He changed his moves abruptly, but Shangguan Yunbo, with his rich combat experience, imdiately wielded his halberd to et the challenge.
As the two engaged in close combat, Shangguan Yunbo didn’t rely solely on the power of his Divine Weapon to overpower and charge through. He, too, altered his tactics swiftly, pivoting to Yang Yuqi’s side. The dark halberd, flashing with golden light, was swung, seeming to split the very Void as if to divide Yang Yuqi’s body in two.
But at that mont, a cold gleam suddenly flickered from another direction.
A pinpoint of cold light, silent and stealthy, its force capable of effortlessly piercing mountains and seas.
The cold gleam seed to have been lying in ambush all along. It was familiar with Shangguan Yunbo’s tactics and had been waiting specifically for him. Now, it attacked suddenly.
The attacker was familiar with Shangguan Yunbo.
Shangguan Yunbo was similarly familiar with the assailant.
Clad in Treasure Armor, Shangguan Grand General was a Cultivator at the Eighth Heavenly Layer of the Martial Tao. He would dare to face so attacks from Seventh Heavenly Layer Cultivators head-on, without dodging or evading.
But against this pinpoint of cold light, he couldn’t afford to be so careless.
A Weapon Strike martial expert, focusing all his power on a single point, could deliver a blow that ranked as the most lethal among all Cultivators within the sa realm.
Shangguan Yunbo’s figure flickered, instantly dodging that pinpoint of cold light.
Yet the Expelling Invaders Halberd in his hands swung out, its moves changing rapidly, still aid at Yang Yuqi’s vital points.
Yang Yuqi also decisively altered his tactics to counter.
anwhile, having missed with that stroke of cold light, the attacker imdiately withdrew and went back into hiding.
But Shangguan Yunbo’s gaze had already locked onto it.
It was a similarly tall figure with a dark face and blood-red Witchcraft Sect charms erging on its skin.
Still, one could vaguely make out its facial features.
And indeed, Shangguan Yunbo knew him all too well.
He was the most outstanding mber of the Shangguan Clan’s younger generation, the previously missing Shangguan Peng!
This young master of the Shangguan Clan, after falling, had eventually been turned into a Walking Corpse by powerful practitioners of the Ghost Tao Lineage of the Witchcraft Sect.
The Walking Corpse that was Shangguan Peng retained most of his combat strength from life. Although he had lost his own thoughts, his combat habits and even so cognition remained.
In life, he had sparred with Shangguan Yunbo countless tis.
Even without consciousness, through sheer habit, it could capture traces of Shangguan Yunbo’s movents and anticipate his positioning.
Now, there was no need for it to confront Shangguan Yunbo alone; it just needed to give Yang Yuqi a hand from the side.
In a clash between experts, the key to victory sotis hinges on a fine line.
The occasional unexpected assaults from Shangguan Peng’s corpse greatly aided Yang Yuqi.
"Gao Pu," Shangguan Yunbo said, rage finally rising on his previously expressionless face.
In the distant woods, Gao Pu, an Elder of Golden City Stronghold, sat quietly under the trees, seeming to rge with the forest.
With one hand, he ford a strange spell, while the other hand reached out, its index finger adorned with a bizarre and eerie-looking bone needle.
At that mont, the tip of the bone needle gently wavered in the air.
The refinent ti was still too short to achieve complete control, as if directing my own limbs, Gao Pu lanted internally.
He had not wished to participate in this battle, especially against Shangguan Yunbo.
At the mont, he even lacked other useful Evil Souls or Walking Corpses to protect him.
To say he was loyal to Wei Ancheng would be a lie.
But the crucial mont of the great war in the Southern Wilderness had indeed arrived.
And so things, once done, can’t be undone.
Fortunately, Martial Arts Experts, despite their fierce combative prowess, would struggle to find a Ghost Tao expert hiding nearby.
Yang Yuqi, having dragged Gao Pu into this, did not intend to use him as cannon fodder. At this mont, he was genuinely bearing the brunt of the pressure from restraining Shangguan Yunbo. Furthermore, he would not allow Shangguan Yunbo to search for and target Gao Pu. Gao Pu only needed to leverage the Walking Corpse he had refined to assist from the side in containing Shangguan Yunbo.
Indeed, the very existence of Shangguan Peng’s corpse served largely to psychologically impact and restrain Shangguan Yunbo.
It also served to restrain the other Shangguan Clan experts who had co with Shangguan Yunbo.
The mbers of the Shangguan Clan, upon seeing the Walking Corpse that was Shangguan Peng, were each infuriated to the extre.
So sought to intercept Shangguan Peng’s corpse, while others searched for the hidden Ghost Tao expert, Gao Pu.
On the Sui Dynasty’s side, remnants old and young had also accompanied Yang Yuqi.
The two sides were embroiled in a chaotic battle, fiercely contested and unresolved.
Gao Pu stayed concealed, with no intention of revealing himself, just sporadically manipulating Shangguan Peng’s corpse to continue disrupting Shangguan Yunbo.
The key to this battle isn’t actually here... Gao Pu glanced in the direction of Sleeping Dragon Lake.
If they could just pin down Shangguan Yunbo and the Expelling Invaders Halberd here, they would succeed.
And at Sleeping Dragon Lake, where Wei Ancheng himself was, no one would be his match. The only suspense lay in the duration and the final outco of the battle...
"Huh?!"
Gao Pu suddenly started in surprise.
Copious amounts of black mist swirled around his body, encapsulating him in protection, while ghastly white skeletal hands erged from the ground, providing both offense and defense.
Although the real potency of a Ghost Tao expert lay in the Evil Souls and Walking Corpses he had refined, the expert himself was not without other ans—especially given Gao Pu’s Eightfold Heaven Cultivation.
But the aggressor truly maximized the Martial Artist’s rapid movent and lethal striking power.
Despite being at the Seventh Heavenly Layer, this person attacked even more fiercely and swiftly than Shangguan Peng as a Walking Corpse.
And with utter silence, the sudden onslaught caught Gao Pu completely off guard.
The flash of sword light penetrated straight through the skeletal claws and black mist Gao Pu had hastily conjured!
Although the barrier ford by the bone claws and the mist afforded Gao Pu a mont to dodge, the sword’s edge still struck him below the ribs.
Gao Pu turned in shock to see a young woman of peerless beauty, who had suddenly appeared behind him with her sword drawn.
Beauty like jade, sword like a rainbow... what bullshit!
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