"I definitely would not be his match either." Seeing General Luo consumed by shame and fury, digging his own grave and burying himself in the ten-thousand-zhang abyss beneath the sea, the woman in purple palace attire with a gauze veil over her face could not help but think this.
"Master." The little girl beside her stared in terror at the scene, like a battle between Gods and Devils, and could not help asking, "Why did this Yuan Tianyi come to our Kunlun and wreak such monstrous havoc?"
"Monstrous havoc?" The woman in purple palace attire looked at Yuan Tianyi in the void and smiled faintly in bitterness, without answering the girl's question. Regardless of whether Yuan Tianyi's displayed strength was so shocking that it stood far above her own, she did not have the slightest desire in her heart to make an enemy of him.
Yuan Tianyi, standing atop Kunlun, could be called peerless in grace and brilliance. He truly was a dazzling figure in the cultivation world for the past several centuries. Yet the woman in purple palace attire knew very clearly—and she believed Yuan Tianyi knew it as well—that by himself, he ultimately could not contend against all of Kunlun.
Yet he was still here.
Would she ever again see someone like him, someone even he needed to look up to?
The woman in purple palace attire silently raised her hand. A stream of purple cloud Qi swept the little girl into a nearby palace entirely shrouded in rosy clouds. Just as the girl vanished into that palace protected by formation seals, a metallic voice rang by her ear. "Junior sister Luoxian, Senior Brother Jiuba and the others are in seclusion. If you do not act, I fear we will struggle to withstand him. I will go ahead first."
"Yuan Tianyi, take my sword!" As the resonant, metallic voice rang out beside the woman in purple palace attire, a streak of white sword radiance was already stabbing toward Yuan Tianyi.
It was an unmatched sword radiance, arrogant beyond compare, as though above heaven and below earth, I alone reigned supreme!
The instant this sword radiance appeared, the space around it and between it and Yuan Tianyi seemed to be ripped apart by Sword Qi, revealing twisted, crystalline fissures!
Even with Yuan Tianyi's speed, which seemed capable of stepping across space and time in a single stride, he appeared unable to evade this peerless white sword radiance and could only block it head-on. His Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel was a peerless magic treasure connected to its wielder; the higher the wielder's cultivation, the stronger its defense. Under Yuan Tianyi's control, even the world-destroying spells unleashed by General Luo's external incarnation had been helpless against him. Yet beneath this single strike of sword radiance, a hole was actually pierced through the faint light screen of the Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel! Crisscrossing Sword Qi passed through, and a strand of Yuan Tianyi's hair drifted down.
The power of a single sword strike had actually reached such a level!
And this peerless sword radiance came from a scholar in his thirties, dressed in blue-white Confucian robes. His appearance was utterly ordinary, and he was not particularly tall or imposing, yet an unparalleled aura of the age surged around him!
His entire person was this peerless sword radiance that seemed to proclaim, above heaven and below earth, I alone reigned supreme!
"Martial uncle Wentian!"
"Senior martial uncle Wentian!"
"..."
The instant this peerless sword radiance appeared, countless people throughout Kunlun cried out in delight.
After General Luo had been defeated by Yuan Tianyi and dug his own grave, the one who still dared face Yuan Tianyi's peerless edge without fear was Peerless Sword Wentian, one of the Ten Golden Immortals of Kunlun!
Wentian had entered seclusion ten years ago. No one had expected him to emerge at this moment, like a peerless divine weapon leaving its sheath and revealing its dazzling edge!
"Pfft!"
Without any warning, just as Wentian's peerless sword radiance pierced through Yuan Tianyi's Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel and severed a strand of his hair, a black hole appeared out of nowhere in the void behind Yuan Tianyi. A cold-faced man in white feathered robes emerged, wielding a strange magic treasure some two zhang long, pointed like a cone at one end and fitted with nine golden rings at the other, and struck Yuan Tianyi in the back.
Even the light screen of Yuan Tianyi's Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel failed to withstand this blow. The magic treasure, covered in flowing golden runes, struck directly into the center of his back. Golden sparks scattered everywhere, and golden breath sprayed from his mouth and nose.
