Outside the grand hall, a scorching heatwave surged.

Just as the flame was about to rush into the hall, 18 golden skeletons suddenly emitted a dim golden light. The entire hall was enveloped in a faint golden glow, and when the flame touched the golden light, it completely dissipated. The temperature within the hall remained unchanged.

A deep sigh seemed to faintly emanate from the air.

Among the 18 golden skeletons, 17 seemed to have exhausted their last bit of strength as their bones crumbled and turned into countless tiny golden specks that fluttered to the ground. Although the golden specks were extremely fine, they had weight, continuously emitting a "ding ding" sound as they fell to the ground.

Hundreds of thumb-sized gold, silver, and jade-like granular objects dropped from the disintegrating skeletons, bouncing and emitting faint light on the ground. Some were as big as thumbs, while others were as small as beans, and they all disintegrated one after another.

Strands of thick light slowly emanated from the disintegrating granules, quietly merging into the surroundings of the hall.

The originally somewhat dilapidated appearance of the hall underwent a subtle change, appearing much more vibrant. Some cracks on the walls also quietly healed.

With a "crackling" sound, the last golden skeleton cracked open, and the emitted golden light gradually dimmed and disappeared completely.

Wu Tie respectfully looked at the remaining golden skeleton and an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. He solemnly bowed to the skeleton.

These skeletons obviously had extremely firm beliefs. Even though they had already turned to dust and completely dissipated, the remnants of their power remained, guarding this hall.

"I don't know who you are... Well, Old Tie will find out sooner or later." Wu Tie stood up, turned around, and looked up at the top.

In the center of the hall, the almost shattered golden lotus merged with the particles that emerged, and a few cracks on the surface of the lotus healed. Threads of golden light ascended from the surface of the lotus, seemingly tied to the shattered bones.

The shattered bones suspended in the air trembled slightly, as if they were birds tied up by threads and eager to break free from the bondage of golden light.

The golden light on the surface of the golden lotus flowed, gradually contracting, pulling the shattered bones down bit by bit, slowly bringing them to a place more than a foot above the golden lotus.

"Stay put, I'll deal with you later." Wu Tie glared at the shattered bones in annoyance.

After sucking so much blood from him, Wu Tie's head was now spinning, his vision darkening, his body weak and cold, and cold sweat constantly seeped out. It was all the fault of the shattered bones. In Old Tie's words, this guy only wanted to run away after eating and drinking to his heart's content... He was truly a complete scoundrel.

Turning around, holding his spear, Wu Tie took a step by step to the entrance of the grand hall and looked outside.

It was a pitiful sight.

Truly pitiful.

The six Mist Blade masters brought by Jiu Zhang Ling had already been burned into black smoke that dispersed into the air. Jiu Zhang Ling himself was also completely charred and unrecognizable.

However, even before being burned, Jiu Zhang Ling was already no longer in human form. Whether it was his previous six-armed form or his later insect form with long blade arms, he no longer resembled a human.

But the sight of Jiu Zhang Ling now was even more pitiful.

He only had two legs left, blackened bone sticks that had been burned. His upper body was in a better condition, covered in a thick black carapace that had grown from his flesh, covering his arms and entire upper body, so it looked relatively intact.

But one of his eyes seemed to have been burned, with black blood and tears constantly flowing from the pitch-black eye sockets.

Red Granny's condition had clearly improved a lot.

She lay naked and twisted on the ground, with at least a hundred deep knife wounds crisscrossing her snowy white flesh. Especially in her waist and abdomen, she had been severely slashed, and the knife edge had almost severed her body. Now, only a few strands of flesh were barely holding on.

What was shocking was that no drop of blood flowed from her wounds.

A tremendous, inhuman vitality surged within her body. Even Wu Tie, hundreds of meters away, could clearly sense the presence of this powerful vitality. Every pore on Red Granny's body emitted a rich blood light, and her wounds wriggled as countless fine strands of flesh continued to grow out.

Wu Tie even heard the sound of bone collision coming from within Red Granny's body.

She didn't know how many bones had been severed by Jiu Zhang Ling, but under the stimulation of this tremendous vitality, these bones were rapidly growing.

This inhuman vitality reminded Wu Tie of the Longevity Sect disciples who would explode into blood mist with just a light attack. Red Granny absorbed the blood mist from these people, and her vitality undoubtedly came from here.

Monstrous, evil, Wu Tie increasingly felt a sense of disgust towards Red Granny and Shi Ling Qing.

"Commander!" Hundreds of meters away, behind a cluster of huge crystals, Ding let go of Wu Lao Da, and stumbled over.

