High-level martial arts: Long spear with black flames to suppress demons.

Shen Chang'an contracted his spiritual power, trying to keep the golden light close to his body and minimize contact with the seawater. At the same time, he extended his divine sense upwards, and the shrinking earth pattern lit up beneath his feet, preparing to leave this place quickly.

Just as the Shrinking Earth to an Inch technique was about to be activated, a cold hand suddenly gripped his ankle.

His heart sank.

From the darkness below, a face covered in tiny bone spurs slowly rose. The creature was almost humanoid, but had several broad bony fins growing on its shoulders and back, and deformed limbs that were not yet fully retracted under its ribs. The stone slab on its abdomen emitted a faint light, illuminating a pair of dark red eyes.

It's a primitive species! But it's not a true-name species like those three.

At this moment, it had already set its sights on the blood-covered human who had fallen from above, and its hand gripping the ankle tightened suddenly.

Shen Chang'an's body was pulled downwards, and his ability to shrink the earth to an inch failed. Seeing this, he swung his spear in a backhand motion, and the Thousand Transformations, wrapped in faint black flames, stabbed at the head. However, the other party turned his head to avoid it, but the spearhead still pierced into the shoulder, and the black flames spread along the wound.

Because it was underwater, the black flames' burning power was greatly reduced, and the primitive species could still endure it for a while. It raised its other arm, and the forearm bone turned out of the flesh, transforming into a curved bone blade, which it stabbed towards its abdomen.

Shen Chang'an pulled his leg back and turned to the side, the bone blade grazing his side, causing the wound that had just begun to heal to reopen.

He grunted, and lightning crackled in his palm, shooting into his opponent's body along the gun barrel. But the lightning was quickly dispersed in the seawater, and the attack that would have been enough to knock him back only caused his arm to stiffen briefly.

The primitive creature took advantage of the situation to get closer, and its other claw reached for his throat.

Shen Chang'an blocked with his spear. At this moment, he could not unleash his spiritual domain, and his pseudo-spiritual form was also difficult to solidify outside his body. He could only suppress the Thousand Transformations between the two of them and rely on his physical body to wrestle with his opponent.

However, the injuries sustained from the attack by Kunpeng had not yet healed, and every time he exerted force, he felt a knife-like pain in his chest.

The Phoenix True Fire struggled to move through the wounds, its healing speed lagging far behind the rate of new damage.

The primitive creature, also suppressed by the seawater, used its body structure, adapted for swimming, to continuously drag him deeper into the water. It even shed the flesh and blood from its shoulder, which was burned by black flames, to give it the opportunity to grab Shen Chang'an's waist and abdomen with its other hand.

Shen Chang'an grew increasingly anxious. If this dragged on any longer, even if he managed to kill the creature, he might not have the strength to return to the surface.

He loosened his grip on the gun, his five fingers laboriously forming a mudra in the water.

Sensing the change in spiritual energy, the primitive species immediately opened its mouth to bite. Shen Chang'an placed the Thousand Transformations horizontally into its mouth, forcefully blocking the closing bone teeth, and then several spatial nodes in front of him lit up.

The seawater rushed in, trying to break up those still-forming nodes.

His eyes turned red, and the spiritual energy within his body suddenly surged.

The previously dimmed nodes lit up again, one spatial node after another. Blood spilled from his mouth and nose, and the wounds in his chest and abdomen reopened, but he did not stop, swiftly completing the final point of his spellcasting.

"The Seal that Severs Heaven and Earth!"

The surrounding spatial nodes suddenly connected, and a thin crack appeared from the side of the primitive species' neck, diagonally across its chest and abdomen, and straight through the flesh next to the gray-black stone slab. Then, countless spatial slashes struck the primitive species.

The primitive species' body separated, its dark red eyes suddenly widened, and countless fine threads extended from its flesh, attempting to pull its fragmented body back together.

But the black flames had already surged forward along the Thousand Changes.

The pitch-black flames suddenly spread out within the narrow wound, burning inward along the thin threads and preventing it from repairing.

With the stone slab no longer protected by its intact body, Shen Chang'an withdrew his spear, grabbed the edge of the slab, and pressed all the remaining black flames in his palm into it.

The surrounding seawater kept pushing in, pressing the flames tightly against the surface of the stone slab, but in doing so, it also firmly adhered to the patterns on the surface.

