Dual cultivation makes you stronger, everyone else is a prodigy, and I'm the only one slacking

Yu Luoning collapsed to the ground, severely injured, coughing violently and vomiting blood clots.

Her consciousness began to dissipate, and just when she thought she was about to start over with a new account.

Suddenly, the protective scale on his chest emitted a warm, luminous glow.

The gentle light flowed along her broken meridians, miraculously healing her fatal wounds.

Yu Luoning gasped in pain, momentarily at a loss for words, feeling both amused and exasperated.

This thing isn't saving her; it's prolonging her suffering because it thinks her death isn't quick enough.

Honey, I love you, but now is not the time for you to be stubborn.

At this moment, Elder Chiyang, who had witnessed the entire scene, had a greedy, sinister smile flash across his eyes.

"You witch have quite a few treasures hidden on you, no wonder my son fell victim to your evil deeds."

Fine, today I'll make you wish you were dead.

"After I skin you alive, pull out your tendons, and collect your soul to refine you into poisonous insects, I will gladly accept all the magical treasures on your body."

As the crimson sun drew ever closer, countless high-level demonic beasts living in the Bone-Corroding Swamp smelled the deadly alluring fragrance and rushed toward them as if addicted.

With a roar.

Elder Chiyang's pupils contracted as he saw a colossal Vajra Demon Ape, as massive as a mountain peak, leap in front of him. It clenched its fists and slammed them hard into the ground. With this strike, a violent gust of wind swept outwards, knocking down a flag stuck in the mud not far away, causing a gap to appear in the spatial array.

Immediately afterwards, the black mud surged, and a giant python and a heavily armored crocodile emerged from the ground one after another.

"You beast, you're asking for death!"

Chi Yang was forced to retreat repeatedly. Even though he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, he had to concentrate on dealing with the repeated attacks from three powerful demonic beasts and fought them off.

On the other side of the swampy mudflats, Yu Luoning, pale-faced, struggled to prop himself up.

She coughed incessantly, black blood gushing from her mouth.

She had no time to worry about her injuries; she had to take advantage of the moment when the old man was entangled with the monster to quietly escape.

Just as she was about to make her move, Chi Yang promptly and keenly noticed her every move.

He snorted coldly and, amidst the fierce battle, spared a wisp of his divine consciousness.

The next second, he flicked his sleeve and threw a cold, gleaming flying sword at him.

The flying sword was extremely fast, and a lingering explosive sound seemed to remain in the air.

The next moment, the sharp blade pierced Yu Luoning's shoulder blade with a sharp slash, pinning her firmly to the muddy ground.

That damned old man! Yu Luoning felt a wave of pain wash over her.

Not far away.

A sword light drew a sharp arc in the air, carrying the power of Nascent Soul Qi, cleaving a Golden Core stage gorilla in two. Blood splattered, mixing with the soil on the ground and emitting a foul smell.

Yu Luoning watched this scene with a sense of helplessness.

She gritted her teeth, reached out a hand, and slowly pulled the sword out of her body. With difficulty, she raised her hands and quickly formed hand seals in front of her.

A spatial spell condensed beneath her, causing the void to begin to distort slightly.

Just when she thought she could teleport away with her last breath.

Chi Yang sensed the fluctuations in the void.

His expression darkened, and he unleashed a palm strike from a distance.

The next moment, Yu Luoning was thrown more than ten meters away until he crashed into a giant tree and came to a stop.

That single blow caused her pupils to dilate violently, her internal organs to feel as if they had been shattered, and excruciating pain to engulf her entire body.

Yu Luoning thought that dying like this might not be so bad. She quickly created a new account and started over, so she wouldn't have to suffer this inhuman torture anymore.

However, her faint breath was still firmly locked by the Heart-Protecting Scale.

It really tried its best to keep her alive.

I was so frustrated I wanted to cry.

"Damn it, why are there so many monsters?"

After slaying three Golden Core demonic beasts in succession, Chi Yang thought he could call it a day.

