Red Flower Grandmother, realizing her enemy had appeared before her so swiftly, felt surges of fear in her heart, but still sought to utilize the geographical advantage to make a final stand, hoping to hold out until the arrival of a savior or for the disciples of Xuanyuan Dharma King and Yin Yang Elder to join the fray after three days.

She expelled True Qi continuously, closing the Array's entrance and causing smoke to surge within the cave, sealing it off heavily. Her voice emanated from the colorful smoke, "Who are you? What grudge do you have against me that compels you to press me so desperately?"

Shi Feiyang smiled and said, "Earlier, I had already disrupted Yin and Yang, creating chaos in your calculations, preventing you from discerning my foundation. Now that I have rectified Yin and Yang, calculate again and you will understand."

Red Flower Grandmother hastily recalculated within the Array, and this time she indeed deduced, "You are actually that Evil Dragon from days past, whose Dao foundation was ruined by Zhuge Jingwo, and who was pursued relentlessly by the Treasure Light!"

Shi Feiyang shouted, "Even at death's door, you still dare to wound with your words! Your doom is deserved—prepare to die!"

He extended his hand and shot out five streams of black Light Energy from his fingertips, the Gui Water Essence Qi, which rapidly extended towards the inside of the Array, blocked by the continuously surging colorful smoke.

Red Flower Grandmother, casting from within, utilized the smoke and twisted space to form the Array's entrance, which was struck by the five blasts of black Qi, twisting and distorting it.

Shi Feiyang was not in the mood to tangle with her here and directly summoned Suiren's Drill.

The Array's entrance transformed extremely, mixing illusion with reality. If he were to strike directly with Suiren's Drill, it would meet the illusion and miss, thus failing to have any effect.

First, Shi Feiyang used five streams of Essence Qi, which could also transform between illusion and reality, to force open the Array's entrance, making it unable to retreat into illusion. Then he struck with Suiren's Drill, immediately shattering the gateway, turning it into a burst of Five-Colored Flames, with many twisted spaces inside directly blown apart, emitting a sharp and violent burst of sound.

Shi Feiyang flew into the cave, his hands emitting Five Elements Essence Qi continuously transforming and firing, repeatedly forcing out Array's entrances, then blasting them with Suiren's Drill, quickly breaking the Array into complete disarray.

Red Flower Grandmother angrily summoned her Mountain Treasure, the Three Talents Fire Cloud Ring.

Three Golden Rings flew up, entangling Suiren's Drill, continuously bursting into flames, intending to melt Suiren's Drill while also releasing the Bing Spirit Shuttle.

After many years, her Bing Spirit Shuttle had been refined to eighty-one in number.

For Red Flower Grandmother, the last one who had given her such a powerful sense of oppression was Master Changmei, who easily resolved her full array of techniques, leaving her feeling like she was suffocating deep in the ocean!

Thus, she did not hold back at all and released all the Bing Spirit Shuttles at once.

Shi Feiyang, seeing a mass of golden shuttle-shaped lights shooting straight towards him, did not dare to take it lightly. He opened the Circulation Hunyuan Umbrella, with a cloud appearing on top of the treasure umbrella. The Bing Spirit Shuttles that struck it immediately sank in, and those few that penetrated the cloud and hit the surface of the umbrella were also immediately repelled.

Shi Feiyang rotated the treasure umbrella, with the Circulation Divine Talismans on it blinking and shining, forming a golden light tube that enveloped all the Bing Spirit Shuttles inside. He then spat out the Chaos Dragon Ball, with galaxies swirling inside and colorful lights winding around it, generating infinite suction immediately capturing all eighty-one Bing Spirit Shuttles, drawing them towards the Dragon Ball.

Seeing this, Red Flower Grandmother cried out in alarm, hastily performed hand seals to retrieve her treasures, and expelled True Qi, pulling back and forth. Suddenly, seeing Shi Feiyang wave his hand and throw over five tiny Thunder Beads, recognizing them as the Small Five Elements Thunder Beads of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, she no longer had time to consider anything else and hurriedly released a Protective Dharma Treasure.

