With the protection barriers around him, Shang Ke tossed out a Golden Sun Inferno Talisman when they were locked in close quarters combat and they were engulfed in a sea of flames at the same time.

The expert from the Manyu Continent didn’t expect Shang Ke to fight so shamelessly and he desperately defended himself from the flames while trying to retreat.

Shang Ke wouldn’t let him do as he wished. Putting his life on the line, he rushed at the expert from the Manyu Continent.

The expert from the Manyu Continent might be a little stronger than Shang Ke, but that was about it. Because of the sudden explosion caused by the Golden Sun Inferno Talisman and Shang Ke’s relentless attacks, he was caught off guard and his weapon was sent flying with a flick of Shang Ke’s spear.

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It was a shame the barriers around Shang Ke lost their energy and dissipated after he did that.

That might be the case, but the expert from the Manyu Continent was on his last legs. The layer of protection around him made from his extermination origins was starting to falter.

The residual flame from the Golden Sun Inferno Talisman might not be able to harm him directly, but he couldn’t stop the heat from affecting him. Countless blisters formed on his skin due to the heat.

With his weapon flung away, the expert from the Manyu Continent was in no state to continue the fight. Releasing a fist at Shang Ke haphazardly, he didn’t care how it affected his opponent as he turned around to flee the scene.

Easily shattering the energy flying at him, Shang Ke’s spear shot directly at his opponent’s back.

At the crucial moment, the expert from the Manyu Continent twisted his body unnaturally and the spear missed his heart. However, it still tore a hole through his body under his left rib, blowing apart several of his inner organs. Even his bones were revealed after Shang Ke pulled back his spear.

That wasn’t all. Shang Ke’s extermination origin entered his opponent’s body and wreaked havoc everywhere. The expert from the Manyu Continent spat out a mouthful of blood with pieces of his organs mixed into it.

“Argh!” The expert from the Manyu Continent released a miserable cry before pressing his hand against his wound. He was a step away from leaving the sea of flames and at the very last second, a sharp whistle tore through the air and a chilly breeze ripped through the land and suppressed the sea of flames.

The expert from the Manyu Continent who was a step away from escaping froze and his eyes widened in fright. However, it wasn’t long before the light drained from his eyes.

As his body flopped, the tip of a spear could be seen sticking out from his chest. It managed to hold the corpse slightly upright as Shang Ke stared strangely at his enemy. 

At the very last moment, Shang Ke tossed his spear with some inspiration from Shang Xia’s third martial intent, the Divine Killing Spear!

“... You… You played dirty… I… I… I won’t accept this!” The expert from the Manyu Continent spat as blood dripped from his chin. He forced himself to turn to stare at Shang Ke and he growled as his vision grew blurry. “You got lucky… Our world is about to fall and we barely have any resources… Otherwise…”

“You’re right. Your cultivation is slightly higher than mine but why would I not use the rest of my advantages to kill you?” Shang Ke sighed while shaking his head slowly.

There was no saving the Manyu Continent. They couldn’t produce a Martial Dipper Realm expert and because of the leaking world origin, they barely had any resources left. They could only pass down whatever weapons and talismans they had left as they weren’t really craftable with the state of the world. 

That was a reason many of the Martial Extermination Realm experts of the Manyu Continent were using low-grade weapons. The number who could use high-grade weapons was few and there was practically no one who could act as tyrannically as Shang Ke who used 2 talismans in succession.

Adding the talisman he used previously, Shang Ke killed 2 Martial Extermination Realm experts from the Manyu Continent. One was at the first layer of the Martial Extermination Realm and another was at the second layer. 

Because of the battle, the Tongyou Institution lost a first layer Martial Extermination Realm cultivator, Gu Shou. Shang Ke didn’t know if the institution actually benefited from the exchange.

Whatever the case, he knew that Gu Shou was a spent force. He had been holding on desperately and it was a matter of time before he was defeated. Even if he managed to live, he would take a long time to recover. In the end, his foundations would be heavily affected and he wouldn’t be able to improve.

However, a dead Martial Extermination Realm expert and a seriously injured Martial Extermination Realm cultivator were 2 different concepts. At least one of them was still alive and kicking!

Thinking about the resources they commanded on the Manyu Continent, Shang Ke sighed to himself. Actually, even if he managed to save Gu Shou earlier, they wouldn’t have enough resources to keep him alive. Even Shang Ke himself had become like Liu Qinglan. He was exhausted and he wouldn’t be able to fight in the near future.

When Shagn Ke was evaluating his situation and feeling extremely vexed, the situation changed once again.

Shang Lubing deserved his reputation as a wily old fox. The way he responded to the battlefield was several times better than Shang Ke or Liu Qinglan!

After Shang Xia left earlier, Shang Lubing was free to rampage around the battlefield. With his plentiful experience and ability to adapt, he was running circles around the experts of the Manyu Continent! At the same time, he was buying time for the experts of the Tongyou Institution.

He might be saving fires everywhere he went, but he was just a side character. The person who held the key to saving the members of the Tongyou Institution was Shang Xia!

After leaving Shang Lubing, Shang Xia didn’t rush to the outer regions of the battlefield. Instead, he used the final piece of Mist Dissipation Concealment Talisman to rush into the core of the territory controlled by the Tongyou Institution.

