than double what it had been when they arrived!
A lingering immortal was called such because they suppressed their true realm to the limit allowed by the Heavenly Dao of this world, around the ninth level of Tribulation Crossing.
Only in this way could they remain in the lower realm for long periods without being rejected and punished by the laws of heaven and earth.
Once the suppression was released and the True Immortal cultivation was restored, one could indeed instantly obtain power far exceeding the state of a lingering immortal.
However, it also meant that he would become a foreign entity to the Heavenly Dao of this world and would immediately draw anDok relentless suppression from heaven and earth!
Dao Yi estimated that if he were to take Ning Xian's desperate blow in his ninth level of Tribulation Crossing state, he would surely be heavily injured even if he didn't die.
At that time, his three companions would definitely not hesitate to kick him while he was down and devour him completely!
Boom!
Jet-black clouds swirled frantically, forming a massive vortex that covered thousands of miles.
In the center of the vortex, it was no longer silver heavenly lightning, but a chaos-colored light that made the soul tremble.
This heavenly might also locked onto Ning Xian, who had just used the power of laws.
Dao Yi's clothes became tattered under the impact of the True Immortal aura. With disheveled hair and a face covered in blood, combined with those crazed eyes, he looked incredibly wretched.
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