The Final Sprint

The gap between Qi Refining Cultivators and Foundation Establishment Cultivators was comprehensive in every respect. Especially after opening one's Sea of Consciousness and gaining the ability to wield Divine Sense at will, Foundation Establishment Cultivators dealt a crushing blow across dimensions to Qi Refining Cultivators, who still had to rely on their eyes and ears to receive information from the outside world.

Although Xu Miaoyin was only one step away from the Foundation Establishment Realm, the strength of her Divine Sense far surpassed that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Moreover, she had spent these past years cultivating the Divine Soul Dao beside Song Changsheng's Divine Soul Incarnation, and she was now fully capable of wielding her own Divine Soul Power.

Though she appeared to have already turned around, every movement Song Lingtao made remained entirely within her control.

She had deliberately exposed her identity earlier precisely for this moment!

There was no obvious movement from Xu Miaoyin. Perhaps it was merely the slightest stir of her thoughts, but the two golden needles suspended in midair by Divine Soul Power immediately turned around, pierced the air, and transformed into two streaks of golden light that stabbed respectively into Song Lingtao's chest and dantian.

"Ah—"

Song Lingtao let out a shrill scream. The poison coating the golden needles spread rapidly through his body, and agony like being flayed and having his tendons pulled apart made him roll wildly across the arena without a shred of concern for his appearance.

After all, this was an Exchange Meeting organized by Myriad Manifestations Palace. Song Lingtao did not dare to truly take a life, so the needles were not coated in a poison that killed at the sight of blood, but a vicious poison capable of causing a cultivator's Spiritual Power to run berserk.

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