The almighty god?
Hearing the old man's evaluation of himself, even though he was severely injured at the moment, a hint of disdain flashed in Xi Rao's eyes.
If he was an almighty god, why had he fallen to the point of having to absorb others' life force to eke out an existence?
"Time is almost up!"
The old man waved his hand, throwing Fu Tianxing aside without draining all his life force.
He looked up at the dark void in the sky, his cloudy pupils filled with excitement.
At this moment, countless black gases began to converge around the void. Within those gases, one could still feel traces of vitality.
Clearly, the old man was using a special secret art to gather the life force of all the ancient martial artists in the Sky Guard Land.
He didn't know what he wanted to do.
Then, he withdrew his gaze, turned to a mountain peak thousands of miles away, and chuckled sinisterly, "If you're not going to make a move, all the ancient martial artists here will be sucked dry by me!"
Upon hearing this, Xi Rao and Hua Yi San's hearts suddenly skipped a beat, and the rate at which their life force was flowing away began to accelerate. It wouldn't be long before they, as Martial Gods, would also be in danger.
However, from the old man's words, Xi Rao also knew that someone was secretly watching them.
"Is it you?"
For some reason, a young man's figure subconsciously appeared in her mind.
At the same time, on the mountain peak a thousand miles away, the woman in the white plain dress felt the ominous energy filling the surroundings and frowned slightly:
"You dare to provoke me!"
Xia Baiyi extended a jade finger and lightly drew a line in the space in front of her.
Yet, with just this stroke, she tore a black rift in the space before her, and then she walked directly into it.
...
At the edge of the core circle.
"Eh!"
Ye Ming, who had been observing the woman, couldn't help but feel a bit surprised when he saw the spatial manipulation she had just performed.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Du Yuemian asked from the side.
"No!"
Ye Ming smiled and said, "I just discovered something interesting."
After speaking, he raised his hand and pointed forward, and the space in front of them rippled. Then, a miraculous scene appeared.
The scene at the testing platform actually appeared before them.
"This..."
Seeing the scene thousands of miles away appear before her, Du Yuemian subconsciously covered her mouth, truly shocked.
Similarly, Xu Zhan was also filled with astonishment.
Such a bizarre method was simply unbelievable.
"Don't be surprised, it's just a minor trick!"
Ye Ming shook his head slightly and said casually.
For him, this was indeed a... minor trick.
Because Du Yuemian and Xu Zhan's strength was limited, Ye Ming thought of using this method to let them see what was about to happen.
"Mr. Ye... Mr. Ye! Someone seems to have appeared!" At this moment, Xu Zhan pointed at the screen on the testing platform and said tremblingly.
In that scene, in front of Xi Rao and the others, a dark spatial rift suddenly appeared.
From that rift, a slender white figure slowly emerged.
However, her appearance could not be seen clearly.
...
On the testing platform.
The old man took two involuntary steps back as he looked at the plain-dressed woman emerging from the spatial rift, maintaining a safe distance.
"How is this possible? I can't see through her?"
As he retreated, a storm of shock raged in his heart.
Before this, he knew someone had been watching him. But he never expected that after just one glance, the other party would give him such a lingering sense of fear.
"Traitor of the Demonic Cult, Wan Gui Laoren, you must be prepared!"
Xia Baiyi flicked her index finger, and a white light condensed at her fingertip, transforming into an arrow and shooting directly at the void in the sky where black gas was continuously gathering.
"You..."
Wan Gui Laoren did not expect that as soon as the other party appeared, she would try to destroy the core of the Death Domain.
Without time to think, just as he was about to block the white arrow,
"Retreat!"
Boom!
He only heard a sound like a celestial note, and his entire body was sent flying backward. A large section of his chest cavity had caved in at some point.
"Pfft!"
A mouthful of fresh blood spilled out, and Wan Gui Laoren retreated nearly a hundred meters before he managed to stabilize himself.
He covered his chest with his hand, his eyes filled with terror.
"This... How is this possible?" Wan Gui Laoren exclaimed, "You are clearly also in the Innate realm, so why are you so powerful?"
Indeed!
It seemed that Wan Gui Laoren's strength had also reached the Innate realm.
No wonder he had been so confident before.
Rumble!
However, at this moment, the only response he received was a deafening explosion from the sky above.
The white arrow pierced through the "Domain Core," instantly貫穿 the entire Death Domain. The ominous energy that had enveloped the entire Sky Guard Land was also purified in an instant.
This technique was truly terrifying.
"No..."
Seeing this, Wan Gui Laoren stumbled back a few more steps, his entire body aging several years.
His meticulously prepared life's work had been destroyed so easily.
How could he accept this?
"It seems you were not prepared!"
After Xia Baiyi finished doing all this, her tone did not fluctuate much. "You wanted to devour the life force of all the geniuses in the Ancient Martial World to refine the Sheng Xuan Pill, thereby extending your life and breaking through to the Heavenly Human realm." She shook her head, somewhat puzzled. "You failed last time, why did you choose to take this risk?"
Last time?
Was she referring to the war three years ago?
"Hahaha! Risk?"
At this moment, Wan Gui Laoren suddenly burst into laughter. "Who told you I was taking a risk?"
"Hm?"
Seeing this, Xia Baiyi suddenly felt something was wrong.
The Death Domain had clearly been destroyed by her, so logically, Wan Gui Laoren's plan should have been announced as a failure, and he should have been greatly affected.
But why had Wan Gui Laoren's emotions recovered so quickly?
Yet, the heartache and disappointment he had shown when the "Domain Core" was destroyed earlier didn't seem fake.
This... was too abnormal.
"Do you have a backup plan?"
Xia Baiyi said in a deep voice.
"Cough cough! Little girl, I know who you are!"
Wan Gui Laoren leaned on his withered wooden staff, his injuries from earlier still present.
"To be honest, if they had only sent one Innate realm expert, I would have been very disappointed!"
He raised his head, a sinister smile appearing on his lips. "However, if that Innate realm expert were you, then it would be a different story!"
At this moment, in the depths of his pupils, Xia Baiyi felt greed and madness.
"What are you doing?"
Xia Baiyi secretly became vigilant.
"Hahaha! What am I doing?"
Wan Gui Laoren raised the staff in his hand and slammed it forcefully into the ground, a ferocious grin on his face:
"Of course, I'm going to devour you!"