The golden light and the Buddha's light collide fiercely.

    If someone stands far away and watches, they will surely see a giant light pillar rising from the ground, a mixture of golden light and Buddha's light, shooting up to the sky, incredibly magnificent and grand.

    However, those who are close by cannot help but be shocked by the explosive force.

    Chen Yun, Zhang Ling, and the Dragoness Sanjiu were all taken aback by the sight of the golden light entangling with the Buddha's light, twisting like a rope, and violently colliding.

    A roaring sound broke the air, as if it were the resounding noise of creating heaven and earth!

    The thunderous roar caused nearby snowfields to continuously shatter and perish, turning into endless water mist!

    Most importantly, it seems that the golden light and Buddha's light can merge. During this energy impact, they constantly absorb, condense, and compress each other.

    Instantly, the light pillar rising up from the ground becomes boiling with golden light, with sparks dancing non-stop, resembling fireworks fluttering.

    A massive suction force emanates from the rapidly spinning light column.

    Everything around - broken stones, water flows, ice crystals, and all other substances - is completely sucked into the light column, forming an enormous material vortex!

    For every inch and millimeter the light column ascends, the matter it carries grows threefold.

    When the rapidly rotating light column engulfs Meilin's body, the golden light column becomes an enormous "earth funnel" made of a mixture of mud, rocks, and ice crystals.

    The earth funnel, swirling like a vortex, appears to possess the power to shatter all things in the world.

    It seemed as if it would be torn to shreds by the snowfield!

    Including Meilin's fragile body!

    "Ah!"

    Meilin's painful scream echoed.

    The scream lasted only for a fleeting moment before it disappeared.

    "Old scoundrel, where are you going!"

    Chen Yun has been staring at the place where the golden light bursts.

    As the earth funnel was exploding at its most ferocious, he suddenly opened his eyes fiercely and swung his flute in front of him.

    Instantly, the whistling of the feather of his broomstick would lengthen, covering the sky and blocking the sun, heading towards the firelight struggling to escape from the golden light!

    The next moment, Zhang Ling and the Dragoness Sanjiu saw clearly that Meilin, who was blasted to the point where not a single piece of his body was unscathed, was ensnared by the feathered broomstick and roughly dragged into the ground.

    Bang!

    A massive roaring sound resonates.

    The ground cracked instantly!

    Zhang Ling and the Dragoness Sanjiu looked on in horror, only to see Meilin turned into a pulp of flesh, clearly dead beyond any hope of revival.

    At this moment, the golden light and Buddha's light also faded away.

    A rain of mud and ice crystals descended from the sky.

    At this very moment, a Buddha's light barrier surged up, separating the mud and ice crystals from the ground and keeping them from hitting anyone.

    Chen Yun took the opportunity to look into the deep pit.

    Wu Kouchou, Kang Yuan, and others had stood up at some point.

    As expected, these people were pretending to be dead just now!

    Chen Yun has known it for a long time.

    However, Zhang Ling was startled, her eyes wide with disbelief, as she said, "Master Wu, Master Kang, are you all right?"

    Wu Kouchou, who had obvious burn marks on his body, smiled and said, "Since you are all right, how could we have anything wrong?"

    Zhang Ling stammered, "But just now you…"

    "Haha," Kang Yuan echoed, his body also charred black but in good spirits, "We were suddenly attacked just now. We didn't know what was going on, so we had to pretend to be dead on the ground. It's just that Mei Lin, that old fellow, had too much confidence in himself. He never thought that when we subdued our power, we weren't just fainting but actually feigning death, so he fell into the trap."

    Gao Chen, Xu Yang, and others also stood up one by one, but they were much more severely injured than Wu Kouchou and Kang Yuan. They all winced in pain.

    "Ah." Gao Chen took a deep breath and winced in pain before smiling bitterly and said, "Luckily, Mr. Chen acted well just now. Otherwise, Master Wu and Master Kang couldn't have successfully attacked."

    At his words, everyone turned their attention to Chen Yun's face.

    Yes, if it weren't for Chen Yun's excellent acting, which attracted Mei Lin's attention, Master Wu and Master Kang would have found it much harder to attack.

    Chen Yun said with a smile, "In fact, I was also betting. Betting that you guys are all right, otherwise I wouldn't have the courage to do it."

    "Teacher, you're too modest," Qin Ming said, emerging from somewhere, and surprisingly, he was unharmed. "Even if Master Wu and Master Kang had managed to attack successfully just now, it was almost a close call for that old scoundrel to escape. Fortunately, you intervened in time and managed to wrap him up and knock him dead. Otherwise, if he had escaped, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

    "Yes,"

    "If that old scoundrel had escaped, once he recovered from his injuries, he would definitely come back to trouble us."

    "This time we had the chance to launch a surprise attack, but next time it won't be so easy."

    "Thanks to Mr. Chen's last-minute effort with the broomstick to drag down the opponent and smash him into pulp, otherwise he would have definitely escaped."

    "Still, Mr. Chen's actions were cautious."

    Ding Xu and Xu Yang, along with the other cultivators, couldn't help but praise.

    Their words were all heartfelt. Beforehand, everyone thought that Wu Kouchou and Kang Yuan had successfully launched the attack without any preparations for a counterattack.

    In fact, Mei Lin was comparable to a high-level wizard, and even in the face of such fierce surprise attacks, he managed to cast an escape spell, almost letting him get away.

