"An Immortal Artifact!"
Before the Bone Sword even reached him, its bone-chilling sharpness pierced through the thick rock and bore straight down on Song Wen.
Song Wen flipped his hand and took out the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword, but put it away again before activating it.
In the brief moment he made that decision, the Bone Sword had already closed in.
Yet Song Wen offered no resistance at all, allowing the Bone Sword to pierce his flesh.
His body and the surrounding rock exploded together, sending tremors through the earth.
"Something's wrong!"
There was not a trace of relief on Gu Jiuyou's face. Instead, his brows knitted tightly.
"Fellow Daoist Gu..."
Yu Qiu's expression changed drastically, but before he could finish, Gu Jiuyou and Chi Shang also turned pale with alarm.
Song Wen, who should have been slain by the Bone Sword, had appeared without warning above the Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo-inside a vertical shaft ten feet wide, left behind when the Origin Qi carried the embryo through.
The silver lightning surrounding Song Wen gathered into a thunderbolt and crashed down.
The surging Origin Qi was instantly torn open, exposing the Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo within.
Song Wen flashed over. Light flickered from the storage ring on his finger, and he swept the Primordial Chaos Qi Embryo into it.
"You thief! How dare you!"
Gu Jiuyou roared. Ignoring his injuries entirely, he marshaled every scrap of his Immortal Essence power and drove the Bone Sword toward Song Wen.
Chi Shang and Yu Qiu attacked Song Wen at the same time.
Facing the three men's furious strikes, Song Wen made no attempt to resist. His body was once again shredded to dust.
But in the next instant, a figure flashed into view. Song Wen appeared without warning behind Yu Qiu and