The situation instantly turned boiling with killing intent.

The Songyuan Valley Spirit Refinement powerhouse, the old man surnamed Lu, and the Tianjin Zhai Spirit Refinement powerhouse, Juexin, exchanged a glance.

Both saw anger in each other's eyes!

But this anger was not directed at Lu Ding. Instead, through tacit understanding, they were informing each other:

'There is a traitor among us!!!'

Otherwise, forget about how secretly they had come, how did Lu Ding know that Songyuan Valley and Tianjin Zhai, who had just arrived at the Lady's Temple not long ago, were here to deal with him?

He came straight over to intercept and kill them!!!!

The old man surnamed Lu leaped forward.

"I'll block him, run now!!!!"

The strength Lu Ding had just displayed had already, in an unspoken way, spelled out their fate.

Only by someone stepping forward to sacrifice themselves, resisting desperately, could they buy a sliver of a chance to survive.

At least for now, among these investigators, only Lu Ding was someone they both feared.

As long as one person held Lu Ding back, the other Spirit Refinement cultivator could break through the encirclement of these investigators with the others.

"Lu Wang!!!!"

Juexin shouted.

She saw the old man in the air unleash his aura fully, his Divinity awakening. The gourd in his hand shattered, wine splashing across the sky. His momentum spread like a vast ocean, his imposing manner like crashing waves.

Status stacked.

The old man shed his white hair, turning it black.

His hands formed a tight seal, lifting wine and holding a cup.

At this moment, the old man had transformed into a handsome young man, stars flickering in his eyes, his black hair standing on end.

He charged straight forward.

"Overlord's Toast to Wine!!!!"

Heaven and earth seemed like a wine jar, crashing down with a roar.

Lu Ding stood watching the sky: "I'll grant you your heroism. After death, report my revered name. You'll find many like-minded individuals."

He brought his palms together, black smoke rising. Rubbing his palms produced sparks. Separating his palms set the sky ablaze. High temperatures splashed, Shattered Starlight glittering within the dark red Spiritual Energy, spreading into a sky-wide sea of fire.

[Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire] carried out Heaven's wrath. A sea of fire hell, all phenomena returning to nothingness.

Under the sweep of the firelight.

[Fear-Killing Asura] provided precise control.

The spell delivered by the old man surnamed Lu was directly burned into nothingness.

In the end, it even brought the fire upon himself.

The arm he used to attack was half turned to charcoal, watching as inch by inch of firelight gradually climbed upward.

Lu Wang's heart hardened with ruthlessness. Using his hand as a blade, he directly chopped off his own left arm.

It was also at this moment.

Lu Ding heard a sharp rebuke from the side.

"Get out of the way!!"

He saw the old nun Juexin, leading the disciples of Songyuan Valley and Tianjin Zhai, attempting to break through the 749 Bureau's encirclement and escape.

How could Lu Ding let her have her way?

The old nun sent out a palm strike, attempting to shatter the human wall forming the encirclement.

How could Fifth Restriction cultivation block her!?

But at this critical moment.

Thunder rumbled in the sky.

Under the lightning flash.

Darkness brightened for an instant.

[Three Thousand Thunder Movements]

Lu Ding's figure was like a ghost, not a trace of his movement could be seen.

The old nun's palm strike sent spatial ripples sweeping toward the crowd of investigators.

Lu Ding's palm ignited with fire, burning the space with a creaking sound, imprinting it on the center of her back.

Boom!!!!!

It pierced right through!!

Under the sweep of the firelight.

The five-fingered imprint of a human hand entered from the old nun's back and emerged from the area of her heart on her chest, growing larger and larger in the air, as if there was a force capable of grasping the heavens. It arrived later but struck first, instantly catching up to the palm imprint the old nun had just sent out and directly shattering it!!!!

The Spirit Refinement palm strike, just before hitting the numerous investigators, shattered in mid-air, accompanied by splashing firelight that illuminated the night sky.

Juexin looked down at the large hole in her chest where her heart had been. The edges of the wound glowed with fire, gradually igniting her flesh.

