The Second Ring Town, underground, the Soul Furnace.
"How could you possibly have found me..."
Yue Tian stared at the Phoenix Emperor, his voice hoarse.
He had absolute confidence in the top-grade Spirit Artifact in his possession.
This state of Divine Concealment so profound that even a master of mental cultivation would be completely unable to detect the slightest trace of his presence!
He raised the three-section staff in his hand and calmly deactivated the first form of [Thousand Mechanisms], [Divine Concealment].
With a ripple-like twist, Yue Tian's body emerged from the shadows.
"Hehe."
Phoenix Emperor clasped her hands together. "Is this difficult?"
"Of course, it's this very land that told me..."
"You little mouse's trail."
"Earth..."
Yue Tian frowned and muttered those two words to himself.
With his terrifying, battle-hardened intuition, the next second, his hair stood on end!
A sense of crisis is creeping in!
"Not good!"
Yue Tian didn't have time to think before leaping to the side and backward!
"Boom!!!"
Just a fraction of a second after his feet left the ground, a huge, sharp spike pierced through the rock he had just been standing on!
But this is just the beginning!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The entire floor of the underground cave seemed to come alive!
Hundreds and thousands of sharp spikes seemed to surge from the ground, heading straight for Yue Tian to strangle him!
"Thousand Mechanisms - Sonic Speed!"
Yue Tian roared and flicked his three-section staff!
His figure instantly broke the sound barrier, becoming a blur in the dense stone forest!
It was so fast that it even created a series of sonic boom clouds in the air!
Seeing that the path ahead was completely blocked by dozens of intersecting ground spikes, a ruthless glint flashed in Yue Heavenly Eye.
"[Thousand Mechanisms - Elephant Power]!"
Buzz!
The muscles in his arms bulged!
The power of all things is poured into the three-section staff!
"Smash it!!!"
"Bang bang bang bang!!!"
Yue Tian's Thousand Mechanisms Staff transformed into a raging storm, smashing all the giant earth spikes blocking his path into dust!
He stepped on the gravel, using the recoil to escape towards the exit above!
However.
Standing below, the Phoenix Emperor looked at Yue Tian struggling desperately, its mockery deepening.
She slowly raised her right hand, then clenched her fist.
"BOOM!!!"
The rock wall above Yue Tian's head collapsed instantly, and countless boulders weighing tens of thousands of tons crashed down, sealing off the only exit!
Yue Tian braked suddenly in mid-air, his feet creating two deep craters in the rock face, and used the force to land back on the ground.
The road ahead is blocked.
He turned around, his chest heaving, his gaze fixed on the Phoenix Emperor that had reappeared below.
His eyes were filled with an unprecedented fear.
"Sequence 046...[Mother Earth]."
Yue Tian gritted his teeth and said.
"Am I right?"
"As long as your feet are on this land, this vast expanse within a hundred miles is your eyes."
"You detected me so easily by sensing the ground."
"So what if the chattering little mouse guessed it?"
But Phoenix Emperor's patience seemed to have run out, and she didn't want to waste any more words with him.
"Dare to trespass into this core restricted area and spy on the secrets of Soul Return Town..."
"Today is your death day."
Before he could finish speaking, the Phoenix Emperor waved its hand casually again.
"Boom!"
The ground behind her trembled violently, and ten stone pillars rose from the ground!
At the top of that stone pillar, several figures clad in dark red heavy armor locked onto Yue Tian's aura!
It is none other than the elite ghost guards who guard the furnace, the Bloodblade Guards!
"Kill!"
Without any unnecessary words, Bloodblade Guards, whose skill was comparable to that of an S+ level expert, transformed into more than a dozen streaks of crimson light.
They attacked Yue Tian from all directions!
"Come on!!"
Yue Tian let out a roar!
He knew today was a life-or-death situation, which completely ignited the madness within him!
"When!!!"
The first crimson giant blade that was about to strike was blocked by Thousand Mechanisms, and the terrifying force made the surrounding mountain walls tremble!
Using the opponent's momentum against them, Yue Tian delivered a whip kick that struck the breastplate of a Bloodblade Guards standing to his side.
He kicked him so hard he flew backward and crashed into the rock wall!
But these Bloodblade Guards felt no pain at all; they disregarded defense and adopted a fighting style that was entirely about exchanging lives for lives!
"Sizzle!"
A Sharp Blade grazed Yue Tian's shoulder, leaving a trail of crimson blood!
Despite the excruciating pain, Yue Tian Disassembly the Thousand Mechanisms Staff into three sections and pierced the heads of the two Bloodblade Guards in front of him!
But then, three more giant blades came crashing down from behind!
Yue Tian activated [Sonic Speed] and narrowly avoided a fatal blow, but a wound was still slashed across his back!
"Bang! Bang! Splat!"
Inside the underground cavern, the sounds of metal clashing and flesh tearing mingled wildly!
Yue Tian truly lives up to his reputation as a monster with exceptional physical abilities!
Surrounded by more than a dozen equally powerful opponents, he managed to survive thanks to his abnormal recovery ability and combat skills!
Despite enduring fatal wounds, he smashed the Bloodblade Guards one by one into a pile of mud!
Three minutes later.
"Huff... huff..."
Yue Tian knelt on one knee, panting heavily.
His body was covered in wounds, his left arm hung limply, and blood dripped onto the ground from the Thousand Mechanisms Staff.
But all around him were severed limbs and broken bodies.
Originally a dozen or so powerful Bloodblade Guards, he had now slaughtered them, leaving only the last three!
"Die!!"
Yue Heavenly Eye were bloodshot as he charged toward the last three Bloodblade Guards, ready to press his advantage and kill them all in one fell swoop!
However, the Phoenix Emperor, who had been observing from the sidelines, suddenly made its move.
"A pointless, trapped struggle."
She didn't even move a finger; it was just that a surge of energy erupted from her body!
"Buzz!"
Yue Tian, who was wielding the Thousand Mechanisms Staff in mid-air, suddenly had his pupils contract!
He was horrified to discover that the surrounding temperature had plummeted to absolute zero in an instant!
This is no ordinary ice; it's a power that can freeze even time and space!
A layer of eerie black ice appeared out of thin air on Yue Tian's lower body, freezing his legs in mid-air!
Yue Tian could even feel that the blood flow and nerve conduction in his lower body were completely frozen in the black ice!
But that's not the point...
Rather, his charge was interrupted!
"Oh no!"
In the instant his movements faltered, the remaining three Bloodblade Guards seized the opening and closed in!
One of the Bloodblade Guards leaped high into the air and kicked the black ice that had frozen Yue Tian's legs!
"Crack! Bang!!!"
The black ice shattered!
Along with the ice shattering, there was also the sound of Yue Tian's leg bones breaking!
"Puff!"
Yue Tian was sent flying and crashed into the rocky ground, creating a deep crater.
[Thousand Mechanisms] also slipped from his grasp, falling far away to the feet of a Bloodblade Guards...