Several elegant beams of light weaved through the crowd; it was Qing Cheng, controlled by her Spiritual Soul.
Qing Cheng flew back leisurely from not far away, shaking off the dust and blood clinging to the blade.
‘Previously, I was trapped like a turtle in a jar and had to hide.’
But now, she wanted to kill.
After slaughtering the group of melee Cultivators who had chased her into the forest with a surprise attack, Jiang Ke’er did not stop for a single moment.
Her gaze shifted to the sky, toward the Magic Cultivators and Flying Sword Cultivators who had just been ruthlessly attacking the Bagpipe Squad’s backs, as well as the other Cultivators who had just entered this alternate space and had yet to react.
Licking her lips, a red light flashed in Jiang Ke’er’s eyes.
‘Let’s take a gamble!’
Her toes tapped the ground, and she charged straight toward a flying bolt of spiritual light.
Her speed had already surpassed the limits of what those Cultivators could perceive with their naked eyes! They only saw a blurry shadow burst out of the dense forest, covering half the distance in an instant!
One against 100?
“Wishful thinking!”
The Captain of the Fireblade Squad, who had just broken through the boundary, was enraged and was the first to meet her!
He was different from those thirty pathetic worms who had rashly pursued her into the forest and were killed instantly by Jiang Ke’er’s use of the barrage rain before they could even display a hint of their abilities.
The terrain here was open, and the other Cultivators already had a clear understanding of Jiang Ke’er’s speed.
They had long since prepared a strategy for such an enemy.
“SKY-ASSAULTING DEPARTED FIRE!”
The Fireblade Squad Captain transformed into a massive fireball, vast as a sun, pressing down directly toward Jiang Ke’er with a temperature capable of incinerating flesh into ash!
In mid-air, the Captain’s lips curled upward.
Many years later, when the world looked back on this world-shaking battle, they would surely remember this blinding strike of his that felt like it was purifying the world.
It would be this very strike that burned that arrogant little brat to cinders, incinerating all hope for the Demon Race’s comeback.
In truth, because he knew he could never defeat Heavenly God Team One or Battle Wasteland Team One, the Fireblade Squad Captain’s goal from the beginning was not to seize a Resurrection slot, but to kill every member of the Bagpipe Squad!
Therefore, this was a full-strength strike he had planned for a long time!
This was revenge for his previous defeat in the Secret Realm! Revenge for her stealing the title of the best Cultivator!
‘Let me… kill you swiftly and cleanly!’
Jiang Ke’er stood suspended in the air, staring at the Fireblade Squad Captain who blocked her path. She seemed to be dazed.
She was not.
Qing Cheng guarded her body, while Frost Shadow was returned to its sheath.
A sharp whirlwind circled her once before finally converging onto Frost Shadow!
Like a giant dragon taking flight, the frosty Sword Qi met the Captain’s full-strength attack head-on without dodging or flinching!
The Sword Qi and the massive fireball collided, and the point of contact rapidly eroded, atomizing into primal Spiritual Power.
The Captain’s Spiritual Power and Jiang Ke’er’s Spiritual Power were poured out almost simultaneously, and then they both lunged toward the thick Mist of Spiritual Power dissipating in the air!
They needed to absorb this Mist to recover.
But when the Fireblade Squad Captain finally managed to fly into the Spiritual Power Mist, he discovered that the Spiritual Power scattered in the air was completely refusing to obey him.
In the past, with just a slight nudge from his Divine Sense, those primal Spiritual Powers would rush into his body as if they were afraid of being slower than the others.
But this time, not a single bit of Spiritual Power even looked him in the eye.
It was as if a black hole stood beside him, emitting an endless suction that even threatened to snatch away and convert the Spiritual Power remaining inside his own body!
How terrifyingly massive must her Spiritual Power reserves be? It was definitely not what she had displayed before.
The Fireblade Squad Captain seemed to realize something.
‘No… it can’t be? Does this person… still haven’t used her full strength even now?’
Even though everything the world was currently watching and worrying about—fame, even her life—was on the line… was none of it worthy of her full effort?
Jiang Ke’er gave him a small smile.
The unfathomable depth of her strength caused the Fireblade Squad Captain’s heart to go cold with fear. Now, only one thought remained in his mind: escape.
“Don’t…” Facing the cold light that was inches away, the Captain swallowed hard in despair.
“I’m sorry, I promised to kill all of you.”
Jiang Ke’er gave an apologetic smile.
Although the Captain’s massive skill had blocked Jiang Ke’er’s advance earlier, it had also blocked the other teams behind him.
Now, it was already too late for others to come to his rescue.
Jiang Ke’er raised her hand and her sword fell, calmly piercing through the opponent’s Spiritual Platform. With the Spiritual Platform pierced, both form and soul were extinguished.
However, it seemed she could not continue the pursuit.
These people had already reacted, and she could not afford to get bogged down in a fight.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ke’er quickly retreated.
Her speed was suppressed by the Wristband, so to those Five Elements Realm Cultivators in the sky, she was not particularly fast. If they wanted to chase her, they would surely catch up.
However, the two previous scenes had left them instinctively terrified.
They did not dare to follow Jiang Ke’er rashly into the dense forest, fearing they would fall into a Trap.
No one expected that just as they entered the arena, in the span of a few breaths, the situation would become so intense.
The moment they saw the Bagpipe Squad flee miserably into the forest and saw Jie Shui’s back mangled, cheers of victory had already broken out outside the arena.
But in the next second, the sound stopped abruptly.
How did she do it? Is she a shadow?
It was just her! Just her alone!
Thirty elite Human Clan Cultivators who had made it into the Semi-Finals! They were all Super Level elites, one in 10,000!
“Why were they so careless! Do not enter a forest, and do not pursue a cornered foe! Why did they commit such a low-level mistake!” The commentator roared at the top of his lungs, his anger so great he looked as if he wanted to personally jump in and scream at the corpses.
Seeing someone pull off the brilliant feat of killing thirty people in an instant, followed by a heaven-defying sword strike, the audience and commentators present could not feel happy at all.
The atmosphere remained dead and heavy.
Because this performance was unfortunately delivered by the very person they hated the most.
It was frustrating!
It made their teeth itch with rage!
Fortunately, the use of any Assassin’s Trump Card meant the opponent was one step closer to death.
And the Human Clan side had strength in numbers; the one thing they did not lack was a margin for error.
Even if they had to use lives to test the opponent’s hidden cards, it was worth it.
Now they had realized “Qing Yi’s” terrifying counter-attack capability within a large-scale barrage attack.
Although many evaluation teams had speculated about “Qing Yi’s” abilities and had mostly guessed correctly, they never imagined it could produce such a terrifying effect… It was a qualitative change!
As long as they paid more attention later and did not give the opponent a chance to burst out with a counter-kill, then this Qing Yi would have no other highlights.
She would just be an inferior Cultivator with mediocre speed, strength, and endurance.
They could fight her in the forest, set Formation Arts and Traps, or simply challenge her one-on-one… Any of these methods could easily neutralize her.
Out of 10,000 Great Daos, 9,999 were on their side!
How could they possibly lose?!