Chu Mo growled lowly, desperate to find Qi Xiaoyu in that cave. He absolutely refused to believe that Qi Xiaoyu was truly dead, and no matter what, he had to find her.

But with every moment he delayed, Qi Xiaoyu's danger could increase, filling Chu Mo's heart with unbearable anxiety.

Kong Hongyi coldly took out an ancient sword from his storage ring and said, his voice chilling, "Chu Mo, I admit you are strong enough to fight me..."

Before Kong Hongyi could finish his sentence, he saw a flash of blade light come straight at him!

That blade light was too dazzling!

Even more blinding than the light emitted by the sun!

All other words Kong Hongyi had were cut off by Chu Mo's blade light.

He immediately drew his sword to meet Chu Mo's strike.

Clang!

The enormous sound of metal clashing shook the heavens and the earth.

Kong Hongyi's supreme dedicated sword broke on the spot!

His eyes revealed endless horror, although he had heard before that Chu Mo's blade was extremely terrifying, bizarre, and seemingly even higher level than supreme artifacts. Yet, he had never heard that Chu Mo's blade could break a supreme artifact.

With that single strike, Kong Hongyi had no chance of avoiding it, and an arm... was directly severed.

A large amount of true immortal blood flowed from the wound, immediately staining his clothes red.

Kyōō!

Suddenly, a bird's cry erupted from Kong Hongyi's mouth.

He transformed into a massive, white Peacock, though one wing was missing, bleeding profusely!

And that severed arm that fell to the ground also transformed into a giant peacock wing.

Showing his true form, Kong Hongyi went mad, spreading his tail feathers like a screen, instantly turning into countless sharp swords. There were more than a thousand of them, like a thousand arrows, shooting toward Chu Mo in a torrent.

They contained endless murderous intent!

This was the Peacock clan's ultimate killing technique!

Breaking a supreme dedication sword and severing Kong Hongyi's arm with one blow had taken nearly all of Chu Mo's strength, especially since he had not yet recovered from his serious injuries.

After striking with that blade, Chu Mo couldn't help spewing out a mouthful of fresh blood, his face turning exceptionally pale.

Yet, facing Kong Hongyi's ultimate killing move, Chu Mo's eyes remained resolute, showing no sign of retreat. He directly brought out the Chaos Furnace, its mouth facing outward, while the Five-Colored Dao Platform within his elixir field rotated wildly, his body emitting a rumbling sound akin to muffled thunder.

The "Heaven's Will, My Will" technique activated on its own, madly absorbing the Five Elements' essence energy from the surroundings.

Vast amounts of energy surged into Chu Mo's body, granting him an immense boost in an instant!

This was a forced ascension of cultivation!

Kong Hongyi was even shocked; he had never seen anyone boost their cultivation in such a way.

This was not during the Primordial Infant or Spirit Refining phases, where cultivation could advance by leaps and bounds in a day. Although Chu Mo's realm was not as high as his, Chu Mo was also a practitioner of the Heavenly Immortal Realm. In this realm, even a Heavenly Genius would need time to accumulate improvements, or rely on a great deal of superior Heavenly Crystal stones. No one, like Chu Mo, directly absorbed the essence energy from Heaven and Earth... and yet the speed was unbelievably fast!

But in the time it takes to speak, everything had already happened in an instant.

From Kong Hongyi losing a wing, to revealing his true form and attacking with tail feathers, to Chu Mo wildly plundering the essence energy from Heaven and Earth to forcibly boost his cultivation.

All this had occurred in the blink of an eye!

The Chaos Furnace suddenly enlarged, its opening facing the sky-covered peacock feathers, aiming to collect them all!

Kong Hongyi roared furiously; each of those feathers was one of his original plumage, possessing high spirituality and a part of his body. How could they possibly be collected by someone like this?

At that instant, he steered those peacock feathers to avoid the Chaos Furnace and strike at Chu Mo.

