"Little girl, you're indeed powerful. To reach the Seventh Realm at such a young age makes you a rare prodigy in this world. However, you're overly conceited. You may not know just how huge the gap is between the Seventh Realm and the Eighth Phase."
Lin Feng's spiritual energy was surging, bursting out from every corner of his body. The jade bone on his head shattered, his hair scattered, and his whole body exuded a killing aura.
Naturally, Zhao Shuning was also going all out in this battle.
She knew Lin Feng, that old and cunning scoundrel. This time, Xia Wanning had given Lin Feng a pill to detoxify from all poisons, which was beyond Zhao Shuning's expectation.
But this didn't mean she would just sit back and wait for defeat.
At least in this confrontation, even if she were to lose, she had learned an important clue. That was, Xia Wanning was definitely involved in Ye Ling's death and the palace coup back then.
Moreover, perhaps she was also involved in Ji Qinglin's death and her brother's death.
The malevolent aura around Zhao Shuning grew stronger.
Lin Feng took out his spiritual weapon. It was a highly flexible millennium vine. Soft yet tough, it could wrap around a person's limbs like a water snake.
Then, it would become extremely rigid, constantly contracting and contracting until it completely strangled the opponent within the spiritual weapon.
The Ghost Vine.
This spiritual weapon was once the life - bound spiritual weapon bestowed upon Lin Feng by Ye Ling.
Zhao Shuning smiled faintly.
As soon as the Ghost Vine appeared, it coiled around Zhao Shuning's wrist. At this moment, her brow turned red, and a lotus flower slowly emerged from it.
Immediately afterwards, the red lotus burst into raging flames.
It took the opportunity to wrap around the Ghost Vine.
The power of the Red Lotus Karma Fire was so great that it immediately forced the Ghost Vine to retreat step by step. But the Karma Fire had no intention of letting the Ghost Vine go. Instead, as the Ghost Vine retracted, it showed the might of a powerful being and burned Lin Feng's spiritual weapon to ashes.
Master's Karma Fire Red Lotus was truly invincible.
The ashes vanished.
Lin Feng's face turned ashen.
That Ghost Vine had been with him for decades and was a handy spiritual weapon in many of his battles. But now, it was so easily burned to ashes by Zhao Shuning's Karma Fire.
"Zhao Shuning, don't blame me for not showing mercy."
"I'm more than willing."
The spiritual energy around Zhao Shuning soared, and her spiritual power reached its peak. The hand seals in her hands constantly changed.
The incantation on her lips never stopped.
"Stinky girl, do you really think you can trap me with just an Exorcism and Ghost - Subduing Spell? You're so overconfident."
Lin Feng moved extremely fast.
He quickly attacked Zhao Shuning's chest.
A sharp pain shot through her, and Zhao Shuning's consciousness blurred for a moment. The speed of an Eighth - Phase spiritual pharmacist was truly too fast to react to.
However, Zhao Shuning had never intended to dodge this blow.
Lin Feng's strike had at least seriously injured Zhao Shuning.
But immediately afterwards, he noticed that a red flame had started to burn on his arm, and the color of the flame was getting darker.
Lin Feng's pupils shrank rapidly.
He quickly retreated.
He propped one hand on the ground. The flame only appeared for a moment, and then, following his arm, it burrowed into his body.
Normally, as an Eighth - Phase spiritual pharmacist, he wouldn't be greatly affected by such a flame.
But Lin Feng was different.
In his body, especially in his dantian, there was an instinctive fear of fire.
Earlier, when Lin Feng was practicing his cultivation method, because of his yang - natured personality, he was not suitable for the yin - cold cultivation methods. So most of the incantations Ye Ling taught him were for countering the fierce yang energy in his body.
But Lin Feng was not satisfied with this. Secretly, he also stole the yin - natured cultivation method that Ye Ling had taught An Susu.
The yin - natured cultivation method was originally suitable for women. Lin Feng's unauthorized learning of it had disrupted the meridians in his body. The two forces in his dantian were constantly fighting against each other. In the end, the fierce yang energy won, but the yin - cold energy had taken refuge in his dantian and couldn't tolerate cold.
If Ye Ling hadn't helped him suppress it back then, Lin Feng would have been tortured to death by the two forces long ago.
And now, this little girl in front of him.
It was as if she had caught his weakness. As soon as she made a move, she targeted his vital point.
Zhao Shuning formed the hand seals, and more small fiery - red talisman figures began to emerge around her. They were constantly jumping around Lin Feng.
"Do you think you can deal with me with just a few talismans?"
Lin Feng was taking a gamble, betting that Zhao Shuning on the other side didn't know his physical condition.
Zhao Shuning formed the hand seals and spat out a mouthful of blood. The force Lin Feng had just exerted had indeed greatly damaged the internal organs in her body.
With great difficulty, she managed to finish forming the hand seals, and then her body immediately collapsed into the yard.
Xie An shouted, "Senior, let me help you."
"Xiao An, stay still. Help me control those spiritual pharmacists. I'm fine."
As soon as she finished speaking, blood began to gush out continuously from Zhao Shuning's chest.
Lin Feng said, "Zhao Shuning, even if you're a Gold - level Seventh - Realm spiritual pharmacist, so what? I'm an Eighth - Phase spiritual pharmacist. Can't I deal with a mere girl like you? Today, you won't be able to leave here alive."
Zhao Shuning raised her hand to cover the wound on her chest.
Continuous pain was coming from her mind.
Her vision began to blur.
"Lin Feng, if I die, you won't escape either."
"How can I not escape? Just because of these few talismans? Ridiculous."
Zhao Shuning covered her chest and stood up shakily. Her expression was dazed, but she was trying her best to endure.
"Lin Feng, you may not be afraid of fire, but the yin - cold energy in your dantian is a different story. Do you think the flame that rushed into your body earlier was an accident?"
"What do you mean? How do you know?"
"Lin Feng, that flame was to open up your five tendons and six meridians. Otherwise, how could these Flaming Talismans reach your dantian so smoothly later?"
"You're so vicious."
Lin Feng began to gather his spiritual energy, trying to destroy the talismans around him.
"Talismans, attack!"
Zhao Shuning had no strength left at this moment. After saying these words, she couldn't get up anymore.
The talismans took shape and were about to attack Lin Feng.
The spiritual energy Lin Feng erupted at this moment was even more terrifying. He knew he couldn't dodge. The flame in his body was closely related to the external talismans. Since he couldn't avoid them, he simply let the talismans rush into his body.
Then, while they hadn't reached his dantian yet, he quickly attacked Zhao Shuning.
If he destroyed Zhao Shuning's body, the power of these talismans would also disappear.
A huge white figure appeared in front of Lin Feng. Then, the white figure turned its head and let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.
Lin Feng's last palm didn't hit Zhao Shuning.
Instead, it hit the white tiger.
The white tiger had run out of the Qiankun Bag on its own without receiving an order.
Before Zhao Shuning fell into a coma, she seemed to see Zhao Huai. Zhao Huai told her that no matter what, the white tiger's first mission was to protect her.
She had never really been the master of the white tiger. Her brother was.
Zhao Shuning had never used the white tiger because it was the only thing left to her by her brother.
Now, her brother was dead, and the white tiger was gone too.
She closed her eyes and fell into a familiar and warm embrace. From then on, she completely lost consciousness.