Ye Bin had cultivated in Little Antarctic for hundreds of years and had refined a large amount of Ice Soul Divine Light. The protective Immortal Array on her Golden Bell Island contained much of it, and the Ice Soul Divine Light Sword was also refined from the purest essences among them.

At this moment, she was using the remaining Divine Light she carried to lay out Arrays. Lin Han, relying on the strength of the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword in the early stages, seemed to have the upper hand with his aggressive forward thrusts. However, due to his lack of experience, he was being driven back by her simultaneous attacks and retreats, using movement techniques and illusions to hold Lin Han off while she surreptitiously completed setting up the Array, trapping him within it.

Lin Han, throwing caution to the wind, cursed fiercely a few times as colorful lights surged around him, the Five Elements inverted, pressing in from all directions. It was fortunate that the Xuan Guang Ruler split into countless rings of light, spreading apart the colorful aura and leaving space for him.

The cursing enraged Ye Bin, but it was not just the swearing that angered her – rather, it was the fact that she could not defeat this young novice despite using all her means. Just yesterday, she had lost the Ice Soul Divine Light Sword she had spent hundreds of years nurturing due to him, which added fuel to her furious desire to press the Divine Light towards the center and take his life first.

They had been fighting for a while with no victory in sight when Elder Kuzhu in the sky finally ran out of patience.

What a bunch of useless beings!

The three Mysterious Sect disciples from the Emei Sect, though new to the Dao in this life, had cultivated through several reincarnations and were armed with the Magical Treasures he had given them...

And that Golden Bell Island Master – a complete piece of trash. Despite cultivating her Dao Level for hundreds of years, she failed at every turn. It was simply incompetence, and those from the side paths should be steady, accurate, and ruthless!

These new generations from the past few centuries lacked the courage and broad-mindedness of the side-path Sword Immortals from his own early days.

Elder Kuzhu, clutching his bamboo staff, descended from the heavens and landed on the platform in front of Tianxin Palace.

Upon seeing him, the Mo brothers cried out in unison, "You're not allowed to go any further!" At the same time, they released the Heaven and Earth Quiet Circles.

The three circles flew into the air, simultaneously emitting green and yellow stars. Elder Kuzhu lifted his bamboo staff, spraying out a vast array of dazzling silver stars from the tip – his Taiyin Green Spirit Essence that he had cultivated for a millennium. From essence to light, and light to needles, billions of silver light needles forcefully shot out, instantly submerging the three circles.

The three brothers, seeing the impending doom, hurriedly cast spells to urge their Magical Treasures to scatter the silver brilliance. But Elder Kuzhu threw his bamboo staff into the midst of the silver rain of light, and in an instant, the silver brilliance, green light, and gold stars all vanished. The three circles, now trapped on the bamboo staff, flew back into Elder Kuzhu's hands.

The Mo brothers urgently cast spells to recall their Magical Treasures. The three circles, twirling and glowing on the bamboo staff, tried to fly away, but Elder Kuzhu caught them with a hand and with a casual wipe, the circles' light faded and they remained motionless.

Elder Kuzhu slid the three circles onto his arm and stepped forward.

The Mo brothers stood side by side on the threshold: "We won't let you go in and harm our brother!"

They had already planned in advance: If they truly could not defeat the opponent, Mo Zhui and Mo Ying would inject all their mana and energy into Mo Xiang's body, who would then split open his own flesh to use the lethal blood, accumulated with virulent poison over three thousand years, to cast the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Immortal Corrosion Great Technique, which was their strongest attack yet.

At that moment, Jin Xunu urgently flew from inside the palace to the doorway: "Get out of the way!" He vigorously waved the Taiyin Qingning Fan and released the Sun-locking Hook, Boluodao, Death Maul, Anxiety Circle, Liangyi Needle, and other Magical Treasures in a flurry of attacks.

Elder Kuzhu raised his bamboo staff, which generated an intense suction at its tip. The myriad of red lights produced by the Taiyin Qingning Fan were absorbed by the staff's end, shattering the red light into countless hurricanes that were sucked into the staff like water into a whale, no match for the position before the bamboo staff's tip.

