Vanished Without a Trace

Lie Changfeng was equally shocked and enraged. In an instant, his panicked face surfaced on the magic core's surface. He had never expected Tian Xingzi to be so vicious and decisive.

No matter how fast the magic core fled or how bizarre its route, Tian Xingzi's self-destruction of his natal treasure had firmly sealed off this stretch of space.

Yet Lie Changfeng was, after all, at the False Nascent Soul stage. With his opponent fighting for his life, he could only disregard everything and begin burning the origin power within the magic core.

Tian Xingzi ultimately could not catch Lie Changfeng's escape route, so he could not concentrate his natal treasure's explosive power at a single point. Instead, he spread a wide net, hoping one strike would hit the mark.

Although the attack's range was vast under such circumstances, its power was too scattered. In the end, a magic core covered in cracks still burst free, its pale yellow glow having turned a miserable ash gray.

This battle ended in such a swift and bizarre fashion that its outcome caught everyone off guard.

Forms had no constant form; moves had no fixed move.

Lie Changfeng's side in particular had been utterly unprepared. No matter how he had guessed before, Tian Xingzi had merely possessed deeper cultivation than him. With Sang Dongxing assisting him, it should have been impossible for Tian Xingzi to do anything to him.

But who could have imagined that the protective grand formation of a second-rate sect could trap Golden Core Realm cultivators? Or that Tian Xingzi would pour out all his strength in the very first battle, burning his essence blood as though he had not considered the consequences of the four sects' later siege at all?

After this single battle, Falling Star Valley would have