Gu Yuan’s body flickered as the stone beneath him shattered inch by inch, feeling the terrifying pressure.

Compared to this giant hand, Gu Yuan seemed like an insignificant mosquito, an ant, completely unnoticeable.

At this moment, however, Gu Yuan unhesitatingly threw the Taiyi Golden Bell.

The Taiyi Golden Bell fell on the surface of the hand, creating a deep pit. However, this injury was insignificant for the hand. In an instant, the shattered wood debris quickly gathered and restored to its original state.

Even the Taiyi Golden Bell embedded in it seemed to be trapped.

The giant hand quickly descended.

But in the next moment, Gu Yuan opened his mouth and gently spat out a word: "Explode!"

Immediately, the Taiyi Golden Bell suddenly exploded, unleashing all its power!

How powerful could the explosion of an upper grade magical treasure be when all its power is released in an instant?

Gu Yuan didn’t know before, but now he knew.

Boom!!! Boom!!!

Before Gu Yuan’s eyes, it seemed as if a giant golden sun exploded rapidly.

The light was dazzling and intensely bright.

Accompanied by waves of heat, like molten gold and iron, rolling out in all directions, the seawater within a few hundred miles rapidly boiled and started to churn and roll, 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

That giant wooden hand was immediately blasted with a huge wound, countless fragments flew in all directions, two of its fingers were severed, and a large hole several miles across appeared in the palm with pits scattered all around.

Immediately after, Gu Yuan made his move.

His body began to shine, the light dazzling and sharp.

This was sword light!

A sharp and unmatched sword intent surged into the sky, as if it could pierce through the heavens.

Soon, a five-colored immortal sword appeared in Gu Yuan’s hand.

The sword light, though faint, carried a fearsome aura that could terrify even a Yin God Giant and make a Yang Spirit cultivator take notice!

Then, Gu Yuan swung his long sword suddenly, slicing through the air with a bright and resplendent sword light, as if it cut the entire world in half.

The sword light landed on the wrist of the giant hand, directly severing it.

The severed giant hand quickly shrank and transformed into a thick black plum tree branch, as robust as a waist, its texture hard and deep.

This was indeed a part of Granny Mei Hua’s true body, and it was cut off by Gu Yuan.

Seeing this, without a second thought, he waved his sleeve and stored the branch into his storage pouch.

He grinned, turned around, and started to flee.

Anyone could tell that in broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of everyone, cutting off Granny Mei Hua’s hand was like tearing down her facade and trampling it on the ground. Granny Mei Hua would definitely be furious and retaliate with full force.

If he didn’t run now, when would he?

Of course, most importantly, that plum tree branch was surely a treasure, and he needed to take the opportunity to flee; otherwise, fighting Granny Mei Hua for no gain would be unreasonable.

Sure enough, shortly after Gu Yuan left, a terrifying aura rushed in from afar like a moving ancient god, exuding an inescapable dreadful aura, as deep as the ocean!

Before long, an aged figure appeared on the deserted island where Gu Yuan had originally been.

This was an old woman with white hair and a face full of wrinkles, hunched over, leaning on a wooden staff.

The wooden staff in her hand was dark green, with a few buds sprouting, vivid and vibrant, exuding vitality.

This person was indeed Granny Mei Hua!

However, at this moment, Granny Mei Hua’s face was as dark as water, extremely unsightly, shadowed with clouds, clearly furious beyond measure.

Her arm was directly severed at the wrist, the wound smooth and bloodless, not regenerating a new hand.

Yang Spirit cultivators often possess methods of limb regeneration, able to grow limbs even if broken or severed.

However, no matter what divine techniques Granny Mei Hua employed, a faint sword intent rose from the wound, rendering her divine techniques ineffective.

Granny Mei Hua let out a cold snort, decisively circulated more mana, and only then cleared the sword intent from the wound.

With a clang of powerful sword resonance, Granny Mei Hua’s hand finally regrew swiftly.

However, losing a hand had greatly damaged Granny Mei Hua’s Primordial Qi, but she couldn’t afford to lament the expended Primordial Qi, swiftly searching for Gu Yuan’s traces.

Though Gu Yuan wasn’t a Yang Spirit cultivator, he mastered numerous divine techniques and great divine techniques.

Upon using the Dreamlike Illusory Flower great divine technique, his entire being vanished without a trace, not a hint of aura leaked out.

Granny Mei Hua pinched her fingers, planning to use divination techniques to find Gu Yuan’s traces.

Granny Mei Hua achieved the Yang Spirit cultivation due to great opportunity.

Years ago, a Primordial Spirit True Immortal lectured under a plum tree, leading Granny Mei Hua to attain enlightenment, comprehending the immortal’s path and cultivation techniques integratively.

She later mastered divination techniques, able to deduce certain things.

In her view, deducing Gu Yuan’s whereabouts should be a simple task.

Yet, after pinching her fingers for a long time, she obtained no result, as if the other party didn’t exist at all.

But how could this be possible?!

Therefore, only one possibility existed: the other had something masking celestial secrets, or he had a significant background, thereby avoiding her divination techniques.

Even her own severed hand, that plum tree branch, seemed to vanish entirely, with no trace calculable.

Granny Mei Hua stood there for a long time, eventually retreating.

She knew that she would have to swallow this silent loss today.

Since she couldn’t find the other party’s trace, how could she talk about revenge?

Though she was a Yang Spirit cultivator, she had suffered a huge silent loss at the hands of a Golden Core Great Cultivator. If word got out, her reputation would surely fall.

"Damn little wretch, don’t let me catch you..."

Granny Mei Hua harbored deep resentment while feeling intense heartache.

To regenerate the severed hand, she expended considerable Primordial Qi, which was bearable, but critically, even part of her painstakingly accumulated Innate Wood Spirit Essence!

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On the other side, turning back half an hour earlier.

After escaping from the original deserted island, Gu Yuan swiftly proceeded somewhere.

Shortly after, flying beyond Granny Mei Hua and others’ divine thought range, he tossed the storage pouch down to a deserted island below.

Soon, another Gu Yuan caught the storage pouch, glanced at his clone flying in another direction, and returned to the cave.

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