A pot fell from the sky! Yue Qingyao, don't come any closer!

On the battlefield, the sounds of slaughter shook the heavens.

One of them was surrounded by moonlight, with a cold and aloof temperament, wielding a crescent scimitar that unleashed chilling blade light. She was none other than the Supreme Grand Elder of the Misty Immortal Sect, Situ Piaomiao.

The other was dressed in white as pure as snow, her Sword Qi fierce and sharp; every strike seemed as if it would tear the firmament apart! She was Yue Qingyao, who harbored a deep vendetta against Lin Yuan!

Not far away, the fierce Black-Armored Corpse King belonging to the Old Ancestor Xuan Yin was actually being forced into a steady retreat by a woman, letting out unwilling roars.

The woman wore a complex and luxurious black-gold dragon robe, a flat-topped imperial crown upon her head. She was tall and stunningly beautiful, yet carried an air of majesty that looked down upon all living beings.

She controlled a crimson-gold longsword. As the sword struck, magnificent heavenly might followed, and golden dragon-shaped Qi coiled around the blade, striking the impenetrable Black-Armored Corpse King until it wailed repeatedly, its indestructible scales cracking with several deep gouges.

"The Yan Yang Kingdom has also entered the fray?" Lin Yuan felt a jolt in his heart.

That domineering and unparalleled Imperial Dragon Qi, that air of an emperor who considered themselves supreme—aside from the royal family of the Yan Yang Kingdom, the legendary strongest nation in the Eastern Region, there was no other!

"Indeed, that woman is the contemporary Empress of the Yan Yang Kingdom, Ji Wushuang." The voice of Ye Youmeng rang out beside him, having long anticipated this.

"This Blood River Spirit Stone mine is enough to change the landscape of the Eastern Region; it is not something a single Sect can swallow." Ye Youmeng narrowed her phoenix eyes, gazing at the chaotic battlefield in the distance. "The Yan Yang Kingdom is just the first; Hundred Beasts Mountain and the Xuanfu Sect are likely lurking in the shadows as well. In the future, the entire Eastern Region will not know peace."

Before her words had even faded, her figure suddenly flickered.

Her entire being merged into the wind, appearing ethereal and indistinct as she quietly flew toward the chaotic battlefield ahead.

She did not stir up the slightest ripple of spiritual power, silently circling to the flank of Situ Piaomiao and Yue Qingyao.

Then, she raised her slender hand.

Dozens of jade-green threads, difficult for the naked eye to discern, sliced through the sky like soul-reaping ghosts, pointing straight at Yue Qingyao's unguarded back!

At this moment, Yue Qingyao was fully suppressing the Old Ancestor Xuan Yin; Sword Qi crisscrossed the air, and the sky was filled with her fierce Sword Light.

Just an instant before the poisonous threads struck, a frantic alarm rang out in her heart, and a deadly chill made the hairs on her entire body stand on end!

She instinctively shifted sideways to dodge, her Sword Light returning to protect her body.

But, she was ultimately a beat too slow.

Ye Youmeng's sneak attack was timed too cunningly, and the angle was extremely vicious!

"Pfft..."

A jade-green thread pierced through her protective Sword Qi, leaving a tiny bloody hole in her shoulder.

At the wound, an eerie jade-green color spread like ink dropped into clear water, rapidly extending toward her Meridians.

Yue Qingyao let out a muffled groan, her face instantly turning pale, and the magical power circulating within her body stalled.

"Ye Youmeng!" Situ Piaomiao was both shocked and furious, instantly recognizing this vicious Cultivation Technique unique to the Five Poisons Sect.

Having succeeded in her strike, Ye Youmeng's figure appeared not far away. She smiled enchantingly and raised her hand again; a more brilliant jade-green radiance soared into the sky, exploding in mid-air to transform into a giant jade-green scorpion shadow.

"Hiss—!"

The several Hundred-Eyed Poison Centipedes that had long been poised for action received the signal and immediately let out shrill hisses that pierced the clouds and cracked stones!

Their massive bodies turned into several streams of dark green light, carrying the Cultivators of the Five Poisons Sect as they charged fiercely toward the battlefield like unleashed Vicious Beasts!

"Kill!"

The addition of the Five Poisons Sect was like a boulder smashing into an already chaotic pond, instantly causing the originally one-sided battle to fall into a stalemate once again.

Lin Yuan mingled among the Disciples of the Five Poisons Sect, controlling his frost sword to entangle with a Cultivator from the Misty Immortal Sect at the Late Foundation Establishment Stage.

He fought unhurriedly, his Sword Light unremarkable; while exchanging blows, he quietly moved toward the very edge of the skirmish.

