Gravely Wounded Again

Qian Gu Fenfeng reconsidered. He could not let them keep growing. After stabilizing his injuries, he flew toward Shrek Academy.

"Pavilion Master Yun! Pavilion Master Yun!"

Sensing Qian Gu Fenfeng approaching Shrek Academy, everyone in the Sea God Pavilion stirred and hurriedly flew out, ready for battle.

"Councilor Qian Gu, what brings you here?" Yun Ming gazed at Qian Gu Fenfeng in the distance, the Heavenly Spear already clenched in his hand.

"Oh, Pavilion Master Yun, why so tense? I just have something to discuss with you."

"Hmph, Councilor, we don't seem to have offended you in any way." Yun Ming frowned, his heart tightening. He was on the verge of summoning his Battle Armor.

Though Yun Ming forced himself to look composed, he muttered inwardly, Could it be that I beat Qian Chenyue too badly? But it's not as though he doesn't know about the Fallen Angel's ability. The Fallen Angel's Soul Power clings like maggots to bone, preventing wounds from healing. Right now, I can only mobilize seventy percent of even my Soul Power. I can't fight him head-on.

Qian Gu Fenfeng sneered inwardly. Since when have you become so cautious, Yun Ming? Yet his expression grew even warmer. "Oh, Pavilion Master Yun, this concerns Shrek Academy's legacy! I discovered that a child actually possesses the Sea God's inheritance..."

Before he could finish, Yun Ming's face filled with disdain. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Inwardly, however, he thought, Hmph, even if it's true, would Qian Gu Fenfeng be kind enough to let me have a share? There must be a trap!

"Hahaha, Pavilion Master Yun, to tell you the truth, my injuries have yet to heal. I'm afraid I can't investigate the truth alone..." Qian Gu Fenfeng put on a show of coughing twice, preparing to display weakness to his enemy.

Hearing this, Yun Ming thought to himself, So he wants to use me as his spear... He narrowed his eyes and stared at Qian Gu Fenfeng.

Hmph, I'll sell him out when the time comes, Yun Ming and Qian Gu Fenfeng both thought.

"Good. Here's to a pleasant partnership!" A slight smile appeared at the corner of Yun Ming's mouth.

"Hahaha, Pavilion Master Yun is a decisive man!" Qian Gu Fenfeng gave the greenhorn before him a meaningful look.

High in the sky, Yun Ming and Qian Gu Fenfeng arrived together. The auras of the two powerhouses warped the surrounding space as they flew straight toward Tang Wulin, who was still in Aolai City.

The Heavenly Spear stretched across the sky as Yun Ming's demigod pressure thundered outward, his killing intent fierce and biting. Beside him, Qian Gu Fenfeng's Coiling Dragon Staff trembled, divine power flowing along its shaft. One on either side, the two sealed off every escape route.

Deep within Tang Wulin's sea of consciousness, the phantom of Old Tang's Divine Soul slowly took shape. He was the first to sense the killing intent the two supreme powerhouses directed at Tang Wulin.

The Divine Realm's rules imposed layer upon layer of restrictions. He had only a handful of opportunities to manifest through Tang Wulin's spiritual world.

Just as that wisp of Old Tang's divine power, bearing the majesty of a God King, was about to pour forth, Qian Gu Fenfeng's pupils abruptly contracted.

He had anticipated this. Without the slightest hesitation, he darted sideways and resolutely placed Yun Ming in front of himself as a shield.

"What..."

He raised the Coiling Dragon Staff horizontally and unleashed all his Soul Power and Battle Armor power, wrapping himself tightly in layer upon layer of defenses. Then he retreated at the greatest speed he had ever managed in his life.

Boom-!

Old Tang swung the illusory Sea God Trident in his hand, tracing an intricate Sea God Seal before him.

"White clouds linger through a thousand years of emptiness!"

The divine strike that crossed the Divine Realm's shackles descended, its boundless, peerless power crashing into the two men.

Space shattered inch by inch, and violent waves of energy exploded in every direction.

"What scoundrels are these!"

Qian Gu Fenfeng grunted. Spiderweb cracks covered his Battle Armor, and a mouthful of blood gushed from his lips. His bones gave brittle cracks beneath the unbearable burden, and even his Divine Soul shook violently.

Yun Ming fared far worse.

Caught off guard, he took a casual strike from Sea God Tang San's divine consciousness. Even his demigod body could not withstand the residual might of a God King. The Heavenly Spear spun out of his grasp, a great spray of blood burst from his chest, and the Soul Core within him shook violently. His aura instantly withered.

The dust filling the sky dispersed.

Qian Gu Fenfeng knelt on one knee, drenched in blood, barely supporting himself with the Coiling Dragon Staff planted against the ground. Meridians throughout his body had snapped apart. Yun Ming was likewise on the verge of collapse, half his body scorched by the lingering divine power and his demigod essence damaged.

Both men had suffered grievous injuries.

Old Tang glanced at the two men kneeling on the ground and snorted coldly. He actually raised the Sea God Trident again and swept it fiercely toward them. There was no exposed edge, no outpouring of divine power, only a sense of flawless, rounded completeness.

"Unfixed Storm!"

At the sight, Qian Gu Fenfeng inwardly cried, This is bad! With all his strength, he activated the Spacetime Rotation Soul Tool on his body. A gate of the abyss slowly opened behind him, about to draw him inside.

"Don't even think about it!" Yun Ming roared.

He, too, had known this journey would not be peaceful, so he had brought a golden leaf from the Golden Ancient Tree. At this critical moment, the leaf blazed with light and flew straight into his mouth.

Then Old Tang's mountain-shattering, tsunami-like strike followed close behind. In an instant, the ground collapsed and houses turned to ash, leaving nothing but azure blue as far as the eye could see.

Within the sea of consciousness, Old Tang's phantom slowly faded. This intervention had exhausted his sole remaining authorization to act in the mortal world, and his Divine Soul's power diminished drastically once again.

"Hmph, you ruined my ten-thousand-year plan. You have already given yourselves cause to die!"

With that, he looked toward Shrek Academy and sent Ah Yin a message from afar that he could no longer intervene. Then he sank back into the spiritual abyss within Tang Wulin, no longer able to manifest easily.