Avalanche, Mountain Collapse, Ten Thousand Serpents Crumble (Bonus chapter in thanks for Alliance Leader Mao Ni's second donation)

Beneath a towering snowcapped peak.

A figure emerged from a cave at the mountain's base.

Once outside, he had been about to flee, but he suddenly stopped in midair, his expression shifting again and again.

At last, he gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "With Luo Chen's vindictive nature, there's no way he'll let go of his hatred for me. If I leave now, his speed will let him catch me in open country before long."

"So be it!"

"Now that this fight has begun, it must have an end!"

Taking a deep breath, He Lianyun drew several items from his Storage Bag in succession.

"Of the measures I laid in the tunnel, only three were triggered. Seven went untouched. Those Foundation Establishment tricks probably had no effect on him at all."

"That leaves me with only these."

A pill!

A talisman!

A brick-shaped Magic Treasure!

He Lianyun swallowed the pill at once.

As its Medicinal Power dissolved within him, rolling waves of heat surged through his Qi Sea. His cultivation, already at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, churned restlessly under the impact.

His aura began to change as well, surging straight past Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and swelling by nearly half again.

He was still far from the Golden Core Stage, but he now stood close to the Pseudo-Core Cultivators of legend.

More Medicinal Power continued to roil inside him, but He Lianyun could refine no more of it.

A flicker of regret crossed his face.

After taking this pill, he would likely be unable to attempt a breakthrough for ten years. His Core Formation Stage would have to wait even longer.

But in this moment of peril, he could afford to worry about nothing else.

He breathed out a mouthful of Turbid Qi, poured his surging spiritual power into