Upon hearing the words of the red-robed monk, Zhao Ziyi felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

His expression was somewhat ferocious.

How dare someone steal his man right in front of him?

Zhao Ziyi, his sword flashing, could no longer restrain himself and unleashed a burst of sword energy.

He stabbed directly at the red-robed monk.

"You're too arrogant!"

After undergoing a marrow cleansing and purification process, Zhao Ziyi's strength has increased significantly. Now, with his spiritual treasure flying sword, he can defeat Li Wantian within a hundred moves in a one-on-one fight.

Unfortunately, he is now facing a genius cultivator from the Tianyi Sect.

Zhao Ziyi was able to unleash the power of a ninth-level Golden Core cultivator.

But the Red Bamboo had already reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage.

He fought against Ran Hongzhu for a hundred moves before being blasted back hundreds of steps by a single sword strike.

Zhao Ziyi wiped the blood from his face, his expression grave.

The red-robed cultivator is a sword cultivator with a wood-elemental root.

The sword energy contained a trace of life force; being hit by his attack would not only result in severe injury, but the wound would also continue to reopen.

The red-robed cultivator didn't give Zhao Ziyi any time to rest; several sword energies instantly pierced through the air and arrived.

Zhao Ziyi flicked his fingers, and several bottles of spirit stone honey appeared in his left hand, which he drank in a second.

Several array plates appeared in his right hand.

He threw out the array plate before the red-robed cultivator's sword energy arrived.

The formation was activated in an instant.

A tremendous roar resounded.

"Click, click"

The sound of the formation shattering rang out.

One of the five defensive formations shattered in an instant.

The remaining four defensive formations are struggling to hold on.

Zhao Ziyi sneered. He only needed time to set up four defensive formations.

He patted his storage bag with his left hand, and a stack of talismans instantly appeared in his hand.

"I refuse to believe that a talisman worth 100,000 gold coins can't kill you!"

Zhao Ziyi activated his fire spirit root with his left hand, and a stack of talismans instantly burst into flames.

Countless flames instantly condensed, materialized, and flew out of the great formation.

Flames filled the sky, turning half of it red. The ancient trees around them, baked by the heat, produced countless droplets of water vapor that drifted into the air.

The next second, ten thousand raging flames instantly attacked the red-robed cultivator.

It happened in an instant.

Ran Hongzhu's eyes widened. He hadn't expected that this cultivator from the small world could activate hundreds of talismans at once.

Zhao Ziyi held a talisman in his left hand and a spirit stone honey in his right, rapidly replenishing his spiritual energy while the talisman burned continuously.

Suddenly, a voice came.

"Hmph! Zhao Ziyi, don't get it wrong, your opponent is me!"

The monk, who had been listless, suddenly spoke, his tone very serious.

"roar!"

A furious roar rang out.

Zhao Ziyi's pupils contracted sharply as he saw the red lion, originally two meters tall, suddenly grow larger beneath the raging flames.

A ten-meter-tall red lion appeared in the flames.

The ten thousand flames, like the mane of a red lion, swayed with the lion's movements.

They were then completely sucked into the red lion's mouth.

The flames, surprisingly, did no harm to the red lion; on the contrary, they seemed to be a great tonic!

As the roar echoed, Zhao Ziyi's defensive array shattered twice more.

Zhao Ziyi's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, and he had no choice but to temporarily put away the talisman.

What kind of mythical beast is this?

Not only does the sound contain an attack, but it can also absorb flames!

The lazy monk remained seated cross-legged on the red lion, a smile on his face:

"Why did you stop? I see you have a lot of talismans left."

"Haha, thank you so much for the Flame Talisman. Red Lion's cultivation has improved considerably."

Zhao Ziyi's expression darkened, and he took out three more array plates and unleashed them.

The red-robed monk sneered expressionlessly:

"Stop resisting. Your array can only hold out for a short while."

"Since you're going to die anyway, and you can't protect Song Chen, you might as well hand him over to me."

Zhao Ziyi gritted his teeth, gripping the magical flying sword, unsure of what to do.

Just then, Song Chen's weak voice appeared in his mind.

"Ziyi, we can't beat them right now. Throw away the jade pendant and use a random teleportation talisman to leave this place!"

After teleporting, hide first. Once you've recovered, we'll reunite using the Treasure Hunting Technique.

Song Chen's words immediately enlightened Zhao Ziyi.

They obtained three random teleportation scrolls in the team competition of the Immortal Realm Grand Tournament.

