V4C29: Obliteration

On the morning of the next day, Ping Chao awoke as early as he was able without using any particular methods to do so earlier than usual.

He had made a promise the previous day, and even if it was just to a nearly mindless body trudging around their mansion according to their every little whim, he felt that it needed to be adhered to. If he couldn’t even stick to something as simple as fucking one of his new slaves, then what good would he be in other places?

There was a strange feeling permeating throughout his body, akin to fatigue or exhaustion that would rarely strike any of the Greats when they possessed so many techniques and pills to ensure that they were always in their best condition, but he dismissed it nonetheless. It must have been something on the journey, or perhaps some kind of psychological or physical attack that he had missed before arriving to the mansion, which were hardly uncommon when some of the common people of the world got a little uppity and tried to claim some control over their pathetic lives.

Whatever it was, satisfying both his mind and body was bound to improve his condition, or give him a better idea of what it actually was.

Especially now that his focus had greatened, he was rather disappointed to find that the crimson-haired woman was not in the same place as he had left her, forcing him to go out there and search through the mansion both with his spiritual perception and his gaze, eventually finding her.

For some reason, she had moved to the kitchen, and was working on a large pot of something that he, as someone that had never even attempted to cook on his own, couldn’t even be bothered to attempt to recognise. It caused a displeased frown to appear upon his face, but he could hardly blame her. One of the others, Bai Fu being the most likely suspect, had likely instructed her to go elsewhere to spoil his fun, and he would be sure to resolve it with them when he figured it out.

He headed into the kitchen, where the crimson-haired woman stood alone.

“Which one of those idiots told you to move?” Ping Chao asked, but he could hardly receive a proper reply from someone without a mind, “Tch. What are you doing?”

Pushing her out of the way and causing her to drop a wooden spoon on the ground, he took a closer look at the pot, finding it to be some mixture of boiling water and a green viscous substance of an unknown nature. It did not smell particularly appealing, nor did it look like anything that could be consumed by a human.

That caused his frown to deepen for a moment.

“Too careless,” a voice suddenly entered his ear, almost at the same time a powerful clawed hand grabbed onto his neck and forced his face into the pot, his neck colliding with the side and, to his surprise, doing nothing at all to the metal despite the sheer force of the hand.

Ping Chao thought to release his spiritual perception and observe the aggressor, but the moment that his skin had touched the mixture in the pot, it burned to an unbelievable degree, with his entire face instantly suffering from a combination of extreme heat and… poison? If not for his position, his eyes would have widened, for the green substance was unmistakably extremely powerful poison that did nearly everything that a toxic substance could do to a person, judging by the extreme sensation of pain, disorientation, weakness, discomfort and everything else that surged within his face.

Worse than that, however, and what had caused his surprise to begin with, was the way in which the moment that he came into contact with that concentrated substance, the rest of his body suddenly felt the same, that weak feeling in particular intensifying to an immense degree all over him, to the point that he could hardly muster any resistance.

It was absolutely horrible, and horrifying, as he finally managed to pull just a bit of his spiritual perception out of himself and beheld the one that was attacking him.

“You think I can’t sense that, you bastard? Your filthy spiritual perception will not be touching me again!” Wei Yi spoke with just enough volume to reach his ear and terrify him to the core, but not so that she would be heard in the rest of the mansion.

Furthermore, she immediately kept her promise, for a vast quantity of power surged out of that clawed hand and right into his neck, immediately bursting out with a degree of power that he simply thought impossible. She was only in the fourth realm, while he was in the fifth, and even if there was so much poison in his system that he would barely be able to walk for the next year, there was no chance that anything produced by her could be this impactful.

Of course, he could not have known that he faced the very concentration of the anger that Wei Yi had felt towards him and towards all of the Greats as a result of the wonderful display they had presented to her. There was simply no way for him to know that she had taken her understanding of the Dao of Law’s Ire branch and combined it with the recently awakened four corners of the Conqueror’s Eye in order to create the most devastating thing she could possibly imagine, or that she had been tricking them from the very start… well, that was one thing that he could suspect.