That bamboo staff, looking yellowed and blackened, seemed no more than a beggar's staff for fending off dogs. Yet, it now appeared to harbor a black hole, absorbing all red light and hurricanes within it.

Jin Xunu's numerous Magical Treasures and weapons, with a casual wave from Elder Kuzhu's other hand casting out a spread of silver light, dropped to the ground and bounced about on the jade platform like fish out of water.

Jin Xunu was dumbfounded. He had lived for a thousand years, but had never encountered such a powerful master – someone against whom even his most trusted Taiyin Qingning Fan was useless.

When Elder Kuzhu saw him cease his attack, he slammed his bamboo staff down and the previously absorbed winds shot out like a cannonball, directly at Jin Xunu.

Jin Xunu barely had time to block his chest with the Taiyin Qingning Fan before the "Wind Cannon" struck him. In an instant, he was blasted from the doorway to the palace's north wall and smashed against it so hard that his bones shattered from head to toe, blood gushed out from every orifice, and he slumped down from the wall like a broken sack of flesh and blood. His painstakingly cultivated Lifebound Embryo had nearly dispersed, and he was on the verge of death, utterly unable to move.

The three Mo brothers were stunned by the man's impressive abilities, staring at the decrepit beggar holding the bamboo staff, as if they were witnessing a demon capable of apocalyptic destruction.

Mo Xiang stood firm in the center of the threshold, with Mo Ying to the left and Mo Zhui to the right, each placing a hand on his shoulder and beginning to transfer their mana.

"We won't let you in!" Mo Ying let out a shrill scream, as a purple-black aura surged from his body, and a dark light streamed from Mo Zhui into Mo Xiang, who in turn exuded a cyan light.

This caused a stir among the others still engaged in the duel. Recognizing that the three brothers were about to risk it all, they rushed to join.

Shi Sheng was the first to arrive; he initially launched the Mother-Child Tri-element Demon-suppressing Needle, which Elder Kuzhu waved away with his hand, then pointed his bamboo staff through the air at Shi Sheng, the tip emitting a massive amount of silver light.

Shi Sheng, seeing the danger, quickly sacrificed the Detachment Bell, transforming it into a mass of five-colored smoke clouds that protected his body and blocked the silver light, but it could not withstand the overwhelming force that crashed over like a mountain.

He was sprayed with silver light and tossed eastward from Qianyuan Mountain, tumbling over hundreds of miles, until he slammed into the barrier formed by the Inverting Five Elements and the Moving Great Technique that Elder Kuzhu had set up in advance.

Because it inverted the Five Elements and disrupted Yin and Yang, even though he crashed towards the exact east, he reappeared from the southwest, and there was also a change in the vertical direction, plunging diagonally into the waters of Tianxin Lake below.

He desperately tried casting spells and controlling his sword to stabilize his posture, but still, he sank into the lakebed, drilling with sword in hand into a pile of five-colored sand.

On the other side, Deng Bagu also abandoned Qian Kang, summoning the Snow Soul Pearl to strike at Elder Kuzhu.

Elder Kuzhu, seeing the power of this Magical Treasure and also recognizing Deng Bagu's Effort was not weak, still used his bamboo staff as a prop, with a torrent of silver rain spouting out for over ten yards, engulfing the Snow Soul Pearl.

Deng Bagu, sparing no effort, forcefully stimulated the Snow Soul Pearl to burst forth with its cold brilliance, but its radiance was still gradually suppressed by Elder Kuzhu's deep and powerful mana, dimming quickly within a few breaths.

In her urgency, she materialize the Earth Penetrating Divine Needle next, only to have Elder Kuzhu catch it with his bare hand and take it away.

Deng Bagu was hugely terrified inside; she had once encountered Master You Tan from the Buddhist school and had thought him the strongest person she'd ever seen. But now this ragged beggar, in his composed demeanor, perhaps fell short compared to Master You Tan, yet his mana was even more formidable!

