At the same moment, Ning Chen's cultivation at the first level of the Spirit Realm also erupted completely!
A surge of pale golden spiritual energy erupted from his body, instantly forming an incredibly thick spiritual energy shield that firmly protected him.
"Clang! Clang! Clang..."
A series of ear-piercing explosions, like metal clashing, erupted almost simultaneously!
The poisoned flying swords at the forefront dimmed their emerald green poisonous light for a moment when they came into contact with the divine light of the sun and moon emanating from the double pupils, and their flight trajectories also deviated slightly.
However, the penetrating power of these flying swords is still beyond imagination!
With just a momentary obstruction and deflection, the divine light of the sun and moon and the protective spiritual power hastily formed were torn apart by its unstoppable force!
"Pfft!"
"puff!"
Several sickeningly painful sounds of flesh being torn apart rang out!
Despite Ning Chen's best efforts to dodge, several flying swords still grazed his vital points, leaving several deep, bone-revealing, terrifying wounds on his body!
Dark, foul-smelling poisonous blood gushed out of the wound instantly!
A strong sense of dizziness, accompanied by a nauseating stench, surged into Ning Chen's mind like a tidal wave!
"uh-huh!"
Ning Chen let out a suppressed groan, his body thrown backward in a disheveled manner by the force of the impact, a chill running through his heart.
These assassins are definitely not weak!
Judging from the power of that attack, the attacker was at least a top expert in the Life and Death Realm.
Moreover, they coordinated perfectly, each move aimed at his vital points, clearly intending to kill him in one blow and give him no chance to breathe!
This was absolutely a meticulously planned, deadly trap aimed at Ning Chen!
"Ning Yuanshan!!"
Just as Ning Chen was severely injured and his life hung in the balance, Ning Qingtian, in the brief moment of trying his best to stabilize the core of the teleportation channel, finally let out a roar!
His gaze was like two unsheathed peerless swords, fixed on Ning Yuanshan, the Ning family elder from a collateral branch who was responsible for assisting in controlling the teleportation array!
Locked onto by Ning Qingtian's terrifying gaze, Ning Yuanshan's body stiffened abruptly, and his face instantly turned ashen.
But after only a moment of panic, the fear on his face quickly faded, replaced by a morbid ferocity!
"Ning Qingtian!!"
Ning Yuanshan screamed hoarsely, his voice filled with resentment:
"You are stubborn and arbitrary! For some outsider who appeared out of nowhere, you did not hesitate to squander the Ning family's century-old accumulated resources, activate the highest-level teleportation array, and even risk your life!"
"Your foolish actions are no different from pushing my Ning family into an abyss of no return!"
"Today, it's either you or me who dies!"
"Elders! Honorable guests! For the sake of the Ning family's eternal prosperity, and to prevent the Ning family from falling into the hands of this young brat and a tyrannical ruler, join me in slaying this fiend and restoring order to the world!"
As his highly inflammatory words fell to the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Several hidden array nodes, which had been secretly modified, suddenly exploded violently without warning!
Seven or eight more masked figures dressed in jet-black night clothes, like demons crawling out of hell, suddenly burst out from the bursting nodes!
These people exuded powerful auras of the Life and Death Realm, gripping sharp weapons that shimmered with a ghostly light. Combined with the aftershocks of the poisoned flying swords from before, they attacked Ning Chen, who was seriously injured, and Ning Qingtian, who was briefly restrained by the spatial turbulence and the backlash of the formation, from all directions with reckless abandon!
The aura emanating from them was cold and resolute, clearly indicating that they were a group of death warriors who had long since disregarded life and death!
"court death!!"
Ning Chen endured the excruciating pain from his wounds and the toxins that were trying to erode his internal organs.
The divine light of the sun and moon in his eyes was slightly dimmed due to the effects of the poison, but the power to dispel illusions was still in operation.
Under the relentless and frenzied attacks of these death-defying warriors, Ning Chen narrowly escaped one deadly situation after another, thanks to his double pupils' accurate prediction of the enemy's attack trajectory and his combat instincts far exceeding those of his peers.
However, his wounds continued to increase, and the spread of toxins in his body caused his vision to blur and his movements to become sluggish.
He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the ancient double pupils giving him warnings at crucial moments, allowing him to avoid fatal attacks in advance, he would probably have already perished on the spot!
"A bunch of clowns! How dare you be so insolent before me!!"
Seeing his son surrounded and his injuries worsening, Ning Qingtian's anger was already raging to the point of being devastating!
He held nothing back anymore!
"Break—for me!!"
Ning Qingtian looked up and let out a furious roar that shook the heavens, unleashing the supreme pressure of the ninth level of the Saint Realm!
Click! Click!
Those violent spatial turbulences that had been clinging to him like maggots, preventing him from using his full power, were actually shattered by his unrestrained holy might!
The next instant, Ning Qingtian suddenly reached out a hand.
The hand swelled in the wind and instantly transformed into a colossal hand that blotted out the sky, formed entirely from the purest and most potent holy energy!
Above the giant hand, the laws of the Dao flowed, and divine patterns were densely distributed, exuding a terrifying aura capable of crushing stars and destroying the heavens!
"die!"
Ning Qingtian uttered a chillingly cold word.
That colossal hand, carrying an overwhelming and unparalleled power, gripped tightly towards the few black-clad assassins who were closest to Ning Chen and were attacking most fiercely!
"No--!"
The expressions of terror on the faces of those black-clad assassins, who were at the Life and Death Realm, didn't even have time to fully freeze.
The giant hand that held up the sky crushed them along with their weapons with ease!
No blood, no severed limbs!
Everything was completely reduced to nothingness under that terrifying power of holy annihilation!
Not even a trace of its existence was left!
Then, the giant hand, its power undiminished, merely shifted slightly and grabbed the culprit who had tried to completely destroy the core of the teleportation array in the chaos, intending to exile everyone into the endless spatial rift and perish together with them—Ning Yuanshan!
"Ah—! Patriarch, spare me! Elder, save me!!"
Ning Yuanshan let out a shrill, desperate scream.
However, Ning Qingtian was already filled with murderous intent at this moment, so how could he give him any chance?
"Snap! Snap!"
A series of chilling sounds of bones cracking rang out.
Ning Yuanshan's cultivation at the Life and Death Realm was forcibly abolished by Ning Qingtian in the most brutal and direct way!
His bones and meridians were shattered inch by inch by that terrifying holy energy!
Like a dead dog, it was held in Ning Qingtian's hand, barely clinging to life.