130: Chapter 130: Not a Crisis, but an Opportunity?

Inside the mine, Ye Tian's aura at the Condensing Essence Seventh Level Middle Stage erupted without reservation. Starlight flowed around his body, and his gaze was like lightning as he stared directly at the complexion-changing Yin Li.

"Good lad, to think you've hidden your cultivation!" The shock in Yin Li's heart was beyond measure.

The intelligence was seriously flawed!

This lad was not at the Ningyuan Sixth Stage at all, but at the Seventh Level Middle Stage, only one minor Realm away from his own!

He had never heard of such a young Condensing Essence Seventh Level!

Even those Inner Sect Disciple from the Liuli Xuan Sect were much older than Ye Tian when they were in the Ningyuan Realm.

After the shock, Yin Li immediately reacted, his eyes filled with monstrous Killing Intent!

His first thought was that he must kill Ye Tian here, no matter what!

The Iron Eagle Gang had thoroughly offended Ye Tian. If such a terrifyingly talented enemy were allowed to grow, what awaited the Iron Eagle Gang would be annihilation!

"So what if you hid your cultivation? You will still die today!"

Yin Li shouted sharply, suppressing the trepidation in his heart. Poisonous light flared on his hands as he lunged at Ye Tian!

As soon as he attacked, he used his killing move, "Myriad Poison Bone-Eroding Palm"!

The palm wind brought with it a foul-smelling poisonous mist, and wherever it passed, even the air emitted a sizzling corrosive sound!

Facing this sinister palm technique, Ye Tian's eyes were cold.

He shifted his steps, executing the Taixu Star-Shift Steps. His figure turned into a blur, and he skillfully dodged without meeting the attack head-on.

At the same time, he unleashed the Starfall Finger, occasionally striking at the vital acupoints on Yin Li's body, forcing him to defend.

The two figures rapidly crossed paths in the mine. Palm winds and finger shadows, along with overflowing energy, stirred up gravel from the ground, striking the rock walls with a crackling sound.

The more they fought, the more alarmed Yin Li became.

Ye Tian not only had a thick Stellar True Essence, but his movement technique was also strange and unpredictable, always able to dodge his fatal poisonous palms at the most critical moments.

What made him even more frustrated was that the opponent's finger force was extremely condensed and carried a trace of Astral Power, which suppressed his poison arts, allowing him to exert only sixty or seventy percent of his strength.

"What exactly is this lad's background?!"

Yin Li roared in his heart, desperately driving his True Qi, yet he was never able to truly threaten Ye Tian.

On the other side, Liu Ruyan and Leng Feng were also locked in an evenly matched battle with their respective opponents.

Since the last battle in the swamp, Liu Ruyan had gone back to cultivate diligently. Now, relying on her agile movement and water-style techniques, she circled with two Iron Eagle Gang elites at the Ningyuan Fifth Stage. Although she was at a disadvantage, she was safe for the moment and no longer as disheveled as last time.

Leng Feng's swordsmanship was sharp, and his Killing Intent was awe-inspiring. Fighting two opponents of the same rank alone, he actually faintly held the upper hand. Wherever his sword light passed, he forced his opponents to retreat repeatedly.

The battle seemed to have reached a stalemate.

However, just as the fierce battle was in full swing, a low, hoarse roar came from the depths of the bottomless sinkhole!

This roar did not resemble any known Yao Beast; it was full of Chaos, tyranny, and an evil aura that made the Soul tremble!

Along with the roar, a black-gray evil aura surged out from the sinkhole!

Wherever the evil aura passed, the rock walls rapidly corroded and flaked away!

Both sides of the battle were stunned by this sudden turn of events, stopping their hands in unison and looking at the sinkhole in horror.

"What... what is that?"

Liu Ruyan's pretty face turned pale; feeling the terrifying aura contained in that evil energy, her delicate body trembled slightly.

Leng Feng gripped his long sword tightly, his eyes extremely solemn: "Such a heavy evil aura! It is a hundred times stronger than the aura on these Yao Beasts!"

Yin Li's expression also changed drastically, but after the shock and doubt, a trace of greed suddenly flashed in his eyes: "This aura... Could it be that the Earthly Fiend Evil Spirit recorded in ancient books really exists? It is said that this object is formed by the condensation of subterranean Yin evil; if one could capture and refine it, it could greatly enhance the power of a Cultivation Technique..."

But when he saw the surging evil aura, his heart trembled again; the power of this evil spirit seemed to far exceed expectations!

Ye Tian's brows were tightly locked. His Divine Sense perceived the Chaos contained in the evil aura, which was somewhat similar to the aura he had felt deep in the Meteor Rift! It was just that this aura before him was even more violent!

"Not good! Retreat quickly!"

Ye Tian shouted sharply; he felt that something terrifying at the bottom of the sinkhole was waking up!