It was simply too strange, and their Ping Wu had still not returned. Something must have been wrong, and yet, just as she had said, they were just ignoring it, being too careless.

At any other time, their behaviour might have been analysed by Wei Yi in order to figure out how to best progress with her current approach, but she did not have the mood or energy to do so now. With the energy unleashed, her killing will form assumed, and the entire mansion at her disposal, she had to unleash her anger.

‘Obliteration!’ she had named her technique, and thus unleashed it fully into his neck, digging into his flesh, bone and muscle with a terrifying speed, made only worse by the fact that Ping Chao only realised after a few moments that he had to and could defend himself.

When much of his neck, instinctively protected by his anchors, had been burnt to shreds by a dark beam of surging, scorching energy, he managed to unleash the full force of his anchors upon her. It knocked her aside, the energy gathered in her left hand fading for a moment and gave him the chance to remove his face from the pot of poison, but he was already in a poor state. He could barely keep his neck up, and he wasn’t even sure if he would be able to swallow a pill to recover his own state.

To make it worse for him, all that the push seemed to give her was the opportunity to change her own state.

In the blink of an eye, as she halted her momentum, her body was covered in a crimson robe, with a gauntlet on her right arm with claws identical to the ones on her left. A signet ring was worn on one of her right fingers, glowing with an ominous greyish light. Two boots covered her feet, showing a trace of a thin black material obscuring the skin of her legs, while her loose hair was somehow tied back into a ponytail with something unknown to him. Much of her left half was crimson and dark, with sharper teeth and a darker eye, while her right was unnaturally light and pale, making her seem rather inhuman.

However, more so than any of that, what caught his attention while his mind desperately tried to recover was the energy that gathered in both hands and she put them together, undisguised killing intent flooding over him and further suppressing his already inhabited cognitive functions.

That energy gathered in a sphere within her hands, a sphere of powerful void-like energy with a thick corona of crimson, almost seemed to contain all and none of the elements at once, flaring with a fire-like shimmer while looking oddly stable and flowing, like ice or water, arcs of blackened crimson burning somewhere within. Unbeknownst to him, it even contained the nature of physique energy, killing will, and the Ascendant’s Bloodline, all merged into a single force, which, without even a single trace of hesitation anywhere within the process, was then unleashed upon him as Wei Yi pushed her hands forward.

A dense beam with the same colouration and texture exploded from the sphere, impacting upon Ping Chao’s weakened body, and instantly scorching his flesh, the sheer force throwing him backwards.

He was thrown into the wall behind him, and nearly instantly forced through it, a great tear forming within it with the remnant flames of Obliteration lingering upon the edges. Through the kitchen, he flew into the dining room, through a couple chairs and tables, shredding through them with his back and receiving a number of other injuries at the same time, being forced against the wall and this time managing to not pierce through it.

Despite that, his situation did not better but worsened instead, for once the physical force of the Obliteration beam was free to act upon him directly and the energy was no longer spread apart to other entities around him, Ping Chao was able to experience the full extent of the power contained within it. No matter how much he attempted to dissuade it with his anchors, the core around them, the searing marks that could potentially reinforce his defences, the beam burnt straight through them, devouring his flesh and bones, annihilating his lungs and spine and whatever else he had within that mortal frame of his.

Only a little while later, the walls around him were broken through and a number of figures charged in, but that was not soon enough for him. All that he saw was the sudden explosion of dust and wooden chunks around him, then he saw nothing.

A series of thirty-seven anchors shattered around him, the energy contained within instantly being devoured by the Truth of the Universe within Wei Yi’s dantian, but the Greats that had arrived onto the scene could not perceive anything more than a strange sensation passing through them upon the death of one of their fellow Great Family members.

“What is this? How is Yi Wei-”

“WEI YI, YOU FUCKING IMBECILES!” she interrupted them, leaping towards them and pressing her hands together so that the stable sphere that had formed between them was fractured and ripped apart.