He kept his eyes on all directions and his ears open to all sides, but his Divine Sense and peripheral vision remained locked on the movements of those Nascent Soul old monsters in the sky.

At this moment, Yue Qingyao was battling Ye Youmeng in a fierce, heaven-darkening clash.

One had Sword Qi like frost, cold and peerless; the other had treacherous poison arts, enchanting and lethal.

Yue Qingyao had already been poisoned, and now, suppressed by Ye Youmeng's endless array of bizarre poison techniques, she was forced into a steady retreat, caught in perilous situations time and again.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, Ye Youmeng seized an opening where Yue Qingyao was unable to catch her breath, closing in to strike. The palm, which appeared soft and powerless, carried an insidious and terrifying penetrating force, landing solidly on Yue Qingyao's chest.

"Pfft..."

Yue Qingyao felt as if she had been struck by a heavy blow, spraying a large mouthful of blood into the air!

Her body flew backward uncontrollably, like a kite with a snapped string.

She forcibly steadied herself, looking at the several experts who were vaguely surrounding her, a flash of determination in her eyes.

She had to break out!

Her gaze swept rapidly across the battle circle, finally fixing on the edge of the Five Poisons Sect's formation, the corner where the aura was weakest and looked easiest to break through!

As luck—or misfortune—would have it, that was precisely the position where Lin Yuan was located.

Lin Yuan caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye of that white shadow turning into a stream of light, charging straight toward him. His heart skipped a beat, and he cursed silently, "Damn it."

Just as he was about to retreat further, that figure had already arrived with unparalleled sword momentum, breaking through the obstruction of several Five Poisons Sect Disciples and crashing down not far away.

Yue Qingyao struggled to stand up, blood staining the corners of her mouth, her white clothes covered in dust and blood; she was in a wretched state.

But those eyes remained as cold as ten-thousand-year glacial ice.

She raised her head, her gaze sweeping over this unremarkable Yin Corpse Sect Disciple who was blocking her path.

Then, her gaze met that familiar and hateful face.

The air froze in that instant.

Time was infinitely slowed in that moment.

Lin Yuan only felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, and a chill surged from the soles of his feet straight to his crown!

The moment Yue Qingyao saw that face, her pupils contracted violently.

Shock, astonishment, disbelief...

In the end, all emotions transformed into a volcanic eruption of monstrous hatred and Killing Intent, enough to burn through the Nine Heavens!

"Lin! Yuan!"

These two words were squeezed out from between her teeth, filled with resentment and madness!

"Damn it!" Lin Yuan cursed internally, no longer caring about anything else.

Being targeted by this crazy woman—what tactics were there to speak of!

He dared not show the slightest hesitation, immediately abandoning his opponent, turning to channel all his magical power, and transforming into a stream of light to flee frantically into the distance.

"Want to run?!" Yue Qingyao's voice was bone-chillingly cold.

She forcibly suppressed her churning Qi and blood and the virulent poison within her body, pinching a sword seal with one hand.

"Slash!"

With a low shout, her Lifebound Treasure Flying Sword, which had been hovering at her side, hummed, and its spiritual light surged violently!

It instantly transformed into a massive azure sword over ten zhang long, flickering with cold light and exuding terrifying pressure!

A strike filled with hatred from a Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Stage!

The instant the giant sword appeared, Lin Yuan felt himself firmly locked in place by an invisible aura!

No matter how far he fled to the ends of the earth, no matter if he burrowed into the abyss of the earth, this sword would definitely strike him!

This was the absolute suppression of status!

With this strike, let alone being hit, even if he were just grazed, his Divine Soul would be annihilated and he would be left without a corpse!

A flash of crazy ruthlessness crossed Lin Yuan's eyes as his palm flipped violently.

Just at the moment when that giant sword, which blocked out the sky and sun, was about to fall, a Talisman shimmering with brilliant light and pulsating with Spiritual Qi appeared in his palm.

It was none other than the hundred-mile Divine Movement Talisman he had obtained back in Black Stone City!

After activating this Talisman, one could instantly teleport a hundred miles; it could be used a total of three times.

"Crazy woman! I'll remember you! You just wait for me! I will definitely XX you a hundred times, a hundred times!"

Lin Yuan did not hesitate to pour his internal magical power frantically into the Talisman, slamming it hard against his own body!

The Talisman instantly transformed into a ball of silver light, brilliant to the extreme, enveloping his entire being.

The power of space flowed; his figure became blurred and distorted in place, and finally, with a "whoosh," he disappeared.

Almost at the same moment he disappeared.

"Boom—!"

The azure giant sword, carrying the might to destroy everything, crashed down!

The place where Lin Yuan had originally been standing was hacked into a terrifying ravine, dozens of zhang long and bottomless!