Ye Bin released his Flying Sword again, aiming to cleave the three youngsters, but just then, Miaomiao took out a Circulation Hunyuan Umbrella, holding it before the trio. She unfurled the umbrella to unleash a swath of dark clouds wreathed in a ring of golden light that began to spin. As the sinister clouds billowed and the Golden Radiance surged, even Ruan Zheng, who was contending with the trio up in the sky, felt a brightness before his eyes, "Truly a fine Magical Treasure!"

Though the Hunyuan Umbrella blocked the Ice Soul Divine Light Sword, from another direction came the Meridian Divine Light that twisted around the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler, flying towards Ye Bin. Suddenly, a startling vermilion aurora streaked across the sky from a distance. It came with incredible swiftness, slashing diagonally like lightning and actually cutting the Meridian Divine Light in half. Following this, the ruler was drawn by a force towards the edge of the platform where a youth in blue was arriving—it was Lin Han.

The Meridian Divine Light was a treasure that Ye Bin had refined with countless efforts; now, cut in two, her brows furrowed with anger. She pointed and released four colored sword lights—a red and a blue hovering side by side, a green and a white skimming close to the ground. The four swords, radiating splendid hues, shot towards Lin Han.

Lin Han, fearless and resolute, gripped his master's Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler in his left hand while his right formed a seal to drive the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword, entangling it with the four Flying Swords of the opponent.

The Ice Soul Divine Light Sword was clearly no match for the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword. Only thanks to Ye Bin's deep Mana was each sword able to bear her profound and vigorous Mana, with True Qi infusion providing reinforcement. Yet they could not suppress the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword. The twenty-yard-long vermilion aurora, resembling a monstrous serpent churning within the sea, caused the colored radiance of her four swords to erupt in flashes, yet still, they were at a disadvantage. Ye Bin was forced to redirect two more Flying Swords, just barely managing to hold her ground against the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword.

On one hand, Ye Bin was astonished by the mystical nature of the Flying Sword; on the other hand, she was annoyed. The opponent was just a snotty youngster, and yet, despite her having cultivated the Dao for hundreds of years, she still couldn't subdue him. She decided to redirect the remaining three sword lights as well, recombining the nine-colored Sword Qi into a single rainbow, clashing with the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword.

Lin Han instantly felt the pressure multiply. After all, his cultivation time was too short, and as his True Qi was vastly depleted with each collision of the swords, he felt his spirit shaken. After a while of combat, his face turned deathly pale, and his forehead glistened with fine, crystalline sweat.

Meanwhile, Ye Bin's forceful hacking and cleaving were unable to quickly defeat him, so she resorted to more cunning techniques. The nine-colored Sword Qi diverged, the different Light Energies stirring against each other, a veritable storm of color and light, no longer resembling swords but rather a tide flooding from all directions towards the center. Within this colorful torrent lay seemingly endless Sword Qi, poised to dismember and grind him into mincemeat.

Knowing he could not withstand this, Lin Han remembered the words that had appeared on the note left by his master, instructing him to release the Cold Soul Pearl when engulfed by the colorful lights, then immediately escape by Sword Control.

Feeling the time was right, he hastily drew out a Treasure Bead given to him by Shi Feiyang in the afternoon and employed the Three Lights Tribulation Transformation Method. Using the bead as a sacrifice, a clone congealed to remain in his place while his true body quietly slipped through a gap in the Ice Soul Divine Light and fled the battlefield at top speed.

Shi Feiyang had learned the method of refining the Nine Heavens Cold Soul Pearl from Geng Kun. The process was not difficult, but collecting Moon Essence Cold Essence was very time-consuming. At that time, he had the Water Clan from Roc Bay gather plenty, but afterward, he ceased collection. Upon arriving at the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, without the moon, it was impossible to gather Moon Essence Cold Essence.

Fortunately, he possessed a ten-thousand-year-old Ice Worm that could emit Extremely Yin Cold Qi from its mouth. This essence was different in nature from the Moon Essence Cold Essence: one was celestial Yin while the other was terrestrial Yin. Shi Feiyang had modified the refining method to substitute the latter, thus creating beads that could at best be called the Nine Earth Cold Soul Pearl.

Of course, he hadn't invested too much effort into them, producing only three with the size of a dragon's eye and without the power to blast a hundred miles radius to ruin—at most, fifty miles.

