Whoosh!
Li Buhuan and the other five Core Formation Realm elders fled especially fast.
That's Mo Lingyuan, a Fourth Layer Nascent Soul Realm powerhouse! Even the Patriarch is no match for him. If we don't run, should we wait to die?
That was what they were thinking.
Bang!
But Li Buhuan and the other five had taken only five steps when they exploded along with their Source Cores, becoming a cloud of blood.
Screech!
The Starwave Sect disciples behind them were reduced to ash outright, without pain or a single scream!
It all happened in an instant. Even Shen Xinghu had not seen it coming.
By the time he recovered, he realized he was the only one left of the Starwave Sect!
"Mo... Mo Lingyuan?!"
He trembled, his pupils widening in shock. "H-how are you at the Sixth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm?"
"The Sixth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm?"
The Azure Feather Sect members exchanged glances. A moment later, their joy grew even greater.
The Patriarch said an immortal enlightened him before he left. It must be true!
Jin Pingqi and the eleven other elders who knew why Mo Lingyuan had left the Sect, including Yun Shengya, thought the same thing.
All except one elder—Huang Guchen. An imperceptible look flashed through his eyes. Like Shen Xinghu, he could not believe it.
Mo Lingyuan was clearly at the Fourth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm when he left the Sect. How did he reach the Sixth Layer in just one month?
The bottleneck that held him back for three thousand years was broken? Could an immortal really have enlightened him?
A thousand miles away, questions surged through Shen Xinghu's mind, but he could make no sense of it.
"Shen Xinghu, you killed my Sect's disciples and tortured its Supreme Elder. Death is the only sentence for you!" Mo Lingyuan said coldly.
Boom!
Before his words had faded, overwhelming pressure crashed down.
"Hm?!"
Shen Xinghu's expression changed sharply. He drove his Source Power and retreated at speed.
Starsea Bewildering Fox!
At the same time, he pushed his Source Power to its limit. Vast Source Qi erupted as he unleashed his ultimate technique, Starsea Bewildering Fox.
Boom!
In an instant, a boundless sea of stars appeared above ten thousand miles of land, breathtakingly beautiful and heavy with endless pressure!
Awooo!
Countless purple foxes leaped from the starsea and charged at Mo Lingyuan with fierce pressure.
Screech!
Under the pressure of both manifestations, everything within ten thousand miles turned to ash!
Bang!
Countless Azure Feather Sect disciples exploded into clouds of blood.
"Quick, protect the disciples!" Jin Pingqi cried.
"Yes, Sect Master!"
The Azure Feather Sect elders raised a barrier together, barely holding off the terrifying pressure of the starsea and purple foxes.
Yet after resisting for only an instant, they were drenched in sweat, their bodies on the verge of splitting apart!
"No wonder this is Shen Xinghu's ultimate technique. Even with all our strength together, it's this hard to withstand!"
Jin Pingqi and the others marveled and drove their Source Power harder.
"Starsea Bewildering Fox?" Mo Lingyuan looked at the manifestations filling the sky and smiled faintly. "Is that all?"
He drove his Source Power furiously, sending a wave of pressure crashing into the purple foxes and the starsea.
Awooo! Bang!
In an instant, the purple foxes wailed and the starsea sank!
Starsea Bewildering Fox was broken!
"Pfft!"
His ultimate technique shattered, Shen Xinghu spewed blood. He swayed violently, his face turning pale, and nearly lost his footing in the air.
Mo Lingyuan didn't even use a technique. He broke the Starsea Bewildering Fox I formed with all my strength using pressure alone—and injured me this badly?
Even with a gap of two layers, this shouldn't be possible. What's going on?
Shen Xinghu was stunned. He could neither understand nor believe it!
Boom!
As he struggled to make sense of it, Mo Lingyuan's pressure rose again.
Damn it. I have no choice but to fight to the death!
Seeing this, Shen Xinghu wiped the blood from his mouth. Resolve filled his eyes as he drove his Source Power to its limit, formed a palm strike, and hurled it against the oncoming pressure.
Whoosh!