The five Thunder Beads suddenly contracted, gathering together, followed by a thunderous explosion, utilizing the magic of mutual creation, gold generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates gold, each enhancing the others' power. This explosion was equivalent to at least twenty-five Thunder Beads exploding simultaneously.

"Boom!" A loud noise shook the ground and mountains. Red Flower Grandmother was slammed harshly against the rocks at the back; the Light Energy of her Protective Dharma Treasure dimmed significantly, nearly destroyed.

Shi Feiyang took advantage of her destabilized Primordial Spirit and scattered True Qi, capturing all eighty-one Bing Spirit Shuttles with the Five-Colored Mirage Qi of his Dragon Ball, pulling them into his hand.

Red Flower Grandmother felt dread, knowing that continuing the fight would lead to certain death. She bit her tongue, spewing out a mouthful of Essence Blood, then pushed forward with both hands forming seals, unleashing a massive amount of flames. Like a tide, the flames furiously surged forth, containing numerous foot-long needles shooting directly at Shi Feiyang. She then retrieved the Fire Cloud Ring and turned to run down an adjacent tunnel.

Shi Feiyang, holding the umbrella in his left hand, blocked all the fiery needles with a spin of the umbrella, while his right hand stretched out, with blue, red, yellow, white, and black rays of light gathering together, forming a large colored light hand that swiftly reached down the tunnel.

Red Flower Grandmother saw herself about to be caught by the large colored light hand and hurriedly turned to cast spells to defend. Suiren's Drill was fired again, and she released the Three Talents Fire Cloud Ring along with her Protective Dharma Treasure.

Shi Feiyang then unleashed another treasure, which was the Five Ding God Axe taken from the Yuanjiang Golden Ship.

When this treasure was released, it was a crescent-shaped golden light that spun around, seeming to move slowly but actually striking with extreme speed, reaching Red Flower Grandmother's head in a blink of an eye, chopping down. The Fire Cloud Ring's light dimmed, and with another chop, Red Flower Grandmother's other Protective Dharma Treasure split in two.

Without giving Red Flower Grandmother any chance to react, Suiren's Drill broke free from the confines of the Fire Cloud Ring, seizing the opportunity to drill in, instantly blasting Red Flower Grandmother into a burst of Five-Colored Flames!

Red Flower Grandmother let out a tragic scream; her body and Primordial Spirit were entirely shattered, yet her Nascent Soul, having nearly reached the state of Pure Yang, still gathered her remaining soul to form a small figure, a foot tall, that swiftly flew towards the depths of the cave.

Entities like the Primordial Spirit Soul or the Lifebound Divine Demon, unburdened by a physical body and nearly intangible, could fly far faster than tangible beings, covering thousands of miles almost instantly with a mere thought, making them extremely difficult to catch.

Shi Feiyang collected her Magical Treasure and her Fire Cloud Ring and continued the pursuit from behind.

Red Flower Grandmother, in an attempt to avoid this disaster, had made the underground labyrinthine, with tunnels everywhere, forming a vast three-dimensional underground maze.

But Shi Feiyang sealed the underground with the Taiyin Earth Net, preventing her from further descending with the help of the earth's veins, leaving her with no choice but to flee erratically sideways.

Relentless in his pursuit, Shi Feiyang was not merely chasing blindly; he strategically set up Prohibition Techniques at every turn to block the paths, steadily reducing the area where Red Flower Grandmother could escape.

Red Flower Grandmother was eventually forced to flee up from underground towards Fuxian Pond.

Her cave dwelling was still a distance from Fuxian Pond, where the infamous Black Wind Grass grew at the bottom. She had set up numerous prohibitive blocks in the pond long ago.

Back then, Master Changmei, disliking her monopolization of heavenly and earthly treasures, criticized her actions and destroyed all her arrays and prohibitions.

