Chapter 1767: Dramatic Change in Situation

This sudden change caused a shift in the circulation of her Marrow Astral-Wind. Ming Qi had experienced countless life-and-death situations. Before her consciousness could react to what had happened, her instincts took the lead. The moment she felt a hole in the opponent’s power, she immediately adopted her most familiar attack!

Ming Qi’s entire power erupted. Her hands finally let go of the jade green belt. She no longer cared about that artifact. With a twist of her waist, the muscles on her legs instantly formed vertical shapes. They first contracted quickly and then expanded violently, launching her whole body out from the side.

In the spark of lightning as she rushed out, Yan Qingchen also happened to be shooting out diagonally. At this time, most of Yan Qingchen’s attention had quickly shifted to the rear. He had not expected Ming Qi to be so powerful. Even after suffering quite heavy injuries, she reached his face in the moment his power slightly decreased.

“Die!”

Ming Qi raised one hand quickly, her palm cutting straight down toward the opponent’s neck. Almost at the same time she raised her hand, it turned into a shadow with a faint light. It instantly reached Yan Qingchen’s neck. At this time, Yan Qingchen’s old strength was gone and new strength had not yet been born, and his spiritual power shield had just been shattered. Ming Qi’s strike, performed despite her injuries, was timed perfectly.

Yan Qingchen felt a sharp pain in his neck from the wind of the opponent’s palm blade. His pupils shrank to the size of needle points. The attacks and defenses of several parties occurred in rapid succession, with many changes happening in an instant. Not even half a breath had passed from beginning to end.

At this moment, the figure behind him whose punch had been blocked also struck out with the other hand from the void. Yan Qingchen, caught in a hasty pincer attack, also showed his strength. He opened his mouth and let out a strange sonic whistle.

As soon as the sonic whistle appeared, it formed a fast-spinning black soundwave vortex an inch in front of him. Ming Qi’s palm slashed directly onto it.

“Chirp!”

The moment her palm cut in, she felt the sonic wave there acting like a series of sharp blades, cutting into her jade-like palm. Immediately, a yellow and white light appeared at the edge of Ming Qi’s palm, and after that, the black soundwave vortex could no longer hold on.

“Boom!”

It shattered in an instant, and the whistle stopped abruptly. Yan Qingchen used this fleeting opportunity to avoid this fatal pincer attack. But as a body cultivator, Ming Qi’s follow-up moves were still extremely sharp. While shattering the black soundwave vortex, although this palm had not yet fully landed, she already knew it wouldn’t succeed as originally intended. She quickly adjusted her momentum, and her single palm instantly changed from a slash to a thrust.

“Thud!”

“Crack crack crack…”

Yan Qingchen’s body, which was already shooting out, still could not escape the range of Ming Qi’s attack due to her timely change of move. First, a heavy sound was heard. Ming Qi’s palm thrust into Yan Qingchen’s left armpit. Then, a series of tooth-aching bone-cracking sounds, like popping beans, rang out.

Without the spiritual power shield, after being struck by a solid palm, Yan Qingchen broke an unknown number of ribs. If Ming Qi had not been injured beforehand, this palm could have destroyed the opponent’s physical body.

Almost at the same time, the other fist striking from the void in the rear saw two artifacts blocking the way in front, and Yan Qingchen had already used the force to shoot out diagonally. The person who ambushed Yan Qingchen also quickly changed his move. The front fist turned into a palm and also pushed forward along the opponent’s artifact. The rear fist remained unchanged and heavily smashed into the back of his own palm.

“Boom!”

Under the overlapping of two forces, another loud crash erupted, and the entire space shook violently. Yan Qingchen, who had broken ribs in front but had also used the force to shoot out, was already vomiting blood continuously. Suddenly, his Sea of Consciousness felt another burst of sharp pain. His eyes went dark, and he almost fell from the sky.

The attacking power of the person in the rear was at least at the mid-stage of Void Refining. This meant that even though he had avoided the direct attack, he was still injured again. That person’s experience was also extremely veteran. He knew that as long as Yan Qingchen could catch his breath, the two artifacts would return to normal use.

