Qin Lee was in a desperate struggle with three cultivators in mid-air. His translucent, almost transparent sword phantoms just barely held his opponents at bay. They were exchanging moves in a desert of grayish ash. Purplish Toxic fumes appeared from the ash, and all the combatants positioned themselves to avoid it.
After dozens of brilliant moves were exchanged, one of the cultivators fighting with Qin Lee suddenly withdrew. Qin Lee had a sense of vigilance as additional multiple translucent barriers appeared around him, reinforcing his defense. The middle aged cultivator who had just withdrawn, spat out a glowing globule of blood essence as he made numerous incantation gestures in rapid succession. Qin Lee had a frantic sense of unease as he unleashed multiple sword shadows rapidly at the retreating opponent.
Unfortunately for Qin Lee, the retreating opponent managed to complete his spell as a bloody cage, seemingly made of spiderweb, appeared around Qin Lee and rapidly compressed, caging Qin Lee's dantian region. AS the bloody spiderweb encased Qin Lee's dantian region, the offending cultivator rapidly withered, having clearly sacrificed a great deal of his life span. The sword phantoms unleashed at the retreating opponent finally reached the offender; but even as the sword phantoms shattered the protective Qi shield of the retreating opponent, he had a smirk on his heavily wrinkled face as his body disintegrated into clumps of flesh and blood.
Only two of the remaining aggressors remained. One of the aggressors, who had the demeanor of a noble young master with a handsome face, addressed Qin Lee with his spiritual sense.
Qin Lee had a panicked expression on his face as he tried to circulate his cultivation base. Indeed, his cultivation base was forcibly restricted at the Early Foundation Establishment Stage due to the vile spell of the opposing cultivator. However, he inwardly sneered as he coughed up a globule of blood essence and swallowed it. The other opponent, who was a haggard looking female cultivator, sneered and addressed Qin Lee via spiritual sense after observing his actions.
< You think combating some blood essence will help you avoid death? Naive! Even if you ignited a third of your remaining lifespan, you would barely be able to display the temporary battle prowess of a late Foundation Establishment Cultivator. Even if you disregard the consequences and went truly all-out sacrificing all of your remaining lifespan, it will be impossible to display battle prowess of beyond peak Foundation Establishment realm. Either way our mission is complete, so depart into the cycle of Samsara obediently>
Communications via spiritual sense were almost instantaneous. Even then, Qin Lee refrained from replying as his blood essence was being ignited. Qin Lee's flushed face paled rapidly as a phantom of a titanic giant, around forty meters tall, appeared behind Qin Lee's desperate figure. The giant had an indifferent expression. One of the giant's eyes was blazing crimson, while the other eye was an icy blue. The giants figure was covered with swirling patches of icy blue and blazing crimson. The giant phantom rapidly superimposed with Qin Lee's pale drained figure as the two opponents had a disbelieving expression on their faces as they tried to retreat.
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Qin Lee's fleshly body underwent a series of changes in rapid succession. His figure, which was initially under 2 meters tall, rapidly expanded to become almost twenty meters tall! His initially yellow-brown skin had a pale violet shade to it. The veins under his skin visibly popped up having shades ranging from an icy cool blue to fiery blazing crimson. The competitively slender translucent sword disappeared from his hand as a massive ten meter long dark purplish black Estoc appeared in its place.
Qin Lee had a gloating expression on his face as his figure rapidly disappeared from its initial position and appeared near one of his adversaries a few hundred meters away. Before the young master-like opponent could react, the humongous purplish-black Estoc, covered with clear translucent sword intent, cleanly cleaved the young-master int two halves; as if the Qi barriers blocking his assault never existed in place.
The last remaining haggard looking female was clearly panicked at the resulting turn of events. Even before she could react and activate her life saving talismans, the transformed figure of Qin Lee appeared near her and an almost two meter large claw crushed her midsection, instantly killing her, and withdrew a two inch diameter pale gold sphere pulsing with energy.
Without wasting much time, the transformed figure of Qin Lee quickly swallowed the pale gold sphere as his twenty meter tall figure started deflating. After swallowing the pale gold sphere, Qin Lee didn't waste any time as he slapped a gray talisman to his huge Estoc. His arms bulged and the veins in his arms almost burst out while his figure was deflating, as he swung the huge Purplish Black Estoc, now with a sharp gray phantom enveloping it, in a huge arc.
Where he swung his sword; a dark purple, almost black, tear appeared in the fabric of space. Smaller purplish black tears expanded from the spatial tear like spiderwebs. The figure of Qin Lee had deflated to a height of around ten meters by now. His still deflating figure quickly entered the spatial tear. Within a single breath worth of time, the spatial tear dissipated completely giving the impression that nothing was out of the ordinary in the wasteland of gray ash. Within another few breaths, two elderly figures appeared at the hot-spot form the horizon. The elderly figures, surprisingly were a pair of twins!
One of the bearded twins communicated telepathically with his companion.
< How did that little genius of the Jade Pagoda Sect escape our trap? Our sect even invested heavily to make the bait reasonably attractive. Not to mention the three juniors stalling him couldn't even hold-out till we arrived. Hmmph.>
The other elderly twin figure replied.
< Don't be too harsh on the juniors brother. The genius of the Jade Pagoda sect should be incredibly valued and have shockingly valuable life-saving trump cards. Or else, he wouldn't be able to escape this mystic realm with his cultivation before we arrived.>
The other elderly twin sighed as he flinged his sleeve, collecting the gory remains of the tree assaulters and both of them rapidly flew away in the distance.
Little did the two departing elderly twins know, that the shockingly valuable trump card of Qin Lee was him stimulating his large success of the Titanic Frostfire Physique along with a Grade 4 (Core Formation level) Heavenly Might Talisman along with Sword Intent. The one-time burst power was almost at the level of an early Nascent Spirit Cultivator. It was absolutely unimaginable for them to even speculate that someone who had successfully cultivated Sword Intent with under five decades of cultivation also had significant progress in body refining!