The two of them had never used the talisman, and it was still lying in their storage bag.

Zhao Ziyi glanced at the two cultivators; one of them was wielding a long sword.

One of them rode on a giant red lion, looking completely confident of victory.

Song Chen transmitted his voice:

"I'll count to three, then we'll teleport away together."

"Three, two, one!"

As Song Chen's voice ended.

Zhao Ziyi quickly threw away the piece of jade pendant, and then, under the protection of the formation, crushed the talisman.

The moment the defensive array completely shattered, Zhao Ziyi and his companion inside the array vanished simultaneously.

Ran Hongzhu frowned, extremely dissatisfied with the result. He glared at Liu Shiyue with hostility.

"Why didn't you intervene just now? Did you deliberately let them go?"

"If I had done it on purpose, I wouldn't have saved you!" Liu Shiyue cursed under his breath. Little did he know that these people actually had teleportation talismans on them!

Ran Hongzhu lowered his head, looking at the four jade pendants on the ground, his expression displeased:

"We've already thrown away the jade pendant, how are we supposed to find him now?"

Liu Shiyue patted the remaining red lions, "Don't worry, although they've lost the jade pendant, the spirit beasts' noses are much sharper than ours. Finding them is only a matter of time."

Upon hearing this, Ran Hongzhu relaxed her brow and said:

"Then I'll go with you."

Liu Shiyue nodded and said:

"Okay, but after it's done, I want Song Chen's spirit pet queen bee."

"I am a beast tamer. I have a way to get Song Chen to hand over the queen bee alive."

Upon hearing this, Ran Hongzhu nodded in agreement without hesitation.

"Okay, I agree."

Ran Hongzhu was only attracted to Song Chen's body and face.

As long as Song Chen is alive, that's enough. Spirit pets and such are irrelevant to him.

Liu Shiyue smiled lazily and patted the red lion.

"Let's go find Zhao Ziyi first."

Song Chen is seriously injured and will not recover in a short time, so we are not in a hurry.

"Take care of Zhao Ziyi first, then it won't be too late to arrest Song Chen."

Liu Shiyue's lips curled up slightly.

The main reason for arresting Zhao Ziyi first was the Flame Talisman.

If Red Lion consumes another massive amount of Flame, he will likely be able to advance to the next level.

**

Song Chen had just crushed the random teleportation talisman when he felt his breath catch in his throat.

His five senses were shut off, and as he breathed, countless salty lake waters rushed into his mouth and nose.

He actually teleported into the water!

Song Chen quickly held his breath and activated his spiritual energy to create a protective shield around himself.

The protective shield had a layer of golden light that illuminated the scenery within half a meter around it.

Song Chen was soaked to the bone, and his wounds, which had not yet healed, were oozing blood.

The blood, originally red, turned green when it floated in the water.

Seeing his blood spreading in the water, Song Chen quickly cast a water-repelling spell on himself, followed by a dust-removing spell.

After the ritual, the sticky feeling on his body disappeared, and he was able to breathe again through his mouth and nose.

Song Chen frowned. He had to leave quickly, otherwise the water spirit beast would find him by following the scent of blood, and he might not be able to defeat it.

At this moment, he was floating in the water and could not tell which way to go.

All around was pitch-black water; there was no land, no underwater surface, and no light.

Song Chen could only rely on his senses to swim in one direction.

He tried to summon a flying artifact, but the water resistance was too great, and the flying artifact was not as fast as he could swim!

He counted his breaths and swam until he was exhausted.

After three hours, Song Chen finally saw an underwater rock.

He cautiously approached the stone.

Ordinary flames cannot be ignited underwater.

With his remaining spiritual energy, he summoned a fist-sized cluster of exquisite purple spiritual fire.

He used his spiritual fire to heat the stone for a while and found that the stone did not move at all under the heat of the spiritual fire.

Song Chen breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed that this was just an ordinary stone.

He collapsed onto the rock, and the feeling of weightlessness disappeared considerably.

Just staying underwater is too much pressure.

Song Chen felt that even breathing had become difficult.

He took out a bottle of spirit stone honey from his storage bag and threw out a set of defensive array flags.

The defensive array isolated the seawater, and he quickly drank all the spirit stone honey.

The formation lasted only three breaths before crumbling inch by inch.

Song Chen sighed. What kind of place is this? We've been swimming for so long and we're only now seeing the bottom.

Once he regains his spiritual energy, we need to find a way to orient himself and swim ashore.

Ziyi is still on the run; he has to hurry and meet up with him!