Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Deadly Crisis

"Leave none alive."

The hoarse command carried icy killing intent, instantly freezing even the sound of rushing water in the gorge.

At the black-robed leader's command, the two companions at his side and the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage horned flood-dragon python launched their attacks at once.

Blue light from the formation surged as countless chains rose from the riverbed. The demonic beast's poisonous icy breath came crashing in, while the three black-robed men each brought forth their magic artifacts, forming an encirclement. A meticulously planned killing trap was brazenly unleashed within this desolate gorge.

Aboard the Emerald Wave Boat, Wang Zhenyue and the others went pale with horror, struggling to maintain the wavering defensive barrier.

Yet a streak of green shot skyward from the quiet room.

Xu Yuan stood in the air. Facing this sure-kill trap, his eyes held not the slightest ripple—only cold indifference.

"You don't know the difference between life and death."

He did not even summon the Celestial Wood Vine Armor. He merely raised his right hand, pointed two fingers like a sword at the thick stream of poisonous icy breath that arrived first, and slashed through the air.

"Sever."

A thread-condensed Yin Wood Divine Thunder, its edges flickering with fine green-gold lightning, burst from his fingertips. Though launched later, it arrived first, cutting into the core of the breath with flawless precision.

There was no earth-shaking explosion. That seemingly ferocious poisonous icy breath was like a body stripped of its backbone. The instant it touched the thread of lightning, it silently split down the middle and collapsed into two harmless turbulent currents that howled past Xu Yuan's sides and crashed into the rock walls, scattering icy fragments everywhere.

Almost at the same instant the lightning thread split the breath apart, Xu Yuan spread the fingers of