Pupils constricted, Su Bairong supported herself with both hands, lifting her upper body to retreat and escape. However, a black shadow rushed in front of her faster than she could react…

Buzz!!

The sound of a blade rang in her ears.

The broken blade precisely struck her right arm, shattering with a bang and scattering into fragments, leaving only the hilt to brush past her.

However, the accompanying monstrous force also knocked her to the ground.

After tumbling twice, Su Bairong supported herself with one hand and looked at her right arm.

A deep red gash had appeared on her right arm, blood continuously flowing out and dripping onto the ground!

The body of an immortal… injured!

This completely validated Su Bairong's conjecture.

She looked at Fang Yue in shock, her emotions surging, her heart pounding.

The terror of death rose from her heart.

The composure that she had maintained since awakening completely dissipated at this moment, replaced only by panic as that man with the halo above his head stared at her like he was locking onto prey!

"You, just what are you!"

Her voice trembling and uncontrollably rising, Su Bairong stared intently at Fang Yue as he approached.

As Fang Yue drew closer, the pouring rain fell on Su Bairong, but it didn't leave a single trace.

Mere rain could not harm the body of an immortal!

What truly terrified her were Fang Yue's words.

"You're injured."

Buzz!!

Her mind went blank for an instant.

When she came back to her senses, she realized that she was breathing heavily.

She had been noticed!

She had been discovered by this guy!

He realized he had the power to slay immortals!

It had nothing to do with Immortal-Extinguishing Water, nothing to do with anything else, only with that black aura!

"I can injure you… even without Immortal-Extinguishing Water!"

Fang Yue lowered his head, looking at the remaining hilt in his hand, and slowly said thoughtfully.

At the same time, he thought to himself: *Sheepskin parchment, was that you?*

[It has nothing to do with me! Our contract only allows your game powers to descend and synchronize into reality! This is your own power!]

*My own power…*

*Then that only leaves…*

Fang Yue released his hand, the hilt fell to the ground, and strands of black aura coiled around his hand!

*Guizhi*, the *guizhi* of the *guilinggen*!

The only thing special and likely to harm the body of an immortal was this!

So that's how it is, so that's how it is!

Fang Yue's eyes lit up, and his dangerous gaze fell on Su Bairong, who was to the side.

He had thought that without the Immortal-Extinguishing Water, he wouldn't be able to deal with Su Bairong.

But now it seemed that things were not so simple!

*Guizhi* also possessed the power to slay immortals!

"W-wait, wait a moment!"

Seemingly sensing the danger in Fang Yue's gaze, Su Bairong gritted her teeth and said, "I surrender! I surrender! I'm willing to cooperate with the United Alliance and will no longer do anything to betray the United Alliance!"

Her power… her power was recovering too slowly!

She needed to stall, stall until she regained her immortal realm… no! Just the Rain realm, just recover to the Rain realm.

Even in this dilapidated state, even in this situation, she could immediately reverse the situation!

Perhaps it was because she was facing a crisis of life and death, but the speed at which the power within her body increased suddenly soared.

From the early Human realm, it had already risen to the middle Human realm!

Her power was increasing, but the crisis had not been resolved.

Because Su Bairong saw that Fang Yue was raising his fist high, and black aura was spreading out from Fang Yue's sleeve, coiling around his fist, completely covering it, as if dyeing his fist with a layer of pitch-black skin.

"Wai…"

"Wait!"

The first sound was Su Bairong speaking.

The second sound was… a drone!

The voice of the United Alliance's president?

Fang Yue hesitated for a moment and didn't lower his fist.

At this moment, dozens of drones had already flown over with a buzzing sound.

"Fang Yue, spare her life. We've heard everything you just discussed. Defrauders are useful to us. After discussing it with the other presidents, I've decided to accept her surrender."

The voice coming from the drone was Jiang Wanchun's.

Fang Yue frowned slightly.

"But she's an immortal, and her strength is increasing now…"

"She's already in this state and can't cause much trouble. We've already sent the *gui* object [Chain of Locked Hearts] to your location. This item can establish a strong restraint under the mutual consent of both parties, even a defrauder can't disobey it!"

"…"

"For the sake of that day in the prophecy, for that time, our United Alliance needs more power. It's very important for the United Alliance to be able to use Su Bairong for our own purposes!"

Yes, very important!

Defrauders each had their own thoughts, and even Mei Yu wasn't completely trusted by the United Alliance!

Mei Yu… was definitely not as simple as she appeared on the surface!

Only the United Alliance's own power was truly reassuring.

And the [Chain of Locked Hearts] was one of the best methods the United Alliance had carefully selected to control Defrauders!

There were many things that a defrauder completely under their control could do!

The United Alliance had good intentions, but Fang Yue frowned.

Looking at Su Bairong, who looked meek and obedient next to him, and then at the drone, he hesitated.

Time-wise… it was probably too late.

He knew that even he would never be able to contend with a defrauder who had fully recovered their strength.

No, not just a defrauder who had fully recovered their strength, even if they recovered to the Cloud realm or Rain realm, it would be a situation that he couldn't handle.

The United Alliance seemed to overestimate his abilities too much.

No wonder, to outsiders, he had always been in an absolute advantage.

But Fang Yue himself knew his own limitations.

The United Alliance's ambitions were too great. To control immortals, at least he needed to have immortal-level combat power on his side to even talk about such things!

Even with the restriction of a *gui* object, Fang Yue had no confidence at all when facing an immortal.

He had to kill her… he could explain it to the United Alliance later. Right now, he had to kill Su Bairong first!

Boom!!

Just as Fang Yue thought of this, a violent aura suddenly rose from the side!

The wind howled, making Fang Yue's clothes flutter, and at the same time, a voice rang out from the front.

"Human… High Stage!"

Two white bones protruded from the wound on Su Bairong's upper body. The long leg bones propped up her body.

As power surged wildly, Su Bairong grinned at Fang Yue, "Now, it's my tur…"

Bang!!

A violent black fist suddenly appeared, directly hitting Su Bairong's face, swallowing her words back into her stomach.

As her pupils constricted, three teeth flew out of her mouth.

Her whole body lifted off the ground, directly blasted away by the heavy punch. As the wind howled in her ears and the surrounding scenery changed drastically, she actually captured a black afterimage following closely behind in the receding scenery!

So… fast!

So fast that even I can't capture his tracks right now!

Just what… what is his strength! I've already recovered to the High Stage of the Human realm! Why can't I still capture his movements!

This guy… this guy!!