"Are those the Holy Maiden's guardians?"
"It's Supreme Elder Yan Ling and Supreme Elder Lu Yun!"
Cold sweat beaded on the brows of Lu Yan, the Yin-Yang Saintess, and the others. Horrified as they were, they could not help breathing a sigh of relief.
The newcomers were two eminent figures of the Yin-Yang Sect. Their strength had reached the peak of the first heaven of the immortal platform, qualifying them as Half-Step Great Powers.
Moreover, they were cultivation partners who practiced the Yin-Yang Great Dao together. It was said that together, they could even contend directly with a mighty expert. In the past, they had jointly unleashed the secret technique Yin-Yang Unity and slain an expert of that caliber.
"Holy Maiden, we'll hold it off. Hurry and leave!"
"With a vicious creature like this guarding the place, there's almost certainly dragon marrow here, very likely high-grade or even supreme-grade dragon marrow!"
The two elderly figures, a man and a woman with astonishing auras, shouted in unison.
"Yin-Yang Unity, invincible beneath heaven!" They joined hands and unleashed the Yin-Yang Sect's secret technique together, manifesting an astonishing Yin-Yang Dao Diagram.
They forcibly drove back the enormous, savage flood dragon wreathed in crimson flames.
But an instant later, they too were sent flying backward by the impact.
"Roar!" The giant flood dragon bellowed.
Flames rolled and molten lava splashed.
Relentless, it opened its blood-red maw and charged in for the kill.
Several Yin-Yang Sect disciples in the Dao Palace Secret Realm had no time to escape before it swallowed them.
Others were engulfed by those terrifying flames.
They screamed as they burned to drifting ash.
"Enough of your rampage!"
The Yin-Yang Sect's two Half-Step Great Powers shouted.
They exchanged a glance, then charged toward each other and merged into one.
They became a figure blazing with light, yin and yang converging within it, and erupted with a terrifying aura no weaker than a mighty expert's.
They began battling the flood dragon.
Boom...
Chapter 44: Killing Intent, the Dagger Revealed as the Map Unrolls
Rumble...
The void rumbled, and divine power surged.
The vast Yin-Yang Diagram and the enormous claw surging with flames collided again and again.
Great stretches of mountain ranges collapsed as the Yin-Yang Sect's two Half-Step Great Powers fought the ferocious Red-Flame Flood Dragon.
Meanwhile, the Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Maiden, Elder Lu Yan, and the others who had escaped death fled into the distance with a dozen or so disciples.
Yet as they moved away from that area-
Taiyi, who despite his meager strength had "luckily" survived and remained among the group-
Unhesitatingly activated the Forbidden Weapon Danyangzi had left him.
Brilliant light erupted from his entire body.
"Yin-Yang Sect, I'll collect a little interest first!"
He sneered and suddenly sprang into action.
His divine power seethed like a blazing furnace.
A golden fist imprint blasted out, blowing apart a careless Dragon Transformation Elder beside him before the elder could even dodge.
"What?!"
At the same time, dazzling holy light illuminated the sky.
One hundred and eight blazing rays of holy light suddenly burst forth.
Boom... boom... The weaker Yin-Yang Sect disciples, including two experts in the Four Extremes Secret Realm, had no time to react.
That terrifying holy light blasted them straight into clouds of blood.
Only the Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Maiden, Lu Yan, and two other Yin-Yang Sect elders barely managed to block the sudden holy light and survive.
Clearly, the Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Maiden possessed a precious treasure that protected her. Otherwise, she could never have withstood that astonishing surprise attack.
"Jin Yang?"
"Is that... the Holy Light Technique?"
"You're an expert from the Yaoguang Holy Land?"
The Yin-Yang Saintess, Lu Yan, and the other Dragon Transformation Elders paled.
They stared in horror at Taiyi, who was wreathed in holy light and blazed like the sun, impossible to look at directly.
They were utterly stunned and disbelieving, both shocked and furious.