Just now, Red Granny and Jiu Zhang Ling had fought fiercely in the sky, exhausting all their strength. Red Granny's body was filled with raging flames, while Ding, Wu Lao Da, Luo Lin, and the others hid behind the crystal cluster, narrowly escaping the terrifying flames.

"Commander." Luo Lin also staggered out from behind the crystal cluster.

He covered his stomach, and his facial muscles twitched violently as he walked. It was obvious that the punch from Jiu Zhang Ling on his abdomen had left him with a serious injury.

The two approached the battlefield one after the other.

Jiu Zhang Ling suddenly raised his head, took a breath, and exhaled a black smoke with a burnt smell. He also spat out a few charred blood clots.

He glared at Ding and Luo Lin with his lone eye, coldly said, "Stop, don't come any closer... Go, kill that old witch."

Ding and Luo Lin were stunned. They cautiously stopped a hundred meters away from him and looked at each other. They both nodded, then turned around and walked towards Red Granny, who was lying motionless on the ground, her body almost shattered.

Red Granny lay on the ground, her injuries rapidly healing, but at this moment, she had completely lost all her ability to move. Let alone the fact that Shi Ling Qing's short sword had pierced her heart, even her current injuries were enough to render her completely immobile. Not to mention the short sword in Shi Ling Qing's hand piercing her heart, strange red light continuously spewed out from the short sword, quickly penetrating her entire body and causing her strength to collapse in an instant.

Luo Lin suddenly woke up.

Jiu Zhang Ling let out a shocked and angry howl.

Ding swung both hands, and hundreds of poisonous triangular nails silently flew through the air, fiercely striking Luo Lin, who was less than three meters away from him.

These triangular nails flew extremely fast with great force. Luo Lin's body was actually hit by these triangular nails and flew into the air. The triangular nails pierced through Luo Lin's body and flew out from in front of him, along with a spurt of blood. Luo Lin turned his head incredulously to look at Ding, then fell heavily to the ground, completely devoid of any signs of life.

"Dumbass, don't blame me... Jiu Ling sect ordered me to do this." Ding yelled, took a few steps backwards, waved his hand, and threw a heavy triangular nail, heavily hitting Luo Lin's temple.

With the explosion of the skull, blood splattered everywhere, this blow completely severed Luo Lin's lifeline.

"Go!" Ding laughed loudly. He swung his hand, and from the beast skin bag at his waist, 36 triangular nails shimmering with a faint black glow flew out, rushing towards the motionless Jiu Zhang Ling.

Jiu Zhang Ling let out an angry roar. He slapped the ground with both hands, trying to rebound with force.

A dark yellow stone pillar suddenly flew, heavily hitting Jiu Zhang Ling's back. The earth trembled, and a strong suction force rushed over. Just as Jiu Zhang Ling had just jumped half a meter into the air, he was forcefully pressed down by the pressure of the stone pillar and the suction force from the ground, landing on his belly.

36 triangular nails accurately struck Jiu Zhang Ling's face, piercing his solitary eye and then curving through his ears, nostrils, and mouth.

Jiu Zhang Ling let out a grunt, and black blood flowed out from his seven orifices.

"So, wise men survive to the end... If you insist, Jiu Zhang Ling, only the strong have the right to survive." Qiao's voice came from behind the cluster of crystals hundreds of meters away.

With his two legs smashed by Jiu Zhang Ling, Qiao propped up his body with one hand and crawled over step by step. In his other hand, he was proudly holding Wu Lao Da's head.

Wu Lao Da's eyes widened, his facial muscles twitched, his expression full of disbelief.

"When I killed him, he actually didn't believe that I could really attack him." Qiao smiled arrogantly. "Ling Qing, you see, this face of his, he actually didn't believe that I would really attack him."

Cracking a joke, Qiao swung his body and suddenly pounced on Red Granny, who could no longer move. With the slender and delicate short sword in his right hand, he stabbed it into Red Granny's heart without any reservations. He opened his mouth wide and bit down hard on Red Granny's neck.

With a "chirp" sound, it was as if there was a water valve in Qiao's mouth. He crazily drew out the abundant blood and vital energy surging out of Red Granny's body.

Red Granny let out a hoarse scream, her body struggling violently, but the injuries inflicted by Jiu Zhang Ling were too severe, and she couldn't move at all now.

Not to mention that the short sword in Shi Ling Qing's hand had pierced her heart, and strands of strange red light continuously spewed out from the short sword, quickly penetrating her entire body, causing all her strength to collapse in an instant.