She spat blood, her eyes filled with rage: "A... a sneak attack!!!!"

"Despicable junior, go to hell!!!!"

Old Man Lu sent a palm strike forward.

Although his initial intention was for Juexin to escape with the disciples of the two sects.

But plans change faster than expected.

Things had come to this.

There was no choice. He could only use Juexin's death to sneak attack Lu Ding's back!!!!

Under his full-power strike.

He firmly believed in his heart!

Lu Ding definitely wouldn't be able to react in time. Turning around always takes some time, right!?

Those who sneak attack others shall be sneak attacked themselves.

Little did he expect.

Lu Ding didn't need to turn around.

The control over his body provided by [White Snake Shakes Scales], which could be called perverse.

Allowed Lu Ding's head to instantly twist one hundred and eighty degrees.

He opened his mouth and spat.

His mouth fired [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon].

This was nothing like a 749 Bureau investigator.

Dark red light pulled at the colors of heaven and earth, converging into a sphere in the air. In the blink of an eye, it shot forth, leaving a bright dark red thread of light in the air.

Then.

Following the thread, explosions sounded inch by inch, spreading in a straight line.

Boom boom boom boom boom.........

It fiercely blasted against Lu Wang's incoming attack.

"This is......."

The attacks canceled each other out.

Lu Wang retreated, his heart already giving rise to thoughts of retreat.

At this moment, he even felt Lu Ding was not human.

This method of counterattack was just too damn bizarre.

And to spit something out with such great attack power just by opening his mouth, this was clearly a monster born for battle.

His entire body, every part, was a weapon.

But now, wanting to retreat was already too late.

Lu Ding's voice rang out after the explosion.

"Slaughter them all!"

Hearing these words, Lu Wang's heart was filled with grief, but time waits for no one. A choice had to be made.

Even if he stayed, he couldn't save the disciples.

He had to run first, to inform the other forces about the suspicion of a traitor. Otherwise, before they could even make a move, Lu Ding would come knocking on their doors, killing them one by one.

By then, what plans could be talked about?

He turned to run.

Before the smoke and dust raised by the explosion suddenly dispersed.

Lu Wang heard the sound of horse hooves rising, like an army formation breaking camp, a murderous aura filling heaven and earth.

The dust was scattered in an instant.

Looking back from the corner of his eye.

He saw Lu Ding, riding a horned, horse-like evil beast, holding a sixteen-foot, four-meter-long spiral-toothed horse lance, charging to kill, unstoppable.

This was the Twelve Zodiac Horse Method [Iron Hooves' Mournful Song·Border Breaker].

The horse lance thrust straight forward.

Lu Wang wanted to block it, but Lu Ding's speed was too fast.

His blocking method arrived a step too late, a move short, after Lu Ding's attack arrived.

The serrated lance tip tore through flesh, piercing through his body.

It directly lifted Lu Wang up on the tip of the lance.

Watching as the Spiritual Energy he gathered in his hands to resist, the unexecuted spiritual energy formula, gradually extinguished.

Blood gushed down the blood groove.

Lu Ding reined in the horse, its two front hooves suspended in the air. Holding the long lance, he lifted the human figure under the waning moon.

Under the cold moonlight, black smoke spread around Lu Ding's body, accompanied by Shattered Starlight within, the four-hoofed Bo Beast warhorse burning with fire, and the human figure lifted on the lance tip.

Echoing each other.

They created a scene combining violent aesthetics and visual impact.

The horse's hooves fell, treading on air.

Ripples spread out.

Lu Ding said: "Being hit in the back is a disgrace for every Qi Refiner."

"Acts of cowardice, I will never tolerate."

"As punishment, at the end of your life, you will witness a feast of slaughter upon your disciples."

Controlling the horse to turn around.

Lu Ding, with one hand, used the horse lance to lift Lu Wang, slowly turning him, allowing his field of vision to completely see the investigators, who had both numerical and cultivation superiority, unleashing a slaughter upon the disciples of Songyuan Valley and Tianjin Zhai.

"Elder Lu... save me......."

"We are willing to surrender!!!"

"We are innocent!!!"