But the next moment, increasingly intense roars and tremors came from the darkness, and his expression finally changed.

Chi Yang suddenly realized what was happening.

"It's you! You bitch, what drug did you use on me before?"

Elder Chiyang roared in exasperation.

He was met with silence.

Because at this point, Yu Luoning had no strength left to speak.

By the time Chi Yang had slaughtered all the hordes of monsters that kept attacking him, the entire mudflat was covered with thick, sticky blood, and corpses were scattered everywhere.

Drawn by the strong scent of incense, it seemed that many shadows were still rushing towards them from the darkness.

But when they saw the Nascent Soul monster that looked like a god of death and the blood of their own kind, they instinctively felt fear and only dared to stay a hundred meters away, restlessly sharpening their claws.

The storm gradually subsided.

Chi Yang trudged through the blood, approaching the dying Yu Luoning step by step.

Even at this critical moment of death, Yu Luoning found herself strangely lucid.

The heart-protecting scales are still struggling to hold on.

Her eyes were somewhat unfocused as she looked at the corpses of demonic beasts scattered on the ground, feeling extremely regretful. The corpses of demonic beasts at the Golden Core stage were highly nutritious sources of flesh and blood.

Well then, before I die, I'll let the little fish monster have a good meal, so that its kindness in giving me the heart-protecting scale won't be in vain.

Yu Luoning squeezed out the last bit of true energy from her body and used her final Sky-Crossing Technique.

Gradually, a huge purple magic circle appeared in the mudflats beneath the mountains of monster corpses.

Immediately afterwards, those enormous monster corpses sank straight into the formation.

This time, Chi Yang did not interrupt her.

The two were far apart, and it was clear that Yu Luoning had no intention of using this spatial technique to escape.

On the contrary, Chi Yang faintly sensed a strange fluctuation of law coming from the other side of space through the opened spatial rift.

"Where does your magic lead?" Chi Yang asked.

Yu Luoning sneered, completely ignoring him. If the ant queen's venomous saliva hadn't been ineffective against her, she would have already committed suicide and started anew.

Seeing that Yu Luoning remained silent, Chi Yang's face darkened. Having lived for hundreds of years, he could naturally see just how heaven-defying the spatial magic the Foundation Establishment girl possessed was.

"You are merely an ordinary relative, how could you possibly possess such supernatural abilities that even I cannot fathom? Where does your family heritage come from? And who bestowed upon you these immortal scales?"

Yu Luoning glanced at him contemptuously, and then, to the other's astonishment, slowly raised a straight middle finger.

Chi Yang didn't understand what the gesture meant, but even if he didn't understand, he could still see the contemptuous and mocking look in that eyes.

Even on the verge of death, he still dared to provoke me.

"You brat, you're asking for it!"

Enraged, Chi Yang raised his hand and grabbed hard in the air.

In an instant, it seemed as if Yu Luoning's fragile body was lifted up by him from a distance.

Chi Yang's face twisted in a ferocious grin: "It doesn't matter if you don't talk. Once I've searched your soul, I'll still find a way to make you vomit it out."

"Collect the soul, open!"

Before she could finish speaking, a Nascent Soul consciousness rushed into Yu Luoning's spiritual platform.

She felt her soul being violently torn apart, and she let out a muffled groan of unbearable pain as her vision gradually went out of focus.

At this critical moment.

The spatial array that had just transported the monster's corpse was forcibly torn apart at this moment.

A brutal and ruthless aura, like a dam bursting, surged forth from the spatial rift.

Elder Chiyang's Soul Searching Technique was only halfway activated when it was shattered by this malevolent force, leaving him stunned on the spot.

But then, from the spatial rift, a handsome man with an overwhelming aura of menace stepped out with elegant steps.

The man smiled, but his eyes held a hint of malice.

He raised his voice slightly at the end, and said in a low, melancholic tone, "Ningning, you've really put me through a lot of trouble..."