That person actually took advantage of the brief gap when he was being pincered to launch an extremely fierce strike against the natal treasures that had lost subsequent control. This powerful attack at the Void Refining realm caused his natal treasures to be damaged immediately without the control of magic power, which in turn injured his Sea of Consciousness. The opponent’s attacking consciousness was so strong and his changes so fast that Yan Qingchen simply couldn’t react.

And until now, only half a breath of time had passed!

Yan Qingchen endured various sharp pains in his body, and his thoughts moved even faster. A talisman immediately appeared in his hand. He crushed it without any hesitation. At the same time, with a wave of his mind, his natal treasures used the momentum of being struck to immediately return to his side.

The poise was gone from Yan Qingchen’s handsome face. Blood constantly poured from the corners of his mouth. His Sea of Consciousness was also dizzy, and he even felt a sense of blurred vision. But the area around his flying body had already begun to turn ethereal. This was the scene after being enveloped by the light emitted from the crushed talisman.

At this instant, Yan Qingchen still turned his head back with difficulty. He had been badly injured this time due to the hasty encounter. His internal organs were pierced by bone spurs in many places, and his natal treasures were damaged by the opponent’s strike because they lacked magic power maintenance, which also injured his Sea of Consciousness.

He looked at the place where he had been standing. There, a hunched, elderly figure seemed to have just appeared from the void. And he actually did not recognize the other person at all!

‘Is this… a cultivator hidden in this secret realm? Or did someone disguise their appearance and come here…’

Even though his Sea of Consciousness was dizzy, Yan Qingchen still quickly made a judgment, but that was all he could see. Because his talisman took effect instantly, with a flash of light, Yan Qingchen had already vanished without a trace.

“Whoosh!”

Ming Yu’s long leg heavily swept through a series of afterimages, but failed to strike Yan Qingchen there. Her attack arrived half a breath later, but she had already lost the opportunity.

“Teleportation talisman!” Ming Yu shouted after her divine sense swept the surroundings.

Seeing things were not going well, Yan Qingchen finally found a gap and used a random teleportation talisman to leave this place directly. At this time, it was unknown where he had been teleported to, but nine times out of ten, he was still within this space.

On the other side, Ming Qi did not speak again. Her beautiful eyes stared at the person who had just appeared from the void after attacking twice. It was a grey-robed elder with greyish-white hair. His body was withered and hunched. After stepping out of the void, he first glanced at the place where Yan Qingchen disappeared, and then also looked at her.

Ming Qi could only sense the aura of the late stage of Spirit Transformation from the opponent, but the power of those two punches just now had made her heart tremble. That kind of spatial fluctuation should have the power of the peak of the initial stage or the mid-stage of Void Refining. Even if she and her sister were not injured and joined forces, they would not be the opponent of this person.

She was not sure what the opponent’s cultivation level actually was because the two punches the man threw were a mixture of physical strength and magic power. This gave her a blurred feeling. The man’s body should also be extremely strong, perhaps having the terrifying power of the Void Refining realm. The opponent’s magic power fluctuations were even stronger. Ming Qi was certain that it was absolutely not something a Spirit Transformation cultivator could possess.

Therefore, for a time, looking at the Spirit Transformation realm displayed by the opponent, she had no idea what the person’s true cultivation level actually was.

‘Could it be a dual dharma-body cultivator?’

This thought soon surfaced in her mind. She had sensed even more things before, but those were not the most important things for now. The most important thing was who this person was. Why would he suddenly appear here?

Yan Qingchen clearly had not sensed the arrival of this person either. The other person had reached his back, and he was completely unaware, which was why he was ambushed. Then there was an even more critical question. Why did this person only attack Yan Qingchen and not attack the two of them?

Questions flashed through her mind one by one.

“Pre… Senior, who are you?”

Ming Qi looked at the condensed elderly figure. While her magic power was gathered in a state of alert, she asked softly. After thinking about it, she still addressed the other party as Senior. In fact, at this very moment, what she and her sister needed most was to swallow pills to heal their injuries. Just as she was asking, Ming Yu had also flown to her side.

No one here chose to chase Yan Qingchen because under that kind of teleportation, no one knew where he had been teleported to. Although there should only be two directions here, one upstream and one downstream, it would still require searching carefully all the way.

“Are you from the Undead Nether Phoenix clan?”