343: Chapter 154 Facing Life and Death, Immortals Are Mortal_2 343: Chapter 154 Facing Life and Death, Immortals Are Mortal_2 Before that, when they had faced the blood-colored demonic beasts together, Cao Zhen had also cast a purple thunderbolt proficiency, and he could feel the power of that proficiency.
However, that wasn’t really considered Cao Zhen engaging in combat with another person, as they were mostly just opposing the Blood River of the demonic beasts.
Now, he truly saw Cao Zhen in combat with someone else, and it completely overturned his understanding.
On his way here, he had also wondered how strong Cao Zhen could be, and now, he felt that Cao Zhen’s divine skills actually possessed the power of a Golden Core.
However, taking into account that no matter how strong Cao Zhen was, he was still only at the Core Formation Stage, he thought that Cao Zhen was at most a bit stronger than his disciple Ling Xi, who could withstand a Golden Core and even defeat an ordinary Golden Core Stage One.
But Cao Zhen now was facing not a Stage One, but a Golden Core Stage Three, and not just one, but three Stage Three Golden Core experts.
In this way, Cao Zhen faced the opponents’ attacks and was even able to remain unscathed while launching his counterattacks.
One of the Stage Three experts, even while defending, failed to block Cao Zhen’s attack and needed another person’s help to stop it!
This meant that if there had only been one opponent, that strike just now would have been enough to severely injure the opponent.
After the end of the Hundred Peaks Sect’s grand competition, everyone said that Ling Xi was the strongest below Golden Core.
Now it seemed that Cao Zhen was the true strongest below Golden Core.
However, now they were facing three Stage Three Golden Core experts, and Peak Master Cao…
Fa Xiang, Fa Shi, and Fa Sha, despite wearing white robes, had streams of death aura already emanating from their bodies.
The three looked icily in Cao Zhen’s direction and suddenly started spinning rapidly.
The next moment, they simultaneously made their moves, casting a string of incantations.
In an instant, in the air in front of the three, the fierce wind, the surging river, and the illusory mountains of mana reappeared, their forces merging even further.
The three people, with their different strengths clashing, made no sound on impact but strangely fused together instead.
Oceans of mana, with the howling wind spinning rapidly around them, could be seen in the river where enormous mountains continuously scattered, turning into grains of sand like stars in the sky.
“This is…
they can actually combine their strengths to unleash divine skills.
They each act as a Formation, creating a formation, which is why their divine skills are also merging together.”
The moment the divine skills of the three merged, the ground in that area started shaking violently, the earth exploded continuously, clumps of soil were thrown up, space fluctuated intensely as if it could tear open at any moment.
Lan Pili, feeling the power of the divine skills from afar, hurriedly took out the divine skill bead.
Faced with such divine skills, Cao Zhen, no matter how strong, would be unable to withstand them.
Their only option now was to use the divine skill bead bestowed by the Sect Leader.
His face revealed an expression of resolve.
Cao Zhen was even younger, knew more, and had countless methods.
Compared to him, Cao Zhen was more important to the Hundred Peaks Sect.
Even if it meant sacrificing himself, he had to preserve Cao Zhen’s life no matter what!
“No, that’s not right, why do they look so strange?”
Suddenly, from behind him, the voice of Sheriff Zhao came.
Lan Pili looked up, and across from him, Fa Xiang and the others, while gathering their divine skills, did not directly attack Cao Zhen.
Each of their faces even showed a struggle.
It seemed as if they were resisting something.
Fa Xiang clenched his teeth tightly, and suddenly, in the next moment, he fiercely bit into his own tongue, spewing out bright red blood.
As death aura had darkened his body, a surge of imposing righteousness suddenly erupted from within him.
In the blink of an eye, the dark, gloomy, and sinister death aura on his body disappeared completely, replaced by a vast presence of righteousness.
He then let out a heavenward howl: “I am a disciple of the Dharma Apex Sect, one of the ten great Immortal Sects.
How could I be controlled by this trivial death aura!”
Almost simultaneously, Fa Shi and Fa Sha, too, spurted out blood, their expressions clearing as they shouted loudly.
“We of the Dharma Apex Sect, an upright and honorable school, cannot commit acts of cruelty against our own kind!”
“Break it, break it for me!”
In their shouts, they suddenly waved their hands to one side.
The hurricane in front of them, containing seas of mana and mountains of power, suddenly changed course and blasted toward the heavens.
After a moment, the divine skills they had jointly unleashed exploded in the void, causing the entire void to tremble wildly, with faint cracks visible within.
After releasing their mana, all three of them coughed up more blood and fell to the ground.
Yet even as they lay on the ground, they each held their backs straight.
They were people of the Dharma Apex Sect, disciples of the ten great Immortal Sects, and they each had their pride—how could they be so easily controlled by death aura?
“What happened to them?” Sheriff Zhao, watching the sudden turn of events, was completely dumbfounded.
They had been attacking them before, but now, they had suddenly blasted their divine skills into the void—it seemed like they were resisting something.
“Thump, thump, thump!”
Suddenly, three dull thuds were heard.
The three of them made their moves, but rather than attacking Cao Zhen, they struck themselves.
The three swung their palms heavily onto their own chests, and in an instant, blood sprayed from their mouths.
As Fa Xiang coughed up blood, he shouted toward Cao Zhen and the others: “We three have been stationed in this place for a long time without incident, but due to the arrival of the Qiankun small epoch, the Heavenly Dao has changed, and the coffins around us deliberately released death aura at us while we were cultivating.