When the terrifying grand array circulating with Yin-Yang and Five Elements power fully unfurled, everyone's eyes widened!
"What formation is this?"
"Why do I feel like it's providing pressure on par with a Golden Core cultivator? And the amount of heaven and earth energy it's gathering seems even greater!"
"You aren't sensing it wrong! This is a Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Array. It's one of those terrifying formations that are extremely difficult to set up. To deploy it, one must have comprehended the Intent of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements! This is even harder than breaking through to the Golden Core stage! With the fusion of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, its power is stronger than a typical Golden Core cultivator!"
After a brief silence, cries of shock erupted from the cultivators outside Starfall City. Someone even pointed out the terrifying nature of the formation!
If a rogue cultivator had such insight, it went without saying for the Golden Core cultivator Ye Yanwu. Having experienced the comprehension of Law Intents and the breakthrough to Golden Core, he understood the difficulty of simultaneously comprehending the Intent of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, and the path of their mutual compatibility and generation, better than any rogue cultivator!
This was far more difficult than breaking through to the Golden Core stage!
Normally, if a cultivator could establish a Yin-Yang Five Elements foundation during the Foundation Establishment stage, as long as it was solid, they would already have the chance to match a typical Golden Core Early Stage cultivator in combat!
If they used precious spiritual items to set up an array based on this, the heavenly might they invoked would be even stronger!
An ordinary Golden Core cultivator might even perish within such an array!
"This brat must not be allowed to live!"
Ye Yanwu's killing intent reached its peak. It was far stronger now than it had been a moment ago.
Earlier, he was only angry because of the loss of profit and did not think a Foundation Establishment cultivator like Qi Ping could threaten a Golden Core Middle Stage expert like himself. But now it was different. Once the Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Array appeared, even he felt a sense of threat and trouble!
Fortunately, the threat was limited; the array was still within his ability to handle.
However, even if he had to risk half his life, he could not allow Qi Ping to live. If Qi Ping grew further, his own end would be miserable!
Thus, the moment the array rose, Ye Yanwu exploded with full power, intending to kill Qi Ping in the shortest possible time and eliminate all future troubles!
"Die!"
Facing the instantly attacking Ye Yanwu, Qi Ping merely sneered. A Five Elements Cycle Array instantly covered him, pushing its defensive power to the limit.
However, the Golden Core Middle Stage Ye Yanwu, a fire-attribute cultivator, was no pushover. His attacks were incredibly fierce. The Five Elements Cycle Array lasted for only two short breaths before it shattered!
"Even if you are a peerless genius, you shall fall today!"
Ye Yanwu's expression was manic. He felt the joy of eliminating an enemy and a pathological craze from destroying a top-tier genius!
This emotion reached its peak the moment the Five Elements Cycle Array was about to break. He even used only a bit of spiritual energy to block the terrifying array attacks coming from behind him. Compared to suffering some minor injuries, killing Qi Ping before anything else changed was much more important!
However, before Ye Yanwu's peak emotion could be released, his expression suddenly froze.
Because a split second before the Five Elements Cycle Array collapsed, a Rank 3 Early Stage monkey-shaped spirit beast with a body shimmering in golden light flew out of Qi Ping's Spirit Taming Bag!
This was none other than the old Mountain Sao who loved to drink!
The Mountain Sao's body had always been extraordinary. With Qi Ping's full support during this time, it had already returned to its peak state, even comparable to a Golden Core Early Stage body cultivator!
The close-quarters combat strength and terrifying defense of a body cultivator were beyond doubt!
The appearance of the Mountain Sao already gave Ye Yanwu a bad feeling, but the subsequent upheaval made his face turn incredibly ugly!
Ten thousand Wind-Blade Bees flew out from a hidden formation underground, forming a powerful giant of wind!
After these appeared, as if they had long agreed upon a plan, the moment Ye Yanwu's attacks were mostly exhausted on the Five Elements Cycle Array, the Mountain Sao, the bee swarm, and Qi Ping all simultaneously unleashed their strongest attacks at Ye Yanwu!
The Mountain Sao used a Through-the-Arm Fist that maximized its physical strength. Under Qi Ping's instructions, it had been brewing this punch for a long time. When it struck, the terrifying power even showed signs of faintly shattering space.
This close-quarters punch brought the Mountain Sao's combat power to its absolute limit!
The ten thousand Wind-Blade Bees, under the "Storm Focus" trait and the battle formation, formed a super-aggregate.
They also unleashed their strongest attack ever. A giant, terrifyingly pressured super wind blade instantly slashed toward Ye Yanwu!
Qi Ping threw out two black and white chess pieces, which intertwined into a giant snake of fear that lunged at Ye Yanwu!
Facing these three attacks, Ye Yanwu inevitably panicked. Having just broken the Five Elements Cycle Array, he had not only consumed the spiritual energy he just channeled, but he was also in the momentary lull of his power. This was his moment of greatest vulnerability.
He had followed the logic of "speed over delay" and "avoiding entanglement with the grand array" to quickly kill Qi Ping, never expecting to fall into Qi Ping's trap!
At this moment, he understood that Qi Ping's target from the beginning had been him!
From the start, Qi Ping had intended to kill a Golden Core cultivator like him!
What was even more terrifying was that the absolute strongest strike from the Yin-Yang Five Elements Grand Array was also coming at his back!
Qi Ping had actually used himself as bait to set a lethal trap for him!
However, what he didn't expect was that this wasn't the entirety of the killing intent!
The moment Ye Yanwu's mind was shaken, a terrifying soul attack suddenly struck!
Demon-Eye Magic Realm!
This was the strongest innate talent of the Little Flower Spirit after it mutated into a high-tier Rank 3 spirit beast. It showed its absolute power at this moment. Even though Ye Yanwu was a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, his mind slipped, and his consciousness was briefly pulled into the Eye Realm.
This fluctuation in consciousness caused the defensive spell Ye Yanwu was just activating to suddenly falter!
In that instant, all the attacks landed simultaneously on Ye Yanwu!
A terrifying impact and explosion erupted!
A vast sound of impact rang out!
The earth shook and cracked, countless houses collapsed, and even the walls of Starfall City, which had stood for countless years, crumbled, leaving a massive gap!
However, none of this noise could drown out a piercing, agonizing scream!
After the intense explosion, a mangled, blood-drenched figure charged out from the center of the blast!