Xu Yan gave the two men a faintly mocking glance, his voice icy and steeped in murderous intent.
"Fine lad! I truly underestimated you! To possess such resolve at your tender age—your future achievements might well have been limitless. A pity, such a pity!" Blood Monster offered praise after praise, then turned his withered right hand over, revealing a jade flute glowing with bloody light.
"Blood Monster, why waste words with him? Kill this little bastard at once! Delay invites trouble." Blue-Faced Ghost Yang Ren cursed softly, then rushed toward Xu Yan like a phantom.
In midair, he abruptly slapped his forehead, his aged fingers swiftly forming a hand seal.
As the seal took effect, the space between his brows writhed eerily. An emerald-green eyeball gradually emerged, then unleashed a terrifying beam of green light that shot toward Xu Yan as swiftly as lightning.
This technique was the Green-Pupil Divine Light, Blue-Faced Ghost's primary divine ability. Every beam from that eye could pierce metal and split stone, making it terrifying beyond measure. Seeing how composed the cultivator before him was, he had opened with his signature divine ability.
Moreover, the emerald light carried an assault on divine sense. It could directly annihilate the souls of cultivators whose divine sense was weak.
This beam of green light was immensely powerful and incomparably sharp. Yang Ren had nurtured it between his brows for a long time, and now that he unleashed it, it resembled a world-shaking divine sword, its might terrifying beyond compare!
"Hmm? An eye-based divine ability!" Xu Yan's expression shifted slightly, and he hastily activated the Ancient Demon Nine Prohibitions.
"Disperse!" Xu Yan growled. Strange runes appeared all over his body, and wisps of demonic qi rose from his flesh. He abruptly grew several inches taller, swinging his demonic-qi-wreathed fists