"Anantu." Seeing this sudden turn, Wentian could not help crying out in surprise. "You have left seclusion as well?"
The woman in purple palace attire on Kunlun Ring Island had already been prepared to act, but when she saw the person who had suddenly appeared behind Yuan Tianyi, she too froze for a moment.
"Pfft!"
Without the slightest pause, the cold-faced man in white feathered robes delivered a second blow to Yuan Tianyi's back, sending Yuan Tianyi flying. "If I did not leave seclusion now, how could I ever fight the renowned Luofu Sect Master, who looks down upon the world?"
The literal meaning of the man in white feathered robes' words seemed full of admiration for Yuan Tianyi, but his tone was clearly the complete opposite.
This man in white feathered robes was Anantu, who, like General Luo and Wentian, was also one of the Ten Golden Immortals of Kunlun!
"Go!" Although Wentian was surprised by Anantu's appearance at this moment, the peerless sword radiance he had unleashed did not pause in the slightest. With a flash, it was once again before Yuan Tianyi, who had been sent flying by Anantu. Though a powerful ally had suddenly joined him, Wentian knew well that against an opponent like Yuan Tianyi, he absolutely could not be given even a moment to catch his breath.
With a "rriiip," the entire space between Wentian and Yuan Tianyi instantly blossomed with countless twisted, crystalline cracks. Under the strike of this peerless sword radiance, the empty void looked from afar like a transparent crystal shattered to pieces!
The gale stirred up merely by this sword radiance tearing through the air was several times more powerful than an ordinary magic treasure flying sword!
"Luo Bei, this is Natal Sword Essence. When magic treasure flying sword arts are cultivated to this realm, they possess such power." Yet no one knew that what surfaced in Yuan Tianyi's mind, as he fought Kunlun's two Golden Immortals alone and suffered repeated heavy blows, was precisely this thought. A golden lotus dais bloomed eerily before him.
With a soft "pop," as though time had frozen, Wentian's peerless sword radiance stalled before the golden lotus dais, unable to advance another inch, sending out only circles of invisible ripples.
That popping sound seemed faint, yet all the trees, mountains, and rocks within several hundred zhang of the two were shaken into powder!
"Wentian, though your Natal Sword Essence is exquisitely refined, you are not my match. Seeing that you have openly made an enemy of me, I will spare your life for now. Huang Wushen, are you still not coming out? Or do you intend to be a turtle hiding in its shell?"
"Your body and soul will be annihilated before your very eyes, yet you still dare spout such wild words!" Hearing Yuan Tianyi still apparently refusing to regard either him or Wentian as worthy opponents, even calling out Huang Wushen to fight, Anantu flew into a towering rage. With a flick of his hand, all nine golden rings on his magic treasure flew up, transforming into nine golden giant rings that changed in size as they shot toward Yuan Tianyi. "Could it be that you can still kill me?"
The magic treasure in Anantu's hand was named the Golden Crow Heaven Restraining Pestle. Its greatest power lay in the nine golden rings upon it, forged from ancient golden silkworm thread. They could grow large or small, were covered in Formations, and once they ensnared someone, no matter how profound that person's cultivation, escape was impossible—their fleshly body would be strangled alive. Among the Ten Golden Immortals of Kunlun, Anantu was the most scheming, gloomy, and cautious. The Empty Life Extinguishing Sea Glazed Art cultivated by Yuan Tianyi was a Body Attainment of Sainthood technique. He could not release a Nascent Soul or external incarnation, so Anantu's magic treasure was precisely the bane of such techniques. Had this not been the case, even with Wentian already engaging Yuan Tianyi, Anantu might not have dared use his Void Yin-Yang Art to silently appear behind Yuan Tianyi and launch a sneak attack.
Though Anantu had been provoked into furious rage by Yuan Tianyi's words, his timing was still extraordinarily precise. This was exactly when Yuan Tianyi was using a spell to block Wentian's heaven-shaking Sword Essence. The moment the nine golden rings on his Golden Crow Heaven Restraining Pestle flew out, every single one of them locked around Yuan Tianyi.
