"Since you are Diwu Chijin's accomplice, I shall root out this evil completely-"
As he spoke, Mu Yunbai raised his right hand and spread his fingers. Spiritual light flashed at his fingertips.
"Humm-!"
The moisture in the air abruptly condensed with a sizzling hiss.
In the blink of an eye, an ice spear as thick as an arm and seven feet long formed out of thin air, gleaming with a cold, deep-blue light.
"D-damn it!!"
Qin Yao's pupils contracted sharply.
Instinctively, he wanted to use Nine Skies Thunder Step and take his grandfather and sister away from this dangerous place at once!
But his body refused to obey him.
The instant Mu Yunbai's pressure enveloped him, the true qi within Qin Yao seemed to freeze, circulating with agonizing slowness.
His hands and feet felt as though someone had nailed them in place. Every finger and toe was rigid; he could not even perform movements as simple as curling or stretching them...
"W-why can't I move?!"
Qin Yao paled in alarm.
He could even hear his heart pounding wildly inside his chest.
The boy had no way of knowing that what he felt was precisely the terrifying power of "realm pressure" on the path of cultivation!
Qin Yao was a martial artist at the sixth layer of the Innate Realm.
By the standards of cultivators in the Cultivation World, that was roughly equivalent to the sixth layer of the Qi Refining Realm.
Yet Mu Yunbai, hovering in midair, was in the Golden Core Realm-a full major realm above even the Foundation Establishment Realm, which itself stood above the Qi Refining Realm!
The gulf between their realms was enormous.
And with the two of them so close together...
To kill Qin Yao, Mu Yunbai merely had to lock his killing intent and