"Are you not talking about us?"
The words were like a bolt from the blue, instantly making the troll and the mummy realize who had arrived!
Ao Yuan!
It was Ao Yuan!
And with his voice came a sense of escalating crisis in their minds and bodies!
Escape!
The troll and the mummy's pupils contracted. Without any discussion, the two surprisingly reached the same conclusion.
After fighting Ao Yuan on the island, they knew that the three of them together were no match for him.
If they dared to face Ao Yuan head-on, they would die under his hands in less than a second.
Instead, they would flee!
As long as they could hold on until that resurrected deity appeared, they would have succeeded.
After all!
Once the deity appeared, it would surely confront Ao Yuan.
However.
They had escaped from him repeatedly.
And now they had chased all the way here.
How could Ao Yuan possibly let them escape again?
Seeing the troll and the mummy flee, Ao Yuan paused for a few seconds.
Then.
*Swish—*
His figure instantly vanished from his spot.
"Is... is he chasing us?"
"Don't panic, as long as we can hold on for at most another minute, that resurrected deity will appear."
"One minute?"
A sudden cold voice echoed, followed by a flash of brilliant lightning.
'Bang'.
Two consecutive collisions, accompanied by two screams, erupted.
The charging troll and mummy were sent flying back like cannonballs, crashing heavily onto the ground.
They gouged out a massive pit in the earth.
"Cough cough..."
Struck by the impact, the troll and mummy's bodies crackled with surging arcs of lightning, their auras becoming weak and unstable.
With difficulty, they raised their heads and saw Ao Yuan still standing in place, as if he hadn't moved at all.
His eyes were utterly indifferent, like a deity looking down upon all sentient beings.
And they!
Were merely the lowest of the lowly.
"Run!"
After exchanging a glance, the troll and mummy, without speaking, made the wise decision.
This time!
Perhaps fueled by a stronger desire for survival, they both displayed speeds beyond imagination.
However.
Just like before, within a few seconds, they were sent flying back by Ao Yuan.
Coincidentally, they landed right back in the original pit.
Their injuries worsened.
But they also knew that now was not the time to worry about their injuries.
With a surge, they scrambled out of the deep pit and tried to escape again.
One minute later.
The troll and the mummy were filled with despair.
They tried everything they could to escape Ao Yuan's clutches, but no matter how hard they tried, the result was always the same.
In this short minute, they had lost count of how many times Ao Yuan had beaten them back.
Only the increasingly severe injuries on their bodies indicated the futility of their efforts.
Bang!
Sent crashing back once more, the despair in the eyes of the troll and the mummy was so profound it could not be deeper.
At this point, they knew that there was no possibility of escape from Ao Yuan's hands.
Their previous escapes were probably due to the water ghost, the Vajra, and the shadow sacrificing their lives to buy them time.
Otherwise, they would have been annihilated long ago.
And the fact that Ao Yuan hadn't killed them yet...
"What? Not running anymore?"
Ao Yuan looked at them indifferently and said coldly.
Hearing this, the troll and the mummy's faces turned ashen.
Ao Yuan's words were a blatant humiliation!
Naked humiliation!
But besides despair, they truly had no other options.
They couldn't fight him.
They couldn't escape him.
So what else could they do?
Just as they were contemplating this, they suddenly sensed a powerful aura rapidly approaching from a distance.
This aura wasn't extremely strong, but as time passed, it was rapidly expanding.
In the blink of an eye, it reached a level beyond what the troll and mummy could fathom.
"It's that deity!"
The troll and mummy's hearts jolted as they understood who the owner of this aura was.
No, they couldn't just sit here and wait for death.
"Keep hiding. If we can just hide a little longer, we can witness a great battle!"
The troll and mummy exchanged a secret glance, then with a surge, they flew towards the distance.
This time, they disregarded their injuries and pushed their speed to the maximum.
Simultaneously, they secretly circulated their spiritual energy to form a protective shield around themselves.
The reason for doing this was to make it easier for them to escape Ao Yuan.
Even if they were heavily wounded, it would be worth it to them.
Because!
Once the deity descended, Ao Yuan would have only one fate.
Death!
However, Ao Yuan had also noticed this approaching aura.
"Played enough. It's time to end this."
He glanced at the source of the powerful aura, then his gaze fell back on the troll and the mummy.
"Earth Split!"
Ao Yuan uttered softly.
In an instant.
The ground cracked and rapidly spread towards the troll and the mummy.
Countless earth surged upwards, leaving extremely sharp earth spikes on the ground.
The troll and the mummy were fast, but the cracking earth was faster.
In the blink of an eye, it caught up to them. The shield formed by their spiritual energy shattered in less than a second.
*Squelch!*
Then, with a crisp sound, the earth spikes pierced through the bodies of the troll and the mummy.
The troll and the mummy spewed out thick blood, and the earth spikes that pierced their bodies were stained a bloody red.
The scent of blood spread through the air, a rich smell of gore filling their nostrils.
The area had transformed into a slaughterhouse.
However, the troll and mummy were indeed ancient relics; even in such a state, they did not die.
Their auras had weakened to the extreme, and it seemed they wouldn't last much longer.
"He's here!"
After glancing at the troll, Ao Yuan withdrew his gaze.
At the same moment, Ao Yuan sensed a surge of water.
Then, the water flowed and morphed into a human figure.
It was an old man with white hair and beard, a hunched figure, holding a trident, with blue eyes.
His eyes were like two sapphires, dazzling and brilliant.
What drew the most attention was that instead of feet like a human, he had a long fish tail.
The fish tail was curled high, its tip extremely sharp.
He was very, very old, his face full of wrinkles that looked deep enough to trap a fly.
He gasped for breath with every few steps, but with each step, his aura grew stronger.
It was vast like the sea, without end.
"He... he's here!"
Seeing the old man, the troll and the mummy, who still had some residual breath, felt a glimmer of joy in their eyes.
Although Ao Yuan had beaten them to the brink of death and left them with almost no ability to help themselves,
If they could witness Ao Yuan's demise before they died!
This would be the fulfillment of one of their wishes!
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