An hour ago.
Iron Spine Sect At the entrance to the ruins, the wind on the limestone platform was much stronger than usual.
True Person Iron Fist was sitting on a round stone that was half a man's height. His bald head glowed with an oily sheen under the faint skylight. He stretched out his thick right arm, exerted force with his five fingers, and took a fistful of the air in front of him, making a sound of cracking joints.
"Calculate the time, these boys should be ready to come out."
"There are some good seedlings this time." True Person Iron Fist rubbed his bald head, and his voice was as thick as blasting from his chest, "There is a boy with a heavy knife on his back, Body Refining Realm's power is even more ridiculous than mine back then. I'll ask him later which sect he belongs to. If there is no sect, I Iron Fist Sect will accept it."
Yang Qingxue stood on a strip of bluestone not far away. She was tall and tall, with short hair that reached her neck and was slightly blown by the wind. Her legs were slender and straight. She stood on the edge of the bluestone, like a mountain harrier ready to fly out at any time.
"You see, everyone looks like your Iron Fist Sect material. They use knives, not fists."
"What's wrong with the knife? Body Refining has cultivated it to the back, and his fist is the knife." True Person Iron Fist patted his casserole-sized fist, and the bones made a cracking sound.
Yang Qingxue did not refute, she turned her head and looked at the only person sitting on the platform.
True Person Gu Dan was sitting cross-legged on a bluestone the size of a millstone in the center of the platform. He was wearing a white-washed blue-gray robe, with silver-white beard and hair, but his face was as rosy as a young man. He put his hands on his knees and breathed long and steady. Every time he inhaled, his chest expanded slightly, but when he exhaled, it converged silently.
A circle of very faint golden light slowly spread from his body, like a shimmer seeping from the depths of his bones. When the golden light came out of his body, the dust on the gravel around him fell to the ground layer by layer. When the golden light was withdrawn, the dust was scattered in the air in the form of finer powder.
True Person Iron Fist and Yang Qingxue looked at each other.
True Person Iron Fist tilted his head, lowered his voice and said to Yang Qingxue, "Look, Elder Gu is almost Golden Body Realm?"
Yang Qingxue glanced at the layer of golden light under Gu Dan's skin, and couldn't hide the trace of envy in his eyes. There was a huge threshold between Meridian Unblocking Realm Peak and Golden Body Realm, and crossing it was another world.
True Person Iron Fist and Yang Qingxue themselves are both Meridian Opening Middle Stage, and together they are not enough to fight Gu Dan with one hand.
"It's still early." An old and peaceful voice sounded in their ears at the same time.
True Person Iron Fist and Yang Qingxue turned their heads at the same time.
"It's not that easy. It will take at least five years. Fortuitous opportunity is here and it can be done." True Person Gu Dan slowly opened his eyes, and there was a flash of golden light hidden deep in his pupils. It was the Body Refining's natal divine light that can only appear when he truly enters the Golden Body Realm world.
True Person Iron Fist laughed loudly and cupped his hands, "Congratulations in advance to Elder Gu."
"Congratulations Elder Gu." Yang Qingxue also clasped his fists in congratulations. It is definitely a good thing for them Yang Household to hand over a powerful Golden Body Realm in advance.
True Person Iron Fist looked up at the sky. The gray-blue sky was slowly dimming. The fifth day of the ruins trial was coming to an end.
"It's almost time."
He took out a palm-sized jade talisman from his arms. The jade talisman was round in shape, with circles of fine spiritual pattern circuits engraved on its surface. Each circle of spiritual patterns was inlaid with tiny broken spiritual stones, glowing with a flowing light under the weak light. This was a space jade talisman specially used to open the exit of the Iron Spine Gate ruins. As long as it was activated, it could open the exit of the ruins.
"I wonder how those little cubs of my Iron Fist Sect are doing in there?"
With the injection of True Person Iron Fist spiritual power, the Spirit Rune on the jade talisman lit up circle by circle, starting from the outermost circle and converging towards the center. When the crystal in the center lit up, the jade talisman made a low buzzing sound. Platform The space in front began to appear distortions visible to the naked eye. Circles of ripples appeared in the air, like a stone thrown into the calm water. A golden line emerged from the point of the most severe distortion, slowly spreading to both sides along the void - a crack in the space was taking shape.
