"A Monster Transformation Talisman! So you had this trick ready too!"
At the sight of Ye Jingyun's transformation, Yu Yuehai finally lost his easy composure, his expression turning grave.
"That talisman isn't easy to make. It looks like you've been preparing for a long time. I underestimated you."
He slapped his Storage Bag and finally took out his pitch-black flying sword.
"Then let's see whether you can escape my grasp after turning into a monster!"
As he spoke, Yu Yuehai formed a Dharmic Formula with his fingers. The flying sword turned into a black snake, swaying its head and tail as it coiled toward Ye Jingyun's neck.
Her eyes scarlet, Ye Jingyun let out an inhuman roar. She made no attempt to dodge, instead slapping the flying sword aside with her huge, scale-covered hand. Then she opened her mouth full of fangs and lunged to bite Yu Yuehai!
Yu Yuehai dared not meet her head-on. His figure flickered, leaving three afterimages, and an instant later he appeared thirty feet away.
Then he recalled his flying sword, slapped his Storage Bag again, and took out a Brass Mirror. He waved it toward Ye Jingyun, and a strange sigil shot from its surface, stamping itself onto her transformed head as though it had teleported.
Ye Jingyun's enormous body froze. She roared and struggled incessantly, but could not break free of the sigil's suppression.
"Hmph! So what if you've exhausted every scheme?"
Seeing Ye Jingyun's beastlike appearance, Yu Yuehai snorted coldly. The flying sword in his hand grew more than three feet longer and slashed toward her, radiating terrifying power.
He did not aim for a vital spot, however. He still needed her living soul to refine pills, so he chose her shoulder instead.
"Roar!"
As the sword light closed in, Ye Jingyun roared wildly. Her body swelled again, emitting black light. The sigil on her forehead wavered twice and shattered. Rather than dodging, she took the sword strike head-on, surged forward, and sent Yu Yuehai flying with a collision!
He flew straight toward the space behind Chen Lin.
Chen Lin had been watching the fight closely. Without a moment's hesitation, he drove his Nameless Sword Qi out of his body and flicked away the talisman on his forehead.
The instant he could move again, he slapped his Storage Bag and brought out Thunderbolt No. 4, larger than a soccer ball, cradling it in both hands.
"Fuck you!"
He first cast a Vajra Cover spell on himself. Then, mustering every last ounce of strength, he poured all his mana into his hands and hurled Thunderbolt No. 4!
Without even looking to see the result, he slapped an Earth Escape Talisman onto himself, fixed his direction, and slipped straight into the ground.
It was Chen Lin's first time using earth escape. He felt immense pressure around his body, as though he were swimming underwater.
But he had no time to savor the experience. He kept accelerating and seized the chance to crush another Vajra Talisman.
He had not traveled far before a tremendous explosion rang out. The surrounding soil shook violently, and then a powerful shock wave heaved up the patch of ground he occupied.
At the same time, the Liuding Xuanjia Talisman on his chest shattered, forming a suit of shimmering armor around him.
Chen Lin felt as though all his internal organs had been jolted out of place. Unable to hold it back, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Yet he burst into peals of laughter!
"Hahaha... With that kind of power, let's see you survive!"
He had worried that his self-created stacked Thunderbolt Bead might not work, since he had never tested it. But now it seemed his talent ability was trustworthy after all!
Still laughing as he hit the ground, Chen Lin rolled over, stood up, and looked toward the explosion.
He was instantly dumbstruck!
Holy fucking shit, that was way too powerful!
The enormous crater in the distance and the ground around it, plowed clean by the blast, made even him shudder.
With an explosion like that, Yu Yuehai shouldn't have survived at its center, right?
Chen Lin's eyes burned with eagerness.
Those five clan leaders and Yu Yuehai were all Foundation Establishment Cultivators. If their Storage Bags had survived the blast, their contents were bound to be astonishing.
Quite apart from anything else, Yu Yuehai's Pill Cauldron alone had him itching to get his hands on it.
There were also that yellow mirror and the man's Black Flying Sword, both excellent treasures.
He started forward, about to rush over and investigate.
"No!"
Chen Lin stopped after taking just one step.
"Thunderbolt No. 4 may be powerful, but this is the Immortal Cultivation World. I can't approach things with the mindset of my previous life. Staying alive matters most. If I'm dead, what good will any number of treasures do me?"
After a moment's hesitation, Chen Lin finally suppressed his greed, turned around, and sprinted away!
The entire mountain hollow fell silent.
A little while later, a mound of earth in the blast crater stirred, and a figure rose from it.
It was Yu Yuehai.
He was in an appalling state. Not only was he covered in blood, but one arm had vanished, leaving stark white bone exposed beneath his shoulder.
His face was even more frightening than his bodily injuries. His features had twisted together, and his fury towered to the heavens.
"Heh. Good, good, good. To think that I, Yu Yuehai, who hunted wild geese all day long, would have my eye pecked out by one! Once I find you, I'll give you a taste of my methods!"
Cursing through gritted teeth, he looked toward where the five clan leaders had been, and his expression grew uglier still.
There were no clan leaders left, only a stretch of blasted earth. Who knew whether those old bastards had been blown to nothing or buried alive?
He had spent years meticulously plotting, and success had been within his grasp. Yet everything had been destroyed in an instant, leaving him with nothing. Gathering another five Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators whose elements formed the complete five elements would be harder than ascending to heaven.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Unable to maintain his composure any longer, Yu Yuehai let out an inhuman roar.
Just then, a streak of golden light abruptly appeared and shot straight toward his chest.
The golden light was so fast that he had no time to dodge. All his automatically triggered talismans and magical tools had already been expended in the explosion.
In desperation, he could only cast the tier 2 defensive spell, Yuanling Shield, forming a shield outside his body.
But the Yuanling Shield failed to hinder the golden light in the slightest. It was pierced as easily as paper, and the golden light passed through his body and flew out behind him.
"Pfft!"
Yu Yuehai spat out a mouthful of blood. Utterly horrified, he swayed twice and collapsed.
Silence settled over the area once again.
Only after a long while did a figure struggle to her feet on the other side of the crater.
It was Ye Jingyun.
Her body had returned to its normal size, but its unnatural changes had not faded, and her injuries were even more dreadful than Yu Yuehai's.
Rather than examining her injuries first, she looked at the fine scales on her skin, disgust showing on her face.
The reason she had been so reluctant to use the Monster Transformation Talisman was that its changes were permanent. She would have to retain this monstrous appearance for the rest of her life.
Still, she had finally killed Yu Yuehai. Years of bitter enmity had been avenged in a single day.
She cast another pained glance at the talisman that had turned to ash in her hand. It had been a Talisman Treasure left to her by her father, with three uses remaining. To kill Yu Yuehai, she had released all its power at once.
At the same time, she felt profoundly fortunate. Had she not been farthest from the blast, with her defenses greatly enhanced by her transformation and a defensive magical tool to protect her, she would probably have been blasted into scraps of flesh.
"A whole bunch of crafty old foxes, each more devious than the last!"
Ye Jingyun looked around. Finding no sign of Chen Lin, she could not help grumbling inwardly.
She had never expected the weakest of them all to be the one who had the last laugh.
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