Because now, despite forcibly enhancing his cultivation, Chu Mo was still very weak!

Kong Hongyi had great confidence that he could shoot him dead on the spot.

But to his surprise, the huge alchemical furnace suddenly emitted four dull thuds... splitting into four separate furnaces. Positioned in the east, west, south, and north, they protected Chu Mo in the center.

More than half of the peacock feathers couldn't dodge in time and were directly pierced into the furnaces.

Once inside, they couldn't come out!

As a giant white peacock, Kong Hongyi let out a cry filled with boundless rage.

"Give me back my feathers!" The giant white peacock spoke in human tongue, furiously to the extreme.

Just at this moment, Long Qiushui, Huang Wushuang, Lu Hongxue, Yiyi, Xuan'er, Xuanxuan, Hu Lie, and Yue Qingcheng had also arrived at the scene and directly witnessed this spectacle. They were all stunned.

Although Kong Hongyi had climbed the mountain with them earlier, he had chosen a different route; they did not expect him to actually get there before them.

But why was he fighting with Chu Mo?

Could it be that Chu Mo had already obtained the Gentiana?

They all guessed quietly in their hearts.

At this moment, they saw the four furnaces merge back into one. Of the thousands of peacock feathers Kong Hongyi had shot out, at least nine hundred were seized by the furnace!

Kong Hongyi was furious, almost on the verge of collapsing.

At this time, Chu Mo's body swayed a few times. Although he had forcibly raised his cultivation level and elevated his realm to the late stages of the Heavenly Immortal in the blink of an eye, the injuries inside his body were getting worse.

Moreover, time was also running out. He grabbed the giant peacock wing off the ground, then threw it into the Chaos Furnace before leaping into the bottomless pit left behind by the previous eye of the storm.

"I will kill you!" The giant white peacock, now with only one wing left, Kong Hongyi completely lost his mind, ready to give chase.

At this moment, a red silk ribbon, uncertain of its full length, swept towards him like a long rainbow in an instant. A woman's voice, filled with coldness, declared, "Little Peacock, I've said this before... if you dare to bully him, I will kill you!"

Bang!

Kong Hongyi's massive peacock body was directly struck by the red ribbon and sent flying toward the bottom of Nameless Mountain.

But before his body could truly fall, that red silk ribbon reappeared, wrapped him up again, and carried him back to the woman's side.

The person who made the move was Yiyi.

Slap!

Yiyi viciously slapped Kong Hongyi's large bird head with the red ribbon, directly leaving him in total disarray.

Completely shocked and angry, he exclaimed, "Yiyi... you dare..."

Slap!

Another slap!

Yiyi's voice was chillingly cold, devoid of any emotion, and utterly furious, "What would I not dare to do? You had one wing chopped off by Chu Mo, right? You might as well not keep the other one either; it's unseemly to look at, and besides, you can grow a new one!"

Speaking, Yiyi flicked her wrist, and that red ribbon turned into an extremely sharp blade, directly cutting off Kong Hongyi's other wing.

Kong Hongyi let out an extremely miserable scream.

Even Long Qiushui and Huang Wushuang jumped at the sight.

On one hand, they were astonished by Yiyi's protection of Chu Mo; on the other hand, they were shocked by Yiyi's formidable combat strength!

Although they knew Yiyi was very powerful in battle, she hadn't seemed this strong before!

Kong Hongyi was no pushover!

He was a genuine young noble of the Heavenly Realm, one of the top-tier Heavenly Geniuses!

If it hadn't been for this chance to enter the heavenly road, he probably would have joined the imperial ranks a few years ago and become a real big shot.

Speaking of which, Yiyi was also a young noble level powerhouse of this rank. Everyone was of the same level... yet there was such a huge gap.

Even Huang Wushuang's gaze towards Yiyi was filled with wariness.

With a sweep of the red ribbon, the large wing was wrapped up, and Yiyi said coldly, "We'll have peacock wings for roast later."

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