The middle-aged scholar's cultivation had reached the late Golden Immortal stage, so naturally he would not take Li Ran, who was only at the peak of the True Immortal stage, seriously. Even if some of the chosen ones from the top forces and super forces could challenge him by one level higher, it was impossible for them to defeat a late Golden Immortal with the cultivation of a peak True Immortal.
“If you have the same cultivation level as me, or if you are at the Golden Immortal stage, I can at most defeat you but cannot take your life. But if you are only at the True Immortal stage, even if the saint son or saint daughter of a super power comes, it will be impossible for them to escape from me!” Gongsun Yi’s body moved forward slowly, his aura gradually rising, like a towering mountain.
The Golden Immortal Stage, one of the three most iconic realms in the Immortal Realm, stands out from the previous one. At this stage, cultivators are capable of physical flight without the aid of any equipment. Their strength is so great that they can dominate a region and establish their own sect! They can establish a third-rate power and occupy an immortal realm spanning hundreds of thousands of light years!
Seeing this, the Fourth Young Master sneered, "Since Mr. Gongsun has spoken, boy, kneel down and beg me, and I will give you a painful death. You've cultivated to this point, so you should understand that death is not scary at all. What's scary is being unable to live or die!"
"Stop pretending! Come here and die. I hate people like you who like to pretend the most! I'll kill this pretender first, and then I'll kill you!" Li Ran's tone was also very calm, and he was not as arrogant and domineering as his words sounded. However, the more he said this, the more difficult it was for the middle-aged scholar to maintain his state of mind for many years.
As if influenced by Li Ran's previous power, the Fourth Young Master was actually a little frightened for a moment, but then he reacted and said angrily, "Mr. Gongsun, quickly capture him. I want to see if his bones and flesh are as hard as his mouth!"
"Young man, meaningless words will only serve to irritate the other party and bring you misery!"
As he spoke, Gongsun Yi calmly threw out a painted fan. It was fluorescent and shining, and it was obvious that it was not an ordinary item. Judging from its aura, it was a painted fan that reached the level of a mid-grade immortal weapon. The fan was embroidered with mountains and rivers. Anyone who could engrave such exquisite pictures on such hard metal must have extraordinary control over power.
As soon as the exquisite painted fan was thrown out, it immediately expanded, and eventually became about 150 to 160 kilometers in size. A mixed ochre-colored immortal energy emerged and suppressed Li Ran's head.
"coax!"
Li Ran felt as if a mountain tens of thousands of feet high was pressing down on his head, and the soil under his feet could not bear the weight at all. Suddenly, with Li Ran as the center, the land covering dozens of kilometers covered by the painted fan collapsed with a loud bang.
However, this was just a casual attack from Gongsun Yi, and he even held back a significant amount of his power. Generally speaking, in the Immortal Realm, the range of influence for a Human Immortal cultivator is around a few dozen feet, for an Earth Immortal cultivator it's a few hundred feet, and for a Celestial Immortal it's over a thousand feet. A full attack from a cultivator could destroy an average mountain.
However, once a cultivator reaches the Middle Three Realms, even a True Immortal can directly affect land within a radius of dozens of kilometers. It's no exaggeration to say that this power can even alter the terrain! Gongsun Yi, a late-stage Golden Immortal, could destroy all life within a few hundred kilometers with a single full-strength attack, far superior to a True Immortal.
This attack within a range of fifty to sixty kilometers was only a small part of Gongsun Yi's strength, and it was not a killing move, but only to suppress Li Ran.
"Haha, you little bastard, how powerful is Mr. Gongsun? You are only at the True Immortal stage, and you dare to yell in front of a powerful Golden Immortal. I can't kill you, little bastard!"
"It's a pity that I spent ten thousand years to refine those two yellow-eyed living corpses. It makes me sad just thinking about it. But it doesn't matter. Once I capture you, I will slowly refine them and forcibly erase your consciousness, but not completely. Then I will slowly refine you into my living corpse, letting you endure all this pain with your own eyes to relieve the hatred in my heart!"
Gongsun Yi didn't think that Li Ran could turn the tables, not even a trace of such an idea. The gap between the Golden Immortal Stage and the True Immortal Stage was too big. Even a peerless genius in a super power would find it difficult to jump one level and defeat a Golden Immortal Stage expert.
"Are you done? You seem a little too happy. I hope you can still laugh later!" Li Ran's voice came from the bottomless pit.
"That's right, you can actually withstand one thousandth of my power!" Gongsun Yi was a little surprised. He didn't expect that Li Ran could still speak under his suppression. You have to know that he is in the late Golden Immortal stage, and even one thousandth of the power is not something a small True Immortal cultivator can withstand.
In fact, he was a little hesitant when he attacked, fearing that his strength would be too great and kill Li Ran on the spot. In this case, the Fourth Young Master would definitely blame him, because the materials used by the Fourth Young Master to refine the living armored corpse would have their strength greatly reduced after his death.
With Li Ran's physique and qualifications, there is a high chance that he can be refined into a living armored corpse above the Yellow Eye level, but if he refines a corpse, then there is basically no possibility of it becoming a level above the Yellow Eye level.
"Haha, I really give you face. Mr. Gongsun Yi hasn't even used one percent of his strength. But I am patient and don't get angry when it comes to the living armored corpse that is destined to belong to me!" For some reason, the Fourth Young Master calmed down, with a smile in his eyes, as if he had seen the ending.
"In that case, I'll add some strength!" The middle-aged scholar Gongsun Yi thought about it, and the painted fan grew a little bigger, and the ochre-colored immortal energy on the fan became more intense.
Seeing this, the Fourth Young Master couldn't help but laugh, as if he saw Li Ran struggling to hold on.
"Are you feeling better now? Do you want Mr. Gongsun Yi to give you some more strength? Come on, show us that arrogant attitude you had just now!"
Just as the Fourth Young Master was feeling smug, a voice rang out from deep within the pit: "Alright, the show's over. I'm really not used to the darkness. Oh, and you pretentious freak, your fan is blocking the sun. I don't like it!"
"Hmm?" The middle-aged scholar frowned. With his computing ability, even if he didn't know the word "zhuang bi", he quickly analyzed what it meant based on the situation. Seeing that Li Ran was still so active, he was thinking of increasing his strength again, but he felt a huge force coming from the bottom that was suppressed by the painted fan.
At first he just thought about Li Ran's dying struggle, so he increased his strength, but then he found that this huge force was almost unstoppable, and it rushed up directly from the bottom with an unmatched momentum.
Gongsun Yi's face changed, and without the slightest hesitation, he burst out with all his strength to suppress it. Unfortunately, he still underestimated this power. This power was like lava that had been accumulated deep underground for a long time. Once it was aroused, it could not be stopped. His strength was simply not enough, and he was defeated step by step. In the end, he felt that he could not even make a slight impact!
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