    Fortunately, Chen Yun noticed the signs of Mei Lin's escape, grabbed him with the feather duster magical artifact, and pulled him down from the sky, smashing him heavily onto the ground and blowing his flesh apart.

    If Mei Lin had escaped today, and once he recovered from his injuries, they might have faced unending pursuit from him.

    Although the Magus was comparable to a high-level wizard, at the end of the day, he was still an ordinary person. Firstly, he was attacked by such powerful sneaks from Wu Kouchou and Kang Yuan. Secondly, he was pulled down by Chen Yun's feather duster magical artifact and slammed onto the ground with force. How could Mei Lin's fragile body withstand it?

    Naturally, with his flesh shattered, Mei Lin would have died without a doubt.

    The crowd's last time entering the Yueyue Cave Heaven had also incurred a grudge with Mei Lin.

    Resulting in a new grudge this time after they entered, as the other party first snatched Chen Yun's Zhu Guo, incurring another grudge.

    Now that the other party has been eliminated, everyone was overjoyed, their faces beaming with joy.

    It seems like compared to defeating Mei Lin, they suffered a little injury is nothing.

    Chen Yun heard the praise from everyone, but he did not feel any pride.

    On the contrary, his spiritual awareness was continuously extending outward, probing whether Mei Lin's "soul" might have escaped like those who cultivate the Yin Spirit.

    Fortunately, Chen Yun did not discover any "souls."

    Did that old scoundrel really die?

    Chen Yun always felt that the kill was too easy.

    Just then, he turned around and thought, as a Magus, he practiced magic, unlike himself who had an unparalleled strong physical body. Under such fierce surprise attacks, it was quite normal for him to die.

    He was still a bit uneasy, "Let's go and have a look at the body of that old scoundrel."

    Wu Kouchou nodded, "Right, let's see if he's really dead."

    The rest of the people didn't have any objections and flew towards the direction where Mei Lin was crushed to death.

    It wasn't far, and they arrived in a moment.

    Chen Yun and Wu Kouchou, along with the others, clearly saw a mass of pulp in the deep pit.

    It was clear that Mei Lin had died completely.

    "Huh, he's dead. That old scoundrel is really dead!" Wu Kouchou let out a long breath.

    Kang Yuan coldly hiccuped, "That old scoundrel had tried to sneak up on us, but he ended up losing his own life! Thanks to Mr. Chen's trickery, we managed to get the upper hand and attack him successfully!"

    Chen Yun was still a bit uneasy and casted a fireball spell with his index finger.

    With a roar, a fireball as big as a washbasin burst from his finger tip and struck the mass of pulp.

    In the next moment, the pulp was completely incinerated into ashes by the blazing fire.

    Zhang Ling looked at Chen Yun in disbelief, "Mr. Chen, you've already smashed him into pulp, why did you still……"

    The others also looked at Chen Yun with some confusion and misunderstanding, thinking he might have a penchant for torturing the dead!

    Chen Yun explained indifferently, "I'm afraid he might have some secret method to come back to life, so it's safer to burn his body into ashes."

    "Mr. Chen, that makes sense."

    "Perhaps this old scoundrel has some secret technique that allows him to come back to life after death?"

    "Mhm, as long as we burn his body to ashes completely, no matter how powerful his abilities are, he won't be able to come back to life."

    The crowd realized this as well. In the realm of Tang Dynasty, there were many cultivators who had mastered the art of "coming back to life after death." Although Mei Lin practiced magic, they did not understand it, nor did they know whether Mei Lin possessed the skill to "come back to life after death" like some of the cultivators.

    Therefore, just as Chen Yun said, it was safer to completely destroy Mei Lin's body.

    Chen Yun chatted with the others for a few words.

    Then, they searched the battlefield.

    During the search, Ding Xu found Mei Lin's magical staff and handed it to Chen Yun.

    During the search, Ding Xu found Mei Lin's magical staff and handed it to Chen Yun.

    Of course, Ding Xu found the magical staff and handed it to Chen Yun.

    Although Chen Yun obtained the magical staff, he did not find Mei Lin's "space ring" or other storage magical artifacts, which left him feeling a bit regretful.

    There's nothing we can do if we don't see it.

    Chen Yun estimated that since Wu Kouchou and Kang Yuan's explosion was too fierce, they had blown up Mei Lin's "space ring" and other storage magical artifacts along with their contents. That's why they hadn't found anything during the search.

    The group did not linger for long and immediately headed towards the ruins of the original snow-covered peak, preparing to search for the lost treasure.

    ...

    Chen Yun and the others left only after they were certain that Mei Lin was completely dead.

    However, what was unexpected was that after the group had left for about half an hour, among the scattered ashes on the ground, there was a piece of skin tissue that had barely been completely destroyed, and it was slowly "growing."

    At first, the growth of this skin tissue was very slow, and it was almost impossible to notice with the naked eye.

    However, as time passed, the growth rate of that piece of skin tissue accelerated.

    Gradually, it grew to the size of a palm.

    As if it would soon grow into a human being.

    Yes, Mei Lin did not die.

    Because of his real identity, it was nothing like what Chen Yun and the others initially thought he was, a "magus."

    In fact, he was a Lich.

    Mei Lin had already placed his soul in a special magical container.

    As long as the magical container is not damaged, his physical body can be destroyed many times without any problem.

    Given enough time, it can still recover to its original state.

    Or, create a new body and revive.

    And what Chen Yun did not know was that the magical staff he had taken was the magical container in which Mei Lin had deposited his soul.

    (Chapter completed)