At this critical moment-

Boom!

A sword roared suddenly.

A pale sword shadow suddenly came out of nowhere, piercing Shen Jinling's eyebrows!

“！！”

Shen Jinling's brows suddenly furrowed, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he punched out.

Rumble!!

The pale shadow of the sword was blasted away by the terrifying punch he swung.

It was also at this moment that the weight he had originally locked on Confucius's body disappeared in an instant.

He looked down and saw that Confucius's figure had disappeared from under his feet!

Shen Jinling suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where the pale sword shadow flew back.

I saw there, a young man in a black robe raised his hand to catch the pale sword shadow.

His other arm was supporting Confucius, who looked pained.

"You...... Why are you here......"

Enduring the pain coming from his body, Confucius looked at Ye Qingchen's side face and asked out loud.

"I happened to be passing by, and I saw that you were being bullied by them, so I took action."

Ye Qingchen replied succinctly, and then glanced at his right hand, which was completely shattered and bleeding.

"They snatched your ring?"

At the mention of this, a look of shame and indignation suddenly appeared on Confucius's face.

But soon, he said aloud: "Let's go, you're alone...... Not even a single one of them can beat them. ”

"You don't have to worry about me...... With your talent and potential, it is even more important for the Heavenly Crane Sect that you survive! ”

As he spoke, Confucius struggled to withdraw the arm he had hit on Ye Qingchen's shoulder.

Ye Qingchen was stunned.

He still remembered that among the previous geniuses of the inner sect who did not believe in him, Confucius was one of them.

I didn't expect to completely change my mind at this time?

However, he didn't let Confucius take his arm back, and still pressed it on his shoulder: "They are all disciples of the Heavenly Crane Sect, I have no reason to leave you alone." ”

"If you let the sect master know that I won't save you from death, I'm afraid you'll beat me to the ground."

"You ......"

Hearing this, Confucius couldn't help but be stunned.

Recalling his previous attitude towards Ye Qingchen, a feeling of guilt gradually appeared in his heart.

Fortunately, Ye Qingchen didn't care about this.

His gaze fell on the ring in Shen Jinling's hand.

Shen Jinling noticed his gaze and slowly lifted the ring in his hand.

"You want this?"

"Not bad." Ye Qingchen nodded and smiled slightly: "Can you give it back to my senior brother?" ”

"If you want to take it back, then rely on your own strength."

Shen Jinling said as he released his spiritual sense and probed Ye Qingchen's breath.

The moment he detected Ye Qingchen's breath, his brows moved, and a deep doubt appeared between his eyebrows.

"This guy...... It's actually just a tenth-level cultivation in the Mortal Realm? ”

"Although judging by his face, his age is definitely not very large, or even very young."

"Cultivating to the tenth level of the Mortal Realm at such an age, the talent must be good."

"But with such a cultivation, the sect master of the Heavenly Crane Sect actually dared to rest assured that he would come to the Dark Cloud Battle Domain to compete for the opportunity?!"

"Is there something else going on here?"

Suddenly, there were many speculations in Shen Jinling's heart.

Ye Qingchen didn't care what he was thinking.

He gently put Confucius down.

"Don't!" Confucius hurriedly spoke out to stop him: "Don't be impulsive!" ”

"With your current strength, to provoke them is simply equivalent to looking for death!"

"Don't worry, it's just to help you get back what belongs to you."

Ye Qingchen smiled slightly, then got up and walked towards Shen Jinling and the others.

"Yo, this one looks very raw."

Hong Tingyi laughed twice, and was about to take two steps, preparing to meet Ye Qingchen in person for a while.

was stopped by Shen Jinling raising his hand.

"Don't move, I'll try him."

Hearing this, Hong Tingyi showed a look of surprise on his face: "Isn't it? With your strength, wouldn't it be a loss of identity to test him in person?! ”

"It's okay, the feeling he gave me was a little weird."

Shen Jinling said lightly: "With his cultivation, he naturally can't pose any threat to me. ”

"Still, I need to figure out where this weird feeling comes from."

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly felt a strange stinging pain coming from the soul space.

This made him suddenly alert, and he hurriedly used his soul power to build a barrier to protect the soul space.

But it was this moment of distraction.

