The desolate mountains stretch to the horizon, the wind howls like weeping.
After Chu Yunfei's cold words fell, the northeastern mountain ridge fell into a deathly silence.
After waiting for more than ten breaths, no sound came from the pitch-black shadow.
There wasn't even the slightest ripple.
An ordinary cultivator would probably have thought it was just an illusion.
But Chu Yunfei did not look away.
His eyes were fixed on the seemingly empty mountain wall, the Abyss-Devouring Sword hanging slightly in his hand, and drops of undried blood slowly dripping from its blade.
Back when he used the Great Heaven-Burning Art to fight Chen Xuanhai, a very faint ripple of divine consciousness had been felt from that direction.
If Xiaoxiao Dragon in his sea of consciousness hadn't warned him in time, given his focus on the battle at the time, he would never have been able to catch that fleeting glimmer of energy.
"You brat, that guy's still here."
Xiaoxiao Dragon's voice carried a rare solemnity in his mind.
"This person's concealment skills are extremely high, almost completely deceiving my senses. Their strength... is at least at the Late Divine Sea Realm!"
"Your secret technique has just ended, and your physical body and meridians are in a weakened state. You must not be careless."
Late Divine Sea Realm!
Upon hearing these five words, Chu Yunfei's heart sank.
Having just fought Chen Xuanhai, whose opponent burned thirty years of his lifespan to forcibly step into the Divine Sea Realm Seventh Level, he was already forced to unleash the prototype of the fifth form of the Sea-Overturning Ninefold Sword.
If another Late Divine Sea Realm prime were to appear...
With his current weakened state, he was completely powerless to fight back.
Chu Yunfei's expression remained unchanged on the surface, but his left hand, hanging at his side, subtly brushed against his storage ring.
That was a storage ring that Ling Xueyao had given him not long ago.
With a slight twitch of his fingertips, three Grade 4 Rejuvenation Pills and two Meridian-Protecting Pill, exuding a rich medicinal fragrance, silently fell into his palm.
Chu Yunfei flipped his palm and put the pill into his mouth, his Adam's apple bobbing slightly as he forced it down.
boom!
The fourth-grade elixir melted upon entering the mouth, transforming into several warm currents that swiftly flowed towards the nearly depleted dantian and damaged meridians, suppressing the piercing pain emanating from the limbs and bones.
Although it was only a drop in the ocean, it at least restored some of his strength.
After doing all this, Chu Yunfei raised his eyelids, a mocking coldness appearing at the corner of his mouth.
"How?"
His voice pierced through the deep night and echoed through the valley.
"Since you've followed me all this way, do you perhaps intend to be a coward, hiding in the shadows and afraid to show your face?"
The moment the words left his mouth.
Buzz!
An eerie ripple appeared in the once deathly still shadows of the mountain ridge.
It was like a pebble being thrown into a calm lake.
Immediately afterwards, a figure completely shrouded in a wide black robe silently stepped out from the void.
The man was completely shrouded in an opaque black robe, his face entirely obscured by a layer of misty black fog, leaving only a pair of cold, deep eyes that resembled two icy will-o'-the-wisps in the darkness.
He neither spoke nor made a move.
Just by standing there, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi seemed to be instantly drained away by an invisible force.
An indescribable, chilling killing intent quietly spread through the desolate mountain, which resembled a grand hall.
The killing intent wasn't violent, but it was like a sharp blade soaked in a thousand years of ice, pressed firmly against Chu Yunfei's throat.
They've come with ill intentions!
Chu Yunfei narrowed his eyes slightly, his spiritual energy becoming increasingly vigilant.
The feeling he got from this man in black robes was several times more profound than the oppressive feeling Chen Xuanhai had given him earlier.
He swept his consciousness across his sea of consciousness.
Inside the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, azure flames blazed fiercely, and the two corpses of Han Kui and Chen Xuanhai, both at the Divine Sea Realm, were being frantically melted down. Strands of the purest Origin Divine Liquid were slowly gathering at the bottom of the cauldron.
But it will take a little more time!
The moment Chu Yunfei's thoughts began to race, the black-robed man opposite him had been staring at him for more than ten breaths.
His gaze fell on the Abyss-Devouring Sword at Chu Yunfei's waist, then swept over his arm, which was trembling slightly from the backlash of using the secret technique.
Finally, the man in black robes moved.
There was no opening, no small talk.
He simply took a step forward.
boom!
The moment that step landed, a terrifying, earth-shattering aura suddenly erupted from the black-robed man's right fist.
A terrifying, overwhelming power suddenly erupted from his body.
The void trembled, and the violent spiritual pressure even crushed the ground within a radius of several dozen feet by three inches.
A jet-black fist imprint, carrying the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, tore through the night sky, moving with lightning speed, and hurtled toward Chu Yunfei's face.
quick!
It's almost reached the limit of what divine sense can react to!
With the punch, the cultivation fluctuations that had been suppressed within the black-robed man's body finally exploded like a raging torrent.
The entire sky seemed to collapse.
The moment Chu Yunfei sensed that aura, his pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints.
Deep within his consciousness, Xiaoxiao Dragon's expression suddenly changed color.
"You brat, run!"
"He's at the Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level!!"
The Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level!
A supreme expert standing at the very top of the entire Eastern Continent's pyramid, only one step away from the Dao Mysterious Realm!
In the blink of an eye, Chu Yunfei felt a chill run down his spine, the shadow of death instantly enveloping him.
Almost instinctively, he channeled all his remaining spiritual energy into his legs.
Divine Movement Art!
Sizzle!
A nearly distorted afterimage stretched across the void as Chu Yunfei moved thirty feet away in a fraction of a second.
