In the soaring smoke and dust ahead, a terrifying aura erupted.
"Junior! How dare you!!"
An old man wearing black Daoist robes, with his hair and beard bristling, rose from the smoke and stood in midair.
His gaze was like lightning, instantly locking onto Ning Xian and Fang Xuan in the clearing.
The killing intent in his eyes almost solidified as he spoke: "Killing my Tianyan Sect disciples and ruining my sect’s plans... Today, I will certainly strike you both down right here! I shall extinguish your souls as a warning to all!"
Before his voice had even faded, he raised his hand and made a grasping motion, and a giant palm condensed from spiritual energy slammed down toward Ning Xian and Fang Xuan!
Before the wind from the palm even reached them, the terrifying pressure had already caused the ground to crack inch by inch.
An attack from the Transformation Realm, truly terrifying!
Ning Xian’s eyes turned cold, and without hesitation, she picked up Fang Xuan and ran.
Fang Xuan: "..."
It was happening again. Every time they encountered a strong enemy, Senior Sister’s first reaction was to pick him up and flee...
He didn't know what to say...
.......
"Junior! Where do you think you're going!"
The Tianyan Sect elder was furious, his body blurring as he turned into a streak of light to give chase.
Seeing that he was still chasing them, Ning Xian had no choice but to think about finishing him off.
If she led him a bit further away, she and her junior brother should be able to handle it.
.......
One chasing and the others fleeing, they surged out of the capital in an instant and arrived at the desolate outskirts of the city.
Ning Xian suddenly stopped and placed Fang Xuan behind her. At the same time, she formed a hand seal and threw out a sword talisman.
The sword talisman instantly transformed into a hundred-zhang-long heaven-shaking sword qi, spanning between heaven and earth.
The sword intent was magnificent as it slashed down boldly toward the pursuing Tianyan Sect elder.
The Tianyan Sect elder’s pupils constricted. Not daring to be careless, he let out a sharp cry.
A mountain-like phantom instantly condensed above his head to meet the heaven-shaking sword qi.
"Rumble—!!!"
The sword qi and the mountain phantom collided violently, erupting with a world-shattering roar.
A violent storm of spiritual energy swept madly in all directions, leveling the surrounding mountain forests and tearing several bottomless ravines into the earth.
Taking this opportunity, Ning Xian sent a quick transmission: "I will be the main attacker to restrain him. You look for an opening."
Fang Xuan’s spirits rose; it was finally his turn to take the stage.
Spiritual energy surged wildly within his body.
The black sword seemed to sense his fighting spirit, and the restrained baleful energy on the blade began to rise slowly.
As the smoke cleared slightly, the figure of the Tianyan Sect elder was revealed once more.
The mountain phantom above his head had dimmed significantly, but it hadn't shattered completely, having clearly blocked most of the sword talisman’s power.
His face was gloomy, and the killing intent in his eyes grew even stronger: "Good! Good! To think you have such a sword talisman! It seems your backgrounds are not simple! But today, you will certainly die!"
He stopped holding back, making a grasping motion with one hand as a golden longsword appeared in his grasp.
With a movement of his body, he pounced toward Ning Xian.
His speed was so fast it was like teleportation.
Ning Xian showed no fear, pointing her fingers like a sword as a sword intent refined to the extreme met his attack.
Although she temporarily held off the Transformation Realm elder’s offensive, the difference in realm was simply too large, and Ning Xian was shaken back repeatedly.
At this moment, Fang Xuan had already poured all the spiritual energy in his body into the black sword in his hand.
The black sword seemed to have fully awakened, emitting an excited, trembling hum.
The blade was no longer dull and black, but instead emitted a layer of dark, blood-like crimson baleful light.
"Slash!!!"
Fang Xuan gave a light shout and slashed down at the Tianyan Sect elder.
The sword momentum was like a mountain collapsing or a heavenly river pouring down.
The Tianyan Sect elder had noticed the moment Fang Xuan struck, but he was being pinned down by Ning Xian’s sharp sword intent and could not fully pull away for a moment.
Feeling the heart-palpitating weight and balefulness above his head, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he was both shocked and furious.
"Junior, you’re looking for death!!"
He let out a furious roar and unexpectedly neither dodged nor retreated. His left hand continued to swing his sword to block Ning Xian, while his right hand suddenly reached upward, intending to catch Fang Xuan’s full-power black sword strike with his bare hand!
He wanted to crush this ignorant junior along with that strange black sword.
He would let everyone know that the majesty of the Transformation Realm was not to be profaned.
The expected shattering of the black sword did not happen.
The mockery on the Tianyan Sect elder’s face instantly froze.
Heavy!
It was too heavy!
The force coming from that sword didn't feel like something a Golden Core Realm cultivator could produce at all!
It felt more like an ancient beast swinging a divine mountain downward.
