"How long can you hold out, you rascal?"
Ren Yuanzi's voice came from behind the gray-white light.
He pressed his hands down, forcibly condensing the Earth Yuan within a radius of several thousand feet.
The gray and white energies converged in the sky to form a vast gray-white river thousands of feet long, half of which was a withered yellow deathly aura, and the other half was a vibrant green life force.
The two forces collided and washed against each other in the long river, and each collision created a shockwave that was visible to the naked eye.
The shockwave swept across the ground, creating a crack several meters wide.
Just as Hong Wuji shattered the giant palm, a silent crack quietly appeared behind him.
A hand emerged from the crack, its surface covered by a thin layer of silvery light.
The hairs on Hong Wuji's back stood on end. Before he could turn around, his blood and qi exploded outwards.
The dragon-scale-like Battle Body Divine Ability patterns emerged from beneath his skin. He slapped his palm onto the scales, and with a crisp snap, Hong Wuji was thrown hundreds of feet away.
Zhou Tong emerged from the crack, expressionless, his eyes showing no emotion as he looked at Hong Wuji.
He raised his hand and pressed it into the void, causing the space within a radius of several hundred feet to suddenly collapse inward.
The force of spatial compression caused the protective aura around Hong Wuji to creak and groan, and several of the dragon scales on Hong Wuji's body shattered under the spatial crushing force.
"This is troublesome."
Hong Wuji steadied himself, though his expression didn't betray him, his heart was filled with solemnity.
They had previously deduced that the Yuan Sect would most likely send Zhou Tong, or a sect leader, to intercept and kill him.
He didn't expect Zhou Tong to come.
But even Ren Yuanzi came.
They had no idea of his current strength, let alone the possibility of ambushing and killing him.
That would be enough to ambush and kill that old tortoise Ying Xuanzi.
Those guys from the Yuan Sect are really willing to spend a fortune.
Ren Yuanzi moved again.
Two gray-white chains shot out from his sleeves, expanding in mid-air to a thickness of hundreds of feet, one section withered and the other sprouting new shoots.
The air in the area swept by the chains seemed to be torn between decay and new life, and the mountain peaks below were struck by the chains.
Half of the mountain was reduced to ashes, while the other half was strangely covered with moss and vines.
Two forces erupted simultaneously on the same mountain, causing it to explode open with a deafening roar.
Hong Wuji flipped his palms over, and dragon claw patterns condensed in his palms.
He pushed the circulation of qi and blood in his body to its limit, and the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art surged wildly in his meridians, instantly multiplying his power several times over, and his dragon claws gripped the two chains tightly.
The chains were torn to pieces.
Before the shattered chains even hit the ground, they reformed into four thinner gray-white threads, which wrapped around Hong Wuji's limbs.
"If we kill you, we'll have plenty of excuses to cover this up."
While maintaining the suppression of the gray-white threads, Ren Yuanzi sneered.
He flicked his finger, and another wisp of grayish-white energy shot out. This energy was even denser than before, almost solidifying.
In mid-air, it transformed into a gigantic, gray-white wheel, thousands of feet long, and crushed towards Hong Wuji.
Wherever the roulette wheel passed, cracks were forced into the space, from which grayish-white mist seeped out.
"Return the Three-Sect Alliance! Anyone who stands in our Yuan Sect must die!"
The grayish-white threads on Hong Wuji's limbs were frantically corroding his vital energy and blood.
He gritted his teeth, and the dragon scales on his skin bulged outwards, consuming the corrosive power.
He still had that arrogant look on his face, and even had a smile on his lips, but his eyes were so deep they looked like they were about to burst with tears.
In terms of elemental power, he is no match for Ren Yuanzi.
Although the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art can forcibly increase strength, the Yuan Power of a peak Ren Yuanzi Samsara Stage is too terrifying, and this kind of increase cannot be sustained for long.
Zhou Tong is in even more trouble.
Zhou Tong disappeared again.
Hong Wuji's senses spread out in all directions, but he couldn't grasp anything.
The Space Ancestral Talisman is still too domineering.
Hong Wuji could only rely on instinct to predict, but with something like spatial strangulation, a single wrong prediction could result in serious injury.
He had just sensed something amiss on his left and stepped to the right when he suddenly felt a tightness in his back.
A spatial rift thousands of feet long opened behind him, from which countless silver spatial blades emerged and slashed down at him in unison.
Hong Wuji used his dragon claws to defend, shattering most of the sharp blades.
However, several cuts still sliced into his shoulder blades, the dragon scales penetrating a good ten or twenty feet deep.
"Cough!"
Hong Wuji staggered forward a step, then slammed his palm into the crack behind him, shattering it and using the force to tumble far away.
The wound on his shoulder was slowly healing thanks to the recovery effect of his Battle Body Divine Ability, but Zhou Tong's next attack would only be faster.
When Hong Wuji landed, his feet shattered a mountain peak, and the entire mountain collapsed from the waist down, sending dust billowing hundreds of feet high.
Ren Yuanzi stood at a distance, watching, her cold smile growing ever stronger.
"Your Dragon Clan supernatural power is somewhat interesting, but unfortunately, it's only somewhat interesting."
Hong Wuji ignored his taunts; he was currently defending against attacks from two people simultaneously.
His Yuan energy was being consumed faster than he had anticipated, and the amplification effect of the Heavenly Horn Heaven-Overturning Art was gradually weakening.
That old Ren Yuanzi has been using his life-and-death power to wear him down.
The long, gray river still hung in the sky, occasionally sending a gray, white wheel-like object crashing down on him.
Zhou Tong was looking for an opportunity to strike, knowing that if the situation dragged on, he would surely die.
Hong Wuji once again pushed the qi and blood in his body to their limit, and dragon claws, dragon scales, and dragon bones covered his entire body.
He suppressed the power of the Three Heaven-Breaking Forms into a single move, aiming for a swift and decisive attack.
And suddenly.
Apart from Zhou Tong, who was under control.
Hong Wuji 'Ren Yuanzi expression changed drastically.
Hong Wuji's face showed joy, while Ren Yuanzi's face displayed a mixture of surprise, anger, and confusion.
The two cultivators in the Death Profound Realm were lying in the pit some distance away, barely alive, but at least still breathing.
But just a moment ago...
The auras of the two figures vanished without a trace, and a figure stood beside them.
" Xiang Yun?!"
Ren Yuanzi was shocked and furious. How could Xiang Yun be here!
"How is this possible? Hua Chen and the others actually let you escape!"
Xiang Yun shook his wrist and walked up from the edge of the pit, looking at Ren Yuanzi, then at Ren Yuanzi in the distance.
"Have you ever considered that I was the one who killed them all?!"
Xiang Yun smiled.
Upon hearing Xiang Yun's words, Ren Yuanzi's face immediately darkened, and he said coldly, "You think you can take me on?"
In his view, even if Xiang Yun could fight against an Eighth Path Life Profound Realm, he still couldn't kill Hua Chen and the others.
The gap between the Life Profound Realm and the Death Profound Realm is not so easy to bridge, even if it is.
Hua Chen is no ordinary Death Profound Realm; he possesses Demon Seed, making him virtually immortal, unless he encounters the Samsara of Reincarnation, who wields divine artifacts.
It would be extremely difficult to kill him.
However, Xiang Yun's appearance couldn't be faked, and Ren Yuanzi's face turned completely gloomy.
They misjudged not only Hong Wuji's strength, but also Xiang Yun's strength!
The difference is just too big!