"Yu Bi, not only is your strength lacking, your brain doesn't work very well either. Back then, I fooled you once with the 'Life-Restoring Fruit.' Now, I leaked a little false information about the 'Nine-Heavens Star Dew,' and you obediently fell for it again."
"Ha ha ha..."
Song Wen's wanton laughter rang through the heavens.
"Gu Huang, don't celebrate too soon. This formation has trapped not only me, but you as well. Today will be the day you die."
Anger flashed in Yu Bi's eyes. He formed sword fingers with two digits and casually slashed through the air.
The nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails immediately shot forth, hurtling toward Song Wen below.
Song Wen wore a smile and made no move to resist, allowing the Corpse-Suppressing Nails to draw near.
The instant the nails pierced his body, Song Wen abruptly exploded into a cloud of scarlet blood mist.
The next moment, amid the surging sea of blood, another towering wave rose ten zhang away. Song Wen's figure condensed atop the wave.
"Yu Bi, with this sea of blood, you cannot kill me. Unless you can shatter the entire sea of blood. But back when I had only Integrated Body Cultivation, you were already incapable of doing that."
"Bluster! What I could not shatter was that sea of blood spanning ten thousand li, not this tiny blood pool before me that is only twenty or thirty li across!"
Yu Bi moved his sword fingers, and the nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails immediately whirled rapidly around him. As Netherglow flowed across them, their auras linked together.
"Nine Nether Return to One, Break the Art!"
With Yu Bi's low roar, countless dark runes shot out from each of the nine Corpse-Suppressing Nails, converging at a point overhead.
The runes intertwined and coiled around one another, ultimately transforming