With a scream, the female cultivator from Tianli exploded, but transformed into tens of thousands of fine threads, as thin as ox hair, scattering everywhere. In just a flash, they disappeared into the void.
Although Ning Fa once again used the Void Oscillation technique, annihilating the vast majority of the threads, a portion still managed to escape.
Ning Fa frowned slightly.
As expected, once cultivation reached the level of a Great Cultivator, it became extremely difficult to completely kill them.
Even with True Lord Kongli trapping the two of them first, and then him and Baili Ming joining the fray, they still couldn't kill both of them.
Ning Fa hesitated for a moment before deciding not to pursue further.
This woman's life-saving secret technique was extremely bizarre, and he didn't have absolute confidence in completely killing her.
However, he believed that after this severe injury, she would need at least a century to recover. It was even possible that she would directly fall in cultivation level, unable to regain her peak strength, thus no longer posing a threat.
Meanwhile, Kong Li, not far away, looked at Ning Fa with a face full of shock.
To be honest, it was also the first time he had seen Ning Fa make a move.
The formidable strength Ning Fa displayed finally made him understand why Hermit Xuyuan had been so confident in him before, pushing against all opposition to wait for his breakthrough.
Even a Great Cultivator at the peak of cultivation seemed like a mere pushover in front of Ning Fa.
Although Hermit Xuyuan and Mo Qianqiu were also extremely powerful, they couldn't give Kong Li such a sense of impact.
Kong Li even vaguely felt that Ning Fa's current strength might already surpass that of Hermit Xuyuan.
This couldn't help but make him tremble inwardly, realizing that Ning Fa might have already become the foremost expert in Cangyuan after this breakthrough.
At this moment, Ning Fa glanced around, then let out a cold laugh. With a casual wave of his hand, two bolts of lightning shot out.
In a flash, several dozen feet away, two seemingly unoccupied spots in the air suddenly erupted with spiritual light, revealing two figures.
One was clad in black robes, with rolling black energy, his face shrouded in shadow.
The other resembled a green-faced zombie, wearing a necklace strung with numerous skull heads around his neck.
As they moved to block Ning Fa's lightning strikes, the spiritual pressure they exuded was also incredibly powerful, clearly indicating they were both at the late Nascent Soul stage.
And judging by the rolling demonic qi emanating from them, they were undoubtedly Demonic Path cultivators.
Needless to say, they must have come from the Rakshasa Immortal Realm.
Kong Li was shocked by this. With his spiritual sense, he hadn't detected these two Great Cultivators hidden so close by.
And these two were so unfamiliar, having never appeared before, clearly indicating they were new reinforcements from the Rakshasa Immortal Realm.
Their ambush here was obviously for malicious purposes.
This aligned with what Cangyuan had been thinking.
Kong Li couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. Facing so many Great Cultivators before had already pushed them to their limits. If these two were added, Cangyuan might have great difficulty holding them back.
Both of these Demonic Path Great Cultivators were looking towards Ning Fa's direction, especially the green-faced demonic cultivator, who had an expression of disbelief and uncertainty.
The two slowly retreated, already showing signs of wanting to withdraw.
"Leave these two to me. I have quite some experience dealing with these kinds of Demonic Path cultivators."
Baili Ming chuckled, then transformed into a black streak of light and disappeared.
Ning Fa nodded to Kong Li and immediately flew towards another battle group.
The sudden turn of events in this battle group, especially Ning Fa and Baili Ming's appearance and their swift killing and severe injuring of the two Tianli Great Cultivators, immediately drew the attention of the other battle groups.
The Great Cultivators on Cangyuan's side were naturally overjoyed. Even True Lord Yu Chan wore a look of pleasant surprise, and couldn't help but feel that waiting for Ning Fa's return after his breakthrough was truly worthwhile.
On Tianli's side, the Great Cultivators' faces turned ashen. Even Su Rihe, Mei Danlun, and Aruoye, the three Holy Witches, wore extremely grim expressions.
"Damn it! This brat only broke through to the mid-stage, how could his strength increase so much!"
Su Rihe, who was usually refined and mindful of his demeanor, now had a ferocious expression.
The thing they had been worrying about had indeed happened. The long-absent Ning Fa had not only returned but had also broken through his cultivation.
Although Ning Fa's recent move was brief, with their discerning eyes, they could easily tell that after breaking through to the mid-stage, Ning Fa had completely reached their level.
This was naturally terrible news for Tianli.
At this moment, Ning Fa's figure transformed into a dazzling rainbow, shooting towards the north.
While flying, Ning Fa took a glance at another battle group about fifty miles away.
He saw Xu Yi locked in a fierce battle with a Tianli Great Cultivator with a sinister expression.
