Don't try to cultivate immortality; mortals live longer than immortals.

The thought crossed Pei Yan's mind, and he made his move.

He continued firing his psionic pulse gun, sending two more pale blue psionic beams flying toward his opponent.

At the same time, he gave a soft shout: "Rise!"

Before he finished speaking, the immortal sword in his left hand was enveloped in a ball of spiritual light, and it followed the spiritual energy bullet with lightning speed, stabbing towards the enemy.

This wasn't the end. Pei Yan probed his tactical backpack with his divine sense, took out the psionic exoskeleton, and put it on himself in the blink of an eye.

ERG Psionic Exoskeleton, universal version, suitable for cultivators in the Qi Refining stage.

Although this is a cheap model, it still has many functions. It not only has an anti-gravity system that can greatly improve a cultivator's carrying capacity and movement speed, but also comes with a spiritual energy shield, laser sword and other melee weapons.

After getting dressed, Pei Yan didn't hesitate and charged fiercely at his powerful enemy.

The opponent is at the ninth level of Qi Refining, two minor realms apart. With conventional tactics, it would be difficult to gain an advantage. So, I decided to think in reverse, get close to the opponent, and choose close combat.

Although this fighting method was not Pei Yan's forte, he believed that with the support of the psionic exoskeleton, he could gain the upper hand.

Bang!

A muffled thud reached my ears.

The green-robed cultivator summoned a shield, which quickly grew larger and was placed in front of him. Both the psionic pulse blasts and his own flying sword were blocked by this defensive magic weapon.

"hateful!"

Pei Yan's face was grim. He had underestimated the cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining; the opponent was far more troublesome than he had imagined.

However, he remained calm.

I am not a cultivator from the Azure Sky Realm. The Immortal Alliance has ample logistical support, so I have a way to deal with this situation.

Pei Yan reached into his robes and took out a hand grenade.

The ARP psionic tactical grenade employs a dual-drive mode of psionic energy and high explosives. Even a cultivator at the peak of Qi Refining would absolutely not be able to withstand the power of its direct explosion.

Pei Yan channeled his spiritual power, instantly completing the identity verification, then released the safety of the grenade and hurled it fiercely at the other party.

However, at that moment, a sudden change occurred.

"Combat power 80 points, 90, 100, 120... No, impossible..."

In that instant, the nano-spiritual energy detector sounded a sharp alarm, and the opponent's combat power, as displayed, began to surge in an extremely exaggerated manner.

It rose a full 40 points from 80 to 120.

This is almost at the combat power limit of 125 points at the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Pei Yan's face turned deathly pale, realizing that he had kicked a hornet's nest this time.

The opponent was playing dumb; he had just used some kind of magical concealment technique to deceive his detector. In reality, the opponent's combat strength far exceeded his original expectations.

How can this be good?

Pei Yan recalled what his teacher had said in class: every 5 to 10 points increase in combat power is actually a leap in strength.

While there isn't a significant difference in essence, defeating cultivators with combat power 5 to 10 points lower than oneself is absolutely no problem.

Now, the opponent's combat power is as high as 120 points, while I am not even half of his.

This is not as simple as doubling; it's an exponential difference.

If he were only 30 points behind, he could have hoped to make up for it with a sneak attack and better equipment. But now, that naive idea has been completely forgotten.

There is no suspense.

The two sides differ in combat power by 70 points. Given that their base stats are not high to begin with, this is a huge gap. It would be no more difficult for the opponent to fight than for an adult to fight a three-year-old child.

Pei Yan was filled with regret.

I shouldn't have tried to sneak up on them; I was too greedy!

But it was too late to say anything now, so he could only suppress his fear and throw the psionic grenade, which he had already released the pin on, at the other party.

Now, he no longer hoped to reap the rewards; he only hoped that the immense power of the psionic grenade explosion would slow down this terrifying enemy, so that he might still have a sliver of hope to escape.

So, as he released the grenade, he issued commands to the exoskeleton he was wearing through a neuronal patch attached to his brain.

Anti-gravity system activated!

Pei Yan felt his body lighten, and then the rocket thrusters on his back spewed out pale blue flames. He was originally rushing forward, but suddenly stopped and then retreated rapidly at an even faster speed under the combined effect of the rocket thrusters and the anti-gravity system.

"Heh, extraterrestrial demons!"

A hint of mockery appeared on Chen Zhuofei's face.

As one of the five prodigies from the Burning Heaven Palace participating in the Blood Trial, although he has not yet reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, his strength is by no means inferior to any other being.

Because of his special status, he, like Yu Jinfeng of the Lingyun Sect, had heard the legends of the extraterrestrial demons.

The Immortal Alliance of Shuiyun Star offered extremely generous rewards for this mission, with contribution points as the settlement method.

After suffering several setbacks, how could the Azure Sky Cultivation World possibly be completely unprepared?

On the contrary, their bounty is arguably even more generous.

This time, in particular, all that is needed is to kill two extraterrestrial demons to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Although, given Chen Zhuofei's status, it wouldn't be difficult for him to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills through other channels.

But no one would ever complain about having too much of this item. Even if you don't need it yourself, as a form of hard currency, you can easily exchange it for other resources you want.

The Heavenly Demon does indeed have many tricks up its sleeve, but this one in front of us seems quite weak!

Chen Zhuofei certainly wouldn't let him go.

Although he didn't know what the grenade thrown by the other party was, his intuition warned him of danger. Chen Zhuofei didn't dare to be careless. His whole body glowed with a blue light, and he activated his movement technique to the fullest, dodging to the side.

A deafening roar rang in his ears as the grenade exploded more than ten meters away. A small mushroom cloud rose into the air, and everything within a radius of several meters was reduced to dust, leaving a large crater on the ground.

Even the aftershocks of the explosion caused ripples to spread across his protective shield, startling Chen Zhuofei.

"What kind of demonic artifact is this? An extraterrestrial demon, it is indeed much more terrifying than I imagined."

He took a breath, but showed no intention of retreating. Instead, his eyes became even sharper, and he activated his escape technique at full speed, chasing after Pei Yan in the direction he had fled.

……

Ten minutes later, Chen Zhuofei successfully took the enemy's head, but his face showed little joy, instead appearing extremely solemn.

In the battle just now, he clearly felt that his opponent was much weaker than him, only at the seventh level of Qi Refining. However, the opponent used strange methods and treasures one after another, which dragged the battle on for so long.

This surprised Chen Zhuofei greatly. He knew that he could almost instantly kill his junior brothers and sisters who were at the seventh level of Qi Refining in his sect, but they had lasted for almost the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

In the final moments, although he managed to take the other man's head, he himself was still slightly injured.