By the time the other protector reacted, the young man had already died before the Pill Chamber doors, physical body and Nascent Soul alike.
Clean and decisive.
Only then, from the sudden change in that Nascent Soul late-stage cultivator's expression, did Yue Ting realize he might have caused serious trouble.
No, anyone who dared harbor designs against Master deserved death without mercy!!!
He regretted nothing. It was just that the man's identity was clearly more troublesome than he had expected.
Soon, two more cultivators arrived, one of them also at the Nascent Soul late stage.
After examining the remains, the three wore increasingly ugly expressions. Even their lingering greed vanished, replaced by a ruthlessness mingled with fear.
Then a Message Transmission Jade Token lit up, making their attitudes change completely.
Yue Ting caught only one sentence.
"If you cannot bring him back, the three of you will pay with your lives, and your entire clans will be exterminated."
From that moment on, there was no room left for compromise.
A Pitch-Black Chain Dharma Treasure flew in from the side, snaking around a stone pillar straight toward Yue Ting's waist and abdomen.
Yue Ting abruptly came back to himself and crushed the talisman in his palm. A Black Azure Stone Wall immediately rose before him.
The chain struck it, and cracks instantly spread across the wall's surface, but it still bought him half a breath.
He used that opening to turn, dodging the scarlet saber light pressing down right after it from overhead, then darted toward another tidal channel.
His Nascent Soul middle-stage peak cultivation simply could not sustain a head-on engagement against two Nascent Soul late-stage cultivators at once.
If he had not accumulated plenty of high-grade and supreme-grade fourth-tier talismans through pill refining over the years, his physical