73: That...that's Mo Dong?!

"Finished?" Wang Ming said indifferently.

"Damn it, you really want to fight to the death!" Mo Dong's face was grim; he had already understood Wang Ming's meaning—today's battle was unavoidable!

Killing intent erupted in Mo Dong's eyes. His figure blurred, turning into an afterimage as he charged toward Wang Ming instead of retreating.

Escaping was impossible.

To survive, there was only one way: to fight with everything he had!

Wang Ming stood his ground without moving. Beside him, wait a minute suddenly turned sharp, transforming into a streak of light that shot out and crossed paths with Mo Dong.

Mo Dong's charging figure suddenly trembled.

"So... so fast..." He reached out a trembling hand to touch his forehead, where a thin line of blood slowly appeared.

With a thud, Mo Dong collapsed to the ground, his aura completely gone.

"A pity. They were all Foundation Establishment; they are of no great use to me anymore." Wang Ming raised his hand, and all the Storage Artifacts of the Xuantian Sect Disciples were collected into his system space. Then, he turned and left... "No, Senior Sister, I still can't stop worrying about Wang Ming. I have to go see!" Ouyang Yaoxi didn't give Gu Qingyi a chance to react and immediately flew off.

"The Lingjian Pavilion has always been on good terms with our Qingxin Palace. Presumably, even if they were to seize the divine beast egg, they wouldn't resort to killing. On the other hand, the Xuantian Sect has no principles as long as the benefits are sufficient."

Gu Qingyi pondered for a moment and decided to leave Chen Ye for now, following Ouyang Yaoxi back to support Wang Ming.

Somewhere in a valley.

"Keep running. Why have you stopped?" Lian Feng rested her right hand on the hilt of her sword, looking at Chen Ye ahead with a playful expression.

Chen Ye looked down at his injuries, his face looking rather grim.

Previously, he had intended to find a place to recover his spiritual power.

But he hadn't expected to run into a Vicious Beast at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

To help him escape the joint pursuit of the Xuantian Sect and the Lingjian Pavilion, Elder Ming's Divine Sense had long been overextended and had now fallen into a deep sleep.

As for himself, his spiritual power had also long since hit rock bottom.

Forget a Great Perfection Foundation Establishment, he didn't even have the strength to fight someone in the same realm as him.

Therefore, he could only flee, eventually arriving at this valley.

Unexpectedly, he was completely cornered within the valley by the Lingjian Pavilion.

"Revered Master, stop sleeping! If you don't wake up, your Disciple is going to be hacked to death by a flurry of swords," Chen Ye shouted frantically in his mind, but received no response.

He felt immense regret.

If he had known, he shouldn't have tried to show off back then.

At that time, Elder Ming had advised him not to get entangled with the Lingjian Pavilion and the Xuantian Sect, suggesting that Elder Ming take control of his body and use the Divine Sense of a Core Formation expert to fly away directly.

But he just had to be stubborn, asking Elder Ming to lend him power so he could go head-to-head with Lian Feng and Mo Dong.

Lian Feng was fine, but that Mo Dong had no sense of honor, ordering all the Xuantian Sect Disciples to gang up on him.

In the end, he still had to flee miserably.

But it had also greatly depleted Elder Ming's Divine Sense.

"Qingxin Palace has always been on good terms with my Lingjian Pavilion. I won't make things difficult for you. Hand over the divine beast egg, and I'll let you leave."

As Lian Feng spoke, a wisp of her aura locked onto Chen Ye. If he made any suspicious move, she would strike immediately.

"You want the divine beast egg? In your dreams! Even if I smash it, I won't let you have it!"

Chen Ye took out a black egg and held it high, as if he were about to smash it onto the ground.

Since he couldn't have it, he would destroy it!

No one would get any benefit!

At that moment, the hand Lian Feng had been resting on her sword hilt moved suddenly.

