Teng Qingshan immediately crouched down, ripping open the cyan robe of the corpse with a whoosh, taking out everything in the Green Lake Island Enforcement Elder's embrace. Teng Qingshan's gaze swept over, instantly grasping the small parcel wrapped in animal hide: "The Green Lake Island Xiantian experts must have been worried the water would ruin the map when they entered the lake bottom..."

It must be inside the animal hide wrapping.

Unwrapping the hide, there was a thick stack of paper inside, along with some silver notes.

"Whoosh!" The paper was fully unfurled.

"It really is the Labyrinth Map." Teng Qingshan's eyes lit up, and he immediately began to study it carefully. "This labyrinth is far more complicated than I imagined... Without the map, just wandering randomly. Who knows how many years it would take to find the way out! Really—no!" Teng Qingshan’s expression instantly turned grim!

"Damn it!"

Teng Qingshan spun around abruptly and rushed toward the exit, swiftly tucking the Labyrinth Map into his robes.

Reaching a fork in the path, Teng Qingshan immediately saw, more than thirty zhang away, a host of Xiantian Golden Core experts surrounding and slaughtering Yuwen Liufeng. Yuwen Liufeng’s robe was stained with blood; his hair was disheveled, and he looked utterly insane: "Hahahaha... You want to kill this old man? Then you can all come and die with me!"

Yuwen Liufeng, possessed by the conviction of certain death, also made those surrounding him proceed with caution. As a Xiantian Golden Core expert named on the Heavenly Ranking, although inferior to Gu Yong or Zhao Danchen, his strength was formidable. If pushed to fight desperately, he could certainly drag one or two Xiantian Golden Cores down with him as burial offerings.

"Brother Qin Lang! In the alleyway where you were, just now, there was that enormous crash. Did you kill a Green Lake Island elder?" Several Xiantian experts were currently in this alleyway, and many of them greeted Teng Qingshan.

"Sounds of fighting ahead!" Teng Qingshan ignored them, rapidly moving toward the next junction.

In an alleyway adjacent to the fork, three experts were surrounding and attacking an Enforcement Elder from Green Lake Island. That elder looked utterly battered, covered in numerous wounds, bleeding profusely. His right leg was severed, and he could only lean against the wall, fighting with the last of his strength.

"Stop struggling."

The three Xiantian experts preferred to waste more time rather than face a desperate, suicidal fight against the Green Lake Island elder.

"Hahahaha, Free Vagrant Palace, Snow Eagle Cult, you three sons of bitches, I won't let you have an easy death even if I die!" The elder with the broken leg roared, his long saber radiating a cold black light; every strike stirred up fierce gusts of wind, forming waves of air blades that hammered against the surrounding walls.

Alas, two fists cannot defeat four hands. Following a bizarre thrust, the Green Lake Island elder’s other leg was also hacked off!

Pfft!

With both legs severed, the elder collapsed onto the ground, but his eyes were red. Clutching the battle saber glowing with black light, he refused to cease his attacks.

"Stop!" Teng Qingshan charged into the alley with a mighty shout, flicking a flying dagger from his hand—

A cold gleam sliced through the air!

"Clang!" The flying dagger collided with the long sword of the Free Vagrant Palace expert, deflecting the strike.

The three besiegers immediately retreated, frowning in annoyance as they looked at the rushing Teng Qingshan. Among them, the purple-robed man from the Free Vagrant Palace frowned and barked, "Qin Lang, what are you doing! These Green Lake Island people are running around madly, risking their lives. It’s rare to catch one. And you save him?"

"Keep him alive," Teng Qingshan urged. "The Labyrinth Map doesn't point out where the treasure is!"

"What?"

The three were momentarily stunned.

"Qin Lang, what did you say?" The three looked puzzled.

"Hahahaha..." The Green Lake Island elder who had lost both legs heard this and couldn't help but laugh wildly. "Do you think by killing us, you can find the Emperor Yu's treasure? Hahahaha, dream on, dream on!"

Just then, a roar echoed from not far away.

"Die! All of you, die for me!!!" It was Yuwen Liufeng’s voice.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

Two consecutive screams rang out, so loud they even carried to the fork in the road. Teng Qingshan and the others turned to look, seeing a figure rapidly rushing toward their position.

"Yuwen Liufeng!"

Teng Qingshan's face changed drastically, and he immediately retreated at top speed. The three Xiantian experts from the Free Vagrant Palace and the Snow Eagle Cult had a limited field of vision. When Yuwen Liufeng first appeared at the fork, they hadn't seen him at all. By the time the distance narrowed to ten zhang, the three panicked.

"Run!" They dared not resist, turning tail to flee.

"Hahahaha, die then." His face contorted, hair a mess, body covered in blood, his left arm severed, a sword gash across his face, and one eye blinded—this was Yuwen Liufeng now!

Three strikes like lightning! Incredibly fast!

"Ah!" "Ah!" Consecutive screams followed, and with a pushi sound, Yuwen Liufeng also sustained a wound.

Two dead, one wounded! Yuwen Liufeng's sword was fast, but not so fast that he could easily kill three people simultaneously. Killing two was already his limit.

"Yuwen Liufeng!"

The three Xiantian Golden Core experts who had been pursuing also caught up, but Yuwen Liufeng paid them no mind. After slaying two Xiantian Core Formation experts, he continued to chase Teng Qingshan.

In his eyes—

The Qin Lang before him must die!

"Qin Lang?" Yuwen Liufeng’s single eye fixed on the fleeing Teng Qingshan. "Die!"

