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
Warriors had risen into prominence since the anomalies first began, elevating their positions over common and ordinary folk.Even the weakest warrior in the early stages of the Innate Realm viewed the common folk as nothing more than a nuisance.The common people quickly came to realize this and they avoided all forms of conflict with warriors, including giving them a wide berth even if warriors barged their way into their lives.Strange and bizarre news peppered the Martial Tao Forum every day but not one of them included anything about common people in direct confrontation with warriors.Yet, history was made on this day. An instance that redefined the status quo.Soldiers emptying their rifles at a loud-mouthed member of the Winged race.Wingers had always been snobbish and proud and yet, with soldiers seizing them by their wings and being fired upon using their rifles, the sight of them squirming and w
Chu Xun's eyes turned frosty; he was really pissed off.The elderly Winged looked grim as well. He didn't expect an expert like Chu Xun to call him names."He didn't behave like an expert at all, but I will. I'm from a noble tribe, and I won't condescend to argue with him." the elderly Winged comforted himself."You're just a bunch of folks with wings. How dare you look down upon human beings? Why don't you change your looks not to look like human beings? Isn't it better if you had beaks and long tails?" Chu Xun lost his temper.The elderly Winged, who had just calmed down, flew into a rage again, and could barely hold back his anger."I showed you respect as I thought you were an expert. But you kept swearing at me like a vixen. Don't you care about losing your dignity?" the elderly Winged's face darkened as he spoke."What? Did I lose my dignity by agreeing to your bullshit? I'm, and will always be, a hu
This was the first time that the soldiers from the mortal world had fought against the Winged Legion. Naturally, it attracted the attention of all.Some said that the Wingeds were so arrogant as to look down on human beings.While others said the human beings were being reckless to challenge the Wingeds.People had different opinions on the fight.However, they all wanted to be a witness of this battle.Some trouble-seekers among the onlookers started live-streaming the fight.As the elderly Winged waved his hand, the Reality Painting rose up, floating in the mid-air and emitting hazy white light."Is there anyone who wants to take the challenge?" the elderly Winged asked the Winged Legion behind him.To his surprise, a lot of his men stood out and wanted to fight the human soldiers.They were very confident that any one of them could defeat their enemies alone.