"Don't stop!" Liu Xing shouted at Yang Suyin. "He can regenerate!"

Hearing Liu Xing's shout, Yang Suyin nodded, stretched both palms toward the two split parts of Wei Yi's head, and created a fireball that glowed yellow like a miniature sun. Yang Suyin pushed both palms forward, and the miniature sun flew straight toward its intended target, creating a whistling sound reminiscent of a boiling kettle.

Both of Wei Yi's eyes in the separated parts of his split head, locked onto the miniature sun. Then, the blood gushing from the wounds Yang Suyin had inflicted boiled. In a fraction of a second, a pair of feet grew from the wounds, and they kicked each other, knocking the head parts to the side to dodge the miniature sun. Their movement was a bit late, since the left side of Wei Yi's head, the one where Liu Xing had already been wounded with a lightning pillar, was still in the path of Yang Suyin's attack. When the miniature sun grazed its foot, it exploded, and Wei Yi's left head screamed in agony, burning into dust.

Upon seeing this, Liu Xing's heartbeat quickened, and a ferocious smile bloomed on his face. This was it. With Yang Suyin's help, he could win!

Liu Xing's eyes snapped toward the other part of Wei Yi's head. Seeing that the right side was still intact, Liu Xing flared his Lightning Cloak Technique, flooded both feet with stable qi, and kicked the skin of the pale white giant as hard as possible. He moved like a streak of lightning, and in less than a second, he arrived right in front of the right side of Wei Yi.

"You bas—"

Since Liu Xing couldn't slash it, he extended his left arm toward Wei Yi. But before he could pull the trigger of his gun, the tip of it hit Wei Yi's cheek, and his face scrunched up as if punched before he was sent flying through the air like a missile. Not letting Wei Yi go, Liu Xing summoned his shield right in the path of Wei Yi's trajectory. The half-face of Wei Yi hit his shield, making a loud sound like a gong, and Wei Yi bounced back toward him.

Seeing Wei Yi coming at him, Liu Xing tossed his gun up. With his left hand free, he caught Wei Yi's face in his grip and squeezed it as if trying to make juice. His intention was to make a ball of flesh and bone, causing Wei Yi to scream in agonizing pain, but the skull was too strong, and he couldn't crush it into a meatball.

Thinking fast, Liu Xing tried to decide which attack would kill Wei Yi the cleanest while cycling the qi in his body to the most familiar technique he had, which his gun absorbed, then he reabsorbed back into his body to activate. Instantly, his left hand was encased by brilliant blue electricity, which shocked and scorched Wei Yi's half-face, making him scream even louder.

Gravity began to claim him, and as he decided what kind of attack to unleash next, he rotated his body in the air and threw the object in his hand toward the pale white giant. Wei Yi's remaining head flew through the air almost like a bullet, hitting the giant's tough skin so hard it bounced back toward him, with Wei Yi's face and the foot that had grown on the side of its head charred black from his Lightning Palm Technique. Liu Xing then channeled his potent qi into his left gauntlet, creating a lightning ball the size of a basketball, and unleashed a palm strike toward it.

Instantly, a brilliant white lightning pillar extended from the ball of lightning, shooting toward its intended target. Liu Xing had no doubt that this attack would turn Wei Yi's remaining head into dust. While it was a shame he couldn't use his gun, it was the best option he had. He didn't want to use Exploding Fist bullets because they would just scatter Wei Yi's remaining head, allowing it to move around and regenerate. Though this win wouldn't kill Wei Yi entirely—there was still the Wei Yi that controlled the flesh tree that had absorbed Elder Yang Zhaoyang—he believed that this head had significance, and destroying it was probably a huge step toward successfully eradicating Wei Yi's existence from the world.

But, before his pillar of lightning could swallow the remainder of Wei Yi's head, the head suddenly exploded into a mist of red blood. Seeing this, Liu Xing's eyes widened. That wasn't because of his attack. It's exploded on its own!

