Only the eyes—those eyes filled with fear, despair, and fury—were completely out of place with his stiff, emaciated body and his dull, almost comical face!

Repeatedly struggling in vain, that chilling aura that terrified him easily drove him to the brink, leaving him with nowhere to retreat.

The unwillingness and rage deep in his heart suddenly ignited with a roar.

Go to hell!

He frantically activated 【Gengjin Qi Mang】, pouring all his spiritual power, along with his entire mind and spirit, to blast at that icy aura!

This was his only method.

The only thing he had ever experienced that could be called a battle was the first time he used 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 against Linggu. He still remembered the violent aura and the impact it had on his mind. But compared to this icy aura, the spiritual consciousness of thousands of aphids combined was as weak as a baby.

At this moment, he was like a madman, wielding a scythe and charging at a fully armed enemy.

【Gengjin Qi Mang】 appeared like a pale golden mist, and as soon as it emerged, it provoked an attack from that aura.

In a daze, Brian Carter seemed to see countless flying swords trailing dazzling tails, whistling as they flew toward him! The chilling, fierce sword intent crisscrossed in all directions—there was nowhere to escape!

His clear pupils turned into a raging sea of fire, and the skin at the edge of his wide-open eyes suddenly split with a crack, blood streaming down his cheeks, leaving two vivid streaks on his stiff face.

He felt nothing.

With his spiritual power running wild, signs of losing control began to appear throughout his body, but he didn’t pause for a moment, instead pushing the flow of spiritual power even faster.

Driven to the limit, 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 seemed to become even more frenzied, advancing instead of retreating, pouncing on that icy aura.

If someone were to enter Brian Carter’s room at this moment, they would witness a strange scene: a pale golden cloud, violently rolling and surging, as if something invisible was constantly eroding it, causing it to shrink in size.

The pale golden cloud rolled even more violently, yet it clung tightly to Brian Carter.

The battle grew ever more intense. Facing the sword-like, icy aura, 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 did not retreat in the slightest. Just as it had treated the aphid’s spiritual consciousness, 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 regarded this aura as the spiritual consciousness released by a gigantic aphid!

Brian Carter had no time to pay attention to 【Gengjin Qi Mang】; only one thought filled his mind—faster, even faster!

The speed at which his spiritual power was circulating had reached a terrifying level. He had never dared to let his spiritual power run at such speed before. But now, with his eyes bloodshot, Brian Carter only hated that it wasn’t fast enough, and he kept pushing it faster!

Suddenly, Brian Carter’s mind exploded, as if something had broken through, and his consciousness abruptly became hazy.

His spiritual power, like a wild horse off its reins, completely lost control. The already turbulent 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 began to fluctuate even more violently, like boiling water, its cloud form extremely unstable. If a highly skilled cultivator saw this, they would be shocked—once spiritual power is out of control, the next step is the body exploding and dying!

Suddenly, a surge of warmth entered Brian Carter’s meridians from his chest.

The violent spiritual power instantly became incredibly docile, its speed not only undiminished but even faster. The violent fluctuations of 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 vanished without warning, settling into calm.

Amazingly, that icy aura seemed to sense something unusual as well, and for the first time, it began to retreat.

The calm 【Gengjin Qi Mang】 cloud transformed again, rapidly contracting toward the center. The icy aura changed as well.

A pale golden, seven-section cone shaped like a pagoda!

A water-blue, crescent-moon-shaped flying sword adorned with tiny bells!

They faced each other in silence, but in the blink of an eye, both moved at once.

The cone and the sword turned into two streaks of light, one gold and one blue, colliding with perfect precision.

Ping!

A clear sound like shattering glass rang out, and a burst of sparkling fragments exploded in the air, like fireworks—intertwined blue and gold, dazzlingly beautiful.

No one knew how much time had passed before Brian Carter slowly opened his eyes in a daze. His whole body ached as if his skin had been torn apart, and he couldn’t help but groan. This groan suddenly snapped his hazy mind back to clarity.

He could move!

That damned aura was gone!

He was stunned for a moment, then an indescribable sense of exhilaration welled up inside him. He wanted to laugh out loud, but before he could move his lips, the pain from his wounds twisted his face into a scream. Although he didn’t know exactly what had just happened, there was no doubt—he had won!

He was still holding a pink slip of paper in his hand, with two words written on it.

“坏蛋!”

The handwriting was still elegant, and the tone didn’t sound like someone very old, but the half-dead Brian Carter couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of loathing in his heart.

What a vicious woman! She actually tried to take his life!

Those two words were definitely imbued with a spiritual attack. To unleash such a terrifying assault with just two words—this was absolutely not someone he could afford to provoke. Brian Carter knew this all too well. Whether the sect leader or the elders could do this, he didn’t know, but among the inner disciples, there was absolutely no one who could reach this level.

In other words, the vicious woman’s strength far surpassed that of the inner disciples of his sect.

Yet, after this brush with death, he actually felt little fear, even though her strength was far beyond his own.