However, the moment his toes touched the gravel, the space beside him twisted violently once again.
The figure in black robes appeared out of thin air in an instant, like a malignant tumor clinging to the bone.
It was still that simple, unadorned iron fist, carrying the terrifying power to shatter mountains, which slammed into his ribs.
There's no way to avoid it!
Chu Yunfei only had time to hold the Abyss-Devouring Sword horizontally in front of his chest.
Clang, snap!
With a clang of metal and a sharp, piercing sound of bones cracking, the Abyss-Devouring Sword was slammed into Chu Yunfei's chest by the violent force.
puff!
Chu Yunfei spat out a mouthful of scalding blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, and his entire body flew hundreds of feet away like a cannonball, crashing into two mountain peaks before slamming heavily into a pile of rubble.
Rumble!
Dust billowed into the sky, and rocks tumbled down.
The intense pain instantly tore through his nerves. Chu Yunfei felt as if all the bones in his body had been shattered by that punch, and his internal organs were convulsing violently.
A casual strike from Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level is terrifyingly powerful!
If he hadn't possessed the Boundless Creation Scripture, making his physical body far more resilient than ordinary people, and if the Abyss-Devouring Sword hadn't blocked most of the force, this single punch would have been enough to turn an ordinary Heavenly Origin Realm expert into a pile of minced meat.
"Hey kid, how are you?"
Xiaoxiao Dragon's anxious voice echoed wildly in his mind, making him jump up and down in a panic.
"Get up! Use this opportunity to use the Divine Movement Art to escape! This is the Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level. In your current weakened state, you absolutely cannot withstand his third move!!"
Amidst the ruins, the rubble clattered and rattled.
A blood-stained hand suddenly emerged from the rubble and gripped the sharp rock face.
Chu Yunfei stood up unsteadily.
His black robe was soaked in blood, a shocking fist-shaped dent was visible on his chest, and dark red blood kept oozing from the corner of his mouth.
He ignored Xiaoxiao Dragon's advice, raised his hand, and roughly wiped away the glaring blood from the corner of his mouth.
Those eyes, as black as night, held no fear of facing a powerful enemy; instead, they burned with two extremely violent, chilling, and ferocious flames.
He stared intently at the black-robed man who was slowly approaching, a blood-stained, sinister smile spreading across his lips.
"Escape?"
"The word 'escape' doesn't exist in my dictionary these days!"
Chu Yunfei's voice was hoarse, yet it carried a wild, defiant killing intent.
"You bastard!"
"So what if Divine Sea Realm Ninth Level?!"
"If you want to kill me, you'll have to suffer a lot first. Die!"
A furious roar echoed through the desolate mountains!
Without any further hesitation, Chu Yunfei instantly connected his divine sense with the Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate deep within his sea of consciousness.
"Divine Elixir, Melt!"
boom!
The two drops of Origin Divine Liquid, interwoven with azure and gold and refined from the corpses of Han Kui and Chen Xuanhai, which were suspended at the bottom of the Divine Sea Realm Divine Cauldron of Heavenly Mandate, were forcibly drawn out in that instant and poured into Chu Yunfei's limbs and bones.
The originally withered and shriveled meridians were stretched and expanded by the violent medicinal power in an instant.
The shattered bones in his chest were healing at a frantic pace visible to the naked eye.
The depleted dantian spirit pool surged with towering waves, and the vast spiritual power was almost completely replenished in an instant!
That's not all!
The power of origin in the Divine Sea Realm is immense!
The violent power, like an ancient ferocious beast, rampaged wildly within Chu Yunfei's body, forcefully shattering the invisible shackles.
boom!
Seventh Level of the Heavenly Origin Realm!
Unstoppable momentum!
The vast divine liquid essence continued its frantic advance, crashing heavily against the threshold of the Eighth Level of the Heavenly Origin Realm, emitting a series of muffled roars, and finally coming to a standstill at the extreme bottleneck of the Seventh Level of the Heavenly Origin Realm attempting to break through to the eighth level.
The aura that had been extremely weak suddenly surged several times over, as if a god or Gods and Devils had awakened.
Use the enemy's body to forge your own path!
Under the black-robed man's suddenly frozen gaze, Chu Yunfei roared to the sky, his black hair dancing wildly like a madman.
" The Great Heaven-Burning Art..."
"Get it lit again, you bastard!!"
Rumble.
The deep red rune mark between his brows, which had just disappeared, suddenly erupted with an even more dazzling crimson light than before.
Burning Spirit.
Burning blood.
Burning soul.
When the three elements unite, heaven and earth lose their color.
The vast vitality and spiritual power were completely unleashed, and Chu Yunfei transformed into a blood-red sun rising from the abyss of the underworld.
The aura that had been stagnating at the Seventh Level of the Heavenly Origin Realm surged wildly once again at a speed that defied the laws of nature.
The Eighth Level of the Heavenly Origin Realm.
The Heavenly Origin Realm Ninth Layer.
Divine Sea Realm First Level!
boom!
A violent, murderous aura surged into the sky, tearing the thick, dark clouds in the heavens into countless fragments.
Divine Sea Realm Sixth Layer!
The brilliant crimson light illuminated half the night sky, turning it a deep red.
A fierce wind howled, making Chu Yunfei's blood-stained black robe flutter violently.
Holding the Abyss-Devouring Sword, he stepped out of the ruins, the dark golden patterns of countless poisons and the deep red blood mark between his brows complementing each other, as if a demon god had descended upon the world.
Those crimson eyes coldly locked onto the black-robed man opposite them.
"You bastard."
"Keep going!"