In an instant, her tense face became increasingly solemn, and waves of killing intent emerged in her cold and piercing eyes.

Initially, she only planned to teach the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven a lesson, but now it seemed that she must make him suffer a severe defeat.

Giving Cai Youdao a meaningful look, she tightened her grip on the Yanshui Sacred Sword, and the Yanshui Sacred Image suddenly soared from her sea of consciousness, an incredibly mystical aura enveloping her.

At the same time.

The humanoid shadow behind her, like a giant towering over the heavens and earth, became increasingly clear.

Both the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven and Cai Youdao no longer had Sacred Images, but they both possessed Sacred Artifacts, making their powers roughly equal. However, with Liu Ruolan added, the situation changed completely.

With her formidable Sword Dao cultivation base, her combat power alone rivaled that of a True Immortal Realm expert at the advanced stage. Along with the augmentation of the Sacred Image and Sacred Artifact, when fully exerted, her destructive power was directly comparable to that of a Sacred Supreme.

Under the threat of her overpowering Sword Intent, even the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven had no choice but to avoid her sharp edge.

With her assistance, Cai Youdao was instantly invigorated as if blessed by a deity, and swiftly gained the upper hand in the battle.

As time passed, the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven gradually found himself at a disadvantage without realizing it.

If this were a life-and-death battle encountered in the wild, upon noticing the unfavorable situation, the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven would certainly choose not to continue entangling himself with the two but would choose to retreat immediately.

However, today’s situation was different. He and Dan Saint Jiang Lihuo had come, relying on their status and cultivation base, to oppress the small Divine Martial Wang family, only to be beaten into a humiliating retreat. Should this be spread, it would tarnish the entire reputation of the Tranquil Sky Divine King Palace.

Yet, if he didn’t flee, continuing like this would inevitably lead to defeat.

While the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven was contemplating how to make his retreat dignified, Cai Youdao commenced a vociferous verbal assault: "Old dog of the Ninth Heaven, is this all your Tranquil Sky Divine King Palace has to show for itself? To come provoke and challenge an outlying First Grade family’s other courtyard, only to be beaten so badly you’re about to scurry away like a dog. Where’s your dignity? Where’s your Ji Marshal’s dignity?"

The Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven nearly spat out blood.

A First Grade family, my foot. Which First Grade family would offer tribute to a Sacred Supreme?! Not to mention this First Grade family actually has a formidable presence comparable to a True Immortal Realm advanced-stage Transcendent Void Realm aberration!

He had lived for tens of thousands of years and had never encountered such an absurd "First Grade" family!

But concerning the family’s reputation and the prestige of the Divine King Old Ancestor, he dared not retreat, even though his face flushed with anger, his blood surged, and he could only grit his teeth and continue fighting, intensifying his drive to attack with the golden Sacred Sword.

Upon seeing this, Cai Youdao immediately switched from attack to defense.

He repeatedly used the Seven-Colored Sacred Peak to resist the golden Sacred Sword, while continuing his mocking taunts: "If you have the guts to come and rob, you should be prepared to face the consequences. Old dog of the Ninth Heaven, perseverance is a virtue, don’t chicken out now."

Though Cai Youdao was a Sacred Supreme, his experiences were incredibly tumultuous, rising and falling for tens of thousands of years, and many years in selling raw stones had honed his verbal skills to sharp lethality, capable of infuriating a person to death without accepting responsibility.

He could definitely be regarded as a peculiar bloom among Sacred Supremes, unmatched in shameless conduct.

At this moment, he unleashed the full force of his verbal onslaught, constantly aggravating the nerves of the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven, eroding his intentions to flee.

Time and again, the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven had been provoked by him to seething anger, losing almost all reason: "Fine, fine, fine! I, Ninth Heaven, am not leaving today! If you have the skill, kill me!"

He simply did not believe that this small foreign family would dare kill him!

He was, after all, a direct line of the Tranquil Sky Divine King Palace. If they truly killed him, the fury of the Tranquil Sky Divine King Palace would be enough to obliterate this small foreign family!

"Old dog, Ninth Heaven! You said it~~" Cai Youdao responded with an apparent look of delight, "Whoever retreats is a dog!!"

"Hmph! Rest assured, I absolutely will not retreat!"

In a fit of anger, the Sacred Supreme of the Ninth Heaven did not retreat, but began to fight hard against Cai Youdao and Liu Ruolan.

However, in the midst of the fight, the situation increasingly went awry.

He had already fallen thoroughly into a disadvantage, being suppressed severely by the two, yet their onslaught showed no signs of weakening.

As time went on, the injuries on his body grew increasingly serious, from minor internal organ tremors with slight blood spitting to the later damage to his bones and joints, shattering of his internal organs, and injury to his Divine Soul, had already harmed his foundation, and the Mysterious Energy within his body was greatly consumed in the continuous fierce battle, gradually reaching a warning threshold.

Could it be, these people actually dared to kill him?

Realizing this prospect, he suddenly awoke from the state of his boiling blood, his heart filled with uncertain fear, giving birth to the thought of retreat.

However, just as he tried to find an opportunity to escape, he discovered that around him the power of Yanshui had already densely encased him. This power, imbued with the intent of powerful Heavenly Dao Laws, its strength was not much inferior to a real Sacred Supreme.

These forces intercepted his retreat like heavenly curtains.

If he wanted to break through by force, of course, he could, but it would consume greatly, and once broken through, if intercepted by someone like Cai Youdao of equal rank, it would place him in peril.

And what terrified him even more were those nine Void Annihilation Thunder Array Towers in the Guiyuan Other Courtyard, which had, unbeknownst to him, already locked onto him as the target, sending chills down his spine, utterly terrified.

"Alas! Ninth Heaven is in deep trouble."

From a distance, Dan Saint Jiang Lihuo watched this scene, a helpless bitter smile surfacing in his heart.