Escape, Gravely Wounded

Once they had worked that out, they realized they had already pinned down the two strongest fighters in Falling Star Valley.

There was no need for them to go to Yu Rong's side. Judging by the situation, they had a very good chance of killing Lin Xinghe.

Lin Xinghe's intentions were plain: he wanted to use the formation to hold back their Golden Core Realm cultivators.

Xue Qianzong and Ning Ying decided to use that very opportunity to take his life.

Elsewhere, events unfolded just as they had imagined. Yu Rong might have been at the early Golden Core Realm, but a Golden Core cultivator was still a Golden Core cultivator. Everywhere she went, Falling Star Valley cultivators were slaughtered to the last.

It was not that they did not try to flee. Even with the flight-suppressing restriction bearing down on both sides, Yu Rong pursued them at a terrifying speed that burned through her spiritual power, at times spending it without a second thought, as though she had gone mad.

What followed was a bloody massacre. With her other hand, she stuffed pills into her mouth by the handful as if they cost nothing. Even the four sects' cultivators behind her felt their scalps prickle at the sight.

Falling Star Valley's cultivators finally witnessed a Golden Core cultivator's terrifying recovery speed and the power of her immortal arts. Often, a single spell cast at a squad left every member dead.

For a time, Tianxingzi's plan to hold back the enemy's Golden Core cultivators and use the formation to inflict heavy losses on the four sects' disciples came to nothing.

His side might win a small clash here or even a major one there, but as Yu Rong hunted wildly across the battlefield, more and more cultivators from the four