Teng Wuji had known before that this boy's body was different from ordinary people's, but seeing the result of the rebound from his attack, Teng Wuji knew that although the opponent's physical body was not bad, it was still far from his own.
So, when Li Yan instantly arrived beside the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation" to resist his blow, Teng Wuji could only think that the opponent was making a last-ditch struggle, a dying effort.
"Impossible, how is this possible? Right now, this kid's physical body is at least much stronger than an initial-stage demon lord."
This thought flashed through Teng Wuji's mind. He had underestimated him. This time, Li Yan had given it his all, and the force of the attack had penetrated into Teng Wuji's body.
While Teng Wuji was still in shock, he suddenly felt another dangerous aura approaching. But surprised by Li Yan's attack, his reaction was a bit slow.
Three more beams of interwoven colored light struck his uplifted right leg.
In fact, he had sensed these three attacks before, but he hadn't paid them any mind. It was an attack launched by the girl in the formation commanding the three puppets.
In Teng Wuji's view, the resistance of Li Yan and the girl in the formation was completely meaningless.
To say that the three puppets' attack power had indeed increased many times after being embedded with Mid-grade Spirit Stones, but to him, it was still very weak. That was because the person controlling the puppets had too weak of a magical power, so weak that they couldn't control and unleash the true power of the three puppets.
If these three puppets were controlled by a human Golden Core cultivator, then he would need to be particularly careful.
But now the situation was different. The defense of his right foot had been broken by the green-robed boy's blow. Now it was in a state of losing strength. In his perception, he couldn't even lift his right leg to dodge.
Both attacks were in an instant. The three beams of light, like three straight pillars of light, directly struck Teng Wuji's raised right calf.
With a muffled groan, Teng Wuji's body staggered backward, barely supporting himself with his left leg to keep from falling. On his right calf, three bloody holes were bubbling with blood.
With his right calf losing the protection of its condensed power, even with Teng Wuji's incomparably strong physique, many of the meridians in his leg were still broken, which showed the power of the pure spirit qi in the Mid-grade Spirit Stone.
At this time, in the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation," the little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant, with three Mid-grade Spirit Stones coiled in its trunk, stared blankly at Bai Rou, who was also groaning and constantly retreating.
"This girl's temper is too fierce. She attacked without any warning. I haven't even given her the spirit stones yet!"
The little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant had been strictly ordered by Li Yan not to make a move. This was their last defense.
But when it received Li Yan's voice transmission and the three spirit stones, it found that Bai Rou had already attacked. It didn't even have a chance to hand over the spirit stones.
The little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant quickly flicked its trunk and blocked Bai Rou's back, helping her to absorb the force of her retreat. Bai Rou's injury was due to forcefully using a seal that exceeded her ability, resulting in a backlash.
Bai Rou opened her mouth and continuously spat out several mouthfuls of blood. Then, with a weak breath, she glanced at Li Yan outside the formation and wanted to move forward again, but in the next moment, she fell limply to the ground.
Outside the formation, after knocking away Teng Wuji's kick, Li Yan still held his fists high in a horse stance, his whole person shrouded in a blood mist.
Immediately after, another arrow of blood shot out from his mouth. Just now, he had completely taken the opponent's attack head-on. Although he had repelled the opponent, Li Yan's internal organs were like being burned by a raging fire, feeling as if his liver and intestines were being torn apart.
Li Yan's head buzzed with a dizzy spell, and then he sat down on the ground with a plop, every bone in his body feeling like it was about to fall apart.
Especially on his hands, the flesh on his fists was torn open, the white bone of his knuckles exposed, with cracks on them. Because everything had happened in an instant, blood hadn't even had time to gather and gush out from the white bones.
And his arms were already washed in blood, due to the rupture of his meridians and skin, with lines of blood shooting out.
A thousand knives were cutting his chest and abdomen. Li Yan knew that he had suffered a serious internal injury. Many of his organs must have ruptured and been damaged under the strong external pressure.
And at this moment, Teng Wuji's voice, laughing in extreme anger, rang out in the sky. "Unexpected, truly unexpected. Not only did you kill my demonic beast, but you could also force me to this state. Well then, you can die!"
Teng Wuji gave Li Yan and the others no time at all. As soon as he stabilized his figure, he attacked again.
As his voice fell, Teng Wuji's huge figure appeared in Li Yan's field of vision again like a demon god. He was dragging one leg and striding forward.
'A pity. Even with all my power and Bai Rou's help, I only managed to injure one of his legs.'
Li Yan knew that Teng Wuji's next blow would be nothing like the last one. Just now, Teng Wuji had still underestimated his ability and had been somewhat lax.
But now, he had used all his trump cards, and the opponent's attack would only be more fierce than before.
"Master, quickly retreat into the formation!" The voice of the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant sounded in Li Yan's mind. At the same time, the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's long trunk had already coiled over.
"The formation has already given birth to an artifact spirit, but you will still die!"
Teng Wuji had long noticed the strangeness of the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation." He just hadn't expected that what he thought was just an ordinary defensive formation actually had a formation spirit.
When he saw a "purple ribbon" flash and appear beside Li Yan, he suddenly remembered that when the "White Blaze Demon Tiger" had its accident, it seemed that there was also a flash of purple light by its side.
At that time, most of his attention was on Li Yan, so he just thought he had been dazzled by the purple light on the formation below. Now that he thought about it, he suddenly understood everything.
'Damn formation spirit, later I will refine your soul alive and make you fall into the Asura hell forever!' Teng Wuji thought to himself.