A flash of sword light flickered, and Chen Ye's hand holding the egg flew right off.

Chen Ye only felt a blur before his eyes, and the egg had already been snatched by Lian Feng.

"If you hadn't brought it out, I would have had to put in some effort." Lian Feng toyed with the black egg, indeed feeling a wisp of Core Formation aura from it.

"Give the egg back to me!"

With his right hand severed and the egg stolen, Chen Ye's expression turned incredibly dark.

He casually tapped his right arm twice to stop the bleeding. With a flip of his left hand, several silver needles appeared in his palm. With a flick of his fingers, the needles instantly tore through the air, shooting toward Lian Feng.

Holding her scabbard, Lian Feng didn't even draw her sword, easily parrying the silver needles with just the scabbard.

"Save your spiritual power; don't get eaten by a Vicious Beast."

Having obtained the divine beast egg, Lian Feng lost interest in entangling with Chen Ye and led the Lingjian Pavilion group away.

Chen Ye wanted to pursue, but he had just lifted his foot when he set it back down.

"She's right. My spiritual power is almost exhausted. If I chase after them now, I won't be able to change anything, and I might even be attacked by a Vicious Beast."

Chen Ye picked up his severed hand, forcibly pressed it against the stump, and tied it with a cloth strip.

Then, he stuffed a handful of healing medicine into his mouth and sat cross-legged to begin recovering.

In mid-air.

"They didn't actually fight?" Wang Ming watched Lian Feng and the others leave, thinking it was a pity.

Merely losing a hand was clearly not considered a heavy injury.

"It seems I need to add more fuel to the fire."

Wang Ming moved and appeared outside the valley.

Beneath his feet was a swamp.

"Great Perfection Foundation Establishment... right now, he shouldn't be able to resist, right?"

Wang Ming gestured, and his Divine Sense spread out. The swamp immediately began to churn.

A toad over two meters tall was bound by the Divine Sense and floated in front of Wang Ming.

Seemingly sensing the powerful aura on Wang Ming, it was very submissive, lowering its head and not daring to offer any resistance.

Wang Ming brought it back to the valley and, without a word, threw it directly at Chen Ye below.

With a loud boom, the toad landed.

Chen Ye was instantly startled. Seeing the toad, his face immediately turned ugly.

"Damn it, this beast still followed me here!"

Chen Ye hurriedly stuffed another handful of healing and recovery Medicinal Pills into his mouth, turned, and ran.

Right now, he was simply no match for this beast.

And this Vicious Beast wouldn't have as many scruples as the people from the Lingjian Pavilion.

If he really fell into its hands, there would only be death!

"Ribbit?"

The toad didn't immediately chase Chen Ye. Instead, it looked up at the sky, a hint of confusion in its eyes.

But soon, it seemed to confirm something. Its gaze fell back onto Chen Ye, and its eyes suddenly became ferocious... "This... this is..."

Ouyang Yaoxi and Gu Qingyi were so shocked by the scene before them that they couldn't speak for a long time.

"Blood!"

"So much blood!"

"Not even a single complete corpse was left!"

"It was all severed limbs and fragments!"

Ouyang Yaoxi's eyes rolled back, and she almost fainted from the shock.

Gu Qingyi quickly reached out to support her.

"Senior Sister, where is Wang Ming?" Ouyang Yaoxi's voice trembled, and her eyes were filled with unprecedented panic.

There were hundreds of people on the other side, and Wang Ming was just one person.

The scene was already so tragic; did something happen to Wang Ming?

"You're letting your concern cloud your judgment. Look closely; these on the ground should all be Disciples of the Xuantian Sect."

Gu Qingyi gestured, and countless fragments of Xuantian Sect Disciple uniforms floated over.

"But there was only one of him..." Before Ouyang Yaoxi could finish her sentence, her eyes suddenly widened. She pointed behind Gu Qingyi and said in a trembling voice, "That... is that Mo Dong?!"