Teng Qingshan unleashed all his strength; every step caused the ground to tremble. Coupled with the 'Horizon Walk' technique, his speed was indeed astonishing. However, in this desperate state, the speed of the Xiantian Golden Core expert 'Yuwen Liufeng' was even more terrifying.

"Three Xiantian Golden Core experts surrounding and killing one Yuwen Liufeng, and he still got away?" Teng Qingshan fled frantically. "Too fast, his speed is too fast!" Fierce as he was, he was only a Xiantian Void Core expert; only by combining 'Horizon Walk' and his physical power could he match a Xiantian Core Formation expert, perhaps being slightly faster at best.

But compared to a Xiantian Golden Core expert, the gap was immense.

Three zhang, two zhang... the rate at which the distance closed made Teng Qingshan nearly hold his breath.

"No." Teng Qingshan flipped his hand and launched a flying dagger.

"Clang!" Yuwen Liufeng easily blocked it with his sharp sword, and the flying dagger instantly disintegrated into dust with a peng, not harming Yuwen Liufeng in the slightest.

"Qin Lang, go to hell." Yuwen Liufeng held deep resentment for this man named 'Qin Lang'. "If it weren't for him, how could so many people from my Green Lake Island have died!" His long sword stabbed out casually, ordinarily, as if piercing a piece of tofu, without a sound of rushing air.

A completely ordinary thrust!

Yet, this single strike made Teng Qingshan’s scalp tingle, feeling thorns prickling his back. The speed was so immense that Teng Qingshan didn't even have time to dodge!

"Aaaargh!!!" Teng Qingshan roared, and his body's bones instantly shrank by a size.

"Pushi!"

The sword strike, originally aimed at the vital heart area on Teng Qingshan’s back, ended up burying itself in his shoulder because Teng Qingshan had instantly shrunk, making his whole frame a size smaller.

The sharp sword swiftly pierced the Dark Iron Heavy Armor Teng Qingshan wore, then sank into his shoulder. Simultaneously, the Xiantian True Essence on the blade erupted.

"Peng!"

Teng Qingshan used the force of the impact to propel himself away, blood pouring from his shoulder.

"Hmm? How is his shoulder so hard?" A trace of shock and confusion appeared in Yuwen Liufeng's single eye... Conventionally, after piercing protective heavy armor, one should easily slice into the muscle beneath. But that strike into Teng Qingshan’s shoulder felt like piercing dark iron.

The erupting Xiantian True Essence only managed to slightly enlarge the wound—it hadn't achieved the effect of blowing half his body apart.

"A body comparable to Dark Iron?" Yuwen Liufeng couldn't believe it.

Suddenly—

An arrow flew from a distance, silently. By the time Yuwen Liufeng detected it, the arrow was already within ten zhang. He had no time to evade.

Instantly, the arrow pierced through Yuwen Liufeng's head. With a "Boom!", Yuwen Liufeng’s headless corpse crashed to the ground.

"Hoo." Only then did Teng Qingshan slump to the ground, exhausted.

"You three killed one Yuwen Liufeng, yet you let him run all the way here?" Several figures emerged from the alley ahead of Teng Qingshan—they were the Xiantian Golden Core experts who had gone to chase the fleeing Elder Hu. Leading them was the stout man with four braids, holding a divine bow.

"Stop complaining. Just now, Elder Shi from the Free Vagrant Palace was almost dragged down to die with Yuwen Liufeng," Ying Haojiang sighed.

"Yuwen Liufeng’s swordsmanship is indeed formidable. If we had really fought him to the death, at least one of us three would have died," the refined, purple-robed man from the Free Vagrant Palace said, his chest stained red. "It’s good now; it's only a light injury."

"How many of us died?"

"We lost four Xiantian Core Formation experts—one from Snow Eagle Cult, one from Free Vagrant Palace, one from my Ying Clan, and one from Hongtian City. All killed by Yuwen Liufeng!" Ying Haojiang sighed, then glanced at Teng Qingshan. "Brother Qin Lang, are you alright?"

Teng Qingshan sat on the ground, leaning against the wall. "I'm fine. Fortunately, that arrow came quickly and killed Yuwen Liufeng." Even now, Teng Qingshan felt lingering terror.

The tiers of Xiantian Golden Core, Xiantian Core Formation, and Xiantian Void Core—the gap between them was truly vast!

"Yuwen Liufeng’s swordsmanship is just like Master's; it causes no air resistance. This makes his sword speed roughly double that of a Xiantian Core Formation expert! Heavens, a full double, there was simply no time to defend," Teng Qingshan said with a wry smile. Facing that strike, he had no way to block it.

A sword fast to the extreme generates astonishing air resistance. Eliminating that resistance allows the sword to accelerate significantly. Coupled with the inherently stronger Xiantian True Essence of a Golden Core expert, this swordsmanship was nearly twice as fast.

A difference of one hundred percent!

No time to block!

No time to move the body, he could only instantly shrink his bones, causing his physical frame to shrink by a size, which alone saved his life.

"To kill a Xiantian Golden Core! If a Xiantian Core Formation expert were to act, only group attacks would work. Given his sword speed, if five or six Xiantian Core Formation experts surrounded him simultaneously, there would still be a chance of success," Teng Qingshan understood that in a one-on-one fight, a Xiantian Core Formation expert facing a Xiantian Golden Core expert was surely doomed!

"The Labyrinth Map? Hurry up and take it out!" Ying Haojiang’s commanding voice sounded. A large crowd of Xiantian experts had already gathered in the alley.