Chapter 691

Chapter 691: On the Brink of Life and Death

Boom! Rumble! Roar!

The heavens and earth shook, filled with the shadows of intense combat.

In this vast void, dark masses of figures surged from all directions, closing in on Ye Chen at the center.

Seeing the overwhelming enemy forces approaching from every side, even Ye Chen's face turned grim.

He had anticipated this encirclement, but what he hadn't expected was that Yin Zhi Ping's strength far exceeded his predictions. Even in victory, it had been a pyrrhic one, leaving him severely wounded multiple times. Now, he struggled even to gather spiritual energy, let alone face such a multitude of enemies.

Wan Jian Chao Zong!

Gritting his teeth, he burned his sacred body essence and forcibly unleashed his self-created group attack technique.

Instantly, a storm of sword qi filled the sky, shooting out in all directions.

Humph!

Quasi-Tianjing experts emerged from every side, each with terrifying spiritual artifacts hovering above them, their auras soaring to the heavens. They swept their palms across the void, instantly crushing the sword qi aimed at them into nothingness.

It wasn't that Ye Chen's Wan Jian Chao Zong was weak; it was mainly that his current combat power was less than thirty percent of his peak. No matter how powerful the divine ability, it required a strong foundation to unleash its full might.

Die!

A Quasi-Tianjing expert lunged forward in an instant, striking down with a palm that split the heavens.

Ye Chen's eyes turned cold, and he immediately summoned Yin Ming Si Jiang Tian Zhu, who flipped the Quasi-Tianjing attacker away with a single palm.

Yin Ming Si Jiang!

The Quasi-Tianjing expert halted abruptly, his face darkening as he stared at Tian Zhu standing before him.

Kill!

A second Yin Ming Si Jiang charged in, and with a thought from Ye Chen, he summoned Di Mie to barely hold the enemy back.

Then came the third Quasi-Tianjing, the fourth, the fifth—all radiating murderous intent, forcing Ye Chen to summon Jin Jie, Feng Yi, and Huo Zhen together.

Bang! Boom! Rumble!

The five Yin Ming Si Jiang at the Quasi-Tianjing level managed to block the five attackers, but true Quasi-Tianjing experts were far superior to these summoned ones. In less than ten seconds, the weakest, Feng Yi, was nearly shattered.

Kill for me!

The Quasi-Tianjing fighting Huo Zhen blasted half of Huo Zhen's body into ash with a palm, then commanded the strong warriors behind him to execute Ye Chen.

Immediately, figures from all sides surged forward like a tidal wave.

In response, Ye Chen summoned several more Yin Ming Si Jiang at the Kong Mingjing Ninth Layer to guard him at the center.

He then scanned his surroundings: Hao Tian Xuan Zhen was locked in battle with Ling Zhen Shang Ren, while Zhuge Lao Tou Er and the others were fighting desperately against the Zheng Yang Zong experts. Dan Chen and his group, along with Wu San Pao and theirs, were also in bloody combat.

Even with the help of many allies, they were still at an absolute disadvantage, as the sheer number of enemies targeting him made defense impossible.

"I can't stay here any longer. Their target is me."

"If I disappear, they won't have a reason to keep fighting." With that, he abruptly activated his Xian Lun Eye, triggering the Xian Lun Tian Dao.

A vortex of Xian Lun Tian Dao appeared, swallowing his heavily injured body into a spatial black hole to resolve the immediate crisis. If he vanished, the battle would lose its purpose, and Hao Tian Xuan Zhen and the others would be safe.

However, as soon as they entered the spatial black hole, they hadn't even steadied themselves before spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood, their entire bodies pressed flat to the ground by a tremendous force within.

In that instant, Ye Chen caught a glimpse of what it was.

It was a sea of qi, murky and chaotic—more accurately, the Hun Dun Zhi Hai.

It was incredibly powerful; every wisp of chaotic qi weighed hundreds of thousands of jin, laced with forces of annihilation that rampaged destructively. In its presence, Ye Chen felt as fragile as a sheet of paper.

