"Fellow Daoist Mei, you are indeed a reasonable person."
He Chong's smugness deepened in his dark green pupils. He deliberately slowed down his actions of activating the demonic seed, and the tremors of the earth lessened slightly, as if to demonstrate his benevolence.
True Person Mei ignored his sarcasm, looking at him coldly, her tone icy. "I can entrust my disciples to you. But you must keep your promise: within three hours, you must not detonate the demonic seed, you must not leave the city to pursue them, and you must allow my Jade Spring Sect to evacuate the people and cultivators of East Mountain Commandery."
"That's natural."
He Chong a hoarse laugh, holding the demon seed in his left hand and casually waving his right, "I can still promise that."
True Person Mei took a deep breath, as if using all her strength, closed her eyes, and opened them a moment later, her eyes filled with only cold indifference. She no longer looked at Chen Shuangbai, but only at He Chong, and said coldly, "Don't forget what you just said."
"Of course, of course."
He Chong chuckled, his eerie green eyes sizing up Chen Shuangbai once more, licking his lips with a cruel yet expectant look.
"Then please come over here, young friend. Don't worry, as long as you behave, I keep my word."
"Nephew!"
Ren Zisu cried out in anguish and stepped forward, seemingly wanting to stop him.
Chen Shuangbai thought to herself that her martial uncle's acting was good, but her face remained expressionless, only showing a resolute air.
He slowly rose, the tears on his face gradually drying. To outsiders, all that remained was a tragic and heroic spirit of self-sacrifice. Many members of the Jade Spring Sect, witnessing this scene, wept uncontrollably, saying they could not bear it.
But True Person Mei suppressed this.
Chen Shuangbai bowed deeply again to True Person Mei, Li Changfeng, and the others, his voice somewhat hoarse. "Disciple... bids farewell to True Person, and to all my senior uncles and brothers."
After saying that, he turned around and slowly walked towards He Chong was surrounded by billowing demonic energy.
His pine-frost-colored robes fluttered in the wind, further highlighting his upright figure, but under the Setting Sun, he appeared somewhat frail, and a deep sense of tragic grandeur and resolute determination gradually dissipated.
" Senior Brother Chen..."
Many disciples of the Jade Spring Sect had bloodshot eyes, clenched fists, and their nails dug deep into their palms.
He Chong wore a cruel and triumphant smile, his eerie green pupils fixed on Chen Shuangbai as she drew closer, as if he were eyeing prey about to be captured.
He was already thinking about what to do with this prey he had just acquired!
Is it about extracting souls and refining spirits to control them as ghosts?
Or should they skin and debone them to make puppets?
Under his cruel gaze, Chen Shuangbai approached him step by step.
He could feel the other person's malicious gaze sweeping over him, penetrating his physical body and touching his soul. He could also feel the suffocating pressure emanating from the other person, the kind of pressure that belonged to a Golden Core cultivator.
His face contorted with just the right amount of ferocity, yet his heart grew ever calmer.
Thirty zhang... twenty zhang... ten zhang...
Five zhang... three zhang...
As the blood-soaked demonic aura emanating from He Chong gradually filled her nostrils, Chen Shuangbai finally stopped, revealing a near-desperate calm, like a deer facing imminent death, her voice dry and strained.
"I am coming."
I hope... you can keep your promise.
He Chong chuckled, slowly raising his right hand and gently placing it on Chen Shuangbai's shoulder. His eyes were smug, as if a cat were toying with a mouse, and he said:
"Rest assured, I always keep my word to those who are about to die..."
But just as his right hand covered Chen Shuangbai's shoulder, Chen Shuangbai suddenly raised her head, and a deep red light, like a star in the dark night, suddenly shone in the depths of her clear black and white eyes!
[ Lesser Yin Spirit-Slashing Saber ]!
He Chong a beat. He was about to speak when alarm bells suddenly went off in his mind, his expression changed drastically, and he almost instinctively tried to activate his Law Power...
But it was already too late!
This blade of light exists between reality and illusion, formless and intangible, yet it contains the power to annihilate the soul!
He Chong felt as if he had been struck on the head by a heavy object. He jerked his head back and felt as if his soul had been slashed by an invisible blade of light. A sharp pain shot through his soul, as if it were about to tear him apart on the spot, and his consciousness instantly dissipated!
"Do it!"
Li Changfeng shouted suddenly.
True Person Mei had already made his move; a plum blossom appeared in his hand, and he lightly slashed at He Chong's left hand.
"Laugh--!"
The sound was as soft as tearing silk.
He Chong's left hand was severed cleanly at the wrist.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, but no blood splattered, because the wound was instantly frozen by the extreme cold, and the dark red, slightly pulsating Earth Vein Demonic Seed in his palm fell downwards.
Ding Chengyu's figure suddenly vanished, and when he reappeared, he was holding a small flag in his left hand and a small wooden box in his right hand, and he reached out towards the Earth Vein Demonic Seed.
The Earth Vein Demonic Seed transformed into a streak of dark light and was successfully sealed inside. The mysterious runes on the box erupted with unprecedented brilliance, completely imprisoning it within.
"It's done!"
Ding Chengyu shouted.
How dare you?!
After Chen Shuangbai unleashed that "slash," he retreated rapidly on his escape light; just as He Chong his senses, and the Golden Core's pressure erupted at full force, True Person Mei rushed forward to meet him.
"Boom--!"
Amidst the billowing demonic energy, eerie green demonic fire rose up, merging with the demonic array below, unleashing the terrifying power of a ten-thousand-year-old volcanic eruption, exploding violently from its center!
Despite evacuating immediately, Chen Shuangbai and Ding Chengyu were still affected. They were struck as if by a heavy blow, their faces turning ashen, and they coughed up a mouthful of blood. They dared not linger and were rescued by True Person Mei.
It's simply because we're too close!
But this demonic energy and fire were quickly blocked by other things.
True Person Mei raised her right hand, and with her fingertips as the center, countless pink and black plum blossom phantoms appeared out of thin air, instantly filling an area of a hundred feet in radius!
Each plum blossom was crystal clear, exuding a chilling, bone-deep coldness and a solitary, lofty Sword Essence.
These plum blossoms, evolved from Sword Essence, were not static. Instead, as True Person Mei moved his sword finger, they transformed into countless sharp sword petals, converging into a torrent of pink and black plum blossom Sword Intent that surged upwards and collided with the violent demonic energy and fire unleashed by He Chong!
The raging, terrifying demonic fire was like a nemesis to the sky filled with the Cold Plum Sword Essence; it was quickly frozen, cut, and annihilated!
Chen Shuangbai didn't bother to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. His eyes were fixed on True Person Mei's sword. The [ Foot-Long Silk ] hanging at his waist was eager to be used, as if it was about to fly out at any moment and make a slash.
" Mei Yingxue!! Die!!"
The moment He Chong awoke, he realized that he had completely lost contact with the Earth Vein Demonic Seed, and his shock and anger intensified.
He frantically unleashed his Devil Cultivation Method, and a series of shrill wails and howls erupted. Countless twisted and tormented phantoms of ghosts surged from his palms, baring their fangs and claws, and pounced on True Person Mei in a massive, overwhelming attack!
The battle between the two Golden Core True Person caused a change in the celestial phenomena, prompting the cultivators of the Jade Spring Sect to retreat, thus avoiding being too affected.
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