The [Mystic Root] takes form, named [Xun Wind]! The Origin Cauldron's secrets revealed, a forest of rewards

One of the three streaks of sword light originally aimed at the three cultivators on the left traced a perfect, uncanny arc just as it approached its target, abruptly changing direction in midair and abandoning its original quarry.

Together with the pitch-black fire cloud shrouding the right side, it seemed to share a single will, converging into a destructive torrent that struck faster and from a more treacherous angle, overtaking the earlier attacks!

It completely sealed off every avenue of escape around the rapidly retreating cultivator surnamed Ji!

"What?!"

Terror had only just appeared in Cultivator Ji's eyes when his expression suddenly went blank.

With a low whistle, the [Soul-Striking Whip] concealed amid the light and shadows had already lashed his soul.

Cultivator Ji shuddered as though struck by lightning, his eyes abruptly losing focus. Although his body bore no visible wounds, he curled up like a shrimp and unleashed an inhuman scream that seemed squeezed not from his throat, but from the cracks in his soul.

Under those circumstances, how effective could the defenses he hastily raised possibly be?

Boom! Crack-!

The next instant, amid leaping lightning, the sword light tore through his shield first, followed closely by the pitch-black fire cloud, which swallowed and burned him!

"Aaargh!"

An extremely shrill, brief scream cut off abruptly.

The spiritual light surrounding Cultivator Ji instantly collapsed, and the life in his eyes swiftly faded. His body fell like a kite with its string severed. Before it could reach the black marsh below, the lingering flames burned it into charcoal, and another streak of sword light swept past, reducing it entirely to drifting ash!

From "True Person Zhen's" sudden attack to Cultivator Ji's lightning-swift death, body and soul destroyed, only a single breath had passed!

"A cultivator of both lightning and fire