112: Enemy destroyed

"Yang Kai!" Zi Ning was startled by the sudden attack. A long whip crackling with purple lightning appeared in her hand. She swung it continuously, weaving a web of electricity in the air. The raven swarm's advance was immediately blocked, but more black ravens slipped through the gaps in her defense.

"Insignificant tricks!" Yang Kai snorted coldly, puffing two jets of hot air from his nostrils. He circulated his Cultivation Technique, and his surging blood Qi churned within him. A phantom image of blood Qi coalesced and then transformed into a small sea of blood, crushing toward the raven swarm. Soon, the terrifying number of ravens was reduced to almost nothing. Yang Kai and Zi Ning stood side by side, looking up and scanning their surroundings, seemingly searching for the mastermind's location.

"I didn't expect two brats at the Qi Refinement Stage to be so troublesome. This sea of blood looks a bit like the methods of the Blood Sect." In the dense forest nearby, two Demonic Cultivators were hiding, discussing how to deal with the enemy.

"No, that's not right. The sea of blood used by those beasts from the Blood Sect is foul-smelling and feels incredibly cold and sinister. But the sea of blood this person unleashed is overwhelmingly masculine and fiery, and the scent of blood permeating the air even carries a faint fragrance. Besides, aren't these two Disciples of the Flowing Cloud Sect? How could they use Blood Sect techniques?" After carefully analyzing the situation, the other person concluded that the two had no connection to the Blood Sect.

"Heh, it's good they aren't from that bunch of madmen in the Blood Sect. This little girl is truly beautiful. My cultivation is currently stuck at a Bottleneck, and I'm in need of a high-quality Cauldron. I'll make my move then." The man beside him looked at Zi Ning, his eyes full of greed. He licked his lips with a scarlet tongue, as if unable to wait to enjoy a delicious meal.

"Hmm, finish this quickly. If we ruin the Old Ancestor's grand plan, even our lives won't be enough to compensate. Don't leave any survivors. Since this Puppet has developed a flaw, wipe it out as well." The other person pondered for a moment, knowing his companion's mind was made up and difficult to change, so he told him to finish it quickly.

The man gave a cold, sinister smile and agreed. He silently crept toward the two in the clearing. Even though he was at the Foundation Establishment Stage, he felt no psychological burden about ambushing two Qi Refinement Stage Cultivators; it felt perfectly natural to him.

However, what he didn't know was that their hiding spot had long been locked onto by Yang Kai's Divine Sense. Yang Kai wasn't skilled at keeping captives, and he was also planning to capture both of them in one fell swoop, so he played along. Zi Ning, however, was kept in the dark; to detect the enemy's location, she even took out several copper coin Magic Treasures, focusing her senses.

"Hmph, quite a wealthy background. As expected of Disciples from a major sect of the Righteous Path, they have one Magic Treasure after another. But once you fall into my hands, both you and your treasures will belong to me, Mo Chen." Mo Chen had gotten close enough to the two and cast another Spell. The black raven corpses that had been scattered all over the ground began to move again. Some of the raven bodies weren't even whole, yet they still moved, which was extremely eerie.

Meanwhile, Yang Kai was also gathering strength. Within his body, his Cultivation Technique was pushed to the limit, and his formidable power reached the critical point of his Physical Body once again. Like a thunderclap on flat ground, his body suddenly shot out, turning into a series of afterimages. The sound of breaking air rose one after another, immediately causing Mo Chen to be terrified. He could no longer bother with hiding his figure, activating a mana barrier and a protective Magic Treasure simultaneously, while dashing backward to try and regroup with his companion.

"Gu Ya, save me!" Seeing Yang Kai rapidly close the vast distance between them and appear right in front of him, Mo Chen felt a sense of fierce desperation. He unleashed techniques to counterattack while crying out for help.

"Damn it!" Gu Ya, hiding in the distance, felt resentful, his teeth nearly shattering. He had Cultivated for a long time and could tell at a glance that Yang Kai was not someone to be trifled with. He had already considered retreating and cursed Mo Chen's ancestors down to the eighteenth generation for revealing his presence and trying to drag him down with him, then carefully began to retreat.

Just then, an eerie figure appeared behind him. His keen spiritual intuition sensed something wrong, and he hurriedly turned to look. When he identified what this eerie figure was, a strange feeling welled up in his heart.

"Isn't this the Wraith Spirit technique of the Demonic Sect? Could it be that those two juniors are controlling it?" Gu Ya was quite familiar with Wraith Spirits. After the four great Demonic Sects—Demon, Blood, Bone, and Soul—were driven out of the continent's core region by the combined forces of the Orthodox Alliance, they could only hide together in the southwestern desert. They were quite familiar with each other, and for many years, the four sects had fought frequently over the already barren resources. It could be said that he was far more adept at dealing with such evil arts than he was at fighting a Cultivator of the Righteous Path.

Gu Ya slapped his waist with his right hand. A huge string of bones consisting of ten skulls, along with three other skulls, surrounded the Wraith Spirit. The thirteen skulls continuously sucked the energy from within the Wraith Spirit.

"I don't know who is manipulating this from behind the scenes, but to dare to show off a Wraith Spirit that has just condensed its form is just asking for it. It's my gain for nothing. If that trash Mo Chen could buy me more time, I could fully absorb this Wraith Spirit and should be able to use it to condense the phantom image of the fourteenth skull." Gu Ya calculated in his mind, then turned to look toward Mo Chen's direction, and saw a scene he would never forget in his life.

He saw Mo Chen using all his means to block the space between himself and Yang Kai, but these methods were like scratching an itch through a boot to Yang Kai, completely unable to break through his Physical Body defense. The distance between the two was closing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Subsequently, Yang Kai stomped heavily on the ground, his figure suddenly closing in on Mo Chen. He swung his fist with force. It was this plain and unremarkable punch that directly shattered the layers of defenses Mo Chen had painstakingly built. After landing on him, his body was blasted into a mist of blood!

"This, this, this!!!"

Seeing this, Gu Ya was terrified out of his wits. Although Mo Chen's cultivation was inferior to his own, if he wanted to take this person down, he would still need to exhaust all his means. If the man fought back in his dying moments, he might even sustain some injuries. Yet, with such cultivation and combat power, he couldn't even take a single punch from Yang Kai and was blasted apart before he could even unleash his various techniques!

"Run!!!"

At this moment, Gu Ya only had this one thought in his mind. He didn't even have time to retrieve the skulls he had refined for half his life, and instead immediately unleashed the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique, wanting to escape far away.

"Quite decisive. Unfortunately, someone used this technique in front of me once before, and I've already figured out a way to break it. Now, let's use you to test if this method is effective." Yang Kai's contemptuous voice resounded in Gu Ya's Sea of Consciousness. Gu Ya was terrified; having Cultivated for nearly a hundred years, he naturally knew this meant Yang Kai's Divine Sense had already invaded his Sea of Consciousness. He didn't even have time to ponder why a Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator could possess such terrifying Divine Sense, and had to divert his focus, mobilizing the Divine Sense within his Sea of Consciousness to sweep every inch of space, attempting to drive out Yang Kai's invading Divine Sense.

"Too late." As soon as Yang Kai finished speaking, a scorching and vast blazing sun shone into Gu Ya's Sea of Consciousness. Gu Ya let out a miserable scream. The Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique could no longer be maintained, and under the backlash, he fell unconscious.