The battle taking place there was the key to everything. At the same time, it was also the most violent one that was taking place. The outcome of the battle would decide the fate of the Tongyou Institution.

3 experts of the Manyu Continent with cultivation bases in the third layer Martial Extermination Realm and above were working together to deal with Deputy Patriarch Yun Jing!

When Shang Xia arrived, he discovered that the number of experts the Manyu Continent sent to deal with Yun Jing wasn’t a mere 3. There were 4 of them!

The fourth person was using his extermination origins to suppress a certain location not too far away from the battle and Shang Xia made his way over undetected. When he arrived 3 miles away from the battlefield, he finally saw what the fourth expert was doing. He was actually dealing with a protection formation!

A name immediately popped up in Shang Xia’s mind. There was only one person in the Tongyou Institution at the moment in the Manyu Continent who had the ability to lay down a formation to distract a third layer Martial Extermination Realm expert from the Manyu Continent, Chu Jia!

Shang Xia quickly realized what was going on. It was no wonder he hadn’t seen a large-scale protection formation around the Tongyou Institution’s territory when he entered. 

He thought that the experts of the Manyu Continent managed to break through the protection formation a long time ago with their numbers advantage. However, it seemed as though there was something strange about the formation Chu Jia made. She seemed to have planned for things to go bad and there was another protection formation where she was.

Sneakily approaching the region, Shang Xia didn’t make his move immediately. Instead, he started to observe the surroundings.

He noticed that Deputy Patriarch Yun Jing, the patriarch of the Great Yun Clan of the You Continent, had already refined her fourth extermination origin.

Under the combined assault of a fourth layer Martial Extermination Realm expert and 2 third layer Martial Extermination Realm experts, she seemed to be in a sorry state. However, her life wasn’t in danger.

Shang Xia also knew that it wouldn’t be easy for him to insert himself into a battle of that level to immediately turn the situation around.

In order to increase the chances of succeeding, Shang Xia knew that he had to go closer. 

Circulating his Heaven and Man Synergy Chapter to his limit, he concealed his presence even further. With the talisman, he basically erased his existence from the world.

Under such circumstances, Shang Xia also found it difficult to fly through the air. His speed would be greatly affected, but luckily he had the Auspicious Cloud Cape to help hide his presence while boosting his movements.

Throwing it on, the region around him started to turn foggy as the cape became a sea of mist that hid his presence. He then traveled carefully across the chaotic energy fluctuations of the battle.

His Auspicious Cloud Cape couldn’t compare to the Tranquil Cape when it came to hiding presence, but he wouldn’t be able to move if he used the Tranquil Cape. At the very least, he could approach the battlefield with the Auspicious Cloud Cape on his back.

Just like that, he quickly advanced by close to 300 more feet. When he was barely a mile away from the fight, the strong shockwaves battered against him. He risked being revealed to those fighting nearby.

Shang Xia knew that he couldn’t waste any more time. Even though he risked being discovered, he sent a voice transmission to Yun Jing. At the same time, the mist around him condensed to form the cape behind him as a four colored extermination light gathered around him. Bursting forth with the greatest speed he could muster, he charged straight into battle.

…

When he sent the voice transmission to Yun Jing earlier, the fourth layer Martial Extermination Realm expert from the Manyu Continent detected a strange fluctuation in the range of his divine perception and he yelled, “Who goes there?! Get the hell out here!” 

His words served as a warning for his companions, but his sudden yell shocked everyone else. 

Even Yun Jing was taken aback when she received Shang Xia’s voice transmission earlier.

Her shock was one thing, and the surprise the experts of the Manyu Continent felt was another. However, none of those mattered as Shang Xia didn’t give Yun Jing time to hesitate as he carried out his plan instantly. Neither did he give the experts of the Manyu Continent time to react.

…

By the time Shang Xia’s presence was revealed, he was already charging at one of them!

Everyone widened their eyes in fright. Even Yun Jing couldn’t believe how close Shang Xia had gotten to them! The newcomer managed to get so close without any of them discovering his presence!

Their shock that Shang Xia managed to get so close was quickly replaced by fright. They were frightened by how quickly he was flying!

Kou Chongxue had once said that because of the way he entered the Martial Extermination Realm, he could rival a third layer Martial Extermination Realm expert even though he hadn’t refined his extermination origins to a high level.

However, that was before factoring in the Abyssal Blade!

A battle among Martial Extermination Realm experts might span several dozen miles. However, the true exchange would be contained within a radius of 1000 to 2000 feet.

Shang Xia moved extremely quickly, but Yun Jing wasn’t slow either. Neither were the Martial Extermination Realm experts from the Manyu Continent. Of the 3, one of them broke off and tried to intercept Shang Xia.

It took a long time to describe everything that happened, but with their speed, everything happened in the blink of an eye. Even though a Martial Extermination Realm expert was flying at him, Shang Xia made a surprising decision to hide his Abyssal Blade!

Instead, a talisman fluttered through the air and landed directly on the forehead of the cultivator from the Manyu Continent.

“Gotchu…” Shang Xia muttered and the cultivator from the Manyu Continent widened his eyes in shock as his body and mind froze.