Rumble--
Thunder surged.
Looking at Gongsun Yuanzhou, who had suddenly appeared in the forest, everyone was startled.
"Tian Er!!"
The Heavenly Desolate Old Man's face was ashen, and looking at the sect Elder who lay motionless on the ground, he couldn't help but cry out.
But that Elder remained motionless, without any reaction, like a corpse.
"Are you calling him?"
A sinister grin hung on Gongsun Yuanzhou's face, black scales appeared on his palm, instantly elongating and inserting into the Divine Transformation Realm Elder beneath him.
Soon, a terrifying scene unfolded before everyone's eyes: the stout Ten Absolute Sect Elder actually shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In just a few breaths, he had shrunk several sizes, becoming a dried corpse.
"Gongsun Yuanzhou, you're courting death!!"
Seeing this scene, the Heavenly Desolate Old Man's anger surged, he quickly glanced around, and without hesitation, his figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.
"It's just him alone, let's go together and kill him while we have the chance."
As his voice fell, the others exchanged glances, immediately erupted, and charged towards Gongsun Yuanzhou.
"Kid, watch out for my daughter!"
Wanjun placed Wan Shuang, who was in his arms, under a nearby tree, glanced at Lin Sheng, and dropped a sentence.
Lin Sheng didn't make a move, but frowned as he watched Gongsun Yuanzhou.
Although he was the only one who came, besides the one who was just killed, there were still six God-Form martial artists on their side.
One against six, even if this Gongsun Yuanzhou was from Tianhong Pavilion, with high cultivation and a master of Divine Transformation Realm Fifth Change, he absolutely shouldn't be a match, especially among these six people, there was also a master like Qi Ning, who was also at Divine Transformation Realm Fifth Change.
As for the others, besides the one-change Elder from the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect, they were all masters at the Peak of the early Divine Transformation Realm.
If this Gongsun Yuanzhou wasn't an idiot, he wouldn't be so reckless as to dare to chase after them alone.
He didn't believe that someone who could be the Special Envoy of Tianhong Pavilion would truly be an idiot.
Therefore, the opponent definitely had something to rely on, especially since he faintly had a bad premonition in his heart, and the source of this bad premonition came from...
He furrowed his brows, his gaze fixed on Gongsun Yuanzhou, and with a thought, he had already switched to his crisis perception talent.
As the talent amplified, that bad premonition instantly became intense, and all of this came from Gongsun Yuanzhou.
"How could this be!?"
Lin Sheng's brows furrowed even tighter.
At this moment, the six people had already reached Gongsun Yuanzhou.
None of them held back, unleashing all their techniques, with either fierce and heavy or swift and nimble true energy attacking Gongsun Yuanzhou from all directions.
For a time, terrifying force brought forth dense sonic booms, enveloping Gongsun Yuanzhou within.
"Good timing!"
However, facing such a fierce offensive, Gongsun Yuanzhou didn't get angry but laughed instead.
Instantly, dense black scales emerged all over his body, covering him entirely except for his head. The scales constantly wriggled, like countless black beetles continuously moving all over his body.
He spread his hands wide, completely ignoring the terrifying true energy tearing through the air around him, letting it land on his body. His hands swayed, like two black pythons, instantly splitting into six thick tentacles, attacking the six people separately.
Sizzle--
The force landed on the black scales, erupting in a harsh screeching sound like metal rubbing against each other. The constantly wriggling scales deformed and twisted under the force, but that was all.
Instead, the thick tentacles, carrying terrifying power, instantly arrived before the several people.
The several people simultaneously retracted their moves and struck out to defend, but the moment they came into contact with the tentacles, their expressions changed slightly.
The weakest among the six, the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect Elder, had his protective true energy directly shattered, and his figure was sent flying backward.
Although the protective true energy of Lan Man, Wanjun, the Heavenly Desolate Old Man, and Black Hawk was not broken, it became extremely dim, and they were also inevitably sent flying backward.
Even the strongest, Qi Ning, although she successfully blocked this strike, her true energy vibrated incessantly, and she had to retreat several steps before stopping herself.
"Divine Transformation Realm Sixth Change, no, you've actually broken through to Divine Transformation Realm Seventh Change!!?"
Qi Ning's expression at this moment was extremely grim, showing astonishment on her face, and she couldn't help but speak in a deep voice.
The other several people barely stopped their Divine Transformation Realm at this moment, and upon hearing Qi Ning's words, their expressions all changed drastically.
Divine Transformation Realm Seventh Change, this was already the late Divine Transformation Realm.
The strength improvement in each change of the Divine Transformation Realm was extremely significant.
None of them expected that Gongsun Yuanzhou would actually be at the Divine Transformation Realm Seventh Change.
"Go!"
Qi Ning let out a low cry without any hesitation, true energy surged around her body, and dazzling ice-blue light emitted from her hands. As her voice fell, several ice crystal daggers appeared out of thin air from her palms.
With the appearance of the daggers, countless rhombus-shaped ice crystals rapidly grew from the daggers, turning into 6 thick, pillar-like ice crystal greatswords in the blink of an eye, shooting towards Gongsun Yuanzhou.
