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Two men in black, both at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, lunged at Chen Xuan from the left and right.

Chen Xuan was in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm and was a member of the Chen family, a top-tier powerful force, so his reaction time was naturally fast.

A cyan longsword appeared in his hand; it was a low-grade spiritual weapon, with spiritual light flowing across its blade.

He slashed out with his sword, flames shooting into the sky, while simultaneously retreating to create distance.

However, their opponents were no pushovers either. Two mid-stage Golden Core cultivators, working together, actually broke through the attack launched by Chen Xuan's low-grade spiritual weapon.

In an instant, the three mid-stage Golden Core cultivators were locked in a fierce battle.

The two opponents worked together seamlessly, clearly having practiced some kind of combined attack technique!

Although Chen Xuan came from a top-tier power, he was powerless against those two Golden Core stage cultivators and was at a disadvantage!

Two Foundation Establishment stage guards rushed forward to help, but were blasted away by the black-clad man's casual aura, their fate unknown!

Chen Xuan gritted his teeth, took out a talisman from his pocket, and tried to activate it.

But as soon as he raised his hand, the supernatural power of the person on the left was already in front of him, and the talisman was knocked away and landed in the distance.

"Chen Xuan, hand over the goods, and we'll give you a quick death," the man in black said coldly.

Chen Xuan did not answer. He held the low-grade spiritual weapon in one hand. Although he was at a disadvantage in the battle, it would not be easy for his opponent to kill him.

Just as the two men in black were about to continue their attack, a blazing light shot out from the shadows.

A superior-grade third-rank talisman.

The flames were as fast as shooting stars, striking Chen Xuan directly. Chen Xuan had no time to dodge; he was hit by the talisman and engulfed in flames.

The shockwave from the explosion forced the two men in black back several steps.

As the flames subsided, Chen Xuan lay on the ground, his body charred black, his protective robe torn to shreds, and the skin on his chest burned raw.

He coughed up blood and his breath was weak, clearly injured by that high-grade third-rank talisman!

The two men in black turned to look in the direction from which the talisman had been shot.

Jiang Shi emerged from the shadows.

He was dressed in black, with a cold and stern face, and the spiritual light from the activation of the talisman still lingered on his hands.

He made no attempt to conceal his early-stage Golden Core aura, with five-colored true essence flowing around his body.

"Who are you?" the man in black asked in a deep voice.

Although the person in front of them was only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, the two men in black dared not relax in the slightest. Jiang Shi's aura startled them.

Jiang Shi didn't say much. With a thought, the Mountain and Sea Flag flew out from his body.

The superior spiritual artifact, the Mountain and Sea Banner, transformed into a woman in white and landed in front of him.

"Please lend me a hand, senior!" Jiang Shi said respectfully, and presented a bag of mid-grade spirit stones to the woman in white.

The woman had a cold expression, her clothes fluttered without wind, and she was surrounded by the power of mountains and seas.

With a wave of her sleeves, a curtain of water enveloped the two mid-stage Golden Core cultivators in black.

The two men's expressions changed, and they tried to break free by channeling their true energy. However, the power of a high-grade spiritual weapon was not something that a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator could easily withstand. The water curtain was like an impenetrable wall, trapping them firmly.

"This is... a high-grade spiritual artifact?!" a man in black exclaimed.

As a Golden Core cultivator, and a first-grade Golden Core cultivator at that, Jiang Shi was naturally more than ten times stronger than Sect Leader Lu, who was at the Foundation Establishment stage, when using this superior-grade spiritual weapon.

With the help of the Mountain and Sea Flag, trapping these two for a while would be no problem. Jiang Shi no longer needed to worry about them and turned to walk towards Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan was covered in blood. He recognized Jiang Shi—the person who had bid against him for the Five Elements Spirit Liquid at the auction.

"Who are you? Why do you want to kill me?" Chen Xuan asked in a cold voice.

Jiang Shi looked down at him, his face expressionless.

"It's not that I want to kill you, it's that someone wants you dead."

