Chapter 1024: Chilled to the Bone

Within the battlefield of the Great Vehicle Stage cultivators.

Wang Jianqiang was shrouded in a Black Tortoise Phantom, blocking attack after attack.

After punching a Spirit Transformation Stage Perfection cultivator to death, he took a moment to look toward that battlefield belonging to the Great Vehicle Stage.

Watching those figures rushing toward their deaths, a look of admiration appeared on his face.

Strictly speaking, these people should have already died.

But they had employed various methods to forcibly maintain their lives at the very moment before their fall.

All things in heaven and earth emphasize balance.

Using such methods must come at a tremendous price, and in all likelihood, it is accompanied by immense pain—a fate worse than death.

For them, falling might perhaps be a release.

Yet they did not choose to escape.

Instead, they walked down another path, enduring endless pain to survive until today.

Only to protect this world once more.

Such a spirit is worthy of admiration.

When the first Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicle died, the group of Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles were astonished, but they felt no fear.

Even when the second and third Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles died, it only made them more cautious, yet it did not stop their advance.

But when ancient powerhouses appeared one after another, and the number of dead Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles exceeded twenty.

The group of Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles finally halted their steps.

They felt fear.

They knew that there could not be many such cultivators who had survived from ten thousand years ago until now.

But no one dared to gamble on when the last one would be.

For a moment.

All the Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles froze in mid-air.

These "dead soldiers" were all desperate men who had come with a heart prepared for death.

Great Vehicle Stage cultivators in such a state of mind are undoubtedly terrifying.

They were different; they had not lived enough and did not want to perish together with these dying men who already had one foot in the grave.

They no longer spread out to advance, but instead moved closer to their nearest companions.

Those dead soldiers of the Immortal Abandoned Land almost all had only the power of a single strike.

But that strike was a strike that burned their lives.

It was difficult to resist with the power of one person alone.

But if they united with others, it would be different.

Just at the moment the Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles changed their strategy.

A dozen decaying figures flashed into view simultaneously.

Like moths to a flame, they burned their own lives and charged toward the Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles.

Amidst a series of booming sounds.

Several more Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles fell.

However, the strategy of the Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles did ultimately have some effect.

The desperate strikes of most of the decaying figures were blocked, failing to successfully slay the Out-of-Boundary cultivators.

"Damn it!"

Just as the group of Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles were forced to stop and even retreat in alarm due to the appearance of those powerhouses from ten thousand years ago in the Immortal Abandoned Land.

The expressions of the two cultivators fighting Xuanyi, Chen Jiaojiao, and Lan Feng had already changed.

With the group failing to provide support in time, and Xuanyi and the others attacking with their lives on the line.

They had been firmly suppressed.

If this continued, even if support from the Out-of-Boundary Great Vehicles arrived, they would very likely be severely wounded.

To slay three Great Vehicle Stage combatants of the Immortal Abandoned Land at the cost of being severely wounded themselves.

This sounded like a fairly cost-effective strategy.

If it were two other people acting as the targets to be severely wounded, they would certainly have gladly agreed or even applauded.

But now, they were the ones executing it.

In this way.

This strategy was not very pleasant.

Self-sacrifice for others?

It sounds nice, but in the world of immortal cultivation, only an idiot would do such a thing.

After blocking the attacks of Xuanyi and the others together once more, they simultaneously disengaged from the battle without prior agreement and retreated at top speed.

"Focus fire on the one in black."

Seeing this, Xuanyi immediately sent a voice transmission to Chen Jiaojiao and Lan Feng.

While transmitting, his movements did not pause in the slightest as he attacked the black-clad Great Vehicle.

At the same time.

Upon hearing his prompt, Chen Jiaojiao and Lan Feng did not hesitate at all, following closely behind Xuanyi to pursue the black-clad Great Vehicle.

"Daoist Friend, help me!"

Seeing the three of them attacking him in unison, the black-clad Great Vehicle's expression shifted.

He cursed his bad luck in his heart.

Clearly, two people had fled together, and his speed was not any slower than the other person's.

Why did these three people fixate on him?

His voice transmission fell into the mind of that companion.

The other party acted as if they hadn't heard, their escape speed not only failing to slow down in the slightest, but actually increasing by a few points.

Help?

What a joke!

With someone to act as a cushion, he could escape even more easily.

Only a fool would go back to help.

Seeing this, the black-clothed Great Vehicle cultivator's expression stiffened.

At the same time.

The attacks from Xuanyi and the other two had already descended.

His heart jolted in shock, and he hurriedly snapped back to his senses, gathering all his strength to resist.

Boom~

Amidst a booming sound, his defense was shattered by the three people's attacks; he spat out blood and flew backward.

Before he could even steady his figure.

Xuanyi and the other two caught up once again.

It was another round of concentrated fire.

His physical body exploded with a bang, his Spirit Embryo manifested, essence energy spilled from his mouth, and the Spirit Embryo was damaged; that figure, which had originally been like solid matter, visibly faded somewhat.

His aura weakened accordingly.

The black-clothed Great Vehicle cultivator barely managed to control his figure, his expression terrified, and he fled frantically.

Swish~

However.

Just as he had escaped, the three figures caught up to him again.

Amidst a booming sound.

He was once again subjected to the concentrated fire of Xuanyi, Chen Jiaojiao, and Lan Feng.

After this strike, his Spirit Embryo was nearly disintegrated, and his consciousness became hazy, as if it could dissipate at any moment.

Chen Jiaojiao's figure flashed, appearing by his side.

With a wave of her palm, she completely wiped away his consciousness and collected him.

While the three were killing the black-clothed Great Vehicle cultivator, the other Great Vehicle cultivator from Outside the Realm had already fled far away.

Seeing that they had reached a safe zone, that Great Vehicle cultivator from Outside the Realm let out a long sigh of relief.

Regarding the death of the black-clothed Great Vehicle cultivator, they felt not a shred of guilt in their heart.

The strength of the Immortal Abandoned Land had exceeded their expectations.

Someone was bound to fall eventually.

As long as it wasn't them, it didn't matter who died.

It was not just this Great Vehicle Stage cultivator who held such thoughts, but all the other Great Vehicle cultivators from Outside the Realm as well.

Regarding the death of the black-clothed Great Vehicle cultivator, apart from a few who were well-acquainted with them whose expressions changed, the other Great Vehicle cultivators from Outside the Realm all maintained their usual expressions, without the slightest reaction.

The only thing they cared about was one point.

That was whether the "dead soldiers" of the Immortal Abandoned Land had already been exhausted.