Fierce Battle

After fleeing at top speed for over ten minutes, Su Liuyue had opened up a little distance. Just ahead of her lay a valley shrouded in mist. Heaven truly never sealed off all paths!

Delighted, Su Liuyue immediately flew toward the valley. Once she reached the place where the mist was thickest, she quickly took out a formation plate, and with a flick, several formation flags were in position.

As soon as the formation took shape, the flags vanished into the air. With the mist concealing them as well, they were impossible to discover without a careful search.

"The Mist Concealment Formation is ready. Time to set up the other formation."

Su Liuyue took out another formation plate and set up a second formation beside the Mist Concealment Formation.

This one was a sword formation, far less concealed than the Mist Concealment Formation. She had set it up specifically for her pursuer to find. Moreover, there were all kinds of large trees to the sword formation's right; only the area to its left, where the Mist Concealment Formation lay, was somewhat open.

"Done. Now it's time to appear weak."

After putting her whole plan in place, Su Liuyue quickly flew back some distance before continuing her escape.

Before long, her pursuer entered the valley. He first looked from side to side, seemingly checking his direction, then soon flew toward Su Liuyue.

In less than a dozen breaths, the man caught up with her. Looking at Su Liuyue ahead of him, he wasted no words and thrust his fingers forward like a sword.

Su Liuyue turned and raised a shield while waving her right hand to return fire with several talismans.

"Boom! Boom!"

A series of explosions rang out, snapping nearly every tree within twenty meters. Even Su Liuyue was forced back some distance by the blast.

"Burst Talismans? Those are useless against me."

The pursuing Devil Cultivator flew out of a cloud of black smoke, completely unharmed. Not even his clothes were damaged.

Su Liuyue shot him a cold glance and did not linger to fight. Her hands swiftly formed seals. "Startled Swan!"

Seeing Su Liuyue's speed surge, the man smiled disdainfully and used a movement technique to pursue her. She had only managed to pull away earlier because his technique was not suited to accelerating over long distances. At close range, he would not let her shake him off.

Soon, she drew closer and closer to the place she had prepared. Su Liuyue flew straight toward the sword formation she had set up earlier and passed through it.

The pursuing Devil Cultivator did not slow down, merely veering a little to the left. "Is this what you just set up? It's nothing special."

But no sooner had he spoken than a ring of light appeared around him and pinned him in place.

Startled by his sudden capture, the Devil Cultivator hurriedly roused all his spiritual power and struggled.

But it was too late. Su Liuyue, who had flown far ahead, had appeared above his head at some point. She brought a shield as large as a boulder crashing straight down on him.

The move was swift, ruthless, and precise. She truly left him no room at all.

The Devil Cultivator's face filled with horror, and he cursed furiously. "Su Liuyue, you're more like a Devil Cultivator than a Devil Cultivator!"

"Boom!"

The boulder-sized shield came crashing down, sending dust and smoke billowing into the air. A powerful blast blew several large trees away.

Outside the smoke, Su Liuyue controlled the shield and smashed it down again, while hurling Burst Talismans inside as if they cost nothing. In the blink of an eye, she had thrown in no fewer than a hundred.

Explosion followed explosion, blasting a crater ten meters wide and seven or eight meters deep into the ground. After controlling the shield to smash down one last time, Su Liuyue decisively retreated and opened up some distance.

No sooner had she left than a blood-red Sword-Ray struck the spot where she had stood. Its power was immense, and there was no telling how deep it had pierced.

A black figure flew out of the dust and smoke, hair disheveled and looking like a madman. His lower body was gone, leaving only the part above his waist.

"Su Liuyue, even if I die today, I'll drag you down with me!"

As his words fell, a blood-red flying sword emerged from his body and shot toward Su Liuyue at tremendous speed.

This time, Su Liuyue did not run. With a slight movement of her finger, she brought the shield directly in front of her, protecting her thoroughly from every direction without a single blind spot.

Even so, she was still uneasy. She crooked a finger, and more than ten Golden Body Talismans flew out of her Storage Bag and covered her body.

Although the Devil Cultivator's cultivation was somewhat higher, this was where he had been at a disadvantage all along, unable to kill Su Liuyue. She was a personal disciple, and her master was said to be invincible among Golden Core Stage cultivators in the Southern Wilderness. Naturally, she lacked neither Law Treasures nor talismans.

He was different. Apart from the Crimson Blood Sword, he had virtually no powerful Law Treasures.

Madness filled the Devil Cultivator's eyes. Just as the Crimson Blood Sword was about to strike the shield, he shouted without mercy, "Explode!"

Under his control, his only Law Treasure self-destructed. Not only was his mind and spirit damaged, but he also lost any chance of turning the tables.

Still, it was not entirely in vain. At the very least, the attack caught Su Liuyue off guard and seriously injured her at once. Had she not cautiously applied several extra Golden Body Talismans, she would have suffered far more than serious injuries.

"Soul-Tearing Hand!"

It was the Devil Creek Sect's secret technique, Soul-Tearing Hand. She had not expected him to know it. It looked like things would be a little troublesome.

Back on the battlefield where the Devil Creek Sect had been exterminated, six Spirit Moon Sect elders had fallen to this very move.

Su Liuyue's eyes turned cold. Knowing it was already too late to dodge, she immediately cast a spell. "Ten Thousand Swords Instruction!"

On one side was a gigantic blood-red claw; on the other, an endless stream of golden flying swords.

When the two collided, they proved evenly matched.

"Scatter!" The Devil Cultivator turned ruthless, directly controlling the blood hand to break apart into countless small hands that rushed to kill Su Liuyue. He had no intention of blocking the flying swords she had summoned.

A Devil Cultivator through and through, he was ruthless to others but even more ruthless to himself, charging straight into the flying swords.

When enemies met on a narrow path, the brave prevailed. Su Liuyue could no longer afford to retreat. If she backed down in this clash, she would surely die.

Su Liuyue understood this, of course, so she had no intention of retreating. She merely recalled the shield that had been blasted away earlier to protect herself.

"Boom! Crash!"

The torrent of swords collided with the Devil Cultivator, who had raised a shield and forcibly held it back.

But the shield was already on the verge of collapse. Clearly, it would not last more than a few breaths.

Seeing that the small hands were about to be stopped by Su Liuyue's shield, the Devil Cultivator swiftly formed hand seals and sent out a beam of blood-red light.

The light crossed the entire torrent of swords and struck the shield ahead of the blood hands, forcibly tearing a small opening in the tightly guarded defense.

The man himself had already been torn to pieces by the torrent of flying swords, and even his soul had been utterly shredded.

Most of the blood hands were stopped by the shield. Only a few slipped through the small opening and struck Su Liuyue.

Though these blood hands were barely larger than a baby's, their power was truly terrifying. Even the five Golden Body Talismans Su Liuyue had applied could not stop them, and one blood hand pierced straight through her abdomen.

That icy force poured into her body in an endless tide. Before long, it had sealed all her meridians and cut off the circulation of Spiritual Qi.

Su Liuyue let out a muffled groan. Her body went limp, and she nearly fell to the ground. At the same time, her spell ceased, and the shield Law Treasure shrank to the size of a palm and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the Devil Cultivator was dead, and the attack was over.

As for her sealed cultivation, that was only temporary. She could break through the seal in five days at most.

After putting away the Law Treasure and the Devil Cultivator's Storage Bag, Su Liuyue endured the agony in her abdomen and left the battlefield.