"Zhuang Miao Shan!"

When Zhuang Miao Shan appeared, the Canglan Sect expert snapped his head over, heart giving a jolt.

His feet subconsciously backed away, but just as he retreated a few steps, a chill spread across his back.

A demonic claw raked across his waist; fortunately he noticed early, otherwise he would have been heavily injured just now.

He turned his head and saw Ye Qiu.

An Abyssal Demon of the Emperor rank!

That Abyssal Demon again.

The Canglan Sect expert immediately recognized Ye Qiu in front of him as the very demon that had smashed an Annihilation Realm expert to death earlier; it had actually appeared together with Zhuang Miao Shan.

Why would this Abyssal Demon help Zhuang Miao Shan?

The Canglan Sect expert couldn’t figure it out.

A human and an Abyssal Demon joining hands to deal with him—just thinking about it was unbelievable, yet the reality was right before his eyes.

"Zhuang Miao Shan, you show up now because you want revenge on me?"

"Of course. You people have been hunting me everywhere. Now I’m just paying it back. If you want to call it revenge, then let it be revenge." Zhuang Miao Shan said calmly. Earlier, facing three Heaven-overarching experts, his situation had been extremely dangerous, but it was different now. With him and Ye Qiu joining forces, the situation would be rewritten.

"Zhuang Miao Shan, do you want to kill them all, leave no one alive? Killing me does you no good. The sect behind me will never stop hunting you."

The Canglan Sect expert was starting to panic. He knew Zhuang Miao Shan’s strength. Don’t be fooled by the fact that Zhuang Miao Shan had broken through later than him; Zhuang Miao Shan’s growth was terrifyingly fast. Back in the Ancestral Land, he had almost turned the whole place upside down; even under the pursuit of many sects, he had managed to survive. That already far exceeded the level of someone who had just stepped into the Heaven-overarching Realm.

Even more troublesome for the Canglan Sect expert was that the Abyssal Demon who killed the Shadow expert was also here—especially since that demon possessed Ge Tian’s supreme treasure. The two of them together, even if his strength wasn’t weak, would still put him in danger.

Hearing the Canglan Sect expert flaunt the backing of his sect, Zhuang Miao Shan laughed. "How does your Canglan Sect compare to Donghua Sect?"

"How does it compare to Shadow?"

"And how does it compare to the Taiyi Divine Sect?"

"I wasn’t afraid of any of them. You think I’d be afraid of your Canglan Sect?"

Before, when he wasn’t sure he could take down the man before him, he let it go. But now, with him and Ye Qiu working together, they could absolutely annihilate the opponent.

He could also finally avenge those repeated hunts.

"You..." Seeing that his threats were useless, the Canglan Sect expert’s eyes flashed and he suddenly fled.

He had to escape!

Zhuang Miao Shan didn’t move, nor did he immediately pursue. He stood there with his hands clasped, quietly watching the Canglan Sect expert rush off.

Yet just as the Canglan Sect expert flashed a thousand meters away in an instant, he suddenly discovered a surge of energy ahead, blocking him and cutting off his path.

He jerked his head up. High above, the Taihuang Bell was floating, radiating a halo of light that covered this area. The Canglan Sect expert’s position was within the range of that halo.

At some point, Ye Qiu had moved into the air, taken out the Taihuang Bell, and covered this region.

"You want to trap me? No way." The Canglan Sect expert hurled a punch upward. Terrifying power crashed into the light ring, but the ring only trembled slightly and did not break. As long as the ring was there, he couldn’t escape.

At this moment, there was a sharp whoosh.

The Bahuang Sword thrust in; the Canglan Sect expert could no longer keep smashing at the barrier and could only continuously clash with the Bahuang Sword.

Right now, the Taihuang Bell had locked this area down, and the Bahuang Sword was attacking automatically. The two were working together perfectly.

Whoosh.

Zhuang Miao Shan flashed over and said, "You can’t escape. You’re at least a Heaven-overarching Realm expert. Show your strength and fight me head-on. Maybe then I’ll think something of you."

The Canglan Sect expert glanced at Ye Qiu outside the barrier. He saw the Taihuang Bell and immediately understood that the barrier was generated by it. Breaking the energy of a supreme treasure would not be easy, and the Bahuang Sword was eyeing him like a tiger, ready to chop down at any time.

Since he couldn’t run like this, then what if he could defeat Zhuang Miao Shan and use him as a hostage?

Maybe that would give him a way out.

Now, even knowing full well that Zhuang Miao Shan was hard to deal with, he still had to make a move.

"Fine, then I’ll properly keep you company for a battle." the Canglan Sect expert shouted, and right after, his attack suddenly came crashing in as he took the initiative.

Standing outside the barrier, Ye Qiu did not intervene in this clash.

Because Teacher Zhuang Miao Shan wanted to resolve it himself.

The only thing Ye Qiu had to do was prevent the Canglan Sect expert from escaping, so he used the Taihuang Bell to seal this heaven and earth.

Leaving space and time for the two of them to decide the victor.

As Zhuang Miao Shan and the Canglan Sect expert fought, Ye Qiu was not idle. A Heaven-overarching Realm battle was something he naturally wouldn’t miss; he watched every Dao-infused strike of the two carefully.

Watching from the sidelines could also deepen one’s insights. That feeling of being outside the situation made Ye Qiu exceptionally focused.

As the fluctuations of the two’s clash surged, Ye Qiu’s expression shifted several times. He took out a demon core, hesitated, then still swallowed it in one go.

For Teacher Zhuang Miao Shan to personally finish the opponent, Ye Qiu didn’t care even if he had to sacrifice an Emperor-rank demon core.

Maintaining the Taihuang Bell’s light screen was no small consumption for him. He wasn’t a true Emperor-rank demon; he only had the power of the demon body. Without the demon core’s power to replenish it, that demonic body power would deplete quickly, so he could only use an Emperor-rank demon core to replenish the demon body’s strength.

This counted as Ye Qiu going all in.

It was extravagant, but as long as it helped Teacher Zhuang Miao Shan take down the Canglan Sect expert, he felt it was worth it.

This battle didn’t last long; it ended even faster than when the two of them had joined forces to kill the Donghua Sect expert earlier.

Because this time, Zhuang Miao Shan was in peak condition, while the Canglan Sect expert only had half his strength left—he must have made a move earlier. With such a gap, the situation quickly became clear: the Canglan Sect expert was being suppressed and his aura grew weaker and weaker.

In contrast, Zhuang Miao Shan fought fiercer the longer he fought. In the end, he forcibly shattered the Canglan Sect expert’s physical body, and the Soul Body immediately jumped out.

Without a body, the Soul Body was much more fragile, and Zhuang Miao Shan began bombarding it.

After several exchanges, the Soul Body was blasted apart. At that point, the Canglan Sect expert died.

Seeing the Canglan Sect expert fall, Ye Qiu withdrew the Taihuang Bell and the Bahuang Sword and stood beside his teacher Zhuang Miao Shan. In order to kill the opponent, Zhuang Miao Shan had also paid a certain price. As soon as the fight ended, he sat down and began to heal.

Ye Qiu quietly stood guard at the side. He didn’t know how long had passed before Zhuang Miao Shan finally recovered.

It was just a pity that during their battle, even the storage ring had been blasted apart by Zhuang Miao Shan, so with the Canglan Sect expert’s death, nothing was left behind.

With his revenge fulfilled, the master and disciple duo set out again, continuing to search for their next target.