The only explanation was that Wei Yi had exploded his head himself, which was a mad yet clever thing to do. If he had been hit by Liu Xing's lightning pillar, Wei Yi would have been reduced to ash, but by exploding himself, even though he was turned into a mist that felt as weak as a Lock Opening cultivator, he could probably regenerate from that state.

Liu Xing's lightning pillar hit the tough skin of the pale white giant. He glanced for a moment, trying to see the giant's reaction. When he saw no strong reaction, he nodded and began to sense the red mist that was spreading around. Its movement was slow, but he couldn't underestimate it.

Luckily, he had experience fighting mist. For a moment, Liu Xing thought to encase himself with the current of electricity from his Lightning Palm Technique, but then he had a better idea.

"Yang Suyin, we need to vaporize this blood mist!" he shouted.

While his lightning technique could burn the red mist, it wasn't efficient. Yang Suyin probably had a better technique to deal with it.

Yang Suyin materialized from a yellow light beside him, floating in the air like a feather, as if gravity had no hold on him. Yang Suyin looked around at the red mist, extended both hands, and sent out a torrent of fire.

The current became stronger each second, until the fire shooting from his palms looked like a column of a yellow pillar. He moved this yellow pillar around, carving through the red mist in front of him, burning it into nothingness.

Summoning a shield below him, Liu Xing sharpened his eyes and senses, observing the red mist. As Yang Suyin carved through the blood mist, he could hear faint screams, as if the mist were made from a hundred vengeful spirits. He prepared for a sudden attack or for some of the mist to try to escape, but several moments later, there was no red mist remaining in the air, and Yang Suyin ceased his attack.

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"Is it over?" Yang Suyin asked.

Liu Xing licked his lips. His heartbeat was still fast. Anxiety churned in his stomach, and his gut feeling told him that no, this wasn't over. He sharpened his eyes and qi sense, trying to find a single speck of blood that had successfully dodged the onslaught of Yang Suyin's attack.

Several moments passed, and his qi sense finally found something.

There, several dozen meters from their position, was a speck of blood as big as a flea. It floated slowly toward the pale white giant, and it was actually transparent and probably shrouded by some darkness.

Seeing that speck of blood, Liu Xing instantly flared his Lightning Cloak Technique and jumped toward it as fast as possible. As he moved through the air, creating a whistling sound, the speck of blood suddenly accelerated, like prey realizing it was no longer hidden, and it bolted toward the skin of the pale white giant.

As Liu Xing shot through the air, he gritted his teeth and summoned his shield to accelerate faster. He couldn't let this single speck of blood escape. Wei Yi was a resourceful opponent. Who knew what he would do next if he successfully escaped, so he needed to make sure to kill this single speck of blood.

Liu Xing moved faster and faster, the world becoming blurry, and he extended his left hand, shooting an Exploding Fist bullet. The bullet shot even faster than him, parting the air forcefully, and a moment later, it hit the skin of the pale white giant and exploded into a modest explosion. Liu Xing landed beside the explosion, his eyes locked onto the center of the explosion while gritting his teeth.

"Did you succeed?" Yang Suyin asked, floating toward him.

"No," Liu Xing said simply.

Right before the bullet hit its intended target, the speck of blood had successfully burrowed into the skin of the pale white giant. And while he hoped that the explosion was enough to vaporize it, the reality was that Wei Yi had probably survived.

Liu Xing clenched both hands. His anxiety raged wildly in his stomach, trying to drown his senses, but he took a deep breath and reined in his emotions, trying to think clearly and logically. While it was frustrating that Wei Yi had escaped, and he really wished he could turn back time so he could have accelerated a bit faster, there was no use thinking about what had already passed. He needed to focus on the future and need to think about this situation logically and determine the best possible course he could take.

Thinking about it, Liu Xing realized that the initial situation hadn't actually changed much. Wei Yi was still trying to make his "son" perfect, and to do that, the pale white giant needed to absorb the main core, absorb Lihuo, and one other mysterious ingredient. So, his course of action actually didn't need to change either. Wei Yi was still the main target, and to lure him out, Liu Xing needed to attack something that couldn't be ignored by Wei Yi, which was still Lihuo.

