The extreme domain stretched for thousands of miles of barren soil, with withered grass covering the endless wasteland.

This place was only a few dozen li away from the Ghost Gate Pass, and presumably extremely close to that mysterious watchtower. If one had good eyesight, looking up one could already see the menacing outline of the Ghost Gate Pass on the horizon.

However, at this moment, no one had noticed the strange transformation happening here—

Except for those caught in the midst of this strange transformation!

How could Elder Kong Yin and the other members of the Wuchang clan have imagined that in such proximity to the Ghost Gate Pass garrison and the watchtower, they would still encounter such a thing?

Not to mention that their opponent’s methods far exceeded theirs by several times!

Black clouds surged from all directions, thunder roared and lightning flashed. Even with eyes wide open, they couldn’t clearly see what was happening around them, yet those outside the formation could clearly see what was happening inside.

Lu Xiangleng stood diagonally behind Xie Buchen.

Her snow-white robes fluttered and danced before this formation of surging black clouds. Her cold, clear countenance seemed to contain moonlight itself. Though she stood upon this extreme domain’s barren soil, she was like a celestial maiden beneath the osmanthus trees of the moon palace, possessing a kind of lofty aloofness that others could not touch.

Xie Buchen’s gaze fell upon the formation, while her gaze couldn’t help but rest upon Xie Buchen.

The two of them couldn’t really be considered very familiar. It was just that year at the Western Sea plaza, when she happened to pass by and saw Xie Buchen, who was rushing back to Kunwu, severely injured and extremely weak. Out of a physician’s benevolent heart, she had intervened to help and lend a hand.

At the time, she had only thought it was a chance encounter, rescuing a Kunwu disciple.

Who could have imagined that later there would be an opportunity to travel together to the hidden realm of Qingfeng Nunnery, and she would even witness the near-mortal struggle between this generation’s pride of Kunwu and the foremost talent of Yashan’s new generation…

In the eighty years that followed, there had been very little intersection between them.

First, during the initial sixty years, the outside world had been abuzz with rumors about whether Xie Buchen was alive or dead. Then, in the latter twenty years, when Jian Chou finally returned and Xie Buchen broke through to Nascent Soul, he had stirred up new storms in the snow region. Second, during this period, many things had happened to her personally, and she could barely take care of herself, let alone have the mental capacity to concern herself with others.

Only now had she managed to break free from some of these constraints. When she looked at this Fellow Daoist Xie again, she found herself even more unable to catch up.

Lu Xiangleng had thought he would be very formidable, but she hadn’t expected him to be formidable to this degree. Using such inconceivable methods, he had entered the Ghost Gate Pass without anyone knowing—that was one thing. But now, relying on the fragmentary clues he had obtained earlier, he had set up an ambush here, waiting like a hunter for his prey, laying down such a grand formation, and easily trapping these ghost cultivators whose numbers were several times their own!

Thunder roared beside her ears, lightning flashed in her eyes…

At this moment, they had all transformed into a kind of heartfelt amazement!

He was indeed worthy of being called the pride of heaven alongside her Fellow Daoist Jian Chou…

His reputation was well-deserved.

Even before they, the bystanders, had to exert much effort, these Wuchang clan cultivators had already suffered greatly!

They hadn’t brought many people this time, only about sixty in total. But except for her, who had a high cultivation level but low combat power, they were all considered first-rate experts from the Nineteen Continents, with the majority being Kunwu cultivators.

As soon as Xie Buchen’s killing formation activated, the surrounding attacks immediately followed.

Between the cultivators of the Nineteen Continents and the ghost cultivators of the extreme domain, there was no reason to hold back! Not to mention that when laying down this killing formation, Xie Buchen had already given instructions to kill all they could, leaving only the leader alive for questioning.

“Swish!”

“Bang!”

“Rumble…”

For a moment, sword light rose and blade light flashed!

For a moment, talismans flew and foul blood spattered!

In just the instant the formation activated, this small patch of ground—insignificant compared to the vast barren soil of the extreme domain—had already become a mortal battlefield of Asura!

There wasn’t the slightest ripple on Xie Buchen’s face.

His calm and indifferent gaze penetrated the formation of surging black clouds, clearly seeing the situation below and every ghost cultivator struggling within the formation, searching for the person he needed.

The small fry and ordinary evil spirits were not worth bothering with.

He needed the location and situation of the watchtower, so he only needed to find the person with the highest cultivation here.

There were only a few of them in total.

Releasing his spiritual sense to sweep across the field, he easily discovered—

Golden Body realm, Kong Yin!

However, the moment he turned his gaze, following the direction locked onto by his spiritual sense to look at this person, another figure standing not far from Kong Yin unexpectedly pierced into his vision.

Deep black robes, alluring posture!

Seductive and frivolous eyes and brows, snow-white skin and flower-like beauty, adorned with jewels and bare feet. Clearly, nothing about her was alike, yet it was just that hint of stern and contradictory coldness floating in her eyes and brows that made him feel a shocking familiarity!

How could this be possible…

Their gazes met in an instant!

In this flash of lightning and spark of stone, he saw her, and she naturally also saw him.

Without any hesitation, and without any doubt, even though the face at the end of his vision and indeed the entire person were completely different, Xie Buchen dared to confirm without hesitation—

It was her!

Except for her, no one else in the world would possess such a gaze, and no one else could, with just such a simple look, stir up the myriad emotions in his heart that he couldn’t suppress and…

Killing intent.