Seven Kill Sword and Bone Dragon vs. Evil Eye Tyrant! Ning Fengzhi Became a Cripple? [4K!]

However, that thought lasted only an instant.

"How sweet you make it sound."

Gu Rong sneered, his body bowing slightly as his joints cracked like thunder.

"You painted such a grand pie in the sky for Fengzhi and me that even I nearly wanted a taste."

Chen Xin slowly raised the Seven Kill Sword, pointing its tip straight between Evil Eye's brows. His voice held not the slightest ripple:

"Since the Xuanwu Empire's Soul Tools possess such heaven-reaching, earth-shaking power,

"why did a level-ninety-six consecrated elder like you have to sneak into the Command Tent in the dead of night like a rat in a sewer to ambush an unarmed support-type sect master?"

Evil Eye's smile faded slightly, his gaze suddenly sharpening:

"You refuse the toast only to drink the punishment.

"I kindly offered you a path to survival, yet you insist on being buried alongside them?"

"A path to survival?"

Chen Xin sneered, his silver hair whipping wildly in the night wind.

"Even if the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect seeks a way forward, we will never kneel at an invader's feet and become their dogs!

"Much less entrust our sect master's life to a skulking rat like you!"

"The old bastard is right!"

Gu Rong roared chillingly.

"If we let you carry Fengzhi out of Dragon-Slaying Pass alive today, how could we two old men still have the face to stand between heaven and earth?!"

"Obstinate natives!"

Evil Eye lost his patience completely.

His primary target had always been Ning Fengzhi. As long as he abducted the continent's foremost support-type sect master and brought him back to camp,

Lord Xuan Zi could use him as a bargaining chip to dismantle half the Heaven Dou Empire without shedding blood.

"Since you seek death, I shall grant your wish!"

The vertical pupil between Evil Eye's brows abruptly expanded. His ninth, blood-red Soul Ring blazed into the heavens, becoming a boundless sea of blood that shrouded the entire night sky.

Buzzz!

Terrifying spiritual shock waves rippled outward in visible purple-black rings, transforming into thousands of illusory evil eyes that bombarded Chen Xin and Gu Rong from every direction.

At the same time, Evil Eye flickered into a sinister phantom and lunged straight at Ning Fengzhi below.

"Not a chance!"

Gu Rong thrust both arms upward, and the nine Soul Rings beneath his feet suddenly blazed.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Myriad Bones Form a Prison, Void Lock!"

In an instant, tens of thousands of ghastly white bone spikes pierced out from spatial nodes in every direction, crisscrossing one another.

Ten entire layers of absolute confinement built from pallid bones not only protected Ning Fengzhi firmly at their center but completely scrambled and folded the surrounding spatial nodes.

Any attempt at teleportation or physical infiltration would be shredded by violent spatial countercurrents the instant it touched the bone prison.

On the other side, Chen Xin had already struck.

There were no needless flourishes, only sword intent that pushed slaughter to its utmost limit.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Seven Kill True Body!"

"Sixth Soul Skill, Myriad Swords Return to the Origin!"

An enormous phantom of the Seven Kill Sword spanned the sky, transforming into a sky-filling rain of luminous swords.

Every blade flashed with a cold gleam that tore through the void, perfectly complementing the spatial fluctuations outside the bone prison as they shot straight toward Evil Eye's face and vital points.

Facing the combined killing strike of two veteran Titled Douluos renowned for decades, Evil Eye remained in midair without the slightest intention of retreating. Instead, he laughed arrogantly.

"Spatial lockdown?

"The sharpness of ten thousand swords?

"The methods of natives amount to nothing before true laws!"

A dazzling golden halo suddenly lit up in Evil Eye's chest.

It was neither the light of a Soul Ring nor that of a Martial Soul, but a diamond-shaped crystalline core, profound as a solid object, spinning furiously at tremendous speed!

Boom-!

An indescribably immense pressure erupted from the core in Evil Eye's chest.

The free-floating power between heaven and earth, and even the Soul Power dissipating from Chen Xin's rain of swords,

were all furiously devoured, compressed, and converted by that crystalline core, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea!

"Spiritual Barrier, Absolute Domain!"

Evil Eye swept one hand, and a nearly solid amethyst shield materialized out of thin air, colliding head-on with the sky-filling sword Qi.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang-!

Deafening metallic clashes rang through the clouds as Seven Kill Sword Qi struck the shield without pause, stirring up countless violent storms of power.

Chen Xin's pupils contracted sharply.

When an ordinary Titled Douluo exchanged Soul Skills of such intensity, the expenditure of Soul Power would inevitably be enormous, and their presence would falter for an instant.

Yet Evil Eye's Soul Power had not weakened in the slightest. Instead, with that strange crystalline core spinning, his presence grew increasingly immense and powerful, flowing without end!

"Impossible!"

Gu Rong likewise noticed the abnormality and cried out involuntarily.

"The way his Soul Power circulates... there's no pause to recover at all!

"What exactly is that ball of light in his chest?!"

"Natives are frogs at the bottom of a well, after all!"

