The six crimson stone columns formed a wall of raging mes that stood between the people within the colorful area and those without.


    Dong Kang and the others could only pace anxiously outside the colorful area after rushing over.


    Yang Kan seemed to rx immediately after forming the me ward with his stone columns.


    He took out a crimson crystal ball and tossed it into the air, where it stayed above his head.


    Earthme essence could be seen burning within the crimson crystal ball, along with slithering earthme crystal strings, which seemed to be manipting the six stone columns.


    Yang Kanughed wildly. “You lot from the Realm of a Hundred Battles are so naive. You really think you’d beat us just because you have greater numbers?


    “It’s a pity that, as core disciples of the Dong n, neither of you have entered thete Greater Heaven stage. Otherwise, you’d have caused me much bigger problems.


    “As for that Dong Kang, even though he’s at thete Greater Heaven stage, he didn’t receive the kind of attention and resources you two did.


    “So even if he were in here, he’d be another victim of mine.


    “Gu Haofeng, Qian Xin, and Cao Qiushui are all at the same cultivation stage as you are, which is far from enough to threaten me.”


    With these words, Yang Kan dodged Dong Li’s cyan awl with ease and pointed his finger at her.


    One of the earthme crystal strings within the crimson crystal ball over his head instantly morphed into a streak of dazzling light and shot towards Dong Li’s forehead.


    The earthme crystal string was branded with the profound truths of me power, which made it iparably fierce and sharp.


    Dong Li’s expression flickered as she hastily raised the bone shield in her other hand to defend against it.


    The earthme crystal string slightly altered its path and punctured Dong Li’s left shoulder.


    Not only did it go through Dong Li’s shoulder, but it also set her shoulder on fire with tangerine-colored mes.


    A low, pained exmation escaped her mouth as her gorgeous face was instantly filled with anger.


    Dong Baijie swung his ck hammer down towards Yang Kan, yet it was warded off by a river of mes Yang Kan had formed with one hand.


    Yang Kan took a few steps backwards to put a sizeable distance between the brother-sister pair and himself, as if he had realized that the two of them were both very good at fighting at close quarters.


    Up in the air, Dong Baijie and Dong Li’s beast spirits were still busy dealing with the discarnate souls from Lu Jian’s Soul Banners.


    The discarnate souls filled the air with an aura of malice and violence, which seemed to be somehow clouding the minds of the gray wolf and ck phoenix.


    Dong Baijie and Dong Li gradually sensed the flickering of their connections with their beast spirits.


    Not only that, but whenever they attempted to use their beast spirits to attack Yang Kan, the discarnate souls would swarm in and unleash negative emotions to undermine the connections between them and their beast spirits.


    Nie Tian had long since noticed this, and thus once again set his eyes on Lu Jian.


    Off to the side, Feng Ying called for help again. “Mu Han! Come and help us!”


    Thete Greater Heaven stage Qin Yan and the middle Greater Heaven stage Feng Ying were facing twote Greater Heaven stage members of the me God Sect, who, at this moment, had already formed a huge of mes around them.


    The of mes was shrinking constantly, giving Qin Yan and Feng Ying increasingly smaller space to move about.


    Yang Kanughed wildly. “You think killing a handful of us will give you the ultimate victory. Howughable!”


    Without considering the feelings of the other me God Sect disciples at all, he went on to say, “Every sect or n will only attach great importance to their core members.


    “The deaths of those you’ve killed don’t matter to the me God Sect. We still have a lot to spare.


    “As long as we can finish off core members from the Realm of a Hundred Battles like you, their deaths will be worth it.”


    By ‘core members’, he was clearly referring to Dong Baijie, Dong Li, Gu Haofeng, Qian Xin, Qin Yan, Cao Qiushui, Lu Jian, and himself.


    In fact, every Qi warrior force, powerful or not, would pick their most talented and resilient members as their core members. They would receive special attention and have ess to the most valuable incantations, spiritual tools, medicinal pills, and other resources.


