Chapter 986 - Besieged by Earth Profound Realm

Han Feizi reached out to catch the interspatial ring, but he refused to leave. Liu Feng and Gu Yu were unwilling to leave Liu Wuxie behind either.

They had decided to fight alongside him, even if it meant dying on the battlefield.

Even if Liu Wuxie hadn't seized most of the spiritual vein, Luan Tianzhi and the others still wouldn't have let him escape the sacred ground alive. They had decided long ago to kill him if he tried to escape.

"Brother Liu, I'm not going anywhere," Han Feizi said, drawing his sword with resolve. "How could I face anyone if you died here? I'm staying."

"If you still see me as a brother, take them and leave immediately!" Liu Wuxie ordered.

The Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan accelerated, and they would be trapped unless they fled now. Liu Wuxie wanted to leave, but Luan Tianzhi and the others wouldn't give him the chance.

While others still ignored the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan, Liu Wuxie knew its horrors all too well.

Many cultivators stood around, commenting on the spectacle. They had no idea they were dancing on a razor's edge. The Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan would consume them all once it sped up.

The sacred ground resembled a crumbling house. Its collapse began in silence, but it would soon unleash a devastating vortex, dragging everything down.

"It's exactly because we're brothers that I'm not leaving!" Han Feizi said, tears streaming down his face. This was a rare, emotional moment for the usually carefree Han Feizi.

"Get lost! All of you, get lost!" Liu Wuxie roared with his back facing them. Their presence would only complicate things.

"Brother Han, take them with you. I'll stay and fight alongside Big Brother Liu," Gu Yu stepped forward, determined to stand beside Liu Wuxie.

Luan Tianzhi and the others closed in, not giving Liu Wuxie any more time to speak further. They recognized the threat of the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan and planned on escaping with the supreme-grade spirit stones after killing Liu Wuxie.

"We're leaving!"

Choking back tears, Han Feizi rallied everyone to escape.

Luan Tianzhi and the others had no grudges against anyone else, as their target was always Liu Wuxie. There was no need to waste energy on Han Feizi and the others.

"I'm not leaving! I can't allow Wuxie to fight by himself!" Liu Feng refused.

Liu Wuxie was his younger brother, and they shared the same blood. There was no way he could abandon his own blood.

"You fool! Don't you understand his intention?" Han Feizi snapped. If they stayed behind, Liu Wuxie couldn't protect them once the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan spread. Even if they stayed, how much difference could they really make?

They would only become burdens to Liu Wuxie, and the best help they could provide was to leave, allowing Liu Wuxie to focus on the fight.

Everyone understood, but there weren't many who could put it into action.

"Fine, we'll retreat, but not too far. Brother Han, please help Wuxie to repel them," Liu Feng said with tears clouding his vision. He retreated and left Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan's range.

However, the group was determined that they wouldn't leave without Liu Wuxie.

Han Feizi nodded. He had already planned to send them to safety before returning to help Liu Wuxie.

All the surrounding cultivators began to flee for their lives as the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan approached them.

The group had retreated nearly a thousand meters before Han Feizi returned, having handed the interspatial ring to Liu Feng for safekeeping. After all, Liu Wuxie now stood alone against five Earth Profound Realm cultivators.

Liu Wuxie relied on his movement and dao techniques to dart between attacks. Several times, he narrowly escaped death.

"Liu Wuxie, I bet you didn't expect to see this day. Surrender quietly," Mu Yuanyi sneered.

He was still burning with rage from the experience back in the city. He had nearly killed Liu Wuxie in the city before Han Feizi had ruined everything.

"It won't be easy to kill me," Liu Wuxie spat.

He unleashed the Great Five Elemental Palm—a colossal force that came crashing down and drove the five Earth Profound Realm experts back.

The Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan was closing in—now only a hundred meters away—and its corrosive force spread rapidly through the air. Worse still, it wasn't coming from just one direction. The phenomenon had manifested all around them, enclosing the battlefield.

The light screen transformed into a prison. Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan's phenomenon appeared everywhere, not just in this place.

The Great Five Elemental Palm fell with a deafening roar, unleashing powerful waves that forced everyone to retreat. The power was enough to threaten the lives of Earth Profound Realm cultivators. The ground collapsed beneath them, and the six soared into the air.

At this moment, Han Feizi joined the fight, aiming his sword at Yuan Zilong.

Back in the city, Liu Wuxie would've slain Mu Yuanyi if not for Yuan Zilong, and Han Feizi's arrival had given him a brief moment to catch his breath.

However, Han Feizi's help wasn't enough to eliminate this crisis, as Liu Wuxie was already at his limit dealing with just one.

Han Feizi was stronger than Yuan Zilong, but it wasn't easy for him to kill his opponent. Anyone who had reached the Earth Profound Realm was formidable; the higher one's cultivation, the harder they were to kill.

