What a vicious scheme—this was an attempt to wipe me out completely!
Just as Daoist Hong Yun was about to admit defeat, fury and resentment drove him to summon his remaining strength. He urged the Eternal Light Secret Qi into a thick, immense barrier, trying to block it.
Yet the void rang with the sound of some foreign object piercing through. Aah!
Amid the scream, an incomparably condensed Strange Light pierced through that seemingly solid barrier, then nimbly followed the crack already torn across Daoist Hong Yun's chest and bored straight through him.
"I... I hate..."
Daoist Hong Yun's aura scattered as though collapsing. He flew far back, his face filled with terror, then fell limply onto the Eternal Tomb ground.
Yu Ji's explosive strike had nearly taken Daoist Hong Yun's life.
Though he had not died, he had completely lost the strength to resist for the time being.
"I admit defeat! I surrender!"
At the brink of life and death, Daoist Hong Yun finally tore out his admission of defeat.
He felt neither burden nor discomfort. There was only relief after shouting it, along with the joy of still being alive.
Yu Ji immediately drew in her aura slightly, her delicate brows faintly knitting, seemingly dissatisfied with herself for failing to take Daoist Hong Yun's life with that strike.
Now that her opponent had shamelessly cried out his surrender, it was no longer proper for her to kill him in public.
Buzz!
In the next instant, Yu Ji's slender body trembled as she felt vast fortune surge into her, wondrous beyond words.
Daoist Hong Yun's face, meanwhile, rapidly turned ashen, as though the lucky star had abandoned him and the star of misfortune had possessed him.
"My Eternal Fortune..." Hong Yun's heart bled. Resentment and pain filled him as