The moment his palm strike surged forth, Shen Xinghu slipped his Nascent Soul free of his body. It became a streak of white light and fled.
This was Shen Xinghu's feint to the east: his desperate expression and all-or-nothing palm strike drew Mo Lingyuan's attention, buying his Nascent Soul a chance to escape!
That body is badly injured. Keeping it would only drag my Nascent Soul down to its grave. I had to abandon it!
As long as the green hills remain, there'll be firewood to burn!
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul flew at top speed as these thoughts raced through his mind.
Bang!
In an instant, the body Shen Xinghu had abandoned was blasted to pieces by the pressure.
At the sight, Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul drove its Source Power harder and flew faster.
Boom!
But a chasm suddenly stretched across his path. It spanned ten thousand miles and plunged a million zhang deep, silent and pitch-black, a sight that bred despair!
How could this happen?
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul was horrified. He felt trapped in a cage, with a chasm he could not cross!
It was Mo Lingyuan's ultimate technique, the Earth-Tier Upper Grade Cultivation Art Lingtian Qiuyuan!
With one move, a fathomless chasm appeared and boundless terror was born!
The Azure Feather Sect members shuddered as they stared at the chasm.
When did the Patriarch acquire a Cultivation Art like this? It looks extraordinary!
They were secretly astonished.
Escape. I have to escape!
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul darted wildly through the dark chasm, but it was no use.
"Die!"
A cold voice suddenly came from above the chasm, and Mo Lingyuan appeared.
To Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul, the sight of him was like beholding a god. Terror and awe seized him.
"No! You can't kill me!"
"If you kill me, Yun Shengya will die for good too! I'm the only one who can undo the restrictive pressure in his Source Core!"
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul shook with fear. As he made his threat, he drove his Source Power, causing the restrictive pressure in Yun Shengya's Source Core to flare violently.
"Ah!"
The Source Core in Mo Lingyuan's palm began to tremble. Yun Shengya was in unbearable pain.
"Hm?"
Mo Lingyuan frowned slightly.
"Patriarch, don't worry about me! Hurry—destroy Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul! You mustn't leave him any chance of survival!"
Yun Shengya endured the pain and urged him on with firm resolve.
"Yun Shengya, you..."
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul grew angry and drove his Source Power harder.
"Hiss!"
Yun Shengya drew a sharp breath, but made no other sound of pain. Instead, he pleaded, "Patriarch, kill me. Let me die quickly!"
Mo Lingyuan froze. He looked at the Source Core in his palm, his heart full of grief and reluctance.
"Sigh..." Several breaths later, he finally sighed and said softly, "All right."
With that, Mo Lingyuan drove his Source Power. Yun Shengya's Source Core shattered!
"Thank you, Patriarch, for granting my wish..."
Yun Shengya's thanks lingered in the air, but he had already vanished like smoke.
"Supreme Elder!"
The Azure Feather Sect members cried out in grief, sobbing too hard to speak.
"Shen Xinghu, even ten thousand deaths could never repay your crimes!"
Cold energy surged around Mo Lingyuan, his wrath reaching the heavens. He snapped his right hand shut, forming a palm of Source Qi that reached for Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul.
"No, don't!"
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul stared at the approaching palm in terror and fled wildly.
But with a fathomless chasm before him, where could he run?
In the blink of an eye, he fell into Mo Lingyuan's palm!
"Mo Lingyuan, w-what are you going to do?"
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul trembled as he looked at Mo Lingyuan's frost-cold face.
Whoosh!
Mo Lingyuan did not answer. He dispersed the chasm, landed, seized Shen Xinghu's head, and turned into a streak of light heading south.
Shen Xinghu, I'll make you watch the Starwave Sect fall with your own eyes!
His thoughts were ice-cold.
"No!"
Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul had clearly realized what was coming. Grief-stricken, he begged, "Mo Lingyuan, let me die!"
At first, he had abandoned his body because he wanted to live. Now death was all he wanted.
But in Mo Lingyuan's grasp, he could neither live nor die, just as Yun Shengya's Source Core had been when Shen Xinghu tortured him!
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