"I..."
Hearing Yue Yan's words, Ye Feng felt dejected, not knowing how to reply...
"Ye Feng, Ares didn't just appear out of nowhere. He was probably hidden in the void observing the entire time..."
"Otherwise, with the Zhan Shen in your hand, he wouldn't dare to attack us so playfully!"
Qiao Ying chimed in, her expression serious.
"Hey, Ye Feng, hurry up and use Zhan Shen to chop that Ares to death!"
Seeing Ares attack again, Yue Yan urged him.
"Do you think I don't want to!"
Ye Feng retorted irritably. Although this Tang saber seemed to be the formidable Zhan Shen, he couldn't seem to unleash its true power at all...
Not only that, but the Tribulation Fire within Ye Feng was also a major problem. He found that his Tribulation Fire had suddenly become restless for some unknown reason, making him hesitant to mobilize it.
Even a slight use of the Tribulation Fire seemed like it would allow the opponent to break through the arcane energy enveloping it...
"Oh, if you don't act soon, your wife is going to be captured by that Ares!"
Yue Yan glanced at Ye Feng, her tone casual, but her heart was quite tense.
"I... this... Bing is also your disciple..."
Ye Feng couldn't finish his sentence because Ares had already attacked him again.
"Clang~clang!"
"Bang~bang! Clang!"
"Clang!~"
Amidst the clash, space warped in all directions, and Ye Feng sustained several more wounds.
"Bang!"
At this moment, Ares shoved Qiao Ying and Shen Botian away, flashed forward, and appeared behind Ye Feng. The Spear of War in his hand struck Ye Feng squarely in the lower back.
Ye Feng's lower back caved in violently upon being struck by the Spear of War. Red-gray light surged into Ye Feng's body, instantly tearing his flesh apart...
"Whoosh!"
Just then, Ye Feng, enduring the intense pain in his lower back, quickly extended his left hand, grabbing Ares's arm. With his right hand, he clenched the Tang saber, madly channeling Tribulation Fire from within his body into the saber, preparing to deliver a thunderous blow to Ares...
Through their previous exchanges, Ye Feng realized that Ares's spatial power was far stronger than the divine envoys, divine servants, or the six hounds of the underworld he had encountered before. He could integrate into the void and teleport almost instantaneously. Even if his true energy could penetrate the spatial barrier, it couldn't harm the opponent...
Therefore, Ye Feng deliberately exposed a weakness and took a direct hit from Ares's Spear of War, all to be able to grab him...
In a flash, Ye Feng channeled almost all the Tribulation Fire within him, rushing it into the Tang saber, and slashed at Ares, whose arm he was firmly holding...
"Ugh!"
"Chii!"
"Puff!~"
Suddenly, Ye Feng let out a muffled groan, his face contorted, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Not only that, but his body cracked open in various places, bursting with streams of blood. Golden light flickered within the dense wounds, as Ye Feng's Tribulation Fire had burned through the surrounding arcane energy...
"Ye Feng!"
Seeing this, Qiao Ying, who had been preparing to attack Ares in coordination, immediately changed direction. Her angelic wings flashed, enveloping Ye Feng and retreating rapidly.
Yue Yan and Shen Botian, who were also planning to attack Ares, had their expressions drastically change. They forcibly withdrew their attacks and retreated swiftly...
"Ye Feng, what's wrong?"
After several swift movements that created considerable distance from Ares, Qiao Ying placed Ye Feng on the ground and looked at him with anxious concern.
Ye Feng was covered in wounds and bleeding profusely.
Ares, at a considerable distance, watched Ye Feng with a cautious gaze. The golden light that erupted from Ye Feng's wounds had given him a sense of extreme danger, causing him to freeze and preventing him from launching an immediate counterattack...
"That probe just now... was truly dangerous!"
Ares narrowed his eyes, a flicker of apprehension in their depths.
Like Ye Feng, he had deliberately exposed a weakness, solely to force Ye Feng and the others to reveal their trump cards...
"Ye Feng, Ye Feng!"
Looking at Ye Feng, who was covered in wounds and bleeding, Qiao Ying's voice was laced with tears.
Her hands surged with angelic power, covering Ye Feng as she tried to heal him, but it seemed to have no effect...
"Ye Feng, be careful!"
Yue Yan cried out in alarm, as Ares had traversed space and appeared beside Qiao Ying, the Spear of War in his hand aimed directly at Ye Feng's head.
Where the Spear of War passed, space warped and shattered...
"Hoo!~"
Just as Ares's Spear of War was about to pierce Ye Feng's head, Yue Yan's eyes flashed with ice-blue light, and she unleashed a purple talisman. The figures of Yue Yan, Ye Feng, Qiao Ying, and Shen Botian instantly vanished...
"Bang! Rumble!"
"Rumble!~"
Ares's Spear of War plunged into the ground, the earth instantly cracked, space warped and shattered, and countless spatial fragments raged, obliterating everything within hundreds of meters...
"Hmm?"
As the turbulence subsided and the dust, stones, and wind dispersed, Ares flashed into the air, his eyes darting around as he observed the scene below with a serious expression.
"Gulp!~"
After a while, from the pit created by the attack of the Spear of War, the figures of Ye Feng, Qiao Ying, Yue Yan, and Shen Botian slowly reappeared, surrounded by a ball of light shimmering with purple runes...
"Hmm? They're still in the same spot!"
Ares discovered the four of them. His eyes narrowed, and he gripped the Spear of War, charging towards Ye Feng in the pit below once more.
Clearly, the sense of danger from the Tribulation Fire had ignited a killing intent within him towards Ye Feng...
"I'm sorry, but I must take the King away!"
Qiao Ying also sensed Ares's overwhelming killing intent. Her face was filled with resolve as she enveloped Ye Feng with her angelic wings. The light of angelic power flashed, and divine patterns appeared.
"You think not!"
Ares roared, and his body instantly vanished.
"Buzz!"
"Bang!"
"Puff!"
Qiao Ying spat out a mouthful of blood, having been struck by the red-gray divine power from Ares's Spear of War aimed at Ye Feng...
Even so, Qiao Ying's body did not retreat an inch, her angelic wings firmly protecting Ye Feng...
"Get lost!"
Ares roared, his entire body erupting with red-gray light. With a flick of the Spear of War, several bloody, bone-deep wounds appeared on Qiao Ying's body.
"Bang bang!"
Ares's Spear of War swept across rapidly, and Qiao Ying was sent flying backward, spitting blood.
He ignored the dislodged Qiao Ying, and paid no heed to the Qiao Ying and Shen Botian who were attacking him at close range. Instead, he kicked Ye Feng upwards.
"Die!"
Ares's face was filled with killing intent. The Spear of War in his hand surged with red-gray divine power and stabbed directly towards Ye Feng's chest...
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