"Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for your timely rescue and resolving the issue with my Spirit Root. This great kindness, Shangfeng will always remember and dare not forget," Nan Shangfeng said sincerely, his tone filled with gratitude.

"It was merely a trivial act. The outside is fraught with danger now; staying there is too risky. You should return to my Shura Palace and recuperate," Yuan Ming said indifferently, as if it were all a matter of course.

Before Nan Shangfeng could respond, Yuan Ming activated the Shura Palace, a flash of light passed, and Nan Shangfeng's figure vanished, taken into the Shura Palace.

Having done all this, Yuan Ming once again cast his gaze towards the outside.

Master Tantai, Long Hou, and others were now immobilized, each becoming extraordinarily tall, resembling giants.

Besides, their aura far surpassed before, yet their expressions were empty and fierce, as if they had completely lost their minds.

More strangely, their skin had grown fish-scale-like black scale armor, looking extremely bizarre, as if they had turned into some unknown creatures.

Yuan Ming furrowed his brow slightly, looking at these cultivators turned monsters, feeling uncertain about restoring them to their original state.

Just then, he noticed Sima Changqin among the group.

Unlike the others, his body was enveloped in a shield of ice-blue, emitting an icy cold aura, surprisingly able to withstand the black aura, keeping it out.

Sima Changqin's figure moved like the wind, transforming into a blue light speeding towards the depth of the cave, as if to merge into the endless darkness.

Su Wu glanced at the escaping figure but did not pursue, focusing solely on fending off Jie Cha's attacks.

He waved his hand, revealing a dark mark in his palm.

The next moment, Master Tantai and others' eyes suddenly turned blood-red, issuing beast-like low growls, driven by some power, madly rushing towards Jie Cha.

Su Wu laughed out loud, lightly waving his hand, sending seven or eight strands of Heavenly Cicada Black Qi like arrows towards Jie Cha, forming an encircling attack alongside Master Tantai and others.

Jie Cha sneered, nimbly dodged the black qi, landing steadily within a three-layered circular seventh-level magic array.

At the center of the formation, a golden light suddenly appeared, array patterns consecutively lit up like ignited, the dazzling golden light layer by layer rose, as if to pierce the cave vault.

In this layered golden light, an enormous golden sword formation slowly emerged, the brilliant golden sword shadows stacked layer upon layer, like a towering golden sword tower, piercing the sky.

Jie Cha formed a sword technique, and immediately came the "clang clang" sound of metal friction from the golden sword tower, countless golden sword shadows shooting out like meteors, slashing straight at Master Tantai and others, and those black aura.

In an instant, the sword shadows illuminated the entire underground cave, and the sharp Sword Qi sealed the area within a hundred feet around Jie Cha impenetrably.

Master Tantai and others seemed oblivious, directly rushing into the countless sword lights.

The next moment, their bodies were torn apart under the criss-cross sword Qi.

Surprisingly, their bodies didn't turn to pieces but morphed into waves of black Qi, aside from being slightly coarse, that black Qi was almost indistinguishable from Su Wu's Heavenly Cicada Black Qi.

After the sword glow passed, the black Qi quickly condensed, once again forming the figures of Master Tantai and others.

They seemed unharmed, continuing their attack towards Jie Cha.

Jie Cha's eyes flashed with surprise, and even Yuan Ming's brow slightly furrowed.

They were amazed by Master Tantai's current form, resembling the Undying Body; what means had Su Wu used to instantaneously grant such divine skills to Master Tantai and the group of puppets?

Jie Cha quickly regained his composure, continuing to control the golden sword formation to slash at Master Tantai.

In the face of the sharp Sword Qi, Master Tantai and others showed no fear, directly confronting the boundless sword light.

At this moment, the boundless sword light suddenly withdrew, recondensed into a towering golden sword tower, tightly enclosing Master Tantai and others within.

The air inside the sword tower seemed to be transformed by some force, becoming as solid as golden iron, Master Tantai and others instantly immobilized, unable to break free despite their struggles.

Jie Cha's gaze shifted, looking towards the place where Su Wu originally was, and his expression suddenly changed.

Su Wu, previously surrounded by numerous formations, had disappeared without a trace, as if merging into the surrounding void.

Jie Cha became alert, ready to cast a spell to probe, when a deep voice suddenly rang in his ear: "He's to your left, retreat quickly!"

Jie Cha's eyes narrowed, without hesitation, he flew to the right, his figure turning into a green shadow, traversing the cave.

At this moment, Su Wu, concealing his figure, saw this and his face darkened, his form slowly revealing.

He flipped his palm, and a surge of black Qi poured out like tide, instantly engulfing most of the sword formation.

Those sharp sword lights and sword shadows, before the dense Heavenly Cicada Black Qi, were rapidly swallowed completely, even the golden sword tower imprisoning Master Tantai and others, disintegrated under the corrosion of the black Qi.

Jie Cha's face darkened.

