Chapter 1477: A Caged Confrontation (Part Five)

After Li Yan joined the pincer attack, in just five breaths of time, the tall, thin man who was being beaten felt like he was about to explode from frustration. He had a sky-piercing cultivation, yet he couldn’t use any of it. One wrong step led to another.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt his skin being seared by a blazing fire. This caused his body, which was still being forced to move, to twitch in a way that was completely out of sync with his forward and backward movements. Then, a feeling of weakness and soreness spread through his meridians. The magical power that had been constantly gathering and then being scattered could no longer be condensed.

With this slight interruption of magical power, the tall, thin man’s face immediately showed a look of utter terror.

“Boom!”

A sheet of red light shot into the sky. Without the support of magical power, his Spirit Power shield could no longer be maintained.

“No!”

The tall, thin man let out a final, tragic scream. This scream was extremely shrill, and his voice, which shot straight into the nine heavens, was filled with deep unwillingness!

He had many defensive magical treasures and talismans on him, but he had previously thought that the people before him were just a group of small fish and shrimp. Therefore, he had not thought it worthwhile to take out those treasures. But when he wanted to take them out, it was already too late.

Thus, at the moment that red light finally shot up, without the defense of the protective light shield, his physical body, in front of these two powerful Body Cultivators, was as fragile as a baby’s. The flesh and blood exploded, and a large amount of it melted into the red light. This made the sky appear even more brilliant, and countless pieces of minced meat and fragments shot out like sharp arrows.

And amidst this shower of blood and flesh, a two-inch-tall baby-like figure shot out from within, looking flustered. He was still holding several Void Shadow rings in his arms. The moment his body appeared, it blurred and then swiftly fled towards the gate, disappearing in an instant.

And just as the tall, thin man’s shrill scream had just sounded, the Nascent Soul cultivator in the rear was still in the heat of battle. He was being held back by a group of Golden Core cultivators and couldn’t rush over to help. In just a few breaths, he had already slain many of the Golden Core Soul Cultivators, which had vented his anger. But in just these few breaths, the situation in the entire courtyard had changed again.

This Nascent Soul cultivator heard the tall, thin man over there constantly letting out roars. And what he could see was a large expanse of red light filling the heavens and the earth amidst a rumbling explosion. Because Li Yan and Mu Guyue’s attacks were too fast, they had created a sky full of dazzling red light. This made it impossible for this Nascent Soul cultivator to determine the specific battle situation over there for a time.

And just as he was fighting and looking over, he saw a large expanse of red light suddenly erupt from there. Then, the tall, thin man’s high-pitched voice came to an abrupt end. Accompanied by an even louder roar, the ground of the courtyard also shook violently. The few large trees nearby were all turned to nothingness in an instant. And the formation restrictions on the nearby courtyard walls also collapsed and cracked in that instant.

“Senior Wu!”

The Nascent Soul cultivator was stunned. He seemed to have seen a Nascent Soul flash out of the red light just now, and then the sound of battle quickly subsided. He couldn’t help but exclaim. If he hadn’t seen wrong, Senior Wu’s physical body had actually been destroyed.

This Nascent Soul cultivator immediately realized that something was wrong. He glanced at the courtyard wall where the formation restrictions had been destroyed and was about to flee.

“Kill him!” “Kill him!” “I want to avenge Junior Sister Feng!” “…”

The Golden Core cultivators had already been prepared to die. Under Li Yan’s command, they had to fight to the death to surround and kill this Nascent Soul cultivator. Seeing their companions fall one by one, they went from initial terror to a state of frenzy. Especially when some people saw their loved ones or close friends die, it stirred up the bloodlust and resentment in their hearts.

And the turning point came very quickly. On the other side, Li Yan and his Soul Slave had actually destroyed the physical body of a Spirit Transformation cultivator in just a few breaths. Seeing this, the remaining Golden Core cultivators were instantly filled with morale.

“You want to keep me here, a group of ants who don’t know life from death!”

This Nascent Soul cultivator, seeing the Golden Core cultivators attacking him again, was instantly enraged. With a cold snort, he was about to attack the few people in front of him, kill them, and then rush out.

And at this moment, two streaks of water-like moonlight suddenly attacked from behind. This Nascent Soul cultivator’s heart tightened. An attack from a Nascent Soul level expert had appeared behind him in an instant.

“Damn it!”

Feeling the threat of death from behind, this Nascent Soul cultivator’s forward-charging body could no longer attack those Golden Core cultivators. He could only hastily dodge to one side. And with this flash, a slender figure had already appeared behind him. The person formed a hand seal, and the two streaks of water-like moonlight that had cut through the air also made a turn in the air and gave chase.