Although Ning Fa had never seen this Tianli Great Cultivator in person, he had seen his portrait in the files.
Ning Fa had a very deep impression of this person because he was Aruoye, the very culprit who had caused Zhu Lingyun such misery.
Ning Fa's eyes flashed with intense killing intent as he looked at Aruoye.
However, he did not fly in that direction. After all, Aruoye was a Holy Witch of Tianli, and even with his current greatly increased strength, he would not be able to easily kill him.
If he were to be delayed by this person, or if this person escaped, it would waste the strategic advantage of his ambush, so he could not let hatred blind him.
Ning Fa's main objective in this battle was to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy's top-tier forces, namely the ordinary Great Cultivators.
A few miles ahead, the sounds of intense magical combat could already be heard. Ning Fa saw that True Lord Yu Chan was engaged in a fierce battle with two Sea Race Great Cultivators.
Ning Fa's eyes lit up as he looked at the two Sea Race Great Cultivators.
If his guess was correct, the Nascent Souls of these two late-stage Sea Race cultivators could provide four hundred Third-Tier Origin Points to the Heavenly Book, which would be a great supplement for it, and even more so for Ning Fa.
After the Heavenly Book absorbed that mysterious White Fragment and unlocked the ability to directly derive High-grade Spiritual Materials from low-grade ones, Ning Fa was now in dire need of high-grade Origin Points.
Therefore, killing these two ordinary Sea Race Great Cultivators first would be killing two birds with one stone.
Seeing Ning Fa flying towards them rapidly, the male and female Sea Race Great Cultivators were greatly alarmed.
After all, they had already known that the Tidal Council regarded Ning Fa as a serious threat to the Sea Race, so they were already apprehensive of Ning Fa.
Having just witnessed the formidable strength Ning Fa displayed, they immediately became timid upon seeing him fly towards them, even before the battle began.
The two exchanged glances, then, ignoring True Lord Yu Chan, who was fighting them, they unhesitatingly fled backward.
At this moment, True Lord Yu Chan let out a cold laugh.
"Trying to leave now? It's not that easy!"
As he spoke, he suddenly pointed his right hand upwards at the gray mass of light above his head, which was the secondary eye of the Grand Extermination Immortal Array.
The gray mass of light immediately vibrated violently, and in an instant, a circle of strange gray halo shot out from it at an incredibly fast speed.
The two Sea Race Great Cultivators, who had already fled hundreds of feet, encountered this gray halo and immediately felt a strong pulling force. With their cultivation, they were like creatures trapped in a swamp.
At the same time, the same scene unfolded in several other battle groups. Strange gray halos shot out from those secondary eyes, firmly restraining all the enemy Great Cultivators fighting against Cangyuan's forces.
This was a special ability possessed by the Grand Extermination Immortal Array. Although its power was immense, it required a long cooldown period after each use.
This time, to cooperate with Ning Fa in killing the enemy's ordinary Great Cultivators, Cangyuan's side did not hesitate to use this ability.
Ning Fa had arrived by then. His eyes shone with cold light, and he continuously struck with his right hand.
Amidst a clear sword cry, five lightning swords of different colors flew out from his body.
Lightning crackled, and thunder rumbled.
As Ning Fa formed a sword seal with his hand, the five Calamity Heaven Swords trembled violently, accompanied by booming thunderous roars.
Immediately after, these five Calamity Heaven Swords, bathed in dazzling lightning, transformed from one into two, two into four, four into eight...
In a short period, they multiplied into dozens, hundreds, and thousands of sword lights resembling lightning, crisscrossing each other, densely filling the sky for several miles.
Countless bolts of lightning roamed within these sword lights like calligraphy, exuding an extremely terrifying aura.
The next moment, as Ning Fa formed another sword seal, the lightning sword lights filling the sky trembled and vanished into the void, disappearing.
Only faint spatial ripples could be seen, rapidly spreading towards the location of the two Sea Race Great Cultivators.
Ning Fa did not hesitate to activate his Five Elements Calamity Heaven Sword Array, precisely to ensure that even the Nascent Souls of these two Sea Race Great Cultivators could not escape.
Seeing this, the two Sea Race Great Cultivators became even more terrified and did not hesitate to activate their life-saving secret techniques.
With a roar, the Sea Race male transformed into a ferocious sea dragon over ten feet long. His dragon tail thrashed, creating sounds like crashing waves, and his speed instantly increased severalfold, yet it still felt like crawling like a snail.
The other Sea Race female crushed a scale. With a loud bang, her entire body transformed into a dense blue mist, scattering in all directions. However, she was also bound by the gray halo.
At this moment, ten breaths had passed. Ning Fa's lips curved into a smile.
The opponents could no longer escape, for the Calamity Heaven Sword Array had been formed.
