The Cloudy Bronze Parasol in Chen Wentian's hand shattered to splinters of metal. Abbotess Liang’s palm continued, pressing down in his body, flatting the ground around him.

“Die!” She cried, her eyes glinting with vicious satisfaction.

The ground beneath her phantasmal palm cracked and pancaked into a crater a hundred meters wide and fifty meters deep.

She lifted her palm, expecting to see a pool of blood and the leftover bits of an annoying gnat. Instead, she saw a small hole in the ground, wide enough for a person to escape through.

“You can’t run from me!” She screamed and shot high into the sky.

Her spiritual expanded rapidly and covered the land in all directions. A few moments, she found her target and charged down.

Chen Wentian emerged from the ground a few hundred meters away. He had managed to escape inside the Giant Mole Worm. It, like Chen Mo, had arrived at the battlefield without being detected. It was too bad he couldn’t use the worm forever. It was a living beast, not an apparition with a soul like the shadow fox. He could not replace it if it died. He could not keep on using the worm otherwise his opponent would catch on and eliminate it.

However, upon seeing Abbotess Liang’s furious approach, he was forced to use it once more.

Boom!

The entire world shook as Abbotess Liang’s gigantic purple fist slammed into where Chen Wentian once stood. A shockwave erupted from the impact point, sending waves of earth thirty meters tall that wiped away trees in all directions, sending broken trunks flying into the air.

The ground was liquified, pulverized. There was nothing left over bigger than a grain of sand. It was impossible for a Spirit Lord to survive such an attack.

Abbotess Liang landed and searched the debris. Once again, there was no blood or any sign of a dead body. Chen Wentian had escaped yet again.

She was about to fly into the air to search for him when a black cloud appeared out of nowhere and enveloped her.

It was the Shadow Realm!

Chen Mo, who had been destroyed, had been reformed within Chen Wentian’s soul realm. The shadow fox was not alive so he could not be killed. He could come back again and again as long as Chen Wentian had soul power which he had in abundance.

Abbotess Liang screeched furiously, swiping at the absolute darkness around her.

“This trick again! Useless! Ha!”

Chen Mo struggled mightily to maintain the domain but he couldn’t hold on. The black smoke was being destroyed with each passing moment. A Spirit King's power was too much. However, just like the first time, he didn’t need to for long.

Dugu’s 10th Sword, First Movement, Slash the World!

A crimson arc of blazing sword energy split apart the Shadow Realm. Time momentary stood still. The sun and the clouds seemed to freeze. Supreme sword intent appeared in the world, splitting apart everything that stood in its way.

The perfect sword slash split apart Abbotess Liang’s purple avatar rapidly until her true body was finally revealed. When the sword intent reached her unprotected skin, it erupted in a beautiful fountain of blood.

“Ayyeeee!” She stumbled backward, clutching at her chest.

A bloody diagonal cut lay across her entire upper body. But although was bleeding profusely, it failed to cut through even her organs.

When she realized she was still okay, she burst out laughing, “Is this all you have? Not enough!”

Ephemeral purple clothes wrapped around her body again and she charged.

Chen Wentian brandished the Summer’s Dance and launched his second attack. The orange sword stabbed out with supreme sword intent.

Dugu’s 10th Sword, Second Movement, Pierce the Heavens!

A searing spear shot out, seeking to burn and pierce everything, even the heavens. It combined the sword intent within Dugu’s 10th Sword with the flames of the Spirit Lord fire wolf into a perfect instrument of destruction.

“Too slow!”

Abbotess Liang moved with unnatural speed. Although she could not track the actual stab, she already saw Chen Wentian's hand movements. She instinctively shifted to the side, leaving the attack to pass harmlessly through her purple avatar instead of her true body.

With nothing else blocking her way, she closed the distance and launched a continuous stream of attacks. Her wounds were forgotten, her weariness no longer a concern. She didn’t care about conserving energy. She didn’t care about her journey back. She simply wanted to kill this annoying ant that kept pestering her!

“Die!”

A series of punches slammed down. Summer’s Dance bore the brunt of the attacks and eventually broke.

“Die!”

A pattern of palm strikes and kicks followed. Chen Wentian took out the Winter’s Sun to block. He barely managed to survive but sacrificed the ice-blue sword to do so.

“Hurry up and die!” Abbotess Liang screamed.

The Crashing Comet set crumbled next after having absorbed enough damage to slay a normal Spirit Lord.

“Die! Die! Die!”

A final almighty blow landed squarely on his body. The Golden Serpent Robe emerged, putting its golden scales in the way of a Spirit King’s power. The scales crumbled a moment later, unable to hold.

Chen Wentian spat out a mouthful of blood as he was blown away. His body slammed through the trees, uprooting them and cracking the thick trunks in half.

He came to a stop a kilometer away, having leveled an entire forest to finally stop his momentum. He groaned and checked his wounds.

“Heh… shit...” He laughed wryly to himself.

He was still mostly fine except for some internal injuries. It was a minor miracle brought about by the sacrifice of so many Spirit Lord items. An ordinary Spirit Lord would have already died many times over but he was far from ordinary.

Abbotess Liang landed a short distance from him, breathing heavily and looking ragged from top to bottom. She could barely stand straight and was constantly grimacing from pain. Her red robes were disheveled and she was bleeding from what seemed like every centimeter of her body.

It wasn't all his doing. He had managed to land a few good hits, causing her prior injuries to open up. Her condition was much worse than his. It could even be described as dire. If she met another Spirit King right now, she would die without even the ability to fight back.

“I see why that slutty lotus liked you.” She muttered, “You’re a man of so many talents, a danger to all women. It’s pity that I have to kill you but as a cultivator but I acknowledge your ability.”

“Thanks, but I’d rather kill you instead.” He replied.

“Hehehe! Brave until the end. I like it. Tell me, you should have named yourself Immortal Thousand Fortunes or something. Your blue flames are pitifully weak but your ability to gather Spirit Lord items is certainly beyond compare. Yet, you arrogantly named yourself after a divine dragon. It’s truly laughable!”

Chen Wentian laughed lightly, “If I show you my blue flames, you’ll die.”

Abbotess Liang waved her hand dismissively, “You can say whatever you want. You’ll be dead soon so it doesn’t matter. In the end, you were too hasty, too arrogant for your own good. You underestimated the Spirit King Realm far too much! It’s not something you can overcome with a few tricks and some Spirit Lord items. Let this be your final lesson before I send you into the cycle of death and rebirth. Each realm within the immortal realms is a fundamental improvement in body, mind, spirit. A Spirit King has the strength of ten Spirit Lords. A Spirit King has the stamina of a hundred Spirit Lords. A Spirit King has the resilience of a thousand Spirit Lords!! I cannot be defeated by your schemes. Come on! Show me what else you have! Where are your poisoned attacks? Where are your secret traps? Where is your backup? Nothing? Nothing left? Hahaha! This is the end of the road for you…”

Purple energy surrounded her body once again, “Now, let me send you on your way.”

Chen Wentian smiled but did not respond. He stood and opened his mouth but instead of human words, it was frightful… wrathful… a roar akin to a divine beast.

It was the battle cry of a blue dragon!

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