Tainted will

As Bai Ming's cold voice fell, the hundreds of ghostly skulls started to glow with an eerie light, the essence inside them went haywire. While the purple giant trembled slightly before moving closer towards the humanoid creature.

The humanoid creature had extreme fear and panic plastered on it's three faces, the aura of death was overwhelming.

In the very next second.

Boom!

Suddenly a violent explosion that shook the entire Jiang clan occurred and even the heavens seemed to collapse at this moment. Even tier 5 demon beasts residing in the forest were startled.

The explosion was sickening, thousands of meters of land around the blast had changed drastically.

Not a single Jiang clansman had survived the massive qi outburst. As for the freakish humanoid creature it's existence had completely vanished with not even a single trace remaining.

'This is the true strength of a 4th grade formation, but of course it's effect was further magnified by my formation path grandmaster attainment and battle qi.' Bai Ming slowly moved back to the place of the explosion, gazing at the massive bronze mirror.

'This is troublesome.' Bai Ming deeply gazed at Ji wumeng, Bai Ming's eyes suddenly lit up, at this very instant Bai Ming had an outrageous inspiration.

'There isn't much time, I'll have to do everything I can to ensure my survival, no matter how small of a chance I have.' thinking of this Bai Ming immediately vanished from his place.

Outside the formation.

Ji wumeng grunted coldly, before retracting her gaze from the battlefield and staring back at the bronze mirror.

'Shit, the poisons effect is growing stronger than expected. But it doesn't matter, my life is already coming to an end. Once I kill this worthless piece of shit, I can die with some comfort. Perhaps then I could be together with husband and wei'er on the other side.' Heartfelt emotions welled up inside Ji wumeng's heart, two extremely familiar images appeared in her mind.

Ji wumeng was none other than Li jun's wife. Long time ago she was poisoned by one of Li jun's old enemies, inorder to completely remove the poison from her body Li jun had greatly desired to refine the bone heart flame.

But fate had something else in store for them, Li wei ended up exploding. As for Li jun he was completely taken out by Bai Ming's self-detonation when he was just a hair's breath away from refining the nine hundred year flame essence.

When Li jun had died, his life tablet which was with Ji wumeng shattered. The impact of her husbands death was just too much, making her feel guilty of the fact that her husband had died because he wanted to save her life, pain was all she felt at the time. Next came the intense desire for revenge, it was at this time she had awakened hostility qi.

Ji wumeng already had a four hundred year sword soul, now with the edition of hostility qi she was at her deadliest.

Sword soul, spear soul, blade soul and other weapon souls were similar to elemental essence like Bai Ming's bone heart flame.

A four hundred year old sword soul could increase one's sword path strength by four times.

The types of qi's were numerous, hostility qi was just one of them. It had two benefits, one was to make a person's killing intent contain insane amount of hostility, enough to intimidate others. The second benefit was to increase the power of the attacks filled with killing intent three times stronger.

After paying an extremely heavy price did she finally find out how her husband had died and also found the location of his killer. After that she didn't care about anything else not even her own life. The only thing she wanted was getting her revenge.

This instant the frightening aura of the bronze mirror reached its peak.

Roar!!

A series of nine roars were heard before nine golden dragons roamed the skies as their fearsome roars continued to echo everywhere.

Bai Ming watched with an extremely seriously look, the seven deities mantra was channeling the spiritual essence in his body to its limits. This battle was by far the most horrifying one in his life.

Nine golden dragons charged Imposingly. An ear-piercing sound came when it charged at lighting speed.

The 4th grade formation came face to face with the awe-inspiring power of the nine golden dragons.

Crack!

The entire formation trembled before cracks surfaced everywhere in the formation.

Bai Ming made hand signs nonstop to strengthen the formation, he was aware that he could not sustain the formation from this attack but he could atleast weaken the enemies attack.

The formation only lasted for dozens of breaths before collapsing.

But with this he was able to reduce the charging dragons strength upto sixty percent.

Even before Bai Ming could take a breather, the golden dragons resumed their charge.

Without batting an eye, Bai Ming sent out hundreds of sword Phantoms, followed by a tall sword phantom, multitude of pale green sword rays along with a spiritual core.

The sky was lit with variety of explosive fireworks.

Seven out of the nine golden dragons were destroyed.

Woosh! Woosh!

The final two dragons were only dozens of meters away from him.

"Activate." Bai Ming made a hand sign.

Buzz...

Dozens of layers of 3rd grade protection barriers suddenly enveloped Bai Ming.

Bam!

All the barriers were destroyed without exception.

"Primeval sword art-1st layer!"

Bang!!

Both the dragon and man collided, immediately the rocks were blown away, the earth trembled. Bai Ming was smashed dozens of meters deep into the ground.

Bai Ming lay with innumerable broken bones all over his body, violently coughing blood.

The battle had just begun but Bai Ming was already on deaths door.

A breeze passed, followed by Ji wumeng landing on edge of the pit. Staring down at Bai Ming with eyes filled with killing intent.

"Hahaha...looks like I will be able die with fewer regrets now." Ji wumeng laughed hysterically before pointing her index finger at Bai Ming.

Bai Ming was still struggling to get up, he looked up at ji wumeng with his tranquil eyes, "Since I am going to die, shouldn't you atleast tell me why your so desperate to kill me."

Ji wumeng smiled lightly and spoke in a cold and detached tone, "Do you remember the bone heart flame?"

Bai Ming's eyes suddenly lit up, a light of understanding immediately flashed past his crimson eyes, "Then how did you know it was me?"

"Is there any need for me to answer." Ji wumeng laughed coldly, a sliver light condensed on the tip of her index finger.

It was over Bai Ming could barely move, there was no way he had enough strength to fight back against a spirit realm cultivator.

Bai Ming struggled to pick up his sword while letting out a emotional sigh.

Ji wumeng heard Bai Ming's defeated sigh and felt much bliss, a joyful smile bloomed on her exhausted face.

"Hehehe, go to hell." Ji wumeng laughed as the sliver light stopped condensing and was about to shoot.

Buzzz.....

But a strange sound was heard, a sliver light barrier immediately trapped both Bai Ming and Ji wumeng.

Ji wumeng glanced at the formation with disdain, before arrogantly looking down at Bai Ming.

Bai Ming's face was twisted, as an extremely evil killing intent surged out from Bai Ming. He screamed internally, "Fusion of paths-self sword formation!!"

A fleeting light of sliver flashed!

The next second, Ji wumeng was still arrogantly looking down. But her gaze wasn't on Bai Ming, but instead it was on her own headless body laying in the ground motionless.