He knew Su Wu's methods were bizarre and dared not linger, accelerating his escape towards the distance.

At this moment, the void before him suddenly split open with a crack, Su Wu's upper body emerged from it, while his lower half remained in the distance.

This scene was extremely bizarre, as if Su Wu's body was being torn apart alive.

Su Wu raised his arm, and a long sword, black as ink, suddenly appeared in his hand. Without hesitation, he swung the sword and thrust it, the tip pointing directly at Jie Cha's chest.

The black long sword emitted a fierce Black Sword Qi, which instantly pierced through Jie Cha's chest, corroding a large hole in it.

The Black Sword Qi seemed to have a life of its own, poised to devour Jie Cha's entire body.

A flash of green light shimmered across Jie Cha's body, and his form suddenly dissipated into countless green glows, vanishing into the air.

The next moment, in the void a dozen feet away, these glows reconverged, and Jie Cha's figure reappeared.

Surrounding the void, streams of azure light spiraled and flowed into his body, and the large hole in his chest began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye, completely restored within a breath or two.

As an Artifact Spirit, Jie Cha was closely connected to the entire Three Realms Immortal Boat, his Life Force nearly endless.

Although the recent strike was dangerous, it didn't cause him much harm.

Witnessing this, a trace of surprise flickered in Su Wu's eyes.

He retreated his upper body back into the void, returning to the location of his main body.

Meanwhile, Jie Cha seized this opportunity, flickering into a streak of green light and executed a Flying Escape, once again entering a Level 7 Fire Attribute Formation.

As he waved his hands, the formation blazed up with towering flames.

Eight fire dragons, red as blood, soared and intertwined, their heads held high, their dragon scales glistening, as if they had stepped out of ancient legends.

The fire dragons spewed endless flames towards the attacking Su Wu, with the flames surging forward as if to incinerate the entire cavern.

This formation was called the "Eight Desolate Fire Dragon Formation," a masterpiece of Jie Cha's, with the True Dragon Flames it emitted capable of melting everything.

Even at this moment, Su Wu didn't dare to underestimate it, and his expression turned serious.

He opened his mouth and spat out, unleashing a mountain-like black mist that collided with the flames on the verge of igniting the sky.

Although the Heavenly Cicada Black Qi could devour flames, the True Dragon Flames opposing them were too ferocious. The black mist couldn't suppress them instantly, leading to a stalemate.

Just then, two blue-green tendrils suddenly jabbed out from the void.

Like living creatures, they deftly pierced through the Eight Desolate Fire Dragon Formation's defenses and punctured the core of the Array.

The next moment, tremendous Fire Attribute Spiritual Power surged through the tendrils into the Array, as if injecting new life into the fire dragons.

In an instant, the entire formation's firelight and spirit light surged, with the flames pouring out like a breached flood, more imposing than ever.

The fire on the eight fire dragons burgeoned rapidly, the crimson in their flame-forged eyes turning gold-red, as if bestowed with life, enhancing their power five to six times over.

The combined flames spewed by the eight fire dragons exploded violently upon striking Su Wu's black mist without waiting to be devoured.

A loud "boom" resounded.

The black mist was directly shattered, and the scorching flames blasted Su Wu into the air, heavily slamming him against the cavern's stone wall.

"Good, little friend Wan, you didn't disappoint me. Quickly join me in subduing this brute!" Jie Cha shouted loudly.

As the Artifact Spirit of the Three Realms Immortal Boat, although Jie Cha could mobilize the Spiritual Power within the World Tree, he was significantly restricted, and the amount of Spiritual Power he could access was quite limited.

The true power lay in the hands of the owner of the Three Realms Immortal Boat, who had refined the World Tree. They could freely command that vast ocean of Spiritual Power at will.

Yuan Ming stood quietly to the side, making no vocal response, merely silently manipulating the tendrils of the World Tree, flexibly inserting them into the cores of the other four Seven-level Magic Arrays, like Spiritual Snakes.

As these tendrils delved deeper, torrents of vast Spiritual Power poured into these formations like a flood, greatly enhancing their might.

The first to change was the Ten Thousand Sword Cage Formation.

The previously faltering Sword Array regained form with the new influx of Spiritual Power. The golden light within the array surged several times over, the layers of Golden Light Sword Shadows becoming more substantial, as if capable of slashing through the void.

Master Tantai and others, just breaking free of their bonds, barely had time to catch their breath before being suppressed once more by the resurging power of the Sword Tower.

At the same time, thousands of Golden Light Sword Shadows coalesced into a brilliant Sword Dragon in the void, roaring as it unleashed unparalleled Sword Qi, charging directly at Su Wu.

The other three formations also displayed astonishing power.

In the Water Wood Formation, azure black vines grew wildly like tentacles.

In the Water Attribute Formation, towering waves surged, threatening to engulf everything.

The Earth Attribute Formation emitted ring after ring of dense earth-yellow glow, rapidly expanding out to envelop Su Wu.

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