He suddenly felt the ring in his hand disappear!

With it, there was an oncoming pale sword light!

"Senior Brother Shen!!"

An exclamation rang out.

Shen Jinling quickly came back to his senses, and his raised palm was quickly clenched into a fist and smashed down!

Rumble!!

The pale sword light was smashed with a bang.

But there was a bit of escaping sword qi that cut through Shen Jinling's face!

Shen Jinling's whole person froze there suddenly.

And Ye Qingchen has reappeared in the same place.

He glanced at the ring in his hand and placed it in front of Confucius: "Here, this is your ring." ”

Confucius stared blankly at the ring in front of him, his eyes full of shock.

He had just seen the whole process clearly.

But because of this, he didn't know exactly how Ye Qingchen did it!

He only saw that Ye Qingchen's body suddenly exuded an extremely powerful soul power.

So powerful that even his soul trembled violently!

Then he saw that Shen Jinling's body seemed to stiffen for a moment.

Then a thunderbolt flashed with colored firelight.

The ring in his hand was taken away in an instant!

Even, Ye Qingchen was extremely bold to take the opportunity to make a move at that moment, trying to kill Shen Jinling with one sword!

But unfortunately, Shen Jinling finally came back to his senses and blocked the deadly sword.

This scene takes place between lightning and flint, but it is particularly thrilling.

Even Hong Tingyi, who was giggling before, turned pale after seeing the scene just now.

He didn't dare to imagine that if the sword just now came at him, he was afraid that he would have to completely explain it here!

"I didn't expect it...... The entire Heavenly Crane Sect is betting on not that Ren Tongzhao...... It turns out to be a bet on you. ”

Shen Jinling wiped away the blood from the blood stains on his face with his fingertips, staring at Ye Qingchen with cold eyes, and his tone couldn't hear any emotion.

"Your soul power can have an effect on me...... This is extremely rare in the entire fairy world! ”

"No wonder your sect master dares to make a big fuss in front of my master...... It turns out that it is because you exist. ”

The immortal of the tenth level of the Mortal Realm, with his soul power, was actually able to influence the immortal of the third level of the Ascending Heaven Realm.

If this is preached, I am afraid that no one will believe it!

Hong Tingyi and the other Qiyun Sect disciples also showed extremely shocked expressions when they heard this!

They finally understood why Shen Jinling had an extremely strange stiffness just now.

It turned out that he was affected by the other party's soul power!

"It's not too late to know."

Ye Qingchen smiled slightly.

In fact, before entering the city, his soul power could only affect the immortals at the level of the Touch Dao Realm at most.

But after experiencing a soul-level fight in that city, his control of soul power had already far exceeded the level of the same realm, and even beyond the level of the Touch Dao realm!

After destroying those revenant souls, Ye Qingchen also obtained a treasure that could strengthen the power of the soul.

After Ye Qingchen took it, his original soul strength instantly increased, and it was now enough to support his soul power to threaten the immortals in the early stage of the Heaven Ascending Realm!

If it weren't for that, the scene just now would not have happened.

"Huh...... Very good. Shen Jinling chuckled: "Since you appeared, then take your life...... Stay here. ”

As he spoke, he slowly walked towards Ye Qingchen and the others.

At the same time, Hong Tingyi and the others also had cold faces, surrounding Ye Qingchen from different directions, blocking all his retreats!

Seeing this scene, Ye Qingchen's face did not show the slightest panic, but smiled and said:

"The 'Burial Sand Tide' is coming soon, aren't you going to escape?"

The burial sand tide is a sand tide that may occur at any time in the dark cloud battle domain.

In the midst of the sand tide, there is a killing aura that is even more violent than usual!

Once you get involved, whoever you are, you will be completely killed!

Its appearance is generally very clear omen...... For example, the earth trembled, the wind did not stop, and so on.

Therefore, when Hong Tingyi and the others heard this, they immediately laughed mockingly.

"If you want to lure us away, you can come up with other reliable reasons."

Hong Tingyi glanced at the calm surroundings and sneered: "Now there is no fluctuation in this place, where did the 'burial sand tide' come from?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Jinling's face suddenly changed, and he raised his eyes to look into the distance.

I saw that in the far distance, a rolling sand tide was coming from far and near.