    Core members would be considered as pirs that held up a sect. The most prominent of them would usually be picked as the sect’s future master.


    Yang Kan was deemed one the me God Sect’s most important core members.


    Xia Yi even considered him and Tang Yang to be the two who might be able to take his ce and be the sectmaster of the me God Sect in the future.


    That was the reason why his battle prowess was far superior to that of normalte Greater Heaven stage Qi warriors.


    “Core members...” Nie Tian muttered coldly as he chased after Lu Jian from the Spirit God Sect with Starshifts.


    He was aware that core members of the powerful sects usually possessed stunning battle prowess, and that, in reverse, was the reason why they had been selected as core members in the first ce.


    Yang Kang, Dong Baijie, and Dong Li all fell into this category, whose battle prowess couldn’t be measured simply by their cultivation bases.


    SHEW!


    With another short-range Starshift, Nie Tian once again appeared behind the fleeing Lu Jian, and his chaotic maic field enveloped him as well.


    Panicked, Lu Jian eximed, “Why the hell don’t you go after the others?!”


    However, one of his Soul Banners exploded. The st pushed him forward, out of Nie Tian’s chaotic maic field.


    From the beginning, he had been avoiding fighting Nie Tian head-on with everything within his power.


    He seemed to be waiting for Yang Kan toe over to kill Nie Tian after he finished off Dong Baijie and Dong Li.


    Therefore, he only avoided Nie Tian’s pursuit while distracting Dong Baijie and Dong Li’s beast spirits with his Soul Banners.


    After a few failed attempts to kill Lu Jian, the look in Nie Tian’s eyes gradually changed as he chased after him.


    Even though Lu Jian was only at the middle Greater Heaven stage, he actually wasn’t weak at all.


    Previously, he had killed Chang Yuan, who had a higher cultivation base, with the samebination of Starshift and one of the tree branches. However, Lu Jian had somehow managed to escape from him repeatedly.


    This meant that Lu Jian’s actual battle prowess wasn’t as poor as he had let on. For some reason, he just didn’t want to fight Nie Tian head-on.


    The fact that he was able to keep pressuring Dong Li and Dong Baijie with his Soul Banners while avoiding Nie Tian’s tight pursuit proved that he wasn’t an ipetent man.


    On the outside, Gu Haofeng swung his sword, which was wreathed in lightning power, and mmed it on the ward of mes. After a few failed attempts, he said resentfully, “That Mu Han is such a good-for-nothing! If he didn’t dy me, I would have been in there, and Lu Jian would have died at my hands already!”


    Eyebrows furrowed, Qian Xin said, “I’ve heard about Lu Jian’s true strength. That guy has many life-saving treasures, and he likes tounch sneak attacks instead of fighting others face-to-face. He has also mastered exquisite movement skills. If he’s bent on avoiding a fight, very few people can hurt him.


    “To be honest, even if you were chasing after Lu Jian in there instead of Mu Han, I don’t think the result would be any different.”


    “What the hell? Why are you taking an outsider’s side?” Gu Haofeng asked, disgruntled.


    “He helped me when I was in a difficult ce, and I was being honest,” Qian Xin said.


    Then he suddenly called out to Nie Tian, “Mu Han! Forget Lu Jian! He’s never going to fight you face-to-face. You might as well see if there’s anything else you can do!”


    Even though the me ward was stopping them from entering, it couldn’t stop sound from going through.


    Qian Xin’s voice reverberated in the colorful area. Nie Tian caught every word of it.


    He instantly stopped chasing after Lu Jian. With another nce, he discovered that Lu Jian moved about lightly and quickly like a wisp of soul within the colorful area. He couldn’t help but feel impressed by his movement skills.


    He gradually calmed down.


    After a moment of silent pondering, he once again vanished from his original ce.


    In the next moment, he appeared in the air above Dong Li and Dong Baijie. Without the slightest hesitation, he formed an invisible soul de with the mysterious soul power from within the nine fragmentary stars in his soul and started cutting down the swarm of discarnate souls that was attacking Dong Li and Dong Baijie’s beast spirits.


