Twenty meters! "Kill!" With a fierce roar escaping his lips, Nie Kong abruptly unleashed the "Crimson Star War Body." His towering figure, tens of meters high, leaped from the back of the Spectral Eagle King, plummeting toward the ground like a mountain.

Blazing golden light shot forth from his body at a speed the naked eye could barely track, bombarding the hundred-meter expanse of beach in successive waves. In an instant, an aura of terrifying intensity permeated the entire expanse of heaven and earth.

Five-fold Overlapping Seal! "Boom!" As if the heavens were collapsing, amid a violent explosion, the beach rapidly subsided.

A colossal surge of power, like a Category Twelve hurricane, billowed outward with the scattering golden brilliance. At nearly the same moment, beneath that blinding golden radiance, four fierce auras rose like columns of smoke.

"Swish! Swish!" Two figures were the first to pierce the golden light and emerge—they were two gaunt old men, their faces ashen, with streaks of blood trickling from the corners of their lips, looking utterly wretched.

When the five-layered "War God Star Seal" detonated, these two Heavenly Spirit masters of the Serpent Spirit Clan were at the epicenter, taking the brunt of the impact and suffering the worst damage. "Oh!" "Swish!" Less than a second later, two more figures scrambled out from the left and right sides.

"Die!" Nie Kong, having just landed, roared and swept toward the two old men in the center like a gale. Simultaneously, the Spectral Eagle King lunged toward the Serpent Spirit expert on the left, while Qing Yue instantly transformed into her true form, her leaves sweeping toward the opponent on the right in a devastating torrent.

Seeing this, the two Serpent Spirit elders unhesitatingly turned to meet Nie Kong. Having their scheme against others fail and instead being schemed against themselves, their fury reached its zenith.

With bone-chilling snorts, their bodies instantly morphed into two black giant serpents, each tens of meters long. "Hoo!

Hoo!" Their long tails lashed out, tearing the void, and in an instant, they swept toward Nie Kong’s waist from both sides. "Brother, leave the left one to me!" A streak of red flashed across the void, and Tai Yan’s exquisitely curved figure instantly materialized to Nie Kong’s left.

Seeing this, a flicker of astonishment crossed the icy eyes of the opposing Serpent Spirit expert, but his movements did not pause in the slightest. In the next moment, his thick, long tail whipped toward Tian Yan’s slender willow waist.

"Snap!" A sharp crack echoed. The expected scene—the beautiful woman’s slender waist snapping in two—did not materialize.

Just as surprise registered in the Serpent Spirit expert’s eyes, he saw a mass of blood-red energy erupt from the woman’s body like a bursting flood, instantly enveloping his serpent tail. "Ah!" Following a moment of stunned hesitation, a shriek erupted from the Serpent Spirit expert’s throat, much like a cat whose tail had been stepped upon.

His massive body writhed violently in the void, successfully jerking his tail free. However, by this time, Tai Yan’s delicate form had completely dissolved into a blood-red mist, clinging to his tail and being yanked back with it, rapidly spreading from the tail toward the belly at an incredibly terrifying speed.

With Tai Yan engaging one Serpent Spirit expert, Nie Kong had no further reservations. "Whoosh!" Before the giant black snake tail, morphed from the old man, could close the distance, the core manifestation of the "Purple Luo Illusory Spirit Incense" shot out from Nie Kong’s brow.

In an instant, a tangle of stems and leaves crisscrossed the space, forming dense layers to his right side. A moment later, the snake tail slammed into the wall of vines.

"Boom!" An explosion rang out. The snake tail was repelled, and the thick purple vine wall dissipated into smoke.

But precisely at that moment, Nie Kong’s sturdy physique ghosted to the edge of the giant serpent’s head. As his foot stepped out into the void, his massive fist smashed down ferociously.

"I die!" The black snake spat two icy syllables. It whipped its head sideways, opened its maw, and an overwhelmingly potent suction force surged forth from its cavernous mouth, seemingly attempting to devour the entire void spanning several meters.

Nie Kong scoffed internally at the sight, meeting the suction force head-on with his fist, driving it directly into the giant serpent's mouth without evasion. "Crack!" The serpent’s razor-sharp, cone-like fangs clamped down viciously, but upon contacting Nie Kong’s skin, it felt as if it had bitten down on hard Dragon Stone.

Its jaw went numb, and its fangs shattered. Before this Serpent Spirit expert could even process the sensation of pain, Nie Kong’s vast and pure spirit essence exploded forth from his rounded fist.

"Shriek!" The giant snake cried out, frantically trying to open its mouth, but its massive body was already flung dozens of meters away by the explosive force. With a heavy thud as it slammed onto the ground, the serpent form instantly dissolved, revealing the gaunt old man, who was now bleeding from all seven orifices, his expression contorted with ferocity.

By this time, the battles on both flanks had escalated into a fever pitch. The Serpent Spirit expert entangled with the Spectral Eagle King had first been injured by the residual effects of the "War God Star Seal." When he rushed out of the blast radius of the "Five-fold Overlapping Seal," he was caught in a sneak attack.

Caught entirely off guard, his body was lacerated by the eagle’s sharp talons, leaving him nearly torn in half. One misstep spells total defeat.

As a peak Ninth-Grade spirit beast, the Spectral Eagle King’s inherent strength already surpassed his, and now, the disparity was even more pronounced. The expert was forced into continuous evasive maneuvers, teetering on the brink of collapse.

On the right, the Serpent Spirit expert grappling with Qing Yue was the weakest among the four. He had also been wounded by the "War God Star Seal" before being ambushed by Qing Yue.

However, his soul cultivation was superior to Qing Yue’s, so despite the little sprite’s illusions, he was not utterly defeated; yet, pushing Qing Yue back and gaining breathing room was currently impossible. Qing Yue and he were evenly matched.

"Ah..." Suddenly, a heart-rending scream echoed through the heavens and earth. The despair and terror embedded in that sound made the hearts of the three remaining Serpent Spirit experts tremble violently.

Almost instinctively, the three glanced toward the source of the sound. In an instant, they saw that their companion, the strongest among the four, had broken free from his heart manifestation state.

His desiccated body was tightly bound by a mass of blood-red energy, with only his pointed head struggling desperately. "How can this be?" Such a bizarre spectacle struck the three Serpent Spirit experts with crippling fear.

The Spectral Eagle King’s eyes swiveled, and he let out a mocking cackle, "Old fellow, you didn't know, did you? That’s my big brother’s sworn little sister.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, she is also a... Spirit God!" "Spirit God?" The opposing Serpent Spirit expert’s spirit was profoundly shaken.

Indeed, if she weren't a Spirit God, who could hold the Third Elder, who possessed the strength of Heavenly Spirit Ninth Grade, completely without resistance? For a moment, the Serpent Spirit expert was struck by absolute dread, all will to fight draining away, wishing only to escape this place immediately.

However, before he could act on his impulse, the Spectral Eagle King seized the moment of distraction, diving down from the sky with talons imbued with crushing momentum. "Whoosh!" His heart leaped into his throat.

He leaped into the void, attempting to flee into the distance. But when he reappeared a hundred meters away, his body shuddered violently.

He lowered his head in disbelief, seeing three long eagle feathers piercing his back in a triangular formation, protruding through his chest, with blood ceaselessly dripping from the base of the feathers. "Am I...

dying?" As this thought flickered through his mind, the image of the three eagle feathers detonating rapidly expanded within his pupils...

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