Nodding, Liu Xing cycled his qi once again, reactivating the Lightning Cloak Technique, and jumped from his position.

"Follow me," Liu Xing said, passing Yang Suyin, who followed right behind him.

"What are we going to do now?" Yang Suyin asked. Liu Xing was sure Yang Suyin had a thousand questions swimming inside his head, but instead of asking things that would only fill his curiosity, he asked the most important question.

As they glided through the air, Liu Xing pointed down, right toward the worm that encased Lihuo, who had already stopped twitching, probably passed out. "That's my current target."

Lihuo was still a Sun Refining abomination. While he was passed out right now, he could wake up any time. And when that happened, Liu Xing had no doubt the situation would become a stalemate again, where he would need to fight against two or even three opponents at the same time.

"Yang Suyin, hear me out. I'll summarize everything I overheard from Wei Yi and Lihuo's conversation. I haven't processed this information thoroughly, so you need to mull it over and give me any ideas you have."

Liu Xing began to reiterate what he had heard. Although his memory as a cultivator was sharper than a mortal's, and he successfully summarized the conversation into a short speech, he was sure there were some context and nuances that he didn't successfully convey to Yang Suyin. But it was all right. The main point was about the pale white giant and the three ingredients that would make it perfect, and he needed to offload some thinking to another person. Two heads were better than one, and he had no doubt Yang Suyin could offer a fresh perspective.

Yang Suyin looked up toward the giant, his pupils dilated, and Liu Xing had no doubt that his heartbeat had quickened. "If I understand correctly, this thing is merely at the Lock Opening realm. And not only that, it has a thousand dormant bloodlines on its body. If this thing is successfully perfected, then... isn't this a fucking calamity? And what do you mean Lihuo thought of Wei Yi as a father before all of this?! How did Elder Yang Zhaoyan transform into an abomination?! There's too much information!"

"Just mull it over while we fight. I'm sure there's something we've missed, so when you realize something, tell me. I'll do the same. Right now, let's focus on killing that bastard!"

"You know, there was a time when Lihuo was a baby that he was cute. To think that cute baby is now someone I'd like to strangle to death."

Liu Xing intended to summon his shield to accelerate faster. While explaining the information to Yang Suyin hadn't taken too much time, they had still used quite a bit. But before he could cycle his qi to the pattern of the Statue Summoning Technique, the qi and the air around them suddenly turned dense. For a moment, Liu Xing thought they were trapped inside a barrier. But no, he looked around and saw no barrier. Instead, the air and the qi around him had become dense, then began to move frantically, like a calm ocean suddenly visited by a storm. The qi felt like it was screaming, prickling his skin and senses as if fairies were sinking their nails and teeth into him, crying for help so they wouldn't be dragged into a sudden whirlpool that was trying to devour the entire world.

Liu Xing's heart beat frantically, all the hairs on his body rising, and he knew, without a doubt, that the source of this fearsome feeling, as if he were drowning in a deep ocean, was the freaking giant.

He and Yang Suyin turned their bodies at the same time. At a glance, he could see Yang Suyin's face was so pale that his skin looked like chalk. But instead of focusing on Yang Suyin, Liu Xing's eyes locked onto the giant yellow eye that was staring at them.

Before, this eye had been located in the stomach of the giant. But right now, it had somehow moved to the side of the giant and was looking down on them as if they were mere fleas in front of a mighty cultivator.

Then, a slit opened below the single giant eye, revealing thousands of triangular teeth like those of a shark, and hundreds of tongues inside the mouth that looked like tentacles. Each was as long and as big as the tentacles of a giant squid that could sink a ship.

Then, the mouth and the eye contorted into a face of mockery, and Liu Xing knew, without a doubt, that the one who controlled the eye and the mouth was that bastard Wei Yi!