Wang Qi took two steps back, spitting out blood-tinged saliva.

No wonder he was an Immortal. His use of the Cave Heaven Measuring Stick and sense of timing surpassed Wang Qi by more than a level. Wang Qi's seemingly fatal strike turned into an opportunity for this Banished Immortal to counterattack.

For him, this was indeed a rare situation. Ever since embarking on the path of cultivation, Wang Qi had constantly defeated the strong while being weak, always using exquisite methods to defeat those whose mana was several times, even dozens of times stronger than his. But this time, he was unexpectedly suppressed by someone with mana far inferior to his!

"Interesting..."

Mei Gemu shook off the blood dripping from his hands. Not long ago, these hands could be considered delicate, but now, the muscles were so swollen they were as thick as an ordinary man's waist. It made him look like a long-armed Demon Ape.

This was the consequence of his demon blood boiling to fifty percent. An irreversible transformation. Unless Mei Gemu could use techniques similar to Transformation to change his body at the cellular level—but if he could, he wouldn't need to hide his traces like this. He could simply transform into a small animal or directly fight his way out with his formidable combat power.

In the clash against Yue Luo's Essence Demon Energy, he was completely at a disadvantage. However, he had once been a figure who roamed the Star Sea, and he unexpectedly used Yue Luo's essence to temper his own demon blood.

The whole struggle was like Wang Qi repeatedly striking Mei Gemu with a giant hammer. Now, Mei Gemu felt the demon blood slowly penetrating his bones through the fractures. The foundation for the "Invincible Demon" was gradually taking shape.

At this moment, Mei Gemu's entire body was enveloped in black demon energy. This Essence Demon Energy was already at the Mid Stage Core Formation level. He was a Banished Immortal, with personality formed around the remnant soul of an Immortal within him, so there was fundamentally no change in disposition due to rapid cultivation. He let out a low growl and lunged forward again.

"Did you think all I could use was the Cave Heaven Ruler?" Wang Qi's internal Magic Seal changed once more, the gravity divine power based on relativity dissipated, transforming into the Mysterious Lineage's ability, activating the Unpredictable Movement Technique.

Mei Gemu was astonished to find that he could no longer capture his opponent's figure. His speed and position seemed to change constantly, yet he couldn't pinpoint them.

"Illusion? Movement technique?"

Mei Gemu's heart was filled with uncertainty. At this moment, the Moonset Glaze Sword surged from all directions, layers upon layers of sword shadows crashing like tidal waves. The power of Yue Luo's Transformation Dragon Clan's Essence Demon Energy had not diminished. If struck, the relatively weaker Mei Gemu couldn't withstand it.

Although he couldn't discern the natural characteristics of the Unpredictable Movement Technique, his combat experience significantly older than that of the Shenzhou People Clan allowed him to make the right decision immediately.

"Random Style: Ten Thousand Armies!"

Nobody knew on which planet or world this martial arts originated. It was not even suitable for the human clan, who only had one pair of upper limbs. In a matter of seconds, Mei Gemu exerted his full strength, randomly throwing ten thousand punches around himself.

Ten thousand swinging punches.

The fists bypassed the divine edge of the swords and struck the sword strikes. Yue Luo's defense, woven with Dragon Guard, remained unmoved, but Wang Qi's arms couldn't endure such strain. His forearms split open, and his left elbow dislocated. The torrent of punches was like a shockwave, knocking over trees and blowing away the muddy fields. The surrounding farmland seemed to have been plowed by bombs, and in an instant, the mud fell from the sky like rain.

"Troublesome..." Wang Qi held his sword with one hand, maintaining the rhythm of his strikes with the right, while retracting his dislocated left hand behind him. With the writhing of his muscles, the misaligned bones returned to their proper positions.

But this time, Mei Gemu's entire essence condensed, transforming into a massive two-handed sword, slicing through the air with a forceful swing.

"During the exchange just now, he actually used his Essence Demon Energy to swallow my Sword Intent! Now, he's using my Sword Intent to form his own sword moves and is returning it to me!"

"This guy is strong! Just who is he?"

Mi's voice appeared in Wang Qi's mind: "Banished Immortal Mei Gemu, stimulated by the Heart Demon Curse, a newly awakened Banished Immortal, completely out of control, unknown specific circumstances..."

"It's one thing if the Banished Immortal isn't affected by the Heart Demon Curse... Is my Heart Demon Curse such... such a supplementary thing?" Wang Qi didn't even have the leisure to continue the conversation. This Banished Immortal wielded the Cave Heaven Ruler with ease, often jumping into another frame of reference to dodge Wang Qi's attacks just before he struck, then returning after the miss. Using this method, he had left quite a few wounds on Wang Qi's body.

Just then, a powerful mana emerged behind Wang Qi.

"An ambush? Ancient Method Practitioner!" Wang Qi was startled. At this point, he was in the heat of battle with Mei Gemu and truly had no spare capacity to fight another cultivator. But reality would not unfold according to his wishes. In an instant, a sharp Sword Intent flashed from nearby, then twisted in midair, slashing toward the back of Wang Qi's head.

