Both men knew full well that the strike just now had nearly exhausted more than half their immortal power and forced them to employ their most guarded techniques.
At this moment, both were at the end of their strength. Whoever revealed a flaw first might face utter doom.
The entire battlefield seemed to slow its pace because of this brief pause by the two supreme experts. All eyes focused on them, awaiting the final outcome.
This was the moment!
In the void, a brilliant light flashed in Chen Ping’s eyes!
What he had been waiting for was precisely this perfect opportunity when both sides were exhausted, locked in stalemate, and their vigilance had dropped to its lowest due to fatigue!
He stepped forward. The twisted spatial fluctuations around him rippled outward like water. His figure in green robes appeared without warning, clearly and unmistakably, at the very centre of the brutal battlefield.
He appeared between the two depleted sect masters, in the brief vacuum zone formed by their energy collision!
“Who is it?!”
Hun Sha and Ling Yunzi both shuddered in alarm and jerked their heads upward.
With the strength of their divine sense, they had not detected the slightest trace of any presence before this!
When their gazes fell upon Chen Ping and sensed fluctuations that were merely Human Immortal realm seventh grade, expressions of utter disbelief and extreme astonishment appeared on both their faces.
A mere… junior at Human Immortal realm seventh grade?
How had he breached the chaotic energy currents at the battlefield’s periphery and appeared here without a sound?
Who was he?
The disciples of both sects locked in fierce combat below were also drawn by this sudden development.
Countless gazes filled with shock and confusion turned toward the green-robed youth hovering in mid-air, seeming utterly out of place with his surroundings.
Chen Ping’s gaze first calmly swept over the pale-faced, weakened Ling Yunzi. He nodded slightly in greeting.
There was neither flattery nor hostility in those eyes, only a calm that made one’s heart grow cold.
Then his gaze locked completely onto Hun Sha, whose face was grim, filled with shock and uncertainty, and whose eyes held a trace of rage at being stared at by an ant.
The corners of his mouth curved into a faint arc carrying endless mockery. His voice was not loud, yet it seemed to contain some strange enchantment.
It clearly spread across the entire battlefield that had suddenly fallen silent, reaching the ears of every cultivator.
“Myriad Souls Demonic Sect, Hun Sha? I hear… you have been looking for me?”
This casual sentence exploded like thunder in Hun Sha’s mind!
He froze for a moment, his mind somewhat sluggish from overexertion.
But in the next instant, a name, one that filled him with bone-deep hatred and gnashing rage, instantly overlapped with the blurry figure he had glimpsed through secret tracing arts!
“You… you…”
Hun Sha’s eyes bulged wide, his pupils contracting to pinpoints. They brimmed with extreme shock, absurdity, and a volcanic eruption of overwhelming fury!
“You are Chen Ping? That little beast who looted my Black Flame Valley, destroyed my Yin Soul Medicine Garden, and repeatedly opposed my Demonic Sect?!”
Immense anger and humiliation instantly overwhelmed Hun Sha’s already fragile rationality after his exhaustion.
He could never have imagined that the culprit who had thrown his Myriad Souls Demonic Sect into chaos, forced him to suspend plans to attack the Myriad Beasts Gate, and even indirectly caused this devastating war would dare appear before him at this moment, in this manner!
Moreover, the opponent’s cultivation… was merely the trifling Human Immortal realm seventh grade?!
This was the greatest insult to him and to the Myriad Souls Demonic Sect!
“Indeed, it is I.”
Chen Ping admitted frankly, his tone carrying a hint of teasing, as if discussing some trivial matter unrelated to himself. “It seems Sect Master Hun Sha has a good memory and has not yet been driven muddled by rage. However…”
His tone shifted. His gaze swept over the corpse-strewn battlefield below, then over the battered Hun Sha and Ling Yunzi. The mockery in his voice grew thicker.
“You led the full might of the Demonic Sect not to visit the Myriad Beasts Gate as guests, yet instead you fought so passionately and inseparably with Sect Master Ling here?”
“Could it be that you found the Myriad Beasts Gate too small a temple to accommodate a great Buddha like yourself, or that… sparring with the Xuantian Sword Sect proved more interesting than seeking revenge on me?”
These words of sarcasm and provocation stabbed like the sharpest needles straight into Hun Sha’s heart!
