Counter-kill

"Kill!!"

"The order from above was to take them alive!"

"Keep the girl. Cripple the man first—just leave him with a breath."

"Surrender now, or you'll have a world of pain!"

"..."

A crowd of black-clad men surged forward, shouting scattered threats as they charged, not taking the two of them seriously in the slightest.

They had received intelligence beforehand. They knew that this time, their targets were merely a former genius with a shattered dantian and a little girl too weak to truss a chicken. To them, this job could not have been easier.

They had never taken on such an easy assignment in their lives—and the reward was exceedingly generous!

It was enough to make anyone green with envy.

At that moment, the hundred-plus black-clad men seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. Immortal power erupted from them in unison, dreadful vortexes of immortal power swirling through the sky and converging into an incomparably condensed momentum as they charged relentlessly toward the pair.

Had this been the Wu Yong and Wu Nuannuan of the past, their legs would likely have gone limp from fright by now. To someone at the Fourth Mortal Shedding Stage, the momentum bearing down on them could only be described as towering to the heavens—like a lone boat standing before colossal waves ten thousand zhang high. The outcome was obvious.

However, there was no "if."

The current Wu Yong and Wu Nuannuan had been reborn anew. Leaving Wu Yong aside, even Wu Nuannuan's present strength was enough to make her invincible beneath the Immortal Vortex Realm. As for Wu Yong, he was even more immensely powerful; ordinary Immortal Vortex cultivators were likely no match for him.

With the two joining forces, their deterrent power was even three parts greater than that of two