She knew clearly that only in a life-and-death struggle could she become complete, achieve Ancestral Transformation, and step into the Fourth Realm.

Gu Xuejian stood tall with long legs, her snow-white neck exposed as the warm wind blew open the collar, revealing creamy white skin. Her three thousand strands of black hair danced lightly in the breeze.

And just at that moment, a commotion suddenly came from the distance, several streaks of light flying down into the Central Army Camp.

Soon after, a powerful energy clash erupted.

After a fierce confrontation, the sound of clashing blades stopped abruptly, as if the outcome had been decided...

But in the next instant, the distant sky turned green, and even the snowflakes turned green.

A dizzying, twisted green opened up in the distance.

"Poison Domain.

Peng Mi."

The people led by Gu Xuejian arrived.

She brought her long legs together, taking a light step into the void, then flew swiftly and efficiently towards the opening of the Poison Domain.

At this moment,

The inside of the Central Army Camp was in chaos, a fierce battle erupted throughout the several miles of camps.

Solders against soldiers, generals against generals, kings against kings...

Yet Jing Ruyi was having a hard time, wielding a Strange Blade and fighting desperately. One expert after another fell from poison, only to be summoned by some force, surrounding Jing Ruyi to fight for him.

Above, a man with a smiling face watched with interest, like a cat playing with a mouse, and said, "What an interesting weapon, truly befitting of what Gong Lang forged before his death.

What do you say, Jing Ruyi? It’s a pity to die here; why not join us?"

"Join you?"

"The Five Elements Forces have long since decayed and should die along with the old era, and you... have a decent Spiritual Artifact, so you have a choice."

"Alright, I’ll join."

"So straightforward, haha..."

"As long as you kneel and kowtow a hundred times, I might consider joining you," Jing Ruyi said fiercely while swinging his Strange Blade in an attempt to break free from the Poison Domain.

However, Peng Mi wasn’t angry and said, "It seems you have a lot of confidence in your blade... But what if I let you watch it get broken right before your eyes, would you be happy? Blessings..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Peng Mi did not personally act, yet dense poison appeared in the void around him. Upon closer inspection, these toxins all had a trace of connection with the long blade in his hand...

"Poison Tide!"

Peng Mi casually swung his blade, and waves of green, bright poison light were born from his blade, but these did not fall towards Jing Ruyi; instead, the space of more than a dozen feet around him turned from light green to deep green.

Everything was corroded within the deepened green.

Rocks, soil, thick tents, even the weapons placed on the weapon rack in front of the tent, were all corroded, turning into charcoal.

Jing Ruyi stopped controlling the corpses to resist and turned to flee.

But how could he outrun Peng Mi?

Peng Mi didn’t even need to take action, moving leisurely while simply placing Jing Ruyi in his Poison Domain, and Jing Ruyi would be quickly corroded.

As for fighting desperately, Jing Ruyi lacked the ability; his only chance for survival was to escape.

The Fifth Grade’s life force was extremely strong, even if dismembered by a stronger expert, there was still a trace of life. After all, as long as the heart is hidden somewhere at a critical moment, it could gradually come back to life.

But if corroded completely by this Poison Domain, no matter how strong the life force, it would be useless.

This is a Poison Domain specifically designed to kill the Fifth Grade.

Peng Mi followed Jing Ruyi leisurely, watching him struggle, and said with a laugh, "Gong Lang’s spirit might shed tears in heaven? You, let him down.

But don’t worry, soon... I will find Li Yuanzhu’s Spiritual Artifact as well, to make a pair and place them on the trophy rack."

In the Poison Domain, Jing Ruyi finally couldn’t endure anymore, screaming in agony as his skin and flesh had been corroded, and even two fingers of his right hand, which held the blade, had been corroded to white bone.

Peng Mi said, "You could have a quick end. Tell me, who did Li Yuanzhu’s Spiritual Artifact go to?"

"Who? Heh... Hahaha!" Jing Ruyi laughed crazily. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

And suddenly, both Peng Mi above and the laughing Jing Ruyi seemed to sense something, turning their heads to look in another direction.

Peng Mi saw only a brilliant flash of lightning...

The lightning split his Poison Domain into two in an instant.

The Poison Tide quickly "healed," but how could it match the speed of the lightning?

If the lightning lingered in the Poison Tide, it might extinguish, but... the lightning merely cut in and out in an instant, too fast for the Poison Tide to manifest its "sustained damage" power.

What!!

Peng Mi’s scalp prickled, hurriedly swinging his blade to block.

Boom!

The smiling Vice Sect Leader of the Black Lotus Sect unexpectedly got heavily slammed, crashing to the ground, forming a large pit.

Above the pit, dust rolled, warm snow flew.

Below the pit, fine black gas climbed like hunting snakes!

In a flash, a wisp of black gas bit into Peng Mi’s ankle.

In the next moment, more black gas climbed onto his body, trying to drill into him.

Peng Mi only felt a slight sense of weakness coming over him. He quickly scanned the ground, sensing more black gas rising from the underground, and shot into the air.

But before he could get high in the air, a flash of cold light came again.

The left side!

Peng Mi felt a surge on his left cheek, and sure enough, the Poison Domain around him was once again torn open by the electric light, as he hastily swung his blade!

Boom!

Peng Mi was once again knocked flying.

"Fourth Grade! Is it Qing Hancheng?"

Peng Mi confirmed the opponent’s realm, shouting, but when he glanced at the baleful aura hanging around him, he frowned and said, "You’re not from Qing Hancheng! Who are you?"

Swish swish swish!

Swish swish!!

The white shadow did not answer but was so fast that even Jing Ruyi and Peng Mi could only see layer upon layer of apparition.