In truth, Huo Chengle had not moved at all.
But Li Jing, whose eyes had been corrupted, could no longer tell.
Seeing this, Huo Chengle could only raise his sword helplessly and engage Li Jing.
Xu Yi ignored Li Jing. Crimson patterns blazed across the White Jade Long Sword in his hand as he thrust rapidly at the gray-robed man.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Scorching crimson beams of sword light whistled forth, sounding like the cries of some bird of prey.
The gray-robed man stood motionless, and the Ghost Eye on his brow opened again.
Xu Yi had been ready for it and immediately closed his eyes.
At the same time, the Peace Jade Pendant hanging around his neck radiated a faint coolness, keeping his mind clear.
His movements remained unaffected as he thrust straight at the gray-robed man's vital points.
The gray-robed man swung his dagger to parry.
But he was clearly no match for Xu Yi, who punched several holes through his body.
"Fire Falcon Scorching the Sky!"
Suddenly, Xu Yi unleashed a killing move. The White Jade Long Sword seemed to transform into a falcon as it stabbed straight toward the gray-robed man's brow.
The strike was so fast that even its afterimage could not be seen.
The Ghost Eye on the gray-robed man's brow immediately shut, but Xu Yi's sword pierced it anyway!
Squelch!
The gray-robed man howled as the searing heat of the White Jade Long Sword set his entire body ablaze.
As the gray-robed man vanished, Li Jing's vision went black, and she passed out.
Huo Chengle finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Whoosh!
Just then, Xu Yi suddenly heard something cutting through the air.
A small stone appeared out of the darkness, hurtling toward him.
With his keen senses, Xu Yi sidestepped the stone.
Then his expression abruptly changed.
He sensed a dangerous, malicious presence nearby, drawing closer to him!
Without hesitation, Xu Yi pulled another Sunlight Talisman from inside his robes and activated it.
Bang!
The Sunlight Talisman erupted into a ball of white light in the courtyard.
As the white light surged outward, two mysterious figures abruptly appeared in the courtyard.
A man and a woman.
The woman was approaching him, while the man was approaching Huo Chengle.
"As expected of the Demon Extermination Palace's foremost genius!"
The woman in the bamboo hat grinned, sticking out a forked tongue. With a curved saber in hand, she rushed at Xu Yi like a wraith.
The tattooed man likewise lunged at Huo Chengle.
"They're from the Void Cult!"
"Junior Brother Huo, watch out!"
Sensing their hollow, empty qi mechanism, Xu Yi immediately recognized who they were. He then clashed fiercely with the woman in the bamboo hat.
Huo Chengle blanched at Xu Yi's warning. Faced with the charging man, he chose to dodge backward first.
His opponent was already less than a meter away, far too close. He had completely lost the initiative!
The tattooed man suddenly became a blur. His entire right arm swelled dramatically and shot forward like a massive python striking at prey!
Huo Chengle failed to dodge and took the punch squarely in the chest.
Crack!
Although Huo Chengle had circulated a burst of mystic qi to protect his chest at the last moment, the punch shattered it anyway. His ribs broke, and he crashed into a room, losing consciousness.
The tattooed man did not even bother checking whether Huo Chengle was alive. He turned and joined the woman in the bamboo hat to surround and kill Xu Yi!
Xu Yi was their true target in this operation. The others did not matter.
"Damn it!"
No matter how strong Xu Yi was, the combined assault of these two Void Cult experts left him struggling.
Clang, clang, clang!
He moved like a roaming dragon, relying on his agile footwork to keep maneuvering around the woman in the bamboo hat and the tattooed man.
"Void Entanglement!"
The woman in the bamboo hat uttered a strange syllable.
Xu Yi immediately felt the air around him coil around his limbs like snakes.
"Break!"
Xu Yi drove the mystic qi within his body and broke free of the entangling currents.
The tattooed man seized the opening and threw himself onto Xu Yi, wrapping his limbs around him like a python and preventing him from escaping.
Xu Yi struggled desperately, searing mystic qi pouring out of him and scorching the tattooed man's skin.
But his opponent clung tightly to him, heedless even as his skin burned to a crisp.
"Die!"
With a cold, sinister smile, the woman in the bamboo hat raised her curved saber in both hands, intending to plunge it straight into Xu Yi's skull!
At that moment.
Xu Yi was utterly desperate!
He had never imagined he would die in the Flying Cloud County Seat.
Roar!
A piercing tiger's roar suddenly exploded through the air.
Xu Yi's eyes widened in shock.
He saw a figure leap down from above, raising a great cleaver in both hands and bringing it down in an explosive chop.
The woman in the bamboo hat had never expected an intruder to appear at this critical moment!
The fierce rush of wind in her ears made her whole body tremble.
That strike would undoubtedly cleave her in two.
She could not even tell whether her saber would fall first or whether her opponent would cut her in half before that.
In the end, she chose not to risk her life and darted backward.
Thud!
Lu Mian landed heavily on the ground.
Without even readjusting his stance, he swept his blade out, unleashing all his strength in a broad flurry of saber light and attacking like a crazed tiger!
"An unranked nobody actually dares challenge me!"
The moment the woman in the bamboo hat realized that Lu Mian had no fluctuations of mystic qi, only the strength of his blood and vital energy, she lost her composure.
She swung her curved saber with one hand, its path vicious and unpredictable, like a venomous snake darting from its hole.
Clang, clang, clang!
This was Lu Mian's first time fighting a cultivator.
And his opponent was no ordinary cultivator of the First Realm: Qi Accumulation.
Every time his blade collided with her curved saber, Lu Mian felt a hollow, empty qi mechanism eating away at him.
He could only desperately counteract it with his own blood and vital energy.
But compared to a qi mechanism, the power of blood and vital energy was on an entirely lower level.
Lu Mian had to burn through enormous amounts of blood and vital energy just to keep that power of emptiness from corrupting him.
Fortunately, he had swallowed a Blood Ginseng Pill before making his move.
His gluttonous stomach was frantically digesting its medicinal power, replenishing his blood and vital energy so he could hold out a little longer.
But in such a short time, his plague energy could not affect his opponent at all.
Meanwhile, Xu Yi finally broke free of the tattooed man's grip and attacked him with reckless abandon.
Beams of sword light streaked across the sky like crimson falcons.
Facing the Demon Extermination Palace's foremost genius alone, the tattooed man fell somewhat short. Crimson sword wounds opened across his body.
Yet he did not utter a sound. His fists lashed out wildly, denying Xu Yi any chance to attack the woman in the bamboo hat.
Once she finished off Lu Mian and joined him again, they could still put Xu Yi to death!
"Lu Mian, hold on a little longer!"
Xu Yi shouted.
"No problem."
Lu Mian's eyes reddened.
"An unranked nobody dares tell me it's no problem!"
"Die!"
The woman in the bamboo hat sneered.
The strength of Lu Mian's blood and vital energy had surprised her somewhat.
But she refused to believe his reserves were endless.
The Great Void Snake Mother... does not exist.
Lu Mian silently recited those words.
He clearly intended to shake the faith of the woman in the bamboo hat.
The moment those words were uttered, thoughts of denial really did arise in her mind.
The Land of All Beings does not exist. The Great Void Snake Mother does not exist either. It is all a lie.
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