Chapter 534: You Dare Kill Me?!

In the river valley, two figures darted like lightning, shuttling at extreme speed.

A young man, his face filled with terror, fled for his life at the front.

A middle-aged woman, her eyes brimming with murderous intent, pursued relentlessly from behind!

"He He Tangzhu! He He Tangzhu!" The young man's face turned deathly pale as he ran and looked back. "I saw nothing, He He Tangzhu! I promise I won't say a word!"

The young man kept begging for mercy, feeling the terrifying pressure behind him drawing ever closer.

Earlier, he had barely managed to escape the battlefield and, together with his sole remaining companion, fled back to the temporary stronghold of Fang Lingfeng Hall.

He had thought that here he might reunite with scattered comrades or find He He Tangzhu to lead them in regrouping.

The good news was that he indeed encountered He He Tangzhu inside the river valley cave.

The bad news was—

Had He He Tangzhu actually killed a member of the hall?

The young man and his other companion were instantly stunned into disbelief.

However, the moment the two of them opened their mouths to question her, He He Tangzhu suddenly struck!

The speed of a Sea Realm expert was breathtaking; with merely a single thrust of her halberd, she impaled another hall member to death on the spot!

The young man did not know why He He Tangzhu had acted so.

He had no time to be shocked; he fled in haste. Yet Wan Wan Fangling, carrying her Crescent Moon Halberd, chased after him, radiating killing intent.

"He He Tangzhu! I am your most loyal subordinate, I promise... Why must you eradicate us completely... Aaaah!" The young man let out a scream of terror.

Panicking and choosing no path, the young man accidentally crashed into a large tree.

"Crack!" A crisp sound rang out!

The thick trunk exploded with a boom; the young man stumbled but dared not delay even an instant, scrambling and crawling as he continued to dart forward.

Eastern Thunder Divine Art · Swift Light Shadow!

But as a Named River Estuary Realm believer, the young man was no match for Wan Wan Fangling, neither in physical attributes nor in the grade of his Divine Technique Artifact.

The distance between them was already closing infinitely, and now, with the young man's stumble, Wan Wan Fangling immediately caught up.

The young man's expression became utterly rigid!

The terrifying pressure seemed ready to crush his body into dregs.

In that instant, the young man erupted with an astonishing will to survive, turning his head and roaring fiercely, "Heh-ah!"

Eastern Thunder Divine Art · Shocking Thunder Roar!

This battle cry technique sounded like startling thunder, capable of temporarily stunning the target.

"Heh-ah!!"

Almost the moment the young man turned his head, Wan Wan Fangling, who was infinitely close, likewise let out a fierce shout.

As disciples of the same Eastern Thunder lineage, both chose with striking consistency!

Instantly, both of their bodies froze stiff.

The Eastern Thunder sect possessed no defensive techniques against such attacks.

When facing a battle cry unleashed by a fellow sect member, both parties would be affected.

"Thud!"

"Whoosh—" Both collapsed to the ground one after another.

Driven by massive momentum, the young man rolled repeatedly across the ground, crushing a patch of shrubbery.

Wan Wan Fangling, meanwhile, smashed violently into a large tree, her forward momentum abruptly halting.

"Hmm..." Wan Wan Fangling's face showed angry frustration as she shook her head vigorously, trying to clear her mind.

After all, she was of the Sea Realm.

Facing the Jiang Pin · Shocking Thunder Roar, although Wan Wan Fangling could not avoid injury entirely, relying on the terrifying mental strength of the Sea Realm, she regained consciousness a step faster.

Over there, the young man remained in a state of dizziness.

The next moment, Wan Wan Fangling rushed straight toward the young man's location, stomping heavily down onto his chest.

"Bang!!"

Eastern Thunder Divine Art · Thunder Explosion Purple Light!

Massive amounts of purple electric current exploded beneath Wan Wan Fangling's foot, scattering outward like winding little snakes.

"Ah..." The young man moaned unconsciously in agony, having not yet recovered his senses.

In his stunned state, he could barely maintain his Shocking Thunder Armor and Water Flow Armor; now, both armors were shattered under Wan Wan Fangling's single stomp!

Stripped of his defensive armor, the young man had undoubtedly become a lamb awaiting slaughter!