As the ice crystal greatswords formed, the temperature in the entire bamboo forest plummeted. Wherever the ice crystal greatswords passed, large areas of ice crystals condensed, seemingly freezing the air in the entire bamboo forest.
However, facing such a fierce offensive, Gongsun Yuanzhou merely closed his large hands, and thick tentacles directly wrapped the incoming greatswords. Although large areas of ice crystals immediately appeared on the tentacles and rapidly spread towards Gongsun Yuanzhou's body.
But as wisps of black mist emerged from his body, the speed at which the frost spread rapidly slowed down at a visible pace, until all the ice crystals were directly shattered.
"Want to run!"
Gongsun Yuanzhou let out a sinister laugh, stomping his foot, and in an instant, a giant net woven from a large number of black tentacles broke out of the ground, enveloping everything within a hundred zhang, almost covering everyone in the area.
Looking at the rapidly approaching tentacle giant net, Wanjun struck the net with a palm, but only blasted a head-sized gap on it, and it recovered in the blink of an eye.
The other several people also tried, and the results were all the same.
"Damn it, isn't Gongsun Yuanzhou of the Red Blood Dragon Lizard Bloodline!? How can he have such abilities!!"
Clearly, the strength Gongsun Yuanzhou displayed at this moment was completely different from what their intelligence investigation showed, much stronger, and the level of weirdness was beyond imagination.
"Can't escape, can only fight it out!!"
Lan Man's eyes had already turned deep blue, and she spoke in a cold voice.
The other several people also understood this principle.
They could only abandon the idea of escaping, turn around, and jointly attack Gongsun Yuanzhou again.
At the edge of the battle group at this moment, Lin Sheng looked at the rapidly approaching black tentacles, his eyes slightly narrowed. With one hand, he grabbed the unconscious Wan Shuang from the ground and threw her behind him. At the same time, he raised his right hand, and red-black scales appeared on his arm, followed by surging flames.
The palm, wrapped in golden-yellow flames, reached out and grabbed towards the black tentacles in front of him.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle--
A popping sound like frying oil rang out, and the black tentacles melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, but they quickly recovered.
The speed was extremely fast, clearly making it unrealistic to break free from this tentacle net using this method.
Seeing this scene, Lin Sheng did not retreat half a step, a fierce aura surged in his heart, golden-red patterns faintly appeared on his cheeks, and his two brown-black eyes gradually became tinged with a layer of gold.
A wild and formidable aura faintly emanated from his body.
At the same time, the golden-yellow flames emerging from his palm immediately expanded several times and became more solid.
This time, the black patterns under the flames began to melt rapidly. Although the repair speed was extremely fast, the gap was still expanding rapidly.
From the moment he saw Gongsun Yuanzhou reveal his terrifying strength, he knew that a head-on clash would absolutely not be a match for him, especially since there was a high probability of other helpers behind him, so the only option was to escape.
More and more flames emerged from his hand, and the gap burned out on the tentacle net also grew larger and larger.
What he didn't notice was that as the wild aura emanated from his body, a sudden slit opened on the cheek of the unconscious Wan Shuang behind him, from which a black single eye drilled out. The single eye blinked, revealing a hint of greed in its gaze towards Lin Sheng.
Immediately, several sticky tentacles, as thick as fingers, drilled out from Wan Shuang's hair and slowly reached towards Lin Sheng's back.
Just as it was about a foot away from Lin Sheng, boom--the panicked flames instantly surged, and the sticky tentacles seemed quite apprehensive, instantly retracting.
Lin Sheng suddenly turned his head, his golden pupils falling upon Wan Shuang behind him, but he quickly turned his head back to continue burning the black net.
Soon, the black net had been burned with a gap over two meters wide.
Just as he was about to remind Qi Ning and the others.
Clusters of black tentacles actually emerged from the ground again, quickly enveloping the gap.
Seeing this, Lin Sheng's voice stopped.
Flames constantly flickered in his golden eyes, and the flames emerging from his body became increasingly dense, raising the surrounding temperature by another several dozen degrees.
He turned around, his eyes filled with dense firelight landing on Gongsun Yuanzhou, who was laughing sinisterly upwards dozens of zhang away.
"Since I can't run, then... I'll kill you!!"
Exhaling, his figure had already shot out like a cannonball.
In the battlefield at this moment.
Wanjun and the Heavenly Desolate Old Man were directly whipped away by two thick tentacles.
Their clothes were torn, and their aura was weak, clearly having suffered serious injuries.
Black Hawk and Lan Man's situation was also not much better.
The black umbrella in Lan Man's hand was clearly deformed and twisted, her protective true energy flickered erratically, seemingly on the verge of complete collapse at any moment. Only half of the mask on Black Hawk's face remained at this moment, and his robe was full of holes, looking quite disheveled.
Only Qi Ning's situation was slightly better, but her aura was also restless and chaotic, clearly also injured.
On the other hand, Gongsun Yuanzhou, who was being besieged, still had an extremely powerful aura, showing no signs of weakening.