The arrogant and baleful intent contained within it directly struck his mind.
The sound of bones cracking came from his right hand.
"Pfft—!"
The Tianyan Sect elder sprayed out a mouthful of blood. Like a meteor, he was smashed directly from midair to the ground by this terrifying sword strike.
"Boom—!!!"
The ground shook violently as he was slammed into a hundred-meter-deep pit.
Spider-web-like cracks spread for a hundred zhang.
He lay at the bottom of the pit, his right arm bent at an unnatural angle, clearly broken.
His blood was boiling, and his spiritual energy was in disarray.
.......
Fang Xuan only wanted to say that for anyone daring to take Yunchang head-on, you are the first.
Transformation Realm? Sorry, even the Transformation Realm won't help you here.
Before he could catch his breath, Ning Xian’s sword intent and Fang Xuan’s following second strike arrived.
The two coordinated with extreme tacit understanding. Ning Xian’s sword intent was tricky and sharp, specifically targeting his vital points while interrupting his moves.
Fang Xuan relied on the heavy and fierce nature of the black sword to keep hacking and slashing.
Although he couldn't cause the same terrifying damage as the first time, it forced the opponent into a frantic state, his injuries constantly worsening.
.......
As a dignified Transformation Realm expert, he was actually being completely suppressed by two Golden Core Realm cultivators!
New wounds were constantly added to his body, and he was covered in blood, looking incredibly wretched.
"Dammit! Dammit!"
The Tianyan Sect elder was shocked and furious, feeling stifled to the extreme.
He had his Transformation Realm cultivation and many divine abilities, yet he was being beaten so miserably by these two!
If this continued, he might actually capsize in a gutter!
"Stop!!" he roared while struggling to defend.
"We can talk! This might be a misunderstanding! The matter of you killing my martial nephew can perhaps..."
Where there is life, there is hope.
As long as he could escape today, he would definitely make these two juniors wish they were dead in the future!
However, Fang Xuan and Ning Xian were naturally unmoved.
A misunderstanding? You watched us kill your martial nephew right in front of you, and there's still a misunderstanding?
Between cultivators, once it reached this point of life and death, there was no more talk of reconciliation.
Fang Xuan took advantage of the moment the opponent was distracted by speaking to once again pour his remaining spiritual energy into the black sword.
Ning Xian also tacitly used an even stronger sword intent to restrain him.
"Slash!"
It was another heavy slash without any fancy tricks.
The Tianyan Sect elder defended hastily and was once again shaken until his blood boiled and his old wounds burst open.
"You... you go too far!!"
He went completely mad, seemingly about to use some high-cost forbidden technique.
But Fang Xuan would not give him another chance. For the final sword, he pressed out all the spiritual energy in his body.
The black sword followed closely behind, sweeping across his neck.
The early-stage Transformation Realm elder of the Tianyan Sect had fallen!
.......
"Huff... huff..."
Fang Xuan leaned on the black sword, panting heavily, his face somewhat pale.
Ning Xian walked to the headless corpse and skillfully removed the storage ring and a few magic treasures that looked decent.
She checked again to confirm that no tracking marks or remnant souls were left behind.
"Was the exhaustion great?" she asked Fang Xuan with concern.
"It's alright."
Fang Xuan grinned.
Ning Xian nodded and handed the looted storage ring to Fang Xuan.
Fang Xuan took a look.
The wealth of a Transformation Realm elder was indeed substantial.
There were tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones alone.
All sorts of pills, materials, and jade slips were a feast for the eyes.
There were even a few decent earth-grade spirit artifacts.
The most precious items were several thousand-year-old spirit medicines emitting startling spiritual energy.
Fang Xuan transferred the items to his own ring.
Although this battle was dangerous, the rewards were massive.
Ning Xian walked to the front of the corpse and released Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei then grew several times larger and swallowed the corpse in one gulp.
For it, a Transformation Realm body was far more than just a great supplement.
"It's actually more useful than corpse-dissolving water," Ning Xian commented calmly.
........
The two took a short break to recover some strength.
Then they returned to the vicinity of the brothel.
Fang Xuan picked up Chen Fan, who was still unconscious on the ground, and patted his face.
Chen Fan opened his eyes in a daze, and seeing Fang Xuan and the normal-looking Ning Xian, his brain stalled again.
"Im... immortal lords... that... that Transformation Realm..."
"Dealt with," Fang Xuan said succinctly.
Chen Fan: "!!!"
His head tilted, and he fainted again...
......
Never mind him.
Ning Xian spoke to Fang Xuan: "Let's go. We're going back to the city. We'll deal with the remaining state preceptor and the prince tomorrow."
Fang Xuan stretched and responded: "Mhm... okay, Senior Sister. Then tonight..."
"The... the cultivation method must, of course, continue to be practiced."
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