Wangquan Qihuan’s pupils trembled. “Mid-Stage Nascent Soul talismans?! How could you have those?!”
He didn’t dare delay and immediately performed hand signs with both hands, going all out to defend.
Wen Li scoffed. “So it’s fine for you to bully people, but I’m not allowed to pay-to-win?”
She had said she wouldn’t let Gu Linshu pay-to-win or use hacks, but she never said she couldn’t. Since her disciple had “honored” her with them, it would be a waste not to use them.
As for Wangquan Sheng, he was also facing a Mid-Stage Nascent Soul talisman.
Wangquan Sheng was shaken. He hadn’t expected her to possess a talisman capable of a full-power strike from a Mid-Stage Nascent Soul cultivator. The fact that she had waited until now to use it meant she had predicted he would turn on her.
However, he didn’t have time for deep thought. He didn’t try to grit his teeth and resist like Wangquan Qihuan; this was the power of a Mid-Stage Nascent Soul, and the Early-Stage Nascent Soul strength he had borrowed from the old man was nearly exhausted. If he was hit, there would be nothing but death!
Wangquan Sheng immediately manifested a pair of magical wings and, without a second thought, flew straight toward Wangquan Qihuan’s back.
“You bastard!”
Seeing that he was actually leading the other talisman’s attack toward him, Wangquan Qihuan, who was in the middle of gathering his strength, saw his face turn ashen.
Wangquan Qihuan didn’t have time to deal with him. He bit his finger and squeezed out fresh blood while performing hand signs. He quickly pulled out a token; the moment the blood merged with it, the token radiated a brilliant light, transforming into a shield that covered nearly half of the Inner Hall.
“Azure Light Shield!”
Wangquan Qihuan poured all his spiritual energy into the shield. The moment his fierce tiger collided with Wen Li’s Moon Soul Arrow and the purple-gold lightning dragon, the full-power strike of the Mid-Stage Nascent Soul talisman also came crashing down on him.
“BOOM!!!”
When it was nearly ten meters from the Azure Light Shield, the talisman’s halo instantly split into four pillars of light that hacked straight down. The massive roar and spiritual pressure sent Luo Yuntian, Helian Zhou, and the others flying, slamming them against the walls as they coughed up blood.
“Ugh!”
Wangquan Qihuan’s arms trembled. Because the talisman that had been chasing Wangquan Sheng also struck down, the impact forced his Azure Light Shield back dozens of meters. He was forced to drop from the air to the ground, his feet digging into the floor as he resisted with all his might.
Wangquan Sheng hid far behind him, looking toward Wen Li with an inscrutable expression.
But Wen Li had already sat back down by the sarcophagus, performing hand signs to protect Zongzheng Huangyue while she threw out a single sentence.
“You two can place a bet—on exactly how many Nascent Soul talismans I have.”
The moment those words fell, Wangquan Sheng moved.
He immediately summoned the Cangchen Sword and decisively smeared the blood from his palm onto the blade. The light instantly flared as it absorbed the blood.
【Master, we can only take a gamble.】
The old man in the bone ring seemed to know what he intended to do; his voice was helpless and weak. 【Do it. There is only hope if we stay alive.】
Hearing this, Wangquan Sheng mobilized all his spiritual energy and focused his mind on the sword manual the old man had taught him. He performed the hand signs to gather power, his posture steady and unmoving.
In the next instant.
“Boom!!!”
He performed a hand sign with both hands and rapidly mobilized the Cangchen Sword to thrust out with a thunderous roar.
Wangquan Qihuan, who was still contending with the two Mid-Stage Nascent Soul talismans, sensed the crisis behind him. He violently twisted his body to dodge, but the talismans' attack had already consumed more than half of his remaining spiritual energy, making his movements a split-second too slow.
“Shlick!”
The Cangchen Sword instantly pierced through his thigh.
“Aaaagh!!!”