At the moment when the golden thread was about to completely split, True Person Gu Dan suddenly raised his head and looked forward.
"Be careful."
His figure, which was originally sitting cross-legged, had already stood up from the bluestone. The sleeves of his robe moved automatically without wind. The layer of golden light reappeared on his body, much brighter than when he adjusted his breath just now.
True Person Iron Fist raised his head and followed True Person Gu Dan's gaze towards the distant horizon. At first he saw nothing, only gray-blue clouds and the approaching night.
Then he saw it.
At the end of the horizon, a layer of deep blood-red spreads on the gray-blue sky. The color is so thick that it seems as if someone has knocked over a whole pool of blood at the other end of the skyline. The blood color spreads in all directions along the veins of the sky. Even the light shining through the blood turns dark red, and there is a faint fishy sweetness floating in the air.
True Person Iron Fist moved his neck and shoulders, making a series of crisp cracking sounds of his joints.
"There are really some people who are not afraid of death."
He stuffed the jade talisman into his arms with his backhand. The cracks had begun to expand steadily, and there was no need to continue to input spiritual power. His legs were slightly bent, and his ankles were exerted. His whole body was like a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, making a shallow pit on the gravel ground, and he moved towards the bloody direction.
On the third breath he flew out, True Person Gu Dan suddenly spoke, and his voice was louder than the wind. "Something's wrong, come back."
Yang Qingxue clenched his fists, and Qi and Blood all over his body was mobilized.
Just when True Person Iron Fist was about to approach the bloody edge, she suddenly sensed something and her pupils shrank suddenly. "Get out of the way!!"
Her voice cut through the air like a knife. True Person Gu Dan and Yang Qingxue soared into the sky almost at the same time.
True Person Iron Fist was half a beat slower. As soon as his feet stepped firmly on the ground, the light had already arrived.
Red with gold.
A crescent-shaped blade of light sliced across the position where the three of them were standing.
It flew extremely fast, and the air was compressed into a layer of white film visible to the naked eye attached to the blade surface, so fast that the trajectory of the light blade itself turned into a vague, translucent arc.
On the path passed by the crescent light blade, a dead tree as thick as a bucket was silently broken into two pieces, and the cut was as smooth as a mirror; a piece of bluestone two people high was chipped, and the upper half slid slowly along the cut surface, and the cross section was so smooth that it reflected the red color of the sky; the gravel and weeds on the ground were also cut off, and the cut surface was neat without any trace of tearing.
True Person Iron Fist only had time to cross his arms in front of his waist, Meridian Opening Middle Stage's Body Refining monk, his bone hardness is comparable to the top grade Spirit Artifact, and he can mobilize all the flesh and blood in an instant The spiritual power formed a protective golden film that could withstand a full blow from Spirit Artifact of the same level. The golden film shattered after standing in front of the crescent light blade for less than a breath. The light blade cut across his waist, and his arm bones, spine, flesh and blood, and meridians were all severed at the same instant.
True Person Iron Fist lowered his head and glanced at his waist. The upper body and lower body had been separated. The limbs below the waist were still standing in place, and the legs were still in the position of exerting force. The upper body had begun to slip from the waist. Blood spurted out from the fracture, with the Meridian Opening Realm's unique dark red thick Qi and Blood power, and sprinkled among the gravel on the ground, making the ground squeak.
The flesh and blood at the fracture is shrinking violently, and the strong vitality is still driving the remaining Qi and Blood to try to glue the impossible wounds. There is no fear on his face, only a dull look caused by extreme shock.
"This is...Law Treasure?!!"
True Person Iron Fist's mouth opened, and blood poured out from deep in his throat. He only said these few words, and his upper body and lower body were completely separated. The cross section was as smooth as tofu that had been shaved by the most Sharpness knife.
In the air three feet in front of True Person Iron Fist, a dense mass of Blood Qi condensed out of thin air, from light to thick, from scattered to concentrated, and finally condensed into a figure wearing a gray robe and cloak.
The man was of medium height, and was wrapped in a loose gray robe. His hood was pulled down so low that his face could not be seen clearly. He held a crescent-shaped curved blade in his hand. The curved blade was dark red in color, and there was a layer of blood-colored luster flowing on the blade surface, making the entire short blade seem to grow out of flesh and blood.
