Looking at the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron, Shao Mingyu's greed grew ever brighter.
The Heaven-Sealing Cauldron could not only refine pills but also forge weapons, possessing both offensive and defensive capabilities; it was a top-grade divine weapon.
Unfortunately, decades ago, it was stolen by a core disciple of the Holy Pill Sect, disappearing for decades, and now it had reappeared here.
"Is this why your cultivation level keeps breaking through?" Geng Yu asked, looking at the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron in his hand.
"Of course not!"
Mu Yun's lips curled into a mocking smile. "It seems Elder Geng Yu doesn't really understand the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron."
Understand?
"Throw it away!"
Hearing Mu Yun's words, Shao Mingyu's expression suddenly changed.
"Throw it away? Too late!"
With that, Mu Yun turned around, scooped up Qin Mengyao behind him, and flew away at top speed in the opposite direction from Geng Yu.
Boom... Boom boom... Boom boom boom...
Deafening explosions filled the eardrums of everyone present.
The entire Mu Family Martial Arena churned, the ground rippled outwards, and the powerful shockwave even spread to the surrounding streets, slowly dissipating.
Even the torrential rain seemed to be interrupted, falling silent.
What happened?
Many martial artists, who had been locked in a fierce battle, were struck by this earth-shattering explosion, their ears and noses bleeding.
Pain shot through their backs, blood trickling down their spines. Seeing that Qin Mengyao in his arms had only suffered minor shocks, Mu Yun smiled slightly.
"Brother Yun, are you alright?"
"I'm fine!" Shaking his head, Mu Yun said, "The one who's hurt is him!"
Following Mu Yun's gaze, a huge chasm, over ten meters deep, had appeared in the center of the arena, rainwater mixed with blood flowing into it.
"Is he dead?"
Dead?
Impossible!
Geng Yu was at the seventh level of the Spirit Acupoint Realm, having opened his Divine Acupoint. In that instant of explosion, he could have used his true essence to form a protective True Essence Robe to protect himself.
However, while he survived, he was severely injured.
"Cough cough..."
A clear coughing sound of blood rang out from within the massive ravine, drawing everyone's attention.
Geng Yu was indeed alive.
"The Heaven-Sealing Cauldron! You actually possess my Holy Pill Sect's Heaven-Sealing Cauldron! Then you deserve to die even more!"
Geng Yu leaped out, standing beside the ravine, his clothes tattered, his long hair disheveled, looking utterly wretched.
Upon closer inspection, his arms hung limply, blood dripping into the rainwater on the ground.
A humiliating disgrace!
A seventh-level Spirit Acupoint Realm cultivator, having opened his Divine Acupoint, he had been
rendered so pathetic by a mere tenth-level Physical Body Realm cripple.
Truly a humiliating disgrace.
Although Mu Yun had used the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron to cheat, such a trick had still managed to injure him, making it impossible for him to maintain his standing in the Holy Pill Sect in the future.
"You're lucky you didn't die!"
Seeing Geng Yu standing not far away, Mu Yun sneered.
Although he hadn't expected the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron to kill Geng Yu, he was still surprised that Geng Yu remained intact after the cauldron's explosion.
"Shao Mingyu, I know you want that girl, I won't compete with you. But this Mu Yun is mine alone. You're keeping others occupied now, but today I'll make him wish he were dead."
"Fine!"
In Shao Mingyu's eyes, ten Mu Yuns couldn't compare to one Qin Mengyao.
"Diao Zhenyun, Wang Dongyu, today is your two families' opportunity. Whether you can seize it depends on yourselves."
Shao Mingyu finished speaking and charged towards Qin Shiyu again.
Of the Qin and Mu families, only Qin Shiyu was at the seventh level of the Spirit Cave Realm. However, Qin Shiyu was old, and although Shao Mingyu's strength was inferior to Geng Yu's, keeping him occupied and wearing him down was no problem.
On the other side, Wang Dongyu and Diao Zhenyun gritted their teeth and charged out again.
Things had come to this point; there was no turning back.
With the Mu family's current reserves, if they aren't wiped out tonight, the Diao and Wang families will have no chance of recovery in three years.
"Kill!"
After the bombardment, the fierce battle resumed.
However, the original two thousand or so warriors from the four major families and those brought by Shao Mingyu and Geng Yu had dwindled to less than a thousand.
The ferocity of the battle was self-evident.
"Mu Yun, now, no one can help you!" Geng Yu sneered, blood dripping from his teeth. "Besides the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron, what else do you have?"
"I know that the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron needs three months to accumulate enough energy to trigger this explosion. Do you have any other trump cards?" "I
have plenty of trump cards, but I don't know if you can withstand them."
"How arrogant! Let me show you the power of a seventh-level Spirit Aperture Realm warrior, and you'll understand what a strong person is and what an ant is!"
As Geng Yu finished speaking, his fingers curled, and a surge of true essence gathered.
A powerful pressure enveloped the entire Mu family's martial arena.
Even the earth trembled under the influence of this power.
"Northern Darkness Heaven-Capturing Claw!"
With a low shout, Geng Yu's fingers suddenly expanded. This expansion wasn't a physical spread of the fingers, but rather an eruption and extension of true essence.