In a moment of urgency, the Ghost Soldier's "Heaven Creation" reappeared, expanding spacetime through gravity. In that instant, Wang Qi brushed past Lian Yichen. He looked at the Ancient Method Sword Cultivator, feeling a sense of familiarity. But the situation didn't allow him to think deeply. Relativity and quantum mechanics were fundamentally incompatible, and having just switched to Mysterious cultivation, he couldn't flexibly control the Cave Heaven Ruler as he did before, nor could he maintain it for long. He sidestepped, using Dragon Guard to protect his vital points, then swung his sword with his right hand towards Lian Yichen while also deactivating the Cave Heaven Ruler.

When both parties exist in different frames of reference, they cannot influence each other, and contact is meaningless. But when the celestial body's gravity field fixes them in the same frame of reference, the attack can connect.

"Ah!" Lian Yichen suddenly felt a sword wound on his arm, feeling utterly baffled.

—When on earth... did I get injured?

"Jumping out of the long river" is a characteristic of immortals. If both sides in battle possess this trait, it would be burdensome. However, if someone with this trait faces someone who doesn't know this method, the result is a crushing victory.

But this move worked on Lian Yichen, not on Mei Gemu. Just as Wang Qi returned to this frame of reference, Mei Gemu struck Wang Qi fiercely with his palms.

Wang Qi felt as if a bullet had exploded in his chest, violently hurling him away.

Lian Yichen clutched his wound, asking in shock, "Who are you?"

"The one being hunted," Mei Gemu replied tersely, "We only have a cup of tea's time left; soon, the Primordial Spirit Cultivators of the Immortal Alliance will be here. Do you have a way for us to leave Shenzhou within that time?"

He also saw through Lian Yichen's background, assuming he was an Ancient Method Practitioner doing business in Shenzhou.

"Ancient Teleportation Array."

Mei Gemu nodded, then flashed, once again fighting with Wang Qi. Meanwhile, he shouted, "This guy has some immortal characteristics; without preparation, he's hard to kill. At least a cup of tea's time isn't enough... you and I hold him off, open the teleportation array..."

"Okay!" Lian Yichen responded, joining the battle.

Wang Qi immediately fell into crisis. He was only evenly matched with Mei Gemu, and this Lian Yichen was the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Currently, Wang Qi, with the correction of computational power from the Dataized Cultivation Method, could barely keep up with the movements of a Divine Separation Stage Cultivator. Without the support of tens of thousands of Flow Control Mechanisms, he couldn't slaughter a Divine Separation like chickens or dogs as he did that day. Just now, the Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword couldn't be used, and he had no chance to use his Mysterious Uncertainty Cloud Sword.

"Careless, the first move should have been the Mysterious Uncertainty Cause Sword..."

However, Wang Qi wasn't too anxious. These two might be able to defeat him, but killing him was still very difficult. When it came down to the wire, he could completely rely on the Cave Heaven Ruler to leap into his own personal time-space.

Without superluminal perception or a great powerful light-speed attack, the Cave Heaven Ruler is an invincible defense. Time-space itself ensures it won't be broken through.

The Unpredictable Body Technique suits one-on-one death battles or chaotic battles against many; in a one versus two situation, it hardly works and would instead hinder one's attack. Wang Qi didn't use the Unpredictable Body Technique but shielded himself with Dragon Guard, rapidly recovering with the Life Flame, then in the most direct manner, clashed blade to blade with those two guys.

Wang Qi's mana had been inadequately refined, with Circulation Perfection absolutely formed, every punch and kick carried immense power, ordinary map summary Cultivators simply couldn't withstand it.

One is the nearly fully awakened Banished Immortal, one is the pioneer standing at the threshold of technical singularity, and the other is a powerful cultivator who practiced for thousands of years. Their clash was entirely a mobile heavenly calamity. Sword Qi, demon energy crisscrossed; each strike tore the atmosphere and then again brought up a gale. Their battle trajectory was like a giant eraser passing across the map, erasing everything in its path.

Soon, a beam of light shot to the sky. Lian Yichen roared, "Now!"

Mei Gemu turned and grabbed Lian Yichen, wrapping them both in demon energy. His "jumping out of the long river" and "Cave Heaven Ruler" were not entirely the same, affecting not "a range centered on the body" but "material wrapped in his spiritual power." Then, Lian Yichen astonishingly found that everything around him began to slow down.

Mei Gemu wasn't so kind as to save Lian Yichen. He simply thought Lian Yichen might know a safe place, nothing more.

And at the moment Wang Qi noticed the enemy's forms moving strangely, he realized.

"Not good, 'Heaven Creation'!"

—Time stops!

Wang Qi shifted his cultivation again, fully supporting the Cave Heaven Ruler. Mei Gemu and Lian Yichen appeared to him like a slow-motion image—he knew, in the sight of those two, he must also be in slow motion. But if he pursued that slow-motion image now, he probably couldn't catch up. This is the wonder of relativity.

Once again, he set up his long sword in the posture of a sniper, swinging out light-speed Sword Qi with the extreme move of Heavenly Song. The light-speed Sword Qi he swung with all his might was far less powerful than a casual strike. However, in this situation, there was no better way.

Then, he saw ripples appear at an extremely slow speed on the opponent's Essence Demon Energy defense. But in the next instant, a blood flower exploded on his shoulder.

"Eat my Sword Qi again and spit it out?" Wang Qi sneered, "Looks like your mom surely didn't teach you not to eat random things!"

For the third time, Wang Qi's mana changed overall, countless operators constructing the most menacing divine skills within him. Then, Heavenly Song translated these divine skills into electromagnetic spirit waves, swinging them out at light speed.

"Try this!"