I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

The moment the three Void Refining Beasts burst out of the water, the entire coastline of the island was submerged by the towering walls of water.

The sea surface was like a tabletop overturned by a tremendous force from below, with hundreds of millions of tons of seawater being pushed to both sides, forming three parallel waves hundreds of feet high. These waves, carrying broken reefs and the remains of low-level sea beasts that had not had time to retreat, crashed against the island's defensive walls like a tidal wave.

Shen Yun's figure stopped in mid-air. Facing the three enormous silhouettes that were rising, her deep purple dress fluttered in the sea breeze and the aftershocks of demonic power. The pressure of her newly advanced Void Refinement Realm was like an open umbrella, steadily protecting the shaky defensive array behind her in the shadows.

The beast at the forefront was entirely black, shaped like a giant, armored whale, with six dark red compound eyes on its head. Each blink of its eyes would create a visible black ripple in the air.

Its body resembled a hidden reef emerging from the water; the mere act of breaking through the surface caused the sea for dozens of miles to sag, forming a massive whirlpool. Following closely behind were two other monstrous beasts. One resembled a giant, armored crocodile, its body covered in thick, dark green scales, the edges of which gleamed with a chilling luster. The other was entirely silver-white, like a giant serpent sculpted from metal forged by moonlight, coiled on the crest of a wave, its three pairs of narrow, vertical pupils burning with eerie blue flames.

Shen Yun had only recently broken through to the Void Refinement stage. Although her spiritual power had undergone a qualitative change, her foundation was not yet completely stable. Facing the siege of three demonic beasts of the same level, the pressure was considerable.

Standing in the shadows at the cave entrance, Li Hanshan's Void Refinement level divine sense, like a drawn bowstring, captured every flow of demonic energy from the three demonic beasts. His gaze locked onto the armored giant whale closest to the island—it was the largest, possessed the most concentrated demonic energy, yet moved the slowest, requiring several breaths to gather power before unleashing each attack. The intervals between its energy gathering were nearly twice as long as the other two.

Shen Yun also noticed the flaw. Just before the three demonic beasts launched their attack simultaneously, she unleashed a silver-purple lightning bolt as thick as a water vat, precisely striking the vortex of demonic energy on the giant whale's head, which was not yet fully formed.

The moment the lightning pillar collided with the demonic power, it exploded into a blinding light. The giant whale let out a muffled roar, and its massive body slid backward dozens of feet in the shockwave. A deep trench was carved into the sea surface, and water sprayed out in all directions like ignited arrows.

But the attacks from the other two demonic beasts had already arrived. The giant crocodile's massive tail, covered in dark green scales, swung like a hammer, carrying enough force to shatter a small mountain as it slammed into her side. The silver serpent opened its enormous jaws from the other side, unleashing a beam of eerie blue demonic energy that shot straight at her face like an icicle compressed to its limit. The two attacks, one from the left and one from the right, sealed off all her escape routes.

Shen Yun did not retreat. She steadied herself in mid-air and launched a series of attacks. Bolts of lightning exploded horizontally, like a drawn silver curtain blocking the giant crocodile's tail strike and the silver snake's demonic energy pillar. The instant the lightning curtain collided with the two attacks, the air on the entire sea surface was blasted with a sharp, tearing sound. The shockwaves spread in all directions like invisible ripples, blasting away all the low-level sea beasts that were climbing the defensive array.

Li Hanshan frowned slightly as he watched the figure struggling to maintain her defense. With three Void Refinement demonic beasts attacking simultaneously, Shen Yun, even after breaking through to the Void Refinement stage, had already reached her limit.

The lightning barrier on her left hand was thinning at a visible rate. The recoil from the giant crocodile's tail strike required her to expend a large amount of spiritual energy to neutralize the brutal impact each time she took it head-on. Meanwhile, the silver snake's demonic energy beams continued to bombard the same point, and fine cracks had already appeared on the surface of the lightning barrier.

His divine sense locked onto the armored giant whale once again. After being hit by the first purple lightning talisman, the demonic beast was readjusting its posture, and its demonic energy vortex was rapidly condensing. It would be able to launch the next attack in at most three breaths.

But its attention was now focused entirely on Shen Yun's direction. There was a small hole on its back that had been pierced by lightning, and the flow of demonic power in that crack was noticeably slower than in other areas.

It's now!

Li Hanshan moved. His right hand reached into his storage ring, his fingertips touching the sixth-tier purple lightning talisman that Shen Yun had just infused with his Void Refining spiritual power. The talisman was slightly warm in his palm, and the lightning power at its core node was like a suppressed beast, waiting for his command to release it.

He stepped out of the cave edge, his figure soaring into the sky like a stretched shadow. As he approached the armored giant whale, he threw the sixth-tier purple lightning talisman in his hand toward the crack on its back that had been scorched by lightning.

At the same time, Li Hanshan unleashed the Divine Soul Sword once again!

As soon as the Divine Soul Sword was unleashed, the Void Refinement level giant whale paused, followed immediately by the arrival of the Purple Lightning Talisman.

The talisman shattered the moment it touched the edge of the crack. A silver-purple lightning bolt, like a red-hot iron rod, precisely pierced the crack, rapidly spreading along the demonic energy pathways within the giant whale. The whale let out a deafening roar, its six dark red compound eyes simultaneously lighting up and then extinguishing. Its massive body convulsed violently in mid-air for several breaths before crashing into the sea like a mountain whose foundation had been removed, sending up a thousand-foot-high column of water.

Shen Yun seized the opportunity. She suddenly withdrew the lightning curtain in her left hand, condensing all her spiritual power into a huge lightning blade, which she then struck at the giant whale.

The lightning blade was as fast as lightning, striking the giant whale almost instantly and delivering the final blow!

The silver snake raised its head amidst the waves, its three pairs of vertical pupils flickering with eerie blue flames, its gaze sweeping back and forth between Shen Yun and Li Hanshan several times.

It could sense that its companion's life force was rapidly dissipating. Although Shen Yun in front of it was already weak, what it feared, besides Shen Yun, was Li Hanshan!

At this moment, Li Hanshan's cold gaze fell upon it again. Although Li Hanshan's spiritual energy fluctuations were only at the Nascent Soul level, the silver snake involuntarily took a step back.

It exchanged a glance with the giant crocodile, and almost simultaneously chose to retreat.

The low-level sea beasts that were climbing the defensive walls scattered like a swarm of ants without a leader, and were swallowed up by the surging waves in the blink of an eye.

Shen Yun hovered in mid-air, and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this scene. She looked down at the remains of the giant whale on the sea surface, and only after confirming that its life force had been completely extinguished did she slowly descend back to the stone platform in the center of the island.

She staggered slightly upon landing, her spiritual energy consumption was indeed nearing its limit, but she quickly regained her balance, took out a pill from her sleeve and swallowed it, and her pale face regained a sliver of color.