Thus, before they could even come to grips with the situation, they suddenly saw a beam emerging from it fracture as well, splitting into countless smaller beams that resembled individual tongues of flame that feasted upon them and the anchors that they rapidly raised in an attempt to protect themselves. For a moment, it worked, fending off the Obliteration energy, but they soon found a strange glow emerging from Wei Yi’s eyes.

Four individual colours, green, red, yellow, and blue, united into one within her pupil, flaring out as a great figure appeared behind her, reminiscent of a Titanic Demolisher and yet blatantly not.

It had two sets of arms, and each arm and hand were clearly distinct from one another even while they and the entire figure were coated in the same black and red light that the Obliteration energy possessed. One wore a robe, another was covered in armour, a third wore a leather glove and the fourth was covered partly in metal and in cloth. One radiated an impossible frost, another surged with righteous energy, although that was twisted by the Ire essence and made to look half-dark, the next dripped with a terrible toxin, while the last carried a certain authority that the others lacked.

More importantly to the Great Family members, however, was the fact that this figure also replicated Wei Yi’s stance, a vast quantity of energy gathering from the palms of each of the four hands and forming an even greater sphere of dark energy than the one Wei Yi wielded.

However, the moment that they glanced back down upon the one that spawned such a monstrous entity, they realised that they had been overlooking the true danger, for the glow within her eyes, ones that were so dull only the day before, overwhelmed their very souls. Even that was not it, for as it burst from her, it seemed to wash over the world around them, pressing down upon them and partly shaping the world in a way that they could not even properly perceive, and yet knew would be detrimental to them. Arcs of blackened crimson lightning surged out of the ground, and the broken edges of the wall twisted in shape slightly, yet obviously.

The most of that pressure was applied to them as the gigantic Titanic Demolisher… no, Titanic Conqueror removed one hand from the orb that gathered within its grasp and flicked it at them, all of the poison that had been building upon the hand covered in leather instantly flying at them with far greater speed than they could imagine.

It passed right through their anchors, and the moment that it came into contact with their skin, they felt their entire bodies weaken right away, the frailty spreading from within, not without.

“I am Wei Yi, the Ascendant, leader of the Ascendant’s Arbiters, and I shall ensure that the world is free of the pests, the leeches that are the Great Families!” Wei Yi cried out, her features igniting in flame and freezing in ice as she activated yet another physique ability, empowering the flame and water properties within the Obliteration energy and causing them to suddenly surge through the weakened anchors of the Greats.

At the same time, the Titanic Conqueror placed the Hunter’s Toxin hand back onto the sphere of energy while the arm covered in a robe, with righteous energy surging from it, parted and pointed towards them with an open hand.

Instantly, a dozen individual circular runes formed upon the ground, all of which glowed not in the usual blue light of the Crusader’s Runes, but instead with the nature of the Ire that drove Wei Yi’s entire being at this moment. Every single one of the circular runes was placed beneath the feet of the Greats she was currently facing, and not a single one of them had an anchor barrier on the ground.

Had this been a force of the second generation, they might have been able to endure with the core that protected them, but instead they were all of the third generation, and inexperienced at that.

When the runes formed upon the ground, they could do little more than exclaim in alarm before the Crusader’s Runes hand turned over so that its palm would face up, then shut into a fist, causing each of the runes to explode in an instant.

Bursts of energy, all of which tore through the air with immense ease thanks to the Conqueror’s Eye subduing the very nature of the world as to permit her actions, surged from the centres of the runes and into the bodies of the Great Family third generation members. Bai Zhong, Bai Wu and Ping Zhong instantly suffered the full blow of a fourth realm ability empowered by all of Wei Yi’s other forms of cultivation, resulting in the instant combination of all of them shredding through their bodies, tearing skin, scattering flesh into naught, and turning their bones to dust.

In a single burst, all of them fell, but the Obliteration energy only glowed brighter as their anchors shattered.