The black tentacles tore through the air and whipped towards Lan Man. Lan Man dodged and weaved, trying to evade, but the tentacles were extremely fast, almost instantly arriving before her eyes.
She could only grit her teeth and open her black umbrella to protect herself. With a bang, a clear large dent appeared on the black umbrella, and Lan Man's figure flew backward.
However, the black tentacles showed no sign of stopping, suddenly changed direction, and with a plop, entangled the Ten Thousand Spirits Sect Elder.
"Sect Master, save me..."
This Elder shook frantically, but it was futile. In his horror, he quickly cried out for help. Before his voice fell, the tentacles had already turned into a mass of sticky black liquid, completely enveloping him.
"Elder Meng!!"
Wanjun immediately activated a secret technique, his speed surged, and he struck out with a palm, sending out fierce spiraling force that landed on the black liquid. Unfortunately, when the black liquid was torn open, only a shriveled corpse fell out.
"Hehe... not a bad taste, it's just a pity he's a bit old..."
Gongsun Yuanzhou at this moment seemed to be enjoying himself immensely, his eyes slightly closed, and a strange smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
"Die..."
Wanjun's anger surged in his heart, and his entire aura skyrocketed.
"Heaven and Earth are exhausted, Ten Thousand Spirits are destroyed!!"
With a low cry, dense spiraling true energy appeared behind him. As his voice fell, it shot out like raindrops.
"An ant trying to stop a chariot..."
With a cold laugh, facing the spiraling true energy falling from the sky, Gongsun Yuanzhou raised a hand, and a large number of tentacles twisted and instantly transformed into a large black shield, blocking all of this force that tore through the vacuum.
Meanwhile, Qi Ning's aura suddenly converged at this moment, and her entire body turned into a phantom, pressing forward. She held a black short dagger in a reverse grip, and taking advantage of the gap while Gongsun Yuanzhou formed the shield with his hand, she had already arrived before him.
"Shadow Assassination--"
The short dagger in her hand flickered with a faint light, bringing forth a large area of phantoms before immediately converging into one again, stabbing towards his neck's vital point.
This move was silent, not even bringing forth the slightest hint of wind.
The short dagger landed on the skin of his neck that was not covered by black scales, but it only pierced half an inch before being unable to go any deeper, because a flesh tentacle had already wrapped around Qi Ning's arm, preventing her from moving forward even an inch.
"To think you could injure me, this truly exceeds my expectations. Since that's the case, I'll let you die first!"
Gongsun Yuanzhou turned his head, his eyes, which were already mostly taken over by blackness, looked at Qi Ning with malice.
Hiss--
And at this moment, the ground beneath his feet suddenly exploded, and a large red hand, like a cattail fan, reached out and directly grabbed Gongsun Yuanzhou's lower body.
"Scum, you're the one who's going to die..."
Beneath the large hand, a pair of golden vertical pupils emerged.
The next moment, raging flames surged up from the large hand.
"Third Level Giant Strength, True Yang Change..."
The thick, pillar-like fingers on the large red hand suddenly tightened, and thick, python-like veins bulged high. Terrifying force was unleashed like a volcanic eruption.
Crack--
Within the large hand, sounds of bones snapping actually came from Gongsun Yuanzhou's body.
Although the black scales attached to his body had astonishing defense, the internal defense might not be so terrifying.
Instantly, his lower body was squeezed and deformed by the terrifying force.
Suffering such injuries, Gongsun Yuanzhou, wrapped in raging flames, showed a look of pain on his face, but his eyes, which were looking at Lin Sheng, suddenly widened, revealing an expression of uncontrollable excitement.
The two large hands split into thick tentacles again, rapidly coiling towards Lin Sheng.
Roar--
However, a low, violent dragon roar had already erupted from beside his ear.
Gongsun Yuanzhou's movements froze, and the extended tentacles stopped in mid-air.
And his entire body was directly pulled into the ground by the large red hand.
Rip--
Lin Sheng's large hand reached out and grabbed his shoulder, and the terrifying force exploded, directly tearing off his arms.
Gongsun Yuanzhou instantly regained clarity, but what came into view were two thick fingers.
Plop--
The thick fingers, wrapped in flames, landed on his eye sockets. The powerful force shattered the eye sockets, and the fingers only paused briefly before deeply inserting into the eye sockets.
Flames surged, erupting from his ears, nose, and throat.
"Ah--"
A violently painful roar erupted from Gongsun Yuanzhou's mouth.
Black tentacles instantly drilled out from the broken arms, firmly coiling around and binding Lin Sheng.
Plop--
However, at the same time, a black short dagger had already appeared from the top of Gongsun Yuanzhou's head, and then quickly fell, sinking into his skull up to the hilt.
"Roar--"
Gongsun Yuanzhou let out another mournful roar, and this time, the roar was like that of a wild beast, full of madness and pain. The tentacles released Lin Sheng and sent the sneak-attacking Qi Ning flying.
As his roar sounded, dense black patterns instantly appeared on Gongsun Yuanzhou's head, rapidly spreading downwards. Slits cracked open on his head, and continuously blinking black single eyes drilled out one after another.
An evil, terrifying, and strange aura emanated.