Desperate, she was about to bite her tongue and cast the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique she had cultivated within the Demon Cult in the past; only this move might deal a heavy blow to the opponent and delay until her master awoke.

At this moment, Qian Kang saw this scene and was very pleased: "With this senior taking action, even if you had a hundred lives, it wouldn't be enough to fight, you're just struggling in vain. If you recognize Heaven's will and immediately go down on your knees to beg for mercy and repent sincerely, I see that the senior doesn't like killing; perhaps you can still spare your lives..."

Deng Bagu, meanwhile, began casting spells in secret, internally grinding her teeth, thinking that once her limbs burst apart, she would grant him a left leg as a reward, surely shatter his body, and even corrode his Primordial Spirit, turning him into a demon that could never transcend rebirth!

Yuan Hua, who combined the expertise of both the righteous and evil paths, saw Deng Bagu's intention and hurriedly left Qian Kang's wife to fly over: "Auntie Deng, you cannot recklessly throw away your life!"

Deng Bagu, with her hands forming a spell, fingertips glowing red, her black robe billowing and making a whistling sound, replied: "What else can be done? Are we to just watch him go in and kill the master?"

Yuan Hua said, "We still have hope; the master has made preparations!"

Qian Kang was standing a hundred yards above them and heard everything clearly. Stroking his beard with a smile, he said, "What else can that Demon Dragon have up its sleeve? With this senior taking action, whatever plans he has will be in vain. You now have a chance to beg for mercy and survive; at worst, you'll be cast into reincarnation to be reborn. Otherwise, if you continue to fight, you'll have your souls scattered and your body and soul destroyed, and you won't even be able to die normally!"

Deng Bagu also said in despair, "There's nothing left; the note the master gave me only taught me to duel in magic with this scoundrel from the City of Endless Night, and after that, there's nothing else."

"I have more! Besides instructing me to swordfight with this scoundrel's wretched wife, the master also told me at the most critical moment to persuade you, to ensure at all costs you do not use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique."

Deng Bagu's eyes lit up: "Really? The master predicted in advance that I would use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique?"

Then she thought to herself, given her temperament, she would definitely fight with her life on the line at the last moment, and when grappling with life and death, she would naturally have to use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Technique—it was not so surprising that the master had foreseen this.

Breathing out several breaths of True Qi, she stimulated the Snow Soul Pearl to contend with Elder Kuzhu, and hope once again arose within her, hoping that Shi Feiyang truly had a contingency plan to subdue this old beggar.

But she also knew the difficulty of this, not to mention that her master was still unconscious; even if he was awake, by Deng Bagu's estimation, he would not be able to beat this old beggar; this person was simply too strong! In her entire life, only Master You Tan from the Buddhist school might be able to outmatch this man by a slight margin in her view.

While they were talking, four streams of colorful smoke suddenly sprang from the ground at the edge of the platform behind Elder Kuzhu: red, yellow, pink, purple, with petals of lotus, osmanthus, camellia, and orchid fluttering within. They revealed Varnagyin II, Kshana Sabu, Zhong Ang, and Wei Fengniang, the four Divine Demons, floating without taking action, strangely smiling towards Elder Kuzhu.

Elder Kuzhu was actively keeping the Snow Soul Pearl suppressed when he sensed the emergence of demons behind him. His heart was completely untroubled; he did not even have a hint of disdain, merely reaching back casually to grab, and the smoke pillars dispersed with the wind, with the four demons vanishing along with them.

Immediately after that, in his direct front, four more smoke pillars arose: white, blue, cyan, black, also with various colored petals dancing within, but without any demons. Elder Kuzhu reached out to grab it again, and once again, it dissipated.

Elder Kuzhu thought to himself that his opponent was truly at the end of their rope, as such low-level tricks could be broken with just a breath from him.

However, four more streams of smoke appeared to his left side, and each stream revealed a figure. Elder Kuzhu was about to casually annihilate them as he had done before, but upon seeing them, he was suddenly shocked!

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