An overwhelming pressure swept towards Mu Yun.
"Heaven-Sealing Transformation!"
With a roar, Mu Yun, without time to think, placed the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron in front of him, attempting to resist the powerful pressure of true essence.
"An ant-like thing, such resistance is futile."
As he spoke, Geng Yu, pressing down with his five fingers of true essence, slammed his palm down towards Mu Yun.
Boom...
A roar no less powerful than the previous explosion reverberated, but this time, the force only reached Mu Yun and didn't spread outwards.
After the boom, a deep hole, tens of feet deep, appeared in the ground.
Mu Yun's figure had vanished.
"An ant-like thing, insignificant. Without the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron, how can you withstand my palm strike!" Looking at the bottomless hole in the ground, Geng Yu sneered.
Originally, he planned to coerce and entice Mu Yun into revealing his secrets.
He hadn't expected Mu Yun to be so unyielding. This martial artist at the seventh level of the Spirit Cave Realm actually harbored thoughts of resistance, even attempting to kill him with the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron.
"Killing you won't get your secrets out of you, but there must be something about you that you can't investigate!"
Geng Yu said, walking step by step towards the deep hole in the ground.
"Miss, this guy isn't really dead, is he?" On the wall of the Mu family courtyard, in the rainy night, two beautiful figures stood on the wall, holding umbrellas.
The torrential raindrops fell on the umbrellas, scattering in all directions, not a single drop hitting the two of them.
"It's hard to say. Geng Yu is at the seventh level of the Spirit Acupoint Realm, having opened the Shenque Acupoint, which connects to the dantian. This is a crucial step for martial artists to nourish their dantian and replenish their meridians, making their true essence incredibly powerful. This Mu Yun is only at the tenth level of the Physical Body Realm, and he only achieved enlightenment during the battle. He hasn't even entered the Spirit Acupoint Realm yet. Whether he can withstand the attack or not depends entirely on his ability!"
"Ah!"
Huan'er exclaimed, "Then does that mean he's doomed? Although he seems weak, he has great courage. It's not worth it for him to die like this."
"But the two of us can't save him either. Geng Yu's seventh level is too strong. If I'm not mistaken, he probably still has some tricks up his sleeve."
Xiao Yun'er's pretty face held a hint of expectation.
For some reason, she felt that Mu Yun wouldn't die.
A miracle might happen.
What kind of miracle?
Could Mu Yun kill Geng Yu with a counterattack? How could that be!
The moment this thought crossed her mind, Xiao Yun'er felt like she'd gone mad. A tenth-level physical body killing a seventh-level spirit acupoint realm cultivator—no one throughout history had ever accomplished this; it was simply impossible.
"Boy, come out and face your death!"
Geng Yu
shouted, reaching into the cave to grab Mu Yun inside.
*Ding...
* Suddenly, a ding sound rang out, and a pillar of light shot straight up from the cave.
Suddenly, it seemed as if everyone had a hallucination; every star hidden beneath the rain was shining brightly.
The light was fleeting, yet so bright that everyone knew it was real, not an illusion.
Immediately afterward, a figure burst out of the cave.
Mu Yun!
However, Mu Yun had changed drastically.
His black hair had turned a striking silver, and his pupils were filled with silver light.
But the aura within his body seemed to have increased tenfold, even dozens of times, in an instant.
A powerful aura circulated continuously within his body.
"Did you just tell me to come out and die?"
A pair of silver eyes fell on Geng Yu below, Mu Yun's eyes filled with lust, his state of mind seemingly changed.
"Geng Yu, you want me dead? I'll let you die! This is the Great Life-Taking Technique from the Three Thousand Supreme Great Daos! I'll waste fifty years of my lifespan to fight you! I'll show you who can kill whom!"
With that, Mu Yun's every move unleashed a frenzied surge of true essence.
In an instant, the dim sky shone with stars, and streams of frenzied true essence, drawn by the power of the stars, descended from the heavens.
The boundless aura, like the sky transforming into a vast ocean, with rolling waves, rushed straight towards Geng Yu.
"Billions of stars, how vast! Ant, who is the ant? You are the ant!"
With a shout, Mu Yun slapped down.
Boom…
The surging power of the stars, like Qin Mengyao's icy power, crashed down.
However, this stellar power was hundreds, even thousands of times stronger than Qin Mengyao's icy power.
This was the true power of heaven and earth.
"Impossible! The Great Life-Taking Technique! What Great Life-Taking Technique... Ah..."
With a scream, Geng Yu's figure vanished into the vast light, completely disappearing.
Geng Yu, at the seventh level of the Spirit Aperture Realm, was utterly dead.
"The Wang and Diao families dared to resist; this is their fate!" Mu Yun spoke again, pointing his finger directly at Shao Mingyu.
A star-shaped arrow pierced through the air, striking Shao Mingyu directly in the chest.
In two moves, two martial artists at the seventh level of the Spirit Aperture Realm were utterly dead, utterly powerless to resist.
In an instant, the entire Mu family martial arena fell into a deathly silence!
What kind of power was this? Everyone was stunned.