It was Mu Guyue. After a word from Li Yan, amidst the rain of blood from the tall, thin man’s physical body, she had rushed back without any hesitation. When it came to battlefield instincts, Mu Guyue was much stronger than Li Yan. Li Yan had only said two simple words.

“Fall back!”

She immediately understood Li Yan’s thoughts. It was not to let her defend against the sneak attack of the tall, thin man’s Nascent Soul from the rain of blood, but to let her save the remaining Golden Core cultivators.

And Li Yan himself, with a flash of his body, also took advantage of the blood-filled sky to continue his “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” and chased after the escaping Nascent Soul. However, the other party’s Nascent Soul had already entered the void and disappeared without a trace.

Li Yan, as if he hadn’t seen it, still flashed towards the direction he sensed and disappeared from the gate.

Although Mu Guyue had fallen back, seeing Li Yan actually go after a teleporting Nascent Soul, she was initially stunned. Even a Void Refining cultivator couldn’t catch a teleporting Spirit Transformation Nascent Soul. But the next moment, she seemed to understand something…

…

Because of the battle between several experts, the courtyard walls had been damaged. Zhang Xin and the others, who no longer needed to continue destroying the gate, felt a strong wind brush past them the moment they stopped. They didn’t even know what had happened, and a phantom of Li Yan had already rushed out…

…

In a void, a golden Nascent Soul that looked exactly like the tall, thin man was speeding along. At this moment, his face showed a look of extreme resentment.

“A Soul Cultivator who practices Body Refining Arts. After I recover my physical body, I will definitely find you two…”

He had firmly memorized the appearances of Li Yan and Mu Guyue. A dignified Spirit Transformation realm expert like him had actually been forced to this state in a moment of carelessness. This made the tall, thin man feel extremely frustrated. He had never expected that in this place he had teleported to, there would be two Body Cultivators who could be compared to Spirit Transformation cultivators.

And one of them was bizarre to the extreme. At the Nascent Soul realm, he had withstood all of his attacks. Such a strange thing would probably be hard to encounter even in the outside world. And in this vast “True Earth Domain,” he had actually encountered it!

In a moment of carelessness, his judgment had been wrong. And it was this mistake that had directly put him on the defensive, without even a chance to fight back.

“…That youth also has an extremely powerful poison. Even the ‘Five-Ghost Revolving Locust’ formation was dissolved by that poison… Ah!”

The tall, thin man’s Nascent Soul was thinking as he fled. He suddenly thought of the poison that Li Yan had used. It was those poisons that had also hit his physical body. Fortunately, he had seen that the situation was not good and had fled quickly, directly abandoning his physical body, which was how his Nascent Soul had managed to escape.

But at this moment, this Nascent Soul, which was fleeing through the void, suddenly showed a strange sign. This made him let out a cry of pain.

The tall, thin man first felt as if his Nascent Soul was being pierced by ten thousand arrows. There was no part of his body that didn’t hurt. And the next moment, the surface of his Nascent Soul suddenly became like a punctured balloon, and it began to leak everywhere.

“Pfft, pfft, pfft…”

Streaks of black qi shot out from all parts of his body. As the tall, thin man let out a cry of pain, his entire person, in an instant, was as if all his strength had been drained. And then, as his body staggered, he actually stumbled out of the void. His instantaneous movement had been broken. And at this time, he had only just flown out of the manor.

“What a vicious… means…!”

The tall, thin man’s golden Nascent Soul’s face, feeling the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing his heart and the rapid loss of strength, already showed a look of extreme terror. The entire golden Nascent Soul was rapidly shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a blink of an eye, the golden color of its body had turned a pitch-black color.

After losing its strength, the Nascent Soul quickly plummeted straight down towards the ground. The tall, thin man’s Nascent Soul only felt the whooshing sound of the wind on both sides. He was falling uncontrollably to the ground at an extremely fast speed. He desperately tried to mobilize all his magical power. But the pain in his body was getting worse and worse. Every time he tried to mobilize his magical power, the black qi coming out of his body would become faster and more abundant, and the speed at which his body shriveled would increase by a fraction. Thus, everything he did became futile. Before he lost consciousness, he saw a short-haired youth in the air, also stepping out of the light with a flash.

And then, the tall, thin man’s Nascent Soul’s eyes rolled back, and he completely fell into a darkness, completely losing consciousness.

Li Yan also stepped out of the light with one step. With one glance, he saw the black Nascent Soul that had fallen to the ground, its eyes still rolled up. The Nascent Soul had almost become a thin skin, stuck to the ground. When he arrived, the tall, thin man’s Nascent Soul was already in this state. It was just that at that time, it still had the last trace of life.

After Li Yan swept it with his soul power, he could no longer sense any trace of life from the Nascent Soul. Only then did he let out a slight sigh of relief.

