Over the next few days.
West Qi's side could clearly feel that things were becoming increasingly wrong.
At first, their plan had been simple.
The Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island were quite strong.
The four of them were even more troublesome together.
So they needed to find a way to separate them.
Then defeat them one by one.
There was nothing wrong with that tactic itself.
The problem was Lin Yuan.
Wang Mo had been preparing to pursue the enemy.
Lin Yuan held him back.
Gao Yougan had been provoked.
Lin Yuan stepped in.
Li Xingba went out alone at night.
Lin Yuan stubbornly chased him all the way to the ambush site despite his injuries.
Then it was Yang Sen's turn.
The restraining spiritual treasure they had prepared in advance had only just been brought out.
When Lin Yuan exposed it on the spot again.
After several such incidents.
West Qi's side got a headache whenever they saw Lin Yuan.
The kid's own combat strength had not yet reached the point of being truly troublesome.
But he was like an early-warning radar planted in the middle of the battlefield.
Whenever there was a trap, he called it out.
Whenever there was an ambush, he shouted a warning.
And the key was that the Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island actually listened to him now.
He dared to shout, and the four of them actually stopped.
Thus, during their fifth clash.
West Qi's side simply changed tactics.
They stopped luring the enemy.
And went straight for a forceful kill.
The first target was still Gao Yougan.
Several Qi Practitioners pressed forward head-on.
Two more launched a surprise attack from the flanks.
Just as Wang Mo and the others were about to form a formation.
A silver curtain of light suddenly descended from the sky.
Separating Gao Yougan from the others.
"Finally done with the tricks?"
Gao Yougan sneered as he looked at the surrounding blockade.
"Now you're trying to take us by force?"
Outside the formation.
Lin Yuan's Innate Spiritual Perception immediately locked onto the curtain of light.
"It isn't a complete formation."
"It's only a temporary barrier."
"It can last ten breaths at most!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Mo and the other two immediately bombarded the light curtain head-on.
But the two Qi Practitioners inside had already charged Gao Yougan together.
Ten breaths.
For Immortals, that was enough time to exchange plenty of moves.
If Gao Yougan truly had to withstand two opponents of the same realm alone for ten breaths.
The danger would not be small.
But this time.
Lin Yuan had no intention of waiting outside.
Wind-Thunder Dao Rhyme lit up beneath his feet.
Boom!
With a flash of lightning.
Lin Yuan actually forced his way through a tiny gap in the light curtain before it had fully closed!
"Junior Brother Lin?!"
Even Gao Yougan was stunned.
"Why did you come in here?"
"To help."
Lin Yuan had already drawn his Qingxuan Sword.
"I can't wait until something happens to you every time before running around to put out fires."
"Tiring."
Gao Yougan: "..."
It sounded like Lin Yuan was rather disgusted with them.
The two Qi Practitioners opposite them looked grim.
"Kill Lin Yuan first!"
"Again?"
Lin Yuan smiled.
"That slogan has been showing up a lot lately."
Before his words had even faded.
Wind-Thunder Escape erupted once more.
In the past, when facing enemies of a higher realm, his greatest problem had been that he could not keep up with their speed.
But now, things were completely different.
Lightning flickered.
Before the attacks of the two Qi Practitioners could land.
Lin Yuan had already appeared on the other side.
His Innate Spiritual Perception judged danger.
His Supreme Clarity Battle Intent chose the best method of counterattack.
Wind-Thunder Escape carried him wherever he needed to go.
For the first time, the three truly worked together.
Even Lin Yuan himself felt exhilarated.
Fighting used to feel turn-based.
You attacked.
I assessed it.
Then I dodged.
But now—
It finally felt a little like real-time combat.
"Senior Brother Gao!"
"Take the one on the left!"
"I'll hold the one on the right for a while!"
Gao Yougan wasted no words.
He pounced directly toward the enemy on the left.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan kept using Wind-Thunder Escape to pull the other man around.
He could not defeat him.
But the other man could not catch him in a short time either.
Outside, Wang Mo and the other two frantically bombarded the light curtain.
On the seventh breath.
Cracks covered its surface.
On the eighth breath.
Boom!
The entire light curtain was smashed apart by brute force.
The instant Wang Mo rushed inside, he headed straight for Lin Yuan's opponent.
The other man's face instantly turned green.
Just moments ago, he had been chasing Lin Yuan.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Mo was chasing him instead.