Wan Wan Fangling viciously trampled her own subordinate, crushing the young man's chest until it caved in.

As for the effect of the Eastern Thunder Divine Art · Thunder Explosion Purple Light, it electrified people until they were numb!

The scattering purple lightning crawled all over the young man's body, rendering him completely unable to move!

The intense pain finally allowed the young man to regain a sliver of consciousness.

Yet it would have been better had he not recovered.

Despair, deep despair...

He was not yet dead.

But he was already as good as dead.

"Hiss!"

In the young man's blurred vision, the halberd tip grew infinitely large.

A cold, sharp Crescent Moon Halberd was fiercely driven into the young man's brow!

"Hehe..." Wan Wan Fangling's chest heaved violently.

She gripped the halberd shaft with both hands, pierced the hall member's skull, and leaned it diagonally against the ground.

Slowly, Wan Wan Fangling exhaled, gazing at the corpse beneath her feet, word by word:

"Fang Lingfeng Hall, a hall full of loyalty and righteousness!"

"The hall members encountered a surprise attack by a powerful enemy and died on the battlefield."

"I, alone, maneuvered against multiple enemies at the Ming Hai Jing realm, finally cutting a bloody path out."

Wan Wan Fangling looked at the young man's face, his eyes open in death, witnessing his pupils constantly dilating.

This rather handsome face seemed to remind her of scenes from past years, one after another.

It seemed she finally stirred a slight hint of compassion.

Wan Wan Fangling bent down, reached out, and slowly closed those pair of eyes that were staring wide open, murmuring:

"Xiao Tao, you should not have returned alive."

"You even less should have, knowing I fled in the face of the enemy, still come alive before me! No! I did not flee."

"I, Wan Wan Fangling, fought bloodily until the very last moment; I lived and died together with the hall members, striving to rescue my comrades..."

"If you want to blame someone, blame that group of straw-raincoat wearers, hmm?"

Just as Wan Wan Fangling kept murmuring, the earth suddenly changed its appearance.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!!"

The originally solid ground suddenly gave rise to a flow of quicksand.

Trees toppled, and the earth churned.

Whip after whip of sand was flung out from within the Liushahe.

Wan Wan Fangling's face turned iron-green!

Yu Fu Shen Fa · Quicksand Talisman?

Having just escaped death, she knew all too well whose technique this was.

The mysterious straw-raincoat wearer?!

"Zzz~Zzt!" Purple electric currents coiled around Wan Wan Fangling's feet, and she darted away immediately.

What was terrifying was that this surging river of quicksand was wider and far more fierce and violent than the quicksand river on the battlefield before.

Not only was the scale greater, but the momentum was louder!

The biggest difference was that the sand whips flung from the riverbed were densely numerous.

Because this was not a single Quicksand Talisman!

It was four Quicksand Talismans flung jointly by the two, Lu and Jiang!

The Jiang Pin · Master Yu Fu Grand Array caused eight white jade talismans to coil around Lu and Jiang, two of which carried fine grains of sand.

The two cast their spells simultaneously, joining hands to trigger this natural disaster.

To be honest, if the young couple played like this in a city, who knows how many residential homes and commercial buildings would be swallowed, or how many casualties would be caused.

"You! You damn it, where exactly did we offend you! Must you hunt us down to extinction?!"

Wan Wan Fangling's heart was filled with shock and rage, unable to refrain from cursing loudly.

Sprinting wildly within the violently churning quicksand river was already extremely difficult!

And the dense sand whips rising one after another clearly intended to whip her flying into the sky.

"Stop! Halt!!" Wan Wan Fangling suddenly let out a shriek.

The sound was incredibly ear-piercing!

That appearance of panic and terror could not have been more different from her earlier demeanor, high and mighty, controlling the life and death of others.

She darted rapidly through the undulating sand waves, striving desperately to run toward the bank of the Liushahe.

Just as she stepped onto a high-cresting sand wave, a sand whip that had risen a step earlier ultimately grazed her ankle.

"Slap!"

Wan Wan Fangling still had momentum, continuing to rush forward, yet her body began to spin uncontrollably.

"Whip! Whip quickly!" On the riverbank not far away, Lu Ran shouted repeatedly, constantly manipulating the sand whips to rise.

This line of thinking was indeed correct!

