From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

However, at this time, she no longer bore the appearance of having been beaten into a pig's head by Fang Ren as she did that day; instead, she was safe and sound, wearing a set of highly defensive golden-threaded clothes, unharmed and combating Void beasts in the middle-level war zone.

After her duel with Fang Ren, all the meridians in her body had suffered immense damage, and even her pretty face had several broken bones. But as the little princess of the Tiandao Sword Sect, she was clad in treasures given by her father from head to toe, never lacking in various healing-type pills.

Even so, after the duel, she still used an expensive fourth-order Blood Essence Pill and an extremely rare fifth-order Bone Mending Pill, in addition to resting for a day and a half before she was fully recovered.

Even though Tiandao Sword Sect was wealthy, the reserves of these two types of pills were not abundant. Thinking of the two pills that were used up, Xia Fu Lan felt an intense pain, and with it, a rising hatred for Fang Ren in her heart.

Just now, the move Mu Huiqing executed in the central battle zone set Xia Fu Lan's anger aflame. The people around were all talking about how Brother Song and Mu Huiqing were a perfect match.

What a joke! Brother Song was the man she liked; how could he be with another woman!

In the beginning, she managed to ruin Mu Huiqing's cultivation with the Anti-Void Array once, and this time as well, she could use this Black Giant Snake to ruin Mu Huiqing's cultivation again! However, this time, what she wanted was not just Mu Huiqing's ruined cultivation, but Mu Huiqing's life.

Because in her duel with Fang Ren, it was this very woman who had been protecting Fang Ren all along! Otherwise, Fang Ren's hand would have been chopped off by her Brother Song!

Looking at Mu Huiqing in the central battlefield, Xia Fu Lan's gaze gradually turned sinister.

This woman must die!

Although this battle was critical for human survival, she felt that even without Mu Huiqing, her Brother Song could still lead humans to defeat that Black Giant Snake.

"Buzz——"

A Void beast launched an attack at Xia Fu Lan, who without any hesitation, dodged toward the fellow disciples beside her. She was reluctant to use her True Qi on a Void beast now; after all, she still needed to find an opportunity to kill Mu Huiqing.

"Brother Li! My meridians have not yet recovered, please help me!" Xia Fu Lan called out to a fellow disciple.

"Junior Fulan! I've got you!"

A group of brothers from the Tiandao Sword Sect who were fighting Void beasts immediately came to Xia Fu Lan's side and surrounded her with protection.

Looking over the entire Tiandao Sword Sect, all disciples were already in tattered clothes with wounds all over their bodies, except for Xia Fu Lan, who remained immaculate and not even a single drop of blood had reached her.

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At this moment, Fang Ren had already arrived at the outskirts of the battlefield at full speed.

Here, second and third-order Void beasts were fighting with soldiers of low cultivation from the human side. Occasionally, fourth-order Void beasts would charge in, and once a fourth-order Void beast entered the outskirts, all the soldiers in the area would face grievous injuries, and it would cost the lives of at least a hundred people to eliminate it.

Just as a soldier beside him was about to have his arm bitten off by a Void beast, Fang Ren immediately drew his True Qi to form a sword and slashed at the Void beast that was about to bite the soldier.

With a flash of Sword Qi, the head of the Void beast split from its body, and the soldier was saved.

After releasing the Sword Qi, Fang Ren involuntarily paused, realizing that his Sword Qi had become over a hundred times faster than before. If he had not controlled it at the last moment, his Sword Qi might have accidentally sliced the soldier as well.

The soldier who had just been saved did not thank him but turned around and pounced on another Void beast. His appearance was frantic; clearly, he had entered a killing frenzy.

Fang Ren dispatched several strands of Sword Qi to slay a few third-order Void beasts around him and then grabbed the soldier, who was covered in blood and lost in the killing intent, to ask, "Brother, how long has it been since the Pill Conclave started?"

The soldier turned his head subconsciously after being grabbed. He bit his teeth fiercely, his face so covered in blood that it was no longer recognizable.

"What nonsense are you asking!" the soldier barked loudly. "With your realm, you should be defending the middle layer against the beasts, instead of wandering in the outskirts and having the leisure to chat!"

After saying this, the soldier broke free from Fang Ren's grasp and went on to support other soldiers.

As Fang Ren watched the soldier rejoin the ruthless battle, he began to grasp the brutality of the war. Not even a regular soldier on the outskirts became like this, one could only imagine what kind of enemy humanity faced in the inner layers of the war zone.

Looking around at the unbearable scene of carnage, Fang Ren turned and plunged deeper into the fight.

Continuing to kill Void beasts while also remembering to inquire about the time with the soldiers, he slayed a few hundred meters of Void beasts, yet none of the soldiers could tell him the date.

They were all consumed by madness, none having the mind to respond to a question irrelevant to the war. But to Fang Ren, the question was extremely vital.

As he fought and became covered in the blood of Void beasts, seeing that the ones around him were mostly fourth-order and occasionally fifth-order, he knew he was approaching the middle layer of the battlefield.

Just as he was about to break into the middle-level war zone to confront a large number of fourth, fifth, and even sixth-order Void beasts, his question was finally answered by a dying soldier.