Standing amid the sky-filling sword rain, sustained by the endless, immense supply from the crystalline core in his chest, Evil Eye declared arrogantly:

"This is a 'Soul Core'!

"Only a powerhouse who breaks through the shackles of the body and the world, condensing Soul Power into the solid embryonic form of a law, can forge one!

"How could fools like you, who pile up Soul Power through meditation and Soul Ring impurities, comprehend the mighty power of internal circulation?!"

The sword in Chen Xin's hand advanced rather than retreated, chilling as ice:

"I don't care what core it is. If it can be shattered, it's a dead thing!"

"Nine Grades as One, Might Shakes the Four Directions!"

Chen Xin completely merged with the Seven Kill Sword, man and sword becoming a single beam of pure-white sword light a hundred zhang long.

His sword intent condensed to its utmost, tearing through the spiritual barrier surrounding Evil Eye and stabbing straight at the Soul Core in his chest!

Gu Rong also unleashed his ultimate trump card at that moment.

"Ninth Soul Skill, Bone Transforms into Divine Dragon, Spatial Great Annihilation!"

An enormous void Bone Dragon burst through space. Its tail swept across, directly cutting off Evil Eye's access to the power of heaven and earth within a hundred meters around him.

It forced Evil Eye to withstand Chen Xin's ultimate sword strike with his own power alone!

Rumble!

The collision between three peerless powerhouses above level ninety-five produced an explosive shock wave that tore up the ground for hundreds of meters around the Command Tent at Dragon-Slaying Pass to a depth of several zhang.

The thousands of elite Heaven Dou soldiers stationed nearby were sent tumbling, men and horses alike, by the violent blast before they could even scream.

Chen Xin's sword Qi blazed like a rainbow, forcibly ripping a crack into the amethyst shield before Evil Eye's chest.

Evil Eye's body shook violently. A thread of dark-purple blood seeped from the corner of his mouth as he was forced to slide backward several dozen zhang.

"You two old things do have some ability when you join forces."

Evil Eye wiped the blood from his mouth, his vertical pupil utterly sinister.

"Under normal circumstances, even if I had to deplete my reserves today, I would take both your lives. Unfortunately..."

Evil Eye surveyed his surroundings.

In the distance, alarm bells rang furiously atop the fortress walls of Dragon-Slaying Pass. Countless bright torches were converging on this spot like fire dragons.

The high-ranking Soul Master battle corps under Marshal Ge Long was being mobilized urgently.

Although those mortal armies were no different from ants in Evil Eye's eyes,

with Chen Xin and Gu Rong desperately entangling him like madmen, the best opportunity to break through all ten layers of the bone prison without injury and capture Ning Fengzhi alive had already been lost completely.

Forcibly abducting Ning Fengzhi would very likely leave him trapped within a tight encirclement under the two Titled Douluos' desperate counterattack. Chen Xin might even damage the foundation of his Soul Core with a suicidal sword strike.

"I have no time to waste here with you natives."

Evil Eye sneered, his figure slowly fading into the void behind him.

"Trying to leave?!

"Leave your life behind!"

Gu Rong roared, and bone claws filling the sky clawed at the void once more.

"Gu Rong, Chen Xin, if I wish to leave, do you think the two of you can stop me?"

Evil Eye scoffed. The Soul Core in his chest spun furiously, and his terrifying spiritual power forcibly warped and smoothed the space around him.

Yet just as Evil Eye was about to vanish completely into nothingness, an exceptionally cruel, vicious gleam of savagery suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"Since I can't take Ning Fengzhi... I'll give the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect a grand gift!"

The vertical pupil in Evil Eye's forehead snapped shut, then opened wide again.

A spiritual death ray, black as ink and fine as a strand of hair, condensed within a thousandth of an instant!

This was no ordinary Soul Skill, but an ultimate secret art he activated by burning the Evil Eye Tyrant's Source Blood!

"Myriad Thoughts Devour the Marrow, Severed Meridians, Shattered Soul!"

"No!

"His target is Fengzhi!"

Chen Xin's eyes nearly split with fury as the Seven Kill Sword in his hand became a streak of light and slashed frantically toward it.

Gu Rong exerted every last ounce of strength, pouring all his Soul Power into the bone prison.

At that moment, all ten layers of white-bone shields even shone with a solid, jade-like glow, while layer upon layer of folded space overlapped!

But that black spiritual death ray did not collide physically with the bone prison at all.

The instant it touched the first layer, it transformed into invisible, formless ripples of nothingness.

Taking advantage of a tiny tremor in Gu Rong's circulating Soul Power, it pierced straight through the overlapping spatial barriers!

This was a vicious law that acted purely upon the junction between the body's nerves and the spiritual sea of consciousness!

Pfft-!

With an almost imperceptible muffled sound, the black light ignored every physical and Soul Power defense.

With unerring precision, it viciously pierced Ning Fengzhi's right hip bone and the knee of his right leg as he lay beneath the desk!

"Aaaah-!!"

Still unconscious, Ning Fengzhi suddenly let out an utterly agonized scream.