Because he didn’t dare to use the “Demon-Sealing Nail,” nor did he dare to use the “Five Elements Disarray Mantle,” he couldn’t prevent the other party’s Nascent Soul from escaping. He could only chase in the direction of its escape. Li Yan knew how fast he could be when he used “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” at full strength. After chasing in this direction for about five thousand miles, if he didn’t see the other party’s Nascent Soul, then he didn’t need to chase anymore. The other party had either changed direction or had already gone far away. Since he couldn’t block the other party’s Nascent Soul’s instantaneous movement in the first place, all he could do was to track it for a distance like a hunting dog.

Fortunately, he had only gone out for three thousand miles before he found this escaped and fallen Nascent Soul.

Li Yan stood in the air looking down, but he did not immediately descend. Instead, after a glance, without any warning, two streaks of black light suddenly appeared and flashed out of his hand.

“Thud, thud!”

With two crisp sounds, the two streaks of black light, without any flourish, nailed themselves to the ground, piercing through the already pitch-black Nascent Soul. After passing through the body, they were deeply embedded in the ground. It was the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spikes. One was nailed to the center of the Nascent Soul’s brow, and the other was nailed to the Nascent Soul’s dantian position. With one move, Li Yan had sealed the other party’s soul and magical power.

In this situation, even if the other party was faking death, it would become a real death!

Looking at the still-vibrating tails of the Water-Parting Spikes and the motionless black Nascent Soul skin, Li Yan finally let out a sigh of relief. He knew that as long as his Fragmented Poison could enter the other party’s body, even a Spirit Transformation cultivator would find it difficult to survive. It was just that breaking through the defense of a Spirit Transformation cultivator was the most difficult part.

Then, he flicked his sleeve, and several Void Shadow rings flew up from the ground near the Nascent Soul. With a flash, they were in his hand. At the same time, he also waved his other palm.

“Clang, clang!”

With two sounds, the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spikes were pulled out of the ground and once again turned into two streaks of black light and flew back. At the same time, they also shattered the dead Nascent Soul on the ground into a cloud of dust.

Without further delay, Li Yan stretched his body and immediately flew quickly towards the “Yellow Luvyuan Manor”…

…

When Li Yan returned to the manor, the battle here had indeed already ended!

Mu Guyue’s combat power was also extremely strong. Before she was captured and brought back to the Soul Suppression Palace, she had fought against Soul Cultivators many times. As long as she wasn’t surrounded by multiple opponents of the same rank, she was not afraid of any Soul Cultivator. What’s more, after entering the Soul Suppression Palace, her soul had been strengthened again. So, as long as she no longer had to destroy the teleportation formation in a few breaths and had no more worries, it would be difficult for that Nascent Soul level Soul Cultivator to escape.

One wanted to escape, the other wanted to kill. The two sides immediately entered into a fierce battle upon meeting! However, that Late-stage Nascent Soul Soul Cultivator only lasted for nine breaths in Mu Guyue’s hands. The patterned shield magical treasure in his hand was vertically cut by Mu Guyue’s elbow. The white, bone-like spike on her elbow, like a sharp blade, directly split it open. Then, Mu Guyue’s other jade hand formed a fist, and the four sharp claw-like bone spikes on her fist struck at his abdomen.

Instantly, the Nascent Soul Soul Cultivator’s center was wide open. It was too late to defend again. The moment his abdomen’s protective light shield was struck by Mu Guyue, the light outside the shield flared. And the cold-faced Mu Guyue, her attack was like lightning. After her fist hit the protective light shield, she followed the momentum and fiercely pulled down.

“Screech…”

While a sound that made one’s scalp tingle and teeth ache rang out, the Nascent Soul cultivator, after losing his defensive magical treasure, a Soul Cultivator’s protective light shield became as thin as brittle ice in front of Mu Guyue. In an instant, it had been cut with four long cracks. The blood from his dantian immediately gushed out along the cracks. Mu Guyue naturally did not want to let the other party’s Nascent Soul have a chance to teleport away, so every move was a fatal attack on a vital point.

The reason this Nascent Soul cultivator had only lasted for such a short time was because around him, there were still dozens of Soul Suppression Palace Golden Core Soul Cultivators. They were also desperately launching their strongest attacks. Although these attacks couldn’t kill him, with so many Golden Core cultivators surrounding him, he had to divide his attention to deal with them. Thus, in a moment of distraction, Mu Guyue had quickly gotten close, and then death had come so quickly.

And all of this was under the condition that Mu Guyue was not at her peak state. Otherwise, it would have been even shorter.

