Kong Ru Fu did not know what had happened at the start. By the time he rushed over upon hearing the distress signal, Pu Da and Wu Haoren had already been surrounded by the Gongsun Family's seven Shadow Guards, and the two sides were locked in fierce battle.
Although none of the seven was as strong as Pu Da, they possessed an exceedingly troublesome joint-attack technique. Combined with their ambush, Pu Da and Wu Haoren had been badly wounded from the very beginning. Had Kong Ru Fu not arrived in time, the two would likely have followed in Meng Yuanhu's footsteps long ago.
Relying on his formidable strength, Kong Ru Fu fought alongside Pu Da and the other, barely managing to avoid falling into disadvantage. Yet the instability of the Domain Realm and the need to divide his attention to guard against the poisonous miasma in the valley left him unable to do anything to the seven Shadow Guards for the moment.
The two sides remained entangled for a long while. Only when Zhang Jiuyi burst in was the deadlock broken. Just as Kong Ru Fu's side gained the upper hand and prepared to defeat the seven Shadow Guards one by one, the enemy changed formations as well, charging through Kong Ru Fu's group in a four-man and three-man arrangement.
Four of them adopted a defensive stance and held back Kong Ru Fu and Zhang Jiuyi.
The remaining three drew Pu Da and Wu Haoren into battle farther away. Amid the intense fighting, Pu Da and Wu Haoren gradually fell into disadvantage. Just as they seemed unable to hold on, Pu Da used a secret art that burned his blood essence, forcibly raising his strength and killing one of the Shadow Guards.
But almost at the instant his strength was