The Earth Abyss battlefield.
Boom!
The Calamity Luck Altar shook violently as it was struck by Heavenly Court's offensive. Inside, Bing Saichuan's expression was dark as still water.
The ancient legendary Fur Ball bristled and shouted: "Let Lord Fur Ball out there — I'll blast those people to smithereens!"
Five Elements Grand Mage called out: "Lord Fur Ball, the breach in this area is too wide. Please help me repair it together!"
Fur Ball snorted, both hands working to patch up the Calamity Luck Altar while grumbling unhappily: "Taking beatings nonstop — this is unbearable! Bing Saichuan, I'm putting the Calamity Luck Altar in your hands, so don't you dare disgrace the master's reputation!"
Bing Saichuan furrowed his brow and replied: "Fur Ball, why don't you take a look outside? Someone out there has it far worse than us."
Qi Jue Demonic Immortal was the person Bing Saichuan spoke of.
He was indeed utterly wretched. Demon Venerable Spectral Soul's self-destruction had inflicted devastating damage on his Xi Earth, and the Xi Earth had been his greatest asset since his rebirth. Although he had obtained quite a few quality true inheritances, he simply hadn't had enough time to refine new killer moves. As a result, his qi-path killer moves were almost entirely the same old repertoire — only those centered on the Xi Earth could truly hold their own at this level of battle.
But now, with the Xi Earth heavily damaged, Qi Jue Demonic Immortal's combat strength had plummeted.
"This can't go on. Heavenly Court will surely have powerful reinforcements! Eternal Life Heaven, we need to join forces once more." Qi Jue Demonic Immortal struggled to transmit his voice.
"At a time when Heavenly Court is more feeble than at any point in all of history — what reinforcements could they possibly have?" Fur Ball muttered.
"Don't be careless. No one can gauge the full depth of Heavenly Court's reserves." After responding to Fur Ball, Bing Saichuan promptly agreed to Qi Jue Demonic Immortal's request to join forces.
He too felt that something was amiss.
And so, first the Calamity Luck Altar suddenly erupted with a counterattack wave, covering Qi Jue Demonic Immortal.
Qi Jue Demonic Immortal gritted his teeth and unleashed the Xi Earth, drawing upon boundless earth qi.
The Calamity Luck Altar took over once again, giving the gradually sinking earth veins a tremendous boost.
"Hmph, the same old tricks. You people really don't take me seriously at all!" Qin Dingling suddenly departed from the Immortal Gu House, appeared outside, and unleashed a fortune-path killer move.
Golden light from the killer move surged in all directions. Bing Saichuan's face changed drastically — like a man whose finger had been bitten by a venomous serpent, he hastily retracted his hand.
"That was close! This killer move subtly counters the Calamity Luck Altar. Had I been a step slower, the Altar would have been crushed under the pressure of the earth veins, pinned within them, unable to escape, and reduced to a sitting target!" Bing Saichuan gasped inwardly. Qin Dingling's capabilities had far exceeded his expectations.
Without the Calamity Luck Altar leading the effort, the massive earth veins — which had just begun to rise — sank once more.
But the previous efforts of Qi Jue Demonic Immortal and the Calamity Luck Altar had not gone to waste. Colossal tributaries of earth veins, like enormous pillars, erupted skyward and sprayed across the earth in every direction.
One earth vein tributary, like a great brownish river, pierced straight through the battlefield between the Demon-Slaying Scroll and the three immortals — Bai Ningbing's group.
The three immortals had been struggling to hold their ground, fending off the Demon-Slaying Scroll.
Bai Ningbing was still alive.
Previously, she had been ground to dust by the Demon-Slaying Scroll, but at the critical moment, she had once again deployed her White Appearance killer move.
The Demon-Slaying Scroll dodged, unwilling to fall into the earth vein tributary.
"Heaven helps me!" At the sight of this, Bai Ningbing's eyes blazed with sudden light, surprise and elation intermingling.
Her figure surged in size — her white ice giant form had stood only fifteen or sixteen feet tall, but now it immediately shot up to a full twenty feet.
"Now is our chance to escape!" Bai Ningbing extended her hands toward Miao Yin and Hei Tu.
The two hesitated for a moment, but ultimately allowed themselves to be grasped in Bai Ningbing's massive palms.
Without a shred of hesitation, Bai Ningbing hurled herself straight into the earth vein tributary!
"Don't you escape!" Fang Zheng gritted his teeth and urgently drove the Demon-Slaying Scroll forward, plunging it into the tributary as well.
The earth veins were incomparably majestic — even a tributary was vast beyond measure. When the Demon-Slaying Scroll entered, it was like a small fish or shrimp in a mighty river.
"No good — we can't escape. The Demon-Slaying Scroll is still an Eighth Transformation Immortal Gu House!" Fairy Miao Yin's face went ashen.
In that brief span, Bai Ningbing was already reaching her limit.
Vast quantities of Earth Path Dao marks corroded her entire body. White Appearance was on the verge of collapse, despite Miao Yin and Hei Tu pouring every ounce of their strength into defense.
Bai Ningbing let out a cold laugh, composed even in the face of mortal peril: "Of course we can't compare to the Demon-Slaying Scroll. Now it all hinges on Fang Zheng's decision. Heh heh."
On the brink between life and death, Bai Ningbing actually laughed.
She abruptly spun around, once again cancelling White Appearance and revealing her true form.
Fairy Miao Yin and Miss Hei Tu had already steeled themselves. Following Bai Ningbing, they turned and charged back toward the Demon-Slaying Scroll.
"What are you doing?!" Fang Zheng stared in shock as Bai Ningbing and her companions one by one cancelled their defensive measures. He had no choice but to activate the crimson rainbow light, enveloping the three immortals.
With the Demon-Slaying Scroll's aid, the three immortals finally escaped the miserable fate of being crushed to dust by the earth veins.
But a massive boulder seemed to lodge itself in Fang Zheng's chest.
What was even the point?