Inside the mountain, everyone’s attention was entirely focused on Tian Fan.
“What? You want us to scram? Who do you think you are!?”
Lao San was extremely dissatisfied, his face dark as he spoke to Tian Fan. However, Tian Fan paid no attention to him and continued to walk toward the old zombie, leaving only his back to Lao San.
“Attack, k!ll him!”
Lao Er shouted fiercely as he jumped up, swinging the golden iron sword in his hand down toward Tian Fan.
“Xiao Fan, be careful!”
Li Yunyang and Sun Yueying shouted in unison, warning Tian Fan.
But Tian Fan showed no intention of stopping. With his right hand still holding his sword in position, he gently raised his left hand and flicked his fingers toward Lao Er behind him.
A golden light shot out.
Clang!
Bang!
The sound of the iron sword breaking and the thud of something hitting the ground followed.
Lao Er’s face paled as b1ood dripped uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth; the golden iron sword in his hand had snapped.
“What!?”
Lao San had initially planned to attack Tian Fan, but upon seeing this, his body went cold. A mid-stage Spirit Condensation Realm expert had been injured by a mere flick of Tian Fan’s finger.
“Heavens! Am I seeing things?”
Li Yunyang rubbed his eyes hard, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Sun Yueying was even more ungraceful, her mouth forming a wide “O.”
“Xiao Fan? Is it really you?”
Finally, Tian Fan walked up to Sun Yueying, who asked in disbelief.
“Hehe, of course, it’s me, Senior Sister,” Tian Fan replied with a smile and motioned for her to stand aside and watch.
Sun Yueying told him to “be careful” before running over to Li Yunyang, helping him up.
The Yin-Yang Young Master and Li Ming watched all of this without making a move.
Once she was safely by Li Yunyang’s side, Tian Fan turned to face the front again.
“Kid, you want to k!ll me?”
The old zombie sneered as it looked at Tian Fan, clearly not taking him seriously.
“Do you really think you can leave here alive?”
Tian Fan held the Azure Light Sword in his hand, flicking the edge of the blade with his middle finger, causing a crisp sword hum. He looked at the old zombie ahead with a faint smile.
“Arrogant! Kid, you’re the first person to speak to me like this! I’ll make sure you know that a Zombie King at the peak of the Spirit Condensation Realm is not someone just anyone can challenge! Die!”
The old zombie roared and threw a punch at Tian Fan. The punch whistled through the air, powerful and overwhelming.
Tian Fan’s expression remained unchanged as he raised his sword to meet the attack.
Clang! Clang!
The old zombie’s iron fists clashed repeatedly with Tian Fan’s Azure Light Sword, producing metallic ringing sounds. The Zombie King’s body was incredibly tough. Only a sharp weapon like the Violet Purity Sword could possibly harm it.
The Zombie King’s strength was immense, but Tian Fan’s swordsmanship was equally profound. He skillfully redirected and neutralized the zombie’s punches, and for a time, they were evenly matched in battle.
“Brother Li, how did your master find such a disciple? How is he so powerful? You didn’t know?”
Sun Yueying’s eyes sparkled as she watched Tian Fan easily handle the old zombie. She turned to ask Li Yunyang, who was beside her.
“I don’t know either. We met him on the plains. He fell from the sky, and then my master… uh… sort of tricked him into coming back with us. So, I don’t know much about him,” Li Yunyang replied, feeling slightly embarrassed. He didn’t want to admit that Tian Fan had been tricked by his master. But then his face changed as he remembered something Tian Fan had said to his master: “An elder opened a spatial passage and sent me here…”
He swallowed hard and muttered to himself, “Could what he said be true?” Could there really be an immortal behind him? That would be terrifying! Those were ancient, legendary beings, only mentioned in ancient texts. He couldn’t think about it anymore and shook his head vigorously before turning his gaze back to the battlefield.
By this time, the fight in the center had reached a fever pitch, with the zombie’s fists clashing against Tian Fan’s Azure Light Sword, neither side gaining the upper hand!
“Hmph! Kid, do you really think this shabby sword of yours can harm my body!? What a joke!” The old zombie sneered while fighting.
“Oh, really?”
Tian Fan responded with a faint smile, a slight curve appearing at the corner of his mouth. A barely visible silver glow flickered on the Azure Light Sword as it slashed toward the old zombie’s swinging arm.
“Ah!”
A scream erupted from the old zombie’s mouth as a half-foot-deep wound appeared on its right arm, black b1ood gushing out and spilling onto the ground, corroding small pits where it landed. If it weren’t for the zombie’s arm being five to six times thicker than a normal person’s, its entire arm would have been severed.
“How about this shabby sword? Not too bad, right?” Tian Fan’s faint words were like a slap across the old zombie’s face, a harsh one at that. The zombie had just said that his sword couldn’t hurt it, only to pay the price in b1ood moments later.
“Ugh, kid, I’m going to k!ll you!”
The old zombie roared, b1ood light radiating from its right arm as it attempted to heal the wound, only to find that the process was much slower than before.
This strike made everyone’s expressions change dramatically once again. Tian Fan had given them far too many “surprises.”
The Yin-Yang Young Master’s face was especially unsightly. He believed he could also injure the old zombie in this way, but not as effortlessly as Tian Fan, and only with the help of a secret treasure.
The reason Tian Fan was able to injure the Zombie King with the Azure Light Sword was due to his sword technique. When he was in the Enchanted Forest, the “Five Elements Seal” in his soul had shattered, transforming into a silver light that entered his body. That light contained a sword art—the “Five Elements Sword Art”—as well as the technique for the Five Elements Seal.
Earlier, Tian Fan had used the fundamental principles of the Five Elements Sword Art to channel the Five Elements Qi of the world into the Azure Light Sword, allowing him to easily injure the old zombie.
The Zombie King’s body, as hard as iron, suddenly radiated a monstrous demon light. The stench of b1ood filled the air as waves of red mist surged from its body. Around its chest, the b1ood gathered into a sphere. The old zombie howled, controlling the b1ood sphere between its ghostly claws.
As soon as the b1ood sphere appeared, Li Yunyang and Sun Yueying’s faces paled. The power within the sphere was immense, surpassing even Li Yunyang’s “Scorching Flames Burn the Yin Talisman.” They could see countless wailing souls struggling within the b1ood sphere. A massive pool of b1ood—who knew how many beings had been slaughtered to fill it?—held within it the trapped souls of the slain, their three spirits and seven souls sealed by some dark art. It was unimaginably evil!
This kind of technique was too cruel. It completely erased any chance of these beings reincarnating, condemning their souls to endless suffering in the b1ood pool, slowly gathering resentment and transforming them into vengeful spirits to increase the user’s power.
“Khe khe, do you know? This sphere contains the souls of 999 pure yin w0men. To die under this sphere is your honor!”
The old zombie laughed maniacally, the b1ood sphere between its claws becoming more and more terrifying.
Li Yunyang and Sun Yueying’s faces were extremely grim. They had known the Zombie King was no good, but they never expected it to be this despicable! It was infuriating! At the same time, they were deeply worried about Tian Fan.
As Tian Fan stared at the b1ood sphere between the old zombie’s claws and felt the intense resentment of the countless souls trapped within it, his expression turned angry for the first time.
“Old ba*tard, you’re dead today. Not even a god can save you!”
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