The instant the black light entered his right leg, the trouser leg burst apart, and the flesh beneath rapidly withered and blackened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Accompanied by the grating sounds of bones corroding and shattering, the meridians, nerves, and bones of his entire right leg,

under Evil Eye's malicious law of spiritual corrosion, were utterly destroyed, reduced to necrotic deadwood!

"Fengzhi!!"

Gu Rong's eyes nearly split open. He spat out a mouthful of blood, almost going mad.

Chen Xin's sword intent soared into the heavens. Throwing all caution aside, he slashed across that stretch of void, cutting a pitch-black fissure several zhang long through space.

Yet within the void, only Evil Eye's delighted, unbridled laughter echoed through the night, receding farther and farther:

"Hahahaha!

"Chen Xin!

"Gu Rong!

"I've crippled half his body and every meridian in his lower body, and the poison of my Divine Consciousness will gnaw at his marrow day and night!

"From now on, the continent-renowned sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will be nothing but a disabled cripple who can barely walk!"

"Guard your crippled sect master well!

"The day our Xuanwu army crushes Dragon-Slaying Pass will be the day your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's lineage is extinguished!"

The wild laughter finally scattered on the wind, and the surroundings sank into utter silence.

Chen Xin stood where he was, sword in hand, his killing intent boiling to its utmost, yet he could no longer find the slightest trace of Evil Eye's presence.

Once a level-ninety-six spiritual-type Super Douluo committed to concealing himself and escaping with the aid of a Soul Core, even he had no way to track him.

"Fengzhi! Fengzhi, how are you?!"

The bone prison dispersed. Gu Rong staggered forward and collapsed to the ground, pressing trembling hands against Ning Fengzhi's right leg. Fear and rage twisted his withered face terribly.

Chen Xin sheathed his sword and descended, hurrying forward. His gaze fell on Ning Fengzhi's right leg.

His heart, always as steadfast and cold as an ancient well, gave a violent spasm at that moment.

The pain had already jolted Ning Fengzhi awake again. His face was white as paper, and cold sweat had thoroughly soaked his entire elegant white robe.

He lowered his head to look at his right leg.

That once-long, slender right leg was now completely shriveled and deformed below the knee. Its muscles were as dry and shrunken as dead sticks, and its skin had taken on the decaying color of dead ash.

Even the faintest sensation and flow of Soul Power had been completely severed.

No matter how frantically Gu Rong poured gentle Soul Power into it, whenever that Soul Power passed through the hip bone and knee, a lingering, icy spiritual toxin devoured and dissolved it completely.

"Uncle Jian... Uncle Gu..."

Ning Fengzhi's teeth chattered, and the intense pain made his whole body convulse without stopping.

Yet after only a few breaths of despair, he forcibly suppressed the look in his eyes into a heartbreaking calm.

"Don't waste your strength... my leg... is ruined."

Gu Rong's eyes were bloodshot. Scalding tears slid down his withered cheeks as he gritted his teeth and roared hoarsely:

"No!

"It can't be!

"Fengzhi, I'll take you back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect right now!

"We'll find the best healing-type Soul Douluo!

"We'll find Nine Heart Begonia!

"Find Poison Douluo Dugu Bo!

He can definitely reattach it!"

Chen Xin slowly crouched down and gently rested two fingers on Ning Fengzhi's kneecap.

After examining it carefully for a while, he finally closed his eyes for a long moment. Veins bulged on the back of his right hand as it gripped his sword hilt, and blood faintly seeped out.

"Old Bones... stop deceiving yourself."

Chen Xin's voice was terrifyingly hoarse.

"Though the bones are shattered, they can still be rejoined.

But that Evil Eye's methods were far too insidious. He seared an utterly vicious spiritual law into the Divine Consciousness meridians of Fengzhi's right leg, completely eradicating... all vitality there.

Nine Heart Begonia can restore flesh to bare bones, but it cannot cure a withering poison like this, which strikes directly at the nerves of the soul."

Ning Fengzhi leaned against the collapsed desk, panting heavily, his right hand resting limply on the knee of his utterly insensate right leg.

He tried to use his Soul Power to support himself and stand.

Yet although his left leg could bear weight, his right leg was like a length of rotten wood hanging from his body.

The slightest weight on it sent his whole body toppling helplessly to one side.

The sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, once as gentle and refined as jade, devising strategies from within his command tent, his name renowned across the continent.

At this moment, he had truly been reduced to a cripple who would never walk normally again.

"Sect Master!"

Outside the Command Tent, Marshal Ge Long, clad in armor and carrying a spear, finally broke through the ruined walls and arrived with a large contingent of elite officers.

When he saw the devastation inside the Command Tent and the pitiful sight of Ning Fengzhi collapsed on the ground, Ge Long's expression changed abruptly.

"What exactly happened just now?!

How did Sect Master Ning..."

"Get out!"

Gu Rong abruptly turned and bellowed menacingly. His raging killing intent forced Ge Long and the other officers back several steps like a tsunami.

"Without my permission, anyone who dares set even half a step in here will be torn apart by my bare hands!"