Chk! Chk! Chk!

The saber, like a sharp axe, hacked into the old man's body — he was like a length of exceedingly hard treasure-wood. Even with Deep Abyss's keenness, the cutting went with the greatest difficulty. Red mist thick in his eyes, Shen Yi looked like a fierce god, muscles surging between his arms, crimson patterns floating out. Having learned the Nine Demons Transmutation Method, those thousand-odd drops of demon blood had long since merged with his flesh into one.

The blade sank in three parts further. What made the Zheng family's Second Granduncle dread it still more was the purple-gold flame flowing across the blade; in a few breaths' time it had scorched his wound charcoal-black, and it went on climbing inward.

Hearing the agonized howl come from the sky, the other Zheng family experts all had their faces change abruptly — only the Zheng family knew just how terrifying the strength that young man was now displaying truly was. This was truly a case of misjudgment! The next moment, they turned their gazes as one to the woman before them.

"Wait—"

Xu Wanyun soon grasped the meaning of those gazes. This crowd was actually taking her for a soft persimmon? A pack of Mixed Origin Grandmasters, upper-tier at the very highest, most of them mid-tier and entry-level, actually daring to set their minds on her, an extreme-peak Mixed Origin.

"Set up the formation, guard yourself well."

Tossing off a word to Aqing, she abruptly charged out. Streaming light surged across her longsword, like a great river running its course. So-called extreme-peak might — only a true Spirit-Transformation could suppress it.

Not only in cultivation-suppression, Xu Wanyun had no airs of an expert either, and the target she picked coming in was the weakest of the lot. In anyone else's place, seeing an expert come to kill, however they felt they'd have thought of retreat. But that man, of all things, neither dodged nor evaded, swinging his own sword to meet her.

Beneath the mighty aura's washing, the Zheng family expert's weapon was destroyed in wholesale ruin, not…