"Same rules as before. As long as you can scratch me, This Exalted One will…"

Yue Tianji shook the bell in his hand. But before he could finish, the young man in black armor was already on his feet, and he turned and drove a crashing punch at him!

There was nothing fancy about the fist. It was pure force let loose.

The Divine Peak Method was at Perfection, and four immortal cities stood behind the blow. The dense scales covering Yue Tianji's face burst apart with a boom. He rolled away across the ground.

On top of the force, the heart-flame wrapped around that fist quickly swallowed him whole.

"Clear Stream Cleanses the Soul!"

Twitching all over, Yue Tianji formed a hand seal. Even knocked flat on the ground, he did not need a moment's thought to answer the heart-flame.

His expression quickly returned to normal.

But Shen Yi did not care what he was doing. He simply walked over, bent down, picked up the bell, and hung it at his own waist.

"So you came for this too! Don't you run! Don't you dare run!"

Yue Tianji flipped to his feet and formed another hand seal. He had clearly put in enormous effort — he could work every one of these cultivator techniques with demon power, and do it well.

Judging by the aura, it was yet another spirit-method, at Major Accomplishment at the very least.

Two jade dragons, as solid as if they were real, roared out of his arms and slammed down at Shen Yi's shoulders. The surging force nearly wiped out everything in the Immortal's Cave.

But the moment the jade dragons touched the pitch-black pauldrons, they shattered like fragile glass, crack after crack!

Ever since the Anchor-Stones had strengthened it, this black armor could no longer be compared to what it had been.

Yue Tianji stared at the scene, a little lost.

But in the blink of an eye, a fist filled his vision again.

Crack—

Shen Yi's face was cold. Taking his time, he smashed Yue Tianji's eye sockets and the bridge of…