In the canyon, both sides with nearly depleted spiritual power began exchanging spirit talismans. Various talismans were continuously activated, their multicolored lights soaring and flashing.

The clamorous commotion spread in all directions, attracting the attention of cultivators from the two major sects nearby. However, after observing the situation from afar, none dared to approach easily.

The intensity of that struggle had already reached a level where they had no room to intervene; getting accidentally caught in it would mean certain death.

A fifth-level cultivator might be able to intervene in such a fight, but the number of fifth-level cultivators the two major sects could deploy was limited. Since the war began, the fifth-level cultivators from both sides had been mutually restraining each other in the center of the Rift Sky Gorge, none able to move. This was also the reason why Leaf Gray hadn't encountered a single fifth-level cultivator in the past few days.

By now, the sky was fully bright. Leaf Gray gasped for breath heavily. He hadn't expected the battle to turn out like this, but the dawn of victory was in sight because he discovered that his opponent seemed to have run out of offensive spirit talismans!

This was only natural. Benjamin Patel was a spell cultivator himself, proficient in various low-level spells. The power of the spells he cast was even greater than that of ordinary spirit talismans. He had prepared less than ten offensive talismans on his person, mostly keeping defensive ones.

After a fierce battle with Leaf Gray, almost all his offensive talismans had been used up, which made him feel utterly ashamed.

In his view, a true spell cultivator should disdain relying on the power of talismans; that was a sign of incompetence!

But now... incompetence it is, better than being hacked to death by that brute.

Seeing Leaf Gray actually raising his sword and charging forward, Benjamin Patel felt a sudden sense of foreboding, turned around, and ran.

However, the sound of pursuit from behind grew closer. Turning his head to look, he saw Leaf Gray had mounted the back of that large white tiger again.

How shameless! Benjamin Patel cursed inwardly, while shouting angrily, "Stop chasing me, or I'll make you regret it!"

Leaf Gray paid no mind to such a childish threat, and the tiger chased even more fiercely.

"You're forcing me to do this." Benjamin Patel gritted his teeth, turned to face Leaf Gray, and reached into his storage bag to pull out an object.

Leaf Gray didn't know what exactly the other had taken out, but Benjamin Patel's posture made him feel uneasy!

Just as he thought this, Benjamin Patel threw the object in his hand. Leaf Gray looked closely and saw it was just a square seal, about the size of a palm, glowing white all over, made of some unknown material.

Yet the next moment, his hair stood on end.

Because the small seal suddenly enlarged, becoming as big as a tabletop in an instant, then fiercely stamped down towards Amber.

Amber was agile, forcibly changing his direction of movement and carrying Leaf Gray to dodge to the side.

With a loud boom, a two-foot deep crater appeared where the large seal landed...

The earth shook!

Witnessing this scene, Leaf Gray's eyelids twitched violently. This thing was definitely an extraordinary spirit tool. If it had stamped down on them just now, both he and Amber would probably have been turned into pulp.

Amber tried to charge towards Benjamin Patel with Leaf Gray, but the large seal, seemingly clumsy, was actually exceptionally nimble, stamping down from the sky again and again. The large tiger dodged awkwardly, narrowly avoiding it several times.

"Escape!" Leaf Gray hissed low on Amber's back.

The large tiger also knew the situation was dire. It turned and carried Leaf Gray fleeing into the distance.

"Where do you think you're running?" Benjamin Patel, seizing the advantage, showed no mercy, a frenzied smile appearing on his face. "Weren't you chasing quite happily before? Come and fight to the death, you brute!"

The situation had reversed. Before, Leaf Gray was chasing and killing Benjamin Patel; now, Benjamin Patel was chasing and killing Leaf Gray. One could only say the wheel of Heaven's law turns; whom does Heaven spare?

Boom, boom, boom...

Each time the large seal landed, it made the earth tremble and sent rubble flying. This thing was probably Benjamin Patel's life-saving spirit tool. He hadn't used it before because he had confidence in his own strength and was also influenced by his own pride. However, after being forced to a dead end by Leaf Gray, he completely cast off his restraints.

He'd even used spirit talismans, what was one more spirit tool?

The speed of the large seal's descent accelerated relentlessly. Each massive impact sent Amber's fleeing form stumbling more desperately across the broken ground. Finally, one particularly violent shockwave sent the great tiger staggering and crashing to the earth. The massive seal descended immediately after, its shadow swallowing them whole.

Amber hastily got up, but it was too late. At the critical moment of life and death, Leaf Gray activated his own meager remaining spiritual power, rapidly forming a Defensive Spirit Pattern above them.

The large seal fell. The Defensive Spirit Pattern lasted only a moment before shattering, but immediately, a second Defensive Spirit Pattern formed, shattered again, and a third appeared...

They finally managed to block the large seal. After a brief stalemate, the light on the large seal began to dim and turn dull, rapidly shrinking and restoring its original form, all its luster gone.

Leaf Gray reached out to grab the large seal, but his hand, trembling violently from exhaustion, actually missed. The seal fell on his head, raising a bump, but it had lost its previous power.

With a loud laugh coming from the distance, the large seal swooshed back, flying into Benjamin Patel's hand.

Now they were a full thirty zhang apart. Benjamin Patel, leaning against a rock without any grace, laughed heartily as he looked towards Leaf Gray, as if he had won.

The canyon between them was dotted with huge craters. The aftershocks of the fierce battle subsided, yet the fight wasn't over.

Leaf Gray forced himself to stand and walked step by step towards Benjamin Patel. Benjamin Patel's laughter died...

But before he had taken more than a few steps, Leaf Gray collapsed to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

Evie floated out from the side, helping Leaf Gray up. Their eyes met, hers inquiring. Leaf Gray slowly shook his head.

Evie wanted to cooperate with Amber to see if they could kill Benjamin Patel while he was weakened and thus resolve the threat completely.

But Leaf Gray felt that although Benjamin Patel looked completely drained, he could probably still cast one or two spells at the very least. That large seal spirit tool of his was also troublesome. He himself had barely managed to block it by consecutively activating three Defensive Spirit Patterns, let alone Amber and Evie.

If hit by that thing, they wouldn't have enough lives to spare.

Undoubtedly, Benjamin Patel was a cunning fellow, as could be seen from his various actions during the previous fight. Such a person, knowing full well that Leaf Gray had two helpers, how could he truly exhaust himself completely?

Leaf Gray even suspected that even if he could actually walk up to the other party, he wouldn't be able to kill Benjamin Patel. He himself was the one who was truly somewhat drained.

In the distance, Benjamin Patel watched coldly for a while. Seeing that Evie and Amber didn't take the opportunity to attack, a hidden flicker of disappointment passed through his eyes, followed by a sigh of relief.

Just as Leaf Gray had anticipated, though Benjamin Patel appeared completely drained of combat strength, should Evie and Amber dare approach him, he wouldn't hesitate to demonstrate the profound depth of a disciple from a top-tier sect!

The current situation was undoubtedly the best. He didn't have to waste his last strength on insignificant helpers. He tilted his head back and shouted towards Leaf Gray, "I'll recover a bit, then come to finish you off later!"