    As he did, one misty, gray discarnate soul after another let out miserable screeches as they were cut to pieces and dissipated into the air.


    As Nie Tian continued to madly swing his soul de, the discarnate souls died at an rming speed.


    Like having their shackles broken, Dong Baijie and Dong Li’s beast spirits swooped down on Yang Kan from midair.


    HOWL!


    Therge, gray wolf howled and, wreathed in a terrifyingly fierce aura, it scratched Yang Kan’s waist with its sharp ws that looked like a bunch of metal hooks.


    Yang Kan’s waist was instantly covered in blood.


    Meanwhile, the ck phoenix spread its wings, and numerous feathers that carried dark spiritual power shot out like deadly arrows.


    Yang Kan immediately felt the pressure. Under the joint attacks of the gray wolf and ck phoenix, he found it hard to remainposed. He reached out his hand, and the crimson crystal ball fell into his palm.


    One earthme crystal string after another burst out of it.


    It was as if the crystal ball had suddenly turned into a huge hedgehog. With its prickles made of blinding light, it warded off the attacksunched by Dong Baijie and Dong Li’s beast spirits.


    “Lu Jian!” Yang Kan thundered, rage filling his eyes. “What the hell are you doing?!”


    “As you know, Big Brother Yang, I’m not good at fighting enemies head-on,” Lu Jian answered, looking shamefaced. However, under Yang Kan’s scalding gaze, he braced himself slightly and said, “Alright, I’ll help your people finish off those two girls from the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce first, and then we’lle to help you together.”


    With these words, he floated lightly towards Qin Yan and Feng Ying like a wisp of a soul.


    Upon seeing him, Qin Yan, who was barely able to handle the twote Greater Heaven stage disciples from the me God Sect, gasped and shouted, “Mu Han!”


    Qin Yan was one of the few people present who knew Lu Jian’s true battle prowess. Hence, her expression flickered as she saw himing at her.


    Facing the twote Greater Heaven stage me God Sect disciples, she and Feng Ying were already struggling to stay alive. At this moment, she felt burning pain from every inch of her body because her whole body was gradually being infused with her enemies’ me power.


    If Lu Jian joined the fight and attacked her from behind with his secret magics, she would die beyond the shadow of a doubt.


    However, Nie Tian didn’t show the slightest intention of helping her. Instead, his eyes were fixed on Yang Kan as he plummeted towards him like a cannonball.


    Nie Tian’s heart brimmed with anger, and his eyes turned bloody red.


    He summoned a third of every type of power he possessed and his ming rage, converged them on his clenched fist, and threw it down towards Yang Kan’s head with the momentum of a crashing meteor.


    Yang Kan’s expression flickered as he looked up and was instantly overwhelmed by a feeling that he would be engulfed by a sea of power and rage in the next moment, along with everything around him, and that there was no escaping it.


    Even Dong Baijie’s and Dong Li’s expressions flickered as they watched Nie Tian dive down towards Yang Kan with a clenched fist and furious eyes. They subconsciously further distanced themselves from Yang Kan.


    Due to the long distances involved, those from the Realm of a Hundred Battles who were shut out of the me ward weren’t able to sense the shocking might of Nie Tian’s Rage Punch.


    They were just surprised to see Yang Kan’s face turning pale with fright, and Dong Li and Dong Baijie hastily jumping away as Nie Tian dove from midair towards Yang Kan with a clenched fist.


    They didn’t think a punch from the early Greater Heaven stage Nie Tian would inflict any noticeable damage on Yang Kan.


    However, in the next moment, a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering boom rang out as Yang Kan met Nie Tian’s iing fist with his own.


    The moment the boom echoed out, even the me ward, which was stopping them from entering the colorful area, suddenly went dim.


    Immediately afterwards, they saw Yang Kan’s knee bend and crash heavily to the ground.


    Nie Tian’s punch actually forced him to kneel!