His reaction was much faster than the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's. The moment the Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's long trunk appeared just outside the edge of the formation, Teng Wuji had already discovered it. The huge body that was striding forward suddenly tilted to one side, as if his injured right leg could no longer support him, and his huge body fell straight to the side.
The distance he had retreated just now was not too far. The moment his body fell to the side, there was no distance between him and Li Yan.
At the same time, Teng Wuji's right hand was fisted against his cheek, his right elbow bent. Using his body's momentum, like an Arhat sleeping on a lotus, he brought down a mountain of weight, smashing it fiercely towards Li Yan's head.
The tip of his right elbow was aimed directly at the crown of Li Yan's head. A sound like a muffled thunder scraped through the air.
"Hmph!"
With the momentum to shatter the earth and crack the sky, Teng Wuji arrived above Li Yan's head in an instant.
"Master..." The Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant's long trunk was now less than two feet from Li Yan, but it was as if it was separated by a thousand mountains and ten thousand waters, unreachable.
It also felt a pang of bitterness in its heart. 'This is it, my soul is about to be annihilated!' If Li Yan died, no matter how pure and powerful its soul was, it would also perish at the same time.
"Junior... Junior Brother Li... cough... cough..." Bai Rou looked at Li Yan, who was unable to stand up. Her face was pale, and she suddenly raised her hands. But she had only raised them a little when she couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood.
Her arms fell heavily and limply. At this moment, Bai Rou had also completely lost her ability to fight.
Everything outside seemed ethereal and slow to Bai Rou and the little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant. But in fact, it was just that their minds were stunned at this moment, unable to think. Death was descending.
Teng Wuji's furious attack arrived in an instant. Li Yan sat paralyzed on the ground, blood still gushing from his body. He looked up at the ferocious smiling face of Teng Wuji who was falling sideways towards him, and the muffled roar of the air being torn apart by his elbow.
For a body refining cultivator, every piece of flesh and bone on their body was exceptionally indestructible, especially the joints of the four limbs, the elbows and knees, which were the sharpest attacking weapons of a body refiner, akin to the magical treasures of a magic cultivator.
If Li Yan was hit squarely, starting from his head, he would be like a watermelon, instantly bursting into a cloud of blood mist, not even leaving behind a speck of bone dust, his whole body turning into powder.
Besides the unconscious Hu Xiaowang and the others, everyone here could see that after taking Teng Wuji's kick head-on, Li Yan had already suffered a heavy blow. Now, even moving his body was extremely difficult, let alone defending.
And Teng Wuji had seen this very point.
The elbow of his falling body had just reached the top of Li Yan's head, blowing Li Yan's head of black hair into a wild dance.
But at this moment, amidst Teng Wuji's ferocious smile, Li Yan suddenly raised his head. The corner of his mouth split open, and he actually gave him a white-toothed smile.
Teng Wuji's heart inexplicably shuddered. He felt that the opponent was unspeakably strange, but at this instant, he had no time for any more reactions.
In the next moment, he felt a sudden emptiness under the tip of his right elbow. Li Yan had actually disappeared. Then, two loud bangs erupted in the valley at the same time.
The valley once again stirred up countless pieces of gravel and wood chips, shooting into the sky like countless sharp arrows that could pierce the sky. For a time, sharp sounds of breaking through the air were continuous, and dust and smoke filled a radius of several dozen li.
After a short while, a series of "cough... cough... cough..." coughs came from the thick smoke.
The smoke that filled the sky was suddenly torn apart by a pair of large black hands. The large hands separated left and right, and the gray dust and smoke that filled the space between heaven and earth were like a rolled-up curtain on a door, pulled from this space to both sides, dissipating into the night.
The entire valley was clear again. But the originally relatively flat valley had long since disappeared. The ground for several dozen li had turned into a huge deep pit.
The deep pit was forty to fifty zhang deep, and it was dark inside. Against the backdrop of the night, it was like the giant mouth of a wild beast, looking up at the moon, as if it wanted to swallow the entire sky in one bite.
In a corner of the deep pit, in a patch of darkness, there was a small patch of purple light constantly flickering. The purple light was about five zhang in size. In the several-dozen-li-large pit, it seemed so small.
Yet it was like a bright lamp in the dark night. But at this moment, the light of the lamp was also flickering and unstable, as if it was about to go out at any moment. It was the "Great Dragon-Elephant Formation."
Inside the formation, Li Yan lay on the ground, just as quietly as Hu Xiaowang and the others. He had fallen into a coma. His two arms were strangely bent, showing several arcs that a normal person's arm could not achieve.
Sections of bloody white bone shards here and there pierced through the flesh and blood, terrifyingly exposed.
Li Yan's body was mixed with blood and mud, as if wrapped in a layer of dark red sand. His eyes were tightly closed.
Bai Rou lay not far away. At this moment, a strange expression appeared on her face as she looked at the night sky outside the formation.
And the little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant was standing beside Li Yan, prying open Li Yan's tightly closed lips and pouring bottle after bottle of medicinal pills into his mouth.
These medicinal pills were some that Li Yan had given it before, and some that Bai Rou had given it. Bai Rou's meridians were also severely damaged now, which was the result of forcefully casting spells to drive the three puppets.
Bai Rou could only use the little divine sense she had left to barely open her storage pouch. After taking out some medicinal pills, she didn't even have the strength to swallow them herself. She gave them all to Li Yan.
"A pity, even this couldn't kill him. Next, it's up to you!" Bai Rou suddenly said softly to the little Purple Divine Dragon-Elephant.