My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

The old man transformed into a blood-red rainbow. Instead of fleeing, he charged straight at Jiang Liyue with a resolute will to die!

He figured it out.

That man who knows spatial teleportation is too slippery; he's impossible to catch.

Only by killing this ice-element female cultivator and breaking their united formation can I have a chance to survive!

"Prepare to die, you witch!"

The old man's face was ferocious, and his withered claws were like five sharp blades forged from fine steel, aimed straight at Jiang Liyue's throat.

Jiang Liyue's pretty face paled slightly, but her eyes were unusually firm.

Instead of retreating, she advanced, pushing forward with both hands.

A shield of ice, three feet thick, instantly formed in front of him.

However, the power of a desperate attack from a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator is terrifying.

"Snap!"

The Shield of Mystic Ice only lasted for half a breath before being smashed to pieces by the old man's sharp claws.

The claws, dripping with black blood, were about to pierce Jiang Liyue's neck.

"Who do you want to mess with?"

A chilling whisper, as cold as the depths of hell, suddenly rang out above the old man's head.

The old man froze.

He looked up in horror.

Suddenly, Li Chen appeared out of thin air directly above him.

There is no Purple Gold Thunder.

There were no fancy spells either.

Li Chen's right leg was raised high like a giant axe that could split the heavens and the earth. The entire leg was enveloped in an extremely dense layer of silver-gray spatial laws, almost tangible!

"Get down on your knees!"

Li Chen let out a loud shout.

With a deafening thud, his right leg slammed into the gray-robed old man's shoulder like a mountain crashing down.

Boom! ...

The force of that downward strike was terrifying and beyond description.

The old man in the gray robe felt as if an ancient divine mountain had crashed down on him.

His last protective artifact was that small bronze bell.

Faced with this absolute power, it didn't even have time to utter a wail before it shattered into countless copper dust!

"ah--!"

It was accompanied by a sickeningly loud cracking sound of bones breaking.

The old man's body fell straight down from mid-air like a meteorite.

It slammed hard onto the bluestone floor of the cave.

"Bang!"

The entire underground cavern shook violently.

The ground was smashed into a huge crater, two zhang deep and five zhang wide. Countless pebbles flew through the air, and dust billowed up.

The old man in the gray robe lay at the bottom of the pit like a lump of mud.

Almost 70% of his bones were broken, and his limbs were in a bizarre, twisted position.

Large amounts of blood, mixed with fragments of internal organs, gushed out of his mouth as if it were free.

He was panting heavily, like a dying wild dog.

Those once sharp and arrogant eyes were now filled with endless fear and despair.

lost.

They were utterly defeated.

Moreover, they were utterly crushed without any chance to fight back.

Footsteps echoed slowly at the edge of the pit.

The smoke and dust cleared.

Li Chen, dressed in a blue robe, walked slowly to the edge of the pit with his hands in his pockets.

Jiang Liyue also concealed her aura and obediently walked to Li Chen's side, her cold gaze looking down at the old monster below.

Li Chen leaped into the air and landed lightly at the bottom of the pit.

He walked up to the old man.

Lift your foot.

The foot, clad in an ordinary cloth shoe, mercilessly stomped on the old man's blood-stained face, crushing his head firmly into the cold, rubble.

"Cough cough...you..."

The old man made a whirring, leaky sound as he stared intently at Li Chen.

"Weren't you pretty arrogant before? Didn't you call us little mice?"

Li Chen looked down at him, his eyes filled with a chilling indifference.

"Now, who is the real mouse?"

The old man struggled desperately, but the foot pressing on his face did not budge.

"The victor is king, the loser is villain... I admit defeat..."

The old man, his mouth full of blood, roared intermittently, "But don't be so smug! You killed me; the Qingxuan Sect will never let you get away with this!"

"The sect leader is... a Nascent Soul stage expert!"

"Even if you run to the ends of the earth... you won't escape death!"

Faced with this weak and feeble threat, Li Chen found it somewhat amusing.

"Nascent Soul stage? That's really scary."

Li Chen applied slight pressure with his foot, causing the old man's nasal bone to crack with a crisp sound.

He bent down, leaned close to the old man's ear, and said coldly in a voice only the two of them could hear:

Be more careful in your next life.

"Don't mess with me, the man named Li Shimin!"

Upon hearing this...

The old man's body trembled violently, and the resentment in his eyes almost overflowed.

"You...you all..."

Just as Li Chen was about to end his life with a kick.

A sudden change has occurred!

The gray-robed old man, who was already on the verge of death, suddenly turned completely black in his cloudy eyes!

An incredibly eerie red light, filled with an aura of death and destruction, suddenly shone from the depths of his dantian.

That's not a sign of the Golden Core exploding.

That is an extremely evil sacrificial ritual!

"Hahahaha! Let's die together!"

The old man let out a final, chilling laugh, like that of a vengeful ghost.

"Blood Fiend Vein Split Seal! Activate!"

boom!

The old man's body exploded in that instant.

However, the force of his explosion did not rush towards Li Chen, but instead transformed into a scarlet beam of light that directly blasted through the thick layer of rock beneath their feet!

That is the barrier connecting the core of the earth's spiritual essence over ten thousand years!

"Click click click..."

The sound of the rock strata cracking was like the death knell.

"not good!"

Li Chen's expression changed drastically.

He instantly sensed that the entire ley line beneath his feet had been completely detonated by this evil sacrificial power!

The floor of the entire cave began to collapse downwards at an irreversible and terrifying speed.

"Brother Li!"

Jiang Liyue cried out in alarm as the ground beneath her feet vanished instantly, and she plummeted into the endless abyss.

Hold on tight!

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Chen teleported over and hugged Jiang Liyue tightly.

He was just about to activate the laws of space to forcibly teleport out.

However, they were horrified to discover that the surrounding space had become completely chaotic due to the collapse of the earth's veins, making it impossible to locate coordinates!

The two could only plummet straight down into the dark, bottomless abyss below, accompanied by countless massive falling rocks.

The wind howled in my ears like ghosts wailing.

I don't know how long we fell.

A muffled "bang" was heard.

Li Chen shielded Jiang Liyue and slammed heavily onto a flat, hard ground.

Although they were dazed and confused from the fall, fortunately, the spatial laws protected them, and neither of them suffered any serious injuries.

"Cough cough... Where is this place?"

Li Chen coughed to clear away the dust as he helped Jiang Liyue to her feet.

The two looked up.

Using the faint light filtering through the cave above, they were able to see the scene before them.

Breathing stopped completely in that instant.

This is the deeper part of the earth's spiritual essence.

In front of them.

A colossal, ancient altar made of unknown black stones stood prominently.

The surface of the altar is covered with dense, intricate patterns that exude the aura of time and age.

And this moment.

Because the old man's final blow broke the seal on the earth's veins.

This ancient altar, which had been silent for countless millennia, was slowly emitting an eerie, ghostly blue light.

The array patterns seemed to come alive, frantically absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy.

"This...this is..."

Jiang Liyue looked at the altar, her voice trembling.

"Teleportation array!"

Li Chen's pupils contracted sharply, and he blurted out.