This speed was more than twice as fast as before his breakthrough to the mid-stage.
He transmitted a message to True Lord Yu Chan, who was not far away: "Fellow Daoist Yu Chan, please go and provide support elsewhere. Leave this place to me."
True Lord Yu Chan did not dare to delay. He cupped his hands and, taking the secondary eye of the array above his head, flew towards another battle group.
After witnessing Ning Fa's recent display, True Lord Yu Chan's previous humiliation from having to send his son-in-law to Ning Fa's command and being mocked by the people of Cangyuan completely vanished. He made up his mind never to oppose Ning Fa again.
At the same time, the gray halo enveloping the two Sea Race Great Cultivators suddenly dispersed.
The Sea Race cultivator who had transformed into a sea dragon and the mass of blue mist instantly increased their speed, fleeing rapidly in two directions.
However, in the seemingly empty space ahead, dense sword threads as fine as hair suddenly appeared, flashing intermittently. They rapidly switched between five colors of lightning: white, cyan, black, crimson, and yellow, precisely the Essence Annihilation Sword Silk.
The two Sea Race Great Cultivators, caught off guard, collided with these Essence Annihilation Sword Silks, and earth-shattering screams ensued.
A spray of blue blood rained down, and the blue sea dragon retreated rapidly at an even faster speed.
Its chest was already bleeding profusely, with a large chunk of flesh missing. Furthermore, bright yellow electrical currents permeated the wound, hindering its recovery.
After all, Sea Race cultivators were almost all primarily water-elemental, and the Supreme Earth Divine Thunder was most effective against them.
The mass of blue mist also had a small portion annihilated by the Essence Annihilation Sword Silks. The remaining blue mist churned, then increased its speed and flew towards the blue sea dragon.
In just a flash, it covered the surface of the blue sea dragon, forming a strange blue crystalline armor. A single horn about ten feet long also appeared on its head.
Concurrently, the spiritual pressure emanating from this blue sea dragon surged. Before long, it rose from the level of an ordinary low-level Great Cultivator to near the level of a mid-level Great Cultivator.
The blue sea dragon roared, and dense blue light erupted from its body. It bared its fangs and brandished its claws, attempting to break out again.
Seeing this, Ning Fa's eyebrows rose slightly.
"It can even merge? Such a bizarre divine ability is quite interesting."
But immediately, a cold smile appeared on his face. Let alone approaching the mid-level Great Cultivator, even a true mid-level Great Cultivator trapped within the Calamity Heaven Sword Array could only die in regret.
He formed another hand seal, and a rumble of thunder sounded.
The surrounding space emitted rapid ripples, and countless Essence Annihilation Sword Silks flickered with lightning, emitting extremely sharp sword energy. Their speed greatly increased as they converged towards the blue sea dragon in the center.
Before long, the furious and despairing roars of the blue sea dragon could be heard. Blue blood splattered across several miles, indicating it was not far from complete annihilation.
Just then, a strange and vast sound of ocean waves drifted over.
Ning Fa, who was performing the spell, immediately changed his expression and turned to look down.
He saw that in the vast ocean summoned by the Sea Race, a crystal pyramid tens of feet high had appeared at some point.
At the apex of the pyramid, a deep blue crystal the size of a human head was suspended, rotating rapidly.
With each rotation, countless deep blue runes scattered from this crystal and fell back into the crystal pyramid below, causing countless mysterious streams of light to flicker, making it look exceptionally mysterious.
The strange sound of ocean waves was precisely emanating from this crystal.
Ning Fa stared intently at this deep blue crystal, his eyes shining brightly.
At this moment, the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book in his sea of consciousness was vibrating violently. Although it couldn't compare to the last time he encountered the white fragment, the intensity of its reaction was extremely rare, clearly indicating that this deep blue crystal was a great supplement for the Heavenly Book.
It was likely that the Origin Points this crystal could provide to the Heavenly Book were not comparable to ordinary Fourth-Tier Sea Race cultivators; it could potentially provide Fourth-Tier Origin Points.
This naturally made Ning Fa's gaze towards this deep blue crystal extremely fervent.
Just then, Ning Fa sensed something and looked towards the other side of the crystal.
With a flash of blue water light, a tall and graceful figure slowly emerged.
This person was Hathaway, a senior member of the Tidal Council.
The diamond-shaped crystal embedded in her forehead seemed to resonate with the deep blue crystal, occasionally flashing with a faint light, making the already beautiful woman appear even more mysterious and noble.
She raised her head and looked up at Ning Fa in the sky. A flicker of apprehension crossed her sapphire-blue eyes. Then, her cherry lips parted, and a female voice echoed in Ning Fa's ears:
"Ning Fa, surrendering to my race is your only path to survival."