A Half-Step Immortal Lord's Strike

Shadowfiend Demon sensed the power in the surrounding void seeming to grow stronger again, and a trace of anxiety involuntarily appeared on her ravishing face.

Spiritual energy surged from within her. At this moment, she pushed all the spiritual energy in her body to its utmost limit.

She said seductively, "You must have heard that our Joyous Union Sect is different from other great sects. We welcome other cultivators into our sect, especially male cultivators.

"And my lineage is one of the three strongest lineages in the Joyous Union Sect. You must have heard the name Feng Meier, haven't you?

"She is hailed as the greatest beauty of our Joyous Union Sect.

"Her talent is no less than Xia Longwu's.

"She is my Senior Sister, and she and I are the closest.

"I can even introduce Senior Sister to you.

"Now, as long as you turn back, kill this woman, and dig open her master's tomb, "you may even become Feng Meier's husband.

"With your talent, and with Senior Sister and me helping you, you may even become the sect leader of the Joyous Union Sect in the future.

"Then the entire Joyous Union Sect—such a top-tier great sect—will be yours to command."

Song Zhong looked speechlessly at the woman across from him. No, are you trying to sell me some pie in the sky?

The key is, you're not even good at selling it!

I don't even know who the person you're talking about is, and you're calling her the greatest beauty of the Joyous Union Sect.

Just how beautiful can she be?

Curves in all the right places, long legs, skin so fair it could be pinched for water? Why don't you give me some details!

Shadowfiend Demon was about to go mad. Why had this brat not completely fallen into her illusion yet? If he still did not fall into it...

Suddenly, the aura around them grew stronger once more...

A True Immortal Realm cultivator!

A Half-Step Immortal Lord was not, in truth, an Immortal Lord yet.

Once a True Immortal Realm cultivator awakened, they would not need much longer to fully awaken!

She could not wait any longer!

Shadowfiend Demon abruptly turned and flew into the distance.

If she waited any longer, once the expert inside awakened, she would have no chance to escape.

She had to flee first. Even if she ended up trapped within the sect, that was still better than being directly annihilated!

As she departed, Duan Xue, who had just been affected and fallen into the illusion beside Song Zhong, instantly regained consciousness.

"She escaped? She used an illusion just now, right? You're okay?"

She stared blankly at the unfamiliar cultivator beside her, both startled and relieved.

Fortunately, such a monstrous genius was here. Otherwise, if her master's tomb had been dug open, her master would surely have been erased by the Heavenly Dao.

Now that person had flown away. Her master should be safe, right?

Song Zhong was just about to say something when, in the next instant, the power of the entire world suddenly intensified again!

Almost at the same time, endless soil not far away shot into the sky.

A powerful aura surged from beneath the ground—an aura so overwhelming that it seemed to instantly freeze this entire world solid and make people unable to breathe.

This aura was icy to the extreme.

In that instant, the entire world was completely frozen over. The air, the ground below, even the clouds in the void were all covered in ice.

Song Zhong felt countless frosts gathering around his body, trying to freeze him as well. He even had the illusion that his bones were being frozen apart.

Feeling the sudden icy aura, Duan Xue was instantly overjoyed.

"Master! Master has awakened!"

Then she quickly came to her senses and shouted, "Master, a female devil cultivator from the Joyous Union Sect just tried to dig open your tomb.

"She just flew away, heading west!"

Song Zhong was immediately speechless. You're too late. She's a ninth-layer True Lord, after all. This little bit of time may be short, but it's enough for Shadowfiend Demon to fly completely out of sight.

For all we know, after flying some distance, Shadowfiend Demon may have changed direction again. You...

As he was thinking this, an extremely frigid current of energy suddenly shot out from the shattered tomb.

Blue light streaked across the sky. Everywhere it passed, the void seemed to split open, leaving behind a trail in the air like the exhaust trail left by a fighter jet.

Only, this trail was a deep azure blue.

Even that mere streak contained an aura that seemed capable of freezing a person's soul to pieces.

Though the light was flying into the distance, Song Zhong was affected by its icy aura in that instant and could not help but shudder. For a moment, he even felt as if his entire body had been frozen apart.

The blue trail sped into the distance, so fast that it passed beyond the limits of his vision in the blink of an eye.

The instant the frigid energy flew out, a figure also flew out from the tomb.

Song Zhong instinctively looked up. In that instant, he could not help but feel utterly dazzled.

He had seen many beautiful women. Perhaps because of cultivation, women in the Cultivation World were generally very beautiful.

There were countless beautiful female cultivators. Not to mention that within his own sect, his master and two Senior Sisters were all peerless beauties.

Yet when he had first seen his master and Senior Sisters, he had never felt such an overwhelming sense of astonishment.

This woman...

Suddenly, in the next moment, a thunderous boom erupted in the distance.

It was so loud that it felt as though an entire minor world had exploded.

Song Zhong instinctively turned around. In the distance, an incomparably brilliant burst of light erupted.

A stretch of the distant sky instantly turned blue.

It was simply too far away. With his current cultivation, he could not make out anything smaller; he could only see that surging blue radiance.

He glanced into the distance and had just been about to turn back when he saw a streak of light rapidly flying toward him at the very limit of his vision.

The next moment, that streak of light appeared to land not far from him.

Song Zhong turned his head, and his eyes abruptly widened.

Shadowfiend Demon!

But Shadowfiend Demon's chest had now been pierced through, and her entire body was encased in ice. She looked as though she had become a corpse.

Hadn't she flown away?

That blue radiance just now... had that foolish woman's master struck and slain her?

Shadowfiend Demon was at the ninth layer of True Mastery, and she had even fled in advance.

She had flown so far that, with his current cultivation, he could not even see her.

Yet that foolish woman had merely pointed in a direction, and her master had instantly annihilated her, then even brought back her corpse.

She had not even flown over. With nothing more than a casual strike, she had done this!

This was the might of a Half-Step True Monarch!

The gap was far too enormous!

It was even greater than the gap between himself and the Mountain Guardian Elder back then!

And this was only a Half-Step True Monarch. There had to be even stronger True Monarchs above them.

As he pondered this, Duan Xue's master's voice rang out as well. "Is she the one you spoke of?"

Duan Xue nodded repeatedly. "Yes, Master. She was the one who wanted to dig open your Tombs earlier."

As her words fell, the ice encasing Shadowfiend Demon exploded with a thunderous crash. Shadowfiend Demon exploded along with it, reduced to a cloud of powder amid a deafening blast.

At the same time, a clear, cold voice rang out once more, like a frigid wind stirring shattered jade. "Why are you here? And who is he?"