All of their points were naturally collected as well, but Wei Yi did not linger and instead directed the Titanic Conqueror to turn to the side, removing the Redeemer’s Frost hand from the sphere of Obliteration energy and making it wave as it conjured a vast wall of ice at her side. As soon as even a fragment of ice appeared there, Wei Yi also separated one hand from the orb now resting within the other and employed the full capability of the Red Shaper’s Grasp, reinforcing every minute particle of ice in order to make that wall as strong as possible, assisting herself even further by conquering the area around her with her newly acquired physique ability.

Out of everything that she had possessed so far, the Conqueror’s Eye ability had affected her arsenal the most when it had finally awoken just a short time ago, following two days after the Hunter’s Toxin physique, as well as her other three quarters of the Conqueror’s Eye began to show their effects within her form.

It was with the Hunter’s Toxin that she had poisoned everything that the Greats had eaten from her, although she did not permit the poison to do anything more than rest within their bodies. With that, she could make it as fierce and terrifying as she wanted to, but it would not register within the bodies and minds of the Great Family members until another toxin from the physique ability was flung at them, or otherwise touched their bodies in some way.

That much might have been enough for her to achieve something, but when the combination of the four began to ignite within her, she felt just how far it was able to spread. Modifying the Titanic Demolisher to wield the powers of the four quarters of the physique ability, affecting and further empowering her Red Shaper’s Grasp, and even permitting her to conquer the very world around herself in order to force the Laws to side with her… it was something of immense power, and yet it might never be awakened without another with the very Yin-Yang Ascendant physique that she currently possessed.

The moment that her wall of ice was complete, a great concentrated set of beams impacted it from several sources of fifth realm energy, some of the power being refracted by the ice and turned to naught while the rest hit it head on.

Wei Yi hardly required anyone to tell her that the second generation had come knocking at her impromptu wall, and that they were less than pleased with whatever she had done in the room so far, whether or not their spiritual perception was able to breach the conquered region of the world around her or not. Whatever those people felt, thought, or wanted from her now, be it vengeance or simply her immediate demise without any delay, she would disappoint them.

All of the five beams that struck her came from vaguely similar directions, and thus she had a target that she could aim at even without directly piercing their onslaught.

While one hand remained to keep reinforcing and correcting any flaws within the ice wall, learning much from the man that had once used the Shaper’s Grasp physique against her in the Kong Prison Realm, that being her right hand, her left was raised into the air and all of the hands of the Titanic Conqueror rose as well, aiming the orbs of energy within them at the sky.

Together, they shot out a dense, thick, pure beam of energy from the technique, her eyes brightening for a moment as she conquered the ceiling and the rest of the floors of the residence as to make them as feeble as she could to minimize the degree of impact that would be absorbed by them. The beam that had converged was able to strike directly through the wood that now seemed to rot on the inside, as if it had been aged by a dozen years while moisture had been permitted to reside within each plank, piercing past the very roof of the building and collecting far above it and every combatant that Wei Yi could sense.

As soon as the beam stopped shooting out of her and the Titanic Conqueror, she dispersed the energy within the latter’s hands while she dropped the Red Shaper’s Grasp ability and rushed straight into the walls of ice, allowing Obliteration to surge up within her right had once again.

Perhaps to the surprise of the second generation on the other side of the wall, all of whom looked absolutely infuriated at her intrusion and her actions so far, she pierced right through it, the large entity behind her following only a breath later as the entire wall began to melt into naught, having been created from nothing to begin with. In each hand, an orb of Obliteration energy gathered, and the moment that she was within sight of her foes, she let it loose.

It struck the core that guarded Luo Chao, the one that seemed weakest out of the lot, although her choice of targets was also shaped partly by the fact that regardless of whom she targeted primarily, she would strive to shatter as many anchors of the others as she could. For her, at this very moment, it was essential not only that as many would die as possible, but also so that none of them could operate at their full strength, and if she needed to get right into harm’s way in order to accomplish this, she would – and already had – throw herself into the task gladly.

