On the arena before the Boundary Gate, Liu Huan still wore a purple dress. Compared to several hundred years ago, her complexion had not changed in the slightest.
Instead, she gave off an even colder, prouder air. With a thin veil of blue gauze covering half her face, she seemed all the more breathtakingly beautiful.
Her cultivation had astonishingly reached the peak of the Golden Core Middle Stage. She was clearly not far from the late-stage golden core.
The techniques she used were still those of Illusion Peak from the Taiyi Sect—an illusory formation combined with a sword formation, suppressing the Heretical Cultivator across from her.
That Heretical Cultivator was a member of the Xiao Family, an affiliated force of the Profound Sky Demon Sect.
Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng's expression chilled as he looked toward Old Demon Xiao nearby.
The moment he did, nearly every demon cultivator from the Profound Sky Demon Sect and Penglai looked toward Ye Jingcheng.
Ye Jingcheng's reputation had simply grown too great in recent years. A Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator killing a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator—even an ordinary Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator was still a Great Cultivator, someone who stood nearly at the very peak of the Cultivation World.
"He's already at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage." Kasyapa True Monarch had originally intended to look toward Crimson Blood True Monarch and Saint Cloud True Monarch beside him, then join forces with them to launch a forced attack.
After all, in their eyes, Ye Jingcheng was merely a Nascent Soul cultivator from an affiliated force.
If they truly killed him, it could be considered a contribution toward stabilizing the Boundary Gate. With Penglai Sect's reward and Ye Jingcheng's possessions added in, it would undoubtedly be a substantial haul.
Yet he quickly discovered in