The soldier informed him that today was the official start of the Pill Conclave, but the conclave had not yet begun due to the invasion of the Void beasts.

Upon learning this information, Fang Ren stood there stunned for a moment.

"So you're saying… only half a day passed since I was taken away by Indra Sky?"

Fang Ren felt a mix of emotions welling up inside him. He was relieved that he hadn't been away from Mu Hui Qing for too long, and that the battle hadn't lasted for at least fourteen days, as he had imagined. But he was also stunned—how could Indra Sky be so certain that Bai Qi was pregnant with his child in just half a day?

The sound of close combat in his ears kept Fang Ren from being dazed for too long, and he continued to charge towards the sea.

He needed to swiftly make his way to the center of the battlefield to find Mu Hui Qing; he wanted to let her know he was safe, and he didn't want her to worry about him while she was fighting the enemy.

"Nine Techniques of Lethal Combat! Sixth level!"

The red glow of the Killing Art enveloped him, and Fang Ren turned into a streak of light as he rushed into the middle-level war zone.

As he delved deeper into the middle-level war zone, he saw fifth-order Void Beasts flooding the area like a tide, with sixth- and seventh-order Void Beasts mixed among them.

Boom, boom, boom—

The sound of True Qi exploding was so loud it nearly burst one's eardrums, and blood rained from the sky continuously.

By the time he reached this point, Fang Ren was starting to struggle somewhat with the killing, especially when facing seventh-order Void Beasts, which forced him to use all his True Qi to counter.

"Ahh!"

Seeing a seventh-order Void Beast with a gaping mouth rushing towards a warrior, Fang Ren immediately activated Baiwu's Ultimate Creation, conjuring hundreds of longswords behind him.

"Sword Shield!"

The swords flew from behind him towards a practitioner who was about to be devoured, swiftly converging to form a solid sword shield.

The impact of the seventh-order Void Beast hitting the sword shield resounded with thunderous force. The warrior was flung by the blow, landing in front of Fang Ren. Although injured by the impact, he was at least alive.

"Thank you, brother!"

Bloodied, the man thanked Fang Ren in passing, then made his way towards another sixth-order Void Beast, but he nearly stumbled and fell into the sea.

Fang Ren grabbed the warrior with one hand to prevent him from falling, while with the other hand he swung the huge sword shield, batting several nearby Void Beasts away.

"You should retreat to the periphery!" Fang Ren suggested.

"It's nothing! I still have a pill!"

With that, the man took out a pill from his chest and swallowed it.

Fang Ren recognized it immediately—it was a fourth-order Blood Essence Pill, capable of restoring some True Qi for a short time. But in the midst of the middle-level war zone, full of sixth- and seventh-order Void Beasts, this pill's effect was unlikely to last even five minutes.

After swallowing the pill, the man didn't plan to leave, instead choosing to continue fighting. It seemed he had decided to die in battle rather than retreat to the periphery.

During a moment when Fang Ren withdrew his sword shield, a sixth-order Void Beast launched a surprise attack. The warrior immediately raised his longsword and cut towards the sixth-order Void Beast behind Fang Ren.

"Don't get distracted, brother! We are close to the central battlefield, and we might even encounter eighth-order Void Beasts! You must be extra careful!" After killing the Void Beast that was preparing to attack Fang Ren, the warrior didn't forget to warn him.

Fang Ren nodded his head, knowing full well that the sixth-order Void Beast couldn't really hurt him, but the soldier's actions still warmed his heart a bit.

"Take this."

Fang Ren casually took out a fifth-order Blood-Returning Flesh-Forming Pill from his Space Ring and tossed it to the warrior.

Each warrior swearing to defend their homeland was worthy of respect.

The soldier, seeing the pill Fang Ren threw to him, was momentarily stunned. The pill shone golden, evidently a top-tier fifth-order pill, which even few of the generals on the central battlefield possessed. Yet Fang Ren had casually given it to him.

Taken aback, the soldier took a good look at Fang Ren before recognizing him: "Fa… Fang Ren?"

When the other man called out his name, Fang Ren didn't pay much mind; after all, ever since his battle with Xia Fu Lan, there were too many who knew of him.

"Don't zone out."

Fang Ren urged the man, then continued cutting down a group of seventh-order Void Beasts. However, there were simply too many of them, and he couldn't break through quickly to reach the central battlefield.

Seeing more and more Void Beasts surrounding him, the warrior swiftly swallowed the pill given by Fang Ren and earnestly shouted, "Thank you, Brother Fang! I am Xu Feng of the Tiandao Sword Sect! If I'm fortunate enough to survive this great battle, I'll repay Brother Fang for your kindness with my life!"

Learning that the other was from the Tiandao Sword Sect, Fang Ren didn't feel any significant distance; in this great battle, everyone's lives were tied together, and so naturally should their hearts be.

Of course, that didn't rule out the possibility of someone with treacherous intentions like Xia Fu Lan stabbing him in the back.

But since this man chose not to retreat and continued fighting in the middle-level war zone even when his True Qi was nearly depleted, his resolve to protect his home was indubitably genuine.