Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Senior Brother, be careful, that’s an afterimage!”

Among Yun Xiao’s enemies present, the one most familiar with him was undoubtedly the genius from the Killing Heart Sect, Ye Suxin. She naturally knew that her senior brother had struck in that instant, but upon seeing the outcome, she couldn’t help but cry out in warning.

Back in Thunder King Valley, outside the North Gate of Bianlei City, or during that great battle by Jiantian Lake, Ye Suxin had witnessed Yun Xiao’s Shadow Clone more than once.

However, both Ye Suxin, the Seven Killings Guardian at that time, and the cultivators from Sky Thunder Valley and the Xiao Family had all regarded the Shadow Clone as an afterimage created by Yun Xiao’s extreme speed.

Although such a phenomenon appearing on a young man in the Late Stage of the Seeking Origin Realm seemed bizarre and hard to understand, no one had a better explanation.

”Afterimage?”

The sudden loud warning from Ye Suxin left the people around both eager and apprehensive, for an afterimage was a hallmark of a Heavenly Rank Expert. Could it be that this rough-clothed youth was actually a Heavenly Rank Third Realm expert?

However, the very next moment, everyone dismissed this thought from their minds, because if Yun Xiao truly was a Heavenly Rank Third Realm expert, he would have long since slapped them all to death with a single blow, rather than engaging in this life-and-death struggle here.

Ji Sanjian, being the person involved, naturally first sensed the feeling of his weapon entering flesh, almost simultaneously with Ye Suxin’s warning. He suddenly felt a tingling on his scalp, all the hairs on his body stood on end, as a huge sense of danger enveloped his mind.

The assassins from the Killing Heart Sect not only had the skills to hide and deliver fatal blows but also had an extremely keen sense of dangerous auras. Perhaps this was an instinct developed through years of assassination.

Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for other cultivators to secretly ambush a Killing Heart Sect assassin of the same level, and never had any assassin from the Killing Heart Sect been stealthily killed by an enemy.

But now, that situation seemed destined for change. As Ji Sanjian sensed the extreme danger, before he could react, he felt a chill on the back of his neck, and that chill pierced through his neck and out of his throat.

At that moment, Ji Sanjian’s expression suddenly turned peculiar because he intended to make Yun Xiao experience the same taste of death that Jiang Wanyou had a moment ago, but in the end, it was he himself who tasted it.

Crunch!

A soft sound was heard, and Ji Sanjian’s entire body suddenly froze. At this moment, he did not reach up to cover his neck like Jiang Wanyou had just before. It was unclear whether he wanted this action to prove he was at least somewhat different from Jiang Wanyou.

The result of this action was that, in the next moment, everyone clearly saw fresh blood spurting from both Ji Sanjian’s throat and the back of his neck, like a bloody arrow, looking both eerie and gory.

”Ji Sanjian... is dead!”

With his throat pierced through, Ji Sanjian naturally couldn’t survive. As his lifeless body fell heavily, everyone understood one thing.

This genius assassin of the Killing Heart Sect, at the Peak of the Seeking Origin Realm, ultimately met the same fate as Jiang Wanyou, even dying in exactly the same manner.

The difference was that Jiang Wanyou hadn’t even managed to launch an attack, while Ji Sanjian, in his sneak attack, was the one who met death unexpectedly at the opponent’s hands, in the same way.

”Don’t send yourselves to death one by one, everybody, go up together!”

Not far away, Su Jian, seeing the Killing Heart Sect’s top genius also falling in the blink of an eye, couldn’t help but shout out with a gloomy expression. However, what he didn’t see was that fleeting cold smile on Yun Xiao’s face.

If all these near-hundred people were super geniuses at the half-step Earth Realm, Yun Xiao might be cautious, or rather of his trump cards.

But now, when Yun Xiao faced these Late Stage or even Peak cultivators of the Seeking Origin Realm, they were like ants to him. Given his speed, even if they wanted to rush in together, it would be impossible.

With Yun Xiao’s extreme speed, he only faced one enemy at a time, and with such a formidable technique as the Shadow Clone, capturing his true body was nothing short of a fantasy.

”It’s been a long time since I’ve indulged in a killing spree!”

Seeing the crowd, motivated by Su Jian, rushing at him like bees, the cold smile on Yun Xiao’s face instantly turned into a trace of killing intent. Since these guys wanted to kill him, they must be ready to face retaliation.

Swish, swish, swish...

However, just at that moment, as the crowd began to surround Yun Xiao and the latter prepared to unleash a killing spree, a sound of wind-breaking came suddenly from the outskirts of Lake Heart Island.

At first, no one paid much attention, assuming it was more sect geniuses arriving at the seventh level of Xuanyin Cave.