Red Flower Grandmother, not admitting defeat, dueled with Master Changmei but ended up destroying several Magical Treasures and Flying Swords—it was a complete defeat. In the end, all she could do was stubbornly argue that heavenly and earthly treasures should not be easily accessible, lest they be wasted and eventually extinct.

Master Changmei agreed.

Red Flower Grandmother then declared that one must meet three conditions to take treasures from the pond: one needed a pair of children with profound wisdom from three lifetimes, possessing innate talents and the Wisdom Eye to see through the mists below, and additionally, possess formidable swordsmanship to kill the Divine Crocodile at the bottom of the pond. Only with her approval could one retrieve the Immortal Herbs.

Master Changmei simply laughed and agreed, predicting that seventy years later, his own household would have such a figure; he told her to anticipate his disciple's arrival in the future and not to set additional conditions to hinder them.

In reality, Master Changmei was essentially using her to guard the Black Wind Grass for him and to test his own disciples.

The Fuxian Pond was enveloped in a toxic mist, and she had further sealed it with spells, making it even more perilous. There were caves connecting the bottom of the pond to her dwelling—she hadn't planned on going there yet, as this crisis had erupted only halfway through the three days and nights, but her physical body was destroyed, and she had no other choice but to enter the pond prematurely.

Red Flower Grandmother darted straight to the bottom of Fuxian Pond through the passageway; the area was half marsh, half pond water. The marsh was covered with large poisonous rocks stable enough to stand on but allowing poisonous gases to ascend from beneath, attacking the heart.

The pond was home to a group of huge crocodiles, over ten meters long, clad in black armor and spewing toxic smoke and fierce fire; any intruder would be attacked.

Amidst the mud and water, dense toxic mists constantly steamed up, lethal to any ordinary creature that inhaled it.

This was the usual state of Fuxian Pond, but after Red Flower Grandmother arrived, she discovered everything had dramatically changed.

Firstly, all the poisonous mist had disappeared, the visibility in the pond was extremely high, and even the Five-Colored Smoke Cloud Illusion Formation she had set above was broken; sunlight shone brightly and clearly down, making every plant and tree visible.

Secondly, all the Divine Crocodiles had been killed, most chopped in half, scattered messily across the marshland, not a single one alive.

A young man in red stood tall on the largest Poison Stone, completely unaffected by the toxic gases—it was Zhu Changyuan.

Shi Feiyang had anticipated that she would try to escape through Fuxian Pond when cornered; thus, he had Zhu Changyuan come in advance to guard the area. Zhu Changyuan had broken the Illusion Formation above, descended, killed the crocodiles, sent the poisonous mist up to the clear blue sky with a burst of Gang Wind to disperse it, and then waited here.

Seeing Red Flower Grandmother appear, Zhu Changyuan immediately released two Pure Yang Immortal Swords shooting towards her.

Red Flower Grandmother let out a mournful roar and cast a spell to stir the lake water, causing the marsh to boil, bubbling up numerous small bubbles—all condensed from the Earth Evil Poison Smoke into Water Bombs, mixed with gray poison mist rising from the water, engulfing Zhu Changyuan.

Zhu Changyuan, seeing this, beat his wings and flew upwards in a reverse motion to the middle of the pond's well, from where he released three hundred and sixty Xuanyu Flying Arrows from above his wings.

Streams of dark light carrying plenty of Star Fire shot directly into the poison mist and atop the Water Bombs, immediately triggering violent explosions. The sounds crackled and popped densely like bursting beans, nearly piercing one's eardrums, with sparks flying in all directions and poison gas venting, generating a great amount of water mist.

Red Flower Grandmother continuously cast spells, causing the Water Bomb poison mist to regenerate and rise, while Zhu Changyuan attacked with flapping wings, pressing downwards. The accumulating explosive energy, with no way to vent, only spread sideways, blasting the dark cliff walls on all sides into crumbling chunks, nearly doubling the width of the pond's waist with the rock bodies collapsing massively during the brief moment of deadlock between the two.

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