The primitive species struggled desperately until the eerie light on the stone slab went out one after another, and only then did the flesh and blood that wanted to reunite finally disperse.

His fingers trembled as he let go.

The burning demonic energy transformed into spiritual power, barely replenishing some of the energy consumed within his body, but it couldn't immediately heal his repeatedly injured body. He gathered his black flames, not even having the strength to examine his surroundings further, and used his Thousand Transformations to clear away the debris blocking his path, continuing upwards.

With each step upstream, the pressure on my body lessened slightly.

But his movements became slower and slower.

It felt like a boulder was pressing down on his chest, which he couldn't move. The golden flames were reduced to a thin layer, and the broken bones rubbed against each other as he exerted force.

After a while, he looked up and finally saw a shimmering light above the dark sea.

It's almost there.

He barely managed to conjure up the power of shrinking the earth to an inch, moving his figure upwards a short distance. Then, he gathered his energy again, channeling the remaining power into his legs.

The sea was already in sight.

......

Above the Northern Sea, Du Yue suddenly turned her head.

Below, in the churning seawater, a familiar presence was rapidly approaching. Her tense expression finally changed, and she immediately flew in that direction.

"He's out!"

Murong Yan also saw it.

The seawater was cleaved open from below, and a hand emerged first, followed by Shen Chang'an's pale face. He coughed up a mouthful of seawater mixed with blood, and the golden flames on his body finally blazed again after coming into contact with the spiritual energy from the outside world.

Even earlier than Du Yue, Mi Hai noticed him.

She had just dodged Cang Gu's sharp claws when her gaze fell on Shen Chang'an, and she immediately noticed the wounds that had not yet healed.

Unlike before.

Previously on the surface of the sea, even when the young man was severely injured, his wounds would quickly be enveloped in golden flames. Now, emerging from underwater, his breath was extremely weak, and blood was still flowing from his waist, abdomen, and chest.

Mi Hai instantly understood something.

The waters of the Northern Sea also suppressed his recovery.

"Switch fire! Kill that human first!"

Her voice suddenly rose, the stone crown shone brightly, and she rushed directly towards Shen Chang'an.

Lu Heng suddenly turned his head, and Que Shi also looked at the newly broken sea surface at the same time. Without asking any questions, several stone pieces at his waist suddenly flipped over.

Tu Shan Fei Yue's mirror-like light enveloped him, but he no longer detoured. He forced his way through the edge of the illusion, letting Cang Wu Lan's chilling aura crash against his back. Large chunks of flesh froze into ice, peeling off his shoulders and back, while the gray-black pattern in his hand was already being flung forward.

The space in front of Shen Chang'an suddenly froze.

Just as he was about to unleash the Shrinking Earth to an Inch technique again, it was interrupted by that force.

His pupils contracted, and he raised his head.

A black spear shadow had already pierced through from the side.

Despite taking a blow from Yuan Chongyue, causing large pieces of armor on his body to shatter, Lu Heng used the force to accelerate forward, aiming his spear straight for Shen Chang'an's chest.

Shen Chang'an forcibly rotated the gun, pushing the spearhead outwards. The two weapons collided, and his arm, which had not fully recovered, was once again shaken and lost sensation.

At that very moment, Mihai arrived.

The dark blue demonic blade slashed horizontally through the mist.

His body tilted to the side, but the protective golden light couldn't stop the attack. The demonic blade sliced ​​past his shoulder, and his left arm, along with a large amount of blood, flew off.

"don't want!"

Du Yue's voice suddenly became shrill.

The phoenix patterns on the Nine Heavens Phoenix Robe shone brightly, and a golden-red flame shot straight towards Mi Hai. Cang Gu had also arrived, his dragon claw striking down in her face, forcing her to dodge to the side.

But there was a third attack in front of Shen Chang'an.

The gray-black patterns flung out by Que Shi converged in mid-air, condensing into a slender stone spear, which pierced from below and diagonally, following the retreating spear shadow of Lu Heng.

Shen Chang'an had just lost an arm and hadn't even regained his balance when he felt a chill on his waist.

The stone spear pierced through his waist and abdomen, protruding from behind.

He was thrown backward by the nail, and the blood gushing from his mouth instantly stained his chin. The stone spear did not stop; the patterns at its tip suddenly lit up, enveloping him and pressing him downward.

Mi Hai shouted, "Throw him into the Northern Sea!"