The volcano erupted and magma flowed. There was no day or night in the land where the Subterranean Devils Clan was sealed. The sky was always misty, giving off an extremely oppressive feeling.
Chu Xun was buried under rubble. When he came back to his senses, he didn't know how long had passed. He was clear-headed again and knew well about the current situation of his body, which was so fragile that it could be shattered by the slightest touch. Moreover, the Poison of Fire had eroded all of his Spiritual Body. He didn't know when he would become demonized again.
"Am I really going to die here?" he wondered to himself.
He was unwilling to die there. During the 3,000 years when he was in the other world, he had gone through countless hardships. He was really unwilling to die in this small sealed land.
He couldn't die there. His parents, Jing Hong, Little Wu, and countless people that cared about him were waiting for him to return.
The stranger never ceased the channeling of his power and Chu Xun voraciously soaked every ounce of it with his Firmament Chains assimilating them immediately while increasing Chu Xun's powers too.The stranger grinned. He was pleased with the progress. Any longer and the poison in his body would be utterly gone.Apparently, so was Chu Xun. His soul was gaining power steadily.This went on for five daysThe strange hermit looked utterly different now. His dried grassy mat of hair had regained back its black and glossy luster and his aura now more powerful and rich. Even his scrawny midriff and torso now looked as if they had inflated into larger proportions, looking more muscular and sinewy.Much had Chu Xun gained as well. His astral projection might not have ascended the Third Stage of his Divine Sense, but he reached the peak of the Second Stage with his ethereal form looking very real and corporeal."O
The radiation of the Zombies' aura churned in dark plume-like smolders rising up the air like fulminating beacons of war.At their chieftain's signal, the host of Zombies threw themselves forward."Kill them all!"Yue Fandie thundered a defiant battle cry.Jing Hong darted to the front, her white cloth lancing through every enemy she found like spears.Puff! Puff!Her blows caught two lesser Zombie Kings in the throat. With a shake of her cloth, she channeled jets of energy to destroy their heads."Blasted woman!" cried the chieftain, honing in on Jing Hong now.Meanwhile, another one-armed Eighth-grade Zombie King who had lost its arm to Yue Fandie cried, "Yue Fandie! Time for you to repay the debt you owe me!""You managed to escape that day. I'll never repeat that mistake again," growled Yue Fandie, charging to meet him in battle."You shameless monste
Everywhere in the compound of the Sanctuary, severed limbs and mangled corpses bestrewed the blood-washed flagstones.The air reeked with the nauseating stench of death and despair.But more disgusting than all this macabre grisliness was this stranger Kong Yiming.The man who ordered his men to seize Jing Hong. Did he really intend to abduct Chu Xun's woman and take her as his own?!"Filthy scums!" Yan Wushuang bellowed defiantly, "How dare you!?" He would have given anything to fight, but he could not even move an inch with the injuries he had borne.As was everyone else. No one could do anything but watch with their eyes flaring with frustration and helplessness.Unfazed, Jing Hong's beautiful face beheld the approach of the two elderly bodyguards with a steely glare."Apologies, lady!"The two men came in unison, both reaching each of her shoulders.All of a sudde
The surviving students and acolytes of the Sanctuary of Tetrarchy assembled at the main square and each of them gulping hard apprehensively, craning their necks.At the center of the square was the more-than-a-hundred-kilogram skewered carcass of a gigantic peacock on a spit over a huge bonfire.The flames sizzled and flared up excitedly with incessant cracklings at every golden drop of fat dripping down. Slowly, the roasted meat slowly took on a gold-copper burnish as its aroma wafted around the square.Chu Xun sliced a piece of meat and deposited it into his mouth. The meat tasted crispy on the outside and tender on the inside and juices burst out with every bite. The flesh of the Eighth-grade Beast Lord peacock contained much nourishment inside that could be a boon to anyone's cultivation of powers."Dig in, everyone!"At that signal, everyone mobbed the spit like a pack of ravenous wolves.Chu Xun carv
The following day.Chu Xun got up to leave alone without alerting anyone.With Yan Wushuang still injured, leaving Jing Hong here would discourage any remnants of the Zombie race from anything untoward.Midday came when Chu Xun reached Gujiang.A tense atmosphere hung about the city where even the average pedestrians looked fidgety and anxious.Chu Xun arrived at the stronghold of the Rock Sect where he first discovered people watching the entrance. He circled around and slipped in quietly through the rear.With his Divine Sense, he found Tang Rou.The stronghold once served as seat of the You Family before their destruction at Chu Xun's hand before the Rock Sect began occupying it.Inside the great hall of the stronghold, Tang Rou, Jiu You, Yan Yi and his daughter, and several other Elders all braced with grim silence.Yan Yi was pale and sickly with his injuries.
Lights blazed alive as if to herald the coming of the night.A group of ten men appeared from the darkness, each of them cloaked in dark hoods and stormed in through the main gates of the Rock Sect stronghold blatantly and arbitrarily."People of the Chu Mansion, show yourselves!"Hum! Hum!High-powered spotlights lighted up in unison, flooding the whole compound of the stronghold with illumination like the midday sun.Yan Yi, Tang Rou, Jiu You, and the others appeared."Scums of the Broken Souls Cult! You've terrorized us long enough!" bellowed Yan Yi angrily.One of the ten, a lone figure who perched on top of a roof with a full view of the courtyard regarded the Rock Sect members with contempt, "You should be grateful that we needed you to be whetstones for the men, or I would have already slaughtered you all since the very beginning.""As if you can," scoffed Hon
The cold voice stabbed through the darkened alleyway as keenly as a blade.It was one simple sentence, but it paralyzed the Broken Souls Cultists with panic."WHO ARE YOU!"The stranger said nothing. What came instead as a response was a gigantic monolith crashing down on him.A monolith that came down with an ancient and indomitable presence.Panicking, Bao Tianxiang and his comrades hectically summoned their powers to defend themselves, screaming at the top of their voices as they struggled, but to no avail; the monolith was just too heavy and powerful.And the narrow space in the alley deprived them of any way to avoid the blast.BOOM! The powerful explosion threatening to rip the ground asunder erupted like a bomb blast, scattering bits and pieces of flesh and viscera everywhere while killing more than a dozen Cultists who died being reduced into minced meat."Ar
Hails of feathers as hard and sharp as arrows crisscrossed against salvos of bullets from the soldiers' rifles.Steel-like glints bounced off the feathers in the sunlight as they struck down the bullets fired at them while the rest were reduced into harmless white flashes when they hit the magical shield of light that Chu Xun conjured.These were not the average pennaceous feathers that Wingeds used to fly but a skill they used in combat.The feathers struck down every bullet that the guards fired and Chu Xun's magical shield defended the guards from the torrent of deadly-steel feathers, culminating in a stalemate.The only Winged on the ground – the one whom Chu Xun shot down earlier with Jiang Tao's rifle – had his face contorting with spasms of anger and bitterness.The Winged race had never suffered the ignominy of defeat since they revealed themselves to the world. They feared no one, save the races of Peacocks an