"Ha ha! Yuan Tianyi, today I shall let you die by my hand..."
The instant he saw Yuan Tianyi trapped by his golden rings, Anantu could not help releasing earth-shaking, wild laughter. "Ha ha... Aah...!" Yet just as his laughter began, it transformed into an earth-shaking scream.
For as he laughed wildly, countless golden lotus flowers filled his vision, as if all heaven and earth had bloomed with golden lotuses. In an instant, those golden lotuses transformed into golden flames. From afar, all that could be seen was a giant golden cocoon like a flame, a hundred zhang wide, tightly wrapping around Anantu and refining him!
Amid his earth-shaking screams, a nine-inch golden little man shot out from the golden cocoon, also letting out a shrill wail.
It turned out that Anantu had trapped Yuan Tianyi with his golden rings, believing victory was already firmly in his grasp. He had not expected Yuan Tianyi to disregard his own safety and unleash the Empty Life Extinguishing Sea World Destroying Golden Lotus. This Empty Life Extinguishing Sea World Destroying Golden Lotus was even more powerful than the Six Paths Purgatory Karmic Fire Red Lotus. Even Anantu's magic treasure could not withstand it and was directly refined away; how could Anantu's fleshly body endure it? Thus, in an instant, Anantu's fleshly body was refined directly into flying ash.
Anantu cultivated inner alchemy arts and had already formed a Nascent Soul. The Nascent Soul was light and nimble, and it escaped in an instant. The nine-inch golden little man fleeing into the distance amid shrill screams from the World Destroying Golden Lotus fire was Anantu's Nascent Soul.
Though Yuan Tianyi had refined Anantu's fleshly body into ash, and the Nascent Soul could still control the remaining nine golden rings, it no longer dared fight Yuan Tianyi at all and fled directly as a streak of golden light. The greatest difference between a cultivator's fleshly body and a Nascent Soul was speed. Anantu also cultivated the Void Yin-Yang Art and could cross the void in an instant. Now that his Nascent Soul was fleeing, Yuan Tianyi's speed could never catch up.
Yet just as Kunlun disciples began crying out in alarm upon seeing Anantu's fleshly body directly refined by Yuan Tianyi, an even more agonized scream of "Aah!" rang out, and Anantu's Nascent Soul was smashed into powder!
"Light Splitting Mirror!"
Wentian's Primordial Spirit shook violently, and his mind went utterly blank for a moment.
"If others respect me by an inch, I return them a foot; if others wrong me by a foot, I wrong them by a yard. These are the rules of Luofu." Amid the cold voice, the nine golden rings fell rustling from Yuan Tianyi's body and dropped into the deep sea.
"Luofu... Yuan Tianyi..." The woman in purple attire on Kunlun Ring Island sighed softly in her heart. When she had seen Anantu act, she had believed Yuan Tianyi could not escape this calamity. Yet she had not expected that in the blink of an eye, the result before her would be Anantu's body and soul annihilated!
Anantu had trapped Yuan Tianyi with the golden rings, while Yuan Tianyi responded with a method that seemed designed for mutual destruction. Yet Yuan Tianyi could endure beneath the rings for a time, while Anantu's fleshly body could not endure beneath his spell. Yuan Tianyi could not match the speed at which Anantu's Primordial Spirit fled, but the speed of Wentian's Natal Sword Essence, which seemed capable of tearing space apart, was no slower than Anantu's.
Yuan Tianyi had actually used his Reincarnation Moon Radiance Dharma Wheel in conjunction with a spell like the Light Splitting Mirror to force Wentian's Natal Sword Essence to change direction, striking down Anantu's Nascent Soul at precisely the right moment!
Yuan Tianyi's control and application of spells had truly reached a realm she could not even imagine.
Yet even so, though she did not wish to become his enemy, this battle could not be avoided.
Perhaps this was fate.
After sighing softly in her heart, the two small golden bangles on the fair wrist of the woman in purple palace attire, like a Moon Palace Fairy, flew from her hand.
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