However, it was already too late!

The surging evil aura suddenly condensed, turning into a huge, hideous sharp claw made of black-gray mist, several zhang in size, carrying the terrifying momentum to tear everything apart, and clawed down at Yin Li and Ye Tian who were closest to the sinkhole! The speed was incredibly fast!

Yin Li let out a strange cry, fully driving his poison arts, and slapped a palm at the sharp claw, attempting to block it.

However, his poisonous palm True Qi collided with the evil sharp claw, and was instantly devoured! The sharp claw fell without any obstruction!

"No!"

Yin Li was terrified and desperately flew backward, while simultaneously violently pushing an unsuspecting Iron Eagle Gang subordinate beside him toward the sharp claw!

"Puchi!" The subordinate didn't even have time to scream before he was crushed by the sharp claw, turning into a cloud of blood mist!

Taking this Opportunity, Yin Li escaped the range of the sharp claw in a disheveled state, still shaken with fear, his face pale.

As for Ye Tian, the moment the sharp claw attacked, he had driven the Taixu Star-Shift Steps to the limit, narrowly dodging the frontal strike, but he was still grazed by the edge of the escaping evil aura!

An ice-cold energy, carrying strong corrosion and chaotic intent, instantly invaded his body!

Ye Tian let out a muffled groan, feeling as if his Meridians were being pricked by needles. The circulation of his Stellar True Essence became sluggish, and a crazy destructive intent was impacting his Divine Sense! The horror of this evil aura far exceeded imagination!

"Junior Brother Ye!" Liu Ruyan exclaimed, wanting to come forward to help.

"Don't come over!" Ye Tian growled, forcibly operating the Star Qi Induction Art. His Stellar True Essence erupted with brilliant light, struggling to resist the corrosion of the evil aura.

However, this evil aura was extremely stubborn, as if it were difficult to disperse.

In the sinkhole, more evil aura surged out, condensing into more tentacles, attacking all living beings in the mine indiscriminately! The Disciples of the Iron Eagle Gang and the three of them—Ye Tian and his group—all fell into a huge crisis!

Leng Feng swung his sword to cut off an evil tentacle, but the sword body was instantly corroded with mottled marks, and his expression became increasingly heavy.

Liu Ruyan's techniques had very little effect on the evil aura, so she could only dodge in a disheveled manner by relying on her movement technique.

Seeing that the situation was bad, Yin Li developed the intention to retreat and shouted at his subordinates: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!" He himself was the first to run wildly towards the way they came.

However, the spreading speed of the evil aura was extremely fast, instantly blocking most of the retreat paths.

Ye Tian's situation was the worst; he was closest to the sinkhole, and the evil aura that invaded his body was the most.

Even though the Stellar True Essence was profound, it was difficult to purify such a strong evil aura in a short time.

His consciousness began to blur, and hallucinations appeared before his eyes.

"Cannot... cannot fall!" Ye Tian bit his tongue, relying on the severe pain to stay awake.

He tried to mobilize the power of the chaos bead. In the past, when encountering a crisis, the chaos bead would autonomously protect its master.

But this time, the chaos bead was unusually silent, just rotating slightly as usual, emitting a faint aura of Chaos.

Fortunately, just before Ye Tian's consciousness was about to be swallowed by evil thoughts, the long-silent chaos bead finally vibrated!

A vast aura erupted from the depths of Ye Tian's Dantian!

This aura instantly swept through Ye Tian's entire body! Wherever it passed, that originally difficult-to-deal-with evil aura, like ice and snow meeting a scorching sun, rapidly melted away!

It was not just dispersed; it was more like it was directly assimilated by the aura emitted by the chaos bead!

At the same time, a massive amount of energy fed back into Ye Tian's body, nourishing his damaged Meridians and Divine Sense.

His originally somewhat blurred consciousness became clear in an instant, even more condensed than before!

"This is... the chaos bead actively purifying the evil aura?" Ye Tian was greatly shocked in his heart!

For the first time, he felt the active "will" of the chaos bead so clearly! It seemed to treat this evil aura as nourishment...

What surprised him even more was that when the aura of the chaos bead spread out and touched the surrounding evil aura, those baring fangs and brandishing claws evil tentacles, as if encountering a natural enemy, twisted and retreated violently!

Even the terrifying roar from the depths of the sinkhole carried a trace of fear!

"What is going on?"

Liu Ruyan and Leng Feng, who were preparing to fight to the death, also discovered the abnormality. The evil aura that was attacking them had actually dissipated on its own?

Yin Li was even staring blankly at the strange fluctuations around Ye Tian, his eyes filled with shock and doubt: "He... what did he do?!"

Ye Tian stood in place, closing his eyes to look within.

He felt that after the chaos bead devoured those evil auras, it seemed to have grown slightly stronger.

Perhaps this was not a crisis, but an Opportunity?