Thinking that way might be the easiest path through, the Flame-Reaver charged directly at the "speaker".

Jingliu sensed the Flame-Reaver approaching. Her lips curled slightly upwards, revealing a happy smile.

Good. He came at just the right time.

A moment ago, everyone was ganging up on the Flame-Reaver, but she had no interest in joining others for a siege. The Flame-Reaver was strong, but not to the extent of Phantylia, where she'd need to team up with others.

So she could only watch from the sidelines, her gaze burning with anticipation. The Flame-Reaver's arrival now perfectly aligned with her wishes.

"Come on, let me see your true power."

Facing the Flame-Reaver, who was even stronger than Derick, Jingliu didn't dare to hesitate. Just as the Flame-Reaver was about to close in on her, Jingliu reached up, gripped her eye mask, and yanked it off.

Her blood-red pupils glowed with crimson light, flickering with excitement and a bloodthirsty frenzy. For a moment, watching this, the Flame-Reaver couldn't tell who was more like the villain.

The Flame-Reaver was a madman, but Jingliu, in her Mara-Struck state, was even crazier than the Flame-Reaver.

As the Flame-Reaver charged forward, Jingliu immediately unleashed a wave of sword energy at him.

Jingliu's sword energy was bone-chilling. The Flame-Reaver felt his entire body, even his soul, freeze solid. Hastily bringing his sword across his chest, he unleashed a burst of light from his hand to counter Jingliu.

Thousands of sword energies crisscrossed, erupting and clashing in the blink of an eye. Everything around them was isolated by the sword energy; even Derick would find it difficult to get through.

This, however, was good news for Yunli. With the sword energy clashing between the two of them, the demonic swords likewise couldn't approach or return to the Flame-Reaver's side.

Seizing this opportunity, Yunli began attacking the demonic swords.

Seeing that they couldn't get close to the Flame-Reaver, the demonic swords had to find another way to deal with Yunli's attacks. The demonic swords had tried to control Yunli's spirit moments ago, but failed; Yunli herself simply couldn't be controlled.

One of the demonic swords, acting cunningly, turned its gaze towards Derick, who was not far from both Yunli and itself, and lunged.

It was a demonic sword with a desire to devour. Seeing Derick, it unleashed its desire to influence him.

"Come on, do you want to become stronger? If you do, then let's devour everything else together..."

The demonic sword sought to inject Derick with the idea of devouring, and thus entered Derick's desires.

"Heh!"

The demonic sword only managed to let out a single wretched shriek before its sword spirit vanished entirely.

A thought sparked in Derick's mind.

When it came to other temptations, Derick couldn't say for sure. But regarding the desire for devouring, unless that greedy Star God reappeared, Derick truly wouldn't lose to anyone else in this aspect.

But this also served as a warning to Derick.

His resistance to mental influence wasn't particularly strong. This time was luck.

If the temptation were stronger, or if it targeted an aspect he found harder to resist, he could easily fall for it. Just like the Flame-Reaver right before his eyes; no matter how strong he was, he was still controlled by the demonic sword's mental influence.

A reminder to himself.

Derick warned himself internally.

Seeing Derick's state return to normal, Yunli, who had been watching his situation, also breathed a sigh of relief. She had truly been worried Derick would be controlled. But now it seemed his will was firm enough.

Yunli thought to herself.

After this collective sigh of relief, everyone's gaze turned to the battlefield where the Flame-Reaver and Jingliu fought.

Between them, who would emerge victorious?

Jingliu and the Flame-Reaver's sword energy clash ended, leaving many crisscrossing sword marks on the ground.

The Flame-Reaver's body showed numerous signs of damage.

It was clear that in the previous sword energy exchange, the Flame-Reaver had been suppressed by Jingliu. The bone-chilling sword energy had left him with many wounds. It was only due to his immortality that he managed to maintain the situation.

The Flame-Reaver looked at Jingliu, who now stood suspended in mid-air, his expression one of shock. In the battle, he was clearly aware that his energy surpassed hers by a margin, and he considered his combat skills to be quite good. But in a real fight, he felt utterly suppressed by this woman.

This white-haired woman's technique had reached a state of godlike perfection, seeming to transcend mere skill.

Because Yunli had taken away a large number of his demonic swords, the Flame-Reaver had now recovered a good deal of his sanity. Seeing Jingliu's incredibly powerful swordsmanship, he couldn't help but feel his scalp crawl.

"No, I can't let this continue. Besides this woman in front of me, there are still many others around!"

"If I can't quickly open a path and escape, my fate will definitely not be good."

With this thought, the Flame-Reaver decided not to hold back any longer. He swung the demonic sword in his hand, quickly conjuring several illusions. These illusions lined up and charged towards Jingliu.

Each of the illusions displayed different techniques. Finally, as the Flame-Reaver charged, he absorbed and merged with all the illusions.

The Flame-Reaver's single sword slash, now, integrated several of his attacks. Each of these attacks individually held the power to destroy a planet. Now, with these powers combined, the unleashed energy was immeasurable.

In response to this attack, Jingliu simply swung her sword in silence.

"Shine Through Myriad Rivers!"

All swordsmanship, no matter how flashy or convoluted, ultimately aimed to kill.

Jingliu's swordsmanship had already reached the pinnacle of simplicity, returning to its true essence, far surpassing the Flame-Reaver's.

Jingliu ignored the Flame-Reaver's attack, instead directly piercing her sword energy into his body. Jingliu's attacks could cause even an immortal being like Blade to feel a momentary stillness of death. The Flame-Reaver, when dealing with Jingliu's sword attacks, couldn't possibly fare much better than Blade.

The Flame-Reaver's intricate and complex attacks vanished upon reaching Jingliu. The Flame-Reaver's entire body shot backward like a kite with a broken string.

"I can't win. Unless I use my immortality to stubbornly stall until she leaves, otherwise, there's absolutely no chance of victory."

The Flame-Reaver thought to himself.

This white-haired woman's sword energy was still destroying his body. The Flame-Reaver felt he'd need significant repairs just to move normally again.

"The surroundings are all enemies..."

Just as the Flame-Reaver felt this was truly the end for him, he turned his head to look at the fissure in the ground.

The fissure he'd created just now. Through this fissure, he could enter the depths of the planet.

"Perhaps I can use the terrain of the planet to gain an advantage?"

The Flame-Reaver used the last of his body's strength to enter the fissure.

The others didn't know what was happening below. But Derick immediately leaped down into the ground.

His Fourth Clone was down there.

At the same time, Derick also sensed that in Amphoreus, his First Clone was about to successfully digest the authority of the Earth Titan.

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