Tactical optimization, successful!

Jiangjiang Ruyi's face was frosty, her slender two fingers gently plucking.

Although she was only at the fourth stage of Jiang Jing, at this moment, she was a god holding the life and death of great experts at the Ming Hai Jing realm in her hands!

"Hiss—"

By the bank of the Liushahe, a phantom carrying immortal mist came galloping swiftly.

Speaking purely of movement speed, the Xianyangyi Sect's Immortal Hoof indeed could not compare to the Eastern Thunder Sect's Swift Light Shadow.

But the Sea Pin · Immortal Hoof of the Great Nightmare at the Ming Hai Jing realm was sufficient for her to arrive at the bank in time while the enemy was hindered.

"Whoosh!!"

Deng Deng Yuxiang suddenly flung her hand upward.

A wild wind howled!

Wan Wan Fangling was still spinning and flying forward; her momentum rushing toward the bank came to an abrupt halt!

In the blink of an eye, she was actually flung diagonally backward.

"No!!" Wan Wan Fangling's expression suddenly changed drastically!

Although the world was spinning and turning, she still realized she was getting farther and farther from the bank of the Liushahe.

She had been blown back to directly above the Liushahe again!

"Slap!"

Another thin sand whip lashed out, striking Fang Fang Lingfeng squarely in the waist.

Fang Fang Lingfeng reacted with incredible speed, suddenly reaching out to grab it, her arm clamping tightly around the sand whip.

In the distant river valley, Jiangjiang Ruyi's eyes were ice-cold, locking onto her prey as it struggled in its death throes.

She countered every move; with a wave of her jade-like hand, the condensed sand whip instantly shattered and dispersed.

"No! No!!"

Fang Fang Lingfeng finally realized the gravity of the situation; the intense sense of crisis made her scream involuntarily.

Just a moment ago, what she had clamped in her arm was a solid, powerful whip that could lend her leverage.

But in the next instant, the sand whip was gone, leaving only loose, scattered grains of sand.

Jiangjiang Ruyi lifted her eyelids, gazing at the Sea Realm expert who had been whipped high into the air, her thin lips parting slightly: "Go, be careful."

Though her voice was clearly cold, it carried a hint of concern.

To Xue Xue Fengchen's ears, this felt somewhat contradictory.

Earlier, Sect Master my lord had told him that finding another half like General Yan meant Xue Xue Fengchen had struck gold.

Xue Xue Fengchen felt that Sect Master my lord was no slouch either!

For Lu Ran the dog to encounter Jiangjiang Xianzi was truly a blessing cultivated over eight lifetimes.

"Whoosh~"

Lu Ran's figure flashed abruptly; surrounded by swirling immortal mist, he appeared directly above Liushahe.

Liushahe had fulfilled its mission; it ceased churning, and the earth transformed into a state of frozen waves, quite peculiar.

And just over twenty meters above Lu Ran's head stood Fang Fang Lingfeng, wielding a Fangtian Halberd!

Unintentionally, their four eyes met.

Fang Fang Lingfeng's terrified gaze collided with a pair of deep crimson, bewitching pupils.

Qiansi Shadow Xie Fa · Qiansi Pupils!

"Ah! Aaaah!" Fang Fang Lingfeng let out a mournful, piercing scream; her face twisted in agony as one hand desperately grabbed the hair before her forehead.

She instantly fell into a world of deep crimson.

Countless red threads pierced through her body, stabbing into her bones.

Excruciating pain surged through her limbs and hundred bones, making her wish for death.

With a casual gesture, Lu Ran summoned a Divine Lie Tian Hammer, while blazing flames ignited across his body.

He weighed the war hammer in his hand, looked up at the woman, and said with a gloomy expression:

"You're quite good at running, aren't you?"

"Young friend! Wait—hiss! I surrender! I sur—"

"Boom—rumble—!"

Fang Fang Lingfeng let out a wail of agony.

Although she used her Fangtian Halberd to pierce and shatter the incoming hammer shadow, the flaming war hammer exploded with a thunderous roar, its destructive power astonishing!

Lu Ran's figure flashed again, appearing high in the sky.

He pushed one hand downward, and a illusory white-scaled great python shot forth.

"Roar!!"

