By comparison, Xu Qingchang wished desperately that he could be as confident as they were.
Before he even faced Ye Qingcheng's sword intent, Xu Qingchang could no longer suppress the cowardly thought that he would never withstand it.
This!!
Then the Golden Tortoise Mystic Shield burst outward from that single point, shattered into fragments too fine to break any further, confirming his fears.
Before he could react, he looked down and saw that everything below his waist had been cleanly severed and was falling from the sky.
His consciousness grew increasingly hazy as he fell after it.
"..."
At the sight, everyone froze without exception, sharply sucking in a breath of cold air.
They could not believe what they had witnessed with their own eyes. Xu Qingchang, the man they remembered as undefeated beneath the heavens, had been killed instantly by a young girl's opening sword strike?
After someone at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm came someone at the peak of the Quasi-Emperor Realm...
Chen Mu had no interest in watching them keep producing stronger opponents like nesting dolls.
He lifted the tip of his foot, then set it down again.
A beam of light shot skyward from beneath his feet. The nine-star formation was completed in a single second, covering a radius of ten thousand meters!
Those who had been arriving one after another to seize the treasure were originally within that area.
Without exception, all of them were forcibly pushed more than ten thousand meters away by an eggshell-like barrier.
Resist it? They could not resist it at all!
Before this formation, they experienced helplessness and powerlessness they had never felt even against a supreme expert like Xu Qingchang. They could only submit to whatever was done to them.
"This... this is a nine-star formation!"
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