Bizarre!

Due to her low cultivation, Aqing still couldn't make out any of the significance. But Xu Wanyun, already at extreme-peak Mixed Origin, was among the batch of cultivators closest to the Spirit-Transformation realm. In her eyes, this old monster that had suddenly swept out was simply steeped through with the uncanny.

The aura the other displayed was plainly still at the extreme-peak Mixed Origin level. But those tree-vines connected to his body seemed to have merged into one with the whole mountain range, letting him step, in a way beyond comprehension, into a higher tier. Never mind that it was only a step's distance — in truth it was a gulf as vast as heaven from earth.

How could there be a Spirit-Transformation like this?

As the rotten old man struck for the first time, it made Xu Wanyun feel an enormous pressure — the powerlessness of having one's cultivation realm crushed. And she was only a bystander. Never mind the young man wrapped tight within the withered tree.

Just then, heaven-toppling purple-gold flame surged out from the gaps in the withered tree, staining the heavens purple-gold, its might vast, as though to burn the whole mountain range to nothing. But strangely, that terrifying temperature soon vanished. The purple-gold flame spiraled like a long dragon, turning into a formless thing.

In an instant, Xu Wanyun's eyes went wide. She'd sensed a second aura belonging to the Spirit-Transformation realm.

The rotten old man suddenly, somewhat flustered, made to let go, but the ends of his arms turned to charcoal in the blink of an eye. The withered tree swiftly withdrew, revealing the slight figure within.

Shen Yi stood poised in the air, the surging purple flame gone from his side, replaced by nine colorless yet blazing great suns.

"..."

Both Mixed Origin, yet both possessing Spirit-Transformation's might. Xu Wanyun kept feeling she and these two weren't cultivating the same thing at all. Unable to mobilize the qi of heaven and earth — how were they unleashing such means?

"Hoo."

Shen Yi swallowed a demon core and wiped the blood from…