With the power split, and it being shot at someone who had not yet enjoyed a splash of toxin, the beam was able to do less than it did to the third generation, but at the same time as he was being attacked, Wei Yi directed the other beam to sweep past the others, impacting upon their cores and forcing them to remain on the defensive.

Her eyes momentarily flared with energy, the conquering property of her new physique ability being spread as far as she could, but what was more significant was the four empty hands of the Titanic Conqueror being raised under her command as the Ascendant and Conqueror.

The Crusader’s Runes hand reached out and pointed in much the same fashion, but instead of circular, overlapping marks forming on the ground, a bolt of black and crimson energy shot out of its fingers and landed on the ground between the five. A square rune immediately formed within the ground, and rapidly expanded according to a grid, filling the entire room that had become their battlefield, with them all flaring up only a moment after they were set.

Despite each one of the second generation being protected by their cores, the energy consuming properties of the Crusader’s Runes struck them, forcing them to seek some escape.

To deter them, the Redeemer’s Frost hand was swept before the gigantic figure, countless small bolts and shards of ice forming in its path and flying out the moment that the hand stopped, crashing into the ground and their cores while the heaviest concentration of bolts was present at the edges of their possible escapes. Had they wanted to move, they would have needed to run straight into the shards of ice that contained enough energy to cause the core of the fifth realm to ripple even in smaller numbers, so they suspected that had they gone for it, they would have suffered something more long term than that.

It was hardly assisted by the sweeping Obliteration beams, nor by what came next.

The third hand, which belonged to the Warlord’s Banners physique ability, was raised by the Titanic Conqueror, pointing disdainfully at the Greats. At once, the ground around them was shadowed by unseen things, which then seemed to fall from nowhere onto the battlefield.

A set of banners, two near Wei Yi while the rest were scattered around the second generation of the Great Family members that had gathered to attack her, each one having a wide enough radius to cover all of them at once, with each banner applying some kind of different draining and weakening effect upon them. This passed even through their cores, likely assisted to some extent by the runes that weakened the cores and the beams and shards of ice which stressed them as the same time, weakening their defensive integrity.

Finally, the Hunter’s Toxin hand closed into a fist, then opened and threw out a great mass of vile toxin that burned the very air it touched, transforming the gas into noxious fumes that rotted and consumed the ceiling, rapidly devouring through the wood that had been used to make them as if it was not a high-quality planar material.

The toxin itself was thrown directly at the Greats, splashing over the ground and their cores, making their escape even more difficult while trying to shred whatever stability remained in them.

Normally, this would have been the full extent of the four physiques that made up the Conqueror’s Eye, but Wei Yi was able to distinctly feel that they had more to offer her, and so she ordered them to act exactly as they should, unleashing everything they had on offer. At once, the four hands were shut as different forms of energy gathered within each one, yin and yang, baleful and righteous, all of which sent a clear, albeit momentary, trace of fear into her enemy’s eyes.

With the new instructions, the first to act was the Crusader’s Runes hand, although that might have been due to the time that it had been given to rest and build up power after the first attack that it performed.

All of the energy that it had gathered was once more released into the ground, but the runes that were targeted were not remade, but instead the energy seeped into them, brightening their Ire-filled interiors and causing a secondary shape to appear within the square of the runes, a series of complex marking surrounding the symbol in the middle of the square.

Although Wei Yi had been unable to understand exactly what it would do at first, once the runes were reinforced, her keen eye immediately noticed the similarity between the markings and the circular runes, warped as the former were in comparison to the others. She also understood why the Titanic Conqueror was still keeping that hand at the ready, for all that it would require was her direct command, mental or verbal, and each one of the runes would ignite with all of the energy that they had gathered, and unleash it.

After that, the Hunter’s Toxin hand seemed to press down on the air, a sudden moisture and mist pouring from beneath the floor of the room. Through the floorboards, a great quantity of green toxins bubbled through and rose, flooding the room with a thin layer of impossible dangerous poison.

