### Chapter 7: King vs. King (1) (Bonus Chapter)
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Outside Ground City.
Dozens of flying swords rained down like a summer storm, sealing every possible escape route for Feng Yalin.
With just one move, they were lethal strikes.
Li Ying Tian never showed mercy to his enemies.
As the swords were about to pierce through, splattering warm bl**d in every direction,
Feng Yalin suddenly vanished into the darkness.
“Clank clang clang…”
The flying swords neatly embedded into the ground, leaving only their hilts trembling slightly.
How… how is this possible?!
Li Ying Tian landed with surprise, scanning left and right.
It was as if Feng Yalin had simply left this world—within a hundred-meter radius, there wasn’t even a trace of her presence.
This meant she didn’t merely hide nearby, but truly left the range of his attack in that split second.
How did she do that?
Even teleportation couldn’t completely hide her figure.
As he pondered this dilemma, lost in thought, a loud explosion suddenly echoed from the Floating City high above.
Accompanied by a resounding blast, a fireball shot up from somewhere in the Floating City, looking as if the entire place would soon be bathed in flames.
With Feng Yalin gone and Thousand Bird City in peril, Li Ying Tian reluctantly abandoned his search.
“The enemy’s confusion tactics are broken! The real Thousand Bird City is right before us.
All disciples, follow your Sect Leader and let’s fight our way back to save our Immortal Gate from disaster!”
“Fight back! Fight back!”
Amidst the chanting crowd, only Gongsun Ding furrowed his brows, feeling his first stirrings of doubt about the Sect Leader’s intentions.
Though the Sect Leader insisted that the masked woman Feng Yalin was in cahoots with the enemy, and saving them was merely a deceptive tactic, Gongsun Ding felt something was off.
Perhaps the Master had truly borne humiliation to leave the black mist and pretended to submit to the Extermination of Immortals.
But Feng Yalin led them through the chaos, and she had countless ways to trap them in a cycle of reincarnation without them realizing it. So why didn’t she?
“Gongsun Ding, what are you dawdling for?!
Hurry up and catch up!”
Yun Hong, the leader of the ten disciples, shouted impatiently at him.
Gongsun Ding suddenly realized he had already fallen far behind, while his Master Li Ying Tian was already galloping toward the Floating City above.
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Sitting cross-legged on the back of the Dark Feather Crane, Lin Nan suddenly opened her eyes, a glint of coldness flashing within.
In a critical moment, she withdrew her character card quickly.
Since it hadn’t been six hours yet, she wouldn’t have another chance to escape in Feng Yalin’s body once she returned.
【Ding! You have killed 4,000 Nightmare Beasts, earning 8,000,000 experience points. With the bonus from the Gathering Spirit Formation, you gain an additional 1,000,000 experience points.
Total experience points: 9,000,000.】
【Ding! You have reached Level 60.】
Skill 1: Black Snow
The system detects that your Cold Value has remained high for an extended period, activating the effects of Black Snow, no longer bound to the Cold Value.
Passive Skill 1: When you are in an area filled with Black Snow, your attributes increase by 50%.
Passive Skill 2: Black Snow is as hard as diamond, causing remote damage when combined with other techniques.
Active Skill: When in an area filled with Black Snow, you can teleport continuously 10 times. Each teleport has a cooldown of three hours, calculated separately and can accumulate.
Teleport next to an enemy and deal massive damage, with a 20% chance to deliver a killing blow (the higher the enemy’s level, the lower the chance), including but not limited to strangulation, throat piercing, decapitation, and bisecting techniques.
Skill 2: Flowing Wind
Activates at the cost of 60 Cold Value per minute, no cooldown time.
You can disregard gravity and soar freely.
Skill 3: Illusory Sea
Summons Undead Creatures.
On the ancient earth, countless dead bodies sleep; you can summon them to do your bidding.
The summoned creature’s level cannot exceed your character level but benefits from all your skills, equipment, and titles.
A series of system prompts made Lin Nan realize that this time of intense leveling had practically transformed her.
Nightmare Beasts are invincible in the Black Mist World or as it’s nicknamed, the Nightmare World, as even Li Ying Tian couldn’t contend with them.
And the reason Feng Yalin could wreak havoc in the Nightmare World, forcing the Nightmare Beasts to flee, might be because she wasn’t truly a person.
She was merely a character card summoned by Lin Nan.
As soon as Li Ying Tian and the others entered the black mist, their real bodies immediately fainted, and their consciousness got stripped away.
Feng Yalin, however, was unaffected; she wasn’t a real person, so dreaming didn’t apply to her.
In fact, she was more like a virus invading the Nightmare World, bursting with life force.
Clearly, the Nightmare World had never encountered an invader like her.
Even when over 5,000 Nightmare Beasts attacked her, they were utterly defeated.
Instead, she hit the jackpot, feasting on their experience points.
So far, she had a basic understanding of how the Nightmare domain worked; she had grasped Ji Shen’s convoluted schemes behind all this.
Now it was just a matter of confronting Bai Yu Cheng and Ji Shen face-to-face.
At first, she wanted to support Thousand Bird City to ally against Ji Shen, hoping for a mutually destructive outcome.
But ever since Li Ying Tian had pulled his sword on her and killed her trusted minion, the Wolf Demon, Lin Nan had decided—Thousand Bird City couldn’t be left standing.
At the very least, that old coot Li Ying Tian must d*e!
She had to avenge the Wolf Demon and all the character cards like Wei Wenxuan who fell to his sword!
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At the same time the black mist faded away,
“d*mn it!”
Inside the Floating City’s forbidden zone, Fu Yetian cursed darkly as he got stuck in front of the third magical barrier.
“I never imagined that so many Nightmare Beasts couldn’t stop a single woman. The end of the Nightmare came far sooner than we expected. Even if three days pass in the dream, merely a moment will have passed in reality.”
Guarding the entrance, the Great King of the Split Land laughed heartily, “Fu Protector, don’t worry! With me here, even if that Li Ying Tian comes, he’ll return empty-handed.”
“Just count on you, Great King.”
The Great King waved him off, picking up his two-meter-long wolf-teeth club and slowly heading to the tunnel entrance.
He knew very well that with the strength of those cave kings under his command, they couldn’t stop Li Ying Tian; sending them was tantamount to sending them to their doom—he’d rather confront the danger himself.
As for that boy Fu Yetian had high hopes for, whom he had never seen before, he was currently flailing about like a madman with another kid who seemed to be his identical twin, completely overwhelmed.
No, to be precise, it was a one-sided stomp.
But even after nearly ten minutes of this fact, the poor guy being flattened on the ground was still hanging on.
Well, aside from his clothes being tattered, he looked perfectly fine.
Clearly, counting on that crazed kid was not going to cut it.
The Great King of the Split Land shook the wolf-teeth club in his hand.
In the night sky not far away, Li Ying Tian and the others were racing toward them.
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