Three Heaven-Cutting Swords, Chi Peng Falls

"You're not dead?!"

Watching Jiang Sheng emerge from the poisonous flames, Chi Peng's expression changed drastically. Disbelief filled his face.

Chi Peng had good reason to be shaken. He had caught Jiang Sheng off guard with a surprise attack.

That had been a killing blow fired from his bonded true treasure, the Void-Shattering Flying-Kite Bow, empowered by the sublimating force of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.

Flying Kite Shatters the Void not only unleashed power that shattered space and smashed heavenly stars, but also drove fire-origin poison into the meridians, organs, soul, and True Spirit.

Even someone with a Cave Profound Dao Fruit and late-stage Void Refinement cultivation would have been gravely wounded if they survived that strike at all. The fire poison would hinder the circulation of their arts and impair their True Spirit, preventing them from healing. Even a Void Refinement being's power of self-repair would be weakened to the extreme.

What was more, Zhong Yuxiu—a Daoist True Lord who likewise possessed a Cave Profound Dao Fruit and had gathered three flowers at the crown—had unleashed a Divine Ability at Jiang Sheng head-on.

Attacked from front and rear, Jiang Sheng should have had no chance of surviving. How could he still be alive?!

No, he was more than alive. Jiang Sheng's aura had actually grown stronger!

Looking at the Daoist in the azure crown and black robe, with wind, thunder, water, and fire coiling around him, Chi Peng felt his heart go cold.

His entire scheme depended on Jiang Sheng being dead or crippled by grave wounds. Jiang Sheng would then have no value, and the Penglai Dao Sect would never turn against two Great Thousand Worlds and three Pure Yang Sacred Lands for his sake.

But Jiang Sheng was alive!

For the first time, dread took