Annihilated with a single strike!

Hearing Ye Xingchen's words, Su Zilian shouted furiously, "Ye Xingchen, you bastard! How dare you say something so filthy to me! Do you believe I'll beat you to death?"

Seeing Su Zilian's fury, Ye Xingchen laughed. "Su Zilian, we're both in the Late Golden Core Realm. Do you really think you can kill me?"

Su Zilian sneered.

Perhaps before entering the Boundless Mountains, she and Ye Xingchen had both been in the late Golden Core realm.

But after eating the Ten-Body Fish just now, her cultivation had already crossed the threshold of a breakthrough.

Boom!

Suddenly, a powerful surge of aura erupted from within Su Zilian, making even the Sea of Fire quake.

"You've broken through to the Peak Golden Core Realm?"

Ye Xingchen stared at Su Zilian. Feeling the fluctuations of peak Golden Core power coming from her, his expression changed drastically.

"Hahaha!"

Su Zilian laughed heartily. "Ye Xingchen, as you can see. Surprised?"

Ye Xingchen: ...

A moment later, Ye Xingchen took a deep breath and forced a smile onto his face, though it looked uglier than a grimace. "Su Xiaolian, I was only joking with you just now!"

"Joking?"

Su Zilian said coldly, "Try selling that lie to a ghost! If I hadn't broken through to the peak Golden Core realm, I'm afraid my virtue would already be gone!"

"So today, you're dead for certain!"

Although Su Zilian was a woman, she knew that someone like Ye Xingchen absolutely could not be spared.

Otherwise, the troubles he left behind would be endless.

Hum!

As a spear's hum rang out, Su Zilian charged at Ye Xingchen with her blood-red spear in hand.

"This is bad!"

Seeing Su Zilian rushing toward him, murderous intent blazing, Ye Xingchen's eyes filled with terror, and he immediately shouted.

"Master, save me!"

Just as Su Zilian's blood-red spear came within ten feet of Ye Xingchen, a middle-aged man in dark robes suddenly appeared and blocked it.

"You're Xu Xianke?"

Su Zilian narrowed her eyes as she looked at the middle-aged man before her and asked.

The middle-aged man was Xu Xianke, an attendant elder of the Nanyang Ye Family and Ye Xingchen's master, believed to be a rogue cultivator.

The middle-aged man smiled. "Su Zilian, I truly never expected you to recognize me!"

Su Zilian said, "The elders of my Azure Waves Academy have mentioned you!"

Xu Xianke said nothing. Seeing his master appear, Ye Xingchen looked smug. "Su Zilian, with my master here, you're dead!"

Su Zilian's expression changed drastically.

Then Ye Xingchen looked at Xu Xianke. "Master, Su Zilian nearly killed me just now! Hurry up and kill her!"

With that, he turned back to Su Zilian and sneered. "Even if Xu Qingyang makes it out of the Sea of Fire, he won't be able to save you!"

Xu Xianke looked at Su Zilian and said coldly, "You offended my disciple. Die!"

Hearing those words, Su Zilian's face filled with terror, and her delicate body trembled.

"Who dares kill my fiancée?"

Suddenly, a furious voice rang out from within the Sea of Fire.

Immediately afterward, a youth in blue robes burst out of the Sea of Fire and stood suspended in the air.

"Are you a man or a ghost?"

Staring at Xu Qingyang's familiar face, Ye Xingchen cried out in panic.

At that moment, he no longer looked anything like a prodigy of the Ye Family. All that remained was his terrified appearance.

Xu Qingyang ignored Ye Xingchen and instead fixed his gaze on Xu Xianke. Xu Xianke said coldly, "Brat, you actually made it out of the Sea of Fire alive. No wonder you aren't afraid of me!"

"But very soon, you'll see your own head hit the ground!"

Facing Xu Xianke, Xu Qingyang said with utter disdain and contempt, "You're arrogant, sir, but before me, you're nothing worth mentioning!"

Suddenly, as Xu Xianke looked at Xu Qingyang standing with his hands behind his back, something seemed to occur to him. "Why do I feel as though I've seen this fellow before?"

Just then, Ye Xingchen shouted, "Master, this fellow is called Xu Qingyang! He's the young master of the Heavenly Martial City Ye Family. Our Ye Family's Ninth Elder and the other experts all died at his hands!"

"His cultivation realm may not be high, but his combat strength is terrifying!"

"The only reason his combat strength is so outrageous is that he obtained a fortuitous opportunity!"

"If you can obtain that opportunity, I'm sure you'll be able to advance even further!"

Hearing Ye Xingchen's words, Xu Xianke immediately looked at Xu Qingyang with eyes full of greed.

Clearly, Xu Xianke had also set his sights on Xu Qingyang's fortuitous opportunity.

Knowing how fearsome Xu Xianke was, Su Zilian looked at Xu Qingyang and shouted, "Brother Yang, run! Xu Xianke is an early Grotto-Heaven realm expert! You're no match for him!"

Hearing this, Xu Qingyang felt warmth in his heart. He instantly appeared before Su Zilian and said gently, "Don't worry, Xiaolian. With me here, Xu Xianke won't be able to overturn the heavens!"

"But..."

Su Zilian spoke.

"Xu Qingyang, you son of a bitch! Even if your combat strength lets you kill the Ninth Elder, you're nothing but a joke before my master!"

Ye Xingchen looked at Xu Qingyang and spoke in an icy voice.

Xu Qingyang said nothing.

"What an arrogant brat!"

Xu Xianke shouted angrily, "Today, I'll show you the power of the Grotto-Heaven realm!"

Boom!

A golden Grotto-Heaven surged out of Xu Xianke's body.

Hum!

Wielding a massive black hand, Xu Xianke slashed out.

Streak after streak of blade light shot forth.

Xu Qingyang immediately struck with his sword, and the war god Vermilion Bird will and Red Sparrow Swordlight collided with the blade light.

In an instant.

The blade light shattered.

Then the war god Vermilion Bird will and Red Sparrow Swordlight continued hurtling toward Xu Xianke.

"What?"

At the sight of this shocking scene, Xu Xianke's pupils abruptly contracted, and his expression changed drastically. He cried out in alarm, "My blade light shattered?"

"What kind of terrifying technique is this?"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under Su Zilian's and Ye Xingchen's gazes, the war god Vermilion Bird will and Red Sparrow Swordlight struck Xu Xianke in an instant.

"No!"

"Don't!"

"I don't want to die!"

At that moment, Xu Xianke roared in defiance, "How can you possess the War God Vermilion Bird Will? Who exactly are you?"

Xu Qingyang said coldly, "A dying man like you has no right to know. Just be on your way!"

The next moment.

As the war god Vermilion Bird will and Red Sparrow Swordlight pierced through Xu Xianke's body, he fell to the ground, coughing up blood, his life extinguished.

"Ah!"

Ye Xingchen let out a scream and collapsed into a sitting position on the ground, his face filled with despair.

Clearly, he had already foreseen his own fate.

Su Zilian looked at Xu Qingyang, her face brimming with joy. Brother Yang's strength has grown again after coming out of the Sea of Fire. He's amazing!

Then Xu Qingyang looked at Ye Xingchen and said coldly, "Xiaolian, how do you want this scum to die?"