<h4>Chapter 1528: The Sapphire-Blue Scorpion Strikes</h4>


    A sapphire-blue stinger, like something out of a dream, pierced through the air and straight toward the center of Li Feng''s forehead.


    The scorpion had just made its move,unching a single blow that was as fast as it was deadly.


    It intended to kill Li Feng in a single blow.


    "Scram!"


    Zhang Lie thundered, having watched Li Feng''s fight carefully. The moment something happened, he struck.


    "[Ninecarp Transformation: Golden Tiger]!"


    The image of a golden tiger appeared behind Zhang Lie''s back, and its roar echoed through the air. A golden aura suffused Zhang Lie. A mountain of des rested atop the tiger''s back, and Zhang Lie''s body itself underwent a transformation. His hair turned silvery-white, until they became akin to silver needles.


    His gic energy likewise became more honed. Silvery-white gic energy gathered over his body, and tigers'' stripes appeared on his arms. His eyes became those of a tiger''s, and steely sharpness erupted from every pore.


    Ayer of crystal formed over his fists as he caught the scorpion''s stinger.


    Suddenly, a woman dressedpletely in ck struck.


    A ck vine appeared on her palm and transformed into ance as she shot over, intending to destroy herpetition.


    Clearly, she wasn''t an enemy of the illustrious fifth-realm group that had banded together to take down Team Zenith.


    "[Fists of the Silent Sea: Fade]!"


    The [Fists of the Silent Sea] formed a fist inbination with the ck serpent form and a mallet with the golden tiger. The condensed gic energy solidified into sharp silver crystal, flying even faster through the air than the ck vine. The crystal cut the vine apart mid-flight, but Zhang Lie didn''t react just yet. There were multiple opponents waiting.


    A man struck simultaneously as the woman in ck did. A ck de whizzed through the air.


    The members of Team Zenith were all being pressed by their opponents, and didn''t have the attention to spare to deal with the sneak attack.


    Just as the ck de was about tond on Li Feng''s head, a golden figure shed across the air, struck the man''s body, and knocked him flying.


    The man thundered, "What are you doing?!"


    The golden figure was none other than the cultivator in gold, wreathed in golden light and wearing a golden mask.


    The golden cultivator looked toward Yang Ze. "I apologize. That fellow knocked me over here."


    Yang Ze frowned, pointing at himself, then smiled confidently. His longsword arced across the air.


    "[The Boundless de: Ersatz Yawning Wave]!"


    A sword shed, the strike forming a long river through the skies. The gic energy burst apart in a shower of droplets, the attacks infused with spatial force.


    The cultivator with amp blew on his divine srmp, causing it to re brightly as it struck water-attuned gic energy once again.


    With the divine srmp shielding him, the cultivator frowned. When the golden mask shot over, the cultivator with themp thought that the golden mask intended to fight Yang Ze alongside him, but the golden mask was struck by Yang Ze''s counterattack and tossed easily a hundred meters away, almost like a bullet. He smashed into the man wielding a ck de.


    The cultivator with the goldenmp wouldn''t have been surprised if the golden mask had been aiming for the man with a ck de to begin with.


    However, he had no proof of this, and making an usation that he couldn''t back up would only cause the battlefield to grow even more chaotic.


    After all, their team was only temporary; they didn''t cooperate with each other at all. If they had reason to doubt and suspect one another, that doubt and suspicion would only be magnified until they weren''t able to cooperate at all.


    This was a clear downside of their temporary alliancepared to the bond that the members of Team Zenith shared.


    More importantly, the cultivator with the goldenmp didn''t know who would be able to go against their client.


    When the Immortal King''s substitute saw that no one was helping him stop Li Feng, his face contorted in fear. He rushed toward the altar. "Save me, Sir!"


    Radiant Sun let him pass by.


    The man in dark green robes slowly stood up and extended a hand toward the void. Before the Immortal King''s substitute could make it up to him, he felt as though he crashed against something. He stopped short. Silver blood leaked down his mouth. He lowered his head to see a parched hand sticking through his chest.


    The Immortal King''s substitute gaped at the man in dark green robes who stood before him.


    The man said slowly, "Failure is tolerable to the Hall of Immortals, but the sight of your failure was intolerable."


    Everyone nced at the Immortal King''s substitute in unison, their fights temporarily forgotten.


    Only Radiant Sun stood calmly where he was, as though everything was perfectly normal.


    "Even if you die, you should die in front of your opponent. The Hall of Immortals forbids such a humiliating disy." The man in dark green robes tossed the Immortal King''s substitute into the pir of light, scattering his silver blood and mental fragments within. The pir of light suddenly grew several fractions brighter, as though it had absorbed the Immortal King''s substitute''s strength.


    Li Feng''s eyes grew cold. His sword shone brightly.


    The intersection of the real and the illusory—Li Feng''s strengthbined both domains. Thousands of holy dragons swept across the sky.


    His strength surpassed time and space, the real and the illusory.


    At that moment, time became meaningless to Li Feng.


    The technique affected not just time, but space and even reality itself. The technique intersected reality and illusion. This was a strength that transcended this realm, and Li Feng''s de could kill even a transcendent god.


    With this strength which converted legend into reality, Li Feng''s target switched from the Immortal King''s substitute to the man in dark green robes who had just struck.


    Blinding light gathered around the sword; the rest of the world seemed to dim.


    The man in dark green robes reacted calmly even against this shocking disy of light. He reached out and tapped at the void. The darkest of abyssal darkness seemed to manifest over the altar, shattering reality and illusion. Li Feng''s ultimate attack vanished from sight as though it had never existed.


    The attack, which had sparked such fear in the Immortal King''s substitute, was nothing like a joke to the man in dark green robes. A single finger was all it took to cause it to vanish from sight.


    The man in dark green robes folded his arms. "Well? Aren''t you all going to continue?"


    Leiting Ya, Feng Xian, and the cultivator with the goldenmp shook their heads to clear their thoughts as they began fighting furiously.


    The man in dark green robes was speaking ostensibly to Li Feng, but also as a warning to the rest of them.


    Upon witnessing his strength, everyone else was cowed and chilled—everyone except Zhang Lie and Radiant Sun. Zhang Lie stared intently at the man in dark green robes, but no one could tell what he was thinking.


    Despite the fact that the Immortal King''s substitute had been the first cultivator to be eliminated, that didn''t mean that Zhang Lie and the members of Team Zenith were doing well. With the inclusion of the woman in ck and the man with the ck de, the battle hadn''t tilted in their favor. Li Feng, simultaneously attacked by the man and woman, was unable to spare any attention to help his allies.


    The man in dark green robes turned and nced at the pir to his back. "It should be a little faster, I suppose."


    Then, he sat back down on the stairs and watched the fighting down below.


    On the other side of the altar, with a low shout, Fang Yi dashed forward with his spear in hand.


    Fang Yiunched his spear, crackling with wind and lightning, with incredible force.