A muffled groan of pain escaped her lips.
Bai Liuli had no time to dodge.
Countless wounds were carved across her body by the constantly dancing crescent sword blades, dyeing her white robes a vivid blood-red.
Am I really going to die like this…
Inside the Flowing Light Water Splendor barrier, only Meng Jianqing remained.
Liu Shumei had long since stepped out of the barrier and joined Lin Hanjing and Xu Wanzhou in besieging the Shen-Bai duo.
Faced with attacks from two Golden Core cultivators and one Nascent Soul cultivator, Shen Qingci and Bai Liuli shared nearly identical thoughts.
They had been so close to rescuing He Shu.
Yet reality would not bend simply because of their complaints.
A wave of powerlessness flooded their hearts.
Still, the two fought on with desperate resolve rather than retreating.
Better to die standing than to live on their knees!
If they had to die anyway, why not drag a few more down with them as cushions?
With that thought in mind, Shen Qingci and Bai Liuli’s offensive suddenly turned ferocious instead of continuing to dodge.
“Hmph, nothing more than the final struggles before death.”
Lin Hanjing’s tone dripped with disdain as she weaved through the battlefield with effortless grace, standing in sharp contrast to the other Golden Core cultivators.
Liu Shumei flashed behind Shen Qingci in an instant.
With a cold laugh, she swung the long blade in her hand.
Just as she was about to land the killing blow, a flying sword blocked the strike.
The flying sword shattered into powder after taking the fatal attack in Shen Qingci’s place.
Liu Shumei clicked her tongue at the sight and instantly retreated a hundred steps.
Her combat strength was nothing special—at best second-rate Golden Core level—so she could only linger at the edges of the battlefield, waiting for an ambush opportunity.
Another half a quarter-hour passed.
Shen Qingci was the first to falter.
A silver light arrow pierced straight through his arm.
The injury caused his combat strength to drop another notch, slowing his defensive speed further.
Seeing this, Lin Hanjing felt a flicker of joy and moved in to deliver the killing blow!
Yet at that exact moment, the corner of Shen Qingci’s mouth curled into a triumphant smile.
“Lin Hanjing, you’ve fallen into my trap! Hahahahaha!”
He laughed wildly and unrestrainedly, the sound sending a chill through the hearts of everyone in the harem alliance.
Could it be that he still has a trump card?
The same thought flashed through everyone’s minds.
Their coordinated offensive subconsciously slowed.
Xu Wanzhou was the first to sense something amiss.
A terrible possibility occurred to her.
Just thinking about it made cold sweat soak her back.
She shouted at the top of her lungs, her voice echoing across the battlefield, “Be careful! He might self-detonate and take us all down with him!”
It was no wonder she thought that way.
Self-detonation was the simplest and most powerful means of mutual destruction.
As a proper Golden Core cultivator, Shen Qingci’s self-detonation could even kill a Nascent Soul cultivator above his level!
Lin Hanjing and Liu Shumei both heard Xu Wanzhou’s warning.
Their hearts trembled as they rapidly distanced themselves from Shen Qingci by dozens of li.
However, the anticipated explosion never came.
Under everyone’s stunned gazes, a resplendent golden light pierced straight through the entire battlefield in the blink of an eye!
Before the three could react, the figures of Shen Qingci and Bai Liuli suddenly vanished!
“So fast! What was that?!”
They had been fighting normally just moments ago—how could the two disappear in the blink of an eye?
“What exactly happened? Where did they go?”
Lin Hanjing voiced her confusion, rubbing her eyes as she stared in the direction the pair had disappeared, scarcely daring to believe what she had seen.
“Watch your back!”
Xu Wanzhou’s panicked voice rang out again just as Lin Hanjing was lost in her daze.
“Hmm?”
Lin Hanjing turned her head in bewilderment.
In that instant, a golden light slammed into her entire body, sending her flying.
She crashed into the ground more than ten li away, smashing out a massive pit over ten zhang wide and a hundred zhang deep!
The golden light’s momentum did not diminish after striking Lin Hanjing.
It also sent Xu Wanzhou, Liu Shumei, and even Meng Jianqing—who had been hiding inside the barrier—flying far into the distance.
However, it had clearly held back some of its force.
The speed at which it struck the other three was less than half of what it had used against Lin Hanjing.
After sending the last of them, Meng Jianqing, flying, one end of the golden light embedded itself into the top floor of Wanyi Tower and finally came to a stop.
As the formation slowly powered down, the golden light faded, revealing the true form hidden within—none other than the Myriad Realms Flying Boat!
A bloodied young girl leaped down from the bow of the ship.
With a single glance, she saw He Shu and Mu Xinlian, who had been bound together and thrown inside the cage.
Bai Liuli brought her five fingers together and swung out a crescent-moon-shaped azure light blade.
It struck the cage but only produced a shower of sparks.
She frowned and reached out to touch the bars.
So it’s actually Jade-Smooth Profound Steel. Just how afraid was Hua Yanyun that He Shu would escape…?
She inwardly grumbled and cursed.
Hua Yanyun was truly extravagant—using Soul Transformation level materials to forge a completely useless cage.
Bai Liuli withdrew her hand and let out a sigh.
Time was of the essence.
She could not afford to waste it on irrelevant matters.
When He Qingyuan had piloted the Myriad Realms Flying Boat to ram into the four members of the harem alliance, he had deliberately held back his strength and had never truly intended to kill them.
Shen Qingci and Bai Liuli both approved of this decision.
Lin Hanjing and the other three all had powerful family backing.
More importantly, they were all favored concubines of Hua Yanyun.
Killing even one of them would make it extremely difficult to clean up the aftermath.
She dismantled the cage together with the section of floor it was fixed to and carried everything into the interior of the Myriad Realms Flying Boat.
Then Bai Liuli collapsed onto the ground, limbs splayed out in exhaustion.