Some, like Su Jian and Gu Changsheng, even felt a sense of joy at this later arrival, thinking that the army besieging Yun Xiao had gained a few more allies.

”It’s Luo Fusheng and the others from Demons Mountain!”

Some of them were sharp-eyed, and the next moment they already saw the appearance of the newcomers. Both Xu Hongzhuang and Ling Wan recognized that it was indeed the geniuses from Demons Mountain they had encountered on the second level of Xuanyin Cave.

However, in the camp that originally had four geniuses from Demons Mountain, only three remained at this moment, and the faces of Luo Fusheng, Xiao Ming, and the others all bore an expression of extreme panic.

”Brother Fusheng, what happened to you?”

Seeing this, Xu Hongzhuang did not bother with those other geniuses who had paused because of Luo Fusheng’s arrival. She immediately stepped forward and asked.

”Strange spirits... so many strange spirits... we... are surrounded!”

Luo Fusheng, who had crossed the lake to Lake Heart Island, cast a somewhat fearful glance backward, took a few heavy breaths, and finally stated the reason for his panic in a faltering voice.

”Strange spirits?”

Suddenly hearing Luo Fusheng’s statement, many people were puzzled. In these ten or so days, they had seen plenty of Vein Demons from the first to the seventh level of Xuanyin Cave, but not a single strange spirit.

Moreover, Luo Fusheng used the term ”so many,” which made all the geniuses feel unfamiliar. The main reason being because this was Xuanyin Cave at Xuanyin Hall.

On the Tenglong Continent, it was still the humans and Vein Demons in charge. Although the number of strange spirits was more than on the Hidden Dragon Continent, they would never dare to appear brazenly before human cultivators.

What’s more, this was the highly important Xuanyin Cave of Xuanyin Hall. However, when Gu Changsheng and Chen Zhiheng thought about how for nearly a hundred years no Xuanyin Hall expert over a hundred years old entered this cave, they couldn’t help being contemplative.

In the very beginning, Xuanyin Cave, once open, was accessible to everyone. But at one point, the middle ranks of Xuanyin Hall suddenly found that some people couldn’t enter anymore, and those people were all older experts of Xuanyin Hall.

Later, Xue Tianao and others found that human cultivators over a hundred could not enter Xuanyin Cave. So when Xuanyin Cave opened recently, only the younger generation could enter. What substantial changes occurred in Xuanyin Cave, not many knew.

”What are you doing? Just a few strange spirits have scared you? Don’t you want the Illusion Yin Grass?”

For the average genius, Su Jian from Douling Commerce’s main goal was to kill Yun Xiao here. He never believed Luo Fusheng’s talk of ”many.” He never had any good feelings toward Demons Mountain.

”They... are coming!”

However, just as Su Jian tried to stir everyone to target Yun Xiao again, Luo Fusheng’s body suddenly trembled. Hearing his muttering, everyone’s attention turned to the place where those few geniuses from Demons Mountain had previously fled.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

In that place, countless shadows gradually appeared in everyone’s sight. Even in the dim seventh level of Xuanyin Cave, they looked extremely eerie because those shadows seemed to be floating in the air.

”It really is strange spirits?!”

At this moment, no one doubted what Luo Fusheng had said earlier. Seeing those dense and bizarre shadows swooping towards Lake Heart Island, they even felt Luo Fusheng was stingy in using just ”many” to describe it.

However, the scene that shocked and filled everyone with despair did not end there. As the strange spirits that surged from the surrounding shores entered the lake, the originally calm lake suddenly boiled like hot water.

Splish, splash, splish...

Some strange shadows constantly emerged from the lake’s surface. These shadows resembled human forms, but they had no facial features, causing sprays of water and making certain figures among the many geniuses tremble, their gaze flickering with a trace of hatred.

This person was naturally Zhao Ling, a genius from one of the three major families, the Zhao Family. To be honest, he and his brother Zhao Yang were the first to arrive at the seventh level of Xuanyin Cave, only to be distracted by the illusionary nature of the Illusion Yin Grass, missing the chance to acquire it.

Zhao Yang, at that time, was fascinated by the Illusion Yin Grass and had a chance to recover. However, unexpectedly, as he retreated to the shore, he was dragged into the water by a mysterious creature, leaving no remains.

Earlier, Zhao Ling merely thought his brother was swallowed by some kind of Vein Demon in the water. Now it appeared it wasn’t a Vein Demon at all, but those countless strange spirits.

Apart from Zhao Ling, the first genius to encounter water spirits, the faces of other geniuses also turned somewhat pale.

Even though many of the dense strange spirits were only Sixth or Seventh Rank, they knew that true strange spirit experts would surely appear before them soon.