Crack! Crack!

In just a moment, his powerful sacred body began to disintegrate, cracking inch by inch, with his bones inside being crushed to fragments.

Damn it!

Ye Chen's face changed drastically; his worst fears had come true.

The heavens had not favored him this time. No sooner had he entered the spatial black hole than he encountered this massive crisis, just as Tai Xu Gu Long had warned—the spatial black hole was fraught with dangers, and a single misstep could lead to death in an instant.

Xian Lun Tian Dao, activate!

Without hesitation, he forcibly used Xian Lun Tian Dao again.

Thus, less than a third of a second after entering the spatial black hole, he was teleported out. Any longer, and he might have been ground to dust by the Hun Dun Zhi Hai.

Puff!

Back in the outside world, Ye Chen spat out another mouthful of blood and plummeted from the void.

From a distance, his condition was terrifying: he had lost an arm in his earlier battle with Yin Zhi Ping, and now his entire body was drenched in blood. The pressure from the Hun Dun Zhi Hai in the spatial black hole had shattered over eighty percent of his bones, leaving half his body in ruins, barely resembling a human form.

Damn!

Even Tai Xu Gu Long, deep in the underground world of Zheng Yang Zong, turned pale at the sight.

He had been monitoring the situation, and for a brief moment, he lost contact with Ye Chen, confirming that Ye Chen had entered the spatial black hole. When Ye Chen reappeared in this state, it was clear he had faced a catastrophe inside.

"Looks like arranging your affairs in advance was the right call." Tai Xu Gu Long stared intently at Ye Chen, who now had no power to resist—perhaps even a Zhen Yangjing cultivator could end him.

Bang!

With a deafening crash, Ye Chen's blood-soaked body slammed into the ground.

Kill!

Though they didn't know how Ye Chen had ended up like this, those intent on killing him swarmed like a tidal wave, unleashing their prepared attacks from all directions.

"Child." Hao Tian Xuan Zhen's eyes turned blood-red as he tried to rush over, but he was blocked by Ling Zhen Shang Ren and the others in the void.

"Damn it!" Zhuge Lao Tou Er and his companions were all horrified, charging madly, but they were forcibly held back by their respective opponents.

"Ye Chen." People like Shangguan Han Yue, Shangguan Yu Er, and Bi You turned deathly pale at the same time, knowing that in the next second, he would likely turn to dust in history.

"Die! Die!" Figures like Zheng Yang and Ling Zhen Shang Ren laughed with grotesque, savage glee.

"Holy Lord, this..." In the grand hall of Tian Xuan Men, Fu Ya anxiously glanced at Dong Huang Tai Xin beside him.

Dong Huang Tai Xin's face was also grim, her beautiful eyes flickering with struggle, as if grappling with a difficult decision.

"This is his fate." Amid Fu Ya's hopeful gaze, Dong Huang Tai Xin took a deep breath and ultimately chose not to intervene. "Though I want to save him, doing so would come at a cost of thousands, tens of thousands, even millions of times over."

Boom! Rumble! Roar!

As they spoke, palm prints, fist shadows, sword beams, array diagrams, blade lights, and divine rainbows from the sky bore down on Ye Chen.

On the ground, Ye Chen lay helpless, blood pouring from his mouth, unable to move. His eyes were blood-red, and he could only watch—summoning any Yin Ming Si Jiang now would only get them obliterated in an instant.

More crucially, in his current state, he couldn't withstand even the slightest attack; any ordinary strike could end his life.

Damn! This is bad!

Ye Chen muttered, more blood surging from his mouth.

But at that moment, a force that made the heavens tremble erupted from within him.

Then, a figure in white emerged from his body. Her form seemed heavy, causing the ground to tremble as her feet touched it.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the white-clad woman formed seals, and a voice like celestial music escaped her lips, ethereal and enchanting.

"Twelve Tianzi Da Ming Array!"