He had provided one to Lin Han, instructing him on how to use it at this moment.

Ye Bin's Ice Soul Cold Light Sword was crafted from the finest Yin Yang Magnetic True Qi and cosmic rays captured from the earth, condensed and refined. Branded as nine-colored Sword Light, it encompassed thousands of hues, capable of transformation at will and dazzling beyond measure. Because of this characteristic, not only could it congeal into a sword to behead opponents, but it could also break apart into radiant light to envelop and annihilate a person in one fell swoop!

At that moment, as she was converging a vast tide of colorful aurora towards "Lin Han", multitudes of sword blades sprang from the dazzling light, shredding "Lin Han" to pieces. It was then that the Cold Soul Pearl inside detonated.

With a "snap!", a crisp and intense explosion resonated through the heavens, scattering the layered colorful light outwards, turning it into countless filaments of color, a floral rain shooting across the sky. It was as if a several-ton heavy firework had been set off atop Qianling Mountain, casting a colorful sheen within a thousand miles. Moreover, these strands of Divine Light, interacting with the surrounding magnetic field, became even more colorful and twisted in constant transformation—an enthralling sight to behold!

The Divine Sword having been blasted apart, Ye Bin's spirit was shaken, coupled with the intense cold energy released by the exploding Cold Soul Pearl. A normal person would have frozen into an ice sculpture upon such impact.

She hastily released the Polar Circle from her wrist to shield herself, absorbing the oncoming cold, while retreating backward in flight, simultaneously forming a seal to recollect the scattered colored light from the sky.

The Ice Soul Divine Light could separate and recombine at will. Although dispersed by the explosion, she could gather it back; seeking a secluded spot to channel energy and meditate would restore it in just a few two-hour intervals.

It was then, from the sky, that a bright disc arose, shedding thick and cool silver radiance. At a glance, the onlookers thought the moon had emerged, only to see a Treasure Bead hanging in the air with a woman in black behind it, floating in midair and casting with her seals, channel after channel of True Qi exploding forth.

This figure was naturally Deng Bagu, exerting her full power to stimulate the Snow Soul Pearl.

The Snow Soul Pearl spun incessantly, emitting tens of thousands of extremely cold beams, enveloping the floating Ice Soul Divine Light in its midst.

Ye Bin discovered that her Ice Soul Divine Light was, astonishingly, being drawn towards the central silver-white Treasure Bead as if attracted by a magnet. She was taken aback but then sneered in her heart, thinking her opponent was overestimating their capabilities. This Ice Soul Divine Light was the precious result of her lifelong cultivation, released and retracted at will, intertwined with her very breath, becoming one with her. Although momentarily out of control due to the explosion, it was not something an outsider could simply take as they pleased!

She raised her hand and released the Circulation Ring. This treasure was also crafted using the Yin Yang Magnetic True Qi and combined with the Five Elements Method, perfect for quickly retrieving the Ice Soul Divine Light.

At that moment, Lin Han, who had previously fled, reappeared. Upon seeing Deng Bagu, he flew back and used his Nanming Leaving Fire Sword to strike at the Circulation Ring.

This gave Ye Bin quite the shock, for she had already experienced the power of that sword. Once struck by it, the Circulation Ring would undoubtedly be destroyed, so she had no choice but to beckon with her hand and retract the ring.

Lin Han then followed up, continuing his assault with the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword towards her. Ye Bin formed gestures with both hands, making the Circulation Ring fly erratically up and down, releasing the Yin Yang Magnetic True Qi from within the ring to attract the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword. Being forged from Western True Gold, it was drawn towards the swirling energies, constantly being pulled off course. Lin Han was encountering this method of fighting for the first time and had to steel his resolve, reinvigorating his spirit, and fiercely thrust forward with powerful strikes from his Vermilion Fire Sword.

Ye Bin was desperate to force him back so she could collect the scattered Ice Soul Divine Light in the sky. Several times she risked trying to snatch the sword but nearly had her arm slashed by the Nanming Leaving Fire Sword instead. In the intense battle, she found the ring inferior to the sword, being beaten back repeatedly. Lin Han's fighting spirit surged more ferociously by the moment, his sword moves unstoppable like a rainbow.

