Underground.
Dongfang Xue's eyes were sharp. She had already made her preparations.
The reason why she sneaked into the waterfall and hid underground was not to hide herself, but more importantly, to recuperate the rather violent energy in her body after her advancement.
She had already succeeded a few minutes ago!
Furthermore, Dongfang Xue had already anticipated that her concealment was not perfect. Perhaps the enemy would think that she was in the water.
But if they couldn't find her, they would naturally turn their attention to the shore.
Thus, as soon as she regulated the energy in her meridians, Dongfang Xue began to accumulate power.
She wanted to prepare a gift for the leader of the beasts that had discovered her first.
Golden Falcon King charged into the ground with a ferocious expression, impatient to capture Dongfang Xue.
Unfortunately, the first thing it saw was not Dongfang Xue's face, but an arm.
This was Dongfang Xue's arm. It was a very beautiful arm.
Of course, the premise was that this arm was still on Dongfang Xue's body.
An arm that looked like it had been severed, and blood was still spurting out. It was not a very pretty sight to behold.
"My arm in exchange for thy destruction!
Great Sacrificial Technique! "
Dongfang Xue circulated all the energy in her body and unleashed the Great Sacrificial Technique. Her goal was to severely injure King Golden Falcon with this attack.
This was a killing move among killing moves. It could be said that she was harming herself while harming the enemy.
But Dongfang Xue knew that she had no choice.
Although her current strength was close to that of a mid-stage Profound Sage, she was still not a mid-stage Profound Sage.
Whether it was in terms of cultivation, strength, or battle experience, she was inferior to any of the three leaders.
Even the opportunity to attack, or rather, the opportunity to injure the enemy, might only come once.
Thus, since she only had one chance, she had to inflict pain on the enemy!
Boom!
Dongfang Xue's arm exploded right in front of King Golden Falcon's chest.
King Golden Falcon was caught off guard. He had no idea that Dongfang Xue had prepared such a huge gift for him.
By the time he reacted and activated his defenses, the explosion had already caused his chest to cave in. Even his bones and internal organs were exposed.
Pfff!
King Golden Falcon spat out a large mouthful of blood and flew out of the ground.
"You damned bitch! Crippled Dragon, you actually dared to injure me?
You're just a piece of trash at the early stage of the Profound Sage realm. How dare you injure me? "
Of course, the Golden Falcon King wasn't going to die so easily. It stood up with a venomous expression, preparing to capture Dongfang Xue and torture her to death at all costs.
Whoosh!
King Golden Falcon dived into the ground again.
A large hole had appeared where Dongfang Xue was hiding due to the impact of the explosion. King Golden Falcon flew at top speed in his fury, arriving in front of Dongfang Xue in the blink of an eye.
It laughed sinisterly.
At such a close distance, it would only need to extend a hand to capture Dongfang Xue.
However, it was suddenly struck by a strange feeling. Dongfang Xue, who had just sacrificed her arm to attack it, seemed to have accepted her fate. She was completely motionless and showed no signs of resistance.
She was even smiling?
King Golden Falcon was engulfed in anger and couldn't react in time.
Immediately afterward, something even stranger happened. Its sharp claws stopped an inch away from Dongfang Xue's neck before it stopped moving.
An ice-cold aura came from the back of its neck.
Only then did King Golden Falcon react in horror.
It had lost its mind just now. If it missed, it should've run away. How could it dare to attack again?
Now, that human cultivator who'd undergone the eleventh heavenly tribulation was here!
"You're quite bold. After seeing that I've undergone the eleventh heavenly tribulation, you still dared to attack my companions?
Your two companions were smart enough to escape in different directions.
Although they might not be able to escape, at least I haven't decided whether to give chase or not.
As for you, I can't think of a second option other than death. "
As soon as Gu Xuan finished speaking, a raging flame appeared on his right hand.
The flame traveled along King Golden Falcon's neck and quickly spread to its entire body.
"No, don't kill me! You can't kill me!
If you don't kill me, I'll help you escape. Otherwise, once the reinforcements sent by Lord Burning Nine Emissary arrive, you'll be dead.
That's an advanced Profound Sage realm cultivator, one of Lord Burning Nine Emissary's two deputies. You're dead … "
"Shut up!"
Gu Xuan scolded and exerted force with his right hand. King Golden Falcon, who'd been enveloped in flames, was directly pulverized.
Gu Xuan shook his head.
"This guy was scared out of his wits. If he continued to resist, I wouldn't have been able to kill him so easily."
Dongfang Xue smiled.
"There's nothing you can do about it. Anyone who sees someone who's undergone the eleventh heavenly tribulation would react the same way.
Promise me, don't do that next time, okay?
You're helping me at the cost of disrupting the order of the heavens. That's too great a price to pay.
If I live and you die, I won't have the courage to live. "
Gu Xuan heaved a long sigh.
"I'm not dead, am I?
I won't die either, because what you see is only a part of me.
The other part of me is in the Ninth Realm. "
Dongfang Xue was very surprised.
"A clone?"
"Sort of."
"Yes means yes, no means no. What sort of 'sort of' is that?"
"Are you telling me a tongue twister?"
Gu Xuan laughed.
"In short, my relationship with him is very complicated.
He's me, and I'm him.
It's not an exaggeration to say that we're clones, but you'd better think of it as me and him being a complete person. "
Dongfang Xue waved her empty left sleeve.
"How complicated."
Gu Xuan looked at Dongfang Xue's left shoulder.
"Don't do that next time. It's not good to sacrifice your own body.
It would be fine if you used a normal disintegration mystic technique to increase your strength.
But you're using the Great Sacrifice Technique. Sacrificing your own body will cause permanent damage to your body.
If you do it a few more times, your arm will really be crippled.
Even if it can grow back, it'll be like a prosthetic limb. It won't be able to unleash your original strength. "
Dongfang Xue was given a fright.
"Is it that serious? You're not trying to trick me, are you? "
Gu Xuan stared into Dongfang Xue's eyes with a serious expression.
"I'm definitely not trying to scare you. In fact, it'll only be more serious than what I'm saying.
This technique can only be cultivated by one person per realm. You should know that.
There's a price to pay for unleashing such a heaven-defying technique.
If you want to sacrifice in the future, you can sacrifice your hair, fingernails, or dead skin. Although it's not very powerful, it's better than nothing. "
Dongfang Xue glared at Gu Xuan.
"Disgusting! I don't have dead skin! "
Gu Xuan smiled. "Of course, the safest way is to sacrifice your lifespan.
It's fine to sacrifice a little less as long as it doesn't harm your foundation.
When this is over, I'll prepare some lifespan enhancing pills for you. Try not to touch your one hundred and fifty thousand years of lifespan. "
Dongfang Xue nodded and waved her empty sleeve again.
"Let's not talk about these useless things. Help me grow back my arm."
Gu Xuan propped up his chin and appraised Dongfang Xue from head to toe with a scrutinizing gaze.
"Don't tell me that there's a kind of incomplete beauty to you.
You're the one who did this, so you should suffer the pain of losing an arm so that you won't forget it in the future. This is something that can be resolved by sacrificing your lifespan, so why do you have to sacrifice your arm? "
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