After killing the other party, Mu Guyue didn’t bother with these small cultivators and flew directly into the high sky to begin to be on alert for the surroundings. When the Golden Core cultivators looked at this female demonic general again, their eyes were filled with fear. After the other party had succeeded with one move just now, she had instantly approached the enemy. That pair of Crescent Moon Handguard Sabers had turned into two coiling silver dragons, frantically cutting around the other party’s body. As this woman’s own body moved, the bone spikes all over her body turned into streaks of white light. In just a blink of an eye, she had disassembled that person into pieces of corpses. While the sky was filled with a rain of blood and shrill screams, this female demonic general was already holding a pair of Crescent Moon Handguard Sabers again, hovering in the air.

There was not a single drop of blood on her clothes. The white bone spikes on her shoulders, elbows, knees, and hands gleamed with a man-eating cold light. On the tips of some of the bone spikes, blood beads were still slowly dripping. That pair of cold, emotionless eyes seemed to be looking down on all living beings. Her hovering, slender body was slowly rising and falling, like a god of slaughter.

Without Li Yan here to restrain this woman, these Golden Core cultivators were all terrified and did not dare to get close at all. Because from the phoenix eyes of this demonic general that swept over them, they felt waves of icy killing intent. Although they knew that the other party probably wouldn’t dare to attack them, no one dared to meet her gaze.

These people’s feelings were indeed correct. As Mu Guyue looked at the nearby Soul Cultivators, she did have the thought of slaughtering all of them. She had not had any malice towards Soul Cultivators before, but in these hundred-plus years in the “True Earth Domain,” Mu Guyue had long been filled with endless hatred for all Soul Cultivators. It was just that her rationality had allowed her to maintain the last bit of restraint, knowing that she certainly couldn’t kill these people.

Otherwise, if Li Yan were to return as a lone commander, although he could explain it away by saying they had been ambushed by a Spirit Transformation-led cultivator, it would still arouse all sorts of suspicions from the Soul Suppression Palace. After all, being such a captain was too inappropriate. It would still affect Li Yan’s future development in the sect. The Black Demon Clan had always been clear about gratitude and grudges. These Soul Cultivators were enough to arouse her strong killing intent, but Mu Guyue had quietly undergone a change…

It was not until Li Yan returned that the Golden Core cultivators, upon seeing Li Yan, all let out a long sigh of relief.

“Senior Li!” “Greetings, Senior!” “Senior, what are our next orders!”

These people hurried forward to pay their respects, and at the same time, they moved a little further away from Mu Guyue. The pressure Mu Guyue gave them was too great. In that cold atmosphere, they didn’t even dare to move their bodies casually, for fear of attracting her attention.

After seeing Li Yan return, no one dared to ask Li Yan about the result of his pursuit of that Spirit Transformation cultivator. However, at this time, their gazes towards Li Yan were already filled with fervor and reverence. Their captain had not only destroyed the enemy’s ambush, but had also joined forces with his Soul Slave to slay the physical body of a Spirit Transformation cultivator and a Nascent Soul cultivator of the same rank.

This result was unbelievable to them. They had thought before that they would surely perish here this time.

Among these people, there were still some bold ones who asked about what to do next. The smart ones among them already felt that they could not continue the purge, but all of this had to wait for Li Yan’s decision.

Li Yan looked at everyone. The ambush they had suffered in the courtyard had lasted for at most twenty-odd breaths. Of the fifty Golden Core cultivators, only twenty-eight remained. Almost half had died. These twenty-eight were almost all injured, but fortunately, a cultivator was a cultivator. As long as they were not dead, superficial wounds were nothing.

“We can no longer continue to purge forward. Among the forces we have purged, some have already colluded with the nine major forces. This manor is undoubtedly one of them, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to set up this teleportation formation so perfectly.

The smooth counterattack of the Aegis Guard and the various halls in the front, I don’t think it’s really as unstoppable as it seems. This should be a ploy by the nine major forces, deliberately showing weakness to the enemy. And then they secretly left behind a backup plan. Our encounter with them teleporting here at the Yellow Luvyuan Manor might be a coincidence, but it’s also not a coincidence.

The other party either thought we had already checked this place, or thought we hadn’t checked here yet. To put it bluntly, it was all a gamble. But I really didn’t expect to run into them!

If these people had successfully teleported, then a large number of enemies would have appeared between the Soul Suppression Palace and the forward-rushing cultivators from the Aegis Guard and the various halls. Not only could they have launched a pincer attack from here, but they could also have continued to attack the Soul Suppression Palace from behind, separating us from the middle.

Now, we must immediately send this news back to the sect, but it may already be too late. If my previous guess is correct, we will encounter the encirclement and killing of the cultivators who have already been teleported by the nine major forces even if we go back now.”

Li Yan spoke slowly.