"Liu Wuxie, die!" Luan Tianzhi roared.

He clasped his hands together and began forming terrifying palm prints. They were all fused dao techniques he had spent the last five years in the sacred ground mastering.

Mu Yuanyi unleashed his dao technique, sending thorny vines lashing toward Liu Wuxie, while Liang Yi followed up with a sweeping wave of radiant sword rays.

Mi Ze had recently broken through to the Earth Profound Realm but lacked the strength like others. His primary role was to harass Liu Wuxie during the fight.

With attacks closing in from all sides, Liu Wuxie's movements were rapidly restricted.

Mu Yuanyi's vines coiled around Liu Wuxie's legs and froze him in place, and Liang Yi's sword ray descended from the sky. If Liu Wuxie couldn't dodge in time, he would be killed by Liang Yi.

In seamless coordination, Luan Tianzhi's palm prints sealed off Liu Wuxie's retreat. They had trained together for the past few days for this moment.

Danger closed in on Liu Wuxie, and Han Feizi was too far away to intervene.

Then, a blinding sword ray descended from the sky.

"Five against someone at the Spirit Profound Realm? Aren't you people a little too much?" Qiao Bian had stepped in. He refused to watch any longer.

Liu Wuxie had relied on his ability to claim the majority of the spiritual vein, and they could've also done the same if they had the capability.

Qiao Bian's sword ray severed the vines wrapped around Liu Wuxie's legs, allowing him to regain his freedom.

"Thank you, Brother Qiao!" Liu Wuxie said sincerely.

Qiao Bian had saved him before, and Liu Wuxie still owed the former a favor for the Thunder Saint Pearl.

"I just couldn't stand how shameless they are," Qiao Bian said. He did not want Liu Wuxie to feel burdened by his actions.

"Qiao Bian, you want to meddle again?!" Luan Tianzhi roared.

Qiao Bian had come out of nowhere just when he was about to kill Liu Wuxie.

"You're right. So what can you do to me?" Qiao Bian shrugged. His carefree personality was comparable to Han Feizi's.

Luan Tianzhi could only grit his teeth at his words. If they couldn't kill Liu Wuxie, all their efforts would go down the drain.

While Liu Wuxie had retrieved the spiritual vein, they had failed to collect any supreme-grade spirit stones.

"Brother Luan, you hold off Qiao Bian. The three of us will deal with Liu Wuxie," Liang Yi proposed.

Luan Tianzhi nodded. "Okay!"

He was the strongest among the four and the perfect candidate to stall Qiao Bian.

Their battle spread across multiple regions.

Han Feizi's clash with Yuan Zilong caused the surrounding mountains to crumble, and the aftershock of their clash spread to tens of thousands of meters.

The remaining three Earth Profound Realm experts surrounded Liu Wuxie in a triangular formation.

The Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan crept closer, and they lost room to maneuver as the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan closed in. They knew they had to end the fight quickly.

Qiao Bian's sword techniques were precise and difficult to counter, and his onslaught left Luan Tianzhi flustered.

"Liu Wuxie, you will still die even if you have help," Liang Yi sneered. He slashed down again with his sword, unleashing a powerful sword aura that trapped Liu Wuxie like a curtain.

With a snort, Liu Wuxie bent space itself, and the sword aura failed to graze him. This was the Spatial Dao Art's power. But Liu Wuxie had already reached his limit in dealing with one cultivator at the Earth Profound Realm, relying on the Spatial Dao Art.

Mu Yuanyi also launched his attacks as vines surged forward once more. The vines coiled tightly around Liu Wuxie again.

Mi Ze fused his swordplay with a ghost technique, making his attacks nearly impossible to follow or block.

"Do you think I can't kill you people?" Liu Wuxie looked indifferently, and the Heavenly Dragon Seal appeared in his hand.

He roared, "Great Dragon Aspect Art!"

When Liu Wuxie unleashed the Great Dragon Aspect Art, the sky shifted, and even the Heaven-Curtaining Red Luan recoiled beneath its might.

"What a terrifying dao technique!" Onlookers cried out in shock as they witnessed the Great Dragon Aspect Art.

Everyone stared in disbelief. "That's a dao technique belonging to the dragon clan! How did Liu Wuxie learn it?!"

"He must've learned it from that mysterious scroll he took in the dragon palace!" Many cultivators were present in the Dragon Palace and had seen Liu Wuxie take the scroll. They now suspected it contained the Great Dragon Aspect Art.

"Kill him! We can't let him live!" Jealousy consumed everyone.

Liu Wuxie was young, and his cultivation stood far from the peak—yet he still surpassed countless others, so it was natural for others to be jealous of him.