Almost immediately after, perhaps intentionally acting in turn with the Hunter’s Toxin hand, the Warlord’s Banner hand closed into a fist then rose, before suddenly punching downwards. In the room before her, directly above Luo Chao, an enormous fist appeared, falling down with the same speed and vigour as the downward punch of the physique ability hand. It crashed into the core, a series of audible cracking and crackling noises following after, but more importantly than that it threw all of the poison that now lay upon the ground into the air, causing it to splash all over the cores of the others in the room.

The last of the hands was the Redeemer’s Frost, which had not gone for a new course of action but instead developed the old, gathering an incredibly large clump of ice before itself that it then threw down at Luo Chao, directly following the fist and choosing the same spot to target as well, to make the most out of the attack. It flew with incredible speed for something that large, and it did not simply crash into his defence but instead exploded outwards.

Wei Yi would have stood by and watched as the explosion of ice caused further ripples in his core and struck the cores of the others, but she could distinctly feel the next step approaching.

As such, she called out, “Burn!”

The Crusader’s Runes hand instantly released the rest of the power that it had built up, causing the runes beneath the feet of the Greats to explode upwards, the combined power of the square and circular designs combining as they tore into the cores.

Simultaneously, the ceiling above them suddenly collapsed inwards, all of the wood rotting with a crimson haze around it, as an enormous beam of Obliteration energy fell upon them, trapping them between it and the power of the Crusader’s Runes, with Wei Yi vanishing just before it fell through the use of the World’s Echo physique ability. It seemed to require less build up to transport her further in the regions that she conquered, and thus she brought herself as far away as she needed to for her own safety in this fight.

Despite the double attack, the second generation did not appear hesitant in the slightest to act the moment that her guard was relaxed even a little by the sudden movement.

Four sets of beams, some choosing to strike in a singular attack while the others split it into a few to target her best, shot at her, instantly piercing through her flesh with as little effort as her own Obliteration beams could, showcasing the might of the fifth realm empowered by dozens of anchors.

Similarly, four figures burst out of the crashing beam, although the fifth was not just conspicuously absent, but his anchor energy points were already floating towards her Truth of the Universe for her to absorb and use at any time she wished. Each one was already preparing more point beams, while others seemed to have other things at their disposal, but they did not seem to expect her to fly at them with even greater speed than they could muster.

While they had themselves not suffered much damage, their cores were clearly weakened, and thus Wei Yi took advantage of this by directly going for the anchors behind it.

When a fist emboldened and empowered by all of her forms of energy, primarily her bloodline power, struck the core of Luo Fu, it did not crack or shatter it at all, but instead permitted a vast force to pass through it, directly striking one of the anchors that attempted to hide itself behind that barrier. It struck it and obliterated it.

“You bitch! Get over here!” the member of the Great Luo called out, firing a dozen point beams at her, empowering them with a searing mark, but only one of them managed to even graze her as she used the World’s Echo ability to appear instead besides Ping Fu, who she struck with the same method.

Again, with a compromised core and a technique that practically attacked right through it, one of the anchors behind it didn’t stand a chance, as the anchors of cultivators did not become stronger with each realm, but were instead protected by stronger barriers and stronger people. The fourth realm offered a constant core, the fifth permitted greater action with one’s energy in order to repulse one’s foes, the sixth guarded both with greater energy potency, the seventh provided a series of halos around the core and empowered it and all of one’s energy, and from the eighth onwards, the threat of losing one’s anchor seemed to vanish entirely.

Thus, while the Greats did possess a powerful core and plentiful searing marks, they did not have a superior method of protecting their own individual anchors than their third generation did.