The gray-robed monk hung the curved blade on his waist and slowly took out a palm-sized red vial from his arms. He walked to True Person Iron Fist's lower body, uncorked the bottle, and pointed the mouth of the bottle at the cross section of the half body. A strong suction force gushes out from the bottle, and all the blood in True Person Iron Fist's lower body All the liquid, Qi and Blood, and remaining spiritual power were extracted and turned into a dark red trickle, which was sucked into the vial. The half of True Person Iron Fist's body shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye. The skin stuck to the bones and became gray and withered, like a mummy that had been exposed to the sun for decades.
The gray-robed monk took a step forward and pointed the mouth of the bottle at True Person Iron Fist's upper body. True Person Iron Fist hadn't completely expired yet. His eyes were still moving and his lips were trembling, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat was already blocked by blood and he could only emit a series of vague bubbles.
Just when the mouth of the bottle was about to be aimed at True Person Iron Fist's upper body, a cyan figure fell from the sky like lightning.
Yang Qingxue.
As she fell, she had already drummed Qi and Blood to the extreme, and a blue light covered her whole body. She raised her right foot high, and her calves and soles were wrapped with layers of blue light. Those lights condensed into a high-speed rotating cyclone on her toes.
Flowing Wind Shatter the Mountain Stomp.
With one step, a hundred consecutive impacts exploded at the same instant, enough to turn a hill into powder.
Her foot accurately kicked the gray-robed monk on the back.
The gray-robed monk did not look back. The moment Yang Qingxue's feet were about to touch his robe, his body spread out, like a pool of blood that had been stirred up, and transformed from its physical form into a thick mist of blood.
Yang Qingxue stepped on the air, and the power that had been condensed to the limit did not have any stress points. It was all poured into the air, making a dull sound of air explosion. Her body was slightly unbalanced due to the failure of the force, but she forcibly twisted in mid-air, swept her right foot smoothly, and kicked behind her body with a blue aura. According to her judgment, the location where the blood mist should condense again should be behind her.
Missed again.
The blood mist re-condensed into a blurry figure in another direction behind her, then dispersed again in her field of vision, and then condensed again. Yang Qingxue fired seven consecutive kicks, each one hitting the target, and each time it missed by a hair.
Yang Qingxue landed on the ground, stepped on a piece of bluestone, stabilized his center of gravity, and stopped pursuing.
She looked at the figure of the gray-robed monk looming in the blood mist, and could feel that his cultivation level should be higher than hers, but she couldn't tell how much higher. The crescent-shaped curved blade in his hand was at least Law Treasure level, and the blood-sucking red vial in his hand was by no means simple. If she fought head-on, she had no chance of winning.
She turned her head and glanced at True Person Iron Fist on the ground. He still had the last breath left. The jade talisman for activating the space crack was still tightly held in his withered palm. The crack had completely opened and the passage had stabilized. Through the fluctuations of the crack, the figures gathering inside the ruins could be vaguely seen.
The Body Refining Realm and Qi and Blood Realm monks inside will be coming out soon.
She couldn't wait any longer. Yang Qingxue swooped down. She grabbed True Person Iron Fist's collar with both hands and used her shoulder blades to pull up the heavy upper body from the ground.
True Person Iron Fist's body was too heavy. The bone density of Meridian Opening Middle Stage's body was far higher than that of ordinary people. The upper half alone weighed more than 500 kilograms. Carrying it in her hand was like carrying an anvil. With a flick of her arms, she threw True Person Iron Fist's upper body, together with the space jade talisman that he had not yet had time to put into the storage ring, into the entrance of the crack.
True Person Iron Fist Penetration The broken body entered the entrance of the crack. The moment he entered the space barrier, the force of the formation forced him to let out a low groan. Then his body passed through the entire space passage, was thrown to the other side of the exit, and hit the gravel ground heavily.
True Person Iron Fist used up the last bit of strength left in his chest, raised his head, and shouted to the crowd surrounding him.
"Quick... run..."
His pupils completely blurred within three breaths. His head hit the gravel ground and never came up again.
The platform exploded instantly, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the half-body body on the ground. Someone recognized him and blurted out:
"True Person Iron Fist! That's True Person Iron Fist!"
True Person Iron Fist was killed.
The entire platform was deathly silent.
Qin Tiexin grabbed Duan Xuan's wrist, held Edgeless in front of him, and slowly withdrew from the crowd.