The Yin Dragon continuously released its presence.
Waves of Yin Qi spread outward, seemingly reaching even the distant flowers and grasses, which swiftly withered!
Above its crest, which dripped black blood, two slanted eyes stared at Ye Qiubai, filled with anger and mockery!
How could a mere Purple Mansion Realm cultivator possibly be its match?
Ye Qiubai held Dark Demon in his hand.
For a moment, Demonic Qi surged to the heavens!
Facing a Half-Step Water Overflow Realm opponent, Ye Qiubai did not retreat.
He wanted to see whether his current strength could severely injure the Yin Dragon, or even slay it!
He raised Dark Demon, wisps of Demonic Qi covering its pitch-black blade.
For a moment, Ye Qiubai resembled a demon god descended to earth!
Then, with a light step, he charged toward the Yin Dragon!
Seeing this, the Yin Dragon roared furiously at Ye Qiubai!
Its roar seemed to turn into waves of sound, compressing space as they bore down on Ye Qiubai!
Ye Qiubai's expression grew slightly grave as he swung Dark Demon!
Nine Swords of the Heavenly Demon, First Sword!
On one side, sound waves rolled; on the other, black Sword Qi surged!
They collided with a thunderous crash!
The black Sword Qi cut through those waves of sound!
Surprise appeared in the Yin Dragon's eyes.
The strength of those sound waves was certainly beyond what anyone in the Purple Mansion Realm could withstand.
Yet Ye Qiubai had destroyed them with a single slash!
Just as it was thinking this...
Ye Qiubai had already reached the Yin Dragon!
He unleashed the second sword!
Demonic Qi surged once more!
Unrestrained Sword Qi swept across heaven and earth, continuously lashing the Yin Dragon's scales!
The Yin Dragon swung its enormous tail, whipping it toward Ye Qiubai!
Liao Meisheng sneered from the side. "How could Ye Qiubai possibly withstand this blow?"
Tian Cheng watched without speaking.
He could tell that Ye Qiubai was not so reckless.
Even he would have to defend with all his strength against that enormous tail to avoid serious injury!
But what did Ye Qiubai have to rely on?
His body was not strong enough.
His cultivation realm was not high enough.
Could he have some other trump card?
Yet what happened next shocked everyone!
Ye Qiubai's sword struck the serpent's tail.
He was not sent flying with severe injuries as everyone had imagined.
Instead, the scales on that tail actually showed signs of shattering!
The Yin Dragon roared in pain!
Ye Qiubai retreated!
The strength of the Half-Step Water Overflow Realm was formidable indeed.
Nearby, Xin Hongyi breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, however, she silently told herself that she would have to cultivate even harder once she returned.
After all, Ye Qiubai was already pulling farther and farther ahead.
If this continued, she feared she would no longer even be able to see his retreating back...
Liao Meisheng's expression darkened.
The strength Ye Qiubai displayed now was even greater than when they had clashed at the banquet...
Tian Cheng looked even more astonished.
Achieving this with his sword alone showed just how profound his sword cultivation was.
He just did not know how Ye Qiubai compared to Jian Chaomian...
At this thought, Tian Cheng could not help shaking his head, murmuring softly, "Jian Chaomian is still a cut above..."
At that moment, the Yin Dragon flew into an utter rage.
It roared, its presence erupting!
Then it actually left the Yin Dragon Pool, hurtling ferociously toward Ye Qiubai!
Ye Qiubai's eyes sharpened, but he did not dodge!
He moved forward to meet it!
Dark Demon slashed out with a thunderous force!
Nine Swords of the Heavenly Demon, Fifth Sword!
Demonic Qi was extremely abundant in the Azure Flame Mountain Range, and it was even denser around the Yin Dragon Pool.
This allowed Ye Qiubai to unleash this sword strike!
As this sword strike emerged...
The surrounding Demonic Qi seemed to answer a summons, surging toward the Dark Demon Sword!
For a moment, Demonic Qi rushed wildly!
Sensing this power...
Both Liao Meisheng's and Tian Cheng's expressions changed.
Faced with this sword strike, Tian Cheng asked himself whether he could withstand it.
The answer was no. Even if he did withstand it, he would probably have to pay an enormous price!
A price he could hardly bear.
The charging Yin Dragon's eyes froze.
This sword strike actually gave him a sense of danger!
A mere ant in the Purple Mansion Realm could actually make him feel threatened?
What humiliation!
With a furious roar, it accelerated once more!
Ye Qiubai met it head-on!
The sword, shrouded in towering Demonic Qi, slashed toward the Yin Dragon's crest!
In a single instant!
The two collided!
The Yin Dragon roared furiously as its crest actually began to shatter!
Black blood spurted out!
Ye Qiubai gave a muffled grunt. His opponent's strength was immense.
Its cultivation realm was also so much higher than his; naturally, he could not emerge unscathed from such a head-on clash!
The Yin Dragon abruptly retreated!
It returned to the Yin Dragon Pool!
Ye Qiubai snorted coldly and stamped hard on the ground!
The ground shattered instantly!
Ye Qiubai used that force to charge toward the Yin Dragon!
He swung his sword, sending Sword Qi shooting toward the Yin Dragon!
The scales covering the Yin Dragon kept breaking apart.
"Roar!"
Under everyone's terrified gazes...
The longsword in Ye Qiubai's hand came crashing down!
A single slash cleaved into the Yin Dragon's skull!
At that moment, the Yin Dragon's presence rapidly dwindled until it disappeared.
Ye Qiubai, at the middle stage of the Violet Palace Realm, had single-handedly slain a Half-Step Water Overflow Realm Yin Dragon!
"This... how is this possible?"
Someone could not believe it.
"Is he really in the Purple Mansion Realm?"
"When did someone like this appear in the Southern Barbarian Lands?"
Liao Meisheng's expression darkened.
At that banquet, he had attacked with all his strength, but now it seemed Ye Qiubai had not used his full strength!
Had Ye Qiubai used this move then, he probably would have had no way to fend it off!
As Tian Cheng watched, towering waves of shock surged through his heart.
He could barely contend with the Yin Dragon!
But if it came to slaying it, Tian Cheng knew he could not do it.
After all, it was in the Half-Step Water Overflow Realm and possessed a trace of flood dragon bloodline.
A Devil Beast like this ranked among the formidable even within the Azure Flame Mountain Range.
How could someone like him, at the early stage of the Qi Sea Realm, possibly slay it?
Yet Ye Qiubai had done it.
Moreover, he had achieved this with cultivation at the middle stage of the Violet Palace Realm.
He had crossed an entire major realm!
At this thought, Tian Cheng's earlier assessment vanished entirely.
At that moment, Xin Hongyi walked up to Ye Qiubai and asked, "How are you? Are you all right?"
Slightly pale, Ye Qiubai shook his head. "It's nothing serious. I just used up too much. One pill will do."
Xin Hongyi: "..."
Where did all these high-grade pills come from? He seemed to take them like candy.
What was more...
Even she did not have pills like these.
Could Senior Lu have refined them?
In the past, Ye Qiubai probably would have been reluctant to use one up like this.
After all, this pill for restoring Spiritual Qi would spark a scramble for it in the outside world.
Both its grade and its quality were extremely high.
But ever since his master had told him...
"Save them? Why save them? If you don't have enough, come get more from me. There's another batch."
From that day onward, Ye Qiubai never again tried to conserve pills when using them...