The Immortal Sky Python opened its blood-filled maw, piercing through Fang Fang Lingfeng's body, ravaging her Thunder Armor and Water Flow Armor.

"Heh-ah!!" Fang Fang Lingfeng exerted all her strength, actually weaving her divine technique into her scream.

"Hmph." Lu Ran's expression turned very ugly as he hummed in a low, heavy voice.

He had long since shut off his evil consciousness, yet the battle cry from the Most Dongting faction still pierced his eardrums.

However, the stunning effect of the divine technique · Thunder Roar had little impact on Lu Ran.

First, he possessed multiple Jing Fang Ji Fa, granting him astonishing mental defense!

Second, the cautious Lu Ran, in order to counter Sea-grade battle cry techniques, had even specifically activated a purification method!

The immortal mist that constantly swirled around him was precisely the divine technique · Immortal Realm from the Yu Mian Snake clan.

Lu Ran's figure flashed once more; he landed on the ground and flung out another burning war hammer.

Lie Tian Shen Fa · Explosive Sky Dome!

"Boom—rumble—!!"

Firelight exploded, and shockwaves churned violently.

"I, I am... the Hall Master of Fang Lingfeng Hall, Mount Jingting Mountain!" Fang Fang Lingfeng stopped begging and instead screamed mournfully, "You cannot kill me! You cannot kill me!"

"Is that so?" Lu Ran's face remained gloomy as he appeared in the sky once again, "Then watch closely!

Watch how I kill you!"

Yu Mian Snake Xie Fa · Immortal Sky Python roared out to kill once more.

Fang Fang Lingfeng's face twisted in distortion as she screamed loudly: "You dare kill me?!

Mount Jingting Mountain will not let you go! They will not let you go! You dare—aaaaah!"

The sound of a booming explosion came again.

"Heh, Mount Jingting Mountain will not let me go?" Lu Ran let out a cold laugh.

Have you ever asked me,

whether I am willing to let Mount Jingting Mountain go?

With a casual grip, the Blazing Phoenix Pattern Gourd flew out from within his robes and landed in its master's palm.

"Gulp, gulp..."

Lu Ran tilted his head back and gulped down a huge mouthful, while casually watching Fang Fang Lingfeng being blasted toward the sky's edge.

Once again, their gazes intertwined.

Once again, a strange, demonic red glint flashed through Lu Ran's eyes.

Screams of agony rang out incessantly as Lu Ran's figure flashed once more.

The Lord of the Ran Sect, clad in a flowing white robe, had completely locked that vast sea in the high sky!

"Hiss!"

After several rounds of frantic bombardment, the cold blade pierced flesh!

The white-robed youth descended from the heavens, the Ba Huang Dao piercing through the enemy leader's head and driving straight into the ground.

"Boom!!"

The ground, frozen in the shape of surging waves, was blasted into a massive crater.

Shockwaves churned, and dust billowed in all directions.

Amidst the earth's surging waves, Lu Ran knelt upon the brutally slain remains of his enemy, his expression gloomy.

That captive just said, how many Ming Hai Jing experts were inside Mount Jingting Mountain again?

Nineteen?

Lu Ran's pupils turned icy cold as he slowly drew the Ba Huang Dao from the enemy leader's skull.

Now,

there are only eighteen left!

"Hum!!"

The Ba Huang Dao began to tremble violently.

Lu Ran raised the Ba Huang Dao, slowly wiping two fingers across the blood-stained blade, using the blood of the vast sea to nourish Ba Huang:

"What, still wanting to use the blood of eighteen Most Dongting Sea realm experts to wash the blade?"

"Hum!"

"Then you'll have to try harder! Since entering the mountain, I've taken you to tour the Eight Desolates; you must act more like it and help me annihilate our enemies."

"Whoosh!!"

A fierce fluctuation of divine power suddenly rippled out from the blade.

Lu Ran's expression froze in surprise.

Immediately after, his eyes lit up.

Unlike the previous times when it merely dipped its toes in, the Ba Huang Dao's vibrations grew increasingly violent.

Even in the sky, clouds and mist gradually began to gather.

Ba Huang, are you finally about to become a divine weapon?

The final piece of your puzzle to become a god is indeed in the South, isn't it?

From now on, you will accompany me to annihilate the Eight Desolates.

Isn't that right?

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