"He must have a treasure that can rapidly recover spiritual power, and this treasure causes almost no harm to the body," the young woman said in a low voice.
The monstrous giant striding beside her like a meteor nodded upon hearing this. He too had guessed that the other party possessed such a treasure.
He said in his guttural voice, "What a pity. Our chances of catching him before his spiritual power runs out are too slim. That treasure will surely be completely used up by him. Cursed poison cultivator! I can only use sixty percent of my strength. This can't go on. Although the place we chose has no sects within a ten-thousand-li radius, accidents can still happen. Curses, truly curses."
The young woman's heart tightened upon hearing this. She also knew that the reason no other cultivators had appeared until now was firstly because the place they chose was extremely remote and desolate, and secondly because their luck today was extremely good, with no cultivators passing by. But they couldn't count on this luck to last forever.
"Heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can rapidly restore spiritual power are not ordinary pills. The Malevolent Spirit Sect must have given this to him at great cost. How much could he have? He's probably almost out."
The young woman thought for a moment. Although she felt pained at the thought of such a treasure, she immediately thought of a possibility.
The monstrous giant tilted his head and thought for a moment. He felt that his wife's reasoning was sound. Indeed, such a treasure, even in their clan, was likely only possessed by Nascent Soul stage elders, and at most, it would be a sliver or a few drops.
"But we still can't let this go on. We must avoid delays and complications. My lady, I will now use eighty percent of my magical power. I can probably maintain it for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, but that should be enough to take this person down."
Thoughts were just thoughts. They were both veterans of many storms. How could they pin their hopes on speculation? For all they knew, someone might appear to aid this person in the next moment. The two of them had to stake everything now, while there were still no other cultivators within a thousand li of their Divine Sense.
The monstrous giant slightly relaxed the magical power suppressing the poison. After feeling it out, he felt he could take the gamble.
Then, he let out a painful roar. His aura suddenly soared. On his face, however, fine black lines slowly emerged, and chunks of flesh immediately fell off.
In an instant, the monstrous giant's speed more than doubled, each step covering nearly a hundred zhang.
Watching the monstrous giant's rapidly receding figure, the young woman bit her silver teeth. Her hatred for Li Yan was even deeper than the giant's. Mo'er was her own flesh and blood. She had always doted on him, otherwise how could she have raised such an arrogant son?
The young woman was afraid that her husband, in his berserk state after revealing his true form, would directly kill Li Yan. That was not a result she was willing to accept. Especially now that the potent poison in her husband's head was unresolved, his mind was disturbed by the pain, making it even more likely he wouldn't hold back. She wanted to capture Li Yan's soul alive.
With this thought, how could the young woman be willing to fall behind? She bit her silver teeth and instantly released twenty percent of the spiritual power suppressing the area around her heart.
Her aura immediately became magnificent. The flying sword under her feet also shone brightly, emitting a "buzzing" vibration.
But just as she was about to accelerate forward, she suddenly felt her heart tighten violently. The potent poison around it, like a venomous snake that had been biding its time, seemed to instantly sense the weakening of the spiritual power that had been firmly trapping it.
In the next moment, it lunged out. The young woman felt as if her heart had been seized by a hand, and a wave of unbearable, intense pain washed over her again.
The flying Li Yan's expression grew increasingly grim. In his Divine Sense, a figure behind him was approaching at an incredible speed. It was the monstrous giant.
At this moment, the monstrous giant's face was a bloody mess as he roared and strode through the air. Li Yan had already pushed the Cloud-Piercing Willow to its limit and could go no faster.
"Clearly just a Golden Core cultivation, how can he have such speed? Could this be a wind-attribute demonic beast?"
Back then, Shuang Qingqing had said that when the Cloud-Piercing Willow was at full speed, not even a Golden Core cultivator could catch up with their own flight speed. Li Yan had indeed tested this before. The voluptuous woman who had chased Su Hong was no match for him. And that woman was also an Initial-stage Golden Core. Even if this monstrous giant was close to the Mid-stage Golden Core, the difference shouldn't be as great as Shuang Qingqing had described.
Li Yan was, of course, no idiot. On the contrary, he was meticulous in everything. He had not blindly believed Shuang Qingqing's words back then. There were many Golden Core cultivators in the sect, and he had seen them. Only after trying to fly with the Cloud-Piercing Willow did he become slightly more convinced of what Shuang Qingqing had said.
But today, the strength of these two demonic beasts was too formidable. At this speed, he could only imagine that they cultivated a wind-attribute cultivation method.
A sharp glint flashed in Li Yan's eyes. He glanced around and saw a mountain below with steep and perilous terrain, unsuitable for large-scale attacks. He slid his foot, and the Cloud-Piercing Willow changed direction, intending to fly towards the mountain peak. During his flight just now, Li Yan had already communicated with the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant.
First, he asked if the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant had ever seen such a demonic beast. Second, he asked if deploying the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" could kill the opponent.
The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant quickly answered Li Yan's questions. In fact, before the two demonic beasts had revealed their true forms, it had already sensed a very "familiar" aura. The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant had been racking its brain ever since. But its inherited memories were incomplete. Back then, when the last three formation spirits of the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" were severely injured, they only had time to pass on the most important divine arts and some scattered memories to it before they all perished.