They had thought this disciple Elder Lu had taken in was destined to become nothing more than a miserable cultivation vessel, just like those before him.
They had never imagined he was no wandering cultivator at all. By some unknown means, he had evaded the Yin-Yang Sect's scrutiny and infiltrated the sect.
Now he had suddenly betrayed them and caught them in his trap.
"Heh..." Staring at the Yin-Yang Sect elder Lu Yan, Taiyi seethed with murderous intent and sneered. "You wanted to use me as a cultivation vessel? Why don't you piss a puddle and take a good look at yourself!"
At that moment, his divine power soared.
The aura he released set their hearts pounding with fear.
Forbidden Weapons differed from ordinary magical treasures. Though they came in many varieties, some possessed terrifying destructive power, while others could make a person's strength soar for a short time...
Most, however, could only be used a few times before they were destroyed, their power utterly exhausted.
The Guardian Forbidden Weapon Danyangzi had specifically left for Taiyi allowed him to unleash greater combat strength for a short period, directly crossing realm boundaries to fight experts in the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm.
If each use was brief, and he controlled the increase in power rather than pushing the amplification too far, he could use it at least nine times.
But if he used it for a prolonged period and amplified his combat strength to its limit-
It could generally only be used three times, or even fewer.
Whoosh!
Light flashed.
A jade hairpin flew out, piercing toward the space between his brows.
But Taiyi struck with his palm, shattering the incoming jade hairpin outright.
Unleashing the Sun God Movement Technique, he moved with terrifying speed and charged up to another Yin-Yang Sect elder.
His unstoppable fist imprint smashed the small pagoda the elder summoned in the flash of a spark.
The elder's face drained of color.
Rumble...
Holy light burst forth, dazzling and brilliant.
Blazing radiance stretched endlessly, as though the entire sky would burn and collapse.
This expert in the third heaven of dragon transformation could not withstand Taiyi's assault at all.
He screamed as he was blasted straight into a cloud of blood.
"You won't get away with this!" The Yin-Yang Saintess and Lu Yan both attacked.
They not only sent magical artifacts striking toward him, but also unleashed astonishing secret techniques.
Boom... boom... Holy light blazed, and waves of scorching heat spread ceaselessly.
The flying swords, the Ancient Pagoda, and the other magical artifacts summoned by the Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Maiden and elders could not stop him. All were mercilessly shattered.
Boom... He clashed head-on with the Yin-Yang Sect's Holy Maiden, whose strength, likewise boosted by some secret treasure, was fully on par with these Dragon Transformation Elders.
He shattered a terrifying Yin Diagram.
The impact also left her palm spasming, white bone exposed amid streaming blood.
"What?" The Yin-Yang Saintess flew backward, her expression changing in horror.
She had never imagined his physical body would be so powerful.
Boom...
Taiyi was bathed in holy light.
He resembled a supremely powerful Sun Deity descending into the world.
His momentum was ferocious as he barreled through them, slaughtering in every direction.
The Holy Light Technique rendered him impervious to myriad arts, blocking the attacks of the other Dragon Transformation experts from the Yin-Yang Sect.
Whoosh- Green light flashed.
A Green Jade Ring flew out, radiating terrifying might as it blasted toward Elder Lu Yan.
It struck her and sent her flying, vomiting blood, half her body pulverized and drenched in gore.
"Who exactly are you?" Lu Yan cried out in terror. "Could you be the Yaoguang Holy Son?"
She had never imagined this "disciple" had concealed himself so deeply, suddenly striking while the flood dragon kept the Yin-Yang Saintess's guardians occupied.
Moreover, even with so many of them joining forces, they could not stop him.
For a moment, despair and bitter unwillingness filled her.
"I'm under no obligation to let you die knowing the truth..."
Taiyi's expression was cold.
Like a God of Slaughter, he moved with incredible speed and suddenly charged up to her.
His fist bore down with crushing force, shattering her body.
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