His white hair disheveled and wild, Wangquan Qihuan cried out in pain. In his lapse of concentration, his Azure Light Shield finally failed to hold against the two talismans and began to crack. Within the blink of an eye—
“Crack!”
“Bang!”
The Azure Light Shield shattered into fragments and vanished. The attacks from the two talismans immediately surged forward, taking advantage of his injury to strike Wangquan Qihuan directly, his clothes becoming soaked in blood.
“Boom!”
Innumerable, blinding waves of light from the attacks rocked the Inner Hall, punching through two stone pillars and pinning him firmly against the upper ceiling of the hall.
This wasn't the end. Unwilling to leave anything to chance, Wangquan Sheng immediately summoned the Cangchen Sword to deliver a finishing blow.
“Boom!”
Another thunderous roar echoed as the Inner Hall filled with dust and spiritual light.
Everyone stared at the ruins.
Luo Yuntian murmured, “A Nascent Soul cultivator... died just like that?”
When the dust settled, the debris had piled into a small mound.
The old man in the bone ring warned Wangquan Sheng, 【He is at the Nascent Soul realm. Be careful of his Nascent Soul emerging to possess someone else.】
Wangquan Sheng held the Cangchen Sword and slowly stepped forward, his movements cautious. Suddenly, there was movement in the rubble, and a ball of pale blue light burst out from the ruins.
“Boom!”
One could vaguely see it was a small figure shaped like an infant. It actually rushed toward Luo Yuntian!
“Don't come over! Stay away from me!”
Seeing this, Luo Yuntian was so terrified he immediately fled.
To pull up the weeds and the roots, Wangquan Sheng immediately gave chase.
While the group was in a chaotic frenzy over there, Wen Li sat where she was, bringing her hands together to slowly retract her spiritual energy. Inside the sarcophagus, Zongzheng Huangyue had already imprisoned the consciousness of Wangquan Wuho’s remnant soul and absorbed the soul into her body; this would be of great use to her when she formed her Core in the future.
Lying in the sarcophagus, Zongzheng Huangyue suddenly opened her eyes.
“Master, I succeeded!”
She sat up, and Wen Li reached out to help her out of the sarcophagus. With a wave of her hand, Wen Li swept Wangquan Wuho’s corpse into her storage bag.
She truly left nothing behind.
The black fleeceball jumped onto her shoulder. Wen Li handed the Moon Soul Arrow to Zongzheng Huangyue. “From this day forward, you are the master of the Moon Soul Arrow.”
Zongzheng Huangyue took it and saw that her Master had actually erased the traces left on the Moon Soul Arrow by Wangquan Wuho!
“Thank you, Master.”
“Boom!”
Suddenly, a massive sound erupted in the hall, nearly piercing their eardrums.
The two of them looked toward the source. It turned out that Wangquan Qihuan’s Nascent Soul had emerged and was chasing Luo Yuntian, only to be pinned to the wall by Wangquan Sheng’s sword in a final struggle. Wangquan Sheng had also suffered a severe backlash from his overexertion and was spitting out blood.
They immediately flew down from the high platform. Wen Li and Zongzheng Huangyue attacked at the same time.
One drew a bow, and the other wielded a sword.
Wangquan Sheng’s pupils contracted, and he instinctively moved to avoid them.
To his surprise, the two of them were actually aiming at the pale yellow infant that was Wangquan Qihuan’s Nascent Soul.
“Bang!”
With a loud explosion, the arrow and the long sword pierced in simultaneously. This time—
“Aaaagh! You despicable people! I will wait for you in hell! Aaaaaagh—!”
Wangquan Qihuan’s Nascent Soul was truly and completely destroyed.
The pale yellow infant gradually became translucent until it finally turned into dust and vanished into thin air.
In that instant, Wangquan Sheng didn't care that his cultivation was rapidly regressing from the Early-Stage Nascent Soul to the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment. He immediately flew toward the entrance of the Inner Hall.
He had used the force of his battle with Wangquan Qihuan to break the seal Wen Li had placed on the entrance, specifically for this moment.
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