The switch in roles was a little too smooth.
"Retreat!"
West Qi's side withdrew once more.
But Lin Yuan did not remain where he was as before.
Within his Innate Spiritual Perception.
A stronger sense of danger suddenly appeared elsewhere.
The direction—
Li Xingba!
"Again?"
Lightning exploded beneath Lin Yuan's feet.
His entire body vanished in an instant.
At that moment, Li Xingba was fighting someone.
He had listened to Lin Yuan's warning and had not pursued the enemy alone.
The problem was that the enemy had prepared something even more vicious this time.
A magical treasure that had been hidden underground for a long time suddenly shot upward.
It stabbed straight toward Li Xingba's back.
The killing intent emerged with extreme suddenness.
Even Li Xingba himself did not react immediately.
But Lin Yuan sensed it from a hundred zhang away.
Wind-Thunder Escape at full power!
Boom!
Lin Yuan crashed in from the side like a bolt of lightning.
The Thick Earth Sword slammed heavily into the magical treasure.
Clang!
The magical treasure was deflected.
Lin Yuan's right hand was numbed by the impact as well.
But Li Xingba successfully dodged it.
"Junior Brother!"
"Stop shouting."
Lin Yuan gritted his teeth.
"Fight first!"
The situation reversed once more.
All Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island gathered together.
This time.
Lin Yuan did not have them remain where they were.
"The other side has no more tricks left."
"Chase them!"
Wang Mo froze for a moment.
"We're really chasing them?"
"Chase them!"
Lin Yuan's eyes gleamed.
"But we stay together!"
Wang Mo laughed heartily.
"Good!"
The Four Saints joined forces.
Lin Yuan used Wind-Thunder Escape to weave through the outskirts.
Those who had originally been tasked with ambushing them became the ones being chased for the first time.
Several Qi Practitioners from West Qi were driven hundreds of miles.
They tried to scatter and flee along the way.
But Lin Yuan's Innate Spiritual Perception and Wind-Thunder Escape happened to counter that tactic perfectly.
"Left!"
Wang Mo immediately turned.
"There's another one ahead to the right!"
Yang Sen blocked the path.
"The one behind is trying to circle around!"
Gao Yougan moved directly to cut him off.
The entire battlefield descended into complete chaos.
Wen Zhong watched from afar for quite a while.
In the end, he could not help but laugh.
"This kid."
"He kept telling others not to chase."
"Now he's chasing harder than anyone."
The Shang general beside him also laughed.
"Grand Preceptor."
"Immortal Lin is simply adapting to the circumstances."
Wen Zhong gave him a glance.
"You understand quite a bit."
The pursuit continued for a long time.
West Qi ultimately managed to retreat safely only after being met by high-level cultivators.
Meanwhile, Gao Yougan and Li Xingba had completely passed their own final Death Nodes.
The system shook twice in succession.
[Target: Gao Yougan.] [Original death trajectory completely severed.] [Fate Reversal successful!] [Obtained—Vajra Immortal Bone!]
Boom!
Lin Yuan's bones seemed to be reforged by a terrifying force.
His Blackstone Dao Body had already been exceptionally powerful.
Now, with the added Vajra Immortal Bone.
The strength of his bones surged once more.
Then the second notification appeared.
[Target: Li Xingba.] [Original death trajectory completely severed.] [Fate Reversal successful!] [Obtained—Battlefield Killing Intent Perception!]
In that instant.
The world before Lin Yuan's eyes became completely different.
His Innate Spiritual Perception could already detect danger.
But Battlefield Killing Intent Perception was even more direct.
Who was watching him.
Which area concealed malice.
Which attack had yet to erupt, yet had already formed killing intent.
Countless fragments of information that had once been scattered were rapidly integrated.
The sound of wind.
Fluctuations of spiritual power.
Hostility.
Killing intent.
Lin Yuan stood in the middle of the battlefield.
He closed his eyes.
Yet he felt everything around him more clearly than when his eyes were open.
Wang Mo walked over from behind him.
He had just raised a hand to pat Lin Yuan on the shoulder.
Lin Yuan did not even turn his head.
"Senior Brother Wang."
"Don't pat me."
Wang Mo froze.
"Do you have eyes on the back of your head?"
Lin Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
He looked at the senior brothers around him, who had truly emerged from their death traps.
A relieved smile finally appeared on his face.
"More or less."
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