As Hong He’s skull was shattered by Nie Tian, his life force rapidly dissipated.

In the meantime, the green thorns inside of him stopped spreading and quickly withered.

As Nie Tian pulled the tree branch out of Hong He’s back, Dong Li swooped down from the air with her black phoenix behind her back.

Dong Li smiled heartily. “You’re finished?” 

Still wreathed in intense killing intent, Nie Tian nodded and said, “Thank you for what you’ve done for me. You just rest here. I’ll go send the other rat on his way to the Yellow Springs.”

“Who?” Dong Li asked.

“Huang Hu from the Heaven Palace Sect,” Nie Tian answered with a cold snort.

“Is he also here?” Dong Li asked, looking somewhat worried. “You just finished your breakthrough, and you consumed some power to kill this one. Are you gonna be okay?”

She hadn’t expected that Nie Tian would kill Hong He with a single strike right after he made his breakthrough.

From her extended fight against Hong He, she had learned that, even though the man...