Ye Bin watched as the shattered colorful lights in the sky were all absorbed, streaming towards the center and entering the Snow Soul Pearl. Eventually, the white light flared up once more, casting an immeasurable silver glow back onto the earth.

Deng Bagu knew this was a treasure and, not wanting to spare even the tiniest remnant, she swiftly maneuvered the Snow Soul Pearl to roll around everywhere, capturing every escaping trace.

Ye Bin watched helplessly as her laboriously cultivated Ice Soul Divine Light was forcefully taken by someone else, her own powerlessness filling her with both rage and urgency. She tried casting spells to summon her Flying Sword back to her to no avail, and in a burst of furious helplessness, she spewed out a mouthful of blood!

After collecting the Ice Soul Divine Light, Deng Bagu did not assist Lin Han in continuing to defeat Ye Bin but instead hurriedly flew off to attack Qian Kang.

Qian Kang, an Earth Immortal and long-term city lord, unleashed all his Magical Treasures in response, and, joined by his wife, repeatedly shattered the Cold Centipede several times. As the time for the Demon Dragon's awakening drew near, the couple lunged towards the grand hall, only to be stopped at the entrance by Miaomiao wielding the Circulation Hunyuan Umbrella, who was attacking the umbrella with the Thousand Leaf Divine Thunder.

Although the Circulation Hunyuan Umbrella was formidable, Miaomiao's mana was too weak, and she was being overpowered by the Thousand Leaf Divine Thunder Charge. After a brief struggle, a hole was blasted through the dark clouds on the umbrella by the green and white Qi, and the golden light emitted by the Circulation Divine Talismans began to dim.

Anticipating that the Earth Penetrating Divine Needle would also be restrained by the Divine Thunder Charge, Deng Bagu refrained from using it and instead released the Snow Soul Pearl.

The Snow Soul Pearl shone brightly, spewing forth rolling cold waves. Seeing its power, the couple Qian Kang had to turn back to defend. No other Flying Sword Magical Treasures could withstand it, so they redirected the Divine Thunder Charge, confronting the emitted cold light from the treasure bead. The opposing properties clashed, an equal match, causing a chaotic eruption of crackling explosions and swirling light and smoke.

At this moment, two streaks of sword light flew in from the south. Xiong Man and Shi Sheng also came to support.

Previously, the assault on the Five Bright Prefectures by the group from the Forty-Seven Islands was a feint; a mere bluff. Once Ye Bin and the others arrived, they immediately turned around to attack the Evernight City. Therefore, Lin Han and Deng Bagu were the first to rush to aid Tianxin Palace. While Xiong Man, Shi Sheng, Jin Xunu, and Yuan Hua helped fight against the myriad Demon Beasts, and with victory already in sight, Jin Xunu and Yuan Hua stayed to oversee the front line, they sent Xiong Man and Shi Sheng back to protect their master.

With Ye Bin having lost her Flying Sword, Qian Kang and his wife matched against Deng Bagu, the Cold Centipede was no longer suppressed and was unleashing its formidable power. The three elite disciples from Emei Sect, Ruan Zheng, Shen Tuhong, and Zhuge Jingwo, simply couldn't hold them off, and defeat was inevitable. Now, they were faced with the addition of two fresh reinforcements from the enemy side.

Qian Kang shouted, "We can't achieve anything further today. Let's retreat and plan for the long term!"

Ye Bin was reluctant, but she knew that for now, the Ice Soul Divine Light was unrecoverable. She had to fly over and join Qian Kang. Lin Han and Shi Sheng were not about to let them escape easily and launched their Flying Swords in attack. Qian Kang used the Thousand Leaf Divine Thunder Charge to clear a path, taking Ye Bin and the three Emei heroes with him as they broke through to the sky and speedily fled.

Once again defeated, they returned to Evernight City in profound dejection to find the ground beneath the city gates littered with corpses, no less than a hundred dead.

Amidst them stood a young beggar, dressed in patched clothes and barefoot, holding a tattered old yellow bamboo stick for beating dogs. He stood quietly, appearing disheveled and lowly, but his eyes were bright and full of life.

Ruan Zheng hurried forward to greet him, "Elder, why... Didn't you say you did not wish to reveal yourself?"

The beggar replied irritably to them, "If I hadn't shown up, all of your sect's brats would have been slaughtered by now!"

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