No sooner had he said this than Chen Xuan stopped talking, unleashing his supernatural powers to attack Jiang Shi with all his might!

The divine power unleashed by a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator is extremely powerful! It cannot be blocked by an early-stage Golden Core cultivator.

But Jiang Shi was not afraid at all. He emitted a strange aura and then pointed with his fingers!

Five-colored divine light!

Five colors of light—gold, cyan, blue, red, and brown—converged at his fingertips, merging into a single beam of five-colored divine light that shot out.

The light shattered Chen Xuan's attack, pierced through his chest, emerged from his back, struck the ground, and blasted a deep crater.

It took no more than three breaths.

A mid-stage Golden Core cultivator was killed on the spot by a full-force attack from a first-grade five-colored Golden Core cultivator!

This is absolutely terrifying!

Jiang Shi withdrew his finger, bent down and picked up the storage bracelet left by Chen Xuan and the low-grade spiritual artifacts scattered on the ground, putting them into his own pocket.

In the distance, the battle between the protector Chen Boyuan and the leader in black continued.

The two fought from the sky to the ground, and then from the ground back to the sky.

Chen Boyuan's body surged with earth-yellow true energy, and each palm strike carried the power of a mountain.

The leader in black was surrounded by black mist, and his attacks were fierce and deadly.

Both of them had injuries.

Chen Boyuan's left arm was torn open, and blood was flowing continuously.

The black-clad leader had a dent in his chest, caused by Chen Boyuan's palm strike.

But at that moment, Chen Boyuan roared and forced the black-clad leader back with a palm strike, wanting to rush back to save Chen Xuan.

Instead of retreating, the leader in black advanced and struck him on the back, sending him flying.

"He's already dead, what's the point of fighting?" the leader in black said coldly.

Chen Boyuan steadied himself and glanced back at the alley.

Chen Xuan's aura had vanished, leaving only a corpse on the ground.

His face turned ashen.

"You...all must die!"

The leader in black did not make another move; he turned and disappeared into the darkness.

His mission was simply to hold off Chen Boyuan; now that Chen Xuan was dead, there was no need for him to continue fighting.

Chen Boyuan stood at the alley entrance, looking at the bloodstains on the ground, and remained silent for a moment.

Then he looked up and stared in the direction Jiang Shi had left, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

But Jiang Shi had already gone far away.

The river stone shuttles through the night sky.

He dared not take the main roads, but instead chose secluded alleys and rooftops, winding his way through the city until he was out of town.

Outside the city lies a desolate mountain range.

He flew for over a hundred miles, found a secluded cave, and went inside.

He first scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense to confirm that no one was following him, and then set up an isolation array at the cave entrance to prevent his aura from leaking out.

After doing all that, he sat down cross-legged and breathed a sigh of relief.

The mission is complete.

Chen Xuan is dead, but the storage bracelet is in his possession. The Nameless Organization has obtained what it wanted.

Jiang Shi took out Chen Xuan's storage bracelet and probed it with his spiritual sense.

The space inside was larger than his storage bracelet, filled with spirit stones, pills, magical artifacts, and several stone slips.

Without looking closely, he put the storage bracelet into his pocket, ready to hand it over to the organization.

Then he took out the bottle of Five Elements Elixir, poured out a drop, and swallowed it.

The spiritual liquid entered his stomach, transforming into a warm stream of true essence that flowed into his dantian and merged with the five-colored golden elixir. The golden elixir's radiance brightened, and the true essence became more abundant.

He closed his eyes to cultivate, refining the spiritual liquid and restoring his true essence.

An hour later, he opened his eyes, and his true energy had been fully restored.

The Five-Colored Golden Elixir not only possesses powerful true essence, but also has extremely strong restorative abilities.

In terms of true essence strength alone, Jiang Shi is comparable to a mid-grade Golden Core cultivator or a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator.

He stood up, dispelled the formation, and walked out of the cave.

As dawn broke and the east began to lighten, Jiang Shi glanced in the direction he was heading and flew towards the Fang family's residence.