"Is that so?" Sun Gaoyuan remained calm despite being choked, but the knife in his hand showed no mercy, and the contents of Wang Hetai's stomach were already flowing out of the wound.

"You want the core? I'll make sure you don't get it!"

"Spiritual communication! Sacrifice!"

As strands of blood energy seeped into the Holy Spirit Fortress from Wang Hetai's body, a furious smile appeared on his face. "Just wait, this place will become a battlefield of carnage!"

After saying that, Wang Hetai stopped breathing.

Sun Gaoyuan drew his knife and wiped it on Wang Hetai's body, then took the Holy Spirit Stone from his hand. "If you can't recognize your own position, do you think you have the ability to speak to me as an equal?"

With a creak, the wooden door was pushed open, and Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan walked in. As soon as they entered, they saw Wang Hetai's corpse.

"Truly ruthless!" Jiang Yuan went inside and closed the door; the light of the Holy Spirit Fortress was too easy to attract monsters.

“He’s too naive. Have you ever seen anyone who sits on equal footing with livestock?” Sun Gaoyuan sneered.

"Scum!" Ning Yanlan pulled out her scepter. "Those who cannot respect others will never earn respect from others!"

"Hmph, two pseudo-evolvers who don't even have cultivation techniques!" Sun Gaoyuan looked at the two with disdain. "You don't understand what cultivation is at all. Do you really think that you can become the chosen ones of heaven just by having a gift from heaven?"

Jiang Yuan remained silent. He did indeed sense the difference between himself and Sun Gaoyuan. The other party's soul energy was very concentrated, while his physical energy showed a lack of cohesion. Although the other party's soul energy was not as high as his physical energy, the other party's combat strength was no lower than his own.

“So what if we don’t understand cultivation! But at least we are still human beings, and we know about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness! Unlike you, you live like an animal!” Ning Yanlan pointed at Sun Gaoyuan with her dog-leg scepter.

"Woman!" Sun Gaoyuan looked at Ning Yanlan with lewd eyes. "Become one of our hunters, and I'll give you the cultivation techniques; you give me your body! Is it a deal?"

"Pah!" Ning Yanlan spat at him, then her spiritual energy shot out from the scepter.

"A mere trick!" Sun Gaoyuan took out a ring, its spiritual energy rendered useless as it approached him. "Experience my true power!"

The ring emitted a gray light, Ning Yanlan's eyes became unfocused, and her tense body softened.

"You know what? I love using my soul energy to control women. In that case, she's an obedient puppet in bed, and I can do whatever I want with her!" Sun Gaoyuan approached Ning Yanlan.

"Ah!" Ning Yanlan's body trembled. She pressed her left hand tightly to her temple, her face filled with struggle. She waved the dog-leg scepter and shouted, "Light of Nature!"

However, Sun Gaoyuan had already walked half a meter away from Ning Yanlan. Jiang Yuan was also affected by the ring, but he was barely able to stay conscious in battle.

"First-tier Berserk!" Jiang Yuan activated Berserk, which only grants two points of strength, and then charged towards Sun Gaoyuan.

Berserk cannot be used continuously; Jiang Yuan used it entirely by force, at the cost of huge energy consumption and a significant reduction in the increased power. However, both of these effects are extremely useful.

"Get out of my way!"

Sun Gaoyuan had noticed Jiang Yuan long ago, activated the ring, and then stabbed Jiang Yuan with his knife.

Jiang Yuan could dodge, but he didn't want to. Close combat with Sun Gaoyuan was his only chance to win, and he wanted to seize this excellent opportunity. Otherwise, once those people killed Xu Lian and the other person, they would have no chance.

"Die!" Jiang Yuan punched Sun Gaoyuan in the cheek, while Sun Gaoyuan's knife plunged into Jiang Yuan's chest.

"Smoke and Mist!"

Jiang Yuan roared, and Ning Yanlan swung her thick, dog-leg-shaped scepter down hard on Sun Gaoyuan's head.

Sun Gaoyuan was caught off guard and stunned by the impact, because he thought that this woman was only a psionic type, and that she could not use her psionic energy under the control of his ring activation. But he did not expect that this woman was so strong.

"You still want to sleep with me!" Ning Yanlan wasn't satisfied with just one blow, and continued to swing her dog-leg scepter, smashing it again and again.

Sun Gaoyuan raised his hand to try to block it, but Jiang Yuan was not about to let him have his way. He endured the sharp pain in his chest and grabbed Sun Gaoyuan's arm.

One blow, two blows, until the first-grade superior dog-leg scepter was smashed in half. At this moment, Sun Gaoyuan's consciousness also became blurred.

Jiang Yuan easily snatched the knife from him and ruthlessly plunged it into his heart, finally silencing Sun Gaoyuan completely.

When Ning Yanlan saw Sun Gaoyuan collapse, she also sat down helplessly on the ground, while Jiang Yuan, pale-faced, took out the dog-skin plaster.

"Tier 1 plaster, top quality, apply it wherever you're injured!"