Even when Li Yan asked, the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant still couldn't remember. However, it had an extreme sense of danger, feeling that these two demonic beasts were undoubtedly its mortal enemies. It had a deep-seated desire to kill them with its own hands.
After witnessing the opponent's strength, it weighed the options carefully before replying to Li Yan.
If it used the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation," with its current strength, it had some hope of killing an ordinary Mid-stage Golden Core cultivator. But against these two demonic beasts, unless the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant went all out, disregarding the annihilation of its own soul, it would only have a fifty percent chance of killing the demonic beast that had transformed into the young woman. As for the monstrous giant, the chance of success was less than thirty percent.
If it only used the formation to trap the monstrous giant, the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" could probably hold him for less than half an incense stick's time. As for the young woman, it could hold her for nearly a full incense stick's time.
Seeing the monstrous giant suddenly accelerate behind him, widening the distance between them, Li Yan knew this was a good opportunity. He wanted to use the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation," and have the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant, while ensuring its own divine soul would not suffer irreversible damage, use its full power to trap the monstrous giant. Then, he himself would also use the power of the "Melting Bamboo Shoot" to instantly cast "The Five Elements Return to Primordial Genesis," unleashing his full combat power to kill the monstrous giant with the help of the formation's restrictions before the young woman arrived.
Li Yan didn't believe that even with all this, he still couldn't take the monstrous giant's life. At the very least, he should be able to severely injure him to the point where he could no longer fight.
Just as Li Yan made his quick decision and was about to fly towards the mountain peak, a sudden change occurred behind him. Even the frantically rushing monstrous giant's expression changed drastically, and he immediately stopped in his tracks.
The young woman's chest and abdomen began to pound like a giant drum. The unbearable, intense pain made her mind go blank in an instant. But a final sliver of clarity remained in her heart; she knew she couldn't go on like this. She bit her tongue sharply. Using this jolt of pain to regain a moment of clarity, she quickly hissed, "Suppress it for me!"
She wanted to gather the magical power that had just scattered into her meridians back to the area around her heart. But once a dam has burst, how could it be easily restored?
As the young woman forcefully mustered her magical power, only a small portion of the spiritual power that had scattered to her limbs showed signs of flowing back. Sweat immediately beaded on her forehead.
Her originally sharp, slender nails grew several inches longer on their own in her pain. The patterned faces on her body also twisted one by one, as if they were also experiencing unbearable torment.
The monstrous giant, already far away, noticed the change behind him at the same time. He looked in the direction Li Yan had fled, his expression changing several times. Finally, he let out an unwilling roar, turned around, and shot back like an electric current.
He and the young woman had been through countless dangers and had finally found a place to hide on the Desolate Moon Continent. They had survived many life-and-death situations by helping each other. Now that their great undertaking was about to begin, he couldn't abandon his wife's safety, no matter what. But thinking of his child's death and the danger Li Yan's escape might bring, how could he be willing? Yet, at this moment, he still made his choice.
In just a few breaths, the monstrous giant rushed back to the young woman's side. At this moment, the young woman's eyes were almost pure white. If not for their innately powerful bodies, that last sliver of clarity in their minds would have long since vanished. But even now, the young woman was only relying on instinct to prevent her consciousness from being lost. Her body, standing on the flying sword, was already swaying back and forth like a drunken person, on the verge of falling.
"My lady!" An anxious shout came to her ears. The young woman's heart relaxed, and she could no longer hold on. Her body was immediately supported by a large hand, and her mind instantly plunged into chaos.
From the onset of the poison to the monstrous giant's return, everything happened in just two breaths. Li Yan had seen it all clearly. He was overjoyed, almost clapping his hands and laughing. 'Excellent, excellent! I knew your innate talent was extraordinary, but you still succumbed to the poison in the end. What great fortune!'
But on the surface, Li Yan remained exceptionally calm. He continued to approach the mountain peak at unabated speed.
As the monstrous giant supported the young woman with one hand, he had already injected his spiritual power into her body. Having had the experience of suppressing the poison once before, he naturally had a general understanding of the poison's characteristics in the young woman's body. The strangeness of this potent poison was that it all rushed towards the heart and had the effect of sealing one's consciousness.
The moment he poured a stream of magical power into the young woman's body, he immediately felt that something was wrong. The activity of the spiritual power in the young woman's body was now more than three times what it was before. The moment it encountered the spiritual power injected by the monstrous giant, it repelled it with all its might, nearly flinging his hand away. Fortunately, the monstrous giant's cultivation was much higher than the young woman's, so he was not affected by the backlash.
The monstrous giant's expression became exceptionally grave. After taking a deep breath, he was about to increase the pressure. But in the next moment, his body trembled violently, and he looked down at his own lower abdomen with difficulty.
There, near his dantian, a pair of equally glossy black and delicate hands, covered in strange patterns, were rapidly pulling out of his lower abdomen. Large amounts of deep purple blood spurted from the wound.
A look of disbelief flashed in the monstrous giant's eyes. His gaze followed the exquisite hands that were pulling out. They were a pair of hands several sizes smaller than his own. And the owner of the hands was his wife. She was looking at him with a pair of pure white, eerie eyes.