What do you mean by saying that the corpses I sew are all ominous creatures?

Just as I was locked in a tug-of-war with this top assassin, I caught a glimpse of the golden light curtain surrounding Lu Yan and the others, which suddenly began to shake violently.

My heart sank.

With the appearance of this man in gray, the Shadow Sect's assassination plot finally came to a complete close.

Those high-level corpse demons and evil spirits who were originally just wandering around the periphery and consuming the Golden Light Spell seemed to have received some kind of command and suddenly went berserk.

They rushed towards the light curtain with all their might, using their claws, teeth, and even their bodies to ram into the crumbling golden light.

What made me frown even more was that behind those evil spirits, amidst the swirling black mist, five or six figures dressed in black night clothes emerged.

Although these people were not as terrifying as the six who ambushed and killed me at the alley entrance, each of them exuded a refined internal energy fluctuation.

They are clearly also elites within the Shadow Sect.

Unlike the Corpse Fiend, they did not attack blindly, but were instead well-trained and dispersed around the light barrier.

Each of them held a black banner inscribed with strange runes.

"rise!"

One of them gave a low shout, and all six of them simultaneously plunged the battle flags in their hands into the puddles on the ground.

In an instant, the surrounding black mist seemed to boil, frantically converging towards the six array flags.

An extremely insidious array power, flowing along the earth's veins, directly bombarded the golden light barrier.

"Click—"

A crisp cracking sound was particularly jarring in the rainy night.

The golden light curtain, which was already somewhat dim due to the depletion of its source, suddenly developed a huge crack on its surface.

At the center of the light screen, Lu Yan, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Her already pale face instantly turned completely bloodless.

Her body trembled slightly, but there was no sign of retreat in her clear, cold eyes.

He still held the Zhengyi Dharma Seal firmly in his hand, desperately squeezing out the little spiritual power left in his body to repair the crack.

Fang He and Qian Ji let out a muffled groan, clearly on the verge of exhaustion.

"Chen Yang...don't worry about us...let's go!"

Lu Yan gritted her teeth, her voice weak but resolute.

She knew that if she continued to be held back here by that gray-robed man, they would be torn to shreds by the Hundred Ghosts and the Shadow Sect elites once the formation was broken.

At that time, I will be besieged by everyone.

"Don't give up, hang in there!"

I spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, my tone remaining calm.

The opponent's "luring the enemy into the trap" strategy was not only to trap Lu Yan and the others with the formation, but also to lure me, the variable, into the trap.

Then, using this meat grinder-like situation, they wiped us all out.

The gray-robed man's task is now clear: he doesn't need to kill me immediately, he just needs to use his superior cultivation level and agility to keep me entangled.

Once Lu Yan's formation is broken, he can use the formation and his elite troops to annihilate me here.

However, I am not entirely without a backup plan.

The key to breaking the deadlock or even launching a counterattack now depends entirely on whether Li Qing can arrive in time.

However, given the current situation, I can't continue to be passive and place all my hopes on Li Qing.

"Buzz—"

I took a deep breath, and the malevolent energy within my body began to surge through my meridians at an unprecedented speed.

The cool aura between my brows flickered wildly, and my immense spiritual power spread out like a tide, instantly covering a radius of thirty meters around me.

"Controlling Qi".

I silently recited it in my heart.

On the surface, I still held the scalpel in both hands, striking a pose as if I were ready to fight the man in gray to the death.

But in reality, the black bone needle had already silently slid down my trouser leg and disappeared into the murky water at my feet.

Under the control of my Qi, the bone needle seemed to be an extension of my body, quietly lurking in the stagnant water.

It did not emit even the slightest bit of malevolent energy.

The man in gray was clearly unaware of the deadly threat beneath his feet.

He looked at the surge of murderous aura emanating from me, and his gaze beneath the mask seemed to grow more serious.

He slowly raised the black soft sword in his hand, the tip pointing directly at my brow.

Within a three-foot radius of his body, the surrounding raindrops were instantly shredded into finer water droplets than mist by an invisible sword aura.

A suffocating sense of impending death gripped my very being.

He's getting serious now.

Faced with the imminent moment of closing the net, he clearly did not want any unexpected complications.

"bring it on."

I murmured something and suddenly clenched my left arm.

The dark jade-colored lightning and fire energy was compressed wildly on the blade, making a series of crackling sounds.

"Whoosh!"

The figure in the gray shirt disappeared again.

This time, his speed was incredibly fast.

I didn't even see an afterimage; I only felt a chilling, bone-piercing sword aura pressed against my throat.

too fast!

If it were me before I became Sha Dan, I would have been beheaded long ago.

But in that critical moment, I neither blocked nor retreated.

I suddenly turned my head, deliberately facing the sword light with my neck.

At the same time, the willow-leaf blade in his hand, with an indomitable spirit, slashed fiercely at the void in front of him.

"Pfft!"

The black, soft sword narrowly grazed my carotid artery, drawing a long trail of blood.

If I had been even 0.1 seconds slower, his throat would have been severed by now.

My seemingly suicidal strike forced the gray-robed man to reveal himself.

He twisted his body in an extremely bizarre posture, narrowly avoiding my powerful strike.

Just as his old strength was exhausted and new strength had not yet been generated, his body experienced that extremely brief moment of stillness in mid-air.

A sudden burst of light shot out from my eyes.

"Now!"

The black bone needles lurking in the stagnant water, driven by mental power, instantly transformed into a black lightning bolt and burst out of the water!

There was no sound, no trajectory, only pure speed and penetrating power.

The gray-robed man's intuition, as a top expert, finally saved his life at this moment.

Just as the bone needle was about to pierce his heart, he used his powerful cultivation at the Dan realm to forcefully shift his body half an inch to the side.

"puff!"

The black bone needle, carrying its violent destructive force, pierced directly through his right scapula, spraying a gruesome burst of blood.

"Well!"

The man in gray let out a muffled groan, almost dropping the soft sword from his hand.

He clearly hadn't expected that I would be able to concentrate on controlling such an extremely concealed weapon during such intense close combat.

Having landed a decisive blow, I gave him no chance to catch his breath.

"Shaking Mountains!"

I roared and lunged forward, the willow-leaf knife in my hand transforming into a dark red bolt of lightning, slashing down hard at his injured right shoulder.

Despite the excruciating pain, the man in gray slammed his left hand against the water's surface, using the force to propel himself backward.

At the same time, the soft sword in his hand transformed into countless sword shadows, attempting to block my pursuit.

"Jingle bells!"

The dense clanging of metal echoed through the rainy night.