He fully activated the phantom of the Heaven-reaching Divine Tree, trying to block it.
But that giant hand had erupted too suddenly, and it was simply too powerful!
Crack!
The phantom of the Heaven-reaching Divine Tree was shattered by a single palm strike!
Sophora Venerable coughed up blood, was sent flying backward, and crashed heavily into the depths of the Saint Spirit Ancestral Court, smashing out a bottomless pit!
Still, he had ultimately blocked the attack.
After unleashing that strike, Tan Lin's avatar became completely transparent.
Then, it turned into flecks of crimson light that the Saint Spirits could not see and dissipated between heaven and earth.
Yet at the very last instant before his form vanished,
his mind connected with his true body from afar. Using himself as a medium, he activated the Soul Pearl's divine ability, All-Causes Transposition, to send the blood essence of the Perfected Saint Spirit he had ambushed back to Scarlet Glow River.
It was delivered into Tan Lin's true body's hands.
"Cough..."
Within Scarlet Glow River, his avatar collapsed. With his Origin depleted, Tan Lin suffered a slight backlash, and blood seeped from the corner of his lips. Left with no choice, he slowed his pursuit of Qianlong Ancient Venerable.
However, with a casual turn of his hand, he added several divine materials and crudely refined the Saint Spirit Blood Essence that had been transferred to him into a pill.
After swallowing it, his aura recovered somewhat.
Then, he glanced at Qianlong Ancient Venerable, who had once again regenerated from a drop of blood before his eyes, before looking toward the Southern Ridge.
There, Sophora Venerable had already climbed out of the deep pit. Though badly injured, he was still fully capable of fighting.
Moreover, the two newly born Saint Spirits had already