All the while, the Titanic Conqueror was also not floating in the air and doing naught to contribute, but instead threw out runes, toxins, bolts of ice and called down banners to slow the Great Family members further, mixing with the poison that was already within their systems and making it so much more difficult to resist a figure that was a realm below them, without the benefit of more than thirty anchors. Some of the banners could be destroyed, certain runes could be avoided, the poisons dodged and the ice bolts met in the air with a beam or pulse of energy to break them before they had a chance to impact, but all of this just further pulled their attention away from their main foe and gave them no choice but distract themselves while their anchors were damaged.

Two anchors broken in just in an instant, the Great Families naturally all paid even greater attention to her movements, making sure to observe every single trace of her appearance and disappearance, their accuracy slowly growing with each time that her figure vanished from the world and reappeared elsewhere.

“How in the heavens is she doing this much without her anchor?” one of them cried out.

However, that came at a cost for them, for each time that they were unable to force her to vanish before striking, which she was able to do more and more quickly each time that she tried it, her command over the world growing with each moment, allowing her to enter either into an attack or a retreat with less of a delay each time, counteracting the growth of their accuracy. Bai Chao lost two anchors, Ping Fu did so as well, Luo Fu was slower to react due to her condition and thus lost four in rapid succession, and then Wei Yi appeared beside Bai Fu.

Opposite to her pregnant friend, Bai Fu had an amazing reaction time, and shot out several point beams at the vital parts of the Ascendant’s body the moment that she appeared on her side, having yet to lose a single anchor. This time, however, Wei Yi did not flee the instant the beams came for her.

Just as Bai Fu invested her full strength to get rid of her, the Ascendant gathered a dark crimson storm within her hand and thrust it out, striking at the same time as the Titanic Conqueror threw out a series of exploding runes onto the ground, launching a great deal of poison that enveloped a large ball of ice, while another one of those dark bronze hands fell from the air akin to a banner, striking the core that protected the many anchors within it, rapidly forcing Bai Fu to decide which attack she would guard against the most. It was a difficult decision, given that each one of the strikes came from a slightly different direction and would destabilise her core far too much if she chose to outright ignore any individual one, forcing her to go with outright force.

The individual attacks from the four hands of the Titanic Conqueror were impactful and clearly left several cracks within her defences, but it was the crimson and black storm that gathered within Wei Yi’s hand that was most devastating. It did not need to break or shatter her core, but it instead shot right through it, imbued with bloodline power amongst a number of other forms of energy, and spread out onto five of her anchors.

She hardly needed to hear the shattering of stone to understand exactly what had happened to her precious cultivation, to the anchors that she had acquired many years ago.

“How dare you, whore?” Bai Fu shouted as all of the glowing points around her suddenly grew a hundred times brighter, increasing in size by a significant margin, and then launched powerful enough beams to burn the air itself, combusting it and causing a great explosion to occur around them. All of that force was directed specifically at Wei Yi, who could only vanish a moment after they hit her.

This time, all of them looked in the direction that her body had moved prior to her disappearance, and all of them released similarly powerful beams into the wall that she appeared to have moved past, or perhaps into.

Their energy shredded it with ease, but they failed to pierce the barrier behind it.

As soon as their light faded, all of the Great Family members were met with a spherical core, made seemingly of crystal and not of solid energy, guarding a huge structure that they could hardly call an anchor, despite that clearly being what it was. Only a portion of it stood normally on the ground, supporting above it a glowing point wrapped in thin chains, around which pieces of crystalline matter hovered and spun, with various elements of energy surging from each one. Above that, the top of a standard anchor floated, but it had five distinct sides and was also surrounded by forty-seven smaller pieces of more ordinary material that gave them all a strange sensation of fear.

“That bitch had her anchor down the whole time! Attack it!” screamed Bai Fu, prompting the rest of them into immediate action as countless overlapping beams fell upon the core all at once.

However, just as they thought they were making some progress in destroying it, they found that their beams had already destroyed much of the wall behind them, turning the Ping mansion into even more of a wreck, while the core and the anchor that hid behind it were nowhere to be seen, much like how Wei Yi also vanished from their sight.

“Find her! We must find her right now! She must die!”